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Teacher orders student not to 'disrespect the president'

Sunday, May 20, 2012
Blogs
Teacher orders student not to 'disrespect the president'
A YouTube video uploaded on Monday afternoon apparently shows a schoolteacher from the Rowan-Salisbury school district in North Carolina informing a student that failing to be respectful of President Obama is a criminal offense. Read more...

Former CNN anchor to Obama, about women: Get real

Saturday, May 19, 2012
News
Former CNN anchor to Obama, about women: Get real
The women I know who are struggling in this economy couldn’t be further from the fictional character of Julia, presented in Mr. Obama’s Web ad, "The Life of Julia." Read more...

Lesbian couple charged with faking hate crime

Saturday, May 19, 2012
News
Lesbian couple charged with faking hate crime
A lesbian couple who claimed they were victims of a hate crime have been arrested after police determined they staged the incidents. Read more...

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'Philippines belongs to China' gaffe fuels tensions

Thursday, May 10, 2012
News
An anchor on China’s state-run TV network has accidentally declared the Philippines a part of China, in an embarrassing gaffe as tensions between the two nations run high. Read more...

Lockerbie bomber dies 3 years after release to Libya

Sunday, May 20, 2012
News
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. Read more...

Minimum wage earner with 30 kids by 11 mothers seeks support

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
News
Desmond Hatchett, a father of 30 kids, is pleading with the state of Tennessee to help him pay for child support.  Read more...

First 'birther' was Obama's literary agent

Saturday, May 19, 2012
Commentary
So the lunatic theory that Barack Obama doesn’t meet the minimum eligibility requirements to be president of the United States was first advanced by Barack Obama’s official representative. After all, if your first book is an exploration of racial identity and has the working title “Journeys in Black and White,” being born in Hawaii doesn’t really help.  Read more...

NAACP rules same-sex marriage is ‘civil right’

Saturday, May 19, 2012
News
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People passed a resolution on Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts “to codify discrimination or hatred into the law.” The move could bolster support for the president with black Democratic voters who remain skeptical of same-sex marriage. Read more...

Rights activist Chen reaches U.S. after daring escape

Saturday, May 19, 2012
News
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who has fought against China's one child and forced abortion policy, has finally arrived in the United States. Read more...

Pentagon China report omits sections on key threats

Friday, May 18, 2012
News
The Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military for 2012 was cut to half the size of earlier reports and key weapons developments were omitted in an apparent bid to mitigate Beijing’s objections to the annual assessment of the communist government’s military buildup. Read more...

'NATO 3' accused of targeting Obama campaign HQ

Saturday, May 19, 2012
News
A band of out-of-state “domestic terrorists” was accused Saturday of planning to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home — and firebomb police stations and squad cars — declaring that after the NATO Summit “the city will never be the same,” police and prosecutors said. Read more...

Even Obama campaign enters Kenya arena

Saturday, May 19, 2012
Blogs
The Obama campaign itself has decided to comment on the Breitbart News' exclusive surrounding a 1991 booklet published by President Obama's literary agency that falsely claimed the president was born in Kenya. There's no mistaking the fact that there's a legitimate narrative surrounding Obama that involves the way in which both he and those around him engage in myth-making. Read more...

Utah Sen. Lee loses home, shifts into rental

Friday, May 18, 2012
News
Sen. Mike Lee, a Tea Party favorite, was forced to sell his Utah “dream home” in a short sale and now lives with his wife and three children in a rental, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Read more...

The French president lands with a girlfriend

Friday, May 18, 2012
News
Valerie Trierweiler pushed the frontiers of US diplomatic protocol on Friday as she took her first steps as France’s new — and unmarried — first lady ahead of the G-8 and NATO summits. American media have been puzzled about how to describe the female half of the first unmarried occupants of the Elysees Palace, with CNN favoring “girlfriend” and others opting for “spouse,” “partner” or “companion.” Read more...

Voters divided on Romney's business background

Friday, May 18, 2012
Blogs
Voter opinion is almost equally divided on whether Mitt Romney’s business experience helps the presumed Republican presidential nominee, according to a Hill poll. Read more...

