Saturday Show 11-18-17
The big list of 149 Trump accomplishments continued
North Korea: In August, the U.S. initiated a resolution in the U.N. Security Council establishing sanctions that would cut North Korea’s export revenue by a third. Another resolution passed Sept. 11 with new sanctions.
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IKEA glass tables are shattering spontaneously
People all over the country are complaining that their glass tables have shattered spontaneously, sometimes when there's no one in the room. And even popular brands like IKEA are not immune.
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EU Countries Sign Up to New Europe-Wide Defense Cooperation Plan; NATO Unfazed
A majority of European Union countries have signed up to a plan to establish an E.U.-wide joint defense cooperative, in a bid to strengthen European unity and reduce dependence on NATO.
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WWII veteran calls for help and dies as nurses laugh, video shows
A hidden video from 2014 showed nurses laughing as a World War II veteran repeatedly called for help and died while in their care.
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Did Cuba just successfully invade Venezuela?
The island nation still has a failed economy — the small number of citizens who own cars tend to drive antiques — it has little influence on the international scene and relations with its northern neighbor, the U.S., are still strained at best.
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Sunday, November 19, 2017
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Show Notes 07-09-2017
Sunday show 7/9/17
Why you might want to think twice before going to law school
Whittier Law School in California is closing its doors for good next spring, and students and faculty are stunned. It is, after all, a shocking milestone – to be the first ever accredited law school to shut down.
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Activists scale Trump Tower, raise 'Resist and Defend' banner
Seven members of the environmental organization Greenpeace are in custody after unfurling an anti-Trump banner at Chicago's Trump Tower. Activists raised a "Resist and Defend" message on the south side of the Trump International Hotel & Tower.
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Hundreds gather to help restore vandalized Colorado Freedom Memorial
Robert and Jean Terry stood looking up at the Colorado Freedom Memorial under a row of names. “Your brother was 14th … I see him,” they said pointing above on the wall.
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Sessions Pledges to ‘Aggressively and Appropriately’ Enforce Hate Crime Laws Involving Transgender Victims
In a speech at the Justice Department’s 2017 Hate Crimes Summit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said his department will “aggressively and appropriately” enforce hate crime laws “where transgendered individuals are victims.”
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Microsoft cuts thousands of jobs
Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) confirmed the move in a statement sent to CNN Tech, noting it is "taking steps to notify some employees that their jobs are under consideration or that their positions will be eliminated."
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Pope Francis Says America Has ‘a Distorted Vision of the World’
Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Thursday that the United States of America—and Russia, China, North Korea and Bashar al Assad's Syria—have “a distorted vision of the world"--("una visione distorta del mondo," as reportetd in Italian by La Repubblica).
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Germany: Chechen Sharia Police Terrorize Berlin
A hundred Islamists are now openly enforcing Sharia law on the streets of Berlin, according to local police who are investigating a recent string of violent assaults in the German capital.
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Bare shoulders, debate on dress code for female Hill reporters heats up
A story about a female Capitol Hill reporter unexpectedly barred from the House Speaker’s Lobby for wearing a sleeveless dress is emerging as Washington’s hottest controversy -- with some veteran journalists now trying to take the blame off Speaker Paul Ryan and saying the rules have long been in place.
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WOMAN CONVICTED FOR FAKE RAPE CLAIMS AGAINST 15 INNOCENT MEN
A British woman who repeatedly claimed of being sexually assaulted and raped by 15 different men – leading one to be wrongly imprisoned – is now facing jail time of her own after she was convicted Thursday of lying about her claims.
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Report: Applicants for US Citizenship Surge; Mexicans Least Likely to Apply
The number of legal immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship has surged by more than 20 percent since 2015, according to a recent Pew Research study – with Mexicans the least likely to apply.
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Snortable Chocolate Claimed to Boost Energy: Is It Safe?
This chocolate isn't for dessert: A new "snortable" chocolate product called Coco Loko is being marketed as a drug-free way to feel energized. But some health experts said they are wary about the effects of inhaling chocolate through your nostrils.
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Why you might want to think twice before going to law school
Whittier Law School in California is closing its doors for good next spring, and students and faculty are stunned. It is, after all, a shocking milestone – to be the first ever accredited law school to shut down.
Read More
Activists scale Trump Tower, raise 'Resist and Defend' banner
Seven members of the environmental organization Greenpeace are in custody after unfurling an anti-Trump banner at Chicago's Trump Tower. Activists raised a "Resist and Defend" message on the south side of the Trump International Hotel & Tower.
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Hundreds gather to help restore vandalized Colorado Freedom Memorial
Robert and Jean Terry stood looking up at the Colorado Freedom Memorial under a row of names. “Your brother was 14th … I see him,” they said pointing above on the wall.
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Sessions Pledges to ‘Aggressively and Appropriately’ Enforce Hate Crime Laws Involving Transgender Victims
In a speech at the Justice Department’s 2017 Hate Crimes Summit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said his department will “aggressively and appropriately” enforce hate crime laws “where transgendered individuals are victims.”
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Microsoft cuts thousands of jobs
Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) confirmed the move in a statement sent to CNN Tech, noting it is "taking steps to notify some employees that their jobs are under consideration or that their positions will be eliminated."
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Pope Francis Says America Has ‘a Distorted Vision of the World’
Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Thursday that the United States of America—and Russia, China, North Korea and Bashar al Assad's Syria—have “a distorted vision of the world"--("una visione distorta del mondo," as reportetd in Italian by La Repubblica).
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Germany: Chechen Sharia Police Terrorize Berlin
A hundred Islamists are now openly enforcing Sharia law on the streets of Berlin, according to local police who are investigating a recent string of violent assaults in the German capital.
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Bare shoulders, debate on dress code for female Hill reporters heats up
A story about a female Capitol Hill reporter unexpectedly barred from the House Speaker’s Lobby for wearing a sleeveless dress is emerging as Washington’s hottest controversy -- with some veteran journalists now trying to take the blame off Speaker Paul Ryan and saying the rules have long been in place.
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WOMAN CONVICTED FOR FAKE RAPE CLAIMS AGAINST 15 INNOCENT MEN
A British woman who repeatedly claimed of being sexually assaulted and raped by 15 different men – leading one to be wrongly imprisoned – is now facing jail time of her own after she was convicted Thursday of lying about her claims.
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Report: Applicants for US Citizenship Surge; Mexicans Least Likely to Apply
The number of legal immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship has surged by more than 20 percent since 2015, according to a recent Pew Research study – with Mexicans the least likely to apply.
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Snortable Chocolate Claimed to Boost Energy: Is It Safe?
This chocolate isn't for dessert: A new "snortable" chocolate product called Coco Loko is being marketed as a drug-free way to feel energized. But some health experts said they are wary about the effects of inhaling chocolate through your nostrils.
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Sunday, April 23, 2017
Show Notes 04-21-2017
Friday Show 4-21-17
The big, amazing list of people Obama spied on
“Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.'” – From “Goldfinger” by Ian Fleming.
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Court: 75-Year-Old Vet Not Guilty for Displaying U.S. Flags Above VA Fence
A U.S. veteran who was charged in 2016 with the federal crime of desecrating Veterans Administration property by displaying two napkin-sized flags on top of a VA fence was found not guilty yesterday, according to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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Trump Signs Bill to Extend Veterans Choice Program
President Donald Trump extended the Veterans Choice Act on Wednesday to set the stage for a push in Congress to expand the program and allow more access to private care for veterans.
