Judge Jeanine: Threat behind Obama #39;s pen and phone pledge
Do we want a president who ignores the law, the Constitution and more than 200 years of precedent?
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February 18, 2014
By Christina Corrales-Toy
The scoreboard painted a bleak picture after the first quarter of the Liberty High School girls basketball teams Feb. 13 contest against Juanita.
The Patriots managed just two points in the first eight minutes of play, while the Rebels racked up 15.
By Greg Farrar Sierra Carlson, Liberty High School senior guard, with a team-high 14 points, leaves the court smiling at the end of the Patriots come-from-way-behind, 44-33 win against Juanita in their 3A KingCo Conference tournament game Feb. 13 at Bellevue College.
Shots just werent falling for Liberty in the first quarter of the game that determined third place in the KingCo tournament. It was a struggle, senior captain Sierra Carlson admitted, to remain resolute as the misses just accumulated.
Ive done that earlier in the season, she said, miss a shot and get down on myself, but this time, I knew I couldnt afford to put my head down this game.
Carlson powered through the initial adversity to lead her team with 14 points, in an exciting come-from-behind, 44-33 win for the Patriots.
Liberty would go on to outscore Juanita in the three remaining quarters, but it was a thrilling third quarter that sealed the deal for the Patriots.
The Patriots emerged from halftime down 23-12. Juanita began the second half with a quick two points, before Liberty proceeded to take over the game.
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How to Talk to Left and Right About Libertarianism: Anthony Gregory on the Tom Woods Show
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Leah Stiles Hughey speaks at the Christianity and Libertarianism Panel at the International Students for Liberty Conference while her husband, Jason Hughey, and Philip Luca look on in Washington, D.C. Feb. 15, 2014.
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WASHINGTON Young Evangelicals argued that Christianity and libertarianism are compatible, and some even claimed that Christians should advocate for libertarian causes.
"Christians actually ought to feel outraged that the redemptive power of charity has been taken from us and given to an unfeeling, coercive state," Leah Stiles Hughey declared at a Saturday panel at The International Students for Liberty Conference. She claimed that when government gets involved in giving to the poor it denies the God-given human dignity of both giver and receiver.
Hughey's husband Jason explained that "the Bible is not a book of political theory." Nevertheless, "there are themes we get from the Bible that give a good foundation for Christians to embrace libertarianism or even anarchy," Jason Hughey said.
The Hugheys and three other panelists provided 5 reasons why they believe Christians can be libertarian in their political beliefs.
1. Christianity Celebrates Voluntary Action, Value Creation
Jacqueline Otto Isaacs speaks at the Christianity and Libertarianism Panel at the International Students for Liberty as Elise Amyx and Taylor Barkley look on, Washington, D.C. Feb. 15, 2014.
Jacqueline Otto Isaacs, a blogger at Values & Capitalism, explained that the Christian worldview also supports libertarianism. "The message of the Gospel, the good news, is that salvation from our sins is offered through Christ this salvation is voluntary and individual, and this is the core message of Christianity," Isaacs declared.
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2013 Libertarian Party of Illinois Convention: Dr. Thomas E. Woods
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The Libertarian Party candidate whose third-party run drew more than 16,000 votes in the tight, heated congressional race between incumbent John Tierney and challenger Richard Tisei two years ago has thrown his support to Tisei this time around.
In a letter sent Monday to the Times and to several other 6th Congressional District media outlets, Daniel Fishman of Beverly said he was backing Tisei, who came within a single percentage point of ousting Tierney in 2012, as a moderate candidate and a fiscal conservative who has been consistently socially tolerant.
Decrying criticism of Tisei from the 2012 Tierney campaign and from other Democrats, who have tried to paint Tisei as having ties to the conservative tea party, Fishman wrote, I would ask people on the North Shore to evaluate him based on who he says he is, calling Tisei the most tolerant and, thus, the most liberty-minded candidate.
The endorsement from Fishman comes less than two years after the Beverly man had rung up 16,668 or 4 percent of the votes cast in the bitter, rough-and-tumble 2012 run, which Tierney won by a margin of 3,550.
Tierney, widely viewed by pollsters as trailing right up to the day before the election, pulled out his re-election to a ninth term by capturing 179,603 votes to Tiseis 175,953 or winning by 48.4 to 47.2 percent of the vote.
But Fishman, who was active throughout the campaign and participated in some of the debates including one hosted by the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce at Cruiseport Gloucester just 10 days prior to the election drew 16,668 votes, or 4 percent of the total, far more than Tierneys margin of victory. Tierneys final margin also virtually matched the 3,000-vote margin by which he carried the city of Gloucester.
In his endorsement letter, which can be read in full on Page 4 the Opinion page of todays Times, Fishman begins with a basic pronouncement.
Im supporting Richard Tisei for Congress in 2014, he writes, before going on to note the need for all sides to hear out and be tolerant of each others views.
Richard has said that its easier to be gay in Massachusetts than it is to be a Republican, wrote Fishman. Thats not a happy jest, its a sad truth.
