CNBC By: John Melloy Traders are saying the scariest moment of the second quarter will be on April 27, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold the first ever press briefing following a monetary policy decision by the central ba… more »

 Augusta ChronicleBy Rob Pavey Staff Writer The world’s largest concrete pump, deployed at the construction site of the U.S. government’s $4.86 billion mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site, is being moved to Japan in a series of… more »

 FoxNews.com By Dominic Di-Natale Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan say they expect to die from radiation sickness as a result of their efforts to bring the reactors under control, the mother of one of the men tells Fox… more »

NY Daily News BY Richard Sisk DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer got caught on an open phone Tuesday tutoring his pals on the daily zinger to use against the Republicans in the battle of the budget. Just before a confer… more »

Poll: Obama's approval hits new lowhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52208.htmlPoll: Obama's approval hits new low - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com POLITICO - Top Stories [RSS] POLITICO - POLITICO 44 [RSS] POLITICO - CLICK [RSS] POLITICO - C… more »

LiveScience.com Joseph Brownstein, Livescience Contributor The idea that our names are intertwined with our destinies goes at least as far back as the book of Genesis in the Bible, when Abram saw his name changed to Abraham, which means  "father of mu… more »

  Excerpt: A Name By Any Other Rows.... The ironic name of the operation, it should be noted, was not lost on us. You see, the word Odyssey actually has a number of cryptic meanings, none of which help in lending any sort of real confidence for the… more »

CNS News By Matt Cover (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator in 2002, said that using military force to topple a murderous dictator amounted to a “dumb war” and should be opposed. The “dumb war” Obama was criticizing… more »

By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, Munich AdvertisementHow gravity differs across Planet Earth. Video courtesy ESAContinue reading the main storyRelated StoriesEuro space laser gets go aheadMission trace… more »

Fleeing rebels pushed out of Ras Lanuf Ragtag opposition seems incapable of holding ground without air strikes David Cameron says he has not ruled out arming rebels Five Libyan diplomats expelled from the UK Officials downplay 'flickers' of Al Qaeda… more »

By Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY U.S. consumers face "serious" inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations warned Wednesday. The world's largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimiz… more »

TheNewsTribune.com By DON THOMPSON A drought that loomed over some of California's most fertile farmland officially ended Wednesday after a winter of relentless mountain storms that piled snow up to three stories high and could keep some ski resorts… more »

< CNN Wire Staff Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- CIA operatives are providing intelligence from Libya, where opposition forces are on the run and the defiant government suffered the embarrassing defection of its foreign minister Wednesd… more »

 MATT STEINER THE GAZETTE A Colorado Springs “birther,” retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister, has Internet blogs abuzz with what may be an illegal foray into an online Social Security data base and how he obtained a copy of President Barack… more »

Conservative Refocus The book, where we detail the issues and culminating events of 2009 and early 2010, along with the politics and decisions behind the headlines continues to rank in the top of  Kindle sales.  The feedback we have received thus far h… more »

The Lookout/Yahoo News By Chris Lehmann     British archaeologists are seeking to authenticate what could be a landmark discovery in the documentation of early Christianity: a trove of 70 lead codices that appear to date from the 1st centu… more »

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- On a day when opposition forces in Libya suffered battlefield losses, President Barack Obama made clear in interviews Tuesday with the three major U.S. television networks that he was open to arming the rebel fighters.… more »

Washington Post By Michael Alison Chandler TOKYO — Four out of six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were damaged beyond repair in Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, the chairman of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednes… more »

Wall Street Journal By NICK WINGFIELD And ROBERT A. GUTH Bill Gates schemed to take shares in Microsoft Corp. from his co-founder during the early days of the software company following his partner's treatment for cancer, according to a new memoir by… more »

By ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian President Bashar Assad blamed "conspirators" Wednesday for an extraordinary wave of dissent against his authoritarian rule, but he failed to lift the country's despised emergency law or offer a… more »

