| Wed, May 16 | Brent Bozell | The Washington Post Bullies Romney |
| Jonah Goldberg | Romney's Media Handicap | |
| Paul Greenberg | Gay Marriage And All That | |
| Terence Jeffrey | A Gold Nugget As Big As The White House | |
| Michelle Malkin | Obamacare's Patient-Dumping, Privacy-Meddling Scheme | |
| Dick Morris | Romney To Win Undecideds | |
| Kathleen Parker | Obama's Popularity Contest | |
| Ben Shapiro | President Diva | |
| John Stossel | Making Life Fair | |
| Walter Williams | Should We Obey All Laws? | |
| Tues, May 15 | Ken Blackwell | What The Washington Post Missed |
| Pat Buchanan | As The Boomers Head For The Barn | |
| Mona Charen | Spitzer Wants To Focus On Economy. Really? | |
| Michael Gerson | Romney At Liberty: The Case For Conservatism | |
| David Limbaugh | Obama Is The Extremist, Not Conservative Talkers | |
| Rich Lowry | Mitt Romney, Vampire? | |
| Bill Murchison | Same-Sex Politics | |
| Debra J. Saunders | The Pardon Attorney Who Just Says No | |
| Thomas Sowell | A Censored Race War? | |
| Cal Thomas | Romney's Stellar Performance | |
| Byron York | Romney Team To Paint Obama As Lousy Businessman | |
| Mon, May 14 | Michael Barone | Three Different Ways To Look At The 2012 Campaign |
| Ken Blackwell | American Sovereignty - LOST At Sea? | |
| Sun, May 13 | Debra J. Saunders | Obama's Honesty Over Same-Sex Marriage Long Overdue |
| George Will | The American Dream In An Automobile | |
| Sat, May 12 | Ken Blackwell | Two Prime Ministers, Two Americas |
| Paul Greenberg | Revolution As Fashion | |
| Kathleen Parker | Gay Marriage And Bullying: Two Unnecessary Campaign Distractions |
FACEBOOK SHARES COOL AFTER IPO
Shares
of Facebook Inc.
FB +9.50%
opened about 11% higher after they started trading, but quickly lost
steam and fell as low as the$38 IPO price in their first half hour
of trading.
The weak start came after high expectations for the Internet giant. The company's shares were recently changing hands up $1.58, at $39.62, after touching the $38 IPO price about a half hour after it started trading. The stock had opened at $42.05.
Trading volume in Facebook exceeded 100 million shares in the first three minutes of the stock's trading, as investors rushed into the shares and some who had received stock from the IPO cashed in.
Nasdaq had targeted an 11:05 a.m. EDT release Friday, but traders said they were having trouble changing or canceling orders they had submitted to Nasdaq's queue starting at 7:30 a.m.
Problems persisted after trading in the stock began at approximately 11:30 EDT, according to people familiar with the matter.
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96% OF RESTURANTS ENTREES EXCEED USDA LIMITS If you plan to chow down tonight at a big chain restaurant, there's a better than nine-in-10 chance that your entree will fail to meet federal nutrition recommendations for both adults and kids, according to a provocative new study. A whopping 96% of main entrees sold at top U.S. chain eateries exceed daily limits for calories, sodium, fat and saturated fat recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, reports the 18-month study conducted by the Rand Corp. and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The restaurant industry is "employing a wide range" of healthier-living strategies, says Joan McGlockton, vice president of food policy at the National Restaurant Association. Among them: putting nutritional information on menus, adding more healthful items and launching a 2011 program at nearly 100 brands in more than 25,000 locations that offers children's meals in line with 2010 dietary guidelines. ---Click here to read more--- |
IRAN ATTACK DECISION NEARS A private door opens from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in central Jerusalem directly into a long, modestly furnished, half-paneled room decorated with modern paintings by Israeli artists and a copy of Israel's 1948 declaration of independence. It contains little more than a long wooden table, brown leather chairs and a single old-fashioned white projector screen. This inner sanctum at the end of a corridor between Netanyahu's private room and the office of his top military adviser, is where one of the decade's most momentous military decisions could soon be taken: to launch an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program. Time for that decision is fast running out and the mood in Jerusalem is hardening. Iran continues to enrich uranium in defiance of international pressure, saying it needs the fuel for its civilian nuclear program. ---Click here to read more--- |
OBAMA: KENYAN-BORN?
While some quickly dismissed as an anomaly
yesterday’s explosive revelation that Barack Obama’s former literary
agency billed him as “born in Kenya” back in 1991 in connection with
a book he never wrote, WND has discovered much later published
references – some dated as recently as 2007 – used to promote his
highly touted book “Dreams from My Father.”
Breitbart News originally found a brochure from two decades ago in which literary agency Acton & Dystel promoted Obama as the author of the never-produced “Journeys in Black and White” by declaring Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
Twelve years later, however, the Dystel of Acton & Dystel was busy promoting Obama’s new book, “Dreams from My Father,” and still touting the author as “born in Kenya.”
Through the Internet archive Wayback Machine, WND found an August 2003 listing of Dystel & Goderich’s author bios, including the following: “Barack Obama was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii and Chicago. His first book is ‘Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.”
Even if the original 1991 brochure’s listing of Kenya as Obama’s birthplace was in error, as the agency has since claimed, it apparently was an error Obama allowed his publicist to persist in for over a decade, right until after he was running for president.
