Making ObamaCare a reality will require massive computing power to track, store and process the millions of individual cases.
But in Illinois, contracts to compute that state’s cases – valued as high as $190 million – are being awarded without competitive bidding.
The Chicago way? Illinois officials under fire for ObamaCare contracts | Fox News
Tip and the Gipper.
Here's another, from 1984: "The evil is in the White House at the present time. And that evil is a man who has no care and no concern for the working class of America and the future generations of America, and who likes to ride a horse. He’s cold. He’s mean. He’s got ice water for blood." Oh, yeah! Tip and the Gipper. That's Tip O'Neill talking about Reagan in 1984. He said of Reagan,
"He only works three to three-and-a-half hours a day. He doesn't do his homework. He doesn't read his briefing papers. It's sinful that this man is president of the United States. He lacks the knowledge that he should have, on every sphere, whether it's the domestic or whether it's the international sphere." In his own memoir, O'Neill wrote, "I’ve known every president since Harry Truman, and there’s no question in my mind that Reagan was the worst."
Meanwhile, a new financial bubble has been creeping up, with President Obama calling the high cost of college tuition and student loan debt "a crisis." What most probably don't see is that Washington's efforts to socialize education have done to tuition costs what they did to housing prices.
By subsidizing and enlarging government-guaranteed student loans, colleges ignored costs and raised tuition prices well above the (also government-induced)inflation rate.
The problem now is that, under the Obama economy, students can't find jobs to let them pay back their loans after graduating. Forbes recently reported that "more than half of student loans are in deferral or delinquent." Increasing defaults in the $1 trillion of student loans may well trigger the next financial crisis and bailout.
Too Much Government, Not Too Little, Is What Caused The Great Recession - Investors.com
Now, another side of the story is crystallizing in the public mind due to serious investigative reporting. The latest new insights are from Jay Richards in his just-released book, "Infiltrated."
What's increasingly clear is that it wasn't the free market, but rather Washington's socialized housing policies and crony capitalism, that failed and brought on the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Too Much Government, Not Too Little, Is What Caused The Great Recession - Investors.com
This is the third request from the dispatcher indicating he wants Zimmerman to continue to observe Martin's actions and movements. Given the conversation with the dispatcher, it would seem that Martin's running away heightened Zimmerman's belief that Martin was a burglar. On the other hand, when Zimmerman started following him in his car, Martin probably thought that Zimmerman was acting suspiciously.
Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos also said there's nothing to indicate the children's mother would face any charges in the Wednesday night crash that killed her daughter, Aaliyah Felder.
"There's really no criminal element to any of it," Martos said. "From mom's standpoint, there's nothing to indicate any neglect or abuse. From the kid's point, he's 8 years old so his mental state is not culpable."
The mother bathed the children Wednesday night, put them to bed, and then went to bed herself. Half an hour later, she got up and discovered they were gone, Martos said. The front door was open and the family sedan was missing.
In reality, Allen felt no such thing. As noted by Religion News Service, “He was especially fond of the Reagans.” A member of Allen’s church recalled that “he often talked about how nice they were to him.” Allen did leave the White House during the Reagan administration, but as Haygood’s profile mentioned, he received a “sweet note” from the president and a hug from the first lady.
What ‘The Butler’ gets wrong about Ronald Reagan and race - The Washington Post
Telling college kids that if they spend six years running up a student loan tab getting an unmarketable diploma, they’ll only have to pay back a fraction of what they borrowed. In fact, the less valuable their degree and the more money they borrow — the more they win!
And the more we taxpayers have to pay.
Mr Baig said foreigners bear 90pc of the currency risk in Malaysia, 81pc in Thailand, 79pc in Korea and 74pc in India. So let them take the haircut. Should these countries take that course, they will inflict a deflationary trade shock on the West. The eurozone is in no fit state to handle that. Nor is Britain.
Emerging market rout is too big for the Fed to ignore - Telegraph
Martin Luther King’s assassination did set off rioting in many cities including Washington, D.C. But the highest profile black rioting preceded the killing of King and was not associated with any other assassination.
which facts further suggest that the planet’s more modest current warmth need not be the result of historical increases in these two trace greenhouse gases.
Though Obama received a scholarship to attend Occidental College, the money ran out after his freshman year. He paid the rest of his undergraduatetuition through loans and assistance from his family.
Obamas carried $120,000 student loan debt for decades | The Daily Caller
The mother of a baby fatally shot in his stroller in coastal Georgia is expected to take the stand again.
