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Americans Still List Jobs as Top Problem, but Concern Over the Deficit Grows
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 Twenty-nine percent of Americans told Gallup that jobs and unemployment was the top issue followed by 26 percent who named the economy in general. While the percentage of those citing jobs was up from 24 percent just before the new year, the 26 percent who singled out the economy in general was the lowest number since May.
The percentage who named the deficit as the number one problem rose to 12 percent, more than double than it was last Fall and the highest figure Gallup has recorded in at least a decade. Among non-economic problems, the only two issues in double-digits that were named as the most important facing the country today was health care at 13 percent (poor health care, high costs) and the conduct of government, Congress and politicians at 11 percent. |
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McCain Calls Obama a 'Patriot,' Rejects Critics Who Say He's 'Unworthy' to Lead5 hours ago
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Sen. John McCain lost a bitter campaign against Barack Obama in 2008 and has been at loggerheads with him for much of Obama's first two years in office. But the Arizona Republican this weekend called Obama a "patriot" intent on using his presidency to "advance our country's cause" and rejected accusations – many coming from members of his own party and the tea party movement – "that his policies and beliefs make him unworthy to lead America."
McCain made his comments in an article he wrote for the Washington Post opinion page, posted on Saturday, in which he praised Obama for giving a "terrific speech" in Tucson at a tribute for victims of the shooting spree that took place there a week ago. McCain said that Obama had "comforted and inspired the country" and performed an important service by encouraging "every American who participates in our political debates - whether we are on the left or right or in the media - to aspire to a more generous appreciation of one another and a more modest one of ourselves."
 "Our political discourse should be more civil than it currently is, and we all, myself included, bear some responsibility for it not being so," McCain said. The shootings in Arizona have prompted much introspection about the tone and tenor of American politics even though the reasons why the suspected gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, carried out the massacre remain obscured by his history of bizarre behavior.
But the fact that his victims included a congresswoman holding a community meeting and the constituents who came to speak with her was likely a factor in connecting the violent incident to the political debate, along with suggestions and accusations that the rhetoric of political partisans had contributed to what had happened. Obama has been one target of harsh political rhetoric since running for and becoming President. Some of it has questioned whether he really shares the values of most Americans; accused him of pushing the country in a socialist direction; and, suggested that he does not have an appreciation for the U.S. as an "exceptional" nation. Related Stories
On the other side of the spectrum, some critics have implied or outrightly suggested that the rhetoric of McCain's former running mate, Sarah Palin, and some in the tea party movement, was responsible for what occurred in Arizona by using inflammatory imagery, ranging from Palin's now-famous map putting gunsights over congressional districts she was targeting, to Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's 2009 quote in which she said she wanted people "armed and dangerous" on the issue of the Democrats' energy proposal.
McCain wrote that Obama had "appropriately disputed the injurious suggestion that some participants in our political debates were responsible for a depraved man's inhumanity." While not specifically mentioning Palin, McCain appeared to be referring to her, in saying, "Imagine how it must feel to have watched one week ago the incomprehensible massacre of innocents committed by someone who had lost some essential part of his humanity, to have shared in the heartache for its victims and in the admiration for those who acted heroically to save the lives of others - and to have heard in the coverage of that tragedy voices accusing you of complicity in it." But as the former GOP standard-bearer, McCain also spoke out against those who have sought to paint Obama's views as inimical to American ideals. "I disagree with many of the president's policies, but I believe he is a patriot sincerely intent on using his time in office to advance our country's cause," McCain said. "I reject accusations that his policies and beliefs make him unworthy to lead America or opposed to its founding ideals. And I reject accusations that Americans who vigorously oppose his policies are less intelligent, compassionate or just than those who support them." During the 2008 campaign, Palin had said of Obama, "This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America ...Our opponent though, is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country?" (She was referring to onetime left wing radical William Ayers who participated in some Chicago educational projects with which Obama had been involved). "His worldview is dramatically different than any president, Republican or Democrat, we've had," Mike Huckabee told Politico last August. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a possible GOP presidential contender in 2012, said to the National Review in September, ""What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior." While there is no way to tell whether those particular statements had an impact, a USA Today/Gallup poll in December found that while 80 percent of Americans thought that America "has a unique character that makes it the greatest country in the world," more than a third said Obama does not share that belief. McCain said in his article, "It probably asks too much of human nature to expect any of us to be restrained at all times by persistent modesty and empathy from committing rhetorical excesses that exaggerate our differences and ignore our similarities. But I do not think it is beyond our ability and virtue to refrain from substituting character assassination for spirited and respectful debate." McCain's sentiments were echoed on CBS' "Face the Nation" by former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, "In the first moments after this, there was a rush to judgment on both sides, you know, left-wingers trying to blame it on right-wing Tea Party, Sarah Palin; right-wingers trying to fight back and defend themselves against what was really an outrageous charge...And I thought the president's speech put it on a different tone. And I think we have a chance, even though a couple of days later; I think we have a chance to do the same thing that we did after September 11." |
Miss Nebraska Wins 2011 Miss America PageantJan 15, 2011 – 11:09 PM
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By The Artist World Entertainment Group Teresa Scanlan won a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong run with the crown at the competition at the Planet Hollywood casino-resort in Las Vegas, giving the Cornhusker State its first-ever win at the pageant.
