Martin Luther King Day

Martin Luther King Day

Because he wanted to perpetrate an attack with an explosive device on a march to commemorate the slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King, a U.S. citizen to 32 years in prison has been sentenced. A court in the State of Washington pronounced the sentence against Kevin William Harpham. The 37-year-old had in September following a deal with prosecutors pleaded guilty to escape a life sentence. He pleaded guilty here, having tried for racist motives to use an explosive device.

Harpham was at the memorial march on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the City of Spokane, Washington, 17 January, a homemade explosive device detonated leave. But the bomb had been discovered shortly before the start of the parade in a backpack, and then the route of the march with some 2,000 participants has been changed.

Attorney Michael Ormsby said the verdict was "a signal to the community that hatred and violence will not be tolerated." Shortly before the sentencing Harpham lawyer had yet tried to withdraw the guilty plea of his client, but declined by the judge, however. After a parole Harpham will stand up to his death under the supervision of a court.

Martin Luther King Day

Gabrielle Giffords

Gabrielle Giffords

Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, will participate today in the events commemorating the first anniversary of the shooting which seriously wounded during a public ceremony that killed six people.

Giffords will attend a vigil scheduled in Tucson at the headquarters of the University of Arizona (UA), which will come with her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly.

The vigil is one of the events taking place in Tucson to remember the tragedy in which well over a dozen people were injured.

"Congresswoman Giffords wants to Tucson this weekend so emotional," said a statement Pia Carusone, Giffords office. "He feels it is important to be in your city with your family, your team and close friends," he said.

At the vigil, which will come families of the victims, also involved Dr. Peter Rhee, chief of the division of trauma, intensive care and surgery, which was part of the team of doctors who treated Giffords and others wounded.

For weeks, Rhee was asked to disclose the medical report of the congressman, whose evolution physicians themselves called it a miracle.

Giffords was hit by a bullet that pierced the left hemisphere of the brain that houses the motor and speech-and in the early days some media have come to take for dead in the congressman.

In the attack, perpetrated by a youth of 22 years, Jared Loughner, six people were killed, including a nine year old girl, Christina Taylor Green, born on the day of the 11-S, and 13 others injured.

Gabe Zimmerman, assistant Giffords, Federal Judge John Roll, 63, Dorwan Stoddard, a former construction worker of 76 years, Phyllis Scheneck, a housewife of 79 years, Dorothy Morris, 76, also died in the attack.

Loughner, who was declared mentally incompetent by a judge to appear before a trial, is in jail accused of crimes and the attempted assassination of the congressman.

After several operations and an intense therapy Giffords, who still has difficulty speaking and moving an arm, came in late April at the base of Cape Canaveral to bid farewell to her husband who led the last trip of the shuttle Endeavour.

At that time offered no statements, but had a brief encounter with President Barack Obama, who had visited Giffords and her family when she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of university hospital in Tucson, and the other victims .

The Arizona Rep. reappeared by surprise in the Lower House on August 1 last year to vote on the plan on raising the U.S. debt ceiling and was received the applause of their peers, to participate in one of the key votes of the legislature.

The House passed by 269 votes in favor to 161 votes against the bipartisan agreement that will boost debt ceiling before the deadline of August 2, thus avoiding U.S. bankruptcy.

After days of missed opportunities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, Democrats and Republicans forgot their differences to honor the Democratic congressman with a heartfelt applause.

Last November, Giffords spoke for the first time the event and the difficult process of rehabilitation, in an exclusive interview with the program "20 Minutes" ABC channel.

The network showed pictures of the congressman in the hospital shortly after the shooting, which is seen lying in bed with a large scar that runs through the head as well as during therapy, learning to speak again and walking through the hallways.

Gabrielle Giffords

Republican Debate

Republican Debate

New face to face at least 12 hours between six politicians, Romney conMitt head, silver answer questions in Facebook.

The Republican presidential candidates held their second debate today in less than 12 hours trying to make the difference between them ahead of the New Hampshire primary next Tuesday.

The six faces seen again at 9 am local time (14.00 GMT) in the town of Concord (New Hampshire) just hours after holding another meeting last night at the University of Saint Anselm.

The debate sponsored by NBC television and Facebook, will be a second opportunity for applicants to demonstrate that they are the best choice to represent his party.

This time the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, the former senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, Congressman from Texas, Ron Paul, Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, the president of the Chamber of Representatives, Newt Gingrich and former governor of Utah Jon Huntsman, will have to answer questions in the social network.

In the debate last night the six were correct and there was no clear winner. While it is expected that all attacking Romney, winner of the Iowa caucuses, to try to undermine his campaign, it was not, the former governor was calm and almost as an observer of the attacks from the other candidates tried to show how the alternative to Romney.

The former governor is leading the polls in New Hampshire and the next round of primaries to be held in South Carolina on January 21.

This week a survey by CNN, Time magazine and ORC International said that Romney has 37% support in South Carolina and Santorum and Gingrich were competing for second place, with 19% and 18% respectively.

In South Carolina, Santorum has been increasing its support in some 15 points since early last month, while Gingrich has fallen 25 points since then.

Republican Debate

New Hampshire Debate

New Hampshire Debate

Mitt Romney ignored the criticism from his rivals in the first of two debates in a range of less than 12 hours this weekend, leaving the other candidates for the presidential nomination squabbling among themselves without being able to put a trip to the favorite of the contest, at least so far.

Applicants for the Republican nomination Romney attacked since the start of the debate on Saturday night, dismissing the only consider a business manager rather than a leader. Some said that Romney was a man whose investment company actually costs them jobs to workers.

But three days before the first primaries conducted in the country in New Hampshire, Romney ignored his party colleagues and instead focused on President Barack Obama.

"His policies have become deeper recession and slower recovery," said the former governor of Massachusetts though has lowered the unemployment rate and the creation of 200,000 jobs in December.

