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Brzezinski to Newsmax: War With Iran Could Last Years, Devastate Global Economy Read more on Newsmax.com: Brzezinski to Newsmax: War With Iran Could Last Years, Devastate Global Economy
Post Date: 2012-07-19 19:53:43 by A K A Stone
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Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warns Newsmax.TV that a confrontation with Iran would be disastrous for the United States, lasting for years and possibly devastating America's economy. “A war in the Middle East, in the present context, may last for years,” Brzezinski, who served in the Carter White House, tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview. “And the economic consequences of it are going to be devastating for the average American. “High inflation. Instability. Insecurity. Probably significant isolation for the United States in the world scene,” Brzezinski says. “Can you name me any significant country that’s going to be in ...
Washington state to become first to offer voter registration on Facebook
Post Date: 2012-07-19 18:39:52 by jwpegler
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Washington will become the first state to offer voter registration via Facebook with a new application to be launched as soon as next week, according to a state election official. Once online, the app will be accessible on the secretary of state's Facebook page, said Shane Hamlin, co-director of elections for the state. Washington, which has approximately 3.7 million registered voters, conducts elections entirely by mail and enacted online registration in 2008. Since online registration started, Hamlin said close to 500,000 voter registrations or address changes have been processed. Facebook, Washington state and Microsoft have teamed up to create an app that allows users to register ...
How to Nullify ObamaCare if You’ve Got the Guts
Post Date: 2012-07-18 18:09:34 by CZ82
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How to Nullify ObamaCare if You’ve Got the Guts posted on July 18, 2012 by Philip Hodges State Representative Mike Ritze from Oklahoma will be proposing a bill that nullifies ObamaCare. No, nullification isn’t when all the white conservatives demand that we bring back black slavery to the states. Nullification happens when the states tell the Feds, “Don’t you forget that we created you, and that we’re sovereign to you. We’re not going to abide by your unconstitutional laws, and if you try to force them on us, you’ll find your agents in jail.” Ritze’s bill isn’t just one of those non-binding resolutions that merely states that ...
House Weighs Millions Military Spends On Sports Sponsorships
Post Date: 2012-07-18 16:38:56 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Congress is wrapped around the axle over the military spending millions of dollars to sponsor NASCAR cars and other sports in a bid to boost recruiting. Republican Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia and Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota are pushing an amendment to cut $72.3 million from a $608 billion defense spending bill for military sponsorships. The House began debating the bill Wednesday. The two argue that in a time of growing deficits the money could be better spent elsewhere. The measure would target money the National Guard uses to sponsor Dale Earnhardt Jr. in NASCAR, the Marine Corps spends on Ultimate Fighting Championship and other sponsorships ranging ...
Retailers Confident Lawmakers Will Pass Legislation For Online Sales Tax
Post Date: 2012-07-18 12:39:05 by Brian S
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Retail groups say their campaign for an online sales tax bill is gaining momentum and now say it’s a question of when, not if, such a measure is enacted. The National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) say last week’s push for a sales-tax bill in the Senate, though unsuccessful, shows that the idea is gaining traction. The groups say the growing pressure from governors across the country is having an impact and express confidence that a bill will eventually pass Congress. But with legislating expected to be all but at a standstill between now and November’s election, retailers aren’t predicting a measure will reach President ...
Police Say Twin Falls Man Solicited Men To Rape His Wife
Post Date: 2012-07-17 18:13:37 by SJN
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TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) An Idaho man is charged with soliciting men to rape his wife through the ``casual encounters'' section of Craigslist. The 32-year-old Twin Falls man was arraigned Monday on charges of solicitation of rape and burglary. The Associated Press is withholding his name to protect the identity of the intended victim. Prosecutors say that without his wife's knowledge or consent, the man posted a classified ad posing as a woman who fantasized about being raped, and then exchanged emails with the men who responded to arrange the assaults. Twin Falls police were called to the woman's house shortly after midnight Thursday and again Saturday afternoon to reports ...
