Monday, September 30, 2013

Judge approves deal in Alabama prison case over HIV | The Montgomery Advertiser | montgomeryadvertiser.com

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued an opinion Monday saying the agreement isn't perfect but can take effect.

Female inmates already are living with other prisoners at the state's lone women's prison, and male inmates will be integrated into the general prison population next year.
Thompson sided with prisoners in December and ordered the Department of Corrections to quit making HIV-positive inmates live in housing areas away from other prisoners.

Thompson held two hearings last week on the resulting settlement.

The American Civil Liberties Union represents inmates who sued to end the practice.

Judge approves deal in Alabama prison case over HIV | The Montgomery Advertiser | montgomeryadvertiser.com

Lerner's Pension Could Be as Much as $102,600/Year, $3.96 Million Lifetime | CNS News#sthash.MhII6Rmf.dpuf

So it was no surprise when speculation arose over how much Lerner could collect in federal pension benefits.
Unfortunately, that speculation, which initially projected a benefit of over $50,000, might be off by about half ... and in the wrong direction.

National Taxpayers Union calculations show that Lerner could qualify for a starting pension at the annual equivalent of as much as $102,600, and up to $3.96 million over her lifetime.

Lerner's Pension Could Be as Much as $102,600/Year, $3.96 Million Lifetime | CNS News#sthash.MhII6Rmf.dpuf

Marcella Hazan dies at 89; Italian cookbook author, teacher - latimes.com

Marcella would cook and recook her recipes, carefully gauging her husband's reaction. Victor, an authority on Italian wine who wrote well-regarded books of his own, would translate her recipes from Italian and write for the cookbook. No one who knew the Hazans thought of one without thinking of the other.

"In a way, all the cookbooks have been outgrowths of the eager, affectionate conversations about the day's meals that the two of them had in their first New York apartment," food writer Anne Mendelson wrote in reviewing "Marcella Cucina" for the L.A. Times.

Marcella Hazan dies at 89; Italian cookbook author, teacher - latimes.com

Justice Department to sue North Carolina over voter law | Fox News

The Justice Department will announce Monday that it is suing the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules.

A person briefed on the department's plans told Fox News that the suit would claim that the North Carolina statute violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and would seek to have the state subject to federal pre-clearance before making "future voting-related changes." The person also said the suit would be filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nashville, Tenn.

Justice Department to sue North Carolina over voter law | Fox News

A War on Coal | The Weekly Standard

Since coal power plants generate over 40 percent of the nation’s electricity, these closures are bound to result in significantly higher electricity bills. They also raise troubling questions about our ability to reliably supply power in much of the country.

So how can the EPA justify regulations that amount to a regressive tax on poor people and reduce desperately needed energy production? McCarthy told the Times she wouldn’t have accepted the job at the helm of the EPA if she hadn’t been confident the president was serious about addressing climate change: “It’s an issue I’ve worked on for so many years, and it just can’t wait

A War on Coal | The Weekly Standard

The American Spectator : Extremely Extreme Extremists

Often, the prevailing prejudices of the press corps are described as “liberal bias”; explaining this as a matter of ideology or philosophy, however, is unnecessary to describing the basic political allegiance of news industry personnel to the Democrat Party. Every study of the voting habits of American journalists shows an overwhelming preference for Democrats. The Media Research Center has compiled an exhaustive collection of such studies, some showing that reporters are eight times more likely to vote for Democrats than for Republicans.

The American Spectator : Extremely Extreme Extremists

As a direct result of Reid’s irresponsible policy, Americans are now faced with what is being described by many in the media as a “budget” battle, but is in fact about the short-term alternative to an actual budget, a continuing resolution which would authorize the government to keep spending more money than it has, by borrowing billions of dollars it has no feasible plan to repay.

The American Spectator : Extremely Extreme Extremists

The poster boys of climate change thrive in the icy Arctic: Polar bears defy concerns about their extinction | Mail Online

Polar bear populations have stablised and may even be increasing

This is despite dire predictions of 70 per cent decline in numbers by 2050

One resident of Alaskan village says 'this has been a great year for

The poster boys of climate change thrive in the icy Arctic: Polar bears defy concerns about their extinction | Mail Online

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Blog: Islamist gunmen murder 50 students at Nigerian college

Suspected Islamist militants stormed a college in northeastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40 male students, some of them while they slept early on Sunday, witnesses said.

State police commissioner Sanusi Rufai said he suspected Boko Haram was behind the attack but gave no details.

Blog: Islamist gunmen murder 50 students at Nigerian college

American mom, 5 kids, survive Kenya mall attack; family ‘In plain view and not seen’ - The Washington Post

Walton — whose two sons were elsewhere in the mall during the attack, and also escaped, credits her God for protecting her family.

American mom, 5 kids, survive Kenya mall attack; family ‘In plain view and not seen’ - The Washington Post

Why Academics Hate Diana West

Thus, the architects of the "New Deal," including FDR himself, consciously intended it as the beginning of socialism in America. That, according to their designs, would open a way to a gradual convergence with Stalinist Soviet Union under a future socialist world government. In a way, that convergence had already begun, as the Roosevelt Administration was full of Soviet agents of influence, including Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, and crucially, Harry Hopkins--FDR’s alter ego, his "personal foreign secretary," and the most powerful man in the White House.

Why Academics Hate Diana West

Saturday, September 28, 2013

U.S. rights groups urge boycott of Barilla pasta after anti-gay remarks - Yahoo News Singapore

Consumers can express their opinions with their shopping dollars and forgo products from Barilla, one of the world's best-known makers of pasta and ready-made sauce, the group urged.

Nobel laureate Fo urged Barilla to make up for the remarks by creating an advertisement that featured a same-sex couple or parents.

The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equal rights group, posted a list on its website of five Barilla competitors that are gay and lesbian-friendly. (Barilla alternatives: http://r.reuters.com/saz43v)

"Now, more than ever, consumers are sending a message that they are watching to see if the business they patronize understand and honor issues important to them," it said.

U.S. rights groups urge boycott of Barilla pasta after anti-gay remarks - Yahoo News Singapore

Planned Parenthood takes Texas abortion laws to court — MSNBC

But the political odds were stacked against them, and the law ultimately cleared the Texas Legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry. “Women shouldn’t have to go to court after every legislative session,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. She added, “Women’s rights now depend on where they live.”

The clinic restrictions require abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital less than 30 miles away. The women’s groups argue that “rather than protecting women’s health, the Act will harm Texas women. It will also violate Plaintiffs’ and their patients’ rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.” The law goes into effect Oct. 29–unless is is blocked in court.

Planned Parenthood takes Texas abortion laws to court — MSNBC

Friday, September 27, 2013

The Post-Lecture Classroom: How Will Students Fare? - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic

A three-year study examining student performance in a “flipped classroom” — a class in which students watch short lecture videos at home and work on activities during class time — has found statistically significant gains in student performance in “flipped” settings and significant student preference for “flipped” methods.

The Post-Lecture Classroom: How Will Students Fare? - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic

White House to announce $300M in aid Friday to make Detroit safer, erase blight | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Nearly $300 million in aid for Detroit — from federal and state coffers, private businesses and charitable foundations — will be announced Friday as Obama administration officials visit the city to discuss what can be done to help eradicate blight, improve transportation, encourage new business and make residents safer.

