http://watchingthewatchers.org/ Compelling News and Commentary en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2707/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="152837"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152837/repubs-punchy-florida-debate">Repubs Punchy in Florida Debate</a><p>Immigration and Hispanic issues were covered in Jacksonville Thursday night as the Republican presidential candidates debated for the last time before Tuesday's primary. The race is tied between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, according to a newly released CNN/Time/ORC International Poll. Romney has the support of 36 percent, Gingrich 34 percent, Rick Santorum 11 percent and Ron Paul 7 percent. The two-percent gap between the leaders is within the poll's margin of error.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 08:25 AM on January 27, 2012 | 387 COMMENTS</p><a name="153050"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153050/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on February 01, 2012 | 291 COMMENTS</p><a name="153026"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153026/romney-wins-big-florida">Romney Wins Big in Florida</a><p>Mitt Romney became the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination with a win Tuesday in Florida's Republican primary. Romney had 46 percent of the vote, followed by Newt Gingrich with 32, Rick Santorum 13 and Ron Paul 7. "A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us. And we will win," Romney said, adding later: "I stand ready to lead this party and to lead our nation."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 08:01 PM on January 31, 2012 | 255 COMMENTS</p><a name="152972"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152972/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 30, 2012 | 252 COMMENTS</p><a name="153095"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153095/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on February 02, 2012 | 240 COMMENTS</p><a name="153011"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153011/retort-tuesday-nooner">Retort: The Tuesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 31, 2012 | 233 COMMENTS</p><a name="153052"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153052/romney-not-concerned-poor">Romney 'Not Concerned' About Poor</a><p>Fresh off a big victory in Florida, Mitt Romney said in a CNN interview Wednesday morning that he's not concerned about extremely poor Americans. "I'm in this race because I care about Americans," Romney said. "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich. They're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling and I'll continue to take that message across the nation."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/monstman" rel="nofollow">monstman</a> at 01:11 PM on February 01, 2012 | 214 COMMENTS</p><a name="152878"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152878/atheist-wants-build-temples">Atheist Wants to Build Temples</a><p>The author Alain de Botton has announced a plan to build a series of temples for atheists in the United Kingdom. In his new book <a href="http://www.drudge.com/out/az/MDMwNzM3OTEwOA==">Religion for Atheists</a>, he argues that atheists should copy major religions by erecting a network of new architectural masterpieces in the form of temples. "You can build a temple to anything that's positive and good," he said.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/diablo" rel="nofollow">diablo</a> at 08:30 AM on January 28, 2012 | 172 COMMENTS</p><a name="152963"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152963/partisan-gap-widens-under-obama">Partisan Gap Widens Under Obama</a><p>In 2001, President Barack Obama had an average 80 percent approval among Democrats and a 12 percent approval among Republicans. The 68 percent gap is the highest for any president's third year in office ever -- topping George W. Bush's 59 percent gap. The <i>Washington Post</i> reports, "While it's easy to look at the numbers cited above and conclude that Obama has failed at his mission of bringing the country together, a deeper dig into the numbers in the Gallup poll suggests that the idea of erasing the partisan gap is simply impossible."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/boaz" rel="nofollow">boaz</a> at 08:55 AM on January 31, 2012 | 144 COMMENTS</p><a name="152882"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152882/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 27, 2012 | 133 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18366 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:16 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2707/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2707 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2707 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2708/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="152837"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152837/repubs-punchy-florida-debate">Repubs Punchy in Florida Debate</a><p>Immigration and Hispanic issues were covered in Jacksonville Thursday night as the Republican presidential candidates debated for the last time before Tuesday's primary. The race is tied between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, according to a newly released CNN/Time/ORC International Poll. Romney has the support of 36 percent, Gingrich 34 percent, Rick Santorum 11 percent and Ron Paul 7 percent. The two-percent gap between the leaders is within the poll's margin of error.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 08:25 AM on January 27, 2012 | 387 COMMENTS</p><a name="153050"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153050/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on February 01, 2012 | 291 COMMENTS</p><a name="153026"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153026/romney-wins-big-florida">Romney Wins Big in Florida</a><p>Mitt Romney became the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination with a win Tuesday in Florida's Republican primary. Romney had 46 percent of the vote, followed by Newt Gingrich with 32, Rick Santorum 13 and Ron Paul 7. "A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us. And we will win," Romney said, adding later: "I stand ready to lead this party and to lead our nation."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 08:01 PM on January 31, 2012 | 255 COMMENTS</p><a name="152972"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152972/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 30, 2012 | 252 COMMENTS</p><a name="153095"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153095/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on February 02, 2012 | 240 COMMENTS</p><a name="153011"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153011/retort-tuesday-nooner">Retort: The Tuesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 31, 2012 | 233 COMMENTS</p><a name="153052"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/153052/romney-not-concerned-poor">Romney 'Not Concerned' About Poor</a><p>Fresh off a big victory in Florida, Mitt Romney said in a CNN interview Wednesday morning that he's not concerned about extremely poor Americans. "I'm in this race because I care about Americans," Romney said. "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich. They're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling and I'll continue to take that message across the nation."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/monstman" rel="nofollow">monstman</a> at 01:11 PM on February 01, 2012 | 214 COMMENTS</p><a name="152878"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152878/atheist-wants-build-temples">Atheist Wants to Build Temples</a><p>The author Alain de Botton has announced a plan to build a series of temples for atheists in the United Kingdom. In his new book <a href="http://www.drudge.com/out/az/MDMwNzM3OTEwOA==">Religion for Atheists</a>, he argues that atheists should copy major religions by erecting a network of new architectural masterpieces in the form of temples. "You can build a temple to anything that's positive and good," he said.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/diablo" rel="nofollow">diablo</a> at 08:30 AM on January 28, 2012 | 172 COMMENTS</p><a name="152963"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152963/partisan-gap-widens-under-obama">Partisan Gap Widens Under Obama</a><p>In 2001, President Barack Obama had an average 80 percent approval among Democrats and a 12 percent approval among Republicans. The 68 percent gap is the highest for any president's third year in office ever -- topping George W. Bush's 59 percent gap. The <i>Washington Post</i> reports, "While it's easy to look at the numbers cited above and conclude that Obama has failed at his mission of bringing the country together, a deeper dig into the numbers in the Gallup poll suggests that the idea of erasing the partisan gap is simply impossible."