Monday, June 23, 2014

This is What Declining American Power Looks Like - Patriot UpdatePatriot Update

This is What Declining American Power Looks Like - Patriot UpdatePatriot Update: "mperor Nero was said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned; Barrack Obama was busy working on his golf game while Iraq did the same. According to his press secretary Jay Carney, the president was fully engaged in that whole Iraq thing while he chipped and putted his way across Porcupine Creek, an exclusive golf club."



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No Joke: White House Tweets Picture of Obama on Throne - Patriot UpdatePatriot Update

No Joke: White House Tweets Picture of Obama on Throne - Patriot UpdatePatriot Update: "For years, the White House has fought back the perception that President Obama acts as a king. Though the imperial president dismisses laws regularly and creates new ones with a swipe of his pen, Obama and his defenders have long argued that he does not operate as a king."



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Patent Office Cancels Football Team's Trademark

Patent Office Cancels Football Team's Trademark: "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office withdrew the Washington Redskins' trademark protection, contending that its name was insulting to Native Americans. Without their trademark, the National Football League team could lose millions of dollars, says Economics21.

A 1946 law gives the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) the ability to refuse trademark protection if the trademark "[c]onsists of or comprises immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter; or matter which may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.""



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Legal Challenge to Seattle Minimum Wage

Legal Challenge to Seattle Minimum Wage: "Fox News reports that plaintiffs are suing the city of Seattle for raising its minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Just this month, the Seattle city council passed a $15 minimum wage, but leading the charge against the wage mandate is the International Franchise Association (IFA).

The law requires big businesses as well as small franchises to pay the $15 wage four years before mom-and-pop competitors are required to pay the higher wage."



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A Majority of Young Adults Are Having Kids Outside Marriage. Why That Hurts Kids’ Futures.

A Majority of Young Adults Are Having Kids Outside Marriage. Why That Hurts Kids’ Futures.: "Among young adults, first comes baby, then (maybe) comes marriage. This increasingly is the new normal.

According to a new study from Johns Hopkins University, 57 percent of mothers between 26 and 31 are unmarried when their child is born

But not all young adults are having kids outside of marriage. Instead, the key factor appears to be whether a young woman has attended college.

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Americans Have Little Confidence in Media

Americans Have Little Confidence in Media: "A recent Gallup poll finds that Americans’ confidence in each of the three major media platforms—television news, newspapers and Internet news—has plummeted to record lows.

When asked to identify from a list of 17 vital American institutes which they had a “great deal” or “quite a-lot” of confidence in, more than a thousand participants ranked the three platforms consistently below par."



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Hillary Presses the Self-Destruct Button Again - Minutemen News

Hillary Presses the Self-Destruct Button Again - Minutemen News: "Hillary Clinton’s weird inferiority complex about money is doing in her potential presidential campaign. Only a couple of weeks ago she lamented being “dead broke” when leaving the White House, evoking gales of laughter and waves of scorn over the self-pity displayed. In a nation with scores of millions of people actually dead broke, with a net worth at or below zero, the spectacle of a woman set to collect millions of dollars in speaking fees and publisher’s advances bemoaning her financial plight bespeaks a bizarre detachment from the lives of ordinary people."



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Herman Cain Urges Uninformed Voters To Stay Home: 'Stupid People Are Ruining America!' - Minutemen News

Herman Cain Urges Uninformed Voters To Stay Home: 'Stupid People Are Ruining America!' - Minutemen News: "Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain lambasted low-information voters who still participate in elections, urging them to stay home and declaring that “stupid people are ruining America!”"



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Mad Men Actress Provides White House with Expert Testimony on Life in a Decade in Which She Did Not Live - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Mad Men Actress Provides White House with Expert Testimony on Life in a Decade in Which She Did Not Live - The Rush Limbaugh Show: "You know who Christina Hendricks is?  She's an actress.  She plays Joan somebody on Mad Men.  She is the buxom, full-figured redhead. She started out as the office manager, slash, secretary, and by sleeping with a client maneuvered her way into a partnership arrangement at the advertising agency depicted in the program.  Well, she's a fine actress, and I'm sure she's a nice woman.  I have not met her.  I don't expect to meet her.  I would recognize her, I assure you, but I haven't met her. "



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Wal-Mart's Response To The New York Times Is Great | The Daily Caller

Wal-Mart's Response To The New York Times Is Great | The Daily Caller: "Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, recently decided to go into the newspaper editing business.

The Arkansas-based company responded to an article from New York Times columnist Timothy Egan, titled “The Corporate Daddy” by doing the work that it felt Egan’s Times editors should have done."



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Kerry: 'I'm Working Hard to ... Have Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ambassadors' | The Weekly Standard

Kerry: 'I'm Working Hard to ... Have Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ambassadors' | The Weekly Standard: "With much of the Obama administration's foreign policy in tatters, John Kerry is clear on at least one goal he hopes to achieve by the end of his time as secretary of state: having lesbian, bisexual, and transgender ambassadors representing the United States.  In remarks to a GLIFAA (formerly Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies) Pride event in the Ben Franklin Room at the State Department, the secretary ran through a litany of accomplishments by the Obama administration that benefit the "LGBT/gay community." During his speech, Kerry said that, if confirmed, Ted Osius (nominated by President Obama for the post in Vietnam) would be the sixth openly gay U.S. ambassador currently in service:"



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