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 | 25 may
11:17 | Top stories of the week
Monday “Malawi: President Promises to Lift Ban on Homosexuality” (Global Voices) Just months after the Zambian netizens were up in arms against UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon for asking the country to be tolerant of homosexuals, President Joyce Banda says that Malawi will lift the ban on homosexual acts in the country angering some Malawi...
onafrica.org 35 minutes ago |
| 25 may
11:00 | GOP ties fiscal reform to Clinton in congressional budget push
As the political season moves into late May the House GOP is set to pressure the Democrat-controlled Senate on its ongoing failure to propose budgets as well as push for an extension of the Bush tax cuts beyond the 2012 election. This move comes after commentary from the Left disparaged Mitt Romney’s recent decision to rhetorically embrace...
puddleforhope.com 53 minutes ago |
 | 25 may
10:33 | GPJA #427: Protests tomorrow Saturday – like the Greeks?? 11am and...
GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND NEWSLETTER No. 427, May 25, 2012 Protests tomorrow Saturday – like the Greeks?? 11am and 2pm 11am – Protest social cleansing in GI outside National party Conference 11am Corner Ireland and Tide Close Mt Wellington – It’s the National Party Northern Region conference – protest is against the sale of state...
gpjanz.wordpress.com 80 minutes ago |
| 25 may
10:12 | Poor. Teens. Pregnant. Linked?
Poor. Teens. Pregnant. Linked? Poor. Teens. Pregnant. Linked? Inside Bus C: FAMU drum major's hazing Reagan blood auction canceled Plane's door lands on golf course Opinion: Minorities not after 'payback' The most bike-friendly state is... Inside Bus C: FAMU drum major's hazing Man implicates self in Patz case Top horse trainer: Guilty to cruelty...
cnnallnews.blogspot.com 101 minutes ago |
| 25 may
09:54 | FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama’s adore for unions
Print E-mail By CHRISTINE ARMARIO The Associated Press When Republican presidential claimant Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as gratified to a nation’s teachers’ unions and incompetent to mount adult for reform, he glossed over 4 years of a attribute that has been anything yet cozy. In this print taken May 24, 2012, Republican...
timesofnews.co 119 minutes ago |
| 25 may
09:44 | New and Frozen Frontier Awaits Offshore Oil Drilling
President Obama held a chart about oil usage as he delivered remarks at Nashua Community College in Nashua, N.H., in March. May 25, 2012 | International Herald Tribune By John M. Broder and Clifford Krauss WASHINGTON — Shortly before Thanksgiving in 2010, the leaders of the commission President Obama had appointed to investigate the Deepwater...
perdana.org.my 2 hours ago |
| 25 may
09:33 | UMNO tolak debat Najib - Anwar kerana...
Moderator Cabar Najib dan Anwar Turun Debat Sebagai Anak Jantan... Tapi UMNO kata debat terbuka PM,Najib Tun Abdul Razak dengan Anwar Ibrahim bagi membincangkan beberapa isu negara adalah tidak sesuai untuk dilaksanakan. Ketua Penerangan Umno, Datuk Ahmad Maslan kata... a. debat tu budaya Barat yang masih belum boleh diterima di negara ini. b....
alditta.blogspot.com 2 hours ago |
 | 25 may
09:08 | David Brooks: How change happens - Fullermoney
David Brooks: How change happens - This interesting article published by the NYT and IHT goes to the heart of the US presidential election debate. Here is the opening: Forty years ago, corporate America was bloated, sluggish and losing ground to competitors in Japan and beyond. But then something astonishing happened. Financiers, private equity...
proactiveinvestors.co.uk 3 hours ago |
| 25 may
09:06 | Mitt Romney Wades Into The Education Debate - There Is A Political...
