Monthly Archives: November 2010
Again, why should I care what George Will thinks?
Again, why should I care what George Will thinks?, posted with vodpod
George Will is a bright guy, and he is often right, no doubt. But,he smacks of elitism at times, and frankly, this view, I think, is more about his snobby nature, than wisdom. Yes, the iamge of Palin right now among many would prevent her winning possibly. BUT, 2012 is a ways off, things can change.
You know, I think I will just agree with Clifton here!
Ok, I admit it, I was going to post my thoughts on those “Republicans”who belong to the David Brooks./Meghan McCain wing of the party, who seem to fear Sarah Palin getting the nod in 2012. I was, that is, until I read this post from Clifton, AKA Another Black Conservative, who sums it ball up very nicely.
For many rank and file conservatives, Sarah Palin is their dreams come true. Palin charismatically delivers the conservative message loud and clear without any fear of the left’s reaction. Unfortunately, there is another part of the Republican Party that does not see Palin in the same light. The Republican Bluebloods, the Country Club Crew, the Cocktail Set, the elite establishment or whatever names you wish to call them. These folks are desperate not to have Palin be the nominee and are now spouting all kinds of reasons why the nominee should be anyone but Palin.They are all sounding the alarm that Palin cannot win the general election. This is not their real reason, for if it was, why then are they not discouraging truly hopeless candidates like Tim Pawlenty? No, the real reason why the Bluebloods do not want Palin is simply because of power. Sarah Palin is an outsider who is capable of grabbing the nomination without help from the establishment. Should that happen, Palin would not owe the establishment a damn thing and would be free to bring in all kinds of outsiders to control the Republican Party. This would leave elites like Karl Rove, the Bushes, Peggy Noonan, et al out in the cold, trying to curry favor with the type of conservatives they have been sneering down at for decades.
Yes, that did happen 47 years ago today
Living in Dallas, where JFK was assassinated nearly 50 years ago,, I have driven by the spot where it happened hundreds of times, and I have wondered, what really went on? Did Oswald act alone? Was there a conspiracy? If there was, who was involved. Three things have always bothered me about that day.
First, why, if Oswald fired from that sixth-floor window, did he not fire when Kennedy was right below the window, while the car was moving its slowest?
Second, why did so many people think the kills hot came from the grassy knoll?
Lastly, it seems that the car speeds up after the final head shot, and not before. That seem odd to me.
Any thoughts?
Daily Benefactor News – Ground Zero Mosque Developers Want $5 Million In Federal Money Intended To Rebuild Lower Manhattan After 9/11 – More Articles
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A request made all the more outrageous by the fact that Rauf & Co. have shown themselves to be some of the most startlingly incompetent managers of money and property in recent memory:
In late August, we found out that the mosque developers were tax deadbeats to the tune of $224,000. In an application for tax-exempt status, Rauf claimed to operate a mosque that could hold 500 people, but in reality was an apartment that could not hold so many worshipers if they were crammed in like clowns in a Volkswagen. Rauf has filed a false tax return. He is a slumlord – the worst in Union City, New Jersey.
Meanwhile, the thug Sharif el-Gamal has been sued for an unpaid loan, and faced eviction from his SoHo office over $39,000 in back rent. He was found to owe $21,000 in fines on a property with 13 violations. And there are other unanswered questions.
And now they want more money – your money. The sense of entitlement that pervades the entire Ground Zero mosque project never ceases to amaze, as unsurprising as it is given the triumphalist agenda that drives it.
“Mosque Money Shocker,” by John Avlon for the Daily Beast, November 22 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Developers of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and mosque located two blocks from Ground Zero earlier this month applied for roughly $5 million in federal grant money set aside for the redevelopment of lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11th, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
The audacious move stands to reignite the embers of a divisive debate that dominated headlines surrounding the ninth anniversary of the attacks this fall, say people vested in the issue.
The application was submitted under a “community and cultural enhancement” grant program administered by the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation (LMDC), which oversaw the $20 billion in federal aid allocated in the wake of 9/11 and is currently doling out millions in remaining taxpayer funds for community development.
The redevelopment board declined to comment on the application (as did officials from Park51), citing the still ongoing and confidential process of determining the grant winners. While news of the application has not previously been made public, developer Sharif El-Gamal outlined it in closed-door meetings, according to two individuals he spoke with directly. The thirtysomething, Brooklyn-born El-Gamal is motivated more by real estate ambition – one of these sources describes him as aspiring to be the next Donald Trump – than Islamic theology or ideology.
