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In the news, Friday, May 16, 2014


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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)

UN's Twisted Logic: Free Speech Equals “Torture”It is happening again. Free speech is under attack at the United Nations.  And, once again religious liberty is in the crosshairs. Earlier this month, a prominent NGO (nongovernmental organization), the Center for Reproductive Rights, made a formal argument to the United Nations Committee Against Torture that the Catholic Church’s pro-life speech actually tortures women and girls.

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from The Blaze
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from Breitbart

COMPLETE CANTOR TURNAROUND: NO AMNESTY IN NDAA
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor changed direction entirely Friday, saying through a spokesman that he doesn’t plan to allow any amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would grant amnesty to illegal aliens through the ENLIST Act.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PAVES WAY FOR OBAMACARE BAILOUT
A 436-page stack of regulations released on Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paved the way for the Obama administration to bailout health insurers who lost money on Obamacare.

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from CBS News (& affiliates)
from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
from The Daily Caller

Cruz, Lee Hit HHS Nominee Burwell Over Obamacare Transparency

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from East Oregonian

Ammonia leak contained at Hermiston Foods
Emergency crews responded Thursday night to help contain an ammonia leak at Hermiston Foods on South Highway 395. The facility’s own maintenance team was able to isolate and shut off the release within 20 minutes, said plant Manager Trent Waldern. No employees were working at the time, and no food was contaminated.

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from FactCheck.org

Video via FlackCheck.org takes on some misleading claims regarding potential job loss and President Obama's proposed minimum wage increase.

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from The Federalist
On Religious Liberty, Ben Sasse Has All The Right People Scared

from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from The Heritage Foundation

Mike Lee and Ted Cruz Have Questions for Obama’s HHS Nominee

The New 'Godzilla' Is Science Fiction -- and Climate Fiction
You didn't think "Godzilla" could have a liberal agenda, did you? Think again.

What Rand Paul Is Really Saying About Voter ID

Thanks to Obamacare, Your Tax Dollars Are Rewarding Failure
Only in government do failure and incompetency result in bonuses, raises and more of other people’s money to try again.

Harry Reid Displays Appalling Contempt for the First Amendment

States Begin to Face Overwhelming Obamacare Reality

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from Huffington Post

Arkansas Supreme Court Suspends Judge's Order Striking Down Gay Marriage Bans

Kentucky Puts Hemp Planting On Hold After DEA Seed Seizure

Kentucky May Get Hemp Seeds Back As Early As Next Week

Portland Divests From Walmart
Walmart and Portland, Oregon don't mix. Portland Business Journal reports that on Thursday, Portland city officials announced it will not be making any more investments in the world's largest retailer and that the first of the city's Walmart holdings had expired.

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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Gunshots end fight between two brothers near Mattawa
Deputies arrived to find Telefaro Herrera, a 30-year-old Mattawa man, shot several times in the leg with a .22 caliber rifle. He was taken to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. His brother Torvio Herrera, a 32-year-old Mattawa man, allegedly shot Telefaro Herrera during an argument, according to the sheriff’s office.

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from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)

Christians in India Fear for the Future of Religious Freedom
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a political coalition led by the Hindu nationalist Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP), will lead the next government of India. Winning a clear majority, the NDA pushed the ruling Indian National Congress (INC) into a distant second place. Christians and other religious minorities are concerned by the NDA’s landslide victory. While accepting the results of the elections, Christians across India have expressed fear for their future and security living under a government led by Hindu nationalists.

Chinese Government Limits Online Selling of Christian Books
More Zhejiang demolitions; overseas Christian books banned from Amazon-like site
ICC Note: The article discusses the ongoing church demolition in Zhejiang province, China, and the government’s action in limiting the online selling of overseas Christian books. Last month, the government also stopped the Amity Foundation, the largest printer for Bibles.

Texas: Christian Ordered to Remove Ten Commandments from Property
ICC Note: The Liberty Institute has taken on the case of a Christian resident of Hemphill, Texas, who was ordered by the Texas Department of Transportation to remove a sign of the Ten Commandments from her private property. The sign could be read by travelers on a nearby highway. While commercial billboards are allowed to be posted along the highway, the property owner, Jeanette Golden, was inexplicably told that her sign had to be removed. Across the United States local zoning regulations and city ordinances are increasingly being used by officials to push religious messages out of the public sphere.

Indonesia: Rising Religious Intolerance
Undoing Yudhoyono’s Sectarian Legacy
ICC Note: Indonesia holds presidential election on July 9 and the successor of the current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will face a rising religious intolerance in the country. The Yudhoyono’s government has been turning a blind eye and acting passively toward worsening religious intolerance. Indonesia’s violent Sunni Islamist militants have grown accustomed to attacking religious minorities with impunity over the past 10 years.

