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LONDON (AP) -- BP PLC said Wednesday that it had made a "giant" oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico but had not yet determined the size and commercial potential of the find. The well, in Keathley Canyon block 102 about 250 miles (400 kms) southeast of Houston, is in 4,132 feet (1,259 meters) of water, the company said.

Reacting to worries about potential severe floods this fall associated with a damaged dam, The King County Council on Monday voted to give Executive Kurt Triplett the ability to declare an emergency before floodwaters cause trouble. "Thousands of homes and businesses may be devastated by potential flooding resulting from the Howard Hanson Dam," said Councilmember Julia Patterson. "By authorizing an emergency proclamation before flooding occurs, this legislation moves the County forward in our flood preparation and sends a message to the federal government that we need their support now."

The president will be addressing schools on Tuesday in a speech that will give "A suggested lesson plan that calls on school kids to write letters to themselves about what they can do to help President Obama is troubling some education experts, who say it establishes the president as a "superintendent in chief" and may indoctrinate children to support him politically."

Here is audio of Mark Steyn filling in for Rush Limbaugh today where he said Barack Obama and Harry Reid were "invested in defeat in Iraq," wanting America to fail in Iraq. He was pointing out their false outrage at calls by Rush Limbaugh for Obama to fail in his radical agenda. Steyn said Democrats used Afghanistan and painted it as the "good war" for the purpose of attacking U.S. involvement in Iraq. But now that Obama is President, he is faced with having to make good on his promise to succeed in Afghanistan. . . . . (Watch Video)

As we passed through late summer and Bibi Netanyahu endured a summit in London, the distinguished British journalist and broadcaster Melanie Phillips — known as “Mad Mel” to the left — took on Alan Dershowitz in a debate on Obama in the pages of FrontPageMag.com. I do not intend to go into a protracted discourse about the argument but will put the cat among the pigeons right here at the start: I think Dersho is right-on. The debate began when Melanie, a staunch anti-Obamaite, launched a challenge to Dershowitz after he had published a piece in the Wall Street Journal...

Charles Gibson, the anchor of ABC’s “World News,” is stepping down from the position at the end of this year. Diane Sawyer, the longtime “Good Morning America” host, will be his replacement. She will start in January. Mr. Gibson made the decision after long conversations with the president of ABC News, David Westin, the network said. “World News” has been finishing second in the ratings behind NBC’s “Nightly News” with Brian Williams. With Ms. Sawyer’s ascension to “World News,” two of the three network evening newscasts will be anchored by women. Katie Couric took over the “CBS Evening News” in...

Electronics such as phones and laptops may start shedding their power cords within a year. Wireless electricity may soon make tangled power cords a thing of the past. That's the prediction of Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity, a company that's able to power light bulbs using wireless electricity that travels several feet from a power socket. WiTricity's version of wireless electricity -- which converts power into a magnetic field and sends it sailing through the air at a particular frequency -- still needs to be refined a bit, he said, but should be commercially available soon. Giler, whose company is...

A mystery revolving around President Barack Obama’s Irish roots was solved when a tomb containing the remains of Obama’s Irish ancestor was discovered in the Irish medieval city of Kilkenny. After a painstaking search, film maker Gabriel Murray, who is in the process of making a documentary on Obama's Irish roots, finally found “Obama’s Lost Tomb” inside the 13th century St. Canice’s Cathedral.

Same-gender marriage is now legal in The Green Mountain State, and Ben & Jerry's has announced that it will temporarily change its "Chubby Hubby" ice cream to "Hubby Hubby" in honor of homosexual marriage. Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality tells OneNewsNow that companies like Ben & Jerry's neglect to talk about the dangers of the lifestyle. "Besides the health aspects, there's also the fact that homosexual behavior is opposed by God, and that's something that we should take seriously," he contends. "All homosexual behavior is sinful, and regardless of what liberals say or what Ben & Jerry's...

Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, will pay a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotions. Announcing the settlement Wednesday, the Justice Department said that it included the largest criminal fine in U.S. history -- $1.2 billion. The agreement also included a criminal forfeiture of $105 million. Authorities called Pfizer a repeat offender, noting it is the fourth such settlement of government charges in the last decade. They said the government will monitor the company's conduct for the next five years to rein in the abuses. To promote the drugs, authorities said Pfizer invited...