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/boaz" rel="nofollow">boaz</a> at 08:55 AM on January 31, 2012 | 144 COMMENTS</p><a name="152882"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152882/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 27, 2012 | 133 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18366 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:16 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2708/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2708 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2708 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2705/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="152775"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152775/obamas-sotu-challenges-congress">Obama's SOTU Challenges Congress</a><p>In his third State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called keeping alive the American dream "the defining issue of our time" and pledged to fight obstruction by congressional Republicans. "We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by," he said. "Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:23 AM on January 25, 2012 | 429 COMMENTS</p><a name="152837"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152837/live-final-florida-debate">Live: Final Florida Debate</a><p>The Drudge Retort is at the media center for tonight's final presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fl., which begins at 8 p.m. Eastern and is broadcast on CNN. The race is tied between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, according to a newly released CNN/Time/ORC International Poll. Romney has the support of 36 percent, Gingrich 34 percent, Rick Santorum 11 percent and Ron Paul 7 percent. The two-percent gap between the leaders is within the poll's margin of error.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 07:45 PM on January 26, 2012 | 370 COMMENTS</p><a name="152734"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152734/romney-attack-tampa-debate">Romney on Attack in Tampa Debate</a><p>Mitt Romney has enhanced his image as a front-runner by staying above the fray during a run of Republican debates, but at Monday night's debate in Tampa, he sharply abandoned that approach to unleash a withering attack on the rival who threatens his claim to the nomination. Saying that Newt Gingrich "resign in disgrace" as House Speaker in the '90s, Romney called him an influence peddler in a withering criticism of his record in and out of office.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 08:39 AM on January 24, 2012 | 286 COMMENTS</p><a name="152631"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152631/student-punished-over-confederate-flag">Student Punished Over Confederate Flag</a><p>A Missouri school district took away a high school student's parking privileged for 30 days because he wouldn't remove a Confederate flag from his pickup truck. "I've always been into the Civil War and southern history and I recently lived in Mississippi for a year," said Republic High School student Riley Collier, 16, who claimed his action "has nothing to do with racism."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 04:16 PM on January 20, 2012 | 246 COMMENTS</p><a name="152669"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152669/newt-wins-south-carolina">Newt Wins South Carolina</a><p>House Speaker Newt Gingrich is projected by MSNBC as the winner in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/Doc_Sarvis" rel="nofollow">Doc_Sarvis</a> at 07:42 PM on January 21, 2012 | 237 COMMENTS</p><a name="152774"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152774/gallup-17-americans-uninsured">Gallup: 17% of Americans Uninsured</a><p>More American adults lacked health insurance in 2011 than in any year since Gallup began tracking it three years ago. The uninsured rate has been increasing since 2008, climbing to 17.1 percent in 2011. The one group that has become more insured is young adults 18 to 25, thanks to an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision allowing them to stay on their parents' insurance plans. In 2014, the ACA mandates that all adults obtain insurance.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/paneocon" rel="nofollow">paneocon</a> at 04:33 PM on January 25, 2012 | 203 COMMENTS</p><a name="152755"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152755/santorum-pregnancy-rape-gift">Santorum: Pregnancy from Rape a 'Gift'</a><p>In an interview on CNN where he defended his opposition to abortion even in cases of incest and rape, Rick Santorum said sexual assault victims should "accept this horribly created" pregnancy because it is "nevertheless a gift in a very broken way." Victims should "make the best out of a bad situation," he said.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/dr_icepick" rel="nofollow">dr_icepick</a> at 12:35 PM on January 24, 2012 | 191 COMMENTS</p><a name="152751"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152751/tea-party-remove-slavery-textbooks">Tea Party: Remove Slavery from Textbooks</a><p>Some Tennessee Tea Party members are demanding the state remove from American history textbooks any reference to America's founders owning slaves. Tea Party activist Hal Rounds said there's "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/danni" rel="nofollow">danni</a> at 02:31 PM on January 24, 2012 | 186 COMMENTS</p><a name="152721"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152721/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 23, 2012 | 180 COMMENTS</p><a name="152719"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152719/rand-paul-detained-tsa">Rand Paul Detained by TSA</a><p>Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was detained Monday morning by the Transportation Security Administration at a Nashville airport after refusing a pat-down when the full-body scanner set off an alarm -- which his aides said was "clearly a glitch." "I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely," his communications director Moira Bagley told Politico.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 11:41 AM on January 23, 2012 | 172 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18318 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:01 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2705/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2705 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2705 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2706/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="152775"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152775/obamas-sotu-challenges-congress">Obama's SOTU Challenges Congress</a><p>In his third State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called keeping alive the American dream "the defining issue of our time" and pledged to fight obstruction by congressional Republicans. "We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by," he said. "Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:23 AM on January 25, 2012 | 429 COMMENTS</p><a name="152837"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152837/live-final-florida-debate">Live: Final Florida Debate</a><p>The Drudge Retort is at the media center for tonight's final presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fl., which begins at 8 p.m. Eastern and is broadcast on CNN. The race is tied between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, according to a newly released CNN/Time/ORC International Poll. Romney has the support of 36 percent, Gingrich 34 percent, Rick Santorum 11 percent and Ron Paul 7 percent. The two-percent gap between the leaders is within the poll's margin of error.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 07:45 PM on January 26, 2012 | 370 COMMENTS</p><a name="152734"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152734/romney-attack-tampa-debate">Romney on Attack in Tampa Debate</a><p>Mitt Romney has enhanced his image as a front-runner by staying above the fray during a run of Republican debates, but at Monday night's debate in Tampa, he sharply abandoned that approach to unleash a withering attack on the rival who threatens his claim to the nomination. Saying that Newt Gingrich "resign in disgrace" as House Speaker in the '90s, Romney called him an influence peddler in a withering criticism of his record in and out of office.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 08:39 AM on January 24, 2012 | 286 COMMENTS</p><a name="152631"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152631/student-punished-over-confederate-flag">Student Punished Over Confederate Flag</a><p>A Missouri school district took away a high school student's parking privileged for 30 days because he wouldn't remove a Confederate flag from his pickup truck. "I've always been into the Civil War and southern history and I recently lived in Mississippi for a year," said Republic High School student Riley Collier, 16, who claimed his action "has nothing to do with racism."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 04:16 PM on January 20, 2012 | 246 COMMENTS</p><a name="152669"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152669/newt-wins-south-carolina">Newt Wins South Carolina</a><p>House Speaker Newt Gingrich is projected by MSNBC as the winner in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/Doc_Sarvis" rel="nofollow">Doc_Sarvis</a> at 07:42 PM on January 21, 2012 | 237 COMMENTS</p><a name="152774"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152774/gallup-17-americans-uninsured">Gallup: 17% of Americans Uninsured</a><p>More American adults lacked health insurance in 2011 than in any year since Gallup began tracking it three years ago. The uninsured rate has been increasing since 2008, climbing to 17.1 percent in 2011. The one group that has become more insured is young adults 18 to 25, thanks to an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision allowing them to stay on their parents' insurance plans. In 2014, the ACA mandates that all adults obtain insurance.