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Sunday, November 30
Mumbai terrorists were 'funded by cash raised in UK mosques'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 30 Nov 2008 10:52 PM EST
A banned Islamic terrorist group funded with cash raised in British mosques is believed to be behind the Mumbai attacks. Kashmiri separatists Lashkar-e-Taiba, ‘The Army of the Righteous’, which has strong links to Al Qaeda, is accused of previous terrorist outrages in India. And intercepted telephone and radio communications before and during the latest attacks apparently suggest a link More>>> Saturday, November 29
Tolerating intolerance
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Nov 2008 12:22 PM EST
THE involvement of Britons among the terrorists responsible for the murders of more than 150 people in Mumbai last week signals another milestone in the march of multiculturalism and the failure of Western and democratised nations to deal with Islamists. In the mosques of London, leaders like Anjem Choudary, right-hand man to the hate-filled cleric Omar Bakri, were praising the killers, saying any Britons or Americans among the dead were targeted legitimately because they should not have gone to India....From the shores of Somalia to the cells of Guantanamo, the West is in confused retreat, its politicians too concerned about appearing to be in breach of international civil rights covenants than they are about the safety of their citizens. More>>>
Expert: Small Ark. earthquakes could be warning
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Nov 2008 12:10 PM EST
While hundreds of earthquakes occur each year, including several in Arkansas, the location of the recent ones give Al-Shukri pause. Arkansas quakes generally occur in the state's northeast corner, part of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, where three temblors with magnitudes of around 8 struck during the winter of 1812 and smaller ones continue today. But central Arkansas does not have any seismic history, Al-Shukri said. "It is abnormal. It is significant," he said. "We need to carefully watch this activity." More>>>
Disgusting: "Black Friday" at Long Island Wal-Mart: Shoppers Trample Worker
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Nov 2008 11:57 AM EST
Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down. Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman. Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages." "When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling 'I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping." More>>>
IBD: The Spread Of Nihilism's Bloody Stain
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Nov 2008 11:49 AM EST
War On Terror: The terrorist assault on Mumbai is the latest clash between civilization and nihilism. From the Somali pirates to the Taliban, this is what the world would be like without America. Mumbai (formerly Bombay) now joins London, Madrid, Bali, Casablanca, Baghdad, Fallujah, Washington, D.C., New York and a field in Pennsylvania as battlefields in the war on terror. The motives and the identity of the perpetrators are not clear, but they don't really... More>>>
Obama's Judges and the Senate
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Nov 2008 11:34 AM EST
Bipartisan hope springs eternal, even among Washington lawyers. That was the message at the Federalist Society's annual convention last week. After years of obstruction by Senate Democrats, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered President-elect Obama a roadmap for ending the political war over judicial nominations. What Mr. Obama does in his early days in office will reveal a lot about the next four years. The key, Mr. McConnell explained, is for the new President to govern as he campaigned -- with an eye toward moderation. In 2004, he reminded the audience, the Illinois Senator criticized President Bush's effort to "push a very aggressive agenda that wasn't the way he campaigned." Now we'll see if that was more than political posturing. More>>>
Why Tulsa Today went dark
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:28 AM EST
Monday morning Tulsa Today posted an analysis by veteran New York journalist and the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards, Joan Swirsky, titled, “The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of ‘08” questioning the missing Barack Obama birth certificate and his eligibility to serve as President of the United States. Two hours and 10,000 page views later, our local Internet Service Provider and domain hosting service, Tulsa Connect locked us off the Internet. More>>> Related: The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of ‘08 More>>>
Thank you, United States and Coalition Members: $80 a barrel for oil is "reasonable": Iraq
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:21 AM EST
Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said on Friday that 80 dollars a barrel is a "reasonable" price for oil and that his country would support any OPEC decision to cut output. "A reasonable price for oil is 80 dollars a barrel," said Shahristani on arrival in Cairo to attend a consultative meeting by the OPEC cartel to study slumping crude prices. "We have to make sure that produced oil is used for consumption and not for storing. "Iraq would support a decision by OPEC to cut output either here or in Algeria," the Iraqi minister added. More>>> Thursday, November 27
