"A prudent man forseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished." Proverbs 22:3 and Proverbs 27:12 KJV Word study on this verse
Calif. Quietly Shifts Fruitless Embryo Research Funds to Adult Stem Cells lifesitenews.com 1/30/10 ["The California government - which is again teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - in 2004 passed the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, or Proposition 71. The initiative pumped $3 billion into research seeking some medical use for stem cells harvested from human embryos, which are killed in the process. "]
New Drug Ellaone Billed as Better Morning After Pill, But It Causes Abortions lifenews.com 1/30/10 ["...pro-life doctors and advocates say Ellaone, also known as Ulipristal, works as an abortion drug and not an agent that prevents conception."]
Biblical Mandate For Just Government: What Is Good & Evil? newswithviews.com 1/30/10 [By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD. "Let us not be ignorant any longer. God requires that government be just, righteous and equitable according to those laws God created and according to the limitations placed upon it by compact. God’s instruction of submission to “higher powers” is not absolute or unconditional."]
Social media giants survey their growing kingdom cnn.com 1/30/10 ["Seven of the 15 most trafficked Web sites in the world are social sites... "We now spend between five and six hours per day on media and that is the second biggest human activity after sleeping!""]
America - The True State of the Union! lasttrumpetnewsletter.org 1/29/10 [By Pastor David Meyer ""...they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst." ...Isaiah 5:11-14 "]
Verizon to Cut 13,000 Jobs as Businesses Reduce Lines bloomberg.com 1/29/10 ["at the division this year after posting fourth-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ estimates. "]
U.S. embraces Copenhagen pact, Senators rework bill reuters.com 1/29/10 ["U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern gave notice to the United Nations that the country will aim for a 17 percent emissions cut in carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming by 2020, from 2005 levels. ...John Kerry, the Democratic U.S. senator working on a compromise climate bill, insisted that Congress would put a price on carbon, forcing companies to pay for their global warming pollution."]
Senate Approves Amendment to Raise Debt Ceiling by $1.9 Trillion wsj.com 1/29/10 ["Once the increase is signed into law, the federal government will be able to borrow up to $14.3 trillion, by far the highest amount of debt it has ever held on its books. The current limit of around $12.4 trillion would have been breached by the end of February."]
Bloomberg Unveils a Grim Budget nytimes.com 1/29/10 ["that would eliminate 20 fire companies, increase the cost of truck parking on Manhattan streets by 25 percent and close swimming pools and a 24-hour center for the homeless." Editor: This is part of that economic earthquake I was talking about...]
In the midst of Haiti's devastation, a community of strangers comes together palmbeachpost.com 1/29/10 ["Princivil said he simply did what he had to do. He took charge and formed the ultimate neighborhood watch a mini-government responsible for providing food, water, shelter, security and even recreation for the group. "]
Mobs Disrupt Some Haiti Quake Food Handouts nytimes.com 1/29/10 ["Also on Thursday, U.N. peacekeepers in Cite Soleil, one of Port-au-Prince's worst slums, fired warning shots when a crowd turned angry as people waited for rice. Another food distribution turned unruly near the Haitian art museum. Despite these incidents, not all handouts have been chaotic."]
Obama Promises 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal lifesitenews.com 1/29/10 [""]
California inmate release plan begins sacbee.com1/29/10 [""]
Killer way to slay the Google beast! wnd.com 1/29/10 ["Who in the world knows as much about you and your private thoughts as Google? ...some people wonder why Google would give them all this "free cool stuff" like Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Groups, Google Spreadsheets, Google Earth and Gmail. "]
Mexico Sees Record 15.7 Pct Drop in Remittances abcnews.go.com 1/29/10 ["Money sent home by Mexicans abroad plunged a record 15.7 percent in 2009 as migrants worldwide struggled to find work during the global economic slowdown, the central bank reported Wednesday."]
U.S. Judge Grants Political Asylum to German Homeschoolers lifesitenews.com 1/29/10 ["The persecution of homeschoolers in Germany has been intensifying over the past several years. Such families are regularly fined thousands of dollars, threatened with imprisonment, or have the custody of their children taken away simply because they choose to home educate. "]
Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away! crossroad.to 1/29/10 [By Kitty Werthmann "I lived in Austria under Adolf Hitler’s regime for seven years. Dictatorship did not happen overnight. It was a gradual process..."]
The real reason the state opposes homeschooling wnd.com 1/29/10 ["But the threat to government control is not in the numbers. It's in the reasons why parents do it, and in their success. ...Please note well: The most important reason was that parents felt that they, the amateurs with no significant facilities, could do a better job than the professionals with their gargantuan resources. "]
Microsoft net profit soars to 6.66 billion dollars google.com 1/29/10 ["...profit soared 60 percent ...said it has sold or licensed more than 60 million copies of Windows 7"]
U.N. Faces Mobs at Food-Aid Sites wsj.com 1/27/10 ["U.N. peacekeepers tried to distribute rice and other food items in the center of the capital Tuesday, but the crowd became angry that it was taking so long. People began to surge around the peacekeepers, pilfering a lot of the aid, said witnesses."]
CBS Faces Pro-Abortion Pressure to Scrap Pro-Life Ad Featuring Tim Tebow lifenews.com 1/27/10 ["CBS officials told AP they have approved the ad for airing and that they would block an issue-oriented ad not "appropriate for air.""]
Teen Abortion, Pregnancy and Birth Rates Increased in 2006 New Report Says lifenews.com1/27/10 ["Its new report, which LifeNews.com obtained today, shows the nation’s teen pregnancy rate rose 3% in 2006 while the teen pregnancy rate rose 4 percent and the teen abortion rate was up 1 percent."]
'Gay' plan for bathrooms called 'moral insanity' wnd.com 1/27/10 ["A Christian organization in Maine is asking its constituents to protest a state proposal that would give boys who call themselves girls full access to girls' restrooms, locker rooms and cheerleading squads. "]
Will Americans Be Able To Handle The Next Great Depression? Not If They Are Anything Like This Guy theeconomiccollapseblog.com 1/27/10 ["...the collective morality of America has experienced a catastrophic collapse. People care very little about what is right or wrong anymore. What they care about is what is going to make themselves happy and comfortable."]
Hundreds of Thousands Join 37th March for Life lifesitenews.com 1/26/10 ["Organizer Nellie Gray told the press that the numbers of marchers this year far exceeded last year, which was estimated at well over 300,000. ...While pro-lifers marched by the hundreds of thousands, less than a dozen pro-abortion supporters stood before the Supreme Court with signs."]
