actually spent time on the ground will tell you that that's simply not the case and that includes tim lynchfounder of free range international the new secretary of defense leon panetta has been making his rounds warning of imminent doom if the super committee fails and a trigger mechanism would kick in to slash defense spending and it's not that bringing spending back to two thousand and seven levels with by any means put our country in more danger it just might limit the role the u.s. could play around the world and so we have to ask what is that role that we want to play let's look pacifically at afghanistan where this week president hamid karzai has called a lawyer jirga together made up of two thousand afghan leaders to discuss the future of relations with the u.s. as well as to go she actions with the taliban karzai is trying to get the u.s. to keep troops and military trainers in the country for ten years past the two thousand and fourteen deadline as well as getting help financing the afghan security forces of course all this in exchange for full respect of afghan sovereignty and to

lynch would drive his way for a touchdown. yes, the former buffalo bill. his mom gives him skittles when he scores a touchdown. should the fans show respect by throwing them at him? timay be a surging football star but also making his mark on the english language. the global language monitoring says tebow-ing should be a word. this posedd -- pose by the broncos quarterback is known as tebowing, since then, it's spread in every word and he could be part of our vernacular. >> how cool is that? >> tebowing perhaps in the dictionary. >> danny wurfell will be here a little bit later. >> meanwhile, san francisco upped their minimum wage to a whopping $10.24 an hour. sounds like a good idea and a good deal for workers, right? stuart varney says -- >> probably not. this is not a reason to stand up and cheer. $10.24 is the new minimum wage in the city of san francisco. it's almost $3 higher than the federal minimum wage. you have to add on an extra charge for health care special to san francisco. an extra 1 1/2% payroll tax special to san francisco. higher social security taxes because of the higher minimum wage and nine guaranteed fully paid sick days for every worker in san