From The Blaze

Updated: Apparently healthy youngish people are begging for money in a growing lifestyle in modern America, but it is an old profession. Presenting themselves on street corners, convenience stores, shopping centers or showing up Sunday to beg at churches; it is a problem nationwide as video from KGTV in San Diego and from WNBC-TV in New York shows.

While both reports note the problem, the reporters did not have a source within the lifestyle. Tulsa Today knows these people, and they call themselves Spangers – the name from a combination of “Spare Change” then personalized. They avoid media and lie for a living and among themselves laugh at their targets – you normal folk who work for a living.

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Senator Jim Inhofe

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement today about the announced deal between the United States and China to address climate change:

“In the President’s climate change deal, the United States will be required to more steeply reduce our carbon emissions while China won’t have to reduce anything. It’s hollow and not believable for China to claim it will shift 20 percent of its energy to non-fossil fuels by 2030, and a promise to peak its carbon emissions only allows the world’s largest economy to buy time.

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Recently I watched an old black and white movie — the title escapes me — that opens with a World War I aerial dogfight where one of the pilots keeps checking his watch to see if the war was over yet. In the opening minutes of the film a couple of planes get shot down, men are killed, and then the hour arrives and they cease firing. The combatants salute each other and fly their separate ways.

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Senator Tom Coburn

More than seven years after Congress required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish state and local fusion centers to combat international and homegrown terrorist threats, the Department has failed to both measure their performance and effectiveness, or to track the millions of dollars they receive in federal grants, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and highlighted by U.S. Senator Dr. Tom Coburn (R-OK).

Fusion centers are locally-run, multi-agency organizations that facilitate the sharing of information and intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks and crime within the United States. Today, DHS formally recognizes 78 fusion centers throughout the U.S. and its territories.

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