Analysis Shows 52 Million Abortions Since Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade Decision lifenews.com 1/26/10 ["Any analysis of abortion stats and figures starts with the understanding that the Centers for Disease Control has never tabulated accurate numbers of abortions. The CDC relies on figures from state health departments, some of which rely on voluntary reporting -- and it hasn't had data from some states such as California and New Hampshire for more than a decade."]
NYC may lay off 19,000 workers if state cuts aid reuters.com 1/26/10 [" The mayor, in a speech to the legislature, estimated 3,150 police officers would be cut, reducing the force's "operational strength" to 1985 levels. ... Both the economies of New York City and the state depend on Wall Street for much of their tax revenues, and big banks' brush with near-death last year has severely dented public budgets."]
Planned Parenthood Trains Ecuadorean Children to Inject Each Other with Contraceptives lifesitenews.com 1/26/10 ["An article in Global Health magazine by Planned Parenthood vice president of international programs, Veena Siddharth, states that the world's biggest abortion promoter is now training children as young as 11 to inject their fellows with the abortifacient injectable birth-control drug Depo-Provera"]
Los Angeles Heading for Bankruptcy, Mayor Tries to Prevent Bond Market Panic marketoracle.co.uk 1/26/10 ["That's the kicker, LA has no choice in the matter other than the mayor's willingness to ask the unions for concessions. Whether or not LA goes bankrupt depends entirely on the response from the unions regarding wages and pension benefits."]
United Nations caught out again on climate claims theaustralian.com.au 1/26/10 ["The link was central to demands at last month's Copenhagen climate summit by African nations for compensation of $US100 billion from the rich nations. However, the IPCC knew in 2008 that the link could not be proved but did not alert world leaders, who have used weather extremes to bolster the case for action on climate change."]
Banks shut in Fla., Mo., NM, Ore., Wash. myway.com 1/25/10 ["Regulators shut down banks Friday in Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, bringing to nine the number of bank failures so far in 2010, following 140 closures last year in the toughest economic environment since the Great Depression."]
The Truth About Abortion newswithviews.com 1/25/10 [By Chuck Baldwin "Think of it, every American citizen today, 37 years old or younger, has never known a country that respected and protected innocent human life in the womb. Put it another way: when Hitler's Third Reich was at its zenith, the abortion rate was 40%. In 2003 (the last year that I checked), the abortion rate of the county in which I live was 39%."]
State jobless rates on the rise cnn.com 1/25/10 ["The report said all 50 states had an unemployment rate in December that was higher than a year earlier. Michigan again had the highest rate of unemployment at 14.6%."]
Merkel Calls for Global Exit Strategy wsj.com 1/25/10 [""The crisis, which hasn't mainly originated in Europe, has taught us that if one big player in the global competition doesn't stick to rules, all others have to pay for the consequences," Ms. Merkel said."]
1 million Americans give up on job searches wnd.com 1/25/10 ["Likewise, the number of individuals unemployed for more than 27 weeks dramatically worsened in the first year of the Obama administration. Discouraged workers are not counted in official unemployment statistics. "]
Wal-Mart to cut more than 10,000 jobs at Sam's Club latimes.com 1/25/10 ["...because it has hired an outside firm to conduct the in-store demonstrations and product sampling previously performed by these workers."]
Sewage runs, garbage piles up at Haiti quake camps alertnet.org1/25/10 ["Sanitary conditions in tent cities like this one in Port-au-Prince's once elegant Champs de Mars park around Haiti's crumbled presidential palace are worsening by the day as hundreds of thousands of survivors of last week's earthquake cram together to eat, sleep, wash and defecate."]
Sale of helium poses supply risk, panel finds abcnews.go.com 1/25/10 ["The sell-off of the federal strategic helium reserve has driven up demand for the vital element and poses a threat to the supply that researchers need, a panel of U.S. experts reported on Friday."]
Yellowstone earthquake swarm continues into third day, intensifies denverpost.com 1/25/10 [""]
Why Would God Judge America? 1/19/10 [By Daniel Valles, Editor "II Kings 24:2 remarks about God’s judgment on Manasseh specifically for shedding innocent blood –then vs. 4 soberly states “…which the LORD would not pardon.”"]
Researcher: Abortion is $38.5 Trillion Drag on the Economy lifesitenews.com 1/22/10 ["MBA President Dennis Howard, who has been researching the economic impact of abortion since 1992, said, “The number of lives lost to surgical abortion has reached 17% of the total U.S. population of 307,000,000. So it’s not surprising that this year’s increase is equal to 17% of U.S. GDP.”"]
Archive: Mississippi Memorial Uses 50 Million Pennies to Mark 50 Million Abortion Deaths lifenews.com 1/22/10 ["Before you is a collection of 50 million pennies! Each penny represents one child who has been aborted since the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade in 1973. A penny like a baby seems to be so small and sometimes of very little worth, but when seen in a collection of 50 million it becomes enormous...."]
Bid to kill bank bailout fund fails in Senate reuters.com 1/22/10 ["The measure by Republican Senator John Thune sought to end the controversial $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, created under the Bush administration to throw a lifeline to ailing Wall Street banks during the financial meltdown."]
Dubai invites United Nations to set up headquarters gulfnews.com 1/22/10 ["The government of Dubai on Thursday announced that it is fully prepared to host the headquarters of the United Nations if its officials decide to move from New York where the organisation is currently located."]
Russia diversifies into Canadian dollars ft.com 1/22/10 ["Adam Cole at RBC Capital Markets said if taken in isolation, Russia’s announcement that it was buying Canadian dollars was not significant, but if it was part of a broader trend, then it was an important step."]
Pelosi: House Doesn't Have Votes for Pro-Abortion Senate Health Care Bill lifenews.com 1/22/10 [""I don't see the votes for it at this time," Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference. "The members have been very clear." "]
Army-sponsored report suggests new 'police force' wnd.com 1/22/10 ["A newly released Rand Corporation report proposes the federal government create a rapid deployment "Stabilization Police Force" that would be tasked with "shaping an environment before a conflict" and restoring order in times of war, natural disaster or national emergency. "]
Mass relocation for Haiti homeless google.com 1/22/10 ["The government will hire some 34 buses to take quake victims to the south and north of the Caribbean nation to hastily set up villages designed to hold 10,000 people each, and work with local mayors to identify sites."]