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/paneocon" rel="nofollow">paneocon</a> at 04:33 PM on January 25, 2012 | 203 COMMENTS</p><a name="152755"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152755/santorum-pregnancy-rape-gift">Santorum: Pregnancy from Rape a 'Gift'</a><p>In an interview on CNN where he defended his opposition to abortion even in cases of incest and rape, Rick Santorum said sexual assault victims should "accept this horribly created" pregnancy because it is "nevertheless a gift in a very broken way." Victims should "make the best out of a bad situation," he said.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/dr_icepick" rel="nofollow">dr_icepick</a> at 12:35 PM on January 24, 2012 | 191 COMMENTS</p><a name="152751"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152751/tea-party-remove-slavery-textbooks">Tea Party: Remove Slavery from Textbooks</a><p>Some Tennessee Tea Party members are demanding the state remove from American history textbooks any reference to America's founders owning slaves. Tea Party activist Hal Rounds said there's "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/danni" rel="nofollow">danni</a> at 02:31 PM on January 24, 2012 | 186 COMMENTS</p><a name="152721"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152721/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 23, 2012 | 180 COMMENTS</p><a name="152719"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152719/rand-paul-detained-tsa">Rand Paul Detained by TSA</a><p>Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was detained Monday morning by the Transportation Security Administration at a Nashville airport after refusing a pat-down when the full-body scanner set off an alarm -- which his aides said was "clearly a glitch." "I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely," his communications director Moira Bagley told Politico.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 11:41 AM on January 23, 2012 | 172 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18318 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:01 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2706/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2706 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2706 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2703/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="152522"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152522/thousands-sites-go-dark">Thousands of Sites Go Dark</a><p>Wikipedia, Reddit and thousands of other websites are staging a blackout today and restricting access to some of their content to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa), two laws before Congress that would greatly curtail Internet freedoms. "There are better ways to address piracy than to ask US companies to censor the internet," Google said in a <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/dont-censor-web.html">blog post</a>.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/salamandagator" rel="nofollow">salamandagator</a> at 09:52 AM on January 18, 2012 | 324 COMMENTS</p><a name="152600"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152600/final-4-debate-south-carolina">Final 4 Debate in South Carolina</a><p>Arguing that momentum was on his side after a delayed announcement of victory in Iowa, Rick Santorum sought to weaken rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich with a series of direct attacks in the last South Carolina debate ahead of the state's primary on Saturday, while Ron Paul at times was so overlooked by the CNN moderator that the crowd demanded he get time to speak.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/RexZeitgeist" rel="nofollow">RexZeitgeist</a> at 10:37 PM on January 19, 2012 | 281 COMMENTS</p><a name="152498"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152498/karen-santorum-dated-abortion-doctor">Karen Santorum Dated Abortion Doctor</a><p>Before she married Rick Santorum, Karen Santorum had a six-year relationship in her twenties with a doctor who started a Philadelphia abortion clinic, the Daily Beast reports. Though Santorum and his wife oppose abortion today even in cases of rape or incest, "Karen had no problems with what I did for a living," said Dr. Tom Allen, 92. "We never really discussed it." He had known her family since delivering her as a baby. They began seeing each other when she was a 22-year-old nursing student at Duquesne University.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MaryTylerWhore" rel="nofollow">MaryTylerWhore</a> at 10:12 AM on January 17, 2012 | 247 COMMENTS</p><a name="152566"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152566/ex-wife-newt-wanted-open-marriage">Ex-Wife: Newt Wanted Open Marriage</a><p>Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as president, his second ex-wife Marianne Gingrich told ABC News in an interview that will air Thursday night on <i>Nightline</i>. In her first TV interview since the couple's 1999 divorce, Marianne Gingrich said that when Newt admitted he was having a six-year affair with his Congressional aide (and current wife) Callista, he asked if he could continue the arrangement. "He wanted an open marriage and I refused," she said. "I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do.'"</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MURPHY" rel="nofollow">MURPHY</a> at 11:55 AM on January 19, 2012 | 241 COMMENTS</p><a name="152489"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152489/romney-no-1-target-sc-debate">Romney No. 1 Target at S.C. Debate</a><p>Five days before the South Carolina primary, the five remaining Republican hopefuls tried at Monday's presidential debate to woo voters, and four sought to shake Mitt Romney from his perch atop the field. Romney was challenged by several rivals over his record at Bain Capital. "Some of the businesses we invested in weren't successful and lost jobs," he said. "We invested in well over 100 different businesses."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MURPHY" rel="nofollow">MURPHY</a> at 08:54 AM on January 17, 2012 | 212 COMMENTS</p><a name="152499"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152499/south-carolina-boos-golden-rule">South Carolina Boos Golden Rule</a><p>The crowd at the GOP debate in South Carolina Monday booed Ron Paul heartily when he made the following comment during a discussion of foreign policy: "If another country does to us what we do to others, we aren't going to like it very much. So I would say maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in foreign policy."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/adammm" rel="nofollow">adammm</a> at 08:32 PM on January 17, 2012 | 169 COMMENTS</p><a name="152429"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152429/olds-defriending-my-rapist">Olds: Defriending My Rapist</a><p>Dorri Olds: I guided the mouse toward his photo, and the little pointed hand hovered over his face. Fear and anger swelled up but curiosity won out and I clicked "Add Friend." He accepted within minutes. Stunned, I wondered if he had forgotten raping me, or if he thought I had. ... I clicked back to my rapist's wall for a link to his wife's profile and sent her a friend request. I decided that my revenge would be to blow up his marriage.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 04:47 PM on January 14, 2012 | 151 COMMENTS</p><a name="152423"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152423/retort-saturday-nooner">Retort: The Saturday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 14, 2012 | 124 COMMENTS</p><a name="152396"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152396/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 13, 2012 | 118 COMMENTS</p><a name="152471"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152471/nation-honors-mlk">Nation Honors MLK</a><p>The nation pauses Monday to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday that has also become a national day of service. "What he did was hold a banner of freedom and equality that actually transformed this nation," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. President Barack Obama will mark the holiday with a service project at the Browne Education Campus in Washington.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 10:41 AM on January 16, 2012 | 116 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18265 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:01 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2703/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2703 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2703 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2704/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="152522"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152522/thousands-sites-go-dark">Thousands of Sites Go Dark</a><p>Wikipedia, Reddit and thousands of other websites are staging a blackout today and restricting access to some of their content to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa), two laws before Congress that would greatly curtail Internet freedoms. "There are better ways to address piracy than to ask US companies to censor the internet," Google said in a <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/dont-censor-web.html">blog post</a>.