The state seems poised to pass Texas-style restrictions that will likely shutter clinics, opponents say
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Louisiana House passes sweeping abortion restrictions in the name of women’s “safety”
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Louisiana House passes sweeping abortion restrictions in the name of women’s “safety”
Louisiana House passes sweeping abortion restrictions in the name of women’s “safety”
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Fifty Ways to Name Your Gender
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Name That Position
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Saturday, November 2, 2013
Pakistani Taliban name new leader
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Monday, October 14, 2013
Rep. Peter King fires Republican Cruz missile, says time to ‘go after’ Ted Cruz ‘by name’
Tom Howell Jr.
Washington Times
Oct. 14, 2013
Republican Congressman Peter King said Monday it is time to take the gloves off and call out members of his own party by name, after a failed strategy to defund Obamacare appeared to diminish the GOP’s reputation in recent polls.
Mr. King, of New York, said he’s not going to take it anymore and will freely criticize freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, who led the drive to scrap the health care law as a precondition for a spending deal ahead of Oct. 1.
“Ted Cruz and 30 or 40 people in the House. We have to start going after him by name. … It’s really time to speak out against him,” Mr. King told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
This article was posted: Monday, October 14, 2013 at 9:20 am
Tags: economics, financial, government corruption, healthcare, legislation, money
Rep. Peter King fires Republican Cruz missile, says time to ‘go after’ Ted Cruz ‘by name’
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Warning: Enrolling in Obamacare allows government to link your IP address with your name, social security number, bank accounts and web surfing habits
(NaturalNews) We have already established that Healthcare.gov is not a functioning database application that allows people to shop for competing health plans. It is actually a government-run Trojan Horse that suckers people into creating accounts where they hand over:
• Name and address
• Email address and password
• Social security number
• Private bank account details
• Employer details and other information
During the enrollment process, your computer also hands over your IP address which is then tied to your social security number.
This IP address is then handed over to the NSA thanks to its new mega-black-hole data center in Utah, where your IP is cross-referenced with all website visits, including:
• “Anti-government” websites
• Porn sites
• Gambling sites
• File sharing sites
• “Terrorism” support sites
• Encryption service sites like Hushmail
• Chat rooms, message boards and more
Armed with this information, the NSA can then link your seemingly-anonymous online chats, comments and posts with your social security number. Linguistic algorithms can “score” your online posts to create red flags that call for additional investigations of anyone using words like “liberty” or “patriot.”
This information can then be turned over to law enforcement, as is found in the fine print of the Maryland Obamacare exchange, which states:
…we may share information provided in your application with the appropriate authorities for law enforcement and audit activities.
Thus, by enrolling in Obamacare, you are voluntarily surveilling yourself and handing over the data to the government while also AGREEING to terms of self-incrimination.
Ponder the implications of this for a moment…
Obamacare is the meta-level con of tricking Americans into thinking they’re signing up for free health insurance when, in reality, the website primarily exists to scrape personal financial details, passwords, emails and social security numbers from Americans who will later be targeted by the government itself.
All the emails registered with Healthcare.gov, for example, will likely be used by the Obama administration to spam people with political propaganda or contrived “terror alerts” that use fear to concentrate more power in the hands of government.
All the financial data will be turned over to the IRS for criminal investigations of Americans who are suspected of under-reporting their incomes (or supporting “patriot” groups with financial donations).
All the passwords used on Healthcare.gov will be turned over to the NSA and matched up with individual IP addresses so that NSA operatives can hack into private bank accounts, encrypted email accounts and other private data, based on the assumption that most users use identical passwords across all the websites they commonly access. (A person’s password under Obamacare probably has a 50% chance of also working for their online banking. And since the NSA has your social security number, it’s a no-brainer to match up your online surfing habits with your phone number, home address, investment holdings, tax returns, international travel history and so on.)
In essence, Obamacare allows the government to gather a goldmine of private data that can be exploited to target, punish, incriminate, blackmail or steal from any desired target.
As this is a federal government that believes it now has total power to do anything it wants without limit, there are no boundaries of what it might do with this data. Remember, Obama is the president who literally maintains “kill lists” of Americans to have terminated. This is openly admitted and confirmed. The Obama administration also believes it can bypass Congress and simply create new law by executive order, concentrating all power into its own hands with no regard for the separation of power upon which this nation was founded.
