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Today's Headlines Thursday, July 8, 2010

Census Director Admits 'We May Have Duplicates' (CNSNews.com) - U.S. Census Bureau Director Dr. Robert Groves told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the Census has "no way, unfortunately, of knowing whether or not homeless individuals were counted twice," and added, "we may have duplicates." As CNSNews.com reported on June 10, the Census Bureau's inspector general published a report indicating that Census workers were instructed to recount people who said they had already been counted. Obama Science Czar Called for Carbon Tax to Redistribute Wealth from Global 'North' to 'South' (CNSNews.com) – Five months before Barack Obama nominated Dr. John P. Holdren as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Holdren called for a global climate-change agreement that would allow wealth to be redistributed from countries in the global "North" to countries in the "South."  "It's important that we have a global agreement on how we are going to limit the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases going forward, and an agreement ... that will include ways to transfer some of the revenues from carbon taxes or carbon emission permits in the North to pay for reduced deforestation in the South," he told a TV interviewer. Obama's Unconfirmed 'Recess' Appointee to Run Medicare Advocated Rationing, Redistribution of Wealth (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama today circumvented the Senate confirmation process by granting a recess appointment to Dr. Donald Berwick to be director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid. Berwick has expressed disdain for free-market medicine and his "love" for Great Britain's government-run health-care system, while advocating health-care rationing and using the health-care system to redistribute wealth. Abbas, Fatah Say Mastermind of Munich Olympics Attack Was A Hero (CNSNews.com) – Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah organization say the man who masterminded the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972 was a hero. Mohammed Oudeh, better known as Abu Daoud, died in Syria last weekend at the age of 73. Clinton Offers Georgia A Change of Terminology, But Little Else (CNSNews.com) – In an attempt to stave off criticism that the Obama administration is too soft on Russia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Tbilisi, Georgia, used the words her hosts wanted to hear when she expressed concerns about the invasion and occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Moscow criticized Clinton Wednesday for her comments on the two breakaway Georgian regions. And if Georgia's leader regarded Clinton's statements as a victory, he may have missed the underlying message during her visit that the U.S. can do little beyond speak its mind. House-Passed Financial Overhaul Allows for GM-Style Bailouts of Big Banks (CNSNews.com) – The House-passed financial regulation bill would allow the government to save the profitable assets of a failing bank and spin them off into a new company – a power that mirrors the government's action in saving General Motors and Chrysler. The provision is part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which passed the House on June 29. Patching Up Differences Vital for U.S.-Israeli Security and Politics, Experts Say (CNSNews.com) – "The bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable," said President Barack Obama on Tuesday at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That reaffirmation of U.S.-Israeli commitment is important for the political and security interests of both countries, experts said, because it comes at a time of apparent friction between the historically strong allies.   CNSNEWS.COM VIDEO Kagan on Whether Catholic Church Could Recruit at Harvard Law (CNSNews.com) - When asked whether the Catholic Church would have been able to recruit at Harvard Law even though it does not allow female priests, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said all recruiters needed to sign a form saying they did not discriminate based on gender and sexual orientation. OTHER CNSNEWS.COM HEADLINES Three Arrested in Al-Qaida Bomb Plot in Norway Arizona Governor Cancels Border Meeting After Boycott Obama Campaigning for Democrats Again in Missouri, Nevada Catholic Church Says Cuba Has Agreed to Free 52 Political Prisoners Congress Requests Dozens of 'Studies' Before Regulating the Financial Industry Pennsylvania Begins Selling Wine in Grocery Store Vending Kiosks Study: Pot Prices Would Plummet If California Legalizes It Tax on Large Government Contractors Proposed As Way of Paying for Public Campaign Finance System Federal Prosecutors Appeal 'Lenient' Sentence Given to Philadelphia Democrat Solar Plane Lands After Completing 24-Hour Flight CNN Fires Middle Eastern Editor Over Tweet Russian-U.S. Spy Swap Expected Soon Donate Today! Please help CNSNews.com keep bringing you 'The Right News - Right Now!' Make a contribution to CNSNews.com today. It's fast, simple and secure. Help CNSNews.com and Donate Today!  NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP S.F. considers banning sale of pets except fish May soon be easier to get pot-laced brownies than sugary soda in San Francisco Some College Park, Md., residents still waiting for census to count them Pa. taxpayers will help pay for library to house Arlen Specter's papers President's recess appointment reignites debate over healthcare Happy Meals here to stay, McDonald's says First lady planning first Gulf oil spill trip Sen. Barbara Boxer touts value of incumbents Civil rights panel to pursue federal probe in Black Panther Case Mexico schools teach lessons in survival Obama tries to sell 'recovery summer' amid sluggish economy Bill allowing Native Hawaiians to form their own gov't heading for U.S. Senate vote Gov. Bobby Jindal signs guns-in-church law Backlash over national education reforms is growing in Colorado Pot advocates ask Colorado to allow medical-marijuana use for PTSD Missouri files lawsuit against federal health care law Federal officials kill geese to prevent fouling of shorefront property ACLU sues Pawtucket, RI, over drug testing of employee COMMENTARY A True Moderate Muslim And Why Obama Sides Against Him By Ben Shapiro On July 7, 2010, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher of the anti-Islamist newspaper the Weekly Blitz, strode into court in Bangladesh to argue his case. Choudhury is charged with blasphemy, treason, and sedition for attempting to fly from the Zia International Airport in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, to Tel Aviv, Israel, to attend a peace conference in 2003. Choudhury is a self-proclaimed Muslim Zionist and is ardently pro-American. But President Obama is uninterested in the Choudhury case. Why? Because Choudhury represents the true face of moderate Islam – and that isn't the kind of Muslim Barack Obama likes. He's fonder of the two-faced Muslims who pretend to oppose terror while secretly aiding and abetting it. Representation Without Taxation By Ed Feulner In the real world it makes little sense to punish success or reward failure. Yet that's exactly what the federal government's tax policy does.