Journalism professor says he hopes for murder of NRA members' children

A journalism professor at the University of Kansas (KU) turned to Twitter on Monday to suggest he would like to see the murder of children of National Rifle Association (NRA) members at the hands of a deranged gunman.

A journalism professor has defended tweets he sent out which called for the death of NRA employees children.

“#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA,” tweeted David Guth, who is an associate professor of Journalism at the university’s William Allen White School of Journalism.

“Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters, he continued. “Shame on you. May God damn you.”

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Speaking with Campus Reform on Wednesday, Guth confirmed it was he who sent the controversial tweet.

“Hell no, hell no, I do not regret that Tweet,” he said. “I don't take it back one bit.”

Guth also doubled down on the statement when other Twitter users pressed him, suggesting it was was shameful to call for the death of children.

“God’s justice takes many forms,” he tweeted in response. 

And on Monday the associate journalism professor echoed those sentiments on his personal blog, called Snapping Turtle.

“I don't wish what happened today on anyone,” he wrote. “But if it does happen again — and it likely will — may it happen to those misguided miscreants who suggest that today's death toll at the Navy Yard would have been lower if the employees there were allowed to pack heat.”

Also in his interview with Campus Reform, he said that he wished “a pox on our Congress and a pox on the NRA” for not instituting gun control policies to prevent mass shootings.

“It absolutely appalls me that after Newtown, we could not have come to some kind of sane agreement on something as simple as the number of bullets in a magazine or the availability of assault weapons,” he said.

Ron Johnson May Sue Over Obamacare Ruling for Congressional Staff

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Thursday he is laying groundwork for a court challenge to an Office of Personnel Management decision that will permit congressional staffers to continue receiving employer contributions for their health care.

The OPM’s August ruling was intended to remedy a drafting error in the 2010 health care law that would require all Congressional staffers to pay for the full cost of their insurance without employer contributions.

Johnson, who last week filed a formal comment to OPM urging the agency reconsider its rule, said he and his staff did so in order to create a legal case against the administration.

“I really do believe that it was the pretty clear intent of the people who voted for Obamacare that members of Congress and their staffs should not be able to maintain their … insurance through the Federal Employee Health Benefits plan, and they also made it pretty clear through multiple votes that they didn’t think the federal government ought to make contributions into the exchanges where they had to get it,” Johnson said.

“I can’t tell you how OPM’s really going to conduct themselves … but you know, I did put in a comment into OPM, and the purpose behind that is I don’t think they’re going to follow… my advice, but I just wanted to make sure I certainly did everything I could do … through the normal channels so that I could then do a court challenge,” Johnson continued. “That helped me create standing.”

Currently, the Senate is stalled over an amendment from Republican David Vitter of Louisiana that would reverse the OPM rule. Vitter is trying to get the amendment voted on in conjunction with an energy efficiency bill.

When Johnson announced on Sept. 10 that he and several of his staffers had filed a comment to OPM, he said in a statement: “My intent is to make sure President Obama is not allowed to exceed his legal authority in implementing this law, and that members of Congress and their staffs are not shielded from the harmful effects of this law that every other American will experience.”

Via: Roll Call

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Limbaugh: Obamacare is ‘The Law of the Land’ Just Like Slavery Was

As the major implementation date for the Affordable Care Act approaches, conservatives are doing everything they can to prevent the law from coming to fruition. Naturally, this includes Rush Limbaugh, who used a new tack to argue against Obamacare on his radio show Thursday, along the way comparing it to slavery.

Limbaugh’s argument hinged on a term that’s popular with Democrats who want to see Obamacare become a reality: “It’s the law of the land.” The host wondered “what else at one time was the ‘law of the land?’: Slavery!”

“Slavery used to be the law of the land,” Limbaugh informed his audience, noting that the Supreme Court even once upheld it. From there, he listed other things that used to be the “law of the land” but are not relics of the past:

• “Defense of Marriage Act.”
• “The speed limit used to be 55, now it’s 70.”
• “Immigration law.”
• “Guns, Second Amendment.”
• “Laws against marijuana.”

Limbaugh wanted to know why Democrats are allowed to get rid of “bad laws” they don’t like but Republicans aren’t. “Is that the only way they can defend this?” Limbaugh asked. “Is that the best they’ve got? ‘It’s the law of the land’?”

