Obama: That's it, we're going to 'degrade and destroy' ISIS

The words sound right:

ISIS 'apologizes': Hey, sorry, we released that beheading video a little early

Apparently even murderous terrorist outfits recognize the importance of news embargoes, and they feel just terrible that they let the world see them slicing off Steven Sotloff's head before the agreed-upon release time.

Art news: Major exhibition in Scotland from October

Seven leading professional artists from across the UK will be exhibiting in Scotland from October.

Due To Rampant Fraud, Two Out of Three People Now Support the Third Person In The Obama U.S.

NOTE: If the threats and promises of our extroverted Muslim leader, one Barack H. Obama, regarding illegally bypassing Congress and the United States Constitution and using Executive Orders are allowed to be put into being, the exacerbated numbers of illegal aliens drawing on OUR government resources will slide further up much close to one on one. It could even be worse where we citizen taxpayers may even lose more ground and have to support more than one on one.

U.S. No Longer has Influence in the Middle East

The rise of the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS) and its barbarity may be news to the West, but it is a very old story in the Middle East. Briefly stated, the Arabs have been at war with one another for some 1,400 years before and since the emergence of Islam and the schism that occurred between its Sunni and Shiite components.

Obama has No Intention of Stopping ISIS

Obama is allowing ISIL/ISIS to continue its blood lust of beheadings of Christians and others across the world. He has done nothing to stop it and, chillingly, has not even mentioned it except for a passing remark or two.

Heart research sheds light on breast cancer

‘I want to study women [with breast cancer] who have developed cardiotoxicity to measure the Erbin in their hearts and find any correlations, says researcher Inbal Rachmin.

The American Delusion: Distracted, Diverted and Insulated from the Grim Reality of the Police State

“In the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility.”—Author Neil Postman Caught up in the uproar over this year’s latest hullabaloo—militarized police in Ferguson, tanks on Main Street and ISIS—Americans have not only largely forgotten last year’s hullabaloo over the NSA and government surveillance but are generally foggy about everything that has happened in between.

Kids, Guns, and a Shooting Range

To drive home a point in a conversation with me about guns, someone showed me a video where Penn Jillette of the famous "Penn and Teller Magic Team," in an attempt to show you that violent video games don't cause violence, or do not make kids violent, brought the reality of the firearm to a young man at a shooting range.

Obama: 'Better off by every measure!'; Biden: 'Not growing, poor wages!'

If you haven't heard of the KSI (keep saying it) principle, it works like this: No matter how absurd the thing is that you want people to believe, just keep saying it, and eventually enough of them will. Barack Obama may not be a master of this technique, but he certainly is committed to it.

It’s MESSY!?

Okay, Obama. Let me see if I have this right. “The truth of the matter is, is that the world has always been messy. In part, we’re just noticing now because of social media and our capacity to see in intimate detail the hardships that people are going through. Those are your words.

New guy wanna-be Prime Minister

Where do the federal Liberals come up with these wanting egocentric novelties? They aren’t making the same mistake they made with Stephane Dion or Michael Ignatieff, no way, this time they have a pretty boy, shiny pony Justin Trudeau.

No Show: World Leaders To Skip UN Climate Summit

Chinese president Xi Jinping has decided to skip a meeting of world leaders on climate change in New York, according to climate insiders, casting doubt on the summit’s potential to make progress ahead of next year’s major UN climate summit in Paris. The news will be a blow to summit organisers, coming swiftly after the announcement that Indian prime minister Narendra Modi [and German Chancellor Angela Merkel] will also miss the meeting. --Joydeep Gupta, The Guardian, 2 September 2014

A fix to our cell-phone waste problem?

When it comes to cell phones, the world is stunningly wasteful. Customers will buy more than 1.8 billion new ones by the end of this year only to abandon almost half of them to drawers, and they'll recycle a mere 3 percent of them. But creative and enterprising efforts are underway to reverse the seemingly unstoppable tide, says an article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society.

Lead and cadmium found in some chocolate bought in Brazil

Scientists have found that commercial samples of chocolate purchased in Brazil contain varying levels of lead and cadmium, which can cause health problems, and that those levels are linked to how much cocoa a product contains. They reported their findings, which could have health implications — particularly for children — in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

War on Kids: Neighbor Begs Government to Shut Child’s Lemonade Stand

On the corner of Patricia Avenue and San Salvador Drive in a Dunedin, Fla., neighborhood, 12-year-old T.J. Guerrero operates a lemonade stand to raise money for summer activities with his friends and family.

Karen Vaughn - CVA Speech

Handheld scanner could make brain tumor removal more complete, reducing recurrence

Cancerous brain tumors are notorious for growing back despite surgical attempts to remove them — and for leading to a dire prognosis for patients. But scientists are developing a new way to try to root out malignant cells during surgery so fewer or none get left behind to form new tumors. The method, reported in the journal ACS Nano, could someday vastly improve the outlook for patients.

Canada Pension Plan costs triple as investment board spending skyrockets

TORONTO—The cost of running the Canada Pension Plan has more than tripled, the result of transaction fees and external management fees, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

ABC asks Phil Robertson if he's a 'homophobe,' gets greatest answer of all time

Via NewsBusters, this was not even supposed to be an interview about Phil Robertson's faith or his social views. But reporter Ryan Owens can't help himself, so Robertson is once again confronted with the dopey media inquisition that demands he answer for being a "homophobe." Robertson gives the perfect answer: