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- DeMint: “We don’t have a Tea Party candidate.”
- Day after losses, Romney says he’s better tea party candidate than GOP rivals
- Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free
- The President’s War on Religious Freedom
- No way of stopping leak of deadly new flu, says terror chief
- Privacy group wanting FTC to punish Google files lawsuit
- More States Looking to Tax Online Sales
- Warren Buffett: Stocks Will Outperform Gold and Bonds .. and They’re Safer ‘By Far’
- States line up to challenge stringent Section 5 voting rights provision
| DeMint: “We don’t have a Tea Party candidate.” Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:28 PM PST
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) tells CNN's Soledad O'Brien that a brokered convention is possible. His acknowledgement follows American Conservative Union Chairman Al Cardenas and Gingrich Campaign Chairman Bob Walker's same assertion on Starting Point this morning. O'Brien says, "So when we talked to Al Cardenes earlier, he basically said listen, if you look to March – if you look to Super Tuesday and if by Super Tuesday Mitt Romney has not wrapped this up, this could go to a brokered convention." To read more, visit: http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/09/senator-demint-brokered-convention-possible/ |
| Day after losses, Romney says he’s better tea party candidate than GOP rivals Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:22 PM PST
ATLANTA — Mitt Romney says he's a better tea party candidate than his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. The former Massachusetts governor lashed out at Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum on Wednesday, the day after losing contests in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. Romney says his opponents are members of a Republican Party that had lost its way. He says spending on lawmakers' pet projects doubled under Gingrich, a former House speaker. He says Santorum, a former senator, was a major proponent of that type of spending. Romney says the tea party movement was created to fight Washington insiders who spend too much and that Santorum and Gingrich "are the very Republicans who acted like Democrats." To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/day-after-losses-romney-says-hes-better-tea-party-candidate-than-gop-rivals/2012/02/08/gIQAe8CfzQ_story.html |
| Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:18 PM PST
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, near where he teaches at MIT, to an eastern Texas federal court to speak to a jury of two men and six women about the early days of the web. His trip is part of an effort by a group of internet companies and retailers trying to defeat two patents — patents that a patent-licensing company called Eolas and the University of California are saying entitle them to royalty payments from just about anyone running a website with "interactive" features, like rotating pictures or streaming video. The defendants, including Google, Amazon, and Yahoo, are hoping that Berners-Lee's testimony—combined with that of other web pioneers like Netscape co-founder Eric Bina, Viola browser inventor Pei-Yuan Wei, and Dave Raggett (who invented the HTML "embed" tag) — will convince the jury that the inventions of Eolas and its founder, Michael Doyle, aren't worth much. The stakes couldn't be higher — if Berners-Lee and the defendants don't succeed, Eolas and Doyle could insist on a payout from almost every modern website. Berners-Lee, a slight 56-year-old man, spoke quickly and quietly; at one point, Judge Leonard Davis asked him to speak up. "We have a language situation with your accent that makes it doubly difficult," he told the scientist. Berners-Lee shifted position and looked about the room as he spoke, and seemed uncomfortable at times. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/tim-berners-lee-patent/ |
| The President’s War on Religious Freedom Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:12 PM PST
In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II delivered a scathing critique of socialism, declaring that "the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated. . . . Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil." Pope John Paul II's indictment of socialism is illustrated in the Obama administration's recent edict requiring nearly all employers — including Catholic hospitals, schools, and charities — to cover sterilizations and contraception in their employees' health-care plans. Because "contraception" includes abortifacients, this decision — made under the powers granted to the executive branch under Obamacare — also threatens many Protestant employers. The decision is the latest and most outrageous example of why Obamacare — socialized medicine — must be repealed in its entirety. It is also a shocking example of the administration's choosing to ignore the opinions and beliefs of millions of Americans. To read more, visit: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290464/president-s-war-religious-freedom-sen-rand-paul |
