Saturday, May 18, 2013 

Saturday, May 18, 2013

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What Gave Us Gosnell?

Arkansas Doctors Ask Court to Block State's New Abortion Rules

Detective: ‘I think there are still more babies in [Gosnell's] basement'

Gosnell Gives Up Appeal, Prosecutors Agree to Life in Prison, No Death Penalty

Kermit Gosnell 2, Abortionist Douglas Karpen, Now Faces Investigation

No Death Penalty for Gosnell

 Has Gosnell rocked our conscience?  

Petition drive backed by Right to Life could affect abortion insurance ...

North Dakota's Sole Abortion Clinic Sues to Block New Law

Kansas abortion doctor's killer threatens new clinic owner

Maine abortion bills likely to divide pro-choice, pro-life advocates

Abortion bill sent to the Senate (North Carolina)

The Magic Gosnell Moment (The Magic Gosnell Moment (MGM) occurs at that instant when a blob of cells that's part of a woman's body suddenly turns into the woman's daughter. )

FBI Charges Man With Murder, Tricked Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Drug

When public policy protects the murder of infants

Why Big Abortion shares Gosnell's guilt

Media Ignores Abortion Doc Who Killed Babies With His Bare Hands

Time to ask Obama about Gosnell: Column

Pope Francis to Hold Global Pro-Life Conference, Pro-Life Mass on June 16

Rallying for Life (Black Christian leaders called on Congress to investigate the abortion industry and defund Planned Parenthood at a Tuesday morning press conference at the National Press Club.)

Letter Asks Prosecutor to Charge Ariel Castro Over Five Forced Abortions

Gosnell Is Not an Aberration (Gosnell's murders are an inevitable result of the abortion license.)

Americans Misjudge U.S. Abortion Views

Most Americans Wrongly Think Americans Are “Pro-Choice” on Abortion

No Charges Filed Against Doc Who Killed Woman in Botched Abortion

Murdered Thousands, Convicted for Three: The Kermit Gosnell Verdict

Gosnell Jurors: Hard to See Photos of Babies With Snipped Necks

ABC News Ended Blackout of Kermit Gosnell Trial After 56 Days

Abortion advocates blame Gosnell atrocities on pro-lifers

Pro-Abortion Planned Parenthood's New Ad Campaign: Your Baby Will Thank You

60% of Black Babies Die in Abortion in Urban Cities, Help is Coming

Eric Holder Unsure if Law Stopping After-Birth Abortions Has Been Enforced (US Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr)

Pastors ‘in shame' of Gosnell, decry abortions in black communities

“Doctor” Let Baby Born Alive After Abortion Die, Just Got Probation

North Carolina Closes Filthy Abortion Clinic After Gosnell Conviction

It Took Gosnell's Conviction for All Three Networks to Cover Him

White House asks court to block birth control order

Congressional Bill Would Ban All Taxpayer Funding for Abortions

Virginia Abortions Drop 18 Percent as New Pro-Life Laws Passed

In Abortion Protests, Which to Protect, Children or Speech?

Texas Lt. Gov. Demands Probe of Abortion Doc Who Twisted Off Babies Heads

Verdict in Philly abortion trial brings rare consensus - USA Today

Tougher abortion rules approved for Missouri

Gosnell verdict will force a rethinking about abortion - Washington Post

Jimmy Connors Shouldn't Be Talking About Chris Evert's Abortion

Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Guilty of Murder in Late-Term Procedures

Help Stop Ireland's Roe v. Wade, Boston College Promotes Abortion

Gosnell case fuels bitter US abortion debate

40 Days for Life founder explains at Canadian March for Life how to convert abortion workers

Ireland's ban on abortion in jeopardy - USA Today

15 killed, including 6 Americans, after car bomb hits NATO convoy in Afghanistan

ISAF denies Afghan claims about abuses linked to special forces in Wardak (The International Security Assistance Force is countering new allegations that an American was involved in torture in Wardak province — where tensions between the U.S. and the Afghan government over allegations of misconduct by American special forces already were high. )

In Afghanistan, Taliban Release 4 of 8 Turks in an Image Offensive (Even as their campaign of violence continued, the insurgents took time to praise polio inoculation.)

NATO: 3 troops killed in Afghanistan attack

Commander Denies U.S. to Blame in Afghan Deaths (General  Joseph F Dunford Jr said that neither the United States nor NATO was at fault in the deaths of civilians after airstrikes in April.)

Afghanistan: US hopes for scrap metal boom

Taliban rival claims deadly suicide bombing in Afghan capital

Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria

Christian leader killed by Islamic militants in Nigeria

Nigerian forces target Boko Haram strongholds

Jets join offensive in Nigeria, opinion split

South African Authorities Turn to a Blind Eye to Al Qaeda Training Camp

Nigera declares war on Islamist insurgents

Libya in Mind, Obama Urges Better Security at Embassies

Nigeria president declares state of emergency

Warplanes, troops in northeast Nigeria; mobile phones cut

Darfur rebel-faction leader killed in Chad  (Mohamed Bashar, who signed peace deal with Sudan last month, killed by rival Justice and Equality Movement fighters. )

Former Islamist warlord elected president of Somali region

Tanzania sets three Emiratis free after church attack

40 mental patients overthrow guards, bolt hospital in Kenya

Morocco King intervenes to keep Istiqlal ministers provisionally in cabinet

Deadly car bomb strikes Libyan city  (A car bomb explosion near a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi kills and injures several people, local officials say. )

Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi Service on Trains

New Amtrak Engines Unveiled for Northeast

We Should Have Heeded the Warning Signs of Islamist Antisemitism

Czech Jews Document Tripling of Online Anti-Semitism

Pressure on US retailers to sign Bangladesh pact

Cambodian factory collapse kills 3

Deadly labor problems in Bangladesh may cost country break in U.S. tariffs

Violent Islamists in Bangladesh Declare: Kill all the Infidels

Global Retailers Join Safety Plan for Bangladesh

Deadly Collapse in Cambodia Renews Safety Concerns (The accident at the factory, which made sneakers for the Japanese manufacturer Asics, reinforced global worries about factory safety in poor countries.)

Energy firms mapping Kurdistan's topography by satellite

Bangladesh survivor says she will never work in a factory again

South Asian Muslims blame racism for attacks by Buddhists

Cyclone fades without causing significant damage after Bangladesh, Myanmar prepared for worse

Vermont About to Become Third State to Legalize Assisted Suicide

Weak dollar buoys stocks (Australian shares rose, led by miners, while retailers were pulled down by Wesfamers' profit downgrade for Target. )

F-35 Australian Supplier Proves Capability To Manufacture High-Grade Advanced Composite Components

Dollar dives like a 'falling knife' (What's been driving the dramatic plunge in the dollar, and should we expect a rebound any time soon?)

Like a 'falling knife' (What's been driving the dramatic plunge in the dollar, and should we expect a rebound any time soon? )

Australian politician sorry he accidentally 'liked' Facebook photo of prankster exposing self

 State crackdown on union in disarray (Federal Court rules Napthine government broke laws by threatening to not use major builder.)

Gillard rejects Rinehart economy analysis  (Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed claims by Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart that the nation's economy is heading for a collapse like those seen in Europe. )

Judge refuses to approve Vioxx settlement  (The Federal Court has refused a settlement under which Australians who claim an arthritis drug gave them heart problems would have received a maximum $2000 compensation from the drug company. )

$30m for casuals as Department of Human Services cuts 2400 jobs  (The federal government's biggest department is spending $30 million hiring casual and short-term labor while shedding more than 2400 of its permanent staff. )

Aussie scientists print flexible solar panels

As Tesla's value soars, some see bubble

Government report finds regulations have spiked under Obama

‘Therapeutic' Human Cloning (Discarding embryos and damaging our souls.)

