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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to Society

Pew Poll: 27 Percent Say Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to Society                     The latest numbers from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life find that the military are still highly esteemed by the American public. More than three-quarters of U.S. adults (78 percent) agreed that employees of the armed services contribute “a lot” to society’s well-being. That’s a modest decline from 84 percent years ago, Not so for journalists. About as many U.S. adults now say journalists contribute “not very much” or “nothing at all” to society… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Convicted Murderers Released From Prison On Technicality

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — More than a dozen convicted killers are released from prison on a technicality, and dozens more could follow. Monique Griego explains the Court of Appeals ruling at the center of this controversy. All of these men were convicted before 1980. And since then, the court has changed the way juries are allowed to decide cases. Locked up for decades, 13 convicted murderers in Maryland are now free, after the state’s highest court overturned their convictions due to improper jury instructions. “It’s absolutely the right decision,” said Mike Millemann, University of Maryland School of Law. Millemann is working… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in E News

CSSA NEWSLETTER JULY 12-2013

                                CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION TEAM CSSA E-NEWS – July 12, 2013 ** Please share this E-news with your friends ** CSSA COMMENTARY COLUMNIST LORNE GUNTER – OLD-SCHOOL ETHICS AND ANALYSIS Responsible firearms owners owe much to the wisdom of newspaper columnist Lorne Gunter, and not just because he defends their gun rights. Gunter’s examination of the topics he broaches is executed with old-school aplomb. He has a reputation for seeing many issues through a right-wing filter, but his… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Dead baby laid on chapel altar comes back to life

                          A baby girl who was pronounced dead just after birth and  carried  into the  hospital chapel by a nurse who was too sad to send her  to the  morgue, made  what could be called a most miraculous recovery —  she  “came back to life,”  witnesses said. A nurse had put the body of baby Yasmin  Gome, born in Brazil,  in a  small box and  left it on the altar in the chapel, The Sun reported.  The  baby’s grandmother  and a mortician came to retrieve the body about  … View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Feds Shake Down Farmer for Free Raisins

A California raisin farmer is facing bankruptcy for defying a law requiring him to give the government a portion of his raisin crop without compensation. According to a Washington Post report, Marvin Horne, 68, stopped giving the government his raisins in 2002 and now “owes the U.S. government at least $650,000 in unpaid fines,” in addition to “1.2 million pounds of unpaid raisins, roughly equal to his entire harvest for four years.” Horne violated Marketing Order 989, passed during the Truman administration, “a federal regulation meant to solve a problem from the era after World War II, which created the… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Supreme Court uphold ban on Muslim headwear in schools

  A branch of Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a group of Muslims for the right of schoolgirls to wear traditional religious attire, specifically the hijab, in classrooms. The appeal was made by a group of citizens of Muslim faith from  southern Russia’s Stavropol Region. They complained that a decree  by the local administration ordering all schoolchildren to appear  in classes only in regular secular clothes, which came into force  in January this year, infringes their freedom of faith as  guaranteed by the constitution. Certain denominations of Islam requires that all women wear  special headscarves called hijabs,… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Rand Paul – I’m ‘Thinking About’ Running for President

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he is contemplating a run for president in 2016 and that he will likely make an announcement on a decision shortly after the 2014 midterm congressional elections. “We’ve been thinking about it,” Paul said in a phone interview. “And we will continue to think about it probably until after the 2014 elections. I haven’t made a decision, it’s a big decision you know with regard to family and the extensive travel that’s involved with it. And then also just seeing where the country is going in… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Only 41% Approve Of Obama’s Handling of Immigration

A Quinnipiac poll released Thursday delivers plenty of bad news for President Obama and his second term agenda. On every important national issue, the president finds himself upside down. This includes his overall approval rating, 44% – 48%; foreign policy, 40% – 52%; the economy, 41% – 55%. The president is also dramatically upside down on immigration, 41% – 50%. It seems odd that the president would find himself in this position on the immigration issue just days after the Senate passed the comprehensive immigration reform he asked for. You would think that would be seen as a win for… View Article

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on July 11, 2013 in World News

How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

  Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month. The documents show that: • Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns… View Article

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