| No way of stopping leak of deadly new flu, says terror chief Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:08 PM PST By STEVE CONNOR , Independent UK The bioterrorism expert responsible for censoring scientific research which could lead to the creation of a devastating pandemic has admitted the information “is going to get out” eventually. Professor Paul Keim, chairman of the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, controversially recommended that researchers be stopped from publishing the precise mutations needed to transform the H5N1 strain of birdflu virus into a human-transmissible version. In an exclusive interview with The Independent, he argued it had been necessary to limit the release of the scientific details because of fears that terrorists may use the information to create their own H5N1 virus that could be spread easily between people. Professor Keim said that it was necessary to slow down the release of scientific information because it was clear that the world is not yet prepared for a strain of highly lethal H5N1 influenza that can be transmitted by coughs and sneezes. To read more, visit: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/no-way-of-stopping-leak-of-deadly-new-flu-says-terror-chief-6660997.html |
| Privacy group wanting FTC to punish Google files lawsuit Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:06 PM PST By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post Privacy advocates on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit aimed at forcing government officials to punish Google over alleged privacy violations. In the complaint, the Electronic Privacy and Information Center said Google's plans to tie together data of users across services beginning March 1 violates a settlement agreement the company struck with the Federal Trade Commission last summer over a separate privacy controversy. EPIC asked the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia to force the FTC to take action against Google. If the FTC finds that the firm violated its June 2011 settlement terms, Google could be forced to pay fines of $10,000 for each violation — an amount that could explode because of the popularity of Google's services, experts say. "The imminent change in Google's business practices threatens the same customer interests that the FTC's consent decree sought to protect," EPIC said in its suit. "If the FTC does not act to prevent the change, all Google users, including EPIC, face an imminent harm that is both certain and great." To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/privacy-advocacy-group-files-lawsuit-to-punish-google/2012/02/08/gIQAQgJ6zQ_story.html |
| More States Looking to Tax Online Sales Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:38 PM PST
Attention, online shoppers. The days of tax-free online shopping may be coming to an end. Proposed legislation would force online retailers to start collecting sales taxes in a growing number of states. More than a dozen states have enacted legislation or rules to force online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases, according to tax publisher CCH. Similar legislation is pending in 10 states. Reasons for the spread of online sales tax laws:
To read more, visit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/46325981 |
| Warren Buffett: Stocks Will Outperform Gold and Bonds .. and They’re Safer ‘By Far’ Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:36 PM PST By Alex Crippen, CNBC.com Warren Buffett is making his case. Stocks, or investments in any “productive” asset, will “prove to be the runaway winner” over bonds or gold “over any extended period of time” .. and “more important, it will be by far the safest.” Buffett lays out the argument in a bylined article appearing in Fortune’s February 27 issue and on its web site. It’s described as an “adaptation” from his upcoming annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Fortune’s Carol Loomis edits that letter each year with Buffett. In the piece, Buffett argues that bonds “should come with a warning label” right now, because interest rates aren’t high enough to make up for inflation and taxes. To read more, visit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/46328808 |
| States line up to challenge stringent Section 5 voting rights provision Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:33 PM PST By Robert Barnes, The Washington Post Conservative activists and Republican attorneys general have launched a series of lawsuits meant to challenge the most muscular provision of the Voting Rights Act 0f 1965 before a Supreme Court that has signaled it is suspicious of its constitutionality. Working their way to the high court are lawsuits from Arizona to North Carolina, challenging Section 5 of the historic civil rights act. The provision requires states and localities with a history of discrimination to get federal approval of any changes in their voting laws. The Supreme Court's recent actions "have indicated that Section 5 is living on borrowed time," Columbia University law professor Nathaniel Persily told the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last week. "Assuming the personnel on the court remains constant, the question is not whether the court will declare Section 5 unconstitutional, but when and how." The lawsuits are defending redistricting and a variety of new laws and electoral changes — including controversial requirements that voters show IDs at the polls — that Democrats and minorities charge will dilute minority rights. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/states-line-up-to-challenge-stringent-section-5-voting-rights-provision/2012/02/01/gIQA5aYE1Q_story.html |
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