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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- President Obama told Air Force Academy cadets Wednesday America was stronger and more respected around the world than ever before despite impending cuts to the nation's armed forces. The president delivered the commencement address to over 1,000 graduates at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. "Around the world there is a new feeling about America," he told cadets. "There is a new confidence in our leadership. "Today I think we can say with pride that America is stronger and safer and more respected in the world," Obama added.He noted the class of 2012 would...

Like huge cows, the mighty sauropods would have generated enormous quantities of methane. Sauropods, recognisable by their long necks and tails, were widespread around 150 million years ago. They included some of the largest animals to walk the Earth, such as Diplodocus, which measured 150 feet and weighed up to 45 tonnes. <---Snip

Gamma International UK Ltd. touts its ability to send a “fake iTunes update” that can infect computers with surveillance software, according to one of the company’s marketing videos.< snip> ...the type of intrusion used by criminals trying to steal people’s financial details.< snip> ...All of the hacking companies say they sell their tools to law enforcement and governments to help them track down criminals.< snip>

WASHINGTON (BP)--MTV pulled a pro-life commercial because of its partnership with abortion giant Planned Parenthood, according to the non-profit behind the advertisement. Heroic Media -- a faith-based organization that seeks to reduce abortion by means of ads on television, billboards and the Internet -- said the sometimes controversial cable network barred the pro-life commercial after running it for a year. The non-profit based in Austin, Texas, uses advertising to link women to pro-life pregnancy help centers. A MTV sales representative said the network's president, Stephen Friedman, decided to ban the pro-life commercial, according to a May 17 statement by Heroic...

A federal appeals court has ruled that New York City can ban churches from using public school facilities for Sunday worship services and does not violate free speech. Thursday's 2-1 decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court ruling that allowed the Bronx Household of Faith to hold services in a public school. The justices said that it could unconstitutionally convert schools into state-sponsored Christian churches on weekends. ======snip========== “If we do not get an emergency stay, the churches could be thrown out by the school district,” Lorence told Fox News Radio. ======snip==========...

In an emotional assault on the Republicans, new Democratic Party Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz today called the GOP agenda "anti-women" and "a war on women" that will backfire on Republicans in the 2012 election and provide a cushion for President Obama's re-election bid. "It's just so hard for me to grasp how they could be so anti-women as they are," she said at a breakfast roundtable with reporters. "The pushback and the guttural reaction from women against the Republican's agenda out of the gate, the war on women that the Republicans have been waging since they took over the...

The question of whether President Barack Obama was born on U.S. soil will have zero impact on the 2012 campaign but could significantly damage Republicans’ prospects for retaking the White House if it lingers. That was the consensus analysis of more than a dozen experienced GOP political strategists, consultants and operatives who were interviewed Wednesday within an hour of Obama going on national television to publicly release the long-form version of his birth certificate... snip ...But they worry that any attention given to the birth certificate issue could paint the Republican Party as out of touch and extreme, making it...

From video at link: On March 22, 2011 U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg stood with, and was applauded by, Planned Parenthood supporters and state lawmakers and said,"They [tea party Republicans and the majority of Americans who don't want their tax-dollars funding Planned Parenthood] don't deserve the freedoms in the constitution, but we will give it to them anyway."

The global nanny state wants to take another bite out of your freedom. Its new target – your dinner plate. The Guardian reported on June 2 that the UN was supporting a switch to a radical anti-meat agenda. “A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today,” wrote the paper. Here’s how the group Vegan Action describes this extreme vegetarianism. “While vegetarians choose not to use flesh foods, vegans also avoid dairy and eggs, as well as fur, leather, wool,...

KUALA LUMPUR: A rose may stop smelling like a rose. This is the concern of environmentalists as flowers are losing their scent due to climate change and air pollution. And their fragrance may be lost forever. Science and Technology Professor Emeritus at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Dr Abdul Latif Mohamad, said genetically modified flowers might be the way out. Climate change is also the reason Kuala Lumpur City Hall is increasingly turning to shady trees, because flowers which previously formed the centrepiece of its beautification programme have been wilting fast. Datuk Bandar Datuk Ahmad Fuad Ismail said City Hall used to...