As is common with tyrants, the Obama administration truly believes the People have no right to privacy, no right to due process, no right to representation in government and no right to determine your own engagement in commerce. This is why Obama is playing such hardball to shove Obamacare down everybody’s throats: the government desperately needs to gather all this surveillance data so that it can leverage it to blackmail members of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Senate, the House, and even federal judges. Blackmail is essential to maintaining power in a corrupt society. And Healthcare.gov is the portal for scraping passwords, IP addresses and even financial details from anyone gullible enough to actually hand this over to government (i.e. democrats).
As far as I’m concerned, the IRS can fine me all they want. I’m never voluntarily enrolling in Obamacare, even if you put a gun to my head like Obama is doing to the entire nation right now with this insane, contrived government shutdown that treats our own veterans like dirt.
All dignity is now gone from the Obama administration. Zero credibility remains. The government has all but openly declared war on the People and is actively using tricks like Healthcare.gov to coerce people into incriminating themselves. The Obama administration is out of control and a grave danger to society. It must be lawfully stopped from damaging America any further.
Now is the time to seriously discuss impeachment, not just of the President but of every U.S. Senator and House member who voted for this unconstitutional, “Trojan Horse” health care system that’s destroying America’s economy and wasting an unprecedented amount of time, money and effort. End Obamacare now and restore dignity and justice to America.
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Warning: Enrolling in Obamacare allows government to link your IP address with your name, social security number, bank accounts and web surfing habits
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Obama Open To Redskins Name Change
ESPN
October 5, 2013
President Barack Obama says if he owned the Redskins, he would think about changing the team’s name, which many people deem offensive to Native Americans.
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Intolerance In Matthew Shepherd’s Name: How Lies Become Laws
It will be fascinating to see how people react to a new book by an award-winning gay journalist exposing the truth about the 1998 death of homosexual Matthew Shepherd.
Just as a backdrop of lies brought us legalized abortion in 1973 through Roe v. Wade, it now appears that more lies were used to help homosexual activists kick the bullying industry into hyper-drive via the tragic death of Matthew Shepherd.
Facts about the Shepherd case were wrongfully reported and widely accepted as truth.
Much has been accomplished for leftists and homosexual activists in the name of tolerance, including the implementation of anti-bullying curriculums in public schools, most of which discriminate against Christians. Songs have been written and dedicated to Matthew Shepherd by Elton John, Melissa Etheridge, Lady Gaga, and others. Films have been made about his death, and a dedication play called “The Laramie Project” has been performed over 2,000 times worldwide.
In 2009, President Obama signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a federal law against gay hate crimes that was named after Matthew Shepherd. The new details of the Shepherd case won’t sit well with our pro-homosexual government.
What really happened?
Matthew Shepherd accepted a ride from two men, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, in October 1998. They pistol-whipped him, robbed him, tied him to a fence, and left. The incident became a famous ‘hate’ crime because the motives were made up by opportunistic activists, and the media ran with the ‘vicious homophobes’ narrative even before Shepherd died!
This new bombshell book by Stephen Jimenez, The Book of Matt, was written after he personally interviewed hundreds of people (including the two murderers), concluding that the case had more to do with drugs than Shepherd’s sexuality.
It turns out Shepard was a regular crystal meth user and a meth dealer; and his killer, McKinney, had been on a meth bender. Inconvenient facts were ignored, and America’s most famous hate crime was not a hate crime after all.
Gay journalist Aaron Hicklin asked this question in his article in The Advocate:
And how does it color our understanding of such a crime if the perpetrator and victim not only knew each other but also had [homosexual] sex together, bought drugs from one another, and partied together?
Someone recently said, “Only a weak cause which is not confident of its own righteousness needs to lie to prove its point.” What difference does it make today when the damage has already been done in the courts of public opinion?
This goes beyond lies to advancing an aggressive agenda.
Let’s recall a shocking, disturbing murder committed by homosexuals – an actual hate crime few have heard about.
A complicit national media fanned the flames of false homophobia in the Shepherd case. The following is an excerpt from a chapter entitled, “Normalizing Homosexuality” in the book – ERADICATE: BLOTTING OUT GOD IN AMERICA.