Sherry West gave tearful testimony Tuesday about the killing of her son at a suspect's murder trial. When proceedings ended for the day, she was still being cross examined by the defense.
Mother of baby slain in Ga. to resume testimony - Imperial Valley Press Online: Nation / World
The men who destroyed so many thousands on 9/11 will then be fighting alongside the very nation whose innocents they so cruelly murdered almost exactly 12 years ago. Quite an achievement for Obama, Cameron, Hollande and the rest of the miniature warlords.
This, of course, will not be trumpeted by the Pentagon or the White House – nor, I suppose, by al-Qa’ida – though they are both trying to destroy Bashar. So are the Nusra front, one of al-Qa’ida’s affiliates. But it does raise some interesting possibilities.
Fortunately for them, they had no putative leaders teaching them victimhood and hopelessness. No one told them it was someone else's job to make their lives successful.
Two years before the assassination took place Marshall, a government agricultural agent, went to Texas to look into the irregularities reported from down there.
He committed suicide, or so they said.
When this unlikely event was eventually questioned in Washington an exhumation and autopsy were ordered.
They found Marshall had died from (a) a blow to the head, (b) carbon monoxide poisoning and (c) being riddled with bullets.
Was Kennedy murdered by his own vice president? | UK | News | Daily Express
It turns out, however, that even America’s largest companies face higher costs due to the health law. A recently-leaked letter from Delta Air Lines to the Obama administration states that the “cost of providing health care to our employees will increase by nearly $100,000,000 next year,” much of it due to Obamacare.
Delta Air Lines: Next Year, Our Health Care Costs Will Increase By 'Nearly $100 Million' - Forbes
Officials accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” were accused of offenses as varied as misappropriating government funds, appointing unfit subordinates, not prosecuting cases, not spending money allocated by Parliament, promoting themselves ahead of more deserving candidates, threatening a grand jury, disobeying an order from Parliament, arresting a man to keep him from running for Parliament, losing a ship by neglecting to moor it, helping “suppress petitions to the King to call a Parliament,” granting warrants without cause, and bribery. Some of these charges were crimes. Others were not. The one common denominator in all these accusations was that the official had somehow abused the power of his office and was unfit to serve.
It’s Not Crazy to Talk about Impeachment | National Review Online
In 1964, federal student aid was a mere $231 million. By 1981, the feds were spending $7 billion on loans alone, an amount that doubled during the 1980s and nearly tripled in each of the following two decades, and is about $105 billion today. Taxpayers now stand behind nearly $1 trillion in student loans.
Meanwhile, grants have increased to $49 billion from $6.4 billion in 1981. By expanding eligibility and boosting the maximum Pell Grant by $500 to $5,350, the 2009 stimulus bill accelerated higher ed's evolution into a middle-class entitlement. Fewer than 2% of Pell Grant recipients came from families making between $60,000 and $80,000 a year in 2007. Now roughly 18% do.
This growth in subsidies, Mr. Vedder argues, has fueled rising prices: "It gives every incentive and every opportunity for colleges to raise their fees."
Allysia Finley: The Real Reason College Costs So Much - WSJ.com
A hot dog vendor at a Ferguson Home Depot was robbed of his cellphone and struck in the head with a hammer by four shoplifters. The incident occurred around 3 p.m on Wednesday. The Home Depot is located in St. Louis County at the 10900 block of New Halls Ferry Road. According the CBS St Louis, “the suspects are black men in their early 20s. Two of the suspects were wearing white t-shirts, one had a plaid shirt. The fourth was wearing a blue shirt and had his right arm in a cast.”
Spokane police are looking for two male suspects in the attack. They said the suspects are African Americans between 16 and 19 years old. One suspect was described as heavy set and wearing all black clothing. The other was described as being about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds. There was no description of what clothing the second suspect was wearing other than a silk do-rag.
WWII vet, beaten by teens outside Eagles Lodge, dies | Spokane/E. WA - KXLY.com
Allemand, 29, had been arguing the afternoon of Aug. 12 with her NBA player boyfriend Ryan Anderson "over her suspicions of he having been unfaithful to her," hours before she tried to take her own life, according to a New Orleans Police Department report obtained by ABC News.
A search on Mugshots.com turns up one Brenda M. Edwards, 50, of Stephens County, Oklahoma. I called the Stephens County district attorney’s office today and confirmed that Brenda M. Edwards is James Edwards’ mother.
The PJ Tatler » Meet Brenda Edwards, Mother of Accused ‘Bored’ Teen Killer James Edwards
“I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future. Period.”
