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Donna Kristofak was terrified and letting the court know it. John S. Kristofak, who was her husband for 19 years, had been arrested six months earlier as he chased her in a Wal-Mart parking lot. In his car were a butcher’s knife and what police called “a suicide note.” During a court hearing Oct. 12, Mrs. Kristofak begged a Cobb County judge not to release him from jail. “I fear for my life,” she told Superior Court Judge Adele Grubbs, telling the judge that a court-issued order of protection would not stop her crazed ex-spouse.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/slain-woman-predicted-her-own-death/nTgj4/
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Craft store giant Hobby Lobby is bracing for a $1.3 million a day fine beginning January 1 for noncompliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare.
"All they're asking for is a narrow exemption from the law that says they don't have to provide drugs they believe cause abortions," Hobby Lobby attorney Kyle Duncan, a general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told CNN affiliate KFOR in November. "Our basic point is the government can't put a corporation in the position of choosing between its faith and following the law."
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/27/hobby-lobby-faces-millions-in-fines-for-bucking-obamacare/
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INDIANAPOLIS -Should the IRS be giving billions of dollars in tax credits to illegal immigrants? Many lawmakers say "no" after seeing an Eyewitness News investigationexposing massive fraud involving undocumented workers and child tax credits.
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The State Department has closed its embassy in the Central African Republic and ordered the ambassador and his diplomatic team to leave the country as rebels there continue to advance and violence escalates, U.S. officials said Thursday.
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Maybe it's a coincidence that Jackson, who attended Tulane University on a scholarship provided by Shell Oil, resigned only days after the Justice Department agreed to hand over 12,000 emails from Jackson's "Richard Windsor" account. But it looks like she's attempting to dodge an uncomfortable investigation.
Whatever the case, Jackson can't be allowed to simply walk away to spend more time with her family or move into academia, as some are suggesting. The probe must follow its course to wherever, and to whomever, it leads. If there is wrongdoing, appropriate penalties have to be meted out, or the government's pledge to do the business of the American people in the open is meaningless.
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/122712-638555-lisa-jackson-resigns-while-inspector-general-investigates-emails.htm#ixzz2GLS7EbhC
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The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Department facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive arsenal: a secret security force created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.Two of the Americans killed in Benghazi were members of the CIA’s Global Response Staff, an innocuously named organization that has recruited hundreds of former U.S. Special Forces operatives to serve as armed guards for the agency’s spies.
The increasingly conspicuous role of the GRS is part of a broader expansion of the CIA’s paramilitary capabilities over the past 10 years. Beyond hiring former U.S. military commandos, the agency has collaborated with U.S. Special Operations teams on missions including the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and has killed thousands of Islamist militants and civilians with its fleet of armed drones.
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The U.S. Labor Department has rustled up more taxpayer money to help "jobless workers" pay their health insurancepremiums.
"It is difficult enough to find new employment, let alone do so without health insurance for you or your family," Labor Secretary Hilda Solissaid in a news release dated Dec. 26. "This funding will help eligible workers avoid that prospect by helping them pay for health insurance while they seek new jobs."
The money -- in the form of a $1,058,254 National Emergency Grant supplement -- will go to several thousand unemployed people in Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia.
(below is a link to an article published last may but it is foretelling) b.g
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Who is Gabriel Sherman? Who is he, and what forces does he represent? Those are questions worth answering, because they speak to the tactics and methods of the left wing in America today.
In his too-brief life, Andrew Breitbart always emphasized the importance of understanding how the left operates--the better to combat it. So we at Breitbart News, who seek to carry on Andrew’s work, feel a continuing obligation to expose the left and its ever-evolving methods.
And so we return to Gabriel Sherman, because his career provides a window into the mechanisms of the contemporary left. In particular, we can see how mainstream media journalism--shoddy, gossipy, and liberal, all at the same time--has now combined with tax-deductible foundations to further shape our politics and culture. Once again, as Andrew always knew, the right can’t expect to win if it can’t analyze, and expose, how the left plays its tricks and works its will.
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There is good news and bad news about climate. The good news is that science evidence has made it quite clear that the human contribution to a possible global warming is minor; in fact it cannot even be identified in the data record. The bad news is that the media and politicians pay no attention whatsoever to the science and are marching ahead full-speed with efforts to control CO2 emissions -- thereby hurting the economy, destroying jobs, and stunting economic growth. They are under the illusion that there is a nearly complete scientific consensus in support of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW).
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/climate_science_vs_politics_the_road_ahead.html#ixzz2GLc94vuL
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/climate_science_vs_politics_the_road_ahead.html#ixzz2GLc94vuL
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In many ways, 2012 will be remembered for what didn’t happen on energy.
President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, but that merely set up yet another decision on the project in 2013. In Congress, lawmakers bickered over a slew of energy issues — but despite dozens of message votes in the House, never managed to send major energy legislation to Obama’s desk.
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And though the Obama administration offered beefed-up fuel economy standards and proposed the first-ever climate change regulations for new power plants, federal policymakers neatly avoided having a robust debate on global warming.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/top-five-energy-issues-to-remember-in-2012-85538.html#ixzz2GLeWlUWM
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Computer hackers traced to China carried out an advanced cyberespionage attack against one of America’s most elite foreign policy web groups – the website of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).According to private computer-security forensic specialists, the hacking incident involved a relatively new type of ploy called a “drive-by” website cyber attack that was detected around 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
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