Patrick Swayze 'says goodbye as cancer spreads'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 27 Nov 2008 11:04 PM EST
Actor Patrick Swayze has reportedly started saying goodbye to family and friends after learning his cancer has spread to his liver. The Dirty Dancing and Ghost star, who in January was told he had pancreatic cancer, has started preparing himself for death, reports say. ''Patrick recently got word that the cancer had spread to his liver and that is what his doctors said would begin the countdown to the end'' More>>>
Conservative Blog Atlas Shrugs Blacklisted by Google
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 27 Nov 2008 06:26 AM EST
From our friend Pamela Geller: How does Atlas grow? Google search is one critically important way. People find Atlas when they do a word search in google ie "Obama birth certificate", "Obama odinga", "honor killings", "Obama campaign finance fraud" - stories that I broke or did groundbreaking work on and Atlas is usually in the top five of the search results. That's how folks find my work and generally I keep 15-20% of them as return readers. Regular Atlas readers know the media refuses to cover these stories - building readership is the only way to boost awareness in this increasingly dangerous world. A couple of days ago I was wiped off google search pages. Yes, if you google Pamela Geller or Atlas Shrugs, I come up, that is not the issue. My work is not there, it does not come up in google's search results. It is critical to building Atlas that I be searchable.Youtube searches are still intact as are images. Further my google search box (left sidebar) which I use almost constantly to search my site for reasearch (as do my readers) has been dramtically affaected. Input any term, any word in my search box and the same thing comes up - FORBIDDEN. (Is this where we're heading, Google? It's one thing to do the bidding of the PRC when they demand you toe the censorship line in China, it's quite another to do it here in the land of the free, home of the brave. At anyone's bidding. Why are you blacklisting a marvelous conservative voice? -Roland) Tip of the hat to our pal Semra for bringing this to our attention More>>> Wednesday, November 26
Time Magazine: The Anti-Obama Campaign That Didn't Happen
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 26 Nov 2008 07:42 PM EST
"My favorite ad of the campaign was as simple as it could be," Davis said. "And it started out something like, 'Long before the world knew of John McCain or Barack Obama, one of them spent five years in a hellhole because he refused early release to honor his fellow prisoners, while the other one wouldn't walk out of a church after 20 years of the guy spewing hatred towards America.' And the last line was, 'Character matters, especially when no one is listening.'" The ad never ran, however, because McCain ruled the topic of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the preacher of Obama's Chicago church, out of bounds shortly after he locked up the Republican nomination... As an idiot could have predicted, McCain was accused of racism anyway: Nevertheless, the McCain campaign was unable to escape the charge that it was playing the race card. An Associated Press analysis called the campaign's invocations of the once violent 1960s radical Ayers "racially tinged" because they evoked the word terrorist. McCain was also accused of playing on race for running an ad that highlighted Obama's relationship with Franklin Raines, a former executive at Fannie Mae who is black. Says Davis: "I never saw anybody play the race card but the Obama campaign." More>>>
Prince Accused of Morality
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 26 Nov 2008 07:37 PM EST
When asked about his perspective on social issues — gay marriage, abortion — Prince tapped his Bible and said, "God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, 'Enough.'" (H/T: Moonbattery) More>>>
WSJ: In the battle for Minnesota, Al Franken demands to know the identity of every voter whose absentee ballot was rejected
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 26 Nov 2008 01:38 PM EST
In a government warehouse in the northeast part of this city, the recount of the Senate race between GOP Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken is orderly and transparent. Teams of workers sort paper optical-scan ballots as campaign representatives look on. Minneapolis election director Cindy Reichert allows outsiders almost to lean over the shoulders of the counters and observe their work. At least here, everyone is "Minnesota nice." That may soon change. Today, the state's five-member Canvassing Board meets to rule on Mr. Franken's demand that it review whether absentee ballots rejected by county officials can be added to vote totals. Those ballots are likely to determine the outcome and will be the center of challenges in the courts or before the U.S. Senate, which is the final judge of the winner. A lot rides on the result because the Minnesota race, along with a Dec. 2 runoff in Georgia, will determine if Democrats get the 60 votes they need to cut off GOP filibusters on a party-line vote. More>>>
Blankley: Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 26 Nov 2008 01:16 PM EST
