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As many as 1.25 million of America’s least cared for homes are headed for auction after a year-long probe into foreclosure practices kept them off the market. – Bloomberg.com

The ethnic cleansing of over half a million Christians is only a first step. – American Thinker

Israelis are accusing the White House of leaking extremely sensitive information to reporters in order to prevent an Israeli strike on Iran. Here is an example. … Unprecedented access to sensitive material that someone gave to the press and it can only come from the administration. – Fox Nation

Colombia’s Farc rebels have released their last 10 police and military hostages – some of whom have spent 14 years in captivity. – BBC News

At a critical time for America’s energy future, Obama’s proposed energy platform is likely to damage the economy, drive energy prices higher, and move us further away from energy independence and economic security. – IBD Editorials

No real reason exists for withholding this information from the public, save perhaps to protect Dr. Mann or UVA from potential embarrassment. Dr. Mann sought public money, both state and federal, to conduct research at a public university, and thus the taxpayers should have every right to scrutinize those grants and the resulting work. – Daily Caller

“It looks odds-on that eurozone GDP contracted again in the first quarter of 2012, thereby moving into recession,” said Howard Archer, chief European economist at IHS Global Insight. – BBC News

Even if the federal government only partially lost its land-baron status in the West, the states would ramp up their energy production on the tracts that would be back under their stewardship. That would mean economic growth, a spike in jobs and increased government revenue in those states. – IBD Editorials

A sneak attack at the convention, the plan that Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are counting on to win the Republican presidential nomination, is far-fetched in the eyes of state party officials who say that Mitt Romney will be nominated even if he goes into the convention with only a plurality of delegates. – Washington Times

I would liken Islam to an ideological Black Death that must be faced up to by politicians and intellectuals. There’s no such thing as a “benign” Islam. It is a death-worshipping ideology from top to bottom. And the only way to emasculate it is to repudiate it in its entirety. – Capitalism Magazine