If you live in Massachusetts youve heard hate speech directed towards Republicans, and that shouldnt be OK, he adds in backing Tisei, who is gay, pro-gay marriage and pro-choice, despite the stands of many in his own party.
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Sky Islands #3: Close Call
Lava almost got me, but it basically destroyed my armor.
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The Associated Press Adam Crook of the British Virgin Islands gets air during men's ski half pipe qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) Adam Crooks first hints at becoming a Winter Olympian for the British Virgin Islands took the top brass there by surprise.
They thought I was talking about water skiing, he said.
Nope. Freestyle skiing.
The 21-year-old became the first winter athlete to compete for his island country in 30 years (the late Errol Spence was a speedskater for the country at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics) when he took to the halfpipe Tuesday.
He finished 27th, though the result wasnt as important as the mission.
Crooks parents, Lin and Barney, met while working in Tortola, later moved back to Lins hometown in Wisconsin and are now back in the islands.
To realize his dream of skiing in the Olympics, Adam had to move to Colorado for ski school. To fund his career, he cobbled together money from Olympic scholarship funds, sponsors and, of course, his parents.
He and his folks essentially are the British Virgin Islands Ski Association, a federation they had to start so he could enter World Cup events Crook needed to make the Olympics.
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A Marshall Islands atoll that grew 23 per cent in 65 years shows islands can form and grow much more rapidly than previously thought.
And scientists say the research may be significant as sea levels continue to rise thanks to climate change, threatening low-lying atolls.
In 1905, Nadikdik Atoll in the Marshall Islands was hit by a devastating typhoon which destroyed large sections of the reef island, and killed the entire population except two survivors.
Scientists from the University of Auckland compared aerial photographs from 1945 with pictures from 2010, and found the vegetated area of the islands grew by 23 per cent.
The research puts this down to sediments generated from the atoll's surrounding reef system, which was likely in a healthy condition as the atoll had been uninhabited since 1905.
The scientists also noticed a new island grow from a sediment deposit to a fully vegetated and stable island in 61 years, and a number of separate islands form a single larger island.
"These changes were rapid and indicate that reef island formation can occur quickly," the report said.
Sea levels are expected to continue rising thanks to climate change, with the levels around Marshall Islands rising at about 2.2 millimetres a year since 1946.
The report said there was considerable global interest about the future stability of the landforms given the projected sea level increases.
Past studies have focused on the immediate impacts of extreme weather events on islands, but comparatively few studies have documented how islands have changed after the impact.
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Channel Islands High really knows how to put the wild in wild card.
The host Raiders spotted Santa Fe two goals in the first half of Tuesdays CIF-Southern Section Division 3 wild-card game before coming back with three goals in a 14-minute span to win 3-2.
Senior forward Luis Mottu put in the tying goal at the 35th minute of the second half, then added the game-winner four minutes later. Armando Mojica scored the Raiders first goal, at the 25-minute mark of the second half.
Channel Islands (13-5-6) goes on the road for a first-round game at Palmdale-Knight at 3 p.m. Thursday. Santa Fe of Santa Fe Springs ends its season at 12-8-1.
Santa Fes Chiefs got on the scoreboard early as Luis Calderon scored off an assist from Jonathan Quinones at the 10-minute spot of the first half. Sixteen minutes later, Oscar Caballero scored a goal off a corner kick and suddenly Channel Islands found itself down by two goals.
As the third-place team from the tough Pacific View League, the Raiders may have already been a little put off by having to play a wild-card game against an at-large team from the Del Rio League. In any case, they were unprepared at the start and had trouble connecting on passes.
Its been like this most of the season, interim co-coach Francisco Salazar admitted. We start flat and then, all of a sudden, when they score a goal, it wakes us up. We really live very dangerously that way.
Realizing at halftime they were 40 minutes away from having their postseason end before it had hardly even begun, the Raiders started playing with more ferocity.
Youve got to give them credit, Salazar said. They came out, they were very aggressive, they had a lot of heart.
Mottu told his team after the game it had to play that way from the start of the game. In fact, he told the team to start the game thinking theyre down 1-0.
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A Bay of Islands school has won a competition encouraging students to collect unwanted televisions as part of the Governments TV TakeBack programme.
Russell School has been named the winner of the upper North Island Enviroschools Challenge, organised by the Ministry for the Environment and The Enviroschools Foundation.
The school had the best participation rate of the 450 Enviroschools in the upper North Island, and has won a 46-inch LED Smart Television and a Home Theatre System from Samsung.
Environment Minister Amy Adams, who launched the Enviroschools Challenge last year, says: "I congratulate Russell School and all those who took part in the Enviroschools challenge to recycle televisions".
"I have been impressed by the enthusiasm of Enviroschools students and their communities in recycling unwanted televisions. Its great to see students taking the lead and thinking about the environment."
Chief Executive of the Enviroschools Foundation, Heidi Mardon, says: "The challenge has been a great opportunity to remind the 190,000 North Island students in our network of schools and kura to reduce their need for a new TV and reuse existing sets where possible before recycling."