He called them “troublemakers” and “bullies” with no parental supervision, and said that Edwards had threatened to kill his own son using Facebook. “They threatened to kill my son because they are in a gang, the Crips, and were trying to get my son in it and I wouldn’t let him do it.,” Johnson explained. “I told him he couldn’t run with those boys. He’s a little terrified.” Police Chief Ford believes that the teens’ wanted “to make a name for themselves” on the streets.
Daniel Greenfield reported in January that “Sweden now has the second highest number of rapes in the world, after South Africa, which at 53.2 per 100,000 is six times higher than the United States. Statistics now suggest that 1 out of every 4 Swedish women will be raped.” (Another recent study also puts Sweden at #2, but has Lesotho in the #1 spot.)
Scandinavian Rape, Scandinavian Blinders | FrontPage Magazine
in America, the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.
What they found is that ice ages occurred when the Earth traveled through the spiral arms of our galaxy, periods when the Earth must have been experiencing high levels of cosmic ray inflow.
Articles: Ten Year Anniversary of the Climate Change Paradigm Shift
Such a paradigm shift started a decade ago, when Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv and Canadian geologist Jan Veizer published the ground-breaking study that laid out the chief long-term cause of climate change -- cosmic rays.
Articles: Ten Year Anniversary of the Climate Change Paradigm Shift
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In that connection, it deserves to be more widely reported that under the Obama/Holder administration, federal firearms-related prosecutions are down by 40% compared with the George W. Bush administration. Actual crime has never been a priority for Obama’s politicized Justice Department.If Barack Obama Had a Son, Would He Look Like Chris Lane? | Power Line
The Obamacare law as passed also provides that the extensive Obamacare subsidies for purchasing health insurance on the exchanges apply in such Exchanges set up by the states, as the law contemplated. But 27 states exercised their right under the law to refuse to set up exchanges, leaving the federal government to do it in those states, primarily because the states were left with no discretion or authority regarding how to organize them. Only 17 states have actually established exchanges on their own. The law as written and passed only provides for the Obamacare exchange health insurance subsidies to apply in these 17 states. So on May 23, 2012, the IRS issued an illegal rule providing that the Obamacare exchange subsidies shall apply in all 50 states any way.
Stephens County Courthouse heard how one of the boys accused of murdering Lane, 22, danced and laughed as he was taken into a police station to be charged after the killing on Friday.Three teens charged over murder of Melbourne baseball player Chris Lane | Herald Sun
James Edwards, 15, was treating the murder as a joke, Mr Hicks told the hearing.
Mr Hicks told the court that Edwards has previously been in contact with police, and that he had "an attitude of total disregard for law enforcement" when he was being charged over Lane's death.
Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire. Cantor argues that Shakespeare’s Romans are not just anachronistic Elizabethans—quite different attitudes toward suicide, for example, separate Shakespeare’s Romans from his Christian contemporaries—and he finds in the Bard’s Roman plays an inkling of republican philosophy to come, something other scholars contend had yet arise in any Englishman’s mind.
How the Invisible Hand Sifts Popular Culture | The American Conservative
Across the country, schools are policing and punishing the distinctive, assertive sociability of boys. Many much-loved games have vanished from school playgrounds. At some schools, tug of war has been replaced with “tug of peace.” Since the 1990s, elimination games like dodgeball, red rover and tag have been under a cloud — too damaging to self-esteem and too violent, say certain experts. Young boys, with few exceptions, love action narratives. These usually involve heroes, bad guys, rescues and shoot-ups. As boys’ play proceeds, plots become more elaborate and the boys more transfixed. When researchers ask boys why they do it, the standard reply is, “Because it’s fun.”
Christina Hoff Sommers: School Has Become Hostile to Boys | TIME.com
Nationwide, our study found that the wage-equivalent value of benefits for a mother and two children ranged from a high of $60,590 in Hawaii to a low of $11,150 in Idaho. In 33 states and the District of Columbia, welfare pays more than an $8-an-hour job. In 12 states and DC, the welfare package is more generous than a $15-an-hour job.
Her head, arms and face were full of bruises and sores,’ wrote one witness, Mary Maverick. ‘And her nose was actually burnt off to the bone. Both nostrils were wide open and denuded of flesh.’
Once handed over, Matilda Lockhart broke down as she described the horrors she had endured — the rape, the relentless sexual humiliation and the way Comanche squaws had tortured her with fire. It wasn’t just her nose, her thin body was hideously scarred all over with burns.
