Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” George Washington: The Rules of Civility, Circa 1748
Face of Defense: Band NCO Gets Grammy Nomination
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62730
WEST POINT, N.Y., Feb. 8, 2011 – The West Point Band’s newest audio engineer, Army Staff Sgt. Brandie Lane, was nominated for a Grammy in the category that will recognize last year’s best-engineered classical music album.
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Republicans ask court to toss climate case
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49030.html
Two top House Republicans and the Senate’s leading global warming skeptic asked the Supreme Court Monday to throw out a lawsuit seeking to force electric utilities to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
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Unions Head for Showdown With Senate Over TSA Representation
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/05/unions-head-showdown-senate-tsa-representation/
Unions that want to represent thousands of airport screeners are heading for a showdown with the Senate as early as Monday, with some lawmakers looking to revoke the collective-bargaining rights the Transportation Security Administration just granted them.
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TX School District Plans to Force Some Students to Take Arabic Language, Culture Classes
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/tx-school-district-plans-to-force-some-students-to-take-arabic-language-culture-classes/
Some middle school students’ parents were shocked this week when they found out that two schools in their Mansfield, TX school district will soon be requiring Arabic language and culture courses. It’s a decision those parents say was sprung on them.
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3 teens killed in Mexico, 2 of them US citizens
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_drug_war_mexico
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, at least two of them U.S. citizens and high school students in Texas, authorities said Monday.
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US Union Boss Trumka Influencing Egyptian Revolution With International Labor Org That Calls for Redistribution of Wealth, ‘Social Justice’ and ‘New World Order’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/us-union-boss-trumka-influencing-egyptian-revolution-with-international-labor-org-that-call-for-redistribution-of-wealth-social-justice-and-new-world-order/
To complete the Trumka trifecta here is a older Blaze video showing Trumka working with European socialists and a Blaze video of Trumka admitting his main goal is using his union to advance his political vision.
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Egypt proclaims power transfer plan, protesters wary
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has a plan and timetable for the peaceful transfer of power, the vice president said on Tuesday, as protesters called more demonstrations to show their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak remains potent.
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ElBaradei: Israel Has Peace Agreement With Mubarak, Not Egypt
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/elbaradei-israel-has-peace-agreement-with-mubarak-not-egypt/
One of the key leaders in Egypt’s anti-government movement is continuing to make waves, suggesting that he could soon go from being an “agent of change” to the country’s next president. But what does that mean for Egypt and her allies?
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: In Their Own Words
http://bigpeace.com/jdhalevi/2011/02/08/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-in-their-own-words/
The Muslim Brotherhood has taken a greater role in organizing the protest against the Egyptian regime as it unfolds its independent political agenda. Rashad al-Bayumi, the Brotherhood’s second-in-command, announced in an interview with Japanese TV that the group would join a transitional government in order to cancel the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, as it “offends the Arabs’ dignity and destroys the interests of Egypt and other Arab states.” He further stressed that Egypt does not need American aid.
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Muslim Brotherhood awakens terrorist wing
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=261069
JERUSALEM – An Egyptian Islamist terrorist organization founded by the Muslim Brotherhood is re-establishing itself amid the political upheaval in Cairo, WND has learned.
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Capitalism is Dead Says Former Brazilian President
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/capitalism-is-dead-says-former-brazilian-president/
Former left-wing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said today at an anti-capitalist gathering that he believes the global financial crisis proves capitalism is broken.
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Four Reasons Why Big Government Is Bad Government
http://biggovernment.com/dmitchell/2011/02/07/four-reasons-why-big-government-is-bad-government/
A new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity gives four reasons why big government is bad fiscal policy. I particularly like the explanation of how government spending undermines growth by diverting labor and capital from the productive sector of the economy.
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Sacrifice play: Wake Forest coach gives his player a kidney
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/02/08/2044926/sacrifice-play-coach-gives-his.html
When a coach says he would do anything for his players, it sounds like a cliche. Then there is Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter. Monday, Walter donated one of his healthy kidneys to Kevin Jordan, a Wake Forest freshman outfielder talented enough to be drafted in the 19th round by the New York Yankees last year but sick enough to wonder if he’d ever play again.
