FOXNews.com - Court: University Can Expel Student Who Opposes Homosexuality

FOXNews.com - Court: University Can Expel Student Who Opposes Homosexuality: "Judge Steeh said the university had a rational basis for adopting the ACA Code of Ethics.

“Furthermore, the university had a rational basis for requiring students to counsel clients without imposing their personal values,” he wrote in a portion of his ruling posted by The Detroit News. “In the case of Ms. Ward, the university determined that she would never change her behavior and would consistently refuse to counsel clients on matters with which she was personally opposed due to her religious beliefs – including homosexual relationships.”

Ward’s attorneys claim the university told her she would only be allowed to remain in the program if she went through a “remediation” program so that she could “see the error of her ways” and change her belief system about homosexuality."

FOXNews.com - Lying for sex _ Arab's conviction raises charges of Israeli racism and legal intrusiveness

FOXNews.com - Lying for sex _ Arab's conviction raises charges of Israeli racism and legal intrusiveness: "'If she hadn't thought the accused was a single Jewish man interested in a serious romantic relationship, she would not have cooperated,' Judge Zvi Segal wrote in sentencing Qashor. The court must protect the public from 'sophisticated and slick-tongued criminals who would lead innocent victims astray, at the unbearable price of the sanctity of their bodies and souls.'"

FOXNews.com - White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit this year, 9 percent unemployment next year

FOXNews.com - White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit this year, 9 percent unemployment next year: "New estimates from the White House on Friday predict the budget deficit will reach a record $1.47 trillion this year. The government is borrowing 41 cents of every dollar it spends.

That's actually a little better than the administration predicted in February.

The new estimates paint a grim unemployment picture as the economy experiences a relatively jobless recovery. The unemployment rate, presently averaging 9.5 percent, would average 9 percent next year under the new estimates.

The Office of Management and Budget report has ominous news for President Barack Obama should he seek re-election in 2012 — a still-high unemployment rate of 8.1 percent. That would be well above normal, which is closer to a rate of 5.5 percent to 6 percent. Private economists don't think the unemployment rate will drop to those levels until well into this decade."

FOXNews.com - Va Sen. Jim Webb says in column that government racial diversity programs should be ended

FOXNews.com - Va Sen. Jim Webb says in column that government racial diversity programs should be ended: "'The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed,' he wrote.

Immigrants from Asia, Latin America and Africa in recent decades knew no such discrimination from the government, he wrote, 'and in fact have frequently been the beneficiaries of special government programs. The same cannot be said of many hardworking white Americans, including those whose roots in America go back more than 200 years.'"

FOXNews.com - Slovakia Pays Innocent Flier Planted With Explosives in Failed Security Test

FOXNews.com - Slovakia Pays Innocent Flier Planted With Explosives in Failed Security Test: "A policeman slipped 3.4 ounces of plastic explosive into the check-in luggage of an unsuspecting passenger at Poprad-Tatry Airport in a sniffing dog test in January.

But instead of being detected, the small package ended up on a flight to Dublin.

Passenger Stefan Gonda, who had not known of the explosives, was detained by Irish police for several hours."

Obama's Jobs Errors | Daniel J. Mitchell | Cato Institute: Commentary

Obama's Jobs Errors | Daniel J. Mitchell | Cato Institute: Commentary: "The White House last year released a supposedly scientific analysis that claimed to show that adopting the 'stimulus' bill would cut unemployment. Indeed, the report specifically estimated that the unemployment rate today would be down to 7.5 percent.

Something obviously went wrong. The actual unemployment rate is 9.5 percent, a statistic that doesn't include the millions who've given up looking for work or can only find part-time jobs. What were President Obama's biggest mistakes?"

"businesses are not charities. They only create jobs when they think that the total revenue generated by new workers will exceed the total cost of employing those workers."

"If a worker is only worth $6.50 per hour, then a required wage of $7.15 is a one-way ticket to the unemployment line."

