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Limbaugh: Maybe if Tebow came out as gay, he’d land an NFL roster spot next year

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 HOTAIR.COM 5 Hours Ago Limbaugh: Maybe if Tebow came out as gay, he'd land an NFL roster spot next year posted at 5:21 pm on April 30, 2013 by Allahpundit Via  Mediaite  and the  Daily Rushbo , it's funny 'cause it's kinda sorta true. One of the subplots in yesterday's big  Jason Collins announcement  is that he's an unsigned 34-year-old free agent who averaged around two rebounds and one point per game last year. He can play D, which explains his long career, but until yesterday it was an open question whether he'd be back in the league this fall. (Nate Silver ran the numbers after the SI story broke and concluded that Collins's prospects, purely from a basketball standpoint,  were iffy .) Today, though? Here's what his agent told ESPN's Darren Rovell last night: Jason Collins' agent Arn Tellem tells me that after today he has "no doubt" a team will sign Collins. "An owner may say, 'here's a guy who can strengthen our...

Iraq War Vet Uses AR-15 to Stop Gas Station Robbery

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 GUNSSAVELIVES.NET 7 Hours Ago Iraq War Vet Uses AR-15 to Stop Gas Station Robbery Incident at a Glance  (Click Links For Similar Stories) Gun(s) Used: .223 ,  5.56 ,  AR-15 ,  Long Gun ,  Rifle Location: Place of Business # of Suspects: 2 Shots Fired: None Suspect Killed: No State: MI Two young men, aged 17 and 18, thought they would have an easy time robbing a gas station that was closed for the night. The two men broke into the Michigan gas station just after 4am. They did not realize that the owner was in the store at the time. The owner, an Iraq War vet, approached the suspects, kicked one to the floor and then retrieved an AR-15 style rifle he keeps in his office. The owner leveled the rifle at the suspects, and one of them removed his mask to plead with the owner not to shoot them. The suspects then fled the store, but the owner recognized the suspect who removed his mask and was able to identify him to police, resulting in the capture of both suspec...

Many in Muslim world want sharia as law of land: survey

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 YAHOO! CANADA NEWS 3 Hours Ago Many in Muslim world want sharia as law of land: survey by  Tom Heneghan By Religion Editor Tom Heneghan (Reuters) - Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries, but they disagree on what it includes and who should be subject to it, an extensive new survey says. Suicide bombing was mostly rejected In the study by the Washington-based Pew Forum, but it won 40 percent support in the Palestinian territories, 39 percent in Afghanistan, 29 percent in Eygpt and 26 percent in Bangladesh. Three-quarters of respondents said abortion is morally wrong and 80 percent or more rejected homosexuality and sex outside of marriage. Over three-quarters of Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia want sharia courts to decide family law issues such as divorce and property disputes, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life said on Tuesday. "In those soci...

OUTRAGEOUS! Benghazi whistleblower says US has identified terrorist behind 9/11 attack but refuses to capture him

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 THERIGHTSCOOP.COM 3 Hours Ago OUTRAGEOUS! Benghazi whistleblower says US has identified terrorist behind 9/11 attack but refuses to capture him Posted by   The Right Scoop  on April 30th, 2013 in  Featured Politics  | The US government knows who organized the Benghazi attack that killed our ambassador and three others and yet he walks freely in Libya today. Why? The whistleblower says "we basically don't want to upset anybody". Not only that, but he says the US is ignoring a much larger terrorist haven that is building in Libya and N. Africa. The whistleblower said "the second highest population of foreign fighters in the war in Iraq came from Benghazi – second to Saudi Arabia." and that if we continue to ignore this threat it will take another invasion just to turn the tide. Lastly, he says they are not allowed to capture or destroy any of Qadaffi's weapons, like the 20,000 MANPADS (shoulder-launched missiles) that are floating around all over the place. ...

Outrageous: Abortion Horrors Revealed

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Tuesday, April 30th Outrageous: Abortion Horrors Revealed Lila Rose, the president of Live Action, joined Sean in the show's second hour and revealed disturbing and gruesome undercover videos involving abortion clinics in New York and Washington DC. These videos surfaced on the heels of the Gosnell trial, which was the cause of much firestorm ...unless you rely on the mainstream media for your news, in which case you didn't hear much about it. In the first video from an abortion clinic in the Bronx, you can hear the counselor actually tell the pregnant woman: "If it comes out, then it comes out ... F...

Local Business Alert: Marriott to eliminate some local jobs by 2013

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Marriott to eliminate some local jobs by 2013 Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:43:29 PM Local Business Alert Marriott to eliminate some local jobs by 2013 Marriott International has issued layoff notices to some technology workers in its Bethesda, Frederick and Gaithersburg offices, and warned that more are likely to follow, according to filings with the Maryland Department of Labor. The notices say that 35 positions will be eliminated initially at each location. By December 2013, the number could rise to "several hundred" from each office. In the filings, it attributed the cuts to plant closures. The cuts are effective as of June 28. Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-it/marriott-to-eliminate-some-local-jobs-by-end-of-2013/2013/04/30/baf13d12-b1c8-11e2-...

Politics Afternoon Edition: THE FIX: President Obama's unfinished business; Obama vows to try to close Gitmo again

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Politics Afternoon Edition from The Washington Post Politics moves fast. Here's a quick afternoon update on the top stories in the world of politics. View on the Web . Tuesday, April 30, 2013 HEADLINES THE FIX: President Obama's unfinished business President Obama's appearance before the national media Tuesday highlighted how much his second and final term remains consumed by the leftovers from his first term. » Read full article Obama vows to try to close Gitmo again President Obama said he would take another stab in his second term at closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a first-term campaign promise that a Democratic-led Congress rejected. » Read full article THE FACT CHECKER: Bachmann reinvents sequester...