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Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned (by Gay Judge) – WSJ.com
Blacks and Whites Continue to Differ Sharply on Obama
President Obama’s job approval rating averaged 88% among blacks and 38% among whites in July, a 50-percentage-point difference that has been consistent in recent months but is much larger than in the initial months of the Obama presidency. Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve.
My Way News – Mo. voters reject key provision of health care law
Sheriff Taylor’s health pitch sparks cardiac arrest – m.NYPOST.com
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images | Privacy Inc. – CNET News
For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.”
Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.
This follows an earlier disclosure (PDF) by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for “testing, training, and evaluation purposes.” The agency says, however, that those capabilities are not normally activated when the devices are installed at airports.
No Lame Duck – Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich on the near future…
Kagan’s Alarming Record: Military, Guns, Abortion, Immigration
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Republicans Take Aim at Kagan as Debate Begins – WSJ.com
Obamacare Only Looks Worse Upon Further Review: Kevin Hassett – Bloomberg
One of the more illuminating remarks during the health-care debate in Congress came when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that Democrats would “pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.”
That remark captured the truth that, while many Americans have a vague sense that something bad is happening to their health care, few if any understand exactly what the law does.
To fill this vacuum, Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, asked his staff to prepare a study of the law, including a flow chart that illustrates how the major provisions will work.
The result, made public July 28, provides citizens with a preview of the impact the health-care overhaul will have on their lives. It’s a terrifying road map that shows Democrats have launched America on the most reckless policy experiment in its history, the economic equivalent of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Read the rest here… Obamacare Only Looks Worse Upon Further Review: Kevin Hassett – Bloomberg.