Thousands of Americans died from H1N1 even after receiving vaccine shots naturalnews.com 1/22/10 [by Mike Adams "And that means roughly 20% of the 11,160 Americans who died from the swine flu were probably already vaccinated against swine flu. That comes to around 2,200 deaths in people who were vaccinated!"And that means roughly 20% of the 11,160 Americans who died from the swine flu were probably already vaccinated against swine flu. That comes to around 2,200 deaths in people who were vaccinated!"]
Two banks fail, bringing year's tally to three marketwatch.com 1/20/10 ["Regulators closed two banks in Illinois and Minnesota Friday..."]
President Obama Establishes "Council Of Governors" newswithviews.com 1/20/10 [By Chuck Baldwin "As with any expansion of the federal government, this new Council of Governors needs to be monitored very carefully by freedom lovers. One blog rightly noted that the COG "clearly represents another assault on Posse Comitatus, the 1878 law that bars the military from exercising domestic police powers, which was temporarily annulled by the 2006 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act before parts of it were later repealed.""]
Strategic Defaults and the Foreclosure Crisis usnews.com 1/20/10 ["Many borrowers have the means to keep paying the mortgage but are simply walking away because they believe it's best for their finances. The number of so called "strategic defaults" more than doubled, to 588,000, from 2007 to 2008..."]
That rock in the health-care road? It's called the Constitution. jewishworldreview.com 1/20/10 ["Unless the commerce clause is infinitely elastic — in which case, Congress can do anything — it does not authorize Congress to forbid the inactivity of not making a commercial transaction, of not purchasing a product (health insurance) from a private provider. "]
Abortion Center in Youngstown, Ohio Closes After 34 Years in Business lifenews.com 1/20/10 [""This week, we mark the 37th memorial of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion and we mourn for the 50 million babies that were the cruel victims of that decision. Yet, at the same time, we rejoice that abortion clinics are closing at an unprecedented rate and that an increasing number of Americans are rejecting abortion in favor of embracing and cherishing life," Newman..."]
Nearly 300 killed in Nigeria religious clashes google.com 1/20/10 ["Jos, situated between the Muslim-dominated north and the Christian south, has in recent years been a hotbed of religious violence in Nigeria, whose 150 million people are divided almost equally between followers of the two faiths."]
Tempting God: The Errors of Presumed Protection 1/20/10 [By Daniel Valles, Editor "Do angels sometimes intervene? Yes. Can we count on it? No. Jesus’ response to Satan gives a firm warning for us as well. He told Satan, “It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” "]
UN to send 3,500 additional troops to Haiti haaretz.com 1/20/10 [""We would not wish to see foreign military disembarking in our country but given the terrible situation we are in, their presence is necessary," said Moline Augustin, also watching outside the palace. " Editor: And most Americans will probably say the same thing when it happens here...]
US gasoline likely to top $3 in spring, summer-EIA uk.reuters.com 1/20/10 ["As with motor gasoline, the expected recovery in the consumption of diesel fuel in the United States, as well as growth in distillate fuel usage outside the United States..."]
3 dozen lawmakers want proof of Obama eligibility wnd.com 1/20/10 ["Lawmakers in Arizona have proposed a law that would require state officials to begin independently verifying the accuracy of newly required documents affirming the constitutional eligibility of any candidate for the U.S. presidency. "]
Debt-ridden Japan Airlines declares bankruptcy google.com 1/20/10 ["Asia's biggest airline, which carries more than 50 million passengers every year, will slash 30 percent of its workforce and receive almost 10 billion dollars of public funds and emergency loans under a three-year turnaround plan."]
Haiti Chaos Hampers Aid Effort, Death Toll Soars foxnews.com 1/20/10 [""It gets too dangerous," said Remi Rollin, an armed private security guard hired by a shopkeeper to ward off looters. "After sunset, police shoot on sight.""]
Supreme Court says jury selection should be in public reuters.com 1/20/10 ["ruled on Tuesday that the constitutional right to a public trial in criminal cases means that jury selection, including questioning of prospective jurors, should not be done behind closed doors."]
Quake rattles buildings, nerves in Cayman Isles washingtonpost.com 1/20/10 ["there were no reports of injury or damage. "]
International Pro-Life Leaders Come to US Capitol to Protest U.S. Anti-Life Policies lifesitenews.com 1/19/10 ["“America’s March for Life is now the world’s March for Life,” said Joseph Meaney, Director of International Coordination for HLI. “It has become the world’s pro-life protest because of the aggressive promotion of abortion and population control that is now official policy of the United States..."]
Planned Parenthood Raising Funds to Push Birth Control, Contraception in Haiti lifenews.com 1/19/10 ["In other words, Planned Parenthood is asking for money to help it pass out condoms and birth control to children who are looking for their next meal and medical care for injuries they and their family sustained in the earthquake."]
Thousands March Against New Planned Parenthood Abortion Business in Houston lifenews.com 1/19/10 ["Family Research Council president Tony Perkins was on hand to deliver an address. "Planned Parenthood's Houston abortion super center will most likely become the prototype for so-called 'preventative care' centers under President Obama's health care plan," he warned."]
Why Would God Judge America? 1/19/10 [By Daniel Valles, Editor "II Kings 24:2 remarks about God’s judgment on Manasseh specifically for shedding innocent blood –then vs. 4 soberly states “…which the LORD would not pardon.”"]
US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti guardian.co.uk 1/19/10 ["Brasilia warned it would not relinquish command of UN forces in Haiti, and Paris complained the airport had become a US "annexe", exposing a brewing power struggle amid the global relief effort. The Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières also complained about diverted flights."]
Obama allows callup of military reserves for Haiti relief washingtonpost.com 1/19/10 ["Obama signed an executive order Saturday that allows the callup of reserve medical personnel and a Coast Guard unit that will help provide port security."]
Gates says US not planning policing role in Haiti washingtonpost.com 1/19/10 ["Fear of looters and robbers has been among factors slowing aid delivery. After last Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake, maintaining law and order fell to the 9,000 U.N. peacekeepers and international police already in Haiti, even though those forces also sustained heavy losses in the disaster. "]
Moderate quake rocks Guatemala, Salvador; no damage reuters.com 1/19/10 ["The agency said the quake was centered 60 miles southeast of Guatemala City."]
