Atlanta: Popular talk show host Neal Boortz announced on his show this morning that he will step down after 42 years on the air, citing a desire to spend time with his family.  Businessman and former presidential frontrunner Herman Cain will take full-time command of the Boortz microphone when he officially retires this January. 

“It has been a great ride, but it’s time for me and my wife Donna to hit the road and travel in ways that thus far have been impossible,” said Boortz. “As my listeners know, we love traveling, and the restraints created by my daily radio show commitment have kept us on a rather short leash.”

Cain acknowledged the mark Boortz has made over those 42 years. "Neal has spent his career serving as a bold, vocal advocate of what is right in this world, and condemning that which is not. I promise the torch Boortz is handing off to me will blaze as bright, as bold, and as loud as ever."
 
Not only will Cain inherit Neal’s microphone, he’ll also inherit the Boortz syndicated radio audience. The show currently airs on more than 200 radio stations, with six million listeners a week.

“I am ecstatic that Neal has kept the radio host’s chair warm for me all these years," Cain joked. “He may be ‘The TalkMaster,’ but Neal’s listeners know I’m the ‘The Dean of the University of Common Sense.’”
 
Cain formerly hosted a radio show on News/Talk WSB in Atlanta prior to his run for the presidency, a qualification Dan Kearney, Vice President and Market Manager of News/Talk WSB, said adds to the impressive list of reasons Cain is the logical successor for Neal. 

“Cain is very well known, passionate about his beliefs, not afraid to speak his mind – and our listeners have shown they love him” Kearney said. “We’re thrilled at his return.”
 
Boortz’s last day hosting The Neal Boortz Show will be January 18, 2013.  Cain will launch his nationally syndicated radio show on January 21, 2013 – Inauguration Day.  Until then, Cain will continue joining Boortz for their Monday and Friday 10:35am ET segments, and will remain as Boortz’ primary fill-in host.
 
In addition to the new gig, Cain today revealed his revamped website, www.HermanCain.com. Visitors to the site will be treated to new features, previews of upcoming, exciting events, and a refreshed, easy-to-navigate update to his previous website. 

An idea whose time has come: Americans officially apologizing to the world for the man who calls himself President Barack Obama.

Obama has insulted some 38 million Poles. But that’s only his latest
insult to a nation that has the respect of the majority. In one of his
first acts in the Oval Office, Obama returned an historic bust of
Winston Churchill to Britain. In 2009, Obama did not seem to know that
there is no such language as “Austrian”. The official language of
Austria is German. Recognized regional languages in Austria include
Hungarian, Slovene and Croatian. 

Obama’s overbearing administration writes off all insults to America’s allies as tiny, inconsequential ‘gaffes’.

“The White House on Wednesday shrugged off Polish demands to express more than mere ‘regret’ after President Barack Obama mistakenly referred to a Nazi Holocaust site as a “Polish death camp”. (AFP, May 30, 2012).

“We regret the misstatement, but that is what it was,” said Obama spokesman Jay Carney, reiterating that the president “misspoke” during a ceremony awarding the highest US civilian honor to late Holocaust hero Jan Karski.

“He was referring to Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland.”

Lost in the awarding of the highest US civilian honor to late Holocaust hero Jan Karski is that the same honor was bestowed upon labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers Dolores Huerta, who also happens to be the honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Seems that Holocaust heroes and Socialists are one and the same to ‘President Misspoken.’

To read more from the Canada Free Press, click here.

Fox News first report of the incident follows:

White House says Obama ‘misspoke’ after Poles demand apology over ‘Polish death camp’ remark

The White House said President Barack Obama misspoke on Tuesday when he referred to a "Polish death camp" while honoring a Polish war hero.

The president’s remark had drawn immediate complaints from Poles who said Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski called it a matter of "ignorance and incompetence."

Obama made the comment while awarding the Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. Karski died in 2000.

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According to breaking news by The Jerusalem Post, the current round of negotiations between the world powers and Iran is "not working," a senior Israeli official said Monday, adding that after two meetings there is "not an iota of evidence indicating the Iranians are in any way serious about curbing their nuclear program."