Senators Press One-Year Delay On Automatic Cuts To Military Budget
Post Date: 2012-07-17 15:47:20 by Brian S
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- 07/17/12 01:10 PM ET Several senators on Tuesday said delaying automatic defense cuts for a year is the best option for a Congress looking to avoid steep spending reductions at the Pentagon. “I do see that as a way forward,” Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said of a possible one-year stopgap measure during an Aerospace Industries Association-sponsored event on Tuesday. Speaking at the same event, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) agreed with her GOP counterpart, saying lawmakers “may need to do a short-term effort” on defense cuts under sequestration before tackling the entire 10-year plan. Hopes have about-faced on striking a larger, bipartisan deal before the November ...
'Witness 9' Tells Prosecutors Zimmerman Molested Her For Years
Post Date: 2012-07-17 13:59:13 by Brian S
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The words of “witness 9” were dramatic: Murder suspect George Zimmerman sexually abused me for years while we were children, she told prosecutors. Although her allegation is damning, it likely will play no role in Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial, defense lawyers agreed Monday. “This isn’t a molestation case. It’s not relevant,” said South Florida defense lawyer Michael Grieco. Zimmerman, 28, killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, black 17-year-old, in Sanford Feb. 26, in what has become one of the most-watched criminal cases in the country. Most of the evidence released by lawyers so far has dealt with what happened that night: what witnesses saw ...
Luke Skywalker Goes to the Dark Side
Post Date: 2012-07-17 11:04:41 by A K A Stone
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A Hollywood gajillionaire speaketh: "And if you don't vote for Barack Obama, you're insane," he added. ''Cause without him, I think the middle class will completely disappear. And you look at Romney and I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I think he's like The Thing he only imitates human behavior. He's not actually human himself." But you must watch the video: Mark Hamill telling America we'd be "insane" if we don't vote for Barack Obama and that Mitt Romney is "not actually human" won't ruin the experience of watching the first "Star Wars" trilogy. The prequels, George Lucas's ham-handed ...
“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Post Date: 2012-07-16 20:50:04 by A K A Stone
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On July 13, 2012, at a campaign event at Roanoke Fire Station #1, in Roanoke, Virginia, President Barack Obama said: “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.” The bolding is mine. I agree with all of the non-bolded ...
Deputies Shoot, Kill Man After Knocking On Wrong Door
Post Date: 2012-07-16 17:15:08 by Brian S
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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. - Lake County Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed a man they assumed was an attempted murder suspect on Sunday, but they now know they shot the wrong man. In the early-morning hours, deputies knocked on 26-year-old Andrew Lee Scott's door without identifying themselves as law enforcement officers. Scott answered the door with a gun in his hand. "When we knocked on the door, the door opened and the occupant of that apartment was pointing a gun at deputies, and that's when we opened fire and killed him," Lt. John Herrell said. "Even though this subject is not the one we were looking for when he opened the door. He was pointing the gun at ...
Anoka triathlete suffers 25 bites in otter attack in Island Lake near Duluth
Post Date: 2012-07-16 11:45:28 by SJN
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An Anoka woman faced a bizarre situation when she went swimming in a Duluth lake this week and an otter attacked. stmedia.startribune.com/i.../568*425/2otter071512.JPG Fangs pierced Leah Prudhomme's legs as she swam across the deep, dark rum-colored northern Minnesota lake. It could be anything, she thought -- muskrats, beavers, maybe a muskie. But it didn't let up. In the middle of Island Lake near Duluth, the triathlete struggled as the animal sunk its needle-sharp teeth into her legs, feet and back, leaving 25 bite marks, some 2 inches deep. "It just kept coming after me," said Prudhomme, 33, of Anoka. "You never knew where it was going to bite next." In ...
Lesbian Sex Scandal Dogs Florida’s Ultra-Right Fla. Lieutenant Governor
Post Date: 2012-07-15 19:53:51 by Brian S
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An aide who was fired from Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll’s team claims that she caught the politician having sex with a female employee, the Miami Herald reported. Carletha Cole, who was an aide to Carroll before she was let go, played a recording of a conversation with Carroll’s chief of staff with a reporter for the Jacksonville newspaper, the Florida Times-Union. The Herald article notes "Cole is being charged with disclosing that recorded conversation." Cole’s motion claims that Carroll’s office was dysfunctional and aides would often record conversations. The motion alleges that Cole accidentally walked in on Carroll having a sexual encounter with a ...
