GOP USA - THE EAGLE 04/09/2014

Retired Nurse Called Hero for Stopping Attack on Utash When Steve Utash was on the ground, being beaten by a mob, one woman stepped in to stop the attack. Detroit police credited retired nurse Deborah Hughes with saving Utash, who was beaten by a crowd that quickly gathered after his pickup struck a 10-year-old boy on Detroit's east side last week. The Rise of American Totalitarianism Last Thursday, Mozilla, the company that's home to the web browser Firefox, forced the resignation of CEO Brendan Eich. What, precisely, had Eich done wrong? Back in 2008, Eich had donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 effort backing traditional marriage in California. Dating website OKCupid posted a ban on Firefox traffic, issuing a message to Firefox users instead: "Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure." That ban reportedly prompted the action at Mozilla. How TV Censorship Works for Democrats On April 1, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray was denied a second term, defeated in the primary by upstart city councilwoman Muriel Bowser. The beginning of the end came on March 10, when U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen struck a plea bargain with a wealthy businessman who confessed he'd spent $668,000 on an illegal "shadow campaign" to fund get-out-the-vote efforts that helped Gray win the mayoral office in 2010.

News, Commentary, Discussions The equal pay ruse: Deceptive stats President Obama signed two executive orders designed to begin to narrow the wage gap between men and women. Never mind that the criteria generally used to measure such things are faulty and that the Obama administration doesn't practice what it deceptively preaches. Bipartisan Critics Slam Kerry for Weak Foreign Policy Secretary of State John Kerry pushed back Tuesday against withering criticism by Republicans and some fellow Democrats, defending the Obama administration's response to an emboldened Russia, nuclear talks with Iran and the Syrian civil war. Religious leaders find common cause A group of religious leaders gathered in a Dearborn Heights mosque today to promote traditional marriage, saying that the growing number of out-of-wedlock births and increasing divorce rate are weakening society.