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A California school district is using some $115,000 of federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to have kids wear vests with RFID chips embedded so their every move inside the school complex can be monitored. A report from TechNewsDaily cites the work of the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services agency, which already has spent $50,000 setting up the system for a first Head Start site. "We did some research and we thought this would be a good utilization for the money," Karen Mitchoff, an agency spokeswoman, told TechNews Daily. The action has...

Eyeblast TV posted this video - http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=hdkUnz2GQu I took Gateway Pundits original story to set up this new video. The new video is the second one.

In a big boost for biofuels, Solazyme is expected to announce today that the U.S. Navy has ordered an additional 150,000 gallons of its algae-based fuel.

Michelle Obama thinks being America’s First Lady is ‘hell’, Carla Bruni reveals today in a wildly indiscreet new book. Miss Bruni reveals that Mrs Obama replied when asked about her position as the U.S. president’s wife: ‘Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!’ Details of the private conversation, which took place at the White House during an official visit by Nicolas Sarkozy last March, emerged in Carla And The Ambitious, a book written in collaboration with Miss Bruni.

My friend posted this to my facebook page. I'm stunned. Castle was a moderate. Moderates create great policy. Castle was great policy.

Words left out of the Pledge of Allegiance last week at Murray County High School was a mistake on behalf of a paraprofessional Superintendent Vicki Reed said that in a phone interview Friday afternoon. Reed said she received a phone call from a "community member" about the words "one nation under God" being omitted from the pledge. Reed said she immediately called MCHS principal Gina Linder. Read more: Chatsworth Times - Pledge mishap sparks questions

Until only two years ago, northern Germany was believed to have been a no-go area for Roman troops after three legions were wiped out by German tribesmen in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9. The revelation that two centuries later a Roman force mounted a punitive raid deep inside the tribal areas in AD 235 has changed all that, suggesting that a soldier-emperor, Maximinus Thrax, seriously attempted to subjugate the north of Germany. The debris from the battle is scattered over a wooded hill, the Harzhorn. An archeological dig there this summer turned up 1,800 artefacts. A...

Christine O’Donnell’s primary victory Tuesday night has sparked nothing short of a mini GOP civil war, with Sarah Palin and Karl Rove on opposing sides after Rove criticized Palin-backed O’Donnell after her win. Now Rush Limbaugh has entered the fray on his radio show Wednesday, outraged at what he sees as Rove’s lack of support for the party. "If 51 seats was really the objective -- if getting the majority is really that important, then let's go balls to the wall for Christine O'Donnell!" Limbaugh screamed, “Why not fight for it? Why not fight for it? Castle's OK as the...

Maintaining his corrupt policy of “say one thing to the American people and then do the opposite,” Dictator-in-Chief Obama remains true to his primary mission–collapse and destroy the USA and her people. Applying the directives of Saul Alinsky, the Cloward-Piven Strategy and–of course–Karl Marx, Obama and his merry band of demolishers are working feverishly to destroy the USA before a potentially new and more conservative-run House of Representatives takes the majority.

President Barack Obama assured Hispanics on Wednesday he was not walking away from immigration reform while expressing disappointment that he had not delivered on a 2008 promise to overhaul U.S. policy. Obama, a Democrat who is ramping up his rhetoric against Republicans ahead of November 2 congressional elections, said only cooperation from both parties would allow reforms to advance. He blamed Republicans for backing away from reform and urged Hispanics -- an important and growing voting bloc -- to continue giving him the support they gave during his presidential campaign. "Now, I know that many of you campaigned hard for...

John Brek was in deep trouble after two Continental Airlines employees at Newark Airport told police he’d made comments about cutting a hole in a fence so he could shoot the arriving President Obama. But authorities later dropped the most serious charges that Brek made terroristic threats and possessed a stolen rifle. The 56-year-old Linden man ended up pleading guilty only to harassment, for causing inconvenience, annoyance and alarm — not to the president, but to the pair of worried employees he’d been talking to. Brek, a guard at the airport at the time of that presidential visit in October,...

George Soros, the international investor and one of the world’s richest men, is to have his 2002 criminal conviction for insider trading reviewed by the European Court of Human Rights. ----------- snip The chamber of judges ruled on Wednesday that this complaint “raised complex issues of fact and law” and required further examination.

AN Iranian diplomat has called for an uprising against his government after he became the third of his colleagues to defect this year. "I want (the regime) to be overthrown," press attache at the Iranian embassy in Brussels Farzad Farhangian, 47, told a press conference in Oslo yesterday, before seeking asylum in Norway He fled Brussels at the weekend after his decision to quit triggered threats of reprisals against him and his teenage son. Mr Farhangian, a diplomat for 23 years, wanted to "take a stand in support of the Iranian people and the (opposition) movement". His announcement came barely...

(CNN) -- The preliminaries are over; let the battles begin. With less than seven weeks to go, here are the conclusions of the primary season completed yesterday. The Tea Party is for real! Sarah Palin is the woman! Whether mainstream Republicans or the political class like it, she is the darling of the angry, motivated voters out there and her endorsement counts big time, at least in Republican primaries. Forget Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's endorsement. In May, he couldn't even get his hand-picked candidate the nomination in a state he is supposed to control. You want to win, get...

Remember this next time you walk up to the ticket window of your local movie theater with $10 in your hand. The Media (Accidently?) missed this one!!!! Please read this: The troops overseas would like you to send it to everybody you know. Subject: Denzel Washington, and Brooks Army Medical Center. Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas, (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States, especially burn...

As your humble correspondent has learned, writing humor can be very dangerous since it can easily backfire. Such was the case with a story written by the former Mr. Sharon Stone aka Phil Bronstein, Editor-at-Large of the San Francisco Chronicle. Just from the very title of his piece, "Should Obama have smoked crack?" you just know Bronstein was going to run into trouble. Some readers didn't know he was trying to be funny and were outraged. Other readers realized he was attempting to write humor but felt it was really lame. So here is Bronstein's backfiring humor attempt: ...His druggie...

Have you seen your health insurance rates rise lately? Or did your company just cut benefits? Brace yourself for your “October Surprise”. We heard hundreds of times from Dear Leader how we must have his Government run health system and how it will keep premium rates under control and punish those “wascally insuwance compwanies”. Well friends, it’s time to pull your head out of the ether and begin to live with the government plan that you didn’t want in the first place. Whether it be costs, quality of care, waiting lines, services availability, privacy issues or just the bureaucratic nightmare,...

The following interesting piece, Messing with the Mass: The Problem of Priestly Narcissism Today, was sent my way a couple of days ago. The piece was written by Dr. Paul Vitz, who received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1962 and who is a retired NYU professor of psychology, and his son, Daniel Vitz, at the time of writing at least, a seminarian. It was originally published in Homiletic and Pastoral Review in November 2007 and later republished online on the website of the Catholic Education Resource Centre. They begin by setting out their own particular angle on...

President Obama’s poll numbers will soon reflect the unexpected gains he has made in the economy. Numbers in today show that that the Poverty Rate in America has risen from the low 13′s to well over 15% during his administration. This surge in the Poverty Rate is the highest since 1964! Mr. Obama is sure to beat his “Blame George Bush” drum again but...

I am sorry to say this town in Ohio is close to where I grew up. -------------------- Local officials in Ohio’s Andover Township have denied the use of their public square for a celebration of Constitution Day because of the “political affiliation” of its organizers. Several residents of the small central Ohio town formed The Andover Tea Party in May 2010, and in that same month, they asked to use the square for a rally to commemorate Constitution Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. But on July 19, a trustee...