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California’s Blue Shield
Seeks Up To 20% Rate Hikes

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 11:32:58 AM Post Reply

ObamaCare was supposed to stop this sort of thing, wasn’t it? That’s how Pelosi, Obama et al sold the law, but its plain effect has been to hike taxes and rates. Health insurer Blue Shield of California wants to raise rates as much as 20% for some individual policyholders, prompting calls for the nonprofit to use some of its record-high reserve of $3.9 billion to hold down premiums. In filings with state regulators, Blue Shield is seeking an average rate increase of 12% for more than 300,000 customers, effective in March, with a maximum increase of 20%.

Napolitano: ‘You’re Never
Going to Seal That Border’

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 11:27:56 AM Post Reply

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said there are serious “mismatches” in U.S. immigration policy in terms of “our economic needs, our law enforcement needs and our values.” “I think that, having dealt with border enforcement and immigration enforcement for the last 20 years, I can say it is time to look at the entire system,” she said on PBS last night, expressing optimism that immigration reform may come after the fiscal cliff is negotiated. “As Congress begins to take this subject up — and we hope they will — we would be there to provide them real assistance and

MSNBC´s Hall Annoys Lib Senator By
Asking Tough Questions Re: Intern
Scandal; AP: Feds Waited Til After
Election to Arrest Him

NewsBusters, by Ken Shepherd Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 11:22:56 AM Post Reply

Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey seemed absolutely shocked and appalled Tuesday afternoon, when MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall kicked off their interview on comprehensive immigration reform by asking him about breaking news from the Associated Press regarding the arrest and deportation order against an intern in the senator´s office who is a registered sex offender. According to the report, the arrest was deliberately timed to fall AFTER the November 6 presidential election. "Do you know anything about this report, senator," Hall asked a visibly annoyed Menendez.

Chaffetz: State Dept Hiding
Benghazi Survivors

Breitbart Big Peace, by Kerry Picket Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/13/2012 11:17:20 AM Post Reply

Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R- UT) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he has been “thwarted” by the State Department from seeing any Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Many people forget that there were Americans who survived the Benghazi attack, some of whom were badly injured and are still recovering. “My understanding is that we still have some people in the hospital. I’d like to visit with them and wish them nothing but the best but the State Department has seen it unfit for me to know who

Lansing Union Attack Victim:
Assailant Wore Guy Fawkes-
Like ´Devil Mask´

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Lee Stranahan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 11:15:55 AM Post Reply

Local Lansing Michigan hot dog vendor Clint Tarver was catering for Americans For Prosperity during the right-to-work demonstrations at the State Capitol on Tuesday, when two men rushed into the tent. In a video interview with Breitbart News, Clint claims one of the men wore a "Devil Mask." When reporter Lee Stranahan describes a Guy Fawkes mask, Tarver indicates that it sounds like that is what the assailant wore. Tarver was shown a photo of a Guy Fawkes mask after the interview and confirmed that it what the attacker who

´Why the World Didn´t End Yesterday´:
So why have NASA released Mayan
apocalypse video TEN DAYS early

Daily Mail (UK), by James Nye Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/13/2012 11:08:18 AM Post Reply

So confident are NASA that the apocalypse will not happen on December 21st that they have released a video 10 days ahead of schedule entitled ´Why the World Didn´t End Yesterday´. Outlining point by point each of the so called ´myths´ that surround the end of the Mayan calendar, astronomical and planetary experts debunk any notions that the sun will irradiate the atmosphere or that a rogue planet will smash into our Earth. But while no soul will be around to point and laugh at anyone from the U.S. space agency should they be wrong,

Pelosi Accuses GOP Of Lack
Of Concern For Kwanzaa

Breitbart TV, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: The Architect- 12/13/2012 10:54:28 AM Post Reply

"Is there not an appreciation for the Jewish holidays? The Christmas holiday? Kwanzaa? All the other things that families come together around? Bonding rituals important to the strength of our society? Do we not care about that? Well, the American people do. And they want to shop for it." - Wednesday, December 12, 2012, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the house floor
Headline split by staff

Income Malaise of Middle
Class Complicates Democrats’
Stance in Talks

New York Times, by Annie Lowrey Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/13/2012 10:51:09 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — The income stagnation that has hit the middle class in the last decade is complicating the Democrats’ position in the fiscal talks, making it more difficult for them to advocate across-the-board tax increases if a deal falls through. Many Democrats have derided the expiring tax cuts as irresponsible since President George W. Bush signed them a decade ago. Yet the party is united in pushing to make the vast majority of them permanent, even though President Obama could ensure their expiration at year’s end with a simple veto.

