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New evidence suggests Stone Age hunters from Europe discovered America - Americas - World - The Independent

Well there goes a political narrative about who is a native American......

The Coming Meltdown in College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Any Time Soon « blog maverick

The end is coming, coming soon.  We have more education today than ever before but fewer educated people.  This is unsustainable.  

Hefty salaries, perks for union leaders raise eyebrows | McClatchy

The union, with its headquarters in Kansas City, Kan., represents about 59,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada who make and repair boilers, fit pipes and work on ships and power plants. The recession has hit their trade hard, reducing union membership. At the same time, the pre …

Greece will run out of money soon, warns deputy prime minister - Telegraph

Lots of trouble coming and all the left in this country can do is whine about something Mitt Romney may have done in school decades ago....  

The Technocratic Mind - Reason.com

While the press gushes over Obama's pseudo endorsement of gay marriage, the economy still burns... A great book on why. A hagiography of the Obama administration’s most powerful wonks reveals more than it intends.  

Ouch! Obama loses 41 percent of W.Va. primary vote to federal inmate. - CSMonitor.com

Interesting.....

U.S. Millionaires Told Go Away as Tax Evasion Rule Looms - Bloomberg

Stupid law of unintended consequences at work....  

Elizabeth Warren Ancestor Rounded Up Cherokees For Trail of Tears

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction....

April's jobs: Americans aren't working | Felix Salmon

The big news, however, lies elsewhere, in the fact that a whopping 522,000 people left the labor force joined the “not in labor force” rolls last month. When more than half a million people in one month decide that they’re not even going to bother lo …

A Better Life for Julia

A better life for Julia.........  

World News - Bin Laden told followers: Kill Obama so 'utterly unprepared' Joe Biden becomes US president

Looks like OBL knew who his friends and enemies were. I would have to agree with him about Biden....  

"A Time for Choosing" by Ronald Reagan - YouTube

Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing". As pertinent today as it was 48 years ago....  

Gate Of Heaven Cemetery In East Hanover, New Jersey Using Thousands Of Solar Panels To Power Mausoleum « CBS New York

This climate-controlled building is complete with an audio system and dramatic lighting. It sits on two acres of land, so it’s expensive to operate. Owned by the Archdiocese of Newark, the catholic cemeterygot a green upgrade thanks to a partnership wi …

Warren: I used minority listing to share heritage - BostonHerald.com

Warren’s statements come as genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society were unable to back up earlier accounts that her great great great grandmother is Cherokee. While Warren’s great great great grandmother, named O.C. Sarah Smith, is listed on a …

John Edwards Trial: Testimony Reveals Elizabeth Edwards' Dramatic Confrontation With Husband Over Affair

John Edwards is one of a long line of soulless ambitious jerks that could have been vice president.  Remember this any time that anyone tells you that a Kerry/Edwards presidency would have been better than Bush.  

"ANU death threat claims debunked" - The Australian | Australian Climate Madness

Australianreports on my ongoing efforts to obtain, from the Australian National University, copies of emails to climate scientists containing death threats, and a recent Privacy Commissioner ruling that shows that none of the documents produced contain such threats:

Solyndra Not Dealing With Toxic Waste At Milpitas Facility « CBS San Francisco

CBS 5 found the building locked up, with no one around. At the back, a hazardous storage area was found. There were discarded buckets half filled with liquids and barrels labeled “hazardous waste.” The building’s owner, a company called iStar, claimed in cour …

Occupy's Totalitarian Temptation - Charles C. W. Cooke - National Review Online

. . . climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism. As conference speaker Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption, climate change “has little to do with the state of the envir …

Relative: NY police captain saved son from blaze - Yahoo! News

A good cop.  

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