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CHICAGO (CBS) — Unbelievable surveillance video captured flash mobs dashing into store after store and running out with armloads and sometimes entire racks of sporting goods. It has happened at three different Sports Authority stores in the Chicago area. This past Monday in Burbank at just before 1 p.m., five individuals entered a Sports Authority and soon after they were off. Video shows them running out the door with rack after rack of apparel and an employee giving chase.

Just a few : 1) iphone didnt work on day one either (Was there a iphone personal mandate?) 2) The website private contractors screwed it up, its capitalisms fault. (who managed them?) 3) The insurance companies are only canceling policies and charging you more for new ones to make THEM even more $$$ , more proof we need single payer. (but I thought Obamacare rules regulates/limits their profits) 4) The GOP red states broke the website by refusing to setup their own health care exchanges, which overwhelmed the system 5) If only that website was working then Americans would see...

As the White House flails to defend President Barack Obama’s discredited pledge about keeping your old insurance even under Obamacare, it’s not just Republicans pointing out that the administration has being less than honest when explaining what it really meant. On Thursday, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker gave Obama and White House press secretary Jay Carney three out of four “Pinocchios” for blaming the insurance companies, rather than the new health care law, for the growing number of cancellation letters. On Wednesday, the Pulitzer-winning PolitiFact website gave Obama its highest ranking for dishonesty, “Pants on Fire,” for his tortured defense...

State legislators are considering reforming automobile insurance laws to save drivers money while still providing robust coverage. As it is, ill-conceived state mandates cause Michigan drivers to pay among the highest insurance costs in the nation for the coverage they receive. The Citizens Research Council released a study recently examining why the system is so expensive. The details are complicated, but in the end it comes down to basic economics. Michigan is unique among states in that it requires personal injury protection coverage for all drivers, allows those injured to sue at-fault drivers for bodily injury, and pays unlimited medical...

Something inspirational for a Thursday morning...the kids perform 'Roar'.

While hearings have been going on in Washington to get to the bottom of the Obamacare debacle, South Carolina has been holding its own hearings to see whether or not it can pass a law to nullify Obamacare within the state. Watch: Read more at The Right Scoop

Has anyone heard that Obamacare offers plans (to the low income people) that have NO deductibles or co-pays? Someone I know is insisting that it was he got - at $80 per month.

image courtesy of grumpyelder.comIt's HUGE. John Rosenthal at PJ Media: And thanks to the recent reporting of CNN (where were they and the other media three years ago, when we needed them?), more people will realize that shortly after the passage of Obamacare the Obama administration implemented rules specifically designed to ensure that millions of people — those who provided for themselves on the individual market, i.e., who did not receive coverage through their employer or union — would not be allowed to keep their current insurance. Thus not only were Obama’s assurances untrue; they were purposeful deceit in which...

Despite a softening tone from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the regime’s illicit nuclear program, the Islamic Republic is hardening its position on the right to enrich uranium. An analysis by Fars News Agency, the Revolutionary Guards’ media outlet, said that Iran not only has the right to continue its nuclear program but to expand it dramatically to fulfill its needs.

"We could name for you a whole bunch of Republicans who are good and decent people who are as frustrated as we are in some ways about what's happened to their party," he said. "But right now at least, there's a group that — and a few of them are from Texas, I've got to admit who just aren't willing to do the hard work and the compromise necessary to move the country forward," he said. Obama pointedly mentioned "at least one senator from Texas" in criticizing the harsh tactics used by Republicans to block his signature health care program.

Okay let’s get this right out: I don’t believe New Jersey Democrat Barbara Buono was a serious candidate. I believe she took one for her team. I believe she was a kamikaze who was supposed to get destroyed by Chris Christie as she did 60/40. I believe the New Jersey Democrats took a look at the landscape in the Garden State and decided even if they brought Franklin Roosevelt back to life and ran him against Christie even he would lose. Once they came to that realization they also recognized that it made little difference whether they lost to him...

