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Robert Reich on AIG:
Bottom line: Before it can clean up Wall Street or do much of anything else, the Administration has to clean up the way it's been trying to clean up Wall Street.
(Hint: Hillary would have done it better)
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StrategyPage on Iran:
For thousands of years, "the Persians" have been the most powerful force in the region. The Arabs were on top for a few centuries over a thousand years ago, but that was seen, by Iranians and Arabs alike, as the exception, not the rule, to the way things work in this neighborhood.
Hint: Cyrus did it so why not us?...
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The next terror worry: The smart grid:
IOActive issued a report that someone with EE and software know-how and $500 in equipment could:
“take command and control of the [advanced meter infrastructure] allowing for the en masse manipulation of service to homes and businesses.”
Indeed, Katie Fehrenbacher notes on GigaOM that last year National Journal reported that China had a hand in two blackouts of the U.S. power grid.
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Obama being honored by NotreDame?
Professor and mystery writer McInerny comments:
By inviting Barack Obama as commencement speaker, Notre Dame is telling the nation that the teaching of the Catholic church on this fundamental matter can be ignored. Lip service may be paid to the teaching on abortion, but it is no impediment to upward mobility, to the truly vulgar lust to be welcomed into secular society....
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Another "embryonic stem cell" triumph...well, maybe, one of these days.As Josephine Quintavalle comments:
"Like so many of the claims associated with embryonic stem cells, this is first steps research rather than a cure around the corner, and just as hypothetical as the rest of the claims which try to justify destroying the human embryo for the benefit of mankind.
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Benedict says: It's the joy, stupid:
Someone may object: “Why not leave them in peace? They have their truth, and we have ours....But if we are convinced and have come to experience that without Christ life lacks something, that something real – indeed, the most real thing of all – is missing, we...grant them the opportunity of finding their truest and most authentic selves, the joy of finding life.
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