Scrolling around...April 18, 2013

Wealthy Pay $25,000 for Shots With Cells From Aborted Babies
It’s one of the oldest stories known to man – the wealthy who will pay anything, or do anything, to prolong youth. Nine defendants face criminal charges before a Hungarian Court for collaborating in a venture to provide “treatments” promising to help them regain lost vigor, mental acuity, even youthful appearance. The grisly enterprise came to an abrupt end with a raid by a Hungarian government agency in July 2007.

According to the charges on file, the defendants’ wealthy customers paid five million Hungarian forints, about $25,000 US, for a single shot of an as-yet-undetermined concoction of tissue and stem cells taken from aborted children...

Powerful Explosion Rocks West Fertilizer Plant
...At about midnight Thursday, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Trooper D.L. Wilson confirmed that the devastating explosion had claimed an untold number of lives from among the tight-knit community of 2,800, but he declined to specuate how many people had been killed. Throughout the morning, officials are still quick to point out that an official number of fatalities are not available, but that between 5 and 15 people are believed to have died based on current information.

Sgt. William Patrick Swanton, with the Waco Police Department, said as many as five volunteer firefighters are missing after the blast and that as many as six volunteer firefighters were believed to be at the plant when the explosion occurred.

Swanton said that before the explosion firefighters quickly realized the volatility of the situation and began to evacuate nearby homes and businesses....
Fertilizer plant explodes near Waco, Texas Pictures

Police hunt two persons of interest in Boston Marathon bombing, authorities say
A federal law enforcement source tells Fox News on Wednesday that investigators are looking for two men that are persons of interest in Monday's Boston Marathon terror attack and have distributed photos for "law enforcement eyes only."...

Delaware Launches Investigation of Planned Parenthood
Delaware state officials have launched an investigation of two Planned Parenthood locations after reports of unsanitary and unsafe conditions. “Planned Parenthood should no longer be self-regulated,” says a former employee who describes herself as radically pro-abortion...

Top Democrat: Obamacare 'Huge Train Wreck Coming Down'
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) warned he sees “a huge train wreck coming down” with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, known to its critics as Obamacare...

...“I'm very concerned that not enough is being done so far--very concerned," said Baucus. "Small businesses have no idea what to do, what to expect.”

Baucus appeared frustrated with Sebelius’s unresponsiveness in supplying the senator with information designed to educate and assist citizens with understanding the massively complex healthcare overhaul...

Senators reject expanding background checks in devastating blow to Obama
The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal that would have expanded background checks on gun sales.

It failed by a vote of 54-46, short of the necessary 60. A handful of Democrats voted against it and only four Republicans supported the measure backed by the White House.

The vote effectively halted gun control in the upper chamber...
Obama angrily denounces gun-rights groups as willful liars

D.C. can’t account for $1 billion for development
Despite a booming commercial real estate industry that is the envy of almost every U.S. city, the District of Columbia is unable to account for more than $1 billion of public/private funding in fiscal 2012 intended for local, small- and minority-owned businesses, according to a city report...