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EU Council backs fish discard ban

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
The European Commission unveils proposals to end wasteful discarding of fish, amid differing ideas about what should replace it.
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Coordinated bombs kill 35 during Iraq pilgrimage

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Officials say two car bombs in the Iraqi city of Hillah have killed 15 people, adding to the death toll from coordinated attacks on Shiite pilgrims that killed at least 20 across Baghdad....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

Meeting on Pembs child abuse row

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
The leader of an under-fire council accused of failing to safeguard young people is to meet ministers after complaints some children were locked in padded "time out rooms".
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Turkey fear Syria conflict can cross its borders

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey says that Syrian conflict could spill over its borders as the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey increased to more than 29,000....

Bell must play his natural game - Stewart

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
Alec Stewart says Ian Bell is the perfect choice to replace Kevin Pietersen at the top of the order in England's one-day side
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America's Greece

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
In California, the mayor of a major city has decided that it's time to renegotiate union pensions, which are bankrupting the municipality; more specifically, he wants to raise the retirement age.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZBen Shapiro
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Getting Back the Minutes I Wasted on Liberal Logic

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
Progressives used every doomsday machine and every death ray in their cartoon arsenal in Wisconsin and still they got an old-fashioned butt kicking. 2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZJohn Ransom
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What Money Can't Buy

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
The scene in North Carolina was a familiar one: traditional marriage supporters were outspent 2 to 1 and were subjected to smear campaigns that painted them as bigots for merely upholding their moral convictions.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZHarry R. Jackson, Jr.
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The Politicized Pulpit

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
Tom DeLay, the former House majority whip and leader, wasn't called "The Hammer" for nothing. In recent months he's been the best book publicist an author could want, asking me repeatedly to read his friend Norm Mason's The Political Imperative: An Assignment from God (Jebaire, 2011). I finally did, and will argue that its analysis is solid but its final prescription is wrong.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZMarvin Olasky
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The EPA Against America

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
In 1995, the VENONA project revealed that there were pro-Soviet, anti-American saboteurs and spies who infiltrated the State Department, Treasury, Office of Strategic Services, and the White House during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZLisa De Pasquale
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Partisanship Reigns at CBS

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
Les Moonves, the president and CEO of CBS, took his wife, the former CBS news anchor Julie Chen, on a date on June 6 -- to a star-studded Beverly Hills Democratic Party fundraiser starring President Obama. He told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times of his respect for Obama, who he said "has shown great leadership" -- by bringing his support for gay marriage out of the closet.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZBrent Bozell
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Newarkfest Unity

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
For a brief moment, all people, young and old, rich and poor, blended together to talk about music, the basketball game, or anything else that was on their mind. 2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZBill Tatro
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Duped by Congressional Lies

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
Some of the responses to my column last week, titled "Immoral Beyond Redemption," prove that Americans have been hoodwinked by Congress. Some readers protested my counting Social Security among government handout programs that can be described as Congress' taking what belongs to one American and giving to another, to whom it doesn't belong -- legalized theft.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZWalter E. Williams
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The Lauzen Plan: How to Rein In a $3 Trillion Rogue Pension Elephant

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
Last week the voters decisively vindicated Gov. Scott Walker. America also saw overwhelming referenda victories over runaway public pension costs in San Diego and San Jose. America, finally, may be seeing daylight at the end of the tunnel of $3 trillion in unfunded state and local pension liabilities.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZRalph Benko
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SKorean, U.S. Forces Ready in Korea

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-06-18 16:55
The last thing the North wants is to provoke an exchange of fire when the US-South Korean forces are at high readiness. The North can do damage, but will lose every such encounter… by a large margin. 2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZNight Watch
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