Listen to audio below, via Rush Limbaugh:

Via: Mediaite.com

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Another ObamaCare Casualty: Harvard Pilgrim lays off 65 workers, almost all of them in Massachusetts

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the Wellesley-based health insurer, confirmed Thursday that it laid off 65 workers, reducing its three-state workforce by about 6.5 percent to 1,265.

Sixty-two of the job cuts were in Massachusetts, said Joan Fallon, a spokeswoman for the insurance company.. In addition, Harvard Pilgrim will eliminate 35 open positions, but will add 12 new ones, according to Fallon. The insurer plans to expand into a fourth state, Connecticut, next year.

In a statement, Harvard Pilgrim said the cutback was “part of a strategic plan to align... organizational structure with the changing health care environment.” It said the insurance carrier will provide severance and support services for employees who were laid off.

In addition to Massachusetts, the insurer has operations in Maine and New Hampshire.

Via: Boston Globe

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POLL: VIRGINIA GOVERNOR'S RACE DEAD HEAT

A Roanoke poll released Thursday backs up what we have seen from other recent pollsters looking at the hotly contested and highly publicized contested governor's race in Virginia. In a poll taken between Sept. 9 and Sept 15, the race is now statistically tied at 35% - 33%, with Democrat Terry McAuliffe holding an insignificant two-point lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli.

With leaners, the race is even tighter, with McAuliffe holding just a single point lead,  37% - 36%.

A Quinnipiac poll taken over the same 6 days, shows McAuliffe with a mere three point lead, 44% - 41%.

Just last week, some in the mainstream media were declaring the race all but over. McAuliffe appeared to have an insurmountable lead. The race has been up and down, though. Back in April it was Cuccinelli who led in four polls in row.

With just six weeks until election day, the race is tightening with a large percentage of the population still undecided.

Via: Breitbart

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The Development Scene: The Latest Info on 94 Downtown Projects ( Los Angeles )

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - To understand why people are so bullish on Downtown Los Angeles, just look at nearly any neighborhood in the community. Odds are, you’ll see a healthy batch of projects moving forward.

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Consider Little Tokyo, where Second Street south of the Doubletree Hotel is giving way to a pair of big apartment complexes. Think of Chinatown, where the Jia Apartments and the Lotus Garden are both scheduled to debut next month. There’s the Financial District, where Carmel Partners’ 700-unit rental building, complete with a Whole Foods, is rising at Eighth Street and Grand Avenue, with a 2015 opening planned. Then there’s the Historic Core, where developments include a dramatic re-envisioning of the Pershing Hotel as low-income housing. 

The action continues in other neighborhoods, with projects powering forward in the Arts District, in South Park, in City West and Central City East. 

Not only are a lot of projects happening, but a lot of different kinds of projects are happening. In addition to approximately three dozen purely residential plays, there is a replacement for the historic Sixth Street Viaduct and several hotels, including Broadway’s boutique Ace Hotel. An Urban Outfitters is also coming to Broadway, in an old theater, and a large brewpub is planned for the former Crazy Gideon’s space in the Arts District.


Everywhere you turn, there is something new to see. In the following pages, Los Angeles Downtown News details the latest information on 94 Downtown projects.

Via: LADTNews

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Obamacare Number of the Day: $621,000,000,000

People worried about Obamacare’s impact on the American health care system should remember one key number: $621 billion. That’s the amount that non-partisan actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said Obamacare would increase national health spending over the next 10 years, in a report released yesterday. So much for the law being the “Affordable Care Act.”

In addition, the report by the CMS actuaries debunked the notion that Obamacare helped cause the recent slowdown in health spending—or that the slowdown is likely to continue:

Annual national health spending growth is projected to remain near 4 percent through 2013, primarily as a result of the recent recession and modest recovery. This projection is consistent with the historical relationship between health spending and economic cycles….

Continued slower health spending growth after the recent economic downturn has raised the question of whether a more fundamental change is occurring in the health sector. However, econometric and actuarial analysis by the CMS Office of the Actuary of the past fifty years of National Health Expenditure Accounts data…suggests that health spending growth is likely to accelerate once economic conditions improve significantly.

