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Not Paying Union Dues, In Michigan

Unions are finding sneaky ways to exact dues — but workers are fighting back.

Two Michigan teachers will finally be allowed to end their union membership in the Michigan Education Association and will be refunded any dues they paid during this school year, according to a settlement agreement signed this week.

William “Ray” Arthur, a teacher and wrestling coach at Petoskey Senior High School, and Miriam Chanski, a Coopersville kindergarten teacher, tried to quit the teachers’ union after Michigan adopted legislation to become the 24th right-to-work state in the U.S.

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CBS Reporter Active in Covering Benghazi, Fast & Furious Announces Surprise Resignation

Sharyl Attkisson, a CBS News investigative journalist who has been active in covering the aftermath of the Benghazi terror attacks and the Fast and Furious scandal, announced Monday that she had resigned from the network.

“I have resigned from CBS,” she announced in a tweet.

“It’s been one of life’s great privileges to work at CBS News and I’m sincerely grateful for the many opportunities I’ve had,” Attkisson added in a statement forwarded to TheBlaze.

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The Dinner

The AirCam

The AirCam is the greatest airplane ever because it will allow flying  you simply cannot do in any other airplane.  It's a twin-engine
 ultralight designed for use by National Geographic to explore Africa.

It can fly 10 feet above the tree tops in safety as it can, with no  engine management challenge, climb up and away on one engine.  Such
 near-Earth exploration is not done in twin-engine GA planes,  ultralights or any other aircraft, with the same level of assurance.

AirCams can take off on one engine, easily, and with both Rotax 912's  turning, leap off terra firma in less than 100 feet and climb 2,000
 fpm at Vne, all while burning only 4 gph.  Try all that in any other  aircraft!

 

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Black Mob Beats And Robs 12-Year Old Boy In Suburb Of Philly

From Philly.com On Monday morning, Upper Darby police posted images of the suspects to their popular Twitter and Facebook accounts. On Monday night, the parents of two of the boys brought their children to Upper Darby police headquarters for questioning after seeing their sons’ images all over social media, Chitwood said. “One set of parents were very cooperative” he said. “The other set brought him in because they knew it was him on the social media page.”

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You Broke It, You Fix It, Carson Tells Nation

You broke it, you fix it, is the message from famed neurosurgeon and outspoken conservative leader Dr. Ben Carson to Americans who don’t like the way their country is moving.

Carson was interviewed recently by Joseph Farah, WND’s co-founder, editor-in-chief and CEO, on a wide range of subjects from faith to guns, from corruption to the presidency, from racism to the Constitution and from elections to Obamacare.

The founding documents of the country, and in fact, its beginning, were fine, he said.

“If you go back and look at what the original intent was, it was for a government for, of and by the people, not for, of and by the government,” he said. “In fact, our Constitution is designed to keep the government from becoming too big … .”
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Worcester County Sheriff's Office 3-10-14

Worcester County Sheriff's Office

Press Release

On Sunday, March 9, 2014, the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the area of Mt. Olive Church Rd Snow Hill, MD. for a suspicious vehicle parked in the roadway. Upon arrival they observed a 2004 Chevrolet Suburban parked at the stop sign at Mt. Olive Church Rd and Snow Hill Rd. The Suburban was parked with no head lights illuminated and engine running.

Deputies observed an adult male, later identified as Calvin Henry Harmon, Jr., 32 years of age from Salisbury, MD, passed out behind the wheel.

Deputies detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from the passenger compartment of the vehicle and on Harmon’s breath. Deputies asked Harmon to exit the vehicle to perform some sobriety tasks, to which Harmon agreed. Based on Harmon’s performance of the sobriety tasks, Deputies placed him under arrest for DWI. A subsequent search of Harmon’s vehicle revealed a set of brass knuckles. Harmon was also charged with a carrying a concealed weapon.

Harmon appeared before a District Court Commissioner and was released on his own recognizance pending trial.

THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN AMERICA

Why Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett is being called 'the de facto president'

Suppose you were a committed leftist revolutionary who somehow got elected president of center-right America.

Suppose you were great at making speeches, but little else. You masked your socialist agenda in the appealing rhetoric of fairness and justice, but secretly loathed the American system of constitutional government and free-market capitalism.

Suppose you were also an extreme narcissist with an absurdly grandiose view of yourself and almost no tolerance for criticism and disagreement. Your ego so fragile, your worldview so distorted, your mind so angry beneath your charismatic exterior, and your self-image of being a divinely gifted leader in danger of disintegrating in the light and heat of mounting geopolitical turmoil and your own stunning failures as president.

In short, suppose you were Barack Obama.

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Adam Lanza's Dad Wishes Son Had Never Been Born, Says 'You Can't Get Any More Evil'

The father of Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza said in his first interview about the massacre that what his son did couldn't "get any more evil" and he wishes his son hadn't been born.

In his most extensive comments since the shooting, Peter Lanza described his struggle to comprehend the actions of his son, who killed his mother then gunned down 20 children and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in December 2012.

Lanza also told The New Yorker magazine in a series of interviews last fall that he believes Adam would have killed him, too, if he had the chance. And he often contemplates what he could have done differently in his relationship with Adam, although he believes the killings couldn't have been predicted.
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Alphacat Meets And Shakes Hands With Obama!

Jake’s Law’ Addresses Penalties For Distracted Driving

Five-year-old Jake Owen played a video game in the back seat of the car as his family sat in Baltimore traffic. He excitedly announced, “Mom, I have 42 lives!” Then an SUV slammed into the sedan.

Devin X. McKeiver, 23, was using a cellphone when he rear-ended the car. He didn’t hit the brakes. The impact killed Jake.

