In a 2012 pamphlet, the late author Christopher Hitchens refers to a "... Poujadiste female with ideas above her station ", presumably a reference to Margaret Thatcher and her humble origins as a Grantham grocer's daughter.

Other awardees include Steven Weinberg ( 2001 ), Penn & Teller ( 2003 ), Alan Dershowitz ( 2003 ), Ron Reagan ( 2004 ), Peter Singer ( 2004 ), Christopher Hitchens ( 2007 ), Daniel Dennett ( 2008 ), Ayaan Hirsi Ali ( 2010 ), and Richard Dawkins ( 2001, 2012 ).

In 2012 Peter Hitchens described the address as, " one of the most overwhelming pieces of political prose ever crafted in any language ".

In 2012, Hitchens announced he was once more considering standing as a member of parliament and called for British citizens to form " small exploratory committees in existing constituencies, under the ‘ Justice and Liberty ’ motto ".

Hitchens was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ) in the 2012 New Year Honours.

In exchange, the Falcons gave up their first -, second-and fourth-round draft picks in 2011, and their first and fourth draft picks in 2012.

In July 2012, Clinton gave the keynote address at the Re | Source Conference, a collaboration between Oxford University, the Stordalen Foundation and the Rothschild Foundation.

At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Clinton gave a widely praised speech nominating Barack Obama.

On September 26, 2012, Barrymore gave birth to a daughter, Olive Barrymore Kopelman.

On July 13, 2012, Walsh gave birth to the couple's first child together, a daughter named Faith Evangeline Elisa.

In 2012, Mousa Abu Marzook, a high-ranking Hamas official in competition with Haniyeh for Hamas ' top leadership post, gave an interview in which he expressed a range of opinions, some of which differed from the organisation's actual stance.

Although Ibsen died in 2008, her son Michael gave a mouth-swab sample to the research team on 24 August 2012.

In 2012, the Farole administration gave the green light to the first official oil exploration project in Puntland and Somalia at large.

In 2012, Hassan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali ( 6th United Nations Secretary-General and current President of the UNESCO Panel on Democracy and Development ) gave remarks at the Unification Church event in UNESCO's headquarters in France, along with Akiko Yamanaka ( parliamentarian of Diet of Japan, Cambridge University professor and former Deputy-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ) and other 300 politicians and religious leaders.

Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana, gave the Republican response to the 2012 State of the Union address.

* At the beginning of August 2012, Schmidt gave an interview on German television where he revealed that at 93 years of age he had fallen in love again.

In 2012, the Horror Writers Association gave I Am Legend the special Vampire Novel of the Century Award.

She gave birth to her third child, daughter Kaya Emory, on January 16, 2012.

" However, after Mitt Romney became the presumptive nominee for the Republican party presidential candidate in May 2012, Ventura gave his support to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson on June 12, 2012, whom Ventura argued was the choice for voters who “ really want to rebel .”

On July 30, 2012, the Pacific Coast League gave preliminary approval to MountainStar Sports Group, an ownership group based out of El Paso, Texas, for the purchase of the Tucson Padres.

In 2012, Fox TV series, Glee, gave way to a cliffhanger with its winter finale episode " On My Way " where Quinn Fabray ( played by Dianna Agron ) is involved in a car accident after responding to a text message while driving.

As of 2012, Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 53 % based on 127 reviews with 67 fresh and 60 rotten.

Dave Moore, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ashland, gave the address on June 2, 2012.

The band gave up their headlining spot for the Australian Soundwave festival tour of 2012 due to disagreements over the bill.

In January 2012, Steenburgen became a grandmother when her daughter Lilly gave birth to a girl named Clementine Mae.

In May 2012, it was reported that she gave birth to her first child, a son, Solo.

In 2012 the National Cartoonists Society gave their first Reuben Award for " On-line comic strips.

They gave birth to a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter in January 2012.

In 2012 Birdlife International gave Timneh Parrot full species status and it was classified as Vulnerable.

The earliest evidence of settlements in the area of today's Berlin are a wooden beam dated from approximately 1192 and leftovers of wooden houseparts dated to 1174 found in a 2012 digging in Berlin Mitte.

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

He was removed from death row in January 2012 and in March 2012 the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that all claims of new evidence put on his behalf did not warrant conducting a retrial.

