White House officials announced Friday that they had counted exactly how many jobs were created or saved by recent stimulus spending: 640,329.
So how many were saved and how many created? They don’t know.
In a briefing with reporters, officials acknowledged they can’t tell the difference between jobs “saved,” and jobs “created” by the $787 billion stimulus [...]

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN— According to sources at the Pentagon, American quagmire-building efforts continued apace in Afghanistan this week, as the geographically rugged, politically unstable region remained ungovernable, death tolls continued to rise, and the grim military campaign persisted as hopelessly as ever.

In fact, many government officials now believe that the United States and its allies [...]

Billed as the First Annual National Government Sucks Day Rally, the event is being held by and for small government and no government activists only.
Karen De Coster, writing from her lewrockwell.com web page, has extended an open invitation to all “Libertarians, Anarchists, Objectivists, and followers of Ron Paul. Front porch radicals and independents are free [...]

According to a 70 year old genealogist and his grand-daughter, President Obama is related to every other president except for Martin Van Buren. They all trace back to a king of England, John Plantagenet.
The story at http://www.ksbw.com/news/21404492/detail.html
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So if I was writing biology text books for use in Texas or Kentucky or Missouri schools I think I would join their education authorities in demanding that the word evolution not be mentioned. Instead I would put all of my effort into explaining speciation. Show how that original bacterium could become 2, 4, 8, [...]

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As you’re getting liquored up this Halloween, remember to be safe out there. Have a good time and make sure others have a good time as well. Need a new shot for the party this year? How about some brain shots. Courteous of Geekology
bloody brain shooter
1 1/4 oz. strawberry vodka such as Stoli
1/8 oz. Rose’s [...]

Article by Paul Armentano at Mises.org
If popularity was the sole measure of success then D.A.R.E., the “Drug Abuse Resistance Education” curriculum that is now taught in 80 percent of school districts nationwide, would be triumphant.  However, if one is to gauge success by actual results, then America’s most pervasive and expensive youth drug education program [...]

Omari Roberts, 23, was widely praised after tackling Tyler Juett, 17, and a 14-year-old accomplice when he caught them breaking into his mother’s home.
He chased the 14-year-old off, then returned to the house to find Juett still there. They scuffled and Juett suffered a six-inch stab wound that severed vital arteries.
Juett was rushed to hospital [...]

Alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis, according to a paper from a drugs expert.
Professor David Nutt, chairman of the government’s advisory committee on the misuse of drugs, criticised politicians for “distorting” and “devaluing” the research evidence in the debate over illicit drugs.
But he also said some [...]

If you haven’t heard already, a Home Depot employee was fired from a Florida store for a dress code violation. Sounds pretty clear cut and straight forward; he broke the rules, refused to follow the rules he agreed to when signing his contract of employment, and as a result was fired for insubordination. This wouldn’t [...]

Lets be honest here, its safer to drive under the influence of marijuana than it is alcohol. People under the influence of alcohol are more likely to be reckless and drive at higher speeds while people under the influence of marijuana tend to slow down and follow traffic laws closer than they would normally. However [...]

The increasing number of patients with arthritis has caused much alarm to medical experts. To this date, there has been no success in finding a specific cure for the disease. In other words, the phenomenon of joint destruction is causing more and more people much pain.

Why is arthritis painful?
When the body’s immune response causes the [...]

All across the world, collections of global-warming protestors financed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gathered on October 24 to call for forceful “climate change” action at the United Nations summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December. Most of the gatherings were minuscule, even in big cities, but the effort did receive widespread publicity. [...]

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