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Judge halts contraceptive
mandate for Mich. firm

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/31/2012 4:26:21 PM Post Reply

Detroit - A federal judge has ruled a property management company owned by the founder of Domino´s Pizza doesn´t have to immediately implement mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff ruled Sunday in favor of Tom Monaghan and his Domino´s Farms Corp., near Ann Arbor. Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn´t health care but a "gravely immoral" practice. Zatkoff granted Monaghan´s emergency motion for a temporary restraining order until a final decision is made in the case. The mandate would

Final resting place of
Newtown gunman a mystery

Associated Press, by Michael Melia Original Article

Posted By: atexaslupine- 12/31/2012 4:24:49 PM Post Reply

Hartford, Conn.- The body of the man who massacred 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school was claimed by his father, a family spokesman said Monday, but the public may never know what happened with the remains. Like families of other mass killers, Adam Lanza´s father has to balance his own mourning with consideration for the victims, intense media scrutiny and the risk that a public gravesite could be desecrated. "I know it's very sensitive for the family. They have many, many concerns and it's a very sad time for them," said Kingston, N.H. Police Chief Donald Briggs,

Why you should really be
worrying about the Fiscal Cliff

Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/31/2012 4:17:09 PM Post Reply

Should you be losing sleep over America’s apparent inability to prevent the world’s largest economy from plunging over the so-called “Fiscal Cliff”?[Snip] The "meh" reaction of the markets to the threat of more than $600bn in imminent tax hikes and spending tells its own story: if the country goes "over the cliff", the fair betting is that when Congress reconvenes on January 3, both parties have to patch together a package of retroactive fixes to salve the wounds. And they probably will. But therein lies the real reason to be worried. The fact that no-one is too fussed about

The Prescription Painkiller Binge

Washington Post, by Peter Whoriskey Original Article

Posted By: grandpa- 12/31/2012 4:15:18 PM Post Reply

Portsmouth, Ohio — Over much of the past decade, the official word on OxyContin was that it rarely posed problems of addiction for patients.The label on the drug, which was approved by the FDA, said the risks of addiction were “reported to be small.”As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias. Medicare overspending on anemia drug.The New England Journal of Medicine, the nation’s premier medical publication, informed readers that studies indicated that such painkillers pose “a minimal risk of addiction.”

Fiscal cliff: A deal is within
sight but not done, says
Barack Obama - live

Telegraph [UK], by Andrew Trotman, Richard Blackden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/31/2012 4:10:41 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama maintained that he was hopeful Congress could "get a deal done" and stop America going over the fiscal cliff at the stroke of midnight. Latest, 20:40 Surprised there hasn´t been a Twitter campaign to parachute Robert Griffin III into Congress to knock some heads together. For non-American readers and those Americans uninterested in NFL, Griffin III is the young quarterback for the Washington Redskins who has taken the team to the playoffs for the first time in, err, a long time. If you need a break from the cliff, here´s a match report on the victory the

Lure of Green Cards Brings Big
Investments for Remote
Resort in Vermont

New York Times, by Katharine Q. Seelye Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/31/2012 4:04:55 PM Post Reply

Jay Peak, Vt. - At this remote outpost by the Canadian border, Bill Stenger is overseeing what he says is the biggest economic development project that Vermont has ever seen. (Snip) But even more unusual than the size of the undertaking is the method by which Mr. Stenger and his business partner, Ariel Quiros, are financing it. They have tapped into a federal program that gives green cards, or permanent residency, to foreigners who invest at least $500,000 in an American business — the reward for the investment is a chance at United States citizenship.

One in three have online medical
record, many without knowledge

Telegraph [UK], by Rebecca Smith Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/31/2012 4:03:16 PM Post Reply

More than one in three people have had their medical details uploaded onto a central database accessible by healthcare professionals across the country, many without their knowledge, it has been claimed. The controversial system designed to ensure that doctors have fast access to brief details of a patient´s allergies and medication in an emergency, has accumulated the records of 22m people including children, the Daily Telegraph has learned. Campaigners warned that the majority of those patients whose records have been uploaded will not be aware and said there are dangers the information could be hacked, bought by private

A Busy Day for N.F.L. Coach Firings

New York Times, by Judy Battista Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/31/2012 3:51:30 PM Post Reply

Even by the tumultuous standards of the end of an N.F.L. season, Monday — Black Monday, as it is annually called — stood out. The conclusion of the regular season always signals the start of a whirlwind of firings and job searches involving coaches and top executives. This year, though, brought sweeping, swift change even to some of the most stable and patient — maybe too patient — teams in the N.F.L. Seven coaches and five general managers were fired by lunchtime in a day unequaled for its turmoil in recent memory. The Philadelphia Eagles ended Andy Reid’s

Fiscal deal ´within sight´ --
but chances in Congress unclear

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/31/2012 3:35:23 PM Post Reply

