ABC News: Chelsea Clinton Having 'America's Version Of The Royal Baby'

Gag.

You already know that the MSM long ago gave up on covering the substance of governing, preferring instead to obsess over the horse race aspect of politics, and more importantly, the personalities. Did you always sort of suspect they'd like nothing better than to have American royalty to slobber over like their British counterparts?

Done deal! Check this from ABC News:

Bill and Hillary Clinton are reveling in the news that they will be grandparents.

Chelsea Clinton is set to give birth to America's equivalent of the royal baby sometime this fall -- and her parents couldn't be happier.

Clinton, who announced the news on Thursday, did not say if she and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are having a boy or a girl.

Whether they realized it or not, the Clinton's have clearly been preparing for the grandpa and grandma roles for some time. Here's a sneak peak at what life may be like with Grandpa Bill and Grandma Hill -- and how their political experience will help them be amazing grandparents.

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In playing the race card, Obama pulls a joker

It was disappointing the other day to see President Barack Obama embracing the vulgar race hustler Al Sharpton.

President Obama once eloquently confronted race in a memorable speech in Philadelphia in 2008. That speech was remarkable and honest and, to borrow a favorite word of the political left that still fawns over him, it was nuanced.

But there was nothing particularly remarkable about Obama standing next to the preening Sharpton, speaking in New York to his National Action Network. Except that Obama expertly used a message of victimization to begin energizing black voters, who provide the electoral foundation for the Democratic Party.

This wasn’t about nuance. This was about the class-war elections of November 2014.

“The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since nearly five decades ago,” Obama said, reaching back across time.

He didn’t quite touch Jim Crow and the poll tax and the civil rights struggles, but he didn’t have to. There were the broad presidential hints and they did the job.

“Across the country, Republicans have led efforts to pass laws making it harder, not easier, for people to vote,” Obama said, adding, “We won’t let voter suppression go unchallenged.”

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JAMES DOBSON WINS OBAMACARE REPRIEVE

A federal judge in Denver has granted an injunction to a ministry founded by longtime Christian author and broadcaster James Dobson, Family Talk radio, preventing the enforcement of Obamacare’s abortifacient mandate against the ministry.

His was among probably more than 100 lawsuits brought by ministries, individuals and organizations against Obama’s healthcare takeover on the grounds it violates the religious rights of Christians by forcing them to pay for abortion-causing procedures.

In fact, when the lawsuit was filed on his behalf in 2013, Dobson, who founded Family Talk in 2010, explained. “We are suing [then-HHS Secretary] Kathleen Sebelius for forcing or trying to force all of us to give abortifacient medications to our employees, and I just absolutely refuse to do it. We’ll close down before I’ll do it.”
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Outrage Erupts Over Tax Subsidies For 'Affluenza' Convict

A quiet but steady rumble of outrage is developing after it was reported the parents of a Texas teen who pleaded “affluenza” when he killed four people and injured nearly a dozen while driving drunk will pay only a fraction of what his rehabilitation will cost.

Much of it will be paid by taxpayers.

“As a taxpayer, I probably feel exactly like you do,” said Greg Koontz, an attorney for relatives of Brian Jennings, a 43-year-old youth pastor killed in the accident sparked by Ethan Couch’s driving.

His comment to the Star-Telegram came after Tarrant County Juvenile Services Placement Supervisor Debbie Spoontz announced Ethan’s parents would pay only $1,170 per month (five percent) of their son’s treatment, which costs $715 per day.
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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed In Navy Yard Shooting

The family of a computer scientist killed in the Navy Yard shootings has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The Florida relatives of Mary DeLorenzo Knight are suing the contractor that hired the shooter, Aaron Alexis. The family contends that The Experts, an IT firm, should have told the Navy about its employee's documented mental health problems. The lawsuit says the Navy should not have given Alexis a security clearance. The family originally filed the lawsuit in federal court in Tampa. Because of jurisdictional issues, they are trying again in state court. Knight was a cybersecurity expert for Naval Sea Systems Command.

We Give Foreigners Taxpayer Money to Import Stuff from America. What?

Is there anything the U.S. government doesn’t take taxpayer dollars to do?

Here’s a lesser-known function of your hard-earned money: providing backing for people in other countries to buy things from America.

Come again? Yes, that’s right. Let’s say Air China wants to purchase some Boeing jets. To encourage that purchase, America’s Export-Import Bank could loan Air China the money. If Air China were to default on the loan, U.S. taxpayers would be left on the hook.

Put simply, taxpayers should not be financing this kind of “bank”—which is “little more than a fund for corporate welfare,” as candidate Barack Obama described it in 2008.
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Local family legacy carpet store closing its doors

A more than century-old family-owned business near New Castle is closing permanently next month.

