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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama had a blunt status update for America's permanently wired youth on Tuesday: your Facebook postings could come back to haunt you. Obama's advice to a group of high school students followed reports that prospective employers may be mining social networking sights for background information on job applicants. He offered his nugget of advice to a student at an Arlington, Virginia school who asked him in a roundtable how he could get to be president. "First of all, I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age...

While White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today refrained from telling reporters whether President Obama in his speech Wednesday night will set a deadline for passing health care reform, sources tell ABC News that in his private meeting with Democratic congressional leaders this afternoon the key word was urgency. The president told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., that it is important for them to pass health care reform bills soon, the sources said. Both leaders told the president that despite the difficult rough and tumble of the legislative process in the last few weeks,...

Ann Coulter briefly commented on Jamie Glazov's rebuttal of Salon's entry into the Wolf-Chesler-Glazov debate about the veil in the Muslim world On September 5 Coulter again blogged in support of the Chesler-Glazov position, employing her satirical wit to strike at the leftist feminists who are acting as apologists for Islamofascist misogyny:

Gov. Paterson's proposal to tax soda in New York fizzled, but President Obama believes it may be time to pop a similar sin tax on the nation. The President, in an interview with Men's Health magazine released yesterday, said he thought taxing soda and other sugary drinks is worth putting on the table as Congress debates health care reform. "It's an idea that we should be exploring," the president said. "There's no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda. And every study that's been done about obesity shows that there is as high a correlation between increased soda...

Glenn Beck's first day back on Foxnews on taking Obama at his word Van Jones: "We want to see the rights of the Palestinian people respected, at this point and end to the occupation, the right of return for Palestinian people, these are the critical dividing lines, the global dividing line question for human rights we have to be here." Mumia Abu Jamal's is on the phone from prison, for the execution style murder of a police officer, Van Jones associated himself with the effort to free a communist cop killer.

Departing United Nations Nuke Watchdog, IAEA director Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei has a history of appeasing terrorist powers looking to become nuclear, for example the Wall Street Journal described El-Baradei this way: The IAEA director seems intent on undercutting Security Council diplomacy. Just weeks after President George Bush toured the Middle East to build Arab support for pressure on Tehran, Mr. ElBaradei appeared on Egyptian television on Feb. 5 to urge Arabs in the opposite direction, insisting Iran was cooperating and should not be pressured. And as he grows more and more isolated from Western powers intent on disarming Iran, Mr....

Most Americans don’t realize we have elected a president whom we know very little about. Researchers have discovered that Obama’s autobiographical books are little more than PR stunts, as they have little to do with the actual events of his life. The fact is we know less about President Obama than perhaps any other president in American history and much of this is due to actual efforts to hide his record. This should concern all Americans. A nation-wide network of researchers has sprung up to attempt to fill in the blanks, but at every opportunity Obama’s high-priced lawyers have built...

<p>The heirs of J.R.R. Tolkien and a movie studio that produced the blockbuster "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy have settled a lawsuit over the films' profits, it was announced Tuesday.</p> <p>The out-of-court resolution clears the way for a two-film prequel based on Tolkien's novel "The Hobbit" and will benefit charities around the world, according to a joint press release announcing the settlement.</p>

Springfield, IL (LifeNews.com) -- A new report issued today focuses on the epidemic of forced abortions in the United States. The Elliot Institute, an Illinois-based organization that researches abortion's impact on women, finds as many as 64 percent of women say they have felt pressure to have an abortion.That pressure, the group finds, most likely comes from spouse or partner but can also come from a woman's parents, friends, or employer.Elliot Institute director David Reardon, co-authored a Medical Science Monitor study of American and Russian women with the 64 percent figure.His new report, Forced Abortion in America, documents cases...

