Make My DayDON'T Mess with Indiana

I've seen a lot of crazy stuff, and a lot of great stuff, on YouTube, but only one video has taken my breath away. In "Feeling the Hate," a video shot in Jerusalem and but one in a series of very tough documentaries by a filmmaker named Max Blumenthal, young American adults in Israel call the newly-elected black President of the United States Barack Obama a "terrorist," a "fag-ot," a "ni--er," a "terrorist" and a "Muslim," and even deny he's an American, all without the slightest qualm or a moment's thought.

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Make My DaySTUDENT Denied Diploma for Blowing Mom Kiss

Oil inventories are near record highs and demand has hovered around a 10-year low. The normal rules of supply and demand would dictate a lower price.

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Charles M. Blow on "Crime and Punishment"

He begins One thing the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo., has sent back to the surface is just how difficult it is to have cross-racial discussions about crime and punishment in this country. That is largely because, perceptually and experientially, we live in vastly different worlds, worlds in which phrases like "bad choices," "personal responsibility" and "tailspin of culture" must battle for primacy with "structural inequity," "systemic bias" and "culture of oppression."

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Whistling Past Marcel's at Midnight

Just to catch a whiff of some damn fine cuisine as we wait for the other shoe to drop and maybe catch a whiff of what the Ubers and Filthys* are up to. We're up late Jibbering Our Jabber about #Ferguson, Elections, #Benghazi and assorted Teathuggery, and invite you to join the convo by calling the Show.

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Good news from Uruguay - Broad Front's Vazquez wins presidency

Following on to my most recent diary which I published nearly a year ago there is further good news from the South American nation of Uruguay. Today, the progressive Broad Front candidate for president, Tabare Vazquez, was elected .

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On Native GroundIRAN'S Future Will Be Decided by Iranians

This week, second term Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina disappeared for six days, leaving the state without a chief executive who could make decisions in an emergency. His Republican lieutenant governor didn't know where he was, and had not been given any authority to make decisions in his absence.

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MomentumTHE Odd Case of the Missing Iranian Revolution

The massive public protests have ended in Iran. When unarmed protesters confront water cannons, tear gas and gunfire, they usually lose.

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Healthy PA enrollment begins but program could be scrapped next year

Starting today, uninsured Pennsylvanians whose annual income is less than 138 percent of the household federal poverty limit may apply for health coverage through the state's new "Healthy PA" program, which offers subsidized, Medicaid-like insurance plans through private health carriers.

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Obama to discuss Ferguson with cabinet

President Barack Obama will discuss the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, Monday with his Cabinet, civil rights leaders, law enforcement officials and others. The White House says ObamaA s Cabinet meeting will focus on his administrationA s review of federal programs that provide military-style equipment to law enforcement agencies.

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Congress crams unfinished agenda into final days

Like a student who waited until the night before a deadline, lawmakers resuming work Monday will try to cram two years of leftover business into two weeks, while also seeking to avoid a government shutdown. Their to-do list includes keeping the government running into the new year, renewing expired tax breaks for individuals and businesses and approving a defense policy measure that has passed for more than 50 years in a row.

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Obama Shafts Hillary With Amnesty and Ferguson

As Barack Obama invites in five million illegals to scoop up American jobs, and as those normal Americans lucky enough to still have jobs wait in traffic while morons block the freeway because some Swisher Sweets-puffing felon got himself killed, Hillary Clinton's chances in 2016 plummet. So it turns out that Obama is likely to achieve one great thing as president - he'll keep Hillary from ever occupying the Oval Office.

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Emanuel, Drooling Over Death

"I love you, Nana," I told my dying 93-year-old grandma this summer. For a brief but unforgettable moment, her Irish eyes sparkled and a huge smile shone on her face.

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Jim Webb Thinks He CanBeat Hillary Clinton

In a previous post, Jim Webb announced he is establishing an exploratory committee for a possible 2016 run. Given Clinton's vast ties within her political machine, it seems hard to envision a 2016 primary season where she loses, but she did lose to an insurgent candidate named Barack Obama in 2008; Obama trailed her in the polls by 30 points at the time.

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Obama's War on Blacks

If you take the best of Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern, the brilliance of Ben Carson, and add a touch of ethnic humor, you get James T. Harris , one of my favorite talk show hosts on the radio today. Broadcasting from the desert in Old Pueblo on 104.1, KQTH in Tucson, AZ, James T. is the quintessential Tea Party conservative, devout Christian and a dedicated father of three - all rolled into one .