Had McKeiver been drunk, he could have faced jail time. Instead, with his lawyer arguing at trial that McKeiver was doing something that everyone does, he was fined $1,000.

Now Jake’s family and others are asking Maryland lawmakers to increase penalties for drivers who cause crashes while talking or texting on a handheld phone. The bill, known in Annapolis as “Jake’s Law,” also would require “distracted drivers” involved in serious crashes to give police basic information about their cellphones, so detectives can more quickly check what they were doing at the moment of impact.

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SAUERBREY: Taxing Marylanders Until They Flee

Squeezing high earners to fill state coffers has opposite effect

Maryland, one of the bluest of blue states, is the poster child demonstrating that taxing the rich fails to balance the state budget.

Yet Democrats, who have complete monopoly control on all branches of state government, continue to think that doing the same thing over and over will lead to a different result.

Because of its proximity to Washington, D.C., Maryland is one of the wealthiest states in America. Still, it is plagued by fiscal woes. In a vain attempt to eliminate Maryland’s structural deficit, the administration of Gov. Martin O'Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown has raised taxes, tolls and fees more than 80 times since 2007, while increasing overall government spending by $9.6 billion, or 32 percent, over the same period.

This oppressive tax-and-spend climate is hurting Maryland’s families and forcing many of them to leave the state.

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RAND PAUL DIAGNOSES LIBERAL DISORDER

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – What is wrong with the people who don’t understand why conservatism works, and why liberty is so important?

Even with a doctorate in human development, WND’s Gina Loudon was puzzled.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., had the answer to her question.

“I tell people it’s the ‘big heart, small brain syndrome.’ Liberals have big hearts, but they’re not using all their brain capacity,” explained the senator in his exclusive interview with WND at CPAC, the annual convention for conservatives, just outside of Washington.
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Administration Ruffles Feathers With Push To Speed Poultry Lines

The Obama administration is forging ahead with plans to overhaul the nation's poultry inspection program despite major concerns from Congress, public interest circles and government officials.

President Obama’s 2015 budget, unveiled last week, contains millions of dollars worth of projected savings attributed directly to regulations that would remove some federal inspectors from poultry plants and allow the industry to speed up production lines.

Critics decry the proposal, which would shift some inspection duties to plant employees, as harmful deregulation. Dubbing the proposal the “filthy chicken rule,” they are imploring the administration to consider potential impacts to food and worker safety.

“This proposed rule would let the fox guard the hen house, at the expense of worker safety and consumer protection,” a coalition of more than 100 advocacy groups wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Obama.

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Random Thoughts And Outrages By Ellen Sauerbrey

KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) -- The crisis in Crimea didn't keep President Barack Obama from forging ahead with a weekend getaway with his wife and daughters in the Florida Keys.  But it's more than the Oval Office that will be dark as Russia's incursion into Ukraine reaches its one week mark. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife are vacationing in the Virgin Islands.

On Friday, China complained to North Korea when one of its missiles crossed paths with a civilian jet last Tuesday that had departed Tokyo’s Narita airport en route to the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.  Could a missile have taken down the Malaysian passenger plane?

President Obama wants the US to sign on to the UNs International Criminal Court (ICC), which would allow the UN's ICC to arrest and try US troops for War Crimes, without the legal protections guaranteed under US Law, and from which there is no appeal.  I helped the Bush Administration block this repeatedly, while I was at the UN..

‘Gaming The System’? States Use Trick To Undo Food Stamp Cuts

States are using what critics call a "perverse" legislative maneuver to partly undo congressional cuts to food stamps, despite efforts by some U.S. lawmakers to stop it.

The Washington Post reported Monday that three states so far are finding a way to avoid or minimize the cuts. The bill passed by Congress last month was supposed to save $8.6 billion over the next decade in food stamps. But New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania have figured out how to trigger additional spending anyway.

The trick, as many states have discovered, is for them to devote a relatively modest amount of funding to home-heating assistance. Under the law, states that give a certain amount to families could then qualify those families for additional food stamp money.
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SXSW Anti-Gun Event Fails

The facade of gun control is falling

Very few attended a panel discussion on gun control in Austin, Texas yesterday even though the event was heavily promoted by media, proving once again the popularity of the Second Amendment and basic human freedoms as a whole.

Key leaders from the three largest gun control groups – Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Americans for Responsible Solutions and Moms Demand Action – not only organized the event but also spoke to the handful in attendance who occupied at most 10% of the available seats.

This despite the fact that the panel discussion was a registered event of South by Southwest, an internationally-known set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that takes place every spring in Austin with an attendance of at least 100,000 from across the world.

The lack of attendance for a gun control event is not unusual.

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Texas Isn’t Just Leading The Nation In Job Growth—It’s Doing It More Equitably, Too

You might be inclined to think that the Lone Star state is bad at creating good jobs. It is, after all, second only to Idaho in the proportion of its population earning the federal minimum wage or less, according to the Labor Department. And it has the ninth-highest Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality. So it’s only natural to assume that the state is bad at adding good jobs, right? Wrong.

Texas experienced stronger job growth than the rest of the nation from 2000 to 2013, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Not only that, a pair of researchers note in a Thursday research publication, but Texas leads the nation in creation of jobs at all pay levels, too.

“Texas has also created more ‘good’ than ‘bad’ jobs,” they write. “Jobs in the top half of the wage distribution experienced disproportionate growth. The two upper wage quartiles were responsible for 55 percent of net new jobs. A similar pie chart cannot be made for the rest of the U.S., which lost jobs in the lower-middle quartile over the period.”
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