Boko Haram Survivor Calls on Christians to “Stand Strong”
ICC Note: Deborah Peters, a Chibok native, told her story of tragedy and survival at a press conference hosted by the Hudson Institute earlier this week. Peters testified to how Boko Haram militants knocked on her door to kill her father and brother for their Christian faiths. Emmanuel Ogebe of the Jubilee Campaign, Justice for Jos, and the Nigerian Working Group Washington, D.C. spoke to both Boko Haram’s past and future, calling on the Nigerian and U.S. governments, as well as other members of the international Community to gather in arms to locate and release the more than 240 girls abducted from Chibok and Warabe villages by Boko Haram.

American “just praying” Over His Pregnant Wife’s Death Sentence for Her Christian Faith
ICC Note: Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, a Christian mother and American Citizen’s wife pregnant with her second child has languished in a Sudanese prison for her faith since February. Charged with adultery and apostasy, Ibrahim was convicted May 11 and sentenced to 100 lashes and death May 15. Sudan, designated a Country of Particular Concern by the United States’ Department of State since 1999 continues to advance President Omar al-Bashir’s Islamist agenda, implementing it’s Sharia-inspired Public Order Criminal Code more and more strictly. Christians in Sudan suffer immense social histolities and government repression for practicing their faith. Many now fear President Bashir meant it when he said he intends to make Sudan a “purely” Islamic state.

Pakistan Assembly Passes Symbolic Resolution to Protect Religious Minorities
ICC Note: The National Assembly of Pakistan passed a resolution yesterday calling for the protection of religious minorities and their places of worship. The resolution called on the government to take the necessary steps to protect religious holy places from attack including the deployment of special police units to protect religious building in areas where terrorists could attack. Pakistani religious leaders have had mixed reactions to the passing of this resolution. Some hail it as progress. Others claim it is useless because religious minorities are already protected by the constitution. What matters now is action. Will Pakistan take the necessary steps to protect religious minorities?

Hindu Nationalists Narendra Modi and BJP Win Indian National Elections
ICC Note: The National Democratic Alliance, a coalition led by the Hindu nationalist BJP, has won India's national elections. The next prime minister of India will likely be Narendra Modi, BJP's charismatic and controversial leader. Many Christians and other religious minorities feared the rise of Modi and BJP. Firmly established on a Hindu nationalist base, BJP will likely impose a rule over India that will not respect the rights of Christians and other non-Hindus. Please pray for India and its future.

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from Jen Kuznicki

The Committee to Publicly Horsewhip Karl Rove

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from LiveScience

NASA's Asteroid-Capture Mission May Test New Method to Defend Earth

Quickly Rising Antarctica Suggests 'Runny' Earth
Antarctica is rising much faster than expected, revealing that the hot rock of the mantle hundreds of miles below the icy continent is flowing much faster than expected.

What Happens to Shipping Containers Lost at Sea?
Soon after it left the Port of Oakland, California, in February 2004, the shipping vessel Med Taipei hit a strong winter storm with violent 30-foot-high (9 meters) swells. Amid rolling waves, 15 shipping containers came loose and toppled overboard, sinking to the icy seafloor inside the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

5 Strange Facts About the Pentagon's Anti-Zombie Plan
The plan, written in 2011, was part of a training exercise. And a detailed one, at that. The plan summarizes responses to threats ranging from pathogenic zombies (zombies created via infection) to space zombies (what they sound like) to chicken zombies (they really exist!).

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from Money Talks News

15 Ways to Wage War at Home Against Pollen and Allergens

Take 5: A Roundup of Reads From Around the Web
1. Guide to Getting Rid of Car Payments Forever!
2. How I Teach My Kids About Money and Life By Using Bricks
3. 8 Unique (and Fun) Summer Jobs for Teens
4. 6 Types of Financially Toxic People
5. 10 Words to Never Use in a Job Interview

10 Tips for Having a Killer Garage Sale

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from Mother Nature Network

Which U.S. states have the most endangered species?
In honor of Endangered Species Day on May 16, here's a graphical glimpse at America's most endangered wildlife, where they live and how many are left.

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from National Geographic

Vortex: Walking Jerusalem"It is absurd: the pathway of a snail," writes explorer Paul Salopek of his plan to cross Jerusalem on foot. While walking through Jerusalem, Salopek plans to create "a narrative map of one of the most important religious and cultural capitals of the world."

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from The New Yorker

I Don’t Want to Be Right
If information doesn’t square with someone’s prior beliefs, he discards the beliefs if they’re weak and discards the information if the beliefs are strong.

