Women in Revealing Clothes Deserve to Be Raped, Say Brazilians in New Poll

/0 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: Douglas / Creative Commons

Photo Credit: Douglas / Creative Commons

You want to talk about the real war on women? Look no further than Brazil, where a recent government-sanctioned poll revealed that Brazilian men — and women — believe that if a woman shows off her body she deserves to be raped.

Brazil’s Institute of Applied Economic Research asked 3,810 men and women the question, with 65 percent of respondents saying women who wear “clothing that shows off the body” deserve to be raped.

Keep in mind, 66.5 percent of the respondents were women.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took to twitter to say the poll results show that “Brazilian society still has a long way to go to fight violence against women.”

“The results make clear the burden on law and public policy to fight violence against women,” she added.

Read more from this story HERE.

Obama Talked to Saudi King For More Than Two Hours – But Not About Human Rights

/2 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Photo Credit: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

President Obama did not raise human rights concerns during his meeting with Saudi King Abdullah, an administration official confirmed after the two leaders talked for more than two hours.

“The focus of the meeting was strategic and regional topics,” said the official, briefing reporters on background about Friday’s talks at the king’s desert encampment north-west of Riyadh. Asked again specifically whether human rights had come up, the official replied, “No.”

Asked further whether Obama had raised the Saudis’ decision to deny a visa to a Jewish member of the White House press corps wanting to cover the visit, the official, said “I don’t believe it came up in the meeting.”

The official pointed out that national security advisor Susan Rice had brought up the visa denial issue with Saudi officials earlier, and “they certainly know our views and our objection to the way in which that situation was handled.”

Obama’s meeting with Abdullah came a day after the president said he told Pope Francis that “it is central to U.S. foreign policy that we protect the interests of religious minorities around the world.”

Read more from this story HERE.

‘Putin Rat’ Terrorizes Family

/0 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: JUSTUS BENGTSSON-KORSAS

Photo Credit: JUSTUS BENGTSSON-KORSAS

A family in a suburb of Stockholm was briefly terrorized by an enormous rat — not including the tail — that had family members jumping on chairs and left the cat “terrorized for a week.”

The behemoth, dubbed a “rat from hell” by Swedish website The Local, crawled into the family’s kitchen through a hole up from the cellar. Signe Bengtsson was the first family member to spot the beast…

Reached by phone Thursday at their house in Solna, a few kilometers north of Stockholm, Erik Korsas told FoxNews.com he at first didn’t believe his wife’s description of the scurrying critter.

Korsas said his smallest boy had labeled it a “Putin rat,” but not because of any resemblance to the Russian leader.

“He said it because it had invaded our home — and therefore it was a Putin Rat.”

Read more from this story HERE.

‘Mystery’ Aircraft Reportedly Spotted Flying Over Texas Raises Speculation

/0 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: DEAN MUSKETT

Photo Credit: DEAN MUSKETT

It’s difficult to determine, but a group of aviation enthusiasts say they caught a glimpse of a mystery aircraft earlier this month flying slowly across the Amarillo, Texas sky.

“We looked southwest and there they were,” Steve Douglass, a journalist and member of the group, told FoxNews.com. “We thought they were B-2s, but when we studied our pictures, we ruled that out.”

Douglass and his group, armed with cameras and binoculars, met on March 10 at the Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport. The airport is a perfect venue because it offers expansive views of Texas’ big sky and a steady stream of military air traffic. On a good day, the group can see various military jets, and even the elusive F-22 Raptor.

It was a clear day, and the group was alerted to three aircraft flying across the southwest skies. Douglass estimated that the planes got within 20 miles of the group and they started taking pictures with their 300mm zoom cameras. They looked at the photos, and saw that one appeared to be a silver-grey B-2 bomber.

The prospects of spotting a B-2 bomber was exciting, and Douglass said he got home to observe his photos when he noticed the aircraft in his picture had a smooth backside. The B-2 bomber has a distinct “W”-shaped back.

Read more from this story HERE.

Dig at Nazi Camp Reveals Gas Chamber, Mass Graves

/1 Comment/in , /by

Photo Credit: AP / ALIK KEPLICZ

Photo Credit: AP / ALIK KEPLICZ

The Nazis tore down their notorious Treblinka death camp in 1943 and did their best to hide any physical evidence it ever existed. The strategy mostly worked, but some high-tech archeology is finally revealing the camp’s secrets, reports LiveScience.

British archeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls led a team that conducted the first digs at the site in Poland—Treblinka was actually two separate camps—discovering three previously unidentified mass graves and the apparent location of one of the camp’s two gas chambers.

They found the latter by scanning the ground with lasers to reveal a brick wall and foundation, and Colls says the gas chambers were the camp’s only brick buildings.

Read more from this story HERE.