White House to announce $300M in aid Friday to make Detroit safer, erase blight | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Kenya mall attack torture claims emerge from soldiers: 'Eyes gouged out, bodies on hooks, fingers removed' | Mail Online

Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered, had their eyes gouged out and were left hanging from hooks in the ceiling.

Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers before being blinded and hanged.

Children were found dead in the food court fridges with knives still embedded in their bodies, it was claimed.

Kenya mall attack torture claims emerge from soldiers: 'Eyes gouged out, bodies on hooks, fingers removed' | Mail Online

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Greenville Wal-Mart Shooter Picked Victims By Race

A man who shot four people near a Greenville Wal-Mart in June picked out his victims because they were white, according to several indictments handed down against him.

Can We Finally Start Talking About The Global Persecution Of Christians? | The Federalist

As Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert and Nina Shea write in Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians, “Christians are the single most widely persecuted religious group in the world today. This is confirmed in studies by sources as diverse as the Vatican, Open Doors, the Pew Research Center, Commentary, Newsweek and the Economist. According to one estimate, by the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community, 75 percent of acts of religious intolerance are directed against Christians.”

How well does the media tell that story? And how did they cover this weekend’s events? As Anglicans and other Christians worldwide grieved the brutal attack in Pakistan, the media… did not. The worst attack on Pakistani Christians in history didn’t make the front page of the New York Times. The Washington Post buried the story on page A7 of Monday’s paper. On the front page of the BBC web site, a small headline “Pakistan church blast kills dozens” was below stories on Angela Merkel and the Emmys. By the next day, the story was nowhere to be found.

Can We Finally Start Talking About The Global Persecution Of Christians? | The Federalist

Cruz Control Should Be Standard on GOP Models - Ann Coulter - Page 1

It was passed illegally without the House ever voting on the Senate bill and became law absent a single Republican vote -- even "the girls from Maine" and "the girl from Arizona" -- the only major legislation ever enacted on a strict party-line vote. The Supreme Court had to violate the Constitution's separation of powers to uphold Obamacare as a "tax" -- despite the fact that no elected body could ever have enacted such a massive tax hike even with the sleazy parliamentary tricks used to pass this bill.

Cruz Control Should Be Standard on GOP Models - Ann Coulter - Page 1

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Right Wing Obamacare Myths DEBUNKED | The Matt Walsh Blog

Americans for Tax Reform : IRS Watchdog: $67 Million Missing from Obamacare Slush Fund

The IRS is unable to account for $67 million spent from a slush fund established for Obamacare implementation, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report released today.

The “Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund” (HIRIF) was tucked into Obamacare in order to give the IRS money to enforce the tax provisions of the healthcare law. The fund, totaling some $1 billion of taxpayer money, was used to roll out enforcement mechanisms for the approximately 50 tax provisions of Obamacare.

Americans for Tax Reform : IRS Watchdog: $67 Million Missing from Obamacare Slush Fund

Surprise! Obamacare foe Cruz votes with Democrats on spending plan - CNN.com

An aide to Cruz told CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash that the senator always intended to allow formal consideration of the House measure, adding that Cruz would vote against it once Senate Democrats restored the Obamacare funding.

Surprise! Obamacare foe Cruz votes with Democrats on spending plan - CNN.com

Father of Syracuse assault suspect wants to apologize to 70-year-old victim | syracuse.com

The father of the Solvay teen accused of assaulting a 70-year-old man did not want to talk to reporters on Monday.

But he did have one message for Jim Gifford, the man who remains critically injured in Upstate University Hospital.

"I will talk to [Gifford] and his family. And I will apologize for my son's actions," said Charles Williams, father of 18-year-old Romeo Williams, before getting in his car and driving away from his Chemung Street house around noon Monday.

Father of Syracuse assault suspect wants to apologize to 70-year-old victim | syracuse.com

Mother of 18-year-old accused of beating elderly man offers ‘deepest apologies and prayers’ : News : CNYcentral.com

Where is the father?

The mother of Romeo Williams, the 18-year-old who is accused of savagely attacking 70-year-old James Gifford, is offering her apologies and prayers for the victim.

Mother of 18-year-old accused of beating elderly man offers ‘deepest apologies and prayers’ : News : CNYcentral.com

Cops: Teen pauses attack on 70-year-old man to celebrate - New York News

Fowler says Williams hit Gifford in the face, knocking him unconscious. Police say Williams then entered the store and celebrated by taking off his hat and holding it up in the air and smiling before going back outside to beat and kick Gifford.

Fowler says four men with Williams eventually pulled him off Gifford

Cops: Teen pauses attack on 70-year-old man to celebrate - New York News

Mystery Solved: Black Hole Belch Caused Galactic Glow | TIME.com

LAS VEGAS: Police searching for teen in mom, brother slaying | National | Bradenton Herald

Where is the father?

Navarro-Canales initially was named by police as a possible victim, then identified Monday as the prime suspect in the slayings. An arrest warrant said he would be prosecuted as an adult.

Henderson police investigators think the killings happened Tuesday, but the bodies weren't discovered until Friday — the fourth time a relative and the mother's boyfriend called to say they were worried about whether he, Elvira Canales-Gomez and Cesar Navarro were OK.

LAS VEGAS: Police searching for teen in mom, brother slaying | National | Bradenton Herald

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Angela Merkel Wins German Election, Is Europe's Machiavellian Genius | New Republic

If Putin were better able to mask his intentions, like Merkel, he might have had better luck expanding his influence.

Angela Merkel Wins German Election, Is Europe's Machiavellian Genius | New Republic

Climate change theories based on 'computer error'... Lord Lawson orders Met Office review | UK | News | Daily Express

Using research conducted by independent climate scientist Nic Lewis, the GWPF argues a flaw in the Met Office's computer climate model means it is bound to predict fairly high warming in the UK whatever observational data is used.

Climate change theories based on 'computer error'... Lord Lawson orders Met Office review | UK | News | Daily Express

Obama Administration Quietly Caves on True the Vote Case | Power Line

The Department of Justice told a federal court on Friday that it is conceding in the lawsuit brought by True the Vote, Inc., and will grant True the Vote 501(c)(3) status. True the Vote’s press release explains:

Obama Administration Quietly Caves on True the Vote Case | Power Line

Our Truest Lies | National Review Online

It was reported that Alexis had been treated for severe bouts of mental illness, yet apparently without endangering his security clearances. Like the deranged Sandy Hook mass murderer, Adam Lanza, Alexis was also pathologically addicted to playing violent video games for hours on end. Further controversy arose over the fact that most military personnel are not allowed to carry weapons at facilities like the Navy Yard.

Our Truest Lies | National Review Online

National Park Service produces videos praising Islam | Fox News

“Islam within itself, Islam itself means peace,” the government video states. “Islam brings nothing but peace if you truly look into it.”

National Park Service produces videos praising Islam | Fox News

The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Lost in Clintonworld

could afford to spend $630,000 to generate “likes” for the State Department Facebook page.

