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The High Cost of
Dems’ Cheap Populism

Commentary, by Seth Mandel Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 12/14/2012 5:53:14 AM Post Reply

Last week, I wrote about the fact that President Obama’s approach to taxes as part of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations is billed as taxing the rich but would end up hurting the poor and possibly deepening inequality. Policies built on the flimsy populism of “fairness”–at least as modern Democrats define it–are quite often devoid of economic common sense. What’s more, the Democrats seem to know this. The New York Times offers a “News Analysis” today in which it is revealed that the Republicans are right on the merits of most of the arguments,

After Jesse Jackson Jr. quit,
Sandi changed campaign reports

Chicago Sun-Times, by Natasha Korecki Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 12/14/2012 5:49:56 AM Post Reply

Five days after Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned from Congress, his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, filed a series of amendments to her ward committee’s campaign fund, revealing dozens of previously undisclosed transactions that went back three years. That includes at least $13,000 in previously undisclosed transfers from her husband’s congressional account into her ward organization account, a Sun-Times review of campaign records show. Among the undisclosed transactions shown in the amended reports were monthly transfers of $1,250 to his wife’s 7th Ward Independent Political Organization — or SWIPO. In a federal disclosure, Rep. Jackson’s campaign fund indicates a $1,250 payment

Prez wants to spy on US

Boston Herald, by Michael Graham Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 5:41:16 AM Post Reply

How many “Big Brother Fascists” does it take to spy on every American citizen? None — if it’s Barack Obama. I remember the good old days when “goose-stepping” George W. Bush was in office, and you couldn’t tune in MSNBC for more than an hour at a time without the “F” word being thrown at him (no — not that “F” word — but they were thinking it). Today The Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama has authorized a massive, intrusive search into the lives of virtually every American — and it’s greeted with a yawn.

Queen Hillary and Her Courtiers

Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 5:35:40 AM Post Reply

More than a month remains until President Barack Obama’s corporate-financed second inaugural, but he is already yesterday’s news. There are political battles to be fought and budgets to pass (or not pass) and most likely wars to wage and natural disasters to endure before the country elects its next president. But all of this is a sideshow to the chatterers and scribblers who are busy currying favor with the liberal establishment. The real story, we learn from our newspapers and magazines and blogs and television specials, is whether the current secretary of state will run for president in 2016.

Further Proof the Nobel Peace
Prize Is a Perverse Joke

Accuracy in Media, by Herbert London Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 5:33:41 AM Post Reply

Just what is the Nobel Peace Prize committee up to? In giving the prize to the European Union (EU) the Norwegians comprising the decision making committee made themselves a laughingstock… again. In what sense, is this regional union an avatar for peace? This decision is comparable to giving an award to a committee held together with illusions. If truth be known, the EU is in a slow but inevitable disintegration. The argument for retention of the present system is fading before our eyes even though the selection committee cannot see it. Economic considerations for the euro –

Democrats losing their ‘balance’
on entitlement reform

Washington Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 5:30:02 AM Post Reply

DEMOCRATS LIKE TO say that they are for “balance” in the fiscal debate and that Republicans favor spending cuts. That argument is increasingly difficult to credit. Since the election last month, a few modest proposals have been floated to slow the growth in entitlement spending. None of these would fix the problem, but they would at least acknowledge that a problem exists. One by one, the ostensible advocates of balance have shot them down, portraying each in turn as a mortal threat to the poor or the aged.

McCain, Graham, Ayotte: Rice Decision
Won’t End Benghazi Scrutiny

National Review Online, by Katrina Trinko Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 5:27:37 AM Post Reply

While the White House may have been hoping that Susan Rice’s decision to no longer pursue the Secretary of State position means that the investigation into what exactly occurred at Benghazi and who was responsible for the security decisions will cease, both Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham made it clear today that they intend to continue pursuing the matter. “Senator McCain thanks Ambassador Rice for her service to the country and wishes her well,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers in a statement. “He will continue to seek all the facts about what happened before, during and after

Ben’s surrender

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 5:21:43 AM Post Reply

Aside from the election, the two most important political events of 2012 have been actions by the two officials in Washington whose offices and roles are supposed to insulate them from conventional political pressures. First was Chief Justice John Roberts, who changed his vote against ObamaCare in June because (according to the peerless Supreme Court journalist Jan Crawford) he was concerned about the public perception of the court’s legitimacy. Or, to put it in plain English, he was worried that liberals would say the court’s ruling proved it was stacked to the Right —

USS Enterprise

Weekly Standard, by Barrett Tillman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 5:16:01 AM Post Reply

For the Big E, it was the beginning of the end. On March 11, 2012, USS Enterprise (CVN-65)—the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier and the oldest active combat ship in the U.S. Navy—left Norfolk on her final deployment. She was embarking upon the end of a 51-year career, a seagoing record unmatched by any warship in American history and seldom approached elsewhere. The Big E’s skipper is Captain William C. “Boomer” Hamilton Jr., a tall, well-spoken Alabaman who acquired his call sign after a “sonic event” when he flew F/A-18 Hornets. Hamilton assumed command in August 2011,

Neil Cavuto cuts off
Rep. E.B. Johnson

Politico, by Mackenzie Weinger Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/14/2012 5:08:29 AM Post Reply

Fox News´ Neil Cavuto cut to commercial during a heated interview with Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson where the congresswoman told him to “shut up for just a second” and he later called their discussion “a total waste of time.” The Texas Democrat and Cavuto on Thursday argued over the fiscal cliff battle for several minutes before the interview came to an abrupt end. Cavuto repeatedly asked Johnson what things she would cut and the congresswoman countered that what should be discussed is "revenue generation." “No, you told me things you’d do to raise taxes. That’s what you told me.