WDEL's Amy Cherry reports.

Miller Carpet One opened its doors on West Basin Road in 1972. More than 40 years later, the well-known carpet and flooring business will shut its doors in May or June.

"We really took a hit in 2008," said Sharon Miller, Vice President of Miller Carpet One.

The fourth generation family owner of the business tells WDEL they struggled to recover. Some of the struggle comes from competition, the rest is just consumer choices.

"We compete with other big-ticket items, electronics purchases, vacations," she said. "Are you going to do your flooring this year? Are you going to do your roof? Are you going to go on vacation? So it's not just other flooring stores," she said.

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Al Gore: Critics Are 'Immoral, Unethical And Despicable'

Al Gore, known for wild rants about global warming, including one where his foul language earned him the description “mentally unstable,” is at it again.

Only this time he’s complaining about those who put up “barriers” to his agenda that critics say includes cracking down on carbon emissions, buying and selling credits for that activity and putting the American coal industry out of business.

“The ‘barriers’ to doing something about climate change are business and political interests that profit off of fossil fuels – ‘dirty energy that causes dirty weather,’” he said, according to an online report about a recent speech he made.
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It’s Official: America is an Oligarchy and NOT a Democracy

We noted last year:

American democracy – once a glorious thing – has devolved into an oligarchy, according to two leading IMF officials, the former Vice President of the Dallas Federal Reserve, thehead of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Moody’s chief economist and many others.

But don’t take their word for it …

A new quantitative study by Princeton’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern’s Benjamin Page finds that America is not a democracy … but is an oligarchy.

Here’s a quick visual overview from the study:

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Sherlock Franchot Tells Marylanders, “It’s Elementary” to Search for Unclaimed Property

- Annual Supplement Includes Accounts Worth More Than 

$49 million -

Annapolis, Md. - Hot off the trail from his latest search for abandoned bank accounts, security deposits and safe deposit boxes, Sherlock Franchot today revealed the latest list of 63,466 unclaimed property accounts worth more than $49 million. Sherlock Franchot, otherwise known as Comptroller Peter Franchot, encourages Marylanders to let the search begin by picking up a copy of his agency’s 2014 unclaimed property insert now running in local papers across the state.

“The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your local papers and explore! With such a lucrative proposition at hand, there isn’t any time to waste, then, is there,” said Sherlock Franchot.

Now through April 25, the 150-page list of the latest discovered lost property accounts will appear in nearly 30 newspapers throughout Maryland. The Comptroller’s Office is required by law to publish an annual list of the newest names available in newspapers throughout the state. In total, the agency has nearly 1 million accounts worth more than $980 million in its unclaimed property accounts.
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Baghdad: Paradigm of Globalist Creative Destruction

Baghdad’s fate will be suffered by all who oppose bankster drive for global domination

The Mercer consulting group has released a survey showing Baghdad is now the world’s worst city. Once considered the most advanced city in the Arab world, it is now a dangerous ruin stricken by sectarian and religious violence, corruption, crime, unemployment, pollution and numerous other problems. It is categorized along with Bangui in the Central African Republic and the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

Prior to Bush Senior’s invasion, Iraq had the highest living standard in the Middle East. Iraqi medical care and education were the envy of the region. Literacy stood at 80 percent. By February of 1991, however, the country was pitched into the Dark Ages.

The objective of Bush’s invasion was to reduce Iraq to a preindustrial wasteland. Electrical power generation, water treatment and distribution systems, telephone and radio exchanges, food processing and storage, roads, highways, bus depots, public transportation, railroads, oil wells, sewage treatment facilities, factories, mosques, churches, residential areas and even historical sites were all targeted for destruction.

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All three Democratic candidates in the governor's race agree Maryland's economic policies need work, but they disagree sharply about how much.

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown praised the developments of the past seven years during a candidate forum Thursday evening at Towson University. His opponents took turns after him and did not hear one another's remarks.

Brown has served with Gov. Martin O'Malley since O'Malley took office in 2007. He noted Thursday that since the recession, Maryland's job growth has exceeded that in every other mid-Atlantic state. He defended recent decisions to borrow money for basic government needs.

Del. Heather Mizeur, who has represented Montgomery County since 2007, said these debts wouldn't be necessary if not for certain tax breaks and loopholes.

Attorney General Doug Gansler, the last candidate to speak, argued for a comprehensive review of Maryland's tax policy and renewed efforts to recruit more businesses.
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Let's Defend 'Obamacare,' Some Democrats Say

With enrollments higher than expected, and costs lower, some Democrats say it's time to stop hiding from the president's health care overhaul, even in this year's toughest Senate elections.