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US Intelligence Agencies Fear Rogue Insiders as Much as Spies
Few spy cases have broken in the past decade and a half. In contrast, a proliferation of U.S. intelligence and military insiders have gone rogue and spilled secrets to journalists or WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group.
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I.R.S. Enlists Debt Collectors to Recover Overdue Taxes
The Internal Revenue Service is about to start using four private debt-collection companies to chase down overdue payments from hundreds of thousands of people who owe money to the federal government, a job it has handled in house for years.
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GM halts operations in Venezuela after factory is seized
General Motors has stopped doing business in Venezuela after authorities took control of its only factory there in what GM called an illegal judicial seizure of its assets.
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The big, amazing list of people Obama spied on
“Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.'” – From “Goldfinger” by Ian Fleming.
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Court: 75-Year-Old Vet Not Guilty for Displaying U.S. Flags Above VA Fence
A U.S. veteran who was charged in 2016 with the federal crime of desecrating Veterans Administration property by displaying two napkin-sized flags on top of a VA fence was found not guilty yesterday, according to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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Trump Signs Bill to Extend Veterans Choice Program
President Donald Trump extended the Veterans Choice Act on Wednesday to set the stage for a push in Congress to expand the program and allow more access to private care for veterans.
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US Intelligence Agencies Fear Rogue Insiders as Much as Spies
Few spy cases have broken in the past decade and a half. In contrast, a proliferation of U.S. intelligence and military insiders have gone rogue and spilled secrets to journalists or WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group.
Read More
I.R.S. Enlists Debt Collectors to Recover Overdue Taxes
The Internal Revenue Service is about to start using four private debt-collection companies to chase down overdue payments from hundreds of thousands of people who owe money to the federal government, a job it has handled in house for years.
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GM halts operations in Venezuela after factory is seized
General Motors has stopped doing business in Venezuela after authorities took control of its only factory there in what GM called an illegal judicial seizure of its assets.
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Monday, November 21, 2016
Show Notes 11-20-2016
Sunday Show 11-20-16
Service dog changes life of Veteran with PTSD
A Minnesota army veteran and father-of-five who suffered silently from the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has a life line in his service dog, Jed.
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Europe’s leaders to force Britain into hard Brexit
European leaders have come to a 27-nation consensus that a “hard Brexit” is likely to be the only way to see off future populist insurgencies, which could lead to the break-up of the European Union.
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Passerby shoots, kills motorist assaulting Deputy after traffic stop
A driver who attacked a Florida sheriff's deputy was shot and killed by a bystander who warned him to stop beating the officer, according to a report.
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Great balls of snow: Giant snowballs appear on Siberia's coast
The Sun reports that local people in the village of Nyda on the Yamal Peninsula, just above the Arctic Circle, were stunned to find the strange spheres. Pictures of the snowballs, which range from the size of tennis balls to 3 feet, have gone viral in Russia. Added.
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Trump-assassination threat displayed in school trophy case
The U.S. Secret Service has been notified of an incident at Ordean-East Middle School in Duluth, Minnesota, in which a photo of President-elect Donald Trump was placed in a trophy case with the caption “You’re a dead man.”
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South LA teacher caught on audio telling students that their parents would be deported
The fear is real for many young people who believe a Donald Trump presidency means their parents will be deported. Now, a teacher was caught on audio fueling that anxiety.
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Schools report racist incidents in wake of Trump election
Two Texas high school student face disciplinary action after staging a mock assassination of President-elect Donald Trump for their English class presentation.
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Zuckerberg cites unreliable liberal fact checker as objective news source
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday night outlined a plan to combat fake news on the social media giant and suggested that Snopes would take a role in this fight. Snopes, which claims to be a “myth-busting” website, has a proven liberal bias.
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Service dog changes life of Veteran with PTSD
A Minnesota army veteran and father-of-five who suffered silently from the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has a life line in his service dog, Jed.
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Europe’s leaders to force Britain into hard Brexit
European leaders have come to a 27-nation consensus that a “hard Brexit” is likely to be the only way to see off future populist insurgencies, which could lead to the break-up of the European Union.
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Passerby shoots, kills motorist assaulting Deputy after traffic stop
A driver who attacked a Florida sheriff's deputy was shot and killed by a bystander who warned him to stop beating the officer, according to a report.
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Great balls of snow: Giant snowballs appear on Siberia's coast
The Sun reports that local people in the village of Nyda on the Yamal Peninsula, just above the Arctic Circle, were stunned to find the strange spheres. Pictures of the snowballs, which range from the size of tennis balls to 3 feet, have gone viral in Russia. Added.
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Trump-assassination threat displayed in school trophy case
The U.S. Secret Service has been notified of an incident at Ordean-East Middle School in Duluth, Minnesota, in which a photo of President-elect Donald Trump was placed in a trophy case with the caption “You’re a dead man.”
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South LA teacher caught on audio telling students that their parents would be deported
The fear is real for many young people who believe a Donald Trump presidency means their parents will be deported. Now, a teacher was caught on audio fueling that anxiety.
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Schools report racist incidents in wake of Trump election
Two Texas high school student face disciplinary action after staging a mock assassination of President-elect Donald Trump for their English class presentation.
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Zuckerberg cites unreliable liberal fact checker as objective news source
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday night outlined a plan to combat fake news on the social media giant and suggested that Snopes would take a role in this fight. Snopes, which claims to be a “myth-busting” website, has a proven liberal bias.
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Sunday, August 28, 2016
Show Notes 08-25-2016
Thursday Show 8-25-16
Mega military base breaks silence on martial law memo
U.S. military drills on American streets and roads, on public lands and in cities and towns long have prompted fears that the federal government is preparing to impose martial law.
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Army general testifies no one swayed him in Bergdahl case
The Army general who ordered Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's court martial testified Wednesday that he wasn't swayed by negative comments from a powerful U.S. senator, saying that he takes his duty "very, very seriously."
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WW11 Veteran gets surprise and honored at his home
KTLA reports a World War II veteran had one of the best days of his life after being honored by chief selects in front of his California home recently.
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Park Service celebrates 100 years, seeks minorities' support
When Asha Jones and other Grand Canyon interns arrived for their summer at the national park, they were struck by its sheer immensity, beauty and world-class hiking trails. Soon, they noticed something else.
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Texas college students rally against gun laws with sex toys
Hundreds of University of Texas students waved sex toys at a campus rally during the first day of classes, protesting a new state law that allows concealed handguns in college classrooms, buildings and dorms.
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Preparing kids to say pledge to Mexican flag
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1943 ruled that schools cannot force students to participate in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to Old Glory.
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Faith based colleges win mafor religious freedom battle for now
Faith-based colleges and universities in California dodged a major threat to their existence from Democrat state lawmakers, but the leader of an effort to block financial aid from the state to schools that do not adhere to the left’s position on sexuality vows to bring the matter back next year.
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Feds Spend $1 Million for Refugees to Become Farmers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending nearly $1 million to teach refugees how to farm. New grants announced last week include two projects in Idaho and Kansas to “cultivate the next generation of farmers” by helping refugees get land leases to start their own farms.
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Mega military base breaks silence on martial law memo
U.S. military drills on American streets and roads, on public lands and in cities and towns long have prompted fears that the federal government is preparing to impose martial law.
Read More
Army general testifies no one swayed him in Bergdahl case
The Army general who ordered Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's court martial testified Wednesday that he wasn't swayed by negative comments from a powerful U.S. senator, saying that he takes his duty "very, very seriously."
