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Top Stories March 31, 2010

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Vigil in Moscow

Obama and Wilson

Who’s Really Behind the Glenn Beck Boycott?

Next Battle: Immigration

EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’

Uh-Oh: Another Dem Acknowledges Health Bill is ‘Wealth Redistribution’

Texas Town on High Alert as Mexican Town Across Border Braces for Cartel Gun Battle

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More Jobs Lost in March?

Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling
Still waiting for the punch line…

Boehner: Decision Keeps Vast Majority of America’s Offshore Energy Resources Off Limits

Chechen rebel leader claims he ordered attack on Moscow subway

Supreme Court Battle Quietly Brews as Future Nominations Loom

U.S. physician shortage may worsen following healthcare overhaul

The Sellout of America: Why our enemies are thriving

Sallie Mae Blames 2,500 Layoffs on Obama’s Student Loan Overhaul

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Texas Town on High Alert as Mexican Town Across Border Braces for Cartel Gun Battle

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Ed Barnes
FOXNews.com, March 31, 2010

At least 30 residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, have crossed into the U.S. and asked for political asylum, telling authorities that they fear for their lives.

Residents of a small Mexican border town under siege by at least one of the country’s most notorious drug cartels are fleeing into a tiny Texas community, which is on high alert and preparing for a surge of illegal immigrants should a street battle break out with another cartel – or if gunmen begin carrying out a threat to start killing the town’s children. Continue reading »

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Uh-Oh: Another Dem Acknowledges Health Bill is ‘Wealth Redistribution’

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by Kyle Olson
BigGovernment.com, March 31, 2010

One can only imagine the “Dean Scream” that came out of Burlington, Vermont the night the government takeover of health care passed the House of Representatives.

The always daffy Howard Dean appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Sunday to discuss the health care reform bill.  He explained that the broader principle of the legislation has less to do with fixing the health system and more to do with a Marxist principle of redistributing wealth. Continue reading »

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EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’

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Shahram Amiri Disappeared Last June in Saudi Arabia, Reportedly Now Resettled in the United States

By MATTHEW COLE
ABC, March 30, 2010

An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials.

The officials were said to have termed the defection of the scientist, Shahram Amiri, “an intelligence coup” in the continuing CIA operation to spy on and undermine Iran’s nuclear program.

A spokesperson for the CIA declined to comment. In its declassified annual report to Congress, the CIA said, “Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons though we do not know whether Tehran eventually will decide to produce nuclear weapons.” Continue reading »

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Next Battle: Immigration

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What we will — and will not — hear in the upcoming debate over illegal immigration.

by Victor Davis Hansen
National Review Online, March 31, 2010

After the health-care fight, we can expect the Obama administration to use the same template to pass “comprehensive immigration reform.” That is a euphemism for permanently ceasing construction of the still-incomplete border fence; institutionalizing a large guest-worker program; treating illegal residents as de facto citizens in terms of receiving earned-income credits, health care, and general entitlements; and providing virtual amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens.

And what exactly is that model for passage of something that promises to be so unpopular?

We know the boilerplate well after a year of health-care acrimony. First, immigration policy — like health care, and cap-and-trade to come — will be cast as a civil-rights issue. That is, free access to the United States and, for some, its entitlement industry for millions of impoverished Mexicans will be redefined as comparable to ending discrimination in the South in the 1960s. Continue reading »

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Who’s Really Behind the Glenn Beck Boycott?

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by Jake Boot
BigJournalism.com, March 30, 2010
Boycotts could be considered an All American protest.  The act of refusing to purchase the goods or services of a targeted product pre-dates the republic, with angry colonists refusing to buy tea following the British Parliament’s enactment of the 1773 Tea Act.  What made this boycott so extraordinary is that tea was not simply an item on the shelf of colonial cupboards; it was a staple, a part of the culture that English settlers brought with them to the New World.

Fast forward 237 years to the most recent boycott making news in the colonies – the boycott of the Glenn Beck Show.  As many as several hundred companies that buy advertising have decided to spend their ad dollars elsewhere, Apple said to be among the most recent high-profile corporations to assume such a position. Continue reading »

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Obama and Wilson

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By David Pietrusza
American Thinker, March 31, 2010

Barack Obama has been compared to Lincoln, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, and JFK, among others. But few have noted his interesting parallels with Woodrow Wilson. Historical comparisons have their limits. But Wilson-Obama similarities abound, starting with both men’s use of the label “progressive.”

Wilson was no “community organizer,” but like Obama, he was an academic — among the most prominent political scientists of his day. No other two presidents hang their pre-White House careers so much on academic curriculum vitae. Both then augmented their nascent careers by authorship: Wilson by a treatise on congressional government, and Obama — an individual perhaps even more self-absorbed than the imperious Wilson — with a bestselling memoir. Continue reading »

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Top Stories March 30, 2010

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Probe sees ‘Pac-Man in the moon’

So You Say You Want a Revolution?

Group arrested not Christian or militia, insider says

America’s Quiet Anger

Apple Boycotts Glenn Beck — Promotes Che Guevara

Couple asked to use water

Two presidents visit U.S. troops: The styles of Barack Obama and George W. Bush in photos

Edward Achorn: Let the good times roll! (Until the train runs out of track)

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CIA: Iran Moving Closer to Nuclear Weapon

Companies Push to Repeal Provision of Health Law
An association representing 300 large corporations urged President Obama and Congress on Monday to repeal a provision of the health care overhaul that prompted AT&T, Caterpillar and other companies to announce substantial charges for the current quarter.

Former CIA Operative Sees Terrorism Vulnerabilities

Militia Probe Included Undercover FBI Agent

Moscow metro: 21 black widows could launch fresh attacks
Twenty one ‘black widow’ female suicide bombers trained by an Islamist terrorist known as ”the Russian Bin Laden” remain at large and may launch fresh attacks on Moscow, Russian investigators have warned.

Oh, that inconvenient growing polar ice cap
See here for an update on the rapidly growing extent of the polar ice cap throughout March 2010.

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