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On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal gave its readers a helpful tip on how to avoid being scammed by fake Obamacare sites: avoid websites that actually work:“Important consumer warning: If an insurance shopping website is usable, it’s not the federal government’s,” the Journal quipped in an unsigned editorial.HealthCare.gov — the federal destination for Obamacare-compliant healthcare — has been famously horrible since Obamacare officially kicked off on Oct. 1. The Journal notes that there has been a “profusion of identity thieves and scam-artist pages that are now pretending to be Healthcare.gov and are tricking people into divulging sensitive information or buying fake products.”

Israel and the US lost their voting rights at UNESCO over the Palestinians. The two stopped paying their dues after the Paris-based organization accepted Palestine as a member. See Jerusalem Post coverage. US national security advisor Susan Rice took to Twitter to blame Congress, while the Washington Post explains what the voting loss means for American soft power. According to the NY Times, the US had provided 22 percent of UNESCO’s budget.

Featured Term (selected at random:NATURE AND GRACE The two ultimates of human existence viewed in their mutual relationship. Nature is what human beings are and have when they are born (nati). Grace is what they further need by divine favor (gratia) to reach their eternal destiny. All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

They loom over him, brandishing their weapons, their gaze steady. The sculptor can feel the presence of the heroes he honors in clay and bronze, U.S. Navy SEALs all. And all of them gone. "I am an intuitive artist. I believe and I feel that their spirits are in the room when I am working, and that they’re helping me finish that work,” said Greg Marra, a Florida sculptor who is a man on a mission. He is determined to tell the stories of fallen American warriors. “I know it sounds crazy, but I feel their presence. That’s what happens...

DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz never fails to provide us with moments based in anything but reality. Over the weekend on CNN's State of the Union, Wasserman-Schultz told host Candy Crowley that Obamacare will be a positive force for Democrats to run on in 2014 as millions of Americans continue to lose their health insurance plans. Wasserman-Schultz continued to push the Obama administration talking point that although insurance losses are are not what the President promised, people will be able to get a plan that "they like better" and that "offers more at a cheaper price," which isn't true. The cost...

A Russian report quoted by Palestinian investigators on Friday said there was insufficient evidence to support the theory that Yasser Arafat died in 2004 by polonium poisoning. The findings were far weaker than those of a Swiss laboratory announced with fanfare on Wednesday by Arafat's widow and Qatar-based al-Jazeera television. Palestinians remained unfazed by the results - which dampen but don't definitely disprove the possibility of death by poisoning - and officials continue to blame arch foe Israel. Samples were extracted from Arafat's corpse last November by Swiss, French and Russian experts after an al-Jazeera documentary revealed unusually high amounts...

Recently, FF Wiley and Ginger Snap at Cynicomics posted an interesting article entitled “M.C. Escher and the Impossibility of the Establishment Economic View.“ In their article, they discuss the latest budget forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). They point out that the CBO is abnormally bullish on near-term growth, based on its long-standing assumption that the gap between actual and potential output will swiftly close. But the longer-term growth forecast is … bearish. 44521-LTBOSupplementalData2013 escherchart1_thumb1 (1) The CBO also forecasts the REAL 10 year Treasury rate (nominal less inflation). escherchart21 According to the CBO, the real 10 year rate...

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Anyone else see him pretend he cares about our fighting men and women?

After the wreath-laying, Obama walked up the stairs into the memorial building, and heard (what appeared to be HIS voice) "JEESUS!". I had to play it back a few times and was appalled. Anyone else make that observation?

The story of the first gay Bishop of the American Episcopal Church, Gene Robinson, is fascinating. His parents were poor, ignorant, redneck, tobacco farmers, who were fundamentalist Christians. Robinson was a gay child raised in the Bible Belt state of Kentucky, where he was taught hateful religious right doctrines that the definition of marriage is one man joined to one woman, and that no other form of sexual behavior was permitted. Robinson's hillbilly redneck parents also required their child to attend Sunday School, where he had a perfect attendance record for 13 years. In these Christian religious schools, he was...