During a lively discussion of more than 90 minutes, abounded five opponents attacks while trying to put Romney as his main opponent in the upcoming primaries. Romney won the Iowa pre-election meetings earlier in the week by eight votes over former Sen. Rick Santorum and has a large lead in the polls in New Hampshire.

This leaves little time for other candidates to stop the rise of Romney, but while New Hampshire granted the former governor of Massachusetts, most focus their efforts on the South Carolina primary on Jan. 21.

The Texas lawmaker Ron Paul attacked Rick Santorum and said it was a "person of big government," an accusation that former Pennsylvania senator refused. Santorum finished second after Romney in Iowa this week, with Paul in third place.

Paul, who called former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of being a "chicken hawk" who has not served in the army, received withering criticism instead. "Personally, it bothers me the kind of comments and slander usually does," said Gingrich.

Paul had the last word, saying emphatically, "When I was selected was married and had two children, and left." He was surgeon of the Air Force at the time of the war in Vietnam.

Gingrich came fourth in Iowa, Perry fifth and lawmaker from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, came last and has since left the race. The former governor of Utah, Jon Huntsman, did not compete there, hoping to impress in New Hampshire.

He seemed unsure only once, when asked whether states have the right to ban contraception. Avoided giving a clear answer, suggesting that question was irrelevant.

Romney, who often highlights his business background, was attacked early in the debate.

Santorum was the first to say he was a mere manager. "Being president is not to be CEO. You have to lead and inspire," he said.

Gingrich continued, referring to published reports that describe how some workers were fired at Bain Capital, the firm once led Romney.

Romney countered, saying the company had created a total of 100,000 jobs, and that his business experience was much better to fix the economy to spend a lifetime in Washington DC

"I'm very proud of the fact that the two companies I've run have been successful," he said referring to Bain and another firm.

Santorum, Gingrich and Rick Perry, competing to emerge as the best conservative alternative to Romney.

In particular, Gingrich seeks to keep his campaign afloat while Santorum hopes to harness the very narrow result achieved against Romney in the GOP primaries in Iowa

The debate at St. Anselm College was the first in over three weeks and the first since Congresswoman Bachmann out of the race. Candidates will again see the faces in the discussion of Sunday morning in Concord.

Less than 12 hours apart Saturday's discussion News / WMUR, the ABC, and discussion of the Sunday News / Facebook of the NBC program "Meet the Press."

"Two debates! One tomorrow night and another the next morning. Why stop?" Romney said Friday during a campaign in Tilton scale. "Why do not we go ahead? No stop!" He said.

The debates may have unforeseen consequences. Days before the New Hampshire primaries in 2008, then-candidate for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, spoke in that state to his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as "very nice". That comment of scorn displeased the supporters of Clinton. Obama, who was leading the polls, lost in those primaries.

New Hampshire Debate

Weight-loss plans

Weight-loss plans

Weight loss reduces blood pressure in obese and diabetes, and hyperlipidemia in patients with multimorbidity

Weight loss reduces blood pressure in obese people, while also providing "beneficial effects" in multimorbidity patients with diabetes or hyperlipidemia, as revealed by the study "Benefits of weight loss in people with multiple pathologies', performed by specialists Hospital Regional de Ronda (Malaga) and presented recently at Seville, in the framework of the 36 Congress of the Andalusian Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SAEN).

This work, which has had access to Europa Press, part precisely on the premise that there are already "sufficient evidence" to "document and endorse" the relationship between increased blood pressure, hypertension and excess body fat.

Similarly, the authors of this paper argue in the introduction of the same also that there is "conclusive evidence" that the weight loss not only reduces blood pressure in obese individuals, "but also has beneficial effects on insulin resistance, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, left ventricular obstructive sleep apnea. "

At the time underline the fact that many of the factors that influence these diseases are "modifiable", both which are related to behavioral factors, "such as diet, physical inactivity and consumption of snuff and alcohol", as in a biological factor, "such as dyslipidemia, hypertension, overweight or hyperinsulinemia."

"It is here in the ability to modify these factors, we can and must act," the researchers highlight of this work, that just points to the reduction of long-term weight "as an important part of the focus on obese people with diabetes. "

Therefore, were marked as an objective of this investigation to ascertain the specific clinical case in a direct factor leading to adherence and monitoring of health claims about weight loss and its relationship with better metabolic control, both diabetes, and the blood pressure, total cholesterol and triglycerides.

Thus, as methodology, presented a case of monitoring and development for 18 months in the nursing visit of a woman of 50 years, Anglo-Saxon, who lives on the Costa del Sol for 25 years, married, no children, smoker than 15 cigarettes a day, obese and sedentary.

In their study clarified that the target patient is an obese person that starts with hyperglycemia and diabetes suggesting at the same time, debuts with mixed dyslipidemia and hypertension. Also, reviews that have eating habits "English style", with drug treatment for diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia.

After assessing the clinical results prior and subsequent control of the disease and test of adherence to treatment plan for this patient, the study's authors concluded that weight reduction reduces blood pressure not only in obese individuals, but also has effects beneficial in diabetes and hyperlipidemia. In addition, they stress that "many factors" that influence these diseases are modifiable, "both behavioral and biological factors."

Weight-loss plans

Jon Huntsman

Jon Huntsman

America's primary campaign is dirty: with racist undertones, a video of Republican candidate Jon Huntsman vilified as agents of China. Have created the clip, probably followers of the radical-liberal opponent Ron Paul.


A smear campaign that does not inform about the merits of a candidate, but pours over his political opponents in the race when voters refuse or stoking fears are part of the tools of every U.S. election campaign. With a racist campaign against the moderate Republican candidate Jon Huntsman, however, the primaries of the Republican presidential campaign has a few days before the crucial votes in the State of New Hampshire its first big scandal.

"Who is Jon Huntsman?" A voice whispered in a good minute-long election campaign spot ominously lined with Chinese-style sounds. "What is the hidden 'Mandchurian Candidate'? American or Chinese values​​?" Here are pictures in which Huntsman talks with a Chinese toddler who he has on his arm - because Huntsman was U.S. Ambassador to China and speaks the local language fluently.

