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...Also left to the side in the government's calculus is the fact that people who have homes now may not pay their mortgages on time, and, in some cases, will not pay them at all. Those numbers are rising and not falling, which undermines the premise that the federal government can control anything that it wants to control...
...Perhaps the biggest hurdle in getting subscribers to pay for content online is the fact that most content will be available for free somewhere else. The New York Times (NYT) has good international news - but a great deal of similar content is available at CNN.com and MSNBC.com. Those sites also have real-time video of breaking-news events. The sports section of the Times may be good at covering local teams, but most national sports news is available at sites like CBS SportsLine and Yahoo! (YHOO) Sports. (See pictures of baseball's top 10 worst first pitches...
What do you think of the fact that it's happening now? Well, most of it is from the courts, and the courts are doing what they shouldn't be doing. That's why I call them supremacists. That's the title of my latest book, which is to show how the courts have been stepping out of bounds and pretending we have a living Constitution, which they can interpret according to their own social views rather than the way it was written. (See more about feminism...
...viral video is raising an outcry in Pakistan - and highlighting the fact that in some parts of western Pakistan, the government is no longer in charge and the Taliban is. Filmed in the Swat Valley, where the government recently signed a controversial peace deal with the Taliban, the video apparently shows a 17-year-old girl pinned down by as many as three men - among them her brother - while a fourth flogs her repeatedly, chastising her for having an alleged affair. She lets out a shriek with every lash, pleading for mercy. Dozens of men look on, but nobody speaks...
...engaged was Fujimori in the details of operating the government he had taken over in 1990, in fact, that a special Peruvian tribunal has now concluded that it's hard to believe he didn't also give the nod to a military death squad that massacred civilians during his rule. As a result, Fujimori was convicted on Tuesday of being the "indirect perpetrator" of at least 25 murders and two kidnappings in the early 1990s, at the start of his ultimately successful campaign to stamp out Tupac Amaru and the even more bloodthirsty Maoist rebels known as Sendero Luminoso...