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Hope for cancer victims as scientists
develop drug that sends cells to
sleep to stop them spreading

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/24/2012 6:59:31 AM Post Reply

Cancers can be put to sleep to stop them multiplying, scientists have discovered. A new drug called Aflibercept tricks tumours into becoming dormant by flipping molecular switches in the structure of the cancer so it cannot spread. Positive results are being seen already in the UK, where trials have seen patients enjoy a ´significant´ extension of life. More than 1,400 patients were involved in trials, with some participants with advanced bowel cancer who had already had chemotherapy prolonged life by two years. Scientists think the drug could be used across a range of different cancers in future studies.

A good day for David Cameron,
though the test is yet to come

Telegraph [UK], by Daniel Hannan Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/24/2012 6:46:23 AM Post Reply

David Cameron will have enjoyed this morning´s coverage of the Brussels summit. Our newspapers are taking a straightforward British-PM-holds-out-against-grasping-Eurocrats line and, while Continental papers are less complimentary, their online readers´ comments, especially in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, are overwhelmingly pro-British. The PM has had a successful summit. It´s true that he held the highest cards, in the sense that a failure to reach a deal suits Britain better than most other countries. None the less, he played those cards deftly, resisting the peer pressure that has overcome so many of his predecessors on these occasions. Good for him.

A Family Business in Disarray

New York Times, by Monica Davey Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 6:17:07 AM Post Reply

Chicago- IF there’s a crisis unfolding somewhere, it’s a good bet that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. is on his way. Over the years, Mr. Jackson, 71, who has a fondness for staring into the lens of a television camera, has jetted to tense locales around the world to negotiate the release of hostages. When President Clinton’s White House was engulfed in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Mr. Jackson showed up to offer spiritual guidance, including some advice he described to a reporter at the time: “Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut. And don’t panic.”

Opportunity And Wealth Remain
In America, Not Europe

Investors Business Daily, by Matthew Melchiorre Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 6:11:19 AM Post Reply

The presidential election proved Americans have embraced European-style social democracy and that ObamaCare is but the first chapter in a new era of big government. Or at least that´s the word from pundits from across the political spectrum. But despite the recent and significant growth of its government, America remains quite far from throwing away capitalism in favor of a European-style social market economy. And not only does America´s relatively freer economy offer more opportunity and wealth than those of Europe, its larger private safety net offers more individual choice.

Obama Set to Discover Inheriting
Your Own Mess Is Hard

Townhall, by Elisabeth Meinecke Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 6:04:30 AM Post Reply

For four years, President Obama and his team never failed to remind Americans of the state of the country he inherited from his Oval Office predecessor. The mess left at the end of Obama’s first term, however, makes the George W. Bush years look gift-wrapped. From the debt to entitlements to health care and education, the next four years promise a gauntlet of challenges the White House must address sooner rather than later.Challenges abroad The Eurozone and the Global EconomyOn January 20, the president faces an even more questionable global economic outlook than previous administrations.

How Obama’s FEMA Criminally
Botched the Hurricane Recovery Effort

Front Page Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/24/2012 5:58:00 AM Post Reply

Obama’s win came in part because the media and a Springsteen-loving governor portrayed him as dedicated to relief for those hit by Hurricane Sandy. The reality however is that Obama made some routine photo op stops. FEMA, along with the Red Cross, failed abysmally at Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, and that story wasn’t told before the election because the people in a position to tell it had no power and the media wanted Obama to win. Afterward the story is slowly trickling out. “I asked, ‘Why haven’t you been sent out?’” he says.