When she mentioned she thought there were 15 other white captives at the Indians’ camp, all of them being subjected to a similar fate, the Texan lawmakers and officials said they were detaining the Comanche chiefs while they rescued the others.
It was a decision that prompted one of the most brutal slaughters in the history of the Wild West — and showed just how bloodthirsty the Comanche could be in revenge.
How Comanche Indians butchered babies and roasted enemies alive | Mail Online
Why do I say fable? Because, as I argue in American Betrayal, writing about these events — FDR, WWII, the Cold War — without taking into account the documented evidence of Soviet penetration of the U.S. policy-making chain by American traitors working, shifting, edging, influencing events and policy to the Communist advantage is missing at least half the story. I’m talking about the evidence of Venona, of the Mitrokhin archive, of the Vassiliev notebooks, of FBI files, of congressional hearings, etc. Visit your favorite relevant history or biography or war history on Amazon and just search the word “Venona,” for example (referring to the archive of KGB cables about American traitors working often within the federal government for the Kremlin). Is Venona a significant source of material about the World War II–era events in the book? Is it a source, period?
Another Day, Another Attack on American Betrayal | National Review Online
As the number of street crimes committed in Baltimore City escalates, so does the level of fear. This has caused communities to look beyond the police for protection.
In Baltimore City there are four special tax districts where residents pay more to make their neighborhoods safer. Charles Village is one of them and has the lowest surtax of the four. It was formed in the mid-1990s as a way for the community to provide supplemental security and sanitation services to what the city was already providing. The surtax charged to homeowners has never been altered.
There has been 61 murders so far in Oakland, California. And with crime on the rise, some neighbors are taking extraordinary steps.
Gunfire has become so common on the streets of Oakland, California -- that even in neighborhoods that once seemed immune to the city's violence, residents are no longer shocked.
Violence in Oakland forces residents to seek private security - CBS News
Why do I say fable? Because, as I argue in American Betrayal, writing about these events — FDR, WWII, the Cold War — without taking into account the documented evidence of Soviet penetration of the U.S. policy-making chain by American traitors working, shifting, edging, influencing events and policy to the Communist advantage is missing at least half the story. I’m talking about the evidence of Venona, of the Mitrokhin archive, of the Vassiliev notebooks, of FBI files, of congressional hearings, etc. Visit your favorite relevant history or biography or war history on Amazon and just search the word “Venona,” for example (referring to the archive of KGB cables about American traitors working often within the federal government for the Kremlin). Is Venona a significant source of material about the World War II–era events in the book? Is it a source, period?
Another Day, Another Attack on American Betrayal | National Review Online
The judge said the plain language in the initiative indicates that financing and environmental clearances should be completed for the first 290 miles from Merced to the San Fernando Valley, which is estimated to cost anywhere from $24 billion to $31 billion.
"The judge indicated that they really had to have the funding for the entire IOS (initial operating segment) that they picked, and that's $31 billion," said Mike Brady, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "They only have $6 billion of the $31 billion, so that's going to be a pretty big hurdle, I think."
Hyperwhoops: California's "Other" Bullet Train Project On Verge Of Crashing And Burning | Zero Hedge
Where African leaders have resisted pressure from the U.S. to impose LGBT ideology on their societies, lawyers have kicked into gear and tried to bring international law down on them, as was evident in the recent decision by Judge Michael Posner that a white Christian minister in the United States can be prosecuted for preaching against homosexuality in Uganda. Moreover, an Anglican bishop from Malawi, Rt. Rev. James Tengatenga, was chosen to be the dean of Dartmouth College's William Jewett Tucker Foundation, but his appointment was rescinded because he spoke out against the consecration of an openly gay man as Episcopalian bishop of New Hampshire.
He was in their grasp and then he was gone. Jared W. Remy was arraigned in Waltham District Court Wednesday on charges of slamming Jennifer Martel’s face into a mirror in their townhouse. But prosecutors declined to seek bail, allowing him to leave the court with nothing more than an order not to abuse Martel, with whom he lived and had a 4-year-old daughter.
Local authorities had cited the Garden of Eden in recent weeks for code violations, including "grass that was too tall, bushes growing too close to the street, a couch and piano in the yard, chopped wood that was not properly stacked, a piece of siding that was missing from the side of the house, and generally unclean premises," Smith's statement said. She said the police didn't produce a warrant until two hours after the raid began, and officers shielded their name tags so they couldn't be identified. According to ABC affiliate WFAA, resident Quinn Eaker was the only person arrested -- for outstanding traffic violations.
