Saturday, July 5, 2014

In the news, Thursday, June 19, 2014


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from ABC News (& affiliates)

Corinthian Colleges Warns It May Shut Down
Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit education company with about 75,000 students nationwide, warned Thursday that it may fail as it clashes with U.S. regulators over student data.

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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)

from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens
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from Breitbart
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from Clarion Project - Addressing Islamic Extremism

Controversy Follows New UK Law Banning Forced Marriage
Advocates say the law addresses multicultural fallacies; skeptics fear victims will go underground to protect family members.

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from CNN
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Mocks IRS Excuses: 'Who Are These Idiots?'

Gallup: Public's Confidence in News Media Sinks to Record Low

Jon Stewart Pokes Fun At Hillary Interview Hype
In a startling display of bipartisan humor, Jon Stewart made fun of both CNN and Fox's over-hyped "exclusive" interviews with Hillary Clinton on the June 18 edition of The Daily Show.

MSNBC Gives Platform to Dem to Spew About Cheney ‘How Dare He... Raise His Ugly Head’

ISIS Leader in Iraq was Released from U.S. Detention Camp in 2009

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Kevin McCarthy Elected House Majority Leader

Jay Carney: I Never Told A Lie

Matthews Challenges A Shocked Sen. Warren To Deliver On Progressive Promises: ‘I Don’t Hear YOU Getting It Done!’

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from EarthSky

International Space Station sends a laser message from space
On June 5, astronauts aboard ISS used a beam of laser light to send an HD video to researchers waiting below.

Is Mauna Loa volcano beginning to stir?
Over the past 13 months, the Volcano Observatory in Hawaii has recorded increased activity on the flanks and summit of Mauna Loa, the largest volcano on Earth.

Way cool real-time U.S. wind map
The wind map updates every hour and can let you see the movement, flow, and speeds of wind across the United States.

This date in science: Paris Metro begins operations
First subway system in France and second-busiest in Europe today. But its early days were not without controversy.

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from East Oregonian

Heppner fire burns to the edge of town
A large grass fire swept along the western edge of Heppner Thursday, burning dangerously close to homes on a steep hillside overlooking the city.

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from FactCheck.org

Florida’s Medicare Fraud Flashback
The Florida Democratic Party implies that Gov. Rick Scott “took the Fifth 75 times” in lawsuits concerning his former company committing Medicare fraud. He didn’t.

Rahall Twists Jenkins’ Words
Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia takes a quote from his Republican opponent, Evan Jenkins, out of context to falsely imply that Jenkins is “comfortable” with raising “seniors’ out-of-pocket costs” for Medicare by $6,000. Actually, Jenkins was talking about nominal copays for Medicaid — not Medicare.

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from The Federalist

STFU, They Said
Those who opposed the Iraq war should understand that telling people to shut up isn’t exactly conducive to a healthy debate

Redskins Brouhaha Shows How Politics Is Ruining Sports Talk Radio

Navigating The Waters Of A Broken Life: My Abortion Story
Why the Redskins Trademark Ruling Should Terrify You
Anyone deemed politically incorrect is now outside the protection of the law.

Discrimination Is Healthy And Normal—Sex Confusion Is Not
Speaking truth to LGBTQ power in a fight over ‘non-discrimination’ ordinances.

Did Newsweek Really Claim Antarctic Sea Ice Is Melting?
Hey Sports Fans! Why Do You Hate Irish People?

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from The Federalist Papers

20 Punishments Handed Down By Superiors In The Military — These Are Tough But Pure Genius!

SHOCK: See How Many Illegal Border Incursions Into U.S By Mexican Military; Police Since 2004

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and Fox’s Ed Henry Caught on Hot Mic Mocking GOP Senator

Watch How Democrat-Invited Former EPA Chiefs React When Asked If They Agree With Obama’s Global Warming Claim

Viral Video Of Socialist Group Verbally Assaulting Blogger For Legally Filming Meeting

See What This Veteran Did To A Mexican Flag That Was Flying Above An American Flag

Democrat Asks Scholar About Life On Front Lines In Afghanistan, Actual Soldier Interrupts

Apartment Balcony Decoration Deemed a ‘Threat to the Muslim Community’ and Ordered Down — Can You Guess What It Is?

See How Hillary Clinton Reacts When Asked To Inscribe Her New Book To Ambassador Stevens

Allen West: 5 Questions That Will Enrage Your Liberal Progressive Friends And Family Members

High School Student Uncovered Something ‘Appalling’ After He Tried to Access NRA Website, Townhall, Others

Why The Obama Trademark Board’s Ruling Against The Redskins Should Terrify You

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from Forbes

Wisc. Governor Scott Walker Alleged To Be At Center Of "Criminal Scheme"

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from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com)
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from Heartland Institute

Steve Stanek and Erin Shannon on Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage

Hell to the Redskins
By a two-to-one vote, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a ruling that eliminates trademark registration for six current trademarks of the Washington Redskins NFL team (including for the “Redskinettes” cheerleaders).