´Obama´s "Plan" Adds
$8.6 Trillion to the Debt´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 10:44:49 AM Post Reply

"President Obama´s ´Plan´ Adds $8.6 Trillion to the Debt," the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee contends. Here´s a chart put together by the Republicans on the committee to explain how Obama´s plan adds to the debt: The $400 billion in deficit reduction would be achieved by a $1.6 trillion tax hike, which Obama has proposed as part of the "fiscal cliff" deal. With Obama´s latest plan, debt in 2022 is expected to be $25.4 trillion; otherwise, in ten years, it is expected to be $25.8 trillion. "With the adoption of the Budget Control Act

Mark Steyn Rips Media For
Not Covering Assault On
FOX News Contributor

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 10:39:59 AM Post Reply

“I think in fact it is the opposite, Neil, that a lot people are happy to give this impression,” Steyn replied. “It is extremely valuable for people to understand that your guys mean it and you may want to play along because, otherwise, things are going to get very unpleasant for you. That is the message these guys are sending in Michigan. It’s basically the domestic version of what you see in the Arab Spring. All of these protests against Morsi in Cairo were completely peaceful, then Muslim Brotherhood show up to protest and seven people die.

Sheila Jackson Lee:
Entitlements Off The
Table, They Are "Earned"

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 10:35:39 AM Post Reply

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX): "There is no way, Mr. Speaker, that we should raise the eligibility age for Medicare, that we should not think carefully about how we approach the reform of Medicaid. And that we don´t the American people that Social Security is solvent. So, I would say move quickly to pass the middle class tax cuts that would be for all Americans, 100% up to 250,000 dollars. And let´s think about, moving into 2013, how we make this economy better by looking carefully at how we reform entitlements that are not hand-outs, but they are earned."

Christie: I didn´t
help the president win

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 10:25:33 AM Post Reply

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that he wasn´t responsible for helping President Obama to win a second term in an interview with ABC News´ Barbara Walters set to air Wednesday. Christie has been criticized by some Republicans for embracing President Obama in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, speaking appreciatively about the federal assistance offered to his state. But Christie adamantly denied that the bipartisan photo-ops with the president were of any assistance on Election Day. "First of all, I didn´t help [Obama] win," Christie said.

Welcome to the Thugocracy

Cybercast News Service, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 10:20:27 AM Post Reply

"I´m in the top two percent," said Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, this week on CNBC. "Right now, I´m paying 45 percent of my total income in income taxes ... You tell me, what´s fair about that when medieval serfs pay 25 percent, I´m paying half? I don´t care what the majority voted to do, they don´t have a right to steal my money just because they vote for it." But according to most Americans, they do. And that´s the problem. As America racks up more debt than God has ever seen on this earth,

Santa Claus to Boehner:
Pass Obama´s tax cut bill
or you´re on the naughty list

The Hill [Washington DC], by Molly Hooper Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/13/2012 10:18:50 AM Post Reply

Santa Claus came to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to deliver a message to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio): pass President Obama´s middle-class tax cut bill or you´ll be on the naughty list. The roly-poly white-bearded man dressed in his seasonal red attire slid right past the “Official Business Only” sign in the alcove to Boehner’s Capitol Hill digs. With an entourage of paparazzi (five photographers) and a handler from the liberal group “Catholics United,” “Santa” asked a good-natured Speaker staffer for “two minutes” of Boehner’s time. The wide-eyed aide, hidden behind a desk

President´s Gamesmanship
Hurts Economy

Aspen Times, by Charlie Leonard Original Article

Posted By: Aspenhuskerette- 12/13/2012 10:17:46 AM Post Reply

As the president gets closer to achieving his most cherished political ambition — raising taxes on the top earners in our country — I´ve started to wonder what satisfaction he, and those he´s convinced this is a good idea, will actually experience. Forget all the silly speeches. By any seriously objective standard, the president´s tax increases will do little or nothing to reduce his deficits or his approaching legacy of extraordinary national debt. Without increasing taxes more broadly and without structurally reforming our entitlement programs, which now appears likely, the president´s plan changes virtually nothing about the direction or funding of

Rep. Frank Wolf: Tunisia
Won´t Let FBI Interview
Benghazi Suspect

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Goodenough Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 10:15:39 AM Post Reply

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to testify on Capitol Hill next week about last September’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, a Republican lawmaker is urging her to cut aid to Tunisia over its refusal to allow the FBI to talk to the only known detained suspect in the attack. Speaking on the U.S. House floor Wednesday, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) accused Tunisian authorities of hampering the FBI’s investigation into the attack in Libya’s second city, during which U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

Military officials prep for
inauguration ceremonies

The Hill [Washington DC], by Jeremy Herb Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/13/2012 10:12:02 AM Post Reply

Twenty blocks from the Capitol sits a 60-by-40-foot model of Washington, D.C., that military officials and others are using to prepare for Inauguration Day festivities. The D.C. model — complete with a two-foot-tall Washington Monument and toy-like recreations of the Capitol and White House — was being used for a military exercise to simulate the parade route on the real Pennsylvania Avenue NW. In addition to the model monuments, there were pink placards that showed where the different divisions will be located along the parade route, including designations for everything from bathrooms to areas for floats.

