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3/11/2010
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
03/10/10 4:17 PM EST
Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?
Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal's Congress Daily:
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/House-Democrats-looking-at-Slaughter-Solution-to-pass-Obamacare-without-a-vote-on-Senate-bill-87267402.html#ixzz0htpkmtdg
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3/11/2010
Kerrville Resident Says Incident Was Second Involving Man
Doug Shupe, KSAT 12 News Reporter
POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
UPDATED: 7:49 pm CST March 10, 2010
KERRVILLE, Texas -- Usually everyone knows each other in the 1200 block of Jefferson Street in Kerrville. But around 7:15 p.m. Monday, motion detection lights alerted a 24-year-old woman to an unwelcome and unkown person outside her house.
"The individual was seen on the front porch of the residence with his pants down exposing himself," said Kerrville Police Officer Paul Gonzales.
The woman grabbed a gun from her bedroom and fired a shot toward the ground.
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3/11/2010
Police, School Officials Surprised by Amy Beck's Out-of-the-Blue Confession
By SARAH NETTER
March 10, 2010
Amy Beck may have cleared her conscience, but now faces serious jail time after freely admitting a months long affair with one of her middle school students.
The Burbank, Calif., teacher stunned police and school officials when she showed up at the police station and told them she'd repeatedly had sex with a now-15-year-old student.
"Obviously we were surprised," Burbank Police Sgt. Robert Quesada said. Without Beck's confession, "we would have never known about this."
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3/11/2010
By JOHN CLOUD John Cloud – Wed Mar 10, 6:25 am ET
Spring is coming, and a young man's thoughts turn to...you know. Apparently, old men's thoughts turn to the same subject. According to an article to be published Wednesday in the journal BMJ (British Medical Journal), 67% of men ages 65 to 74 said they had been sexually active in the past year, compared with just 40% of women in that age group. Everyone knows young men think constantly about sex, but many guys remain interested in sex until they are almost dead: more than one-third of men ages 75 to 85 said they had sex in the past 12 months, compared with just 17% of women in that age group.
Some of this surely has to do with Viagra, which makes it easier for older men to be interested in sex. But the disparity in sexual activity between older men and older women isn't entirely explained by the 1998 release of the little blue pill. One set of data presented in the new paper - taken from the National Survey of Midlife Development, involving about 3,000 adults aged 25 to 74 - was collected in 1995 and 1996. ...
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3/11/2010
Decision Said To Be In Line With Church Teachings
DENVER -- The archbishop of Denver on Tuesday defended a decision by a Catholic school not to allow two children to continue as students because their parents are a lesbian couple.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said it was a "painful situation," but the decision by Sacred Heart of Jesus parish school in Boulder was in line with church teachings.
Chaput said the school told the parents that one of the children could complete kindergarten and the other could complete preschool, but neither could continue after that.
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3/11/2010
By Carl Willis
POSTED: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
UPDATED: 12:12 pm CST March 10, 2010
HOUSTON -- A 14-year-old girl is facing charges in Montgomery County, accused of stealing a cell phone and then using it to send nude photos of herself, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday.
The teenager was arrested in Oak Ridge North and police said the photos she took and sent to several boys led them right to her.
Police said the victim's phone was missing for two days after it was taken from a clinic.
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3/9/2010
By MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press
Monday, March 8, 2010; 3:42 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is entering an emotionally charged dispute between the grieving father of a Marine who died in Iraq and the anti-gay protesters who picket military funerals with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers."
The court agreed Monday to consider whether the protesters' message, no matter how provocative or upsetting, is protected by the First Amendment or limited by the competing privacy and religious rights of the mourners.
The justices will hear an appeal from a Marine's father to reinstate a $5 million verdict against the protesters after they picketed outside his son's funeral in Maryland four years ago. Members of a Kansas-based church have picketed military funerals to spread their belief that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.
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3/9/2010
By Amy Goldstein and Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform.
Obama and his health secretary staged a two-pronged attack Monday in a stern letter to health insurance chief executives and a speech in which the president castigated insurance companies 22 times. "How much higher do premiums have to rise," he demanded, "before we do something about it?"
The messages are part of a strategy that Obama and those around him have begun to employ lately, to ratchet up the pace and the populist appeal of their rhetoric against the health insurance industry. The barbed tone moves far beyond that of the 2008 presidential campaign, when Obama began to say that medical coverage should be accessible and affordable for more Americans.
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3/9/2010
By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Conservative activists rallied Monday to the side of a liberal New York Democrat who had resigned from the House, after he charged that his party's leaders had conspired to oust him over his opposition to President Obama's health-care legislation.
Eric Massa's resignation Monday came after an ethics investigation into his conduct, and allegations of sexual harassment of staffers, became public. And his remarks on a Sunday radio show were only the latest in a series of explanations of why he was leaving the House.
Nevertheless, conservative blogs touted his accusations against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) as the latest evidence of Democrats' bare-knuckled political machinations to get a health-care bill to Obama's desk.
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3/9/2010
BY PEGGY WALSH-SARNECKI
FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER
In what experts say could be a landmark decision, a Michigan school district has been ordered to pay $800,000 this week to a student who claimed the school did not do enough to protect him from years of bullying, some sexually tinged.
This week's jury verdict against Hudson Area Schools puts districts on notice that it's not enough to stop a student from bullying another. There needs to be a concerted effort to stop systemic bullying, too.
Essentially, the federal court ruling says schools can be held responsible for what students do, if there is a pattern of harassment or if they don't do enough to provide a safe environment.
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