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- ‘Stingray’ Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash
- Two clear winners in GOP debate: Gary Johnson and Ron Paul
- Tea Party pushes schools to teach Constitution, meet federal mandate
- Half of Tea Party Rejects Climate Change and Evolution
- Soros turns up in Obama’s LightSquared imbroglio
- Dow plunges 391 points
| ‘Stingray’ Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:46 AM PDT By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest. Stingrays are designed to locate a mobile phone even when it’s not being used to make a call. The Federal Bureau of Investigation considers the devices to be so critical that it has a policy of deleting the data gathered in their use, mainly to keep suspects in the dark about their capabilities, an FBI official told The Wall Street Journal in response to inquiries. Stingrays are one of several new technologies used by law enforcement to track people’s locations, often without a search warrant. These techniques are driving a constitutional debate about whether the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, but which was written before the digital age, is keeping pace with the times. On Nov. 8, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether or not police need a warrant before secretly installing a GPS device on a suspect’s car and tracking him for an extended period. In both the Senate and House, new bills would require a warrant before tracking a cellphone’s location. To read more, visit: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904194604576583112723197574.html |
| Two clear winners in GOP debate: Gary Johnson and Ron Paul Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:42 AM PDT By Karl Dickey, West Palm Beach Libertarian Examiner Last night’s Fox News / Google GOP debate televised live from Orlando, Florida allowed the public to see a full range of Republican candidates vying to be our next President of the United States. Surprisingly, late last night and early this morning the mainstream media seems interested in flipping the results of the debate around to Perry and Romney when the two clear winners of the Fox News poll clearly shows Ron Paul and Gary Johnson the winners of the debate by a wide margin. Ironically, these are the two most libertarian candidates in the entire field. On stage were Gary Johnson, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Michelle Bachmann. But to watch the news or read the online papers early this morning would almost suggest it was the Rick Perry & Mitt Romney show. Johnson and Paul win the debate, however the media disregards them. Is it because they are offering specific detailed solutions? Is it because the media doesn’t want them in the White House? Is this an organized effort to keep libertarian ideas from getting too much exposure? If one missed the debate and did read something about Gary Johnson’s performance in the debate, they may only have heard of his great line about his neighbor’s dog which everyone in the crowd enjoyed immensely. His line was, “My next door neighbor’s two dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than this president.” To read more, visit: http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-west-palm-beach/two-clear-winners-gop-debate-gary-johnson-and-ron-paul |
| Tea Party pushes schools to teach Constitution, meet federal mandate Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:24 AM PDT
Dressed as protesting hippies, fifth-grade students at Deer Creek Elementary School were not just light-heartedly entertaining the entire student body at the small Nevada City school; they were fulfilling a federal mandate. Students at Grass Valley’s Bear River High School did the same, participating in a scavenger hunt. So did students at Margaret Scotten and Lyman Gilmore schools, who watched "School House Rock." Members of the Nevada County Tea Party Patriots seek to ensure other area schools fall in line this week with a federal law requiring schools to teach some sort of educational program on Constitution Day related to the United States Constitution. Public Law 108-447 directs "(e)ach educational institution that receives federal funds … shall hold an educational program on the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17 (Constitution Day) of such year for the students served by the educational institution." Since Constitution Day fell on a Saturday this year, educators may fulfill the requirement in the week before or after the actual observance, the California Department of Education advised. Whereas this once little-known law was not initially paid much notice, local Tea Party members have campaigned to ensure schools are in compliance as part of a nationally dictated adopt-a-school "action plan" to "pressure" schools to teach the Constitution, according to the grassroots organization’s website. To read more, visit: http://www.theunion.com/article/20110921/NEWS/110929990/1001&parentprofile=105 |
| Half of Tea Party Rejects Climate Change and Evolution Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:06 PM PDT By Luiza Oleszczuk | Christian Post Approximately half of Tea Party members do not believe in evolution and climate change, according to the newest poll by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). That could be an issue in the 2012 elections, researchers say. The study found that some 69 percent of all Americans believe there is solid evidence for global warming and nearly 57 percent believe in evolution. However, within the Tea Party, 50 percent of the affiliates reject the idea of global warming and 51 percent do not believe in evolution. "Americans who identify with the Tea Party and white evangelical Protestants strongly reject evolution," said Daniel Cox, PRRI Research Director. "In fact, roughly one-third of these groups believe humans and other living things were created within the last 10,000 years." The study, which concluded in the midst of presidential campaigns, also suggests that these results might be significant for the 2012 GOP presidential contenders. "While most Americans say the issues of evolution and climate change do not strongly influence their support of candidates, these issues are symbolically important for two groups that play an outsize role in Republican primary politics: white evangelical Protestants and members of the Tea Party," said Dr. Robert P. Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute. "The challenge for Republican candidates is to talk about these issues now in a way that will not hurt them later in the general election." To read more, visit: http://global.christianpost.com/news/half-of-tea-party-rejects-climate-change-and-evolution-56286/ |
| Soros turns up in Obama’s LightSquared imbroglio Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:30 PM PDT By Timothy P.Carney, The Washington Examiner As Republican lawmakers begin to dig into the White House’s cozy relationship with a startup wireless company and the wealthy Democratic donor who owns it, a new character has appeared on the story’s edges: liberal superdonor, conservative bete noire and controversial investor George Soros. Soros reportedly invested in the telecom company LightSquared through a hedge fund, and many of the nonprofits he finances have backed LightSquared in regulatory and policy disputes. The background: LightSquared wants to compete with AT&T, Verizon and Sprint to provide mobile broadband (for instance, email and Internet on your Blackberry or iPhone). To read more, visit: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/soros-turns-obamas-lightsquared-imbroglio |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:27 PM PDT By: JeeYeon Park, CNBC.com Stocks came off their worst levels, but still finished sharply lower Thursday in heavy-volume trading as a gloomy outlook from the Federal Reserve in addition to ongoing economic jitters fueled concerns of a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 391.01 points, or 3.51 percent, to finish at 10,733.83, led by United Tech [UTX 68.31 -6.56 (-8.76%) ], Caterpillar [CAT 73.90 -5.46 (-6.88%) ] and Alcoa [AA 10.11 -0.73 (-6.73%) ], but still finished above its August closing low of 10,719.94. The blue-chip index skid 528 points in its intraday low. The blue-chip index is on track for its worst week in almost three years. The S&P 500 plummeted 37.20 points, or 3.19 percent, to close at 1,129.56 after flirting with its key technical support level of 1,120. The Nasdaq declined 82.52 points, or 3.25 percent, to end at 2,455.67. The CBOE Volatility Index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, soared above 41. All 10 S&P sectors finished firmly in the negative territory, led by materials and energy. To read more, visit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/44624491 |
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