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Spain Blinks: Accepts €100 Billion Bailout

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner issued this meaningless statement on Spain following the Eurogroup announcement. 2012-06-10T00:01:00-04:002012-06-11T01:40:02ZMike Shedlock
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The Age of Mediocrity

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
"The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can."2012-06-10T00:01:00-04:002012-06-11T01:40:02ZPaul Greenberg
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The Bogus Threat from Shariah Law

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
In the 19th century, Catholicism was regarded by many people in this country as thoroughly incompatible with Americanism. They saw it as a hostile foreign element that would subvert democracy. Today, a majority of the justices on the Supreme Court are Catholic, and they are taken to be as American as Mountain Dew.2012-06-10T00:01:00-04:002012-06-11T01:40:02ZSteve Chapman
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Former Chicago ACORN Official funded with $445 million by Obama Administration

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
ACORN alumni and radical leftists know they have the godfather of all Community Organizers in the Oval Office, and Obama has long been in the middle of promoting the failed housing policies that led to the current crisis. 2012-06-10T00:01:00-04:002012-06-11T01:40:02ZBob Beauprez
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"Why Obama is 'President O.O.T.'"

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
The rage of the heat blowing in the direction of the White House this past Friday was so intense that in less than three hours from saying what has to be the most universally disconnected assertion in Presidential history President Obama was back at the microphone lapping up what he said like a dog at his own vomit.2012-06-10T00:01:00-04:002012-06-11T01:40:02ZKevin McCullough
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Hey California: Meet Wisconsin

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
America needs a bunch more Scott Walkers, a whole lot more thoughtful, discerning voters – and we need California voters, in particular, to wake-up.2012-06-10T00:01:00-04:002012-06-11T01:40:02ZAustin Hill
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Damn the Torpedoes

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
Given what most economists now know, few would actively argue that Greece's entrance into the Eurozone back in 2001 was a good idea.2012-06-10T00:01:00-04:002012-06-11T01:40:02ZPeter Schiff
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Crony Capitalism and President Obama: How the System Really Works

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
The simple term crony capitalism belies the evil, corrupt nature associated with the actual process. Crony capitalism goes way beyond helping your friends, your cronies. It is a twisted, orchestrated plan that rewards the cronies and costs the taxpayer, while punishing the average citizen. 2012-06-10T00:01:00-04:002012-06-11T01:40:02ZMarita Noon
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Nannies with badges and guns

TownHall.com - Columns - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
New York's Mayor Bloomberg wants to ban the Big Gulp. Thus freedom goes, with each small sip at the fount of tyranny.2012-06-10T00:00:09-04:002012-06-10T10:40:03ZPaul Jacob
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Leftists poised for victory in French elections

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
PARIS (AP) -- French voters are choosing a new parliament Sunday that will determine how far Socialist President Francois Hollande can go with his push for economic stimulus in France and around a debt-burdened, stagnant Europe....

May stands firm over police row

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
Ministers are "not picking a fight" with police by appointing an outsider as Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales, Theresa May says.
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Kenya minister killed in helicopter crash

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
A helicopter crashed in the outskirts of Nairobi on Sunday, killing the Kenyan internal security minister -- a man who once served as vice president and was a presidential contender in an upcoming election.
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Israel officials condemn violence in Syria

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday led a chorus of Israeli officials expressing outrage over the bloodshed in Syria, accusing Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah militants of complicity in the carnage there....

Helicopter crash: Kenya govt minister among 6 dead

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's internal security minister was killed with five other people in a helicopter crash near the Kenyan capital on Sunday, the vice president said....

Craigavon mayor condemns attacks

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
Mayor of Craigavon Carla Lockhart condemns an attack on police by youths in the town on Saturday night.
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Fears about UK border queues ahead of Olympics

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
LONDON (AP) -- The first taste of British life for most travelers landing at Heathrow Airport these days is the queue....

Three killed in US city shooting

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
A shooting at an apartment complex in the city of Auburn, Alabama, leaves three people dead and three wounded, police say.
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Shane Williams set for Japan move

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
Wales' record international try-scorer Shane Williams is to do a U-turn on his rugby retirement and play for a Japanese side next season.
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Jubilee effect on BBC's new boss

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
BBC coverage could affect pick of new boss, says Torin Douglas
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Western wildfires forcing evacuations

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 14:17
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Firefighters in Colorado and New Mexico are battling wind-fueled wildfires that are moving fast through parched forests, forcing scores of evacuations and destroying or damaging numerous structures....
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