Breakfast Scramble: CBS News Meet Herman Cain

Girly-Men, in India, female children are being genitally mutilated from Daily Mail(UK):

Girls as young as one are being forced into sex change operations in India by parents desperate for a son.

Surgeons in the city of Indore

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• BROWN/COAKLEY: The polls won’t close until 8:00 eastern time tonight, and my guess is we will see several days of

6 degrees outside here at Casa de Bit the moment.

Four dead in Chicago because of the recent cold.

North Carolina is seeing a record cold snap.

The British are also seeing record breaking cold.

India says hundreds have died

Rssty and the Jawa Report crew are calling the Fort Hood murders a terror attack.

Neither Clarice Feldman, nor Linda Chavez are impressed by the moron in  chief lame remarks pertaining the Fort Hood murde s, from American Thinker

Indira Gandhi was gunned down by her bodyguards on this day 25 years ago. Ramachandra Guha looks at the legacy of India’s most controversial and best-known politician….
Great patriot, but deeply flawed democrat – that is how history should remember

As a business owner, tax payer and elected official, I freely admit that I am VERY skeptical when the government warns me about anything. Government typically causes more problems than they solve, and it’s in their own best interests (power,

Nobody does it better.

Hat tip photo:  Telegraph(UK)

The Gunny, b/k/a R. Lee Ermey, is doing a show on edged weapons tonight.   Somehow I think the Gunny will miss ths one,  from an clearly impressed Boingboing:

A quick-thinking

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• Suicide by Billing Rates: Let’s call this what it is; the Associated Press is busily committing

Time to let your voice be heard… loudly and repeatedly.
Here’s where.

James Lewis, American Thinker[sic], is completely blind to the lessons of tragedies like Blacksbug and Mumbai:

It now appears that 10 commando-trained terrorists with Pakistani jihadist training were able to kill at least 172 people and wound almost

Mark Whitaker, NBC Newss Washington Bureau Chief, via Noel Sheppard, News Busters:

I think it goes beyond the Middle East, and I think it’s a bigger phenomenon which is the leader of the biggest democracy in the world is

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• Barack Hussein Obama and George

Tiger Hawk answers a question I quoted VDH as asking earlier today, when he said:

And why are Republicans, who voted in overwhelming numbers for off-shore drilling, ANWR, nuclear, shale, tar sands, liquid coal, etc—and were opposed by Democrats on

It is not the investor owned oil companies driving up the price of oil.  Doctor Sowell, Townhall, explains the price of oil in terms simple enough for even BO and  Mrs. Clinton to be able to understand:

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