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Curiosity rover’s Mars landing
site was once covered with
fast-moving water, NASA says

Washington Post, by Marc Kaufman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 11:37:42 PM Post Reply

PASADENA, Calif. — The landing site of the Mars rover Curiosity was once covered with fast-moving and possibly waist-high water that could have possibly supported life, NASA scientists announced Thursday. Although planetary scientists have often speculated that the now-desiccated surface of Mars was once wet, Curiosity’s cameras provided the first proof that flowing water was present on a least one part of Mars for “thousands or millions of years.” The early finding led John Grotzinger, the top mission scientist at the Mars Science Laboratory, to conclude that Curiosity had found a

Go large, Mitt

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 11:32:20 PM Post Reply

In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system. Barack Obama handled it coolly. John McCain did not. Obama won the presidency. (Given the country’s condition, he would have won anyway. But this sealed it.) Four years later, mid-September 2012, the U.S. mission in Benghazi went up in flames, as did Obama’s entire Middle East policy of apology and accommodation. Obama once again played it cool, effectively ignoring the attack and the region-wide American humiliation. “Bumps in the road,” he said. Nodding tamely were the

U.S. responded to Benghazi attack
as terrorism on ‘Day One’: Source

Yahoo! News, by Olivier Knox Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/27/2012 11:31:29 PM Post Reply

When gunmen struck the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year, the response from American officials was almost simultaneous: They immediately set about collecting information about the attackers, some of whom were quickly identified as foreigners, and tracing links from them to known extremist groups, a knowledgeable source has told Yahoo News. The source's description came as fresh news accounts cast doubt on the White House's insistence that it has been forthright all along about what it knew about the attack. (I tweeted on Sept. 21 that this same source informed

Supreme Court may limit use
of race in college admissions

Washington Post, by Robert Barnes Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 11:27:37 PM Post Reply

AUSTIN — More than a half-century after the Supreme Court ordered the University of Texas to admit a black man to its law school, the sprawling live-oak-and-limestone campus is again the site of a monumental battle over the use of race in university admissions. But this time the challenge comes from a white woman. Abigail Fisher says the color of her skin cost her a spot in the 2008 freshman class at the university she had longed to attend since she was a child. Under the banner of racial diversity, Fisher contends, the UT admissions process — which considers race

Judge orders man behind anti-Islam
film be held on probation violation

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: athina- 9/27/2012 11:17:20 PM Post Reply

Los Angeles – A federal judge on Thursday ordered a California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East to be detained because he is a flight risk. U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal said Nakoula Basseley Nakoula should be held after officials said he violated his probation term for a 2010 check fraud conviction. A federal prosecutor said Nakoula had eight probation violations, including lying to his probation officers and using aliases. After his 2010 conviction, Nakoula was sentenced to 21 months in prison and was barred

Japan hangs cult leader, robber

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 11:17:06 PM Post Reply

Tokyo - Japan has hanged a robber who killed two people and a cult leader blamed for six murders during what she and her followers said were exorcisms. The Justice Ministry said 65-year-old Sachiko Eto and 39-year-old Yukinori Matsuda were executed on Thursday. Eto was convicted of beating her victims and hiding their bodies at her home. Eto's daughter and another cult member were sentenced to life in prison for the 1995 murders. (Snip) Japan is one of the few industrialised countries that have capital punishment, which is carried out by hanging. The Justice Ministry says 131 convicts are on

World poised to eradicate polio:
Bill Gates

Sydney Morning Herald [AU], by Nick O'Malley Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 11:08:40 PM Post Reply

Bill Gates has congratulated Australia for its $50 million contribution to an international fund to eradicate polio, saying the world is poised at an historic moment, just as it was before the victory over smallpox in 1977. (Snip) Today polio is endemic in three countries, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and so far this year 145 new cases have been reported. India has been polio-free for the past 18 months. But those leading the fight against the disease are concerned that global commitment is wavering as the number of cases decreases. Speaking with Fairfax Media last week ahead of today’s

Muslim community in 'denial' about
grooming rings, says Jack Straw

Telegraph [UK], by John Bingham Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 11:02:27 PM Post Reply

Members of the British Asian community are in “denial” about the issue of men of Pakistani origin grooming white girls for sex, the former Home Secretary Jack Straw has claimed. He said that the scandal, exposed by the trial of nine Asian men jailed for grooming and sexual abuse of white girls in Rochdale, raised a problem which had to be “faced and addressed” within some communities in northern cities. (Snip) The alleged abuse follows a similar pattern: involving grooming rings dominated by men from Pakistani backgrounds, who are often taxi drivers, picking up girls and taking them to

Obama's Libya Lies Collapse: Senate
Democrats Demand Answers

Breitbart's Big Peace, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 10:58:43 PM Post Reply

The wheels appear to be coming off a two week attempt by the Obama Administration to cover up its fatal security failures at our consulate in Libya and to cover up the very fact that this was a successful pre-planned terrorist attack that cost four American lives, including that of our Libyan Ambassador, Christopher Stevens. Not only has the scandal picked up steam in the mainstream press (Jake Tapper's ABC News report tonight is a must-watch), but high-ranking members of the President's own party are now demanding answers. This includes the man most often cited