We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us? newswithviews.com 1/19/10 [By Michael LeMieux "The most disconcerting is the Synchronization and integration of state and Federal military activities in the United States."]
Hunger and hope, thirst and frenzy grip Haiti ajc.com 1/18/10 ["After the initial frenzy among the waiting crowd, when helicopters could only hover and toss out their cargo, a second flight landed and soldiers passed out some 2,000 military-issue ready-to-eat meals to an orderly line of Haitians." Editor: Any human, regardless of where they live, background, etc. will go into 'panic mode' when faced with loss of food or water. Having some food on hand at all times helps mitigate this influence when the situtation may require a degree of soberness and caution. By the way, I was listening to the audio bible account yesterday of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand who were hungry. The account made special mentioned that He had them all sit down before food distribution began...
Too little or too much? news.bbc.co.uk 1/18/10 ["The efficient movement of retail goods from point of supply to point of demand is one of the marvels of modern computerised planning, and we take it for granted. "]
United Nations' blunder on glaciers exposed theaustralian.com.au 1/18/10 ["The 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming, appears to have simply adopted the untested opinions of the Indian glaciologist from a magazine article published in 1999."]
Thousands protest sheriff's immigration efforts washingtonpost.com 1/18/10 ["Organizers say the protest was meant to show officials in Washington that Arpaio shouldn't handle immigration enforcement, and that Congress and the Obama administration need to come up with a way for immigrant workers to come to the country legally. "]
Obama Faith Council Debates Requiring Fed. Fund Recipients to Remove Religious Symbols lifesitenews.com 1/18/10 [""We're talking about people who are charged with faith-based initiatives, to implement them - and their central concern is not how they can facilitate service to the dispossessed stemming from faith groups, their concern is how can they shield the bigots in our society from religious iconography?" he asked."]
Living On A Dime 1/18/10 [""]
These Hard Economic Times livingonadime.com 1/18/10 [""]
Save In Your Sleep! livingonadime.com 1/18/10 ["...God devoted 8-10 hours each and every day to sleeping and one whole day a week to resting."]
Corpses ignored as Haitians scramble for loot news.smh.com.au 1/16/10 ["When someone found a new box of food, others didn't hesitate to grab them around the neck to pull them away."]
UN warehouses looted as Haitian desperation grows abc.net.au 1/16/10 [""Up to this point, we have not seen a great deal of insecurity, but clearly that is a concern, and we will work with the government and the national police to deal with it as best we can..."]
Haitians in U.S. illegally allowed to stay msnbc.msn.com 1/16/10 ["Temporary protected status is granted to foreigners who may not be able to return safely to their country because of a natural disaster, armed conflict or other reasons."]
Russia MPs back human rights reform news.bbc.co.uk 1/16/10 ["It also paves the way for new rules to ensure that states implement fundamental changes to national laws or practices, as ordered by the court, European affairs analyst William Horsley says. "]
Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children: study reuters.com 1/16/10 ["The number of children aged 2 to 5 who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs has doubled over the past decade..."]
Ariz. to close 13 parks by June due to budget woes sfgate.com 1/16/10 ["...leaving two-thirds of the parks shut in the most aggressive cuts to such facilities in the nation."]
Loans to be forgiven for hurricane-hit U.S. cities reuters.com 1/16/10 ["...cities along the Gulf Coast in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi were granted special disaster loans to continue operating as they rebuilt. But some have struggled with financial problems associated with the storms and with the recession that began barely two years after the disaster."]
Who's running Haiti? No one, say the people alertnet.org 1/15/10 [""The problem is that unlike traditional disaster situations we have few local partners to work with, because most of them have had their buildings destroyed and are looking for their own dead and missing," said Margaret Aguirre, a senior official with International Medical Corps." Editor: Always keep in mind that during disasters, the firemen, policemen, doctors, etc. may have their own problems to worrry about, too.]
Haiti earthquake in pictures: The unimaginable horror which has torn a country apart dailymail.co.uk 1/15/10 ["The destruction has been described as unimaginable. But for the people of Haiti, the effects wrought by Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake are all too real."]
Abortion Harms Women newswithviews.com 1/15/10 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire "Abortion harms women. “One dead, one wounded.” ...January 22, 1973 is the real “day that will live in infamy.” As we acknowledge another year of the “genocide” of young children..."]
US retail sales fall unexpectedly, jobless claims up reuters.com 1/15/10 ["Analysts had expected an increase of 0.5 percent..."]
New Hampshire Defeats Assisted Suicide Bill OKing it for State Residents, Others lifenews.com 1/15/10 ["...could have turned the Granite State into a suicide haven because the measure, HB 304 by Representative Charles Weed, would not only have allowed assisted suicide but would have gone further by making it so a terminally ill patient need not be actually suffering serious symptoms to qualify for assisted suicide."]
New council to advise on 'military activities' in U.S. wnd.com 1/15/10 ["President Obama by executive order has established a new "Council of Governors" designated to advise on the "synchronization and integration of state and federal military activities in the United States." "]
New Hampshire: Homeschoolers capture major victory wnd.com 1/15/10 ["Members of the state House voted 324-34 to maintain the state's present homeschool law, rejecting a proposal from Democratic leaders that would have subjected every homeschooled student to new tests, a requirement for an annual portfolio as well as new regulations that the state Department of Education could write. "]
Continental Congress '09: The Next Step For A Free People newswithviews.com 1/15/10 ["It is vital that every freedom-loving American take the same action as our Founders, to sign and support the Articles of Freedom and demand that our elected representatives take the actions outlined in these historic documents."]
Haiti Earthquake: Thousands Feared Dead cbsnews.com 1/14/10 ["A third of all Haitians - 3 million people - need emergency aid. ...What infrastructure Port-Au-Prince had -- is practically gone. The presidential palace, which weathered decades of political unrest, is in ruins. There's little water, spotty electricity, and no place to store the dead. "]
Disease Could Become as Deadly as Quake cbsnews.com 1/14/10 ["And the Red Cross says they've already run out of medical supplies in Haiti. They are sending more but they don't know when they'll arrive. "]
Photo Gallery: Massive earthquake hits Haiti news.yahoo.com 1/14/10 [Graphic Images]
Quake Update in Haiti - Wednesday jesusinhaiti.org 1/14/10 [Blog accounts from missionaries in Haiti. Notice she points out there is nowhere to buy food or gas. Once disaster strikes, the time for prudent foresight is over.]
