FOXNews.com - Utah Sets Firing-Squad Execution for Killer on Death Row Since '85

FOXNews.com - Utah Sets Firing-Squad Execution for Killer on Death Row Since '85: "Ronnie Lee Gardner has been on Utah's death row for 25 years. After Reese said Gardner's avenues for appeal are exhausted and that he would sign the warrant, Gardner said 'I would like the firing squad, please.'

The 49-year-old Gardner would be the first death row inmate executed in Utah since Joseph Mitchell Parsons died by lethal injection in 1999."

Kitty Rhodes: April 23

April 23: "Raw Milk – On a bipartisan 60-35 vote, legislation that would allow the sale of raw milk passed the Assembly.� Although originally opposed to the bill, changes made in the Senate to protect consumers and address negligent farmers dramatically improved the legislation. I supported the bill."

Senator Russ Feingold: The Control Spending Now Act

Senator Russ Feingold: The Control Spending Now Act: "The IRS is permitted to charge taxpayers a fee for some of the services it performs, and is allowed to keep and spend that money even though its administrative functions are already funded by Congress. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold has proposed ending the slush fund"

FOXNews.com - Arizona House OKs Bill Requiring Presidential Candidates to Provide Birth Certificate

FOXNews.com - Arizona House OKs Bill Requiring Presidential Candidates to Provide Birth Certificate: "Supporters of the Arizona measure say it would help settle the controversy.

'I support this measure in order to remove this as any type of issue in the future,' said Rep. Cecil Ash, R-Mesa."

That sounds like a good thing to do and a good reason to do it.

FOXNews.com - Toilet Paper Shortage: Good Raw Material Being Wiped Out

FOXNews.com - Toilet Paper Shortage: Good Raw Material Being Wiped Out: "Consumers once could fill up large bins with their recycled newspapers, magazines and print paper. But as electronic communication surges, these sources of recycled paper are becoming scarce."

That's a win for the "reduce" part of "reduce, reuse, recycle"!

FOXNews.com - Tea Partiers Seek 'Teachable Moment,' Not Oregon Teacher's Job

FOXNews.com - Tea Partiers Seek 'Teachable Moment,' Not Oregon Teacher's Job: "'We don't want to see Jason Levin fired, we want to see him helped,' said Oregon Tea Party founder Geoff Ludt. 'We want to reach out to him and we want to use his actions to create a teachable moment.'"

FOXNews.com - Report says school food making kids unfit to serve

FOXNews.com - Report says school food making kids unfit to serve: "National security is threatened by the sharp rise in obesity rates for young people over the last 15 years, the group Mission: Readiness contends. Weight problems are now the leading medical reason that recruits are rejected, the group says, and thus jeopardize the military's ability to fill its ranks."

Slight hyperbole?

FOXNews.com - VA Claims Office Takes SNAFU to a New Level

FOXNews.com - VA Claims Office Takes SNAFU to a New Level: "'If the VA does not actually recognize the request, they do not have to give the award,' he said. 'Sort of like a perverted form of 'See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.' Most people just throw up their hands in frustration and walk away at this point. That is the VA's plan.'"

"Strickland says the problem at the root of letters like McBride's is a bonus structure paid out to VA claims employees.

'The more work, the better the bonus is,' he said. 'It's strictly volume, not quality driven. There is no accountability whatsoever.'"

FOXNews.com - Gunman Opens Fire at Tennessee Hospital, Killing Woman, Himself

FOXNews.com - Gunman Opens Fire at Tennessee Hospital, Killing Woman, Himself: "A gunman took a taxi to a hospital Monday and then opened fire, killing a woman and injuring two others before committing suicide, police said.

All the victims were female and current or former employees of Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said. The attack happened about 4:30 p.m. outside the hospital's discharge area."

"'The hospital is safe and is being reopened with limitations,' Owen said."

Is it really safe? They would have called it safe right before the murderer attacked too!

FOXNews.com - Brussels Declares Vacation Time a Human Right

FOXNews.com - Brussels Declares Vacation Time a Human Right: "Now Brussels has declared that tourism is a human right and pensioners, youths and those too poor to afford it should have their travel subsidized by the taxpayer.

Under the scheme, British pensioners could be given cut-price trips to Spain, while Greek teenagers could be taken around disused mills in Manchester to experience the cultural diversity of Europe."