Instead, the actuaries conclude, the recession and anemic economic recovery bear the bulk of the “credit” for the current slowdown in health spending growth.

Finally, the actuarial report analyzes the sources of some of the increased health spending due to Obamacare. And, as Exhibit 4 (below) notes, one of the fastest sources of growth in the health sector will be “government administration.” Spending on government administration—which includes salaries for federal, state, and local bureaucrats, as well as computer and other overhead costs for government programs—will more than double, rising from $31.1 billion in 2010 (the year Obamacare passed) to $70.4 billion in 2022.

Via: The Foundry

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Red Sox pitcher goes to bat for the littlest teammates in fight against cancer

It was an uncharacteristically sizzling hot day in Southern California, and fans were gathering on a Friday evening to watch the first game of a three-game series between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Among the lucky ones to actually go down on the field were the Youseff family from Southern California, escorted onto the diamond by Sarah Narracci, a community relations representative for the Red Sox, and Jeri Wilson, the executive director of the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation. 

Six-year-old Zein Youseff was bouncing around, at times nearly coming out of his skin, because he was about to meet his hero -- Red Sox pitching ace Jon Lester.

Zein and Jon have a common bond. Cancer.

Just as his Major League career was taking hold in 2006, Lester discovered he had non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Lester is now cancer free. But Zein and his family are in the fight of their lives, as Zein is under treatment for neuroblastoma.

When Zein and Lester met near the Red Sox dugout, the pitcher crouched down to meet Zein at eye level, and they had a not-so-private conversation.

Via: Fox News

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Rep. Diane Black Speaks Out Against Obamacare Navigator Guide

Rep. Diane Black (R., Tenn.) criticized the Obama administration’s “navigator” manual Wednesday, saying the regulations do not adequately protect people buying insurance on the new exchanges.

The administration is hiring thousands of new “navigators” who will help people buy health insurance on the new exchanges being set up in the states.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is circulating a “Health Insurance Marketplace Navigator Standard Operating Procedures Manual” right now.

The manual is labeled “Restricted Distribution,” and a copy can be found on the website of the conservative group FreedomWorks.

“This ‘Navigator’ manual appears to confirm many of my greatest concerns with this Obamacare program,” Black said in statement. “These ‘Navigators’ are not required by the federal government to have background checks or to even have high school diplomas, yet they will be tasked with handling Americans’ most sensitive personal information, such as medical records and even tax returns.”

“Furthermore, these ‘Navigators’ will only be required to submit to 20 hours of training, and if this manual is accurate, this training will not rigorously focus on learning our complex health care system, but will also focus on absurd lessons on smiling and saying ‘thank you’ to consumers,” she said.

Black, a registered nurse, has been an outspoken critic of the law’s security weaknesses over the past few months. She introduced a bill preventing the administration from giving out subsidies without verifying the recipients’ eligibility. She also delivered House GOP weekly address discussing the risks of fraud in the law last week.

Via: WFB

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No taper brings back talk of currency war

The Federal Reserve's shocking decision not to taper, despite broad expectations for a $10-20 billion reduction of its monthly asset purchases, has reignited talk of a global currency war.

Risk-on currencies like the Australian dollar, the euro and the British poundsoared in response, while the greenback dropped across the board. Now some analysts say the Fed's decision could prompt other central banks to devalue their currencies in an attempt to retain a competitive edge.

"We are on the verge [of a currency war]... especially if the Fed does not taper in October or December..." said Boris Schlossberg, MD of BK Asset Management.

(Read more: Where has the talk of currency wars gone?)

The other G10 countries will have to react and the only thing they can do is provide "even more accommodative policies in order to try and equalize all these currency differentials," he added.

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How will central banks react to the Fed?

Boris Schlossberg, Managing Director at BK Asset Management believes the rest of G10 central banks will have to enforce accommodative policies to combat the lack of Fed tapering.

Speculation over the onset of a global currency war first came to a head at the start of the year when dramatic falls in the Japanese yenprompted widespread criticism from other world economies, amid concerns the yen's weakness would put Japan's exporters at an unfair advantage. However, the rhetoric abated after Japan was given the go-ahead to pursue its radical policies at a G20 meeting in April.

But the Fed's decision on Thursday has reignited talk of a currency war, after thedollar index, which measures the greenback's value against other major currencies slid to levels not seen since February at 80.06 on Wednesday.