The Boy Scout debate (More than a century ago, a small group of civic leaders founded the Boy Scouts of America to teach young men leadership, character and American values. For more than 100 years, its traditions have stood strong. )

Too many questions remain on border security, CFR study shows

DREAMers from Afghanistan Crossing Mexican Border into US

Canada PM slams world leaders for not supporting Israel

Performing From Space, Canada's Low-Orbit Star

Canada takes hard line against Iran as election looms

10-year sentence sought for Canadian in Mauritania

Geller takes on Toronto Board of Rabbis

Up to 1 in 5 children suffer from mental disorder: CDC

CDC's latest warning on public pools is a stinker

Study: Half of teen drivers text behind the wheel

What Did John Brennan Know? (National Security: If a thorough investigation is conducted into the origins of the al-Qaida attacks on Benghazi, Republicans will regret not blocking John Brennan's confirmation as CIA director. Not only did Brennan, as White House counterterrorism czar, take his eye off al-Qaida ... )

CIA-connected SAIC Awarded Government “Cyber Security” Contract

Benghazi emails: CIA deputy director did most editing on talking points

CIA Warned of 'Jihadist' Threat to Cairo Embassy

Chinese opinion jars with policy on Korea

Rainstorms batter southern China, killing 33 people and leaving 12 missing; more rain forecast

China growth to halve

China's president takes charge of reform

Slower Chinese Growth Adds to Pressure on Leaders

China missile launch is interceptor test claims US

Chinese general says Okinawa not Japan's

China Air Traffic Congestion Worsened by Military Control

Developer Demolishes Taiwanese Factory in Shanghai

China Conducts Test of New Anti-Satellite Missile (China's military on Monday conducted the first test of a new ground-launched anti-satellite missile that was fired into space and disguised as a space-exploration rocket, according to U.S. officials.)

A life of abuse for China sex workers (New report says police routinely extort, beat and abuse prostitutes during raids on China's roughly 4 million to 6 million sex workers.)

Network Effects (A computer science laboratory at China's Wuhan University has been linked by U.S. intelligence agencies to Chinese military cyber attacks on the West.)

Chinese protesters take to streets in Kunming over plans for chemical plant

Audi Sales in China Exceed BMW, Mercedes on SUVs

School principal, gov't worker suspected of taking 6 girls younger than 14 to hotel in China

Inside China: Tough talking Xi Jinping goes easy on rampant PLA corruption

Human Rights Watch: Sex workers in China subject to frequent police abuse, including torture

US envoy calls China's halting of ties with North Korean bank a 'hopeful sign' for disarmament

N. Korea thought to have 200 mobile missile launchers

Kim Jong-Un shifts focus to economy from military escalation (Communist North Korean dictator Kim Kim Jong-un)

North Korea Names Armed Forces Minister (The appointment is seen as part of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's effort to tighten his grip on power.)

Lawmakers to focus on whether IRS misled Congress in probes

Frustrated with diplomacy, some in Congress seek total ban on Iran's oil

G.O.P., Energized, Weighs How Far to Take Inquiries

Democrats seek to ease Asian American concerns over family visa changes

Scandal Machine  (Behind their loud condemnations of President Obama, Republicans continue to damage the economy and society.)

CBO says deficit shrinking at faster rate

 Assault on the First Amendment

Unconstitutional Appointments (Second appeals court strikes down Obama NLRB appointments.)

Intentions Matter (A Federal Court of Appeals has partially overturned a discrimination suit against the New York City Fire Department initiated by the Department of Justice and later defended by Tom Perez, the head of Civil Rights enforcement and President Barack Obama's labor secretary nominee.)

Chris Christie's weight loss doctor sued in deaths of FOURTEEN patients  (Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie (R)

James Holmes, ‘Batman' shooting suspect, to plead insanity

Eden Prairie grad gets three years for Somali terror case

White supremacist appears in court with swastika carved in his forehead charged with killing two in racist rampage

BP blasts US judge in fight against compensation claims

New Mexico mom chases down child abductor; girl safe

New Orleans police: 2^nd  suspect arrested in Mother's Day parade shooting

Parents of two children 'stabbed to death by their nanny' in their Upper West Side home reveal they are expecting a baby boy

Woman questioned about stalking her preacher suddenly blurts out she stabbed man to death in 2004

Lawyers Say DNA Clears Florida Inmate in Two Killings

New Orleans offers $10,000 reward in hunt for Mother's Day gunman

Police identify suspect in New Orleans shooting

Taped fatal beating brings scrutiny (California; Deputies in Bakersfield confiscated bystanders' cell phones after the incident. Witnesses said several deputies were involved in the beating of David Silva.)

16 Accused of Smuggling Cigarettes Worth Millions(Officials said the defendants profited by buying the goods in low-tax states in the South and selling them illegally in New York, avoiding the state's high taxes.)

Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet

Stalin's Secret Agents  (The Communist subversion of Roosevelt's administration.)

All Your Wishes Granted (How would you, as a Democrat, have felt if a genie had just granted you all your political wishes in 2007? Well, he might as well have. And look how it's turning out. )

Senate confirms Moniz as secretary of energy

Scandal-Plagued DHS Agency to Oversee Amnesty

Final tally: DHS released 622 criminals as part of sequester

Beefing Up Cyber Protections for U.S. Critical Infrastructure  (Northrop Grumman has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that will enable the expansion of cybersecurity protections for the nation's critical infrastructure ... )

New Fracking Rules Proposed for U.S. Land

Locking Away Potential (Congressmen criticize Obama administration's management of drilling permits.)

Why the GOP hates Eric Holder (US Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr)

Desperate Holder Throws Underlings Under the Bus  (US Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr)

Lawmaker: Holder must probe leak of Romney tax returns (US Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr /Former Governor of Massachusetts and GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney)

Holder imposing broader sexual harassment definition on campuses (US Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr)

Justice Dept. faulted over terrorist identities

The larger implications of the Associated Press affair

Eric Holder: The Culture of Corruption Enforcer  (US Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr)

Why the Justice Dept. may have obtained AP phone records

Holder on AP Scandal: Wasn't Me! (US Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr; AVIPP COMMENTARY: It is time for the attorney general to resign.)

Holder recused himself from DOJ decision to seize AP records (US Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr)

Justice Department secretly obtained phone records for Associated Press reporters

Justice Department launches IRS probe

C R Bard to pay $48 million to settle kickback allegations, DOJ says (Medical device maker C.R. Bard Inc will pay about $48.3 million to resolve allegations it made illegal payments to hospitals and physicians to entice them to buy its radiation treatment for prostate cancer, the … )

Senate panel clears Labor nominee Perez in close vote

Hey, Big Spender (Obama nominee for transportation secretary may send federal funds to hometown if confirmed.)

Asian stock markets mixed in holiday-thinned trading after US economic data disappoints

Dollar firmer on Fed remarks, Asian shares mixed

Regulation Is Also Cause Of Economy's Slow Snap Back From Recession

Jobless claims jump to highest level in 6 weeks

Report: Income inequality rising in most developed countries

Obama's Green Jobs Promise Carries A High Cost

Consumer prices fall 0.4 percent on cheaper gas

Fed, ObamaCare Have Put Damper On Once-Vibrant Economy

U.S. housing starts fall in April, but permits surge

Tepid Earnings Season Fails to Dissuade Investors

Consumers keep shopping despite federal budget battles

U.S. factory output falls 0.4 percent in April

Austerity: Krugman's False Message (What would we do without Nobel Prize winners? )

Groups Press Big Retailers on Safety Overseas (Two separate groups sent letters to Wal-Mart, Target, Sears and Gap, urging them to sign on to the factory safety plan that over 30 European retailers embraced this week.)

Wholesale prices fall 0.7 percent, the most in 3 years

Tumbling gold heads for seventh loss in a row

World stocks mixed ahead of key US economic index

As Japan Courts Growth, Europe Keeps Up Its Love Affair With Austerity

Emerging-Market Stocks Head For First Weekly Decline in a Month

Christians Uneasy in Morsi's Egypt (Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi)

Egypt hit by 'worst economic crisis since 1930s'

Egypt leader holds crisis talks with ministers over kidnappings

7 Egyptian security personnel kidnapped in Sinai

Will Western nations turn their back on Egypt's Islamist President?

Angry Egyptian policemen close crossing with Gaza

Morsi may join Erdogan for Gaza Strip visit (Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi/Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)

EMILY's List founder joins effort to draft Hillary Clinton for 2016 presidential run  (Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)

Oil falls to near $95 on choppy growth outlook

Energy Prices

Groundwater Unaffected by Shale Gas Production in Arkansas

Fewer Rain Forests Mean Less Energy for Developing Nations, Study Finds

U.S. Oil Production to Shock Global Energy Markets: IEA Report

A Wind-Energy Outrage (Dead eagles and double standards.)

