GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 03/27/2014

Christie says scandal hasn't altered political plans New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he has not ruled out running for president in 2016 despite his aides' involvement in a traffic-blocking plot that has engulfed his administration. He says that nothing that has happened "would make me think any differently about my ability to pursue that job or to perform in it."

No Discrimination Found Against Transgender Cop A city investigation has determined that there is no evidence to support a claim by Officer Francesca Quaranta that she was discriminated against by the police department after she revealed that she was transgender.

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Probable Cause Except for the definition and mechanism of proving treason, no area of the Constitution addressing the rights of all persons when the government is pursuing them is more specific than the Fourth Amendment.

Media Continue Cover-up of Marijuana-induced Mental Illness When The Baltimore Sun ran an editorial about the Maryland mall shooter, who killed two people and then himself, the newspaper said that mental health problems need to be identified sooner. But it failed to breathe a word about killer Darion Aguilar’s admitted marijuana use. Dr. Christine Miller, a semi-retired molecular neuroscientist living in Maryland, was not too surprised by the omission. She says the liberal media tend to ignore the relationship between marijuana and mental illness.

Despite Obama's suggested NSA reforms, Americans should remain skeptical The Obama administration is proposing an end to one of the more controversial phone-monitoring techniques employed by the National Security Agency, according to various news sources.

Free Enterprise Struggles to Thrive So now business has two phantoms to fight. One is climate change, of course, the notion that we're killing the environment by the carefree way we burn fuel. The other is the "widening income gap." Heartless old capitalism keeps letting the rich scamper ahead -- impossibly ahead -- of the poor and "shrinking" middle who cannot catch up.

Schools in liberal northern state most racially segregated New York state has the most segregated public schools in the nation, with many black and Latino students attending schools with virtually no white classmates, according to a report released Wednesday.

Labor board rules college athletes are employees, can form union Northwestern football players have a right to form a labor union, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday in Chicago. The next step is Northwestern players holding an election to vote on whether to form a union.