Stinging stats: U.S. sees no net job growth wnd.com 1/14/10 ["net job growth in the United States in the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, was announced to be zero, the worst performance for the U.S. economy since the end of the Great Depression in the 1930s."]
One in eight Americans receives food stamps: U.S reuters.com 1/14/10 ["Participation has surged since the financial-market turmoil more than a year ago and has set a record each month since December 2008. The Agriculture Department said enrollment reached 37.9 million in October, the latest month for which figures are available, up 746,000 from the previous month."]
Japan Airlines 'to file for bankruptcy and cut 15,600 jobs' guardian.co.uk 1/14/10 ["and shun a capital alliance with US carriers as part of restructuring plans that could see it file for bankruptcy as early as next week."]
Even in a Recovery, Some Jobs Won't Return wsj.com 1/14/10 ["With 1.6 million jobs lost over the last two years, the construction sector has accounted for more than a fifth of the jobs lost since the recession began. For more highly educated workers, finance may no longer offer as many high-paying jobs as it has in the past."]
California debt rating cut as cash crunch looms reuters.com 1/14/10 ["California's main debt rating was cut on Wednesday by Standard & Poor's, which said the government of the most populous U.S. state could nearly run out of cash in March -- and another rating cut might follow."]
Venezuela sells bonds to curb black-market dollar google.com 1/14/10 ["Venezuela's Central Bank has begun selling 50 million dollars' worth of bonds in a bid to curb the rising value of the unofficial "gray market dollar" after the national currency was devalued last week."]
Fears of major catastrophe as 7.0 quake rocks Haiti smh.com.au 1/13/10 ["A huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. ...According to official figures, food insecurity already affects more than a quarter of Haiti's population, some 1.9 million people, with women and children the worst affected."]
Protest Against New Houston Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Coming Soon lifenews.com 1/13/10 [""The six-story, 78,000 square foot building will include a surgical floor equipped to provide late-term abortions," the group says. "Planned Parenthood continues to target low-income, minority families and has strategically located the new clinic in the middle of Hispanic and African-American neighborhoods and directly across the street from the University of Houston.""]
Letter Details Six Ways Senate Health Care Bill Results in Abortion Funding lifenews.com 1/13/10 ["The details are important because the Senate version of the legislation, especially when it comes to language concerning abortion, is expected to form the basis of the merged bill."]
Unemployment Unchanged by Projects abcnews.go.com 1/13/10 ["An Associated Press analysis of stimulus spending found that it didn't matter if a lot of money was spent on highways or none at all: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless. And the stimulus spending only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, the analysis showed."]
Body scanners can store, send images, group says cnn.com 1/13/10 ["The TSA specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said."]
Executive Order: Establishment of The Council of Governors crossroad.to 1/13/10 ["The Council shall consist of 10 State Governors appointed by the President..."]
Justification Defense OK'd in Tiller Case cbsnews.com 1/13/10 ["The judge is going to let Scott Roeder try to make the case that killing Dr. Tiller was justified that's going to keep the fight over abortion at the center of this trial no matter what the judge says. "]
Survivor, America: "It's Only Going to Get Worse," Gerald Celente Says yahoo.com 1/13/10 [""In 2010, survivalism will go mainstream," Celente writes. "Unemployed or fearing it, foreclosed or nearing it, pensions lost and savings gone, all sorts of folk who once believed in the system have lost their faith. Motivated not by worst-case scenario fears but by do-or-die necessity..."]
White House Changes Job-Count Rule abcnews.go.com 1/13/10 ["Despite mounting a vigorous defense of its earlier count of more than 640,000 jobs credited to the stimulus, even after numerous errors were identified, the Obama administration now is making it easier to give the stimulus credit for hiring. It's no longer about counting a job as saved or created; now it's a matter of counting jobs funded by the stimulus."]
Forget about the coup and the chill wind from Iceland – now Gordon’s got gilts to worry about heraldscotland.com 1/13/10 ["US firm Pimco, the biggest bond trader in the world, plans to reduce its exposure to UK government gilts, as well as US Treasury bonds."]
Obama Plans to Raise $120 Billion From Banking Fees businessweek.com 1/13/10 ["Kleinbard said the U.K. is already struggling to make its 50 percent tax on bank employee bonuses of more than 25,000 pounds ($40,400) stick. Some U.K. banks are moving to absorb the tax while London Mayor Boris Johnson frets that higher taxes may drive 9,000 bankers out of the country."]
EU moves toward military procurement (just don’t mention the EU army) wordpress.com 1/13/10 ["The Lisbon Treaty does, however, provide for an EU military command, EU military operations and EU military procurement. Lisbon also integrates the nascent EU military apparatus into a new integrated foreign policy framework covering external and diplomatic relations as well as military and non-military EU crisis management operations."]
Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues cnn.com 1/13/10 [""Virtual life is not real life and it never will be, but this is the pinnacle of what we can build in a virtual presentation so far ...It has taken the best of our technology to create this virtual world and real life will never be as utopian as it seems onscreen. It makes real life seem more imperfect."" Editor: I am not at all for movies, and this article underscores the danger (especially to young minds) and power and impression that ONE movie can make in the mind of an individual. Entertainment always carries a message beyond the appearance. John 7:24.]
Europe's Gay Leaders: Out at The Top time.com 1/13/10 ["Of the 511,000 elected offices in the U.S. — from local school boards way up to President — openly gay men and women occupy just 450 of them, according to the U.S.-based Victory Fund, an organization that offers financial support to gay political candidates. No openly gay person has ever sat in the Senate, and only three hold seats in the House of Representatives."]
Western Europe Sees Rise in Homosexual Gov't Officials lifesitenews.com 1/13/10 ["There are 11 openly homosexual men and women, two of them Cabinet members, in the British Parliament."]
Obama Takes New Route to Opposing Parts of Laws nytimes.com 1/12/10 ["...the administration has decided that Mr. Obama will sometimes sign bills containing provisions it deems problematic without issuing a signing statement that challenges those sections."]
Obama TSA Nominee Erroll Southers Calls Pro-Life Advocates Terrorists in Video lifenews.com 1/12/10 ["The documentary asked Southers, "Which home-grown terrorist groups pose the greatest danger to the U.S." Southers explained, "Most of the domestic groups that we pay attention to here are white supremacist groups. They're anti-government, in most cases anti-abortion, they are usually survivalist type in nature, identity oriented.""]