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/salamandagator" rel="nofollow">salamandagator</a> at 09:52 AM on January 18, 2012 | 324 COMMENTS</p><a name="152600"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152600/final-4-debate-south-carolina">Final 4 Debate in South Carolina</a><p>Arguing that momentum was on his side after a delayed announcement of victory in Iowa, Rick Santorum sought to weaken rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich with a series of direct attacks in the last South Carolina debate ahead of the state's primary on Saturday, while Ron Paul at times was so overlooked by the CNN moderator that the crowd demanded he get time to speak.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/RexZeitgeist" rel="nofollow">RexZeitgeist</a> at 10:37 PM on January 19, 2012 | 281 COMMENTS</p><a name="152498"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152498/karen-santorum-dated-abortion-doctor">Karen Santorum Dated Abortion Doctor</a><p>Before she married Rick Santorum, Karen Santorum had a six-year relationship in her twenties with a doctor who started a Philadelphia abortion clinic, the Daily Beast reports. Though Santorum and his wife oppose abortion today even in cases of rape or incest, "Karen had no problems with what I did for a living," said Dr. Tom Allen, 92. "We never really discussed it." He had known her family since delivering her as a baby. They began seeing each other when she was a 22-year-old nursing student at Duquesne University.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MaryTylerWhore" rel="nofollow">MaryTylerWhore</a> at 10:12 AM on January 17, 2012 | 247 COMMENTS</p><a name="152566"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152566/ex-wife-newt-wanted-open-marriage">Ex-Wife: Newt Wanted Open Marriage</a><p>Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as president, his second ex-wife Marianne Gingrich told ABC News in an interview that will air Thursday night on <i>Nightline</i>. In her first TV interview since the couple's 1999 divorce, Marianne Gingrich said that when Newt admitted he was having a six-year affair with his Congressional aide (and current wife) Callista, he asked if he could continue the arrangement. "He wanted an open marriage and I refused," she said. "I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do.'"</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MURPHY" rel="nofollow">MURPHY</a> at 11:55 AM on January 19, 2012 | 241 COMMENTS</p><a name="152489"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152489/romney-no-1-target-sc-debate">Romney No. 1 Target at S.C. Debate</a><p>Five days before the South Carolina primary, the five remaining Republican hopefuls tried at Monday's presidential debate to woo voters, and four sought to shake Mitt Romney from his perch atop the field. Romney was challenged by several rivals over his record at Bain Capital. "Some of the businesses we invested in weren't successful and lost jobs," he said. "We invested in well over 100 different businesses."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MURPHY" rel="nofollow">MURPHY</a> at 08:54 AM on January 17, 2012 | 212 COMMENTS</p><a name="152499"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152499/south-carolina-boos-golden-rule">South Carolina Boos Golden Rule</a><p>The crowd at the GOP debate in South Carolina Monday booed Ron Paul heartily when he made the following comment during a discussion of foreign policy: "If another country does to us what we do to others, we aren't going to like it very much. So I would say maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in foreign policy."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/adammm" rel="nofollow">adammm</a> at 08:32 PM on January 17, 2012 | 169 COMMENTS</p><a name="152429"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152429/olds-defriending-my-rapist">Olds: Defriending My Rapist</a><p>Dorri Olds: I guided the mouse toward his photo, and the little pointed hand hovered over his face. Fear and anger swelled up but curiosity won out and I clicked "Add Friend." He accepted within minutes. Stunned, I wondered if he had forgotten raping me, or if he thought I had. ... I clicked back to my rapist's wall for a link to his wife's profile and sent her a friend request. I decided that my revenge would be to blow up his marriage.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 04:47 PM on January 14, 2012 | 151 COMMENTS</p><a name="152423"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152423/retort-saturday-nooner">Retort: The Saturday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 14, 2012 | 124 COMMENTS</p><a name="152396"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152396/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 13, 2012 | 118 COMMENTS</p><a name="152471"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152471/nation-honors-mlk">Nation Honors MLK</a><p>The nation pauses Monday to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday that has also become a national day of service. "What he did was hold a banner of freedom and equality that actually transformed this nation," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. President Barack Obama will mark the holiday with a service project at the Browne Education Campus in Washington.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 10:41 AM on January 16, 2012 | 116 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18265 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:01 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2704/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2704 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2704 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2701/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="152255"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152255/romney-wins-new-hampshire">Romney Wins New Hampshire</a><p>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.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 09:57 PM on January 10, 2012 | 448 COMMENTS</p><a name="152132"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152132/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 06, 2012 | 326 COMMENTS</p><a name="152186"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152186/johnston-time-junk-income-taxes">Johnston: Time to Junk Income Taxes?</a><p>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.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/glasshouse" rel="nofollow">glasshouse</a> at 01:11 PM on January 08, 2012 | 269 COMMENTS</p><a name="152173"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152173/repubs-debate-new-hampshire">Repubs Debate in New Hampshire</a><p>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."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MURPHY" rel="nofollow">MURPHY</a> at 09:45 AM on January 08, 2012 | 231 COMMENTS</p><a name="152303"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152303/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 11, 2012 | 218 COMMENTS</p><a name="152362"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152362/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 12, 2012 | 188 COMMENTS</p><a name="152221"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152221/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 09, 2012 | 187 COMMENTS</p><a name="152192"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152192/retort-sunday-nooner">Retort: The Sunday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 08, 2012 | 178 COMMENTS</p><a name="152133"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152133/santorum-gay-marriage-like-polygamy">Santorum: Gay Marriage Like Polygamy</a><p>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."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/adammm" rel="nofollow">adammm</a> at 05:32 PM on January 06, 2012 | 144 COMMENTS</p><a name="152240"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152240/study-claims-no-hiv-aids-link">Study Claims No HIV-AIDS Link</a><p>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 <i>Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology</i> (IJAE) last month. Duesberg called the publication a "new victory in our long quest for a scientific theory of AIDS."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/BruceBanner" rel="nofollow">BruceBanner</a> at 09:25 AM on January 10, 2012 | 140 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18217 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:03 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2701/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2701 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2701 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2702/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="152255"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152255/romney-wins-new-hampshire">Romney Wins New Hampshire</a><p>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.