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WW11 Veteran gets surprise and honored at his home
KTLA reports a World War II veteran had one of the best days of his life after being honored by chief selects in front of his California home recently.
Read More
Park Service celebrates 100 years, seeks minorities' support
When Asha Jones and other Grand Canyon interns arrived for their summer at the national park, they were struck by its sheer immensity, beauty and world-class hiking trails. Soon, they noticed something else.
Read More
Texas college students rally against gun laws with sex toys
Hundreds of University of Texas students waved sex toys at a campus rally during the first day of classes, protesting a new state law that allows concealed handguns in college classrooms, buildings and dorms.
Read More
Preparing kids to say pledge to Mexican flag
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1943 ruled that schools cannot force students to participate in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to Old Glory.
Read More
Faith based colleges win mafor religious freedom battle for now
Faith-based colleges and universities in California dodged a major threat to their existence from Democrat state lawmakers, but the leader of an effort to block financial aid from the state to schools that do not adhere to the left’s position on sexuality vows to bring the matter back next year.
Read More
Feds Spend $1 Million for Refugees to Become Farmers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending nearly $1 million to teach refugees how to farm. New grants announced last week include two projects in Idaho and Kansas to “cultivate the next generation of farmers” by helping refugees get land leases to start their own farms.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Show Notes 05-29-2016
Sunday Show 05-29-16
Memorial Day
The holiday got started on May 30, 1868, when Union General John A. Logan declared the day an occasion to decorate the graves of Civil War soldiers. Twenty years later, the name was changed to Memorial Day.
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Veteran memorials in 3 States vandalized ahead of Memorial Day
Memorials to veterans in a Los Angeles neighborhood and a town in Kentucky, as well as a Civil War veterans cemetery in Virginia, were damaged as the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, officials said.
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Louisiana lawmaker labels Declaration of Of Independence racist in debate
Louisiana lawmaker Barbara Norton (D-Shreveport), argued that America’s founding document was racist during debate on a bill requiring public school students in the state to recite the Declaration of Independence daily, Fox & Friends reported Saturday.
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World War ll Veteran recovering after oxygen tank beating
A 91-year-old World War II veteran in Florida is recovering after police say his caretaker beat him with his oxygen tank. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that 45-year-old Elena Erickson was charged Thursday with attempted murder for the May 15 beating of Michael Tristano.
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Chicago bracing for possible bloodbath
With the arrival of summer fun in Chicago – beaches, fireworks, downtown events – comes the arrival of something far more sinister: increased violence. In the Windy City, the holiday weekend traditionally ushers in a spike in shootings and homicides across a city already known for its brutality.
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Britain announces investigation of Islamic law
The British government has announced an investigation into Islamic law, or Shariah, to examine its compatibility with the nation’s laws.
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Injectable sponges used for first time to stop soldiers bleeding
A U.S. military surgical team used an innovative device to staunch the bleeding on a gunshot victim, RevMedx, the company that makes it, recently announced. That marks the first documented occasion that the device has been used in a patient clinically, the company said.
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Are we ready for personal satellite technology?
Satellites used to be the exclusive playthings of rich governments and wealthy corporations. But increasingly, as space becomes more democratized, these sophisticated technologies are coming within reach of ordinary people.
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Memorial Day
The holiday got started on May 30, 1868, when Union General John A. Logan declared the day an occasion to decorate the graves of Civil War soldiers. Twenty years later, the name was changed to Memorial Day.
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Veteran memorials in 3 States vandalized ahead of Memorial Day
Memorials to veterans in a Los Angeles neighborhood and a town in Kentucky, as well as a Civil War veterans cemetery in Virginia, were damaged as the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, officials said.
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Louisiana lawmaker labels Declaration of Of Independence racist in debate
Louisiana lawmaker Barbara Norton (D-Shreveport), argued that America’s founding document was racist during debate on a bill requiring public school students in the state to recite the Declaration of Independence daily, Fox & Friends reported Saturday.
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World War ll Veteran recovering after oxygen tank beating
A 91-year-old World War II veteran in Florida is recovering after police say his caretaker beat him with his oxygen tank. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that 45-year-old Elena Erickson was charged Thursday with attempted murder for the May 15 beating of Michael Tristano.
Read More
Chicago bracing for possible bloodbath
With the arrival of summer fun in Chicago – beaches, fireworks, downtown events – comes the arrival of something far more sinister: increased violence. In the Windy City, the holiday weekend traditionally ushers in a spike in shootings and homicides across a city already known for its brutality.
Read More
Britain announces investigation of Islamic law
The British government has announced an investigation into Islamic law, or Shariah, to examine its compatibility with the nation’s laws.
Read More
Injectable sponges used for first time to stop soldiers bleeding
A U.S. military surgical team used an innovative device to staunch the bleeding on a gunshot victim, RevMedx, the company that makes it, recently announced. That marks the first documented occasion that the device has been used in a patient clinically, the company said.
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Are we ready for personal satellite technology?
Satellites used to be the exclusive playthings of rich governments and wealthy corporations. But increasingly, as space becomes more democratized, these sophisticated technologies are coming within reach of ordinary people.
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Show Notes 11-15-15
Sunday show 11-15-15
Black Jack Pershing
Once in US history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so "Black Jack" told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.
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Bernie Sanders: Climate Change is Greatest Security Threat and ‘Directly Related to Growth of Terrorism’
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said in the Democratic debate on CBS News on Saturday night that climate change is the greatest national security threat America faces and is “directly related to the growth of terrorism.”
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Speaker Ryan: 'Veterans Fought to Preserve Our Heritage, But It's Up to Us to Pass on That Heritage'
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), speaking Wednesday at a Veterans Day event in Racine, said the best way to honor those who fought and died for their country is to teach children what those veterans were fighting to save.
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Baltimore records 300th homicide of the year
Baltimore has recorded its 300th homicide of the year. Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said in a statement Saturday evening that it was a "sad homicide milestone." He said that "it's important to pause and vow to continue our collective fight to find a better path forward."
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Operation Wetback
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America’s southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
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Sheriff Joe beats Obama to Supreme Court on amnesty
The Obama administration plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the Constitution does not allow the president to change laws passed by Congress.
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Feds to ban smoking in public housing
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving forward with regulations to ban smoking in public housing.
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Interior Department: Delmarva Peninsula Fox Squirrel No Longer at Risk of Extinction
The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Friday that one on the animals included on the first list of endangered species nearly a half century ago is no longer at risk of extinction.
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Attorney: If Americans Don’t Fight For Religious Liberty, They Will Lose It
Hostile attacks on religion freedom are increasing at a dramatic pace, and if Americans don’t stand up and fight for their First Amendment rights, they will lose them, warns attorney and constitutional scholar Kelly Shackelford.
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Black Jack Pershing
Once in US history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so "Black Jack" told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.
Read More
Bernie Sanders: Climate Change is Greatest Security Threat and ‘Directly Related to Growth of Terrorism’
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said in the Democratic debate on CBS News on Saturday night that climate change is the greatest national security threat America faces and is “directly related to the growth of terrorism.”
Read More
Speaker Ryan: 'Veterans Fought to Preserve Our Heritage, But It's Up to Us to Pass on That Heritage'
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), speaking Wednesday at a Veterans Day event in Racine, said the best way to honor those who fought and died for their country is to teach children what those veterans were fighting to save.