After a hard day’s work, Uncle Joe blessed a Moscow circus with his presence. The clowns performed a bit that contained (what Stalin perceived as) political commentary obliquely critical of him. Yet the audience roared with delight at the funny clowns!
True to form, Stalin had his armed guards line up the clowns in center ring and execute them, on the spot.
Then, as a clever follow-up on Stalin’s part, he had the guards turn their guns on the audience and slaughter dozens. Call it a curtain call: it was curtains for all
Perry acknowledged that he told Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, he would cut off the funding if she did not resign following her DWI conviction.
Perry, a Republican, would name Lehmberg’s replacement to serve until the next election, next year.
Lehmberg did not resign, and Perry followed through with the veto. Among other cases, the unit has been investigating the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas — one of Perry’s landmark accomplishments.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
Similarly, George Washington once wrote, "If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
It's A Rodeo Clown, People, And Clowns Too Have Rights - Investors.com
What the mainstream media have failed to report is that for over two months in these “sit ins”—or more appropriately, mini-emirates in Egypt—many Egyptians have been tortured, mutilated, raped, and mass murdered in the name of Islam and/or Brotherhood rule. (Of course, this is unsurprising considering how the media also failed to report on the nonstop and heinous attacks on the nation’s Christian minority and its churches, all validated by Brotherhood leadership.)
Inside Egypt’s Terrorist Camps: Torture, Rape, Mass Murder | FrontPage Magazine
There was, indeed, a coup. But not all coups involve tanks. The real coup came after Egypt’s premature, badly flawed election, when Morsi and the Brotherhood excluded all non-Brothers from the political process; curtailed media freedoms and jailed journalists; attacked Christians; and rushed toward an Islamist state that the majority of Egyptians did not want.
Ralph Peters: Blood on the hands of Muslim Brotherhood - NYPOST.com
As the famous 14th-century Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun put it: “In the Muslim community, the jihad is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force. . . . Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
Watching his portrayal, I was reminded of the way Karl Marx described his contemporary: ‘One of the few men to become great without ceasing to be good’ (possibly the only perceptive political observation the old cadger ever made).
In this lecture, Akhmerov discussed his relationship with Alger Hiss and other Soviet agents but said that "the most important Soviet war-time agent in the United States" was Hopkins.
‘I remember you as a strong woman,’ says the lady, working the sewing machine with her good hand as her stump holds the garment steady. ‘Do you want to have a go?’ she asks cheerfully.
‘Honestly, I’m knackered,’ said Karen miserably, shaking her head before saying: ‘I don’t like showing vulnerability . . . All you will see is a brave smile, but deep down I’m suffering. I just want people to stop judging me.’
And we will, love, we will, I thought. Just as soon as you stop pretending you can’t pick up a potato
All three are from Nottingham, where half the population is on some kind of benefit.
I have submitted this to American Thinker and expect it to be posted. Here is a sneak preview:
In Bernie Reeves’ review of my book, American Betrayal, at American Thinker, he discusses another review, one by Ronald Radosh that appeared at Frontpage Magazine. I will be writing a rebuttal to the Radosh review. In the meantime, however, I would like to address the issue of scholarship that both reviews raise.
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“Wake up, go down to the beach, hang out with my friends, hit on some chicks, start drinking,” Greenslate said, describing his day to Fox News’ John Roberts in an interview for the channel’s “The Great Food Stamp Binge” hosted by Bret Baier.
“I surf everyday. It’s wonderful, man. Just get away from everything, clear your head. Get out with the boys. Have a good time.” Greenslate said.
Roberts reports that Greenslate has no fixed address, instead choosing the life of a beach bum staying with family, friends and girlfriends, living off them and $200 a month in benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which he uses to buy gourmet items at the grocery store.
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What’s interesting is that West’s paranoia has proven too much for Ron Radosh, who assails West in a lengthy review at Front Page Magazine (“overheated, or simply false and distorted”).
Our readers may not grasp just what it takes to be called a right-wing kook in Front Page Magazine by Ron Radosh. The bar is high. Radosh himself is quite conservative (he’s called President Obama a socialist). FrontPageMag is … well, suffice to say, its official motto is “Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out” — which is surely more evocative, if less credibility-rendering, than "All the news that’s fit to print." It currently features stories with such headlines as “Islamic Group in America: We’ll Impose Sharia on Christians” and “Seven More Reasons to Impeach Eric Holder.”