The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Lost in Clintonworld

A River of American Money Flows to D.C. | The Weekly Standard

Indeed, the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., a city with little identifiable industrial output, dominates the Census Bureau’s newly updated list of America’s wealthiest counties. Here are some highlights from that list:

Based on the median family income in 2012, the wealthiest county in America—by far—is Arlington Co., Va., located just across the Potomac River from D.C. In fact, Arlington’s median family income ($137,216) is more than $10,000 higher than that of any other county in the United States.

A River of American Money Flows to D.C. | The Weekly Standard

Sources: 3-Year-Old Harlem Girl Dies After Becoming Trapped In Sofa Bed « CBS New York

Police said the girls were being watched by their mother’s boyfriend at the time of the incident, Sandberg reported.

The investigation is ongoing.

Sources: 3-Year-Old Harlem Girl Dies After Becoming Trapped In Sofa Bed « CBS New York

Monday, September 23, 2013

Articles: For Those Who Don't Believe in Election Fraud

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"Yes, the Rizzo-Royster race turned on vote fraud," admitted the Kansas City Star's Barbara Shelly in a crow-eating column nearly three years after it would do any good. For years the Star has routinely mocked anyone who dared suggest vote fraud was a problem.

Articles: For Those Who Don't Believe in Election Fraud

$3.39T Quantitative Explosion: Fed Owns More Treasuries and MBSs Than Publicly Held Debt Amassed From Washington Through Clinton

The same day that the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee announced last week that the Fed would continue to buy $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) and $45 billion in U.S. Treasury securities per month, the Fed also released its latest weekly accounting sheet indicating that it had already accumulated more Treasuries and MBSs than the total value of the publicly held U.S. government debt amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington though Bill Clinton. -

See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/339t-quantitative-explosion-fed-owns-more-treasuries-and-mbss#sthash.3ri4VNie.dpuf

The Evil of Global Jihad | National Review Online

Countdown to shutdown | The Daily Caller

Terror in Kenya: Survivors reveal how gunman executed non-Muslims | Mail Online

Terror Group That Claimed Kenya Attack Has Recruited Americans Before - ABC News

During Congressional testimony in January 2012, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listed al-Shabaab as one of the most significant terror threats to the homeland, in part due to a "foreign fighter cadre that includes U.S. passport holders... [who] may have aspirations to attack inside the United States."

However, a senior law enforcement official said the latest U.S. government analysis shows no heightened threat to the U.S. as a result of the Kenya attack. While al-Shabaab does have a desire to strike at Western targets in Africa, hitting the U.S. homeland is "not a priority" for them, the official said.

Al-Shabaab claimed the attack on the Westgate Mall in Kenya was retaliation for the 2011 invovlement of Kenyan forces in anti-terror operations in Somalia.

Terror Group That Claimed Kenya Attack Has Recruited Americans Before - ABC News

Sunday, September 22, 2013

TCTH set to receive files on Angela Corey's prosecution of Zimmerman | Washington Times Communities

John Kass | An ode to the BLT season | Lancaster Eagle Gazette | lancastereaglegazette.com

TCTH set to receive files on Angela Corey's prosecution of Zimmerman | Washington Times Communities

Chicago plagued by hundreds of multiple shootings - chicagotribune.com

Nairobi mall: Gunmen massacred at least 22 in Kenyan shopping centre targeted non-Islamics | Mail Online

Terrorist freed from Guantanamo Bay is killed fighting for Al Qaeda in Syria | Mail Online

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Israeli soldier abducted, killed by Palestinian - New York News

A Palestinian lured an Israeli soldier to a village in the West Bank and killed him with the intention of trading the body for his brother jailed for terror attacks, Israel's intelligence agency said Saturday, in a slaying that casts another shadow on U.S. mediated peace talks that restarted this summer.

Israeli soldier abducted, killed by Palestinian - New York News

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - THE MAGIC FLUTE complete - YouTube

National Review Online | Print

The National Parks Service, which I had carelessly assumed was the service responsible for running national parks, has been making videos on Muslim women’s rights: “Islam gave women a whole bunch of rights that Western women acquired later in the 19th and 20th centuries, and we’ve had these rights since the seventh century,” explains a lady from AnNur Islamic School in Schenectady at the National Park Service website, nps.gov. Fascinating stuff, no doubt. But what’s it to do with national parks? Maybe the rangers could pay Dan Beckmann a quarter-million bucks to look into whether the National Parks’ Islamic outreach is using social media as effectively as it might.

National Review Online | Print

This Powerful Thai Cable Company Ad Is Guaranteed To Make You Cry

Model sues after HIV-positive ad | New York Post

This was not what she signed up for.

A Brooklyn woman is suing a major stock-photo company after she found her image splashed across ads in city newspapers as a veritable poster child for the rights of HIV-positive people.

A perfectly healthy Avril Nolan, 25, has filed a $450,000 lawsuit against Getty Images in Manhattan Supreme Court, accusing the photo agency of improperly allowing her image to be used in the advertisements.

Model sues after HIV-positive ad | New York Post

'Disgraceful:' University suspends prof who hoped for murder of NRA children

There is no word whether or not Guth will be paid throughout the suspension.

Guth turned to Twitter on Monday in response the a crazed gunman’s rampage at the Navy Yard in Washington D.C., in which 12 perished.

“#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA,” tweeted David Guth, who is an associate professor of Journalism at the university’s William Allen White School of Journalism.

“Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters, he continued. “Shame on you. May God damn you.”

'Disgraceful:' University suspends prof who hoped for murder of NRA children

Florida 'Hiccup Girl' found guilty of murder - CNN.com

Mee was 19 when she was arrested in October 2010. Police said she met Shannon Griffin on a social networking site, then lured him to a vacant home days later.

Authorities do not believe Mee or Griffin, a Wal-Mart employee who recently moved to Florida, knew each other prior to their online encounter.

Mee led Griffin around to the back, where two men -- Laron Raiford and Lamont Newton -- were armed and waiting, authorities said. Griffin died after being shot multiple times with a .38-caliber revolver.

All three suspects were arrested hours after Griffin's body was found. And all three were charged with first-degree murder, even Mee, although police indicated she didn't pull the trigger. Mee, Raiford and Newton had all been living together, according to police.

Florida 'Hiccup Girl' found guilty of murder - CNN.com

Friday, September 20, 2013

Communications Chair of Sacramento County Dems Wishes Death on Cruz Speechwriter's Kids | National Review Online

Best of the Web Today: Rich Man, Poor Woman? - WSJ.com

New Census numbers show that U.S. women were more likely to live in poverty than men in 2012, particularly if they're raising families alone. Over 30 percent of families led by single moms are living in poverty, compared to 16.4 percent of families led by single dads. Families run by women bring in a median annual income of $34,002; those led by men bring in $48,634 a year. There are also a lot more families living in the former category than the latter.

In total, 14.5 percent of American women lived in poverty in 2012, compared to 11 percent of men. According to the National Women's Law Center, poverty rates are even higher for black women (25.1 percent are living in poverty) and Hispanic women (24.8 percent). Women are more likely to be poor than men at every age: Among people between the ages of 18 to 64, 15.4 percent of women are in poverty, compared to 11.9 percent of men. Above age 65, 11 percent of women are in poverty, compared to 6.6 percent of men. Even girls under age 18 are slightly more likely to live in poverty than boys are.

