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Texas Requests Federal Loan DALLAS, TX Texas expects the federal government to confirm next week that it's providing a federal loan to cover the state's rising unemployment benefits. KERA's Shelley Kofler reports Texas requested the loan because the state's fund is on a path to go broke. Earlier this year the Texas Workforce Commission warned that the fund that covers unemployment benefits in Texas would dip below mandated levels by October. Ann Hatchitt of the Workforce Commission says the state has requested a $160-million dollar interest-free loan from the federal government for the month of July. Hatchitt says the state...

This article presents two opposing viewpoints on whether the Netherlands should allow Sharia Courts like the UK has. The person against the courts is a Muslim woman, while the person in favor of them is non-Muslim Maurits Berger, a so called expert on Sharia. I believe that Mr. Berger should mind his own business here. Things with Islam in the Netherlands are bad enough already.

In 2007, Flight 93 Advisory Commission member Tim Baird told me that everyone at the meetings he attended is fully aware that the giant crescent, originally named the Crescent of Embrace, really does point almost exactly at Mecca. Professor Baird says they all just assume (himself included) that the Mecca orientation must be an innocent coincidence. Pretty crazy, when they have also been told the meaning of a crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca. Every mosque is built around a Mecca-direction indicator called a mihrab, and the classic mihrab is crescent shaped. Geometrically, the Crescent of Embrace...

Honesty: Lawmakers voted on the stimulus and global warming bills without having read either. Eventually they'll vote on health care legislation that could fund unrelated items. Time to end this systemic fraud.The stimulus bill, signed into law less than a month after Barack Obama took office, reached 1,434 pages and will eventually cost the nation more than $1 trillion. Waxman-Markey, the global warming bill, passed the House last month after Democrats added a 309-page amendment at 3 a.m. the morning before the vote, bringing that package of nonsense up to 1,200 or so pages. The next piece of deception up...

Barack Obama, Kenya’s most famous son, may have a deep attachment to his ancestral homeland but he is not letting emotions rule his head. On his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since his election, he has snubbed his father’s birthplace by choosing to go to Ghana. The Kenyan Government and its notoriously corrupt and quarrelsome ministers are not happy... Kenya has been left to ponder what might have been. In the heady days of Mr Obama’s ascent to the White House, politicians — particularly those from the Luo tribe of his late father — had envisioned an African-style “special relationship”....

Patton was a very special 5 year old Golden Retriever that died Tuesday. He was a bomb-sniffing K-9 officer with the Mt. Holly Police. Not all reports are in yet so the full story of Patton's demise is not yet known. In 2006 Patton was a stray dog rescued from a shelter in Pennsylvania and thanks to a $100,000 state grant was trained in explosives detection. He was even featured in the 2009 'Cops and Dogs' calendar. In addition to performing patrol and detection duties in Mt. Holly Township, Patton and McIntosh were part of a U.S. Department of Homeland...

Behind The Meltdown: Many Americans are unaware of the causes of the greatest economic calamity of our lifetime. A new congressional report details how government politicized housing, wrecking the economy.Rep. Darrell Issa of California, ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has released a report that every American should read. The analysis details how powerful Democrats in Congress insisted that government-subsidized housing be geared to serve the purposes of social justice at the expense of sound lending. Here are some highlights of Issa's blow-by-blow account: • With an implicit subsidy to American homeowners in the form of...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. — A small brewery has found inspiration on the New Jersey Turnpike — and anti-drunken-driving crusaders say that's a bad idea. Cherry Hill-based Flying Fish Brewing Co. has started releasing beers that honor the congested and often-derided thoroughfare. The second one to be released honors Exit 11 and will be on store shelves in the region later this month.

Call your legislators and House/Senate Leadership Now Insist they pass HJR 2 or SJR 6 before adjourning for summer recess URGENT Action Request -Livestock Care Board Legislation in Jeopardy of Dying in General Assembly Action Requested: The Governor and legislative leaders have struck a deal regarding the state budget that DOES NOT include a deal for final passage of the either HJR2 or SJR6, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board Proposed Constitutional Amendment. The General Assembly will likely complete work on the state budget this coming Monday, July 13, and will then likely recess, which will eliminate any opportunity for...