Obama campaign revs up black outreach
Post Date: 2012-07-15 18:34:49 by CZ82
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Obama campaign revs up black outreach By Niall Stanage and Amie Parnes - 07/14/12 06:00 AM ET President Obama’s reelection campaign is making a determined and carefully calibrated effort to boost enthusiasm among black voters, a group that could swing the election in key battleground states. Polls have Obama winning more than 90 percent of the black vote against Mitt Romney, but there are signs that the high African-American turnout that fueled his 2008 victories in North Carolina and Virginia could dissipate after the hard realities of the president’s first term. The chances for depressed turnout are increased by the bad economy, which at its worst drove the unemployment ...
DHS Will Let Fla. Access Data to Purge Non-Citizens from Voting Rolls
Post Date: 2012-07-15 11:15:12 by CZ82
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DHS Will Let Fla. Access Data to Purge Non-Citizens from Voting Rolls By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press July 14, 2012 FILE - In this May 16, 2012, file photo Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In a victory for Republicans, the federal government has agreed to let Florida use a law enforcement database to challenge people’s right to vote if they are suspected of not being U.S. citizens. The agreement, made in a letter Scott’s administration that was obtained by The Associated Press, grants the state access to a list of resident non citizens maintained by the Department of Homeland Security. The Obama administration had denied Florida’s request for ...
Libertarianism for dummies
Post Date: 2012-07-14 16:40:31 by CZ82
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Libertarianism for dummies By Max Borders There is no denying it. Libertarianism is hot. This has a lot of people on both the left and right nervous. Some of the territory liberals and conservatives believed they had staked out long ago is being taken over by a new center — one that seems to borrow from aspects of each of the dominant partisan tribes. But libertarianism has its own elegant symmetry, as we’ll see. The two tribes’ anxiety toward libertarianism rears its head in a number of ways. Most critics stitch together libertarian voodoo dolls from scraps of hearsay and Newsweek articles, then needle the dolls to get a reaction. Others say libertarianism is ...
Rand Paul to Mitt Romney: Support Audit the Fed bill
Post Date: 2012-07-14 15:40:07 by A K A Stone
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Senator Rand Paul said Wednesday that he wants presidential candidate Mitt Romney to come out publicly in support of Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill. His father's bill recently passed by a voice vote in the House oversight committee, and will come up for a full vote in the House next month. Senator Paul said that if Governor Romney were to do that, he believes it would be one way to bring some of Ron Paul's supporters into the Mitt Romney camp. It is significant that the vote on this bill, and presumably Mitt Romney's support for it, would come before what is expected to be a contentious Republican national convention. Reigning in the Federal Reserve is the signature issue ...
Obama's War On Medical Marijuana Just Got Even Uglier
Post Date: 2012-07-14 15:24:59 by A K A Stone
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One month ago, Eric Holder testified before Congress that the Dept. of Justice is only targeting medical marijuana businesses that violate their state's laws. Anyone who didn't realize it was a lie should be getting the message right about now. The federal government is moving to shut down the nation's largest and highest-profile medical marijuana dispensary operation, filing papers to seize properties in Oakland and San Jose where Harborside Health Center does business. Copies of the federal Complaint for Forfeiture were taped to the front doors of the two dispensaries Tuesday, alleging that they were "operating in violation of federal law." Medical marijuana ...
Food Crisis Fears As US Corn Soars
Post Date: 2012-07-14 15:18:01 by Brian S
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Is the world on the brink of another food crisis? It has become a distressingly familiar question. With the price of agricultural staples such as corn, soyabeans and wheat soaring for the third summer in five years, the prospect of another price shock is once again becoming a prominent concern for investors and politicians alike. The debate marks a dramatic shift from just a few weeks ago, when traders were expecting bumper crops and policy makers were comforting themselves that – if nothing else – falling commodity prices would offer some relief to the troubled global economy. But since then, scorching heat and a paucity of rain across the US has withered the country’s ...
