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Oil slicks offer sign that Malaysian jet crashedNo. 1 Florida routs Kentucky, goes 18-0 in SEC

A woman, center, surrounded by media covers her mouth on her arrival at a hotel which is prepared for relatives or friends of passengers aboard a missing airplane, in Beijing, China Saturday, March 8, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact over the South China Sea early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)Two oil streaks, each several miles long, are consistent with the kind formed by jet fuel.


Florida's Florida guard Scottie Wilbekin (5), forward Casey Prather (24), center Patric Young (4) and forward Will Yeguete (15) celebrate afer defeating Kentucky 84-65 in an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, March 8, 2014, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — With strands of net behind their ears, Florida seniors Casey Prather, Scottie Wilbekin, Will Yeguete and Patric Young stopped at midcourt and kissed the floor.


Rand Paul wins again in conservative Republican pollReed builds 2-shot lead at Doral; Tiger in the mix

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) pauses in his remarks as guests applaud at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon HillSenator Rand Paul of Kentucky came out the favorite for the second straight year among Republican conservative activists voting for the candidate they would like to see in the White House next. Paul, a potential 2016 White House contender, won 31 percent in the annual straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference. His closest competitors were Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with 11 percent, and conservative neurosurgeon Ben Carson with 9 percent.


Tiger Woods hits from the third tee during the third round of the Cadillac Championship golf tournament Saturday, March 8, 2014, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)DORAL, Fla. (AP) — In only his second year on the PGA Tour, Patrick Reed already is used to playing in the final group on Sunday — and winning.


American dad passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines jetWiggins' 41 not enough for Kansas in loss to WVU

This photo provided by Laurent Errera taken Dec. 26, 2011, shows the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that disappeared from air traffic control screens Saturday, taking off from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning, March 8, 2014 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later. (AP Photo/Laurent Errera)One of three Americans aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is a longtime IBM executive who raised his family in North Texas before moving to East Asia.


Kansas' Andrew Wiggins (22) drives to the basket during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against West Virginia, Saturday, March 8, 2014, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Ferguson)MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The best game of Andrew Wiggins' short Kansas career helped temper the fact that the regular-season champion Jayhawks are limping into the Big 12 tournament with losses in two of their last three games.


AP Exclusive: Counties undermine prison effortsNo. 2 Wichita St goes to 33-0, routs Missouri St

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, prisoners from Sacramento County await processing after arriving at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. California counties are thwarting the state's efforts to comply with a federal court order to reduce it's inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated including a record number of second-strikers. The state is trying to comply with a landmark restructuring of its criminal justice system through a nearly 3-year-old law pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown that keeps lower-level felons in county jails while reserving scarce state prison cells for serious, violent and sexual offenders.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.


Wichita State guard Ron Baker (31) pulls down a rebound against Missouri State forward Gavin Thurman during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference men's tournament Saturday, March 8, 2014, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chris Lee) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUTST. LOUIS (AP) — All those runaway wins, it's hard for unbeaten Wichita State to pick a favorite.


Domestic violence cases spark protests in LebanonOregon upsets No. 3 Arizona 64-57

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014 photo, Nada Sabbagh weeps in front of a picture of her daughter, Manal Assi, who was killed last month, as she recounts during an interview with The Associated Press how her son-in-law killed Manal in front of family members, south of Beirut, Lebanon. The killing of Sabbagh’s daughter is one of three domestic violence slayings in Lebanon in recent months, drawing new attention to women’s rights in this country of 4 million people. Although Lebanon appears very progressive on women rights compared to other countries in the Middle East, domestic violence remains an unspoken problem and the nation’s parliament has yet to vote on a bill protecting women’s rights nearly three years after it was approved by the Cabinet. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — Nada Sabbagh received a brief, chilling telephone call from her son-in-law last month telling her: "Come to your daughter. I am going to kill her."


As Oregon's Mike Moser looks on, rear left, teammate Johnathan Loyd battles Arizona's Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Jordin Mayes, right, for a loose ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Eugene, Ore. on Saturday, March 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Chris Pietsch)EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon opened the regular season with a 13-game winning streak. They closed it with seven straight victories.




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Tech Savvy Politics

Recently the Republicans launched several new websites to build up their technology advantage in the upcoming election.

The Nuclear Option

The Democrats in the United States Senate put an end to Republican obstruction last week when they voted 52 to 48 to end the filibuster. Called the nuclear option, the change to Senate rules allows for executive and judicial nominees to be approved with a simple majority vote. The minority party can no longer filibuster these nominees and require a majority of 60 votes.

North Carolina\'s New Voting Law Defies Logic and Fairness

Recently Governor Pat McCrory signed into law new voting regulations passed by the Republican supermajority legislature in North Carolina. The laws, according to the governor, are \"common sense\" and ensure there\'s no voter fraud in the state. Within hours of the bill becoming law, civil rights groups filed lawsuits against the new regulations. This law was passed even though there had been few instances of voter fraud in the state.

Coup Or Civil War In Egypt

The day after new protests erupted in Egypt the military in a show of support presented an ultimatum to Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood-led government. Morsi was to step down from power and meet all of the demands of the Egyptian people, or face being removed by the military on Wednesday. As the ultimatum deadline draws closer in Egypt, Morsi refuses to leave, insisting that parliamentary elections are needed before he should be removed, and that he doesn't have permission from the United States to remove himself from power. Most recently he stated he will pay with his life to preserve the sanctity of the ballot box.

The Legacy of Citizens United and the IRS

Recently acting IRS commissioner Lerner resigned from office after the discovery that it appears the Cincinnati office had been targeting certain groups applying for 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) status. The news erupted into scandal in the wake of a week of apparent scandals piling on top of President Obama. At first the problem looked as if the IRS was targeting only tea party groups for audits, while no other social welfare group received the same scrutiny. Was this really the case?

Will South Carolina Ever Learn ?

This week the state house of South Carolina voted to nullify Obamacare, making it a criminal act if anyone in the state tried to use any part of it. Do states have the power to nullify federal laws? This question has been asked before, and South Carolina is best known attempting to subvert the federal government with this method.

The Defense of Marriage Act and the Supreme Court

On Tuesday and Wednesday last week, the United States Supreme Court began hearing arguments for Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case that will decide the fate of Proposition 8 and United States v. Windsor, the Defense of Marriage Act. Both laws being challenged prohibit same sex couples from getting married.

 
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