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- Supreme Court to decide limits on police use of GPS tracking
- Congress considers law allowing interstate travel with concealed guns
- Romney defends states’ right to mandate
- Ground rules went too far, free speech expert says at Irvine 11 trial
- Democrats See Perils on Path to Health Cuts
- ‘Naked’ scanners may soon be on the way out
- CNN/Tea Party GOP debate ratings don’t get better over time
- Perry talks about his faith, forsaking talk of jobs for a day
- Google Glitch in Flight Service Included World Trade Center
- Democrat: Americans don’t deserve to keep all of their money
| Supreme Court to decide limits on police use of GPS tracking Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:23 AM PDT From AllHeadlineNews.com Only weeks after the Supreme Court convenes its next session this month, it is scheduled to deal with a potentially landmark case to decide the privacy rights of motorists as they drive on public streets. The Justice Department argues their privacy rights are minimal, which means police should be able to track vehicles nearly anywhere they want. The case involves a Maryland man whose Jeep Grand Cherokee was monitored by police who attached a global positioning satellite device to it. His attorneys say private citizens' travel decisions in their own vehicles are not the government's business. "Prompt resolution of this conflict is critically important to law enforcement efforts throughout the United States," the Justice Department argues in its Supreme Court petition. So far, the Justice Department has not fared well in lower courts. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a reversal of charges against Antoine Jones, who was convicted of running a drug ring in Washington, DC. He remains in prison. To read more, visit: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90059970?Supreme%20Court%20to%20decide%20limits%20on%20police%20use%20of%20GPS%20tracking |
| Congress considers law allowing interstate travel with concealed guns Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:20 AM PDT
Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Congress plans to hear testimony Tuesday on a bill that would allow licensed gun owners to carry their firearms across state lines without notifying anyone. Like other gun disputes, this one comes with heated opinions on both sides. Gun advocates, such as the National Rifle Association, say such a law would help people to protect themselves when they travel. Currently, licensed gun owners from one state violate other states' laws when they carry concealed weapons across state lines. The National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, H.R. 822, would change that. "The right of self-defense is fundamental and has been recognized in law for centuries," the National Rifle Association said in a recent statement. "The Second Amendment guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms for 'security.'" Opponents of the proposal say it will make guns more accessible to criminals. They include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He is the founder of a nonprofit organization called Mayors Against Illegal Guns. To read more, visit: http://gantdaily.com/2011/09/12/congress-considers-law-allowing-interstate-travel-with-concealed-guns/ |
| Romney defends states’ right to mandate Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:18 AM PDT
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney defended government mandates Tuesday night, in the process revealing some similarities to his primary competition for the GOP nomination. "The government of course has a lot of mandates," Romney told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly. "I know folks don't like that. Mandates that kids go to school, mandates that you have to have auto insurance if you have an automobile. My conservative friends say, 'Well, we don't have to have automobiles.' And it's like, well, what state do you live in? Of course you have to have automobiles in this nation." Discussion over government-imposed mandates has raged in recent GOP presidential debates. Romney's campaign has faced a major challenge over the healthcare insurance individual mandate he implemented in Massachusetts as governor, which has been compared to President Obama's healthcare reform bill. In defending his state's healthcare bill, Romney said the so-called "ObamaCare" bill was "unconstitutional" while the Massachusetts law was not "because there are two different constitutions." Romney's fellow White House contender, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), is also taking heat over a mandate he imposed as governor that required all sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated for the sexually transmitted Human Papillomavirus. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/video/campaign/181453-romney-defends-states-right-to-mandate |
| Ground rules went too far, free speech expert says at Irvine 11 trial Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:11 AM PDT