In Prairie Grove, Arkansas, thirteen-year-old Jesse (Yates) Dirkhising was killed by two homosexual men [in 1999]. Jesse was bound and drugged, tortured, raped, and he died due to a combination of the drugs and the position in which he was tied down. The Washington Times was the only national media outlet to report the story at first.
…the Matthew Shepard case received massive, ongoing national media attention because Shepard, the victim, was a homosexual. While both victims died as the result of assaults by two men, Dirkhising was a minor while Shepard was an adult. No protections have been issued or written on behalf of minors, but severe hate crimes legislations have been passed and implemented to protect homosexuals. Gays (it’s an unwritten rule) cannot be portrayed as villains by the media even if they were convicted of rape, torture, and murder.
The Washington Times story was headlined, “Media tune out torture death of Arkansas boy.” Tim Graham, director of media studies at the Media Research Center said that no one in the media wants to be on the wrong side of the issue by saying anything negative about homosexuals. The LexisNexis Group provides computer-assisted research services and revealed a drastic contrast in the two cases in a media search.
One month after each murder, there were 3,007 stories about Matthew Shepard’s death compared with only forty-six stories about Jesse Dirkhising’s death.
The deception and duplicity of this double standard is glaring.
How should Christians respond when some claim we’re being hateful, bigoted, or intolerant by simply talking about our faith? Pray for them because for those who have not placed their faith in the only Truth, Jesus Christ, this life is all there is.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 features a laundry list of sins describing those who will not inherit God’s kingdom. We must all appear before a holy, all-powerful God on Judgment Day; and we should be most concerned with our own standing with God before looking at others.
We also need to avoid extremes. One extreme is the ‘God hates fags’ crowd, who treat homosexual behavior as the unforgivable sin. It is not. The other extreme is being silent, accepting or even approving of the destructive lifestyle of homosexuality mainly because we fear opposition. Don’t be intimidated.
Bullying is bullying, no matter who is doing it! Hey activists: name calling and stereotyping people that stand for what they believe is exactly what you don’t want done to you. The right of free speech should work both ways.
Hate crime and bullying propaganda has been used to advance their agenda temporarily, but God will have the final say.
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Intolerance In Matthew Shepherd’s Name: How Lies Become Laws
Monday, August 5, 2013
The Name of Obama"s Game Is Blame
By traditional standards, the 2012 presidential election should have hinged on who offered the best ideas for dealing with the nation’s high unemployment and tepid economic growth – with most of the attention on the incumbent’s fiscal stewardship.
It didn’t work out that way.
Instead, President Obama and his team ran a relentlessly negative campaign, with the news media, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, going along for the ride. When Democrats did deign to discuss the economy, they essentially claimed Paul Ryan would roll your grandmother off a cliff in her wheelchair – and that Mitt Romney was such an unfeeling 1-percenter when he was in the private sector that his policies actually killed people.
It was a disheartening performance, not that the Republican challenger really noticed. Romney was so convinced Americans lacked faith in Obamanomics that he was content to offer repetitive and simplistic solutions – I’ll will cut taxes and regulation, Romney vowed – while, by his own admission, writing off 47 percent of the electorate.
As this uninspiring campaign unfolded, the thought occurred to the dispassionate observer that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shared a secret concerning the U.S economy: They didn’t really know why it was ailing, or have a clue how to revive it. But they figured it would come back on its own – good times, as well as bad, being cyclical – and they just wanted to be in the Oval Office when the recovery arrived.
In that eventuality, each man could take credit for the rebound. Romney would have said that the budget sequester was a winner, relaxation of federal regulations had worked their magic, and lowering business taxes was proving to be a boon. For his part, Obama could be expected to say – and has, on occasion, already said – that the Democrats’ 2009 stimulus worked, raising the taxes on high-income earners was paying off, and Obamacare was a winner.
But now, halfway through the fifth year of his presidency, it has dawned on Obama that his eight years in office might be characterized by a different picture – by 23 million able-bodied adults who can’t find full-time employment, stagnant wages for those who can, a doubling of gasoline prices for everyone, 50 million Americans on food stamps, and budget deficits so unthinkably large that the federal debt is now a national security problem.
But who should he blame? Oh, that’s the easy part.
“With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball,” the president said recently in the first of a series of campaign-style speeches. “Over the last six months, this gridlock has gotten worse. I didn’t think that was possible.”