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 09:57 PM on January 10, 2012 | 448 COMMENTS</p><a name="152132"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152132/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 06, 2012 | 326 COMMENTS</p><a name="152186"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152186/johnston-time-junk-income-taxes">Johnston: Time to Junk Income Taxes?</a><p>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.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/glasshouse" rel="nofollow">glasshouse</a> at 01:11 PM on January 08, 2012 | 269 COMMENTS</p><a name="152173"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152173/repubs-debate-new-hampshire">Repubs Debate in New Hampshire</a><p>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."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MURPHY" rel="nofollow">MURPHY</a> at 09:45 AM on January 08, 2012 | 231 COMMENTS</p><a name="152303"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152303/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 11, 2012 | 218 COMMENTS</p><a name="152362"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152362/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 12, 2012 | 188 COMMENTS</p><a name="152221"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152221/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 09, 2012 | 187 COMMENTS</p><a name="152192"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152192/retort-sunday-nooner">Retort: The Sunday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 08, 2012 | 178 COMMENTS</p><a name="152133"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152133/santorum-gay-marriage-like-polygamy">Santorum: Gay Marriage Like Polygamy</a><p>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."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/adammm" rel="nofollow">adammm</a> at 05:32 PM on January 06, 2012 | 144 COMMENTS</p><a name="152240"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152240/study-claims-no-hiv-aids-link">Study Claims No HIV-AIDS Link</a><p>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 <i>Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology</i> (IJAE) last month. Duesberg called the publication a "new victory in our long quest for a scientific theory of AIDS."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/BruceBanner" rel="nofollow">BruceBanner</a> at 09:25 AM on January 10, 2012 | 140 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18217 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:03 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2702/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2702 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2702 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2699/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="151970"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151970/new-attacks-evolution">New Attacks on Evolution</a><p>The new year is bringing new controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, with two bills in New Hampshire seeking to require teachers to teach the theory more as philosophy than science and an Indiana state senator introducing a bill to allow school boards to require the teaching of creationism. "Teaching students that scientific explanations that are not controversial are controversial is mis-educating them," said Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/soulfly" rel="nofollow">soulfly</a> at 07:31 PM on January 02, 2012 | 395 COMMENTS</p><a name="152050"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152050/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 04, 2012 | 338 COMMENTS</p><a name="151913"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151913/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 30, 2011 | 329 COMMENTS</p><a name="151997"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151997/romney-wins-iowa-8-votes">Romney Wins Iowa by 8 Votes</a><p>Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses by eight votes, the state GOP said early Wednesday, clinching what appears to be the closest-ever margin of victory in a Republican presidential contest. Ron Paul finished a close third.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/American1st" rel="nofollow">American1st</a> at 06:23 AM on January 04, 2012 | 306 COMMENTS</p><a name="151941"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151941/retort-saturday-nooner">Retort: The Saturday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 31, 2011 | 243 COMMENTS</p><a name="152095"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152095/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 05, 2012 | 208 COMMENTS</p><a name="152007"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152007/retort-tuesday-nooner">Retort: The Tuesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 03, 2012 | 197 COMMENTS</p><a name="151950"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151950/greenwald-why-paul-confuses-liberals">Greenwald: Why Paul Confuses Liberals</a><p>Glenn Greenwald: Whatever else one wants to say, it is indisputably true that Ron Paul is the only political figure with any sort of a national platform -- certainly the only major presidential candidate in either party -- who advocates policy views on issues that liberals and progressives have long flamboyantly claimed are both compelling and crucial. As Matt Stoller argued: "the anger [Paul] inspires comes not from his positions, but from the tensions that modern American liberals bear within their own worldview. Ron Paul's candidacy is a mirror held up in front of the face of America's Democratic Party and its progressive wing, and the image that is reflected is an ugly one; more to the point, it's one they do not want to see because it so violently conflicts with their desired self-perception.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/iraqibukkake" rel="nofollow">iraqibukkake</a> at 06:32 PM on January 01, 2012 | 189 COMMENTS</p><a name="151981"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151981/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 02, 2012 | 184 COMMENTS</p><a name="151909"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151909/charities-close-over-gay-adoption">Charities Close Over Gay Adoption</a><p>Roman Catholic bishops in Illinois have shuttered most Catholic Charities affiliates in the state rather than considering same-sex couples as potential foster-care and adoptive parents in order to keep receiving state money. "In the name of tolerance, we're not being tolerated," said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Ill."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/diablo" rel="nofollow">diablo</a> at 12:35 PM on December 30, 2011 | 171 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18188 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:00:02 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2699/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2699 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2699 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2700/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="151970"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151970/new-attacks-evolution">New Attacks on Evolution</a><p>The new year is bringing new controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, with two bills in New Hampshire seeking to require teachers to teach the theory more as philosophy than science and an Indiana state senator introducing a bill to allow school boards to require the teaching of creationism. "Teaching students that scientific explanations that are not controversial are controversial is mis-educating them," said Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/soulfly" rel="nofollow">soulfly</a> at 07:31 PM on January 02, 2012 | 395 COMMENTS</p><a name="152050"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152050/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 04, 2012 | 338 COMMENTS</p><a name="151913"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151913/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 30, 2011 | 329 COMMENTS</p><a name="151997"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151997/romney-wins-iowa-8-votes">Romney Wins Iowa by 8 Votes</a><p>Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses by eight votes, the state GOP said early Wednesday, clinching what appears to be the closest-ever margin of victory in a Republican presidential contest. Ron Paul finished a close third.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/American1st" rel="nofollow">American1st</a> at 06:23 AM on January 04, 2012 | 306 COMMENTS</p><a name="151941"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151941/retort-saturday-nooner">Retort: The Saturday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 31, 2011 | 243 COMMENTS</p><a name="152095"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152095/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 05, 2012 | 208 COMMENTS</p><a name="152007"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/152007/retort-tuesday-nooner">Retort: The Tuesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 03, 2012 | 197 COMMENTS</p><a name="151950"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151950/greenwald-why-paul-confuses-liberals">Greenwald: Why Paul Confuses Liberals</a><p>Glenn Greenwald: Whatever else one wants to say, it is indisputably true that Ron Paul is the only political figure with any sort of a national platform -- certainly the only major presidential candidate in either party -- who advocates policy views on issues that liberals and progressives have long flamboyantly claimed are both compelling and crucial. As Matt Stoller argued: "the anger [Paul] inspires comes not from his positions, but from the tensions that modern American liberals bear within their own worldview. Ron Paul's candidacy is a mirror held up in front of the face of America's Democratic Party and its progressive wing, and the image that is reflected is an ugly one; more to the point, it's one they do not want to see because it so violently conflicts with their desired self-perception.