Cotton Offers a New Ecologically Friendly Way to Clean Up Oil Spills

Collapse of bee colonies is latest target for anti-pesticide groups

Minnesota lakes reportedly contaminated with cocaine

Gina McCarthy, Obama's EPA pick, advances on party-line vote

Now boarding the Obama Administration scandal train: the EPA

EPA Waives Fees for 92% of Liberal Groups, Applies Them to Conservative Groups

Stash your cash in Switzerland? US and Europe push to make it harder.

Europe stocks track U.S. lower, eye weekly gain

European Stocks Drop as FLSmidth Falls; Maersk Advances

Death of the euro

Oil Price-Fixing Probe Widens as Neste Helps EU Inquiry

Grind of Euro Crisis Wears Down Support for Union, Poll Finds

Pay cuts for EU officials 'raise serious legal concerns'

Bulgarian Vote Fails to Produce Clear Winner

French, German politicians to pressure Google on tax

Cyprus gas has a major role in weakening Russia exports

ECB eyes supervisor role to squeeze weak banks

Dozens of Disabled Newborns Killed in Legal Euthanasia in Netherlands

Chechen Refugee Questioned in F.B.I.'s Inquiry of Bombing (FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombing have repeatedly questioned a former separatist fighter who says he had a passing social relationship with a bombing suspect.)

FBI seeks help from banks to fight cyber crime

The Castro-coddled cop killer (On May 2, the FBI announced a $1 million reward for “information leading to the apprehension” of Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who they named a “most-wanted terrorist.” Chesimard is the first woman to make the FBI's list. )

The $642 billion excuse (We still need to get serious on the deficit.)

It's Official: Federal Debt Will Never Be Paid

Deficit Shrinks At Record Pace Outside Of WWII Era

Limiting Foreign Access To Your Bank Accounts

FDA approves J&J's Simponi to treat ulcerative colitis  

Drug manufacturer agrees to $500 million penalty   (Ranbaxy admitted that it made and sold impure drugs at two manufacturing sites in India.)

A Care-less Foreign Policy

France seek Europe political union within two years  (France's socialist leader François Hollande has called for an “economic government” in the eurozone with its own budget, right to issue debt, harmonized tax system and full-time president.)

Hollande Vows Reform as Critics Grow Louder (French President Francois Hollande)

Man shoots himself in head at Paris school

No Future for France  (Why even the French are giving up on their own country. )

Frenchman Staves Off Extradition in Diamond Theft (Lawyers for Marc Bertoldi, owner of a luxury car business, argued that the Belgian authorities had not spelled out his precise role in the $50 million theft in February.)

Rebuilding of Mali Faces Daunting Obstacles, Despite Outside Aid

François Hollande considers tax on smartphones and laptops (French President Francois Hollande)

In France, a Socialist only in name? (French President François Hollande's version of Socialism is unnerving critics on both sides of the spectrum.)

State Grants Oneida Indians Exclusive Territory for Casino (The deal helps Governor of New York  Andrew M Cuomo (D) as he seeks to expand casino gambling and settles longstanding tax and land claim issues that have cast shadows over the Oneidas' relationship with their upstate neighbors.)

German Stocks Drop as Williams Says Bond Buying May Slow

'Mommy Merkel': How the Chancellor Paralyzed German Politics (German Chancellor Angela Merkel)

Nepotism in Bavarian Politics Creates a Scandal Merkel Could Do Without  (Germany's Christian Social Union, the sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, is embroiled in a scandal that threatens her re-election chances.)

The WWII battle where Americans and Germans fought on the SAME side: Incredible true story of the fight to save an Austrian castle two weeks after Hitler committed suicide

Berlin Airport Fiasco Threatens High-Tech Park

Merkel hails working relationship with Hollande  (German Chancellor Angela Merkel may not have a “bosom friendship” with her French counterpart, she has said, but her working relationship with François Hollande was strong and crucial for Europe.)

Germany cannot stop eurozone from sinking into longest recession

Germany Accuses Man of Being Somali Pirates' Accountant

Has Berlin's Gentrification Feud Gone too Far?

Angela Merkel Is No KGB 'Sleeper Agent' (German Chancellor Angela Merkel)

Lawmakers fear privacy risks from Google Glass

The GOP's Hispanic Opening  (Half the Hispanics eligible to vote don't. They are the ones most likely to call themselves 'political conservatives.')

Ron Paul: Benghazi a result of U.S. ‘interventionism' (Former US Representative of Texas and GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul )

Cheney: White House 'Lied' on Benghazi, 'Worst Incident'  (Former Vice President Richard  Cheney )

Greece warns of 'vicious cycle of inequality' in EU

Sebelius's Solicitations (Is the Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's fund-raising legal?)

Obamacare isn't getting repealed. But not because it's popular.

Gov't to pay $1 billion for innovative health care ideas

U.S. advisory on mercury in fish tied up at health department

Some Native Americans may be penalized under health care act

California's ObamaCare Exchange Engages in $458 Mil Contractor Coverup

Hospitals could lose $500M in federal funds (Hospitals nationwide could lose half a billion dollars in federal funding meant to offset the cost of covering the uninsured next year. The loss that will be especially felt in states where lawmakers have decided … )

Navigating Obamacare

GOP probes Sebelius fundraising push  (Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius)

Updates to psychiatry's guidebook change criteria for ADHD, autism

Questions and answers: Middle East coronavirus, China bird flu

Missed Warnings on Medicine for Kids  (Despite safety warnings not to give sick toddlers cough and cold medications, almost half of parents in a recent survey are using the over-the-counter products anyway. )

Four bugs found to be key causes of childhood diarrhea worldwide

My Medical Choice  (Opening a conversation on women's health.)

More Americans See Gay, Lesbian Orientation as Birth Factor

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas): The Islamist Enemy Within  (A Congressman's warning of the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of America. )

House Republicans repeal Obamacare, again

House votes to repeal ObamaCare

House Republicans repeal Obamacare again. Why do they keep doing it?

House immigration group announces 'agreement in principle'

Ex-S.C. Gov. Sanford (R) reclaims House seat in comeback

Pelosi defends Sebelius fundraising (House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California )/Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius)

Pelosi: GOP ‘Makes So Much' of Scandals Because Obama Is ‘Such a Great President'  (House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California )

Boehner: Obama administration displaying ‘remarkable arrogance'  (Speaker of the House John A Boehner (R-Ohio) 

House drone hearing set for Friday

Dems offer gun control bill inspired by latest James Bond movie 'Skyfall'

Bachmann: Reform Begins With Repeal Of ObamaCare (US Representative of Minnesota Michelle Bachmann (R)

Rep. Gohmert  (R-Texas)on AP Scandal: ‘When There Is a Tyrannical Despot the Media Will Be One of the Early Victims' 

House GOP Faces Ceiling (Listening to the members.)

Eyeing a Select Committee  (Speaker of the House John A Boehner (R-Ohio). US Representative of California Darrell E Issa (R) cool on combined approach.)

Hoyer: Dems fear ObamaCare glitches (House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland)

Ways and Means sets hearing on IRS

Rep. Issa: Investigate Why Justice Monitored AP Phone Records (US Representative of California Darrell E Issa (R)

The moment proud father John Boehner watched his daughter marry her dread-locked Jamaican-born love in intimate ceremony   (Speaker of the House John A Boehner (R-Ohio)

Heritage Is Right About Amnesty Costs  (Taxpayers and low-skilled workers will suffer the most for the Gang of 8′s political folly. )

Debating the Heritage Foundation's Immigration Study

Dark shadows in data haunt India's output

Parents' plea to India over girl's missing organs

53%: That's what this year's topper scored in civil services exam

India unveils cheap diarrhoea vaccine

Drug prices set to fall by up to 80%

After Vote in Pakistan, Some Hope in India

Spot-fixing in IPL: 5 bookies held in late night raids in TN

Congress denies rift, PM to stay at helm till 2014

Banks suppressing alerts on suspect dealings: RBI probe (The probe shows that three private players — HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank — had hugely suppressed alerts generated by their system on suspected transactions.)