Leaving aside the curious claim that widespread IRS abuses and administration untruths about the tragedy in Benghazi are illegitimate areas of inquiry, blaming “Washington” is not just a reflexive response by a politician with declining job approval ratings. It’s part of an orchestrated attempt by the president and his image makers to evade accountability for the results of his governance.
Make no mistake, when Obama says “Washington,” he doesn’t mean himself, and he doesn’t mean his fellow Democrats, even though they controlled both houses of Congress during his first two years in the White House. He means Republicans, Tea Party activists, fiscal conservatives and, of course, the Bush-era economy he inherited 5 1/2 years ago.
That “gridlock” he so despises? Another term for that is divided government, which is what Americans gave themselves in 2010 when they turned 63 Democratic House seats Republican, giving control of the gavel to John Boehner instead of Nancy Pelosi. Obama and his minions take no responsibility for that, either.
In their telling, they’ve been passive bystanders – or outright victims – as the Grand Old Party allowed itself to be taken over by elements who don’t want any Democratic president to succeed – especially this one. Obama implies on occasion that’s because he’s African American, something some of his allies say outright. On other occasions, he says it’s because the Republican Party has moved so far to the right that Ronald Reagan couldn’t be nominated today.
But this is a president not content to lament the diminishment of the political center. Instead, he routinely questions the patriotism of the opposition party. Obama has said, many times, that Republicans are willing to sabotage the U.S. economy – presumably by resisting his spending proposals – in order to win elections.
He updated the approach in a recent interview with the New York Times after being asked if his presidency will be remembered as one that ushered in the “new normal” of high unemployment and growing income inequality.
“I think if I’m arguing for entirely different policies, and Congress ends up pursuing policies that I think don’t make sense, and we get a bad result,” he replied, “it’s hard to argue that’d be my legacy.”
Asked in the same interview about the legality of his unilateral decision to delay implementation of Obamacare’s employer mandate – his own signature political achievement – Obama responded this way:
“If Congress thinks that what I’ve done is inappropriate or wrong in some fashion, they’re free to make that case. But there’s not an action that I take that you don’t have some folks in Congress who say that I’m usurping my authority. Some of those folks think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency.”
Get that? If you question the president’s constitutional authority to refuse to abide by a statute he signed into law himself, you are a birther.
That might be news to some of those who first raised this issue, including Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat who was voting to expand federal health care benefits when Barack Obama was in high school. But Harkin is collateral damage. So are the White House correspondents who recently asked presidential press secretary Jay Carney about the legality of the delay only to be told they are part of the Republican efforts “to undermine” the president.
One supposes that his current series of campaign-style speeches is the curtain-raiser for the 2014 midterm elections, in which the president will tell his fellow Americans that if they’d only send more Democrats to Washington, he could get Congress working again.
At least, I hope that’s his goal. It would be more reassuring than thinking that we have a president who plans to spend four years positioning himself for a place in posterity that he basically sums up like this: “I tried, but Republicans in Congress were too mean to me.”
The Name of Obama"s Game Is Blame
The Name of Obama"s Game Is Blame
By traditional standards, the 2012 presidential election should have hinged on who offered the best ideas for dealing with the nation’s high unemployment and tepid economic growth – with most of the attention on the incumbent’s fiscal stewardship.
It didn’t work out that way.
Instead, President Obama and his team ran a relentlessly negative campaign, with the news media, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, going along for the ride. When Democrats did deign to discuss the economy, they essentially claimed Paul Ryan would roll your grandmother off a cliff in her wheelchair – and that Mitt Romney was such an unfeeling 1-percenter when he was in the private sector that his policies actually killed people.
It was a disheartening performance, not that the Republican challenger really noticed. Romney was so convinced Americans lacked faith in Obamanomics that he was content to offer repetitive and simplistic solutions – I’ll will cut taxes and regulation, Romney vowed – while, by his own admission, writing off 47 percent of the electorate.
As this uninspiring campaign unfolded, the thought occurred to the dispassionate observer that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shared a secret concerning the U.S economy: They didn’t really know why it was ailing, or have a clue how to revive it. But they figured it would come back on its own – good times, as well as bad, being cyclical – and they just wanted to be in the Oval Office when the recovery arrived.