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/iraqibukkake" rel="nofollow">iraqibukkake</a> at 06:32 PM on January 01, 2012 | 189 COMMENTS</p><a name="151981"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151981/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on January 02, 2012 | 184 COMMENTS</p><a name="151909"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151909/charities-close-over-gay-adoption">Charities Close Over Gay Adoption</a><p>Roman Catholic bishops in Illinois have shuttered most Catholic Charities affiliates in the state rather than considering same-sex couples as potential foster-care and adoptive parents in order to keep receiving state money. "In the name of tolerance, we're not being tolerated," said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Ill."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/diablo" rel="nofollow">diablo</a> at 12:35 PM on December 30, 2011 | 171 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18188 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:00:02 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2700/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2700 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2700 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2697/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="151850"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151850/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 28, 2011 | 423 COMMENTS</p><a name="151776"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151776/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 26, 2011 | 173 COMMENTS</p><a name="151866"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151866/obamas-approval-rises-46">Obama's Approval Rises to 46%</a><p>Gallup polling shows President Barack Obama garnering 46 percent approval from American adults, the highest level since July and a big run-up after starting the month of December at 41 percent. Typically, sitting presidents who win reelection have had approval ratings above 50, Gallup says.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 06:06 PM on December 28, 2011 | 165 COMMENTS</p><a name="151738"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151738/merry-christmas">Merry Christmas</a><p>A photo essay from CBS News shows celebrants of Christmas all over the world, from India to Bethlehem to Belarus, where men dressed as Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and women as Snegurochka (Snow Maiden). On a sadder note, Syrian Christians "have decided to cancel celebrations and only observe Christmas mass," CBS News reports.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 09:49 AM on December 25, 2011 | 144 COMMENTS</p><a name="151684"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151684/gay-man-apologizes-amy-koch">Gay Man Apologizes to Amy Koch</a><p>Writing on behalf of the entire gay and lesbian community of Minnesota, a gay writer has apologized to state Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch (R) for causing her to stray from her husband with a staffer, an affair that caused her to resign her leadership position. "On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community's successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage," John Medeiros writes. "We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/Danforth" rel="nofollow">Danforth</a> at 11:31 AM on December 23, 2011 | 132 COMMENTS</p><a name="151788"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151788/more-voter-id-laws-coming">More Voter ID Laws Coming</a><p>Even as the feds move to block South Carolina from requiring voters to show a photo ID, a handful of other states are set to ring in 2012 with new laws mandating that voters produce picture identification cards before they are permitted to cast ballots. Beginning on Jan. 1, new laws will take effect in Kansas, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas requiring residents present a certified government-issued ID if they want to vote, according to a list of new 2012 laws compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/American1st" rel="nofollow">American1st</a> at 10:13 AM on December 27, 2011 | 130 COMMENTS</p><a name="151889"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151889/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 29, 2011 | 128 COMMENTS</p><a name="151806"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151806/view-give-iraqi-christians-asylum">View: Give Iraqi Christians Asylum</a><p>Washington Times: Persecuted Christians are fleeing from the Middle East in increasing numbers. The United States should open its doors to them as a guaranteed safe haven. America has long been a beacon of hope for the world's refugees, and members of religious minorities in the Middle East are in increasing need of relief. ... The Christian population in Iraq is one of the most at risk. Around half of Iraqi Christians have fled the country since 2003, and those who remain expect growing challenges, given the U.S. military pullout. Christians have suffered periodic waves of violence, including bombings, assassinations and church burnings.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/glasshouse" rel="nofollow">glasshouse</a> at 12:21 PM on December 27, 2011 | 126 COMMENTS</p><a name="151800"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151800/bill-bars-deadbeat-parents-ballot">Bill Bars Deadbeat Parents from Ballot</a><p>A Democratic state lawmaker in Illinois has introduced a bill to forbid candidates from seeking office in the state if they owe $10,000 or more in delinquent child support. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) has been sued by his ex-wife, who claims he owes more than $100,000 in back child support. State Rep. Jack Franks filed the bill Tuesday. "I think it's important for people to take care of their families first, and preclude people from public office if they fail to take care of their primary obligations," Franks said.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/reinheitsgebot" rel="nofollow">reinheitsgebot</a> at 06:33 PM on December 27, 2011 | 117 COMMENTS</p><a name="151858"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151858/may-require-condoms-porn">L.A. May Require Condoms in Porn</a><p>A ballot initiative requiring Los Angeles porn actors to wear condoms has qualified for the June election. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation gathered over 71,000 certified signatures for the measure. "There are thousands of STDs in this industry," said Michael Weinstein, president of the foundation.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 03:27 PM on December 28, 2011 | 113 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18145 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:00:02 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2697/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2697 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2697 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2698/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="151850"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151850/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 28, 2011 | 423 COMMENTS</p><a name="151776"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151776/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 26, 2011 | 173 COMMENTS</p><a name="151866"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151866/obamas-approval-rises-46">Obama's Approval Rises to 46%</a><p>Gallup polling shows President Barack Obama garnering 46 percent approval from American adults, the highest level since July and a big run-up after starting the month of December at 41 percent. Typically, sitting presidents who win reelection have had approval ratings above 50, Gallup says.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 06:06 PM on December 28, 2011 | 165 COMMENTS</p><a name="151738"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151738/merry-christmas">Merry Christmas</a><p>A photo essay from CBS News shows celebrants of Christmas all over the world, from India to Bethlehem to Belarus, where men dressed as Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and women as Snegurochka (Snow Maiden). On a sadder note, Syrian Christians "have decided to cancel celebrations and only observe Christmas mass," CBS News reports.