"Empowering Enviroschools students to be environmentally responsible means they're able help their friends and family play a positive role in the long-term sustainability of their community. Weve certainly contributed to this vision with the Enviroschools Challenge."
The Enviroschools Challenge encouraged students across the North Island to take unwanted televisions to a participating TV TakeBack drop-off site and nominate an Enviroschool of their choice.
The winner of the lower North Island Challenge was Orautoha School in the Ruapehu District. All nominated Enviroschools were included in a spot prize draw for two Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablets, which went to Arataki Free Kindergarten in Mount Maunganui.
Enviroschools is an education programme that gives schools and children a hands-on approach to looking after the environment. The programme encourages children, their schools, families and communities to think and act sustainably - at school, at home and in everyday life.
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Scientists have mapped the effects of war, colonization, trade, migration and slavery on the genetic mixing of humans over the bulk of recorded history and created an online interactive atlas of humanity's genetic history.
In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers detailed the genetic mixing between 95 populations across Europe, Africa, Asia and South America during 100 historical events over the last 4,000 years.
The events covered in the interactive atlas include the expansion of the Mongol empire by Genghis Khan, the Arab slave trade, the so-called Bantu expansion into Southern Africa, and European colonialism.
When people from different groups interbreed, their offspring's DNA becomes a mixture of both admixing groups. Scientists say pieces of this DNA are passed down to following generations, although the size of the segments become smaller and smaller.
By studying the size of the DNA segments in present-day humans, researchers can infer how long ago it was that the admixture occurred.
"Each population has a particular genetic 'palette.'" said study co-author Daniel Falush, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
"Though we can't directly sample DNA from the groups that mixed in the past, we can capture much of the DNA of these original groups as persisting, within a mixed palette of modern-day groups," he said in a prepared statement.
To accomplish this, researchers used a sophisticated statistical method called "Globetrotter" to analyze genome data from 1,490 individuals.
While genetic signals obtained from a single individual might be relatively weak, they strengthen as scientists look at a larger group. As a result, researchers found that their genetic data matched historical events and periods.
One such example involved the legacy of the Mongol empire, researchers said. Traces of Mongol DNA in the Hazara people of Pakistan support historical accounts that the Hazara descended from Mongol warriors.
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Trust in Health Care
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CTV Montreal Published Monday, February 17, 2014 10:22PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:15AM EST
There are tough choices to make, especially in health care, when it comes to the Parti Quebecois budget due out Thursday, economists say.
The budget could be little more than a political platform, and may never be voted on by MNAs, due to the likelihood of an election to be triggered within days of the budget.
But with an aging population and more expensive treatments, healthcare costs are soaring, and that will prove important in budget handouts.
Reducing the range of services covered could be one solution, but it wouldn't be popular, said Universit Laval economics professor Bruce Shearer.
Reducing services means people wait longer for surgery, people wait longer for tests results, he said, adding that the PQ needs to reconsider cheap public daycare and low tuition fees.
Just don't bet on it anytime soon, he said.
Over time they're going to have to answer those questions, they're going to have to make tough decisions, he said.
The health care system is in urgent need of funding. According to the Quebec Health Care Facilities Association, the system needs an extra $1.2 billion in Thursday's budget for basic costs.
For example, doctors salaries are increasing 9.2 per cent in two years.
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Health-care services provider Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH: Quote), which acquired by smaller rival Health Management Associates, Inc. in late January, reported Tuesday a profit for the fourth quarter that more than halved from last year, reflecting higher impairments and charges as well as a revenue drop amid a decline in admissions.
Adjusted earnings per share significantly missed analysts' expectations, while quarterly revenues matched their estimates. The company also provided earnings and revenue guidance for the full-year 2014, in line with Street view.
The company completed its $7.6 billion cash and stock deal to acquire Health Management Associates on January 27, which was agreed upon on July 30, 2013.
"Our financial and operating results for the fourth quarter reflect a continuation of the challenging operating environment for health care providers over the past year. As we previously announced, weakness in volume, combined with higher bad debts and a less favorable payor mix, affected our operating revenues during the fourth quarter," Chairman and CEO Wayne Smith said in a statement.
The Franklin, Tennessee-based hospitals operator reported net income of $28.18 million or $0.30 per share for the fourth quarter, sharply lower than $62.57 million or $0.69 per share in the prior-year quarter.
Excluding items, adjusted income per share from continuing operations was $0.49, compared to last year's $0.85. On average, 22 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected earnings of $0.67 per share for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items.
Net revenues for the quarter declined 1.4 percent to $3.23 billion from $3.28 billion in the same quarter last year, and matched eighteen Wall Street analysts' consensus estimate of $3.23 billion.
Same hospital admissions decreased 10.5 percent, and adjusted hospital admissions declined 6.7 percent.
Operating margins for the quarter contracted 130 basis points to 7.3 percent from last year as total costs and expenses as a percentage of total revenues increased 130 basis points.
For fiscal 2013, the company reported net income of $141.20 million or $1.51 per share, lower than $265.64 million or $2.96 per share in the prior year. Excluding items, adjusted income per share from continuing operations was $2.40, compared to last year's $3.55.
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