In that eventuality, each man could take credit for the rebound. Romney would have said that the budget sequester was a winner, relaxation of federal regulations had worked their magic, and lowering business taxes was proving to be a boon. For his part, Obama could be expected to say – and has, on occasion, already said – that the Democrats’ 2009 stimulus worked, raising the taxes on high-income earners was paying off, and Obamacare was a winner.
But now, halfway through the fifth year of his presidency, it has dawned on Obama that his eight years in office might be characterized by a different picture – by 23 million able-bodied adults who can’t find full-time employment, stagnant wages for those who can, a doubling of gasoline prices for everyone, 50 million Americans on food stamps, and budget deficits so unthinkably large that the federal debt is now a national security problem.
But who should he blame? Oh, that’s the easy part.
“With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball,” the president said recently in the first of a series of campaign-style speeches. “Over the last six months, this gridlock has gotten worse. I didn’t think that was possible.”
Leaving aside the curious claim that widespread IRS abuses and administration untruths about the tragedy in Benghazi are illegitimate areas of inquiry, blaming “Washington” is not just a reflexive response by a politician with declining job approval ratings. It’s part of an orchestrated attempt by the president and his image makers to evade accountability for the results of his governance.
Make no mistake, when Obama says “Washington,” he doesn’t mean himself, and he doesn’t mean his fellow Democrats, even though they controlled both houses of Congress during his first two years in the White House. He means Republicans, Tea Party activists, fiscal conservatives and, of course, the Bush-era economy he inherited 5 1/2 years ago.
That “gridlock” he so despises? Another term for that is divided government, which is what Americans gave themselves in 2010 when they turned 63 Democratic House seats Republican, giving control of the gavel to John Boehner instead of Nancy Pelosi. Obama and his minions take no responsibility for that, either.
In their telling, they’ve been passive bystanders – or outright victims – as the Grand Old Party allowed itself to be taken over by elements who don’t want any Democratic president to succeed – especially this one. Obama implies on occasion that’s because he’s African American, something some of his allies say outright. On other occasions, he says it’s because the Republican Party has moved so far to the right that Ronald Reagan couldn’t be nominated today.
But this is a president not content to lament the diminishment of the political center. Instead, he routinely questions the patriotism of the opposition party. Obama has said, many times, that Republicans are willing to sabotage the U.S. economy – presumably by resisting his spending proposals – in order to win elections.
He updated the approach in a recent interview with the New York Times after being asked if his presidency will be remembered as one that ushered in the “new normal” of high unemployment and growing income inequality.
“I think if I’m arguing for entirely different policies, and Congress ends up pursuing policies that I think don’t make sense, and we get a bad result,” he replied, “it’s hard to argue that’d be my legacy.”
Asked in the same interview about the legality of his unilateral decision to delay implementation of Obamacare’s employer mandate – his own signature political achievement – Obama responded this way:
“If Congress thinks that what I’ve done is inappropriate or wrong in some fashion, they’re free to make that case. But there’s not an action that I take that you don’t have some folks in Congress who say that I’m usurping my authority. Some of those folks think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency.”
Get that? If you question the president’s constitutional authority to refuse to abide by a statute he signed into law himself, you are a birther.
That might be news to some of those who first raised this issue, including Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat who was voting to expand federal health care benefits when Barack Obama was in high school. But Harkin is collateral damage. So are the White House correspondents who recently asked presidential press secretary Jay Carney about the legality of the delay only to be told they are part of the Republican efforts “to undermine” the president.
One supposes that his current series of campaign-style speeches is the curtain-raiser for the 2014 midterm elections, in which the president will tell his fellow Americans that if they’d only send more Democrats to Washington, he could get Congress working again.
At least, I hope that’s his goal. It would be more reassuring than thinking that we have a president who plans to spend four years positioning himself for a place in posterity that he basically sums up like this: “I tried, but Republicans in Congress were too mean to me.”
The Name of Obama"s Game Is Blame
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
First day at home for royal baby -- but wait for name goes on
- Prince William, Catherine and the baby are at their home at Kensington Palace
- The couple has not yet announced a name for their son, now third-in-line to the throne
- The family left the hospital Tuesday, a day after the prince was born
- Catherine: “It’s such a special time.” Says William, “He’s got her looks, thankfully”
London (CNN) — Prince William, his wife Catherine and the royal baby start their first full day at home together Wednesday, after giving the world its first glimpse of the future king as they left the hospital.
