Monthly Archives: August 2011

Morning Update August 26th, 2011 (10)

CANADA #1 — CNews | Plan to pay off refugees open to scams TORONTO – Giving failed refugee claimants thousands of dollars to return home could make Canada’s “broken” immigration system vulnerable to even more abuse, says an immigration expert. … Continue reading

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Libin: Alberta loses as Stelmach gets his Mounties

It’s been nearly 80 years since Alberta had a provincial police force. The government operated the Alberta Provincial Police from 1917 to 1932 when the Mounties, who had been policing the Prairies, bailed out, claiming they were short on resources; … Continue reading

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Afternoon Update August 25th, 2011 (10)

CANADA #1 — CNews | Irene may be heading for the Maritimes Hurricane Irene is gaining strength as it moves up the east coast and could hit Canada’s Atlantic provinces by early next week. [...] BBC | Hurricane Irene hammers … Continue reading

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Libya: SAS leads hunt for Gaddafi (8)

As a £1 million bounty was placed on Gaddafi’s head, soldiers from 22 SAS Regiment began guiding rebel soldiers after being ordered in by David Cameron. For the first time, defence sources have confirmed that the SAS has been in … Continue reading

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Bean: You’re not Reagan, you’re Hoover (1)

White House officials for some time have been drawing comparisons between the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the 40th, Ronald Reagan. A truer comparison would be President Obama and Herbert Hoover. For the past year, I … Continue reading

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State investigation finds thousands of civilian bodies in Kashmir valley

The worst part, Shafeeq Bhatt says, is not knowing. One day in April of 1996, he was walking to work at the family carpet shop in Srinagar with his brothers Zafar and Shabir Bhatt. The three of them were picked … Continue reading

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Goodman: Meet the Legal Wonks Who Brought Down the Flotilla

At a radical left-wing coffee shop in Washington, D.C. last month, Code Pink founder and “Freedom Flotilla II” passenger Medea Benjamin​ woefully recounted the moment she realized her boat, the Audacity of Hope, wouldn’t be legally permitted to leave a port … Continue reading

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Ball/Harris: What’s so weird about the weather?

A $2-5-million grant has just been announced to learn what is already known and to reinforce what is already proven incorrect about the climate and climate mechanisms of the Prairies. The Lethbridge Herald reports a group of researchers are going … Continue reading

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‘It’s Miller Time’ at inquiry into disappearing salmon (1)

Science is a serious business, and so is the disappearance of millions upon millions of wild sockeye salmon from British Columbia’s coast, a precipitous slide almost two decades long. When science and missing fish collide, as they have for months … Continue reading

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Massie: Flailing Obama in the Black Community

In aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Cornel West proclaimed, “[Hurricane Katrina] showed the unbelievable resilience [of blacks] in the face of crushing white supremacist powers.” This statement added to his already bloated legacy of race-baiting diatribes. When he criticized blacks who … Continue reading

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Emery: What if Obama isn’t so smart?

Eek! Another Republican moron is running for president, and the blogs on the Left are aghast. Another village in Texas is missing its idiot! Another s–t-kicking cowboy has messed with their heads. The question this time is not just whether … Continue reading

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