Israel was briefed by a senior American team over the weekend about what happened at last week’s talks in Baghdad, and the official said what the international community put on the table "is less than what is needed, and even those minimal demands were rejected by the Iranians."

Israel, the official said, was "skeptical in the extreme" about the current talks, and said the Iranians have bought themselves two months to move their nuclear ambitions forward – five weeks from the first meeting in Istanbul on April 14 to last week’s session in Baghdad, and now another three weeks between that meeting and the next one scheduled for June 19 in Moscow.

"They are successfully playing for time," the official said.

Click here to read more from The Jerusalem Post.

CNSNews.com is reporting that the Archdiocese of New York, headed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., headed by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the University of Notre Dame, and 40 other Catholic dioceses and organizations around the country announced today they are suing the Obama administration for violating their freedom of religion, as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

The dioceses and organizations, in different combinations, are filing 12 different lawsuits in courts around the country.

The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. has established a special website– preservereligiousfreedom.org –to explain its lawsuit and present news and developments concerning it.

"This lawsuit is about an unprecedented attack by the federal government on one of America’s most cherished freedoms: the freedom to practice one’s religion without government interference," the archdiocese says on the website. "It is not about whether people have access to certain services; it is about whether the government may force religious institutions and individuals to facilitate and fund services which violate their religious beliefs."

The suits by the Catholic organizations focus on the regulation that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last August and finalized in January that requires virtually all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including those that can cause abortions.

The Catholic Church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are morally wrong and that Catholics should not be involved in them.  The regulation would require faithful Catholics and Catholic organizations to act against their consciences and violate the teachings of their faith.

Earlier, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had called the regulation an "unprecedented attack on religious liberty" and asked the Obama administration to rescind it.

“We have tried negotiation with the Administration and legislation with the Congress–and we’ll keep at it–but there’s still no fix," Cardinal Dolan, who is also president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement released by the conference this morning.

"Time is running out, and our valuable ministries and fundamental rights hang in the balance, so we have to resort to the courts now," the cardinal said. "Though the Conference is not a party to the lawsuits, we applaud this courageous action by so many individual dioceses, charities, hospitals and schools across the nation, in coordination with the law firm of Jones Day. It is also a compelling display of the unity of the Church in defense of religious liberty. It’s also a great show of the diversity of the Church’s ministries that serve the common good and that are jeopardized by the mandate–ministries to the poor, the sick, and the uneducated, to people of any faith or no faith at all.”

For more of the story and video from CNSNews.com, click here.
 

Breitbart.com has an insightful piece on the Wisconsin recall campaign against Gov. Walker.  Not happy with his reforms, big labor is pushing a "do-over"of Walker’s 2010 gubernatorial contest.  Funny thing, labor’s candidate campaigned explicitly on restoring union perks and privileges and got "trounced" in the Democrat primary.  Now they are pushing an alleged loss of Wisconsin jobs based on estimates of loss while the state’s quarterly census based on detailed data from every employer shows a gain in jobs. 

On primary night last week, We Are Wisconsin, a union-funded campaign put out this breathless statement: "As governor, Tom Barrett will reverse Scott Walker’s worst-in-the-nation jobs record, end the corruption Walker and his cronies have brought to Madison, and finally halt the Republican war on women—a war Walker and his GOP allies have taken further here than any other state in America."

Whoa, Brietbart.com writes.  Are things really that bad in Wisconsin?  Turns out…no. Today, Wisconsin’s Workforce Development Agency released the results of its quarterly census of jobs:
 
State officials said they show a gain of 23,321 jobs (public and private) between December 2010 and December 2011, which represents Gov. Scott Walker’s first full year in office.
 
That stands in sharp contrast to a commonly used and widely reported monthly jobs measure, the Current Employment Survey, which earlier this year showed an estimated loss of 33,900 jobs in Wisconsin for the same 12-month period.
 
The Department of Labor number, showing a job loss, was based on a survey of employers in the state. Their survey drew from a sample of 3.5% of employers in Wisconsin. The state’s quarterly census, however, is based on detailed data from every employer in the state. Every state compiles this census data and sends it to the federal Department of Labor, who use the data to adjust their own estimates and surveys.
 
So, who you going to believe? The numbers or someone’s guess at the numbers?

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