1. When the Power Runs Out, We'll Just Hide 5 hours ago   permalink

When the Power Runs Out, We'll Just Hide
Obsidianwings.blogs.com

Life imitates art: an honest to goodness Galt's Gulch is beginning to take shape in Colorado Springs, and boy are the residents bringing to life the theory that government is never the solution.  Behold, paradise's lost and found:

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2. Pelican 2 hours ago   permalink

Pelican
Little Green Footballs

Compare Electricity Prices in your area. Texas Electricity is deregulated; you have the right to choose Texas Electric Rates from among many Texas Electric Companies.

3. Beck Demolishes Huffington: She's 'Media Matters After a Few Drinks' 5 hours ago   permalink

Beck Demolishes Huffington: She's 'Media Matters After a Few Drinks'
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs

Glenn Beck on Tuesday addressed recent attacks by liberal publisher Arianna Huffington and in so doing thoroughly demolished the proprietor of the Huffington Post on national television. Beck did such a good job that even the left-leaning website Mediaite took his side. As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Huffington went on ABC's "This Week"

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Beck Demolishes Huffington: She's 'Media Matters After a Few Drinks' Glenn Beck: Arianna Huffington Is “Media Matters After A Couple Of Drinks”   —  Glenn Beck may want to consider some sort of future career as a professor…he’s very good with the pointer stick. Beck set aside a segment of tonight’s show to specifically address the remarks Arianna Huffington made to Roger Ailes on this Sunday’s This Week. (Actually he began with a fun lesson ratings: “how can you ...

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Beck Demolishes Huffington: She's 'Media Matters After a Few Drinks' Obama Parts Company With Reality   —  Today the Obama administration unveiled its budget for FY 2011. The budget ostensibly covers the next ten years, but its projections for future years are meaningless. The only year for which it has any significance is 2011, in which it anticipates $3.8 trillion in spending and an astonishing $1.6 trillion deficit. In 2006, the last year in which ...

4. Spectacular Bid 3 hours ago   permalink

Kate / Small dead animals

Thirty years ago today, in a world record time that still stands.

5. Beefy Dates 4 hours ago   permalink

Davidwhitewolf / Random Nuclear Strikes

So I’m happily packing a storage container with canned meat following the first of my promised Costco runs, and I notice that for the Kirkland salmon and chicken, and the Chicken-of-the-Sea tuna, the individual cans all have “expiration” dates on them, but the wonderful Libby’s canned beef doesn’t. Intarwebs to the ...

6. Voters say no to New Trier referendum 4 hours ago   permalink

Voters say no to New Trier referendum
Www.pioneerlocal.com

A $174 million plan to renovate and add on to New Trier High School's Winnetka campus went solidly down in defeat Tuesday night. With 97 percent of the precincts counted, 12,802 voters, or more than 62 percent of those going to the ballot box, rejected the request.

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7. One hour of driving could reduce life by 20 minutes: Study 4 hours ago   permalink

One hour of driving could reduce life by 20 minutes: Study
Www.vancouversun.com

TORONTO — Researchers at a Toronto hospital say that every hour spent driving could lead to a 20-minute loss in life expectancy. Using complex computer models, a team at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre determined that, much like how each cigarette smoked takes about five minutes off of a person's life, the more time spent behind the wheel, ...

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8. Bozell Column: A New Abortion Scandal 4 hours ago   permalink

Bozell Column: A New Abortion Scandal
Brent Bozell / NewsBusters.org blogs

In his book "The Courage to Be Catholic," author George Weigel surprised readers by insisting that the very secular and liberal Boston Globe and the New York Times had done the Lord’s work in rooting out the story of child sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Church. Weigel is correct, and never mind that the newsies at the Globe ...

9. Family Research Council Spokesman: Gay Behavior Should Be Outlawed 5 hours ago   permalink

Little Green Footballs

Tonight on the Chris Matthews show, in a discussion about the proposal to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, “senior fellow” Peter Sprigg of the far right religious group Family Research Council openly said he wants to see “gay behavior” outlawed. Wow. [Video] (Hat tip: ...