Cooking a Poundcake in a
Metric Oven Is No Easy Task

Wall Street Journal, by Justin Scheck Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 5:53:33 AM Post Reply

Zach Rodriguez tries to practice what he preaches, which is why he reprogrammed his mother´s oven to display 180 degrees Celsius, rather than 356 degrees Fahrenheit. The 19-year-old college student from San Antonio wanted to make a poundcake. But he is a firm believer in the metric system, so baking in Fahrenheit wouldn´t do. He "metricated" the oven using "a complicated, nonintuitive sequence of button pressing," he says. Mr. Rodriguez is a member of a small, committed group of U.S. metric devotees—the vestige of a once-mighty crusade to get Americans to abandon

Economists, Obama administration at odds
over role of mortgage debt in recovery

Washington Post, by Zachary A. Goldfarb Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 5:47:33 AM Post Reply

One year and one month before President Obama won reelection, he invited seven of the world’s top economists to a private meeting in the Oval Office to hear their advice on what do to fix the ailing economy. “I’m not asking you to consider the political feasibility of things,” he told them in the previously unreported meeting. There was a former Federal Reserve vice chairman, a Nobel laureate, one of the world’s foremost experts on financial crises and the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund , among others. Nearly all said Obama should introduce a much bigger plan

So, How Did Those
Wal-Mart Protests Go?

Atlantic, by Connor Simpson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 5:43:13 AM Post Reply

Walmart employees were threatening to bring holiday shopping to its knees by striking on the busiest shopping day of the year to show their demand for a better working conditions. So, how did it go? Plans for the protests have been in motion for a little over a month now. Largely organized on Facebook by a group called Organization United for Respect at Walmart, today´s protests were meant to be the grand culmination of two months of smaller, minor protests at Wal-Marts across the country. Well, in Chicago, protestors were bussed in

UN climate change chief getting
frustrated with United States

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/24/2012 5:39:54 AM Post Reply

Christiana Figueres, who leads the United Nations negotiations to get governments to reduce carbon emissions in the world, regards Hurricane Sandy as “yet another wake-up call” for Americans to get on board with her climate change policy. “Yes, I certainly do think that this is yet another wake-up call,” Figueres said of Hurricane Sandy to Yale Environment 360 in an interview published by The Guardian.”I did hear President Obama say quite categorically in his acceptance speech that he is not going to have a future that is threatened by increasing warming . . .

Sandy Island ´Undiscovered´
After Appearing on Maps

ABC News, by Dragana Jovanovic Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 5:34:11 AM Post Reply

Sandy Island was nowhere to be found when Australian scientists reached the South Pacific location where it appeared on Google Earth, nautical charts and world maps. "It raises all kinds of conspiracy theories," expedition member Steven Micklethwaite said, adding that the CIA is among the sources of the world coastline database. "It reminded me of the hypernatural island in the "Lost" TV series." The phantom Manhattan-size island in the Coral Sea was shown as Sandy Island on Google Earth, sized about 15 miles by three miles on Google Maps, and halfway between Australia and the French New Caledonia.

Win the Winnable

Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 5:30:24 AM Post Reply

First, the problem. In 2010, Republicans failed to capture winnable Democratic Senate seats in Delaware, Nevada, and Colorado. The reason: bad candidates. In 2012, Republicans pulled a repeat, losing two, perhaps three, Democratic seats that were poised to switch parties. The reason: bad candidates. Now, the solution (or part of it anyway). In 2012, Republicans in North Carolina used redistricting to make Democrat Larry Kissell’s House seat highly winnable. But not if Scott Keadle, a two-time loser of House races, was the candidate. So Young Guns Action Fund, an independent GOP group, spent nearly $1 million in TV/radio ads

Michigan’s Fight for
Legal Dictators Continues

National Review Online, by Michael Austin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 5:27:30 AM Post Reply

Almost a year ago, I wrote on NRO about Detroit and the rise of the new American dictators. In looking at Michigan, my point was to show how liberty can be sacrificed thanks to the failures and incompetence of elected officials, and the seemingly reasonable decision to save municipalities by appointing emergency managers. Whether they feared the loss of their freedom, or couldn’t face up to the harsh medicine doled out by putting their cities under effective receivership, nearly 53 percent of Michigan’s voters rejected Public Act 4 in a referendum on November 6,

