Thursday, March 4, 2010

Various Current Events

EU moves to protect persecuted Christians (C Post)
Utah bill would criminalize illegal abortions (C Post)
Utah bill would criminalize illegal abortions (NYT)
From churchgoer to church arsonist (NYT)
Coffee party develops (NYT)
Obama supports schools that fire bad teachers (NYT)
Obama angers unions on school stance (Wash Post)
Camrys not in the recall also had problems (NYT)
Electronic billboards distraction (NYT)
How Milton Friedman saved Chile (WSJ)
Guns and the states (WSJ)
Family attempts suicide over global warming fears (Daily Mail)
It’s not too late to save “normal” (LAT)
Sex addiction divides mental health experts (LAT)
Give the Olympics a permanent home (NYT)
Peoria considers 4-day work week (AZR)
Matt Damon feels let down by Obama (NY Daily News)
Dems reach deal with Bunning (Politics Daily)
Illegal to be a Jew in Mass.? (Towhnall)
FDIC to test principal reduction vs. foreclosure (Wash Post)
Gun fans cheer Starbucks (Fox News)
Gun case presents quandary for SCOTUS (Wash Post)
New study links violence to video games (USA Today)
Islamic scholar issues anti-terror fatwa (BBC)
MA Senate ok’s new testing for elderly drivers (Boston Globe)
Toyota complaints after recall fix applied (LAT)
Fed proposes credit card penalty limits (USA Today)
Woman threw hot coffee at meter maid (Boston Globe)
Muslim woman refuses body scan at airport (London Times)
Gitmo releasee now Taliban commander (Fox News)
White teachers removed for mocking black heroes (CNS News)
Atheists swap porn for Bibles (CBS)
Pregnant bartender fired from strip club (JonathanTurley)
Jim Bunning: Why I took a stand (USA Today)

1 comment:

Naum said...

On Bunning:

If he was so principled about pay-go (which he just voted against), then why did he vote for Bush tax cuts in (in both 2001 and 2003) and then for the Iraq War without pay-go (for which overwhelming majority of Republicans rolled back pay-go from Clinton's term).

It was these rules, which prevailed during the ‘90’s, that were largely responsible for the record budget surpluses inherited by President Bush. And it was Bush and a Republican Congress allowing those rules to lapse in 2002 that cleared the way for the record budget deficits that followed.