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from New York Times
from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)

Teen's 12,000-year-old skull found
In the waning days of the last Ice Age, a waifish teenage girl ventured into a Mexican cave. She would not emerge alive. Some 12,000 years passed before cave explorers discovered her remains in 2007 in Outland Cave in the Yucatán region of Mexico. Now scientists say her bones form one of the oldest and most complete human skeletons ever seen in the Americas, a unique find that's shedding light on a fierce debate about the first people to colonize the Americas. Genetic analysis shows the girl traces her ancestry to a vanished land that once stretched between Siberia and Alaska.

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from PreventDisease.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Researchers Show That Genes Aren't Responsible For Cancer's Potential, But The Body's Culture Medium Is
A team of Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have proposed that an "on and off" epigenetic switch could be a common mechanism behind the development of different types of cancer. The existence of this epigenetic switch is indirectly supported by the fact that tumors develop through different stages. When cells rapidly grow during cancer progression, they become stuck in their current stage of development and their cell characteristics do not change.

The Endocannabinoid System and How THC Cures Cancer
There are close to 20,000 studies on cannabinoids in the pubmed database. Few scientists who concentrate their work around cannabinoids can deny the tremendous therapeutic potential of cannabis. Dr. Christina Sanchez, a molecular biologist at Compultense University in Madrid Spain, has completed extensive research which led to one of the first discoveries that THC does indeed kill cancer cells.

Ladies It’s Finally Time To Take off That Bra… For Good!
[via Collective Evolution]  It could be time to take off that bra whenever you can. Here are some potential health implications of wearing a tight bra.

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from Real Clear Politics

Mark Levin: "There's A Lot Of People In This Country Who Don't Deserve Liberty"

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from Reuters

Religious tensions deepen Ukraine splits - Russian Orthodox official
Religious tensions are deepening dividing lines in Ukraine's crisis, with rival churches taking political sides and Kiev slighting the Russian Orthodox Church, a senior official of the Moscow-based church said on Friday.

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from ScienceDaily

Hope for paraplegic patients: Implantable microelectrode stimulates spinal cord with electric impulses
People with severe injuries to their spinal cord currently have little or no prospect of recovery and remain confined to their wheelchairs. Now, all that could change with a new treatment that stimulates the spinal cord using electric impulses. The hope is that the technique will help paraplegic patients learn to walk again.

Tricking the uncertainty principle: New measurement technique goes beyond the limits imposed by quantum physics
Today, we can measure the position of an object with unprecedented accuracy, but the uncertainty principle places fundamental limits on our ability to measure. Noise that results from of the quantum nature of the fields used to make measurements imposes what is called the 'standard quantum limit.' This background noise keeps us from knowing an object's exact location, but a recent study provides a solution for rerouting some of that noise away from the measurement.

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Crowdfunding Project Raises $125,000 to Reboot 36-Year-Old NASA Probe
The ambitious private project, the first of its type, is attempting to reuse the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe (ISEE-3), which launched in 1978 and ceased science operations in 1997.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Tea Party
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from The Washington Post (DC)
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from The Weekly Standard
Profiles in Courage
Given the challenges today’s conservatism faces, a little touch of Paine isn’t inappropriate. Or a touch, say, of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  [posted May 16 for May 26 issue]

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Watch: Barack Obama’s Background Revealed
Gee, I wonder why Obama wouldn't want you to see this video?
Here is a comprehensive history of Barack Hussein Obama’s background. This is an older video, but still, none of these questions have been answered. It's gone viral this week on Facebook, and there’s a reason why. People still want to know the answers.

Who Is Jeb Bush’s Presidential Idol? The Answer Might Make You Sick

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from WIRED

Is This Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Science or Spectacle?If things go according to plan, a paralyzed young adult will walk onto the World Cup field and kick a soccer ball, assisted by a robotic exoskeleton operated by the person's brain.

Google’s New Fashion-Savvy Exec Can’t Fix Glass’ Biggest Flaw

The 16 Most Badass Monsters From the Godzilla Movies

52 Alaskan Volcanoes in One Shot

Apple and Google Put an End to Their Bitter Patent Battle

Full Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar Is Otherworldly Good

The YouTube Trailer for This Game Is Actually a Playable Demo

Don’t Diss Cheap Smartphones. They’re About to Change Everything

Godzilla Isn’t a Train Wreck, But It Sure Is Boring

Absurd Creature of the Week: This Beetle Fires Boiling Chemicals Out of Its Bum

Here’s What Drone Attacks in America Would Look Like

Websites Throttle FCC Staffers to Protest Gutting of Net Neutrality

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from 100 Percent FED Up


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