Business Insider James Cooper, The Fiscal Times The voices of dissent within the Federal Reserve are growing louder, fueled by concerns that current monetary policy could boost inflation by keeping interest rates too low for too long in a growing ec… more »

Fukushima meltdown fears rise after radioactive core melts through vessel – but 'no danger of Chernobyl-style catastrophe' • In pictures: Fukushima nuclear emergency - week three• Interactive: Japan earthquake: Ian Sample on efforts to contain the nuclea… more »

  NASA's Mercury Messenger probe captured this historic image of Mercury, the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the solar system's innermost planet. The photo was taken on Tuesday (March 29) at 5:20 am EDT.CREDIT: NASA/Johns Hopk… more »

Huffington Post TODD RICHMOND MADISON, Wis. — The showdown over Wisconsin's explosive union bargaining law shifted from the Statehouse back to the courthouse on Tuesday, but it remained unclear when or even whether the measure would take effect. Re… more »

Yahoo News By Brett Michael Dykes In what seems like a throwback to the still-unsolved Zodiac killings that terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, the FBI has sent out a public appeal for amateur sleuths to help solve a key cryptographic… more »

CR Note: The media just got scalded by the Trumpster! They are crying foul at Trumps submission of a circa 40's birth certificate which could be considered as the same facsimile as Obama's submitted "certificate of live birth" which is also NOT a standar… more »

By Marilyn Lewis of MSN Real Estate After more than 40 years of subsidizing and boosting homeownership, the federal government is talking about backing away. The Obama administration wants to eliminate federal guarantees for home loans for all but cred… more »

BBC News/Asia-Pacific Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Plutonium has been detected in soil at the facility and highly radioactive water has leaked from… more »

By ANNE GEARAN, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama wanted to tell a hesitant America why he launched a military assault in Libya, and he wanted to describe it on his terms — limited, sensible, moral and backed by internatio… more »

Conservative Refocus By Barry Secrest Excerpt: A Name By Any Other Rows.... The ironic name of the operation, it should be noted, was not lost on us. You see, the word Odyssey actually has a number of cryptic meanings, none of whic… more »

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN Hilmarton, England (CNN) - A little English village church has just made a remarkable discovery. The ornate old Bible that had been sitting in plain view on a table near the last row of pews for longer than anyone could r… more »

MSNBC.com By Bill Dedman Investigative reporter Here's a situation for all you aspiring managers: If you were the boss at a U.S. government agency and one of your employees complained that she was afraid of a co-worker's religious practices, what would… more »

CR Note: Ok, I have to admit, I really, really like this guy.... Politico By ANDY BARR Donald Trump now sees himself as something of a patron saint for the birthers – and he's even released his own birth certificate as he steps up criticism of t… more »

Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years. UK Telegraph By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels The European Commission on Monday unveile… more »

CR Note: This posting is only up on about 162 sites on the internet but is also being circulated via email. We have also recently received news that Soros , a Foxnews hater, was retooling the website Media Matters, in order to narrow its focus on going a… more »

'I'm through,' Palin says By: CNN Political Producer Alexander Mooney   (CNN) - Sarah Palin says she's done. Done with whining about the media, that is. In an appearance on Fox News, where she serves as a contributor, Palin… more »

  FoxNews.com Two years ago, President Obama was cheered in the Middle East and around the world as he toured capital cities on a diplomatic mission of reconciliation following an administration defined by two wars.  Last week looked a little differen… more »

By SHINO YUASA, Associated Press TOKYO – Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear plant raced to pump out contaminated water suspected of sending radioactivity levels soaring as officials warned Monday that radiation seeping from the complex was spreading t… more »

Newsmax By David Wright Veteran reporter Scott Powers went to cover a fundraiser headlined by Vice President Joe Biden – and ended up being "imprisoned” in a closet by the veep’s staffers.“They gave me a bottle of water and shut the door,” said Powe… more »

Huffington Post BOSTON -- Health officials said Sunday that one sample of Massachusetts rainwater has registered very low concentrations of radiation, most likely from the Japanese nuclear power plant damaged earlier this month by an earthquake and tsu… more »