Well, he’s not The Donald. But why couldn’t it be both?
Park51′s developers clearly had a legal right to apply for the grant. A list of Frequently Asked Questions that accompanied the application specifically states that religious organizations can make funding requests for capital projects “as long as the request is for a facility or portion of a facility that is dedicated to non-religious activities or uses.” According to an individual familiar with the Park51 application, it requests funds to cover a number of cultural, educational and community development aspects of the proposed 13-story building – but the prayer room is excluded from the grant application.
But the question on whether they could have is trumped by the question of whether they should have. The stated aim of the Park51 developers is to provide a community center for lower Manhattan’s 4,000 Muslim residents. Their own website explained that they understood the need to “appeal to the undecided, and change the conversation about Muslims in America.” It’s pretty clear that this play for federal dollars will generate none of that, starting with the lack of disclosure or community consultation before developers submitted their application, which was due November 5th.
“If Imam Feisal and his retinue want know why they’re not trusted, here’s yet another reason,” says Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam and Director of the Moral Courage Project at NYU, when I asked her about the grant proposal. “The New Yorkers I speak with have questions about Park51. Requesting money from public coffers without engaging the public shows a staggering lack of empathy – especially from a man who says he’s all about dialogue.” [...]
But the project likely doesn’t quality for a grant in the first place. Specifically, the grant criteria mandate a demonstration of a project’s financial feasibility, based on benchmarks set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The government will help complete development projects – but it does not provide seed capital. And in their last public financial statement, Park51 was found to have less than $20,000 in the bank for a project with a slated cost of $100 million.
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TSA Pat-Down Leaves Cancer Survivor Covered In Urine, Humiliated – MLive
A bladder cancer survivor traveling to Orlando, Fla., was left humiliated, upset and covered in his own urine on Nov. 7 after a TSA pat-down went awry at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
Thomas D. Sawyer, of Lansing, must wear a urostomy bag that is sealed to a stoma from his stomach via a wafer as a result of his condition. On the day he traveled, Sawyer was flagged for a pat-down.
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TSA Makes Cancer Survivor Remove Her Prosthetic Breast – INews
Cathy Bossi of Charlotte, who has been a flight attendant for the past 32 years, said she was asked to go through the new full-body scanners at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
As a 3-year breast cancer survivor Bossi said she didn’t want the added radiation through her body, but reluctantly agreed. “The TSA agent told me to put my ID on my back,” Boss told WBTV correspondent Molly Grantham.
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TSA Defends ‘Strip Search’ Of Little Boy At Airport – Gateway Pundit
Of course, we couldn’t use top-notch behavioral profiling like they do in Israel. The corrupt state-run media won’t tell you about those highly effective profiling techniques. Instead, children and grandmas are getting groped and strip searched.
How much of this abuse will you take? The TSA is defending the strip search incident of a child at the Salt Lake City Airport.
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Passenger Strips To Avoid ‘Naked Scanner’ – News AU
A traveller has been arrested after shedding his clothes in a bid to avoid being frisked by airport staff. Sam Wolanyk was planning to fly to Barbados but declined to go through the full-body scanner.
His refusal meant he was singled out for a pat-down search instead. Mr. Wolanyk allegedly decided to strip down to his underwear instead, his lawyer Jason Davis of Orange Country said.
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At Least 278 Killed After Stampede At Cambodian Festival – Globe And Mail
A stampede on a bridge in Cambodia’s capital killed at least 278 people late on Monday, most of whom were women.
Most of the victims were crushed or drowned, after thousands panicked when several people were electrocuted while celebrating the end of an annual water festival. State television said two hospitals reported 278 were killed, among them 240 women.
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29 Escape Barefoot From Flooded Chinese Coal Mine – USA Today
Barefoot and wrapped in white quilts, 29 miners were pulled out of a Chinese coal mine Monday after being trapped by a flood and waiting a day for rescuers to pump out water.
State broadcaster China Central Television showed medics leading out the miners, naked and with their eyes shielded from the light after 24 hours in darkness. Crowds cheered as they were taken to ambulances.
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EPA Could Destroy 7.3 Million Jobs – Big Government
Environmental Protection Agency officials Wednesday provided power companies and states with new guidance on the EPA’s plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
A D.C. lobbyist for two major power companies told Bloomberg News that “the energy and manufacturing sectors will essentially be in a construction moratorium” as a consequence.
If the TSA searches are so great, why don’t the elites want to be subject to them?
