Kellogg drops Rice Krispies immune system claims

Cereal maker Kellogg Co. has agreed to drop advertising claims that Rice Krispies will strengthen children's immune systems.

In an advertising campaign that began in about July 2009, Kellogg began advertising on cereal boxes that Rice Krispies "now helps support your child's immunity."

The Federal Trade Commission said the company had agreed in February 2009 to stop claiming that its Frosted Mini Wheats were "clinically shown to improve kids' attentiveness by nearly 20 percent."

We have always said that you could get about as much nutrition by eating the box as eating Rice Krispies. The same could probably said for flavor.

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Bike racer slams face in security barrier

A rider crashes face first into a security barrier during the Red Bull Road Rage bike downhill race in Sigulda, Latvia.

Joran van der Sloot confessed to murder in Peru

US rocket sparks UFO frenzy in Australia

Photo shows the SpaceX's Falcon 9 blasting off on its maiden voyage.

The sight of rocket above Australia caused quite a stir as many people thought it was a UFO.

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Gulf oil leak reality check

90 second video from ABC News

Gulf oil spill disaster is affecting more than just ducks, egrets and pelicans

Bernie Madoff a big man in the big house

Prisoner Bernie Madoff revels in his celebrity status.

Student sleeps during Obama commencement speech

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Maybe the student was hypnotized as Obama turned back and forth between his right and left teleprompter.

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A good time to read the owners manual

Helen Thomas video documenting her anti-Semitism

Helen Thomas (pictured) has two passions. First, her political leanings are fervently anti-conservative. Second, she is just as fervently anti-Semetic.

Her first passion made her the darling of the leftist Washington press corps. They cheered her on when she asked the Bush White House questions like, “because of your failed policies in Iraq, why do you still….. etc. etc.?

Her second passion forced her into retirement at age 89.

She occupied a coveted front row seat in the White House briefing room even though she shouldn’t have had a seat in the room at all. Seats in the briefing room are reserved for reporters and correspondents - not part-time columnists.

The video below is the “shot heard round the world” and documented once and for all her out-spoken anti-Semitism.

Gulf spill response rated worse than Katrina

Did the Rockies save A. J. Hinch’s job?

The Colorado Rockies may have saved the jobs of A. J. Hinch and his staff after losing the last series with to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The photo shows manager A. J. Hinch of the Arizona Diamondbacks talking with umpire Casey Moser.

By winning the three-game series 2-1, the Diamonbacks snapped a 10-game losing streak (a major league record).

Ten-game losing streaks get managers fired and you can bet the futures of Diamondback manager A. J. Hinch and his staff were shaky at best.

Then the Colorado Rockies came to town with their reputation of “playing down to the level of their competition” and sure enough Hinch and his staff pulled off a series win saving their hides - for now.

The Rockies managed to eke out a one-run win in the final game of the series but only because they used the pitcher with the best stats in the majors this year.

Ubaldo Jimenez got his 11th win of the season despite ending his scoreless innings streak at 33. Jimenez earned run average is a a measly .93 - best in the majors.

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Obama returned to the gulf last Friday

In the last two weeks Obama visited the region twice, a marked increase in attention publicly paid to the disaster.

Up until last Friday, Obama seemed disinterested even though he kept saying the government was in charge.

Now the administration feels the heat that Mr. Obama has not been as involved as he should be in managing the disaster hence the gulf trip last Friday.

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Don’t cry for participants in baseball’s spoiled perfect game

The story of a bad call (shown above) by baseball umpire Jim Joyce (on left below) robbing Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga (on right) of a perfect game has been reported over and over ad nauseam.

It’s time to get over it.

Don’t criticize the refusal of Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig for not reversing the call even though camera evidence clearly showed the runner was out and umpire Jim Joyce admitted the call was a mistake.

And don’t cry for the participants.

Jim Joyce will live with his bad call for the rest of his umpiring career. He will forever be known as the umpire who ruined a perfect game.

If Bud Selig would have reversed the call, Armando Galarraga would always be known as the pitcher with the “perfect game - followed by an asterisk.”

Besides, their joint celebrity may be good for both of them.

They may end up like Bobby Thompson and Ralph Branca after the 1951 game when Thompson of the New York Giants hit a home run off Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Branca. The home run put the Giants in the World Series.

It was an historic event. Later Thompson and Branca made appearances together at collectibles shows, and sold jointly autographed baseballs.

Why WH bribed Romanoff to end Senate race

In spite of the expected denials from the White House, we now know that Barack Obama's deputy chief of staff called Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in September 2009 to offer him one of three enumerated jobs if only he would drop out of the Democratic Senate primary.

Romanoff would have faced Senator Michael Bennet (pictured) who was appointed to fill the seat vacated when Ken Salazar was given the Secretary of the Interior cabinet post.

The question is why was Romanoff bribed.

In the case of the Spector-Sestak bribe, the answer is obvious: The Obama administration wanted the Pennsylvania senator to switch parties so that they would have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

To persuade him to switch, the White House had to do its utmost to clear the field and assure him a safe path to the Senate nomination in his new political party.

The case of Michael Bennet in Colorado was different.

Having never been elected to a statewide position, he lacked a political base and was never a particularly strong candidate. He only got the Senate seat as an appointment to fill the seat vacated by Salazar.

So why was the Obama administration trying to clear the field for Bennet and assure him of the nomination? It was the passage of ObamaCare.

Bennet had been wavering on backing ObamaCare until soon after Romanoff was offered a job to drop out of the race.

It’s not only unethical, it’s illegal to bribe political candidates.

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NHL team needs help flushing toilets in new arena

The Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team wants to find 250 students to help with an important task and there's only one major requirement: they must know how to flush a toilet.

Construction is near completion on the NHL team’s new arena, the Consol Energy Center. But like with any new arena or stadium, officials need to simultaneously flush all the toilets and urinals to make sure everything is working.

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The latest gulf beachwear

Video: Joran van der Sloot shown with murdered Peruvian girl

This ABC video shows the last seen photos of Stephany Flores before her death.

Joran van der Sloot is suspected in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30 and the prime suspect in the disappearance of Atlanta honor student Natalie Hollaway in 2005.


The photo above shows Joran van der Sloot with Chile police officers.

Van der Sloot now faces charges in Alabama of trying to extort $250,000 in return for revealing the location of Natalee Holloway's body and details about how she died.

He was arrested twice in her disappearance and released both times for lack of evidence.

Brits are snickering at Hillary's gaffe on Queen’s Birthday

Hillary Clinton has been left red faced after mistakenly sending a birthday message to the Queen a week early.

An official statement from the US foreign policy chief paid tribute to the "Queen’s life and legacy,” despite the fact that the Monarch does not celebrate her official birthday until next weekend.

A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton attempted to make light of the gaffe.

"We were a week early," Philip Crowley joked to reporters in Washington. "It’s is better to give a greeting a week early than a week late.”

No mention if Obama sent along another iPod full of his speeches as a gift to the Queen.

This, after the Obama gift of movies in the wrong format to Gordon Brown and Michelle Obama putting her arm around the Queen (touching the Queen is an unthinkable etiquette breech), surely must have the British thinking how utterly unrefined the American leadership must be!

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Off-shore oil move on-shore