Islamists who pose a threat
'have no place in France'

France 24, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 10:57:30 PM Post Reply

France's Socialist government vowed Thursday to do more to integrate the country's Muslims but warned that it would not tolerate the country becoming a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. In a speech marking the inauguration of the Strasbourg Grand Mosque, the biggest Islamic place of worship ever built on French soil, Interior Minister Manuel Valls pledged to come down hard on extremists, warning that foreign activists trying to stir up trouble would be immediately deported. But he also held out an olive branch to the country's four million Muslims by promising state help for the construction of more

French govt in ‘tug-of-war’
with steel giant

France 24, by Staff w/ agencies Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 10:55:19 PM Post Reply

The French government urged ArcelorMittal on Thursday to restart idled blast furnaces at a plant in northeastern France or put them up for sale, declaring itself in a “tug-of-war” with the steel giant over their fate. President François Hollande held talks with ArcelorMittal’s chief executive after a media report that the firm will shut the furnaces at a plant which became symbolic of France’s industrial decline. Speaking to angry workers at the plant in the town of Florange, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg said Hollande had called on Lakshmi Mittal to invest 150 million euros in the site or sell the

President Praises Student Who
Put Off Having Broken Wrist
Set In Order To Attend Speech

Cybercast News Service, by Craig Bannister Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 10:39:27 PM Post Reply

Pres. Obama commended a student who put off having his broken wrist set for two days in a speech at Ohio's Bowling Green University yesterday. After being introduced, Obama asked the audience to applaud the student who broke his wrist playing Ultimate Frisbee the day before, but didn’t go to the doctor to have the broken bone set because he didn’t want to miss Obama’s speech: “Hello, Falcons! Thank you so much. Thank you. Now, let me begin by asking everybody to give Seth a big round of applause for that great introduction. I was backstage and I had trouble

Bearing Sons Leaves Male
DNA Traces in Mom’s Brain

Science Now, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 10:36:22 PM Post Reply

Giving a whole new meaning to “pregnancy brain,” a new study shows that male DNA — likely left over from pregnancy with a male fetus — can persist in a woman’s brain throughout her life. Although the biological impact of this foreign DNA is unclear, the study also found that women with more male DNA in their brains were less likely to have suffered from Alzheimer’s disease — hinting that the male DNA could help protect the mothers from the disease, the researchers say. During mammalian pregnancy, the mother and fetus exchange DNA and cells. Previous work has shown that

The American birdies...
and their babies: Ryder
Cup stars' spouses tee
up the glamor (but Tiger
goes stag)

Daily Mail (UK), Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 9:45:13 PM Post Reply

Team USA will be battling it out on the golf course over the weekend for one of the most sought after prizes in all of golf - watched by millions around the world, but on Wednesday night it was their partners who got the chance to take centre stage as the wives and girlfriends dazzled at the Ryder Cup gala. The bejeweled and well-groomed bunch gathered at the Rosemont Hotel near Chicago, Illinois before their husbands and boyfriends take to the course at the Medinah Country Club on Friday and try to claim victory for the US. Wives and girlfriends

More than 235,000 six-
year-old pupils fail 'back
to basics' reading test
after struggling with words
like 'farm' and 'goat'

Daily Mail (UK), by Laura Clark Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 9:38:30 PM Post Reply

Four in ten six-year-olds failed a back-to-basics reading test after struggling with words such as ‘farm’, ‘goat’ and ‘shine’. Pupils were tested for the first time this summer on how well they use the traditional phonics method of reading, where children learn the letter sounds of English and how to blend them. Forty per cent – nearly 237,000 children – were below the pass mark. They were unable to read 32 words correctly out of 40. While nine per cent scored full marks, 21 per cent failed to scrape half marks, according to results released yesterday

'Slander' and free speech
are one and the same

Jewish World Review [Israel], by Diana West Original Article

Posted By: onashi- 9/27/2012 9:31:51 PM Post Reply

Who said the following: "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam." Iran's Ahmadinejad? Egypt's Morsi? Some little-known, fatwa-flinging cleric increasing the bounty on Salman Rushdie's head? None of the above. The words are President Obama's, and he spoke them this week to the U.N. General Assembly. No Big Media outlet reported this stunning pronouncement. It's as if Ronald Reagan addressed the National Association of Evangelicals in 1983 and the media failed to report that he used the phrase "evil empire."