“Bobby Jindal and his political team totally blew it,” harrumphed one advisor for Ken Cuccinelli the morning after a closer-than-expected loss. Cuccinelli, who narrowly lost last night’s gubernatorial election to Terry McAuliffe, was badly outspent in the days and weeks leading up to the election. The New York Times‘ Jonathan Martin described Cuccinelli’s plight as having been “close to abandoned at the end.” He was. As Politico’s James Hohmann reported, ”The Republican National Committee spent about $3 million on Virginia this year, compared to $9 million in the 2009.” And as the Roanoke Times noted, in 2009, the Chamber of...

Having now tripled since August, Bitcoin's break above $300 ($324 highs) raises an important thought experiment - can a digital currency act as a global reserve currency? It seems yesterday's CNBC discussion that Bitcoin is nothing but a beanie-baby fad just served to feed the beast... on heavy volume after Draghi's comments... Charles Hugh-Smith, from OfTwoMinds blog, attempts an answer of just that question: Could Bitcoin (or equivalent) Become a Global Reserve Currency? Could a non-state issued digital currency like Bitcoin become a global reserve currency? The idea came up in my recent conversation with Max Keiser on the Keiser...

Obama was looking forward to spending the night at his house in Kenwood, on the city’s South Side—the redbrick Georgian Revival pile that he and Michelle and their daughters left behind when they took up residence in the White House. He arrived fairly late, after 10:00 p.m., but then stayed up even later, intrigued by some old boxes that had belonged to his late mother, Ann Dunham. Dunham had died seven years earlier, but Obama hadn’t sorted through all her things. Now, alone in his old house for just the third night since he’d become president, he started rummaging through...

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SANTA FE—Where did the first Americans come from? Most researchers agree that Paleoamericans moved across the Bering Land Bridge from Asia sometime before 15,000 years ago, suggesting roots in East Asia. But just where the source populations arose has long been a mystery. Now comes a surprising twist, from the complete nuclear genome of a Siberian boy who died 24,000 years ago—the oldest complete genome of a modern human sequenced to date. His DNA shows close ties to those of today's Native Americans. Yet he apparently descended not from East Asians, but from people who had lived in Europe or...

The day before the catastrophic Healthcare.gov was supposed to start offering insurance, internal reports show that the website was only configured to handle “1,100 users” at a single time before “response time gets too high.” The document was released by oversight.house.gov. Under the category “stress test,” testers for Healthcare.gov ran a performance evaluation on the site. This evaluation occurred on September 30, just one day before the site was ready to hit prime-time. During the testing, results were, quite frankly, atrocious. The tester writes (emphasis mine): Ran performance testing overnight in IMP1B environment. Working with CGI to tune the FFM...

I travel a good bit, and I like to stop at small gun shops along the way.   Most people can buy long arms in most of the U.S. without a problem, and if a handgun is worth the effort, it can be transferred to a dealer in most home states. You never know what you will find, and often, there are interesting items. I recently visited RCH Firearms in Hayward, Wisconsin, a good ways from the beaten track.   I must have driven by this shop a dozen times before the sign in the window proved of enough interest...

Top of Page 34,553 TABLE 3—ESTIMATES OF THE CUMULATIVE PERCENTAGE OF EMPLOYER PLANS RELINQUISHING THEIR GRANDFATHERED STATUS, 2011–2013 Bottom of Page 34,552 "Under this assumption, the Departments’ mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013. The low-end estimates are for 49 percent and 34 percent of small and large employer plans, respectively, to have relinquished grandfather status, and the high-end estimates are 80 percent and 64 percent, respectively."

Tallahassee, FL - Private gun sellers at gun shows, flea markets, garage sales, etc., don't have to run the mandatory three to five day background checks that public gun dealers do. It's called the "gun show loophole." Leon County Commissioner Mary Ann Lindley would like to see that loophole closed. Since she proposed that at the last Leon County Commission meeting in October, more than 400 emails have flooded her office. "Kind of these very redundant 'just say no, just say no,' and 'don't take my gun away,' and 'don't stomp on the second amendment,' and things that are not...