Four Jews - A teacher and three children aged 3 - 8 - are gunned down in Southern France. Apparently, this was done by Neo Nazis, possibly the same ones that murdered 2 Muslims and a black man last week
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dead-injured-gunman-French-Jewish-school.html
Fair enough :e4e:
| (Reuters) - Utah's Republican governor signed a law extending a required waiting period for women seeking an abortion to 72 hours on Tuesday, even though a similar requirement in South Dakota has been blocked in court, a spokeswoman said. The decision by Governor Gary Herbert is expected to meet with approval from social conservatives in the heavily Republican state just four days after he upset some members of his party by vetoing a bill to curb sex education in schools. "Governor Herbert is an adamant supporter of rights for the unborn," said Ally Isom, a spokeswoman for the governor. "He felt the bill appropriately allows a woman who's facing that decision to fully weigh her options and the implications of that decision." The state currently requires a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion. |
| A majority Virginians stand against the state’s new law that requires women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound before the procedure, a new survey shows. Fifty-two percent of voters said they opposed the law, compared with 41 percent who support it, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Further, an overwhelming 72 percent of Virginians said that the government should not make laws aimed at changing the minds of women who are seeking abortions. Men disapprove more strongly of the non-invasive ultrasound law than women: 56 percent of men are against it and 38 percent back it, while women disapprove 49 percent to 44 percent. Virginia lawmakers had considered a more drastic bill, requiring invasive ultrasounds, but tabled the legislation after a public outcry. |
| The heart of the health care law championed by President Barack Obama may be in judicial trouble, but the Supreme Court appeared very inclined Wednesday to keep the rest of the sweeping reform legislation intact. On the final day of its marathon public debate over the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the justices tackled what would happen if they ruled against the constitutionality of the individual mandate, the key funding mechanism of the law. At issue Wednesday morning was whether the entire law's 450 or so provisions would have to be scrapped if the individual mandate were found unconstitutional. A separate session is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon on whether states would be "coerced" by the federal government to expand their share of Medicaid costs and administration by the risk of losing that funding if they refuse. Even though the health care law's "individual mandate"-- requiring most Americans to have health insurance beginning in 2014 or face a financial penalty-- appeared to be on shaky legal ground, few on the court seemed eager to take the drastic step and invalidate the rest of the landmark legislation. |
| Insurance Mandate | |
| Seven people died and three others were wounded in a shooting at a small California religious college Monday, Oakland police said. An Asian male in his 40s was detained as a suspect, but he has not yet been charged in the shooting, according to police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said. "We believe that this is the person," Watson said. Police would not release the suspect's name or confirm his relationship to his victims or Oikos University in East Oakland, she said. Several of the victims were students, Watson said......... .......The college, which caters to the Korean American Christian community, offers degrees in theology, music, nursing and Asian medicine, according to its website. The suspect was arrested outside a Safeway convenience store in nearby Alameda, California, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Henry Lee told CNN. |