Things that make you go HMMMMMM
This morning, Bob Schieffer had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Face the Nation to discuss invasive airport security screenings that are starting to turn off just about any air traveler who doesn’t show up to the airport wearing a leather hood and a ball gag.
When I heard Schieffer ask Hillary if she’d submit to a pat-down, I thought maybe Bob suspected her of smuggling cigarettes to the president, but Schieffer was instead referring to TSA searches:
Asked in the closing moments of an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” if she would submit to “one of these pat-downs” that has caused a national outcry among travelers, Clinton replied, “Not if I could avoid it.”
“No, I mean who would?,” she said with a chuckle.
*VIDEO* An In Depth Interview With Jonah Goldberg, Author Of Liberal Fascism
Jonah Goldberg is the author of ‘Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning’, editor of ‘Proud to be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation’, and editor at large of National Review Online. This American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow is also a Pulitizer Prize nominated, syndicated columnist whose opinion articles are published in the Los Angeles Times. the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and other prominent newspapers nationwide.
A post that will ruin your appetite, sex life, weekend, and, give you nightmares!
Yes, this is likely the most disturbing thing I have ever posted! Via Fire Andrea Mitchell
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Critics Slam Obama Administration For ‘Hiding’ Massive Saudi Arms Deal – ABC News
The Obama administration has quietly forged ahead with its proposal to sell $60 billion worth of fighter jets and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia unhampered by Congress, despite questions raised in legislative inquiries and in an internal congressional report about the wisdom of the deal.
The massive arms deal would be the single largest sale of weapons to a foreign nation in the history of the U.S., outfitting Saudi Arabia with a fully modernized, potent new air force.
“Our six-decade-long security relationship with Saudi Arabia is a primary security pillar in the region,” Defense Sec. Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote in a Nov. 16 letter to congress. “This package continues that tradition.”
But some critics are questioning the deal, and the stealthy effort by the Obama administration to avoid a more probing congressional review by notifying Congress last month, just as members were headed home for the November elections. Congress had 30 days to raise objections – a review period that concludes Saturday. With most members leaving Washington today, any significant effort to block the deal appears dead for now, officials said.
“I do not think there will be any action” to hold up the sale, Rep. Howard Berman, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Bloomberg News Thursday.
Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, submitted a resolution this week to try and block the deal, and was among those who objected to the way the administration approached the required congressional review.
“Hiding this in a recess announcement is a sign of how unpopular it is,” he said. “It’s bad policy that now is further tainted by shameful process.”
The Obama administration has touted the deal as a boon for American jobs, and as a move to solidify the alliance between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia at a time when American intelligence is dependent on the Islamic nation for help in the war on terror. Earlier this month, it was a tip from Saudi intelligence that helped foil an al Qaeda plot to hide a bomb in a desktop printer aboard a UPS cargo plane.
The arrangement would ship 84 F-15 fighter jets and more than 175 attack helicopters to the Saudis over the next 15 years. The choppers, in particular, would “bolster Saudi Arabia’s counterterrorism capabilities,” Gates and Clinton wrote in their letter this week to congressional leaders.
Missouri Sen. Kit Bond, a Republican who will soon retire as his party’s ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, supports the arms sale, and told ABC News that the Saudis offered ample evidence of the value of the alliance when they provided tracking numbers for the parcels that contained the concealed bombs.
“If any of my colleagues have doubt that they can be friendly, I suppose this would send a strong signal that they can be friendly,” Bond said. Gates and Clinton also touted Saudi Arabia’s “significant” counterterrorism cooperation in their letter to congressional leaders, specifically citing help in thwarting the cargo bomb plot.
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Maxine Waters Ethics Trial Put On Hold – Politics Daily
The day after the House Ethics Committee recommended a censure for Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), the committe announced it will not hold the trial of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Nov. 29, as scheduled.
Instead, committee chairs Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) said they have decided to send Ms. Waters’ case back to the panel’s subcommittee for further investigation.
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Enhanced Pat Down Leaves Grand Rapids Airline Passenger In Tears – WZZM
Before boarding a flight in Grand Rapids, a woman says the search at the airport security checkpoint was violent, unnecessary and extremely upsetting. “When I got on the plane all I wanted to do was sob,” says traveler Ella Swift.
Swift was one of an increasing number of passengers Transportation Security Administration officers are thoroughly searching by hand.
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Democrat Etheridge Concedes: Still Counting In Five House Races – The Atlantic
North Carolina Democrat Bob Etheridge is conceding his House race, National Journal’s Tim Sahd reports. Republican Renee Ellmers, consequently, will enter the House in January.