Best of the Web Today: Rich Man, Poor Woman? - WSJ.com

House CR Forks Over $174,000 for Late Senator's Wife | 218

The death gratuity — a long-practiced, little-known, unofficial perk of office — has been a staple of congressional deaths. A Congressional Research Service report on members who die in office says:

“…it has been the typical practice of the House to provide a death gratuity equal to the member’s annual salary, payable to the deceased member’s widow or widower, or children either in the annual legislative branch appropriations act or a measure providing supplemental funds for the legislative branch. By statute, a death gratuity is considered a gift.”

Before Lautenberg’s death, he was No. 8 on Roll Call’s 50 Richest Members of Congress with a net worth of at least $56.8 million.

That raises a question for the government watchdogs at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: ”Why is the government throwing money at a multimillionaire?”

In a post on CREW’s website, Daniel Schuman says the situation is “even more galling” when you think about the choice it represents.

House CR Forks Over $174,000 for Late Senator's Wife | 218

Blog: Travis County's DA vows to pursue Tom DeLay

And on occasion, Lehmberg likes to knock back a few. As one news outlet reported last April 15:

The DA was busted early Saturday morning after a 911 caller reported Lehmberg's car for weaving into oncoming traffic on 2222.

Cops caught up with Lehmberg and found an open bottle of vodka in the front seat. She admitted to having a couple of vodka drinks.

Lehmberg refused a breathalyzer at the scene and deputies went and got a search warrant for the DA's blood.

Blog: Travis County's DA vows to pursue Tom DeLay

Home Depot Sending 20,000 Part-Timers to Health Exchanges - Bloomberg

Home Depot Inc. (HD), the world’s largest home improvement retailer, plans to end medical coverage for about 20,000 part-time employees and direct them to government-sponsored exchanges scheduled to open next month as companies revamp benefits to fit the U.S. Affordable Care Act.

Employees with fewer than 30 hours a week will no longer be offered limited liability medical coverage, Stephen Holmes, a spokesman, said today by telephone. About 5 percent of Atlanta-based Home Depot’s 340,000 employees are enrolled in that plan.

Home Depot Sending 20,000 Part-Timers to Health Exchanges - Bloomberg

BBC News - Navy Yard shooting: Swat team awaits answers

Members of a Washington DC Swat team who the BBC has learned were ordered not to respond to Monday's Navy Yard shootings have yet to be contacted by the authorities.

The Capitol Police tactical response team was told by a supervisor to leave the scene instead of aiding municipal officers, sources told the BBC.

Meanwhile, the department has installed a new leader of the elite unit. No reason has been given for the decision.

BBC News - Navy Yard shooting: Swat team awaits answers

Climate scientists told to 'cover up' the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years | Mail Online

The report is expected to say the rate of warming between 1998 and 2012 was about half of the average rate since 1951 – and put this down to natural variations such as the El Nino and La Nina ocean cycles and the cooling effects of volcanoes.

Climate scientists told to 'cover up' the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years | Mail Online

VodkaPundit » Guaranteed: The Scariest Thing You Will Read All Week

“Now, this debt ceiling — I just want to remind people in case you haven’t been keeping up — raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy. All it does is it says you got to pay the bills that you’ve already racked up, Congress. It’s a basic function of making sure that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved.”

Obama went on to suggest that “the average person” mistakenly thinks that raising the debt ceiling means the U.S. is racking up more debt:

“It’s always a tough vote because the average person thinks raising the debt ceiling must mean that we’re running up our debt, so people don’t like to vote on it, and, typically, there’s some gamesmanship in terms of making the President’s party shoulder the burden of raising the — taking the vote.”

VodkaPundit » Guaranteed: The Scariest Thing You Will Read All Week

Obama's Chicago Is Now Murder Capital Of U.S., FBI Says - Investors.com

FBI statistics show Chicago, with one-third the population, passing New York City in the number of murders in 2012. Is it time for a national conversation about gang control vs. gun control?

President Obama doesn't often mention his hometown when he talks about gun control. Then he'd have to explain, in arguably the most gun-restricted big city in America in the last state to allow concealed carry of firearms, why Chicago is now officially the murder capital of the United States.

Obama's Chicago Is Now Murder Capital Of U.S., FBI Says - Investors.com

Articles: Does Aaron Alexis Represent A New Breed of Killer?

This frustration has found an outlet in spontaneous, often random black-on-nonblack attacks too numerous to mention. It has also resulted in at least one other recent mass killing. Although the media seem to have forgotten, in 2010 Omar Thornton murdered eight of his coworkers at Hartford Distribution after being caught on video stealing inventory. 'I killed the five racists that was there bothering me," he said in the way of explanation.

Articles: Does Aaron Alexis Represent A New Breed of Killer?

DeLay’s Vindication, Texas’s Shame | National Review Online

As Justice Goodwin notes in her opinion, Mr. DeLay’s political-action committee followed standard practices, segregating soft money and hard money in separate accounts. Democratic PACs operating at the same time had followed exactly the same procedures in the handling of comparable sums of money, here $190,000. As the justice writes, Mr. DeLay’s organization “did not transfer funds between these two accounts. . . . There was no evidence that [DeLay’s PACs] treated the corporate funds as anything but what they were, corporate funds with limited uses under campaign finance law.” In the court’s most damning finding, the justice writes that DeLay was prosecuted not for attempting to circumvent the law but for trying to satisfy it: “The evidence shows that the defendants were attempting to comply with the Election Code limitations on corporate contributions.”

DeLay’s Vindication, Texas’s Shame | National Review Online

Atlanta kidnapping | Illegal Alien | Ayvani Hope Perez

Here is some of the terminology used to describe Contreras-Ramirez, which discloses that ICE is involved, but is completely vague as to the nature of the immigration problem (emphasis added):

AP via ABC News: “… Contreras-Rodriguez, a 40-year-old Mexican national, was arrested on immigration-related charges.”

NY Daily News: Juan Alberto Contreras-Rodriguez, a Mexican national …. Contreras-Rodriguez is being held on immigration-related charges for the time being ….”

NBC News: “Contreras-Rodriguez is a Mexican national arrested on immigration-related charges by federal Homeland Security investigators …”

CBS News: “The FBI said in a news conference Wednesday that Rodriguez is being held on immigration-related charges…”

Atlanta-Journal Constitution: “Contreras-Rodriguez, authorities said, is being held on federal immigration charges.”

Fox News: “Juan Alberto Contreras-Rodriguez, a 40-year-old Mexican national who is being held on immigration-related charges…”

USA Today: “The police chief also said Juan Alberto Contreras-Rodriguez, 40, a Mexican national, was arrested on immigration-related charges.”

Atlanta kidnapping | Illegal Alien | Ayvani Hope Perez

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Women Waiting Tables Provide Most of Female Gains in U.S. - Bloomberg

It’s almost 6 p.m. on a Friday and the tables near the bar at The Hamilton in downtown Washington are getting crowded. That means waitress Victoria Honard is busy.

Honard, 22, who graduated from Syracuse University in May, works about 25 hours a week at the restaurant while looking for a job related to public policy. She moved to Washington four days after graduation with the hope of finding a position at a think tank or policy-related organization, she said, and has applied to about 20 prospective employers.