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The long-delayed $2.3-billion aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya (Admiral Gorshkov) will be inducted into the Indian Navy by defence minister AK Antony during his Russia visit slated between November 15 and 17. The 45,000-tonne Kiev class warship, rechristened by the Navy as Vikramaditya, sailed out of the Sevmash shipyard in northern Russia in July this year for trials. After ‘sustained full-power’ trials, it will now return to the shipyard for final polish and will be ready for handover to the Navy on November 15, when the defence minister visits Russia, MoD sources said. Antony will ‘accept’ the aircraft carrier on November...

Oh, puh-leeze. President Obama carefully apologized for something Thursday. (See video below.) But not for lying. Attempting to staunch the growing furor over his countless misrepresentations about Americans keeping their existing health plan under ObamaCare, the Democrat granted an exclusive interview to NBC News' Chuck Todd. "Exclusive" is what politicians grant 1) to get extra oomph from their interview with one media outlet and 2) to avoid the news conference's reportorial feeding-frenzy that accompanies the scent of political blood in the water. First, what Obama didn't do. He didn't apologize for misleading the entire country for three-plus years by saying...

Let’s face it. If a robot got hold of your kitchen knives and wanted to cook you dinner, how safe would you feel? (Can you picture knives flying, pots breaking things, and things catching on fire?) Researchers from Cornell University are working on a new training technique that will allow humans to teach robots to carry out dangerous tasks, like holding knives, without hurting anyone around them. Cornell team teaches a robot how to safely check out items as a cashier. The Cornell University team, led by Ashutosh Saxen, an associate professor of computer science, taught a robot how to...

As President Obama has recognized, his administration’s failure to deliver a functioning Web site that Americans can use to enroll in Obamacare represents an inexcusable error. The Affordable Care Act, which legislates near-universal health insurance, was passed after more than a century of failed efforts to achieve this progressive dream in this country. It is tragic to be falling short on the mundane task of enrolling Americans in health-care exchanges. Even if the goal of getting the health-insurance exchanges working by Nov. 30 is achieved — and objective observers cannot regard this as a certainty — a shadow has been...

The federal government says virtually all of Michigan, except for the shores of the Great Lakes, is "poor" or "marginal" for wind energy. But that's not stopping a variety of groups and some legislators from pushing to increase the state's renewable energy mandate. In response, a protest is planned for Monday at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing during the American Wind Energy Association Wind Forum. At issue is an ongoing effort by the wind energy industry to increase Michigan's current 10 percent government imposed renewable energy mandate. In Michigan, renewable energy has become a euphemism for wind power. Last...

TACLOBAN CITY—High school teacher Bernadette Tenegra, 44, would never forget the last words of her daughter. “Ma, just let go. Save yourself,” said the girl, whose body was pierced by wooden splinters from houses crushed by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” “I was holding her and I kept telling her to hang on, that I was going to bring her up. But she just gave up,” said Tenegra, her face contorted in grief. The sun was shining only hours after the deadly landfall of the monster typhoon, casting a clearer light on the misery that had descended upon the city on Friday and...

There is nothing to focus the presidential mind like finding out that your Gallup approval rating has dropped below George W. Bush’s in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. So little wonder that after spending weeks denying he had promised Americans they could keep their health plans, President Obama finally said the words “I’m sorry.” But let’s be clear: He didn’t really apologize. Look closely at what Obama actually said: He did not apologize for misleading the American people. And he did not apologize for people losing the plans he promised they could keep. He apologized that they can’t get into...

A third New Mexico resident is claiming that she was physically abused by police and medical staff who exceeded their authority to search for drugs she never had. The woman’s attorney came forward with her story just a few days after a local news channel reported similar stories involving New Mexico police forcing two suspects to undergo invasive surgery to prove they weren’t carrying drugs. Police used expired and nonexistent warrants to justify the improper and unethical searches, according to KOB-TV 4. The unnamed woman is being represented by Laura Schaur Ives of the New Mexico chapter of the American...