The Kingdom Come

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By:  Fred Lucas Obama: Americans—Including Catholics-Will Still Be Forced to Buy Coverage for Sterilization, Contraception, Abortifacients

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President Barack Obama announced a compromise Friday over contraception insurance coverage for female employees at religiously affiliated institutions. Under the new plan, religiously affiliated universities and hospitals won't be forced to offer contraception coverage to their employees, but insurers must cover it when they don't. "No woman's health should depend on who she is or where she works or how much money she makes." Obama said.

Tip Number 4: "Tell stories that are short and sweet because the mind of a Wall Street man is always moving so rapidly and focusing on so many different things that his attention span for social stories is very short; don't be insulted by this, just tell your stories in a way that he can listen." Tip Number 5: "Be sexy."

Angered by a profanity-laced post his 15-year-old daughter had put on her Facebook wall and hidden from her parents, a North Carolina man posted a video on YouTube shooting the laptop multiple times with his .45 and hollow-point rounds. "Whenever you're not grounded, whatever year that happens to be, you can have a new laptop when you buy a new laptop and when you pay me back the $130 for the software I spent on yours yesterday," said Tommy Jordan. "I hope you've enjoyed your little fiasco on Facebook."

A federal program paid out $1.6 billion in 2011 to cover free basic cell phones and $10 monthly bills of 12.5 million low-income Americans. The Lifeline program, overseen by the FCC, has doubled in size since 2008 because more people who qualify have signed up. The costs are paid by the Universal Service Fund, a fee imposed on telecommunications carriers in 1996 that they pass on to customers.

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A Marine sniper team in Afghanistan posed for a September 2010 photo in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS, an incident the Marines have confirmed. "This is a complete and total outrage," said Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which found the photo online and reported it to Marine Times. The SS was intended to stand for "scout snipers," not Nazi ideology, said Mark Oliva, a spokesman at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Warren Buffett's upcoming letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders will advise them against buying gold, according to an advance excerpt shared with Fortune magazine. "What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an investment thesis. As "bandwagon" investors join any party, they create their own truth -- for a while.

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted the first approval to a new nuclear reactor in 33 years. Southern Company of Atlanta has been given the go-ahead to add two nuclear plants to its existing pair of reactors at the Vogtle Plant in Waynesboro, Ga. Unit 3 begins operating in 2016 and Unit 4 in 2017. There are currently 104 nuclear reactors in the U.S.

Twenty-five states have passed bills allowing home-schooled students to play sports at public schools, a movement sparked by an obscure Denver Broncos quarterback who played for Nease High School near Jacksonville, Fl., despite never stepping foot in the place as a student. A bill before Virginia's legislature is hotly debated. "I support choice, but if you've chosen that, you can't use public schools as an a la carte system," said William Bosher, a former state superintendent of schools. "It's football today. Tomorrow it's a National Academy of Sciences project. The next day it's homecoming queen. Where does it begin and end?"

The Peoria-based Caterpillar won't be building its new North American plant in Illinois, company officials said Tuesday, in part over concerns about the business climate in the state. Instead, Caterpiller is looking for a location closer to its division headquarters in Cary, N.C. "Caterpillar's previously documented concerns about the business climate and overall fiscal health of the state of Illinois still would have made it unpractical for us to select your community for this project," the company said in a letter explaining its decision.

By:  Elizabeth Harrington Pelosi: Contraception Mandate is About ‘Women’s Health,’ Religious Freedom is an ‘Excuse’

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By:  Christopher Goins White House Has 'No Opinion' on Whether the Senate Should Pass a Budget

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Dave Weigel: They all laughed at Ron Paul. They all laughed when he took a stage in Minnesota, having come in a solid second place, and reminded the faithful of a "little thing called delegates!" They were serious about it. Paul's people believe that they understand the delegate process, and that the media does not. There is truth here: The delegate process is confusing, and I assume that Paul supporters have used their four years of organizing and studying in a fruitful manner.

A Seattle librarian refused to force a man watching hardcore porn on one of its computer to move to a more discreet location, even after a woman with two children complained, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Lake City librarian said the library "doesn't censor content" and could not "be in the business of monitoring what their patrons are doing at any given computer."