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- GOP candidate Ron Paul would abolish TSA
- Rick Santelli Unleashes Another Tea Party Battle Cry!
- Romney yet to win over Christian Right, Tea Party
- 3 Tea Party-Backed Senators Bet Economic Recovery on Gold
- U.S. GETS FATTER: Obesity rate tops 20% in all but one state
- ‘Captain America’ keeps full name… in most of world
- Family fights government over rare ‘Double Eagle’ gold coins
| GOP candidate Ron Paul would abolish TSA Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:10 AM PDT By James Oliphant | The Los Angeles Times – Washington Bureau As reports surface that U.S. officials are concerned about terrorists smuggling explosives into the U.S. within their bodies, one presidential candidate would do away completely with the government agency charged with screening passengers. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, a libertarian, would instead privatize airline security. In his weekly “Straight Talk” telephone address last weekend Paul said the agency infringed on privacy rights of passengers while doing little to keep the nation safe. ‘Ninety-five year-old women humiliated; children molested; disabled people abused; men and women subjected to unwarranted groping and touching of their most private areas; involuntary radiation exposure,” Paul said. “If the perpetrators were a gang of criminals, their headquarters would be raided by SWAT teams and armed federal agents. Unfortunately, in this case the perpetrators are armed federal agents. This is the sorry situation 10 years after the creation of the Transportation Security Administration.” Paul called the treatment of passengers at the hands of the TSA “appalling” and “abusive” and said he would introduce legislation in the House to ensure agency screeners were not exempt from laws prohibiting unlawful touching of the body and invasive picture-taking. To read more, visit: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/06/news/la-pn-ron-paul-tsa-20110706 |
| Rick Santelli Unleashes Another Tea Party Battle Cry! Posted: 07 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT |
| Romney yet to win over Christian Right, Tea Party Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:53 PM PDT BY TINA KORBE, HotAir.com Tea Party leaders and outspoken Christian conservatives continue to express reservations about GOP presidential frontrunner and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, CNN reports:
From a horse-race perspective, it looks to me like Allah is really right: Romney might actually eventually need former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin or Texas Gov. Rick Perry to enter the race, just to split the Tea Party vote, presently concentrated on Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who has steadily gained ground against Romney in both Iowa and New Hampshire. To read more, visit: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/07/07/romney-yet-to-win-over-christian-right-tea-party/ |
| 3 Tea Party-Backed Senators Bet Economic Recovery on Gold Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:49 PM PDT
With the economic recovery on life support, three Tea Party-backed senators are betting on gold to reverse the nation’s fortunes. Republican Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah unveiled legislation Tuesday that would keep Uncle Sam’s hands off of gold and silver coins that have been declared legal tender by the government. The Sound Money Promotion Act comes after Utah became the first state to recognize those coins as legal currency and exempted the sale of gold from the state capital gains tax. The U.S. Senate legislation simply states that “gold and silver coins declared legal tender by the federal government or any state government shall not be subject to taxation.” To read more, visit: |
| U.S. GETS FATTER: Obesity rate tops 20% in all but one state Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:42 PM PDT
The number of obese U.S. adults rose in 16 states in the last year, helping to push obesity rates in a dozen states above 30 percent, according to a report released on Thursday. By that measure, Mississippi is the fattest state in the union with an adult obesity rate of 34.4 percent. Colorado is the least obese — with a rate of 19.8 percent — and the only state with an adult obesity rate below 20 percent, according to “F as in Fat,” an annual report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. While the number of states showing significant year-over-year increases in obesity has been slowing, no state chalked up an actual decline. Even Colorado does not win high marks — its score means one in five state residents is at higher risk for conditions like heart disease and diabetes. “Today, the state with the lowest adult obesity rate would have had the highest rate in 1995,” said Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust for America’s Health. Four years ago, only one U.S. state had an adult obesity rate above 30 percent, according to the report, which defines adult obesity as a having a body mass index — a weight-to-height ratio — of 30 or more. Over the last two decades, people in the United States have been eating less nutritious food and more of it. At the same time, activity levels have fallen, Levi said. To read more, visit: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/07/us-usa-obesity-idUSTRE7663JD20110707 |
| ‘Captain America’ keeps full name… in most of world Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:38 PM PDT From Yahoo Movies LOS ANGELES – Captain America will keep its patriotic full title in most of the world when the superhero adventure hits the big-screen. Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios gave distributors around the world the option of shortening the title of “Captain America: The First Avenger” to simply “The First Avenger,” out of concern about anti-American sentiment. But the only countries that took them up on it were Russia, Ukraine and South Korea. In other territories, the movie will go out with the full title, a sign that the brand value of the Marvel Comics hero trumps any potential anti-U.S. feelings in some parts of the world. To read more, visit: http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/captain-america-keeps-full-name-most-world-ap |
| Family fights government over rare ‘Double Eagle’ gold coins Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:35 PM PDT By Zachary Roth | The Lookout – Yahoo News A jeweler’s heirs are fighting the United States government for the right to keep a batch of rare and valuable “Double Eagle” $20 coins that date back to the Franklin Roosevelt administration. It’s just the latest coin controversy to make headlines. Philadelphian Joan Langbord and her sons say they found the 10 coins in 2003 in a bank deposit box kept by Langbord’s father, Israel Switt, a jeweler who died in 1990. But when they tried to have the haul authenticated by the U.S. Treasury, the feds, um, flipped. They said the coins were stolen from the U.S. Mint back in 1933, and are the government’s property. The Treasury Department seized the coins, and locked them away at Fort Knox. The court battle is set to kick off this week. The rare coins (pictured), first struck in 1850, show a flying eagle on one side and a figure representing liberty on the other. One such coin recently sold at auction for $7.6 million, meaning the Langbords’ trove could be worth as much as $80 million. The coins are part of a batch that were struck but then melted down after President Roosevelt took the country off the gold standard in 1933, during the Great Depression. Two were given to the Smithsonian Institution*, but a few more mysteriously escaped. The government has long believed that Switt schemed with a corrupt cashier at the Mint to swipe the coins. They note that the deposit box in which the coins were found was rented six years after Switt’s death, and that the family never paid inheritance tax on the coins. A lawyer for the Langbords counters that the coins could have left the Mint legally since it was permissible to swap gold coins for gold bullion. To read more, visit: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/family-fights-government-over-rare-double-eagle-gold-151853030.html |
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