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"The tragic events of February 26 are very sad for all concerned. The Martin family, our family, and the entire community have been forever changed.

The portrayal of George Zimmerman in the media, as well as the series of events that led to the tragic shooting are false and extremely misleading. Unfortunately, some individuals and organizations have used this tragedy to further their own causes and agendas.

George is a Spanish speaking minority with many black family members and friends. He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever. One black neighbor recently interviewed said she knew everything in the media was untrue and that she would trust George with her life. Another black neighbor said that George was the only one, black or white, who came and welcomed her to the community, offering any assistance he could provide. Recently, I met two black children George invited to a social event. I asked where they met George. They responded that he was their mentor. They said George visited them routinely, took them places, helped them, and taught them things and that they really loved George. The media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the truth.

The events of February 26 reported in the media are also totally inaccurate. Out of respect for the on-going investigation, I will not discuss specifics. However, the media reports of the events are imaginary at best. At no time did George follow or confront Mr. Martin. When the true details of the event become public, and I hope that will be soon, everyone should be outraged by the treatment of George Zimmerman in the media.

Our entire family is deeply sorry for the loss of Trayvon. We pray for the Martin family daily. We also pray that the community will grieve together and not be divided by more unwarranted hate.

The Zimmerman family will have no further contact with the media prior to the resolution of the investigation. It would be greatly appreciated if the media would respect our privacy."

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Did Ayers' mother believe Obama was a foreign student?

And was the young Obama convinced at the time " long before he even entered politics " that he was going to become president of the United States?

A retired U.S. Postal Service carrier who delivered mail to Tom and Mary Ayers in a Chicago suburb in the late 1980s and early 1990s and claims to have met Obama in front of the Ayers home emphatically says yes to all three questions.

Allen Hulton, who was commended for 39 years of honorable service with the USPS, has given a sworn affidavit to investigators commissioned by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio to determine whether Obama is eligible for Arizona's 2012 election ballot. Hulton has recorded about three hours of video interviews with WND.

Hulton says that in conversations with Mary Ayers while on his route he learned of the couple's enthusiasm and support for a black foreign student. One bright, warm Chicagoland day, he recounts, he met the student who fit Mary Ayers' description in front of the Ayers home in Glen Ellyn, Ill. That young man, Hulton is convinced, was Barack Obama.

Hulton delivered mail to the Ayers, who are both deceased, when he was stationed at the post office in Glen Ellyn, an upper-middle class suburb 25 miles west of downtown Chicago, from late 1986 to 1997. He was a USPS employee from March 28, 1962, through March 30, 2001.

"It was a beautiful neighborhood " one of the nicer routes any of the letter carriers would have liked to have had," Hulton recalls. "It had some large and very beautiful homes."

As WND reported yesterday, Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers " who he dismissed in a 2008 debate as "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood" " plagued him in the 2008 presidential campaign and could resurface in this year's election, as many questions remain.

Young Obama

Over a period of years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hulton estimates he spoke with Mary Ayers about 18 to 20 times and once to Tom Ayers, who died in 2007. Mary Ayers died in 2000.

"Sometimes Mary would be out when I delivered the mail, and we would exchange a few words on occasion," he says, recalling that she liked to talk about her family.

"One day, Mary came to the door when I came up to the house with the mail," he remembers. "After a greeting, she started enthusiastically talking to me about this young black student they were helping out, and she referred to him as a foreign student."

Hulton assumed that by "helping" the student, Mary Ayers meant she and her husband were financially supporting the black foreign-exchange student with his education.

He says that Mary Ayers told him the student's name, but that it was a "strange name" that he could not remember, even though at the time it sounded African to him.

"I was taken aback by how enthusiastic she was about him," Hulton says. "And I believe she said he was from either Kenya or Indonesia, and I favor Indonesia in my recollection."

WND has reported that when Obama was in Indonesia with his Indonesian stepfather and his mother from ages 6 to10, he was registered in school as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim. He went by the name Barry Soetoro, adopting the surname of his Indonesian stepfather. His mother's passport listed him with the surname Soebarkah.

Obama refuses to waive privacy rights that would allow the Hawaii Department of Health to release any adoption records that may exist for him.

Even should Obama waive privacy rights, the Hawaii Department of Health might not feel compelled to release any adoption records that may exist. Tight restrictions to vital records have been enacted by the Hawaii State Legislature to seal any public documents pertaining to Obama's birth records and his adoption status.

If Obama were adopted by his Indonesian stepfather, he may have compromised his eligibility to be president, according to Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, which requires that a president be a "natural-born citizen," which experts say means having both parents be U.S. citizens.

'I'm going to be president of the United States'

About a year after discussing with Mary Ayers the foreign student she and her husband were supporting, Hulton recalls meeting a young black male on the sidewalk in front of the Ayers home.

Hulton describes the man as being in his early 20s, noting that he was tall, thin, had a light complexion and that his ears stuck out.

"He greeted me," Hulton says. "He was very polite, dressed nicely, but informally " slacks and a dress shirt " and he spoke with no accent. Immediately this young black man entered into conversation with me. He told me he had taken the train out from Chicago and had come to thank the Ayers family personally for having helped him with his education."

Hulton remembers asking the young man what his plans were for the future.

"He looked right at me and told me he was going to be president of the United States," Hulton says.

