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LIVE AT FIVE – 03.09.11

Posted on | March 9, 2011 | 2 Comments

TOP NEWS
Libyan Rebels’ Call For No-fly Zone Grows Sharper

Foreign workers flee to Tunisian refugee camps

Rebel council rejects offer of Qadhafi resignation; regime denies offer was made

Loyalists Attack Rebels, Civilians From The Air As NATO Ponders No-Fly Zone

Stalemate On The Ground As Smaller Loyalist Forces Unable To Retake Ground From Larger, Disorganized Rebels

Public Standoff, Private Discussions
Possible compromise to resolve Wisconsin budget impasse?



Hispanics Increasingly Identify As White
Analysis of Census data shows Hispanics regard identity as ethnic, not racial



POLITICS
O’KEEFE STRIKES AGAIN: NPR STING HITS HARD

NPR Doesn't Need Your Stinking Money, But Don't You Dare Cut Off Federal Funds

Guerrilla conservative catches NPR exec on camera slamming Americans as “uneducated”, Tea Party as “seriously racist”; GOP drive to defund NPR/PBS strengthened?
NPR In Damage Control Mode

In Defense Of Peter King’s Muslim Hearings

Democrats Raise Stakes On Budget

Senate Backs Patent Reform To Cut Backlog



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Stock Futures Turn Mixed As Libya Crisis Continues
Politics Of Oil: Will High Gasoline Prices Spur Lawmakers To Act?
Bank Of America Moves Almost Half Its Mortgages Into “Bad Bank”
Icahn To His Hedge Fund Investors: Cash Out Now
Oil Falls For A Second Day In New York As OPEC Discusses Emergency Meeting
Facebook To Pose New Threat To Netflix? Social Network Gets Into Streaming Movie Rentals
Difficult Decisions Ahead On Mars
Google Provides Grant To Put Mandela Archives Online



SPORTS
NFL Players Reject Owners’ Offer Of Profitability Data

NFLPA leader Demaurice Smith talks to reporters

Players holding out for complete financial statements

Tiki Barber To End Retirement, Play In 2011?

Aldridge, Blazers’ Bench Roll Heat, 105-96




Texans’ Kareem Jackson Attends Dominican Cockfights, Posts Pix

Canadiens Beat Bruins, Extend Win Streak To Five

Wild Surge Past Slumping Avs 5-2

Brewers Pitcher Greinke Out 2-4 Weeks With Rib Injury

Phil Jackson Has Message For the Heat: There’s No Crying In The NBA



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Charlie Sheen’s Latest Video: Dead Man Ranting

Roseanne says he makes her look sane

Are his fifteen minutes up yet?

Alice In Chains Original Bassist Mike Starr Dead, 44

Lohan To Sue Jewelry Store Over Sale Of Surveillance Tape

“Real Housewives Of New York” To Return April 7

Lily Allen Opens Up About Tragic Baby Loss In New Documentary

Maksim Chmerkovskiy Impressed By Dancing Partner Kirstie Alley

“Tomb Raider” Reboot In Works Without Angelina Jolie?

Lady Gaga Threatens Breast Milk Ice Cream Makers With Lawsuit



FOREIGNERS
Richter 7.2 Earthquake Rocks Northern Japan
Former Iranian President Rafsanjani Loses Top Clerical Post
Ivorian Marches On International Womens’ Day End In Blood
Car Bomb Kills 24 At Pakistan Fuel Station Near ISI Office
Serbia, Kosovo To Meet In Brussels For First Direct Talks
Search For Stockholm Bomber’s Accomplices Leads To Scotland
Coptic Christians, Muslims Clash In Cairo, One Dead


BLOGS & STUFF
The Lonely Conservative: Liberal Chickens Coming Home To Roost
Don Surber: Manchin Dumps On The Won
Mark Steyn: Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboy Poets
Atlas Shrugs: Congressman King Getting Death Threats, Security Ramped Up
Jihad Watch: King Is Right, Say NYPD, FBI; We Don’t Get Much Cooperation From The Muslim Community…Much Like The Mafia, MS-13, And The Drug Cartels
NRO: Lugar Opposed To House Spending Cuts…No, Wait, He Isn’t!
Weasel Zippers: NPR, PBS Breaking Law By Lobbying For More Federal Money?
Peter Suderman: Wouldn’t It Be Terrible If Sightly Fewer Individuals Signed Up For Middle-Class Obamacare Subsidies?
Neo-neocon: Ohio Matters, And Other News
Jawa Report: Brian DePalma’s “Redacted” Being Used As Anti-American Propaganda on YouTube By Islamists To “Prove” American Troops Rape Muslim Women

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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