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American Thinker Blog: Obama Should Release His Transcripts : "“Similarly, his admission to Harvard Law School is highly questionable. Where are his LSAT scores? And how does one graduate from Columbia without honors and yet get accepted at Harvard Law? Lastly, his ascendency to the Presidency of the Harvard Law school would appear to have also been a case of blatant affirmative action, since the student Obama had only written one legal paper — and that was quite short and remarkably undistinguished. So where are his grade transcripts?”"

China Reports Another School Attack - WSJ.com http://ping.fm/EdBnp

Obama takes immigration reform off agenda - He is afraid someone would ask him for I.D. http://ping.fm/6dlN2

Belgium is first Western European nation to ban full-face veils in public http://ping.fm/Vv0Mf

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D) says women will decide this year's election. Pelosi went on to say Republicans are protecting Wall Street, big oil. She said "Democrats are taking our country in a new direction." "Republicans want to take us back to the failed policies of President George W. Bush. We can not go back to the Bush policies," Pelosi declared. Watch the video here. '>http://bit.ly/9meUjR

AP - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says he is abandoning the Republican Senate primary to run as an independent. '>http://bit.ly/ctpfln

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Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) ripped into the new Arizona immigration law today, comparing it to Nazi Germany.   "This law of 'frontier justice' – where law enforcement officials are required to stop anyone based on 'reasonable suspicion' that they may be in the country illegally – is reminiscent of a time during World War II when the Gestapo in Germany stopped people on the street and asked for their papers without probable cause," Mack said in a statement.   "This is not the America I grew up in and believe in, and it’s not the America I want my children to grow up in," he added.   The Arizona law would allow law enforcement officers who come into legal contact with individuals to demand proof of citizenship if there is a "reasonable suspicion" that person may be undocumented. '>http://bit.ly/b0JIZ6

Recognizing his debt to her quiet perseverance, an emotional President Barack Obama eulogized Dorothy Height as a humble champion of civil rights who deserved a seat of honor in American... '>http://bit.ly/bdm3bG

Who's the best debater: Brown, Cameron or Clegg? British voters get to see candidates debate for the first time on television. TIME asks experts for a critique '>http://bit.ly/dyC8Za

AFP - US Senate Democrats were set Thursday to unveil their blueprint for overhauling US immigration policy, piling pressure on Republicans on a volatile issue set to shape November mid-term elections. '>http://bit.ly/cKLOc8

AP - An Arizona police officer and a Latino group filed the first legal challenges of Arizona's sweeping new law cracking down on illegal immigration Thursday. http://tinyurl.com/2wsstav

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged California's full support Thursday for national health care reform, throwing the weight of one of the nation's most prominent Republicans behind the overhaul. Mr. Schwarzenegger said he long has supported the concept of universal health coverage, and in 2007 he proposed a $14.7 billion overhaul of the health care market in California. That effort failed in part because of concerns about cost, but the governor credits the effort with helping lay the groundwork for the federal bill signed this year. Mr. Schwarzenegger said it's time to set politics aside and start implementing ... Email '>http://bit.ly/agpDmu

CDC: Florida second-last in nation in getting flu shots Swine flu has claimed a 14th life in Palm Beach County and the 67th in South Florida, health officials said Thursday. '>http://bit.ly/clU4W8

Gov. Charlie Crist's signature is all that's needed to make a new law requiring children's services councils across Florida to seek direct voter approval for their continuing existence. '>http://bit.ly/d0Vqu8

Clearly Gore’s humble Nashville abode was way too confining, so Al has purchased a new gigantic pulpit from which to preach to the rest of us about how our gas-powered leaf blowers and electric can openers are killing the planet: Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their [...] '>http://bit.ly/biO8L8

President Barack Obama says his administration will use "every single available resource at our disposal" to respond to the massive oil spill expected to reach the Gulf coastline within a... '>http://bit.ly/dp2pNj

TIME Managing Editor Richard Stengel and TIME 100 issue editor Radhika Jones explain how the magazine chose this year's 100 most influential people '>http://bit.ly/aGMw5a

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece readied severe austerity measures Thursday to secure a multi-billion euro aid package needed to avoid default, providing relief to financial markets but drawing threats of a mighty battle from Greek unions. '>http://bit.ly/9FJUF5

AFP - Moderates Thursday appeared condemned to defeat in another battle with conservatives for the soul of the Republican Party, as Florida Governor Charlie Crist agonized over a lone wolf Senate run. '>http://bit.ly/d8HqtE

Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate Republicans' campaign chairman who recruited Florida Gov. Charlie Crist into that state's Senate race, said Thursday Mr. Crist's fall shows the danger of Washington politicians trying to pick winners and losers in the midst of anti-Washington sentiment. "In this political environment, it's not necessarily helpful for candidates running in states to have the national party chairmen endorse them," Mr. Cornyn, Texas Republican, told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he had first tried to recruit former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush into ... Email '>http://bit.ly/acKA38

AP - Tiger Woods will need to keep his shots out of the water if he hopes to contend at the Quail Hollow Championship. '>http://bit.ly/aGgOtx

CQPolitics.com - On the day that Florida Gov. Charlie Cristexpected to part ways with the Republican Party, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) was peppered with questions by reporters Thursday morning about the man he warmly endorsed a year ago. '>http://bit.ly/bTrFBf

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The sinking of a South Korean warship has complicated an already strained relationship with North Korea, according to the U.S. envoy for North Korean human rights issues. Robert King told an audience at a Washington think tank on Wednesday that existing issues with the North have been made "much more complicated in the last month by the sinking of the Cheonan." "That is going to create difficulties and questions in terms of how we proceed from this point forward," Mr. King said. RELATED STORY: S. Korea vows retaliation for ship sinking His comments came as State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley ... Email '>http://bit.ly/blCC7t

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US President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated San Francisco regional central bank chief Janet Yellen, who is known for a sharp focus on unemployment, as Federal Reserve Board number two. '>http://bit.ly/9WMwKD

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown needs a show-stopping performance in an election debate Thursday to offset a blaze of bad publicity after he called a supporter of his Labor Party "bigoted." '>http://bit.ly/9bViet

The people topping the TIME 100 online poll range from a South Korean figure skater to a controversial Chinese blogger. Oh, and a little someone known as Lady Gaga '>http://bit.ly/cwSq3g

Glenn is bringing his American Revival Tour to Salt Lake City on Saturday, July 17th. '>http://bit.ly/9oTIvW

Three Border Patrol agents are assaulted on the average day at or near the U.S. border. Someone is kidnapped every 35 hours in Phoenix, Ariz., often by agents of alien smuggling organizations. And one-in-five American teenagers last year used some type of illegal drug, many of which were imported across the unsecured U.S.-Mexico border.   These facts are reported in the recently released National Drug Threat Assessment for 2010, published by the National Drug Intelligence Center, a division of the U.S. Justice Department. They ought to add some perspective to the national debate raging over Arizona’s new law that requires local law enforcement officers to make a “reasonable attempt” to determine the immigration status of persons they legally come into contact with and whom they reasonably suspect of being in the country illegally.   Assaults on Border Patrol agents have massively escalated in recent years, according to the Justice Department threat assessment...

Just how bad have things gotten at the low rated CNN? So bad that the CNN co-founder, Reese Schonfeld has written in his Huffington Post blog that it is at risk of becoming a bad joke:   I think CNN is at risk of becoming a bad joke. Late night comics and cartoonists are already using them as a gag line. Newspapers are asking "experts" how to save them. It's time for a major change, before moving from "joke" to "tired joke". Writing this is getting tired, too. It's making me feel cruel, and, even if April is the cruelest month, I'd rather be writing about something else.   Ouch! Schonfeld then relays the sad CNN ratings stats:   The April ratings are in and CNN is at its lowest point in my memory. All four of the major news networks lost numbers from last April to this April, but in percentages, CNN was down about twice as much as any of its competitors. In primetime, FoxNews lost 19 percent of its viewers, and CNN lost 38 percent. In the key 2...

An Iranian maritime patrol aircraft buzzed the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower at sea in the Middle East last week, passing within 1,000 yards of the ship, but American defense officials sought to downplay the encounter as relatively common. The Iranian navy Fokker F27 turboprop reconnaissance plane had been flying near the Eisenhower Strike Group for about [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Iranian Plane Buzzes USS Eisenhower In Middle East '>http://bit.ly/cGBTpH

AP - Two coal miners were missing Thursday and rescuers were unable to contact them after an underground rock fall in western Kentucky, the mine and a union representative said. '>http://bit.ly/96PdmQ

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Baby boy survives for nearly two days after abortion - Telegraph http://ping.fm/dBdT2

News Bureau | University of Illinois : "Maya in the Classic period (A.D. 250-900) regularly “terminated” their homes, razing the walls, burning the floors and placing artifacts and (sometimes) human remains on top before burning them again. Evidence suggests these rituals occurred every 40 or 50 years and likely marked important dates in the Maya calendar. After termination, the family built a new home on the old foundation, using broken and whole vessels, colorful fragments, animal bones and rocks to mark important areas and to provide ballast for a new plaster floor."