Obama-Praised Gay Activist Says God is a “Sinful Homophobic Bigot” lifesitenews.com 1/12/10 ["Kameny was also honored by John Berry, Obama’s openly homosexual Director of the Office of Personnel Management"]
Government cover-up of food shortage feared wnd.com 1/12/10 ["...When supplies are reduced and demand is constant or growing, prices normally rise. Industry observers and economists remained mystified by the low agricultural prices in spite of this trend. ...believes the answer is found in data he believes the U.S. Department of Agriculture has manipulated to keep food prices low. "]
Venezuela military shutters store amid devaluation panic google.com 1/12/10 ["The news came as Venezuelans rushed to empty supermarket shelves of televisions, refrigerators in anticipation that prices would soar for imported items."]
UK's Ashton seeks 'more credible' EU news.bbc.co.uk 1/12/10 ["The EU is now in a position to assume a "stronger, more credible role in the world," the nominee for the EU's top foreign policy post says."]
Obama Takes New Route to Opposing Parts of Laws news.bbc.co.uk 1/12/10 [""]
A Terminus Ad Quem newswithviews.com 1/11/10 [By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret. "Will we ever understand that the afflictions that are upon the nation have their roots in a deep and abiding spiritual sickness? The futility of looking to corrupt politicians and fallible men for answers ought to be evident. "]
California Requests Billions From U.S. wsj.com 1/11/10 ["...Arnold Schwarzenegger asked for $6.9 billion in federal funds in his state-budget proposal Friday and warned that state health and welfare programs would be threatened without the emergency help."]
China surpasses Germany as world's top exporter washingtonpost.com 1/11/10 [""The next big news will be when China surpasses Japan to become the world's second-biggest economy," Kroeber said. Analysts say that is likely to happen this year. Already in 2009, China also became the world's biggest automobile market, and it is the world's largest steel producer."]
California: Gay marriage goes on trial in US federal court google.com 1/11/10 ["The plaintiffs are challenging Proposition 8, whose approval by 52 percent of California voters in a November 2008 referendum annulled a state supreme court decision that authorized homosexual unions."]
White House Touts New Funding for Manufacturing wsj.com 1/11/10 ["...announced that it would offer $2.3 billion in clean-energy manufacturing tax credits to 183 companies"]
Targeting guns to reduce violent crime csmonitor.com 1/11/10 ["From new gunshot-detection cameras in New Haven, Conn., to a gun-offender registry in Baltimore; from a Sacramento, Calif., law requiring gun dealers to notify police about people who buy bullets to a proposal approved by the Los Angeles City Council that would let landlords evict tenants convicted of gun crimes, city police departments and governments are putting new emphasis on fighting illegal guns."]
Dubai Downturn Sends Ripples Throughout Arab World nytimes.com 1/11/10 ["Overall, the amount of money shipped back home by workers abroad, called remittances, fell by more than 7 percent in 2009 across the Mideast and Arab north Africa, the World Bank estimates. That is the first drop in a decade."]
Dubai builder's shares fall after Abu Dhabi deal washingtonpost.com 1/11/10 ["Deutsche Bank analyst Nabil Ahmed speculated that the deal could have been spurred by the Dubai government "as part of some assets reshuffling with Abu Dhabi." Banks based in Abu Dhabi and backed by that emirate's oil wealth have already pumped $25 billion in bailout funds into Dubai. "]
800 words won't get job done theaustralian.com.au 1/11/10 ["...A generation of teenagers risks making itself unemployable because its members are using a vocabulary of only about 800 words a day..."]
N. California dodges major damage in 6.5 quake sfgate.com 1/11/10 ["Residents of a Northern California county gingerly cleaned up Sunday after the area dodged a catastrophe, escaping a 6.5 magnitude earthquake with little more than bumps, cuts and broken glass."]
Illinois Judge Takes Children from Dad to Live with Mom, Lesbian Lover lifesitenews.com 1/8/10 ["A county court has granted the request of an Illinois lesbian woman that she take custody of her two young children, who will now go to live with her and her homosexual lover, 1,800 miles away from her ex-husband with whom the children had been living."]
US public pensions 'facing $2,000bn shortfall' ft.com 1/8/10 ["Estimates of the aggregate funding requirement of the US pension system have ranged between $400bn and $500bn, but Mr Kramer's analysis concluded that public funds would need to find more than $2,000bn. A shortfall of that size would force state governments to take politically unpalatable decisions such as pouring more public money into their funds or reducing pension benefits."]
US Pro-Family Advocates Call on Gov't to Enforce Pornography Laws lifesitenews.com 1/8/10 ["Hardcore pornography, which pro-family advocates maintain constitutes most of the pornographic material available now, has been illegal since the 1973 Miller v. California Supreme Court decision. In addition, federal obscenity laws were amended in 1996 to clarify that obscene material is also prohibited on the internet."]
Au: Banks slip scan card into wallets smh.com.au 1/8/10 ["''Contactless credit cards'' have been given to more than 3 million... "This has meant that a lot of people are not aware that they have the technology sitting in their wallets today," said Albert Naffah, the vice-president for strategy at MasterCard Australia."]
Potter Critic Michael O'Brien Takes on the Vampires of Twilight lifesitenews.com 1/8/10 ["Quoting E. Michael Jones on the subject, O'Brien notes that Vampirism is the anti-thesis of Christianity, "Both Christ and Dracula deal with blood and eternal life … Whereas Christ shed his blood so that his followers could have eternal life, Dracula shed his followers' blood so that he could have eternal life.""]
New Hampshire Poised for Landmark Homeschool Vote lifesitenews.com 1/8/10 ["The proposed amendment to H.B. 368 would require that every homeschooled student be tested every year, as well as undergo a yearly portfolio review. Home educated students’ test scores would also have to be sent to the New Hampshire Department of Education each year, and the DOE would be granted sweeping rule-making authority."]
TrimTabs suggests government manipulated stocks marketwatch.com 1/8/10 ["The source of approximately $600 billion net new cash necessary to lift the market's overall capitalization by $6 trillion last year could not be identified by TrimTabs, Biderman said. The money, he said, didn't come from traditional players such as companies, retail investors, foreign investors, hedge funds or pension funds."]