Jon Huntsman, who was governor from 2005 to 2009 comes from Utah, during the presidential campaign the Republicans do not yet quite on the spot. Here, the populist politician is not rumbling, but an urbane man who's good, especially when it comes to foreign policy: he advised the U.S. president Ronald Reagan, and Bush junior and senior. Most recently he served as Obama's ambassador to Beijing, from which it's racist campaign is now trying to spin a rope.

Huntsman - too soft when it comes to China?

Huntsman's service in Beijing and his Mandarin skills are the ones that occur suspected followers of the coming out of Texas Republican Ron Paul hardliner suspect. NHLiberty4Paul called the group who uploaded the video on YouTube, at the end of the video follows the prompt "Vote Ron Paul".

The candidate Paul, who was in the nineties even noticed with racist submissions, said in a CNN interview on Friday he did not know the video. In election campaigns, however, is something common to followers of all campaigns would do such things. A spokeswoman for the Paul campaign said, no one to support Paul actually would create such a film.

The attacked candidate Huntsman said during a campaign appearance in Concord in the State of New Hampshire, the movies was "stupid" and "political campaign bullshit." To have particularly angered him, that in the video his two adopted daughters from China and India would be shown and I shall try, "something sinister" suggests. A sequence of the video shows Huntsman, then "China-Jon" called, together with his adopted Asian daughters, Asha and Gracie and is making the claim that Huntsman was too soft and pliable in China-related issues. Huntsman has seven children.

Showdown in New Hampshire - for second place

The Republicans currently struggling fiercely to see who the Democrat Barack Obama in the fall of 2012 may challenge the U.S. presidential election. After the initial delay in Iowa, Mitt Romney barely won, and shortly before the next vote in New Hampshire it's now all or nothing - the contest between the Republican candidate for the nomination will therefore intensified.

Ron Paul, whose supporters are behind the video was only third in Iowa, the polls on Tuesday in New Hampshire area code to see him now in second place, but far behind Romney. Huntsman is usually behind in the polls could Paul, the Republican hardliners but overtake. Whether the racist movies Paul helping a good or bad, will probably show only the Vorwahltag.

Republican supporters that do not shy away from racial bonds had already shown the election campaign in 2000. As the ranking Republican John McCain at the time with his friends at the party nomination, tried unknowns with automated phone calls, mood to make against McCain. The assertion that the politician had an illegitimate black baby, however, was fictitious. They were probably minted to McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh.

Jon Huntsman

Charles Addams

Charles Addams

The Internet search engine Google paid tribute to Charles Addams (1912-1988), creator of the Addams family left to mark the centenary of his birth.

On the home page of the browser on your U.S. version you can see some characters like Morticia, Gomez, Cousin Itt or Uncle Fester, interspersed among the letters of the company logo, which appear in black and white.

Google, which tends to change its logo to mark the anniversary like this, it offers click on its name several pages with information about the author biography and pictures, as well as a link to his foundation Tee and Charles Adams Foundation.

Charles "Chas" Samuel Addams was born in New Jersey (USA) on January 7, 1912, from an early age his father encouraged him to draw and throughout his life made more than 1,300 comics.

His talent as an artist led him to enter at age 21 in the team of drafters of the prestigious magazine The New Yorker, where he joined the staff full time in 1940 and continued to draw until he died in 1988 because of a heart attack.

Addams was known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters and as the father of the family more gloomy, yet beloved, which debuted in the art scene with his first story in 1938.

It is this grim clan inspired a television series was a hit in the 60's and later modernized, two cartoon series and three films and a Broadway musical.

The series "The Addams Family", who made drawings of flesh and blood characters in 1964 and projected for two years at ABC, part of the history of U.S. television, and their particular line , which had the characteristic clicks of fingers with which they set the pace.

In the 90's movie "The Addams Family" (1991) starring Anjelica Huston in the role of Morticia and Raul Julia in Gomez, the head of household, updated interest in the series, which was a sequel in 1993.

In 2010, Addams came to Broadway in a musical that has been running until Dec. 31 and has counted among its cast with actress Brooke Shields as Roger Rees as Morticia and Gomez.

Google began introducing the "doodles", custom logos that commemorate anniversaries to celebrate Halloween or dates as the Olympics, but have become more sophisticated to include some interactive, as it was designed to honor the pacman "Pac-Man" or animations like the one created to mark the 70th anniversary of John Lennon.

Charles Addams

Jon Huntsman

Jon Huntsman

A federal judge on Wednesday approved the former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gringich U.S., former Sen. Rick Santorum and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to join Texas Governor Rick Perry, in the lawsuit that has been presented to attend the caucuses to be held on March 6 in the state of Virginia.

Judge John Gibney has acceded to the request of the three Republican candidates, while also urging the parties to decide by Friday, according to the order filed in the Eastern District of Virginia.

The three Republican candidates asked to join the lawsuit filed by Perry because, like it, consider that the requirement for at least 10,000 verifiable signatures to attend the caucus of Virginia is unconstitutional.

So far, only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Congressman Ron Paul has got the necessary signatures to participate in the caucus of Virginia.

For Gringich, presented 11,100 signatures, but 1,500 have been deemed fraudulent, so it has also been left out. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives has reported to a member of his campaign for forging signatures.

For his part, counsel for the president of the Virginia Republican Party, Patrick Mullins, has seen fit to the judge's decision, even though the application is directed against his client. "We believe that a general resolution on this issue favored candidates, the party and the people of Virginia," said Lee Goldman.

Demand is also directed against Charles Judd, Kimberly Bowers and Don Palmer, Electoral Board members of the Republican Party of Virginia.

On Tuesday, Goldman filed a lawsuit in response to Perry, which clarifies that "the Virginia Republican Party want to attend the caucus as many candidates for Virginia Republicans have several options," but "That wish has been marred by legal requirements."

