Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 08:00 AM
The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.
Mitt Romney bagged his second Republican nominating contest of the 2012 election season on Tuesday night, riding to victory in New Hampshire, networks projected. In New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary, with 59 percent of the vote in Mitt Romney led with 38 percent, followed by Ron Paul at 24 percent, Jon Huntsman at 17 percent, Rick Santorum at 9.9 percent, Newt Gingrich at 9.8 percent, and Rick Perry at 0.7 percent.
Posted by rcade at 09:57 PM on January 10, 2012 | 448 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 06, 2012 | 326 COMMENTS
Johnston: Time to Junk Income Taxes?
David Cay Johnston: This is America's 100th year for individual income tax, a system as out of touch with our era as digital music is with the hand-cranked Victrola music players of 1912. It is also the 26th year of the Reagan-era reform for both personal and corporate tax, a grand design now buried under special-interest favors. ... [I]t's time for a debate that goes beyond ginning up anger over taxes and the superficial issue of tax rates. It's time to consider whether to get rid of income taxes, personal and corporate.
Posted by glasshouse at 01:11 PM on January 08, 2012 | 269 COMMENTS
Repubs Debate in New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Republican debate Saturday night saw heated exchanges between Ron Paul and his rivals but relatively little criticism leveled against front runner Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum, who finished second in Iowa, was one of the few candidates to go aggressively after the former Massachusetts governor. "Business experience doesn't necessarily match up with being the commander-in-chief of this country," Santorum said. "The commander-in-chief of this country isn't a CEO."
Posted by MURPHY at 09:45 AM on January 08, 2012 | 231 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 11, 2012 | 218 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 12, 2012 | 188 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 09, 2012 | 187 COMMENTS
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Santorum: Gay Marriage Like Polygamy
Addressing a college student convention in Concord, N.H., Thursday, Rick Santorum was booed after comparing same-sex marriage -- which is legal in the state -- to polygamy. Santorum said, "So if you're not happy unless you're married to five other people, is that OK? Reason says that if you think it's okay for two, then you have to differentiate for me why it's not okay for three."
Posted by adammm at 05:32 PM on January 06, 2012 | 144 COMMENTS
A research paper that argued "there is as yet no proof that HIV causes AIDS," withdrawn when published in 2009 in a questionable academic journal, has been republished in the peer-reviewed literature. The reworked version of the paper, led by Peter Duesberg of the University of California-Berkeley, was published in the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology (IJAE) last month. Duesberg called the publication a "new victory in our long quest for a scientific theory of AIDS."
Posted by BruceBanner at 09:25 AM on January 10, 2012 | 140 COMMENTS
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