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Mom Claims 5th-Grade Son’s Quiz
Blames 9/11 Attacks On United States

CBS, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: happywarrior- 3/22/2013 10:36:55 AM Post Reply

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Texas mother claims a quiz her son took blamed the United States for the September 11, 2001 attacks. Kara Sands posted on her Facebook page earlier this month a quiz her fifth-grade son at Flour Bluff Intermediate School took after watching a video entitled “Remembering September 11th.” One of the questions on the quiz asked “Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?” with the correct answer being “Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”

Disabled Sue Over Web Shopping

Wall Street Journal, by Joe Palazzolo Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/22/2013 10:27:00 AM Post Reply

Commerce has moved online. Now, the disability lawsuits are following. Advocates for disabled Americans have declared that companies have a legal obligation to make their websites as accessible as their stores, and they´ve filed suits across the country to force them to install the digital version of wheelchair ramps and self-opening doors. Their theory that the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act applies to the modern Internet has been dismissed by several courts. Still, the National Federation of the Blind and the National Association of the Deaf have won legal victories against companies such as Target Corp. TGT +0.85% and Netflix Inc.

Rand and Rubio can tap into
youthful idealism: Why this might
be key to the GOP’s survival

Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/22/2013 10:20:40 AM Post Reply

The Atlantic’s Molly Ball has a good column up that should underscore the importance of winning the youth vote. As she notes, voting habits and patterns are often formed during our early years. “The Americans who came of age under FDR,” she writes, “leaned more Democratic than the electorate as a whole for the rest of their voting lives.” Winning the youth vote isn’t just about today — it’s about tomorrow. When we look at candidates on both side of the aisle who have done well with the youth — Obama and Reagan, for example — we see some similarities.

New York man admits
faking his death

CNN, by Morgan Winsor Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/22/2013 10:15:35 AM Post Reply

New York -- A New York man who was accused of faking his death last summer pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Thursday, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced. Raymond Roth, 48, of Massapequa, New York, was first reported missing in the waters off Jones Beach late last July by his 22-year-old son, Jonathan Roth. Several days into an extensive search involving multiple agencies, New York State Park Police said, authorities learned the missing man was in South Carolina, where he had been pulled over for speeding. The day before Raymond Roth was pulled over, his wife, Evana,

Meet the NRA´s Biggest Recruiter

Real Clear Politics, by Debra J. Saunders Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/22/2013 10:14:35 AM Post Reply

If you want to know why Sen. Dianne Feinstein´s assault weapons ban couldn´t muster 40 votes -- that´s according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who says he will cut the ban from the Democrats´ gun bill -- attend a National Rifle Association event in Feinstein´s backyard. Though critics like to paint the organization as an out-of-touch haven for angry old white guys, Sunday´s NRA "Fun Shoot" at the San Leandro Rifle & Pistol Range was anything but. I attended a safety and shooting lesson for 12. Half of the group was female -- and white, black and Asian.

President Obama’s Twitter
Account Retweets Photo of
John Lennon’s Bloody Glasses

ABC News, by Z. Byron Wolf Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 10:11:17 AM Post Reply

The Twitter account @BarackObama tonight retweeted Yoko Ono’s picture of John Lennon”s bloody glasses from the day he was murdered. The arresting photo, which includes text that more than a million people have been killed by guns since Lennon was shot in 1980, has been retweeted more than 11,000 times since it was posted Wednesday. A retweet by the account associated with President Obama forwarded it to his more than 28 million followers. Retweets aren’t always endorsements in Twitter etiquette, but Ono’s activism comes at a time when President Obama and

Health Insurers Warn on Premiums

Wall Street Journal, by Anna Wilde Mathews & Louise Radnofsky Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 10:06:19 AM Post Reply

Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation´s biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans. The projections, made in sessions with brokers and agents, provide some of the most concrete evidence yet of how much insurance companies might increase prices when major provisions of the law kick in next year—a subject of rigorous debate. The projected increases are at odds with what

As Air Traffic Control Towers Close,
FAA Hiring ‘Community Planners’

Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 9:58:13 AM Post Reply

As the Federal Aviation Administration is set to announce Friday the temporary closure of 238 air traffic control towers because of the sequester, the agency is planning to hire “community planners” paid in excess of $100,000 – one at an airport slated to for a possible tower closure. Funding for the community planners is exempt from sequestration, while funding for air traffic control towers are not exempt from reduced funding, according to the FAA. The FAA is hiring a community planner in Brisbane, Calif., at a salary of between $67,575 and $126,095. The agency advertised another

Report: Santorum and Gingrich
discussed unity ticket in 2012 primary

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/22/2013 9:53:21 AM Post Reply