Fixing Our Dictatorial EPA
Last year, Congress enacted 72 new laws and federal agencies promulgated 3,659 new rules, imposing $1.86 trillion in annual regulatory compliance costs on American businesses and families.

Flag Desecration: Protecting Free Expression Even When We Hate It

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from The Heritage Foundation

How a ‘Threatened’ Species Is Threatening Jobs in One State

Make Export–Import Bank Accounting ‘Fair’ to Taxpayers

Laughing All the Way to the Export-Import Bank

Kerry Asks Sudan to ‘Respect’ Condemned Mom’s Religious Freedom
But many think he's not doing nearly enough.

The United Nations’ Gun-Control Efforts Are Failing

House Republicans Choose McCarthy as Majority Leader, Scalise as Whip

Labrador Wins Attention of GOP in Bid for House Majority Leader

Mother of Benghazi Victim: ‘Why Can’t They Just Tell Me the Truth?’

IRS Destroyed Hard Drive Lois Lerner Used at Time of Tea Party Targeting

Major Obama Fundraiser Faces Scrutiny in Bid to Be Ambassador

Watch Out: This School Bus Camera Could Get You a Ticket

Why We March for Marriage
The courts should not take away our authority as citizens to debate and decide marriage policy. No one should be denied the freedom to speak and to act publicly in accord with the truth that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.

Mississippi’s U.S. Senate Race Presents Referendum on Federal Spending

from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

A new combination is brewing at Old Blue Coffee Shop and Brewery

A man is suing the state for failing to protect him from a gang's wrath

Judge cleared of closing court before hearing attorney's connection to his daughter

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from The Independent (UK)
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from io9

Watch A Mountain Top Get Blasted Off To Make Room For A Telescope

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from LifeNews.com

Jahi McMath, Once Declared Dead, May be Responding

Justina Pelletier’s Family Promises to Sue Massachusetts for Abducting Their Daughter

You’ll be Surprised How Little This Planned Parenthood Activist Knows About Science, Or Not

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from Money Talks News

Are You Making These 10 Health Insurance Mistakes?

13 Reasons to Check Your Credit Scores Right Now

Should You Buy a Franchise?
Do you have the time (and cash) to own a franchise? See the benefits, drawbacks, and the top 10 best franchises.

US Health Care Ranks Dead Last in International Survey

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from Mother Nature Network

10 tips for starting a plant-based diet
Ready to transition to a plant-based diet? Here’s how to give up the meat without going nuts.

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from National Geographic

Bonanza of Skulls in 'Pit of Bones' Changes View of Neanderthals
A Spanish cave reveals that Neanderthal faces evolved ahead of their braincases.

Opinion: Killing of Great Tusker in Kenya Recalls Lesson From the Past
Kenya's president should give protection to the country's last great tuskers, filmmaker says. The killing in late May of the great tusker Satao, in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, was another blunt reminder that no elephant in Africa is safe. A poacher's poisoned arrow felled him, and his death was presumed to have been long and painful. Satao was thought to be the largest-tusked elephant surviving in Africa. While he lived, he was a talisman of a wild land; in death, another tragic example of conservation's failure.

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from National Review

A Disaster of His Own Making 
Obama, not Bush, is responsible for the return of the Islamist insurgency in Iraq.
By Charles Krauthammer

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

from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)

Washington:

Deputy arrested for alleged promotion of prostitution
An elite member of the King County SWAT team was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly helping his wife work as a prostitute.

Small plane crashes in Port Orchard

Remains of cold case murder victim removed from grave

Seattle Times will no longer use 'Redskins'

Neighbors plan to protest pot farm in Shelton

Oso fire chief humbled by community's generosity

Group says Washington is 24th worst water polluter

Transit agencies urge you to 'Dump the Pump'
Gas prices are going up again, and transit agencies nationwide are trying to get drivers to try public transportation for a change.

Automatic same-sex marriages kick in June 30
By the end of the month, many same-sex couples in Washington will tie the knot, whether they want to or not. Some state registered domestic partnerships will be converted into marriages on June 30. The automatic trigger was part of the 2012 state law legalizing same-sex marriages.

