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via sda Great Moments In Socialism Last week, Emergency Manager (and bankruptcy lawyer) Kevyn Orr decided to list the holdings of the Detroit Institute of Arts among the city's assets in preparation for a possible bankruptcy. If the city goes through with it, it could be forced...

Jim Treacher ‏@jtLOL Good morning, @googlemaps. Say, which "low-level employee" labeled the AEI building "The Heart of Darkness"? http://twitpic.com/curpsy https://twitter.com/jtLOL/statuses/340850080343019520

"Michael Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture." Michael Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture : pics

An Alberta student stepped into a fight to save a fellow student from being stabbed; instead of praising his heroics the edu-crats punished him. story and video: Sun News : Calgary student, 12, reprimanded for stepping in and thwarting potential knife attack h/t sda

via Ace of Spades: Via Judicial Watch, Bill Killian, the US Attorney for the Eastern district of Tennessee, just wants Americans to know what the consequences for free speech might be.Special speakers for the event will be Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and...

Ward says so... via ffof I don’t know about this “The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan” article in Foreign Policy. Japanese culture and “European” culture are very different. Comparing how individual American presidents respond to crises with the way a group of Japanese did is comparing apples to...

that can be ‘cured’ A leading neurologist at the University of Oxford said this week that recent developments meant that science may one day be able to identify religious fundamentalism as a “mental illness” and a cure it. During a talk at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales on Wednesday...

I'll Miss Buying BC Lumber BC rejects Northern Gateway proposal. So send it down the scenic Fraser Canyon on rail cars, I say. Ezra Levant's...

Dirtbag. The man found guilty of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones in a sexually motivated attack must spend the rest of his life behind bars. Mark Bridger, 47, of Ceinws, Powys, had claimed he accidentally run April over near...

UNREAL… Illegal Immigrant Mother of Seven Given Food Stamps, Meds, Housing, and Social Security – For 20 Years It’s Cloward-Piven on steroids. Illegal immigrant and mother of seven, Marita Nelson, receives $240 in food stamps, monthly medications, $700 in Social Security and a housing...

Keep in mind our little column is written by two labor puppets: Only an idiot bites the hand that feeds them. That’s just common sense unless you believe your job requires you to do it . . . if you’re, say, a parliamentary budget officer, an auditor general or a public broadcaster. Then...

Ottawa is slamming the brakes on Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to hike the HST to fund public transit. Late Thursday, Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty warned Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa that no increase to the 13 per cent tax would be permitted. Flaherty said any scheme...

Seven Dutch teenagers and an adult man accused of kicking a football linesman to death at a junior league match have gone on trial in the Netherlands. Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a 41-year old father-of-three, was attacked by players from an Amsterdam youth football club after officiating as a...

via sda: Tesla: How the U.S. government's bungled investment in the car company cost taxpayers at least $1 billion. In 2009, as the financial crisis raged and General Motors and Chrysler plunged toward bankruptcy, Tesla Motors faced a seemingly impossible task: raising half a billion...

(Reuters) - A U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in two rampages from his Army post last year has reached a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday. Robert Bales, a decorated veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and...

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Dr. Michael Ciampi took a step this spring that many of his fellow physicians would describe as radical. The family physician stopped accepting all forms of health insurance. In early 2013, Ciampi sent a letter to his patients informing them that he would no longer...

Fox News Channel maintains a handsome lead in primetime and total day, while primetime runner-up CNN continues a healthy climb from the lows of 2012. HLN's wall-to-wall coverage of the Jodi Arias trial has had substantial ratings legs. Surging around the time of the May 8 verdict, the...

Khadr will be eligible for a parole hearing in July because he will have served one-third of his sentence. Omar Khadr moved to Edmonton jail after threats on life video/source: Blazing Cat Fur: Patriotic Prisoner Alleged To Have Threatened Omar Khadr Poor omar. Poor poor omar.

When is the insanity going to end down there man? What is wrong with these meddling mental deficients anyway? Yet another student has landed in a heap of trouble for having something that represents a gun, but isn’t actually anything like a real gun. This time, the perpetrator was a...

Hours After Jail Release ANCHORAGE, Alaska (TheBlaze/AP) — A man suspected of beating an elderly Alaska couple to death and sexually assaulting their 2-year-old great-granddaughter over the weekend had been released from jail just hours earlier, according to Alaska Department of...