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National Absurdity Day: Our
top picks of the worst

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 11/20/2012 9:09:22 AM Post Reply

Ever since we found out about it yesterday, today is one of our favorite days of the year. That´s because today is National Absurdity Day, a day when as a nation we note some of the most totally, absolutely ridiculous things in our lives. Feel free to scroll down and add your own candidates in Comments below. Gee, where to begin?

Mitt wasn’t all wrong about ‘gifts’

Creators Syndicate, by Patrick J. Buchanan Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 11/20/2012 9:02:13 AM Post Reply

“What the president’s campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote, and that strategy worked.” Thus did political analyst Mitt Romney identify the cause of his defeat in a call to disconsolate contributors. Republicans piled on. “Completely unhelpful,” Gov. Bobby Jindal told Wolf Blitzer. We don’t advance the “debate by insulting folks.” “A terrible thing to say,” Chris Christie told Joe Scarborough. “You can’t expect to be the leader of all the people and be divisive.”

Screen everyone for HIV,
panel says

Des Moines Register, by Liz Szabo and Tony Leys Original Article

Posted By: leesum- 11/20/2012 8:43:29 AM Post Reply

In a broad new expansion of HIV screening, an influential government panel now says everyone ages 15 to 65 should be tested for the virus that causes AIDS. The draft recommendation, issued Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, is far broader than its last recommendation in 2005, which called for screening only those at high risk.

Economic Disintegration
is Almost Here

American Thinker, by Monty Pelerin Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 11/20/2012 8:41:57 AM Post Reply

The disintegration of an economy and a society can take two courses. One course is like rust. It is slow and barely perceptible. The other is a sudden collapse. The first course, if left untended, eventually turns into the second. The US economy is now rusting away. Arguably it has been for decades. For anyone interested in looking, the signs are there. They will soon become unavoidable for even the most disinterested of our citizens. (snip)Here is a partial list of the business reactions to the outcome of the election

‘Outrage’ over fed EBT push
for aliens

Boston Herald, by Dave Wedge Original Article

Posted By: John c- 11/20/2012 8:35:54 AM Post Reply

Local lawmakers are fuming over an Obama administration policy promoting welfare and EBT benefits for immigrants, with a “welcome” package and promotional website that encourage new arrivals to take advantage of the nation’s generous government largesse. “I think it’s a complete outrage that we’re encouraging people coming here to get on public assistance,” said state Rep. Shaunna O’Connell, a Taunton Republican who has fought for EBT reform. “We should be encouraging people to be self-sufficient. These programs are rampant with fraud and abuse.”

In Chicago, a Spirit Rises
Despite Bitter Reviews

Wall Street Journal, by Mark Peters Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/20/2012 8:29:49 AM Post Reply

CHICAGO—For most drinkers, the first taste of Jeppson´s Malört tends to be the last. "I´ve heard everything, from it tastes like earwax to Band-Aids to burnt hair," said Ian Penrose, a bartender at Rocking Horse in the city´s hip Logan Square neighborhood. Taste isn´t the only problem for the 80-year-old, gold-colored spirit made from a Swedish recipe. Jeppson´s Malört can´t be found outside of Chicago and a few suburbs. By the company´s own admission, its Malört is enjoyed by only one out of every 49 drinkers who try it. Even the company´s owner, Pat Gabelick, a 69-year-old retired secretary

Gaza proves Golda right

Israel Hayom, by Ruthie Blum Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/20/2012 8:09:47 AM Post Reply

“Peace will come to the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us,” then Foreign Minister Golda Meir said in 1957, during an address to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Meir, one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948, made her pronouncement long before the Six-Day War, when Israel was nearly annihilated by a host of Arab armies, emerging victorious by the skin of its teeth and the grace of God. This was the war that resulted in the unification of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty,

Geithner: End debt ceiling,
´sooner the better´

CybercastNews Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: mambo 5- 11/20/2012 7:47:30 AM Post Reply

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday that Congress should stop placing legal limits on the amount of money the government can borrow and effectively lift the debt limit to infinity. On Bloomberg TV, “Political Capital” host Al Hunt asked Geithner if he believes “we ought to just eliminate the debt ceiling.” “Oh, absolutely,” Geithner said. ... “It would have been time a long time ago to eliminate it. The sooner the better."

OUR ANNUAL THANKSGIVING RECIPE THREAD

Lucianne.com, by LComStaff Original Article

Posted By: LComStaff- 11/20/2012 7:17:29 AM Post Reply

It doesn´t matter where you found it, if you´ve tried it or just like the way it reads - share a Thanksgiving recipe with us, a cooking tip or cleaning tip or even a joke or two. Turn the oven down and join us.

