Tuesday, June 3, 2014

In the news, Saturday, May 10, 2014


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from ABC News (& affiliates)

Michael Sam 'Proud of Where I Am Now'
The wait was long and wasn't what Michael Sam was expecting, but in the end, the first openly gay player to be drafted in the NFL said he was satisfied. The St. Louis Rams picked Sam, a defensive lineman out of the University of Missouri, in the seventh round of the draft.

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from About.com

10 Tips for Moving Back In with Your Parents After College
Learn How to Make a Less-Than-Ideal Situation Easier for Everyone

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from The American Conservative

The Importance of the Table
Recent research suggests that eating dinner as a family reduces our children’s propensity for obesity, depression, and eating disorders.

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

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from Downtrend.com

62 House Dems Reject Pelosi And Vote With Republicans
Dozens of Democrats spurned the Obama Administration and their own House leadership on Friday and voted to approve permanently extending a tax cut on research and development.

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from Fox News (& affiliates)

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from The Heritage Foundation  (The Foundry)

Historic-Style Street Lamps and Sidewalks: Your Federal Gas Tax Dollars at Work

The White House Cares More About This Green Energy Project Than The National Security Risks It Poses
Only a few weeks after President Obama’s controversial decision to delay the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, the Obama administration is expected in the next several weeks to approve a 500-mile green energy transmission line project running through Arizona and New Mexico that his own Defense Department says may pose “an unacceptable risk to national security.”

Pelosi: Americans Either ‘Tired of’ Or Ignorant of Benghazi

Federal Judge Brings An End To Political Witch Hunt in Wisconsin
U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Randa has put an end to a political witch hunt by local Wisconsin prosecutors that featured a secret investigation more reminiscent of a banana republic than the world’s foremost democracy. In two orders—one of which termed the prosecutors’ appeal of his decision as “frivolous”—Randa ordered local prosecutors to “cease all activities related to the investigation” and to return all of the records and documents they had seized from dozens of conservative advocacy organizations.

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from Huffington Post

Rahm Emanuel's Reelection Bid Is Not Looking So Hot Right Now, Poll Shows

Bill Maher Argues For Privacy, Free Speech In Wake Of Donald Sterling Scandal
While most late night comedy shows have focused on Donald Sterling's overt racism in recent weeks, Bill Maher dug into a different aspect of the story on Friday's "Real Time:" Privacy. "Last week when President Obama was asked about the Sterling episode, he said, 'When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, just let them talk.' But Sterling didn't advertise," Maher explained, "He was bugged. And while he may not be worth defending, the 4th Amendment is."

Homeless People Say These 99-Square-Foot Tiny Houses Are 'Life Changing'

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from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)

Christians in Orissa, India Continue to Suffer Effects of 2008 Riots
ICC Note: Almost six years after mob of radical Hindus swept across India's northeastern state of Orissa, the Christian community in that state continues to suffer. More than 50,000 Christians were left homeless following the anti-Christian riots and many of them continue to live in Christian ghettos because they are not allowed to return to their home villages. In many villages, Hindu radicals refuse to allow the Christians to return and attack them whenever the Christian attempt to rebuild their lives in their home villages. Unsympathetic local authorities have created a culture of impunity that has allowed these Hindu radicals to operate without consequence, leaving many of these homeless Christian will little option other than to continue to live in the Christian ghettos.

Afghan Christian Mourn Attack on Christian NGO in Kabul
ICC Note:  Afghan Christians mourned the attack on a Christian hospital in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul. The attack, perpetrated by a security guard hired to protect the hospital, claimed the lives of three American doctors working at the hospital. Attacks on Christians and Westerners have increased in recent months as Afghanistan transitions to a post-war era. Please pray for the future of Afghanistan and Afghan Christians.

Prayer for the Persecuted in the Central African Republic
ICC Note:  The Central African Republic (CAR) continues to suffer a nation-wide escalation in lawlessness, sectarianism, and violence following a coup d'état by Islamic insurgency, Séléka, in March of last year. Quickly ousted from power, Séléka rebels have been forced to retreat toward the CAR's borders with neighboring Cameroon and Chad, largely as result of reprisal attacks by anti-balaka (against the machete) militias. Throughout the conflict, Christians have suffered violent attacks in an culture increasingly plagued by impunity. Victimized by  Séléka during its short reign, Christians initially saw the rise of the anti-balaka as a positive development, immediately seeking protection from the vigilante forces for their easily targeted communities. However, as the anti-balaka have now begun seeking out violence, Christians are now caught by fire exchanged between Séléka remnants, armed Muslim communities, and the widely feared and increasingly hated anti-balaka.

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from io9

Our New Favorite Website: Spurious Correlations

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

New Study: Just One Week of Organic Eating can Lower Pesticide Levels by 89%

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from The Right Scoop

from ScienceDaily

Astronomers find sun's 'long-lost brother,' pave way for family reunion
Astronomers have identified the first "sibling" of the Sun -- a star that was almost certainly born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our star. The newly developed methods for locating the Sun's 'siblings' will help other astronomers find other "solar siblings," work that could lead to an understanding of how and where our Sun formed, and how our solar system became hospitable for life.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from The Washington Post (DC)

Cantor faces tea party fury in his back yard
Just a few miles from his family home, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) felt the wrath of the tea party Saturday, when activists in his congressional district booed and heckled the second-most powerful House Republican. They also elected one of their own to lead Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican Committee, turning their back on Cantor’s choice for a post viewed as crucial by both tea party and establishment wings in determining control of the fractured state GOP.

IRS admits targeting conservatives for tax scrutiny in 2012 election

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from 100 Percent FED Up

Pelosi: Two Of The Families Of The Benghazi Dead Asked Us Not To Launch New Committee
It is indisputable that at least some of the families are on the record saying they want answers.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE HARD WORKING MOMS OUT THERE!
This is the greatest video for Mother's Day! It's often hard to put into words the best discription of this job, but this video captures it.

OBAMA LIES BUT BEWARE THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX AND ITS DISTRACTIONS

DISTURBING! HOMELAND SECURITY E-MAILS REVEAL TERRORIST "HANDS OFF" LIST

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