Andrew Rotherham:The long rumored Mitt Romney education doomsday weapon was revealed today. And it's basically President George W. Bush's education policy - but without the accountability. Let's take the major parts quickly. The emphasis on school choice is politically smart but unlikely to have a big impact given how much it is fundamentally a...
zmetro.com 3 hours ago |
| 25 may
09:01 | Obama Hits Romney’s Business Experience, Taxes
By Jared A. Favole DES MOINES—President Barack Obama on Thursday continued his conflict on Mitt Romney’s business experience, observant a Republican presidential hopeful’s time as a private-equity executive was profitable though not sufficient for someone perplexing to live a White House. His comments came amid complaints by some of a...
businessidearesearch.net 3 hours ago |
| 25 may
08:42 | Ron Paul is Dangerous
After the most recent GOP presidential debate, reasonable people can disagree as to who came out on top. It was abundantly clear, however, who...
townhall.com 3 hours ago |
| 25 may
07:34 | More on Obama and SSM
As John Sides notes, while there is as of yet essentially no evidence of a net national shift in public opinion on same-sex marriage since Obama came out in favor of it, there is at least some evidence tentatively suggesting that Obama’s announcement has increased support for SSM among African-Americans. I endorse John’s bottom line: Because...
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com 4 hours ago |
| 25 may
07:30 | The Advantage of the Incumbent in 2012
President Obama’s recent speech to the graduating class at the Air Force Academy highlighted one of the many reasons that it is very difficult to defeat an incumbent President running for a second term. Among other advantages, a sitting President has the opportunity to make speeches that are guaranteed to get local and often national coverage....
cbslocal.com 4 hours ago |
| 25 may
07:10 | Election Week in Egypt
I'll post some of my own thoughts and obervations later. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/world/middleeast/in-streets-and-online-campaig n-fever-in-egypt.html?_r=1&hp By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MAYY EL SHEIK Published: May 20, 2012 CAIRO Good morning! Who are you going to vote for? That is the new standard Egyptian salutation, said Shafiq...
greasylake.org 5 hours ago |
| 25 may
06:40 | Condoms in Porn Advocates to Submit 360K Signatures on LA County...
LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – –Safer sex advocates to contention over 360,000 signatures ancillary a County list magnitude expostulate that would, “…require producers of adult films to obtain a open health assent from a Los Angeles County Department of Public Health…and compensate a assent fee…sufficient for compulsory...
hiv-aids-help.com 5 hours ago |
| 25 may
06:22 | Letterman on political humor: 'Who's easier to make fun of'
Letterman on political humor: 'Who's easier to make fun of' Letterman on political humor: 'Who's easier to make fun of' Filmmakers offered Navy SEAL access for bin Laden movie Lawmakers to investigate disabled veterans charity Minorities not looking for 'payback' Senate rejects dueling Dem, GOP student loan relief bills Senate rejects dueling...
cnnallnews.blogspot.com 6 hours ago |
| 25 may
06:20 | “Obama is Not God”: Students School a Teacher About Free Speech
Once upon a time, it was considered tacky for high school teachers to inflict their personal political opinions on their students. Teachers thought of themselves as educators committed to training their pupils the art of critical thinking and expanding their young minds, not indoctrinators suppressing debate and imposing their ideology. Sadly,...
frontpagemag.com 6 hours ago |
| 25 may
06:03 | Life in a Cocoon Dulls Political Responses for the Left
by Michael Barone It’s comfortable living in a cocoon — associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide. Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said it was odd that Richard Nixon...
conservativepapers.com 6 hours ago |
| 25 may
05:57 | John Edwards hearing jurors ask some-more exhibits
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jurors in a John Edwards debate financial hearing on Thursday finished a fifth day of deliberations though reaching a verdict, though not before requesting 20 exhibits involving payments from one of dual rich benefactors during a heart of a case. The jury reviewed invoices for payments by a late Fred Baron, Edwards’ debate...
