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Barack Obama’s Hashtag Army
Lobbying Congress on Fiscal Cliff

Daily Beast, by Howard Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 12/3/2012 8:30:16 AM Post Reply

It was a startling moment, but almost no one realized that a sea change had occurred. The president of the United States was urging the great American public to rise up and demand change through social media. Urging voters to pressure Congress to accept his financial plan, Obama said last week: “I want you to call, I want you to send an email, I want you to post on their Facebook wall. If you tweet then use a hashtag we’re calling #My2K. Not Y2K. My2K.

Homeless Man Shoeless
Again In NYC Despite Boots

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 12/3/2012 8:29:54 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK -- The New York City homeless man - whose gift of boots from an NYPD police officer became an online sensation - is back on the streets with no shoes. The New York Times found him Sunday night wandering barefoot in Manhattan. The paper identified him as Jeffrey Hillman, formerly of South Plainfield, N.J. Asked about the $100 all-weather boots Officer Larry DePrimo gave him on Nov. 14, Hillman says he´s hidden them because "they are worth a lot of money." He says he´s grateful for the gift, but he wants "a piece of the pie"

Group Home Staff
Helped Patients Vote

Carolina Journal (Raleigh, NC), by Don Carrington Original Article

Posted By: rivlax- 12/3/2012 8:12:14 AM Post Reply

Cecil Pearson’s daughter Darlene told him she voted for Barack Obama for president. President of what? Cecil says Darlene couldn’t tell you. Darlene, 40, is developmentally disabled and functions cognitively at about the level of a 7-year old. She lives in a group home with five other adult women in Roanoke Rapids. “I was shocked when I learned she had voted,” Pearson told Carolina Journal. “She has never voted. My wife and I became her legal guardians in 1996 to prevent exploitation like this.

Ethanol Eating Up U.S. Corn Exports

Ohio Farmer, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Srhea- 12/3/2012 8:01:49 AM Post Reply

Foreign nations that previously relied on the U.S. for corn are growing more of their own or buying from other producing countries, says Philip Abbott, a Purdue University economist. He predicted the trend will continue even if market conditions improve and U.S. corn production increases. "The U.S. has historically been a very important part of the international corn market," Abbott says. "Prior to the 2007-08 food crisis and spike in commodity prices,
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Why I´m Enlisting In
Andrew Breitbart´s War

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 12/3/2012 7:50:54 AM Post Reply

I’m enlisting to fight in Andrew Breitbart’s war. The political class in Washington has degraded America. Republicans and Democrats blame each other, and nothing gets done. The media exacerbates the problem, fans the flames and encourages false notions of “civility” and “objectivity” while pushing “bipartisanship” that doesn’t actually solve problems. While this charade perpetuates indefinitely, America grows weaker. She’s digging herself deeper into debt and isn’t even searching for solutions to her problems. Entitlements and government overspending gets worse every day while laws go unenforced

´Normal couple stuff´ before
Chiefs murder-suicide

Associated Press, by Heather Hollingsworth Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/3/2012 7:46:10 AM Post Reply

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As investigators search for a motive to help explain why Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself, a discordant picture of the couple began to emerge. Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had lived apart briefly earlier in the year but had gotten back together by Thanksgiving, according to a friend of Perkins. Brianne York, 21, said Sunday the couple, who had a 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, argued about "normal couple stuff" but that her friend was "really happy about being a mom."

