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More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason. "I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor. The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.

Something really ugly popped up on Daily Kos yesterday late in the afternoon..... ...GS, through access to the system as a result of their special gov't perks, was/is able to read the data on trades before it's committed, and place their own buys or sells accordingly in that brief moment, thus allowing them to essentially steal buttloads of money every day from the rest of the punters world. Two things come out of this: 1. If true, this should be highly illegal, and would, in any sane country result in something like what happened to Arthur Andersen... (2. ... is...

In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs based on its Chrome Web browser. Paul Sakuma / AP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The move sharpens the already intense competition between Google [GOOG 402.49 5.86 (+1.48%) ] and Microsoft [MSFT 22.56 0.03 (+0.13%) ], whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal computers. In a post on its company blog, Google said the operating system would initially be aimed at netbooks, the compact, low-cost computers that have turned the PC world on its head. It said the...

(CNSNews.com) – At a Senate hearing Tuesday on the use of military commissions to prosecute terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay, some members of the Armed Services Committee took offense at the Obama administration’s view that the detainees should have the same legal protections under the Constitution as U.S. citizens. Ranking member Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) questioned Assistant Attorney General David Kris about his remarks on the appropriateness of administering the Miranda warning to terrorist suspects captured abroad. "It is the administration's view that there is a serious risk that courts would hold that admission of involuntary statements of the...

No Winner The president is in Russia and he sat down for an interview with our own Major Garrett. You won't believe his answer to Major's very first question: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MAJOR GARRETT, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: In your speech this morning you said the Cold War reached its conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years. Mr. President, are the Russian sensitivities so fragile that you can't say the Cold War was won? The West won it and it was led by a combination of Democratic and Republican American presidents? PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There were a...

President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed surprise at how much alcohol Russians drink and ordered the government to develop a program to discourage drinking. "The alcohol consumption we have is colossal," Medvedev told Health and Social Development Minister Tatyana Golikova at a meeting this week. "I was astonished to learn that we now drink more than we did in the 1990s, although those were very tough times," Medvedev said, according to a transcript on the Kremlin's web site. He told Golikova to devise an anti-alcohol strategy. "We need to prepare a corresponding program and take appropriate measures," Medvedev said. A report...

Roman Polanski’s attorneys have asked a state appeals court to overturn the May ruling of an L.A. judge refusing to throw out Polanski’s 32-year-old child sex case while the director remains a fugitive. In May, L.A. Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza rejected a request by Polanski’s attorneys for a dismissal of the director’s criminal case based on allegations of unethical and improper acts by a judge and prosecutor at the time of Polanski’s original case in 1977. Espinoza said in an earlier hearing that even though he thought “substantial” misconduct had taken place, he had no choice but to deny...

People are praying in a city hall in Michigan, and atheists are up in arms. People of faith should hope the secularists push this into court, because this time the believers should win. There’s something happening in Warren, Michigan. This town has been hit hard by layoffs, like the rest of the state. (Michigan’s unemployment rate is over 14%—the worst in the nation, thanks in no small part to Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm imposing big-government taxes, entitlements and union labor policies on the people there.) Learning the hard way that government cannot meet every need, many in Warren are turning...

The major US TV networks have announced that the Michael Jackson funeral will be extended into a complete weekly series, to be shown simultaneously on all channels. Said producer Aaron J. Scupper, "The Jackson funeral was a phenomenal TV event, and we are tremendously thrilled and excited at the opportunity to build it into a series, delivering the funeral to a public which cannot get enough of Jackson family grief."

Supervisor Ray Watson was even more clear that he wants answers as to the money mystery, "We didn't know where were by about 35 million dollars and that's a real concern."

FLASH** Goldman Code Theft BOMBSHELL? Something really ugly popped up on Daily Kos yesterday late in the afternoon..... ...GS, through access to the system as a result of their special gov't perks, was/is able to read the data on trades before it's committed, and place their own buys or sells accordingly in that brief moment, thus allowing them to essentially steal buttloads of money every day from the rest of the punters world. Two things come out of this: 1. If true, this should be highly illegal, and would, in any sane country result in something like what happened to...