Read More
Baltimore records 300th homicide of the year
Baltimore has recorded its 300th homicide of the year. Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said in a statement Saturday evening that it was a "sad homicide milestone." He said that "it's important to pause and vow to continue our collective fight to find a better path forward."
Read More
Operation Wetback
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America’s southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
Read More
Sheriff Joe beats Obama to Supreme Court on amnesty
The Obama administration plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the Constitution does not allow the president to change laws passed by Congress.
Read More
Feds to ban smoking in public housing
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving forward with regulations to ban smoking in public housing.
Read More
Interior Department: Delmarva Peninsula Fox Squirrel No Longer at Risk of Extinction
The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Friday that one on the animals included on the first list of endangered species nearly a half century ago is no longer at risk of extinction.
Read More
Attorney: If Americans Don’t Fight For Religious Liberty, They Will Lose It
Hostile attacks on religion freedom are increasing at a dramatic pace, and if Americans don’t stand up and fight for their First Amendment rights, they will lose them, warns attorney and constitutional scholar Kelly Shackelford.
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Friday, August 21, 2015
Show Notes 08-20-2015
Thursday
show 08-20-15
A Fighting Force
Since the Air Force Nurse Corps emerged from the Army Nurse Corps in July 1949, Air Force nursing service personnel have excelled in providing dedicat- ed care to their customers.
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Army kicking out decorated Green Beret who stood up for Afgan rape victim
The U.S. Army is kicking out a decorated Green Beret after an 11-year Special Forces career, after he got in trouble for shoving an Afghan police commander accused of raping a boy and beating up his mother when she reported the incident.
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Army dog reunited with handler after being abandoned
It has been almost four years since U.S. Army Specialist Tyler Roberts has seen a teammate he spent every day with while serving in Afghanistan. That changed Wednesday night.
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Half of critical positions open at some VA hospitals
One in three jobs are vacant at nine of the nation’s regional Veterans Affairs health care systems, leaving veterans waiting weeks to get care.
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Greek prime minister says he is resigning, calls for early elections
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced Thursday that he will resign, clearing the way for elections next month as Greece deals with its ongoing debt crisis. Tspiras made the announcement Thursday night, as the country began tapping into a new bailout deal meant to ensure its financial future.
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Planned Parenthood honors journalists amid near blackout over undercover videos
Journalists may be ignoring the firestorm surrounding a series of damning undercover Planned Parenthood videos, but the beleaguered abortion provider is not turning its back on the fourth estate.
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For Nevada pot businesses, it's not all money in the bank
With one medical marijuana dispensary open in Sparks and another opening before the end of the month in Reno, marijuana establishments are gaining traction in Nevada.
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NPR Reports on Illegal Aliens Who ‘Identify As Americans’
A reporter with National Public Radio said on Thursday that young men living in the United States illegally “identify as Americans" because they have been in the country since they were children.
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A Fighting Force
Since the Air Force Nurse Corps emerged from the Army Nurse Corps in July 1949, Air Force nursing service personnel have excelled in providing dedicat- ed care to their customers.
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Army kicking out decorated Green Beret who stood up for Afgan rape victim
The U.S. Army is kicking out a decorated Green Beret after an 11-year Special Forces career, after he got in trouble for shoving an Afghan police commander accused of raping a boy and beating up his mother when she reported the incident.
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Army dog reunited with handler after being abandoned
It has been almost four years since U.S. Army Specialist Tyler Roberts has seen a teammate he spent every day with while serving in Afghanistan. That changed Wednesday night.
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Half of critical positions open at some VA hospitals
One in three jobs are vacant at nine of the nation’s regional Veterans Affairs health care systems, leaving veterans waiting weeks to get care.
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Greek prime minister says he is resigning, calls for early elections
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced Thursday that he will resign, clearing the way for elections next month as Greece deals with its ongoing debt crisis. Tspiras made the announcement Thursday night, as the country began tapping into a new bailout deal meant to ensure its financial future.
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Planned Parenthood honors journalists amid near blackout over undercover videos
Journalists may be ignoring the firestorm surrounding a series of damning undercover Planned Parenthood videos, but the beleaguered abortion provider is not turning its back on the fourth estate.
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For Nevada pot businesses, it's not all money in the bank
With one medical marijuana dispensary open in Sparks and another opening before the end of the month in Reno, marijuana establishments are gaining traction in Nevada.
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NPR Reports on Illegal Aliens Who ‘Identify As Americans’
A reporter with National Public Radio said on Thursday that young men living in the United States illegally “identify as Americans" because they have been in the country since they were children.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Show Notes 06-20-2015
Sunday show 06-20-15
Summer Solstice 2015: 5
Facts To Know About The First Day Of Summer
Some parts of the U.S.
are already sweltering, but summer doesn't officially start until
this weekend. Sunday marks the summer solstice, or first day of the
season, in the Northern Hemisphere. It's also the longest day of the
year.
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Mississippi school
district drops graduation cheering charges
A Mississippi school
superintendent who pressed charges against people for cheering at a
high school graduation has now dropped the charges. According to
multiple media reports, Senatobia Superintendent Jay Foster says the
school district withdrew the complaints Monday.
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Ros-Lehtinen: State
Dep’t Skipping Mandatory Sanctions Reporting to ‘Appease’ Iran
Government
Accountability Office findings that the State Department is not
complying with a congressionally-mandated reporting cycle on
proliferation-related sanctions are “disturbing because of what
they tell us about the lengths that the administration will go to to
appease the Iranian regime,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said
this week.
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Mitt Romney calls for
removal of Confederate Flag at South Carolina capital
The future of the
Confederate flag that flies on the grounds of South Carolina state
capitol consumed the Republican Party’s presidential field on
Saturday after Mitt Romney, its nominee for president in 2012,
demanded its removal, calling it a “symbol of racial hatred.”
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Report: wait lists for
Vets even longer today than last year
The number of veterans
seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or
more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal
over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of
Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.
Read More
Snacking on Peanuts May
Extend Your Life
People who regularly
eat peanuts may live longer, a new study from the Netherlands finds.
But before you get too excited, peanut butter doesn't count.
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Is diet the key to
curing Autism?
When a doctor told Susan Levin her 4-year-old son, Ben,
was autistic, she was shocked. It was October 2007, and autism wasn’t
mentioned in the media nearly as much as it is today.
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Fake orca nearly drowns
before it can scare Ore. sea lions _ but they did get quiet
An effort to use a
fake, life-sized orca to scare off hundreds of sea lions crowding
docks off the Oregon coast ended, at least temporarily, with the
fiberglass creature belly-up after it was swamped by a passing ship.
Read More
The Science of Race:
Why Rachel Dolezal Can't Choose to Be Black
The media and the
public have been buzzing about the bizarre case of Rachel Dolezal,
the former head of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who says she
identifies as black despite being born white.
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Saturday, May 30, 2015
Show Notes 05-28-2015
Thursday show 05-28-15
GDP changes coming in
July as US addresses weak first quarter
The way some parts of
U.S. gross domestic product are calculated are about to change in the
wake of the debate over persistently depressed first-quarter growth.
Read More
Tsipras Urges Euro-Area
Creditors to Compromise for Greek Deal
Greek society can’t
absorb more austerity, and the country’s creditors must compromise
to break the impasse over the release of funds for its cash-strapped
economy, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said.
Read More
Venezuelans look to
unload bolivars as currency continues to tumble
Venezuelans are dumping
their rapidly-depreciating currency at a quicker pace, leading to a
staggering plunge in its free-market value, as the crisis-plagued
economy edges closer to an outbreak of hyperinflation.