Facing the near-certainty that they would miss the midnight deadline for averting sweeping tax hikes, Senate lawmakers on Monday nevertheless edged closer to a potential deal that could undo most of the damage -- presuming Congress approves it. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on the floor Monday afternoon that "we´re very, very close" to a deal. He reported that the two sides have "reached on agreement on all of the tax issues," suggesting lawmakers postpone debate over looming spending cuts for another day. President Obama, speaking from the White House,

Chicago Area Bank Robberies
Nearly Double Over 2011

CBS Chicago, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: AltaD- 12/31/2012 3:26:57 PM Post Reply

Bank robbers had a busy year in 2012. The FBI said robbers have hit 218 banks in the Chicago area as of Dec. 31, compared to 115 in 2011. “Close to double what we had in the prior year,” said FBI Special Agent Joan Hyde. WBBM Newsradio’s Brandis Friedman reports, while people often look for a way to explain a spike in bank robberies, Hyde said it’s not often tied to a greater issue, like the economy. “That just doesn’t play out. Typically the bank robbers are motivated by their need for money for a drug habit, or gambling debts,” she said.

In Texas, a spaceport struggles to soar

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/31/2012 3:22:26 PM Post Reply

Brownville, TX - Texas space aficionados hope rockets will someday be launched into orbit from a beachside site near the U.S.-Mexico border, but a tight state budget and a previously frustrated attempt to land such a spaceport could complicate efforts. Backers of a proposal to build a launch site at Boca Chica Beach, about 25 miles east of Brownsville, concede finding more money to lure California-based SpaceX to the state´s southernmost tip will be a challenge. (Snip) Still, some officials think the state´s ability to offer a blank canvas for a dedicated commercial spaceport in the same state
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Hillary Clinton admitted
to hospital with blood clot
following concussion

New York Daily News, by Vera Chinese, Edgar Sandoval* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 3:11:04 PM Post Reply

An anguished-looking Chelsea Clinton was seen leaving the Manhattan hospital on Monday where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is receiving emergency treatment for a blood clot stemming from a concussion. Clinton hit her head earlier this month when she fainted while battling a stomach bug. State Department spokesman Philippe Reines said doctors discovered the clot while conducting a followup exam Sunday. She is being treated with anti-coagulants.On Monday, Chelsea emerged from a side entrance of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, bundled up against the cold in a black down coat and red scarf.

Taxpayers fork out
£150million a year for
´benefit brood´ families with
more than five children

Daily Mail (UK), by Emma Reynolds Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 3:03:39 PM Post Reply

Families with more than five children are costing the taxpayer an astonishing £150million in child benefits every year. At least one parent in 40,000 families with five or more children is claiming jobseeker´s allowance, incapacity benefit, disability allowance, pension or another income boost as well as child benefit. It is estimated that the total cost to the public of these super-sized families comes to at least £350million a year. The families claiming extra benefits include 180 with ten or more children and ten with as many as 13.

Blasts Aimed at Iraqi Shiites,
Police Kill 23

Associated Press, by Sinan Salaheddin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 2:50:17 PM Post Reply

BAGHDAD -Insurgents launched a wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday, primarily targeting Shiite communities and pilgrims and killing at least 23 people, officials said. The attacks appeared aimed at undermining security and confidence in the government by fomenting sectarian conflict. Overall violence has dropped since the nation neared a civil war several years ago, but attacks of a sectarian nature come almost daily, and government forces seem powerless to prevent them. The deadliest blasts on Monday were in the town of Musayyib, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of the capital,

Ban on demanding Facebook
passwords among new 2013 state laws

Reuters, by James B. Kelleher Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/31/2012 2:23:52 PM Post Reply

Chicago - Employers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers´ password-protected social networking accounts and teachers in Oregon will be required to report suspected student bullies thanks to new laws taking effect in 2013. (Snip) In New Hampshire, a rarely used form of late-term abortion will become illegal except to save the life of the mother - and even then only if two doctors from separate hospitals certify the procedure is medically necessary. John Lynch, the state´s outgoing Democratic governor, had vetoed the measure, saying it would threaten the lives of

Analysis: Venezuela´s Maduro
channels Chavez, lacks his charisma

Reuters, by Daniel Wallis & Brian Ellsworth Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/31/2012 1:59:25 PM Post Reply

Caracas - He uses Hugo Chavez´s bombastic language, brandishes the constitution and showers opponents with vitriol at every turn. But Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro is struggling to replicate the extraordinary charisma of his boss, who is battling to recover from cancer surgery in Cuba. Named as heir apparent by Chavez just before the president returned to Havana for his fourth surgery in December, the 50-year-old former bus driver has become the face of the socialist government in South America´s top oil exporter. Though diplomats say he is easy-going in conversations behind closed

Judge allows ban on funds
to Planned Parenthood

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/31/2012 1:46:41 PM Post Reply