This leaves only five House races yet to be decided, with one recount underway and absentee ballots being counted in the other four. This gives Republicans a total of 61 seats gained in the 2010 midterms so far.
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Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee – Wired
The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site, regardless if a crime has actually been committed.
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy.
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Boehner: GM Bailout Hurt ‘Tens Of Thousands’ Of Americans – CNS
“The government’s reaction to General Motors and the bailout from the government I think could have been handled in a more orderly way from a bankruptcy judge,” Boehner said.
“When you look at the people who lost because of the government’s actions, we’re talking about tens of thousands of Americans who were punished as a result of the government’s action,” he added.
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Obama Fails To Salute Medal Of Honor Recipient At Ceremony – Clark County Conservative
A moment of national pride took place recently in the White House when Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta received the Medal of Honor for bravery above and beyond the call of duty in combat in Afghanistan.
Sgt. Giunta became the first living American soldier to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. He is now one of only eighty-eight (88) living holders of the Medal of Honor.
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Judge Halts Certification Of Murkowski Win – The Politico
A federal judge ruled Friday in favor of Republican Joe Miller to halt the certification of the election results – at least provisionally – in his race against Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Judge Ralph Beistline granted a temporary injunction to stop election officials from certifying the results of the Senate race. Beistline granted the injunction as long as Miller moves his case to state court by Monday.
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Man Jailed After Fleeing Robbery Scene On Riding Lawn Mower – Weekly Vice
Ricky New,45, was jailed Thursday after he allegedly robbed a convenience store and then attempted to flee the scene on a riding lawn mower. According to police, New entered the Kent’s Corner convenience store armed with a stick and demanded cash.
After assaulting the female clerk, he left with an undisclosed amount of cash, hopped on a Craftsman riding lawn mower and fled the scene.
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Woman Pretended To Be Mom To Get Benefits – Washington Examiner
A D.C. woman admitted that she pretended to be her dead mother to collect more than $35,000 in federal retirement benefits.
Yolanda Powers, 31, will likely receive a sentence of six to 12 months of home detention under federal guidelines, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Carol Powers died on April 1, 2008, shortly after retiring, and retirement payments were deposited into her account.
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Undertakers Offer Coffins For Gay Market – Yahoo News
Two undertakers in Cologne Germany are trying to tap into the gay market by selling coffins adorned with images of male nudes.
“We believe you should be able to have a coffin that lets you embark on your last journey in a way that reflects how you lived your life,” undertaker Thomas Brandl told Reuters. The unconventional coffin, which costs 1,650 euros, has aroused fascination among customers, said Brandl.
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Man Makes Puppy Drink Vodka, Goes To Jail – CBS News
An Iowa City man accused of giving vodka to a puppy and nearly killing it has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for animal abuse. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that Jared Colony agreed to plea guilty in exchange for a 90-day jail sentence.
He also agreed to pay a $625 fine and nearly $2,500 to the dog’s owner. According to police, Colony was watching the puppy for a friend in October 2009.
Now how can global warming con artists con us if the Antarctic ice won’t freaking melt?
It is hard out there for climate change pimps according to Yid With Lid
Its time to put the Global Warming Moonbats on a suicide watch. The elaborate hoax they are perpetuating on the world for the express purpose of worldwide redistribution crumbles just a little more every day. The latest news comes from the National Snow and Ice Center (appropriately located in Colorado). It seems that the ice in Antarctica cannot read, because it is not melting the way it is supposed to. Worse yet, this year it reached its second highest level ever since satellite measurement began over 30 years ago.
A heartwarming story isn’t it? Go figure that GOOD news for the planet is BAD news for those who tell us theyare all about saving the planet! If a televangelist and a used car salesman had a baby, it would be a climate change hoaxster, like say, Al Gore!
We will not be able to live with Donald Douglas now
Not after he scooped Stacy McCain on Megyn Kelly appearing in GQ!
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Obama’s Ex-Car Czar Sued By Cuomo, Settles With SEC – ABC News
Former Obama administration auto industry czar Steven Rattner was sued by New York’s attorney general on Thursday for allegedly paying kickbacks to win investments from the state’s $130 billion pension fund.
Rattner separately settled a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit, agreeing to pay $6.2 million and accept a two-year ban from working with an investment adviser or broker-dealer.
The former investment banker led the federal government’s auto task force that oversaw the restructuring and bankruptcy of General Motors Co.