Read More
Worth a shot: Former
Pennsylvania police officer's vending machines sell ammo
You can buy snacks,
condoms, fishing bait, marijuana and even gold from vending machines,
so Sam Piccinini figured, “Why not bullets?”
Read More
Police officer 'dragged
into the woods to be killed by three men' saved when his K-9 chases
after him and sends the attackers running
Deputy Todd Frazier of
Long Beach, Mississippi, a K-9 officer, pulled over last Monday night
to check on a car when he noticed that the man in the front seat
appeared to be passed out and the lights were off.
Read More
White house ban on
militarized gear for police may mean little
This week, the White
House announced a series of steps intended to address the kind of
policing issues brought to light by the violence in Ferguson and
later in Baltimore. One of those steps bans police from obtaining
some military-style equipment -
Read More
'There's evil in this
world': US vets risk all to fight ISIS with Kurdish forces
Aaron Core thought he
had seen enough of Iraq during a U.S. Army tour that ended in 2010.
But the image of American journalist James Foley being murdered by an
ISIS executioner prompted him to leave Tennessee and head back, this
time as an unpaid volunteer in the service of the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Read More
White House: US won't
be 'responsible' for 'security situation' in Iraq
The White House on
Thursday, in no uncertain terms, put the onus on the Iraqis to fight
and defeat the Islamic State -- even as a new report warned foreign
fighters are flocking to the battlefield at a historic and dangerous
pace.
Read More
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Show Notes 05-17-15
Sunday show 05-17-15
Ascension Day
According to the accounts in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, Jesus appeared to many of his disciples during the 40 days following his resurrection.
Read More
Exclusive: Sysco sees U.S. bird flu hurting egg supply up to 18 months
Food distributor Sysco Corp said on Friday that a record U.S. outbreak of avian flu would limit its supply of eggs and chickens that lay them for nine to 18 months, based on information provided to the company by its suppliers.
Read More
Pro-life students win battle to form club
The science is clear these days: An unborn child is just that, an unborn child, not “tissue” as the abortion industry has insisted, activists say. And when it comes to protecting that life, there’s a younger generation that understands what is at stake and is willing to act.
Read More
Kerry Tells China: ‘Because of Climate Change in U.S. We Are Ending Any Funding’ of ‘Coal-Fired Power’
At a joint press conference in Beijing yesterday with People’s Republic of China Foreign Minister Wang Yi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Obama administration intends to cooperate closely with the PRC leading into a U.N. climate conference in Paris in December and that the U.S. is “ending any funding” of coal-fired power projects.
Read More
America’s oldest living vet turns 109 and shows us his guns
May 11, 2015 is Richard Overton’s 109th birthday. This makes him America’s oldest surviving World War Two Veteran.
Read More
Armed Forces Day
Many events across the United States take place on Armed Forces Day to honor Americans in uniform who served their country in times of war and peace. Those who are honored on this day include people who serve the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard. National Guard and Reserve units may celebrate Armed Forces Day/Week over any period in May because of their unique training schedules.
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Girl gored by bison in Yellowstone Park while posing for a picture
Girl gored by bison in Yellowstone Park while posing for a pictureA 16-year-old Taiwanese girl has been gored by a bison while posing for a photo in Yellowstone National Park.
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Former New Black Panther And Ferguson Organizer Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere: “Blacks Must Kill” Cops, In ‘Self-Defense’
Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere claims to be a psychotherapist. One wonders how he could ever have gotten a license, if true. Maybe his first patient should be himself. He claims to have been the founder of the illness Manic Aggression Personality Disorder:
Read More
Push to court-martial General for thanking God
A civil-liberties group is demanding a two-star Air Force general be court-martialed for mentioning God at a National Day of Prayer Task Force speech on May 7.
Read More
Ascension Day
According to the accounts in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, Jesus appeared to many of his disciples during the 40 days following his resurrection.
Read More
Exclusive: Sysco sees U.S. bird flu hurting egg supply up to 18 months
Food distributor Sysco Corp said on Friday that a record U.S. outbreak of avian flu would limit its supply of eggs and chickens that lay them for nine to 18 months, based on information provided to the company by its suppliers.
Read More
Pro-life students win battle to form club
The science is clear these days: An unborn child is just that, an unborn child, not “tissue” as the abortion industry has insisted, activists say. And when it comes to protecting that life, there’s a younger generation that understands what is at stake and is willing to act.
Read More
Kerry Tells China: ‘Because of Climate Change in U.S. We Are Ending Any Funding’ of ‘Coal-Fired Power’
At a joint press conference in Beijing yesterday with People’s Republic of China Foreign Minister Wang Yi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Obama administration intends to cooperate closely with the PRC leading into a U.N. climate conference in Paris in December and that the U.S. is “ending any funding” of coal-fired power projects.
Read More
America’s oldest living vet turns 109 and shows us his guns
May 11, 2015 is Richard Overton’s 109th birthday. This makes him America’s oldest surviving World War Two Veteran.
Read More
Armed Forces Day
Many events across the United States take place on Armed Forces Day to honor Americans in uniform who served their country in times of war and peace. Those who are honored on this day include people who serve the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard. National Guard and Reserve units may celebrate Armed Forces Day/Week over any period in May because of their unique training schedules.
Read More
Girl gored by bison in Yellowstone Park while posing for a picture
Girl gored by bison in Yellowstone Park while posing for a pictureA 16-year-old Taiwanese girl has been gored by a bison while posing for a photo in Yellowstone National Park.
Read More
Former New Black Panther And Ferguson Organizer Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere: “Blacks Must Kill” Cops, In ‘Self-Defense’
Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere claims to be a psychotherapist. One wonders how he could ever have gotten a license, if true. Maybe his first patient should be himself. He claims to have been the founder of the illness Manic Aggression Personality Disorder:
Read More
Push to court-martial General for thanking God
A civil-liberties group is demanding a two-star Air Force general be court-martialed for mentioning God at a National Day of Prayer Task Force speech on May 7.
Read More
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Show Notes 03-22-2015
Sunday show 03-22-15
Vernal Equinox
March 20, 2015, is a date that most of us recognize as symbolic of changing seasons. As we welcome spring, people south of the equator are actually gearing up for the cooler temperatures of autumn.
Read More
Feds to weigh children in daycare
Bureaucrats from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will weigh and measure children in daycare as part of a study mandated by First Lady Michelle Obama’s Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act.
Read More
'They are going to eat him!': nuns stun Pope
Pope Francis was mobbed by a group of overexcited nuns, let out from their convents during his visit to Naples. The nuns had to be reined in by the Archbishop of Naples after swarming the pontiff, to his evident bemusement, and showering him with gifts and greetings.
Read More
Candice Bergen says she's fat and lives to eat
Candice Bergen is pleasantly plump and she’s happy with it.
“Let me just come right out and say it: I am fat,” the “Murphy Brown” star announces in her new memoir, “A Fine Romance,” reports Rob Shuter of naughtygossip.
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ICE: 167,527 Criminal Aliens Loose in U.S.A.
According to weekly detention and departure reports from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there were 167,527 non-detained convicted criminal aliens in the United States as of Jan. 26 of this year, a congressional hearing revealed Thursday.
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Illegal With Drug Charges Got DACA Amnesty Before Allegedly Murdering Three
An illegal alien and known gang member who has been charged with first-degree murder in North Carolina was granted deferred deportation under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA), despite having been placed in removal proceedings for drug charges in 2012, according to a press release from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen.