Afghanistan vet who saved fellow Marine receives Medal of Honor

Anthrax exposure possible at CDC labs in Atlanta

Coast Guard seeks help to find hoax distress caller

Obama: U.S. sending 300 military advisers to Iraq

New marijuana test increases taxpayer cost by 1,000%

Plans to revitalize Ridpath into 200 apartments nearly complete

Coeur d'Alene man says concealed weapon saved his life

Patriot Guard escorts fallen Sprague soldier’s body on Friday

Coeur d’Alene sets goal to create public transportation system

6 big Supreme Court decisions that could be revealed Thursday

Univ. of Idaho research shows humans could be contaminating Mars

Spokane County bracing for more mosquitoes

Facebook goes down across multiple countries

Wellpinit High School discusses mascot after Redskins controversy

Oregon:

Warrant: Reynolds shooter took gun from Army reservist brother

After Redskins ruling, Ore. activist keeps up fight

Facebook suffers longest outage since 2010

Idaho:

Idaho ranks last in students continuing education past high school

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from Personal Liberty

Liberty News:

Charlie Rangel: Tea Party = Hamas

Even The Feds Admit Minimum Wages Cause Unemployment

Harry Reid Declares That Democrats Don’t Have Billionaire Donors

McCarthy Elected House Majority Leader

President Obama Lays Out 5-Part Action Plan For U.S. Response To Iraq Crisis

Report: U.S. Fired Depleted Uranium Ammunition At Live Iraqi Targets In 2003

U.S. Supreme Court Strengthens Free Speech Rights For Public Employees

Michelle Obama Welcomes New U.S. Citizens By Promoting Immigration Agenda

Thursday Morning News Roundup 6-19-2014

Polls Show Obama Causing Big Problems For Midterm Democrats

GOP Lawmakers: Get Ready For The $1 Billion Obamacare Insurance Bailout

Al Gore Confident Obama Will Block Keystone Pipeline

Conservative Politics:

The Benghazi Chronicles: Catching Khattala

‘Illegal Immigration’ Is A PC Term; This Is An Invasion

Professor Francis Boyle On Impeachment Of Bush And Obama

2nd Amendment:

Is Hillary Lying, Suffering From Brain Damage, Or Both?
During a CNN town hall meeting Tuesday, Hillary Clinton made quite clear her view of the Constitution in general, the 1st and 2nd Amendments in particular, and that she, like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, views American gun owners as terrorists seeking to do harm on other Americans.

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from POLITICO
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from Popular Science

Are Fish As Intelligent As Crows, Chimps... Or People?
The science shows that fish use tools, feel pain, have long memories, and deserve better treatment from us.

Lockheed's Vision: Autonomous Drones With Lasers

The Newest, Strictest Test Of A Quantum Computer Yet
The latest and greatest test of a quantum computing device has found it doesn't solve problems faster than a classical computer. But scientists have some ideas for finding quantum speed-up in the future.

Russia Just Finished A Submarine It Has Spent 20 Years Building

Q&A: Creating Global Wi-Fi--With Balloons
How Mike Cassidy of Google's Project Loon wants to get internet airborne.

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from Rare

Viral post about dogs drinking ice water is fake, fake, fake

Student stands up for his rights after school blocked conservative websites

Megyn Kelly slams Dick Cheney: “History has proven you got it wrong” on Iraq

The latest drone technology is the more fearsome machine that will make all people afraid
Named the Skunk, the drone can fire pepper spray, rubber bullets, and paintballs at rowdy rioters. It also emits strobe lighting, broadcast audible warnings, and records crowd reactions.

President Obama to Congress on Iraq: Screw you, I do what I want
According to The Hill, President Barack Obama told top congressional leaders Wednesday that he believes he doesn’t need to consult Congress concerning possible U.S. military action in Iraq.

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from RedFlag News

Texas Man Told To Take Down His American Flag Because It’s A “Threat To The Muslim Community”

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from Religion News Service
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from ScienceDaily

Unexpected findings: Small asteroids can be flying rock clusters or even clouds of dust surrouding solid rocks
What seemed to be rock-solid assumptions about the nature of small asteroids may end in rubble or even a cloud of dust. New findings suggest small asteroids can be a flying cluster of rocks or a cloud of dust with a solid rock at its nucleus.

New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
What's the difference between the Eiffel Tower and the Washington Monument? Both structures soar to impressive heights, and each was the world's tallest building when completed. But the Washington Monument is a massive stone structure, while the Eiffel Tower achieves similar strength using a lattice of steel beams and struts that is mostly open air, gaining its strength from the geometric arrangement of those elements. Now engineers have devised a way to translate that airy, yet remarkably strong, structure down to the microscale -- designing a system that could be fabricated from a variety of materials, such as metals or polymers, and that may set new records for stiffness for a given weight. Nanostructured material, based on repeating units, has record stiffness at low density.