On Page 179, he (Daschle) writes, "The Federal Health Board wouldn't be a regulatory agency, but its recommendations would have teeth because all federal health programs would have to abide by them." But here is the kicker: Although his board technically would have no say on the 68 percent of health care that is provided through the private sector, at the bottom of Page 179, Daschle modestly adds: "Congress could opt to go further with the Board's recommendations. It could, for example, link the tax exclusion for health insurance to insurance that complies with the Board's recommendation." Those last 19 words would spell the end of independent private-sector health care in America. Obviously, no health insurance would be sold if it were denied the tax deduction. Thus, every policy, every standard decided by this board would be the law of the land for every drug company, every hospital, every doctor and every health insurance company. Indeed, 20 pages later, in the section in which he identifies "losers" under his plan, Daschle is admirably candid. Among the explicit "losers," he includes: "Doctors and patients might resent any encroachment on their ability to choose certain treatments, even if they are expensive or ineffectual compared to alternatives. Some insurers might object to new rules that restrict their coverage decisions. And the health-care industry would have to reconsider its business plan (emphasis added)." That is to say, they can stay in business and deliver their services, but only as the government bureaucrats say they may. They no longer would be genuinely independent More>>> Tuesday, November 25
Why Did the Bush State Department Forbid the Use of the Word 'Jihad' Last April?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 25 Nov 2008 06:44 PM EST
NYT: A Fiery Czech Is Poised to Be the Face of Europe
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 25 Nov 2008 03:18 AM EST
In the 1980s, a Communist secret police agent infiltrated clandestine economics seminars hosted by Vaclav Klaus, a fiery future leader of the Czech Republic, who had come under suspicion for extolling free market virtues. Rather than reporting on Marxist heresy, the agent was most struck by Mr. Klaus’s now famous arrogance. “His behavior and attitudes reveal that he feels like a rejected genius,” the agent noted in his report, which has since been made public. “He shows that whoever does not agree with his views is stupid and incompetent.” Decades later, Mr. Klaus, the 67-year-old president of the Czech Republic — an iconoclast with a perfectly clipped mustache — continues to provoke strong reactions. He has blamed what he calls the misguided fight against global warming for contributing to the international financial crisis, branded Al Gore an “apostle of arrogance” for his role in that fight, and accused the European Union of acting like a Communist state. Now the Czech Republic is about to assume the rotating presidency of the European Union and there is palpable fear that Mr. Klaus will embarrass the world’s biggest trading bloc and complicate its efforts to address the economic crisis and expand its powers. More>>> Monday, November 24
Former Franken worker helped with ballot recount
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 24 Nov 2008 07:02 PM EST
A woman who volunteered to help count ballots in the U.S. Senate recount in Wilkin County probably would not have been allowed to do so if the county auditor had known that she had also worked for a Senate candidate in Otter Tail County. ''Had I known that, she probably wouldn't have been part of the team,'' Wilkin County Auditor Wayne Bezenek, told The Forum of Fargo, N.D. ''That would have been the right thing to do.'' More>>>
‘Narcissistic Sovereignty’ Has Kept U.S. from Ratifying U.N. Treaty on Children’s Rights
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 24 Nov 2008 06:11 PM EST
Advocates for a United Nations treaty on children’s rights blamed American arrogance for it not being ratified by the United States, but critics charge signing onto the Convention on the Rights of the Child could mean international law trumping U.S. state and federal laws and the rights of parents to make decisions about raising and educating their children...Smith said that if Congress ratifies the treaty, it would give the United Nations authority to object to federal and state laws that it thinks violate the treaty and give Congress the power to pass laws to make the country comply with its tenants – a fact advocates do not deny. “It’s a power grab, pure and simple, by radicals like him (Harold Cook, a non-governmental organization representative at the U.N. and a fellow with the American Psychological Association),” Ruse said. Smith said the most dangerous thing about the convention is that rather than building stronger families, it could damage relationships by giving children “rights” to question their parents’ decisions on a range of issues, including discipline, religious training and education. “It pits children against their parents,” Smith said More>>>
Conservative Nation
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 24 Nov 2008 05:48 PM EST
