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Rubio Raises $860K in 10 Days

Rubio Raises $860k In 10 Days

Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio (R) raised more than $860,000 in a 10-day "money bomb," his campaign announced today. The total is nearly half what he raised in the last three months of 2009, when he took in $1.75 million.

“I'm encouraged by the support we've received this month from people who believe a return to limited government is what will keep America free and prosperous,” said Rubio. “We are pleased with our progress, but also realize we have a long way to go to compete with one of the most prolific fundraisers in political history."

The fundraising push was set up by South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, Rubio's first congressional supporter, through his Senate Conservatives Fund. The total helps Rubio cut into the $5.5 million lead in cash-on-hand his GOP primary opponent, Gov. Charlie Crist, held at the beginning of the year.

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/02/11/rubio-raises-more-than-80k-in-10-days/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Freal_clear_politics+%28TIME%3A+Real+Clear+Politics%29

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Phil Jones, Scientist at the Center of Climategate, Admits there has been No Global Warming Since 1995 and that His Data Might be Wrong

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

By Jonathan Petre
Last updated at 11:02 AM on 14th February 2010

  • Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
  • There has been no global warming since 1995
  • Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. 

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html

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You Know I Really Thought One Could Reason with Terrorists

Iran promises to speed up uranium enrichment as White House protests

By Bridget Johnson - 02/13/10 01:18 PM ET

Iran's parliament speaker said that attempts by the Obama administration to quell its nuclear program will only encourage the Islamic Republic to speed up its uranium enrichment even more.

"Even if U.S. President Barack Obama dares to repeat threats of tougher sanction against us as much as 10 times, we will still be determined to pursue our enrichment program, but with a much faster pace," Ali Larijani said Thursday, according to remarks carried by the semi-official Fars News Agency.

"Whenever we make a significant breakthrough, whether it is launching a satellite into space or any other technological or scientific achievement, they quickly demonize it and claim that it is aimed at military or spying purposes," Larijani said of Western fears that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. "They can not bear to see our progress, which is why they want to keep us as an underdeveloped country."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/81001-iran-promises-to-step-up-uranium-enrichment-with-every-white-house-protest

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Behind Closed Doors is a Favorite of this Administration

President Obama Signs Law Raising Public Debt Limit from $12.4 Trillion to $14.3 Trillion

February 12, 2010 3:21 PM

Behind closed doors and with no cameras present, President Obama signed into law Friday afternoon the bill raising the public debt limit from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion.

The current national debt is $12.3 trillion. Check out the National Debt Clock, which tells you your share of that -- roughly $40,000 per citizen, $113,000 per taxpayer.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/02/president-obama-signs-law-raising-public-debt-limit-from-124-trillion-to-143-trillion.html
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Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt Asked for the Alabama Shooter to be Released in 1986

U. Of Alabama Shooting Suspect Also Shot Brother In Mass.

Amy Bishop Accused Of Killing 3, Wounding 3 Others

POSTED: 3:28 pm EST February 13, 2010
UPDATED: 9:31 pm EST February 13, 2010

Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier said Amy Bishop was detained following the death of her brother on Dec. 6, 1986, then released without being charged because the death was ruled an accidental shooting.


Frazier said Amy Bishop shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth Bishop, in the chest with a 12-gauge shotgun at the family’s home in Braintree, then ran into the street and aimed the gun at a passing vehicle before fleeing from the scene. Amy Bishop, who was 20 at the time, was arrested at gunpoint by Braintree officers.

Bishop was never booked, however, and all local police records of the case have gone missing, with the exception of an entry in the police log noting an accidental shooting, Frazier said.

"The report's gone, removed from the files," he said. "Somebody has it. We don't."The police chief said Saturday that he planned to meet with the local district attorney over the possibility of launching a criminal investigation into how the Bishop case was handled.

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Polio told NewsCenter 5 he has no memory of telling officers to go home. He said there was an inquest by Delahunt’s office and that the district attorney found that the shooting did not warrant charges. Polio said he doesn’t know how the records would have gone missing.

"Whatever we had we gave to the DA. An inquiry was conducted and no complaint was issued. So as far as I was concerned, that was the end of it," Polio said in the phone interview. "As far I'm concerned, everything that was done that should have been was done correctly. All reports went to the DA, they called it. When people start making innuendos of a cover up or this or that, it upsets me.”

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/22557530/detail.html

Bishop's mother back in 1986 served on the town Board of Personnel:

http://www.necn.com/02/13/10/Ex-chief-denies-cover-up-in-Bishops-1986/landing_newengland.html?blockID=180076&feedID=4206?
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Tymoshenko Says Ukraine Vote was Rigged

Tymoshenko calls Ukraine vote rigged
By SIMON SHUSTER and YURAS KARMANAU

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko _ apparently defeated by a narrow margin in last week's presidential vote _ ended six days of silence Saturday by saying the election had been rigged and she would challenge the result in court.

Her statement seemed to confirm analyst expectations that she is digging in for a political standoff with her rival, Viktor Yanukovych, that could delay the transfer of power.

Preliminary results from the Feb. 7 ballot gave opposition leader Yanukovych a lead of just 3.5 percentage points. International observers called the election free and fair, but no winner has been officially declared, and Tymoshenko has refused to concede defeat.

She said Saturday she had evidence of fraud and would fight the result, for which the final count is to be announced on Wednesday.

http://townhall.com/news/world/2010/02/13/tymoshenko_calls_ukraine_vote_rigged?page=full&comments=true


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