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The New York Times is worried about burgeoning government debt as interest rates begin to climb. Much of the newly acquired mountain of government debt was acquired at rates which were low because of the recession. Those low rates made them temporarily tolerable. Now, as those rates begin to climb, debts are interacting with demographic [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Related link at Pajamas Media:  Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global Warming Fraud The WSJ reports that the “Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain was hacked yesterday, apparently by Russian black hats, and thousands of sensitive documents, including emails from climate scientists dating back a decade, were posted online.” Some of the old emails from scientists [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Money is the lifeblood of politics.  And there’s a lot of it. The 2008 elections represented the first time when the combined campaign fundraising efforts of the two major Presidential candidates topped more than a billion dollars. Barack Obama raised $750 million dollars. McCain raised $370 million.  But the bare sums don’t tell the whole [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The New York Times published a joke in December 1942 about a soldier writing home to his mother from camp. “The food in this camp is absolute poison. And such small portions.” The Dean of the Harvard Medical School, Jeffrey S. Flier, writes that the same thing is true about health care “reform”: it will [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The UK Times says a top French counterterrorism judge has concluded from his investigations that the Pakistani intelligence had until at least until recently close relationships with the Lashkar-e-Taiba with the knowledge of the CIA. However, his sources implied that the Pakistanis were reneging on their agreement not to train foreigners by moving them around [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Corruption and poverty in the Third World are often observed together.   But which causes which? Which is the chicken and which the egg? Take the town of Juarez in Mexico, which is right across the border from El Paso, Texas.  The BBC recently characterized the violence there as a struggle between the forces of law [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Telegraph explains what Lord Smith of Finsbury believes is necessary to Save The Earth. The idea is simple: everyone should be given a ration coupon corresponding to a carbon allowance. The free people of the world may thereafter go about their business, provided they pay out of their carbon allowance for everything they do. It [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post summarizes a report prepared by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services which attempts to estimate the effect of President Obama’s healthcare “reform” efforts. The Center is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. According to Montomery, the report says that half a billion dollars in [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Barack Obama says he won’t be rushed into making a decision about Afghanistan. The New York Times reports that Obama wants to show that whatever he decides, whenever he decides it, that he has considered all of the options carefully. “President Obama has not made a decision about his new military strategy for Afghanistan. And [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Hill quotes Rep. Pete Hoekstra as saying the White House is withholding information on the Fort Hood attack. It was not clear what Hoekstra was referrring to. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of Congress about the alleged gunman, raising “red flags” about what the White House was hiding. “When they [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]