A Russian man murdered his girlfriend after discovering she had once been a man. The killer, identified as Vladimir F by police, shot Camila several times, deliberately targeting the parts of her body altered during a sex change operation. He had only found out about her previous identity after she turned down his offer of marriage. The 33-year-old believed she had a secret lover and, in a jealous rage, checked her post. It was at this point he discovered letters from old friends addressing his girlfriend of two years, who he had met in St Petersburg, as 'Dear Cyril.' Murdered:...

Medical tourism usually involves U.S. citizens going abroad to obtain low-cost care for serious conditions. Now one Tucson, Arizona hospital is fighting back by marketing its delivery room to Mexican mothers-to-be. And those who choose to come north to give birth get something extra no other country can offer: U.S. citizenship for their child. According to the Arizona Daily Star, for almost 30 years hospitals in the Southwest have served expectant mothers from other countries that come here to give birth, taking advantage of the Immigration and Nationality Act that makes anyone born in the U.S. a citizen.

There's no doubt about it... as the St. Pete Times PolitiFact says, Obama's promise to create a foreclosure prevention fund to the tune of $75 billion minimal, with the Making Homes Affordable Program is in the "promises kept" column. What the PolitiFact tracking system doesn't discuss if it spending the taxpayers money has any any effect on the foreclosure trend. And the fact it, reality dictates it not only hasn't prevented... or even slowed... foreclosures, but they've been on the rise since the O'Inaugural festivities.... despite still relatively low interest rates. Well... congratulations, Obama. You kept your promise, put us...

A 28-year-old African who styled himself as a barbarian was sentenced to life in prison last night for kidnapping and torturing to death a Jewish man in a case that exposed anti-Semitism in France’s immigrant suburbs. Youssouf Fofana, from the Ivory Coast, was the ring-leader of a gang of 27 youths who abducted Iman Halimi, 23, in 2006. The gang, from a housing estate in Bagneux, west of Paris, called themselves the “gang of barbarians”. Fofana Fofana, who describes himself as a hardline “Salafist” Islamist, fled to Ivory Coast after the killing. He was arrested there and extradited to France....

CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer often showcases erratic and unpredictable behavior and the same goes sometimes for his analysis of the stock market. While the economy continues to struggle through the recession, the forward-looking indicators known as the financial markets continue to perplex Cramer for not going up when some positive signs, also known as "green shoots" by the financial media, are starting show. According to his analysis - it's the government and a reliance on oil futures that have scared off investors. ...more (w/video)...

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When I first heard Paul Krugman make the suggestion that we needed a second stimulus, I thought that I was only listening to a looney liberal pundit. Never in my widest dream did I think that significant Democratic politicians would suggest that we may need a second stimulus. Such suggestions are nothing short of a beautiful political gift to the Republicans.

NEWPORT BEACH -- A Newport Beach woman has been charged with trying to extort $15,000.00 from a man she met through an online dating service after telling police he raped her. 28-year old Susanna Maria Coetzee faces a felony count of attempting to extort and a misdemeanor count of falsely reporting a crime. Prosecutors say Coetzee met the unidentified man on www.seekingarrangement.com, a Web site billed as "the elite sugar daddy dating site." The company defines a sugar daddy as "a wealthy, usually older man who gives expensive gifts to a young person in return for intimacy or companionship." Prosecutors...

This was inevitable. When the Obama administration effectively took over General Motors, Obama-friendly media hacks were going to tout the company's products . . . And so it was that on his MSNBC show this evening, Ed Schultz offered up an unpaid infomercial for GM's new Camaro. Most grotesque was Schultz's boast that the Camaro was outselling the Ford Mustang. Take that, private-sector company that declined to take Obama's dime! View video here.

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CHESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A woman accused of keeping 150 cats in her New Jersey mansion has been ordered to pay more than $35,000 in fines and restitution. Wanda Oughton pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of animal cruelty for failing to provide adequate shelter. The judge in Chester Township Municipal Court also told the 62-year-old she's not allowed to own more than six cats over the next three years.