The family’s emergence Tuesday evening from the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital marked the end of a long wait for the throngs of journalists camped outside.
There’s just one detail left to wait for now — the little prince’s name.
He and his wife are “still working on a name,” William said on the hospital steps, “so we’ll have that as soon as we can — it’s the first time we’ve seen him really, so we’re having a proper chance to catch up.”
He said the baby has a “good pair of lungs,” and added, “He’s got her looks, thankfully.”
Catherine and William took turns holding the child, wrapped in a cream-colored blanket, as they waved to well-wishers. The prince has already changed his first diaper, the couple told reporters.
“It’s very emotional. It’s such a special time,” Catherine said.
The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy was born Monday afternoon. He’s third in line, behind Charles and William, for the British throne now held by his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
On their way out, they walked out down the same hospital steps where Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles gave the world its first look at Prince William 31 years ago.
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William installed the new royal heir in a car seat in the back of a black SUV, then got behind the wheel for the trip to their residence at Kensington Palace, in London.
It’s not clear how long the new family will spend at Kensington Palace, which was William’s boyhood home.
They may decide to relocate after a few days to the home of Catherine’s parents in the village of Bucklebury, in Berkshire.
The grand apartment they will eventually move into within the palace, Apartment 1A, is still being refurbished, so William and Catherine have been living in a small cottage in the grounds.
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The late Diana, Princess of Wales, moved into Kensington Palace on her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981 and brought up William and his brother Harry there. When she died in 1997, streams of mourners laid flowers and tributes outside its gates.
‘Absolutely beautiful’
Tuesday, London echoed with the sound of cannon fire and peals of bells to mark the birth.
Many bets are being placed as the wait continues for the baby’s name to be announced. British bookmakers Ladbrokes have George and James as favorites Wednesday, followed by Alexander, Arthur, Louis and Henry.
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William’s name was announced a few days after birth; his brother Harry’s on leaving the hospital.
Shortly before the new baby’s departure from St. Mary’s, Prince Charles stopped by for a brief visit with his first grandchild, accompanied by his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. He told reporters it was “marvelous.”
And Catherine’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, visited earlier, with Carole Middleton telling reporters the royal baby is “absolutely beautiful.”
She said both mother and baby are doing “really well” and that she and her husband were “so thrilled” at being grandparents.
“It was so exciting. It was fantastic,” said Eliza Wells, one of the well-wishers gathered outside the hospital. “The crowd erupted, because everyone’s been waiting so long for it.”
William and Catherine “both seemed very relaxed, even with the press there and the crowd,” Wells said. “They just seemed like a normal couple.”
A normal life?
Royal commentators say the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will try to give their son as regular an upbringing as possible.
But the intense media interest in the birth of the new prince highlights the challenge his parents face in trying to protect his privacy and maintain a degree of normalcy.
“This baby has two things stopping it from being normal,” historian Kate Williams said. “Number one, it lives in a life of incredible wealth and privilege … number two, it is an incredible celebrity, and we’ve seen this with the coverage.”
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But Prince William loved that his mother tried to give him as normal a childhood as possible, including trips to the cinema and an amusement park, and sending him to a local private school as a boy — “and that’s what he wants for little baby Cambridge.”
Although the excitement over his birth is not universal, there’s no doubting the level of global interest in the prince.
On Monday, there were more than 19 million Facebook interactions related to the royal baby, Facebook said. His birth also took Twitter by storm.
As well as ruling the United Kingdom, the boy could one day be king of 15 other Commonwealth countries which have the British monarch as head of state, if none changes their constitution in the meantime.
They include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Belize and Jamaica.
CNN’s Matthew Chance contributed to this report.
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First day at home for royal baby -- but wait for name goes on
First day at home for royal baby -- but wait for name goes on
- Prince William, Catherine and the baby are at their home at Kensington Palace
- The couple has not yet announced a name for their son, now third-in-line to the throne
- The family left the hospital Tuesday, a day after the prince was born
- Catherine: “It’s such a special time.” Says William, “He’s got her looks, thankfully”
London (CNN) — Prince William, his wife Catherine and the royal baby start their first full day at home together Wednesday, after giving the world its first glimpse of the future king as they left the hospital.