How many of our liberal friends are willing to acknowledge that, despite spending millions on hateful Moveon.org and Soros-funded campaigns that portray conservatives as war criminals, as haters of the poor, as greedy, ignorant, intolerant, and incompetent, Americans have grown more conservative over the past eight years? If we also obsess over the state exit polls, conservatives will be relieved to learn that they still outnumber liberals in 42 states. (See map.) With the exception of Massachusetts (where liberals carry the day by 11 points, 32 percent to 21 percent) and Vermont (where they enjoy an eight-point edge), the liberals’ advantage where it does exist is actually quite modest. We’re talking about six points in New York, four in Hawaii, three in Maryland and Rhode Island, two in Connecticut and a tie in New Jersey — not exactly overwhelming endorsements of EU-style socialism. Even in that den of Left Coast liberalism — California — conservatives hold a modest five-point advantage over their liberal brethren. More>>>
China state media blast new Guns N' Roses album
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 24 Nov 2008 05:06 PM EST
In an article Monday headlined "American band releases album venomously attacking China," the Global Times said unidentified Chinese Internet users had described the album as part of a plot by some in the West to "grasp and control the world using democracy as a pawn." The album "turns its spear point on China," the article said...The Global Times article referred only to the title of the album and not to specific song lyrics. The record's title track makes a reference to the Falun Gong meditation movement that was banned by China as an "evil cult" and warns "if your Great Wall rocks blame yourself," in an apparent message to the country's authoritarian government. Songs from the album could be heard on Internet sites such as YouTube and the band's MySpace page on Monday and it was not immediately possible to tell whether China's Internet monitors were seeking to block access to it. More>>>
IHT: U.S. to inject $20 billion into Citigroup
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 24 Nov 2008 01:22 AM EST
Under the agreement, Citigroup and regulators will back up to $306 billion of largely residential and commercial real estate loans and certain other assets, which will remain on the bank's balance sheet. Citigroup will shoulder losses on the first $29 billion of that portfolio. Any remaining losses will be split between Citigroup and the government, with the bank absorbing 10 percent and the government absorbing 90 percent. The Treasury Department will use its bailout fund to assume up to $5 billion of losses. If necessary, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will bear the next $10 billion of losses. Beyond that, the Federal Reserve will guarantee any additional losses. In exchange, Citigroup will issue $7 billion of preferred stock to government regulators. In addition, the government is buying $20 billion of preferred stock in Citigroup. The preferred shares will pay an 8 percent dividend and will slightly erode the value of shares held by investors. (H/T to our friend Semra) More>>> Sunday, November 23
Times Reports Two British MPs Demanding To Know if Intelligence Was Notified Beforehand of US Attack on Brit Al Qaeda Member
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 23 Nov 2008 11:26 PM EST
Britain's intelligence services appear to have been kept in the dark about Saturday's US missile attack on a house in northwest Pakistan that reportedly killed Rashid Rauf, a top British al-Qaeda suspect. Although his death will take a few days to be confirmed officially, the strike by a Predator drone, armed with Hellfire missiles and precision-guided bombs, was the first time that the US had targeted a British suspect hiding in the lawless North Waziristan region of Pakistan. More>>>
'Disgusting' Bias for Obama, Time Writer Admits
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 23 Nov 2008 11:03 PM EST
Last week, Time magazine's Mark Halperin called the media's performance during the campaign simply "disgusting." Halperin told a panel of media analysts at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election, "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war." He added, "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage." More>>> Washington Post Admits Bias for Obama, Against McCain, Palin More>>>
Witnesses: Large meteor streaks across Canada sky
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 23 Nov 2008 06:50 PM EST
Scientists say they're searching for remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before seemingly falling to earth in western Canada. University of Calgary planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand called it one of the largest meteors visible in the country in the last decade. "It would be something like a billion-watt light bulb," said Hildebrand, who also co-ordinates meteor sightings with the Canadian Space Agency. More>>> Saturday, November 22
Venezuela's "Democratically-Elected" Thug Prepared to Put Tanks in the Steets if Next Elections Don't Go His Way
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 22 Nov 2008 04:14 PM EST
Friday, November 21
Recycling Nuclear Fuel: The French Do It, Why Can't Oui?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 21 Nov 2008 07:38 PM EST
From 2007: Over the past four decades, America’s reactors have produced about 56,000 tons of used fuel. That “waste” contains roughly enough energy to power every U.S. household for 12 years. And it’s just sitting there, piling up at power plant storage facilities. Talk about waste!