svthanhha.vn 6 hours ago |
| 25 may
05:56 | Obama debate targeting Romney’s record as governor
By Jeff Mason and Laura MacInnis CHICAGO/DES MOINES, Iowa | Thu May 24, 2012 10:47pm EDT CHICAGO/DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – After weeks of portrayal Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney as a job-slashing corporate raider, President Barack Obama and his re-election debate are broadening their conflict to embody Romney’s record as...
svthanhha.vn 6 hours ago |
| 25 may
05:56 | Arianna Huffington: Help Me Nominate Five Glamour Women of the Year
As an advisory board member of Glamour Women of the Year, I have the privilege of nominating five inspiring women — or groups of women — who have made an impact in 2012. And I’d love to hear your suggestions. Please use the comments section to share the names and stories of women in any field — entertainers, politicians, activists,...
financeassistance.net 6 hours ago |
| 25 may
05:43 | ‘Sri Lanka Had Yet To Hold Anyone Accountable For Alleged HR...
By Colombo Telegraph âThe government prosecuted a very small number of officials implicated in human rights abuses but had yet to hold anyone accountable for alleged violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law that occurred during the conflict. Official impunity for a wide range of human rights abuses,...
tbcuk.net 6 hours ago |
| 25 may
05:31 | U.S.: Uprisings inspire, destabilize
U.S.: Uprisings inspire, destabilize 20120524 14:21:25 Description:The uprisings that swept through the Mideast have inspired the world, and efforts by Arab dictators to crush the dissent have destabilized the region, the United States State Department said Thursday in its annual human rights report. Washington (CNN) -- The uprisings that have...
cnn-news-com1.blogspot.com 6 hours ago |
| 25 may
05:06 | The Surveillance State: Trust Us, It’s Legal
Julian Sanchez at the Cato Institute on the renewal of the FISA Amendment Act and the lawless surveillance state: It’s been almost four years since the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 put President Bush’s warrantless wiretap program on legal footing by authorizing broad, programmatic surveillance of Americans’ international communications. The...
antiwar.com 7 hours ago |
| 25 may
05:02 | May 24
"I am not particularly concerned whether either gunpowder or propaganda have benefited or harmed mankind. I merely emphasize, at this point, that propaganda on an immense scale is here to stay. We Americans must become informed and adept at its use, defensively and offensively, or we may find ourselves as archaic as the belted knight who refused to...
publicdiplomacypressandblogreview.blogspot.com 7 hours ago |
| 25 may
05:01 | Single Women Voters Focus of Democrats’ Equal-Pay Appeal
Unmarried women were among Barack Obama’s most loyal supporters in 2008, turning out in droves and
delivering 70 percent of their votes to him. When many of them
stayed home in the 2010 midterm election, Democrats lost the
House and had their Senate majority trimmed. Now, determined to get single women back, Senate leaders
are reshaping their...
bloomberg.com 7 hours ago |
| 25 may
04:40 | It’s Etch A Sketch in a Landslide!
Every consumer brand dreams of a high-profile mention that suddenly propels its product it into the national spotlight. Right? Well, maybe. What if the attention comes in a politically-charged environment? That’s the situation in which Ohio Art, creator of Etch A Sketch, recently found itself. And the way the company responded is an excellent...
b2cmarketinginsider.com 7 hours ago |
| 25 may
04:36 | Egypt votes in first democratic presidential election
Asmaa Waguih / Reuters Women show their ID before casting their votes at a polling station in Al-Sharqya, northeast of Cairo Wednesday. By Ian Johnston, msnbc.com A dying man came "for my children," a college student said he finally felt "like a citizen of this country," and an undecided voter was just happy to take part in "a historic" moment....
charlesmurra8.blogspot.com 7 hours ago |
| 25 may
04:25 | U.S.: Uprisings inspire, destabilize
NEW: It sees worsening rights record in China, "remarkable" reforms in Myanmar NEW: Report cites calls for change in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria Too many governments cracked down on their people in 2011, annual human right report says Syria's "brutality against its own people must and will end," Hillary Clinton says Washington (CNN) --...
nominnews.blogspot.com 7 hours ago |
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