"There was a little bit of a grin on his face when he said it " he sounded sure of himself, but not arrogant. I know how people will say things because they have an ambition, but it did not come across that way," Hulton says. "It came across as if this young black male was telling me he was going to be president, almost as if it were the statement of a scientific fact that had already been determined, as if his being president had been already pre-arranged."

Hulton says the claim made him speechless.

"I kind of stuttered a response and said that nowadays anything is possible. I wished him good luck with his ambition," he says.

Immediately, Hulton associated the young black man with the foreign student Mary Ayers had mentioned to him so enthusiastically about a year earlier.

"I remembered the conversation I had with Mary, and I associated this young man with the foreign student she had discussed with me, because Mary said they were supporting this foreign student, and the young black man I met outside the Ayers' home said he had come to Glen Ellyn to thank the Ayers in person for helping him with his education."

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Hulton observed several news reports detailing the relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, and he recalled the encounter with the young man in front of Tom and Mary Ayers' home.

"The facial and physical characteristics, as well as candidate Obama's voice, matched that of the young black male I met in front of the Ayers' home," Hulton says in the affidavit he signed Nov. 12, 2011, for Sheriff Arpaio's Cold Case Posse investigation.

"I am positive that the black male I spoke with in front of the Ayers' house that day was indeed a young Barack Obama."

Hulton distinctly recalls that the day he met Obama in front of the Ayers' residence was a warm, sunny day and that Obama wasn't wearing a jacket.

Marxist

Hulton recalls that he had one conversation with Tom Ayers, who was retired as CEO and chairman of Commonwealth Edison, shortly after the Ayers family moved into their home in Glen Ellyn.

"He asked me how I liked my job, and he started into what seemed to me a Marxist viewpoint on what it is like for the working man, trying to convince me that working people like me were exploited by their employers," Hulton remembers of the conversation.

"As an American citizen, I appreciated everything I had, and I was not at war with people who had more than I had," he says. "It surprised me to hear somebody who had been president of Consolidated Edison talking in these terms."

Hulton says he got the feeling that Tom Ayers thought he knew more about the plight of the workingman than he did.

Summer 1989

A likely timeframe for Hulton's alleged encounter with Obama is the summer of 1989, when Obama was an intern at the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin, after his first year at Harvard Law School.

Hulton says Obama mentioned to him taking the train. The Metra, a commuter from downtown Chicago, stops at a Glen Ellyn station a little more than a mile from the Ayers' residence.

Michelle Robinson, Obama's wife-to-be, was the attorney at the firm assigned to mentor Obama in the summer of 1989.

Bernardine Dohrn also had worked as a paralegal at Sidley Austin, from 1984 through 1988. Dohrn's 1960s radical activities as a self-described "revolutionary communist" landed her on the FBI's list of 10 most wanted fugitives, and because of her felony conviction, she was not allowed to take the Illinois bar exam.

Widely speculated in Chicago is that Dohrn got the job at Sidley Austin through the influence of her father-in-law, Thomas Ayers, who was one of the law firm's biggest clients.

Michelle Obama started at the firm in the summer of 1988 and remained there until 1991.

Hulton recalls meeting Dohrn at the home of her in-laws, although his encounters with her were limited to having Dohrn sign for mail addressed to her.

First reported in 2009

Hulton's account of meeting Obama in suburban Chicago was first reported by California lawyer and political scientist Stephen Diamond in September 2009.

Writing on his blog, Diamond reported that he had interviewed Hulton at length and considered his account credible.

"The statement by Hulton is the first eyewitness account of a possible relationship between Obama and Tom Ayers and the first that dates his relationship with the Ayers family to the mid-1980s," Diamond wrote.

As early as Oct. 13, 2008, prior to the November 2008 presidential election, Diamond had reported that Obama's relationship with the Ayers family dated back to 1988. At that time, Obama, as head of the Developing Communities Project, joined the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools, the ABCs Coalition. The lobbying alliance aimed to push through Chicago public schools the creation of "Local School Councils," or LSCs, to oversee teachers and administrators.

"The proposal was very controversial, and groups like Operation PUSH headed by Jesse Jackson did not support it, because many teachers were black " it was one of the first stable middle class careers a black person, and black women in particular, could aspire to in Chicago," Diamond wrote.

Tom Ayers and Bill Ayers were strong supporters of the LSCs, however, according to Diamond, and Chicago United, a group founded by Tom Ayers, joined ABCs too. Bill Ayers became chairman of ABCs.

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The suspect -- shown in surveillance footage -- was Tasered and killed after he allegedly stole a packet of cookies.

The unidentified victim apparently went into a Sydney convenience store at about 5:30 a.m. asking for help because he thought someone was trying to kill him, the Daily Telegraph reported. The store clerk allegedly refused to help him, so he fled -- grabbing a packet of cookies on his way out.

Cops gave chase and Tasered him after pepper spray didn't work, according to AAP.

Witnesses said the man screamed "help me" as the officers held him down. He stopped breathing after being shocked and died on the scene.

Surveillance footage obtained by the paper shows at least five officers slamming the suspect into a store window before one of them fires what appears to be a Taser at him.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday that cops used a Taser three times on the shirtless suspect in the "10-minute walk" from the convenience store to the camera that captured the incident.

Cops maintained that the victim kept getting back up and fending off the police, which led them to believe that he had a weapon.