The lawsuit was filed by Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general and governor-elect, on the same day that GM began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Only hours before the suit was filed, Rattner had been on CNBC television talking about the revamped GM’s stock market debut.
The allegations date back to when Rattner worked at Quadrangle, the private equity firm he co-founded. Relations between the firm and Rattner have become strained, however.
Court papers showed on Thursday that he is pursuing arbitration proceedings to recover money he believes Quadrangle owes him. He also accuses his former employer of trying to “shift responsibility for its penalty” to him.
In a letter to investors obtained by Reuters, Quadrangle said it was vigorously defending itself against Rattner’s claims, and that Rattner’s conduct “continues his pattern of failing to take responsibility for his actions”.
Cuomo filed two lawsuits seeking to recover at least $26 million from Rattner and permanently bar him from the securities industry in the state.
Cuomo and the SEC alleged that Rattner entered quid pro quo arrangements with the New York State Common Retirement Fund to win $150 million in business for Quadrangle in 2005 and 2006.
The attorney general’s allegations include fraud charges under the Martin Act, a powerful state law used to combat securities fraud.
“Steve Rattner was willing to do whatever it took to get his hands on pension fund money,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Through these lawsuits, we will recover his ill-gotten gains and hold Rattner accountable.”
Rattner, 58, said he would fight Cuomo’s lawsuits, which he called “politically motivated,” and clear his name.
“This episode is the first time during 35 years in business that anyone has questioned my ethics or integrity,” Rattner said in a statement. “I will not be bullied simply because the Attorney General’s office prefers political considerations instead of a reasoned assessment of the facts.”
Rattner is the most prominent outside executive to face charges in the “pay to play” corruption probe involving the now $132.4 billion Common Retirement Fund.
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Florida Airport To Opt Out Of TSA Screening – The Examiner
Amid concerns over radiation from scanners, civil lawsuits over pat-downs, and general ineptitude on the part of TSA airport personnel, one Florida airport has thrown in the towel.
Orlando Sanford International Airport has announced that it will opt out of the TSA’s screening program. How, you may wonder, can an airport get away with this? Suffice it to say the law is on their side.
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House Ethics Panel Backs Censure Of Rangel – Washington Post
Despite an impassioned, tearful apology and a plea for leniency, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Thursday became the first House member in nearly three decades to be recommended for censure.
The House ethics committee voted 9 to 1 in favor of censuring Rangel, who was found guilty this week of 11 violations of House rules, including improperly using his office to raise money and failing to pay taxes.
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2,000 Fetuses Found At Thai Buddhist Temple – Associated Press
Thai police investigating a strong smell emanating from a Buddhist temple have found more than 2,000 fetuses hidden in the complex’s morgue that appear to have come from illegal abortion clinics.
During an initial investigation Tuesday, police discovered piles of plastic bags containing more than 300 fetuses. Police Lt. Col. Kanathud Musiganont said workers pulled more from the temple’s morgue Friday.
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A Chicago woman with two artificial knees set off the metal detectors at Lambert St. Louis Airport this week. TSA agents then took her aside and groped her. The woman said they touched her “private parts.”
She told KMOV reporters, “I felt like I had been raped.” “I was shaking and crying when I left that room… (She told agents) I would prefer to use the body scanner and I was told they were not available.”
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At Least 27 Missing After New Zealand Mine Explosion – Yahoo News
Desperate efforts to reach at least 27 coal miners missing after an explosion tore through an underground mine in New Zealand stalled Friday as fears of another blast frustrated rescue attempts.
The explosion at the coal mine on the South Island’s west coast appeared to have crippled the mine’s ventilation system but locals said they were were drawing hope from the rescue of 33 miners in Chile last month.
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House Republicans Adopt Earmark Ban For 112th Congress – RTT News
House Republicans unanimously decided Wednesday to join their Senate colleagues in adopting a ban on earmarks set to begin in January. The move extends a ban the House GOP initiated earlier this year.
The earmark ban was offered by Rep.-elect Sean Duffy, R-Wis., who won the election for the seat of retiring Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wis., who has been chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
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Mexican Troops Kill 11 In Clash With Drug Gang – NewsMeat
Mexican troops clashed in the northern state of Tamaulipas with gunmen believed to belong to the “Los Zetas” drug cartel, killing 11 of them, the Defense Ministry said.
The gunfight occurred Wednesday night when a patrol responded to reports of armed men in Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, the ministry said in a statement. It said the gunmen fired on the patrol, triggering the firefight.
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