10. 600 THANK YOUS 7 hours ago   permalink

Pmsimon / PMSimon.com

I have hit the 600 friends mark on Facebook. Three are deceased. A few are duplicates. I guess I'd have to have about 605, give or take, to really be at 600. But then there are the people I don't...

11. Jack Cafferty: 'Abstinence-Only Sex Education Might Just Work' 7 hours ago   permalink

Jack Cafferty: 'Abstinence-Only Sex Education Might Just Work'
Matthew Balan / NewsBusters.org blogs

CNN's Jack Cafferty, during a commentary on Tuesday's Situation Room, fairly presented the results of recent "landmark" study which indicates abstinence-only sex education has better results than "safe sex" classes in preventing teenagers from having sex : "This just in: abstinence-only sex education might just work... [ ...

12. Canadian Provincial Premiers 7 hours ago   permalink

Canadaonline.about.com

The head of government of each of the ten Canadian provinces is the premier. The role of the provincial premier is similar to that of the prime minister in the federal government.

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13. Schultz Still Accusing O'Keefe Of Trying To 'Tap' Phones 8 hours ago   permalink

Schultz Still Accusing O'Keefe Of Trying To 'Tap' Phones
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org blogs

MSNBC reprimand coming for Ed Schultz?   Five full days after MSNBC rapped David Shuster's wrists for improperly accusing James O'Keefe of attempting to "tap" Sen. Mary Landrieu's phones, Ed Schultz has pulled the same stunt. Here was Schultz, teasing an upcoming segment on his show tonight: ED SCHULTZ: Coming up: Sean Hannity has ...

14. Ooh, Speedloaders! 8 hours ago   permalink

Ooh, Speedloaders!
Davidwhitewolf / Random Nuclear Strikes

I’ve gravitated towards moon-clip-fed revolvers because I’ve yet to find a speedloader I could reliably and quickly index against the cylinder without fumbling a bit. This design looks like it might fix my problem: I presume it’s cut so that your fingers should be able to index the scalloped parts with your cylinder’s ...

15. Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws 16 hours ago   permalink

Www.guardian.co.uk

Professor Phil Jones, who was director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Photograph: University of East Anglia

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STEYN: Change of Climate   —  You have to assume that America's dying monodailies are now actively auditioning for state ownership. How else to explain the silence of the massed ranks of salaried "environmental correspondents" on the daily revelations emerging from the fast disintegrating "scientific consensus" on "climate change"? You get livelier coverage from the Chinese ...

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The Chinese 'get it' on climate change   —  The blogsite IceCap includes a fascinating article by a Mr. Li Xing published in China Daily under the headline "Do three errors mean breaking point for IPCC?".

16. Virginia flips Obama and Obamacare off 9 hours ago   permalink

Rick / Wizbang

That would be my state of Virginia:Virginia's Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a direct challenge to the...

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Virginia flips Obama and Obamacare off RESISTANCE IS FUTILE POPULAR:   —  Virginia’s Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a direct challenge to the party’s efforts in Washington to reform health care.
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17. The First American Prime Minister On Haiti 8 hours ago   permalink

Kate / Small dead animals

Really, where better to start ? Someone really needs to get him on the record answering that question. (Just think of the photo op ... "Prime Minister Michael Ignatieff at the Morgentaler Clinic, Port-Au-Prince ribbon cutting".)

18. We Got Mail! 8 hours ago   permalink

Little Green Footballs

Since I began to break ranks with the right wing noisemakers, I’ve been receiving an average of five hate mails every single day , often more. Sometimes it’s the same person over and over. Once someone sent me more than three dozen emails in about 10 minutes before I blocked his IP address from the site. Sometimes it’s from a ...

19. Ahmadinejad predicts the end of American civilization... 9 hours ago   permalink

Ahmadinejad predicts the end of American civilization...
Rick / Wizbang

... while sounding, at times, much like your typical American leftist, one you might read at The Huffington Post or The Daily Koz (or in the comments at WizBang):"I believe...

20. Iran's Leader: Feb. 11 To Be ‘Demise’ of ‘Capitalist System’ 9 hours ago   permalink

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(CNSNews.com) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Feb. 11 would mark the demise of “the liberal capitalist system,” adding that its champion, America, was on the decline and that Iran and its Islamic Revolution were on the rise.

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