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On Monday, the AFP reported that Obama's daughter was vacationing abroad, along with a number of friends and 25 Secret Service agents. The story was picked up by Yahoo, the Huffington Post, and the International Business Times, as well as UK publications like the Daily Mail and the Telegraph and other overseas publications like The Australian.

But on Monday night, the story had been removed from those sites .The AFP page for the story now links to a story titled "Senegal music star Youssou Ndour hits campaign trail," as does the Yahoo page. The Huffington Post page now links directly back to the Huffington Post homepage. The Daily Mail, Telegraph, and Australian stories now lead to 404 error pages, reading "page not found." The International Business Times story also links to the IBT homepage, though a version of the original story still exists here.

A spokesperson at the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though given the late hour that can be forgiven. I will update here if and when I hear back from the White House, and if and when I hear back from spokespeople with the various websites and news agencies.

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Many, myself included, did not like the Patriot Act that was enacted following 9/11 but there is little evidence that this law has been abused to deprive Americans of their fundamental rights and freedom, though surely some suspected of being terrorists were detained.

An Executive Order posted on the White House website on Friday, March 16, 2012, has generated a wave of fear. It is officially about "National Defense Resources Preparednessâ€Â and its stated policy addresses "national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950."

Its stated policy is that "The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency."  (Emphasis added)

In 1950 the nation was entering a new phase of history following World War II. It would be called the Cold War led by the then-Soviet Union, but 1950 is also important because on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedung had proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China, instituting a Communist regime that continues to this day. With German and Japanese totalitarian threats vanquished, new ones were emerging.

The new EO evokes fear because it is occurring in peacetime and, more specifically, when the United States remains the strongest military power on Earth. There is no indication that an attack by any other nation is anticipated, so the implementation of the EO raises concerns that its purpose is not what it says.

In effect, the EO allows the federal government, directed by the President, to commandeer and control all aspects of the economy and the lives of all Americans. It centralizes control to an astonishing and frightening degree.

As just one example, it parcels out control to "the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer" and thereafter to:

The Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;

The Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;

The Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;

The Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and

The Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.

The obvious question is why is this EO necessary in the absence of any threat of an invasion or even an attack?

The obvious question is why should the President of the United States, in the run-up to a national election, feel that this is the time to issue such an EO?

I have frankly been dismissive of widely expressed fears that Obama would or could carry off a coup d'etat to establish himself as an American dictator. The problem, however, is that Obama has surrounded himself with Cabinet Secretaries and a shadow government of "czars" that would likely support him if he were to attempt such an audacious move.

The "legality" of such a move would be rubber-stamped by the Attorney General whose regard for the Constitution and laws of the nation is dubious at best, elastic at worst. The President's views about the Constitution are well known and he resents the limits it puts on his powers.

Would Congress stand by and allow its powers be usurped? Imagine yourself a Senator or Representative fearful of arrest and detention. Rounding up all 435 members would not be a difficult task.

The nation's media, with exceptions, has "covered" for this President regarding the legitimacy of his right to hold office, his absurd energy policies, and his takeover of various segments of the nation's economic base; the auto industry, the insurance industry, and Obamacare's attempt to takeover the healthcare sector.

That is why this EO has evoked such fear and concern and that is why Congress has to assert its Constitutional powers before this President is permitted to overthrow the legislative branch of government and seize control through an EO that is so broad that it is a breathtaking seizure of power that could only be considered if the nation was, in fact, under attack.

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These cupcakes are fashioned after the popular “Irish Car Bombâ€Â cocktail that consists of a shot of Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey dropped into a pint of Guinness.

Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

Yield: 24 cupcakes

Prep Time: 40 minutes | Bake Time: 17 minutes

For the Cupcakes:
1 cup Guinness stout
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
¾ cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1½ teaspoons baking soda
¾ teaspoons salt
2 eggs
2/3 cup sour cream

For the Whiskey Ganache Filling:
8 ounces bittersweet chocolate
2/3 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
2 teaspoons Irish whiskey

For the Baileys Frosting:
2 cups unsalted butter, at room temperature
5 cups powdered sugar
6 tablespoons Baileys Irish Cream

1. To Make the Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 24 cupcake cups with liners. Bring the Guinness and butter to a simmer in a heavy, medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the cocoa powder and whisk until the mixture is smooth. Cool slightly.

2. Whisk the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl to combine. Using an electric mixer, beat the eggs and sour cream on medium speed until combined. Add the Guinness-chocolate mixture to the egg mixture and beat just to combine. Reduce the speed to low, add the flour mixture and beat briefly. Using a rubber spatula, fold the batter until completely combined. Divide the batter among the cupcake liners. Bake until a thin knife inserted into the center comes out clean, about 17 minutes. Cool the cupcakes on a rack.

3. To Make the Whiskey Ganache Filling: Finely chop the chocolate and transfer it to a heatproof bowl. Heat the cream until simmering and pour it over the chocolate. Let it sit for one minute and then, using a rubber spatula, stir it from the center outward until smooth. Add the butter and whiskey and stir until combined. Let the ganache cool until thick but still soft enough to be piped.

4. To Fill the Cupcakes: Using a 1-inch round cookie cutter (or the bottom of a large decorating tip), cut the centers out of the cooled cupcakes, going about two-thirds of the way down. Transfer the ganache to a piping back with a wide tip and fill the holes in each cupcake to the top.