3 Reasons to Kill the
Dept. of Homeland Security

Reason, by Meredith Bragg & Nick Gillespie Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 5:19:35 AM Post Reply

Sunday, November 25, 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which pulled together nearly two dozen federal agencies and departments under the control of new, single entity. Its responsibilities include running the US Border Patrol, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, and FEMA. DHS is the third biggest cabinet agency, but are we better off because of its existence? Here are three reasons to get rid of DHS. 1. It’s unnecessary. In the months immediately following September 11 attacks in 2001, President George W. Bush initially resisted calls

Stone-faced lies

New York Post, by Clifford D. May Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 5:15:49 AM Post Reply

In the 1930s, quite a few people failed to recognize the threat posed by Nazi ideology. In their eyes, Hitler was simply restoring Germany’s wounded pride and rebuilding an economy battered by World War I and the harsh treaty that ended the conflict. Surely, Hitler and the German people preferred compromise to conflict, peace to war. This view turned out to be wrong, and tens of millions of people were massacred as a result. In the wake of World War II, quite a few people failed to recognize the threat posed by Communist ideology. In their eyes, Marxist/Leninist societies

Romney aides blast ´hypocrites´
who asked for cabinet jobs just
before election and are now
trashing him

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 11/24/2012 5:15:08 AM Post Reply

Former senior aides to Mitt Romney have hit back at the ´craven hypocrites´ in the Republican party who just days before the election were clamouring for jobs in a Romney administration and are now belittling him. ´I´m sure Governor Romney is finding out now who his real friends are,´ a former adviser told MailOnline. ´There were one or two well-known figures who were late committing to support him, were the most eager to curry favour when it looked like we would win and are now out there trashing the governor.

The Way Forward.

Commentary Magazine, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/24/2012 5:06:25 AM Post Reply

It is a mark of how entirely bereft of ideas the 2012 contest was that the post-election analysis has come to center not on what Barack Obama will do in his second term—which is really the only thing that matters now—but rather on the condition and fate of the Republican Party. Obama won a historic victory in some respects: If you had said two years ago that the president could win reelection with an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent and 4 million fewer people in the workforce than when he was elected, most analysts would have called you crazy.

Pharaoh

PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 4:48:43 AM Post Reply

It’s surprising to realize that the phrase “one man, one vote, one time” was initially a slogan for electoral reform; meant as the opposite to the slogan “vote early and often” which is now the beau ideal of liberals. “One man, one vote, one time” has now come to symbolize the cynical process by which strongmen use the democratic process to end it; using the vote to abolish voting. (Snip)In a word Morsi is the very kind of dictator which President Obama so vehemently denounced in Hosni Mubarak.

A $10,000 college degree?
Rick Perry bets on it

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/24/2012 4:43:53 AM Post Reply

With costs exploding in higher education and student debt becoming a crippling fact of life, many are looking for ways to reduce costs while maintaining access and quality. Texas Governor Rick Perry has challenged colleges and universities in his state to crafting baccalaureate degree programs that will cost no more than $10,000, including tuition and books — and may have found success already: Texas is experimenting with an initiative to help students and families struggling with sky-high college costs: a bachelor’s degree for $10,000, including tuition fees and even textbooks.

From Texas secession to women
bishops, conservatism has become
the new counter culture

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/24/2012 1:21:24 AM Post Reply

Two recent events have renewed my faith in conservatism’s eccentricity. The first was Secession 2012!, wherein thousands of Americans responded to Obama’s win by collectively threatening to leave the country. The endless online debates about the legal validity of such a move illustrated how historically literate the average American actually is--while the revelation that the leader of the Alabama secession movement was doing it to get his topless car wash back showed just how deliciously bloody minded they can be, too. "From my cold, dead hand…" The second curio came from England, where the Anglican Synod voted down

