Dean Hess Calls Rushed "Executive Session" To Talk Bassam Frangieh For Tomorrow After First Attempt at Resolution Fails
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Montana Republicans to the Federal Government: ‘Don’t Tread on Me’
Although last year’s midterm elections dealt Democrats a devastating blow at the federal level, what has liberals reeling now are the ramifications of power Republicans accumulated on the state level as well. Just consider their reaction to the union-adjusting policies of the newly elected governors in Ohio and Wisconsin (John Kasich and Scott Walker), and it’s evident that the outcome of November 2010 continues to be more than many Democrats can handle.
Leppert Makes It Official and Announces for 2012 Senate Race in Texas
Mayor Tom Leppert CMC ’77 joins crowded Texas Republican primary. Here’s his pitch. The Claremont Conservative
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Libya Updates
By request … • From the NY Times: Libya Wages Counterattack Against Rebels on 3 Fronts Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces struck back on three fronts on Monday, using fighter jets, special forces units and regular army troops in an escalation of hostilities that brought Libya closer to civil war. The attacks by the colonel’s troops on an oil refinery in central Libya and on cities on either side of the country ..
Protesting Teacher: Give Us the Billionaires’ Addresses!
As government employee unions continue to rally across the country in support of the Wisconsin protesters, they are becoming completely unhinged. (Being surrounded by hygienically-challenged individuals who continuously shout mind-numbing slogans will do that.) All the protests are understandable. The Democrats and the unions had a very bad election last November.
Spotted: Pitzer Professor/Activist Jose Calderon at Los Angeles Union Rally
Yet another academic response from Pitzer “professor” Jose Calderon. If his name sounds familiar, it ought to. He was behind the Karl Rove protests that vandalized Claremont’s fountains.
The Bottom Feeders: Today’s Unions Striking & Protesting Over Forced Dues
“I want to urge devotion to the fundamentals of human liberty the principles of voluntarism. No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.” — Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor Once upon a time, union leaders did not believe in compulsion as a means of securing membership or union dues.
Silk moth’s antenna inspires new nanotech tool with applications in Alzheimer’s research
( University of Michigan ) By mimicking the structure of the silk moth’s antenna, University of Michigan researchers led the development of a better nanopore — a tiny tunnel-shaped tool that could advance understanding of a class of neurodegenerative diseases that includes Alzheimer’s.
Video: My global warming interview with the Oakland Press
I did an interview over a week ago with reporter Carol Hopkins of the Oakland Press, one of the bigger papers here in the Southeastern Michigan area outside of the Detroit Free press and Detroit News. The idea of the interview apparently got going after the severe snow that we have gotten here in Michigan,