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(Feb. 12) – Police Sgt. Chris Walker struggled to solve the mystery of finding his own biological father -- until one day when he realized the man working with him in a Virginia police department shared his DNA, reported the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The story started 37 years ago, when a teenager named Clay Hamilton dated a slightly older woman who had just separated from her husband, the newspaper said. The woman lost touch after she got pregnant, returned to her husband and moved. Hamilton tried to contact her, but to no avail. More recently, Hamilton retired from the Richmond, Va., police department and took another job with the Petersburg police -- where Walker works, according to the 'Today' show. Walker told the Times-Dispatch that the man's name sounded familiar, so he chatted him up. He ran the details he learned by his mom. There was a pause on the phone, and she said, 'That’s your dad'," Walker told the newspaper. A DNA test proved the link. "I cried" over the news, Hamilton told the Today show. Walker has no hard feelings, he said. "He's my dad, and I love him," he told the newspaper. "God works in the mysterious ways." |
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HOMELESS MAN ALMOST BEATEN TO DEATH: FRESNO, CALIFORNIA Fresno, CA, USA (KSEE) -- Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin responds to the violent arrest of a homeless man caught on camera, while the internal investigation into allegations of excessive use of police force continues.
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Jorden cheated death twice in one night, watch video below..
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NEW YORK (Artist World Entertainment & Media Group) 02.18.09 Juliana Redding below here pictured, was 21, an aspiring actress and model who, like so many others before her, had moved from Arizona to southern California in pursuit of the Hollywood dream. She wound up the victim in a real life murder mystery -- one few people are willing to talk about in any detail.  Juliana Redding, an aspiring model and actress, was found murdered in her Santa Monica apartment. By the age of 18, Redding had earned her first film credit, appearing in a 2005 independent film called "Kathy T Gives Good Hoover," about college students and the graffiti culture. In 2006, she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica, California, with her pet Yorkshire terrier. She was also taking college courses while working part-time in a trendy Venice Beach bar. Friends grew worried in March when they couldn't reach Redding for a few days. They called her mother in Redding's hometown of Tucson, Arizona. Her mother called the Santa Monica police. Police found Redding dead inside her apartment. "The manner of death is homicide," said Sgt. Rinaldi Thruston of the Santa Monica Police Department. Although there are unconfirmed reports that the cause of death was blunt force trauma, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office denies that. "Those media reports are not accurate. The cause of death was not blunt force trauma. The file has been sealed by police, so we cannot disclose the actual cause of death."
CELL PHONE KILLS ANOTHER MAN!. We've told you cell phones can take out your swimmers. Now there's another reason to be paranoid. In China, cell phones have recently started acting like hand grenades! That might be a little dramatic, but yet another Chinese man was killed this week after his cell phone exploded in his breast pocket. The shop worker had recently charged up his battery and placed it in his phone when one of his co-workers heard an explosion. Seconds later, the man was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. There have been at least seven such explosions in the past few years in China. A similar one took place in July 2007, when a welder was killed by a phone that exploded in his chest pocket. A suspected cause for many of these incidents is overheated lithium batteries, which can explode if overcharged. Since cell phones can put people in danger, we recommend not using them every waking moment. We're talking to you, a-hole at the gym, in the elevator and standing in line at the deli. There is even people that take their cell phones in the bed with them , and using a cell phone in bed, could lead to 2 funerals if you're married.
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