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Joseph Kennedy iii

Joseph Kennedy iii

The legendary Kennedy clan can not without politics.

By Joseph P. Kennedy III. (31), grandson of the murdered Robert Kennedy in 1968 († 42), wants to take over a member of the famous American dynasty for political office.

The young state attorney is a great-nephew of President John F. Kennedy († 46), who was shot in 1963 in Dallas.


U.S. media report: Joseph P. Kennedy III. is in the final stages of preparation for his candidacy. He wants to inherit the Democratic Representative Barney Frank, who is retiring.

Joseph III. from the state of Massachusetts is therefore here to commission a so-called exploratory committee to raise funds for his candidacy - a common practice in the U.S. policy. Even his dismissal he prepares.

If projects are successful, would be the first time back in a year a Kennedy in the U.S. federal policy.

Patrick Kennedy, son of the dead Kennedy patriarch Edward Kennedy († 77), retired in early 2011 from the House of Representatives. He was not taken up for re-election.

Even the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, the youngest brother of JFK, was rated in 2009 as a turning point. Reason: For the first time in decades there was no more Kennedy on a really influential posts.

Joseph Kennedy iii

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Is there a God or not? Thousands of readers believe Stephen Hawking, the answer to this question. The seriously ill astrophysicist exerts an incredible fascination - even at age 70.

If Stephen Hawking says something, the world listens. For years, astrophysicists can tell the seriously ill only a computer language. But for most of his themes are already hard to put into words: Is there a God? Why do we have people in the world? Is there other life in the vastness of the universe - and if so, should we contact? Whatever it says Hawking is considered, discussed, influenced the attitude of thousands of people. According to forecasts, the British doctors have died many years ago at a muscle weakness - on 8 January he will be 70 years old.

"I am of the view that all of us, not only the theoretical physicist, will like to know where we come," Hawking said in 1988 the success of his bestseller "A Brief History of Time" in the "mirror". The book in which he describes physical theories to the development of the universe, made him world famous.

Since then, he is regarded by the masses as a kind of genius. In scientific circles his work is also great recognition, among other things, he had 30 years the famous Luca-fish chair of mathematics at Cambridge University held - and was a descendant of Isaac Newton. However, he stands there, rather than a particularly good crowd.

Among his most significant achievements is that he predicted the early '70s that black holes - under certain circumstances, lose energy - huge, extremely massive objects in the cosmos. Based on Albert Einstein's leave it for years in search of a formula with which to merge the conflicting theories of relativity and quantum physics.


". I know there is a media hype, you need an Einstein-like figure who can call them," Hawking said early on his success with the masses, and added: "Probably my disability contributed to the sales success of the book . If so, I think that's unfortunate. "

What Hawking is so fascinating, well not only his weakness for the great questions of humanity and the desire of his time to get all the phenomena of a natural scientific explanation. It also seems to be the symbolism that resonates with his performances: he sits in a wheelchair, can do very little without help, but his spirit travels to the stars. He can not write without help, do not speak - but with his head he is constantly on the fast track.

"I am the archetype of a disabled genius," Hawking described this phenomenon in an interview with the BBC, which can be read on his website. "People are fascinated by the contrast between my very limited physical abilities and the great size of the universe, with whom I am working."

The universe attracts him since his earliest youth. After school he studied physics only a few terms at Oxford, he decided to study cosmology at Cambridge. He was in his early 20s when doctors realized his incurable disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which would quickly destroy his nervous system. For three years she gave him still. At that time it had become clear that he and his life could begin quite yet, Hawking has said repeatedly.

In record time he put on a scientific career, married, raised a family. Besides, he was a kind of pop star of science, even appeared in an episode of "Star Trek" than himself, and worked in the animated series "The Simpsons" with.

From his private life little is known. His ex-wife, Jane Hawking, the late 90s brought out a book in which she described him as a domestic tyrant, they had to occasionally remind you that he is not God.

With a life after death he does not expect, Hawking said the "Guardian". Before his death he had still not afraid. "I see the brain as a computer that stops working when its parts do not work There is no life after death for broken computers,. Have a fairy tale for people who fear the dark." And what does this mean for people whose hardware is still functioning? "We should derive the most value out of our deeds."

Stephen Hawking

Santorum

Santorum

The new sensation of the Republican Party is distancing itself from its rivals for the presidential nomination for her dress

The new sensation of the Republican Party, Rick Santorum, is a strong man of faith. Not only in matters of religion, intelligent design advocates, but by their esteem for the vests.

Send your typical jersey sleeveless. Thus, a more informal than their Republican opponents, and after months of field work with the citizens of Iowa, Santorum-almost lacked eight votes, to be proclaimed winner in the state caucuses that opened the battle Republican made the nomination for the November presidential elections in America.

Rick Santorum recover the tradition of grandparents and football coaches with a garment rarely used in politics. Normally carried in navy blue, gray or brown. Their jerseys cause such a sensation that his campaign team, attentive to everything that can help sell your image, has placed an order for jackets embroidered with the logo of the campaign of Santorum.

Santorum was the subject of the vests to the agenda of journalists who have followed the campaign in Iowa almost unintentionally. It was at a forum in Des Moines, attended with Mike Huckabee. All politicians least he wore a suit. And after the ceremony said, "somehow have a life of its own. So I started to use more and more. My computer I bought a bunch of them. "

And while they have their own life vests. They have it on Twitter, where @ FearRicksVest profile from the "Santorum vest" says he is ready to get to the White House. It also has a website, FearRicksVest.com, which redirects to a page on Facebook celebrating the dress of Santorum.

Rick Santorum, a faithful Catholic, son and grandson of Irish and Italian immigrants and married for 21 years with Karen Garver, has 53 years of age and seven children. After a quiet start to the campaign has exceeded all expectations in Iowa, where he starred in a dead heat with Mitt Romney.