Hugo Chavez to join Twitter : "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will create an account on the social networking site Twitter, according to media reports. The announcement comes after the socialist Chavez compared use of the social networking sites to terrorism due to negative comments made against him on Twitter and Facebook. 'Comandante Chavez is going to open his Twitter account soon to wage the battle online,' Diosdado Cabello, head of the country’s telecommunications regulator, said today on state television, according to Bloomberg. 'I’m sure he’ll break records for numbers of followers.'"

President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned of harassment against Hispanics under Arizona's tough new immigration law, saying such "poorly conceived" measures can be halted if the federal... '>http://bit.ly/btwWNB

AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he is willing to bring up climate change legislation ahead of an immigration bill, a possible first step toward resolving a dispute with Senate Republicans that threatens to derail a bipartisan effort months in the making. '>http://bit.ly/chBWG9

AP - A former member of the U.S. Air Force on a flight from Paris to Atlanta claimed he had explosives in his luggage and a fake passport, forcing federal air marshals to intervene and the plane to be diverted to Maine on Tuesday, U.S. officials said. '>http://bit.ly/a1QzdU

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano also said it was "unfair" that she was asked if the Arizona's border with Mexico was secure. '>http://bit.ly/9tTZJU

'Noah's Ark' found atop Mount Ararat in Turkey, evangelical group claims : "Noah shepherded them through the flood, two by two, and ended up in Turkey. That's what a group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers is claiming, after having found what it says are pieces of the religious icon's famed boat on Mount Ararat. 'It's not 100% that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9% that this is it,' Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker, told AFP. Wing-Cheung, a member of the 15-member team from Noah's Ark Ministries International, said the structure in which they got the wood had several compartments that were possibly used to store animals. According to the Bible, Noah was tasked by God to build a giant ark after deciding to flood the world because humanity had become too corrupt. Mount Ararat has long been believed to have been the final resting place of the ark, which according to be Bible, came to rest upon the top of ...

recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record, serving New York"s Hudson Valley and the Catskills : "Hagan acknowledged that he was one of three men who shot Malcolm X in front of a crowd of hundreds - including several of his young children - as the civil rights leader began a speech at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965. Two other accomplices created a distraction in the audience, Hagan has said."

AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he is willing to bring up climate change legislation ahead of an immigration bill, the first step toward resolving a dispute with Senate Republicans that threatened to derail a bipartisan effort months in the making. '>http://bit.ly/ajzO57

AP - Ratings agency Standard & Poor's pushed Greece to the brink of a financial abyss Tuesday and downgraded Portugal's debt, too, fueling fears of a continent-wide debt meltdown in Europe. '>http://bit.ly/9FjV3m

NEW YORK — Investors are once again worried that debt problems in Greece and Portugal could threaten the global economic recovery. Stocks plunged in the U.S. and Europe Tuesday after Standard & Poor's downgraded the debt of the two European countries. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 213 points, its worst loss in almost three months. All the major market indexes were down about 2 percent. The ratings downgrades also sent the dollar up more than 1.1 percent against the euro, hitting its highest level in about a year. At the same time, gold and Treasury prices also rose as ... Email '>http://bit.ly/c03DrW

You can add this to the list of very bad things the new Arizona Immigration Law is being compared to: Terrorism.   Jesse Jackon appeared on MSNBC today and told Contessa Brewer that the new law, allowing police to require proof of citizenship from anyone they “suspect” of being an illegal immigrant, is the equivalent of ‘terrorism for the innocent…you look suspicious because you are Mexican.” Jackson also seemed to suggest that even Gov. Bill Richardson was at risk of being pulled over under this law because of his appearance. Read more ... '>http://bit.ly/caPfBl

A key House member asked Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain an apparent "emerging pattern" of agency noncompliance" with congressional requests for information about... '>http://bit.ly/apvn5f

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. military official played down any role of Iranian special forces in Venezuela on Tuesday, saying Tehran's activities there were diplomatic and commercial in nature -- and not military. '>http://bit.ly/aG0qqF