Joshua Green shares an amazing story about the secret negotiations between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich for a “unity ticket” during the Republican Presidential primary. In the end, Green reports, neither of the two Republican leaders could agree which of the two would be president. (T)he two candidates spoke face-to-face at an energy forum just before the primary. Gingrich made an elaborate historical argument that when the party hasn’t been able to agree on a nominee, it always settles on the senior figure. Santorum wasn’t persuaded, and urged Gingrich

Peres gives Obama top
Israeli civilian medal

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 9:53:15 AM Post Reply

Israeli President Shimon Peres gave President Obama Israel’s highest civilian award, the Medal of Distinction, during a ceremonial dinner held in Mr. Obama’s honor Thursday evening at the Israeli president’s residence. The medal recognizes Mr. Obama’s commitment to maintaining Israel’s security, and it is the first time in which an Israeli president has bestowed such an honor on a sitting president. Mr. Obama gave Mr. Peres, a lifetime Israeli politician who twice served as prime minister of the country, the U.S. President’s Medal of Freedom last year. He will turn 90 in August.

US plan calls for more scanning
of private Web traffic, email

Reuters, by Joseph Mann and Deborah Charles Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/22/2013 9:53:13 AM Post Reply

The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country´s private, civilian-run infrastructure. As a result, more private sector employees than ever before, including those at big banks, utilities and key transportation companies, will have their emails and Web surfing scanned as a precaution against cyber attacks. Under last month´s White House executive order on cybersecurity, the scans will be driven by classified information provided by U.S. intelligence agencies — including data from the National Security Agency (NSA) —

Biden misspeaks again: Gabby
Giffords was ´mortally wounded´

Washington Times, by Sean Lengell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 9:47:56 AM Post Reply

Vice President Joseph R. Biden added to his long list of verbal flubs Thursday when he said former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been “shot and mortally wounded.” The Arizona Democrat was critically injured by a gunshot wound to the head during an assignation attempt on her life in early 2011. She resigned from the House last year in order to focus on her recovery. The phrase “mortally wounded” typically is applied to a person who has received an injury that causes or leads to death.

In Mideast, Obama returns
to U.S. race metaphors

Politico, by Josh Gerstein Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/22/2013 9:30:35 AM Post Reply

JERUSALEM—On his stops in the Holy Land Thursday, President Barack Obama turned again and again to a subject not obviously connected to the current troubles in the mideast: the struggles of African Americans in the United States. One of the parallels the president drew—comparing the plight of Palestinians to that of blacks in the U.S.—has drawn criticism in the past when he raised it in this region. During a press conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Obama said young people he´d met on the trip made him think of his own children.

Senate backs symbolic repeal
of medical device tax

Reuters, by Kim Dixon Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/22/2013 9:13:34 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - The Senate overwhelmingly passed a largely symbolic resolution calling for repeal of a 2.3 percent tax on medical device companies on Thursday, as more than 30 Democrats joined Republicans in approving it. The tax helps to fund President Barack Obama´s 2010 healthcare law. It applies to a range of medical products - from bedpans to expensive heart devices - many manufactured in the home states of the senators backing the repeal. The Senate voted 79-20 to call for repeal of the tax, but the resolution is non-binding and will not change the levy.

Sandstorm grounds Obama´s helicopter

New York Post, by Geoff Earle Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/22/2013 9:08:09 AM Post Reply

JERUSALEM – First “the Beast” had a breakdown, and now a wicked sandstorm has grounded President Obama’s helicopter. It was a warm, clear morning when Obama toured Mt. Hertzl and visited Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum to the Holocaust. But biting winds arrived ahead of schedule here, making it unsafe for Obama to fly by helicopter to Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem, about a 30 minute drive from Jerusalem. Helicopter is the mode of transport Obama used the last time he went into Palestinian-controlled territory, a visit to Ramallah on Thursday. Consequently, Obama’s motorcade –

New Yorkers boldly
flout law to keep pigs

Associated Press, by Jake Pearson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/22/2013 9:03:37 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK — Pigs have long gotten a bad rap. The four-legged ungulates are considered so messy and stinky that they´re synonymous with slovenliness: Eat too much and you´re pigging out. Forget to clean up and your house is a pig pen. And when is a pig happiest? That stigma is perhaps no greater than in New York City, where high-rises and apartments are hardly hospitable to pigs. The city´s health code forbids keeping them as pets, forcing pig owners to operate in secret — or boldly take the risk an unhappy neighbor might squeal. "People think it´s weird

BLS Releases Another Phony
´Green Jobs´ Report

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 3/22/2013 8:58:04 AM Post Reply

Bad Data: As yet another Solyndra looms, a new government report shows that by the government´s own broad definition of a green job, more can be found in a coal mine than near a solar panel. The second annual Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on "Employment in Green Goods and Services," released Tuesday, will be the last, allegedly a casualty of the same sequestration that claimed the White House tours and may doom the Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn. That is probably a good thing,

