San Diego, California Talk Radio Station - 760 KFMB AM - 760kfmbThe Roger Report for Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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 Roger in WND: China's copycat commiesHistory is full of authoritarian ruling elites justifying their claim to know better how to spend the money you earn and to know better how to live your life than you do.
 'Ay Carrumba' US caves to Pemex to allow drilling in GulfThe agreement also allows U.S. and Mexican safety officials to work together to ensure the projects meet the safety standards of both nations and sets the groundwork for more cooperation to develop uniform safety guidelines for offshore energy development.
The safety agreement is particularly important as Pemex prepares to drill a site near the U.S. maritime border in 9,000 feet of water, nearly twice as deep as the well drilled by the doomed Deepwater Horizon rig in 2010. Officials on both sides of the border have expressed concerns about Pemex's ability to safely handle such a complex project since it has done relatively few deep-water projects compared with operators in U.S. waters and none as deep as 9,000 feet.
It is against federal law for employers to penalize service members because of their military service. And yet, in some cases, the U.S. government has withdrawn job offers to service members unable to get released from active duty fast enough; in others, service members have been fired after absences. In fiscal 2011, more than 18 percent of the 1,548 complaints of violations of that law involved federal agencies, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics. It's an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones. An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, "I a boy" and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press.
 Obama pushes modest American dreamFour years after winning the White House, Obama is dealing with a different economic and political reality as he seeks re-election. He's focused less on a lofty vision for overcoming divisions and remaking Washington, and more on the most basic building blocks of middle-class economic security: a job, a house, a college education for the kids, health care, money for retirement.
 For boomers its work till you dropLike 78 million other U.S. Baby Boomers, Symons and her husband had the misfortune of approaching retirement age at a time when stock market crashes diminished their 401(k) nest eggs, companies began eliminating defined benefit pensions in record numbers and previously unimagined technical advances all but eliminated entire job descriptions from travel agent to telephone operator.
 Biden to 'Road Island?' Republicans oppose a brokered convention
By 66%-29%, the Republicans and Republican-leaning independents surveyed say it would be better if one of the four candidates now running managed to secure enough delegates to clinch the nomination. Most are happy to see their roller-coaster campaign continue: 57% say the battle isn't hurting the party.Meanwhile, President Obama 's standing against two potential Republican rivals has ebbed a bit. Former Massachusetts governor
Mitt Romney leads the president 50%-46% among registered voters, Romney's strongest showing against him to date. Obama edges former Pennsylvania senator
Rick Santorum by a single percentage point, 49%-48%.
 Sheriff's addresses 'gay lover' allegationsThe lawman, who has said that he is gay, was accused on Friday of pressuring a man identified only as "Jose" to keep quiet about their relationship or be booted from the country, according to a Phoenix New Times story. The sheriff admitted that he had a relationship with the man, whom he identified as a former worker on his campaign for the 4th Congressional District.  Adelson may give 100m to Newt or another GOP"Those people are either jealous or professional critics," Adelson tells me during his first interview since he and his wife began funneling $11 million, withanother $10 million injection widely expected, into the former speaker's super PAC, Winning Our Future. "They like to trash other people. It's unfair that I've been treated unfair-but it doesn't stop me. I might give $10 million or $100 million to Gingrich."
 Illegitimacy the new normal?
Now more than half of all births to American women under 30 are born out of wedlock, and the trend in marriage-less birth is becoming an accepted reality of American life.
According to an analysis of government data, conducted by the research group Child Trends and reported by The New York Times, the last 20 years have seen illegitimacy among white women in their 20s with some college - but not a full four year degree - rise more quickly than in other groups.
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