Officials arrest Wash. man over Obama threat

Reported By CBS (CBS/AP) FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Authorities have arrested a Washington state man after he allegedly emailed threats against President Obama. Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as 31-year-old Anton Caluori. Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the Seattle U.S. attorney’s office, said the suspect was armed but was taken into custody without anyone

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Ben Stein: Stricter gun laws won’t cut shootings

Reported By CBS (CBS News) Let’s start with a few facts about guns and shootings and deaths. Lately, there have been far too many shootings of innocent people by crazy people. We can go back to Virginia Tech or Tucson, Ariz., or look just recently to Aurora, Colo., and to Wisconsin and the Sikh Temple.

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Facebook insider sells majority of his shares in company

Reported By NBC Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s earliest investors and a member of the social network’s board, has sold the majority of his shares in the company, according to a regulatory filing. Thiel sold about $400 million worth of shares last week as the first part of a so-called “lockup” period for key investors

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Federal appeals court allows Texas to defund Planned Parenthood

Reported By CBS (AP) AUSTIN, Texas – A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that Texas can cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics that provide health services to low-income women before a trial over a new law that bans state money from going to organizations tied to abortion providers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court

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Syria crisis: Russia warns Obama against ‘violation’ of international law

Reported By NBC Russia rebuffed President Barack Obama’s threat of unilateral action against Syria Tuesday, as officials said 2,500 refugees fled across the border into Turkey in just 24 hours – one of the highest daily refugee flows of recent weeks. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking after meeting China’s top diplomat, said Moscow and

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Ecuador’s leader says open to talks with Britain on Assange

Reported By Reuters (Reuters) – Ecuador is ready to negotiate over the fate of Julian Assange if Britain withdraws a threat to raid its embassy in London where the WikiLeaks founder has sought refuge, President Rafael Correa said on Tuesday. Ecuador was incensed by a veiled British threat to enter the embassy to arrest the

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Republicans again back strict anti-abortion platform

Reported By Reuters (Reuters) – A Republican Party committee on Tuesday embraced anti-abortion language it has used in its platform since 2004, with no mention of exceptions for rape or incest, as one of its Senate candidates was widely condemned over his comments about rape. The anti-abortion language was approved by the platform panel with

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Syrian army batters parts of Damascus, 47 killed

Reported By Reuters (Reuters) – Syrian army shells crashed into southern Damascus on Wednesday and helicopters fired rockets and machineguns during an assault to shore up President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on the capital 17 months into a popular uprising, opposition activists said. The army has used tanks and helicopter gunships this week in an offensive

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Consumers Gain More Power Over Their Banks

Reported By USNews Here’s some good news for frustrated bank customers: You have more power than you think. That’s according to a new report from Ernst & Young, which surveyed almost 30,000 banking customers throughout the world and found—not surprisingly—a lot of unhappy customers. Those customers were twice as likely to switch banks as they

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Paul Ryan: ‘Happy’ to be clinging to guns and religion

Reported By Politico WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Paul Ryan’s message was clear Tuesday as he campaigned across Pennsylvania: He’s the kind of guy who can relate to voters in small town America. President Barack Obama? Not so much. Obama, Ryan suggested here, is painfully out of touch with the kind of middle-class families who filled

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TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program

Reported By RT How do you make matters worse for an elusive intelligence company that has been forced to scramble for explanations about their ownership of an intricate, widespread surveillance program? Just ask Cubic, whose troubles only begin with TrapWire. Days after the international intelligence gathering surveillance system called TrapWire was unraveled by RT, an

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Walmart to start selling unlabeled insecticide-laced GMO corn from Monsanto

Reported By RT America’s largest bio-agriculture company and the biggest retailer in the country are joining forces, but a happy ending isn’t necessarily in sight. Walmart will soon be stocking their shelves with GMO corn made by Monsanto. Millions of Americans shop at Walmart, but that doesn’t mean that they all know what they’re getting

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Federal Auditor: 2,527 DHS Employees and Co-Conspirators Convicted of Crimes

Reported By CNSNews (CNSNews.com) – There have been 2,527 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees and co-conspirators convicted of corruption and other criminal misconduct since 2004, according to a federal auditor. Charles Edwards, the acting inspector general (IG) at DHS, made that revelation in written testimony prepared for an Aug. 1 hearing held by the

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DEM DELEGATES TO FACE ‘FOOL ME TWICE’ MESSAGE

Reported By WND When Democrats gather in Charlotte, N.C., for their nominating convention in a few weeks, they might want to avoid the popular travel routes passing East Ridge Shopping Center and hope that no one gets ill and needs to stop by the nearby Gaston Memorial Hospital. Otherwise, they are certain to see the

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Gun control and the security illusion

Reported By The Washington Times The recent mass shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and a movie theater in Colorado have revived the controversy over “gun control” policy. It is tempting after such unspeakable crimes to search for answers that will help prevent a repeat. The media immediately examine the purported killer’s profile and

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MILITARY VIDEO BLASTING OBAMA GOES VIRAL

Reported By WND Nearly 2.5 million people have viewed a YouTube documentary made by former military and CIA officers blasting Barack Obama – and any president – for leaking national intelligence secrets for political gain. “There’s a cost for our leaders grabbing for glory,” the video states. “Politics should never come before national security.” The

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