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 09:49 AM on December 25, 2011 | 144 COMMENTS</p><a name="151684"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151684/gay-man-apologizes-amy-koch">Gay Man Apologizes to Amy Koch</a><p>Writing on behalf of the entire gay and lesbian community of Minnesota, a gay writer has apologized to state Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch (R) for causing her to stray from her husband with a staffer, an affair that caused her to resign her leadership position. "On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community's successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage," John Medeiros writes. "We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/Danforth" rel="nofollow">Danforth</a> at 11:31 AM on December 23, 2011 | 132 COMMENTS</p><a name="151788"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151788/more-voter-id-laws-coming">More Voter ID Laws Coming</a><p>Even as the feds move to block South Carolina from requiring voters to show a photo ID, a handful of other states are set to ring in 2012 with new laws mandating that voters produce picture identification cards before they are permitted to cast ballots. Beginning on Jan. 1, new laws will take effect in Kansas, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas requiring residents present a certified government-issued ID if they want to vote, according to a list of new 2012 laws compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/American1st" rel="nofollow">American1st</a> at 10:13 AM on December 27, 2011 | 130 COMMENTS</p><a name="151889"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151889/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 29, 2011 | 128 COMMENTS</p><a name="151806"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151806/view-give-iraqi-christians-asylum">View: Give Iraqi Christians Asylum</a><p>Washington Times: Persecuted Christians are fleeing from the Middle East in increasing numbers. The United States should open its doors to them as a guaranteed safe haven. America has long been a beacon of hope for the world's refugees, and members of religious minorities in the Middle East are in increasing need of relief. ... The Christian population in Iraq is one of the most at risk. Around half of Iraqi Christians have fled the country since 2003, and those who remain expect growing challenges, given the U.S. military pullout. Christians have suffered periodic waves of violence, including bombings, assassinations and church burnings.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/glasshouse" rel="nofollow">glasshouse</a> at 12:21 PM on December 27, 2011 | 126 COMMENTS</p><a name="151800"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151800/bill-bars-deadbeat-parents-ballot">Bill Bars Deadbeat Parents from Ballot</a><p>A Democratic state lawmaker in Illinois has introduced a bill to forbid candidates from seeking office in the state if they owe $10,000 or more in delinquent child support. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) has been sued by his ex-wife, who claims he owes more than $100,000 in back child support. State Rep. Jack Franks filed the bill Tuesday. "I think it's important for people to take care of their families first, and preclude people from public office if they fail to take care of their primary obligations," Franks said.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/reinheitsgebot" rel="nofollow">reinheitsgebot</a> at 06:33 PM on December 27, 2011 | 117 COMMENTS</p><a name="151858"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151858/may-require-condoms-porn">L.A. May Require Condoms in Porn</a><p>A ballot initiative requiring Los Angeles porn actors to wear condoms has qualified for the June election. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation gathered over 71,000 certified signatures for the measure. "There are thousands of STDs in this industry," said Michael Weinstein, president of the foundation.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 03:27 PM on December 28, 2011 | 113 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18145 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:00:02 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2698/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2698 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2698 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2695/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="151592"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151592/homeless-mans-beating-put-youtube">Homeless Man's Beating Put on YouTube</a><p>A 20-year-old and a 17-year-old have been arrested in Wall Township, N.J., after they allegedly posted videos on YouTube of themselves beating and kicking a homeless man. Taylor Giresi, 20, allegedly beat the homeless man in a wooded area as an unidentified 17-year-old cameraman cheered him on, according to The Associated Press. "About to go beat up this bum," Giresi says as the video begins.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/DARTHCHENEY" rel="nofollow">DARTHCHENEY</a> at 06:31 PM on December 20, 2011 | 392 COMMENTS</p><a name="151545"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151545/poll-ron-paul-leads-iowa">Poll: Ron Paul Leads in Iowa</a><p>A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows that Ron Paul has taken the lead in the Iowa caucuses while Newt Gingrich's support is fading. A Gallup poll shows Gingrich still holding the lead, but slipping and a <i>New York Times</i> has Paul in the lead as well. Gingrich has seen his numbers in the PPP poll drop from 27 percent to 14 percent in just three weeks, while his favorability rating is now split at 46 percent to 47 percent.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/iraqibukkake" rel="nofollow">iraqibukkake</a> at 09:56 AM on December 19, 2011 | 365 COMMENTS</p><a name="151551"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151551/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 19, 2011 | 349 COMMENTS</p><a name="151629"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151629/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 21, 2011 | 322 COMMENTS</p><a name="151670"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151670/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 22, 2011 | 251 COMMENTS</p><a name="151587"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151587/retort-tuesday-nooner">Retort: The Tuesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 20, 2011 | 225 COMMENTS</p><a name="151497"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151497/retort-saturday-nooner">Retort: The Saturday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 17, 2011 | 224 COMMENTS</p><a name="151522"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151522/last-soldier-die-iraq">Last Soldier to Die in Iraq</a><p>Nearly 4,500 American soldiers died during the Iraq War. David Emanuel Hickman, 23, of Greensboro, N.C., was the last, killed by an IED in November. "I used to watch all the war stories on TV, you know," said Wes Needham, Hickman's old high school football coach. "But since this happened to David, I can't watch that stuff anymore."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/Hans" rel="nofollow">Hans</a> at 05:31 PM on December 18, 2011 | 184 COMMENTS</p><a name="151455"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151455/jeffersons-bible-shown-smithsonian">Jefferson's Bible Shown at Smithsonian</a><p>The <i>Jefferson Bible</i>, an 84-page cut-and-paste job in which Thomas Jefferson assembled the four Gospels minus the miracles and supernatural events, is on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History through May 28, 2012. "I am of a sect by myself," said Jefferson, who kept the book a secret until his death in 1826. "As far as I know."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/Doc_Sarvis" rel="nofollow">Doc_Sarvis</a> at 09:03 AM on December 17, 2011 | 168 COMMENTS</p><a name="151563"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151563/einstein-why-capitalism-sucks">Einstein: Why Capitalism Sucks</a><p>In an essay published in 1949, Albert Einstein made the case for socialism over capitalism. "Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones," Einstein wrote. "The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/nullifidian" rel="nofollow">nullifidian</a> at 10:45 AM on December 20, 2011 | 158 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18108 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:00:02 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2695/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2695 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2695 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2696/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="151592"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151592/homeless-mans-beating-put-youtube">Homeless Man's Beating Put on YouTube</a><p>A 20-year-old and a 17-year-old have been arrested in Wall Township, N.J., after they allegedly posted videos on YouTube of themselves beating and kicking a homeless man. Taylor Giresi, 20, allegedly beat the homeless man in a wooded area as an unidentified 17-year-old cameraman cheered him on, according to The Associated Press. "About to go beat up this bum," Giresi says as the video begins.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/DARTHCHENEY" rel="nofollow">DARTHCHENEY</a> at 06:31 PM on December 20, 2011 | 392 COMMENTS</p><a name="151545"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151545/poll-ron-paul-leads-iowa">Poll: Ron Paul Leads in Iowa</a><p>A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows that Ron Paul has taken the lead in the Iowa caucuses while Newt Gingrich's support is fading. A Gallup poll shows Gingrich still holding the lead, but slipping and a <i>New York Times</i> has Paul in the lead as well. Gingrich has seen his numbers in the PPP poll drop from 27 percent to 14 percent in just three weeks, while his favorability rating is now split at 46 percent to 47 percent.