Prime Minister's trip to Pakistan back on agenda

'Coal Mafia' stokes India's power crisis

Girl assaulted, another raped in Delhi

Aircraft imports grounded after govt scraps panel

Modi govt does rethink on death for Maya Kodnani (Gujarat government has asked the special prosecutor probing Naroda Patiya massacre to put on hold its directions seeking death sentence for Maya Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi. )

Pro-Life Groups Confirm: IRS Targeting Began in 2009

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

Target Acquired (IRS targeted Leadership Institute with ‘harassing' audit.)

Obama Picks Daniel Werfel for IRS Post

‘A very big challenge' lies ahead for Daniel Werfel at scandal-plagued IRS

An opportunity to abolish the IRS

Foundation run by Obama's brother got quick help from IRS

When Governments Go Bad  (The IRS and Justice Department scandals disrobe a culture festering in unrestraint and overreach.)

The IRS oppressed pro-life groups, too

Behind the I.R.S. Mess: A Campaign-Finance Scandal  (The behavior of some individuals at the tax agency is inexcusable. What it reveals about our election laws is worse.)

The IRS Patriots

The IRS as your M.D.

Steven Miller's IRS resignation memo

Noonan: This Is No Ordinary Scandal  (Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government.)

IRS Lies About Tax Scandal Continue To Mount

Democrats and the IRS  (US Senator of New York Charles Schumer (D) wanted the agency to probe tax-exempt political groups.)

'Fired' IRS commissioner already planned exit

IRS Attack Against Tea Party Assaulted Civility

Will Lori Lowenthal Marcus Impeach Obama? (Video) (Z Street was one of the right wing organizations harassed by the IRS.)

IRS's Lois Lerner, 'active member' of Humane Society, may have delayed investigating group's tax status

Ohio Conservative Targeted by IRS Tea Party Inquiry Says Threats to Individuals More Dangerous Than to Groups 

Second IRS official to leave amid Tea Party targeting scandal  (Joseph Grant, the acting commissioner for the agency's tax-exempt and government entities division, plans to retire…)

The Intern Audit (The IRS asks a conservative group about its interns.)

Conservative prof says IRS singled her out

IRS Targeted James Dobson for Discrimination Because He Criticized Obama

Lies of Lois Lerner (Nine falsehoods about the IRS scandal.)

IRS Targeted Conservative Hispanic Outreach Group

Rand Paul, Bachmann: IRS could play politics with Obamacare oversight (US Senator of Kentucky Rand Paul (R)/ US Representative of Minnesota Michelle Bachmann (R)

Lawsuit Alleges IRS Stole 60 Million Medical Records

IRS Rejected Group on Behalf of Planned Parenthood

IRS Donations Favor Obama

True the Vote: IRS Demanded Record of Every Meeting Since Inception

Did The IRS Try To Swing Election To Obama?  (Corruption: The inspector general's report on the IRS targeting of conservatives makes it seem like a case of bureaucratic bumbling. But the more we learn, the more it ...)

Defending the Taxman (The Left has some silly excuses for the IRS. )

IRS Scandal: Latest in String of Accusations

IRS Targeting Pushed By Democrats Aided Obama Campaign  (Scandal: Senate Democrats, including supporters of the Disclose Act, provided the names of groups they wanted targeted in a taxpayer-funded witch hunt overseen by an IRS ... )

IRS Official an Obama Donor (Director runs tax-exempt determinations office.)

Why is the IRS regulating speech in the first place?

Chilling Effect (Groups wary of talking about how they were targeted by IRS.)

The Convenient Question (The query that started the IRS scandal appears to have been planted.)

Heightened Scrutiny  (An attorney for a Tea Party group that believes the IRS targeted it for special scrutiny while applying for nonprofit status said an IRS analyst told him over a year ago that the agency had a “secret working group” devoted to investigating conservative organizations.)

Like the IRS Scandal? You'll Love ObamaCare (A glimpse of how health care will be administered in the radiant future. )

Washington IRS officials probed conservatives (Effort scrutinizing groups not limited to Cincinnati branch, as first suggested; Democrats, Republicans alike decry actions as an abuse of power. )

Will The IRS Abuse Its ObamaCare Enforcement Powers Too?

The face of the IRS scandal (Lois Lerner preached caution but still finds herself at the center of controversy over targeting conservative groups. )

Senior IRS officials knew of Tea Party scrutiny

Top IRS official didn't reveal agency targeted tea party  (Steven T Miller repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted.)

Uneven I.R.S. Scrutiny Seen in Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups

How the IRS came to target tea party petitioners as a group, explained

I.R.S. Targeting of Conservative Groups Could Resonate in 2014

Turmoil toughens IRS job on healthcare

The face of the IRS controversy

More IRS abuses of power against conservative groups

It Condemns I.R.S. Audits  (The IRS should have scrutinized every group seeking a tax exemption for “social welfare” activity — Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal. )

The IRS Scandal: A Timeline

Pro-Marriage Group to Sue IRS Over Leaks

Outraged GOP: It's time to audit the IRS; targeting of conservative groups called ‘chilling'

Left-Wing Group: IRS Gave Us Conservatives' Confidential Docs

IRS watchdog finds 'insufficient oversight' allowed targeting

IRS, union mum on employees held accountable in targeting scandal

Political storm bursts over IRS

The IRS's turn to answer questions

Revealed: The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting - including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers  (Richmond Tea Party sent the Obama administration 500 pages of documents, but the IRS demanded far more. Now its inspector general admits the agency played political favorites .)

The IRS's corruption (The scandal makes libertarians of us all.)

IRS scandal grows to include debt critics

Echoes of Watergate (The IRS scandal and skepticism of state power.)

Concerns Arise on U.S. Effort to Allow Internet ‘Wiretaps'

Retail Parasites and the Online Sales Tax (Killing the internet commerce goose. )

Feds take little action against U.S. Web companies hosting sites linked to terror

International Monetary Fund warns on quantitative easing costs

On Iran, the world's efforts sadly ‘have not been successful'

Iran rejects women presidential hopefuls

Iran's conservatives unable to settle on one presidential candidate

 Iran's chief nuclear negotiator: we're being asked to make all the sacrifices

Iran's June election: Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad's Medvedev and no hope for change

Obama administration looks to cut Iran's access to gold

Syrian crisis signals Iranian vulnerability

Iran tracking U.S.-headed anti-mine exercise in Gulf

Iran's conservatives unable to settle on one presidential candidate

Iranian Candidate: I Will 'Resist' the West  (Iran's top nuclear negotiator and presidential candidate pledges to “resist” western demands regarding his country's nuclear program.) 

Deadly sectarian attacks strike Iraq

Syrian war fuels rising sectarian violence in Iraq

Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 17 dead

In Iraq, intimidation threatens the media's ability to report

Baghdad alcohol shops caught in deadly attacks

Bombings kill more than 35 across Iraq

Islamic Forced Conversions—Past and Present  (Embracing Islam by the sword is not limited to ancient history.)

Tsarnaevs' mosque to men: Beat your wives if necessary (The mosque attended by the two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon recommended at one time that men with disobedient wives beat them if necessary. )

Islam and its infidels (What motives lay behind last month's Boston Marathon bombing and the would-be attack on a Via Rail Canada train? )

Turkish PM says Gaza visit set to take place in June and include West Bank (Judea and Samaria )

UNESCO to send fact-finding commission to Jerusalem

Bennett: Ports Announcement ‘A Big Step for Competition' (Economics minister pleased as ports face being declared an oligopoly. )

Ha'aretz Corrects: No Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount

PA takes radio stations off-air over licensing debts

35 Thousand Haredim Protest Draft, 10 Cops Injured

Abbas meets Egypt president in Cairo (“Palestinian” Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas)

Soldiers, commanders recorded in Egoz hazing video dismissed (Israel Defense Forces)

NGO: Israel to 'legalize' wildcat settler outposts

Lapid addresses State budget on video chat (Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid)

Israeli official: We underestimated Assad regime's strength (Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad)

Watch: Palestinian group 'fires rockets at Golan'

PM draws new red lines in the media, not on cartoon  (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)

OECD report: Israel the member with highest poverty rate

US lawmakers to PA: Axe official who praised terror

Hamas: Unity government within 3 months

IDF to use spongetipped bullets in W. Bank (Judea and Samaria)  (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian funeral photo chosen as picture of year might be fake

8 cops hurt in mass haredi protest against draft

J'lem: 30,000 haredim protest against enlistment reform

Mistreated Coptic cleric, 85, threatens to sue

Livni, Aharonovitch: 'Price tag' to be tried as act of terror (Justice minister, interior security minister to bring before the cabinet.)

