Tuesday morning headlines

Culture in Decline
Blue jeans: The new feminist uniform? (Henry Makow) - For the record, I do not think a woman wearing jeans or pants necessarily makes her look unfeminine or masculine, although in select cases it certainly does. Some women look quite fine in blue jeans. However, I also appreciate a beautiful woman in a dress or a skirt, and wish we saw more of it in modern society. Dr. Makow, in spite of his narrow-minded attitude toward the fairer sex and blue jeans, does make some important points here about the feminist agenda to rob women of their femininity.

Silence that idiot box! (Jeff Jacoby)

'Cleveland's' a chip off the old crock (Tom Shales)

Globalization Run Amok
Head of the World Bank sees the U.S. dollar's role diminishing, may be replaced by euro as the world's reserve currency (New York Times)

Empire State Building to be lit in red and yellow to honor the 60th anniversary of Communist China (AFP)

Illegal Alien Invasion of America
Block of Congressional Democrats seeking health-care access for illegals (Washington Times)

Southern Poverty Law Center smears immigration patriots ... and 'Lord of the Rings' (Tom Tancredo)

The Mis-Education of America's Children
75 percent of Oklahoma high school students can't name the first U.S. president (News9.com)

Fewer schools teaching the art of cursive writing (AP)

OBAMA NATION
Obama's hit list (The Globe via Rense.com)

There's good reason not to trust Obama (Mychal Massie)

The destroyers who control Congress, the White House, & media (Devvy Kidd)

Regulatory 'czar' argued that government should be mandated to fund abortions in the case of rape or incest (World Net Daily)

'Safe schools czar' failed to report a 15 year-old boy having sex with an older man to the authorities (World Net Daily)

Secret Service probing Facebook assassination poll on Obama (AP)

Pentagon Briefings
Is Iran nearing a bomb? Can the U.S. outlast the Ayatollahs? (Pat Buchanan)

Science, Health, Nature, & Technology
14 year-old British schoolgirl dies after being injected with cervical cancer vaccine (Daily Mail)

U.S., Europe faces spread of 'severe' mosquito-borne disease, warns expert (Herald Scotland)

Dementia cases to double in the next twenty years (London Guardian)

My son ate raw hamburger ... now what? (Jennifer LaRue Huget)

The Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade (Bloomberg)