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The mayor of the US suburb at the center of a deadly police shooting that sparked repeated nights of racially charged unrest pledged Sunday to rebuild the riot-hit town. "We are recommitted to rebuilding the city and to once again becoming a thriving community for economic development and residential stability," Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said at a news conference.

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Improve Government: Repeal Aid to States

James L. Buckley's new book, Saving Congress from Itself , examines federal aid-to-state programs. The federal government spends more than $600 billion a year on 1,100 such programs for education, welfare, and many other state and local activities.

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Rules For Drones

This Christmas, more people than ever will get quadcopters and that means even more of them will think it's a good idea to fly them on a field right next to their local airport or over a stadium full of people. Thanks to people like this and general public unease about all things "drones" in the U.S., we will soon get a first set of regulations that will govern what we can do with with our quadcopters - and that's okay.

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Justices weigh limits of free speech over Internet

A Pennsylvania man claimed he was kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a kindergarten class and attacking an FBI agent. Anthony Elonis, of Bethlehem, was convicted of violating a federal law that makes it a crime to threaten another person.

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Today in History for Dec. 1

On Dec. 1, 1974, TWA Flight 514, a Washington-bound Boeing 727, crashed in Virginia after being diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport; all 92 people on board were killed. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashed near Stony Point, N.Y., with the loss of its three crew members .

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Jeff Stone rolls on

Jeff Stone, second from right, gets a hug from John Benoit while flanked by Kevin Jeffries, left, and Marion Ashley at Stone's last Board of Supervisors meeting. "I never got into this because I was looking for another job," said the 58-year-old pharmacist.

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Obama Mocks Chuck Todd Book at the Bookstore: 'He's Very Sad'

It was Small Business Saturday yesterday and to show appreciation to small businesses , Obama took his daughters, Malia and Sasha, shopping at the liberal Politics & Prose book store in Washington, DC . While looking around, Obama spotted "The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House," by Chuck Todd, host of NBC's "Meet the Press."

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Jim Clark: Be grateful

To all of you out there that oppose immigration reform. Go ahead and deport five million illegal immigrants.

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Talking about black on black crime

That, after all, is where the conversation seems to inevitably turn whenever one seeks to engage a conservative on the American habit of shooting unarmed African-American boys and men. So it was exasperating, but nowhere near surprising, to see former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani go there last week on "Meet the Press."

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Annual Christmas Gift Suggestions

You wouldn't have known it by my 2013 "suggestion" list , which took up two separate posts - along with the usual monastic goodies list - but last year at Christmas, we cut 'way back on our gift list and increased our charity-giving. We liked that.

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Crashed Skyways airplane salvaged

The wreckage of a plane that crashed into the sea off the coast off St. Maarten on October 29 has been retrieved from the sea. The wreckage now will be subject to a thorough investigation to try to determine the cause of the crash, which cost the lives of the two pilots Eric Schnell and Rigoberto Lopes Colon.

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Bob Woodward: Obama Needs 'Authority Figure' to Replace Hagel

President Barack Obama needs an "authority figure" to replace outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, says The Washington Post's Bob Woodward. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Woodward admitted such a person will be hard to find, but he suggested Colin Powell, President George W. Bush's secretary of State, who would be viewed favorably by other countries.

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Global Warming Deniers, Believers Battle: Twitter War Erupts Over November Snowstorm

A snowstorm that blanketed parts of the northern United States in mid-November created its own storm of controversy on Twitter as global warming deniers pointed to it as proof against climate change, while believers offered their own version of events. One northern Wisconsin town, Gile, may have broken state records with 50 inches of snow in a four-day time period, The Weather Channel said .

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Make My DayDUTCH Scientists Grow Synthetic Sausages in a Lab

BRADENTON, Fla., Sept. 7, 2011, 10:38pm ET -- Americans watching the MSNBC GOP presidential candidate debate tonight could not have been very encouraged about their future under any of the seven men and one woman seeking election to the White House in 2012.

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Campaign 2012THURSDAY'S Fox News Debate Could Change the Campaign Picture

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 17, 2011, 11:05pm ET -- Rep. Ron Paul may have won the presidential straw poll at the California GOP 2011 Fall Convention pulling away, but at a party dinner Friday evening, where Rep. Michele Bachmann was the principal speaker, the Minnesota congresswoman won the reception.

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Campaign 2012THE Debut of Citizen Cain

Surrounded by a throng of reporters and bathed in the bright lights of tv cameras from all over the world, Andrew Breitbart was in his element. He is the man who utterly embarrassed the Obama Administration with hidden-camera exposes on his Web site BigGiovernment.com of heedlessness at two ACORN welfare offices visited by a videographer, James O'Keefe, who dressed up actors as pimps and prostitutes who applied for financial help.

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