Activist Dismisses Jury Nullification Indictment

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 9:58 AM EDT (Courthouse News Service)

MANHATTAN (CN) - An elderly activist has the right to pass out literature outside courthouses urging jurors to reach verdicts based on their consciences, even if the findings contradict the letter of the law, a federal judge ruled.     The concept of nullifica …

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Factory Orders Post Biggest Decline in Three Years

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 4:29 PM EDT (CNBC Top News and Analysis)

New orders for U.S. factory goods in March recorded their biggest decline in three years as demand for transportation equipment and a range of other goods slumped, government data showed on Wednesday. Additional headline: ADP: U.S. Added Only 119,000 New Jobs In April; Stocks …

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» We Don’t Need Government To Tell Us How To Give » The Daily Rant: Black Conservative Mychal Massie's Hard Hitting Commentary on Race, Obama and Politics

Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:56 AM EDT (The Daily Rant)

The problem with Obama and those like him is that they believe their style of government has all the answers and that they are the ones who should run government.  Sans their dictatorial control, they have no belief in the people of means to help others.  The fallacious …

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Qantas to operate Australia's first biofuel flight in April | ATWOnline

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2012 11:14 AM EDT (ATWOnline)

From contrary2belief: Hmmm… a sustainable fuel resource? The only way to keep QANTAS flying this way is for everybody in Australia to eat ONLY lots of deep-fried food. Consider half of the 139,000 litres of the A330′s fuel capacity will be deep-fried product. Consum …

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MediaPolitical: Misogyny, liberal style.

Seeded on Tue Mar 6, 2012 11:22 AM EST (MediaPolitical B;og)

Conservative bloggers, and even some liberal ones like Kirsten Powers, keep pointing out the misogynists on the left like Maher, Matthews, Olberman, Shultz, et.

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U.S. ranks 28th in life expectancy while we pay the MOST for health care | Mail Online

Seeded on Thu Nov 24, 2011 11:20 AM EST (the Mail online)

A new survey on health care is revealing that you may not be getting what you pay for if you check into a U.S. hospital. The U.S.

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WSJ: A Bird-Brained Prosecution | JunkScience.com

Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:36 AM EDT (JunkScience.com)

The Obama Administration's hostility to oil and gas exploration is well known, but last week it took an especially fowl turn. The U.S.

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Sarah Palin Documentary 'The Undefeated' Claims Victory in its Box Office Debut - The Hollywood Reporter

Seeded on Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:19 PM EDT (The Hollywood Reporter)

The backers of the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated claimed victory as the film opened in 10 theaters over the weekend, but the numbers suggest only a so-so debut. Undefeated grossed $60,000 to $75,000, meaning a per-screen average of $6,000 or $7,500, the measure by which  …

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Durbin: Maybe Illegal Alien Will Become President Someday | CNSnews.com

Seeded on Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:36 PM EDT (CNSNews.com)

Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) said in a congressional hearing Tuesday that a young person who is an illegal alien in the United States today may someday become president. “When I look around this room, I see America's future, our doctors, our teachers, our nurses, our  …

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Supreme Court rejects climate nuisance suits | JunkScience.com

Seeded on Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:02 PM EDT (www.junkscience.com)

The Supreme Court today unanimously rejected the effort by some states to sue utilities for greenhouse gas emissions on the basis of the nuisance doctrine, holding that the Clean Air Act pre-empts federal common law.

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Al Gore and Venus Envy | JunkScience.com

Seeded on Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:51 PM EDT (www.junkscience.com)

Al Gore has a new argument for why carbon dioxide is the global warming boogeyman — and it’s simply out of this world. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon …

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EDITORIAL: Club a seal, save the planet - Washington Times

Seeded on Thu Jun 9, 2011 10:34 AM EDT (The Washington Times)

Saving the baby seals was once the signature cause of environmentalism. The global-warming crowd used the image of an unhappy polar bear “stranded” on a small iceberg to rally support for their cause.

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Australian camels could be shot to curb methane

Thu Jun 9, 2011 3:15 AM EDT
By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press (Clipped by Dave-471712)

Kill a camel, earn cash for cutting greenhouse gases: That offer may be coming soon in Australia, where vast numbers of the nonnative, methane-belching animals have been trampling the Outback for more than a century.

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Analysis: E.coli outbreak poses questions for organic farming

Seeded on Mon Jun 6, 2011 5:02 PM EDT (Reuters)

(Reuters) - The warm, watery, organic growing environment suspected as the source of a deadly E.coli outbreak in Germany may produce delicious, nutritious bean sprouts, but is also an ideal breeding ground for the dangerous bacteria.  Bean sprouts are often prime suspects in …

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Win $500 in JunkScience.com's 'Climate Change Denier Tattoo' Sweepstakes!

Seeded on Mon Jun 6, 2011 3:21 PM EDT (www.junkscience.com)

Here you go liberal Viners. A chance to make a quick $500! How bad can you make us global warming deniers look?

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DNC Chair: Republicans Believe Illegal Immigration 'Should be a Crime'

Seeded on Tue May 31, 2011 3:55 PM EDT (CNSNews.com)

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.), chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, denounced Republicans last week for believing illegal immigration “should in fact be a crime.” “We have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country th …

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U.S. Gov't Agency Plans $2.84 Billion Loan for Oil Refinery—In Colombia

Seeded on Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:21 PM EDT (CNSNews.com)

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent agency of the federal government, is now planning a $2.84-billion loan for a massive project to expand and upgrade an oil refinery--in Cartagena, Colombia.

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Why Do So Many Things You Buy Cost So Much? (The unseen burden of our taxes)

Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:07 PM EDT

I can't take credit as the original author of this article and, unfortunately, I cannot remember the source from which I saved it to my computer.

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Earth Hour: Why I will leave my lights on.

Seeded on Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:49 AM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

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RAHN: Deliberately making Americans poorer

Seeded on Tue Mar 1, 2011 1:55 PM EST (The Washington Times)

The Obama administration's policies are causing Americans to pay far more for gasoline and other fuels than necessary.

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Scared silly over climate change

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:30 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it terrifies our kids.

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Do You Know the Preamble to Your State Constitution?

Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:24 AM EDT

Is the United States a religious country? What did the people in your state think when they ratified your State Constitution?

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Manifesto for Banana Republicans

Seeded on Sun May 24, 2009 5:20 PM EDT (Campaign Standard)

Torture is an evil thing. There are, however, many tortured people in the world outside Guantánamo Bay. (Some are right outside, in Cuba.) These people are innocent of any wrongdoing or suspicion of wrongdoing or knowledge of wrong-doers or even of capacity to do wrong.

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The Nature of Conservatism

Seeded on Sun May 24, 2009 12:00 AM EDT (PTBC.CA)

The terms "liberal" and "conservative" are bandied about by many who fail to understand the crucial difference between them. Many believe the difference lies in the liberal's willingness to support government spending. But that explanation falls short.

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Memorial Day Salute

Fri May 22, 2009 2:06 PM EDT

This Memorial Day, Let's not forget. Our President needs to review his history books. Maybe he thinks we are arrogant because we have taken up too much prime property in Europe to bury our dead!

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