State board sanctions 11 more
doctors for sick notes

Wisconsin State Journal, by David Wahlberg Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 12/13/2012 10:04:38 AM Post Reply

The Wisconsin Medical Examining Board on Wednesday sanctioned 11 more doctors for writing questionable sick notes to protesters demonstrating at the Capitol in February 2011. The board reprimanded six doctors, who also took classes in medical record keeping or physical exams as part of their discipline. The board said the doctors provided the notes without adequate documentation. "It appears that the entire sick note writing episode is finally closed," said Dr. Sheldon Wasserman, chairman of the medical board. [snip] The board gave five doctors administrative warnings, which aren´t considered disciplinary action.

What Is a Right-to-Work Law?

ABC News, by Elizabeth Hartfield Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/13/2012 9:56:15 AM Post Reply

This week Michigan became the 24th state in the country to adopt a right-to-work law. The passage of the bill by the state legislature, and eventual signing by Rick Snyder, the state´s Republican governor, brought a huge wave of protests in a state with deep union roots. Right-to-work laws have garnered a lot of national attention in recent years as more states have implemented this legislation that prohibits unions from requiring workers to pay dues as a condition of their employment. The laws are meant to regulate agreements between employers and labor unions that would

Printing Weapons

American Thinker, by Jim Gammon Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 12/13/2012 9:53:43 AM Post Reply

If this bit of information doesn´t offer mixed emotions, nothing will. For those who don´t understand, this technology really exists. It is getting more and more common. The type of 3D printer I have seen in action produces a solid block of plastic, layer by layer. It works like an ink jet printer. Two "inks" are used. One ink is soluble in a solvent, the other isn´t. When you are done printing the block, paper-thin layer by paper-thin layer, embedded in a block of soluble plastic is a complete device in a more substantial plastic.

An Overlooked Constant

American Thinker, by Steve McCann Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 12/13/2012 9:29:36 AM Post Reply

The theater of the absurd in Washington revolving around raising tax rates on the wealthy is based on a fiction: massively raising the rates will result in additional revenue for the government. One of the constants in any analysis of income taxes paid in the United States since their inception in 1916 is the correlation between the top marginal rates and the taxes actually paid by the so-called wealthy. Short of turning America into Stalin´s police state and confiscating all the wealth of the "evil" one percent, the predictable behavior of this economic class

Conservatives Being Really
Horrible And Stupid About
Patrick Moran Assault On Girlfriend

Mediaite, by Tommy Christopher Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/13/2012 9:12:20 AM Post Reply

On Wednesday, Patrick Moran, son of Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) and particularly dim James O’Keefe sting-ee, pleaded guilty to simple assault on girlfriend Kelly Hofmann, a charge that stemmed from a December 1 incident in which Moran allegedly slammed Hoffman’s head into a metal trash can cage, fracturing her skull and injuring her nose. It’s a horrible story that highlights an important, serious issue, but shortly after the news was reported, Michelle Malkin‘s Twitter repository, Twitchy.com, had decided that the real villains were Rachel Maddow, Sandra Fluke, the media, Rep. Moran, and, somehow, me,

Big ObamaCare setback: Little-noticed court
ruling lets church challenges proceed

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 12/13/2012 9:09:57 AM Post Reply

Here´s an update on the nationwide legal challenges to ObamaCare by religious institutions that will be forced to provide insurance coverage for such things as abortion drugs, birth control and sterilizations that violate their beliefs. This story is a week old, actually. Strangely, you haven´t seen any real coverage of this development in mainstream media, perhaps because it concerns a crucial legal setback for Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius in a New York federal court.

Watson returns as Ryder
Cup captain

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/13/2012 8:59:12 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK- The Americans are bringing back Tom Watson as their Ryder Cup captain with hopes of ending two decades of losing in Europe. The PGA of America announced Watson´s selection Thursday morning on the "Today." Watson, an eight-time major champion and one of the most respected figures in golf, will be 65 when the 2014 Ryder Cup is played at Gleneagles in Scotland. That will make him the oldest captain in Ryder Cup history. He also is the first repeat captain for the U.S. team since Jack Nicklaus in 1987.

Obama´s Tacit Approval of
the violence in Michigan

American Thinker, by Bruce Johnson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/13/2012 8:50:26 AM Post Reply

Dennis Miller has pointed to the recent and continuing evidence of the dichotomy between image and reality in the Obama world. Dennis, take a bow. This latest episode of inflammatory language coming from Michigan Democrats and Union officials provides some telling evidence of Obama´s selective concern for provocative and inappropriate political discourse. Obama´s implied consent has been evident throughout his presidency. I don´t ever recall his position regarding the unprosecuted Black Panther polling incident. If only a journalist would ask him to weigh in.

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