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Have you heard about Clown-and-Cheesegate? It’s quite a story about the high cost of bonding over shrimp in Las Vegas. Comment Two scientific studies suggesting that poultry on factory farms are routinely fed banned antibiotics and other chemicals raise serious questions. Comment
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After Bill Burton failed to win the job of White House press secretary last year, he took a position nobody else wanted—helping lead a super PAC to help re-elect Obama. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department recognized the authority of judges to overturn laws, but he defended comments on judicial review by President Obama earlier this week. An analysis for The Wall Street Journal lends some support to the bill's detractors, who say easing regulations will lead to more financial problems and fraud, and make it more difficult for investors to detect those issues. Obama signed a law that eases an array of business regulations, particularly rules for IPOs, in what backers hope will help companies raise capital and boost job growth. The rebounding economy is providing a slight boost to U.S. malls and shopping centers, which in the first quarter registered their first declines in vacancy in years. But analysts aren't yet ready to declare a turnaround.
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Apr 20th 2012, 15:10 by R.G. METRO, a London freesheet, has a fine article about 3-D printing today. Like our own cover story this week, it's pretty bullish about this extraordinary new technology. But perhaps a little too bullish. The print version includes this line: "The technology is even being used in the genetic engineering of animals, with one company offering to create bespoke pets."Opinion
Three years ago, President Obama promised that "in this new Administration, we base our public policies on the soundest science." This conceit was politically useful because it played upon the Left's stereotype of born-again Republicans.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is taking back his comment that the country might as well re-elect President Barack Obama if Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination.Santorum emphasized Friday that he will support whoever wins the Republican primary.Santorum was...... [Full Story]
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The American Spectator
Ross Kaminsky Paul Ryan's courageous budget is a challenge not only to Democrats to get our collapsing fiscal house in order but also to nervous Republicans.
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A radical organization known as the Pacific Educational Group (PEG) is actively promoting Derrick Bell’s Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools nationwide, with the approval of the Obama administration. by Kyle Olson 218Entertainment News
Lindsay Lohan was the instigator, aggressor and drink-tosser in the fight at The Standard Hotel Wednesday night ... this according to a witness who was with the other girl involved in the altercation. Time magazine has revealed its "100 Most Influential People in the World" list, and we have to say, they have some pretty strange taste in influential people. At least as far as celebrities are concerned. With songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek," The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create a sound that seemed as authentically American as a Mathew Brady photograph or a Mark Twain short story.
Opinion
President Obama and Democrats are just getting started on the argument that the Supreme Court is under control of a bunch of right-wing bullies. Here are four high-profile, highly political cases with clear potential to advance the Democrats’ case. No Democratic talking point is complete unless it includes the accusation that Republicans are “extreme” or “radical” or “hard-line.” In party war rooms, it’s considered an art form to string the poll-tested buzz words together.
It may be great for consumers, but a rising shopping trend may be drowning traditional retailers--not to mention being a little unethical. It's called showrooming. For every screen, there's a dominant player.