5. To Make the Baileys Frosting: Using the whisk attachment of a stand mixer, whip the butter on medium-high speed for 5 minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. Reduce the speed to medium-low and gradually add the powdered sugar until all of it is incorporated. Add the Baileys, increase the speed to medium-high and whip for another 2 to 3 minutes, until it is light and fluffy.

6. Using your favorite decorating tip, or an offset spatula, frost the cupcakes and decorate with sprinkles, if desired. Store the cupcakes in an airtight container.

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Police say they were called to an apartment complex at 182 Westwinds Drive in Iowa City this morning at 1:39 a.m. for the report of a man who was "out of control" and fighting. The officer on the scene wrote in the criminal complaint that he met up with a woman on scene who said she had been assaulted by a man -- Joshua Lee Wells, 19, of Cedar Rapids -- who was holding dumbbells.

According to the complaint, the officer went up to the second floor to find Wells. At this point, Wells, still armed with the dumbbells, allegedly squared toward the officer and began taunting the officer to fight. The officer, in response, drew a taser. At this point, another man there, Danny C. Leeper Jr., 23, who lives in the building, allegedly stepped in between the officer and Wells and began to "back up" Wells, the officer wrote.

At this point, police say Wells ran away down a flight of stairs outside. Once outside, Wells allegedly threw the dumbbells at a car in the parking lot, shattering the windshield. He then turned toward the officers approaching him and again challenged them to fight, yelling and taunting, wrote the officer in the complaint. At this point, an officer used a taser on Wells, subduing him.

For this, Wells is facing charges of fourth-degree criminal mischief and interference with official acts, all misdemeanors. Leeper was also charged with interference with official acts.

The damage to the vehicle is estimated at $450, according to the criminal complaint.

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Except at Wilbraham's Soule Road School, which this year is apparently trading in St. Patrick's Day for something called "O'Green Day."

Abc40 is reporting O'Green Day is not a tribute to the mega-successful San Francisco-based rock band Green Day, but a heavy-handed attempt to instill political correctness among the impressionable 4th and 5th graders.

The station reports the school principal, Lisa Curtin, reportedly made the move to be “inclusive and diverseâ€Â and ease any discomfort that may go along with celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. A similar renaming was done on St. Valentine's Day, also out of consideration of what are termed "faith issues," abc40 reports.

THE SUPERINTENDANT ISSUED THIS LETTER:

Good Morning Soule Road Community, I am writing this morning to address a story that was shown yesterday evening on the Channel 40 news regarding Soule Road Elementary School’s approach to St.Patrick’s Day. The story alleges that Soule Road School, and specifically Principal Curtin, have “changed the name of St. Patrick’s Dayâ€Â in an effort to be more inclusive and diverse. The story is misleading for a number of reasons. To begin, the Channel 40 story wrongly attributes quotes and motives to Mrs.Curtin. Mrs. Curtin and I both declined to comment on this story so as to not legitimize or give credibility to it. Secondly, and most importantly, Soule Road has not changed the name of St. Patrick’s Day. It is noted as St. Patrick’s Day on the Soule Road school calendar and will be in future years. O’Green Day, on Friday, March 16,the day before St. Patrick’s Day, was set up as a day to encourage students to celebrate the holiday by wearing green. As in previous years, Soule Road’s approach to St. Patrick’s Day is organized and planned in conjunction with your PTO. This year’s activities recognize St. Patrick’s Day in exactly the same way it has been recognized for the last several years. Mrs. Curtin did not change any practice associated with this. A green theme in March has been used by your PTO to incorporate a number of fun, educational activities planned for the children of Soule Road during the month and is aimed at recognizing Soule’s school color, the coming of spring, healthy lunch choices and St. Patrick’s Day. I have complete confidence that Soule Road children have been given many exciting opportunities to show their St. Patrick’s Day spirit.  Going forward, the staff will continue to work collaboratively with your PTO to plan appropriate celebrations that accentuate and supplement the curriculum and do not take away from our primary mission of teaching and learning. Parents interested in engaging in productive discussions on this and other important topics are encouraged to attend PTO meetings and School Council meetings or request a meeting with Mrs. Curtin or me.

Sincerely,

Marty O’Shea

Superintendent of Schools

WHAT’S THE HEALTHY LUNCH CHOICE DU JOUR FOR O’GREEN DAY??

PIZZA… http://www.hwrsd.org/school/sr/srmenu.pdf

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Around 200 troops who had gathered in a tent at Camp Leatherneck were told "something had come to light" and asked abruptly to file outside and lay down their automatic rifles and 9mm pistols.

"Somebody got itchy, that's all I've got to say. Somebody got itchy “we just adjust," said the sergeant who was told to clear the hall of weapons.

Major General Mark Gurganus later said he gave the order because Afghan troops attending the talk were unarmed and he wanted the policy to be consistent for all.

"You've got one of the most important people in the world in the room," he told the New York Times, insisting that the decision was unrelated to Sunday's killings. "This is not a big deal."

However, US troops often remain armed even when their Afghan colleagues have been asked to lay down their weapons and the incident is believed to be the first time they were stripped of guns during an address by their own secretary of defence.

The Ministry of Defence was unable to confirm reports that a small number of British troops had also been asked to put down their weapons.

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Lake County Democratic Party officials took down the flag, which flew just below a standard Old Glory on the flagpole outside headquarters in Tavares following complaints by local veterans. But merely taking it down wasn't enough for several local veterans, who said they fought for the flag Betsy Ross made famous, not one with a politician on it.