Maybe the greatest example of this -- both in its scope and the promises that had been attached to it -- was Chicago's' Cabrini-Green housing development. Indeed, if one wished to answer whose POV had proven correct -- my Mom's or my Dad's -- one could simply look at the history and sad fate of the Cabrini-Green public housing development which had, by 2011, been entirely demolished.
Anne Applebaum, oddly of the Washington Post, who writes books on the reality of the Soviet empire, recently said in Iron Curtain, her latest offering, how East Germany's Walter Ulbricht exerted Soviet control: "The skill was to put their supporters into broadcasting and the press, the arts, the unions, youth organizations, universities, and voluntary associations down to the level of chess clubs... critics of any aspect of Communism were defined as fascists." Sound familiar?
His criticisms are valid in detail but lacking in general perspective. He trivializes the reality that communist agents were indeed infiltrating the U.S. government, while focusing on the opinion that West is a nut case for claiming Hopkins was one too. He calls her belief that Soviet agents influenced policy by saying pro-Soviet decisions were necessitated by conditions of war. Actually, it was both, but like West, Radosh cannot seem to manage a broad view.
I now support West's conclusions after rereading KGB: The Inside Story account 23 years later. It does not ring true that Hopkins was an innocent dupe dedicated solely to defeating the Nazis. Hopkins comes over in history as crafty, secretive and no one's fool, hardly the personality traits of a naïve fellow traveler. And his fingerprints are on the large majority of pro-Soviet policies implemented by the Roosevelt administration. West deserves respect for cutting through the dross that obscures the evidence about Hopkins, and for screaming from the rooftops that the U.S. was the victim of a successful Soviet intelligence operation.
The father of Zina Bowser’s 3-year-old grandson said he knew when he heard what had happened that Erbie Bowser was behind it.
“Once they started to get their divorce, he started acting crazy and talking about how he was going to kill everybody,” said Jamaree Johnson. “He just didn’t want to get divorced. He married a woman with some money and he quit his job right after they got married. She was taking care of him, and she finally got tired of taking care of him.”
Only then did masked figures with guns storm the crowd, shouting, “Get on the fucking ground! Get down, get down!” (I document the basic details of what happened in my story, in this week’s magazine, about the police’s use and abuse of civil-asset-forfeiture laws.) Some forty Detroit police officers dressed in commando gear ordered the gallery attendees to line up on their knees, then took their car keys and confiscated their vehicles, largely on the grounds that the gallery lacked the proper permits for dancing and drinking. (More than forty cars were seized, and owners paid around a thousand dollars each to get them back.) “I was so scared,” Wong told me. At first, she thought the raid was an armed robbery. “Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Paul getting kicked in the face.” In the dimly lit security footage, the scene looks like something out of a thriller about Navy SEALs. Paul said, “I was scared for my life.”
SWAT-Team Nation: The Militarization of the U.S. Police : The New Yorker
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed a new plan to change U.S. neighborhoods it says are racially imbalanced or are too tilted toward rich or poor, arguing the country's housing policies have not been effective at creating the kind of integrated communities the agency had hoped for.
HUD Proposes Plan to Racially, Economically Integrate Neighborhoods - US News and World Report
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed a new plan to change U.S. neighborhoods it says are racially imbalanced or are too tilted toward rich or poor, arguing the country's housing policies have not been effective at creating the kind of integrated communities the agency had hoped for.
HUD Proposes Plan to Racially, Economically Integrate Neighborhoods - US News and World Report
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It did not seem implausible for me to love my mother yet concede that her divorce from my father and her taking up with another woman for almost all the years that I was being raised by her caused me lifelong wounds that never healed.
In May this year, former abortion doctor Dr. Anthony Levantino described late-term abortion in congressional testimony before a House subcommittee debating the 20-week abortion ban Pelosi and most Democrats opposed. It is similar to the one Davis opposed in Texas. Levantino told the committee: “The toughest part….is extracting the baby’s head. [Y]ou will know you have it right when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix. That was the baby’s brains. You can then extract the skull pieces. Many times a little face will come out and stare back at you.”