NEW YORK – Was Valerie Jarrett, one of President Obama's closest advisers, introduced to the president's political circles by her father-in-law, a communist sympathizer who worked with the radical Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis? Jarrett reportedly interviewed Obama's former environmental adviser Van Jones for his White House position from which he resigned this past weekend. WND exposed Jones is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist. Jarrett defended Jones after his appointment in March. She stated in an interview that the White House staff were "so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House." "We were watching...

According to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the most effective way to stop the Iranian Islamist regime from acquiring nukes, is to threaten them with a military build-up of other Islamist regimes: "US allies in the Middle East should strengthen their respective militaries to deter Iran from continuing its suspected nuclear weapons program..." If by that, Gates meant supplying Israel with all the bunker busters, refueling aircraft, and F22's it has sought to purchase, that might cause the mullahs knees to knock. But since the U.S. Administration has denied Israel purchase of bunker busters and refueling aircraft, certainly needed for...

Michelle Obama has been spicing up First Lady fashion all summer with bold colors and chic patterns. Check out the roundup of her smashing summer looks... Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/galleries/michelle_obamas_summer_style/michelle_obamas_summer_style.html#ixzz0QYlDfvRv

Scientist is studying bacteria that could clean contaminated water bodies across the USCOLUMBIA, Mo. – The Lost Orphan Mine below the Grand Canyon hasn't produced uranium since the 1960s, but radioactive residue still contaminates the area. Cleaning the region takes an expensive process that is only done in extreme cases, but Judy Wall, a biochemistry professor at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, is researching the use of sulfate-reducing bacteria to convert toxic radioactive metal to inert substances, a much more economical solution. The bacteria Wall is studying are bio-corrosives and can change the solubility...

Just when you thought it was safe... President Barack Obama has finally shed one radical association -- disgraced former "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones -- but now another, more familiar one has resurfaced. As viewers saw on FOX News last night, Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, wasted little time insinuating himself back into the public eye. You may remember Rev. Jeremiah Wright as the man whose Chicago church Barack Obama attended for many years, and whose most famous sermon, "The Audacity of Hope," lent its title to one of Obama's bestselling books.

Dear Fellow FReepers: You all know, and I freely admit, that I am not the nicest person in the world. However, I know someone who is. That someone is my mother. Three to two years ago we experienced a spate of pet deaths. We had many pets, and they were all old, so it was just time for them to wear out and say good-bye (unfortunately, one of them was "helped along" by the adulterated pet food). Their ages were eleven, fourteen, seventeen, and fifteen. One reason we were able to make it through those dark times was that a...

For the first time in a public meeting, Sacramento County staffers advanced their controversial proposal to lay off almost every non-public safety employee in the county and then rehire them to part-time positions. The complex move, presented at the Board of Supervisors meeting this morning, is designed to save money in lieu of furloughs, which the county can't contractually enact without cooperation of its employee unions. The move would effectively cut most workers' time by 16 hours a month. County employees who refuse to shift to the new position effective Nov. 8 would lose their jobs. Unions are calling the...

<p>FOR every woman expecting the earth to move, there are two with more practical motives.</p> <p>From relieving boredom, to keeping the peace or curing a headache, women have sex for many reasons but romance and passion come rather low on the list, a new book has revealed.</p>

Sura 4:34 "and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them;" With the exception of the late Andrea Dworkin, no feminist was ever heard to utter even the faintest sound about the treatment of women in Islam? Why?!? Why hasn’t the National Association of Women, other such organizations and every single feminist leaders ever made a statestment, a plea, for better conditions and full equality for women in every part of the world, regardless of creed or skin color? It would seem that in spite of all their pronouncements about women in the West they either harbor a fear...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A prominent breast cancer surgeon and professor has written a new article for a medical publication saying that abortion increases a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer. On the other hand, miscarriage has no effect while a full-term pregnancy lowers the breast cancer risk.Dr. Angela Lanfranchi is a surgeon who deals with breast cancer and is also a Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.She published a paper this week in the medical journal Linacre Quarterly that shows how different pregnancy outcomes influence...

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