"It's absolutely disrespectful," Jim Bradford, a 71-year-old veteran who participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion told FoxNews.com. "It's totally ridiculous. To put somebody's picture there, to me, it's a disgrace to do that."

Bradford, an organizer with the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park in Leesburg, Fla., snapped photos of the flag and distributed them to fellow veterans and friends. By late afternoon, he and several other veterans delivered a copy of the federal flag code to Nancy Hurlbert, chairwoman of the Lake County Democratic Party.

"We read that to her, but she would not accept that," Bradford said. "The discussion finally got a little bit heated."

The flag, which had been flying for several months without complaint and is available online for $12.95, was later removed by Hurlbert.

Bradford said Hurlbert apologized for the incident, but did not offer any promises that it wouldn't fly again.

"What really upsets me is that the flag had apparently been flying for months and no one had done anything about it," Bradford said. "I've got no hard feelings toward [Hurlbert], but people will be driving by there to make sure it doesn't go up again."

Hurlbert said Tuesday's incident was the first time anyone had complained about the flag, which she received as a gift two months ago.

"It leads me to believe that it's not about the flag," she told FoxNews.com. "Certain elements cannot accept Barack Obama as president."

Hurlbert said she intends to contact an attorney regarding the matter and remained non-committal as to whether she'll fly the flag again.

"I won't say no and I won't say yes," she said. "We want to find out what our legal rights are."

Jenn Meale, communications director for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, referred FoxNews.com to state laws that pertain to the use of flags on public lands and property when asked for clarification as to whether Hurlbert could face any penalties.

Statute 256.05, which covers improper use of state or United States flag, or other symbol of authority, reads: "No person shall, in any manner, for exhibition or display:

"(1) Place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, color, ensign or shield of the United States or of this state, or authorized by any law of the United States or this state; or

"(2) Expose to public view any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield upon which shall have been printed, painted or otherwise produced, or to which shall have been attached, appended, affixed or annexed any such word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or advertisement."

Meanwhile, Jay Agg, communications director for AMVETS, told FoxNews.com that the American flag should never be altered.

"While we are pleased the flag in question has since been removed from public display, the reported fact that it had flown for months without protest is a clear indication that we have much work to do in educating the public of the importance of protecting our flag," Agg wrote in an email. "This issue is especially important to AMVETS' members, the men and women who have proudly worn our nation's uniform and served under her flag."

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They include Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, media mogul Fred Eychaner, Pfizer executive Sally Susman, Stoneyfield Farms president and CEO Gary Hirschberg, and Microsoft executives Suzi Levine and John Frank. Several have each raised more than half a million dollars for 2012, according to estimates provided by Obama's campaign.

All told, 41 of the 364 expected attendees are Obama campaign bundlers, or volunteer fundraisers who give the legal maximum and then gather checks from friends and colleagues who do the same.

The group attending the dinner tonight is responsible for at least $10.7 million of the roughly $250 million Obama and Democrats have amassed for the election cycle so far.

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It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

(John Adams, October 11, 1798)

Our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people of the Judeo-Christian faith, living on an isolated continent.

It is wholly inadequate to the government and people of any other faith.

It is wholly inadequate under conditions of wide openness to hostile ideologies and people carrying them.

(The 2011 update)

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In spite of the time difference of about 100 years, the Russian Empire had fallen, and the United States is in the process of fall due to the similar causes:  the negligence and failure to confront the destructive forces of Marxism.

There were numerous attempts of attorneys to file the cases in US courts. Yet all the cases were dismissed without hearing in merits: mostly on the ground as though American voters "have no standing" (i.e. they did not suffer a specific damage) because of election of a Constitutionally unqualified candidate!

There were several decisions of American Grand Juries in 2009 which found Obama/Soetoro guilty in various crimes from fraud and perjury to treason. Then a prominent black pastor in Harlem, New York, James Davis Manning held a (people) trial in May 2010, which indicted Obama in the above mentioned crimes. In 2011 many experts filed their reports to FBI and other offices of state prosecution, in which reports the experts testified forgery of the officially presented documents of Obama. However neither of those state prosecution offices have followed the reports of the experts, private citizens, of American Grand Juries or the Manning (people) trial in May 2010.

The leader of the judicial fight and its most prominent personality is Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq (now running for the US Senator from CA).  

In December 2011, the fight reached the next phase - the challenge to all 50 state election commissions, attempting to re-enter the illegitimate candidate Obama into the primary ballots the second time. The main source of information about various aspects of this fight is Dr. Taitz' site http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/  and also a conservative news outlet http://www.wnd.com/ .

In February 2012, the first hearing of the case in merits finally took place by GA administrative judge M. Malihi. Both constitutional and criminal charges against Obama/Soetoro therefore were first entered on official record. Dr. Orly Taitz brought the evidence and testimonies of 7 witnesses and experts, who all testified that the major personnel documentation of Obama/Soetoro is forged and faked. However the ruling of the judge was so grotesque that it rather symbolizes the end of Justice in this nation (see here and here). 

On March 1, 2012 the investigation group of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County (Arizona) announced their first findings at a press conference for the mass media. The Sheriff had independently confirmed that the officially presented partial and full birth certificates of Obama were computer forgeries, and his military registration card was faked too. In other words, the sitting "president" appears to have no personnel documentation legitimizing his presidency. Moreover, he is implicated in a deliberate production of counterfeit documents. Normally such a sensational discovery ought to bring the mass media into the state of shock. It ought to explode into a nonstop extensive coverage of this scandal.