Ken Cuccinelli:
Conservatives´ New ´It´ Candidate

American Thinker, by Mark J. Fitzgibbons Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/3/2012 7:14:49 AM Post Reply

This past week Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling announced that he was dropping out of the race for Virginia´s governor, but left open the door to his running as an independent. He issued a disappointingly divisive statement that Richard Viguerie called Bolling´s Charlie Crist moment. Bolling took an unfortunate and cheap shot against his primary opponent and now-presumptive Republican nominee, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Bolling´s statement was a dénouement of betrayal to his conservative voters and supporters. We have come to expect that from establishment Republicans who somehow feel entitled to support from principled conservatives --

TV’s ‘air’ pollution

New York Post, by Andrea Peyser Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/3/2012 6:58:45 AM Post Reply

Admit it. Angus T. Jones was right. From “Glee” to “Girls” to “Two and a Half Men,” television has devolved into a vacuous wasteland where ordinary notions of morality, fidelity and decency are not just censored. They’re a joke. TV shows present teenage virginity as a curse, human intelligence as a disease, and promiscuous sex as the norm, while average human attention spans are as alien as the Martian landscape. That’s what Jones, all of 19, suggested when he made a video that went viral on YouTube last week, an impassioned, 20-minute religious rant that had Hollywood’s amoral glamazons shocked

Don’t Go Wobbly

Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/3/2012 6:55:03 AM Post Reply

Four years ago, President Obama followed the advice of Rahm Emanuel never to let a crisis go to waste. He proposed an economic stimulus package brimming with pork and favors for Democratic interest groups. House Republicans were fearful of crossing a new president as the recession deepened, but they mustered the moxie to vote no, unanimously. It turned out to be one of the smartest moves they ever made. Freshly reelected, the president wants to exploit a crisis again. This time it’s the fiscal cliff mess.

MSNBC: Those of us in
‘nerd land’ think Obama is
‘channeling the Godfather’

Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/3/2012 6:52:15 AM Post Reply

Yesterday on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry explained that President Obama is “channeling” the movie, ‘The Godfather,’ during his negotiations with Republicans over the fiscal cliff. “Watching the D.C. drama this week convinced those of us in nerd land that President Obama must be a fan of the Francis Ford-Coppola masterpiece because he seems to be channeling the Godfather,” she said with a straight face. Displaying a photo of the famous severed horse head scene, Harris-Perry clarified that she was “not suggesting that Speaker Boehner is about to

Time to Call the President´s
Budget Bluff

Wall Street Journal, by Keith Hennessey Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/3/2012 6:48:02 AM Post Reply

Flush with the adrenaline rush of his election victory, President Obama insists that Congress must now agree not only to raise taxes on the "rich," but also to adopt his previously ignored full budget. The president demands a $1.6 trillion tax increase over the next decade. He maintains that higher revenues must come from marginal-rate increases but offers no policy rationale. He wants to treat $900 billion in spending cuts he agreed to in 2011 (as part of the Budget Control Act) as if they now count on his ledger as new cuts. He says that he will consider

UN internet regulation treaty
talks begin in Dubai

BBC [UK], by Leo Kelion Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/3/2012 6:47:38 AM Post Reply

A UN agency is trying to calm fears that the internet could be damaged by a conference it is hosting. Government regulators from 193 countries are in Dubai to revise a wide-ranging communications treaty. Google has warned the event threatened the "open internet", while the EU said the current system worked, adding: "If it ain´t broke, don´t fix it." [Snip] "The brutal truth is that the internet remains largely [the] rich world´s privilege, " said Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the UN´s International Telecommunications Union, ahead of the meeting. "ITU wants to change that."

Brinksmanship on Obama
Medicaid expansion for poor

Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/3/2012 6:39:45 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON--It’s health care brinksmanship, with hundreds of billions of dollars and the well-being of millions of people at stake. President Barack Obama’s health care law expands Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people, but cost-wary states must decide whether to take the deal. Turn it down, and governors risk coming off as callous toward their neediest residents. Not to mention the likely second-guessing for walking away from a pot of federal dollars estimated at nearly $1 trillion nationally over a decade. If the Obama administration were to compromise, say by sweetening the offer to woo a reluctant state
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The golden couple! Barack and Michelle
wow at star-studded Kennedy Center
awards honoring nation´s top
performers and artists

Daily Mail [UK], by Beth Stebner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/3/2012 6:26:15 AM Post Reply