New Jersey Senate Kills Gay "Marriage" Bill lifesitenews.com 1/8/10 ["Opponents, on the other hand, questioned why supporters of the bill refused to allow New Jersey citizens to tackle the contentious question in a referendum vote. In all the states that have allowed voters to decide the marriage question, all have kept intact the definition of marriage between a man and a woman."]
Multiculturalism Is Societal A.I.D.S. newswithviews.com 1/8/10 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire "A Christian CULTURE…not a Christian nation. “Separation of church and state” does not mean separation of Christianity and culture. Even though our churches teach a “Christo-humanism”, the rules by which Americans raise our children are still Christian-based."]
ABB shooting: Economy may play role in workplace violence csmonitor.com 1/8/10 ["...the shooter, Timothy Hendron, was among several plant employees suing the company and its trustee, Fidelity Management Trust, for an unspecified amount over “unreasonable and excessive fees” related to their retirement benefits."]
U.S Taxpayers Would Pay Over $898 Million Over 9 Years for Federal Benefits to Same-Sex Couples lifesitenews.com 1/8/10 ["The CBO's December 17 cost analysis on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2517) revealed that extending health and employment benefits to the domestic partners of homosexual federal employees - both active and retired - would lead to direct spending increase of $596 million and discretionary spending would also jump $302 million over the next nine years (2019)."]
There Are Now More Government Employees than Goods-Producing Workers in the US blogspot.com 1/8/10 ["The reason for this is not the growth of government jobs but rather the drastic shrinkage in US based manufacturing employment while government employment remains resilient."]
Houston We Have A Problem – Largest U.S. Abortion Mill to be Silently Sieged lifesitenews.com 1/7/10 ["The second largest abortion facility in the world, next to China, is being built at this present moment in Houston, Texas. On January 18 there is to be a mass mobilization of pro-life forces to march and pray outside the abortion facility. ...The third floor is being specially built as an ambulatory surgical center for the purpose of performing late-term abortions."]
Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief wsj.com 1/7/10 ["Dr. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient’s needs. Many physicians find that view dangerous, and most Americans are likely to agree."]
Mikulski Pro-Abortion Amendment to Health Care Bill Hurts Special-Needs Kids lifenews.com 1/7/10 [" If the final bill includes the Mikulski amendment, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will be able to define abortion as “preventative care” in either all or some cases. "]
Global financial regulation overhaul seen in 2010 reuters.com 1/7/10 [" The Senate and House would then have to agree on a single measure to send to President Barack Obama. That could happen in April or May, according to policy analysts. In Europe, EU member states and the European Parliament must still rule on a range of proposed regulations for banks, markets, insurers, hedge funds and private equity groups."]
National Cancer Institute Researcher Admits Abortion-Breast Cancer Link True lifenews.com 1/7/10 [" Now, the main NCI acivist who got the agency to deny the abortion-breast cancer link has co-authored a study admitting the abortion-breast cancer link is true, calling it a "known risk factor.""]
What's Wrong With A More Social Gospel? newswithviews.com 1/7/10 [By Paul Proctor "Moreover, it has been my experience that whenever someone refers to “a Jesus,” they’re probably not talking about the Jesus of the Bible, but instead, a less scriptural and more worldly personality that appeals to “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life” – a “Jesus” more useful in advancing earthly agendas than those of heaven."]
Unemployment benefits dry up by 2011 wnd.com 1/7/10 ["Currently, 25 states that have run out of unemployment money have been forced to borrow $24 billion from the federal government to cover the gaps. "]
It's Time To Decide newswithviews.com 1/6/10 [By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD. "Through various ways and means, the constitution as applied in 2010 literally contradicts not only the limitations placed upon the federal government, but also the retained powers of the sovereign states and the very character and nature of the union in 1787. So, what does this mean for the posterity of those people in 1787? It means that we are living under the force of a constitution which we did not ratify or consent to."]
Britain to start full-body scans at Heathrow latimes.com 1/6/10 ["The machines will be used on a random basis to enhance security in the wake of the failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound airliner. Critics worried about civil liberties have been outspoken."]
UK: New scanners break child porn laws guardian.co.uk 1/6/10 ["The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned."]
20 million-plus collect unemployment checks in '09 apnews.myway.com 1/6/10 ["The slow pace of hiring will force Congress and the Obama administration in 2010 to spend as much as $70 billion to extend jobless aid for the long-term unemployed, or else let benefits - which were extended several times in 2009 - expire for millions of people."]
New Jersey makes last-minute bid for gay marriage reuters.com 1/6/10 ["If it passes the Senate, the measure must be approved by the state Assembly before it could be signed into law by outgoing Democratic Governor Jon Corzine, a supporter."]
Pending home sales fall 16 percent in Nov. businessweek.com 1/6/10 ["The National Association of Realtors said its seasonally adjusted index of sales agreements fell 16 percent from October to a November reading of 96. It was the first decline following nine straight months of gains and the lowest reading since June."]
Silicon Valley 'Bloodbath' Leaves Entire Office Buildings Empty businessweek.com 1/6/10 ["Over 43 million square feet of office space stands vacant in California's Silicon Valley, adding to the technology hub's biggest property glut since the dot-com bust "]
American Red Cross: Get Trained redcross.org 1/6/10 ["For a century, the Red Cross has been helping people save lives through Preparedness and Health and Safety education and training. Red Cross training can give you the skills and confidence to act in an emergency."]
U.S. Treasuries Post Worst Performance Among Sovereign Markets bloomberg.com 1/6/10 ["President Barack Obama is borrowing unprecedented amounts for spending programs. U.S. marketable debt increased to a record $7.17 trillion in November from $5.80 trillion at the end of last year. "]
Is it all just a Ponzi scheme? industrymailout.com 1/6/10 [By Eric Sprott & David Franklin "In the latest Treasury Bulletin published in December 2009, ownership data reveals that the United States increased the public debt by $1.885 trillion dollars in fiscal 2009.1 So who bought all the new Treasury securities to finance the massive increase in expenditures?"]
Dubai's Mark of Dependence wsj.com 1/6/10 ["Just five days before the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper in Dubai, organizers were informed of the shock decision to rename the building after the ruler of Abu Dhabi."]
President Obama Names Transgender Appointee to Commerce Department abcnews.com 1/5/10 ["In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equality's board of directors, said that "as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others.""]