In truth, Ravi Shankar
couldn’t stand the hippies

Telegraph [UK], by Mick Brown Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/14/2012 5:03:02 AM Post Reply

Ravi Shankar always displayed a slightly ambivalent attitude to the extraordinary enthusiasm with which his music – sober-minded, serious, not a little taxing – was greeted by younger Western audiences in the Sixties. At Madison Square Garden in 1971, in the celebrated Concert for Bangladesh which had been organised by his friend George Harrison, the first plangent chords of Shankar’s sitar-playing were received with rapturous applause, obliging him to lecture the audience: “If you like our tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing even more.” The confusion was understandable.

The Coming Regulatory Black Hole

PJ Media, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 5:00:33 AM Post Reply

Forget the fiscal cliff. Sooner or later — probably later — Speaker Boehner and the president are going to come to an agreement that will raise taxes on the wealthy with a solemn, cross-our-hearts-and-hope-to-die promise from the Democrats to cut an unspecified amount from the budget at an unspecified later date. Just when the Democrats are going to screw over the GOP and refuse to make any significant budget cuts or engage in negotiations that would reform entitlements will also be unspecified. But there is another looming crisis for the taxpayer and businesses large and small.

Border Patrol to Stop Interpreting

Associated Press, by Manuel Valdes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 4:52:13 AM Post Reply

U.S. Border Patrol agents will no longer serve as interpreters when local law enforcement agencies request language help, according to a new decree issued by the Department of Homeland Security. The new guidance said agents should refer such requests to private services often used by government agencies. Seeking language help is a common practice among local law enforcement agencies in Washington state. If a person is pulled over and can only speak Spanish, the U.S. Border Patrol is often called.

Surprise: Emergency Sandy legislation
full of millions in non-Sandy spending

Hot Air, by Mary Katharine Ham Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 4:49:10 AM Post Reply

The argument from those stuffing this thing like a Christmas goose is that we should pay no attention to the fact that they’re up to their elbows because the suffering of those in the wake of Superstorm Sandy is far too great to expend time or energy on passing a clean bill—WHY DO YOU HATE STORM VICTIMS?! It’s hard to think of another situation in which spending far more than one should on things that have nothing to do with helping people in the course of allegedly helping people is considered compassionate while questioning such spending is considered stone-hearted.

Paging Bruce Willis

Foreign Policy, by J. Dana Stuster Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/14/2012 4:43:45 AM Post Reply

Not to be overly alarmist, but Earth has had two near-misses with large asteroids so far this month. On Wednesday, a hunk of space rock three miles in diameter and going by the designation 4179 Toutatis passed by the planet, missing by 4.3 million miles, or about 18 times the distance from the Earth to the moon. The day before, an approximately 100 foot-wide asteroid passed much closer -- within 140,000 miles, slipping between the Earth and the moon. Neither of these are the Planet X that some New Age doomsayers claim will bring the end of the world

Man-made global warming:
even the IPCC admits
the jig is up

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/14/2012 3:26:50 AM Post Reply

Breaking news from the US--h/t Watts Up With That?--where a leaked draft of the IPCC´s latest report AR5 admits what some of us have suspected for a very long time: that the case for man-made global warming is looking weaker by the day and that the sun plays a much more significant role in "climate change" than the scientific "consensus" has previously been prepared to concede. Here´s the killer admission: Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al.

Susan Rice was brought down by
the long shadow of Benghazi,
not race or gender

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/14/2012 3:22:27 AM Post Reply

A good guest has to know when to leave the party. Susan Rice wasn’t a good guest. She waited until well after midnight, when everyone was tapping their watches and thinking of bed. Her insistent lingering turned sympathy into contempt--and when she finally decided to go, she did so loudly and rudely. The only person to regret her departure will be the man who invited her, Barack Obama. And not necessarily because he’ll miss her, but because her melodramatic exit has put an ugly word back in to common usage. Benghazi. Benghazi. Benghazi. Susan Rice has withdrawn her name

Price of Blair´s tawdry deal in
the desert: £2m payout to buy
silence of dissident handed
over to Gaddafi´s torturers

Daily Mail [UK], by Jack Doyle Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/14/2012 2:20:30 AM Post Reply

A dissident abducted and handed to Colonel Gaddafi’s torturers with the alleged help of Tony Blair’s government was given £2.2million last night to buy his silence. Sami al Saadi, 45, was dispatched with his wife and four young children back to his native Libya where he was imprisoned and maltreated. The ‘rendition’ operation--conducted with apparent MI6 support--took place only three days after Mr Blair visited Libya for the now infamous 2004 ‘deal in the desert’. Evidence of Britain’s role emerged in documents found after the fall of the Gaddafi regime. For years, Labour ministers denied involvement in rendition.

