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Gas Pump Prices Close in on Average $3 a Gallon

The average price of a gallon of gasoline this week continued to march steadily to $3 a gallon. In some parts of the country, it's above that already. On Friday the average price of a gallon of regular across the U.S. was almost $2.98, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. That's up 2 cents from Monday and 10 cents more than a week ago. Drivers on the West Coast pay an average $3.21 a gallon. Gas is about $3.09 a gallon in New England, $3.05 in the Mid-Atlantic states, $2.98 around the Great Lakes and $2.82 in the Southwest.

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gas-pump-prices-close-in-on-ap...

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Huffington Post Blogger David Epstein Accused Of Incest

A Columbia University political science professor that blogs at the Huffington Post was charged Thursday with having a sexual relationship with his 24 year old daughter. As the Columbia Spectator reported: [David Epstein] was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with one count of incest in the third degree at an arraignment hearing on Thursday. According to police, the relationship appears to have been consensual.

Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/12/10/huffin...

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Doctors Say Medicare Cuts Force Painful Decision about Elderly Patients

Want an appointment with kidney specialist Adam Weinstein of Easton, Md.? If you're a senior covered by Medicare, the wait is eight weeks. How about a checkup from geriatric specialist Michael Trahos? Expect to see him every six months: The Alexandria-based doctor has been limiting most of his Medicare patients to twice yearly rather than the quarterly checkups he considers ideal for the elderly. Still, at least he'll see you. Top-ranked primary care doctor Linda Yau is one of three physicians with the District's Foxhall Internists group who recently announced they will no longer be accepting Medicare patients. "It's not easy. But you realize you either do this or you don't stay in business," she said.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...

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Al Sharpton Wants Your Guns

Sharpton and police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on Friday announced they would host a summit on gun violence in December, and Sharpton pledged to support the NYPD's Gun Stop program, which offers a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone with illegal weapons. The department, the nation's largest, also gives $100 to anyone who turns in a gun at a police station _ no questions asked.

Source: http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/11/19/sharpton,_nypd_team_u...

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Airport 'Pat-Downs' Cause Growing Passenger Backlash

Airport travelers call it groping, prodding or just plain inappropriate - a pat-down that probes places where the sun doesn't shine. The Transportation Security Administration calls it the new reality of airport security. Following the uncovering of a terrorist plot last month to blow up cargo planes en route to the United States, the TSA has instituted a new type of pat-down of passengers, a move that's part of a general tightening of air security. If a full-body scanning machine shows something strange or a passenger declines to go through the machine - which is now in use in the Washington region's three major airports - an officer will perform a more personal search.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...

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Americans Line Up to Join 'No-Fly' List

Supporters say it enhances security aboard passenger jets, but critics say it is little more than government-sponsored voyeurism for Transportation Security Administration workers. The dispute is over the new enhanced airport security screening procedures that offer a choice of either a nude, full-body image X-ray scan or a hands-on-all-parts pat-down by a federal agent. And the controversy could be coming to a head.

Source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=226533

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New Jersey Court Rules Spousal Abuse Acceptable Under Islam

This judge held that the defendant could not be held responsible for the violent sexual assaults of his wife because he did not have the specific intent to sexually assault his wife, and because his actions were "consistent with his [religious] practices." In other words, the judge refused to issue the permanent restraining order because under Sharia law, this Muslim husband had a "right" to rape his wife.

Source: http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/2010/10/go-ahead-beat-your-wif...

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Breaking: UT Campus Shooting. One Alleged Gunman Dead, Second Suspect Sought

University spokesman Rhonda Weldon said the man, armed with an automatic weapon, fired shots on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castaneda Library in the southwest part of the campus, near MLK Boulevard. Weldon said the shooter did not hit anyone, but shot and killed himself.

Source: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/092810-ut-campus-shooting

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VIDEO: Government Spy Vans and Death Panels

Is the government justified in x-raying your vehicles for public safety? Is now the time to boycott Microsoft since Bill Gates supports death panels? Is Mama Obama's war on 'demon trans fat' heading towards a new prohibition? All of this and more on this episode of American Vision's Vantage Point.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxES2wo52uA