However what happened to be sensational was rather the silence - the deafening silence! - of the major American media. It took the former mouthpiece of the Soviets the English issue of Pravda (Truth) to publish an in-depth analysis of the Sheriff's report.   
 
1) Amazingly accurately the demise of America was predicted already in 1984 by a defector from KGB Yuri Bezmenov. In our time (2010-2012) a group of authors compiled a video clip juxtaposing the original footage of the interview with Bezmenov 25 years ago vs. a series of the well recognizable culprits of America's demise of the modern days.

 2) In the USSR the Marxist demagoguery like "caring about the poor and downtrodden" was used only as propaganda talking points. Such humanitarian niceties as welfare, food stamps, or even short term unemployment checks had never existed there, nor could be even thought of.

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The cost to attend, according to one top Obama fundraiser: $35,800 for the first person, an additional $15,000 for the second.

The $35,800 is the maximum that an individual can give in one year combined to the Obama campaign and the DNC fund for the Obama campaign.  The Obama Victory Fund is a joint account of the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee, which funnels the first $5,000 of an individual's contribution to the president and the remainder, up to $30,800, to the DNC.  Some individuals attending the dinner wrote checks for that amount; others raised that amount for the campaign.

The dinner was a sellout.

 Among those attending the dinner:

Ann and Mathew Wolf,

Gracie and Bob Cavnar,

John and Becca Cason Thrash,

Michael Gamson,

former Houston Mayor Bill White,

Curry Glassell,

Jim Crane,

former Ambassador to the Bahamas Arthur Schechter,

Anne and Charles Duncan,

Clare Casademont,

University of Houston chancellor Renu Khator and Suresh Khator.

 Also spotted in the intimate dinner crowd: Jim Derrick and Carrin Patman, Arvia and Jason Few, Jim and Beverly Postl, Marty and Parvin McVey, Rodney Ellis, Garnett and Angelique Coleman, Roland and Karen Garcia, LaRence Snowden, and prominent Austin Obama fundraiser Kirk Rudy.

 Many of the guests had been at the Chase home since 5:30 p.m. for security reasons. They dined at six tables of 10 to 12 on crabmeat and avocado salad, oso bucco, green beans and fingerling potatoes, prepared by Jackson and Co. A two-tiered dessert tray of lemon tarts and chocolate brownies was at each table.

After the president arrived at the home, each table of guests was escorted to another room to have their photograph taken individually or as a couple with him.

Later,  he spoke to the select audience for more than 30 minutes and took nine questions on a variety of topics, ranging from nutrition and the fight against obesity to finance, foreign policy, energy and the controversial Keystone pipeline debate. One guest recalled that Obama said the process for selecting the route of the oil pipeline was not political and that it needed more time to be throughougly vetted as everyone would expect.

"But frankly I was so dazzled, I didn't pay that much attention to the substance of what he said," the guest admitted. "As you can imagine, it was a receptive audience. People love the guy. He is just so down-to-earth and very natural."

By 10:30 p.m. Obama had headed back to Ellington Field and was on his way to the nation's capital with his mission accomplished. The Houston visit was profitable, with more than $4 million raised from the two events.

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President Barack Obama raked in more campaign cash at a convivial fundraiser Friday at the Houston home of fellow Harvard Law alumnus Tony Chase.

Chase, now a professor at the University of Houston and chief executive of ChaseSource, a recruiting and staffing firm, introduced the president.

"All of you are so gracious to give so much money to this president," Chase said to guests, who each paid $35,800 for the affair (or $15,000 for plus-ones).

"Money? I thought this was the Goldberg bar mitzvah," quipped a guest named Arthur, according to a pool report.

It's unclear in the report if the president reacted to the joke. Chase, who resigned as deputy chairman and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 2008 to raise money for Obama, said, "We love this president."

He received a "hear, hear" from the crowd.

Obama spoke about clean energy and reviewed "three of the most difficult years" that just passed, the pool reported. He praised the resiliency and "core decency" of the American people for the recovery that he said is now underway.

He told the audience - "quiet and rapt," according to the pool report - that "our ability to bounce back and thrive in the future will depend on decisions we have to make right now." 

Hitting some of his stump speech themes of investing in education, clean energy and mandating "shared responsiblity" across tax brackets, the president lashed out at his opponents, although not by name. "We have a party that doesn't think these kinds of investments are important," he said.

"On each of these issues there is a stark choice," Obama said. "Here's the good news: I am absolutely sure the direction we are taking is supported by the American people." 

The true measure will come in November, but if it works out in his favor, Obama said he has "about five and a half more years" to finish what he set out to achieve.

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The caller, Michelle Perry, said her son, Jared, refused to go to school.  Not many details of the report are available but an "incident involving force" prompted Officer Scott O'Neil to apparently Taser the 9-year-old boy.

The incident was apparently not made aware to village officials, which prompted a shut-down of the entire force.

Long-embattled Police Chief Mike McCoy has been suspended, and officers that were being used on a part-time basis are no longer working, Council President Lowell Anderson said.

Mayor Charlie Neff said in a prepared statement only that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has been asked to investigate what happened.

Neff's statement said McCoy was suspended for not informing him of the incident.