A UC Irvine professor overstepped his boundaries when he told students that no disruptions were allowed during the Israeli ambassador’s visit on campus last year, according to testimony given Wednesday in the so-called Irvine 11 trial in Santa Ana. UC Irvine professor Rei Terada, an expert on the history and guidelines of free speech, told the Superior Court jury that fellow professor Mark Petracca, the event’s emcee, had no authority to set stringent ground rules. Before bringing Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren to the stage on Feb. 8, 2010, Petracca told the audience that he expected the highest civility. “This is, after all, not a street corner; it is a university,” Petracca said in a video of the event shown in court. “It is not the British Parliament; it is a university. And it is not even a joint session of Congress hearing the president of the United States. It is a university.” Terada said that in her 20-year career she had never seen someone attempt to impose such rules during a politically charged event on a university campus, especially one that had been expected to attract protests. To read more, visit: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-irvine-eleven-20110915,0,5421091.story |
| Democrats See Perils on Path to Health Cuts Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:09 AM PDT By ROBERT PEAR, The New York Times WASHINGTON — As Congress opens a politically charged exploration of ways to pare the deficit, President Obama is expected to seek hundreds of billions of dollars in savings in Medicare and Medicaid, delighting Republicans and dismaying many Democrats who fear that his proposals will become a starting point for bigger cuts in the popular health programs. The president made clear his intentions in his speech to a joint session of Congress last week when, setting forth a plan to create jobs and revive the economy, he said he disagreed with members of his party "who don't think we should make any changes at all to Medicare and Medicaid." Few Democrats fit that description. But many say that if, as expected, Mr. Obama next week proposes $300 billion to $500 billion of savings over 10 years in entitlement programs, he will provide political cover for a new bipartisan Congressional committee to cut just as much or more. And, they say, such proposals from the White House will hamstring Democrats who had been hoping to employ Medicare as a potent issue against Republicans in 2012 campaigns after many Congressional Republicans backed a budget that would have substantially altered Medicare by providing future beneficiaries with a subsidy to enroll in private health care plans. To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/politics/obamas-expected-plan-for-entitlement-savings-worries-democrats.html?ref=health |
| ‘Naked’ scanners may soon be on the way out Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:05 AM PDT
The House Subcommittee on Transportation Security on Wednesday unanimously approved an amendment to the annual TSA Authorization Act of 2011 that would put an end to “naked” full-body images currently produced by Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machines at U.S. airports. The scanners, which were first deployed at U.S. airports beginning in 2007, have been widely criticized, with privacy advocates arguing the images are too revealing. Under the amendment, introduced by Rep. Chip Craavack (R-Minn.), a former airline pilot, the Transportation Security Administration would have 90 days to install automated target recognition software on all AIT machines. The new software produces a generic, stick figure outline of a person being screened rather than a detailed, passenger-specific image. If a traveler has a suspicious item on their body, it shows up as a red box on a specific area of a stick figure outline. To read more, visit: http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/14/7762175-naked-scanners-may-soon-be-on-the-way-out |
| CNN/Tea Party GOP debate ratings don’t get better over time Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:02 AM PDT
Monday’s GOP presidential debate faced stiff competition from the season debut of “Monday Night Football” on ESPN. It’s possible that people put the debate on the DVR and checked into it later … or not. On Tuesday, CNN — which partnered with the Tea Party Express for the Sept. 12 debate, in Tampa, Fla. — released the Nielsen Fast National Data (quick, preliminary numbers) for the 5-7 p.m. Pacific time slot, showing it on top of the cable-news ratings race for the night, with 3.6 million total viewers. That included 1.1 million in the advertiser-approved Adults 24-54 demographic. CNN topped its own numbers for its GOP debate in New Hampshire in June. It fell behind those for Fox News’ Aug. 11 debate in Iowa, which got 5.1 million viewers, and 1.4 in the target demo. It also lagged behind the GOP debate last week on MSNBC — from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley — which got 5.4 million viewers, with 1.7 million in the demo. Today, we got the final numbers from CNN, and they didn’t budge much: 3.163 million total viewers, and 1.132 million in the demographic. Interestingly, there is much less daylight among CNN’s most recent demographic numbers and those for the last two debates than there is in numbers of total viewers. That means that either far more older or younger viewers — or large numbers of both — bailed on Monday night. To read more, visit: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/cnntea-party-gop-presidential-debate-ratings-dont-get-better-over-time.html |