Wasserman Schultz: My Aides
Can´t Afford Good Meals

Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/22/2013 8:32:03 AM Post Reply

On Tuesday, FL Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her colleague VA Rep. Jim Moran openly whined about the impacts of spending cuts on their personal office budgets. Moran fretted that, with the looming sequester cuts, he may have to cut one staffer from his office. Wasserman Schultz upped his ante, however. She, almost literally, suggested that her staff were on the brink of starvation, due to the cuts. Speaking at a hearing of the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, Wasserman Schultz worried that prices of meals in House

ObamaCare Turns Three:
10 Disturbing Facts
Americans Have Learned

Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline Original Article

Posted By: RustMB- 3/22/2013 7:52:08 AM Post Reply

Just over three years ago, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously quipped about ObamaCare that "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it." But only now, as ObamaCare´s third anniversary approaches — President Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010 — is the country starting to find out what the sweeping health care overhaul will actually do. ObamaCare backers typically tout popular features that went into effect almost immediately. The law expanded Medicare´s drug coverage, for example, and let children stay on their parents´ plans until they turned 26. But the bulk

Cyprus MPs due to vote on
new plan to secure bailout

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/22/2013 7:32:26 AM Post Reply

MPs in Cyprus are due to begin voting on a series of bills that aim to raise the funds the country needs to secure an international bailout. The country is in a race against time after the European Central Bank gave Cyprus until Monday to find the money. If it does not, liquidity to the country´s banks could be cut off and they could collapse. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has been holding talks on the crisis with the EU-IMF "troika". Meanwhile, talks on new Russian financial aid for Cyprus have failed, Russia´s finance minister confirmed.

Universal Background Checks:
the Liberal Holy Grail

American Thinker, by Rick Averill Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/22/2013 7:15:51 AM Post Reply

Feinstein´s assault rifle ban has been removed from the Senate gun-control bill. While that is good news, it was recognized from the beginning as a bridge too far. What has survived, and may well become law, all in the spirit of bipartisan compromise, will actually be far worse. The goals of the left have always been shrouded in deception and misrepresentation. Hide your true agenda behind a deceitful argument and then, after grabbing power, do what you really meant to do all along. That is what Hitler, Lenin, Mao, Castro and Obama have all done.

The Price of Gay Marriage:
The Galvanic Corrosion of
the Language

The American Thinker, by Geoffrey P. Hunt Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 3/22/2013 7:14:19 AM Post Reply

When was that watershed moment where advocacy of gay marriage crossed into the mainstream from the radical chic of the intellectual elite ? Gay marriage, quite apart from homosexuality per se, has only in recent years been embraced by more than just a few libertarian sophisticates. Ironically it wasn´t too long ago when the progressive darlings and the beautiful people believed, to the contrary, that marriage of any kind was oppressive, a form of institutional bondage.

Please Do Not Adjust Your Child

American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/22/2013 6:43:12 AM Post Reply

Of all the arguments public-school advocates have used to hoodwink generations of parents into condemning their own children to years of state-controlled subservience training, one of the most successful is that without public schools, children cannot be properly "socialized," and will therefore be ill-prepared for life in the "real world." [Snip] The basic premise of the argument for public schools as necessary tools of socialization is that learning to get along, or fit in, with children one´s own age is a vital life skill. Is it?

Wrap up warm, British gas could
run dry in less than TWO DAYS
as bitter weather continues

Daily Express [UK], by Charlotte Meredith Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/22/2013 6:22:05 AM Post Reply

After weeks of unusually cold weather, Britain has drained nearly all of its gas supplies--with reserves potentially running out in just 36 hours. Households have been forced to turn up their heating as the freezing weather continues, pushing the demand for gas to 20 percent higher than normal in March. Gas stores were at their lowest levels for three years last night, with stocks at just 10 percent full, compared to 49 percent this time last year. The UK could be left relying on expensive imports from Norway through an under-sea pipeline, sparking fears of a huge spike in energy

Missing dogs, ritualistic killing
confound Idaho officials

Reuters, by Laura Zuckerman Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/22/2013 6:16:42 AM Post Reply

The mysterious disappearance of about 30 dogs in southern Idaho has baffled animal control officials and raised concerns among dog lovers after a German shepherd was found with its head crushed in a suspected ritual killing. The missing canines range widely in size, breed and age. "The dogs seem to vanish into thin air," said Debbie Blackwood, director of the animal shelter in Twin Falls, Idaho. Officials say some 30 dogs have gone missing in recent months in Twin Falls and nearby communities in an agricultural region in south-central Idaho known as the Magic Valley.

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