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Cheerleader who claimed flu shot caused her to walk backwards lied

A former Washington Redskins cheerleader who claimed a flu vaccine caused her to suffer a debilitating neurological disorder is... more

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US Christians want to jail homosexuals

US Christians want to jail homosexuals. It seems ludicrous in the 21st century, but some mainstream Christian organizations want... more

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Stephen Colbert calls Sarah Palin, 'Retarded'

Using Sarah Palin's logic, Stephen Colbert has finally said on television what so many of us have been dying to hear! If... more

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REPUBLICAN MICHELE BACHMANN WANTS TO WEAN EVERYBODY OFF SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE

Michele Bachmann (R-MN.) says the way to reduce the national debt is to take everybody off Social Security and Medicare. Is she... more

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Patriot Act to be Extended

That's right, we've seen the patriot act strip away constitutional rights for the past eight years, and now they want to... more

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U.S. Government Expected To Regulate "Greenwashing" Marketing Campaigns

Environmental terms are tossed around in marketing campaigns, without clear definitions, and corporations easily manipulate (or... more

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Victory! India bans planting of first GMO food crop ( Bt brinjal)

This is big news! Should this have been approved, Monsanto would have gotten its foot in the door to push other GM crops on India... more

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Toyota announces massive recall

"Toyota’s president today announced plans for a global recall of more than 430,000 of its flagship Prius hybrid cars... more

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Secret contract, lavish spending push Republican Party of Florida to crisis

Donors and party activists are livid over newly revealed records that suggest outgoing chairman Jim Greer used the party as a... more

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Colbert: "Sarah Palin is a f*cking retard"

Stephen Colbert has fine words for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who defended Rush Limbaugh's use of the word... more

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Obama would destroy Palin in hypothetical race, poll finds

WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin predicted Sunday that Barack Obama would lose the presidency if he was currently facing re-election. But... more

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The dangers of being a news reporter [video]

Some of the finest journalists risk life and limb to bring us the stories that matter from all over the world. From the war-torn... more

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"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

Great Hayek VS Keynes Rap Video!

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Time For Wall Street CEOs To 'Earn Back' America's Trust

watchdog and Middle Class advocate Elizabeth Warren has accused Wall Street CEOs of abusing consumer trust and challenged them to step up and support financial reform -- for the nation's benefit as well as their own.

In an opinion piece to be published in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, Warren writes:

For years, Wall Street CEOs have thrown away customer trust like so much worthless trash.

Banks and brokers have sold deceptive mortgages for more than a decade. Financial wizards made billions by packaging and repackaging those loans into securities. And federal regulators played the role of lookout at a bank robbery, holding back anyone who tried to stop the massive looting from middle-class families. When they weren't selling deceptive mortgages, Wall Street invented new credit card tricks and clever overdraft fees.
The Harvard Law professor and TARP overseer added that the bankers "squandered what little trust was left" when they took taxpayer bailouts.

The piece, titled "Wall Street's Race to the Bottom," explains how bankers can reclaim that trust: by supporting a strong consumer protection agency designed to root out the kinds of abuses that helped lead to the financial crisis. Long supported by Warren, this new agency would protect borrowers from abusive lenders by policing mortgages, credit cards and personal loans.

President Barack Obama proposed the agency last year as part of a set of comprehensive financial reforms. The House of Representatives passed a bill in December to create it.

Bankers, however, argue that the agency will add another layer of bureaucracy to government and increase costs, which would ultimately be passed on to consumers seeking credit. Simply put, banks -- especially the big ones -- despise the very idea of such an agency.

As proposed by Warren and Obama, the agency could protect consumers by writing and enforcing robust rules. Right now, that authority is split among seven regulators that also are charged with overseeing the health of individual banks and the broader financial system.

more at attackofthenews.blogspot.comwatchdog and Middle Class advocate Elizabeth Warren has accused Wall Street CEOs of abusing consumer trust and challenged them to... more

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Two Men Sentenced to Five Years in the Shooting of Pregnant Teen

18-year old Wazira Harris, a pregnant teen, was shot and killed as she attempted to flee the scene of a large fight. The two... more

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Tell Us What Sarah is Saying

http://www.dscc.org/whiteboard Here's your chance to help us all understand this poor misunderstood soul. Do it up and... more

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Scientists Photoshop (badly) climate sceptics in leaked emails

The Guardian uses the word Photoshop, but it looks more like it's made in MS Paint (probably best that they didn't spend... more

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East Coast Braces for Another Storm

First a novelty, then an inconvenience, now the vexing winter weather that dumped two feet of snow on Washington last weekend is... more

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The New Math on Campus with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female.

North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges. Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment skews higher among older students, low-income students, and black and Hispanic students.

In terms of academic advancement, this is hardly the worst news for women — hoist a mug for female achievement. And certainly, women are primarily in college not because they are looking for men, but because they want to earn a degree.
But surrounded by so many other successful women, they often find it harder than expected to find a date on a Friday night.

These sorts of romantic complications are hardly confined to North Carolina, an academically rigorous school where most students spend more time studying than socializing. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University and Lewis & Clark in Portland, Ore., and large public universities in states like California, Florida and Georgia. The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in South Carolina, is 66 percent female. Some women at the University of Vermont, with an undergraduate body that is 55 percent female, sardonically refer to their college town, Burlington, as “Girlington.”

Leaving aside complaints about “affirmative action for boys,” less attention has been focused on the social ramifications.

“I was talking to a friend at a bar, and this girl just came up out of nowhere, grabbed him by the wrist, spun him around and took him out to the dance floor and started grinding,” said Kelly Lynch, a junior at North Carolina, recalling a recent experience.
Students interviewed here said they believed their mating rituals reflected those of college students anywhere. But many of them — men and women alike — said that the lopsided population tends to skew behavior.

“A lot of my friends will meet someone and go home for the night and just hope for the best the next morning,” Ms. Lynch said. “They’ll text them and say: ‘I had a great time. Want to hang out next week?’ And they don’t respond.”
Even worse, “Girls feel pressured to do more than they’re comfortable with, to lock it down,” Ms. Lynch said.

Faculty members and administrators are well aware of the situation. Stephen M. Farmer, North Carolina’s director of admissions, said that the university has a high female presence in part because it does not have an engineering school, which at most schools tend to be heavily male. Also, he said, more young men than women in the state opt to enter the military or the work force directly out of high school.

And the university feels obligated to admit the most qualified applicants, regardless of gender, Mr. Farmer said. “I wouldn’t want any young woman here to think that there’s somebody we’d rather have here than her,” he said.

Women on gender-imbalanced campuses are paying a social price for success and, to a degree, are being victimized by men precisely because they have outperformed them, Professor Campbell said. In this way, some colleges mirror retirement communities, where women often find that the reward for outliving their husbands is competing with other widows for the attentions of the few surviving bachelors.

The loneliness can be made all the more bitter by the knowledge that it wasn’t always this way.North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel... more