Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Neil Young: Steve Jobs listened to vinyl

The Boston Globe

Ron Paul On The Kudlow Report 01-30-12 ~ Dollar Would Be Linked To Gold At Fixed Rate

CNBC

Kidneys – Take Care of Yours Naturally

Margaret Durst

Berkshire Mini Band stunned by Metallica message

BBC

Warning To Democrats: Romney Is a Stronger Candidate Than You Think

The New Republic

Hollywood Fixer Opens His Little Black Book

The New York Times

Seinfeld Reunites With Soup Nazi For Superbowl Ad

YouTube

Top cancer foundation decides to cut ties with Planned Parenthood

The Hill

Mayor Bloomberg to run anti-illegal gun ad during Super Bowl

The New York Post

Romney takes lead in early Florida primary returns

USA Today

Gingrich and Romney Are "Unelectable"? So Is Obama.

Real Clear Politics

13 Politically Incorrect Gun Rules

The Daily Caller

Emanuel’s Appearance in Pro-Charter School Video Irks Teachers Union

Chicago News Cooperative

Students step over 'rivers of urine' after green bathrooms plan for waterless urinals turns a high school yellow... and it will cost $500,000 to fix

The Daily Mail reports on the bizarre pagan, green movement:
Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure the stench of rancid waste after a plan to bring 'green' waterless urinals into bathrooms backfired.

School officials at Spanish River High School thought they had found an environmentally-friendly, cost-saving solution for their bathrooms when they installed Falcon Waterfree urinals in their boys bathrooms.

But with no water moving through the school's copper pipes to flush the urine into the sewer system, the waste produced noxious gases that ate through the metal, leaving leaky pipes that allowed urine to drip into walls and flow onto floors.

'It was pretty disgusting,' school board chairman Frank Barbieri told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

'The girls had to step over a river of urine. I could smell it as soon as I walked into the hallway.'

No word yet on whether Al Gore or Kennedy family members own a piece of the urinal company.

Feds probe nearly $1 million in payments by Coliseum officials

The L.A. Times reports:
Investigators for the U.S. Labor Department are looking into cash advances made by Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum officials to a union representative, sources said.

The investigators have asked the Coliseum Commission for information on about nearly $1 million in payments given during the last several years to a representative for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, according to the sources, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak.
Great moments in union labor.

Wired for Silence: Patrick Fitzgerald’s Rezko Watchers

The Chicago Daily Observer

Columbia University's Support of Eugenics: How Hitler Studied America Style Eugenics To Create Master Race

Award winning author Edwin Black explains how sleazy Columbia University and others supported eugenics.

Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined

YouTube

Bill Gates Funding Global Eugencis Program?

Prison Planet

Chris Matthews: I never said Tea Partiers were violent, but I meant it at the time

Hot Air

Gallup: Obama Approval Ratings Down in Most States

Gallup

Eurozone unemployment hits new record

BBC reports:
The jobless rate in the 17 countries that use the single currency was 10.4% in December, unchanged from November's figure which was revised up from 10.3%.

Some 16.5 million people were out of work in the eurozone in December, up 751,000 on the year before.
The apple of Paul Krugman's eye.

Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?

Forbes

Phone Company Targets Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh

NBC Chicago

Indiana Right to Work bill nears last legislative vote: Indiana Senate plans to debate and vote Tuesday

AP

Bishop: Obama Administration Is Telling Catholics ‘To Hell With You’

CNS News

Gray Lady Down: Has the London Daily Mail Overtaken the NY Times?

Ed Driscoll

GOP weighs contempt charges against White House on Solyndra

The Hill

Election Day Tea Party 2012: A New Beginning

Instapundit

Is Ari Emanuel Stiffing the State of Illinois?

WBEZ

Convicted Con Man Scott Rothstein Tells All!

Bloomberg Businessweek

Fed Members Laughed As Housing Bubble Grew

CNBC

Breaking up just got harder to do: How to tell if anyone has 'unfriended' you on Facebook

The Daily Mail

Obama green jobs program faces further investigation

USA Today reports:
House Republicans are expanding their probe into the Obama administration's energy programs, investigating $500 million in green job training grants that placed just 10% of trainees in jobs, according to a government report.

JFK tapes reveal clues about death

CNN

S&P Case-Shiller: Home Prices Down Again In November

Fox Business News

Fed's Hoenig on the Failure to End Bailouts, and Why Another Crisis is Coming

The American Banker

Democrats in Congress step up tax-the-rich efforts

The L.A. Times reports:
They see it not only as a way to reduce the deficit, but also to lay down a populist line in the election battle for Congress and the White House.
It's time to tax universities.

ROBERT SHILLER: A Housing Bottom? What Are They Thinking?

