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National Review – by Jillian Kay Melchior

One in seven of New Mexico’s certified Obamacare navigators had a match in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, according to public records obtained by National Review Online.

In total, 38 health-care guides or certified application counselors received their certification despite a match, according to records from the New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance (OSI), which certifies navigators working with the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange.   Continue reading “Obamacare’s Fishy Navigators”

Business Insider – by DINA SPECTOR

While everyone in the United States was moaning and groaning last week about the insufferably cold temperatures, other parts of the world were intensely frigid too.

Take the small Norwegian island of Lovund, for instance, where thousands of fish were essentially flash-frozen in a bay as the air temperature dipped to -7.8 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit), according to a report from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).   Continue reading “A Norwegian Bay Was So Cold That Thousands Of Fish Were Flash-Frozen”

Yahoo News – by David Ingram

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday upheld subsidies at the heart of President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul, rejecting one of the main legal challenges to the policy by conservatives opposed to an expansion of the federal government.

A ruling in favor of a lawsuit brought by individuals and businesses in Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia would have crippled the implementation of the law by making health insurance unaffordable for many people.   Continue reading “U.S. judge upholds subsidies pivotal to Obamacare”

Here are some pictures of the Federal Gov’t helicopter that’s flying over Baltimore today and tomorrow doing research on “background radiation”. You can see the detection pods on the side of the chopper.

From the Baltimore Sun: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-helicopter-flyovers-20140114,0,4711846.story   Continue reading “Helicopter Flying Over Baltimore for “Background Radiation Research””

Fox 59

ELKHART, Ind. (January 16th, 2014) – Three people are dead after a supermarket shooting in Elkhart.

The shooting occurred just after 10 p.m. Wednesday night at the Martin’s Supermarket on East Bristol St.

Police responded to a call regarding a man with a gun in the store.   Continue reading “3 dead in Elkhart supermarket shooting”

Fox News

NORFOLK, VA. –  A Navy fighter jet crashed Wednesday in Atlantic waters off Virginia’s coast and the pilot has been rescued, a Navy official said. The crash comes a week after a Navy helicopter plunged into the ocean in the region, leaving three dead.

Cmdr. Mike Kafka, a spokesman for Naval Air Forces Atlantic, said the F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed about 2:35 p.m. about 50 miles off Virginia Beach. He said the pilot ejected and was recovered by a fisherman, and then picked up by a Navy helicopter. Kafka said the pilot was conscious, but he gave no other immediate details about the crash or the pilot’s health.   Continue reading “Navy: Fighter jet crashes off Virginia in Atlantic Ocean, pilot rescued and is conscious”

Bloomberg News – by Ian Katz

China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries increased $12.2 billion to a record$1.317 trillion in November, data released on the Treasury Department’s website showed.

The figures, scheduled for release at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Washington, were inadvertently posted on the Treasury’s website. Japan’s holdings rose $12 billion to $1.186 trillion, the figures showed.   Continue reading “China’s Treasury Holdings Climb to Record in Government Data”

RT News

Israel bombed two targets in the Gaza Strip as a response to earlier fire from across the border, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Palestinians had fired at Israel after an IDF incursion reportedly took place on the Strip’s eastern border.

Israeli “aircraft targeted two concealed rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip,” the IDF stated.   Continue reading “Israel returns fire on Gaza following reports of IDF intrusion”

New York Daily News – by Matthew Lysiak , Joe Kemp AND Corky Siemaszko 

KIRO TV

BUCKLEY, Wash. — A local man featured on a reality show about preparing for the end of the world as we know it is now in a local jail.

Tenth Amendment Center

The state level campaign to turn off power and electricity to the NSA got a big boost Wednesday.

In a bipartisan effort, Washington became first state with a physical NSA location to consider the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, designed to make life extremely difficult for the massive spy agency.   Continue reading “Washington First State With NSA Facility to Consider Prohibiting Cooperation with the Agency”

Yahoo News

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three Russian servicemen and four gunmen were killed in a shootout in southern Russia on Wednesday during a sweep for militants before the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee (NAC) said the dead gunmen included a man accused of carrying out a car bomb attack in the city of Pyatigorsk late last year which killed three people.   Continue reading “Russian security forces battle militants before Olympics”

Yahoo News – by Rob Garver, The Fiscal Times

Between 2002 and 2012, federal agencies spent more than half a trillion dollars ($688 billion) on payments that should never have been made.

Every year, according to their own recordkeeping, the agencies that administer major federal programs are now paying out more than $100 billion dollars improperly, and even though they’re aware of the problem, they recover only a tiny fraction for taxpayers. This adds up to huge losses for the U.S. Treasury.   Continue reading “Feds Blow $100 Billion Annually on Incorrect Payments”

Fox News

The FBI has so far found no evidence that would warrant the Justice Department filing criminal charges in its investigation into the IRS targeting scandal, federal officials confirm to Fox News.

The findings, which were first reported by The Wall Street Journal, could intensify the debate over the scandal, in which the IRS allegedly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups applying for non-exempt tax status for special scrutiny.   Continue reading “Officials say no evidence criminal charges warranted so far in IRS targeting probe”

Breitbart – by MATTHEW BOYLE

The omnibus spending bill before Congress continues to fund U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advertising programs for food stamps in foreign countries like Mexico, Breitbart News has learned.

The bill was hashed out between House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) and Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). The funding will continue despite claims in a document the House Appropriations Committee published that the bill contains a “prohibition” on such programs. Page three of this press document states regarding food stamps that the omnibus spending bill contains a “prohibition on advertisements or outreach with foreign governments.”   Continue reading “Omnibus Spending Bill Continues Funding Food Stamp Ads in Mexico”

Reuters

Efforts to renew emergency federal jobless benefits for 1.5 million Americans stalled in the Senate on Tuesday when Democrats and Republicans rejected each other’s proposals.

Both sides vowed to keep looking for a compromise, but it appeared unlikely they would find one before next week’s Senate recess.   Continue reading “Effort to extend jobless benefits stalls in Senate”

Kentucky.com – by BILL ESTEP

Two Kentucky water systems temporarily shut down their intakes early Monday as a plume of the chemical spilled last week in West Virginia passed in the Ohio River.

The cities of Ashland and Russell stopped drawing water from the Ohio after the chemical — 4-methycyclohexane methanol, or MCHM — reached Ashland at 5:30 a.m., according to the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection.   Continue reading “Two Kentucky water systems shut intakes as chemical plume passes in Ohio River”