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Race Card Fraud

By Thomas Sowell Credit card fraud is a serious problem. But race card fraud is an even bigger problem.

Mugabe ‘shows SADC the finger’

By SAPA Cape Town - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe should not be allowed to continue to flout the basic legal principles of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Democratic Alliance said on Monday.

Obama’s tips for the tea parties

By Ambreen Ali When he was a community organizer on Chicago's South Side, President Obama had something in common with the tea parties.

First long census form. Tax forms next? And if not why not?

Bit by bit, the Harper "Cons" continue to "con" the Canadian public by slyly dismantling or reducing to minimal, the core practices of our essential, traditional statutes.The long form of the Statistics Canada census is just another casualty in the increasingly lengthy list.

A hidden world, growing beyond control

By Dana Priest and William M. Arkin The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

More than 60 killed in India train crash

AP CALCUTTA, India — A speeding express train plowed into a stationary passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing 61 people in a crash so powerful it sent the roof of one car flying onto an overpass. Officials said they could not rule out sabotage.

Britain faces years of blackouts and soaring energy bills

By Daily Mail Reporter Britain could face years of blackouts and high electricity bills because of the focus on renewable energy sources, an energy expert has warned.

Cameron Raids Dormant U.K. Accounts as Minister Attacks Banks

By Robert Hutton, Bloomberg U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to use “hundreds of millions of pounds” from dormant bank accounts to fund community projects, while Business Secretary Vince Cable said lenders “ripped off” customers.

Climate Change Scepticism Could Soon Be a Criminal Offence

People who are sceptical of climate change could soon be facing criminal charges in the European Court of Justice, British National Party leader and MEP Nick Griffin MEP has said.

Can’t make this stuff up: the ‘Office of Minority and Women Inclusion’

by Chuck Rogér Thought that the federal agencies aimed at legislating "fairness" in Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged, were far-fetched? Well how about the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion? According to CNSNews.com, the financial regulation package passed by the House calls for the OMWI to perform "diversity" oversight at major federal financial regulatory agencies.

The Serious Tracking of Americans Begins

By Economic Policy Journal They have passed the health bill, they have passed the financial regulations bill and they have snuck stuff into the stimulus package bills. They are going to track your money and your body. Here's the first few things they are doing. This is step one. It will only get worse from here.

Mad Mel

In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four a Two Minutes' Hate ritual served to galvanize popular rage among the denizens of Big Brother's Oceania, and direct it against his alleged arch-rival Emmanuel Goldstein.

NEVADA GOVERNORS RACE: Sandoval keeps double-digit lead

By Ed Vogel CARSON CITY -- Republican Brian Sandoval has maintained a double-digit lead over Democrat Rory Reid in the race for governor, although the gap between them has narrowed slightly, according to a poll conducted for the Review-Journal and KLAS-TV, Channel 8.

Ignatieff denies political exit plan

By Brian Lilley, Parliamentary Bureau PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has denied he's looking for a soft landing at the University of Toronto if he doesn't win the next federal election.

Insupportable innuendo

“Interference in criminal justice for political reasons would be a far more serious charge than a mere grubby oil deal, of which there are so many examples in both our and her own country’s history.”- Dr Jim Swire commenting in recent US attempts to connect BP, Megrahi, shady oil deals, Libya and the like.

China Has Been Covertly Funding A Housing Bubble Five Times Larger Than That Of The US

- Tyler Durden China just announced that its Q2 GDP came in at 10.3%, just below a consensus estimate of 10.5%. Surprisingly, for some odd reason the market seems to believe this "data."

ANC’s open toilet shame

Jan Jan Joubert, City Press The ANC is facing its own open- toilet scandal a few days after ­Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs ­Minister Sicelo Shiceka said it was a Cape Town phenomenon which would never happen ­under ANC ­governance.

UN: Vatican child rights report 13 years overdue

By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writer GENEVA The Vatican has failed to send the United Nations a report on child rights that is now almost 13 years overdue, the head of a U.N. panel has told The Associated Press.

Beijing starts gating, locking migrant villages

By Cara Anna, Associated Press Writer Cara Anna, Associated Press Writer BEIJING – The government calls it "sealed management." China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.

UN Moves Forward to Implement Goldstone Report

By Anne Bayefsky, Weekly Standard Among the multitude of attacks on Israel that the United Nations has sponsored over the decades, last year’s Goldstone report on the 2009 Gaza war stands out for its dangerous distortions of fact and law. Now the UN Human Rights Council has sponsored a second-team of investigators to press forward with the report’s implementation. Just as with round one, the United Nations has guaranteed the result of round two by selecting individuals whose independence is compromised from the start.