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VETERANS STILL CAN'T GET MEDICAL HELP ON TIME
Months after the Veterans Administration scandal exploded in the headlines, top officials are still lying and hiding information from Congress, and President Obama is actively trying to roll back the freedom of veterans to seek health care outside of the government system.
Read More
Breast Milk Becomes a Commodity, With Mothers Caught Up in Debate
When Gretty Amaya took an unpaid maternity leave five months ago, she started what she calls a part-time job to help pay the bills. Ms. Amaya, who lives in Miami, has made more than $2,000 so far by pumping breast milk and selling what is left over after feeding her baby daughter.
Read More
Has the sun set on Sunday school?
It's a chilly Sunday morning in Oakland, California, and in the glass-paned school adjacent to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Allison Sass is on a mission to teach 12 small children to love Jesus. Bless their hearts, and Sass' heart too, because despite her smile, this is going to be quite a struggle.
Read More
Vernal Equinox
March 20, 2015, is a date that most of us recognize as symbolic of changing seasons. As we welcome spring, people south of the equator are actually gearing up for the cooler temperatures of autumn.
Read More
Feds to weigh children in daycare
Bureaucrats from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will weigh and measure children in daycare as part of a study mandated by First Lady Michelle Obama’s Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act.
Read More
'They are going to eat him!': nuns stun Pope
Pope Francis was mobbed by a group of overexcited nuns, let out from their convents during his visit to Naples. The nuns had to be reined in by the Archbishop of Naples after swarming the pontiff, to his evident bemusement, and showering him with gifts and greetings.
Read More
Candice Bergen says she's fat and lives to eat
Candice Bergen is pleasantly plump and she’s happy with it.
“Let me just come right out and say it: I am fat,” the “Murphy Brown” star announces in her new memoir, “A Fine Romance,” reports Rob Shuter of naughtygossip.
Read More
ICE: 167,527 Criminal Aliens Loose in U.S.A.
According to weekly detention and departure reports from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there were 167,527 non-detained convicted criminal aliens in the United States as of Jan. 26 of this year, a congressional hearing revealed Thursday.
Read More
Illegal With Drug Charges Got DACA Amnesty Before Allegedly Murdering Three
An illegal alien and known gang member who has been charged with first-degree murder in North Carolina was granted deferred deportation under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA), despite having been placed in removal proceedings for drug charges in 2012, according to a press release from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen.
Read More
VETERANS STILL CAN'T GET MEDICAL HELP ON TIME
Months after the Veterans Administration scandal exploded in the headlines, top officials are still lying and hiding information from Congress, and President Obama is actively trying to roll back the freedom of veterans to seek health care outside of the government system.
Read More
Breast Milk Becomes a Commodity, With Mothers Caught Up in Debate
When Gretty Amaya took an unpaid maternity leave five months ago, she started what she calls a part-time job to help pay the bills. Ms. Amaya, who lives in Miami, has made more than $2,000 so far by pumping breast milk and selling what is left over after feeding her baby daughter.
Read More
Has the sun set on Sunday school?
It's a chilly Sunday morning in Oakland, California, and in the glass-paned school adjacent to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Allison Sass is on a mission to teach 12 small children to love Jesus. Bless their hearts, and Sass' heart too, because despite her smile, this is going to be quite a struggle.
Read More
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Sunday Show 11/23/2014
Sunday Show 11/23/14
Vet Launches
Made-in-America E-Commerce Store
After leaving the
military and joining the corporate world, Dan McCready said he felt
like he was lacking a sense of purpose. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran
had graduated from Harvard Business School and was working in
consulting at McKinsey, traveling for about 80 hours a week.
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Graham critical of new
GOP House report on Benghazi, calls findings 'garbage'
South Carolina Sen.
Lindsey Graham on Sunday criticized a recently released House
Republican report that concludes no intelligence lapses in connection
with the fatal Benghazi attacks, saying congressional investigators
did a “lousy job.”
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Germ zapping robot
could fight Ebola and other deadly viruses
Standing a little more
than 5 feet tall, the robot nicknamed "Saul" uses pulses of
high-intensity, high-energy ultraviolet rays to split open bacterial
cell walls and kill dangerous pathogens, said Geri Genant, a health
care services implementation manager with Xenex, the company that
developed the robot.
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Lawmaker calls out
witness anti-Christian remarks about fundamentalist Christians
At a House Armed
Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Military Personnel on
Wednesday, Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) confronted one witness with
derogatory remarks he made about Christians, which the lawmaker said
exemplifies the threat to religious liberty in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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Cardinal's demotion
helps Pope Francis quell 'conservative backlash' -- for now
Pope Francis is drawing
rock star raves for softening the Vatican's image on such issues as
homosexuality, capitalism and divorce, but his celebrated tolerance
doesn't seem to extend to dissenters within the church, whose
conservative revolt came to a halt when the pontiff exiled their de
facto leader to obscurity.
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Crisis in Mexico
protesters storm National palace after massacre of 43 students
Protesters in Mexico
City stormed Mexico’s National Palace Saturday night and set fire
to the Palace’s ancient wooden doors before being repelled back by
police, in protests over the deaths of 43 students by drug
gang-affiliated police.
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Swat team tasters and
pepper sprays Homeschoolers
A Missouri
homeschooling family is suing a sheriff and another officer who
forcibly entered their home without a warrant, Tasered the father,
pepper-sprayed the mother and put their children in the custody of
social service
workers.
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Iran replicates US
Drone
An Iranian replica of a
US spy drone, seized by Iran in 2011, is inferior to the US version,
which was initially captured by Iran, according to the Pentagon. Iran
released a video of their similar design earlier this week.
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Arms Trade Treaty takes
effect December 24th
Gun Control: To some,
concern over a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty set to take effect Dec. 24 is
much ado about nothing. But a president unconstrained by Congress or
the Constitution may try to impose severe limits on gun rights. All
treaties must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate, and that's not
about to happen in the case of the unratified Arms Trade Treaty
(ATT), particularly after the 2014 election that gave the GOP Senate
control.
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Ohio school district
mulls over giving teachers access to guns
The Dayton Daily News
reported Sunday that the Riverside Local School board in central
Ohio's Logan County has held recent discussions on placing guns in
schools and plans to revisit the issue Dec. 16. Superintendent Scott
Mann said the goal is to protect children from potential threats
involving weapons.
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Conservatives celebrate
the 50th anniversary of Barry Goldwater's Presidential
campaign
Conservatives and
family members of former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater
celebrated and reflected on Goldwater’s impact on politics and
conservatism over the past 50 years at an anniversary dinner to honor
his memory, held at the Liaison Capitol Hotel in Washington, D.C. on
Nov. 18.
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Friday, November 21, 2014
Show Notes 11/20/2014
Thursday Show 11/20/14
PROGRESSIVES PLOT TO
KILL 'HUMAN WEEDS'
The underlying premise
of the eugenics movement was that the undesirable traits of parents
would invariably be passed on to their children. While the scientific
basis for this assumption had little data to support its conclusions,
the new “science” was quickly embraced by the American
progressive movement and many of the wealthy.
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Bride of paraplegic
veteran gets surprise of her life on wedding day
Bride of paraplegic
veteran gets surprise of her life on wedding day. As Michelle Johnson
rested in the bridal suite per her relatives’ suggestion, her new
husband Joey Johnson’s friends rigged a harness system that would
allow him to stand and dance with her without his wheelchair, the New
York Daily News reported.
