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Erick Wyatt, a 37-year-old veteran of the war in Iraq, is running for Sen. John Cornyn’s seat in the Republican primary in March 2014. The young Veteran said he does not think Cornyn is doing a good job representing Texas, and the current Senator is “a moderate at best.” Wyatt is currently the youngest challenger up for Cornyn’s seat, but believes his young age and lack of political background is an advantage because it gives him greater opportunity to relate to the working middle class and the younger generation.

In 2004, the new president told risk managers in San Francisco that closer supervision had "made our financial system far more resilient to shocks." In Phoenix that year, she reported "more positive signs in the economy." She flagged real estate as a concern in March 2005, telling a banking group in Hawaii that her staff was examining commercial lending and was concerned about the "easing of credit standards and terms on loans" for home mortgages. But Yellen ended optimistically, concluding that "we don't think widespread problems are likely" and that "industry conditions in many respects are stronger now than they've...

Over the last ten years gas prices have risen 190 percent, reports the UK Telegraph, and electricity prices have risen 120 percent over that time period. UK households now spend more than 27 percent of their earnings on “housing, water, gas, electricity and petrol.”

Adolescent pregnancy is related to a “whole string of human rights violations” and so it must gain more attention in global development policy, says the UN’s World Population Monitoring Report. … Some 7.3 million teen women give birth every year. 2 million of these are under 15 years of age. Every day, roughly 5,000 girls give birth. Yearly, 70 million young women lose their lives during pregnancy and childbirth. … “The rights of young girls cannot be trampled on any longer,” said Renate Bähr, the executive director of the German Foundation for World Population. “Teen pregnancies can only be successfully...

That was an ugly close for the second session in a row reflecting a number of things including a fair amount of confusion, matched or surpassed by frustration. I continue to say Fed news should be interpreted as a red flag for the US economy. It reminds me of a fancy electronic air pump I bought last year. The engine was impressive, and the sales guy said it could fill up a truck tire in minutes. I finally broke it out early this summer as we prepared to go bike riding. I plugged it in, and the motor was humming....

It was irresistible. On Halloween, The Drudge Report highlighted a Washington Post interview with the author of "The Exorcist." William Peter Blatty had used the word "demonic," and now there atop Drudge was a photo of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. It had been another week of the Obama administration having to answer for the political house of horrors that has become of its signature Obamacare law, the misnamed Affordable Care Act. Blatty never called Sebelius demonic. But he did reflect on the American soul in ways deeper than most political analyses ever tend to, deeper...

Since September of this year, the DC Court of appeals has posted the audio of its oral arguments online. At the link, press CENTRAL + F and insert "HHS" to find the argument in Gilardi v. HHS. (I didn't want to link directly to the MP3.) One of the judges in the panel, Janice Rodgers Brown, is probably (along with Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit) the most prominent libertarian-leaning judge working on the federal circuit level today.

DALLAS (AP) — Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will serve as the next president of the Boy Scouts of America, taking the helm of a national executive board that remains tangled in controversy over the organization's policies toward gays, BSA announced Wednesday. Gates' two-year term to the volunteer position begins next May, once he's formally approved by the voting members of the Boy Scouts' National Council. He will succeed current BSA President Wayne Perry. Gates was an Eagle Scout before he began his decades-long career in public service, which included leading the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Department. He...

Super trendy electric car manufacturer Tesla has seen “it’s biggest one-month loss of market value” according to Bloomberg news.Tesla lost 17 percent of its value in the month of October. This means that the value of the Palo Alto based company has slipped from its peak of $23.5 billion to $19.4 billion. Bloomberg notes that the company’s loss of value in the month of October is higher than its entire market valuation at the beginning of 2013.This slide has been blamed on a readjustment of expectations as the company attempts to come to grips with the challenges facing it now that...

COPPERAS COVE, Texas, - A Texas man was detained in a jail under an ordinance allowing for the arrest of people with overdue library books. Police in Copperas Cove said Jory Enck was arrested Wednesday and jailed for a time before eventually being released for violating the ordinance that allows the arrest of people who do not return their library books after more than 90 days, KWTX, Waco, reported Friday. Court documents accuse Enck of checking out a GED study guide in 2010 that was never returned. The documents said Enck did not respond to the library's attempts to contact...

