Friday September 3rd 2010

Daily Left 2-4-10

The pull to the right by the right is beginning with John McCain. McCain is being attacked on “soft” stances on immigration and spending. If McCain looses the primary, what does that say for the GOP? That the difference between the GOP and Conservative movement is widening, or the the Conservatives are just as disinterested in “populist rage” and centrism as the far left?

The Baptist church suspected of child kidnapping are charged today, with a closed door trial to begin soon. It’s now believed that only one of the ten charged had any idea of the actual intent, the remaining nine were actual charity workers there on good faith.

It happens on our side too; An AP writer has debunked the Huffington Post’s staffer, Luis Carlos Montalván, looking into his claims of PTSD and how he earned his decorations, and finding a very different story.

Big Brother phobia? If you’re reading this from your BlackBerry, I’d sit down for this. Google and the NSA are teaming together to figure out how they were hacked in China. Google is saying that any shared information with the NSA will not violate the site’s conditions or privacy agreements, but for some reason I can still see a lot of people being nervous about this.

State Farm to pull coverage from 125 thousand homes, just in time for hurricane season.

This is just weird. Remember recently when the Swiss voted to Ban Minarets? Well, now they’ve offered to take two of the most difficult to place Gitmo detainees. The two Chinese Uighur brothers will shortly be on their way to a new home, where they are expected to look for new jobs and homes as soon as possible.

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