Israel has demanded an explanation from Argentina over reports it proposed to Iran it would stop investigating two bombings if trade ties improved. BBC News Argentina, Israel and the US have blamed Iran for the bombings of the Israeli embassy and a Je… more »

AFP BEERSHEVA, Israel — Israel on Sunday stationed the first batteries of its "Iron Dome" short-range missile defence system in the south of the country, but stressed the initial deployment was experimental. The unique multi-million dollar system was… more »

CR Note: Looks like it is, indeed, time to declare war on media matters...it would appear they have declared war on themselves ultimately in all of this. Politico By Ben Smith The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in pre… more »

Associated Press RIDGELAND, S.C. – As Interstate 95 sweeps past this small town along South Carolina's coastal plain, motorists encounter cameras that catch speeding cars, the only such devices on the open interstate for almost 2,000 miles from Canada… more »

Huffington Post By John Ward DES MOINES - GOP presidential hopefuls Haley Barbour, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, John Bolton and Herman Cain spoke on Saturday at an event organized by Rep. Steve King, a Republican from western Iowa. The day-long… more »

The Canadian Press TORONTO — More Canadian municipalities are pledging to power down Saturday for Earth Hour, but an expert says interest in the event may already be fizzling. Earth Hour has "done a great job of capturing the imagination of an awful… more »

Yahoo Finance By Peter Gorenstein | Daily Ticker  The Motor City's engine is dying. Detroit's population shrank by more than 25% in the last decade, according to Census statistics reported in the New York Times. The city's population fell to 713,777… more »

PBS.org By Sal Gentile   Updated | March 25 When the United States and its allies began bombing Libya five days ago, there were plenty of easy marks to be had. “Early on, we had many fixed sites which we knew we could target,” General Carter H… more »

FoxNews.com Libyan rebels have overcome Muammar al-Qaddafi's forces in strategic oil town of Ajdabiya, seizing control of the city Saturday in a major turnaround for an uprising that appeared to be on the verge of defeat. Libyan government forces pulle… more »

Police officers clash with demonstrators in Oxford Street, during a protest organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), called 'The March for the Alternative,' in central London March 26, 2011.Credit: Reuters/Dylan MartinezReu… more »

Webcommentary.com Conservative Commentary That Campaign Against "SCOTUS Conservatives" Is NOT "Politics, as Usual" The people behind and out front in the "concerted campaign" against "SCOTUS conservatives" are not "liberals." They are radicals--soc… more »

CR Note: Below is a color coded index of crony capitalism....the darker the color the worse it gets. Most of these darker areas speak to either authoritarianism or Socialism. This is an 2007 illustration,however, we expect the US is of a somewhat darker… more »

Texas On The Potomac by Richard Dunham, Bureau Chief Under fire for an operation that allowed smuggling of U.S. weapons across the nation’s border with Mexico, President Obama said in an interview that neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder… more »

Foxnews Politics Blog by Wes Barrett A new report from the Government Accountability Office suggests the federal health care law could hold together even if the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate. The report, requested by Sen. Ben Ne… more »

Cr Note: We've come a long way since 9/11....the US fighting in support of Al Qaeda?...Only under Obama.....Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against 'the foreign invasion' in Afghanistan Photo: AFPUK TelegraphBy Praveen Swami, Nick… more »

  (CNN) -- Violent protests erupted Friday in Syria, with dozens of people killed in and around the restive city of Daraa and a boy slain in the coastal town of Latakia, reports said. "The situation in Syria has worsened considerably over the past… more »

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin officials couldn't agree Friday about whether an explosive law taking away nearly all public worker collective bargaining rights was about to take effect after a nonpartisan legislative bureau published it des… more »

 By Kurt Erickson | Lee Springfield Bureau Pantagraph.com | SPRINGFIELD -- The chairman and CEO of Peoria-based Caterpillar Inc. is raising the specter of moving the heavy equipment maker out of Illinois. In a letter sent March 21 to Gov. Pat Quin… more »