Gunfire from Sinai hits structure in Israel's south

Israeli intel: Hamas used disposable cell phones to order missile-production

Palestinian Chicken (KFC smuggled into Gaza Strip via weapons tunnels.)

The Palestinian Narrative Captures Stephen Hawking (The renowned physicist has become entangled in academic anti-Semitism. )

Arabs ‘Celebrate' Nakba with Kassam on Negev and Mortars on Golan

Has Iran Crossed Netanyahu's ‘Red Line'?  (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)

Fatah Condemns Co-Existence

Iran's FM: Assad 'Unimpressed' by Israeli Attacks (Iran's foreign minister says Syrian dictator Assad plans to retaliate the next time Israel attacks in Syria. )

Turkish prime minister promises to visit Hamas jihad group, while Obama looks on

Putin again warns Netanyahu hands off Syria  (Russian President Vladimir V Putin/Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)

Media Museum to Honor Hamas Terrorists  (How can Hamas terrorists be treated as genuine journalists? )

Newseum's Wall of Shame ( Terrorists aren't journalists.)

Stephen Hawking & the Making of an Immoral Decision  (What causes intelligent people to make stupid judgments about Israel? )

Syrian-Israeli war of words via Putin edges into Syrian-Hizballah war of attrition.  (Russian President Vladimir V Putin)

What Those Who Boycott Israel Really Want

Palestinian Authority clamps down on Islamists funded by Gulf states

The Church of Scotland Takes the Low Road  (Delivers a report of the most anti-Semitic kind. )

The Church of Scotland vs. Israel (Using the Bible to justify Israel-bashing. )

Star of ‘Arab Idol' unites Palestinians

Israel Stays Deportation of Chinese Falun Gong Practitioner

Israel and the Arab Gulf States: An Undeclared Alliance

Tens of Thousands of Hareidim Protest Enlistment

Yaalon Freezes Plans for New PA City Near Jericho (Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon; A new PA city being planned would have taken away 500 acres of Israeli land.)

IDF May Beef Up Force Near Hevron  (Division Commander visits area where Arabs attacked an Israel Defense Forces jeep with firebombs Wednesday.)

ICC Launches Probe into Marmara Incident (The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010.)

WaPo Falls Short in Reporting Press Restrictions (Lets PA slide in suppressing both Israeli and “Palestinian” reporters. )

Israel to authorise new settlement

Fox leads US tiger into China's crosshairs ("Irritating Japan" is well on its way to replacing "Rising China" as the meme favored by the United States as Abe Shinzo's new nationalism exploits US backing to advance its own goals. Beijing sees "the fox pretending to the tiger's might". Tokyo is pushing bigger game, the weakened US Asian "pivot" itself, into Beijing's crosshairs.)

Japanese economy grows again, signaling recovery

US slams Japanese mayor's sex-slave comments

BOJ may seek ways to calm bond yields, policy on hold

Japan Becomes Most Favored Nation in Poll Showing Abe Optimism

Osaka mayor says wartime sex slaves were needed to 'maintain discipline' in Japanese military

Japanese Consumers Open Their Wallets

Jordan mulling ‘diplomatic and legal' measures against Israel

How Latin Culture Got More Gay

Comcast's Agenda (Conservative group confronts MSNBC's owner Comcast about liberal bias at shareholder meeting.)

Is the N.R.A. Un-American?

A lame duck line-up for Malaysia

Washington state to release draft rules for legal marijuana

Obama Media Lapdogs Turn, But For How Long Is Unknown

The Mainstream Media Obama Psychodrama

Swirl of scandals presents a test for press

Innis blasts media's 'vile, unfair' tea party stereotype (Chief strategist for TheTeaParty.net says establishment reporters tainted by 'casual, cordial' relationship with President Obama.)

Obama's MSNBC Whore  (The moral sewer Chris Matthews bathes in to sanitize a President's bloody deeds. )

Sorry Media Performance Of Late Is Largely Due To Left-Wing Bias  (As a colonel I used to work with in the Pentagon was fond of saying: "Well, there's another blinding flash of the obvious never acknowledged or always denied." The recent admission from the IRS that they did in fact target conservative groups — no surprise to most conservatives and many ... )

Benghazi's media maze

Medical weed could jinx recreational dope market in Washington state

89 charged in Medicare fraud busts in 8 cities

Mexico tackles drug violence with new strategy

Killing Reveals the Still-Dark Side of a Gentrifying Capital

'People of corn' protest GMO strain in Mexico

Saudi health workers sickened by SARS-like virus

King Abdullah sacks second top defense official  (Saudi Arabia)

Malign Neglect (The Obama administration is neglecting the Middle East and allowing Communist China and Russia to expand influence in the region due to a flawed foreign policy strategy that could have long-term detrimental impacts for American power, a veteran Middle East policy expert said Tuesday.)

Expats barred from morning treatment at Kuwait hospitals

Low wages deter Saudis from taking up unskilled jobs

US-led navies flex muscles in Gulf manoeuvres

Opec: Total aims to re-develop oilfield in Qatar

Emir holds talks with Ivory Coast president (Qatar)

Coronavirus is ‘not spreading' (Saudi Arabia)

Army jet crashes in Sanaa, pilot killed  (A Russian-made Yemeni military jet ploughed into a residential district of Sanaa yesterday killing the pilot, officials said.)

Second Su-22 fighter-jet crashes in Yemen

Patton on Islam  (If men like Patton ran today's war, the war would have been won years ago.)

White House, Congress bear down on military sexual assault

Military 'ashamed' of assaults, Obama says after meeting brass

Baffling Rise in Suicides Plagues the U.S. Military

Afghans tell of US soldier's alleged killing rampage

Repeat Brain Injury Raises Soldiers' Suicide Risk

Hagel announces Pentagon furloughs  (Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel)

U.S. sailor murdered in Bahamas while trying to save a woman from being robbed

Cost for U.S. to exit Afghanistan: $7 billion

Soldier injured in bomb blast gets rare double arm transplant

Sexual abuse cases put Pentagon under fire

Obama signs off on routine changes to court-martial manual

US army sergeant jailed for life for Iraq killings

Debating the Legal Basis for the War on Terror (A Pentagon official urged Congress not to modify the statute providing the legal basis for battling the perpetrators of 9/11 because, he said, the war against Al Qaeda was likely to continue for “at least 10 to 20 years.”)

Pentagon recognizes transgender service members for first time in 'symbolic' move for LGBT community

Attack on U.S. Military Vehicles Kills at Least 16 in Kabul

The Whole Package: Military Families as Heroes (Americans need to understand the trials and tribulations of being a military family. )

Burma president to visit US

Former NAACP Chair: 'Legitimate' to Target 'Admittedly Racist' Tea Party

Nasa buys into 'quantum' computer

Nepal charges towards total impunity

NZ tops pregnancy smoking list  (New Zealand women were the most likely to smoke while pregnant, a large study of births has found. The University of Western Sydney study compared the outcomes of pregnancy and birth for women from eight different nationalities and found that 22.6 percent of New Zealand mothers smoked while pregnant. )

5.9-magnitude quake off Solomon Islands

7.0-magnitude quake near Northern Mariana Islands

Patience needed for Sharif's India goals (Pakistan's Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif has his hands full with domestic challenges, let alone find time to pursue his stated goal of better relations with India. Benefits from that would accrue to both countries, but prudence dictates New Delhi should be ready when Islamabad (and the Pakistan military) is ready. Until then, Sharif can do with India's benefit of doubt and time.)

'Rigging' in general election: Imran gives 3-day ultimatum to ECP (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has given three days' ultimatum to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to probe rigging in the general elections otherwise his party would launch protests across the country against the ECP.)

