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The weekend has come, and so has the dreary weather, at least in my part of the world, known as central Maryland. But there’s a bright side, in that I won’t have to shovel anything. In other parts of the world, here’s a bit of what’s been going on:

The University of Alabama in Huntsville has fired professor Amy Bishop, accused of shooting 6 colleagues, killing 3 of them.

From the “stoopid criminals” department: Oregon Ducks quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has been suspended for the upcoming 2010 football season, after pleading guilty to a burglary charge. What did he steal? Two laptop computers and a guitar.

The Ninth Circuit has ruled that “God” in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional.

The National Review interviews pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak. For politicians with views similar to Stupak’s, 2SecondsFaster asks, “What should pro-life Democrats do?”

Members of the Thomas More Society react to the Illinios Attorney General’s claim that state’s constitution contains the right to an abortion.

Some say that defending the enemy is a time-honored tradition, sometimes invoking John Adams’ defense of the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre. A Wall Street Journal editorial begs to differ.

The Weekly Standard celebrates hope and change – in Iraq.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports a survey indicating that Obamacare could result in a decrease in the number of physicians. (H/T Hugh Hewitt)

SayAnythingBlog warns of a double-dip recession.

On the other hand theSpec reports that the world-wide freight recession could be ending.

The Empire State brings forth the nanny state. The New York legislature is considering a bill that would forbid restaurants from using salt in cooking.

And finally, a young protestor gives her opinion of President Obama’s fiscal policies.
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Happy Valentine’s Day and (for tomorrow) President’s Day. As I listen to the icicles fall from my house, here’s what’s going on at home and abroad.

The U.S. Coast Guard conducts a humanitarian mission at an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

A song to teach your children geography: Fifty Nifty United States. (What, not 57? )

The snows of February have collapsed the Blacksburg (VA) High School gym. Blacksburg is also the location of my alma mater, Virginia Tech.

Thank A Soldier’s Blog launches The Gratitude Project.

Road rage in Texas leads to a police chase – and a bomb investigation.

From The Long War Journal, U.S. unmanned strike aircraft attack a Taliban training camp in North Waziristan.

As U.S. troops fight their way into the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, some say the fighting is as intense as in Falluhah, Iraq. I certainly have respect for anyone who fought in both of those battles. More on the fighting in Marjah from Holger Awakens.

Some climate scientists, including former IPCC author John Christy, have doubts about global warming because of problems with the underlying data collection.

Why does the Tea Party movement exist? Glenn Reynolds explains. (H/T Blogs For Victory)

From The American Thinker, Adam Shaw faults Secretary of State Clinton for generalizing about “organized religion”.

At a surfing event in Half Moon Bay, California, two huge waves sweep away spectators standing on a seawall.

D’OH! A “tagger” tries to put graphiti on a door in an aquatic center in Commerce, California. On the other side of said door are 100 Los Angeles County cops.

This past weekend’s snowstorm produced some mischief in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where two students at James Madison University have landed in deep trouble for throwing snowballs. Felony charges might sound excessive, until you learn what they were throwing at.

Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday’s blizzard. Charles Gill and Ryan Knight, both 21, were nabbed by cops in Harrisonburg, where they attend James Madison University.

As these two learned the hard way, throwing something at an occupied vehicle is a felony in Virginia.

Give Jon Stewart credit. He really rips Matthews a new one. Oh sweet heavenly goodness. I can’t believe Matthews actually said that.

Freud was right.

The massive spending bill known as “TARP” didn’t prevent the economy from going into the toilet. The massive spending bill known as the “stimulus” didn’t pull the economy out of the toilet. What, then, is Obama now proposing for the economy? Another massive spending bill.

Meanwhile, Obama has decided to cut short his trip to Norway to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, to the consternation of some Norwegians.

The upcoming visit from Obama is not the only strange thing that Norway has had to put up with.

Back at the White House, cookies served at the Christmas party were shaped like acorns.

Over at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Congress has decided not to re-authorize the Washington Scholarship Fund.

On the other hand, a House subcommittee has approved legislation that could force the NCAA to determine its football champion, in Division 1-Bowl Subdivision, via a playoff system. As if there aren’t more important matters.

Possible Darwin Award nominee. A 25-year-old Ukrainian man blows his head off – with exploding chewing gum.

Cue Van Halen. I remember Hot For Teacher, but not quite like this.

Global warming/climate change has been blamed quite a few unpleasant things, such as polar bears drowning as the Arctic ice melts under them. But now, it’s being blamed for polar bear cannibalism.

In Scott County, Virginia, a church has its own zoo.

Some families of fallen troops will get an early Christmas present – a ride on the Snowball Express.

I now interrupt my travelogue to bring you some news about what’s going on out there in the world.

A staffer for the House Ethics Committee has been fired for revealing the names of seven congresscritters under investigation.

Now that RINO Dede Scozzafava has withdrawn from the special election in the 23rd House district of New York, Intrade gives conservative Doug Hoffman a 65% chance of winning. While she has thrown her support to Democrat Bill Owens, her ex-manager now supports Hoffman.

While the NY23 race has shown some internal divisions in the GOP, with some endorsing Hoffman and others previously endorsing Scozzafava, the Democrats are also having some internal dissention, as fundraising for the conservative “Blue Dogs” has plummeted.

Columnist Star Parker gives her opinion of the “hate crimes” law, recently tacked onto the Department of Defense appropriation bill.

At Right Wing News, William Teach reports that the Senate climate change bill is “on life support”.

In what looks like an honor killing, a young woman dies after her father runs her down with his vehicle – not in Iraq, Iran or Saudi Arabia, but in Arizona.

The world’s largest cruise ship squeezes under a bridge in Denmark by lowering her smokestacks. She’s now on her way to Florida.

Over a year after an explosion shut it down, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is about to start operating again. According to the New York Times, two physicists have a strange idea about why it stopped working.

For some humor, from Viral Footage, the world’s worst burglar….

….and from Warming Glow, some drunk Ewoks on the Today Show.

Seems like a slow summer around ARS right now. No posts for almost a week… Ruh-roh! So my contribution will be this gem from “Russia’s Got Talent”.

I wish I had something clever and snarky to say…. but the headline just steals my thunder…

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers.

Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, one of whom went by the name “La Parkita” — or “Little Death” — and wore a skeleton costume in the ring. The other was known as “Espectrito Jr.”

Authorities say two women were seen leaving the men’s hotel room before the bodies were discovered.

Prosecutor Miguel Angel Mancera said Wednesday that gangs of female robbers are experienced at using drugs to knock men out and rob them, but they may have used too strong a dose.

That may have been because of the wrestlers’ small stature, although larger men have also died in similar crimes.

KIRKWOOD, NY — State police in New York say two Pennsylvania men robbed a gas station and might have gotten away if they had also fueled up.

Troopers said they caught 29-year-old Lonnie Meckwood, of Carbondale, and 51-year-old Phillip Weeks, of Tunkhannock, after their getaway car ran out of gas while the were trying to escape late Monday night.

Piss poor prior planning…. and chocked full of irony…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made clear that Russia was not prepared to sign up to a G8 statement condemning Iran’s handling of the election.

“No one is willing to condemn the election process, because it’s an exercise in democracy,” Lavrov told reporters.

Later, while answering a question about crime in various national capitals, Lavrov described a violent rape that had happened earlier in Moscow as “speed dating”.

I may have made that last sentence up, to steal Ace’s shtick.