This just in. President Obama has created a commission to study election reform. “The Left is upset that the percentage of illegal aliens and other fraudulent voters who vote Democrat is stuck at 98 percent,” says Jodi Miller. In this week’s NewsBusted, she also revisits Hurricane Sandy’s devastation of Staten Island and the case of an unfortunate man stuck on the Disney “It’s a Small World” ride.
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While you can’t look directly into the sun without damaging your eyes, the Solar Dynamics Observatory posts a dazzling array of solar images on its website. Alex Dainis of Bite Sci-zed offers an overview of what you’ll find if you visit http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal has long been credited with rescuing the nation from the Great Depression of the 1930s. Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at UCLA, challenges this conventional wisdom in a provocative examination of FDR’s economic policies. H/T PragerU
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Somali pirates have kidnapped hundreds of people and cost millions in ransom payments. Jamal Osman of Channel 4 in Great Britain finds that journalists keen to interview them do not always get what they bargained for.
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The treadmill of life keeps on rolling in Adam Wells’ bittersweet The Circle Line, a “micro-animation” he created especially for the Internet. Wells is based in Great Britain. To keep abreast of his latest projects, visit his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/animationsadamwells
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Getting pumped for Iron Man 3? Need a refresher course on your Mark I, Mark II and Mark VII armors? Here’s a quick — and in no way comprehensive — look at Iron Man’s evolving style over the years. H/T Wall Street Journal
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One million refugees have fled Syria’s bloody conflict. But what awaits them across the border? This shocking report reveals the violence and sexual abuse endured by the women running from the bloodshed.
“He’d want to touch you, grab you, kiss you before he’d give you the box,” Hoda says, describing how those distributing Red Cross refugee aid in Lebanon seek sexual favors from her in return. The men are influential, so she feels that if she complains or reports the abuse she’ll be denied further aid. In fact women without male protection are so vulnerable that many jump into quick marriages out of fear.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This video has disappeared from YouTube. In its place, we offer a look at a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon where the refugees had their tents burned down.)
“All [economic] recoveries are associated with recoveries in housing…except for the Great Recession, this last one,” says behavioral economist and Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith.
Smith and colleague Steve Gjerstad spoke at Reason Weekend, the annual donor event held by Reason Foundation (the nonprofit that publishes Reason.com). They argue that the recession is far from over and that the lingering effects of the collapsed housing market will be felt for years to come.
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Australia’s Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it’s for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone’s initiative to raise awareness for men’s health — by having men grow out their moustaches every November — began as a dare in a bar in 2003. Now, it’s a worldwide movement that raised $126 million for prostate cancer research last year.
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The United Nations is moving to stop international gun sales, providing a backdoor avenue for fence-straddling US senators to profess they are against gun controls all while legal sanctions against guns become stronger. Dick Morris explains the shell game.
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