"The farmers are not our enemy," the State Department's Richard Holbrooke recently declared, referring to Afghans who grow opium poppies. Since the U.S. government is officially determined to wipe out their livelihood, they could be forgiven for misunderstanding. To reassure those who interpret ripping up their crops as a hostile act, Holbrooke said, "we're going to phase out eradication." This policy shift is a long overdue admission that anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan are strengthening the Taliban insurgency and undermining stability. But the reasons Holbrooke cited for the change apply more broadly than he is willing to acknowledge, indicting not just...

Is life on the road getting to Britney Spears? A family insider says Britney was caught by her conservator/dad Jamie Spears popping over-the-counter diet pills and washing them down with Red Bull before a performance on her Circus tour, reports gossip site Betty Confidential. “Britney was definitely trying to get high by taking too many diet pills and energy drinks,” the source told the site. “Jamie thinks the combination of the two is making her whacked-out and, causing her to lash out in weird angry rampages.”

GOP senator: Obama's Russia trip like 'pile of manure' @ 3:31 pm by Michael O'Brien President Obama's trip to Russia has produced little more than a "pile of manure," the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) said that Obama had failed to raise a number of important issues with Russian leaders during meetings there in the first half of this week. "President Obama, as far as I know, hasn't raised any of those questions — like including cybersecurity, including sanctions on North Korea and Iran," Bond said during a conference with Missouri reporters....

When he meets Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on July 10, President Barack Obama will find himself in conversation with a man who is, at heart, a teacher. Which raises the question: what lessons might Professor Ratzinger be interested in proposing to President Obama? The first—and obvious—lesson has to do with what the Roman Catholic Church regards as the premier civil-rights issues of the moment: the life issues, including abortion, euthanasia, and embryo-destructive stem-cell research. Ever since the Saddleback Church debate during the 2008 campaign, Obama has steadfastly declined to address the moral argument at the heart of the...

Vice-President Joe Biden, in a rare moment of honesty, actually admitted that he and others in the Obama administration had ‘misread’ the condition of the economy. That was his explanation for why the so-called stimulus had not produced any of the promised results, like keeping the unemployment rate from going above 8% (it is currently at 9.5%). Of course even Biden’s explanation seems more disingenuous than it does honest given that leading up to the election and since that time we have heard the constant drumbeat from President Obama that the state of the economy was the worst since the...

Sediment column at the mouth of the Amazon River. Credit: NASA The Amazon River has been around for 11 million years ago and in its shape for the last 2.4 million years ago, according to a study on two boreholes drilled in proximity of the mouth of the Amazon River by Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil. Until recently the Amazon Fan, a sediment column of around 10 kilometres in thickness, proved a hard nut to crack, and scientific drilling expeditions such as Ocean Drilling Program could only reach a fraction of it. Recent exploration efforts by Petrobras lifted...

Featured Term (selected at random):SOCIAL SIN The sinfulness of society into which a person is born. Its premise is that modern socialization and collectivization have immersed everyone in other people's values and moral actions to an unprecedented degree. All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

Roger Stone wrote a great piece entitled “Palin’s Palin.” He discusses how Governor Palin had nothing to gain and much to loose by staying as Governor. She is also not the first politican to follow this path and will have to repair the damage the media has done. He recommends The Governor could use Fox News “to re-tool her political image...and she can have 60 minutes each week to do it.”

Construction of the Security fence between Israel and the West Bank began in 2002. It's purpose was to prevent terrorists from entering Israel. The fence has been very successful, from 2002 from the time the construction began to 2007 the number of homicide bombing attacks fell from 55 to 1. And that's just one type of Palestinian terror. Heck even the terrorists admit that the fence has worked. Any time the Palestinians have problems with the route of the fence they can appeal to the Israeli Supreme court where they have won a host of cases forcing route changes. So...