Video: Democrats Running Ads Criticizing Obamacare

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In Florida’s 26th district, Democrats are running away from the president completely, and Obamacare in part:

Now, it is true that Garcia doesn’t call for repeal. Indeed, the ad boasts that the candidate is “working to fix” the law, and it praises him both for holding “insurance companies accountable” and for defending the provision that prevents insurance companies from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions…

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DC Man Set for Hearing After Arrest Over Inoperable Shotgun Shell (+video)

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Photo Credit: Fox News A Washington, D.C. man is facing a large fine and possible jail time after he was arrested for having an inoperable shotgun shell in his home. The shell was a souvenir that Mark Witaschek decided to keep from a hunting trip years earlier.

Witaschek, a businessman with no criminal record, is scheduled to appear at a hearing today following the raid by police in July 2012. On Fox and Friends this morning, Witaschek explained that the raid came a month after his estranged wife accused him of threatening her with a gun.

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Rand Paul: ‘Do We No Longer Have a Fourth Amendment?’ (+video)

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Photo Credit: YouTubeSen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released a new video in defense of the Fourth Amendment pointing out that many Americans were disturbed by the news that the National Security Agency was collecting phone data on American citizens.

“It posed a serious constitutional question: Do we no longer have a Fourth Amendment?” Paul asked.

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Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesRand Paul Will Sue Obama Over the NSA

By Matt Berman and Dustin Volz.

Here comes some fun. Sen. Rand Paul will join a lawsuit against President Obama, National Intelligence Director James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, and NSA Director Keith Alexander. The suit, Paul says, is because Obama “has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Bill of Rights protects all citizens from general warrants. I expect this case to go all the way to the Supreme Court and I predict the American people will win.”

The Kentucky Republican is joining a suit from FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe. And to just round out the group, the lead counsel is Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate. In the press release from RandPac, Cuccinelli says that “we expect to be opposed by the vast resources of the federal government, yet I am optimistic that we will prevail.”

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A ‘Tsunami’ of Store Closings Expected to Hit Retail (+video)

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Photo Credit: Getty ImagesGet ready for the next era in retail—one that will be characterized by far fewer shops and smaller stores.

On Tuesday, Sears said that it will shutter its flagship store in downtown Chicago in April. It’s the latest of about 300 store closures in the U.S. that Sears has made since 2010. The news follows announcements earlier this month of multiple store closings from major department stores J.C. Penney and Macy’s.

Further signs of cuts in the industry came Wednesday, when Target said that it will eliminate 475 jobs worldwide, including some at its Minnesota headquarters, and not fill 700 empty positions.

Experts said these headlines are only the tip of the iceberg for the industry, which is set to undergo a multiyear period of shuttering stores and trimming square footage.

Shoppers will likely see an average decrease in overall retail square footage of between one-third and one-half within the next five to 10 years, as a shift to e-commerce brings with it fewer mall visits and a lesser need to keep inventory stocked in-store, said Michael Burden, a principal with Excess Space Retail Services.

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Obama: ‘I Can Do Whatever I Want’ (+video)

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Photo Credit: YouTube President Obama “quipped” today during a visit to Monticello with the French president, “That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.”

Via the pool report:

Monticello

At 4:45 POTUS and president Hollande walked out from a portico and strolled in Front of your pool with Leslie Bowman, president of the Monticello Foundation. Looking at a terrace she said that Jefferson loved to admire the landscape from there. POTUS said that he’d like to take a look and seemed delighted to “break the protocol”.

The comment came around the time the White House announced it would be delaying the Obamacare mandate for some businesses unilaterally.

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Viral Video: Surprise Rendition of National Anthem From 18 Floors

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Photo Credit: Fox News On America’s Newsroom this morning we got a look at a very cool, and now viral, moment involving some high school choir performers. A hotel guest in Louisville recorded the Kentucky All-State Choir singing the national anthem on their hotel room balconies.

The video on YouTube has garnered more than a million views in less than a week. The sound of the anthem cascading down the 18 floors from the indoor balconies is truly something to behold.

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Watch Bill O’Reilly’s Interview with Ted Nugent

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Photo Credit: TellMeNowBill O’Reilly has had quite a month so far. After an interview with the President that revealed absolutely nothing, Bill sat down with Ted Nugent.

The two talked about Paul McCartney and his criticism of Nugent’s love for hunting. Nugent says that years ago, an interviewer was talking to Paul McCartney and asked him what he thought of Nugent who is known as the motor city madman.

According to the story, McCartney ”went into a tirade” about Nugent being a coward because he shoots innocent animals that can’t shoot back.

O’Reilly points out that McCartney is, of course, an avowed vegan.

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New Mexico Mom Jumps in Front of Alleged Drunken Driver to Save Son (+video)

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Photo Credit: Fox News A New Mexico mother is being hailed as a hero for jumping in front of an alleged drunken driver to save her teenage son.

First grade teacher Tonya McCullough was standing on a sidewalk with her son and a city worker when police say 43-year-old Scott Knowles swerved toward them.

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Video: Second Amendment Advocate Ted Nugent Talks Hunting, Tofu, Drugs and Rap

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Rocker and rabid-pro Second Amendment advocate Ted Nugent talks to Bill O’Reilly about celebrities’ attacks on his hunting lifestyle, rails against drug use, and questions why anyone would listen to rap. Listen to it here.

Hamptons Group Home Workers Allegedly Ran ‘Developmentally Disabled Fight Club’ (+video)

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Photo Credit: Modern RelicsFour workers at a group home allegedly encouraged a person with developmental disabilities to attack another disabled person on Long Island, prosecutors said.

As CBS 2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported, prosecutors called it a disturbing abuse of their position for group home workers who were supposed to be taking care of disabled residents instead of taking advantage of them.

Erin McHenry of Brookhaven, Justin McDonald of Lindenhurst, Stephen Komara of East Moriches and Rosemary Vanni of Eastport face felony charges of endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, prosecutors said.

“These defendants encouraged two developmentally disabled adults to participate in, what I said on record, is a developmentally disabled fight club,” said special prosecutor Jacqueline Kagan, of the New York State Justice Center for Protection of People with Special Needs.

Kagan said one group home worker shot cell phone video while three others raucously laughed, as they encouraged two severely disabled men to fight.

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