Rolling Stone Guitarist's Death Treated As A Murder

Rolling Stone guitarist Brian Jones, who died 40 years ago, is the subject of a new police investigation into his death, with the belief he was murdered and did not drown accidentally.
The Daily Mail has the full story:
"Police are reviewing the death of Rolling Stone Brian Jones – 40 years after his body was found at the bottom of a swimming pool.
The dramatic move by Sussex Police follows new evidence unearthed by The Mail on Sunday about the mysterious death of the Source: ICKY PEOPLE.com RSS Feed

Central Brooklyn condos in the crapper

From Crain's:
Sixty-five residential buildings in central Brooklyn are financially troubled, on the verge of distress or struggling to sell out remaining units, according to a recent survey conducted by Democratic Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries.
These properties are market-rate residential buildings at least four stories high located in the neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Bedford–Stuyvesant. Many are luxury developments in differentSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed

"ObamaCare" - A Free Man's Nightmare!

National Healthcare. A Socialist, Commie, Dream! A Free Man’s Nightmare!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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Editor’s note: Back in July, of 2007, I wrote the following missive. Of course, at the time none of us knew just how deeply into our private lives ObamaCare would eventually reach. Now that we have had a glimpse of the bill, it turns out I was far too conservative in my predictions.
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ACLU Found Gitmo Prisoner Abuse!

From their mouthpieces at the New York Times:

A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Interrogation Facts

By SCOTT SHANE

August 30, 2009

WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2003, long before Abu Ghraib or secret prisons became part of the American vocabulary, a pair of recently hired lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union noticed a handful of news reports about allegations of abuse of prisoners in American custody.

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‘Redemption’ and the Kennedy Clan: Libération, France

Continuing with our global coverage of the reaction to Ted Kennedy’s death, this article by Laurent Joffrin of France’s Liberation frames the saga of the Kennedy clan as one of redemption from a merciless thirst for power.

For Liberation, Laurent Joffrin writes in part:

“In the 1940s and 50s, There wasn’t a clan that was more cynical or more determined in its quest for glory. A brutal father - a liar, very rich and very shady, was marked by hisSource: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed

Free entrance to national parks for three weekends

I'm a big proponent of the wonderful national parks in our state, so I was excited to hear this news of free entrance that will be available on three weekends this summer:
In Utah, that means the famous Grand Circle of Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef national parks will waive admission fees of $3 to $25 during the weekends of June 20-21, July 18-19 and Aug. 15-16.The purpose of the free admission is to entice visitors who are possibly staying home this year due Source: RedStateBlues RSS Feed

Federal Reserve Chairman Hit by High-Tech Pickpocket Ring

Identify theft isn’t just for the little people.

Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke and his wife are among the victims of the tech-savvy pickpocket and ID theft ring Cannon to the Wiz, Newsweek reported Tuesday.

Threat Level readers will remember that Wiz is a national ring of some 200 light-fingered scammers that kept police around the country on their toes for at least two years. The group was led by Clyde Austin Gray Jr., 52, ofSource: Threat Level RSS Feed

Glenn Beck: “You Are About to Lose Your Freedom of Speech in This Country”

Glenn Beck has uncovered EXTREMELY disturbing information concerning how the White House through the FCC is now in the stages of developing an alternative to our First Amendment right to free speech under the Constitution. Their schemes are to use an ALREADY IN PLACE apparatus to silence opposition voices under the guise of “diversity” and “localism,” and to charge ASTRONOMICAL amounts of money to use a license.

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Help! I've Reached the Obesity Tipping Point, and I Can't Get Up!

Before I tell you about the latest announcement from the the STOP Obesity Alliance,let metake a few sentences to remark on howdumb the name of this organization is. STOP stands for "Strategies to Overcome and Prevent," which adds absolutely nothing to the public's understanding of what the groupis about, serving only as an excuse to put stop in capital letters, which apparently is something the alliance's leadersreally, really wanted to do.Compounding the stupidity, the group's logoreadsSource: Reason Magazine - Hit Run RSS Feed

Ted Kennedy Has Died

Senator Edward Kennedy has lost his battle with cancer.

Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother who was left to head the family's political dynasty after his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, has died at age 77.

Known as the "liberal lion of the Senate," Kennedy championed health care reform, working wages and equal rights in his storied career. In August, he was awarded the Presidential Medal ofSource: Daily Kos RSS Feed

On the 9/11 National Day of Service issue.