The president and first lady were in fine form during Sunday night’s Kennedy Center Honors, laughing and holding hands at the event, which recognize the nation’s most culturally influential artists, performers, actors, and musicians. Wearing a stunning Michael Kors gold lamé dress embellished at the neckline, the first lady dazzled as she entered the East Room of the White House with her husband, who was wearing a smartly-tailored tuxedo and an American flag on his lapel. Mr Obama honored seven of the country’s most influential artists, including Dustin Hoffman, Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy, late night host David Letterman, ballerina

Doctor´s Diary: are you taking
too many drugs? Here´s
what to ask your GP

Telegraph [UK], by Dr. James Lefanu Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/3/2012 6:06:43 AM Post Reply

Some points to help those worried about overmedication and polypharmacy. My article last week about the hazards of polypharmacy has prompted further accounts from readers of being coerced (seemingly) by their family doctors into taking medications that they would rather do without. But as one lady points out, expressing no doubt the dilemma of many, she is apprehensive about raising the question of over-medication for fear of "antagonising" her doctor. This is clearly a tricky situation, so it is useful to know that GPs are required to conduct a "Medicines Review" every 15 months for all patients taking four or

Paralysed by political correctness, the
West looks on as Egypt and Syria
follow Iran into Islamofascism

Telegraph [UK], by Peter Mullen Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/3/2012 6:00:03 AM Post Reply

Why be content with just one Iran when you can have two? Egypt shows every sign of developing quickly into another Islamofascist regime. Egyptian judges have gone on strike because President Morsi has ascribed to himself something resembling absolute power, more control than even the hated and deposed “Western puppet” Mubarak ever had. Naturally, he is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and assorted Salafists who look to the establishment of an Islamic republic resembling that of the Ayatollahs in Iran. Oh dear, it wasn’t meant to turn out like this at all! When the Egyptian uprising began almost two years

Global Governance Begins on December 14

AmericanThinker.com, by Daren Jonescu Original Article

Posted By: javaboy- 12/3/2012 5:41:18 AM Post Reply

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an imprint of the UN, is holding its World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) from December 3-14, 2012. The stated purpose of the WCIT is to update the UN´s "global treaty" on telecommunications to deal more directly and comprehensively with the internet. Knowing who controls the UN, it is not hard to see that a primary aim of the updated "treaty" will be to give credence to the regulation and monitoring of online activity in ways that are desirable to the (authoritarian) majority of member states.

I´ll See Your Economic Collapse
and Raise You National Demise

American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke Original Article

Posted By: steveW- 12/3/2012 2:14:10 AM Post Reply

Being just weeks away from reaching our debt ceiling and with frightening talk about a fiscal cliff, there´s much sympathy in Washington for tax increases. Even conservatives are wavering. A few Republicans have dumped their anti-tax pledges, and former Nixon official-turned-actor Ben Stein favors taxing the wealthy. He says that we can´t cut our way to a balanced budget and insists that the revenue end must be addressed. But I have news for him: he´ll have a better chance finding Ferris Bueller on his day off than he will locating fiscal sanity through tax increases.

Electronic Privacy is the New
21st Century Battleground:
Why We Must Fight Back

Canada Free Press, by Kelly OConnell Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/3/2012 1:38:52 AM Post Reply

With the advent of the Electronic Age mankind has seen increasing breakthroughs of communications and entertainment utterly unthinkable a century ago. Along with these advances though comes the ability of government to increasingly track the emails, cell calls, and online activities of countless Americans with increasing ease. In fact, we are being spied on routinely—a fact which is occasionally noted but hardly ever protested in our increasingly complacent, civil-rights illiterate and government-trusting populace. But is our reaction wise? Could not these new government “duties” backfire upon us?