Women Waiting Tables Provide Most of Female Gains in U.S. - Bloomberg

Jan Johansson - Jazz på svenska (Jazz in Swedish) - YouTube

From Bad to Worse: Syria's Christian Dilemma - Stan Guthrie

Syria’s 2 million Christians face an intolerable dilemma. The bad option is for Bashar al-Assad to retain his brutal grip on power. The worse option — for Chistians, at least — is for Assad’s dictatorship to fall.

As some have predicted, persecution of the country’s Christian minority is escalating as the civil war spreads. Islamists, who now dominate the opposition, have embarked on a bloody campaign of genocide against Christians, who constitute about 10 percent of the population.

From Bad to Worse: Syria's Christian Dilemma - Stan Guthrie

FBI: Chicago passes New York as murder capital of U.S.

The city of Chicago registered more homicides than any city in the nation in 2012, surpassing even New York — despite the fact that the Second City has only one third as many residents as the Big Apple.

In new crime statistics released Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 500 murders in Chicago in 2012, up sharply from the 431 recorded in 2011. New York reported 419 murders last year, compared with 515 in 2011.

FBI: Chicago passes New York as murder capital of U.S.

The Fed takes the country further into uncharted waters - The Washington Post

Anyone who doubts it need simply observe market behavior after Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke announced Wednesday that the central bank will continue buying securities at the rate of $85 billion per month — contrary to expectations that it would begin to “taper” those purchases, which have already swollen the Fed’s balance sheet to roughly four times its pre-crisis size. Bulls went wild, believing that the Fed’s easy-money policies, which help prop up the price of stocks and other assets, may continue at least through the end of Mr. Bernanke’s term early next year.

The Fed takes the country further into uncharted waters - The Washington Post

Ordered Liberty » The Clintons Employ Muslim Brotherhood Officials? You Can’t Be Serious …

The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo reports on Gehad [as in Jihad] el-Haddad:

A senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until recently, had been employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday and charged with inciting violence.

Ordered Liberty » The Clintons Employ Muslim Brotherhood Officials? You Can’t Be Serious …

Conservatives will float an alternative to Obamacare just two weeks before the health insurance overhaul takes full effect, as the law's unpopularity hits new highs | Mail Online

But right-wingers will undoubtedly hit a roadblock with Democrats when they learn that the bill would ban the use of federal tax dollars for funding abortions

Conservatives will float an alternative to Obamacare just two weeks before the health insurance overhaul takes full effect, as the law's unpopularity hits new highs | Mail Online

Abducted Georgia teen safe, but questions remain - CNN.com

But authorities say there's more to the story: a connection between one of the suspects and Ayvani's mom. The two were once arrested together during a drug bust.

Ayvani's mother, Maria Corral, and Juan Alberto Contreras-Rodriguez were among five people arrested during a drug raid in 2012 in Henry County, south of Atlanta, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents told CNN affiliate WSB-TV.

Drug agents found 500 pounds of marijuana in the home where the bust took place, WSB said. All were charged with trafficking marijuana.

Abducted Georgia teen safe, but questions remain - CNN.com

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

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U.S. to exit Fisker at hefty taxpayer loss | The Detroit News

The Energy Department said Tuesday it will auction off its outstanding $168 million loan to the now-closed electric vehicle manufacturer Fisker Automotive Inc., a move that will likely mean significant losses to taxpayers. It would be the second automaker to fail after receiving loans that were later sold by the government at a loss.

U.S. to exit Fisker at hefty taxpayer loss | The Detroit News

Articles: What John Adams Foretold Has Come True

Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. ... but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, ... in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would ... sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. ... anarchy and tyranny commence.

Articles: What John Adams Foretold Has Come True

The Majority of SNAP Recipients Live in the Suburbs

But increasingly, the ’burbs are becoming the defining image of food stamps. The number of Americans living in suburbs who receive SNAP doubled between 2007 and 2011, and the majority recipients nationwide—55 percent—now live there, according to an analysis of American Community Survey data by the Brookings Institution.

“Many of the regions that saw the steepest increases in food stamp receipt were Sun Belt metro areas hit hardest by the collapse of the housing market and recession that followed,” writes Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow at Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program and co-author of Confronting Suburban Poverty in America. This includes cities like Modesto, CA, Tampa, FL, and Riverside, CA, “where the number of suburban households receiving SNAP benefits more than tripled, as well as regions like Cape Coral, Las Vegas, and Atlanta, where suburban SNAP receipt more than doubled.”

The Majority of SNAP Recipients Live in the Suburbs

» Media Buries Psychiatric Drug Connection to Navy Shooter Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

CNN’s live news coverage also reported that Alexis had “recently purchased (an) AR-15 shotgun,” when in fact that purchase had been denied.

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post also falsely reported that an AR-15 had been found on Alexis after the massacre.

» Media Buries Psychiatric Drug Connection to Navy Shooter Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Alexis also suffered from PTSD, blackouts and anger issues – all of which are treated with SSRI drugs. The most common form of treatment for PTSD is Paroxetine, which is listed as the number 3 top violence-causing drug by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).

» Media Buries Psychiatric Drug Connection to Navy Shooter Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Despite every indication that Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis was on SSRI drugs that have been linked to dozens of previous mass shootings, the mainstream media has once again avoided all discussion of the issue, preferring instead to blame the tragedy on a non-existent AR-15 that the gunman didn’t even use.

» Media Buries Psychiatric Drug Connection to Navy Shooter Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

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Family: Ransom demand made in case of kidnapped Clayton County... | www.ajc.com

Guerrero took her brother, Ayvani’s father, Alberto Perez, 47, to the airport in El Paso, Texas, to fly to Atlanta on Tuesday morning. “My brother doesn’t have a clue. He doesn’t have any money like that.”

Perez, she said, wanted to be by the side of his ex-wife, Ayvani’s mother Maria Perez.

Family: Ransom demand made in case of kidnapped Clayton County... | www.ajc.com

Undocumented LA County Parents On Pace To Receive $650M In Welfare Benefits « CBS Los Angeles

A projected $650 million in welfare benefits will be distributed to illegal alien parents in 2013, county officials said Monday.

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich announced the latest figures from the Department of Public Social Services, which showed more than $376 million in CalWORKs benefits and food stamps combined have been distributed through July to illegal alien parents for their native-born children.

Undocumented LA County Parents On Pace To Receive $650M In Welfare Benefits « CBS Los Angeles

Antarctica Sea Ice Hitting Record Highs | LiveScience

Sea ice surrounding Antarctica hit a record high in August and is on track for another record-breaking month in September. Clocking in at a stunning 7.2 million square miles (18.7 million square kilometers), last month's sea ice extent was 4.5 percent above the 1981 to 2010 average and the largest extent since record-keeping started in 1979, according to data released today from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in its monthly State of the Climate Report.

Antarctica Sea Ice Hitting Record Highs | LiveScience

Ayvani Hope Perez Abducted By Robbers In Georgia

Robbers broke into a home near Atlanta early Tuesday, demanding jewelry and money, and when they were told there was none of either in the house, abducted a 14-year-old girl and shot and killed the family dog, police said.

Police were stopping cars and checking them during an all-out search for Ayvani Hope Perez. The two men pried open a back door of the home in the Ellenwood area around 2:15 a.m., demanding the items, said Clayton County police Officer Phong Nguyen.