FBI Counter-terrorism lexicon
skips all references to 'al qaeda'

Washington Times, by Kerry Picket Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 8:39:53 PM Post Reply

Could federal law enforcement's own training protocol on what they have been defining as "terrorism" be delaying the investigation of what happened in Benghazi, Libya on September 11th? As I pointed out in a previous post, the FBI training manual after a 2011 purge, does not even include the terms "al Qaeda", "Muslim Brotherhood", or "jihad." PJ Media's Patrick Poole wrote about the FBI's denial of the agency's own departmental counter-terrorism analytical lexicon. However, the agency went silent when Poole posted the official 14 page unclassified booklet. The Obama administration's

Lead bullets under fire

Washington Times, by Emily Miller Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 8:32:43 PM Post Reply

Should President Obama win in November, it’s a certainty he’ll try once again to ban lead ammunition. Just two months after he moved into the White House, the National Park Service suddenly announced it was banning lead bullets from its parks. The blowback from sportsmen was intense, so the agency backed down. Mr. Obama surely will exert “more flexibility” in a second term to accomplish this backdoor assault on the Second Amendment. Sen. Jon Tester, Montana Republican, introduced a bill to make sure that can’t happen. Just before the Senate adjourned Saturday to go campaigning,

Obama still wants to
fundamentally transform America

Washington Times, by David Horowitz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 8:29:22 PM Post Reply

An American compound in Libya is invaded by al Qaeda terrorists and an American ambassador is purportedly tortured before being killed. Muslim mobs attack American embassies in 27 countries chanting,”Death to America.” The White House response? A statement blaming the outrages on a filmmaker in the United States, along with apologies to the Muslim world. The American economy languishes with millions unemployed in the worst times since the Great Depression. Yet the president spends his first years in the White House focusing on a plan to create a trillion-dollar socialized health care system opposed by a majority

Republicans mock Gov. Bev Perdue on
anniversary of her unsuccessful
call to ‘suspend elections’

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 8:24:02 PM Post Reply

The North Carolina Republican Party sent an anniversary card to Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue on Thursday, sarcastically expressing disappointment that her call to suspend congressional elections so President Obama could fix the economy didn’t happen. “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at an event in Cary, N.C., exactly one year ago. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”

Rep. Barney Frank Calls
Justice Scalia A 'Homophobe'

Business Insider, by Abby Rogers Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 9/27/2012 8:22:57 PM Post Reply

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., sees dark days ahead for our country if Mitt Romney is elected to the Oval Office. As part of its "Mitt Gets Worse" campaign, American Bridge and the Courage Campaign interviewed Frank about what they dubbed Romney's "anti-LGBT agenda." And of course the conversation turned to the Supreme Court. If Romney is elected "he would certainly appoint justices of the Scalia sort," according to Frank who calls Scalia "just homophobic."

Reporter’s Notebook: Alex
Pappas on the $1.4 billion
Obama family budget

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Sarah Hoffman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 8:21:02 PM Post Reply

The Daily Caller’s report about taxpayers spending $1.4 billion on the Obama family last year has been burning up the Internet, and reporter Alex Pappas talked on Thursday about how the piece came about. “It’s kind of a big number and that’s what interesting about it,” said Pappas. The complete tally came from “Presidential Perks Gone Royal,” by Robert Keith Gray. “We get hundreds of these sorts of books sent to us, all the time,” Pappas explained.

Workers give up in Los Angeles

CNN Money, by Annaly Censky Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 8:18:11 PM Post Reply

New York - The unemployment rate has been falling lately in Los Angeles County, but not for the right reasons. Last month, the jobless rate for the county fell to 11%, down from 12.4% a year earlier. (Snip) Wrong. In Los Angeles, the falling unemployment rate is slightly misleading, just as it has been for the country overall. When surveyed by the government, fewer L.A. residents say they're unemployed compared to a year ago. But it's not because they're finding jobs. It's because they're dropping out of the labor force altogether. Just over 100,000 of workers have left the Los

George Strait to quit touring
after 2013-14 dates

Los Angeles Times, by Randy Lewis Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 8:13:32 PM Post Reply

Country kingpin George Strait is riding off into the sunset, at least as far as major touring is concerned. The lanky Texan who’s been cranking out hits since the early '80s announced this week that his 2013-14 tour would be his last, although he was quick to note that he’d probably do individual concerts from time to time and that he would continue recording. His final circuit on the road, which he’s dubbed the Cowboy Rides Away Tour, begins Jan. 18 in Lubbock, Texas. At a Nashville news conference last week, Strait unveiled only the first 21 dates

2 dead, at least 4 wounded
in Minneapolis office shooting

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 8:08:50 PM Post Reply

MINNEAPOLIS – A workplace shooting in Minneapolis on Thuesday has left at least two people dead and four others wounded, police said. The shooting at Accent Signage Systems, on the city's north side, resulted in "a couple of fatalities" and at least four people being taken to hospitals, Minneapolis police spokesman Steve McCarty said. He said police are treating it as an active crime scene. A high-ranking law enforcement source confirmed to the Fox affiliate in Minneapolis that the shooter arrived at the office Thursday afternoon after being terminated from his job that morning.

Lawmakers 'suspicious'
administration 'trying to
hide' Libya attack details

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 8:05:52 PM Post Reply

Fresh claims that U.S. intelligence officials knew practically from the start that the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was terrorism possibly tied to Al Qaeda have lawmakers alleging they were misled and questioning whether the administration has something to hide. "This is turning into something not short of Benghazi-gate," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told Fox News, adding he's "very suspicious" about the way the administration has handled this. Two senior U.S. officials told Fox News on Thursday that U.S. intelligence officials knew within 24 hours of the assault that it was

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