I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgement than for that town. Matthew 10:15 After Michelle Obozo spends over a billion on a website for their signature legislation, it only handled six people? Did they outsource the technology to Cuba? How many times do the socialists of the world have to prove that Marxism is a failed economic and political philosophy which is built on incompetence, corruption and strong arm tactics like we are witnessing. This regime will be remembered in the future of one simple line, “If you...

In the midst of a conflict rife with sectarianism, a giant bronze statue of Jesus has gone up on a Syrian mountain, apparently under cover of a truce among three factions in the country’s civil war. Jesus stands, arms outstretched, on the Cherubim mountain, overlooking a route pilgrims took from Constantinople to Jerusalem in ancient times. The statue is 12.3 meters (40 feet) tall and stands on a base that brings its height to 32 meters (105 feet), organizers of the project estimate. That the statue made it to Syria and went up without incident on Oct. 14 is remarkable....

Deceased Republican President Ronald Reagan sought to to permanently ban African Americans from playing college and professional football in the South with white people, civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. alleged in a speech at Furman University on Wednesday evening. In the same speech he also alleged that the modern Tea Party was born from efforts to sustain segregation. “Goldwater and Reagan – had they been successful, it would have been illegal for blacks and whites to play together on a Saturday afternoon,” he said. -snip- In the hour long speech, which focused on race but meandered through a...

She told community leaders the public needs to be reminded that the website does not function like Amazon.com, where customers are used to logging on to buy a product “like a Tickle Me Elmo doll”** before someone else gets it. In this case, Sebelius said, the service is constant and doesn’t run out. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) who invited Sebelius to the city, bristled at some of the questions she was asked, saying “Change is hard. Get over it. Barack Obama is president, and the Affordable Care Act is the law.” In the crowd was Republican state Sen. Brian...

The account creation system necessary to even start the process of using the exchanges basically didn’t work at all when the site launched. The vast majority of people who can create accounts still can’t complete the enrollment process. Anyone who successfully logs in gets to the point of shopping for specific plans on the exchanges may see prices displayed incorrectly, Anyone who decides to browse for plans without logging in first is also liable to see incorrect prices. The “shop and browse” feature installed to mitigate problems caused by the broken account system often displays the wrong prices, because it...

Dear Ayatollah Khamenei – We are hearing reports that you may be in poor health. I hope this is not true, but either way I want you to know that I am praying for the God of the Bible to heal and comfort you. I am also praying that God will open your eyes and grant you repentance that you may receive Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord and have eternal life. In addition, I am asking Christians around the world to pray for you, as well. Allow me to take a moment to share with you two very...

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper admitted to the House Select Committee on Intelligence that Mr. Obama and senior White House officials “were well aware of U.S. surveillance activities targeting leaders of friendly foreign nations.” Despite the best efforts of professional Democrat liars (aka consultants) Mr. Obama unquestionably knew about the intelligence communities targeting of foreign leaders. In fact, he pointed out that “neither the CIA nor the National Security Agency can tap into a given leader’s private communications without White House oversight.” Not only was Obama regularly briefed on the programs, so was Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chair...

As New York City police commissioner, Bernard Kerik was ultimately responsible for the incarceration of many criminals. Now that he has seen the prison system from the inside, having served three years behind bars, he has a new appraisal of the U.S. penal system: "insane." In his first interview since his release from prison, where he served time for tax evasion and lying to federal authorities, Kerik told NBC’s Matt Lauer on the Today show Friday: "No one in the history of our country has ever been in the system with my background.

In Oct. 2013, Toyota published a paper in the peer-reviewed Japanese Journal of Applied Physics which confirmed important experimental results that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries had first published in 2002. MHI had claimed transmutation of Cesium into Praseodymium via the forced diffusion of Deuterium gas through a thin-film heterostructure containing elemental Palladium using a permeation method pioneered by Mitsubishi; it is capable of triggering nuclear reactions in condensed matter systems under modest temperatures and pressures. Importantly, all of this experimental data is predicted and fully explained by the peer-reviewed Widom-Larsen theory of low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs). While the Mitsubishi permeation...

Jim Angle @JimAngleFox I call the http://healthcare.gov 800 #, give my name & address, then put on hold. The guy comes back & says you appear to be in the media. *************************************** Jim Angle @JimAngleFox I was calling from an unlisted number & gave personal cell as my phone. How did they know? I have no idea but he wouldn't answer questions.