Richmond Hill explosion
investigated as homicide

Fox 59 News (Indianapolis, IN), by Russ McQuaid Original Article

Posted By: corndoggies- 11/20/2012 7:15:00 AM Post Reply

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Carry has announced that the investigation into the Nov. 10 Richmond Hill explosion that killed two people is now a homicide case. "There´s been a parallel investigation not only focused on the cause but also determining if there are individuals who have been responsible for this explosion and fire."

Murdoch’s Israel Tweet

New York Sun, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/20/2012 7:00:24 AM Post Reply

One day not long before Robert Bartley died, the long-time editor of the Wall Street Journal was honored at a banquet in Manhattan for the newspaper’s courageous support of Israel. The story was told about how Bartley was once asked how he managed to defend Israel with even more verve than some of the Jewish newspapers. “Oh, I had it easy,” Bartley was quoted as replying, “I’m not Jewish.” We thought of Bartley as we read the vitriol being directed at Rupert Murdoch, now the Wall Street Journal’s chairman,

Obama needs a family plan

Los Angeles Times, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/20/2012 6:56:42 AM Post Reply

President Obama has several stated ambitions for his presidency. He wants it to be "transformative." He wants to unite Americans of all parties. He wants to build an economy from the middle class out (whatever that means), and he wants to help what you might call the domestic refugees of America´s economic transformation. Given the principled disagreements dividing left and right in America, it´s hard to see how he can accomplish these goals

U.S. sends warships near Israel
in case evacuation needed

CNN, by Barbara Starr Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/20/2012 6:53:30 AM Post Reply

Three U.S. Navy amphibious warships are returning to the eastern Mediterranean to remain on standby in the event they are needed to assist Americans leaving Israel in the coming days, according to two U.S. officials. The officials stressed an evacuation remains an extremely remote possibility and the Obama administration is not currently planning for one. Americans who wish to leave the region now are able to do so using commercial airlines. But the decision to send the ships even if the event is such a remote contingency underscores the growing concern about

All Eyez on Him

GQ Magazine, by Michael Hainey Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/20/2012 6:50:52 AM Post Reply

Two years ago, Marco Rubio was a little-known baby-faced Florida pol, toiling away in Tallahassee. Then the almighty Tea Party got behind his long-shot bid for the U.S. Senate. Cut to this year. The 42-year-old Cuban-American spent a good chunk of 2012 swatting away speculation that he would join Mitt Romney on the ticket. Yet at the Republican convention, it was Rubio´s optimistic, confident, and centered speech that left many wondering if they should start printing RUBIO ´16 placards right now. I met up with Rubio in the back room of a local community center in Miami´s Little Havana neighborhood.

Enlightened Bribery

American Spectator, by George Neumayr Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 11/20/2012 6:49:15 AM Post Reply

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," said the English writer George Bernard Shaw. Mitt Romney would agree. His post-election analysis of Obama´s success at bribing voters ran along the same lines. "What the president´s campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote," Romney told disappointed donors last week. Desperate to appear piously contrite and malleable in the eyes of voters, Republicans pounced on Romney´s

Welfare State, No Matter what
You Call It, Is Breaking Us

Investor´s Business Daily, by Robert J. Samuelson Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 11/20/2012 6:35:31 AM Post Reply

If you doubt there´s an American welfare state, you should read the new study by demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, whose blizzard of numbers demonstrates otherwise. A welfare state transfers income from some people to other people to improve the recipients´ well-being. In 1935, these transfers were less than 3% of the economy; now they´re almost 20%. That´s $7,200 a year for every American, calculates Eberstadt. He says that nearly 40% of these transfers aim to relieve poverty (through Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance and the like), while most of the rest goes to the elderly

Twinkicide: Death By Liberalism

American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 11/20/2012 6:13:58 AM Post Reply

Twinkicide. Death by Liberalism. This time it´s Twinkies. In October it was Newsweek. Who´s next? What does this lemming-like liberal instinct mean for America? What is it that bakers and editors had in common as they looked into the abyss that would spell their own professional death? And then jumped? Answer: They´d rather be dead than Not Liberal. Unfortunately for the rest of us -- they are not alone. Worse, they are in charge. Presented with multiple opportunities to survive in a jobless economy -- the bakers and editors willingly jumped into the abyss that would kill their own professional way of life. Forever.