Risk-on currencies got a boost; the Australian dollar rallied above the $0.95 handle in Asia on Thursday, a high not seen since mid-June, while the sterling surged to around $1.61, its highest level since January, and the euro reached highs not seen since February of around $1.35.

Via: CNBC

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What’s the Plan in the Senate?

With Speaker John Boehner embracing the push to defund Obamacare in the House bill to fund the government, the battle will soon be moving to the Senate, which is controlled by Democratic majority leader Harry Reid.

It’s hostile territory for the effort, and since the initial calls to push for defunding Obamacare came from Senate Republicans, there’s added pressure on the strategy’s architects to make it a major fight.

Senator Mike Lee is organizing a messaging push to pressure Reid to hold an “up or down” vote. Lee and other Senate Republicans who devised the strategy will “fight like hell” to push it through the Senate, Lee’s spokesman Brian Phillips says.

Heritage Action, I’m told, is looking at a “major” paid-media campaign to put the spotlight on Reid.

Senator Ted Cruz, meanwhile, is in hot water with a good number of House GOP leadership types for a statement he issued about Boehner’s decision to include defunding Obamacare in the continuing resolution (CR) bill.

In the statement, Cruz called the decision “terrific news” and offered his praise for House leadership. But, he said, Reid will quickly move to defeat the bill in the Senate, at which point the House Republicans will need to stay firm.

Via: National Review Online

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House conservatives submit bill to replace 'ObamaCare,' amid 'defund'fight Read more: http://www

A group of House conservatives introduced legislation Wednesday that members say will replace ObamaCare and its “unworkable” taxes and mandates with a plan that expands tax breaks for Americans who buy their own insurance. 

Under the proposal endorsed by the 175-member Republican Study Committee, Americans who purchase coverage through state-run exchanges can claim a $7,500 deduction against their income and payroll taxes, regardless of the cost of the insurance. Families could deduct $20,000.

The plan -- which appears to be congressional Republicans' first comprehensive alternative to President Obama's health care overhaul  -- also increases government funding for high-risk pools. The plan serves as a rebuttal to Obama's claims that Republicans just want to eliminate the health law and are no longer interested in replacing it. And it comes as House Republicans, on a different track, prepare to vote on a budget bill that would also de-fund the existing health care law. Democrats have vowed to oppose that bill, warning the strategy risks a government shutdown, with funding set to expire by Oct. 1. 

Roughly 75 percent of rank-and-file House Republicans are on the study committee, and the new legislation is being formally presented at a time when leaders of the GOP-led chamber have yet to advance any comprehensive alternative to ObamaCare.

Lawmakers have voted more than 40 times on repealing part or all of the 2010 law, despite Republicans vowing over the past three years to "repeal and replace" the existing law.

Via: Fox News

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Michelle Obama to Host Designers at the White House

Photo: Getty Images

In her second term as First Lady,Michelle Obama's reign as American fashion royalty stays strong as she continues to support designers—this time by hosting a luncheon on Friday for the winners of the Hewitt National Design Awards. The event, which was conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor U.S. talent will take place at the White House. Top names expected in attendance include Tim Gunn, award-winner Behnaz Sarafpour, and jurors Isabel and Ruben Toledo. Twelve aspiring high-school designers from NYC and Washington, D.C., were also invited as part of the Teen Design Fair, sponsored by Target.

"It takes a village to design the future and it all starts here with these students—they will help to invent our future," Ruben Toledo told WWD of the project.

We're super jealous of those teens (who will earn serious bragging rights for the lunch table), and we wish we could high five Mrs. Obama for making sure American glamour in the White House carries on.

Via: ELLE

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Poverty strikes more in Southland each year despite recovering economy.(California)

L.A. ECONOMY, 2008-2012

Los Angeles city unemployment, 2012: 12.2%

Los Angeles city unemployment, 2008: 7.1%

Los Angeles city median household income, 2012: $46,803

Los Angeles city median household income, 2008: $52,044

Los Angeles city poverty rate, 2012: 23.3%

Los Angeles city poverty rate, 2008: 19.5%

Source: U.S. Census

Tisha Morrison, 46, of Pacoima found herself taking refuge in the Los Angeles area after her Louisiana home was destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008.

