Tag Archive: conservative views

on July 13, 2013 in World News

White House holds Obamacare background briefing with liberal reporters

                                      The White House held a background briefing Friday to discuss Obamacare implementation with a handful of journalists from liberal and progressive outlets. Slate blogger Matthew Yglesias posted a photograph to Instagram Friday featuring himself and other liberal journalists at the White House, with the caption “#thistown.” Yglesias’ photograph features American Prospect staff writer Jamelle Bouie and MSNBC’s Benjy Sarlin attending the briefing. Yglesias, who publicly cheered the death of conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, is known as a member of a tight-knit… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

MPs’ pay rises to £74,000

MPs’ pay rises to £74,000 — but they must explain why they’re worth it MPs should be given a large salary increase of around 10 per cent but be forced to submit an “annual report” to show what they have done and achieved during the year, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has said. Members of Parliament are facing public outcry after it was announced that they are in line for a pay hike of around 10 per cent to £74,000 – while the rest of the country continues to suffer austerity measures. It comes despite the independent regulator admitting that… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in Other Folk's Videos

Clueless reporter doesn’t get Sarcasm

‘He keeps up the act right through to the end. The interviewer doesn’t seem to realise he’s listening to a satirical performance of the highest caliber. Maybe it’s only the US government and the compliant media that needs irony training sessions. Otherwise people like this man will take the piss out of them endlessly without breaking a single rule in the book. The crowd will just love it. Maybe irony was invented to deal with earlier versions of bone-headed authoritarian rule in history, as delivered in the past by the total power of kingship in Britain.’

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to Society

Pew Poll: 27 Percent Say Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to Society                     The latest numbers from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life find that the military are still highly esteemed by the American public. More than three-quarters of U.S. adults (78 percent) agreed that employees of the armed services contribute “a lot” to society’s well-being. That’s a modest decline from 84 percent years ago, Not so for journalists. About as many U.S. adults now say journalists contribute “not very much” or “nothing at all” to society… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Convicted Murderers Released From Prison On Technicality

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — More than a dozen convicted killers are released from prison on a technicality, and dozens more could follow. Monique Griego explains the Court of Appeals ruling at the center of this controversy. All of these men were convicted before 1980. And since then, the court has changed the way juries are allowed to decide cases. Locked up for decades, 13 convicted murderers in Maryland are now free, after the state’s highest court overturned their convictions due to improper jury instructions. “It’s absolutely the right decision,” said Mike Millemann, University of Maryland School of Law. Millemann is working… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in E News

CSSA NEWSLETTER JULY 12-2013

                                CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION TEAM CSSA E-NEWS – July 12, 2013 ** Please share this E-news with your friends ** CSSA COMMENTARY COLUMNIST LORNE GUNTER – OLD-SCHOOL ETHICS AND ANALYSIS Responsible firearms owners owe much to the wisdom of newspaper columnist Lorne Gunter, and not just because he defends their gun rights. Gunter’s examination of the topics he broaches is executed with old-school aplomb. He has a reputation for seeing many issues through a right-wing filter, but his… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Dead baby laid on chapel altar comes back to life

                          A baby girl who was pronounced dead just after birth and  carried  into the  hospital chapel by a nurse who was too sad to send her  to the  morgue, made  what could be called a most miraculous recovery —  she  “came back to life,”  witnesses said. A nurse had put the body of baby Yasmin  Gome, born in Brazil,  in a  small box and  left it on the altar in the chapel, The Sun reported.  The  baby’s grandmother  and a mortician came to retrieve the body about  … View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Feds Shake Down Farmer for Free Raisins

A California raisin farmer is facing bankruptcy for defying a law requiring him to give the government a portion of his raisin crop without compensation. According to a Washington Post report, Marvin Horne, 68, stopped giving the government his raisins in 2002 and now “owes the U.S. government at least $650,000 in unpaid fines,” in addition to “1.2 million pounds of unpaid raisins, roughly equal to his entire harvest for four years.” Horne violated Marketing Order 989, passed during the Truman administration, “a federal regulation meant to solve a problem from the era after World War II, which created the… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Supreme Court uphold ban on Muslim headwear in schools

  A branch of Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a group of Muslims for the right of schoolgirls to wear traditional religious attire, specifically the hijab, in classrooms. The appeal was made by a group of citizens of Muslim faith from  southern Russia’s Stavropol Region. They complained that a decree  by the local administration ordering all schoolchildren to appear  in classes only in regular secular clothes, which came into force  in January this year, infringes their freedom of faith as  guaranteed by the constitution. Certain denominations of Islam requires that all women wear  special headscarves called hijabs,… View Article

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