American Thinker, by Harold Witkov Posted By: JoniTx- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:43:11 GMT On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide and met his Maker. If his dream of world conquest and subsequent "Thousand'Year Reich" had been achieved, there would be no Jews and no Israel today. Our world would be without Slavs, gypsies, Communists, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, homosexuals, and "dissenters" of every kind. Everyone would be driving a Volkswagen, and the government would be running everything, including health care.Adolf Hitler demonstrated that one does not need atomic or nuclear weapons to be responsible for the murder of more than fifty million people.

Big Hollywood, by John Nolte Posted By: DW626- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:18:04 GMT Stu VanAirsdale of the left'wing filmsite Movieline interviewed “Fair Game” director Doug Liman. Check out this biting, insightful follow'up question to the director’s absurd claim that his film isn’t committed to politics: MOVIELINE: It’s kind of a weird climate for this film. There was Nothing But the Truth, which was kind of mishandled. Then there was Green Zone, which audiences were very cool toward. Where will Fair Game fall in this political intrigue/spy thriller spectrum? LIMAN: I think it’s in the spectrum of “It’s a really great movie.”

Associated Press, by Staff Posted By: JoniTx- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:46:57 GMT MORGAN CITY, La.' Officials say an oil drilling rig on its way to a scrap yard has overturned in Louisiana.No injuries have been reported. The overturned rig is unrelated to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that threatens the coast's fragile ecosystem.(Snip)It can carry about 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel, but Coast Guard officials did not know how much fuel was on board. Coast Guard investigators say no fuel leaks have been found.About 500 feet of boom has been set up around the rig to contain any fuel that might leak as a precaution.

CNN/Money, by Ben Rooney Posted By: Photoonist- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:40:01 GMT New York ' The unemployment rate in Spain reached 20% in the first quarter, the Spanish government announced Friday, with 4.6 million people out of work in the country. The rate is up from 19% in the previous quarter, and represents the second'highest unemployment rate in the 27'member European Union, after Latvia, (Snip) The bleak outlook for Spain, which has debt obligations three times that of Greece, has raised the specter of a broader debt crisis. As European leaders debate a rescue plan for Greece, investors have become increasingly nervous about the fate of other struggling EU members such as

Fortune, by Dody Tsiantar Posted By: Photoonist- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:37:13 GMT As Greece barreled closer to the edge of a debt default this week, fears that the crisis would infect other countries rattled the world's financial markets. "It's not a question of the danger of contagion," Angel Gurria, the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation, said. ''Contagion has already happened. This is like Ebola.'' If Gurria is right, who's next? Many analysts and economists point to Portugal (Snip) Markets responded by sending the yields on Portugal's 2'year bonds to over 5%. The spread between German and Portuguese bonds also hit new highs,

CNN/Money, by Chris Isidore Posted By: Photoonist- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:32:25 GMT New York ' One year ago, the U.S. auto industry faced the worst crisis in its history. Chrysler Group filed for bankruptcy on April 30, the same week that GM announced a plan that put it on the path toward its own bankruptcy a month later. Ford Motor had just reported huge losses. (Snip) The first challenge will be for GM and Chrysler to join Ford and begin reporting profits. Many expect GM to be profitable later this year, but it will be months before it can start selling stock to the public again, a necessary step to repaying most

Associated Press, by Staff Posted By: JoniTx- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:22:48 GMT RAMSAY, Mont.' A nearly 3,000 pound Hereford steer that kept the herd in line on a southwestern Montana cattle ranch for nearly a decade has been sold for $1,670 at auction. Owner and breeder Bill McIntosh of Avon watched the bidding Tuesday at the Montana Livestock Auction in Ramsay, saying he hates to see him go, but he's got to be practical. "The cattle market is about as high as we're apt to see it, I think, and finally I can get a little bit of the feed bill back," McIntosh said, noting that Cletus ate about

Reuters, by Staff Posted By: JoniTx- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:17:28 GMT The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it was responding to another oil drilling rig accident near Morgan City, Louisiana.The "mobile inland drilling unit" overturned in the Charenton navigational channel south of U.S. Highway 90

Associated Press, by Staff Posted By: earlybird- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:10:39 GMT SAN FRANCISCO—The U.S. Geological Service says a computer at its Berkeley station mistakenly concluded that the Napa area was hit by a magnitude'5.0 earthquake. Richard Buckmaster, a geophysicist at the USGS's National Earthquake Reporting Center, says officials are trying to determine why the computer generated the "dubious or erroneous" alert Friday afternoon. He says the center's equipment saw no evidence that Napa had experienced even a much smaller quake.

Chicago Tribune, by Antonio Olivo Posted By: JoniTx- Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:10:13 GMT In what has become a May Day tradition the past four years, thousands of demonstrators are expected to march for federal immigration reforms Saturday through downtown Chicago '' energized this time by anger over a new Arizona law that directs local police to check suspected illegal immigrants for proof of legal residency.The demonstration is set to begin with a 1 p.m. rally at Union Park. At 3 p.m., demonstrators will travel east on Washington Boulevard toward the Daley Center, with activities ending at about 5 p.m., the Chicago Police Department said.