Today, the single mother of eight, who lost her part-time job at a shelter in May after it closed, struggles to stretch her roughly $1,225 in welfare and food stamps that she receives each month to care for her and her five young children who live at home.

“We barely make it,” Morrison said Wednesday, noting that three of her children have developmental disabilities. “I have a retired veteran boyfriend and he helps me with my loose ends.”

While economists say the national recession officially ended in 2009, new U.S. Census data indicate that Southern Californians became increasingly impoverished at least through last year.

The state’s poverty rate climbed 3.6 percentage points from 2008 to 2012 with significant increases also in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties in the same period, according to estimates from a U.S. Census Bureau survey released Thursday.

In Los Angeles County, the poverty rate also climbed 3.6 percentage points from 15.5 percent in 2008 to 19.1 percent in 2012. It rose 0.8 percentage points from 2011 to 2012, according to the Census Bureau’s American Communities Survey.

“Even through 2012, the L.A. County economy was struggling to recover and ... more Los Angeles County households fell below the poverty line as a result of the lingering effects of the Great Recession,” said Robert Kleinhenz, chief economist of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

Via: LA Daily News

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VULNERABLE SENATE DEMOCRATS STUCK WITH OBAMACARE

On Friday, the House is expected to pass a continuing resolution to extend funding for government, but also strip all discretionary spending to implement ObamaCare. If enacted, the House action would allow government to remain open but erect a huge obstacle to ObamaCare. While all of the media is consumed with an internal GOP debate on this issue, the true target of such a move has escaped notice. If the House proceeds with its vote, several vulnerable Democrat Senators face a series of bad choices. 

Over the August recess, Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee built grass-roots momentum to defund ObamaCare through the continuing resolution that must pass by the end of September. Many commentators criticized the move, arguing that the Senate and Obama would never agree to defunding their signature policy achievement. Those commentators are missing the point. While there is no practical way to defund ObamaCare, since most of the spending supporting the law is mandatory and not subject to Congressional appropriations, the House move puts an unwelcome spotlight on several vulnerable Senate Democrats. They will be forced, just a little over a year ahead of mid-term elections, to again take a stand on ObamaCare. 

Republicans needs to pick up 6 seats to take control of the Senate. They are currently favored to pick up three seats, in West Virginia, South Dakota and Montana. Three more Democrat incumbents are endangered, Mark Pryor (AR), Mary Landrieu (LA) and Kay Hagen (NC). With the House action, all three will be forced to go on record, either supporting or opposing ObamaCare. It is not an easy choice. 

The full implementation of ObamaCare begins in two weeks. As the deadline approaches, polls show the health care law even more unpopular than when it was passed in 2010. At that time, problems with the law were abstract. Today, with employers cutting hours, shifting to part-time employees or dropping health coverage, the problems with the law are very real. Taking a vote now to continue with the law is the worst possible choice for Democrats up for reelection next year. 

Which is the entire point of this move by Sens. Cruz and Lee. The target isn't to rally the Tea Party or call out RINOs, it is to force Senate Democrats to again endorse ObamaCare. The media focus on a GOP internal civil war is meant to obscure this fact. Everyone cautioned the House GOP against this move, for the very reason that they didn't want the Senate to have to vote on the issue again. 

After the House vote on Friday, the Senate will have to again debate, and vote on, ObamaCare.  

Via: Breitbart

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Yes, Americans Like the Debt Ceiling – And it Matters

According to reports, House budget chairman Paul Ryan has been urging his colleagues to back off on the budget fight and focus on a debt ceiling showdown. In exchange for an increase in the legal limit on federal government borrowing, Ryan believes the GOP can demand a series of items in return; starting with a delay of Obamacare, the construction of the Keystone pipeline and other spending reforms.

It’s still doubtful Republicans will be able to extract any meaningful concessions on Obamacare, but the president’s “I will not negotiate” over the debt ceiling position is undermined by the inconvenient fact that he already did in 2011.  And, at the very least, depicting the conservative opposition as crazed nihilists becomes slightly more precarious for Democrats due to public opinion.

A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last week finds that 44 percent of respondents are against raising the debt ceiling and only 22 percent believe it should be raised so the U.S. avoids “going into bankruptcy and defaulting on its obligations.” A third of those who answered are unsure.

