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Can the President and Senate invest the federal government with new powers not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution simply by signing and ratifying a treaty? Can the treaty power be used to override the Tenth Amendment and render it a dead letter? Those issues will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 5, 2013, in the case of Bond v. United States. When I returned to Congress in January, I also wanted to return to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on which I had served almost 20 years ago. I also wanted to serve on the Subcommittee...

Twitter has repeatedly suspended an account critical of the Affordable Care Act. The account, @mycancellation, was just getting started when Twitter suspended it—twice—before reinstating the account late Saturday night. The purpose of @mycancellation or mycancellation.com was to allow some of the millions of Americans who are losing their health insurance to post pictures of themselves with their cancellation letters. “Help us show Washington the faces who lost what they liked,” the account asked. “ObamaCare canceled your health insurance. Now, send us your letter,” the tagline for the website advertised.

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Ah yes, religious freedom. Prosecuting the 911 Muslim terrorists violates their religious freedom, too. "Des Moines imam argues sexual exploitation charges violate religious freedom" By The Des Moines Register, November 4, 2013 (article had to be cut out as it comes from a Gannett paper -- FR rules) Additionally, there's no evidence that the two women were "emotionally dependent" upon Spahic, the motion said. Spahic will also argue he is not guilty on the sexual abuse charge at trial.The woman on Aug. 12 called Spahic to her house in Johnston for help with her daughter, who reportedly suffered personal issues,...

"Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That's why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it." -- Barack Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009 But who will go to court, or do anything at all, in the U.S. or Sudan or anywhere else, to protect the right of women and girls not to wear...

'Previously unknown artworks by masters among nearly 1,400 pieces found in a trove of Nazi-looted art in Munich, German officials say.'

NEW BRITAIN (CT) — A student still wearing his Halloween costume from the weekend caused alarm when he walked through Central Connecticut State University Monday, prompting a campus lockdown and a massive armed response from police. After police sorted things out, student David Kyem apologized. "I'm sorry for all the commotion and the fear and the confusion," said Kyem, 21, a senior from Newington. "I'm sorry for any problems. It's obviously a big misunderstanding." Central police charged Kyem Monday night with breach of peace and released him after he posted $1,000 bail. He is the son of Central geography Professor...

'India has successfully launched a spacecraft to the Red Planet - with the aim of becoming the fourth space agency to reach Mars. The Mars Orbiter Mission took off at 09:08 GMT from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the country's east coast. The head of India's space agency told the BBC the mission would demonstrate the technological capability to reach Mars orbit and carry out experiments. The spacecraft is set to travel for 300 days and reaching Mars orbit in 2014. If the satellite orbits the Red Planet, India's space agency will become the fourth in the world after...

The California Endowment, a foundation spending big bucks to promote Obamacare, has just delivered a $500,000 grant to TV writers and producers to sneak Obamacare promotions into their programs.  "The aim is to produce compelling prime-time narratives that encourage Americans to enroll, especially the young and healthy, Hispanics and other key demographic groups needed to make the overhaul a success."In a rather backhanded insult, grant recipient Martin Kaplan of the University of Southern California's Norman Lear Center explained, "We know from research that when people watch entertainment television, even if they know it's fiction, they tend to believe that the...

The TSA agents union says a new supplemental TSA force with greater authority needs to be created. This 'new class' of TSA officers would work among regular TSA employees, but would be armed and able to make arrests. The announcement comes just days after one TSA agent was killed and two others injured at Los Angeles International Airport. The goal is to create a larger, and more consistent TSA presence in screening areas.

This young girl. One of the latest victims of "Obama's sons" I am a mix of utter sadness and utter fury.

Jay Carney openly mocked ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl today after a series of increasingly heated questions over deceptive statements made by Carney about the methods in which one can enroll in Obamacare. The Blaze's Becket Adams noted some of the back and forth: The discussion became charged when Karl repeatedly asked Carney to explain President Barack Obama’s claim that Americans need not worry about the faulty healthcare.gov website because they can always enroll through phone or paper applications. "I’m going to go back to what the President said, he said you can bypass the website, and apply by...

The biggest breakthroughs in how we make things lie not in the technology to manipulate materials but in the materials themselves. Such is the thinking behind “4-D printing,” an experimental approach to manufacturing that expands on much-hyped 3-D printing processes. Instead of building static three-dimensional items from layers of plastics or metals, 4-D printing employs dynamic materials that continue to evolve in response to their environment. This new wrinkle in the maker movement comes courtesy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Self-Assembly Lab, where director Skylar Tibbits and his team are experimenting with so-called “programmable materials.” The researchers print these...

Move to the right or try to pull the GOP away from the tea party and toward the center? That is the question Gov. Chris Christie will face if he trounces his way to victory Tuesday in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race and turns his attention to the prospect of a 2016 presidential bid. Some Republicans watching the final stages of the governor’s race say a decisive Christie win will send a message to the national party that the GOP can triumph without catering to the far right. Polls show Mr. Christie, who opposed the partial federal government shutdown last month,...

Job 37:10 By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.

illary Clinton is no doubt a talented speaker. She recently went into what the left wing sees as the heart of darkness of the American 1 percent at Goldman Sachs, purportedly gave two brief chats, and walked away with a reported $400,000 in fees. Such compensation is almost as profitable as Hillary’s long-ago cattle-future trading, in which as a talented rookie speculator she beat one-in-several-million odds by parlaying an original $1,000 investment into a $100,000 profit. That Goldman’s shenanigans were central to the 2008 housing and financial meltdown — and were empowered, in part, by Bill Clinton’s own prior twofer...

...more and more details are coming to light about some of the alleged problems inside of the Dolphins locker room... According to Adam Beasley from CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald... One young defensive player, whose privacy I’m protecting, has literally gone broke because he’s been pressured to pay for older players,” Beasley wrote on Twitter Sunday afternoon. “They’ve gotten sucked into the Miami lifestyle, and the veterans are using the younger player as an ATM, I’m told.” Beasley continued saying a younger Dolphins player “was handed the tab for a $30,000 team dinner. The rookie minimum this year is...

With the date of its imposition in the United States on January 1, 2014, drawing nearer, what President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls the health insurance provider fee, or, as it is known under its more general name, the health insurance tax (HIT), is arousing increasing opposition. Beginning in 2014, the ACA assesses a fee on health insurance providers that, across the industry, will total USD8bn, increasing to USD14.3bn by 2018, and then will continue to increase based on premium trends every year. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has estimated that the fee, which, it has said,...

In Maine, a congressman running for governor came out as gay. In Hawaii, lawmakers girded for a vote to legalize same-sex marriage. And in the U.S. Senate, seven Republicans joined the Democrats in a landmark vote to ban workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. From one end of the country to the other, the overlapping developments on a single day underscored what a historic year 2013 has been for the U.S. gay-rights movement - "the gayest year in gay history," according to Fred Sainz of the Human Rights Campaign, the movement's largest advocacy group. Yet each of Monday's...

Off to open the polls at 0515. Hope they keep me awake.