Daunting challenges await Sharif (Nawaz Sharif, heading into a third term as prime minister after historic elections in Pakistan, has little time to bask in victory. Daunting challenges piling up in the pending tray include tackling economic malaise and foreign policy matters and dealing with a military establishment that ejected him in 1999.)

Peace process with India likely to gain pace, says FO

Obama Congratulates Pakistan for Electing Islamist Prime Minister Linked to Osama bin Laden

Search for Ali Gilani continues; gang leader arrested

Rigging: 49 polling stations across Pakistan received over 100pc turnout

Highest number of women elected on general seats belong to PML-N

Sharif's win leaves Pakistani army commanders worried

Pakistani stocks close lower as 11-day rally ends

Ambassador to US, Sherry Rehman resigns

Sharif vs. Army, Round 3 (Nawaz Sharif's previous term as prime minister ended when he was deposed by the military, and his new tenure may depend on how he gets along with the generals.)

Sharif picks FM as Pakistan stocks hit high

6 killed in suicide attack on Balochistan IGP

Pakistani Leader Moves Quickly to Form Government

Separate Karachi from Pakistan if you don't like MQM mandate: Altaf

Aquino secures second-wind mandate (Philippine voters have granted approval to President Benigno Aquino's three-year-old reform agenda. Their by-elections mandate gives his administration enough popular steam to push through measures aimed at sustaining economic growth, deepening good governance, and setting the stage for his favored candidate in the 2016 presidential poll.)

Philippines holds vital elections (Deadly Polling: Seven people died in the south of the country yesterday as politicians' security forces...)

Drug costs may vary widely after health care overhaul

Pills Tracked From Doctor to Patient to Aid Drug Marketing

Our Ceaseless Circus  (From Benghazi to gun control, we pivot too quickly from the substance to the sideshow of who's winning and losing. AVIPP COMMENTARY: America is losing as long as Obama is President.)

Teen Who tried to Flush Baby Down Toilet Released From Jail

Juvenile Inmates Found to Be at No Greater Risk for Prison Rape

New Fracking Rules Proposed for U.S. Land

Cumulus Media: Suicide of a Company? (Limbaugh dispute surfaces Dickey brothers as issue in conduct of company.)

'Men have a tendency to wander': Evangelist Pat Robertson tells wife with cheating husband she should be grateful for him and to start making her home more enticing

How college grads can retire rich

Most people expect to be worse off than parents in retirement – except Chinese

Retirement 'is harmful to health'

In U.S., Average Retirement Age Up to 61

'Russia sending ships to Syria coast'

UN chief in Russia as Syria crisis deepens

Putin to use Mi-8 helicopters instead of cars (Russian President Vladimir V Putin)

Russia protests to U.S. over alleged spy (The envoy is scolded over the affair that, despite lurid coverage, falls short of becoming a major incident.)

SocGen sees Russia as priority market, monitors situation around Rosbank

Russia slams US over ‘crude, clumsy' spying

Why Putin Wants U.S. Bases in Afghanistan (Russian President Vladimir V Putin)

Source thinks embarrassed Putin faked the CIA spy arrest (poorly)  (Russian President Vladimir V Putin)

Two-Faced (Russia building up missile defenses while seeking to limit US defenses.)

Soviet Crimes Against the Jewish People

Descent module of Soyuz ship with 3 cosmonauts lands in Kazakh steppe

Medvedev to discuss trade cooperation with Vietnam premier (Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev)

Too early to speak of Putin's participation in int'l conference on Syria - Peskov (Russian President Vladimir V Putin)

Putin Can't Blame Global Ills for Economic Crunch (Russian President Vladimir V Putin)

Russian, UAE foreign ministers discuss situation in Syria, bilateral relations

Private Operator Seeks to Improve Commuter Rail Services

Russian cosmonaut first earthling to pay taxes from space

Russia-Norway naval exercise moves from Barents to Norwegian Sea

2 Militant Nationalists Arrested for Killings

Serbia ready to start building South Stream pipeline's section

Russian military jet did not violate Finnish airspace, spokesman for the Western Military District said

Six settlements partially flooded in Russian Yakutia

Communists to raise question of Education and Science Minister's resignation at meeting with Vladimir Putin (Russian President Vladimir V Putin)

Russian naval task force to head to Atlantic and Latin America

Russia seeks to resume negotiations in the Arab-Israeli conflict - Lavrov (Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov)

Minnesota Senate approves same-sex marriage (Governor is expected to sign bill soon, making the state the 12^th  to legalize such unions.)

H1N1 Discovered in Marine Mammals

64% Think It Would Be Bad If Only Government Had Guns

Pediatricians hit Capitol Hill to push gun control

Another attempt at nullification ( “Nullification” laws have been introduced in 37 states that technically make it a felony for law enforcement agents to enforce federal restrictions banning firearms, and a recent Rasmussen poll shows that 38 percent support such state laws.)

The Senate's Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Law (The Marketplace Fairness Act has nothing to do with marketplace fairness and everything to do with politicians -- of both parties -- searching for additional revenue to shovel into the voracious maw that is government today. )

 Did someone tar Menendez? The FBI is trying to find out. (US Senator of New Jersey Robert Menendez (D)

A staggering abuse of power (By US Senator of Kentucky Rand Paul (R)

Senate Dems block condemnation of IRS targeting

Republican Drive to Block Cabinet Picks May Spur Change to Senate Rules

Senate group builds bipartisan support for immigration reform

Reid Plans to Rush Amnesty Bill (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada)

Did the IRS give Mitt Romney's tax returns to Harry Reid? (Former Governor of Massachusetts and GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney/ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada)

US Senate confirms Tavenner as Medicare/Medicaid chief

McConnell to Media: How Would You Report Scandals If President Were Republican? (Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky)

Controversial Labor Nominee Leaves Committee (The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted to send President Barack Obama's controversial nominee for labor secretary to the full Senate on Thursday morning.)

Rep. Noem in 'conversations' about potential Senate bid in South Dakota (US Representative of South Dakota Kristi Noem (R) is discussing the possibility of mounting a Senate campaign in 2014, telling The Hill she's had "some conversations" with groups about running for the seat being vacated by US Senator of South Dakota  Tim Johnson (D).)

Hatch: Tech-backed H-1B visa measures key to his support on immigration (US Senator of Utah Orrin Hatch (R)

Senators clash over H-1B visa measures for skilled workers in immigration bill

Four things to watch in the Massachusetts Senate race

Reid urges Congress to crack down on 'masquerading' political groups (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada)

Senate immigration gang frustrates GOP efforts to bolster border enforcement

Senate Subcomittee Investigating Apple's Offshore Tax Practices

Senate Democrats: Nuclear option for filibuster is back on the table

Dems demanded stricter IRS standards for tax-exemption

Baucus blasts IRS for targeting conservative groups, wants probe (US Senator of Montana Max Baucus (D)

Poor marks for Senate candidate Markey's (D) energy record (Massachusetts Senate race)

Dems, GOP take hits on Senate recruits

Overnight Money: Senate tackles farm bill

GOP slams efforts to promote Obamacare (The White House has relied more heavily on private companies and nonprofit groups to support an enrollment push. One Republican senator says part of the effort 'may be illegal.' )

Do Democrats have a ‘balanced budget'?

Steyn warns of 'serious secession movements' if drift toward socialism not reversed

Uruguay's Mujica talks up Brazil ties

Chilean Judge Upholds Manslaughter Charges Linked to '10 Tsunami (A judge said four government officials did not do enough after an earthquake struck to alert people about a tsunami that eventually left 156 people dead and 25 others missing.)

Over half of married S. Korean women say having child not a must

Park apologizes for Yoon's escapade (President Park Geun-hye Monday apologized for an alleged sexual abuse involving her former spokesman Yoon Chang-jung.)

More well-educated Korean women choose to get remarried: data

Park's visit discredits 'Korea Discount'  (Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Yoon Sang-jick said on Monday that President Park Geun-hye's visit to the United States was crucial for boosting confidence among foreign investors in Korea's economic fundamentals despite concerns about North Korea's nuclear threats.)

S. Korean show expected longevity of 81 years

Park's aides suspected of covering up scandal (Some presidential aides are suspected of having attempted to cover up the alleged sexual case involving former presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung by ordering him to flee to Korea, and delaying reporting it to President Park Geun-hye.)