Austin, TX - A Texas judge has ruled that the state may cut off funding to Planned Parenthood´s family planning programs for poor women. Attorney general spokeswoman Lauren Bean said Judge Gary Harger has ruled that Texas may exclude otherwise qualified doctors and clinics from receiving state funding just because they advocate for abortion rights. The state has long banned the use of state funds for abortion. At issue Monday was whether Planned Parenthood and other abortion-rights groups could continue to provide preventive health care to poor women as part of the Women´s

President Obama is Responsible
for Our Fiscal Mess

American Thinker, by Neil Snyder Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 1:44:14 PM Post Reply

President Obama is responsible for our fiscal mess. I´m not exaggerating, and I´m not saying that simply because I think that Barack Obama is a terrible president, although I do think that he´s an awful president. I´m saying that because the president has had ample opportunity over the past four years to arrive at a compromise solution to our immediate fiscal problem and then to make headway toward dealing with our longer-term fiscal issues, but he has failed miserably. If the president had taken some of the advice of his own National Commission

Man killed, 3 others wounded
Sunday night

Chicago Tribune, by Peter Nickeas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 1:40:08 PM Post Reply

A man was killed and another young man shot in the head in separate South and Northwest side shootings about the same time Sunday night, authorities said. The shooting death was the third gunshot wound homicide in Chicago since 11 a.m. Sunday -- one happened about 11:30 a.m. and the other about 5:10 p.m. The man killed, 19-year-old Junior Estudillo, was shot about 10:10 p.m. near the intersection of School Street and Keeler Avenue in the Kilbourn Park neighborhood while he was in a car with two other people, police said.

Ann Coulter rails against
NRA’s Wayne LaPierre

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: Donttaxmebro- 12/31/2012 1:34:31 PM Post Reply

On Sean Hannity’s radio show last Friday with Mark Simone filling in for Hannity, conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter expressed her dissatisfaction with National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre, particularly his “Meet the Press” appearance on NBC from a week ago. Coulter suggested LaPierre and other gun supporters should become familiar with the works of John Lott, whose 1998 book “More Guns, Less Crime” makes an argument against limiting the number of firearms.

In Bay State, more taxes, fewer jobs

Boston Herald, by Holly Robichaud Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 1:27:19 PM Post Reply

Brace for impact because 2013 is not an election year, so Bacon Hill politicians will be up to their old tricks. You can count on the following helping next year: After months of Gov. Patrick galavanting around the country on behalf of the Obama campaign and failing to focus on the home front, the commonwealth is facing revenue problems. Instead of focusing on the heart of the economic problem, Deval and Bacon Hill leaders will raise our taxes. It is not a matter of if. It is a matter of when and how much.

Sources: ´Fiscal cliff´deal emerging

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 1:16:59 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — The contours of a deal to avert the ´fiscal cliff´ emerged Monday, with Democrats and Republicans agreeing to raise tax rates on family income over $450,000 a year, increase the estate tax rate and extend unemployment benefits for one year, officials familiar with the negotiations said. But with a midnight deadline rapidly approaching, both sides were at an impasse over whether to put off automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect on Jan. 1, and if so, how to pay for that. Democrats want to put off the cuts for one year and offset

Politico: Breitbart Leads
the Opposition

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 1:13:35 PM Post Reply

The left-leaning, DC-based Politico news outlet has named--or blamed--Breitbart News as the leader of the opposition to Speaker of the House John Boehner: "The main anti-Boehner grumbling is coming from conservative media outlets like Breitbart and Hot Air, and outside groups such as American Majority Action." In fact, Breitbart News has not opposed Boehner´s speakership as such, but has reported on possible challenges stemming from his apparent weakness in "fiscal cliff" negotiations with President Barack Obama, his purge of conservative members from key leadership positions, and his failure to unite the Republican caucus behind "Plan B" proposals to

Bolton trashes Clinton PR operation

Washington Post, by Erik Wemple Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 12/31/2012 1:11:57 PM Post Reply

A cable-news quip by Fox News contributor John Bolton is looking even more dubious following yesterday’s news that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had checked in to New York Presbyterian Hospital to treat a blood clot associated with a concussion she’d sustained earlier in December. That concussion kept Clinton from appearing at a Dec. 20 congressional hearing on Benghazi, a set of circumstances that triggered a certain meter of Bolton’s. In a Dec. 17 appearance on Fox News’s “On the Record,” he said:

Obama, Clinton most
admired man, woman

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/31/2012 1:09:18 PM Post Reply

PRINCETON, N.J.- Americans named President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the most admired man and woman alive, a Gallup survey indicated. Clinton is the Most Admired Woman for the 11th year in a row, while Obama has been the Most Admired Man five years running, results of a USA Today-Gallup poll released Monday indicated. First lady Michelle Obama, television daytime host Oprah Winfrey and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were behind Clinton on the Most Admired Woman list. Former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, evangelist

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