21. France Denies Citizenship to Man Because He Forces... 4 hours ago   permalink

France Denies Citizenship to Man Because He Forces...
Pastorius / Infidel Bloggers Alliance

France Denies Citizenship to Man Because He Forces Wife to Wear a Niqab... All right, I'm going to write something I never thought I would write. I LOVE FRANCE, and, I am disappointed in America. Go read the whole thing. By the way, here's another great story: British MP Says Wearing a Burqa Same as "Going Around With a Paper Bag Over Your Head"..

22. Federal Deficits: A Problem That Must Be Addressed 2 hours ago   permalink

MARK DANIELS / The Moderate Voice

The seriousness of the ongoing saga of US federal budget deficits is the topic of two interesting recent articles. First, this from The New York Times. Then, this from the BBC. My son, a seminary student with undergraduate degrees in History and Philosophy, linked to it over on Facebook. It elicited the following moderate, non-partisan rant from [.

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Federal Deficits: A Problem That Must Be Addressed White House projects record deficit this year: source   —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will predict a record budget deficit in the current fiscal year and more big shortfalls for the next decade in its upcoming budget proposal, a congressional source told Reuters on Sunday.

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Federal Deficits: A Problem That Must Be Addressed Analysis: Obama's deficit dilemma   —  Keeping the national accounts of the United States is one of the biggest and most important jobs in world governance. It is also the dullest, because it involves painstakingly collecting information about billions of transactions - and constantly revising estimates in the light of changing circumstances.

23. Illinois Update: Andrzejewski Get-Out-the Vote Effort ‘On Fire’; MORE: Exit Polls 7 hours ago   permalink

Theothermccain.com

7:40 p.m. ET – Partial exit-poll reports indicate Andrzejewski “coming on strong,” says my source, with Dillard “dropping fast.” The campaign was still pushing GOTV at 6:30 p.m. CT, focusing on the Metro East suburbs of St. Louis downstate. “We can get another thousand votes out of there in the next half-hour.&#

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24. Nigerian Bomb Suspect Cooperating with FBI 32 minutes ago   permalink

Nigerian Bomb Suspect Cooperating with FBI
Breaking News

Agents Flew to Nigeria in Days after Attack and Persuaded Family Members to Secure Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's Cooperation

25. Report Calls for Overhaul of Immigration System 32 minutes ago   permalink

Foxnewsonline / FOXNews.com

The report released Tuesday and prepared pro bono by the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP for the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, identified six areas of the system needing reform

26. Housing Red Flags Ignored 32 minutes ago   permalink

Housing Red Flags Ignored
Emac.blogs.foxbusiness.com

One of the nation’s biggest mortgage industry players repeatedly warned the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and other bank regulators during the housing bubble that the U.S. faced an imminent housing crash.

27. LIVESHOTS: Are You the Victim of Social Hacking? 32 minutes ago   permalink

LIVESHOTS: Are You the Victim of Social Hacking?
Foxnewsonline / FOXNews.com

They go by names such as Piratecrackers, Yourhackers and Slickhackerz.  Although illegal, a handful of internet services brazenly advertise that for a usual hundred dollar fee they can obtain almost any email password. One site boasts that it provides an ideal way to catch a cheating spouse or significant other.

28. 'Boston Legal' Actor Killed in Car Wreck 32 minutes ago   permalink

'Boston Legal' Actor Killed in Car Wreck
Foxnewsonline / FOXNews.com

An actor who appeared on the TV show "Boston Legal" has been killed in an automobile crash in Wisconsin. The Iowa County Sheriff's Department says Justin Mentell was killed when his Sport Utility Vehicle went down an embankment and hit two trees.

29. Today’s informed voter 44 minutes ago   permalink

Today’s informed voter
The Ugly American / Knowledge is Power

“High Speed Rail project is news to me. Sounds like some long term hopeful project that may do some good one day.” Quote courtesy of TUA’s white-guilt, Obama-can-do-no-wrong, hopey-changey brother. Mind you...this is a guy who once harassed my youngest brother for daring to invite his “nigger girlfriend” into my dad&#

30. Guardian Daily: Election strike threat 1 hour ago   permalink

Jon Dennis / The Guardian World News

The public sector workers' union, the PCS, is balloting its members for strike action over the government's plan to cut redundancy pay. By cutting lump sums paid to staff made redundant to a maximum of two years' pay, it's hoped to save £500 million. But our Whitehall correspondent Polly Curtis says that the union plans a series of strikes to ...