Republicans practically dare Democrats to embrace "Obamacare," the GOP's favorite target in most congressional campaigns. Yet pro-Democratic activists in Alaska are doing just that, and a number of strategists elsewhere hope it will spread.

President Barack Obama recently announced that first-year sign-ups for subsidized private health insurance topped 7 million, exceeding expectations. And the Congressional Budget Office — the government's fiscal scorekeeper — said it expects only a minimal increase in customers' costs for 2015. Over the next decade, the CBO said the new law will cost taxpayers $100 billion less than previously estimated.

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Ocean City Not Likely To Reduce Skate Park Hours

OCEAN CITY – Following a year of studying the usage of the Ocean Bowl Skate Park, the Recreation and Parks Commission plans to recommend to the full Mayor and Council its funding stay as is.

This week the Skate Park Committee reconvened to look over additional data collected at the Ocean Bowl Skate Park of usage and, expenses and revenue.

This time last year, the Mayor and City Council voted to have Ocean Bowl Skate Park operate through the summer during its normal hours, which is open seven days a week during daylight. However, cost-cutting changes were proposed to shut it down during the months of January and February during the week. The reduction in hours would have saved the town approximately $21,000.
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4th Annual 10K/5K Run/1 Mile Walk Slated to Promote Camp Barnes Summer Program

WHEN: Sunday, May 4, 2014, 10K, 5K, and 1 mile walk at 1:00 p.m.

WHERE: Assawoman Wildlife Refuge at Camp Barnes
Address: 37171 Camp Barnes Rd. Frankford, De 19945

DESCRIPTION: A beautiful 10K/5K/1 mile walk through the Assawoman Wildlife Refuge on
country roads and scenic trails.

REGISTRATION: 5K/1 Mile Walk-$20, 10K - $25.00 Pre-registration thru April 27, 2014. $25 – 5K/1
Mile Walk and $30 – 10K registration April 28th through Race Day. Register online
at www.seashorestriders.com or register by mail by downloading the application from
the website. Race Day Registration from 11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

AWARDS: Presented to Overall and Master Champions, as well as, the Top 3 male and female in
nine age groups.

AMENITIES: Short sleeve T-shirts guaranteed to all Pre-registered participants in the 10K, 5K and 1
Mile Walk. Water Stops and post event lunch for all registered participants.

Highway gunman who 'fired at 12 random motorists during month-long crime spree' arrested

Investigators have looked into as many as 20 reported highway shootings as part of their investigation.

Three people have been hit with bullets, and their injuries were not life-threatening. No new shooting incidents have taken place since April 6. More details are expected at a press conference on Friday.

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Operation Medicine Drop Set For Saturday

BERLIN – Worcester County residents are encouraged to clean out their medicine cabinets and participate in Operation Medicine Drop: Safe Communities-Healthy Waterways, a one-day drug take back effort on April 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at numerous locations throughout Worcester County.

Assateague Coastal Trust/COASTKEEPER, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, Berlin, Ocean City and Ocean Pines Police Departments, Maryland State Police, and Worcester County Health Department have joined forces to launch the countywide event.

The program prevents potentially harmful medications from entering the waterways and impacting aquatic life. In 2004, the USGS identified 100 different pharmaceuticals in surface water, including acetaminophen, caffeine, codeine, antibiotics and warfarin (a common blood thinner). They also found that an antibiotic, a drug used to treat bipolar disorder and nicotine had contaminated aquifers.
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Obama’s School ‘Punishment Equality’ Folly

George Leef, director of research for the North Carolina-based John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, authored a Forbes op-ed article titled “Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths.” The subtitle is “School Discipline Rates Must Be ‘Proportionate.’” (http://tinyurl.com/mxnlg9h). Let’s examine some of the absurdity of the Obama administration’s take on student discipline.

Last January, the departments of Justice and Education published a “guidance” letter describing how schools can meet their obligations under federal law to administer student discipline without discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin. Its underlying threat is that if federal bureaucrats learn of racial disproportionality in the punishments meted out for misbehavior, they will descend upon a school’s administrators. If schools cannot justify differentials in rates of punishment by race or ethnic group, they will face the loss of federal funds and be forced to undertake costly diversity training.

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Easter Lilies Toxic For Cats, FDA Warns

Easter lilies are popular in homes at this time of year, but they can be deadly for cats, a veterinarian warns.

The same is true for Tiger, Asiatic, Day and Japanese Show lilies, said Dr. Melanie McLean, a veterinarian at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The entire lily plant -- leaf, pollen and flower -- is poisonous for cats. Eating just a couple of leaves or licking a few pollen grains off their fur can quickly cause kidney failure.
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