The sad thing is, the United States developed the technology to recapture that energy decades ago, then barred its commercial use in 1977. We have practiced a virtual moratorium ever since. More>>>
The eHarmony shakedown
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 21 Nov 2008 05:34 PM EST
Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating website worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable “right” to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark triumph for social progress, eh? New Jersey plaintiff Eric McKinley can now crown himself the new Rosa Parks — heroically breaking down inhumane barriers to Internet matchmaking by forcing a law-abiding private company to provide services it was never created to provide. “Men seeking men” has now been enshrined with “I have a dream” as a civil rights rallying cry of the 21st century. More>>>
Habeas corpus hearings could set terrorists free inside the U.S.
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 21 Nov 2008 02:55 PM EST
Last June in Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in our history that aliens captured and held as enemy combatants abroad (in this case, at the Guantanamo Bay military base) had a constitutional right to challenge their detentions by filing petitions for habeas corpus in federal court. The Court recognized that its holding was unprecedented. Yet it said that it was not deciding how such proceedings should be conducted, or even what the government must show to prevail. Yesterday, the federal district court in Washington concluded the first such habeas proceeding for six detainees. It held that the government had established a basis for holding only one of them as an enemy combatant. The court acknowledged that the evidence the detainees were planning to travel to Afghanistan to join the fight was perfectly appropriate for use as intelligence (the purpose for which it was collected) -- but that such evidence was not sufficient to carry the government's burden of proving in court that the detainees were enemy combatants. More>>>
Nation’s Capital Implements Measures Violating Rights & Property
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 21 Nov 2008 02:34 PM EST
As the nation’s capitol, Washington DC is often looked to for various approaches on how to handle a number of growing issues around the country. Usually government eggheads like to formulate their grandiose schemes from their comfortable halls of power and impose them upon areas of the heartland so far from scrutinizing eyes that very few end up seeing what is actually going on. However, there are now a number of policies being implemented within the city that will soon be at the forefront of efforts to undermine life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. More>>>
Genius, Thy Name Is Obama
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 21 Nov 2008 01:06 AM EST
With Time magazine comparing Obama to Jesus, I guess we should be relieved that, this week, liberals are only comparing him to Abraham Lincoln. More>>> Thursday, November 20
Reuters and CBS News Report: U.S. Influence Will Fade By 2025
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:59 PM EST
Analysts gazing into what amounts to an intelligence-based crystal ball see a future world marked by dwindling resources, more people and diminished power for the United States, as CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports. The grim assessment, entitled ''Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World'', comes from the National Intelligence Council, an independent government body. More>>>
The Obama Health Plan Emerges
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:22 PM EST
One signal is yesterday's news that Barack Obama has selected Tom Daschle, the very liberal former Senate warhorse, to head the Health and Human Services Department. But an even clearer sign was last week's release by Montana Senator Max Baucus of a policy blueprint that closely resembles the one Mr. Obama campaigned on for 17 months. The plan is significant not only because its author is Chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, which oversees taxes and about half of all government spending. Mr. Baucus is also one of the more moderate, and cautious, senior Democrats. If the Obama White House decides that reorganizing the 17.1% of the economy that the U.S. is likely to spend on health care in 2010 is a first-year priority, then Mr. Baucus's bill will be the place they start. Americans need to learn what they'd be paying for. More>>>
Federal Judge Orders Release of 5 Terror Suspects Held at Guantanamo Bay Prison
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:10 PM EST
A federal judge ordered the release of five Algerian terror suspects held without charges at Guantanamo Bay prison for almost seven years. In the first civilian court ruling for terror suspects challenging their detention, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said Thursday that the five men could not be held indefinitely as enemy combatants More>>>
The Waxman Democrats
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:05 PM EST
John Dingell's fall from power yesterday is an important inflection point in the history of the modern Democratic Party. The House purge marks the final triumph of the Congressional generation that came of political age during the 1970s over the last lion of New Deal liberalism, and it is symbolic of the party's change in culture and policy priorities in the Barack Obama era. Sitting chairmen are nearly impossible to depose More>>>
Evidence of vast frozen water reserves on Mars: scientists
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 10:01 PM EST
NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars, away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might be sustainable on the Red planet. Ground-penetrating radar used by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals numerous huge glaciers up to one half-mile thick buried beneath layers of rock and debris. Researchers said one glacier is three time the size of Los Angeles in area. More>>> |
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