With the disbanding of the police force, Madison County Sheriff Jim Sabin said he has been called to temporarily take over patrol of the village. Sabin said Neff has changed the locks at Village Hall and the sheriff has taken the police department's weapons and computers just to secure them, not because they are part of any investigation.

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· Fluke is a liar: during her testimony, she claimed that birth control had cost a stunning $3,000 during her three years of law school. Unfortunately, it turns out that Walmart and a nearby Target have offered $9-a-month birth control since 2007. Not to mention the fact that there appear to be four Planned Parenthood offices within walking distance of Georgetown Law School, where they seem to dispense contraceptives like candy.

 · Fluke is a kook: among her prior positions (policy positions, that is...), she argued that insurers be required to cover sex-change surgery and other "transgender services".

· Fluke is a professional abortion rights activist: and that's her own description of herself - "A Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies major at Cornell, [she] is also a past president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice."

No, Fluke is an activist and a plant.

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- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;

- Why the early bird gets the worm;

- Life isn't always fair;

- and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

 Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;

I Know My Rights

 I Want It Now

Someone Else Is To Blame

 I'm A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

GM informed 1,300 workers at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant in Michigan on Thursday that it will shut down production for five weeks, starting the week of March 19.

GM plans to resume production on April 23, spokesman Chris Lee said.

"We need to maintain the right inventory levels and continue to meet demand," Lee said.

At the end of February, GM's Volt inventory stood at 6,300 units, enough to last 154 days at current sales rates.

Volt sales rebounded in February to 1,023 units. January's sales of 603 units marked a five-month low following a federal investigation into battery fires in the Volt.

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The 16-year-old also punched another teenager in the face, magistrates in Workington, Cumbria, heard.
His youth worker described how the "polite, respectable young man" completely transformed when he took drugs.

The court heard how the teenager's parents called police to their home on February 12 this year when he became violent after taking the former legal high mephedrone.

Police officers PC Alison Mason and PC Phil Carter arrested him for a breach of the peace and were forced to restrain him because of his violent behaviour.

He scratched at their faces, the court heard, kicked PC Mason's arm and struck PC Carter five or six times before he decided to use the Taser.

Defence solicitor John Cooper said the Taser shot the teenager's testicles, because of the position he was in. He ended up in hospital and a metal bar, part of the Taser, was removed from his groin.
He added: "He is aware that his actions were scary and this has scared him.
"My client had quite a lot going on at home including health difficulties with his mother but he realises that he is going to have to start to behave."

The court also heard how the teenager had assaulted another youth on August 12 last year after a dispute with three others at a bus stop over mephedrone.
He said he was going to fight them. He took a wild swing at one and missed before hitting another one giving him a blood-shot eye.He was treated in hospital.

Mary Claire Telford, project worker for Cumbria Youth Offender service, said the boy was transformed when he took drugs. She said: "He has always been a clean, tidy, polite and respectable young man who is a completely different person when he is using substances."
Presiding magistrate Doug McNicholas ordered him to complete an 18-month rehabilitation order, with 80 hours unpaid work, and a two-year ASBO.

Mr McNicholas said: "There will be one requirement to the ASBO and this is that you are not in possession of alcohol in any public place at any time."

The teenager, who admitted two assault charges, must also pay the officers £50 each in compensation, £50 to the youth and £100 court costs.

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His last public conversation appears to have been at The Brentwood, a bar and grill near his home, where he struck up a conversation on politics with marketing exec Athur Sando over a glass of wine, wrote the Hollywood Reporter.

Sando had not met Breitbart before, he said. He was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m., an hour after the two departed.

The malicious tone of the main-stream media has not been kind to a man who broke scandal after scandal.

He has been vilified in tweets and posts throughout the media, with some gleefully celebrating his death in a twisted sense of the macabre:

Mean tweets include these:

The death of breitbart is the loss of one hateful and damaging voice in the world. "now is not the time for your tears."

and

TO THE PEOPLE SAYING Andrew Breitbart WAS 'ASSASSINATED': impossible, since that only happens to HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT people

At The Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi could hardly conceal his glee at Breitbart's passing. "I couldn't be happier that he's dead," he wrote.

With that in mind, journalist and film producer Dan Gifford, a Brentwood resident who writes for Breitbart's site BigHollywood.com, had this to say:

"A complete autopsy and investigation that looks into the possibility of foul play needs to be performed."

Now, with some saying he may have been assassinated, the Los Angeles coroner will be reviewing his autopsy very carefully to determine the cause of death, reported the Los Angeles Times in a blog Thursday afternoon.

Says Gifford, "Andrew was stepping on powerful toes ... Andrew's death is probably due to natural causes, but given the people he was angering and the political stakes this year, it would be wise to remember there are ways to make one's death appear natural, especially if something like a reported heart condition is known to exist."

Conservative pundit and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was a close friend and compatriot of Breitbart. He spoke eloquently of his friend's untimely death and he had this to say on his show Thursday:

"Now, he had health problems. People knew that. But there was no terminal diagnosis involved here. There was no ongoing illness that people were aware of. There were some health problems, but nothing that indicated anything like this."

Breitbart started his foray into conservative journalism editing the Drudge Report in 1994. Then in 2005, he founded the Huffington Post with Arianna Huffington. Following Huffington's abrupt left turn, politically, Breitbart started his own blogs, including BiJournalism.com, BigHollywood.com BigGovernment.com, BigPeace.com, Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv.