The girl was last seen being taken

Ayvani Hope Perez Abducted By Robbers In Georgia

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

UN Investigator: 'Unspeakable Atrocities' in N. Korea Prison Camps

Kirby repeated stories from one man about children surviving by eating rodents and grass. He also spoke about the testimony of a woman who said she witnessed a mother being forced to drown her own baby.

UN Investigator: 'Unspeakable Atrocities' in N. Korea Prison Camps

Articles: The Myth of Red State Welfare

Furthermore, it's equally nonsensical to just consider how a state votes for the president. We also need to look at how each state votes for its senators, representatives, and even governors. Given how Congress has the "power of the purse," this is core to assessing how a state's welfare status relates to its Democrat versus Republican voting record. And this is where the "red state welfare" hypothesis disintegrates.

Articles: The Myth of Red State Welfare

Aaron Alexis and the war on standards | Power Line

But the civil rights community and the EEOC are inclined to sue employers whose criminal background check policies exclude black applicants in disproportionate numbers, which most such policies do. As an African-American, Alexis could have been a plaintiff in a private suit or a claimant in a government suit.

Aaron Alexis and the war on standards | Power Line

Marilyn Edge, mother charged with killing children, to appear in court - CNN.com

Marilyn Edge was supposed to turn over her son and daughter to her ex-husband in Georgia.

Instead, police allege, she fled with the children to Southern California and killed them.

On Saturday night, the bodies of the children -- Jaelen, 13, and Faith, 10 -- were found in a hotel in Santa Ana, California.

Edge, 42, was apprehended Saturday night after apparently trying to commit suicide by crashing her car at a Home Depot parking lot in a nearby town, police said.

Marilyn Edge, mother charged with killing children, to appear in court - CNN.com

Monday, September 16, 2013

New Texas law forbids HOAs to ban some water conservation methods | Dallasnews.com - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News

Homeowners who want to try more conservative landscaping — and maybe save some money on their water bill — will have an easier time beginning Sunday.

A new state law prohibits homeowner associations from outlawing drought-tolerant landscaping, rain collection and composting.

New Texas law forbids HOAs to ban some water conservation methods | Dallasnews.com - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News

Gonorrhea Among Drug-Resisting Germs Sickening Millions - Bloomberg

More than 2 million people in the U.S. are sickened by antibiotic-resistant germs each year, and at least 23,000 die, according to the first report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rank the threats.

Three bacteria, including drug-resistant gonorrhea, are classified as urgent threats with the potential to become widespread. Another 11 bacteria and a fungus are referred to as serious perils by the CDC report.

Gonorrhea Among Drug-Resisting Germs Sickening Millions - Bloomberg

In Defense of Diana West | CNS News

A prime example of such policy impact occurred during the earliest wartime going, in the prelude to Pearl Harbor. At this time, Soviet agents White and Currie maneuvered to prevent a truce between the United States and Japan, which might have freed up the Japanese military for an assault on Russia, an attack Stalin was desperate to fend off while he was embroiled in Europe with the Nazis.

In Defense of Diana West | CNS News

It is for instance abundantly plain, from multiple sources of Cold War intel, that Communist/pro-Soviet penetration of the government under FDR was massive, numbering in the many hundreds. These pro-Red incursions started in the New Deal era of the 1930s, then accelerated in the war years when the Soviets were our allies and safeguards against Communist infiltration were all but nonexistent.

In Defense of Diana West | CNS News

Wrong: Al Gore Predicted Arctic Summer Ice Could Disappear In 2013 | CNS News

A 2007 prediction that summer in the North Pole could be “ice-free by 2013” that was cited by former Vice President Al Gore in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech has proven to be off… by 920,000 square miles.

Wrong: Al Gore Predicted Arctic Summer Ice Could Disappear In 2013 | CNS News

Abortion Clinics Closing at Record Rate | Gleanings | ChristianityToday.com

None was more telling for Johnson than the mid-July closing of the Planned Parenthood center in Bryan, Texas. It came less than four years after Johnson, burdened by her involvement with abortion, walked out of that clinic as its director and into the offices of the Coalition for Life.

"Knowing that the former abortion clinic I once ran is now closing is the biggest personal victory of my life," Johnson said in a written statement after the announcement of the shutdown. "From running that facility, to then advocating for its closure, and now celebrating that dream ... it shows that my life has indeed come full circle."

Abortion Clinics Closing at Record Rate | Gleanings | ChristianityToday.com

Sunday, September 15, 2013

In Defense of Diana West | CNS News

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Blog: The welfare state is way too big when I pay for your baby's birth

"According to researchers from the George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health, in 2010, almost half of all births in the United States were paid for by Medicaid, and that rate is only going to go up. Medicaid was responsible for 48% of the 3.8 million births in 2010, an increase of 90,000 births from 2008, which was an 8% increase during that period."

Blog: The welfare state is way too big when I pay for your baby's birth

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Global warming is just HALF what we said: World's top climate scientists admit computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong | Mail Online

Yet the leaked report makes the extraordinary concession that the world has been warming at only just over half the rate claimed by the IPCC in its last assessment, published in 2007.

Back then, it said that the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2C every decade – a figure it claimed was in line with the forecasts made by computer climate models.

But the new report says the true figure since 1951 has been only 0.12C per decade – a rate far below even the lowest computer prediction

Global warming is just HALF what we said: World's top climate scientists admit computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong | Mail Online

Earth Gains A Record Amount Of Sea Ice In 2013 — ‘Earth has gained 19,000 Manhattans of sea ice since this date last year, the largest increase on record’ | Climate Depot

No H8? -- Bombshell Book: Matthew Shepard Tortured, Murdered by <em>Gay</em> Lover

But what really happened to Matthew Shepard?

He was beaten, tortured, and killed by one or both of the men now serving life sentences. But it turns out, according to Jiminez, that Shepard was a meth dealer himself and he was friends and sex partners with the man who led in his killing. Indeed, his killer may have killed him because Shepard allegedly came into possession of a large amount of methamphetamine and refused to give it up.

The book also shows that Shepard’s killer was on a five-day meth binge at the time of the killing.

No H8? -- Bombshell Book: Matthew Shepard Tortured, Murdered by Gay Lover

Blog: Dispelling Some Popular Myths on CO2 Emissions

The U.S. annual CO2 emission is small compared to the world, about 17 % in 2012. Since 2007, when the U.S. CO2 emission reached a peak of 1.2 ppm, the 2012 value has dropped to 1.065 ppm, an 11% decrease.

Blog: Dispelling Some Popular Myths on CO2 Emissions

» Precious Little Girl Dismembered While She Is Still Alive By Obama’s Psychotic Syrian Rebels Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

There is even a video that shows a girl being dismembered alive – alive! – by a frame saw. The final death toll exceeded 400, with 150 to 200 people taken hostage. Later some of the hostages were killed, their deaths filmed.

» Precious Little Girl Dismembered While She Is Still Alive By Obama’s Psychotic Syrian Rebels Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Bjorn Lomborg: Don’t blame climate change for extreme weather - The Washington Post

Investigators: 36,000 game disability system

Social Security made $1.3 billion in potentially improper disability payments to people who had jobs when they were supposed to be unable to work, congressional investigators said in a report Friday.