'Exorcist' author livid over school's Sebelius invite

Friday, May 18, 2012
News
The author who turned Georgetown University into a horror scene in "The Exorcist" plans to sue the school in church court, charging that his alma mater has strayed so far from church doctrine that it should no longer call itself Catholic. Read more...

Romney rips Obama's economy as going nowhere

Friday, May 18, 2012
News
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney returned to his economic message on Friday, highlighting a "bridge to nowhere" rebuilt by stimulus money and warning the U.S. economy could suffer a fiscal crisis like California's if he is not elected in November. Read more...

Terror defense could turn to anthrax tests on kids

Thursday, May 17, 2012
News
The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested on children?  Read more...

Fauxcahontas may have stolen 'Pow Wow' recipes

Friday, May 18, 2012
News
The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm she plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 "Pow Wow Chow" cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey. Read more...

Norquist: Dems' Berlin Wall tax bill has Nazi tinge

Saturday, May 19, 2012
Blogs
Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist on Friday compared a Democratic proposal to penalize Americans who renounce their citizenship to evade taxes to policies employed by the Nazis and communists. The legislation, introduced by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey, was nicknamed the Berlin Wall Bill by the Times247 staff. Read more...

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GHEI: Springtime blues for consumers

Nita Ghei
05/18/2012
Americans are still asking themselves, “where’s the recovery?” The latest reports suggest the answer is nowhere in sight, as the present “recovery” is looking an awful lot like a recession. Read more...

EDITORIAL: Small businesses sweat it out

The Washington Times
05/18/2012
EDITORIAL: Small businesses sweat it out
The arrival of summer in the nation’s capital is always heralded by humidity and resulting citywide lethargy. Unfortunately for small-business owners perspiring over what taxes they’ll owe Uncle Sam for the year, this season is no different. Growth-killing tax rates are slated to spike within months if Congress doesn’t act, but no relief is on the horizon. Read more...

DIAZ: Obama ignites same-sex marriage issue

Mario Diaz
05/18/2012
DIAZ: Obama ignites same-sex marriage issue
The Obama campaign has been in damage-control mode since the president decided to acknowledge his support for same-sex marriage. As the NewYorkTimes reported, “About two hours after declaring his support for same-sex marriage last week, President Obama gathered eight or so African-American ministers on a conference call to explain himself.” Read more...

HENSARLING: When risk is outlawed

Rep. Jeb Hensarling
05/17/2012
HENSARLING: When risk is outlawed
The news of J.P. Morgan Chase’s recent trading loss has raised the cry of “I told you so” from proponents of the almost 2-year-old Dodd-Frank Act. They say the law’s Volcker rule would have prevented such a loss and that without more regulation, financial institutions will continue to make poor investment decisions. Read more...

KUHNER: Jeremiah Wright can sink Obama

Jeffrey T. Kuhner
05/17/2012
KUHNER: Jeremiah Wright can sink Obama
He’s back. And this time, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright threatens to engulf President Obama in a major scandal — one that could doom his re-election. Edward Klein in his recent biography of Mr. Obama, “The Amateur,” interviewed Mr. Wright about the president’s past. Read more...

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Media's Kenyan cover-up: Obama's past ignored

Times247
Friday, May 18, 2012
A promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's literary agency listed the future president as "born in Kenya" until 2007. An Associated Press article called Obama a “Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful" in 2004. With all of the questions surfacing now — more than three years into Obama's first term as president — one thing is certain: Media failed the American people.  Read more...

Warren: The legend of Fauxcahontas' little big lie

Times247
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

California dreamin'

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Obama's one-hit wonder: I shot bin Laden

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

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From a survivor: Closing the gap on trafficking legislation

Holly Smith
05/16/2012
From a survivor: Closing the gap on trafficking legislation
Last week, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed into legislation several bills aimed to combat human trafficking within the state. As a survivor of child trafficking, I was honored to be part of the bill signing ceremony at the Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, VA. However, as an advocate for the SB 259/HB1188 bill, I am concerned about the future implementation of this legislation. Read more...