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Top Stories January 31, 2010

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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 Plan

Sen. Harkin Contradicts Obama, Says Final Healthcare Deal Done Before the MA Election

Haiti Aid Efforts Go Awry in the ‘Convoy to Nowhere’

Obama’s Terror Non-Policy

Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and the Political Psychology of the Modern Republic

Sunday Morning Services: One Year On, President Obama Still Can’t Find a Church

IPCC based claims on a student dissertation and a magazine article

IPCC Junk Science Exposed – Why Would Anyone Still Believe?

Axelrod: “We Have Not Lost Anything” by Giving Abdulmutallab Miranda Rights

New U.S. air strategy in Afghanistan: First, do no harm

America: Are we being ‘transformed’ and … if so … into what?

New Record Deficit Predicted ~ Obama’s $3.8T proposed budget predicts national deficit will crest at record-breaking $1.6T in current fiscal year

Gangster Runs Empire With Facebook ~ Guess he took MafiaWars on Facebook a little too literally.

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

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By Simon Kennedy and Erik Schatzker
Bloomberg.com, January 30, 2010

roubiniJan. 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 government was related to a replenishing of inventories and that consumption depended on monetary and fiscal stimulus. As these forces ebb, growth will slow to just 1.5 percent in the second half of 2010, he said. Continue reading »

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Charlie Brooker: How to Report the News

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Top Stories January 30, 2010

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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

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

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As Obama sees it, whatever the problem, the solution is more Washington.

by Mark Steyn
National Review Online, January 30, 2010

obama messiahThe 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, a German tourist, Herr Hans Kurt Kubus, has been jailed for attempting to board a plane at Christchurch with 44 live lizards in his underpants. Continue reading »

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IPCC chief hid glacier information for months

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Jan 302010
 

by Ed Morrissey
Hot Air, January 30, 2010

himalayan glacierTwo 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 bigger problem today, as the Times now reports that the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, knew about the error for months, and never bothered to mention it at the Copenhagen summit: Continue reading »

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Saving Civil Society and a Culture of Merit

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Jan 302010
 

by Beverly K. Eakman
American Thinker, January 28, 2010

flagA 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 Foundation, American Conservative Union, Conservative Political Action Committee and Americans for Tax Reform, Empower America, and even the old Silent Majority and the Dr. Laura show. Continue reading »

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Why Elitists Fail

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Jan 302010
 

By Henry Oliner
American Thinker, January 30, 2010

Noam_chomskyWe 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 market, and how we should live. In his recent book Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell explains how the “anointed” believe that their advanced education and depth of knowledge in one field automatically makes them an authority on any field in which they wield an opinion. Thus Noam Chomsky, a noted scholar in linguistics, has written dozens of books condemning America’s and Israel’s foreign policy with only the illusion of authority. Continue reading »

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