31. Our Obama Saga, Part Two 1 hour ago   permalink

Our Obama Saga, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson / Pajamas Media

The verdict is still out on whether this attempt to become more like Europe can be stopped. (Read Part One here.)

32. Star Parker Asks: What's So Provocative About the Tebow Ad? 3 hours ago   permalink

ChronWatch

The Tebow story will put this human face on abortion for the 150 million or so who will watch the Super Bowl. Nothing could be scarier for the culture of death.

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WaPo feminist sportwriter delivers KO blow to NOW, other intolerant feminists   —  Sally Jenkins: Tebow’s Super Bowl ad isn’t intolerant; its critics are I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I’ve heard in the past week, I’ll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the “National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time.” For ...

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Amazing anti-choice rhetoric at the WaPo   —  TWS points to an amazing, must-read in the Washington Post today about Tim Tebow's "celebrate life" Super Bowl ad. What makes the piece so amazing is that the writer is Sally Jenkins, a liberal feminist sportswriter - who notes that the folks at NOW aren't actually "pro-choice" so much as they are "pro-abortion," and then goes on to praise Tebow' ...

33. Field Thins in Race for Obama’s Seat 1 hour ago   permalink

MONICA DAVEY / NYT

Mark Steven Kirk, a centrist Republican, is set to face Alexi Giannoulias, the state treasurer, in November.

34. Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Digging into Darwin 1 hour ago   permalink

Robin Dembroff / Evangelical Outpost

Darwin’s Dead and He Ain’t Coming Back…or so the Christian bumper sticker says. Personally, my favorite is the one of the Jesus fish eating the upside-down mutant fish with legs labeled ‘Darwin’. In the Jesus vs Darwin showdown, apparently survival of the fittest is true after all. For many Christians, the instinctive reaction to Darwin,

35. Inspector General: TARP Has Created a Looming Disaster 8 hours ago   permalink

Inspector General: TARP Has Created a Looming Disaster
Biggovernment.com

For all the phony talk coming out of the White House this past year about transparency and accountability, there actually is an institution outside of the executive branch which does a pretty darn good job at this most of the time: the Inspector General system. In fact, IG’s may do too good of a job by producing lengthy and meticulously ...

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36. Pelican 1 hour ago   permalink

Pelican
Little Green Footballs

Compare Electricity Prices in your area. Texas Electricity is deregulated; you have the right to choose Texas Electric Rates from among many Texas Electric Companies.

37. After Massacre, Guinea Sees Hope of Lifted Chains 1 hour ago   permalink

After Massacre, Guinea Sees Hope of Lifted Chains
ADAM NOSSITER / NYT

A rare thing occurred in an area often given to autocracy: a peaceful transfer of power, months after a massacre.

38. State Offices 1 hour ago   permalink

State Offices
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39. Don’t Feel Sorry For Spirit 1 hour ago   permalink

Rand Simberg / Transterrestrial Musings

Here’s another take on the previous sob story. And here’s what’s really going on. [Via Alan Boyle]

40. Glenn Beck: Arianna Huffington Is “Media Matters After A Couple Of Drinks” 4 hours ago   permalink

Glenn Beck: Arianna Huffington Is “Media Matters After A Couple Of Drinks”
Www.mediaite.com

Glenn Beck may want to consider some sort of future career as a professor…he’s very good with the pointer stick. Beck set aside a segment of tonight’s show to specifically address the remarks Arianna Huffington made to Roger Ailes on this Sunday’s This Week. (Actually he began with a fun lesson ratings: “how can you ...

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Beck Demolishes Huffington: She's 'Media Matters After a Few Drinks' Beck Slaughters Huffington’s False Claim: Clearing up the Argument between Glenn Beck and Arianna Huffington   —  In a previous post I discussed the confrontation between Fox News President Roger Ailes and Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington on last Sunday’s This Week on ABC.  Let me repeat the relevant portion of the transcript from the video embedded in that post. HUFFINGTON: Well, Roger, it's not a question of picking a fight. And aren't you ...

Richard Norton-Taylor / The Guardian World News
Short: Blair misled MPs before Iraq   —  Former minister says government was a 'lunatic asylum' in runup to attack with Gordon Brown also 'unhappy and marginalised' Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, his attorney general, misled parliament and the cabinet before Britain, to its "eternal shame", joined the US-led invasion of Iraq, Clare Short told the Chilcot inquiry today. During nearly ...