Romney, Palin would tie if Huckabee does not run by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- Mike Huckabee tops a large list of potential GOP presidential candidates in current support for the party's 2012 nomination, with 19% of Republicans saying they… more »

CAIRO — In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Isla… more »

Huff Post Media Rush Limbaugh defended Donald Trump, who has caused controversy with his comments about President Obama's birth certificate, saying that Trump is "performing a valuable service." Trump got into a heated argument with Whoopi Goldberg o… more »

Foxnews By Stephen Clark As U.S. lawmakers seek a compromise on how much federal spending to cut in order to avoid a government shutdown, Tea Party activists who helped propel Republicans back into power are growing impatient with the debate. When Rep… more »

By SHINO YUASA and JAY ALABASTER, Associated Press TOKYO – A suspected breach in the reactor core at one unit of a stricken Fukushima nuclear plant could mean more serious radioactive contamination,Japanese officials said Friday, revealing what may pro… more »

By Daily Mail ReporterUK Daily Mail Women arrested by the Egyptian police during protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square were subjected to forced 'virginity tests', according to Amnesty International. Eighteen demonstrators were detained after army officer… more »

By the CNN Wire Staff Brussels, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO members agreed Thursday to take over enforcement of the no-fly zone over Libya, but stopped short of interpreting that mandate as a license to attack government troops who may be threatening unarmed… more »

Staff wasn't ready for his return...nor were we... Newsnet5.com By: Pete Kenworthy WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama had to try a couple of doors at the White House before finally gaining access to the Oval Office on Wedn… more »

System designed to defend against rockets at range of 4-70 km; some defense officials warn of ramifications of deploying system without ability to protect all of cities under missile fire.   Jerusalem Post Graphics from Conservative Refocus… more »

By Emily Stephenson Reuters WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday it would cut 7,500 jobs and close seven district offices and 2,000 post offices as it handles less mail and faces greater staff costs and competition from FedEx and… more »

March 24, 2011 11:10 AM EDT Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck will be leaving the popular show at the lapsing of his contract by the end of the year. The news channel is widely popular for its conservative ideology and political views. Glenn Beck h… more »

The Examiner By Barry Secrest Biden Threatens A President On Consentless War: NC Marines Embarq To Libya The Intellectual Elitist Boomerang Effect: Living In Unreality Obama's Shovel-Ready Democracies: Stillborn Freedom In The Mideast?   Modera… more »

By KATE NOCERA | Rep. Anthony Weiner said Wednesday he was looking into how a health law waiver might work for New York City. Weiner, who is likely to run for mayor of New York, said that because of the city’s special health care infrastructu… more »

Associated Press/Fox News DURHAM, N.C. -- When Chad Holtz lost his old belief in hell, he also lost his job. The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a prominen… more »

< (CNN) -- Colorado and Oregon have joined several other Western states in reporting trace amounts of radioactive particles that have likely drifted about 5,000 miles from a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant in Japan,… more »

FoxnewsVideo footage of the tsunami that hit Japan this month makes it clear: This was no ordinary wave. And now there are initial estimates for just how high it reached -- nearly 80 feet in at least one place.A field survey from the country’s Port a… more »

Cr Note: Neutron beams are like essentially X-rays on steroids and would seem to indicate cracks in the structure of the various reactors involved, which ain't good. Companies have spent billions in order to create neutron beams for both study and HD x-r… more »

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Shelby, N.C. man says he has captured video of Bigfoot. Thomas Byers e-mailed WCNC NewsChannel 36 in Charlotte, N.C., saying he saw Bigfoot walk across Golden Valley Church Road in Rutherford County Tuesday evening. Byers' says he w… more »

The Politico By MJ LEE President Obama defended his Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, saying that Americans “don’t see any contradiction” in him ordering an attack on Libya to make sure “people aren’t butchered because of a dictator who wants to cling t… more »

Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated French propose a new political 'committee' to oversee operations Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign's directio… more »

  WCTI12.com New Bern,NC By Shumuriel Ratliff / Reporter ONSLOW COUNTY -- We've seen Camp Lejuene Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and now they are joining the fight against Libya.  About 2,200 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or… more »