With the arrival of the year 2012, Nostradamus's prophecies started to be co-opted ( especially by the History Channel ) as evidence suggesting that the end of the world is imminent, notwithstanding the fact that his book never mentions the end of the world, let alone the year 2012.

A review and draft recommendation by the United States Preventive Services Task Force in 2012 found insufficient evidence to determine risk verses harm from supplementation in women before menopause or in men and thus does not recommend it for this group.

In 2012, Brown University undergraduate Lucas Mason-Brown cracked this code and uncovered conclusive historical evidence attributing its authorship to Roger Williams.

Since there is currently no solid evidence of life there at present, all Martians known as of 2012 are fictional creatures.

A paper published in 2012 reviewed the related literature and found good evidence for the use of Internet interventions for insomnia.

In April 2012, the Federal Reserve bank inspector general released a report that found " we did not find any evidence of undue political interference with or improper actions by Federal Reserve officials related to the cash found on the Watergate burglars.

Internal evidence of the series, particularly conversations in Methuselah's Children and Time Enough For Love place the Scudder election in the year 2012.

The US National Ocean Service stated in 2012 that no evidence of mermaids has ever been found.

In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation held a major exhibit at the National Museum of American History: Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: The Paradox of Liberty ; it says that " evidence strongly support the conclusion that Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings ' children.

Only when the scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announced the more precise LHC results on July 4, 2012, with a mass of 125. 3 ± 0. 4 ( CMS ) or 126 ± 0. 4 ( ATLAS ) respectively, was there strong evidence through consistent measurements by the LHC and the Tevatron for the possible existence of a Higgs particle at that mass range.

On 29 February 2012, Nestlé became the first food company to join the FLA. Building on Nestlé's efforts under the Cocoa Plan, the FLA will send independent experts to Côte d ’ Ivoire in 2012 and where evidence of child labour is found, the FLA will identify root causes and advise Nestlé how to address them in sustainable and lasting ways.

Finally, in 2012, a DNA test conducted on Monmouth's descendant, the duke of Buccleuch, showed that he shared the same Y-chromosome ( inherited from father-to-son ) as a distant Stewart cousin, providing strong evidence that Charles II was Monmouth's biological father after all.

A May 1, 2012 New York Times article said that " at gatherings of climate change skeptics ... Dr. Lindzen has been treated as a star ", but that in the view of " the scientific majority ... he has gone beyond any reasonable reading of the evidence to provide a dangerous alibi for inaction.

Two more sequels were produced: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, which was initially scheduled for a fall 2011 release, but was pushed back until January 2012 after the West Memphis Three were released from prison while the film was in post-production, requiring new material to be added, and West of Memphis, which was released at the Sundance Film Festival days after Paradise Lost 3 aired on HBO and, based on new evidence, implicates a new suspect in the murders at Robin Hood Hills.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that narcissists may be particularly common in the financial sector as they " are able to make quick, bold decisions without any thought for the consequences these might have on other people ".< ref >" When narcissism becomes pathological ", Adrian Tempany, Financial Times, 4 September 2010, accessed 23 June 2012 .< http :// www. ft. com / cms / s / 2 / 5ff67be2-b636-11df-a784-00144feabdc0. html # axzz1wu6UVK53 ></ ref > One financier with experience of NPD claimed to know a recruitment consultant who actively sought to recruit narcissists.

* Cannabis, cannabinoids and cancer – the evidence so far-Cancer Research UK science blog, July 2012

An April 2012 article in The New York Times reported that a former executive of Wal-Mart de Mexico alleged in September 2005 that Wal-Mart de Mexico had paid bribes via local fixers called gestores to officials throughout Mexico in order to obtain construction permits, information, and other favors, that Wal-Mart investigators found credible evidence that Mexican and American laws had been broken, and that Wal-Mart executives in the United States " hushed up " the allegations.

An April 2012 article on the Melungeons in the Journal of Genetic Genealogy summarized additional DNA testing of the last several years, together with historic evidence.

( http :// www. ciclops. org / view_event / 178 / Lightning_Flashing_in_Daylight ) Though three visiting spacecrafts – Pioneer 11 in 1979, Voyager 1 in 1980 and Voyager 2 in 1981, failed to provide any convincing evidence from optical observations, in July of 2012 the Cassini spacecraft detected visible lightning flashes, and electromagnetic sensors aboard the spacecraft detected signatures that are characteristic of lightning.