Santorum

Richard Cordray

Richard Cordray

President Barack Obama confirmed yesterday to Richard Cordray as director of the Office for Consumer Protection and Finance said that the appointment to the Senate omitted to protect Americans from "abuses of the financial industry."

Obama accused the Senate Republicans to block the appointment of Cordray because they wanted to weaken the law of Dodd-Frank financial regulation that was created by the agency.

"When Congress refuses to act and as a result hurts the economy and put people at risk, that's when I have an obligation as president to do what we can without them," Obama said in his speech yesterday in Ohio .

Cordray President nominated to be the first director of that office in July, nearly a year after the enactment of a law regulating Dodd-Frank that created the agency, and Republicans blocked the confirmation last month.

Republican leaders in Congress criticized the decision and said it could jeopardize other confirmations of nominees. This move could both trigger a legal fight in an election year.

Obama made ​​the announcement in Ohio where he was Attorney General Cordray from 2009 to 2011 and treasurer before that. This state will be key to the presidential race in which Obama played his reelection.

U.S. Small Business continue to create jobs

Small businesses in the United States increased the working hours of their workers, further evidence that the labor market is strengthening. In addition, employees reported an increase in wages last month, said the payroll processing company Intuit. The increase in December compared with November figure revised up to 70,000 new jobs, originally estimated at 55,000. The unemployment rate of 8.6% in that month was the lowest in two years.

Richard Cordray

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Rick Perry is reassessing its aspirations to be the Republican candidate for the White House.

The governor of Texas said Tuesday night that will return to your state to determine if there is a way forward for his candidacy.

Perry was a disappointing place behind other Republican candidates.

Earlier Tuesday, Perry had called on his supporters to keep faith while his aides were preparing for the race in South Carolina, which they saw as the first real test of Perry's presidential campaign.

Minimizing Perry stated previously disappointing performance that would compete in South Carolina regardless of outcome here and bought television time to support it.

Before Iowans attend schools and churches to identify their preferences, Perry was belittling the role of the traditional starting states.

"The idea that one or two states will decide who the next nominee of the Republican Party is, you know, that's not true," Perry told the CNN before the caucuses began.

Perry's team planned events in South Carolina on Wednesday.

Rick Perry

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann (Waterloo, Iowa, 1956) is a congressman from Minnesota since 2007. Washington has become one of the main representatives of the ultraconservative movement of the Tea Party. There was a hole in the national political scene with an angry opposition to abortion and opposing health care reform President Barack Obama. Achieved some prominence in the primary campaign to win an election is not binding in the town of Ames (Iowa), in August. From there, he led the polls by a short time and then lost steam.

The ideology of the candidate is fully conservative. Evangelical, denies evolution. In 1978 she married the psychologist Marcus Bachmann, who has a clinic in Minnesota in which in the past has tried to cure homosexuals. In 2004, a conference, the candidate said that "gays are part of Satan." Even though he has retracted statements like, continues to oppose the approval of marriage between persons of the same sex. It has five natural children and participated in a host program in which housed 23 girls with social problems.

One of the main obstacles is the female vote. Bachmann, despite being a woman in politics, has come to preach the female subordination to the husband. In 2006 he said in a speech: "wives, be submissive to your husbands". In interviews after he qualified that "submission" is understood as "mutual respect". It has a curriculum especially bright in the Congress of Washington, where it has not approved any written law or proposed by it in the past five years (The one that had some currency was called Freedom of Choice Act Bulb).

Bachmann achieved some fame in the previous presidential election in 2008, when he said that "Barack Obama may have anti-American thoughts." Given the risky claims, closed his campaign in Iowa on January 2, with an ad that claimed to be "the American Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher equated with. Despite generating considerable attention, came to the appointment with the polls in Iowa sixth in the polls, based on average of Real Clear Politics polls.

In August did briefly take the lead by winning with 29% of the vote, elections for guidance in Ames, Iowa His victory made ​​the political left former governor of the same state, Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, more moderate than her social affairs. The bonanza was short-lived surveys to Bachmann. It was soon superseded by the shooting star that would be another conservative in the primaries, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, which appeals to the same electorate that the congressman.

Michele Bachmann

Ron Paul

Ron Paul

Recently, I have trouble sleeping. I'm sitting here in my living room in Karnei Shomron, Israel, in the 8th Night of Hanukkah, and I wonder what other wonders on 3 January and be available in the coming months. The name Ron Paul is constantly at my fingertips. I typed it so many times during the past few months, it's crazy. I am so excited as rarely ever before, and I do not even live in America. During the last Republican debate I got up at 3 am Israeli time clock to clock a 20 EST Live Stream on YouTube to see, without getting tired. I stand on the gas and can not calm down.

I've only recently figured out why I am so excited.

I began to interest me for all this freedom of movement, when I heard that Ron Paul all development assistance, including that wants to emphasize my country, Israel. I thought this was a fantastic idea. I hate the idea of ​​taking the money of American taxpayers, I do not need. The only reason why we take it is not the way that we need it. We take it, because we want to feel not alone, and Jews always feel a deep existential isolation and loneliness. "From the rocky peaks I see it, from the hills I'm aware of it: A nation that lives entirely for himself, which is not counted among the nations," said Balaam over the people of Israel in the fourth book of Moses, 23, 9 This loneliness we still feel. So we take the money. It is a shame, it's theft, it is seditious, it is morally wrong and leads to the fact that people hate us, that we drag them into a conflict whose solution is not their task is. I wanted to see an end to its trust, and no Israeli leader to give it up voluntarily, so I tried to find out more about Ron Paul.

What I found was fascinating. In the forums I learned from people who already began in 2008 literally to total exhaustion for this man. Some poured money into his campaign, they could not afford, and some even went their marriage because of her unwavering commitment to break crazy. This has shocked me. I could understand it yet, but after I had listened to him a few days, I began to understand.

What inspires such extreme behavior to Ron Paul? A support so insane on the one hand and fear and terror on the other? I can give the answer in one word: soul.