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Pentagon's religious
guidance spurred tsunami of confusion
Pentagon guidance on
religious accommodation has sparked a "tsunami of confusion"
among military commanders, chaplains and personnel, lawmakers were
told Wednesday by witnesses on both sides of the debate over
religious practice versus proselytizing in the military.
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Students promise to walk out on newest tests
Testing is running amok
for students these days. Besides the college-entrance ACT and SAT
exams, there are Common Core assessments, state education and school
assessments, district evaluations and teacher-effectiveness ratings.
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Two States eye repeal of
Common Core
On the heels of
Republican victories last week, attempts to replace Common Core with
homegrown standards are resurfacing in states across the nation. Most
prominently, elected officials in Wisconsin and Ohio are spearheading
efforts to reclaim more control of education.
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A Third of All Federal
Student Loans Could Go Bad, Treasury Advisory Committee Warns
Four years after the
federal government took over the student loan program, nine percent
of student loans are in default and another 23 percent have the
potential to go bad as well, according to a report by the Treasury
Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC).
Read More
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Show Notes 11/02/2014
Sunday Show 11/2/14
CNN poll: Voters are angry
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows.
Read More
Daylight Time
By act of Congress, civil clocks in most areas of the United States are adjusted ahead one hour in the summer months (known as daylight time) and returned back one hour in the winter months (known as standard time). The dates marking the beginning and end of daylight time have changed as Congress has passed new statutes.
Read More
How Daylight Saving Time Can Be Dangerous
While some dislike the seasonal shifts of Daylight Saving Time (DST) for the minor inconvenience to their sleep cycles and busy schedules, there’s a more serious side to the scheme: the loss of an hour of afternoon sunlight when it ends—as it does this weekend—may increase the likelihood of traffic accidents.
Read More
Obama slams stay at home Moms
In the midst of remarks about preschools, minimum wage and pay equality for women, President Obama made a comment about stay-at-home moms that has left many mothers fuming.
Read More
Mexican Judge orders jailed Marine Andrew Tahmooressi freed
After 214 days in a Mexican prison, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi returned home to Florida Saturday, having been freed Friday night after a strong diplomatic push appeared to help convince a judge to release the former Marine on humanitarian grounds.
Read More
Abortion restrictions in North Dakota affirmed
Bismarck, North Dakota. Just two days ago, nearly on the eve of next Tuesday’s Election Day when North Dakota voters are due to vote on a proposed “human life” amendment to their state constitution (called “Measure 1”), North Dakota’s Supreme Court finally handed down its decision, rejecting a long-pending constitutional challenge, based on the state constitution rather than on federal abortion law, targeting a 2011 state law regulating so-called “chemical” abortions.
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EPA Director environmental laws: enforcement is really Democracy in action
“When I think about how effective we’ve been I keep coming back to the same reason for that effectiveness, it’s because our laws have teeth, it’s because EPA is empowered to enforce them,” McCarthy told attendees at the American Bar Association Fall Conference.
Read More
Flag flap: Indiana veteran, wife battle homeowners association over Old Glory
An elderly veteran and his wife say there’s “absolutely no way” the flagpole outside their Indiana home is coming down, despite threats from a homeowners association — and a local prosecutor intends to back them in court if necessary.
Read More
John Dewey
John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859, to Archibald Dewey and Lucina Artemisia Rich in Burlington, Vermont. He was the third of the couple’s four sons, one of whom died as an infant. Dewey’s mother, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, was a devout Calvinist.
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CNN poll: Voters are angry
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows.
Read More
Daylight Time
By act of Congress, civil clocks in most areas of the United States are adjusted ahead one hour in the summer months (known as daylight time) and returned back one hour in the winter months (known as standard time). The dates marking the beginning and end of daylight time have changed as Congress has passed new statutes.
Read More
How Daylight Saving Time Can Be Dangerous
While some dislike the seasonal shifts of Daylight Saving Time (DST) for the minor inconvenience to their sleep cycles and busy schedules, there’s a more serious side to the scheme: the loss of an hour of afternoon sunlight when it ends—as it does this weekend—may increase the likelihood of traffic accidents.
Read More
Obama slams stay at home Moms
In the midst of remarks about preschools, minimum wage and pay equality for women, President Obama made a comment about stay-at-home moms that has left many mothers fuming.
Read More
Mexican Judge orders jailed Marine Andrew Tahmooressi freed
After 214 days in a Mexican prison, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi returned home to Florida Saturday, having been freed Friday night after a strong diplomatic push appeared to help convince a judge to release the former Marine on humanitarian grounds.
Read More
Abortion restrictions in North Dakota affirmed
Bismarck, North Dakota. Just two days ago, nearly on the eve of next Tuesday’s Election Day when North Dakota voters are due to vote on a proposed “human life” amendment to their state constitution (called “Measure 1”), North Dakota’s Supreme Court finally handed down its decision, rejecting a long-pending constitutional challenge, based on the state constitution rather than on federal abortion law, targeting a 2011 state law regulating so-called “chemical” abortions.
Read More
EPA Director environmental laws: enforcement is really Democracy in action
“When I think about how effective we’ve been I keep coming back to the same reason for that effectiveness, it’s because our laws have teeth, it’s because EPA is empowered to enforce them,” McCarthy told attendees at the American Bar Association Fall Conference.
Read More
Flag flap: Indiana veteran, wife battle homeowners association over Old Glory
An elderly veteran and his wife say there’s “absolutely no way” the flagpole outside their Indiana home is coming down, despite threats from a homeowners association — and a local prosecutor intends to back them in court if necessary.
Read More
John Dewey
John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859, to Archibald Dewey and Lucina Artemisia Rich in Burlington, Vermont. He was the third of the couple’s four sons, one of whom died as an infant. Dewey’s mother, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, was a devout Calvinist.
Read More
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Show Notes 07/24/2014
Thursday Show 7/24/14
New Jersey ends hunt
for possible 16-foot Anaconda in state lake
A 16-foot-long exotic
snake reportedly slithering around New Jersey's largest lake is
apparently a suburban legend. Or the snake just isn't hungry. The
state has stopped looking for the reptile after scientists failed to
find any evidence of it in Lake Hopatcong and traps baited with
chicken were left untouched.
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U.S. Navy admiral says
he’s open to idea of giving Chinese Navy tour of carrier
A top U.S. Navy
official said he is "receptive" to idea of letting his
Chinese crewmen tour a U.S. aircraft carrier based in Japan, but
experts warn such access could be a risky intelligence giveaway. Adm.
Jonathan W. Greenert, chief of naval operations, told The Wall Street
Journal that his Chinese counterpart mentioned the idea of a U.S.
carrier crew touring its lone Liaoning carrier and a Chinese crew
touring the USS George Washington.
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Veteran says he was
forgotten in VA clinic
A veteran of the U.S.
Marines says he was locked inside a central Florida community clinic
operated by the Veteran's Administration. Jeffrey Duck told WKMG he
arrived as a "walk in" patient at the clinic around 1 p.m.
Monday and sat in a consultation room for more than three hours
before realizing he was alone in the building.
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Feds Spending $10
Million to Build Robot Companions for Children
The National Science
Foundation has committed $10 million to build robots that will act as
“personal trainers” for children, in an effort to influence their
behavior and eating habits.
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Watchdog: $34M
taxpayer-backed soybean program not sprouting in Afghanistan
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture is forking over millions of dollars for a soybean program
in Afghanistan that's running into major problems, with Afghan
farmers slow to embrace a product that few Afghans ate before.