(To be videotaped in Smug-O-Vision) Hello. I'm President Barack Obama and I'm very grateful for this opportunity to speak to the people I feel are most important to the future of America, and to you students too. Many thanks to the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers for letting me into your "homes" so I can talk to your children. I remember being a young , confused school boy, wishing that President Nixon or President Ford would give me some guidance as to what I should think or do during the school year. But they never did....

A New England-based pro-family organization is concerned about a situation in Vermont involving bathroom arrangements at schools. Brian Camenker of MassResistance says the homosexual movement in Vermont is using a transgender-rights law to force middle schools and high schools to provide unisex bathrooms. He notes that a 16-year-old transgendered teen has asked the Vermont Human Rights Commission to lend its support to the effort. According to an Associated Press report, the student claims that she and others like her need the unisex bathrooms in order to avoid bullying and ridicule. A homosexual activist with Outright Vermont is quoted in the...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federal Reserve officials were more confident than ever that the steep downturn in the economy was coming to an end, but had no firm grasp about the strength of the likely recovery, according to the minutes of their last policy meeting released Wednesday.There was some suspicion that the recovery would be pretty fragile and vulnerable to shocks. A key unknown is whether consumer spending would be restrained and if households will maintain the new-found religion to save more of their income. The current thinking, according to the summary, is that the recovery would be shaky at first...

Folks, EWTN has made available on-line a very interesting series originally published in L'Osservatore Romano, entitled, Sects and Satanic Cults. It consists of six articles dealing with various aspects (phenomenological, anthropological, psychological, legal, doctrinal and pastoral) of the growing and disturbing phenomenon of practices connected with the cult of satanic sects. The essays have been prepared in collaboration with the Bologna-based Organization for Research and Information on Sects, while adoctrinal reflection has been written by Bishop Angelo Scola through the good offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. What follows is EWTN's summary of each article. I...

A new study on the supposed cost savings of preventative care has put a mack truck hole in the idea that giving everyone access to preventative care will save health care costs. Using data from long-standing clinical trials, researchers projected the cost of caring for people with Type 2 diabetes as they progress from diagnosis to various complications and death. Enrolling federally-insured patients in a simple but aggressive program to control the disease would cost the government $1,024 per person per year -- money that largely would be recovered after 25 years through lower spending on dialysis, kidney transplants, amputations...

School districts across Texas are pondering whether they'll have their students watch a national address by President Barack Obama next week. The speech on the importance of education is aimed directly at the nation's school children at 11 a.m. Tuesday. In the Wylie school district in suburban Dallas, spokeswoman Susan Dacus says officials are leaving the decision to individual teachers. She says parents who don't want their children to see it can opt out. In Houston, each school will decide. In a letter last week to the nation's school principal, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the speech would challenge students...

You may remember Chris Riccitelli. He shot and killed a man trying to rob a Kangaroo Express in Ocoee Jan. 5 in what police determined was a justifiable homicide. The robber had clocked the store clerk in the head with a beer bottle, and Riccitelli thought he was trying to kill her. Since then, the 26-year-old man's life has taken some strange turns. Some time after the fatal shooting, Riccitelli was at another convenience store when a man recognized him from television. That man suggested he might follow Riccitelli and attack him if he were a relative of robber Freddie...

by Patrick Tolbert KILLEEN - A pit bull attack sent a 9-year-old girl to the hospital Tuesday afternoon in Killeen. Killeen Police tell News Channel 25 that the girl was attacked by a neighbor's dog after she got off the school bus at the intersection of Bryce and Evergreen. A witness tried to pull the dog off of the girl but was unsuccessful. Police say a neighbor then pulled the dog away and picked the girl up, carrying her to his residence. The victim was taken to Metroplex Hospital with what officers at the scene called "serious" injuries to her...

Why Is Barry Telecasting Himself To All School Children on September 8th? ... Naked Narcissism. Children aged twelve to sixteen are only a few short years from being the largest voting constituency for not only Obama in 2012 but his avowed commie, Van Jones-inspired Apollo Alliance socialist/fascist dream nation. When excon, black nationalist turned outspoken communist Jones dreamed up a welding of social justice, green movement, and unions into an alliance for radical change of Amerika, he knew well that the children must be indoctrinated to be the foundation of making these societal engineering changes permanent else adults will quickly...