The Business Insider

Self-Publishing Your Own Book Is the New Business Card

James Altucher

How I woke up to the untruths of Barack Obama

The Telegraph

Making Room for the Old and the New Economies

New Geography reports:
The announcements by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) that they would not run for reelection reflects what may be the last gasps of the Great Plains Democrats, much as California’s 2010 Democratic landslide assured that Republicans are soon to become endangered species in places like Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.

The conventional explanation for these trends centers on culture or ideology, but the real cause may lie with an evolving conflict between two dueling political economies.
An article worth your time.

How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State

Karen De Coster

NBC’s Bashir Outraged At Finger-Wag, Ignores Colleague’s Same Gesture At Bush

Breitbart T.V.

Chicago tops nation for segregation

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Chicago remains the most segregated big city in America, but it also has experienced some of the sharpest declines in segregation of those cities during the last 10 years, according to a national study released Monday.

The study, which examined U.S. Census Bureau data stretching back to 1890, found that cities are more integrated than at any time since 1910, and that “all-white neighborhoods are effectively extinct.”
Blue America is so "progressive".

Monday, January 30, 2012

Indiana right-to-work bill heading for final vote

WLS-TV

Emanuel won't say if backers getting city money amounts to patronage

The Chicago Tribune

Jeff Beck performs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Induction Ceremony 2009

You Tube

Average Federal Employee Makes Twice as Much as Private Sector Employee & As Much as Microsoft Employee

Gateway Pundit

Greek Bondholders May Face 70% 'Haircut': Source

CNBC

FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail



The Washington Post

Obama-Daley "Friend" : 31 Year Old Sewage official with ties to Blago's Father In Law flush with deals

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
By his 28th birthday, Michael A. Alvarez — whose family is close to influential Chicago Ald. Richard Mell — already had worked for three powerful politicians: Richard M. Daley, Rod R. Blagojevich and Barack Obama.

Now, at 31, Alvarez’s political connections are helping provide him with an annual income topping $200,000 from three separate jobs in or involving government:

† He makes $70,000 a year as one of nine elected commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the billion-dollar, government sewage-treatment agency that he hopes to lead after its longtime president, Terry O’Brien, retires in December.

† He has a $60,000-a-year public relations contract with the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, the state agency that owns U.S. Cellular Field.

† And now he has a lucrative, fast-growing lobbying practice at City Hall — having first registered as a city lobbyist in July, six weeks after Rahm Emanuel was sworn in as mayor.

Two of Alvarez’s clients — Globetrotters Engineering Corp. and St. Anthony Hospital — have agreed to pay him a combined $120,000 a year, according to documents Alvarez has filed with the city. Fourteen other clients — including operators of the city’s parking meters and red-light cameras — have paid him a total of $39,000.
You'll want to read the whole article. Barack Obama's "people".

Snoop Dogg Promotes Ron Paul on Facebook Page

Facebook

Illinois' Quinn Pressured To Roll Back Tax Increase

NPR

New Emails Suggest Eric Holder Perjured Himself

PJ Media

‘We Will Not Comply’: Catholic Leaders Distribute Letter Slamming Obama Admin Contraceptive Mandate

The Blaze reports:
We’ve covered the Catholic Church’s ongoing battle with the Obama administration over contraception health care mandates for quite some time. Over the weekend, though, the stand-off took an unusual turn, as Catholic churches across America read a letter to congregants that perfectly encapsulated the church’s stance against the impending federal requirements.

The Church’s vocal arguments against the Obama administration are centered upon a Health and Human Services Department requirement that employers must include contraception and abortion-inducing drugs in health-care coverage. While this requirement doesn’t apply to houses of worship, it will force Catholic colleges, hospitals and other Christian groups to provide these drugs despite their faith-based opposition to them.
This is war.

The GOP’s Plan To Corner Obama On The Keystone Pipeline

TPM

The Myth of Starving Americans : According to the Census Bureau, 96% of parents classified as poor said their children were never hungry.

The Wall Street Journal

Gallup: Romney edges Obama in swing states

Hot Air

Treasury ups auto bailout loss estimate



The Detroit News

Elizabeth Warren made her mark helping insurance companies use bankruptcy to avoid paying asbestos claims.

Instapundit

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Newsfeed Alert

Incentives and Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Matthew McCaffrey

The Mises Institute

Obama Might Not Be on Georgia Ballot in 2012: Georgia Secretary of State Warns Obama's Lawyer

While the rest of the MSM reports on the comings and goings of Obama: The Atlanta Journal Constitution has this "bombshell" ? Here's an update and another.

