Saturday, March 29, 2014

In the news, Friday, March 7, 2014


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Some links to some sources may require subscription.

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from Breitbart
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from CBS News (& affiliates)

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from CNSNews.com (& NewsBusters)

Bozell on IRS Scandal: ‘Bigger Than Watergate’

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from Columbia Basin Herald

Grant County to pay back $420K
State to cut payments to criminal justice account
Grant County commissioners are asking local state legislators to reverse a decision that will force them to pay back $420,000 that the county erroneously received for defending two murder cases.

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from The Daily Caller

OH NO! Obama may have to cut third vacation THIS YEAR short because of Ukraine

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from Daily Mail (UK)

The hunt for Planet X: Nasa fails to find mysterious giant body believed to have caused mass extinctions on Earth (and they now say it may not exist at all)
Astronomers believed Planet X might periodically sweep through bands of outer comets
As it impacted, researchers thought they could have been sent flying toward our planet

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from Discovery News

The Other Side of Otters
[from 21 Mar 2011]

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from EarthSky

Great Lakes ice cover reaches 91 percent
On March 5, NOAA reported that ice cover over North America’s Great Lakes had reached 91 percent. The lakes have not been so covered with ice since 1973.

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from Examiner.com

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from Facecrooks

Facebook Pyramid Investment Scheme Busted
Always do your due diligence and stay away from offers and investments that sound too good to be true! The SEC shut this alleged scam down, but similar schemes could easily surface.

Beware of Socially Engineered Phishing Attacks on Facebook
[from 1 Aug 2012]

Four Things You Need To Do If Your Facebook Account Gets Hacked
[from 26 Apr 2010]

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from The Farmacy (& Strawbale City)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Why Do You Keep Refrigerating Your Eggs?[from 15 Dec 2013]

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from The Federalist

How Many Pot Smoking Americans Would It Take To Destroy Society?

Paul Ryan’s Anecdote Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Guess what: no one wants poor kids to starve.

Obama’s Foreign Policy Failure

Obamacare Promises Are Smoke And Mirrors
More damage control. More politics. More bad news for Americans

The Other Higher Education Bubble: Labor Supply

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from Fox News (& affiliates)

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from The Heritage Foundation  (The Foundry)
Four Bold Ideas from CPAC’s Immigration Panel
Can there be meaningful immigration reform without citizenship?

Two Quotes That Show the Absurdity of Obamacare

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from History

10 Things You Should Know About Millard Fillmore
Tomorrow mars the 140th anniversary of the death of Millard Fillmore. Check out 10 illuminating facts about the life and legacy of America's last Whig president.

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from Huffington Post
from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Shopko rumors persist, as Heartland Pharmacy owner unable to comment
The owner of Heartland Pharmacy declined to talk about whether he was selling his business to Shopko, a chain-store apparently interested in locating in Quincy.

Grant PUD reopens some areas, Columbia River banks still closed

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from Independent Journal Review

Ouch: MSNBC Host Says Obama Isn’t Focused On Foreign Policy Because ‘His Heart Has Never Been In It’

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from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)

Nigeria ‘At War’ With Islamic Terrorists
The spokesman for Nigeria's president has described the conflict with Islamic terrorist in the countries North as a state of war. Over the past several years militants connected with the Boko Haram group have murdered thousands of civilians, often targeting churches and Christian villages. Earlier this week 16 Christians, mostly women and children, were shot or burned alive by a group of Islamic militants in Plateau State in a series of attacks on Christian villages. Nigeria's security forces appear to be unable or unwilling to stop the weekly attacks.

Court in Malaysia Adjourns Controversial ‘Allah’ Case
A seven judge panel this week announced they would adjourn Malaysia's controversial court case on the use of the word "Allah" to a "later date." The ruling came as hundreds of Muslims protested outside the courthouse, demanding that the Arabic word for God be limited by law to only Muslim use. Malay Christians have been using the Arabic word for God as far back as four hundred years ago. The issue has become the focal point of intolerance towards Christians and other minority faiths in a country that was once known for its peaceful coexistence of a diverse group of religions.

Egypt – Kidnapped Brides – An Interview with Coptic Lawyer Said Fayez
A revealing interview with an Egyptian human rights lawyer highlights the rash of kidnappings of Christian girls throughout Egypt. This is a trend that has existed for years but has increased within the last three. The abuse that takes place in many of these instances, and that often goes unreported, is heartbreaking.

Rep. Wolf: More Must Be Done To Protect Christians In Syria
As the conflict in Syria moves closer to its third year, attention is again being raised to the plight of the country’s Christian community which has been left vulnerable in the midst of the conflict. Throughout the Middle East Christians have typically presented a moderating force, committed to non-violence, valuing diversity, and promoting peace-building and education. With the specific targeting of Christians and churches this appears to be lost as many have fled their homes and for some the region.

China: Officials in Zhejiang Province Forcibly Remove Crosses from Church Buildings
Two churches located in the coastal province of Zhejiang, China, have had the crosses atop their buildings forcibly removed after authorities decided they were too "conspicuous." The pastor of one of the churches said he had no input in the decision and that local authorities simply showed up with cranes to demolish the cross atop his church. Both churches effected belong to the official government controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Persecution of these churches is rare unless the congregations or pastor step outside of strict guidelines mandated by the Communist Party. Millions of Christians in China choose to worship outside of these legal churches in unregistered "house churches" despite the risk of arrest.

