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The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the peaceful religion of fanatic Muslims: Suspected al-Qaeda militants have severed the hands of two people, including a 15-year-old boy, who stole electrical cables in a southern Yemeni town, witnesses summoned to watch the punishment say.
The militants cut off the teenager's hand with a sword in front of dozens of residents of Jaar, in the troubled southern province of Abyan, on Saturday evening before taking the limb around town for all to see.
On Sunday, the militants severed the hand of a 26-year-old man whom they also accused of stealing electrical cables. Under a very strict interpretation of Islamic law, theft is punishable by cutting off the thief's hand.
Under a very strict interpretation of Islamic law, theft is punishable by cutting off the thief's hand. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/alqaeda-cut-off-yemeni-boys-hand-20110926-1ks1f.html
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The Tennessean writes: Nearly 700,000 Tennesseans will gain new coverage under health-care reform, but those already with
insurance might have to wait longer to receive care and younger people overall may have to pay more.
Those are among findings from a report out from a think tank the state’s largest
health insurer, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, launched this year to study the interface between public policy and health care.
“It will be a little longer line, but everybody will be in the line,” Expanding
insurance coverage without a corresponding increase in the number of primary care doctors, though, could create problems with access to medical care, the study says.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110923/BUSINESS05/309230081/Patients-wait-longer-care-under-new-health-law-think-tank-says
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The Washington Examiner writes several items on Obamacare: It’s been said a thousand times: Congress had to pass President Obama’s health care law in order to find out what’s in it. But, despite the repetitiveness, the level of shock from each new discovery never seems to recede.
This time, America is learning about the federal government’s plan to collect and aggregate confidential patient records for every one of us.
In a proposed rule from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal government is demanding insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients.
(See
Proposed Rule: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Standards Related to Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment, Volume 76, page 41930.
Proposed rule docket ID is HHS-OS-2011-0022
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-15/pdf/2011-17609.pdf)
The HHS has proposed the federal government pursue one of three paths to obtain this sensitive information: A “centralized approach” wherein insurers’ data go directly to Washington; an “intermediate state-level approach” in which insurers give the information to the 50 states; or a “distributed approach” in which health insurance companies crunch the numbers according to federal bureaucrat edict.
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The Blaze reports: It all happened while Phil Cleary was passing out Constitutions in honor of Constitution Day.
Campusreform.org (which calls Cleary a “conservative) reports he had a table of literature promoting Western Civilization (and his group
Youth for Western Civilization) and was engaging students and faculty on the topic. While doing that he had conversation with someone the site identifies as Blair Jordan Moses, the young man with a soft spot for the Black Panthers.
And Cleary got it on video.
According to the video, the supporter tells Cleary that the 2nd Amendment could come in handy if Clearly ever threatened the campus multicultural center. What would constitute a threat? He never truly defines it, but “suggested that the existence of the group Youth for Western Civilization would count,” according to Campusreform.org.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/black-panther-supporter-warns-conservative-student-i-could-exercise-my-2nd-amendment-right-on-you/
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Gallup reports: A record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/149678/Americans-Express-Historic-Negativity-Toward-Government.aspx
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Cuba's Breitbart reports: Fidel Castro blasted Barack Obama's speech to the United Nations as "gibberish" on Monday, saying the US president used a rambling address to justify the "unjustifiable." In his first published column since July, the 85-year-old revolutionary icon slammed US and NATO intervention in Libya as "monstrous crimes" and said Obama -- whom he called the "yankee president" -- used a bully pulpit at the UN General Assembly last week to try and sway global opinion. [Do you wonder why I would put this in my news? It was told to us innumerable times that having Barack Obama as our President would heal the wounds and make the world love us. So, we have a need to know if that is what has happened.] http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.a1a0fa7851ea5002e0eaf3cb1af82a01.261&show_article=1
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The UK Telegraph reports: Most strikingly of all,
Gallup finds that:
• 49% of Americans believe the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. In 2003, less than a third (30%) believed this.
Even 28 per cent of Democrats agree with the 61 per cent of Republicans (and 57 per cent of independents) who now view the federal government as “a threat” to the rights and freedoms of the American people. It is little wonder that a mere 11 per cent of US voters now describe themselves as liberal on fiscal issues
in Rasmussen polling, compared to 44 per cent who call themselves conservative and 40 per cent who describe themselves as moderate.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100107291/why-barack-obama-could-be-america%E2%80%99s-last-big-government-president/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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American Thinker reports: "Pass this bill now." Obama is still repeating this slogan ad nauseum. The problem is that after more than two weeks, still no bill has hit the floor for a vote in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
So who's to blame for his bill not being passed yet? BO would have us believe it's Congress and in particular the Republicans, of course.
"This Congress, they are accustomed to doing nothing, and they're comfortable with doing nothing, and they keep on doing nothing," President Obama complained at a September 15 Democratic National Committee gathering in a private Washington residence.
Deroy Murdock at the National Review rightly points out that we may have a do-nothing Democrat-run Senate but the Republican-led House of Reps has been very busy. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/the_do-nothing_democrats.html
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