The essential spirit of a person is by definition free. The idea that men are free by God's provision, it is foreign to most people. This is because that control most other people and take them to freedom. This is usually referred to as the drive for power. The power drive is the opposite of freedom, since the ability to control other power means. There is only one legitimate purpose, can be used to power and should, whether it concerns military, legislative or executive power. And who is the legalization of freedom.

Ron Paul does not want to be president to me "give" freedom. He heard my freedom and he gave me. The only reason why Ron Paul wants to be president is that he stop punishing people for exercising their freedom, which rightfully belongs to them, I will. He does not want power. It is clear to everyone who listens to him when he talked.

There are two types of people. Those who want power and those who want freedom. You can tell pretty easily who is who. Those who want freedom are straightforward. They are stable, principled, and when they speak with one, you can feel her human soul. There is out there somewhere on a continuum of human souls in the spiritual cyberspace, and if you come into contact with one of these souls, we know that immediately, because souls are by definition free. You can sense sincerity, authenticity, consistency, a free man. If one person is looking for the freedom and comes with a true human soul into contact, one is instantly addictive and devours what you get in your hands. One would like to merge immediately, even if you do not agree to anything. There are people in the freedom of movement that Israel may not be straight, especially me as a "settler" is not, and I do not care. If they want freedom, then I realize that my human drive toward individualism and transformed himself into an intense desire to unite into a community - but to a community of free individuals. It is a wonderful dialectic, and it does not matter where we agree or not, as long as we are of one mind about freedom.

Man gets hooked on Ron Paul and desperately looking for one more and more, each video from the past, you may find that, every speech, which you missed, what he says everything, from which one has heard anything yet, although it already has heard a thousand times in other words. Man is helpless. The insatiable desire to be able to use their own God-given freedom, completely overwhelms you. It is as if one suddenly realizes that you are a human and the divine image, as God has created you will be alive and on fire.

But something else happens to you. Once you're hooked on Ron Paul, it can no longer bear to listen to someone who wants power - and when they start to talk about it, one is immediately disgusted. Before, they were just boring. Now they are disgusting. Romney or Gingrich or listen to Bush or Obama makes you sick and you do not like Ron Paul keeps the debates by without him getting sick. One sees a political facade for these politicians, which is so transparent, as if a ghost you would stick out his tongue essential. There is too much to bear.

What makes it so unbearable to listen or talk Gringrich Romney, is that as someone gets up and says things that are completely soulless. These are not free men. These are men of power. Not that Romney or Gringrich have no souls. You have one. They are just people like you and me. But they have virtually pledged their souls in an attempt to gain power to control others with turns and phrases, and with contradictory statements like: "I want to cut the budget and expand the military," it said in a friendly tone, and without the air to forgive, just as a soulless sound. Your humanity is so buried under the lies they tell themselves that neither they themselves can still feel their souls in the human continuum. The sight of a talking human body without communicating soul can make a free man insane.

The reason why Ron Paul loses in the polls never lies in the fact that he is not in the conventional sense of the people "convinced" that he was right in all possible points. It activates human souls, a spiritual fire, lit by one, as he talks about freedom. Is activated only once and a soul man realizes that he is free to do whatever people tell him, or there is no turning back. The other candidates are trying with pointed one-liners that sound cool to twist their heads. Slaves follow these one-liners like a mob and follow each of candidate to candidate. Slowly but surely turned on Ron Paul some of the individual souls in this mob, while those from a brisk counter next to the teeter-pronged counter, and he rises in the polls.

However, we can not expect that every man, woman and child understands the message of liberty or life's work. In fact, most not handle it easily. Really to be free is just as terrifying as electrifying. The Bible tells us so much detail in the story of the Exodus from Egypt. When Moses eventually took on the role of the liberator of God, he was told to my ancestors, the Israelites, to say: "Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord. I am leading you from the forced labor and out of Egypt I free you from their bondage. I redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty signs. And I take it for my people and will be your God, and ye shall know that I am the Lord, who hath freed from forced labor in Egypt. "(Second book of Moses, 6, 6-7)

And what was the answer of my ancestors? "And Moses spoke to this effect to the children of Israel, and because of discouragement from the hard service they wanted to hear but do not." (6, 9)

Not everyone can handle the message of freedom. For some people it's too scary and some are very easy to enslave. These are the people who despise Ron Paul, the same sort of people who rebelled against Moses in the desert and tried to return to Egypt. Freedom is too much for them and they can not cope with this divine gift. They want and need someone to control it. Their souls have been through slavery, war, taxation and too much damage.

But nevertheless, God forced my stiff-necked ancestors to leave Egypt, and therefore I am here today to preach freedom again, fighting not only for America's freedom, but for my own freedom from the influence of America in my own region.

Elect Ron Paul and let my people go again! Stop, you intervene here and listen to you to buy influence by her give me money. Stop trying to bring peace to the Almighty to be here and let us solve our problems alone. If we think that Iran is a threat, then we can handle it and we will suffer the consequences. It is not America's problem and you can not afford another war.

Now I understand why people would give anything for this man. Whenever he gets asked the question, "Would you legalize heroin?" Ron Paul responds, "I want to legalize freedom!" These people do not think much of that freedom a thousand times more addictive than heroin.

American Jews! Wake up! Let your brothers in Israel free! We were the first nation that God ever gave to freedom, and we carried the idea of ​​freedom in the world when we left Egypt 3,000 years ago. It is finally time that we are the example for which we have been chosen.

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Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

This is a dead heat, in which the two candidates won 25% of the vote.


The result of Tuesday night in Iowa was historic. At 3 am, Eastern Time, entered the last ballot that gave former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a Pyrrhic advantage to the surprise of the night, Rick Santorum. Only 8 votes decided the winner of the caucus or caucuses in the state with the first primary in the country.

This is a dead heat, in which the two candidates won 25% of the vote. Romney won 30,015 votes, to the 30,007 to Santorum. In third place was Texas Congressman Ron Paul, with 21.3% of the vote.