On Abortion, Wendy Davis Doesn’t Know What She’s Talking About - The Daily Beast
According to the Gosnell grand jury report (PDF), “The abhorrent conditions and practices inside Gosnell’s clinic [were] directly attributable to the Pennsylvania Health Department’s refusal to treat abortion clinics as ambulatory surgical facilities.” In December 2011, the governor of Pennsylvania signed a law inspired by the Gosnell tragedy requiring exactly that. This legislation was opposed by the pro-abortion rights forces in Pennsylvania, but had the full-throated support of Democratic state Rep. Margo Davidson, whose 22-year-old cousin died from a botched abortion at Gosnell’s clinic. Davidson rejected the claims that abortion clinics didn’t need additional regulation and oversight to ensure safety. Three former Planned Parenthood employees who have acted as whistleblowers in Delaware also have rejected this claim. They have testified twice before the Delaware legislature to call for stricter regulations of clinics to protect women after witnessing horrors one compared to Gosnell’s clinic. Wendy Davis should call them.
On Abortion, Wendy Davis Doesn’t Know What She’s Talking About - The Daily Beast
The Obama Department of Housing and Urban Development might decide it wants to dictate changes. HUD is, according to Fox News, considering "a new rule that would allow the feds to track diversity in America's neighborhoods and then push policies to change those it deems discriminatory."
Does Obama White House Want To Dictate Who Lives Where In America? - Investors.com
The occasion was a July 25 meeting between President Obama and the leader of communist Vietnam. Obama stated: “President Sang shared with me a copy of a letter sent by Ho Chi Minh to Harry Truman. And we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
The American Spectator : Ho Chi Minh, Obama’s Freedom Fighter
He and his wife argued. He pulled a gun on her. She threatened to leave him. He put the gun away and followed her. She unloaded a volley of punches on him. He fetched the gun again. She pulled a knife. He wrestled it out of her hands. She punched him again.
Then he shot her "multiple times."
Florida man allegedly kills wife, posts photo of her body on Facebook - CNN.com
That’s basically the impulse behind President Obama’s plan, released yesterday, to subsidize the purchase of private-label mortgage-backed securities (MBS), the most corrosive financial product in the U.S. economy over the past 80 years. Obama, like many in Washington, is concerned about the massive $4.2 trillion portfolios of government-sponsored mortgage purchasers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the subsequent taxpayer risk if the market stumbles.
President Obama Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Plan | New Republic
And not just taxes and transfers, because those don’t fix the problem -- Swedish kids from single-parent homes also have higher rates of depression, substance abuse, and so forth, despite a generous welfare state. What’s needed are jobs, and the cultural institutions that sustain strong families and other social relationships. But how does such cultural change take place?
It makes all the other problems harder to fix: It’s hard to get three kids from three different fathers through high school and college if you’re the only adult in the household, and your credit cards are always maxed out.
“We didn’t have a dramatic increase in unwed childbearing back in the Great Depression,” sociologist Brad Wilcox told me. “That’s in part because we had a very different understanding of family life and sex and marriage back then. That tells us that it’s not just economic. It’s also about culture and law.”
“If you’re a guy in the inner city and you can find a job making $8 an hour, you’re a prince. If your girlfriend can pull minimum wage,” Edin told me, you’re set. But “that’s the best-case scenario because almost no one is able to work full-time, full year.”
The bottom two thirds, on the other hand, are in unstable relationships that tend to break apart under stress. They typically have at least one child before they marry, experts told me, and when they do marry, it’s not to the father of their child. This is bad for the people in these relationships, and for the children they produce.
But family members told KTVT the suspect was looking for his former girlfriend at both of the houses he allegedly shot up.
The condition of the four wounded victims wasn't known early Thursday.
That wasn't Obama's only error last night on "The Tonight Show." He also got flummoxed by geography: "The Panama [Canal] is being widened so that these big supertankers can come in. Now, that will be finished in 2015. If we don't deepen our ports all along the Gulf--places like Charleston, South Carolina, or Savannah, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida--if we don't do that, those ships are going to go someplace else."
Brett and Christina Anderson recently separated, Dawn said. Investigators called Brett Anderson her ex-husband, but he said they were still married.
Brett Anderson, who flew from Tennessee to San Diego on Tuesday, pleaded with DiMaggio, 40, to release his daughter, Hannah, saying, "You've taken everything else."
Police believe the children were last seen with their mother in Boulevard on Saturday. They were reported missing by their grandparents on Sunday. Giannantonio said he did not know what led them to believe their grandchildren were missing.
According to Giannantonio, DiMaggio and Anderson had "a close, platonic relationship."
Father of missing children pleads for daughter's release - CNN.com
The losses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terrible, but not as terrible as the number of Japanese who would have died as the result of an invasion. The revisionist historians of the 1960s - and their disciples - are quite wrong to depict the decision to use the bombs as immoral. It would have been immoral if they had not been used.
