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I'm not predisposed genetically to be a whiner in bad economic times, and I know that whenever someone who is a Republican complains, the first reaction among many liberals is to hiss back that they don't feel too bad for them. That's not the purpose of this post -- to fuel or inflame everyone else's preconceived conclusions, particularly since several of the people that I know personally were affected by this crisis are liberals themselves, many of whom participated in its making.

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Highlights of this day in history: Pope John Paul II dies; President Woodrow Wilson seeks U.S. entry into World War I; Juan Ponce de Leon lands in Florida; Argentina seizes the Falkland Islands; Author Hans Christian Andersen born.

cakesecret presents, featuring ABBA

The judges will decide
The likes of me abide
Spectators of the show
Always staying low
The game is on again
A lover or a friend
A big thing or a small
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CBS Cuts At Locals And National News and Angry journalists vent their frustrations to the world

They're angry at their demanding editors. They're angry about the mushrooming workload in shrinking newsrooms. They're even angry about other angry journalists.

Back on February 29th of this year I brought the story of how students at the UCLA based pro-life publication, The Advocate, had been investigating Race-Motivated Donations to Planned Parenthood and that organizations complicity. Recently there have been more and more people getting evolved with this story and writing excellent pieces as well. I thought I’d share some of those with you as well as the story behind Margaret Sanger and a new video from the Advocate.

First, the video:

Vote on freedom of expression marks the end of Universal Human Rights. Many Muslim countries are voting against freedom of speech at the UN. Freedoms fought for by our forefathers are getting worn thin by Muslim countries all over the globe. Islamo-fascism is spreading rapidly and our freedoms are at risk.

See Allahpundit's post for more on this outrage: Disgrace: UN Human Rights Council endorses ban on religious defamation; Update: UN chief rips “Fitna”

And Eugene Volokh's take:

So prohibiting dissemination of ideas based upon religious superiority "is compatible with the freedom of opinion and expression"; I suppose that would include claims that Islam, Christianity, or whatever else is the one true religion that is correct while others are false. And states are supposed to "prohibit the dissemination ... of ... xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion or its followers that constitute incitement to racial and religious ... hostility"; I suppose that would include, for instance, condemnation of Scientology as fraud, or of Catholicism as oppressive, or for that matter of all religion as folly. And here I thought that freedom of thought, conscience and religion included the freedom to think and comment about all ideologies, including religious ones.

From The Detroit Free Press:

Thomas Athans, the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and cofounder of a liberal talk radio network, told Troy police detectives that he paid a prostitute $150 for sex at a Troy hotel in late February, according to a police report obtained Wednesday by the Free Press under the Freedom of Information Act. Advertisement

CAGW’s 2008 Pig Book Digs Up $17.2 Billion in Pork