The result was the tightest Iowa in the history of the caucus, according to news agency EFE, which highlights the deep divisions among Republican voters about candidates, and who is best qualified to challenge the president, Barack Obama in the November election.

"A play. This is the first step to rebuilding the country's government," said Santorum, who has been Senator twice, from a hotel in Des Moines.

Nobody expected that former Senator Santorum, who after being virtually invisible during the summer and fall, were to ascend so in the race. On Tuesday night his support rose from 15% to 25%, to take first place with Romney. The secret was the evangelical vote, key in the state, which was entirely for Santorum, who has stood out as the candidate most "clean" of the war and stronger family values.

For his part, Romney wanted to project a presidential and media said earlier that he had been a win win even Newt Gingrich, former President of the House a few weeks ago he was winning slightly in the polls.

Paul also looked elated. The first to give his speech, he thanked the young people who gave him the well deserved third place. Always faithful to his principles, Paul reiterated his position labeled "libertarian", claiming that if he wins the presidency would impose a blinded follow the U.S. Constitution first.

Among the remaining candidates, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, who led the polls a month ago, took the 13% support in Iowa, Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, 10%, Michele Bachmann, 5% , and Jon Huntsman, who did not campaign in Iowa, 1%.

What will happen after Iowa?

According to Professor Steffen Schidmt, who has 40 years of covering this election, Rick Santorum may be at a national level, although not in New Hampshire because the state is very liberal.

"In South Carolina, Santorum may have potential, especially because they're starting to get campaign funds," he argued. "With the Southerners who are conservatives and Republicans in Iowa, it may be the second resurrection of Santorum."

By contrast, Ron Paul can suffer in the southern United States, for his libertarian positions. This can occur especially in South Carolina, which, according to a population Schidmt military rather because there are many military bases in the state.

"I think Paul will continue from Iowa to New Hampshire, then to the race in Florida, and see if the Super Tuesday has a chance to follow his campaign," said the professor located in Des Moines.

No doubt Mitt Romney seems to be the favorite and polls put him in the most advantageous situation to a possible contest against Barack Obama. The more the Republican field remains divided, the more it benefits the former governor of Massachusetts.

For his part, Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, your state will be on Wednesday morning. He said he was "talking with God" and rethink their campaign strategy. Many analysts predict that the Texan, who seems to have recovered from their performances in televised debates, he will withdraw from the race.

Is also expected on Wednesday morning Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman from Minnesota, announces that the war continues in the state of South Carolina, therefore, resigned his candidacy.

Jon Huntsman has made a strong campaign in New Hampshire, the next primary to be held on January 10. If the former Governor of Utah devastates not in that state is lost.

Mitt Romney

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum

Hardly a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in recent months has seen more of Iowa than Rick Santorum. While his opponents in the polls rollercoaster drove the Christian-conservative ex-senator toured consistently and mostly under the radar of the major news stations through the villages and small towns of the state in the Midwestern United States.


This grassroots strategy has paid off on Tuesday: Santorum landed in the area code in Iowa, only eight votes behind the favored ex-Governor Mitt Romney in second place.

Only in recent days, the coup of the former senator from Pennsylvania, had signed when he suddenly appeared within reach of Romney in the polls. With his campaign bus cruised Santorum in recent months in all 99 counties of the rural state, and thereby completed more than 380 campaign events. "I have not done in Iowa Speed ​​Dating," the 53-year-old boasted on one of his last appearances before the election in the small town of Newton. "We took our time."

Family, faith and freedom - these are the buzzwords, has been under the Santorum his application. A devout Catholic, served with his strict rejection of abortion and gay marriage, especially the concerns of the religious right. Even he refuses contraception personally, but they do not want to get it banned. As Santorum on Tuesday evening before his cheering supporters joined, he first thanked his wife, Karen, and then directly to the Lord. "I've survived so far thanks to the daily challenges of the grace of God," said the seven-time father.

Like the other candidates for the Republican presidential candidacy Santorum puts his economic policy emphasis on reducing taxes and radical cuts in government spending. "Free markets, free people, free enterprise, the pursuit of happiness" are the principles that the U.S. had made it a shining example to the world, he said a few days ago during a show in Iowa.

Originating from an Italian immigrant family Santorum studied law and worked as a lawyer in Pittsburgh. Besides, he was active politically for the Republicans. In 1990 he moved with 32 years for an electoral district in Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. From 1995 to 2007 he was for two terms in the Senate in Washington. After his failed re-election Santorum worked among others as a commentator for the conservative news channel Fox News.

In nationwide surveys on the race for the Republican nomination Santorum stood, according to the website realclearpolitics.com last on average just 4.2 percent. His strong showing in Iowa could give him in the coming weeks, while a boost, but even party colleagues call into question the eligibility of Santorum. In the battle against President Barack Obama, it is feared, could not consist of the polarizing ex-senator. Santorum countered these concerns in his speech on Tuesday evening: "What wins in America, bold ideas and sharp contrasts."

Rick Santorum

IOWA Caucus Results

IOWA Caucus Results

The first quote in the race for the White House, the "caucus" (popular assemblies) Republican of Iowa, finally ended with the victory, by just eight votes, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in front of his nearest rival, the Former Sen. Rick Santorum.

It was not until the last ballot to undo what is really a dead heat, in which the two candidates received 25 percent of the vote. Romney won 30,015 votes, against 30,007 in Santorum.

This is the tightest result in the history of these "caucus," which highlights the deep divisions among Republican voters about candidates and who is best qualified to challenge President Barack Obama in the November election .

"A play. This is the first step to rebuilding the country's government," said a jubilant Santorum told his supporters from a hotel in Des Moines, the state capital of North America.

For his part, Romney wanted to project a presidential and chose to ignore the results of the night to attack directly against the occupant of the White House.

"Almost everything this president has made it difficult for businesses to thrive," citing the presidential hopeful, who promised that, on the other hand, if he prevails in the November elections in the U.S. will "again a place that attracts better investors. "

In third place was Congressman Ron Paul, who won 21.3 percent of the vote.