Menacing emails sent by David
Petraeus’ ex-mistress Paula Broadwell
to socialite Jill Kelley promised
to make the apparent rival ´go away´

New York Daily News, by Matthew Lysiak* Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 11/20/2012 6:02:25 AM Post Reply

The menacing emails sent by David Petraeus’ ex-mistress to a Florida socialite promised to make the apparent rival “go away” and boasted of her friends in high places, the Daily News has learned. The notes Paula Broadwell sent to Jill Kelley were far more sinister than previously reported and seemed like the rantings of someone “clearly unhinged,” a close friend of Kelley told The News Monday. “This wasn’t just a catfight. Any normal person who got emails like that would have immediately called the police,” said the friend.

Can Texas Really Secede from
the Union? Not Legally

Time, by Adam Cohen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/20/2012 5:54:52 AM Post Reply

It’s beginning to feel a lot like the 1860s — and not just because Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln opened nationwide this past weekend. There is a secessionist movement afoot: hundreds of thousands of Americans from all 50 states have signed petitions to secede. Texas is in the lead — no great surprise, perhaps — with ABC reporting last week that the Lone Star State’s petition was the first to get more than 25,000 signatures. It now has more than 100,000. That 25,000 mark, which at least seven states have hit, is significant. The petitions were shrewdly placed on a White House website

Is The Obama EPA Running
Its Own Black-Ops Program?

Investors Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/20/2012 5:49:51 AM Post Reply

Clandestine Government: During his first full day in the White House, Barack Obama promised he´d brought with him "a new era of open government." Yet again, we have a promise that hasn´t been kept. Among the administration´s many violations of public trust to recently become public is the Environmental Protection Agency´s apparent attempt to keep some of its correspondence hidden from the light of day through the use of aliases. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, for instance, has reportedly used the name "Richard Windsor" to cover her tracks in private emails.

A margin-of-error election

Daily Caller, by Brandon J. Gaylord Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/20/2012 5:44:55 AM Post Reply

Sometimes taking the wrong lesson from defeat can be worse than not learning anything at all. While Republicans are scrambling to do damage control in the wake of this month’s election, they should keep in mind that their presidential candidate only lost by a couple percentage points in the popular vote. The 2012 presidential election was not a repudiation of Mitt Romney or the Republican brand, but rather the result of a confluence of factors: the Obama campaign’s expert execution of its attack strategy, the Romney campaign’s flubbing of its get-out-the-vote effort, and a hurricane.

Petraeus vs. Petraeus

Wall Street Journal, by William McGurn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/20/2012 5:41:11 AM Post Reply

When David Petraeus told Congress on Friday that he knew almost from the get-go that Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in a terror attack in Libya, the former CIA director was contradicting information put out by two prominent Obama appointees. The first is United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice. The Sunday after the attack, Ms. Rice took to the talk shows to blame everything, falsely, on an Islamic mob outraged by a blasphemous YouTube video. Mr. Petraeus says the CIA´s original talking points mentioned al Qaeda. If this was edited out, we ought to know who did it—and why.

Why African-American Voters
Still Support Jesse Jackson Jr.

Daily Beast, by Allison Samuels Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/20/2012 5:38:24 AM Post Reply

As many wait to see whether Jesse Jackson Jr. will agree to a plea deal in the investigation of allegations that he misused campaign funds—and as Jackson himself reportedly awaits news on whether he’ll get disability pay if he indeed does resign—an even larger question looms for the voters of Jackson’s 2nd congressional district in Illinois. Where do they go from here? Jackson was elected to his 10th term in Congress last week, even as he struggled with health issues and an ongoing ethics investigation. Though he didn’t campaign for reelection as he was receiving treatment at the Mayo Clinic

Kerry´s the wrong man
for the Pentagon

Washington Examiner [DC], by Jed Babbin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/20/2012 5:31:39 AM Post Reply

In its 65-year history, the Defense Department has been led by people of various political stripes. But never has the nomination of any Secretary of Defense been a direct insult to the men and women who served our nation in uniform. That will no longer be true if, as is rumored, President Obama nominates Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to succeed Leon Panetta at the Pentagon. (Snip) What makes Kerry different, especially for defense, is that he built his entire political career on his anti-war activities, including his leadership of the radical Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

That Explosion in Indianapolis Is Even
Scarier Now That It´s a Homicide Case

Atlantic, by Adam Clark Estes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/20/2012 5:27:49 AM Post Reply

The explosion in a quiet suburb of Indianapolis that killed two people and severely damaged dozens of homes last week was no accident. Local Homeland Security officials, along with the ATF, admitted as much on Monday night when they announced that they´d opened a criminal homicide investigation into the incident. Before you jump to any conclusions, though, there´s been no mention of big words like "terrorist" or "attack." So far, the very mysterious case of the exploding subdivision appears to be a case of arson gone wrong. At the center of the investigation is a white van that was spotted

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