Written by Ndesanjo Macha
Nigerian presidential candidate Mohammadu Buhari leads in mock online polls: “There are now several platforms online that allow Nigerians with access to the Internet to vote for their favourite presidential aspirant and share their preference on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.”
USA Today |
Carmelo Anthony leads Knicks over Nets
Los Angeles Times AP Carmelo Anthony scored 39 points for the second consecutive game, including the tiebreaking jumper with 1:08 left, and the New York Knicks rallied from a 16-point deficit to beat the New Jersey Nets, 120-116, on Wednesday night at Madison Square … Slumping Knicks Win Second Straight Nets' best not good enough Revamped Knicks Rally and Outlast the Retooled Nets |
Despite Sen. Bill Nelson’s (D-FL) lukewarm job approval numbers, a new Public Policy Polling survey finds he has at least a 13 point lead over all of his prospective opponents for next year and against the nominal Republican front runner at this point, Mike Haridopolos, he’s already hit 50%.
Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire
New York Daily News |
Confident and Calm, Moore Leads the Huskies
New York Times UConn Coach Geno Auriemma gives 99 percent of his program's success over the last three years to Maya Moore. By JERÉ LONGMAN PHILADELPHIA — With a 75-40 victory over Duke, Connecticut again turned the NCAA women's tournament into a personal game of … Virginia Commonwealth is enjoying its banner days Moore gets 3000th point, UConn heads to Final Four Connecticut crushes Duke, 75-40, in the Philadelphia Regional final … |
Seattle Post Intelligencer |
Confident and Calm, Moore Leads the Huskies
New York Times UConn Coach Geno Auriemma gives 99 percent of his program's success over the last three years to Maya Moore. By JERÉ LONGMAN PHILADELPHIA — With a 75-40 victory over Duke, Connecticut again turned the NCAA women's tournament into a personal game of … Virginia Commonwealth is enjoying its banner days Moore gets 3000th point, UConn heads to Final Four Connecticut crushes Duke, 75-40, in the Philadelphia Regional final … |
In light of the extent to which we are at placed at the mercy of largely hostile nations for our energy supply, you would never guess who has the greatest reserves of fossil fuels. We do.

From the Energy Tribune:
America’s combined energy resources are, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CSR), the largest on earth. They eclipse Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th) and Canada (6th) combined — and that’s without including America’s shale oil deposits and, in the future, the potentially astronomic impact of methane hydrates.
Having the resources is one thing. Being sufficiently free of tyranny to access those resources is something else. As Senator James Inhofe observes,
“The Obama administration has made a conscious policy choice to raise energy prices, accomplished in good measure by restricting access to domestic energy supplies. … We could help bring affordable energy to consumers, create new jobs, and grow the economy if the Obama administration would simply get out of the way so America can realize its true energy potential.”
But who is going to hear Inhofe when the media will ignore most anything that doesn’t support its laughable “green energy” ideology?
Few people will hear about this either:
In mid-March, a new study by Verso Consultancy estimates that for every new green job created by diverting public money into renewable energy projects in the UK, 3.7 British jobs were destroyed.
Meanwhile US energy policy persists in pursuing the myth that renewables are the economically viable future, with fossil fuels already, as the president said in January, “yesterday’s energy”.
Moonbats are particularly hostile toward coal. Obama campaigned on promises to drive the industry out of business. This graph may explain why:

The USA has enough recoverable coal to last for centuries. Yet our rulers want to force us to rely on absurd windmills, which uncoincidentally were cutting edge technology in the age of serfdom.
The only thing standing between America and a future even better than our past is the leftist kakistocracy that controls both the government and the media.
On a tip from Oiao. Hat tips: Hot Air, Free Republic.
Sometimes, you just gotta love a news story for the simple and amusing beast that it is. This is one of those times. Those Aussies know how to throw down!
Six boys cowered in the dark as a knife-wielding man threatened to kill them during a suburban sleepover from hell.
The group of mostly 12-year-olds yesterday told how their neighbour went on a rampage, screaming they “were going to die” and trying to batter down the door to their townhouse in the Brisbane suburb of Capalaba.
The three-hour ordeal ended only when Brett Hayes, 50, was shot in the groin by a policewoman after he allegedly lunged at her with six 30cm knives.
An investigation has been launched into the shooting as police defended their response to several frantic calls for help.
There is some criticism of the police department for taking an hour to respond, but the policewoman’s mighty shot put an end to the ruckus. And silly me, I thought we had clinched the global redneck title.
Jon Lee Anderson can't be sure:
Significant questions remain about the leaders of the rebellion: who they are, what their political ideas are, and what they would do if Qaddafi fell. At the courthouse on Benghazi’s battered seafront promenade, the de-facto seat of the Libyan revolution, a group of lawyers, doctors, and other professionals have appointed one another to a hodgepodge of “leadership councils.”