Background here, with commentary here and here - the short version is that the administration is in the process of rebranding 9/11 as a National Day of Service.  Like one of Hot Air’s commenters, I note that 9/12 makes a good deal more thematic sense, but then everything that you really need to know about the actual intent can be seen, as usual, by some of the players involved:

A coalition including the unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change and about 60 far-left, Source: Red State RSS Feed

Laughter and a friendly meal

Photo Credit: Sgt. Dustin RobertsMaster Sgt. Moty McKinney (left) shares a laugh with Command Sgt. Maj. Mahmud Lafta during lunch at Forward Operating Base Constitution.
McKinney is a native of Saginaw, Mich. and an advisor with the 24th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division Military Training and Transition Team. Lafta is with the 24th Bde. 6th I.A. Div..Click here for the complete story behind the photo.
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WTC fiasco makes NYC a laughingstock

From WCBS880:
The inscription on the cornerstone for the Freedom Tower reads "To honor and remember those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001 and as a tribute to the enduring spirit of freedom."
Some tribute.
The stone was removed from Ground Zero in 2006 and has been in the yard of the company that cut and polished it since then.
The name of the building it was to be a part of isn't even the same anymore. The Freedom Tower will now be called One World TradeSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed

Peter Singer's Defense of Death Panels

Okay, he doesn't call it that, but, unlike Obama, he is honest enough to call it "rationing."
His argument, as often with Singer, is simple and not very original, but I find his recent article in the NYT is eminently worth reading. It is helping me to identify the real issues involved in the medical care debate.
"Health care is a scarce resource," he says, "and all scarce resources are rationed in one way or another." Free markets determine that some people get the good and some doSource: E pur si muove! RSS Feed

Crapping up the old folks' home?

"The realtor is trying to sell it through false advertising - it was rezoned to R4A in the North Flushing rezoning back in April.
It is a big piece of property, so under R4A they could get in 7 houses on a cul-de-sac or a large community facility. However, that price is outta hand and totally unrealistic." - anonymous

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Thought for the Day - Have Labour been genetically modified

As I looked at Hilary Benn (minister for food or something) holding forth up at Thanet Earth, on the BBC today, I was struck by the similarity of his mannerisms, to that of his father Tony Benn.I had the thought of just how things have changed in the Labour party, when I was growing up, its fair to say that Tony Benn was amongst those consider by many to be a dangerous lefty.Many years later its impossible to see just how the likes of Tony Benn can fit in with current Labour party, thingsSource: British Blogs RSS Feed

Yale Bans Danish Cartoons

the oh-so-terrible Danish cartoons

The New York Times reported one of the most shameful and contemptible events in Yale’s three century long history.

Here is one of the richest and most prestigious universities in the civilized world piously turning its back on the core Western principles of open exchange of ideas and freedom of expression in order to avert the violence of primitive bigots and fanatics in their barbaric homelands far from NewSource: Never Yet Melted RSS Feed

Some area schools fail to make grade on ISAT

The following article ran inthe Lewiston Tribune.

Lapwai, Mountain View, Moscow, Lewiston, Kamiah and a charter school based out of the Whitepine district were among the school districts in Idaho that didn't make adequate yearly progress on the Idaho Standards Achievement Test.

The results were released Wednesday, and most area superintendents were in Boise for a state conference and unavailable for comment.

Moscow's curriculum director, CindySource: Right Mind RSS Feed

Terrifying America

Obama on the run

Peggy Noonan went scurrying back toward what she perceived as the center in the last election, and she is finding, only months later, that Barack Obama and the democrat Congressional leadership are anything but centrist.

Peggy Noonan is not buying the left’s talking points about “astroturf” and hired senior operatives sent by the Insurance Industry and Rush Limbaugh. She thinks the American people are really becoming scared,Source: Never Yet Melted RSS Feed

Animals on the Underground

This is more like a zoo on the London Underground as the fab Animals on the Underground site as put all of the animals seen on Tube map into one image.They're still inviting people to find other animals by staring at the map in a strange "Magic Eye" type of way until you can spot a cat or a cockerel, stag or snail, whale or wallaby. Nice way to while away the time when you're waiting for a train.Must dig out my animals on the underground vest as we might be in for a warmer weekend.Thanks to Source: British Blogs RSS Feed

SciFi Weekend: Star Trek Sequel; Dollhouse; New Shows; Next Doctor Who Companion in a Bikini

Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman deny the predictions made by Zoe Saldana that the script for the next movie is half way done.  They did discuss possibilities for the sequel with SciFi Wire:

Developing a worthy sequel to this year’s generally acclaimed and certainly lucrative Trek reboot will take much more time, Kurtzman said. They have to exhaust every possible idea to find the best ones.

“We take nothing for granted at thisSource: Liberal Values RSS Feed

The Danger to the West of Not ‘Helping Russia’: Le Monde, France

Is it incumbent on the West to ‘help’ Russia overcome its past of self destructive behavior and global domination?

According to André Fontaine of France’s Le Monde, if President Obama’s vision of a ’strong, peaceful and prosperous Russia,’ occupying ‘its rightful place as a great power’ were to come to pass without that - we’re all in trouble.

In this warning directed in large part at the United States, Fontaine writes:

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