Investigators: 36,000 game disability system

As rebels behead Assad's thugs in front of children, the question: should we really take sides in Syria's bloodbath? | Mail Online

Friday, September 13, 2013

How the Founding Fathers Made Their Beer - Popular Mechanics

In fact, Jefferson's wife brewed 15 gallons of low-alcohol beer every two weeks.

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State Dept. to Spend $450K for Green Jobs--in Morocco | CNS News

The State Department through its Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs plans to spend $450,000 to create green jobs in Morocco.

State Dept. to Spend $450K for Green Jobs--in Morocco | CNS News

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Obama Wants Your Sexual History by Betsy McCaughey on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

If you think the Obama health law is only for the uninsured and you won't be affected, you're in for a surprise next time you go to the doctor. Be prepared for questions unrelated to why you are seeking medical help — questions that you don't want to answer.

Whether you're at the dermatologist or the cardiologist, you'll likely be asked: "Are you sexually active? If so, do you have one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?"

Obama Wants Your Sexual History by Betsy McCaughey on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

Utah dad dons Daisy Dukes to teach teenage daughter a lesson - KansasCity.com

PJ Media » This Depressing Economy

It is true that 164,000 seasonally adjusted payroll jobs were added during the month, per the Establishment Survey of employers, but June and July were revised down by a combined 75,000. The Household Survey used to determine the unemployment rate had even grimmer news, as it showed that 115,000 fewer Americans were working in August than in July. The only reason that the official (“U-3″) unemployment rate fell to 7.3 percent is because the civilian workforce shrunk by over 300,000, taking the labor force participation down to 63.2 percent, that figure’s lowest level in since 1978.

Looking back further, since President Obama was first inaugurated in January 2009, seasonally adjusted employment per the Household Survey has increased by just over 2 million, while the number of adults not in the labor force has skyrocketed by almost 10 million.

PJ Media » This Depressing Economy

Obama Acts Like He Doesn't Know He's an Executive-Power Extremist - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

That's my judgment as commander-in-chief. But I’m also the president of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy. So even though I possess the authority to order military strikes, I believed it was right, in the absence of a direct or imminent threat to our security, to take this debate to Congress. I believe our democracy is stronger when the president acts with the support of Congress. And I believe that America acts more effectively abroad when we stand together. This is especially true after a decade that put more and more war-making power in the hands of the president, and more and more burdens on the shoulders of our troops, while sidelining the people’s representatives from the critical decisions about when we use force.

Obama Acts Like He Doesn't Know He's an Executive-Power Extremist - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

Thursday, September 12, 2013

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School named after KKK leader asked to change its name

In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff category: A petition on change.org with some 75,000 signatures is asking a Florida school district to change the name of a high school that is named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and the first “grand wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan.

School named after KKK leader asked to change its name

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One Photographer’s Witness to a Brutal Execution in Syria - LightBox#1

What follows is a harrowing series of photographs of Islamic militants publicly executing, by decapitation, a young Syrian in the town of Keferghan, near Aleppo, on August 31, 2013.

Because of the danger in reporting inside Syria, it was not possible to confirm the identity or political affiliation of the victim. Nor are we certain about the motivation of his killers. One eyewitness who lives in the area and was contacted by TIME a week after the beheadings said that the executioners were from ISIS, an Al-Qaeda franchise operating in Syria and Iraq.

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Coal Industry Cries Foul Over Obama Emission Rules - Bloomberg

The Environmental Protection Agency is revising proposed rules from last year in response to opposition by utilities and mining companies. The new version, under review by White House officials and scheduled for release next week, will be structured differently though it offers little solace to the industry, according to people who have been briefed on the measure and asked not to be identified before its release.

Coal Industry Cries Foul Over Obama Emission Rules - Bloomberg

The Myth of a California Renaissance | National Review Online

Ensuring foreign nationals minimum parity with U.S. citizens requires huge state inputs in education, law enforcement, and health services. The 2012 census listed California as having the highest poverty level (23.5 percent) of any state in the union. A state with roughly 12 percent of the U.S. population is now home to 33 percent of the nation’s welfare recipients.

The Myth of a California Renaissance | National Review Online

The California paradox of having among the highest taxes and among the worst services is also echoed in state-by-state rankings of public-school test scores. California continues to place near the bottom.

The Myth of a California Renaissance | National Review Online

Study: ObamaCare could cost billions more than anybody projected « Hot Air

Roughly “37 million people would be financially better off switching to the exchange” from employer-sponsored insurance, said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford School of Medicine, who led the study.

Study: ObamaCare could cost billions more than anybody projected « Hot Air

NHS patients 45% more likely to die than in US - Telegraph

EPA to revise climate rule for new power plants; will still require carbon capture - The Washington Post

This month, the Environmental Protection Agency will propose standards that will establish stricter pollution limits for gas-fired power plants than coal-fired power plants, according to individuals who were briefed on the matter but asked not to be identified because the rule was not public yet.

The revised rule, which would impose greenhouse gas limits on power plants for the first time, will still require utilities to install costly carbon controls on coal plants.

EPA to revise climate rule for new power plants; will still require carbon capture - The Washington Post

Florida pastor arrested before he could burn 2,998 Qurans on anniversary of 9/11 attacks - The Washington Post

Polk County sheriff’s deputies arrested Pastor Terry Jones, 61, and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr., 34, on felony charges as he drove a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with Qurans soaked in kerosene. He had said he was heading to a nearby park to burn 2,998 Qurans — one for every victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Sheriff’s officials said they would hold a news conference later Wednesday to discuss specific charges.

Florida pastor arrested before he could burn 2,998 Qurans on anniversary of 9/11 attacks - The Washington Post

Jihadis gain ground in Syrian rebel movement as moderates grow desperate - World News

Both want to topple Assad, but the end goals are very different: democracy on one side, and an Islamic state on the other.

Jihadis gain ground in Syrian rebel movement as moderates grow desperate - World News

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Medical examiner in George Zimmerman trial fired | Fox News

The medical examiner who performed Trayvon Martin's autopsy and subsequently offered conflicting testimony at the murder trial of George Zimmerman has been relieved of his position.

Shiping Bao was fired from his position as an associate medical examiner last week, Fox News confirms. The examiner's last day on the job was Sept. 6. Dr. Bao has retained a lawyer and is suing Volusia County.

Medical examiner in George Zimmerman trial fired | Fox News

Guest Post: Our Huge, Stinking Mountain of Debt: Student Loans | Zero Hedge

Sometimes I picture in my mind a huge, stinking mountain of debt, which represents all of the debt in the world. The debt mountain is usually growing, but because of defaults, fissures and sinkholes often appear; so even as it is expanding, parts of it are collapsing. Insiders know which parts of the mountain are safe and solid, but small investors are often plunged into one of the many bottomless pits that pockmark the surface of the rotten debt mountain.

Guest Post: Our Huge, Stinking Mountain of Debt: Student Loans | Zero Hedge

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to Coptic Christians: Convert to Islam, or pay 'jizya' tax - Washington Times

The Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters have began forcing the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts of Dalga village in Egypt to pay a jizya tax as indicated in Koran 9:29, author and translator Raymond Ibrahim reported on Sunday.