"Obama supported these and other Bush economic policies, so the 'mess he inherited' is also a mess he helped to make."

FOXNews.com - Legacy of 1969 underground nuclear blast in Colorado lingers amid modern oil and gas rush

FOXNews.com - Legacy of 1969 underground nuclear blast in Colorado lingers amid modern oil and gas rush: "In 1969, the government detonated a subterranean nuclear bomb to break loose natural gas deposits from tight sandstone formations more than 8,000 feet below ground on a Colorado mountain. The bomb was twice as powerful as the one that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

The scheme worked — to an extent. The gas was unlocked by the blast but was deemed too radioactive for commercial use."

Clowns or Killers in al Qaeda | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary

Clowns or Killers in al Qaeda | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary: "The notion of 'savvy and sophisticated' Islamist supervillains is 'wildly off the mark,' Brookings' Daniel Byman and Christine Fair write in Atlantic magazine.

Many Afghan suicide bombers 'never even make it out of their training camp,' thanks to the jihadi tradition of the pre-martyrdom 'manly embrace': 'the pressure from these group hugs triggers the explosives in suicide vests.' (Theological question: Do you get fewer virgins for an own-goal?)

On the American home front, al Qaeda and its sympathizers often don't look much brighter:

• In 2006, an FBI sting rolled up the 'Liberty City Seven,' whose ringleader, the Washington Post reported, 'wanted to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, which would then fall into a nearby prison, freeing Muslim prisoners who would become the core of his Moorish army. With them, he would establish his own country.' Sounds like a plan!
  
• 2007 saw the arrest of six Islamists who planned to launch an armed attack on New Jersey's Fort Dix, but were rounded up after they 'asked a store clerk to copy a video of them firing assault weapons and screaming about jihad.'
  
• In 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed associate Iyman Faris went to jail on charges involving a plan to topple the Brooklyn Bridge by severing its suspension cables with a blowtorch.
  
• The 2005 Jose Padilla indictment revealed that some Islamic terrorists haven't quite mastered speaking in code. One of Padilla's co-defendants insisted he was just talking about sporting goods on the surveillance tapes, but couldn't explain why he'd asked his co-conspirator if he had enough 'soccer equipment' to 'launch an attack on the enemy.'"

Abolish State Income Taxes | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary

Abolish State Income Taxes | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Why is it that some of the states with the biggest fiscal problems have the highest individual state income tax rates, such as New York and California, while some of the states with the least fiscal problems have no state income tax at all?"

"On average, schools, health and safety, roads, etc. are no better in states with income taxes than those without income taxes."

"the high-tax-rate states also, on average, have much higher per capita debt levels than states without income taxes."

"those states whose government workers are less than 40 percent unionized have median per capita state debt of $2,238, while those states where unionization rates are over 60 percent have a median per capita state debt of $6,380."

"Jurisdictions that imposed an income tax to generate a given level of revenue experienced lower rates of economic growth relative to jurisdictions that relied on alternative taxes to generate the same revenue."

"Income taxes, as contrasted with consumption (i.e., sales) taxes and modest property tax rates, are far more costly to administer and do far more economic damage (by discouraging work, saving and investment) and are far more intrusive on individual liberty. The states without state income taxes overall have had far better economic performance for most of the past several decades than have the income tax states — particularly those with high marginal taxes."

FOXNews.com - German court sentences priest to a 10-month suspended sentence for sexually abusing girls

FOXNews.com - German court sentences priest to a 10-month suspended sentence for sexually abusing girls: "A court in southern Germany has convicted a Roman Catholic priest of sexually abusing three underage girls and handed him a suspended sentence of 10 months.

The state court in Weiden said Tuesday it found the cleric guilty of unduly touching young girls below the waist during religious education classes in an elementary school in four cases last year.

The court also fined him €4,000 ($5,200)."

That doesn't sound like justice.