GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 09/10/2013

Obama backs UN discussion of Syria arms proposal A White House official says President Barack Obama has agreed to discussions at the United Nations Security Council on a proposal from Russia to secure Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles.

Zimmerman's wife calls cops; changes story hours later The 911 call seemed frantic: George Zimmerman's sobbing estranged wife said he was threatening her and her father with a gun and she feared for her life. Please come. Hours later Monday, after police converged on the home in an Orlando suburb and after speaking to her attorney, she changed her story.

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Stop annual government spending orgy Call it "Christmas in September." Just as children eagerly count down the days until the holiday, government contractors are counting the days until the end of the federal fiscal year on Sept. 30.

The Obamacare bomb A mere three weeks remain before the Obamacare exchanges open for business. The likely result will be the closing doors on Main Street, as shopkeepers and entrepreneurs shut down, unable to make ends meet. It's clear that the wounded economy can't cope with the exploding costs ahead.

Remembering the lessons of Libya If you're playing buzzword bingo with friends during President Obama's upcoming speech on why it's a good idea to lob a few missiles at Syria, I sure hope you didn't get a card with a space marked Libya. That's a word the president hasn't uttered once as he lobbies Congress to go along with his plans for an attack on Syria.

9/11 Tributes Keep Memories Alive Sept. 11, 2001, was Valerie Sanetrik's 10th birthday. Mom Denise Morris had a party planned, with cake ready. Then came the devastating news that terrorists had hijacked four planes and killed thousands of people. Any idea of celebrating fell by the wayside.

Syria and Obama I cannot see why even a single American, a single Israeli or a single Syrian civilian should be killed as a result of a token U.S. military action, undertaken simply to spare Barack Obama the embarrassment of doing nothing, after his ill-advised public ultimatum to the Syrian government to not use chemical weapons was ignored.