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from LiveScience

Wastewater Injection Triggered Oklahoma's Earthquake Cascade
One of Oklahoma's biggest man-made earthquakes, caused by fracking-linked wastewater injection, triggered an earthquake cascade that led to the damaging magnitude-5.7 Prague quake that struck on Nov. 6, 2011, a new study confirms.

from Money Talks News

6 Ways to Game Yourself Into Saving Cash

Take 5: A Roundup of Reads From Around the Web
1. The Simplest Personal Finance Post You’ll Ever Read
2. How to Save Money on Flowers for Your Wedding
3. How the Attitudes of People During the Great Depression Can Help You Reach Financial Independence
4. How to Raise a Child Who Is Not a Constant Consumer
5. 13 Things Successful People Do Every Morning

Why Your Credit Card Is Like the Family Dog

Today’s Deals: Friday, Mar. 7

Minimum Wage Boost Could Cut Food Stamp Spending by $4.6B

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from Mother Nature Network

What would happen if all the world's cats vanished?
Despite liking warm laps and napping all day, cats plays a vital role in the Earth's eco-system by keeping the vermin population in check.

Lifelong exercise keeps octogenarians fit
Study has shown that 80-year-olds who engage in lifelong endurance exercise prove to have the average aerobic capacity of 40-year-olds.

Top 10 reasons to love winter until the bitter end
Why you should stop being such a hater when it comes to cold weather.

Congress approves first new wilderness area in 5 years
The measure protects 32,500 acres of Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, ending an unprecedented five-year drought of new wilderness areas designated by the U.S. Congress.

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from National Geographic

How Vladimir Putin Became a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
The Russian president is one of many nominated for the prize. Here's how the process works.

Can Babies Be "Cured" of HIV?
We ask AIDS expert Anthony Fauci about reports that an HIV-infected baby has tested negative for the virus after aggressive treatments.

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from National Journal
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from National Review
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from Natural Society
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

‘Girl Against Fluoride’ Takes on Mandatory Fluoridation in Ireland

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from NBC News (& affiliates)

Another setback for minority outreach

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from New York Daily News

Obama flubs title of classic Aretha Franklin anthem, praising her song 'R-S-P-E-C-T'
President Obama misspelled Franklin’s iconic song as he introduced the diva at the White House celebration of women of soul Thursday night.

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from New York Times

Hitchhiking in a Starry Reboot of a Journey Through the Universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson Hosts ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’

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from Northwest Watchdog
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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)

China-bound Malaysian jet vanishes with 239 aboard
Search and rescue crews across Southeast Asia scrambled on Saturday to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 bound from Kuala Lampur to Beijing that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early that morning.

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from PoliticusUSA

Paul Ryan Gets Caught Telling A Huge Whopper Of A Lie About School Lunches At CPAC

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from Popular Science

The Woman Who Thinks She Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body

Tale Of The Teletank: The Brief Rise And Long Fall Of Russia’s Military Robots

Oh Whacking Day: Yes, It's Real, And It's A Bad Idea
All this weekend, thousands of people are converging on a tiny Texas town to celebrate the mass collection, sale and killing of scores of rattlesnakes. The 56th Annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup, "Whacking Day," kicked off Thursday night with a parade, and lasts through Sunday, capped off by a rattlesnake-meat-eating contest. Everything about this festival is bad for native wildlife.

An Otter Eats An Alligator And Other Amazing Images From This Week

The Week In Drones: North Korea Builds A Target, Rare Dolphin Video, And More

Watch A Stun Gun Drone Tase An Intern

Judge Strikes Down FAA's Ban On Commercial Drones

Neil deGrasse Tyson: 'We Will Know Whether There's Life On Other Planets'

The AIDS Cure
Reservoirs of HIV hide deep within the body. Scientists are now closing in on methods to wipe them out.

This Famous Image Of Marie Curie Isn't Marie Curie
This one could've used a fact-checker or two

Should You Stay Up Late?

8 Steps To Sustainable Meat And Milk
Put down the bologna: "Quality, not quantity" is just one strategy that could make meat available to all while protecting the environment.

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from PreventDisease.com
from Reuters

Man called Bitcoin's father denies ties, leads LA car chase
A Japanese American man thought to be the reclusive multi-millionaire father of Bitcoin emerged from a modest Southern California home and denied involvement with the digital currency before leading reporters on a freeway car chase to the local headquarters of the Associated Press.

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from The Right Scoop
from ScienceDaily

New class of antibiotics discovered by chemists
A new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health has been discovered by a team of chemists. The new class, called oxadiazoles, was discovered in silico (by computer) screening and has shown promise in the treatment of MRSA in mouse models of infection. MRSA has become a global public-health problem since the 1960s because of its resistance to antibiotics.

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from Skeptoid Podcast

NaturalNonsense:Misleading statements on whooping cough

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from Slate

Why CPAC Isn’t As Grassroots As You Think
The American Conservative Union’s annual conference takes big, big sums from the gun, oil, and cigarette industry.

The Big Dipper Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

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from Smithsonian Magazine

Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable
No one will ever match his talent as the “gatekeeper of scientific credibility”

Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know
Before Marie Curie, these women dedicated their lives to science and made significant advances
[from 20 Sep 2011]

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from The Wall Street Journal

How the Other California Lives
Some of the most productive farm land in the world is going fallow thanks to a man-made water shortage. A long-time grower explains.

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from The Washington Post (DC)
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from The Weather Channel
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from The Weekly Standard

Obamacare Employee Accidentally Sends Out 2,400 Social Security Numbers

Man Signs Up for Obamacare, Unknowingly Signed for Worthless Child Plan

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Obama Threatens Several Governors: “I Do Not Trust You”
Texas Governor Rick Perry presented a chilling summary of Obama's meeting with a group of governors at the White House on Monday.

U.S. Military Hires Terror-Tied Muslim Chaplains
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is proudly announcing that the U.S. military is again using their chaplains.

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