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/iraqibukkake" rel="nofollow">iraqibukkake</a> at 09:56 AM on December 19, 2011 | 365 COMMENTS</p><a name="151551"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151551/retort-monday-nooner">Retort: The Monday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 19, 2011 | 349 COMMENTS</p><a name="151629"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151629/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 21, 2011 | 322 COMMENTS</p><a name="151670"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151670/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 22, 2011 | 251 COMMENTS</p><a name="151587"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151587/retort-tuesday-nooner">Retort: The Tuesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 20, 2011 | 225 COMMENTS</p><a name="151497"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151497/retort-saturday-nooner">Retort: The Saturday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 17, 2011 | 224 COMMENTS</p><a name="151522"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151522/last-soldier-die-iraq">Last Soldier to Die in Iraq</a><p>Nearly 4,500 American soldiers died during the Iraq War. David Emanuel Hickman, 23, of Greensboro, N.C., was the last, killed by an IED in November. "I used to watch all the war stories on TV, you know," said Wes Needham, Hickman's old high school football coach. "But since this happened to David, I can't watch that stuff anymore."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/Hans" rel="nofollow">Hans</a> at 05:31 PM on December 18, 2011 | 184 COMMENTS</p><a name="151455"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151455/jeffersons-bible-shown-smithsonian">Jefferson's Bible Shown at Smithsonian</a><p>The <i>Jefferson Bible</i>, an 84-page cut-and-paste job in which Thomas Jefferson assembled the four Gospels minus the miracles and supernatural events, is on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History through May 28, 2012. "I am of a sect by myself," said Jefferson, who kept the book a secret until his death in 1826. "As far as I know."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/Doc_Sarvis" rel="nofollow">Doc_Sarvis</a> at 09:03 AM on December 17, 2011 | 168 COMMENTS</p><a name="151563"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151563/einstein-why-capitalism-sucks">Einstein: Why Capitalism Sucks</a><p>In an essay published in 1949, Albert Einstein made the case for socialism over capitalism. "Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones," Einstein wrote. "The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/nullifidian" rel="nofollow">nullifidian</a> at 10:45 AM on December 20, 2011 | 158 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18108 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:00:02 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2696/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2696 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2696 http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2693/top-news-stories-week The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>. <a name="151418"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151418/iraq-war-over">The Iraq War is Over!</a><p>Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta marked the end of the U.S. war in Iraq at a highly symbolic ceremony Thursday. U.S. soldiers rolled up the flag for American forces in Iraq and slipped it into a camouflage-colored sleeve, formally "casing" it, according to Army tradition. Nearly 4,500 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives over the 8 years, 8 months and 25 days of the conflict.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/truthhurts" rel="nofollow">truthhurts</a> at 10:11 AM on December 15, 2011 | 389 COMMENTS</p><a name="151354"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151354/retort-tuesday-nooner">Retort: The Tuesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 13, 2011 | 352 COMMENTS</p><a name="151388"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151388/retort-wednesday-nooner">Retort: The Wednesday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 14, 2011 | 311 COMMENTS</p><a name="151338"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151338/us-ranks-income-inequality">Where U.S. Ranks in Income Inequality</a><p>The U.S. has a higher level of income inequality than Europe, Canada, Australia and South Korea, putting it in the bottom third of 90 countries, according to data gathered by the World Bank. "The top 1 percent in the U.S. really receive much more than in Western European countries," said World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/726" rel="nofollow">726</a> at 10:31 AM on December 13, 2011 | 261 COMMENTS</p><a name="151431"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151431/retort-thursday-nooner">Retort: The Thursday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 15, 2011 | 238 COMMENTS</p><a name="151444"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151444/last-gop-debate-before-iowa">Last GOP Debate Before Iowa</a><p>This is it: One last Republican presidential debate before voters (finally) begin the process of deciding which Republican will face off against President Barack Obama in the general election. Tonight's face-off in Des Moines at 9 p.m. Eastern is the last scheduled debate before both the January 3 Iowa caucuses and the holiday season. <a href="http://live.foxnews.com/">Watch online</a>.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MURPHY" rel="nofollow">MURPHY</a> at 09:00 PM on December 15, 2011 | 222 COMMENTS</p><a name="151231"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151231/retort-friday-nooner">Retort: The Friday Nooner</a><p>A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions, complain bitterly about this site and its members, or just screw around. The only rule: Be nice or be funny.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade" rel="nofollow">rcade</a> at 12:00 PM on December 09, 2011 | 219 COMMENTS</p><a name="151295"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151295/epa-fracking-polluted-aquifer">EPA: Fracking Polluted Aquifer</a><p>For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency has found chemicals used in fracking contaminating an aquifer. Samples taken from two deep water-monitoring wells near a gas field in Pavillion, Wyoming, showed synthetic chemicals such as glycols and alcohols "consistent with gas production and hydraulic-fracturing fluids," the agency stated. Amy Mall, senior policy analyst with the National Resources Defense Council, said that "it's a game-changer. EPA experts and scientists have recognized that there is real contamination, that there is a real scientific basis for linking it to fracking."</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/reitze" rel="nofollow">reitze</a> at 01:30 PM on December 12, 2011 | 209 COMMENTS</p><a name="151365"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151365/tomasky-coming-obama-landslide">Tomasky: The Coming Obama Landslide</a><p>Michael Tomasky: How can Barack Obama, as this new NBC/Marist poll has it, be beating Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in South Carolina, of all places? The leads are narrow -- it's just 45-42 over Romney and 46-42 over Gingrich. ... Is it conceivable that 10 months and three weeks from now, Obama could actually win the state? If it happens, we will know that the Republicans are headed off the cliff. And that is precisely where we should all hope they go.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/moder8" rel="nofollow">moder8</a> at 08:32 AM on December 14, 2011 | 196 COMMENTS</p><a name="151274"></a><p><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/151274/repubs-clash-iowa-debate">Repubs Clash in Iowa Debate</a><p>With the Iowa caucuses looming, six Republican presidential candidates tonight clashed over their conservative credentials and personal histories in a Des Moines debate that saw resurgent frontrunner Newt Gingrich battling attacks by his rivals from all sides. But it was Mitt Romney who stole the spotlight for a $10,000 bet with Texas Gov. Rick Perry over what he wrote about the individual health insurance mandate -- then removed -- in subsequent editions of his book, <i>No Apologies</i>.</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://www.drudge.com/user/MURPHY" rel="nofollow">MURPHY</a> at 12:23 AM on December 11, 2011 | 173 COMMENTS</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a> is a social news site with 18073 members published by <a href="http://www.worldreadable.com/">World Readable</a>. Anyone can <a href="http://www.drudge.com/join-site">join the site</a> and post stories.</p> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:03 -0500 Drudge Retort http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2693/top-news-stories-week#discuss tag:watchingthewatchers.org,05-28-2007:weblog.2693 news politics current events drudge retort, 0.5 daily 2693