| Perry talks about his faith, forsaking talk of jobs for a day Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:00 AM PDT By Philip Rucker, The Washington Post LYNCHBURG, Va. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a man of faith, and one of the big questions about him has been whether he will seek the presidency more as an evangelist or as a job creator. On the debate stage, Perry has done the latter. But he demonstrated Wednesday that he will not shy away from cloaking his candidacy in his Christianity, delivering an address here at the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty University that presented his life in deeply spiritual terms and cast his political aspirations as destiny. In perhaps his most reflective and personal remarks as a Republican presidential candidate, Perry never once said the word he utters just about everywhere else: "jobs." His 20-minute speech was shorn of policy prescriptions and denouncements of President Obama. Instead, the evangelical Christian governor spoke the language of the movement with ease. He talked about the many nights in his 20s he spent pondering his purpose, "wondering what to do with this one life among the billions that were on the planet," but knowing that God's answers would be revealed to him in due time. Perry mused about his personal failings: not realizing his dream of becoming a veterinarian because he flunked organic chemistry, being ordered to do push-ups as a college cadet when his superiors in morning inspections discovered insufficiently shined shoes, straying from his faith and being "lost" as a young Air Force pilot overseas. "He who knows the number of drops in the ocean, he counts the sands in the desert, he knows you by name. . . . He doesn't require perfect people to execute his perfect plan," Perry said before an estimated 13,000 students and faculty members who filled the basketball arena here for their thrice-weekly convocation. Then, invoking Moses and David of Scripture, he added: "God uses broken people to reach a broken world. The mistakes of yesterday say nothing about the possibilities of tomorrow." Recent past presidents spoke comfortably about their faith, including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Bush shared a narrative of his religious conversion — that he went on a walk with the Rev. Billy Graham, joined a Bible study group and overcame his alcoholism. "Rick Perry's a more overt, less subtle guy than George W. Bush, and he is going to be more overt in his policy statements and his statements about his faith," said Richard Land, a longtime leader of the Southern Baptist Convention who has spoken with Perry about his faith. "He talks about his faith in terms that evangelicals will find completely identifiable." To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/perry-casts-himself-as-anti-intellectual-says-his-life-shaped-by-faith/2011/09/14/gIQAUNgASK_print.html |
| Google Glitch in Flight Service Included World Trade Center Posted: 15 Sep 2011 06:57 AM PDT By NewsCore, FOXNews.com MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google removed an unfortunate glitch in its newly-launched Flight Search service Wednesday that included the World Trade Center in a list of airports. The Twin Towers were once listed as a destination for aircraft because they boasted a helipad. However, the landing spot was closed in 1984, well before the buildings were destroyed on 9/11. Despite the information being outdated and inaccurate it was still listed this week on a list of airports on Google’s flight search service, albeit marked “unavailable,” alongside John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International. The mistake was spotted by a user who contacted an Australian newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald. The paper alerted Google to the gaffe and by 11:00 a.m. EDT Wednesday the Flight Search feature did not show the World Trade Center as a destination. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/google-removes-wtc-reference-from-new-flight-search-service/ |
| Democrat: Americans don’t deserve to keep all of their money Posted: 15 Sep 2011 06:45 AM PDT
CHICAGO (WLS) – A lot of reaction Wednesday morning to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s interview with Don Wade and Roma. Schakowsky said that Americans don’t deserve to keep all of their money because we need taxes to support our society. "I'll put it this way. You don't deserve to keep all of it and it's not a question of deserving because what government is, is those things that we decide to do together. And there are many things that we decide to do together like have our national security. Like have police and fire. What about the people that work at the National Institute of Health who are looking for a cure for cancer," Schakowsky said. Schakowsky also says one reason the 2009 stimulus bill did not succeed was because it was not large enough. To read more, visit: http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2285496 |
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