When Libertarians Cry (thanks song and dance man!)
Getting fired is never easy, but the brush-off that bloggers at the Pajamas Media Ad Network received this January was particularly callous. “I just received a Dear John form letter,” says Jeff Goldstein, a libertarian and mixed martial artist who writes on the blog Protein Wisdom. The notice began as a promotion for Pajamas Media’s new TV channel, but buried halfway through was news that Goldstein’s contract–and those of his fellow bloggers on the PJM Ad Network–would be terminated.
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Senators slam plan for wounded vets to use private insurance
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.
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UN Confirms Iran Caught Red-Handed in Ship Loaded with Weapons
(IsraelNN.com) A United Nations Security Council committee confirmed on Tuesday that Iran violated U.N. sanctions by trying to send a ship with weapons to Syria. The high-explosive shells, including those than can pierce armor, and anti-tank explosives may have been destined for Hamas terrorists in Gaza, Hizbullah in Iran or Syrian-backed Iraqis, Council diplomats told the Associated Press.
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Rockets and Mortar Continue to Rain on Southern Residents
(IsraelNN.com) Terrorists fired from Gaza towards Israeli civilians in the Negev throughout Wednesday.
Arab terrorists fired a Kassam rocket towards the Negev around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. The rocket exploded in a kibbutz (agricultural settlement) within the Sha’ar Hanegev region.There were no injuries or damage caused.
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Court Finds Two Arabs Guilty of Plot Against Pilots & Scientist
(IsraelNN.com) The Haifa District Court Wednesday convicted two Arabs from Shefar’am, in the Galilee, of conspiring to aid the enemy in wartime and other terror-related offenses.
Judges Yosef Elron, Moshe Gilad and Riki Lemshreich–Leter found the main defendant, Anis Safouri, 21, guilty of conspiring to aid the enemy during wartime, membership in an illegal association and conspiring to commit murder.
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UN Human Rights Council: Human rights for everyone except Jews
This video is self-explanatory. You will see a speaker at the UN ‘Human Rights Council’ (David G. Littman of the Association for World Education) who attempts to raise the issue of demonization of Jews, Zionists and Israel summarily told to shut up.
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It’s official: Moussawi allowed into Britain
On Sunday, I reported that it was likely that Hezbullah leader Ibrahim Moussawi would be allowed into Britain just weeks after the country turned Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders around at London’s Heathrow Airport and sent him home. Today, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith issued a visa for Moussawi to come to Britain on March 25 to address a seminar on political Islam at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.
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PA unity negotiations near collapse
Hamas and Fatah negotiators said on Thursday they are having difficulty reaching an agreement over the makeup and political program of a Palestinian unity government.
Sharp differences erupted between the two parties during the Egyptian-sponsored reconciliation talks that began in Cairo earlier this week, they said.
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Hamas condemns rocket fire on Israel
Hamas rulers on Thursday made some rare criticism of Palestinian rocket fire on Israel, saying now was the wrong time for such attacks.
The criticism comes as Hamas is trying to reach a long-term cease-fire with Israel and holding reconciliation talks with Fatah. Hamas apparently is wary of disrupting these efforts.
The group has fired thousands of rockets into southern Israel over the past few years, but it said Thursday that it has not been involved in recent attacks, including two rockets fired Wednesday.
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Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It (thanks no2liberals!)
(CNSNews.com) – On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”