Bill Gates Loves Common Core for Your Kids, BUT NOT HIS

/27 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: Getty / Alex Wong

Photo Credit: Getty / Alex Wong

By Eric Owens. Billionaire software tycoon Bill Gates has poured millions of dollars into efforts to develop and promote the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a set of K-12 math and language arts curriculum benchmarks and high-stakes standardized tests now being implemented in 46 states.

Strangely enough, though, Common Core isn’t quite good enough for Gates and his wife, Melinda, when it comes to the education of their own three children.

Diane Ravitch, a self-styled education policy iconoclast who tends to oppose Common Core (and charter schools, and much else), noted this irony on her blog earlier this week.

The children of Bill and Melinda Gates – Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe – have attended Lakeside School, Seattle’s most elite, fancypants private school.

Read more from this story HERE.

______________________________________________________________________________

Common Core debate likely to heat up again

By Mike Wiser.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had just left the stage at the Des Moines Marriott and walked into a gaggle of reporters.

Cruz had been speaking to an assembly of home-school families. He told them he believed in religious freedom and educational choice. With the reporters, he added a finer point.

“I emphatically oppose the Common Core,” he said.

He’s not alone.

In statehouses across the country, legislators are debating laws to delay, or eliminate, parts of the Common Core standards for reasons ranging from curriculum control to suspicion over government data collection.

Read more from this story HERE.

WATCH: Customers Cheer On Coffee Shop Armed to the Teeth with Gun-Toting Baristas

/24 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: YouTube

Photo Credit: YouTube

By Joe Saunders.

A Spokane, Wash., coffee stand is taking a stand of its own against predatory criminals by making sure at least one of its staffers is armed at all times.

“A couple of them bring handguns every day, no matter what shift it is …,” Jitterz Java owner Sara Chapel told local television station KXLY last week. “There is always a gun here now.”

Chapel made the decision after an unknown man, armed with what appeared to be a weapon, tried to enter the coffee stand through its drive-through window on March 16. An employee on duty managed to block the attempt and grab her gun, and the lesson – the store’s third robbery or robbery attempt in less than a month — isn’t being forgotten.

Read more from this story HERE.

________________________________________________________________________

Armed baristas at Spokane coffee shop

By Nick Provenza.

The next robber who tries to hold up Jitterz Java in Spokane is likely to face a gun.

After three robberies in a month, the owner says there always will be a gun at the coffee stand.

Read more from this story HERE.

McConnell Just Cut the Legs Right Out From Under House Republicans…

/27 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: AP

Photo Credit: AP

Earlier today we wrote about how Cruz, Lee, Paul, Enzi, and Roberts were all standing together to strip the IMF legislation out of the aid package bill for Ukraine. As I said earlier, the IMF legislation would basically double the contribution of the US to the IMF fund while lessening America’s influence over how that money is spent.

So what does McConnell do? Does he stand with the filibuster effort? No, pushes Republicans to vote for the bill, thus making sure to get Harry Reid his 60 votes to pass the bill to prevent the filibuster led by Cruz and the others.

So now Reid’s Ukraine aid bill containing the IMF legislation has bipartisan support and he will use that to hammer the House to accept his bill.

Read more from this story HERE.

University Official Calls Pro-Lifers ‘Provocateurs’

/2 Comments/in , /by

Photo Credit: WND

Photo Credit: WND

An official at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where a professor faces charges for an alleged attack on a pro-life advocate, is calling such campus visitors “provocateurs” and warning students to beware of those “proselytizers hawking intolerance in the name of religious belief.”

The harsh words come from Michael D. Young, a vice chancellor, who dispatched a memo for “widest distribution.”

It follows the alleged attack by Mireille Miller-Young, who teaches pornography, queer theory and black film at the tax-payer subsidized school.

She was accused of misdemeanor theft, battery and vandalism after allegedly stealing and destroying an anti-abortion sign and assaulting a teen girl who tried to retrieve it.

It happened when the instructor came across the pro-life display sponsored by the Christian pro-life group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust on March 4. Thirteen members of the group had posted banners and literature which displayed graphic imagery of late-term abortions designed to spark conversations with passing students.

Read more from this story HERE.

Reality Star-Turned-Republican Politico Draws Crowd At Campus Speech

/0 Comments/in , /by

6261666821_63ddf64c7d“You didn’t get Ronald Reagan without Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama is our Jimmy Carter.”

So said Wisconsin Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy to a room packed with College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation members at The George Washington University on Tuesday night.

Duffy gave hope that 2016 will yield a conservative president, just as 1980 did when the country was disappointed with the Carter presidency.

The former MTV reality television star brought these and other words of wisdom to young conservatives and libertarians.

Duffy touted the notion of Republican unity, especially heading into the 2014 midterm elections, in which Republicans are projected to win big.

Read more from this story HERE.