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Russian expansionism is not dead, despite the demise of the Soviet Union so many years ago. These days, Russia has taken to “soft power” moves, slowly working to place a stranglehold on Europe’s natural gas supplies. The BBC reports:
Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with [...]
Its also the other way around. A lot of California's revenue goes to prop up the "red states"Name one.
[...] "Unemployment is projected to keep rising for the rest of the year just as the income boost from the stimulus package fades, undermining prospects for a sustained rebound in household purchases, analysts said...
'This will be another jobless recovery,' said John [...]
Yeah, well, it was mostly emotionalism wrapped in nonsense. The Cato Institute has done a nice job explaining the truth:
More from Cato on the taxation needed to fund this monstrosity.
The transcript for the Obama circumlocution is here.
The LA Times Andrew Malcom also says this about the Town [...]
» NYT: U.S. Marines Try to Retake Afghan Valley ... More than an exercise of new troops added to the region, this looks like a new approach that's well overdue. Case in point ...
The British have had too few troops to conduct full-scale counterinsurgency operations and have often relied [...]
Thank you to our friends at Huliq.com for posting an EoD guest blog entitled Lawyer Facing Criminal Charges For Redistribution. It discusses the difference in responses by the financial and medical communities opposed to the legal industry when high-profile news stories suggest or expose misconduct on the part [...]
From the Congressional Republicans:
The Daily Truth about the Democrats? National Energy Tax
Truth #3: Creates the Largest Welfare Program in Our Nation?s History
What the bill does: The bill (H.R. 2454) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide monthly cash payments, or ?energy stamps?, to low-income households for their [...]
King of Pop’s Will Reportedly Grants Custody of Children to Jackson’s Mother
Asssociated Press
June 30, 2009
FOXNews.com
[www.foxnews.com]
LOS ANGELES ? Michael Jackson’s will gives guardianship over his children to the singer’s mother and leaves all his assets in a trust fund, a person with knowledge of the [...]
DA: Astor’s Son ‘Tripled’ Own Salary
Laura Italiano
July 2, 2009
New York Post
[www.nypost.com]
Why just swindle your 103-year-old mother when you can give yourself a big raise for doing it?
Prosecutors in the Brooke Astor swindle trial say the beloved philanthropist’s son decided in 2005 that his mother [...]
Nassim Taleb is right: The economy isn’t going to get better; it’s going to get worse, a lot worse.
[...]The FBI has released the interviews it conducted with Saddam Hussein before his execution.
The declassified reports detail 20 interviews and 5 ?casual conversations? that make for fascinating reading.
After that, enjoy a replay of Saddam?s execution:
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The joke that is the mainstream media just became a little funnier today. The Washington Post circulated a flyer to health care lobbyists promising access to high level Obama administration officials for between $25,000 and [...]
Tony Chan bad fung shui for the real masters
Agence France-Presse
July 2, 2009
The Standard
[www.thestandard.com.hk]
The court battle for the huge estate of late Chinachem Group tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum has lifted the lid on the city’s obsession with the ancient Chinese energy system of fung [...]
[Note: In all posts related to the upcoming Texas GOP primary battle, LoneStarTimes.com reminds readers that LST as an institution has not endorsed--or decided to oppose--any particular candidate. We will strive to serve as a clearinghouse for information and an arena for substantive discussion and debate. Individual posts reflect the [...]
Card Check, Cap-n-Trade and Government Run Health Care together create the Trifecta of Doom. Layer these inane policies on top of a suffering and quite nearly destroyed economy and America will be decimated economically for a very long time–maybe forever. And yet, the Democrats, like good little socialists, march on [...]
? Listen to the experts - We must implement these recommendations: the Mayor?s 2005 Animal Task Force (on which I served); the Controller?s audit (which I led); and the $11,000 MCV Consulting study, which needs to be made public. I supported, for example, bringing in no-kill shelter [...]
[Note: In all posts related to the upcoming Texas GOP primary battle, LoneStarTimes.com reminds readers that LST as an institution has not endorsed--or decided to oppose--any particular candidate. We will strive to serve as a clearinghouse for information and an arena for substantive discussion and debate. Individual posts reflect the [...]
Since no assumption of a soul or journalistic integrity has been made, it’s not surprising that the Washington Post would sell access to the Media-Obama power-broker axis. Mike Allen of the Politico breaks the story:
The offer ? which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official [...]
The GOP has had problems gaining traction with much of the Hispanic community, with the notable exception of the Cubans.
I see a career move for Mark Sanford. It turns out one of his pre-The-Big-Nasty trysts was a coffee date at the Republican convention.
And re Mark Sanford, I wish I'd written [...]
Teleprompter of the United States held a vote on Facebook for ScroTUS. Nominees included Tiny Tim Geithner and Rahm Emmanuel, but the winner, hands down was Robert "Giggles" Gibbs, thanks to his sterling performance in this press conference. That strange sensation you have while you're watching this is the feeling [...]
Teleprompter of the United States held a vote on Facebook for ScroTUS. Nominees included Tiny Tim Geithner and Rahm Emmanuel, but the winner, hands down was Robert "Giggles" Gibbs, thanks to his sterling performance in this press conference. That strange sensation you have while you're watching this is the feeling [...]
Oh well, I guess Congress needed a mascot and what better icon of stupidity than Al Franken. If the title US Senator still had any semblence of respectabilty, it's gone now. Minnesota, shame on you for letting this race get close enough for ACORN to steal!
Female gang may have killed midget wrestlers Authorities say men found dead in Mexico City hotel could have been victims of botched robberyMexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a hotel in the country’s capital may have been fatally [...]
Not surprisingly, UH officials claim they have done everything possible to cut costs. However, students don’t seem to agree with that assessment. They [...]
In case you blinked last week and missed it, Cap and Trade was introduced, amended, voted and passed, in a stunning new demonstration of just how ridiculously illogical our political system has become.
Here’s how it went down:
Just when you think that it is hopeless or you just get plain disgusted, something comes along to let you know that it isn’t so at all.
You wonder sometimes what young people are thinking and wonder if they are paying attention, if they even have a clue as to what is [...]