Samsung to launch 'tech' foundation

LA Kings shock Sharks with 2 late goals

Anthony has 28, Knicks beat Pacers to stay alive

Marchand lifts Bruins, 3-2 in OT over Rangers

Spurs hold off Warriors, advance to West finals

Consumer groups angered over ESPN plan to subsidize cellphone data plans  (They argue all Internet traffic should be treated equally and major corporations should not be able to pay for preferential…)

Cuccinelli figures into successor's race (Virginia; Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II isn't running for reelection, but the Republican gubernatorial candidate is casting a long shadow in the race to replace him.)

Gov. Rick Perry: Why Texas Works  (Governor of Texas Rick Perry (R)

The neighborhood destroyed in seconds: Aerial pictures reveal scale of devastation after tornadoes tear through towns across Texas, leaving at least six people dead

6 killed, 7 reported missing after mile-wide tornado rips through North Texas

Fire burns 3,500 acres in California national forest

Taxation Without Representation in New York  (Non-citizens poised to obtain the right to vote in the Big Apple. )

Cuccinelli (R), McAuliffe (D) compete on national stage — and in Virginia, too (Virginia gubernatorial hopefuls are running parallel campaigns: One for state voters, the other for funds nationally. )

Detroit May File for Bankruptcy  (Michigan)

Temperature records set across Southern California

Silver to Seek Lopez's Expulsion From Assembly Over Harassment Claims  (Sheldon Silver (D), the speaker of the New York Assembly, said on Thursday night that he would ask for a vote on sanctions, including possible expulsion, against Assemblyman Vito J Lopez (D).)

Benghazi Narrative Shift Was Perfectly Clintonian

Weiner's Wife Didn't Disclose Consulting Work She Did While Serving in State Dept.  (The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Clinton, created a special arrangement for Huma Abedin to work as a consultant while serving as a top department adviser.)

The Clinton Scandal Playbook and Benghazi  (Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)

The Benghazi deception

Benghazi Reveals the Heart of Progressivism(A cold lack of interest in the suffering of others -- not the abstract, theoretical suffering of collective interest groups, such as "the poor" or "gays" or "women," but the real physical pain and mortal terror-style suffering of individual human beings in mortal crisis )

Kerry Touts US CO₂ Reduction Achievements – Then Says it Hasn't Done Enough  (US Secretary of State John F Kerry )

Benghazi: Murder and Treachery Most Foul?

We Need a Special Committee (The right way to the truth on Benghazi.)

Did State Dept. hide this dramatic evacuation? (Another incident during night of Benghazi attack.)

The Benghazi syndrome (The GOP suffers from a compulsion to exaggerate.)

The Deeper Blame for Benghazi

'Terrorist has personal effects of slain U.S. ambassador'

Why the GOP needs to be cautious in tying Hillary to Benghazi (Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)

The Next Scapegoat  (Political one-upmanship has just hit a new low with the recent charges leveled against Victoria Nuland, the spokeswoman for the State Department. )

Goldberg: Benghazi's smoking guns (There's an arsenal worth, from testimony at congressional hearings to the State Department's flawed internal review to the four dead Americans.)

Cloning Is Used to Create Embryonic Stem Cells

Is smoking in public park a constitutional right? Supreme Court refuses case

Russia Sends More Advanced Missiles to Aid Assad in Syria

Syrian rebels seek arms before talks

Pressure of War Is Causing Syria to Break Apart

Rebel Horror:Video Appears to Show Syrian Soldier Executions (AVIPP COMMENTARY: These are the people that the Obama administration and the world is supporting financially.)

Islamist rebels execute 11 Syrian soldiers for 'massacres'

In Syria, terrorist designation means more go hungry

U.S. designates Syrian rebel commander a terrorist

'Small amount' of chemical arms used twice in Syria: US

How Syria Killed the “Arab Spring”

US and Britain cling to diplomacy as way forward on Syria

Syria, Cannibalism and Videotape

Syrian conflict claims more than 80,000 lives

Moderate Islamist Free Syrian Army Commander Who Ate Heart, Vows Genocide

As Syrian refu­gees settle into life in camps, Turkey seeks long-term help (With its Syrian refu­gee population set to double this year, Ankara wants to resettle some in US and Europe.)

Islamic ritualistic cannibalism – on film (Theodore Shoebat has video showing true nature of Syrian revolution.)

Evidence of torture by regime in Syria's Raqa: HRW

No doubt about Turkey's gold trade with Iran: US

US President Obama praises ongoing process for 'peaceful resolution of PKK violence'

Report: Russia sends Assad 'ship killing missile'

US seeks to calm tensions, sources say (The US may be playing a major behind-the-scenes role in trying to calm growing tensions between Taiwan and the Philippines over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman last week, a US Department of State official indicated on Wednesday. “We urge the Philippines and Taiwan to take all .)

Ma defends legality of sanctions against Manila (President Ma Ying-jeou defended the legality of the government's sanctions against Manila…)

TAIEX turnover soars on tax-relax talk

Fishermen stage protest at Philippine office in Taipei

Subsidies to replace vehicles considered

Taipei waits for answer from Manila (Taipei expects to hear from Manila by midnight today on four demands it made after a Taiwanese fisherman was shot dead by Philippine Coast Guard personnel last week. Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin  told lawmakers yesterday that Philippine Representative to Taiwan Antonio ...)

Taiwan seeks to regain its lead in electronics

Editorial: Modern warfare in the Internet age (The government has issued an ultimatum to the Philippines over the fatal...)

Navy, CGA to hold joint drills this week

Groups oppose plan to ban recruitment of Philippine workers

Military struggles to find enlistees

 Vodafone to receive $3bn in Verizon Wireless dividend payment

TV psychologist Joyce Brothers dies at age 85

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's note says U.S. 'attack' on Muslims drove Boston bombing

Boston reservoir tests safe after late-night trespassers nabbed (Massachusetts State Police beefed up patrols around the reservoir that supplies Boston's drinking water after seven foreign students were caught trespassing in the area late at night.  With the city still jittery after the April 15 terror attack at the Boston Marathon, word that two women and five men, reportedly from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Singapore, had been found in the restricted area around the Quabbin Reservoir caused concerns. The reservoir serves Boston and some 40 other communities in the area.)

From Anarchists to Islamists (Americans have been dealing with terrorism for longer than we realize.)

Imminent: Terror super-axis to hit within U.S.

Inside the Ring: Al Qaeda websites hacked

Uzbek Man in Idaho Is Held in Bomb Plot (Federal authorities arrested an Uzbek man in Boise on charges that he assisted a foreign terrorist group and possessed bomb-making materials.)

After buoyant debut, U.S.-E.U. trade talks face a growing list of issues

Erdogan drags heavy bag to Washington (Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)

Turkey police clash with students protesting over car bomb attacks

Moody's raises Turkey's credit ratings to investment grade

Erdogan's Agenda (Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; And US President Barack Obama's troubling friendship.)

Turkey and US to create a high-level committee to increase trade and investment

Turkey, US agree ‘al-Assad should go for a free Syria'

We call my home town Boston-bul: Kerry (US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the partnership with Turkey was grounded on students exchange, during a luncheon for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)

Turkish Female Journalist Receives Death Threats for Removing Hijab

Turkey's Erdogan to meet with Obama amid unusual public friction between countries (Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)

Turkey Seeking Peace in Syria, with Help From United States and Russia

Interest rates hit historic low following Central Bank decision

We won't let Syria chaos spill into Turkey: President Gül

Turkish, Korean firms to build natural gas plant

Unions mobilize as labor board faces paralysis in Obama's second term

Banks lift U.K. stocks after upgrade

‘Imams promote grooming rings', Muslim leader claims

Nimbys are enemies of social mobility, says Michael Gove  (Education Secretary says the countryside should not be sacred when it comes to building new homes and that the Coalition's planning reforms would have been approved by Margaret Thatcher. )

UK govt backs down on forcing chaplains to conduct gay 'marriages'

Government criticised over efforts to safeguard civil partnership bill

SFO 'urgently reviewing' oil price inquiry  (UK fraud authorities are “urgently reviewing” whether to launch an investigation into companies that may have rigged the oil market and driven up petrol costs for millions of drivers. )

Youngsters use dementia drugs to boost brain power, survey finds

Council vetoes flag of St George after concerns raised about links to Crusades

Belfast republicans' staged burglary lures police into armed ambush

Chancellor says proposal will have party's full support in Parliament   (A parliamentary vote on a European referendum moved closer after a Conservative MP said he would propose the necessary legislation. )

MPs challenge Google over UK tax

'Devious, unethical, evil': Google faces tax attack

GP tells young mother: 'no more children'

David Beckham to retire from football

Coroner issues warning after teenager killed on level crossing

Angry Scottish mob tells Nigel Farage to ‘go back to England'  (Ukip leader was holding a press conference in Edinburgh's Canon's Gait pub .)