In the past three years, Breitbart has been a giant in the conservative press. His brash assault on what he called "Institutionalized liberalism" often took bold turns. He became notorious in 2009 when he published videos of activists posing as prostitute and her boyfriend seeking help from the community non-profit ACORN to start a brothel that would house underage El Salvadorians.

In other news, he exposed Rep. Anthony Weiner for sending lewd twitpics of himself to women, forcing Weiner eventually, to resign from office. And he posted clips of Shirley Sherrod that were edited to show her publicly discriminating against a white farmer. She was fired from her job and later, the unedited clips of the speech showed that the Breitbart version was edited to make it look like Sherrod was practicing reverse discrimination.

Andrew Breitbart is survived by his wife, Susie; their children Samson, 12; Mia, 10; Charlie, 6; and William, 4; and his sister Tracy.

http://brentwood.patch.com/articles/conservative-journalist-andrew-breitbart-dead-collapsed-in-front-of-home-7640b903

His last public conversation appears to have been at The Brentwood, a bar and grill near his home, where he struck up a conversation on politics with marketing exec Athur Sando over a glass of wine, wrote the Hollywood Reporter.

Sando had not met Breitbart before, he said. He was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m., an hour after the two departed.

The malicious tone of the main-stream media has not been kind to a man who broke scandal after scandal.

He has been vilified in tweets and posts throughout the media, with some gleefully celebrating his death in a twisted sense of the macabre:

Mean tweets include these:

The death of breitbart is the loss of one hateful and damaging voice in the world. "now is not the time for your tears."

and

TO THE PEOPLE SAYING Andrew Breitbart WAS 'ASSASSINATED': impossible, since that only happens to HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT people

At The Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi could hardly conceal his glee at Breitbart’s passing. "I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead," he wrote.

With that in mind, journalist and film producer Dan Gifford, a Brentwood resident who writes for Breitbart’s site BigHollywood.com, had this to say:

"A complete autopsy and investigation that looks into the possibility of foul play needs to be performed."

Now, with some saying he may have been assassinated, the Los Angeles coroner will be reviewing his autopsy very carefully to determine the cause of death, reported the Los Angeles Times in a blog Thursday afternoon.

Says Gifford, "Andrew was stepping on powerful toes ... Andrew’s death is probably due to natural causes, but given the people he was angering and the political stakes this year, it would be wise to remember there are ways to make one’s death appear natural, especially if something like a reported heart condition is known to exist."

Conservative pundit and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was a close friend and compatriot of Breitbart. He spoke eloquently of his friend’s untimely death and he had this to say on his show Thursday:

"Now, he had health problems. People knew that. But there was no terminal diagnosis involved here. There was no ongoing illness that people were aware of. There were some health problems, but nothing that indicated anything like this.â€Â

Breitbart started his foray into conservative journalism editing the Drudge Report in 1994. Then in 2005, he founded the Huffington Post with Arianna Huffington. Following Huffington’s abrupt left turn, politically, Breitbart started his own blogs, including BiJournalism.com, BigHollywood.com BigGovernment.com, BigPeace.com, Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv.

In the past three years, Breitbart has been a giant in the conservative press. His brash assault on what he called "Institutionalized liberalism" often took bold turns. He became notorious in 2009 when he published videos of activists posing as prostitute and her boyfriend seeking help from the community non-profit ACORN to start a brothel that would house underage El Salvadorians.

In other news, he exposed Rep. Anthony Weiner for sending lewd twitpics of himself to women, forcing Weiner eventually, to resign from office. And he posted clips of Shirley Sherrod that were edited to show her publicly discriminating against a white farmer. She was fired from her job and later, the unedited clips of the speech showed that the Breitbart version was edited to make it look like Sherrod was practicing reverse discrimination.

Andrew Breitbart is survived by his wife, Susie; their children Samson, 12; Mia, 10; Charlie, 6; and William, 4; and his sister Tracy.

http://brentwood.patch.com/articles/conservative-journalist-andrew-breitbart-dead-collapsed-in-front-of-home-7640b903

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We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.

Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.

Andrew recently wrote a new conclusion to his book, Righteous Indignation:

I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I've lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I've gained hundreds, thousands - who knows? - of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night.

Andrew is at rest, yet the happy warrior lives on, in each of us.

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Andrew Breitbart took the podium at CPAC Friday afternoon, introduced to the stage with Rage Against The Machine's Guerrilla Radio, and revealed to the audience he had "videos" of Barack Obama from his college days.

 "I have videos, this election we're going to vet him," Breitbart disclosed to raucous applause. "We are going to vet him from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008."

"The videos are going to come out, the narrative is going to come out, that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver ponytails in the 1980s, like Bill (Ayers) and Bernadine (Dohrn), who said one day we would have the presidency, and the rest of us slept as they plotted, and they plotted, and they plotted and they oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in the Annenberg Challenge and they had real money, from real capitalists. Then they became communists. We got to work on that. That is a parenthesis. Barack Obama is a radical, we should not be afraid to say that! Okay? And Barack Obama was launched from Bill and Bernadine's salon. I've been there."

Breitbart shared an anecdote about having dinner at their house, and surmised there was no way Obama didn't have many a meal at their kitchen table.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-andrew-breitbarts-fiery-cpac-speech-i-have-college-days-obama-videos/