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A metal detector enthusiast in Cumbria has discovered a rare Roman bronze helmet complete with face-mask. It is believed to be one of only three of its kind to be found in Britain. The helmet would have been worn, possibly with colourful streamers attached, as a mark of excellence by Roman soldiers at sport parades. Described as a "hugely important discovery", it is now expected to fetch £300,000 at Christie's Antiquities auction in London on 7 October. The Crosby Garrett Helmet has been named after the hamlet in Cumbria where it was found in a field in May.

Of Ms. O'Donnell, state GOP party chair Tom Ross says: "She's not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware." "She could not be elected dog catcher," Mr. Ross told the Associated Press. Well, maybe. O’Donnell does carry some political baggage - questions about personal finances and when, exactly, she got her degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. The Castle campaign has put up a website called "The Real Christine O'Donnell." It has vowed not to eschew attack ads the way Sen. Lisa Murkowski did in her losing reelection GOP primary bid against tea party favorite Joe Miller...

Politics: The pay czar who demanded that a bank CEO work without compensation indeed earned a salary, though the public was told he wouldn't be paid. Does this White House care about transparency or hypocrisy? Kenneth Feinberg, who seems to always have his hands on someone else's money, was the administration's "special master for compensation," meaning that he determined pay for the executives who ran companies that took taxpayers' bailout dollars. His duties eventually included handing out $20 billion in BP money to businesses and individuals harmed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. When Feinberg...

Swimming in chlorinated pools can cause an increased risk of cancer in bathers, Spanish researchers said on Monday. Researchers from the Barcelona-based Centre of Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and Research Institute Hospital del Mar studied changes in indicators of mutagenicity -- permanent mutation of the DNA -- among a group of swimmers in an indoor chlorinated pool. "The evidence of genotoxic effects were observed in 49 healthy adults after swimming for 40 minutes in a chlorinated indoor pool," CREAL said in a statement on Monday. Researchers found indicators of an increase in cancer risk in healthy subjects as well...

But because it was in Forbes, an “MSM” publication, this piece of garbage will be seized on and pointed to as fact for years to come by cynical folks who know better, like Newt Gingrich, and by those who don’t, like Free Republic commenters or your relatives (you know the ones) who pass on those slap-me-stupid email forwards.

'Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed," said Charles Krauthammer in a recent column, pointing out that overwhelming majorities of Americans have repudiated liberal agenda items such as: ObamaCare, Obama's stimulus, building an Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, redefinition of marriage to include same-sex marriage, lax immigration law enforcement and vast expansion of federal power that includes unprecedented debt and deficits. The nation's elite and the news media see being against the Obama-led agenda as being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, mean-spirited and insensitive. Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times, has a different twist expressed...

How to Cheat a Retirement FundBy ORIN S. KRAMER Published: September 10, 2010 A FEW weeks ago, at the insistence of the Securities and Exchange Commission, New Jersey agreed never again to fraudulently hide its underfunding of the state’s public pension system. Meanwhile, in Albany, Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for state comptroller, has asserted that — if you do the math the way any ordinary financial analyst or economist would — New York’s pension system is underfunded by tens of billions of dollars and that, as a result, the state is essentially insolvent. These little tempests are likely to...

Standing three blocks from the World Trade Center site on the eve of Sept. 11, Rep. Keith Ellison looked out over more than 1,500 people wearing white and holding candles in support of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero. "The whole world is watching you," the Minnesota Democrat told the mosque supporters. "You emphatically say we are together, and we can't be torn apart based on religion." Ellison has never shied away from talking about his Muslim faith, but until now has not attempted to be a spokesman for it. Now, as he tries for a third...

Buried deep in the data tables of the Annual Report of the Medicare Board of Trustees last month is the authoritative documentation of the full amount of the draconian cuts to Medicare included in the ObamaCare health care takeover legislation. Medicare's own chief actuary has already publicly reported that the Medicare payment rates for the doctors and hospitals serving seniors will be cut by 30% over the next three years. By 2019, those Medicare payment rates will be lower than under Medicaid, which leaves the poor often unable to find doctors and hospitals willing to serve them. Medicare's chief actuary...

For more than two years now, I have given Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt. That may be hard to fathom for some because of my admittedly relentless and tireless pursuit of the truth about his origins and his constitutional eligibility for office. After all, I am the guy who has posted this question on billboards across America: "Where's the birth certificate?" But I really have given Obama the benefit of the doubt until now. I have asked the questions and directed the investigative reporting that has changed America's political landscape on the eligibility question. WND conducted the first...