Jizya is the money, or tribute, “that conquered non-Muslims historically had to pay to their Islamic overlords ‘with willing submission and while feeling themselves subdued’ to safeguard their existence,” Mr. Ibrahim explained.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to Coptic Christians: Convert to Islam, or pay 'jizya' tax - Washington Times

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Mom, Boyfriend Chain 10-Year-Old to Radiator: Police | NBC 10 Philadelphia

A mom and her boyfriend are charged with grossly mistreating the woman's 10-year-old son.

Camden Police arrested Florence M. Pollard, 31, and her 29-year-old boyfriend, Brian L. Craig after Pollard's son, M.P. said the couple kept him chained by the ankle to a radiator pipe for two weeks.

Mom, Boyfriend Chain 10-Year-Old to Radiator: Police | NBC 10 Philadelphia

Performing Shakespeare’s plays with their original English accent

In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal look at the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago.

More Former Guantanamo Bay Detainees Return To Terrorism | The Weekly Standard

Of the 603 former detainees tracked by US intelligence services, a total of 100 have now been confirmed as reengaging in "terrorism" or "insurgent" activities, while another 74 are suspected of reengaging. This brings the total rate of recidivism to nearly 29 percent, up from 28 percent as of the last report six months ago. The report includes the following table of all detainee cases:

More Former Guantanamo Bay Detainees Return To Terrorism | The Weekly Standard

Dad admits to murdering mom on son’s birthday | WTVR.com

Billups told Baker that despite it being his son’s birthday, he would have to leave and police say that’s when Baker shot her twice.

Dad admits to murdering mom on son’s birthday | WTVR.com

Monday, September 9, 2013

Treasury: Debt Up $0 in August; CBO: But Deficit Was $146B | CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - The federal deficit increased by $146 billion in August, according to a report released today by the Congressional Budget Office. But, at the same time, according to the U.S. Treasury, the federal debt did not increase at all during the month.

Total federal receipts were $185 billion during August, according to the CBO, while total federal outlays were $331 billion. Thus, the Treasury was forced to engage in $146 billion in deficit spending.

Despite this deficit spending, the Treasury reported that at the close of every single business day in August, the federal debt subject to a legal limit by Congress remained exactly $16,699,396,000,000.

Treasury: Debt Up $0 in August; CBO: But Deficit Was $146B | CNS News

Global warming? No, actually we're cooling, claim scientists - Telegraph

There has been a 60 per cent increase in the amount of ocean covered with ice compared to this time last year, they equivalent of almost a million square miles.

Global warming? No, actually we're cooling, claim scientists - Telegraph

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Almost Half of U.S. Births Covered by Medicaid

In New York City in 2009, 76% of Hispanic births were covered by Medicaid, 70% of births in the black community were covered, and 31% of whites.

Almost Half of U.S. Births Covered by Medicaid

According to researchers from the George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health, in 2010, almost half of all births in the United States were paid for by Medicaid, and that rate is only going to go up. Medicaid was responsible for 48% of the 3.8 million births in 2010, an increase of 90,000 births from 2008, which was an 8% increase during that period.

Almost Half of U.S. Births Covered by Medicaid

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Hopeless | Boston Herald

And once said on national television that he was of the “Muslim faith,” until Democrat Kool-Aid drinker George Stephanopoulos had to remind him that he is a Christian.

Hopeless | Boston Herald

Saturday, September 7, 2013

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NYC man reportedly brain-dead after random, possibly racially motivated, attack - CBS News

"He said 'The next white person who walks by, I'm going to [expletive],'" one female witness told WCBS-TV. "His fist went in and the man's head bobbed and he hit the ground and you could hear his skull hitting the ground."

NYC man reportedly brain-dead after random, possibly racially motivated, attack - CBS News

90,473,000: Record Number Not in Labor Force--Up Almost 10M Under Obama | CNS News#sthash.QlZPSRMJ.dpuf

A quarter of recent college graduates lack jobs

Let’s face it: The US job market is dead in the water and not getting better | AEIdeas

Sure, the unemployment rate fell to 7.3%. But that’s only because the labor force participation rate fell to a 35-year low. If it were still at January 2009 levels, the unemployment rate would be 10.8%. As RDQ Economics cautions, “This continued fall in participation should give pause to those who argue that the decline is cyclical and will be reversed.” In other words, the US faces a permanently larger pool of jobless Americans.

Let’s face it: The US job market is dead in the water and not getting better | AEIdeas

Friday, September 6, 2013

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Feds Spending $2.2 Million to Study Lesbian Obesity

The federal government has spent $2.2 million studying why three quarters of lesbians are obese despite sequestration-mandated budget cuts that critics warned could “delay progress in medical breakthroughs.”
The National Institutes of Health awarded an additional $682,873 to Brigham and Women’s Hospital for the study on July 17. The project had received previous grants of $778,622 in 2011, and $741,378 in 2012. Total funding has reached $2,202,873.

Why Are Women More Likely to Be Obese Than Men?

In almost all countries, women are more likely to be obese than men.

WEAK: JUST 169,000 NEW JOBS CREATED IN AUGUST

The jobs number number is out and it is weak.
There were just 169K new jobs created in August.
Private payrolls came in at 152,000 new jobs vs. expectations of 180,000.
What's worse. Last month was revised SHARPLY down from 162 to 104K. That is quite ominous.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

A School History of Texas, From Its Discovery in 1685 to 1893. For the Use of Schools, Academies, Convents, Seminaries, and All Institutions of Learning - Google Play

Yes, Congress Can Authorize War Without Formally 'Declaring' It

There are already two general positions about such an authorizing resolution. One view regards it as lawless, on the grounds that any use of force is illegal unless Congress has passed a bill "declaring war." John Nichols of The Nation, for example, sees every military conflict since World War II as illegal, because presidents since Franklin Roosevelt "have not obtained the formal declarations of war required by the Constitution."

Cornelia Pillard, Obama’s radical feminist judicial nominee

Pillard is also a pro-abortion extremist. The right to an abortion, she argues, is necessary to help to “free[] women from historically routine conscription into maternity.” She also contends that men and women who oppose government mandates on employers to provide insurance coverage for contraception “reinforce[] broader patterns of discrimination against women as a class of presumptive breeders.”
Pillard isn’t a fan of ultrasound. She complains that it produces “deceptive images of fetus-as-autonomous-being that the anti-choice movement has popularized since the advent of amniocentesis.” The notion that ultrasound produces images of autonomous beings is absurd. No one claims that the images are of something that is autonomous. Pillard’s concern is that the images look too much like something people want to protect.

Cornelia Pillard’s disingenuous testimony to Congress — Ed Whelan’s take

[T]he conduct-shaping purpose of sex education curricula makes them vulnerable to equal protection challenge [i.e., subject to judicial invalidation] even if communicating retrogressive sex roles in traditional academic classes might not be.

Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West - NYTimes.com

This scene, documented in a video smuggled out of Syria a few days ago by a former rebel who grew disgusted by the killings, offers a dark insight into how many rebels have adopted some of the same brutal and ruthless tactics as the regime they are trying to overthrow.

Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West - NYTimes.com

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Family Security Matters

In Saudi Arabia last year, 5-year-old Lama al-Ghamdil was killed by her father -- Islamic religious leader and popular TV personality Imam Fayhan al-Ghamdi -- after he became incensed she had lost her virginity. Even more shocking, however, is the person to whom her virginity was lost and the initial punishment he was given.

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