A Reason-Rupe poll finds that 55 percent of Americans say they do not support raising the debt ceiling even if it causes the U.S. to default. With dollar-to-dollar spending cuts, 45 percent say they’d support raising it and 46 percent would still oppose.

Via: The Federalist

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GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN – WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?

With any luck, the government will shut down very soon. Hans von Spakovsky’s description of such an event (reproduced on this site with the gracious permission of the Heritage Foundation) states that, “crucial services will continue without interruption…It would pare down government services to those most essential for ‘the safety of human life or the protection of property.’”

We’re getting back to our roots. Isn’t what von Spakovsky depicts essentially the type of limited government the Founders had in mind?

The Fed will, unfortunately, continue “crucial benefit payments,” and they won’t stop collecting taxes (that would too good to be true). Let’s hope, at least, that everyone in the United States realizes how much better the country works when its government doesn’t.

Via: Human Events

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OIL DROPS AS FED EUPHORIA FADES; GAS BELOW $3.50

AVERAGE PRICE IN CALIFORNIA FOR GALLON OF GAS IS OVER $4.00

NEW YORK (AP) -- The price of oil fell Thursday as excitement faded over the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to keep its monetary stimulus in place.

Benchmark oil for October delivery dropped $1.68, or 1.6 percent, to close at $106.39 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

A day earlier, oil rose 2.5 percent after the Fed unexpectedly maintained its stimulus for the U.S. economy and the Energy Department reported a bigger than expected drop in supplies of crude oil and gasoline.

Meanwhile, most U.S. drivers are seeing lower prices at the gas pump. The nationwide average for a gallon of gasoline dropped below $3.50 for the first time since July 9. At $3.49 a gallon, the average is down 6 cents from a week ago. However, Californians aren't sharing in the relief. They're paying about 7 cents more on average than a week ago, due to unplanned maintenance at some refineries.

Via: AP

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Reid May Bypass 60-Vote Threshold to Strip Obamacare Provision from CR

With the government-funding bill headed to the Senate following tomorrow’s House vote, the expectation among Senate Republicans is that Democratic majority leader Harry Reid will be able to strip its provision defunding Obamacare with only a majority vote.

Reid would rely on an arcane Senate procedure called the “motion to strike” that allows him to amend the bill with a bare majority after cloture has been invoked to shut down debate on the bill.

In other words, Reid would invoke cloture with the bill still intact — meaning Republicans, who support defunding Obamacare, would vote for cloture. After cloture had been invoked, Reid could then move remove the language defunding Obamacare with only a bare majority.

The strategy would put Democrats in something of an odd position because they would be voting for cloture on a bill that defunds Obamacare. But given Republicans will vote for cloture, and that it’s according to Reid’s plan, that’s unlikely to be reason enough that the necessary votes wouldn’t be there.

Senator Ted Cruz told reporters earlier today that he and Senator Mike Lee “will use every procedural means available to fight for the American people to defund Obamacare.”

Via: National Review Online

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1 Million Truckers To Protest Obama By Shutting America Down

One week after nearly a million patriotic bikers converged on Washington, D.C. for the 12th anniversary of 9/11, a large group of truckers has announced its plans to halt commerce across the nation for next month. The strike is planned as a response to D.C. “corruption that is destroying America,” according to the movement’s Facebook page.

Via: Western Journalism

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CBS Affiliate Airs Car Chase That Ends in Deadly Horrific Crash

When news is slow, TV outlets love an intense car chase. As we’ve documented here many times, that ratings prize also comes with high risk:Sometimes the chases end in horrific fashion, occasionally with lives lost on-air.

While following a high-speed chase this week, CBS Miami broadcast a horrific crash that claimed the life of an innocent driver caught up in the ordeal.

While the footage of those final, horrific moments of the chase resulted in a life lost, the CBS affiliate repeatedly aired the footage throughout their noon broadcast (with the requisite warning to viewers). While it’s a fact that the broadsided driver was killed, the footage is not gory or zoomed-in enough to show any gruesome details, thus perhaps coloring CBS Miami’s decision to run with the footage over and over again.

Take a below at how WFOR covered it below (WARNING: As mentioned, the video may be disturbing to some. Discretion is advised.):

Via: Mediaite.com

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