Read More
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How Government Uses
“Efficiency” as an Excuse to Steal
Scarcity makes
efficiency — getting the most value from given resources
—important. The more efficient individuals are, the more they
benefit from their actions. That’s why economists are always
talking about efficiency.
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A Brief History of
Progressivism
Progressives have a way
with words that is truly impressive. Perhaps it started when they
stole the word liberal from libertarians and since has snowballed out
of control. From “social justice” to “pro-choice” (except
with light bulbs) to various “isms” to describe their opponents,
progressives are experts at such linguistic feats.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
Show Notes 07/20/2014
Sunday Show 7/20/14
Army Vet Raising
Therapy Ducks to Cope With PTSD Gets Bad News From the City
An Army veteran who was
wounded during the Iraq War is worried a citation will result in him
losing his 14 pet ducks, which he says are therapeutic. Darin Welker,
of West Lafayette, was cited with a minor misdemeanor June 23 for
having the ducks in his yard.
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New York gun range in
business for 73 years forced to close
A New York gun range
has been forced to close its doors after more than 70 years in
business, following a bitter dispute with its neighbors over noise
and safety issues.
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Cops: Dad beats man
found raping son
Daytona Beach police
are saying a father who walked in on a man sexually battering his
11-year-old son was “acting like a dad’ when he severely beat the
molester and won’t be charged with a crime.
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'ONE GIANT LEAP' Apollo
11's historic trip to the moon marks its 45th anniversary
The year was 1969. The
turbulent time in America saw troops fighting in Vietnam, and a
nation dealing with the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy,
killed in 1963, and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., both
murdered in 1968. Then came that one small step.
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Legendary Film And TV
Actor James Garner Dead At 86
Few actors could
register disbelief, exasperation or annoyance with more comic
subtlety. James Garner had a way of widening his eyes while the
corner of his mouth sagged ever so slightly. Maybe he would swallow
once to further make his point.
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Atheist Delivers
‘Invocation’ to Open City Council Meeting
Just weeks after the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Town of Greece v. Galloway that a New
York State city council was not violating the Constitution by opening
meetings with an invocation, an atheist offered a “prayer” on
Tuesday.
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Cardinal George:
Religious Freedom Is Being 'Traded Off' for Sexual Liberation
The Archbishop of
Chicago is warning Americans that their religious freedom is “being
traded off in favor of freedom of sexual expression” via birth
control and gay marriage.
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SCIENTISTS: ATHEISTS
MIGHT NOT EXIST
For Christian
evangelist Ray Comfort, author of “God Doesn’t Believe in
Atheists,” the idea that everyone at some core level has a
cognizance of a higher power isn’t new.
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New Jersey reptile
expert reportedly told to 'keep mouth shut' about anaconda on loose
A reptile expert said
Friday that he wants to go "on the record" and confirm that
New Jersey authorities are searching for an anaconda, not a boa
constrictor, in the state's largest lake.
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Hamas attacks Israeli
troops with bomb-covered ass
This suicide bomber is
a real ass. Hamas militants sent a donkey strapped with explosives on
a suicide mission toward Israeli troops in Gaza over the weekend —
forcing the soldiers to open fire and blow up the rigged beast.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014
Show Notes 05/29/2014
Thursday Show 5/29/14
Nevada 100 year old
Veteran robbed at gunpoint
Two men were jailed
Thursday in the home invasion robbery of a 100-year-old Carson City
veteran and his caretaker over Memorial Day weekend.
Obama: Effort to combat
climate change will help shape your time at West Point
President Barack Obama
told the graduating Army officers at West Point on Wednesday that
fighting "climate change" will "help shape your time
in uniform.
Water woes: Detroit
losing millions
The steady drip of
Detroit's financial woes is turning into a gusher as the city braces
to lose one of its most reliable sources of revenue: contracts with
surrounding communities for the city's water supply.
Bible quiz show a smash
hit
Americans love
competitions, and if the subject matter is the Old and the New
Testament, all to the better. The Game Show Network has scored big
with its Bible-themed quiz show, American Bible Challenge, beckoning
teams to select the right answer to esoteric Biblical questions, the
Washington Times
reported.
Students at Utah school
upset to discover yearbook photos were altered before publication
Female students at a
Utah high school want to know why their yearbook photos were altered
to show less skin without them knowing about it. The students who
were surprised to find their photos altered attend Wasatch High
School, and some of them said they also feel upset because it appears
the decisions whether to alter the photos or not weren’t made
consistently.
Sudan on U.S. Citizen's
Wife Sentenced to Death for Christianity: ‘Freedom of Choice is
Cornerstone of...Islam’
In a statement on a
Sudanese court's death-for-apostasy conviction of a Christian mother
of two--who is the wife of a U.S. citizen--the Embassy of Sudan in
Washington, D.C., says "it is important to emphasize that
freedom of choice is the cornerstone of both Islam and Christianity."
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Sunday Show 5/25/14
First edible insect
farm opens in the USA
TWITCHING mass of
European house crickets clings to a maze of meshed cardboard in a
tent about the size of a minivan. They are inside their new home, an
abandoned warehouse in Youngstown, Ohio, where they will prosper
until being killed, ground into "flour" and baked into
cookies and tortilla chips.
Oklahoma rejects Common
Core
Oklahoma lawmakers
voted late Friday to repeal Common Core math and English standards
for its schools, sending a bill to Gov. Mary Fallin's desk in hopes
of replacing them with standards developed by the state.
Bodies of 28 Veterans at
LA County Morgue will finally receive proper burials
The bodies of 28
veterans at the L.A. County Morgue were finally moved Friday for
burial to the Riverside National Cemetery.
National Monuments and
the Antiquities Act
by the Congressional
Research Service
Lab grown meat cost is
biggest turn off
Imagine a day when
hamburgers grown from stem cells in a factory provide enough meat for
an entire village. Such a future is within reach, some experts say.
The technology needed to grow meat in a lab already exists, and
represents a greener and more ethical form of production than current
methods.
http://www.livescience.com/45827-lab-grown-meat-cost-biggest-turn-off.html
Saturday, May 03, 2014
Show Notes 05/01/2014
Thursday Show 5/1/14
National Day of Prayer
In 1775 the Continental Congress allocated a time
for prayer in forming a new nation. Over the years, there have been
calls for a day of prayer, including from President Abraham Lincoln
in 1863.
What is May Day all about?
In the late 1800s, workers in different parts of
the world were fighting for the right to work no more than eight
hours a day. At the time, it was common for them to have to work 11
hours or more each day. They chose May 1 as a time to protest in
favor of a shorter
workday.
DOJ now pressuring banks to refuse service to gun
stores
For the past several months, the U.S. Department
of Justice has been pressuring banks to refuse service to businesses
the DOJ is targeting politically, such as gun stores, in a program
entitled Operation Choke
Point.
Iraq War Veteran reunited with bomb sniffing
Military dog in Chicago
April 30, 2014: Sgt. Jason Bos was reunited with
MWD Cila M389, a Labrador Retriever, at Chicago O'Hare International
Airport.MyFoxChicago.com
Ranchers and Empire in the American West Mises
Daily: by Ryan McMaken Part One
The militarized siege of a cattle ranch near
Bunkerville, Nevada has drawn national attention as dozens of federal
agents, armed with machine guns, sniper rifles, helicopters, and
more, have descended on the ranch to seize cattle, people, and
generally show everyone who’s
boss.
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