Censorship or common decency?
Newark Library covers up
controversial artwork

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Barry Carter Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 12/3/2012 1:28:54 AM Post Reply

Editor´s note: The artwork, which can be seen lower in this story, may be offensive to some readers. The talk at the Newark Library these days has nothing to do with an anticipated book collection, the next visit by schoolchildren or a lecture on Brick City history. It’s all about a huge drawing hanging in the second-floor reference room, raising so much ruckus that the head librarian has had to cover it up — so no one can see what it shows. It’s covered with cloth and that’s the way many employees want to keep it. Kara Walker, a renowned African-American

Did Bibi Slap Obama in the Face?

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/3/2012 1:15:20 AM Post Reply

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s political options at home are limited. (Snip) To that end, he was in Washington yesterday criticizing his country’s government and saying that Netanyahu’s decision to approve building projects in Jerusalem and its suburb was a “slap in the face” to President Obama. He believes the project to build in the so-called E1 area that connects Maale Adumim with the city was an insult to the president, especially after the United States stood by Israel during the conflict with Gaza and at the United Nations. Olmert is right to say that Obama’s recent support

Palestinian ´Statehood´:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

American Thinker, by Leo Rennert Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/3/2012 12:38:02 AM Post Reply

Given that the venue was the notoriously anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian U.N. General Assembly, it came as no surprise that the vote to upgrade "Palestine" to non-member observer "state" sailed through by a lopsided majority -- 138 for, nine against, and 41 abstentions. (Snip) The Good guys: First and foremost Canada, which pulled no punches in its strong support of Israel before casting a firm "no" vote. A nod also to the Czech Republic, the only European country to vote against the resolution. Give also credit to Panama and four tiny Pacific island nations who stood with Israel.

NBC´s Bob Costas Blames
NFL Murder-Suicide On Guns

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/2/2012 11:51:35 PM Post Reply

NewsBusters reported Saturday the tragic murder-suicide involving a Kansas City Chiefs´ football player and his girlfriend. During halftime of NBC´s Sunday Night Football, Bob Costas chose to lecture America about how guns were to blame for the incident: Bob Costas: Well, you knew it was coming. In the aftermath of the nearly unfathomable events in Kansas City, [unintelligible] sports clichés was heard yet again: something like this really puts it all in perspective. Well, if so, that sort of perspective has a very short shelf-life since we will inevitably hear about the perspective we have

NBC uses NFL murder-suicide
tragedy to make plea for gun ban

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: sparky86- 12/2/2012 11:39:47 PM Post Reply

During halftime of NBC’s coverage of the Philadelphia Eagles versus the Dallas Cowboys, NBC Sports analyst Bob Costas made a plea for gun control during his weekly commentary on “Sunday Night Football.” Costas — responding to the murder-suicide committed over the weekend by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher — relied on a column by writer Jason Whitlock, formerly of the Kansas City Star, to make the gun control argument. “Well, you knew it was coming. In the aftermath of the nearly unfathomable events in Kansas City, that most mindless of sports clichés was heard yet

Gitmo North Returns

Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Michelle Malkin Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/2/2012 11:35:45 PM Post Reply

If you thought President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had given up on closing Guantanamo Bay and bringing jihadists to American soil, think again. Two troubling developments on the Gitmo front should have every American on edge. The first White House maneuver took place in October, while much of the public and the media were preoccupied with election news. On October 2, Obama’s cash-strapped Illinois pals announced that the federal government bought out the Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois for $165 million. According to Watchdog.org,

Being Bourgeois

Canada Free Press, by Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 12/2/2012 11:27:09 PM Post Reply

Ana and I picked up nine year old Stefan from school one October day, a gorgeous Indian summer day before the winter chill. A musical prodigy, little Stefan is a genius with a penchant for Italian food. Half a block from the art school is a restaurant called Da Vinci’s, always bustling with patrons dining under the grape vine pergola. I was happy to see so many people out to lunch, able to afford food and particularly restaurant food, previously considered a luxury under communism that only the ruling elite could afford and felt entitled to have and enjoy.

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