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- The non-profit, Family Research Institute (FRI) claims the local U.S. Postal Service violated their free speech rights by refusing to mail their controversial newsletters. Paul Cameron, Chairmen of FRI said the newsletters, addressed to about a thousand of their subscribers, called for opposition to the President's stance of allowing openly gay soldiers in the military. In the newsletter there is an interview with a woman military recruit who talks about her experiences in basic training with a group of lesbians. Analysis of gay historian Randy Shilts, and excerpts from a retired navy captain's letter describing his...

US military behind Haiti quake, says Innsbruck scientist Innsbruck political scientist Claudia von Werlhof has accused the USA of being behind the Haitian earthquake in January, it emerged today (Tues). According to a report on tirol.orf.at, Werlhof said that machines at a military research centre in Alaska used to detect deposits of crude oil by causing artificial earthquakes might have been intentionally set off to cause the Haitian earthquake and enable the USA to send 10,000 soldiers into the country. Ferdinand Karlhofer, the head of the Innsbruck Political Science Institute where von Werlhof works, has slammed her comments. He said...

Fredericksburg, Va. (CNSNews.com) – During a town hall meeting at the Fredericksburg Expo Center, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) said there is “no place in the Constitution” that mentions health care or education, or even gives individuals the right to own a telephone. “[L]isten, there is, there is no place in the Constitution that specifically says health care,” Warner said to a government high school teacher at the event, who asked him if the Constitution explicitly gives the government the right to run the health care system. “There’s no place in the Constitution that specifically says education,” said Warner. Moreover, he...

I have been quiet about Sarah Palin for a bit, not needing my comments count to soar into the stratosphere again, but I do want to give her a little bit of free advice. If you see her, pass this on, wouldja? You clearly won the round with David Letterman, but you were sailing a little close to the wind. For anyone, playing the victim is always dangerous, and really being a victim (as you are) does not minimize that risk -- it rather doubles it. This might seem counter-intuitive, but that's how it works. Persecutors hate real victims more...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has had a change of heart regarding his earlier decision to investigate the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). He now says he is no longer planning to investigate ACORN, which is under fire for vote-fraud accusations in last year's presidential election. But why the change of heart? Conyers, faithfully adhering to the blame-casting game that has long held sway in Congress, weakly and obtusely laid the fault for this recent reversal at the feet of purposely unidentified “powers that be.” "The powers that be decided against it," Conyers told the...

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Former President George W. Bush says he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama "deserves my silence," and says he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office. Bush's speech Tuesday at a luncheon in Calgary, Alberta was his first since leaving office. He declined to comment about the Obama administration like former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney said Sunday that Obama's decisions are threatening the nation's safety. Bush says he doesn't know what he'll do in the long term but says he'll write a book that will let people...

Adult download tax proposal awaits climax in Albany BY Stephanie Gaskell DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Monday, February 16th 2009, 9:53 AM Governor Paterson wants to tax Internet porn on top of music and movie downloads. Diver/Getty This is the best tax you ever had. A state proposal to add a 4% tax for downloading movies and music will also apply to Internet porn. Gov. Paterson recently suggested the so-called iPod tax to help close a $15 billion budget deficit, but few realized the levy would also apply to XXX-rated material. The skin industry denounced the move as a cheap...

CBS) Google is releasing free software Wednesday that enables people to keep track of each other using their cell phones. CNET got a sneak peek at it, and CNET-TV Senior Editor and Early Show contributor Natali Del Conte explained how it works on the show Tuesday. She says "Latitude" uses GPS systems and what's called cell tower triangulation to do the job. The software seeks the closest three cell towers and, with GPS, combines the data to show where someone is. It is designed to work on any phone with Internet capabilities, except the iPhone. "Latitude" is being marketed as...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Drivers better buckle up or pay the price: More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists just for not wearing their seat belts. More than a dozen states that are considering making the switch to primary seat-belt enforcement laws need to do so before July to be eligible for millions in federal money. One of those states is Ohio, which would get $26.8 million if it changes its law. Currently, officers in the state must first have some other reason to stop drivers over before issuing seat-belt citations. States...

Unable to let go of its campaign mantra blaming the nation's ills on the "failed policies" of George W. Bush, the White House of President Barack Obama immediately posted on its website charges that Bush broke promises and allowed "catastrophic failures" responding to the needs of Americans. continued at link...