There is a Benghazi city council, and a Provisional National Council, headed by a bland but apparently honest former justice minister, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, who spends his time in Bayda, a hundred and twenty-five miles away. Other cities have councils of their own. The members are intellectuals, former dissidents, and businesspeople, many of them from old families that were prominent before Qaddafi came to power. What they are not is organized. No one can explain how the Benghazi council works with the National Council. Last week, another shadow government, the Crisis Management Council, was announced in Benghazi; it was unclear how its leader, a former government planning expert named Mahmoud Jibril, would coördinate with Jalil, or whether he had supplanted him.
(Eugene Volokh)
The case is In re Marriage of Mendlowitz. The alleged slanders were an e-mail and a letter to the estranged wife’s business associates that seemed likely to interfere with her business relationships. They might indeed have led to a successful defamation lawsuit, and a lawsuit for interference with business relations. But a trial court judge went so far as to issue a domestic restraining order against such comments:
[Y]ou are disturbing the peace of the petitioner…. You have, by your own testimony, admitted to the defaming comments that you have made in these emails. And so therefore, the court is going to grant a restraining order for the next five years. You are not to contact [the wife], [her] employers, [her] potential employers in regard to [her] … You are not to contact any third parties in regard to [the wife], her reputation, her past acts.
This meant that any prohibited speech about his wife would be a crime. And because the order included boilerplate language ordering the estranged husband not to “harass, attack, strike, threaten, assault (sexually or otherwise), hit, follow, stalk, molest, destroy personal property, disturb the peace, keep under surveillance, or block movements,” the federal ban on gun possession by people who are the targets of restraining orders kicked in. (See PDF pp. 61–65 of my Implementing the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Self-Defense article.)
Fortunately, the California Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s decision, concluding that this sort of alleged defamation isn’t sufficient to justify issuing such an order. Unfortunately, for the nearly two years between the trial court decision and the appellate decision, defendant had been entirely deprived of his Second Amendment rights, and been subjected to a prior restraint in violation of his First Amendment rights.
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Tireless Walker Leads UConn To Final Four
MyFox Houston (NewsCore) – ANAHEIM, Calif. — Led by the irrepressible Kemba Walker and the strong-willed coach Jim Calhoun, the Huskies are making a shocking return trip to Final Four. UConn will meet the winner of Sunday's East Region final between North Carolina … UConn Huskies riding high out of the West again Just Short of Final Four, but Arizona Goes Home Proud Connecticut gets everything ironed out at the end and beats Arizona |
Globe and Mail |
Butler freshman Khyle Marshall leads inspired effort against Florida
NOLA.com By Trey Iles, The Times-Picayune It had been quite an NCAA Tournament for Butler freshman reserve forward Khyle Marshall, and Saturday was no different. Enlarge David Grunfeld, The Times-Picayune DAVID GRUNFELD / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Butler Bulldogs … 2011 NCAA Tournament Elite 8: Recap Of Saturday March Madness Stevens defers to Donovan Butler fans wearing big grins again |
Mike Huckabee tops a large list of potential GOP presidential candidates in current support for the party’s 2012 nomination, with 19% of Republicans saying they are most likely to back him. This gives Huckabee a slight edge over Mitt Romney (15%). Sarah Palin is now at 12% after receiving 16% support in three prior Gallup polls. Newt Gingrich is the only other potential candidate who registers double-digit support. Sixteen percent of Republicans currently have no preference.
USA Today |
Mack leads the charge to help Butler get back to Final Four
USA Today By David Jones, Florida Today By Gerald Herbert, AP Butler's Shelvin Mack playfully does the Gator chomp after he cut off his piece of the net following the Bulldogs' 74-71 win over Florida in the Southeast Regional final. … Just because it's Butler again doesn't mean it's not amazing Butler beat UF at its own game Back-to-Back Final Fours (since 2000) |
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Martin Laird leads way at Bay Hill
ESPN AP ORLANDO, Fla. — Martin Laird's fortunes rose and fell Saturday at Bay Hill. The only thing that never changed was his name atop the leaderboard in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Laird finally regained control with a two-shot swing on the par-5 … Laird leads by two at the Arnold Palmer Laird leads by two at Bay Hill Laird builds 2-shot lead at Bay Hill |
SkySports |
Laird leads the way at Bay Hill
CNN Martin Laird will take a one-stroke lead into the weekend after posting a second round 65. (CNN) — Scotland's Martin Laird leads the Arnold Palmer Invitational at the Bay Hill Club in Florida by one stroke at the halfway stage after posting a … Tour Report: Inside the numbers: Round 2 Laird in driver's seat; Woods six shots back Laird Leads Palmer Invitational; Woods Makes Progress With a 68 |