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Top Stories January 31, 2010

Posted on January 31st, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

OK, so I’m taking the day off, sort of. Here’s just a few top headlines to hold you over. Please discuss amongst yourselves.
US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles
Swiss warn UBS bank could collapse
NASA mission to unravel sun’s threat to Earth
China, Iran Threats Lead Military to Draw Up New Air-Sea Battle [...]

Roubini Calls U.S. Growth ‘Dismal and Poor,’ Predicts Slowing

Posted on January 30th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

By Simon Kennedy and Erik Schatzker
Bloomberg.com, January 30, 2010
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who anticipated the financial crisis, called the fourth quarter surge in U.S. economic growth “very dismal and poor” because it relied on temporary factors.
Roubini said more than half of the 5.7 percent expansion reported yesterday by the [...]

Charlie Brooker: How to Report the News

Posted on January 30th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

**Content Warning, brief language**

Top Stories January 30, 2010

Posted on January 30th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

The Great Game in the 21st Century
Why Elitists Fail
Saving Civil Society and a Culture of Merit
IPCC chief hid glacier information for months
More Washington
Roubini Calls U.S. Growth ‘Dismal and Poor,’ Predicts Slowing

More Washington

Posted on January 30th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

As Obama sees it, whatever the problem, the solution is more Washington.
by Mark Steyn
National Review Online, January 30, 2010
The world turns.
In Indonesia, the principal of a Muslim boarding school in Tangerang who is accused of impregnating a 15-year-old student says the DNA test will prove that a malevolent genie is the real father.
In New Zealand, [...]

IPCC chief hid glacier information for months

Posted on January 30th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

by Ed Morrissey
Hot Air, January 30, 2010
Two weeks ago, the Times of London rocked the global-warming movement by revealing that one of their pet claims — that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 — was not only based on nothing but speculation, but also lifted incorrectly by the IPCC.  The UN body has a [...]

Saving Civil Society and a Culture of Merit

Posted on January 30th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

by Beverly K. Eakman
American Thinker, January 28, 2010
A flurry of new conservative websites, groups, and talk-show hosts have emerged in the wake of failing dominoes: ObamaCare, federal takeovers, bailouts, and stimulus packages. Tea-Partiers represent but a smattering of upstart activists that increasingly feel alienated from old stalwarts of the conservative movement: among them, the Heritage [...]

Why Elitists Fail

Posted on January 30th, 2010 by DagnyTaggart

By Henry Oliner
American Thinker, January 30, 2010
We expect those in government to know how to get things done. They need to understand organizational and political behavior, effective administration, and how to comply with the law.
We do not expect or want elitists and moral supremacists who believe that they know so much more about justice, the [...]

 
 
 

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