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Politics:

School Chief Sticks By 'Zero Tolerance' Ruling for Eagle Scout

Call him Mr. Zero Tolerance. The upstate New York school superintendent who suspended an Eagle Scout for 20 days for keeping a 2-inch utility knife locked in his car is unwilling to speak to the teen's family or bend in his ruling.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,567700,00.html

Politics:

Judge Halts Flu Vaccine Mandate For Health Workers

New York Health Care Employees Won't Be Forced To Get H1N1 Vaccine...For Now

Source: http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/mandatory.h1n1.vaccine....

Politics:

Bill O'Reilly Goes After Rush's "Racial Witch Hunters"

In light of Rush Limbaugh being taken down by apparent unsubstantiated comments in his bid to own part of the St. Louis Rams football team, Bill O'Reilly uses his "talking points memo" to excoriate "racial witch hunters" who were successful in bringing Rush down, including a man named Jack Huberman, as well as the website Flush Rush.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYdbSo71Fg

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California appears poised to be first to ban power-guzzling big-screen TVs

Industry lobbying efforts appear to elicit little sympathy from the state Energy Commission, which may vote as soon as Nov. 4.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bigtvs14-2009oct14,0,4...

International:

Mexico Knocks A Union's Lights Out

The Mexican president shut down a money-losing state-owned electrical utility, taking a labor union down with it. The union is howling, but the shutdown is one of the best things to happen to Mexico.

Source: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=509...

Economics:

Christian Socialism and Violence

Socialism means the denial of private property to a great or even total degree. It means the use of State power—violence inherent in the power of the sword and gun—to redistribute property according to the dictates of some officer or committee of officers. Violence is therefore inherent in socialism. Why some Christians see this as a means of fulfilling God’s will defies reason (and revelation).

Source: http://www.americanvision.org/article/christian-socialism-an...

Politics:

UNH student forced to remove American flag from dorm

A University of New Hampshire student is very upset with his school. The college is forcing the student to take down an American flag he hung from his dorm room.

Source: http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/10/15/UNH-studen...

Politics:

Rush Tells All About the Rams Deal

There's a lot of things I've not been able to say because we were bound by a confidentiality agreement that all of the bidding groups have with Goldman Sachs, which is the broker handling the potential sale, but now that I'm no longer part of the group there's some things that I can tell you that are fascinating that you probably don't know.

Source: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101509/content/0...

Politics:

Leveling Limbaugh - The NFL punts to left-wing political intimidation.

The National Football League, in which each Sunday men weighing 365 pounds slam headlong into men weighing 245 pounds, has decided it can't handle Rush Limbaugh, talk-show host, age 58. C'mon guys, show some guts.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870432200457447...