Illinois Moves Closer to Financial Disaster

Crain's Chicago Business

Food stamp bills seek to restrict junk food

The L.A. Times reports:
Florida legislation is the latest to prohibit shoppers from buying 'nonstaple, unhealthy foods' with federal aid. It's a trend driven by health concerns but also by tight budgets.
It's just a matter of time before ObamaCare might force you to go to the gym.

Convicted Felon Robert Creamer : Why Character and Core Values Could Prove Decisive in Battle for Presidency

The Huffington Post

'You have no place in civilised society': Muslim family jailed for life after 'despicable' honour killing of three teen daughters who dared to date boys

The Daily Mail

Want to Save Endangered Species? Hunt Them

Carpe Diem

Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners

Pro Publica reports:
Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.

Freddie began increasing these bets dramatically in late 2010, the same time that the company was making it harder for homeowners to get out of such high-interest mortgages.
No word yet from Rahm Emanuel on this one.

Hugo Chavez warns he could nationalize some banks



The AP

Unionization Rate Nears Zero

The Daily Caller

Gold Procrastinators: The Endless Agony

Gary North

Newt In 2009: Praise For Obama’s Individual Mandate, ObamaCare Legislative Process

Breitbart T.V.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Obama to the nation: Onward civilian soldiers

George Will

Flashback: Murray Rothbard on Ron Paul

The Top 10 Stereotypical Marriage Wreckers

The Huffington Post

Learning From Kodak's Demise: What the end of a blue-chip company can teach us about the 2012 election.

Reason reports:
Unlike government and its sub-entities, Kodak couldn’t count on a guaranteed revenue stream: Consumers abandoned its products, and now the company is basically done. The history of private-sector duopolies and even monopolies is filled with such seemingly sudden disappearing acts: The A&P supermarket chain—if you’re under 40 years old, or from the West Coast, you probably haven’t even heard of it—enjoyed a U.S. market share of 75 percent as recently as the 1950s. Big-box music retailers and bookstores were supposed to bestride the land like colossi at the turn of our new century, but Virgin megastores have all but disappeared, and Borders has been liquidated. Dominant newspapers in one-paper towns were able to book some of the economy’s highest profit margins for four decades—more than 20 percent a year, on average, positively dwarfing such hated industrial icons as Walmart—yet with the explosion of Web-based competition, these onetime mints are now among the least attractive companies in the economy.

There is a positive correlation between an organization’s former dominance and its present inability to cope with 21st-century change. As technology business consultant Nilofer Merchant has aptly put it, “The Web turns old industries on their head. Industries that have had monopolies or highly profitable duopolies are the ones most likely to be completely gutted when a more powerful, more efficient system comes along.” We need to hasten the inevitable arrival of that more efficient system on the doorstep of America’s most stubborn, foot-dragging, reactionary sector—government at the local, state, and especially federal levels, and its officially authorized customer-hating agents, the Democrats and Republicans.
An article well worth your time.

Congress Puts Google On Defense Over Privacy Policy Changes

TPM

Educators edgy over Obama college plans



The AP

Democrats prime recruits to try to take back the House

CNN

Could your friends be making you sick? Toxic relationships are linked to cancer, depression and heart disease

The Daily Mail

Global Warming Is Cooling Its Heels

LRC Blog

Eric Holder Knew of Fast and Furious the Day Border Agent Brian Terry Was Murdered

Gateway Pundit

GDP Recovers From Great Recession: With 5.7 Million Less Jobs

Carpe Diem

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Newsfeed Alert

Barack Obama is trying to make the US a more socialist state

The Telegraph reports:
The ideas the President outlined in the State of the Union are based on the very model that is causing the EU to implode.

Speaking Up Against Bloomberg's Anti-Gun Group

Glenn Reynolds

Hollywood, GOP stars out for Romney

The Hill

Study: Class size doesn’t matter

The Washington Post reports:
Two Harvard researchers looked at the factors that actually improve student achievement and those that don’t. In a new paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Will Dobbie and Roland Freyer analyzed 35 charter schools, which generally have greater flexibility in terms of school structure and strategy. They found that traditionally emphasized factors such as class size made little difference
The teachers unions hope you don't read this one.

Meet the Marriage Killer : It's More Common Than Adultery and Potentially As Toxic, So Why Is It So Hard to Stop Nagging?

The Wall Street Journal

The 1.7% Year : The U.S. economy is still barely larger than it was at the end of 2007.

The Wall Street Journal

This Is a ‘Who Is Tim Tebow Dating?’ Story That You Will Really Like

The Blaze

Europe's lost generation: how it feels to be young and struggling in the EU

The Guardian

Ron Paul vs. Democratic Dictatorship

Lew Rockwell Show

California Taxes Rank Worst in US

Reason T.V.

Pencils, Invisible Hands and Broken Windows | Mark Thornton

Mises Institute