In April 2007, two months after Obama had launched his presidential bid, Dystel was still touting the then-Democratic senator from Illinois as “born in Kenya.”
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THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION -- BATTLELINE ONLINE
May 9, 2012
| FROM THE BATTLELINES | THE POLITCAL FRONT | GOVERNMENT MANEUVERS | ||
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What Entitlement Crisis? |
Teddy and Obama |
The Best Health Reform |
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Eliminating Bullying |
Romney v Obama Begins |
More Ethanol Sludge |
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The Glaciers Are Growing |
Blamer-in-Chief |
Extreme Weather Hoax |
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Neo-Caricature of America |
72 Seconds For the Crisis |
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Zimmerman Unprofessionalism |
Not Mothers “Lifetime” |
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Which Oil Speculators? |
Obama’s Favorite Comicbook |
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EVIDENCE BACKS UP ZIMMERMAN'S CLAIM Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin said that Zimmerman had a bloody face and nose, according to police reports made public today. The reports also note that two witness accounts appear to back up Zimmerman's version of what happened when they describe a man on his back with another person wearing a hoodie straddling him and throwing punches. It has been such a contentious case that even the evidence is being disputed. The police report states that Trayvon Martin's father told an investigator after listening to 911 tapes that captured a man's voice frantically calling for help that it was not his son calling for help. ---Click here to read more--- |
EUROPE ROCKED BY SPANISH BANKING CRISIS The flames of the eurozone crisis leapt higher yesterday, as fears spread about the state of the Continent's most vulnerable banks. Shares in the Spanish lender, Bankia, plummeted 30 per cent at one stage in trading, following a report that customers had withdrawn €1bn in deposits since the Madrid government was forced to part-nationalize the bank last week. Bankia released a statement Thursday afternoon saying that the deposit fall was simply a seasonal effect rather than a bank run. This served to stabilize the share price, but the lender still ended up losing 14 per cent of its value. Market fears intensified last night when the credit rating agency Moody's downgraded 16 Spanish banks. ---Click here to read more--- |
SENATORS UNVEIL 'EX-PATRIOT' ACT
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.
In September 2011, Saverin relinquished his U.S. citizenship before the company announced its planned initial public offering of stock, which will debut this week. The move was likely a financial one, as he owns an estimated 4 percent of Facebook and stands to make $4 billion when the company goes public. Saverin would reap the benefit of tax savings by becoming a permanent resident of Singapore, which levies no capital gains taxes.
At a news conference Thursday, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey, D-Pa., will unveil the “Ex-PATRIOT” – “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy” – Act to respond directly to Saverin’s move, which they dub a “scheme” that would “help him duck up to $67 million in taxes.”
The senators will call Saverin’s move an “outrage” and will outline their plan to re-impose taxes on expatriates like Saverin even after they flee the United States and take up residence in a foreign country. Their proposal would also impose a mandatory 30 percent tax on the capital gains of anybody who renounces their U.S. citizenship.
The plan would bar individuals like Saverin from ever reentering the United States again.
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BOEHNER DEMANDS President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) clashed during a White House meeting on Wednesday, with the Speaker telling the president that he was “not going to allow a debt-ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt,” Boehner’s office said. The president convened the meeting of the bipartisan congressional leadership to discuss his “to-do list” for Congress, but an aide to the Speaker said the bulk of the meeting was spent on other issues, including a pile-up of expiring tax provisions and the next increase in the federal debt limit. According to a readout of the meeting from the Speaker’s office, Boehner asked Obama if he was proposing that Congress increase the debt limit without corresponding spending cuts. The president replied, “Yes,” the Boehner aide said. At that point, Boehner told Obama, “As long as I’m around here, I’m not going to allow a debt-ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt.” ---Click here to read more--- |
OBAMA'S BUDGET GOES DOWN President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it. Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year. Republicans forced the vote by offering the president's plan on the Senate floor. Democrats disputed that it was actually the president's plan, arguing that the slim amendment didn't actually match Mr. Obama's budget document, which ran thousands of pages. But Republicans said they used all of the president's numbers in the proposal, so it faithfully represented his plan. Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, even challenged Democrats to point out any errors in the numbers and he would correct them — a challenge no Democrats took up. ---Click here to read more--- |
DEFENSE BILL PROPOSAL WOULD GRANT TERRORISTS
FULL ACCESS TO US COURTS
Former
government attorneys and defense experts fear that foreign
terrorists could capitalize on a new House proposal that would
afford them full protection under the U.S. legal system, potentially
spurring a domestic influx of would-be terrorists who may seek to
exploit the legal loophole.
The amendment, spearheaded by Reps. Justin Amash (R., Mich.) and Adam Smith (D., Wash), would implement an unprecedented reversal in longstanding U.S. policy by requiring that terrorists be prosecuted in civilian courts—a shift that would also allow them to be housed among general inmates in American prisons.
The amendment would prevent the president from effectively fighting the war on terror, thereby posing a serious threat to the country’s national security, experts warn.
In an effort to ensure that their amendment becomes law, Smith and Amash have engaged in what observers characterize as a deceptive fear campaign meant to coerce the public into supporting their proposal. The lawmakers—as well as organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union—have claimed that under current regulations American citizens with no affiliations or ties to al Qaeda could be detained indefinitely without trial.
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