NASA's swift satellite tallies water production of Mars-bound comet
In late May, NASA's Swift satellite imaged comet Siding Spring, which will brush astonishingly close to Mars later this year. These optical and ultraviolet observations are the first to reveal how rapidly the comet is producing water and allow astronomers to better estimate its size.

How does a soccer ball swerve? Smoothness of a ball's surface, in addition to playing technique, is a critical factor
It happens every four years: The World Cup begins and some of the world's most skilled players carefully line up free kicks, take aim -- and shoot way over the goal. The players are all trying to bend the ball into a top corner of the goal, often over a wall of defensive players and away from the reach of a lunging goalkeeper.

The genes tell crows to choose partners that look like themselves
Crows like to select mates that look alike. In a large-scale genomic study a team of researchers found that this behavior might be rooted in their genetic make-up, revealing a likely common evolutionary path that allows for separating populations into novel species.

Astronomers use Hubble to study bursts of star formation in the dwarf galaxies of the early Universe
They may only be little, but they pack a star-forming punch: new observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show that starbursts in dwarf galaxies played a bigger role than expected in the early history of the universe.

Conclusive evidence that sunscreen use in childhood prevents development of malignant melanoma in adults
Unequivocally, in a natural animal model, researchers have demonstrated that the incidence of malignant melanoma in adulthood can be dramatically reduced by the consistent use of sunscreen in infancy and childhood. The research was driven by the fact that, despite the increasing use of sunscreen in recent decades, the incidence of malignant melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, continues to increase dramatically. The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 75,000 new cases of melanoma will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year.

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from Skeptoid Podcast
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from The Wall Street Journal

Sunni Extremists in Iraq Occupy Hussein's Chemical Weapons Facility
Officials Don't Believe the Militants Will Be Able to Create a Functional Weapon From the Material

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from The Washington Times (DC)
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from The Weekly Standard

Treasury Doesn’t Know How Much New MyRA Program Will Cost

University of Arkansas Bans Washington Free Beacon from Clinton Archives
Not the first time a university library has intervened to protect a Democratic presidential candidate.

Obama: 'Iran Can Play a Constructive Role' in Iraq

Carney: 'I Felt Liberated' Working for Obama

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from WIRED

Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges

Giving Chelsea Handler a Talk Show Could Be Netflix’s Best Move Yet

Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to Patent Trolls
On Thursday, the court upheld the notion that an idea alone can’t be patented, deciding unanimously that merely implementing an idea on a computer isn’t enough to transform it into a patentable invention.

Mt. Gox CEO Returns to Twitter, Infuriates Burned Investors

Quantum Computers Still Aren’t Faster Than Regular Old Computers

T-Mobile Is Now Offering Free iPhones, Free 4G, and Free Music

Better Than Ikea: 4 Clever Riffs on Flat-Packed Furniture

Slight: An Anonymous Social Network That’s All About Where You Are

Watch: Blowing Up a Mountain to Make Way for World’s Biggest Telescope

U.S. Travelers Return Home With Tropical Disease. Will It Spread in the States?
Three states — Rhode Island, North Carolina and Tennessee — all said that they have identified residents who have been diagnosed with the mosquito-borne tropical disease chikungunya. The states said all the victims had recently returned from the Caribbean, where the severe, painful illness has been spreading since late last year.

Harley-Davidson’s First Electric Motorcycle Surprisingly Doesn’t Suck

Is It Really True That Watching Porn Will Shrink Your Brain?

Garmin’s New Golf Watch Will Teach You How to Swing Better

A Visual Tour of Amazon’s New Fire Phone

The Hidden Agenda of Amazon’s New Phone

Ron Burgundy and Boba Fett, Rendered in 3-D Printed Pixels

The LAPD Just Got a Military-Grade Electric Bike for Stealth Missions

Mazda Enters a Production Miata Into One of Earth’s Most Grueling Races

Stop Facebook From Using Your Web History for Ad Targeting

The Murals That Zoos Use to Make Us Forget the Cages

Science Graphic of the Week: A Fascinating Collection of Molecules and Other 3-D Printable Images

A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular

A Kinect-Powered Animation That Evolves With Your Body Movements

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from Yahoo News

10 Refrigerator Cleaning Tricks that Work like Magic

Colorado domestic violence victim gets payout over immigration hold

3 Charts Show That China's Scientific Dominance Over The US Is A Done Deal
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Peking University in Beijing published a study highlighting China's growing scientific dominance in a recent issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Specifically, they focused on China's potential to knock the U.S. out of its spot as the world's undisputed leader in the science, tech, engineering, and math fields — collectively called STEM.

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from 100 Percent FED Up


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