'Quarter of a million' young carers (Nearly a quarter of a million children in England and Wales are caring for a relative, new statistics just released show.)

'Death contracts' could give terminally ill the right to die

Social workers' fears over changes  (Social workers are warning changes being brought in to speed up adoption and the family courts might be bad for the welfare of some children. )

Dead girl's mother 'leaves UK'  (The mother of a two-year-old girl whose body was found in a house in Oxfordshire is believed to have left the UK, police say. )

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron Should Trumpet Britain's Corporate Tax Cut Success

Cameron tries to quell Tory rebellion on Europe  (British Prime Minister David Cameron)

David Cameron to rush out law for EU vote (British Prime Minister David Cameron)

Top Northern Ireland policeman gives warning on paramilitaries

Labour vows to lift trade with Africa as Umunna warns of missed opportunities

Tories to publish EU referendum bill  (The Conservative Party will publish a draft parliamentary bill on Tuesday to legislate for an in/out referendum on UK membership of the EU to be held by the end of 2017.)

UK to double aid to Syrian opposition

Labour peer Lord Ahmed resigns from party over alleged anti-Semitic comments

Weather: a wet May makes hay, but what will snow do?  (Summer may be just around the corner, but parts of southern Britain are forecast to be hit by snow. )

Tate Britain displays England's first female professional painter

Pledge to close health and care gap  (Ministers are promising an end to the era of vulnerable people being passed around the health and care systems.)

House prices rise for first time since mid-2010, finds surveyors report

Keep Scotland and England together for NHS and pensions, says Brown  (England and Scotland should stay together for the sake of the NHS, pensions and working conditions, former British Prime Minster Gordon Brown says. )

Birmingham airport calls for UK-wide aviation expansion to help economy

David Cameron and Prince Harry catch the bus for New York appearance (British Prime Minister David Cameron)

Britain's Cameron pushes urgent response to Syria (British Prime Minister David Cameron)

As British Prime Minister Visits Washington, His Party Splits Over European Union (A clamor for Britain to exit the European Union appeared to be spreading even as British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President Obama in Washington.)

Politician: Kill Disabled Children Like We Kill Deformed Lambs

Lulzsec hackers handed jail terms in UK

U.K. Property Loans Seen Facing 92 Billion-Pound Funding Gap

After Google, Amazon to be grilled on UK tax presence

UN: 3 UN military observers were abducted in zone between Syria and Israel and later freed

UN Pressures Germany to Bow to ‘Hate Speech' Hysteria

Germany Blocking Israel from Serving on Security Council? (Israel has issued a formal complaint against Germany for blocking it from serving on the UN Security Council in 2018, reports Israel Hayom.)

Skeptics multiply as UN vote condemns Syria

U.S.-trained Congo troops committed rapes and other atrocities, U.N. says

UN asks Westerners: What's bugging you?

With Security, Trade Center Faces New Isolation (Planners and residents of Lower Manhattan imagined a new World Trade Center that would be integrated in the neighborhood, but now they fear that security measures will keep it isolated as ever.)

Frog Once Imported for Pregnancy Testing Brought Deadly Amphibian Disease to US

Ironing swastikas, turning hotel rooms in tattoo parlors and shooting each other with Taser guns: Chilling images from inside the annual Nazi convention in Atlanta

Study: U.S. more dangerous than Japan, Switzerland — and Botswana

Pope rails against "dictatorship of the economy"

Pope Francis condemns 'money cult'

Venezuela troops target street crime  (Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro launches a big operation to tackle violent crime, with troops patrolling the streets of Caracas and other cities. )

Venezuela to import 50M rolls of toilet paper after gov't claims it's wiped out

Bubbles out of the bottle (The history of welfare programs in the United States is chock full of restrictions on how recipients go about their daily lives. Some are reasonable and in the public interest, but others are heavy-handed and unduly intrusive. )

Deaths from West Nile virus hit record last year

Can Obama Save Turkey From a Syrian Quagmire?

What the Obama Scandals Reveal About Progressive Ideology

Has the Obama Team Finally Lost the Juice?

The IRS Scandal Started at the Top  (The bureaucrats at the Internal Revenue Service did exactly what the President said was the right and honorable thing to do.)

Obama and the ‘Official Truth'

Obama Uses Terror-Finance Group to Push Gun Control (US Muslim Brotherhood front ISNA joins special “interfaith” meeting with Vice-President Joseph R Biden Jr.)

Benghazi Emails Directly Contradict White House Claims

White House's Benghazi email dump shows crucial two-day gap, CIA objection

Obama signals more firings to come over IRS scandal

Dark clouds over the White House

Obama Tells Pentagon Leaders Sexual Assault Is ‘Shameful'

Obama's crisis mis-management: What not to do

Obama's Scandal-Denial Is Driven By Progressive Desire To Expand Government

The truth, redacted (The White House should try telling the real story.)

President Obama wants to 'go Bulworth'? What's that? (+video)

A stumble, not a fall (Obama's bad run demands perspective.)

Obama Scandals vs. Watergate

Scandals show need for civil-liberties coalition

Obama's Self-Inflicted Scandal (The only thing transparent about the White House is its perverse penchant for secrecy. )

46% Rate Obama Positively on National Security

Obama Doesn't Say If Anyone at WH Knew of IRS Targeting

Analysis: White House eyes damage control

A President's Enemies List?  (Add IRS-Gate to a scandal-ridden administration.)

White House: 'No knowledge' of AP phone record seizure

Susan Rice 'Likely' to Become National Security Advisor

President Obama Calls in Marines to Hold Umbrellas

Carney on IRS: We Cannot 'Say Something Concretely Happened That Was Inappropriate'

Benghazi cover-up charges a partisan 'sideshow,' president says

Carney Finds Reporter's Lack of Faith Disturbing

Obama blames GOP ‘hyper-partisanship' for 'blocking' agenda

President Obama waited three days to address the IRS scandal. Why?

Analysis: Controversies give Obama new governing headaches

John Kerry's brother to join Cabinet

Obama Dismisses Benghazi Furor but Assails I.R.S.

White House: GOP fabricated leaked Benghazi email

A Bumbling Response on Talking Points

White House orders look at pay equity inside government

Now it's 3! Major scandals strangling Obama

The End of the Obama Illusion (They are disillusioned and angry liberals who are starting to grasp that they have been lied to, who realize that a skeptical stance is necessary when examining a narrative offered by team Obama. )

A Pattern Of Power Abuse

Carney: White House lawyers knew of IRS investigation in April

What we know Obama doesn't know grows daily  (A key tenet of Barack Obama's grand design to radically transform the country he did not grow up in is to corrode Americans' confidence in their revered institutions. The Supreme Court. …)

Obama Sinks To 'Political Circus' Tag For Libya Probe

Obama Can't Be Both A Mastermind And Out Of The Loop

Obama pressed to halt deportations as immigration debated

Obama: Putin Unhelpful with Syria Because of Cold War (Russian President Vladimir V Putin)

 The President's Ruinous Energy Policy: Once More with Feeling

White House releases Benghazi emails

If Obama had an Uncle... (...he'd look like Kermit Gosnell. )

The Words That Could Force Obama into War (President Obama, usually cautious, has made bold statements on Syria and Iran, but by drawing red lines, he risks being backed into a corner. He could take a lesson from Teddy Roosevelt when it comes to foreign policy.)

World Bank Sees Half of Capital in Emerging Nations in 2030

WHO data shows narrowing health gap

WHO reports first patient-to-nurse spread of new SARS-like virus

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