Europe's looming demise washingtontimes.com 1/5/10 ["Come Jan. 1, 2010, a disastrous and suicidal pact called the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Europe/Mediterranean) goes into effect with little fanfare or examination. It boggles the mind that such a consequential and seismic cultural shift could be mandated and put into play without so much as a murmur from the mainstream media. "]
Report of 2nd man cuffed from Flight 253 confirmed wnd.com1/5/10 ["After several days of denying eyewitness reports of a second man from Northwest Flight 253 being arrested following the attempted Christmas Day bombing of the plane by a Nigerian passenger linked to al-Qaida, the chief U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in the Detroit area has admitted another passenger was taken into custody. "]
Signs Of The Times newswithviews.com 1/4/10 [By R.C. Murray "Most Americans, for example, don’t realize the last time this country was as divided as it is today, 11 Southern states decided they could no longer support a power-hungry federal government constantly usurping their Constitutional rights as sovereign states or the growing federal intrusion into the private lives of their citizens. Sound familiar? The people of these states chose to voluntarily leave the union their forefathers had voluntarily joined."]
Foreclosures Weigh on Home Appraisals abcnews.go.com 1/4/10 ["Roughly 40 percent of all home sales this year were foreclosures or short sales, meaning the property sold for less than the mortgage. In some markets, like Las Vegas and Phoenix, they've hit more than 50 percent."]
Chertoff Now a Pitch Man for Scanners and Security digitaljournal.com 1/4/10 ["Ever since the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a passenger, former Bush administration Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff has been all over the media extolling the virtues of full body scanners. What he neglects to mention is that the manufacturer of the controversial devices is a client of his."]
Eyewitnesses: 2 arrested in Christmas flight terror wnd.com 1/4/10 [By Michael Cutler "Several passengers aboard the Christmas Day flight to Detroit where a Nigerian man attempted to blow up the airplane say a second passenger was arrested after the foiled terrorist attack – and they suggested other men may have played roles as well. "]
Hillary Clinton's Agency Issued The Terrorist's Visa newswithviews.com 1/4/10 ["Yet the most commonsense measures that would require our government to do a more effective job of administering the program by which our government provides aliens with visas to enter the United States and make certain that credible information concerning terror suspects is transmitted quickly to appropriate personnel is still not being done."]
Woman defies order to give child to ex-partner msnbc.msn.com 1/4/10 ["A woman at the center of a complex dispute with her former lesbian partner defied a court order to give up custody of her 7-year-old daughter Friday, and police said she could face parental abduction charges."]
Iran: Christians Arrested persecution.com 1/4/10 ["On Dec. 17, security police and undercover officers attacked a Christmas gathering of more than 70 newly converted Christians in the city of Karaj, Iran, according to Farsi Christian News."]
European Parliament to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal globalresearch.ca 1/4/10 ["on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. "]
Planned Parenthood Does More Than 1.1 Million Abortions Annually Worldwide lifenews.com 1/2/10 ["The organization provided almost 428,000 “abortion services” to young people alone, with a staggering 1,134,549 total number of such services – almost double the number from 2007 – across the globe. "]
The Millennium Barack newswithviews.com 1/2/10 [By Michael LeMieux "Now to be fair Obama ran on more than just these items but the odds of a coincidence that he would support as his platform to “fundamentally change America” with every goal of the MDG pales beyond the coincidental. At the least this raises the question of whether this president is pushing his vision of America or the vision of the United Nations. "]
Gays rush to marry at New Hampshire statehouse reuters.com 1/2/10 ["The New England state joins Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and Iowa in permitting full marriage equality for same-sex couples. Washington, D.C., is also on track for approval."]
A first: NY ends calendar year in the red bizjournals.com 1/2/10 ["For the first time in history, New York state’s primary bank account will end a calendar year running a deficit."]
Bad Year for Biofuel Ends on a Dour Note abcnews.go.com 1/2/10 ["A federal tax credit that provided makers of biodiesel $1 for every gallon expired Friday. As a result, some U.S. producers say they will shut down without the government subsidy."]
Thousands in new year Hong Kong march for democracy reuters.com 1/2/10 ["Beijing has already promised to allow a full-scale election in Hong Kong in 2017 for the city's leader. But recent signs, including comments by pro-Beijing figures, have suggested Beijing may only allow a power-preserving version of democracy with rules stacked against opposition candidates."]
Detroit Bomber Incident: Playing The American People, Again newswithviews.com 1/2/10 [By Devvy Kidd "Those scanners are not going stop these zealots. Making sure every pilot is armed, as was routine only two months prior to 9/11 [6], will send a clear signal: Try it and we will shoot your ass dead and sort out the legal details later. Adopt the same procedures as El Al, the Israeli airline system that has not had an attack on their planes in 30 years. [7]"]
Mailman to Deliver Aid in Case of Anthrax Attack nytimes.com 1/1/10 ["In an executive order released Wednesday, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing ''medical countermeasures'' to biological weapons because of its ''capacity for rapid residential delivery.''"]
Montana Supreme Court Makes State Third to Allow Unlimited Assisted Suicide lifenews.com 1/1/10 ["The decision essentially has Montana joining Oregon and Washington as the only three states in the nation to allow assisted suicides. It declared assisted suicide as legal and could prevent doctors from almost any prosecution for engaging in them."]
Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank: David Reilly bloomberg.com 1/1/10 ["the Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary can’t authorize these funds unless “there is at least a 99 percent likelihood that all funds and interest will be paid back.” Too bad the same models used to foresee the housing meltdown probably will be used to predict this likelihood as well. "]
Focus on the Family May Run Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad Featuring Tim Tebow's Mom lifenews.com 1/1/10 ["When football fans watch the Super Bowl next year, they may see a pro-life ad from Focus on the Family focusing on the mother of potential future NFL star Tim Tebow. Tebow is the Heisman Trophy winner and University of Florida star quarterback whose mother decided not to abort him in a crisis pregnancy."]
California tax collectors want their cut on out-of-state sales latimes.com 1/1/10 ["California is taking the step, which it said will bring in an additional $631 million over the next three fiscal years, to bridge what is projected to be a widening gap between use taxes owed and those paid as both Internet sales and the service sector continue to grow."]
Physicians Are Closing Their Offices newswithviews.com 1/1/10 [By Erica Carle "It makes my blood boil when I see television reporters interview them as though they are uncaring, greedy people out to make more money."]
Wikipedia Meets Its Own Climategate spectator.org 1/1/10 ["All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn't like the subject of a certain article, he removed it -- more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. "]