Two Newts Emerge In South Carolina To Take Down Mi...

There is nice Newt and there is nasty Newt and, in a frantic effort to stop Mitt Romney from clinching the Republican nomination, both versions are showing up in force in South Carolina.  

The convivial version of former House speaker Newt Gingrich is the candidate who shows up in person on the campaign trail. He is the congenial, smiling figure, with his shock of grey hair, who pitched up yesterday in Rock Hill in the state's north-west to meet and greet voters.

 This is the Gingrich who flaunts his learning by calling President Barack Obama a "Saul Alinsky radical", namedropping an obscure left-wing activist who died in 1972. This is the Gingrich who references his Catholic faith at any opportunity and who challenges Barack Obama to a debating contest with no moderator. "We have to have a leader who is prepared to go nose to tail and tell truth about the president," Gingrich told the 400-strong crowd in Rock Hill who hung on his every word. "(Obama) has done just about as much to wreck this country as any other president," he added.

 This Gingrich – the muscularly aggressive conservative intellectual who is ...

Mitt Romney’s ‘Firing People’ Bl...

Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney offered his political rivals a gift on Monday when he volunteered that he liked firing people – an unfortunate remark just as his opponents launched millions of dollars in campaign ads labeling him a heartless corporate raider.

 Speaking on the eve of Tuesday's Republican primary in New Hampshire, he said: "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me." He was referring not to making workers redundant but defending the free market, the ability to swap providers if service is poor. But, given the cynical way ads have been distorted so far in the 2012 campaign, there is a strong chance his remarks will be seized upon for use in attack ads, using just the words "I like being able to fire people".

 It is a potential election bonus not just for the Democratic party but for the remaining Republicans in the race for the party's nominations. It came as supporters of one of Romney's fiercest and angriest Republican rivals, former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, released a trailer for an ad which will cost a staggering $3.4 million to air.

 The ad – paid for ...

Arab League turned to U. N. for help

The Arab League has turned to the United Nations for help after admitting "mistakes" in its Syria monitoring mission, which has come in for withering criticism for its failure to stem bloodletting.

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Feltman, the US assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs, was on Thursday, January 5, to hold talks in Cairo with the Arab League about the Syrian crisis, amid mounting frustration over the unrelenting violence.

His meeting comes as President Bashar al-Assad's regime, which accuses the United States of "gross interference" in Arab affairs, said it freed 552 people detained for involvement in unrest and who have "no blood on their hands."

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, who heads an Arab League task force on Syria, on Wednesday, January 4, discussed the deadly protest crackdown with UN leader Ban Ki-moon in New York.

"We are coming here for technical help and to see the experience the UN has, because this is the first time the Arab League is involved in sending monitors, and there are some mistakes," Sheikh Hamad said.

A UN spokesman said only that Ban and the sheikh "discussed practical measures by which the ...

President Obama’s Job Approval Drops Among C...

Opinions about President Obama are divided sharply along lines of faith and religious participation.

New Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveying of Likely U.S. Voters shows that the president earns a job approval rating of 58% among those who rarely or never attend church or religious services. However, among those who attend services every week or nearly every week, just 38% offer their approval. Among those who attend more than one service a week, approval is even lower at 31%.

The survey of 6,000 Likely U.S. Voters was conducted from December 12-22, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports.

Source : http://urbanchristiannews.com

Missing 9-Year-Old Indiana Girl Found Dead, Babysi...

A missing 9-year-old Indiana girl has been found dead, and the neighbor who was watching her before she disappeared was arrested on a murder charge Monday night, authorities said.

The body of Aliahna Lemmon was found in northeast Indiana's Allen County, where her family lived in a mobile home park, but investigators aren't saying where the remains were found, sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel said.

Mike Plumadore, who told local media that Aliahna went missing sometime Friday as he watched her and her sisters, was taken into custody late Monday after being interviewed by police, Tinkel said. He said the 39-year-old was facing a murder charge.

"He was a trusted family friend," Aliahna's step-grandfather, David Story, told The Associated Press late Monday, saying he was surprised by Plumadore's arrest.

Plumadore is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.

FBI agents earlier Monday descended on the rundown mobile home park in Fort Wayne where Aliahna lived and was last seen. It's a known haven for registered sex offenders, though Plumadore is not on Indiana's registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault.

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To no one’s surprise, President Obama signaled that he will sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last night immediately after the House of Representatives passed it on a vote of 283-136. This deplorable act of treason only serves to cement the fact that Obama is a serial liar who has no respect for the basic rights of American citizens.

Adam Serwer over at MotherJones explains it clearly,

The administration had said that the military detention provisions of an earlier version of the NDAA were “inconsistent with the fundamental American principle that our military does not patrol our streets.”

The revised NDAA is still inconsistent with that fundamental American principle. But the administration has decided that fundamental American principles aren’t actually worth vetoing the bill over.

On one hand the administration claims that it’s opposed to the bill to keep it’s progressive constituency at bay all the while planning to sign it anyway.

It should be noted that the Obama administration’s attacks on the civil liberties of Americans far outweigh those of the Bush administration’s. While George W. Bush only took away your 4th Amendment ...