A few weeks back we told you that the extraordinary Jane Badler was joining ABC's V remake in the role from the original V that made her famous the world over, as the evil, guinea-pig-eating reptilian alien "Diana." However, her new Diana is a bit different from the original one, and Badler talked about what it took to get the role and how it will be different this time around.

Will the Tea Party put principles first? September 13, 2010 by Jason E. High The Republican primary election for Senate in Delaware tomorrow is a stark example of a choice that is facing the Tea Party movement and all of its various offspring. The candidate that was supposed to win is Representative Mike Castle. During his time in Congress, Castle has voted for cap and trade, voted for the $700 billion TARP legislation and voted to ban incandescent light bulbs. These aren’t exactly positions that endear him to the Tea Party. Polling, and every other indicator, say that Castle is...

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) will become the most valuable company in the world. Bet on it. In fact, go out and sell all your personal belongings, liquidate your 401(k), and buy Apple stock with every last dollar you own.OK … on second thought, I wouldn't advise that -- it's a bit rash. But there are ample reasons to believe that the company's rise is just starting and that Apple will continue blowing past expectations.Big Oil, meet Big PhoneYou've heard the standard "bullish" reasons before: Apple has $45 billion in cash and trades at only 12 times forward earnings when netting out...

Michael Moore for White House chief of staff? Posted: September 13th, 2010 07:22 PM ET (CNN) – If White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel leaves Washington to run for mayor in his hometown of Chicago, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore says he knows who could take his place: himself. "I'm just willing to come in," Moore told Wolf Blitzer on Monday on CNN's The Situation Room. "I'll work there everyday, I'll get up with Obama, we'll get up at six in the morning, I'll help light a fire under him, we'll get going, we'll get the job that needs to...

Waters’, Rangel’s trials may be stalled till after Election DayBy Rachel Rose Hartman Mon Sep 13, 1:38 pm ET Critics and supporters alike have requested speedy House trials for Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel, who each face multiple House ethics charges. Yet watchdog groups tell the Hill it's unlikely that either case will be resolved before the Nov. 2 general election. "Both of these pending trials should have been concluded months ago," Craig Holman of Public Citizen told the Hill's Susan Crabtree. "The House ethics committee stumbled miserably in these cases, allowing them to be delayed and delayed,...

Irresponsibility: After the global financial crisis, no politician would dare chide another for too much "safety and soundness." But in 2004, 76 Democrats actually asked President Bush not to manage Fannie Mae responsibly. There are smoking guns and then there are smoking bazookas. The June 28, 2004, letter from Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and dozens of other House Democrats to President Bush, posted by Moe Lane on Redstate.com last week, forever squashes Democratic claims about the mortgage crisis not being their fault. "We urge you to reconsider your administration's criticisms of the housing-related government sponsored...

Fiat Money -Toilet Paper Money The history of fiat money, to put it kindly, has been one of failure. In fact, EVERY fiat currency since the Romans first began the practice in the first century has ended in devaluation and eventual collapse, of not only the currency, but of the economy that housed the fiat currency as well. Why would it be different here in the U.S.? Well, in actuality, it hasn’t been. In fact, in our short history, we’ve already had several failed attempts at using paper currency, and it is my opinion that today’s dollars are no different...

There has been a failure in the system. You wont read about it in your newspaper- you wont hear about it on the radio; however it happened and now I live with the consequences. Pride is a word that is hard to define. Many of us would never ask for help, except as a last resort. How many of us would starve rather than asking for help? We are being overrun with illegal aliens from mexico, states like California are facing bankruptcy, at least in part, because of the drain on the public services provided illegal aliens in the...

Amtrak officials pushed the agency's longtime inspector general to resign — without telling Congress — after the watchdog official exposed wrongdoing, mismanagement and criminal activity inside the taxpayer-funded rail service, a congressional probe has found. The finding is among the key disclosures in a joint staff report by ranking Republicans of the Senate Finance and House Oversight and Government Reform committees into the sudden departure last year of Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold. "Because of his expertise, the [Amtrak] Board viewed Weiderhold as a threat," concluded a draft copy of the report, which was reviewed by The Washington Times. The...

Why did President Obama choose tolerance as the subject of his speech at the Pentagon ostensibly to commemorate the victims of 9/11? Why is it that he insists on making this the overarching point at such events rather than, say, express our deep regret for the lost lives of the murdered Americans and repeat our national resolve to "bring to justice" those behind the massacre? Then again, we are talking about President Obama here, the man who also believes the primary lesson we should learn from the Islamists' beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl is that the freedom of press is...