Stood far behind the former chairman of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, with 13 percent of the vote, and the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, with 10.3 percent.

After his poor showing, Perry announced that Texas returns to "determine if there is any way open to me in this race," a statement that is interpreted as the sign of a more or less imminent abandonment.

Michele Bachmann was the last place with only 5 percent of the vote, a very disappointing result for this native of the state last summer topped the polls and then won in an informal consultation of Republican voters in Iowa

Nevertheless, the congressman insisted that, at least for the time being remain in the presidential race.

In the "caucus" were at stake today a total of 28 delegates to the Republican convention this August in Florida, which will officially appoint the candidate of this party.

The upcoming elections will take place next Tuesday, when the state of New Hampshire held their primaries. They will add another presidential candidate, Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor who resigned to campaign in Iowa with his few possibilities.

The latest polls give as absolute favorite in New Hampshire to Romney, the candidate to which analysts are most likely in a clash with President Barack Obama.

But after tonight's results, Santorum, a candidate who so far had been on the line positions and the media had paid little attention, has gained new momentum.

The former senator, who represents the current socially conservative evangelical and Republican, can benefit from the votes of those supporters of this training are not welcome Romney, either for his portrayal of economic privilege or his Mormon religion .

A good result for him in New Hampshire Santorum configured as the "anti-Romney" and could herald the beginning of a prolonged campaign.

Although not forget that so far, the Republican race has been a complete roller coaster for the candidates, in which virtually everyone, except Huntsman, who would have militated weighs the administration of President Barack Obama, have been favorites at one time or another.

Tonight, Santorum may have been the impetus to keep up. But if the Republican electorate remains his indecision, his big night could end up being just their fifteen minutes of fame election.

IOWA Caucus Results

Minka Disbrow

Minka Disbrow

For most of its 100 years of age, Minka Disbrow tried to find out what happened to their precious baby she gave up for adoption after being raped as a teenager.

The cruel act of violence Disbrow gave birth to an enduring love for the girl. She was left with a black and white photograph of the baby wrapped in blankets and lying in a basket. It was the last time he saw the girl, until the phone rang in his apartment in California in 2006 with the voice of a man from Alabama and a story that she had only dreamed of.

After this communication, in the middle of that year, Disbrow's dream came true and was reunited with his biological daughter, Ruth Lee, then 77, who tracked her to learn more about the history of his family after suffering heart problems.

Since then, both families have been in contact and even women of 100 says it was as if they had never separated.

The events in 1928

On a summer day in 1928 while on a picnic with other friends from her sewing class, Elizabeth Disbrow and her friend were attacked by three men when they went for a walk. Both were raped.

The months passed. His body began to experience change and Disbrow, who believed that babies were brought by the stork did not know what was happening.

His mother and stepfather sent her to a home for pregnant minors Lutheran. At 17 years old, gave birth to a baby blonde with a pronounced dimple in his chin which was named Betty Jane.

At its heart, Disbrow wanted to keep. But his head and his mother followed him saying he could not carry a baby to the farm, so they gave up for adoption.

THE LIFE OF YOUR DAUGHTER

Ruth Lee, Disbrow's biological daughter, was raised by Norwegian pastor and his wife and later married and had six children, including the man from Alabama, teacher and astronaut Mark Lee, a veteran of four space flights who has given around the world 517 times. Ruth Lee worked at Walmart for nearly 20 years, and especially enjoyed his responsibility in the area of ​​gardening.

Throughout his life, Lee knew he was adopted and grew up a happy child.

It was not until he had served more than 70 years when he began to find their biological parents.

Minka Disbrow

Ron Paul

Ron Paul

Ron Paul (Pittsburgh, Pa., 1935) are a candidate, above all, consistent. Are you a libertarian Republican (nothing to do with it if you use the Spanish that the adjective) defiende that the overall interference in the State in private affairs them. That means, among much Others things, the abolition of the Federal Reserve (central bank it) and the suppression of the majority of impuestos but it Also check the end of military campaigns and the interference of the United States in foreign affairs. La la exception ago Paul on abortion it, dice it to ya la la life otorga Dios, and them that the voters should decide on Ella.

What Paul consequent sea rod end it does not mean that it Teng sympathy of the majority of conservative voters. Sus propuestas imply one significant demilitarization of the United States, which at home with him Muy bien traditional Republican ideology. Su idealism, without however, will read it otorgado Support of numerous Young voters, volunteer work cuya ya le mantenerse rod allowing them the last day of the election campaign of 2008, it appears that ya. But the bases for the Republican party dome him a big hay trecho that Paul reads convierte into an abyss.


The candidate is, since 1997, Texas congressman in the House of Representatives. Despite his seniority is not among the leaders of his party. They carry with them as you get along with Democrats, not too well. Paul, it is known on Capitol Hill, goes free. Such is its isolation in the conservative camp than his opponent Newt Gingrich, who was president of the Chamber in the 90s, has said that if Paul wins the nomination, could not vote for him in the November election. And that Gingrich has been characterized by not attacking their opponents in the primaries.

Paul's idealism masks shifts of policy positions in line with the changing times. Between 70 and 90 published a series of open letters that reflect racist, antisemitic and homophobic. Paul has denied them, and secured (with an implausible excuse) that were published under his name but he neither wrote nor supervised. He opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended racial segregation. In 2008, spoke at the gala dinner of the 50th anniversary of the John Birch Society, ultraconservative radical tendencies.

In the Republican debates, Paul has delighted many Democrats to ask the Pentagon and the White House who left in peace to Iran. "If you want to develop an atomic bomb, that develop. What matters to us? "Has come to cry in one of them. They have been such fanfare that has led Paul to reach the gates of the Iowa caucuses and second in the polls, according to Real Clear average performed Politics. It is not impossible to win that election, but after them it would still 49 other states where the status quo Republican has much more weight than in Iowa

Ron Paul