NSA Whistleblower: They’re Assembling Information On Every U.S. Citizen
Post Date: 2012-07-14 15:02:06 by Brian S
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NSA whistleblower William Binney was interviewed by internet journalist Geoff Shively at the HOPE Number 9 hackers conference in New York on Friday. Binney, who resigned from the NSA in 2001 over its domestic surveillance program, had just delivered a keynote speech in which he revealed what Shively called “evidence which we have not seen until this point.” “They’re pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country … and assembling that information,” Binney explained. “So government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it’s a very dangerous process.” He estimated that something ...
Penn State To Renovate Showers, Locker Room Where Sandusky Abused Boys
Post Date: 2012-07-14 14:55:49 by Brian S
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State plans to renovate the building where Jerry Sandusky sexually molested boys. University spokesman David La Torre said Friday that Penn State plans to remodel the football shower and locker room area as a direct result of Sandusky's crimes. The former defensive coordinator was convicted of assaulting some of his victims in the team shower. La Torre says renovation plans to the Lasch Football Building were drawn up shortly after Sandusky's arrest in November. But he says Penn State can't move forward until all legal proceedings in the case are over. Penn State President Rodney Erickson says there have been discussions about Lasch building ...
Sage Stallone, Son of Sylvester Stallone, Found Dead At Home
Post Date: 2012-07-13 23:48:41 by Murron
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Sage Stallone, Son of Sylvester Stallone, Found Dead At Home Sage Stallone, the son of Sylvester Stallone, was found dead at his San Fernando Valley home Friday, a law enforcement source said. Los Angeles police who were asked to make a welfare check at the home found the body, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing. No cause of death has been determined, and no other details were immediately available. Sage Stallone was born in Los Angeles in 1976. He appeared as an actor in several movies, including some with his father, such as "Rocky V" and "Daylight." He was 36. [Updated at 4:54 a.m.: Stallone’s body was ...
Jury Finds 18-Year-Old Not Guilty After His Walk In Downtown Birmingham With Loaded Rifle
Post Date: 2012-07-12 23:12:40 by Brian S
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A jury has found an 18-year-old man not guilty of a crime for carrying a loaded M-1 rifle as he walked through the downtown of an affluent Detroit suburb. Birmingham police arrested Sean Combs on April 13th. A district court jury in Oakland County's Bloomfield Township got the case Wednesday and reached a verdict Thursday. Judge Marc Barron threw out a charge of resisting and obstructing police before deliberations started. The jurors then found Combs not guilty of brandishing a firearm and disturbing the peace. WWJ-AM reported that after the verdict, Combs said he considers carrying a rifle in public as part of his "freedom of speech and ...
Joe Paterno's Legacy Irreparably Stained
Post Date: 2012-07-12 23:05:16 by Brian S
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An incomparable career narrative that spanned more than six decades now reads like one of the Greek tragedies the late Joe Paterno always loved: Paterno's legacy has been irreparably stained by findings that the iconic Penn State football coach concealed information for years that could have stopped a sexual predator. The conclusions of former FBI director Louis Freeh, who drew on more than 400 interviews and 3 million documents over a nearly eight-month independent investigation of Penn State's sexual assault scandal as requested by the school, have complicated and sullied the image of major-college football's all-time winningest coach. Freeh found that Paterno was among five ...
California Demon
Post Date: 2012-07-12 21:57:42 by CZ82
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California Demon By John H. Fund from the July - Aug 2012 issue A state fast becoming America's version of Greece. THE LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS show the economic recovery stalling. But as weak as the national economy is, it’s nothing compared to the condition of some states whose policies are guaranteed to scare away jobs and investment. Call it the European Disease: Run up spending and debt, raise taxes in the name of balancing the budget, and then watch as jobs flee, deficits rise, and credit ratings fall. Chief Executive magazine has just come out with a survey of 650 corporate CEOs on the business climate in their states. They ranked local conditions on a range of ...
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