Let there be light! President Obama
celebrates sixth night of Hanukkah
at White House fest with menorah
saved from Hurricane Sandy

Daily Mail [UK], by Leslie Larson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/14/2012 1:55:26 AM Post Reply

In celebration of the sixth night of the festival of lights, President Barack Obama invited Jewish Americans to the White House on Thursday for a Hanukkah party. The president and the first lady kicked off the festivities in the Grand Foyer of the Executive Mansion and Mr Obama noted the symbolism in lighting a historic menorah, brought from a Long Island synagogue that sustained damaged during Hurricane Sandy. The Commander-in-Chief also affirmed Jewish leaders and policymakers in attendance at the reception of America´s ´unshakable´ support for the nation of Israel. Mr Obama welcomed guests to the Hanukkah celebration, a holiday

Fox News poll: Voters give both 2012,
Obama mixed reviews

FOX News, by Dana Blanton Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 12/13/2012 11:54:48 PM Post Reply

American voters are sharply divided over how things went this year, and they continue to give President Obama mixed reviews. Meanwhile, voters are almost twice as likely to say Obama will be one of the country’s “worst” presidents as to say he will be one of the “greatest,” according to a year-end Fox News poll released Thursday. Some 42 percent of voters feel 2012 was a good year, while 41 percent say it was bad. Another 15 percent have mixed feelings. Some 57 percent of Democrats say 2012 was a good year,

Rendition Victim El-Masri
Awarded 60,000 Euros

Spiegel Online International, by cgh with Wire Reports Original Article

Posted By: LanieLou- 12/13/2012 11:53:27 PM Post Reply

Khaled El-Masri, the Lebanese-born German national who claims the CIA abducted him in Macedonia in 2003 before subjecting him to unlawful imprisonment and torture, has become accustomed to his case being thrown out of court. But on Thursday, he was finally able to claim a victory. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in El-Masri´s favor and ordered that the government of Macedonia to pay him €60,000 in damages.

Get ready for the costs
and chaos of Obamacare

Washington Examiner [DC], by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/13/2012 11:04:43 PM Post Reply

Nancy Pelosi was widely mocked when she said of Obamacare, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." At the time, March 2010, Pelosi´s words accurately described the Democrats´ just-get-it-done approach to passing a national health care bill. But now it turns out Pelosi was wrong. In fact, we have to implement Obamacare so that you can find out what is in it. Amid the other momentous events coming in 2013 -- bitter fights over federal spending, debt, entitlements and immigration -- the biggest story of the year, and of 2014 as well, will be the arrival of Obamacare

Michigan Unions Targeted Obama
Enemy: Koch Brothers

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 12/13/2012 10:39:37 PM Post Reply

Politics: The union mob that tore down that tent outside the Michigan state capitol was aiming at a free-market advocacy group on the president´s enemies list promoting right-to-work and other pro-growth measures. In an editorial headlined "Drinking the Kochs´ Kool-Aid," the Detroit Free Press, a newspaper in a decaying city with 18.9% unemployment, opined it was pressure from the Koch brothers, David H. and Charles G., who head a Kansas-based conglomerate with 50,000 U.S.-based employees, that moved Michigan Republicans to make the state adopt right-to-work legislation.

Battered by Benghazi, Rice
withdraws as State candidate

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/13/2012 10:32:57 PM Post Reply

Embattled U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice withdrew her name Thursday from consideration to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton after months of criticism over her comments about the terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, in September. Although the decision had been building for weeks, Mrs. Rice’s request was a stunning setback for President Obama, who angrily defended her in a November news conference and challenged the Republican critics that “they should go after me” over the handling of the Benghazi attack. Mrs. Rice has been

Right-to-work proponents
demand justice for violence

Washington Times, by Andrea Billups Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/13/2012 10:31:10 PM Post Reply

LANSING, Mich. — Conservative activists and supporters of Michigan’s new right-to-work law gathered on the Statehouse lawn Thursday to demand justice for what they said were threats, intimidation and entrapment under a tent that was destroyed by union supporters during protests two days earlier by thousands of labor union activists. Scott Hagerstrom, state director of Americans for Prosperity-Michigan, said he had filed a police report for assault and destruction of property with the Michigan State Police’s Capitol post after aggressive pro-union forces used knives

The right-to-work dilemma

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/13/2012 10:21:58 PM Post Reply

For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan this week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state, birthplace of the United Auto Workers, royalty of the American working class, became right-to-work. It’s shocking, except that it was inevitable. Indiana went that way earlier this year. The entire Rust Belt will eventually follow because the heyday of the sovereign private-sector union is gone. Globalization has made splendid isolation impossible. The nostalgics look back to the immediate postwar years when the UAW

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