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WH Official: ‘This is a joke. We’re wasting the president’s time and ours’

He is dining with Republicans after advisers openly mocked suggestions that he do so. He is visiting Capitol Hill after telling aides that such a gesture was beneath him and the dignity of his office. And, as an ultimate indignity, he is talking to reporters. What’s gotten into President Obama?

A better question might be what has left the president – and the answer would be: Much of his political capital.

Obama’s sudden burst of public [...]

Presidential debates lose HUGE sponsor over exclusion of third-party candidates!

The Commission on Presidential Debates, a bipartisan project of the Republican and Democratic parties, was established, at least in part, to make sure that major party presidential candidates would be unlikely to suffer the indignity of sharing a stage with an outsider. The effort hasn’t been completely successful — Ross Perot actually managed to meet the CPD’s nearly prohibitive criteria for inclusion in 1992 — but the two parties now have a [...]

Could the U.S. give up Mount Rushmore? Iconic site is on list of ‘sacred land’ UN says must be returned to Native Americans

A UN human rights official is urging the U.S. to turn over control of lands considered to be sacred to Native Americans, including the site of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, unveiled his recommendations in Geneva on Friday after completing a 12-day visit to the U.S. where he met with representatives of indigenous peoples in six states.

The fact-finder also [...]

RACE WARS: Baltimore’s top cop says videotaped beating of white tourist not hate crime – VIDEO

4/10 UPDATE: Baltimore’s police chief today said that the videotaped beating of a white tourist does not appear to be a hate crime, but rather “drunken opportunistic criminality” on the part of a gang of Charm City assailants.

In a TV interview, Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III urged Baltimore residents to “distinguish between criminality and racially motivated crime.” Bealefeld, who is white, warned against “race-baiting” and “fear-mongering” in light of the Trayvon [...]

Alaska lawmaker blasts TSA in new PSA, warning travelers about revealing full body scanners

J. D. Heyes
Natural News
January 2, 2012

(NaturalNews) Regular readers of NaturalNews.com already know that the expectation of privacy in America has slowly been eroded through a series of laws and court rulings. In the modern era, one of the most egregious and serial violators of privacy has been the Transportation Security Administration.

The only good news in the sorry state of affairs regarding constitutional violations and privacy abuses by the TSA is [...]

You will pay for massive shortfalls in State Pension Funds.

LIKE A CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE, populist rage burns over bloated executive compensation and unrepentant avarice on Wall Street.

Deserving as these targets may or may not be, most Americans have ignored at their own peril a far bigger pocket of privilege — the lush pensions that the 23 million active and retired state and local public employees, from cops and garbage collectors to city managers and teachers, have wangled from taxpayers.

Some 80% [...]

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