Many of their claims have been exposed as phony in The Delinquent Teenager who was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert by Donna LaFramboise.
“She looked up and saw the tree across this park bench, and on top of the poor lady, it crushed her,” Delligatti said.
Emergency responders rushed the woman, identified as Yingyi Li, to New York Hospital Queens, but she did not survive.
Delligatti and other people who live nearby told Fox 5 they were not surprised by the falling tree. They say many of the trees in Kissena Park appear to be in bad condition.
Pregnant woman killed by falling tree in Queens - New York News
On July 24, the FBI reported, "Scarpa advised that Yousef has been avoiding any conversation pertaining to the explosion." Within days of the TWA 800 crash, the same U.S. attorney who was managing the Scarpa sting, Valerie Caproni, illegally took the crash investigation away from the National Transportation Safety Board and gave it to the FBI.
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In May 1996, Junior reported that "during the trial [Yousef et al.] had a plan to blow a plane up to show they are serious." As July 17 approached, according to Junior, Yousef was warning friends not to fly on TWA or American Airlines on the morning of July 18. On the night of July 17, after the explosion, Yousef kept pressing to use Junior's cell phone, which he allegedly did not know was part of an FBI sting. Yousef called 9-11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed that night, saying, "What had to be done has been done, TWA 800" (last two words unintelligible
Without making the connection directly, Lance suggests a possible carrot. In early September 1996, the Justice Department abruptly closed its thirty-one month long investigation and informed DeVecchio that a prosecution was "not warranted." By mid-September 1996, Kallstrom had ended all talk of a bomb or missile and pushed through the administration's "mechanical failure" narrative. Kallstrom would remain DeVecchio's most prominent champion even during his criminal trial on the same charges.
Democracy never lasts long,” Adams famously said. “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
Which leads us back to Benghazi. You don’t have to be Muslim to love the Muslim Brotherhood or even, consciously or unconsciously, sympathize with the goals, if not the actions, of al-Qaeda. You just have to have been imbued with a blind hatred of imperialism. That’s all you need.
Roger L. Simon » The Rise of Al-Qaeda and Why the Administration Lied about Benghazi
More than $1 billion has now been paid out for what BP describes as “fictitious” claims to landlocked companies far from the coast that either suffered no loss because of the spill or, it argues, have benefited from Alice in Wonderland accounting rules that allow businesses to cherry-pick their cashflow figures.
BP oil spill: Louisiana makes a dash for the cash - Telegraph
TSG listed in its article on June 26 all the tweets she tried to delete. Her language is colorful and her writing style comes out like written ebonics. She is underage, but clearly actively engaged in drinking and more:
"When u drinking & smoking u need good music in ur ears hahaha I feel so good on Sunday" and "I need a drink to sleep dis off fuck dis shit boi." She also made references to Martin's death, referred to acquaintances as "bitch" and "nigga," and wrote about having "jackass lawyers on my ass."
Employer plans arose in the first place only because of a loophole created by wage controls during World War II. In an effort to curb the costs of the war effort, the government prohibited wage increases but, perhaps by oversight, did not prevent employers from offering additional fringe benefits as a way to combat labor shortages. Employer health plans proved an especially effective recruiting tool and had the additional advantage of not being taxed as implicit income
What’s changed? Insurers are able to offer more reasonable rates because the individual mandate — the requirement in Obamacare that everyone buy insurance or face financial penalties — is ensuring a high proportion of healthy people in the insured pool.
In 2011, officials in Honolulu, Hawaii began construction on a controversial 20-mile rail project partly because of almost $1.8 billion in federal subsidies to President Barack Obama's home state. The project's total cost estimate stands at $5.3 billion, but if other similar projects are any indication, the final price tag will increase dramatically before anyone even gets to buy a ticket. What's playing out in the Aloha State is happening all over the country.
“This rail project is our bridge to nowhere”, says University of Hawaii law professor Randall Roth. “We are convinced that it will be billions of dollars over budget and we think they will try to get the federal government to bail them out.”
Light-Rail to Nowhere: Honolulu, Hawaii's Train Boondoggle - Reason.com
The Labor Department reported Friday that the economy added 162,000 jobs in July, after adding 188,000 in June. Unemployment fell to 7.4 percent, largely because 240,000 adults left the labor force.
Businesses continued the shift toward contingent workers. In July, 103,000 more Americans reported working part-time.
Obama must accept responsibility for the sluggish jobs picture | Fox News