Conservative Refocus By Barry Secrest On December 14th, 2007 , Senator Joe Biden went to great lengths in threatening  impeachment of President Bush with regard to the posssibility of military action against Iran at the time. In a clip from YouTube,… more »

Yahoo News  LiveScience.com An unfounded scientific assertion by a nonscientist has swept across the Web like a tsunami over the past few days. In an article in Newsweek, writer Simon Winchester claimed that the 9.0-magnitude Japan earthquake, follo… more »

Foxnews A substitute teacher's letter to Arizona lawmakers has reignited the state's immigration debate after he wrote that his Hispanic students hate America and just want to be gang members, MyFoxPhoenix.com reported Tuesday. The letter by substitute… more »

  Conservative Refocus By Barry Secrest The headline read "European Governments Completely Puzzled About US Position On Libya."  To which we could only note, at this point within our Nation, many Americans can only sympathize with the puzzled Europ… more »

By Julie Steenhuysen Reuters CHICAGO | Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:19pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sudden bursts of moderate to intense physical activity -- such as jogging or having sex -- significantly increase the risk of having a heart attack, espec… more »

 Al Qaeda Protesters CNN Money By Jennifer Liberto, senior writer WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- With the tab already running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, the U.S. military intervention in Libya has sparked a debate over funding. To date, t… more »

By: Reuters with CNBC.com The United States is on a fiscal path towards insolvency and policymakers are at a "tipping point," a Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday. Jean Ayissi | AFP | Getty Images "If we continue d… more »

  UK Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter More From UK Daily Mail US Chopper Shoots Six Villagers In Rescue Of F-15 Air Crew Sexually assaulted and told 'You'll die tonight'... but spared as she's American: Female journalist's horror at the… more »

Accuweather.com By Brian Edwards, Meteorologist Spring is on hold for at least the remainder of March across much of the Northeast and parts of the mid-Atlantic as several bouts of wintry weather are expected. The first of which is currently bringin… more »

By Kimberly Dick - kdick@heraldonlne.comFORT MILL --  Caution: Zombies ahead? Two electronic road signs on S.C. 160 near the York-Lancaster county lines were apparently tampered with sometime before 4 a.m. Sunday, said Lance Cpl. Billy Elde… more »

By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A CNN correspondent on Monday angrily rejected a report by the Fox network that he and other journalists were used as human shields by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to prevent a missile attack on his compou… more »

Foxnews by Trish Turner Any way you slice it, $287, 273 is a lot of money, especially in this economy. For one-term Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., up for re-election in 2012, that's the amount of personal property taxes she failed to pay since 2007… more »

By DAVID RISING, Associated Press BERLIN – A U.S. fighter jet crashed in Libya after an apparent equipment malfunction but both crewmembers were able to eject and are back safely in American hands, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The plane crashed Mond… more »

Right Makes Might By Wendi Lynn G There are varied events in history that carry a defining, life-altering impact.  America has had many such events, especially in recent years.  9/11 is one, incomparably tragic, that instantly changed us forever.   … more »

Conservative Refocus By Barry Secrest "The President does not have the power, under the Constitution, to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or eminent threat to the Nation"~Barack Obama… more »

US Army Issues Apology For Soldiers Pics Displaying "Terrorist Kills": Leftwing Media Outraged, Anguished At Backlash U.S. army forced to issue an apology over 'trophy' photos of soldiers grinning over bloodied Afghan corpses. Commanders in Afghanist… more »

The Outlook Yahoo News By Laura Rozen President Barack Obama, speaking in Santiago, Chile on Monday, defended his decision to order U.S. strikes against Libyan military targets, and insisted that the mission is clear. And like a parade of Pentago… more »

The Hill By Jordan Fabian Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Saturday condemned Vice President Joe Biden's invocation of rape while criticizing the GOP. Speaking at a campaign event on Friday, Biden compared Republicans who a… more »

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, March 21, 2011. (Credit: AP/Tepco) Bloomberg.com By… more »