USA Today Founder’s Entire Family
Backed Obama, Daughter Would’ve
Left U.S. If Romney Won

Newsbusters, by Brent Baker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/24/2012 1:17:52 AM Post Reply

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, so it’s hardly shocking that the children of a journalist would prefer President Barack Obama’s re-election, but instead of being embarrassed by such stereotype-confirming views, Al Neuharth embraced them and decided to follow their advice in casting his vote – as if there were any doubt. In his weekly column back on Friday, November 9, the 88-year-old founder of USA Today recounted how his six adopted kids, ranging in ages from 12 to 21, all supported Obama, including “Rafi, 12,” who “said Romney wants to ‘take from

The great wind terror:
we name the guilty man

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/24/2012 1:17:10 AM Post Reply

And it´s not David Cameron. Or Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt. Or Mrs Clegg. Or Tim "Trougher" Yeo. Or Lord "Ugh" Deben. Or the noisome Chris Huhne… Though, of course, all have played their part at one time or another in the despoliation of our matchless landscape with view-blighting, fuel-poverty-creating, sleep-denying, sick-making, flood-exascerbating, price-inflating, property-value-trashing, greed-stoking, puke-making, bird-slicing, bat-chomping eco crucifixes…[Snip] Miliband has huge cheek, opportunistically raising his head at this point as if he is an innocent bystander. Which Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was directly responsible for creating a crassly insensitive deployment strategy for onshore wind

Actor Larry Hagman, notorious
as ´Dallas´ villain J.R. Ewing, dies

Dallas Morning News [TX], by Allen Peppard Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/24/2012 1:12:44 AM Post Reply

Larry Hagman, who played the conniving and mischievous J.R. Ewing on the TV show Dallas, died Friday at Medical City in Dallas, of complications from his recent battle with cancer, his family said. He was 81. “Larry was back in his beloved Dallas re-enacting the iconic role he loved most,” his family said in a written statement. “Larry’s family and close friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday. When he passed, he was surrounded by loved ones. It was a peaceful passing, just as he had wished for. The family requests privacy at this time.”

New federal law may
make replacing your
furnace much costlier

The Record [Hackensack, NJ], by James M. O´Neill Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 11/24/2012 12:13:31 AM Post Reply

Replacing an aging furnace could cost homeowners thousands of dollars more after May 1, when new federal energy efficiency standards take effect for northern states, including New Jersey. The new energy-efficient natural gas furnaces aren’t that much more expensive themselves, but they must be vented directly to an outside wall rather than through the chimney, which can increase installation costs dramatically, home heating contractors say. The new rules will not affect homeowners with gas-burning boilers that heat water for radiator systems. But the bulk of homeowners in North Jersey will be affected, since up to 80 percent of homes

President’s decree of new
powers divides Egypt

Washington Post, by Michael Birnbaum and Joby Warrick Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/23/2012 11:59:41 PM Post Reply

CAIRO — A stark new divide appeared to be emerging in Egypt on Friday after the nation’s first democratically elected president asserted nearly unlimited powers, as rival crowds of demonstrators poured into the streets of the capital to express disgust and admiration for the move. With Islamists lining up behind President Mohamed Morsi and secular leaders rallying against him, the development threatened to wipe away once and for all the unlikely joining of the two forces that brought down Egypt’s longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011. In a thunderous speech in front of a presidential palace

Syria is central to holding
together the Mideast

Washington Post, by Condoleezza Rice Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/23/2012 11:55:16 PM Post Reply

The civil war in Syria may well be the last act in the story of the disintegration of the Middle East as we know it. The opportunity to hold the region together and to rebuild it on a firmer foundation of tolerance, freedom and, eventually, democratic stability is slipping from our grasp. Egypt and Iran have long, continuous histories and strong national identities. Turkey does as well, except for the matter of the Kurds, who are still largely unassimilated, mistrusted by Ankara and tempted by the hope of independent nationhood. Every other important state is a modern

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