Supreme Court: Anti-gay funeral picketers allowed (AP)
AP - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a grieving father's pain over mocking protests at his Marine son's funeral must yield to First Amendment protections for free speech. All but one justice sided with a fundamentalist church that has stirred outrage with raucous demonstrations contending God is punishing the military for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.The 8-1 decision in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., was the latest in a line of court rulings that, as Chief Justice John Roberts said in his opinion for the court, protects "even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate."
The decision ended a lawsuit by Albert Snyder, who sued church members for the emotional pain they caused by showing up at his son Matthew's funeral. As they have at hundreds of other funerals, the Westboro members held signs with provocative messages, including "Thank God for dead soldiers," `'You're Going to Hell," `'God Hates the USA/Thank God for 9/11," and one that combined the U.S. Marine Corps motto, Semper Fi, with a slur against gay men.
KN: Interesting turn of events, remember this: "President Obama himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito, who now sits on the Supreme Court,"Read
U.S. assault ships clear Suez, enter Mediterranean
WASHINGTON |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. amphibious assault ships have reached the Mediterranean Sea, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, as Washington intensifies pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to end his four-decade rule.Kliphnote: Remember the Iraq war when the Democrats
said we should not get involved in a civil war?
Well this is a civil war in Libya.
Don't risk American lives for people that don't like America.
If this was Bush the left would say it's for the oil.
Don't be a hypocrite.
Barbour says Obama cheers for higher gas prices
AP – In this photo provided by NBC on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour talks on NBC's … Barbour cited 2008 comments from Steven Chu, now President Barack Obama's energy secretary, that a gradual increase in gasoline taxes could coax consumers into dumping their gas-guzzlers and finding homes closer to where they work. Chu, then a Nobel Prize-winning professor, argued that higher costs per gallon could force investments in alternative fuels and spur cleaner energy sources.
KN: That is what I said a few days ago.
Two people have died after a gunman opened fire on a bus full of American soldiers at Frankfurt airport, police say.A 21yr old suspect from Kosovo is said to have been arrested.
UPDATE: Speigel
A gunman at Frankfurt Airport, Germany's largest international hub, reportedly fired at several United States soldiers in a military bus on Wednesday, killing at least two people and seriously injuring two others. Wire reports suggest the two dead were likely American soldiers Leadership: For years, Barack Obama called Iraq "a dumb war." But considering how that conflict undeniably scared Libya's Moammar Gadhafi into ending his WMD program, the 2003 invasion ... More »
Energy: With oil prices shooting through the roof, the nation's failure to ramp up domestic energy production is baffling. But one thing we know for sure: America's enemies are actively ... More »
Wisconsin State Employees Should Have Some Koch and Smile
By Christian SchneiderMarch 1, 2011
When the history books record l’affaire Wisconsin, public-employee unions will have plenty of villains. They will remember Republican governor Scott Walker, who proposed scaling back their ability to collectively bargain. They will revile Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, who cut off debate and “rushed” the bill to a vote after 61 hours of debate on the Assembly floor. But for the Left, the most enduring villain might be the billionaire Koch brothers.
When frequently vile Buffalobeast.com blogger Ian Murphy prank-called Walker, he pretended to be David Koch — thinking that would be the most embarrassing call Walker could take…
The vitriol from protesting Wisconsin workers towards the Kochs emerged quickly and intensely. Signs ranging between lame and vulgar (often both) dot the public-union marches.
But what the protesters don’t realize is that they actually have a reason to root for the Koch brothers.
According to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), the Wisconsin Retirement System owns $5.5 million in Georgia Pacific corporate bonds. (Georgia Pacific is owned by Koch Industries.) This is the retirement system in which the overwhelming majority of state and local employees participate. These are the pension benefits that public employees are trying so hard to protect.
So here’s the challenge: Explain to a Wisconsin state worker that they are the ones helping fund the Koch brothers. Then sit back and watch the fun.
When President Obama popped by the briefing room today, he declined to take a question on Libya but promised the press throng that he would take "a couple" tomorrow, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon is at the White House.
BUT HAS TIME FOR THIS:
Obama Honors Meryl Streep, James Taylor, Harper Lee with Arts Awards
Buffalo ranked as city with few jobs
Forbes says Buffalo tied with Rochester for 2nd
Updated: Tuesday, 01 Mar 2011, 10:22 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 01 Mar 2011, 10:22 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 01 Mar 2011, 10:22 PM EST
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - It's a dubious distinction. Buffalo and Rochester are tied as the second worst markets for job seekers in America, according to Forbes Magazine.
Forbes Magazine is confirming what unemployed people in upstate New York could already tell you. The job market stinks. Forbes is citing a study that uses job data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It found that Buffalo and Rochester are tied for the two worse cities to find a job, just behind New Orleans.
The study shows the chances of finding a job that pays $50,000 or more in Buffalo is dim. Both upstate cities have 11 job openings for every 1,000 people. Terry Dunford knows how hard is to find a good job.
Moore On Wealthy People's Money: "That's Not Theirs, That's A National Resource, It's Ours"
"They're sitting on the money, they're using it for their own -- they're putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with your life, with that money. We've allowed them to take that. That's not theirs, that's a national resource, that's ours. We all have this -- we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it," Michael Moore told Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
"I think we need to go back to taxing these people at the proper rates. They need to -- we need to see these jobs as something we some, that we collectively own as Americans and you can't just steal our jobs and take them someplace else," Moore concluded.
No, not this year. A democrat is President and he said he wanted high gas prices back in 2008.
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