The family’s emergence Tuesday evening from the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital marked the end of a long wait for the throngs of journalists camped outside.
There’s just one detail left to wait for now — the little prince’s name.
He and his wife are “still working on a name,” William said on the hospital steps, “so we’ll have that as soon as we can — it’s the first time we’ve seen him really, so we’re having a proper chance to catch up.”
He said the baby has a “good pair of lungs,” and added, “He’s got her looks, thankfully.”
Catherine and William took turns holding the child, wrapped in a cream-colored blanket, as they waved to well-wishers. The prince has already changed his first diaper, the couple told reporters.
“It’s very emotional. It’s such a special time,” Catherine said.
The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy was born Monday afternoon. He’s third in line, behind Charles and William, for the British throne now held by his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
On their way out, they walked out down the same hospital steps where Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles gave the world its first look at Prince William 31 years ago.
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William installed the new royal heir in a car seat in the back of a black SUV, then got behind the wheel for the trip to their residence at Kensington Palace, in London.
It’s not clear how long the new family will spend at Kensington Palace, which was William’s boyhood home.
They may decide to relocate after a few days to the home of Catherine’s parents in the village of Bucklebury, in Berkshire.
The grand apartment they will eventually move into within the palace, Apartment 1A, is still being refurbished, so William and Catherine have been living in a small cottage in the grounds.
Interactive: World reacts to royal baby news
The late Diana, Princess of Wales, moved into Kensington Palace on her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981 and brought up William and his brother Harry there. When she died in 1997, streams of mourners laid flowers and tributes outside its gates.
‘Absolutely beautiful’
Tuesday, London echoed with the sound of cannon fire and peals of bells to mark the birth.
Many bets are being placed as the wait continues for the baby’s name to be announced. British bookmakers Ladbrokes have George and James as favorites Wednesday, followed by Alexander, Arthur, Louis and Henry.
Queen Ella? King Terry? What’s in a royal name?
William’s name was announced a few days after birth; his brother Harry’s on leaving the hospital.
Shortly before the new baby’s departure from St. Mary’s, Prince Charles stopped by for a brief visit with his first grandchild, accompanied by his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. He told reporters it was “marvelous.”
And Catherine’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, visited earlier, with Carole Middleton telling reporters the royal baby is “absolutely beautiful.”
She said both mother and baby are doing “really well” and that she and her husband were “so thrilled” at being grandparents.
“It was so exciting. It was fantastic,” said Eliza Wells, one of the well-wishers gathered outside the hospital. “The crowd erupted, because everyone’s been waiting so long for it.”
William and Catherine “both seemed very relaxed, even with the press there and the crowd,” Wells said. “They just seemed like a normal couple.”
A normal life?
Royal commentators say the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will try to give their son as regular an upbringing as possible.
But the intense media interest in the birth of the new prince highlights the challenge his parents face in trying to protect his privacy and maintain a degree of normalcy.
“This baby has two things stopping it from being normal,” historian Kate Williams said. “Number one, it lives in a life of incredible wealth and privilege … number two, it is an incredible celebrity, and we’ve seen this with the coverage.”
Opinion: Why I wouldn’t want to be royal baby
But Prince William loved that his mother tried to give him as normal a childhood as possible, including trips to the cinema and an amusement park, and sending him to a local private school as a boy — “and that’s what he wants for little baby Cambridge.”
Although the excitement over his birth is not universal, there’s no doubting the level of global interest in the prince.
On Monday, there were more than 19 million Facebook interactions related to the royal baby, Facebook said. His birth also took Twitter by storm.
As well as ruling the United Kingdom, the boy could one day be king of 15 other Commonwealth countries which have the British monarch as head of state, if none changes their constitution in the meantime.
They include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Belize and Jamaica.
CNN’s Matthew Chance contributed to this report.
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First day at home for royal baby -- but wait for name goes on
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Asiana says it will sue TV station after pilot name gaffe
Passengers evacuate the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft after a crash landing at San Francisco International Airport in California July 6, 2013 in this handout photo provided by passenger Eugene Anthony Rah released to Reuters on July 8, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Eugene Anthony Rah/Handout via Reuters
Asiana says it will sue TV station after pilot name gaffe
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