Denis Prager - Race Card No Longer Trump
Heath Weighs In on Gubernatorial Race
Slain officer call lured police to site, mayor says
From The El Paso Times - JUAREZ - By Maggie Ybarra and Adriana Gómez Licón Terrorism, similar to that found in the Middle East, has taken root in North America's most violent city. Drug cartels orchestrated a Thursday car bombing that lured police to a fabricated homicide call at a busy downtown intersection. A car exploded, killing three people and injuring seven others. Rigged in the car was Composition 4, or C-4, a plastic explosive often used by the military, Juárez Mayor José Reyes Ferriz said. Officers were lured into the deadly trap Thursday night when they thought they were responding to a homicide, Ferriz said. Officers were dispatched thinking a city police officer was slain on the busy 16 de Septiembre Avenue. Reporters also traveled to the scene thinking it was an attack on an officer. Police and paramedics arrived at the scene and noticed that the man posing as a police officer was still alive. Other officers became suspicious when they noticed that the man was not wearing a badge and that his belt was different than the official police uniform. They proceeded to treat the area as a crime scene. Three rescue workers began to treat the decoy. "They were working on him ... about four meters from the car. Then, additional federal police officers came and the car then exploded," Reyes Ferriz said. Read more
Dolores Connor - on News NM at 7:30am
The spotlight on the North Sonoma Ranch Boulevard fiasco now know as the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (photo below right) shifts to City Councilor Dolores Connor (left) this morning at 7:30am on News New Mexico. Councilor Connor has not yet made her position known on the controversy that has, so far, kept $10 million in private road building funding (through the New Mexico Finance Authority) from being accessed to finish construction of the four lane thoroughfare on the north side of Las Cruces near Monte Vista Elementary School.
In the wake of Mayor Ken Miyagishima's comments about the delays and previous reports on this site, Councilor Connor will try to explain why all the efforts to get this job-creating project going have been derailed. Mayor Ken Miyagishima is scheduled to appear on NewsNM on Wednesday morning at 8:00am.
Star Parker - Investment Choices
Treating Symptoms?
Retire at age 70? Young people may have to under plan
By David Lightman for McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Young Americans might not get full Social Security retirement benefits until they reach age 70 if some trial balloons that prominent lawmakers of both parties are floating become law. No one who's slated to receive benefits in the next decade or two is likely to be affected, but there's a gentle, growing and unusually bipartisan push to raise the retirement age for full Social Security benefits for people born in the 1960s and after. The suggestions are being taken seriously after decades when they were politically impossible because officials — and, increasingly, their constituents — are confronting the inescapable challenge of the nation's enormous debt. Read more:
Progressive - We Need to Put a High Price on Carbon
Senate Set to End Stalemate and Extend Jobless Aid
Thomas Sowell - Race Card Fraud
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