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To start immigration reform,
study Texas solution

Politico, by Rep. Ted Poe Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 6:04:49 AM Post Reply

On Election Day, the American people voted for the antithesis of change: They voted for the status quo of more government, more giveaway programs, less freedom and less individuality. In this election, the Republican Party should have had an easier time convincing Americans that they would be better off if we changed course. Tangled up in embarrassing statements about rape and abortion and notably silent on immigration, the electorate chose what they knew over what they perceived incorrectly as closed-minded and out of touch. This allowed the radical left to use fear tactics

Watergate, Zippergate or
Benghazigate...Which Is Worse?

Forbes, by Larry Bell Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 5:58:01 AM Post Reply

Some of my recent articles addressing the Benghazi consulate debacle have quoted Senator John McCain comparing it with another White House scandal. To whit: “It is the worst cover-up or incompetence I have ever observed in my life. Somebody the other day said to me, this is as bad as Watergate, but nobody died in Watergate.” That association with presidential misdeeds leading to impeachment provoked contentious reader responses, some offended by the connection, and others in agreement.

Former school is prepped
for Sandy Hook pupils

USA Today, by Thomas Frank Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 5:55:08 AM Post Reply

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Pupils from Sandy Hook Elementary School will return to classes at a former school building about 15 minutes away and may never go back to the school where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six teachers and administrators. Work crews descended on the former Chalk Hill Middle School in Monroe on Sunday morning to make it ready for pupils by Wednesday, although no date has been set for the children to resume classes, Monroe Police Lt. Brian McCauley said. The two-story building sits along a winding, wooded road next to a new middle school and an elementary school.

In Washington, The Goal
Is Control Of Private Wealth

Townhall, by Austin Hill Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 5:46:28 AM Post Reply

Are the President and the Congress trying to send our economy in to a recession? They’re probably not trying to, no. But with the current governing philosophy in Washington, a recession has become an acceptable means to a necessary end. And the intended “end” doesn’t necessarily entail economic growth and prosperity. That sounds harsh, I know. But think it through with me. Because as the nation’s media has been obsessed about the “fiscal cliff” and whether or not the President and congressional Republicans will work out an agreement to forestall it, insufficient attention has been paid

Hillary in Hiding

American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 12/17/2012 5:43:01 AM Post Reply

For once, I am inclined to believe Hillary Clinton. The U.S. Secretary of State, suffering from a sick stomach, has reportedly fainted and bumped her head. As a result, her spokespeople have already announced that she will be unable to testify at the Benghazi hearings, although she was not due to appear until December 20, many days after the vaguely reported fainting spell. Already, the internet is resounding with a chorus of "How convenient!" (See here and here, for example.) Many, upon hearing this news, are assuming that Clinton, who has been hedging for a month on whether to appear

Is Chuck Hagel a Pacifist?

National Journal*, by Michael Hirsh Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/17/2012 5:40:48 AM Post Reply

Chuck Hagel is, by his own admission, haunted by Vietnam. When asked to explain his early opposition to George W. Bush´s 2003 Iraq invasion in an interview in 2011, the former Nebraska senator harked back to his experience as an Army private fighting the Tet offensive in 1968. That maverick stance cost Hagel his reputation as a leading Republican, and it may be one reason why President Obama is now considering him as his next Defense secretary, with Leon Panetta set to retire. "We sent home almost 16,000 body bags that year," Hagel told me.

Of Liberals and Loopholes

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 5:35:25 AM Post Reply

One post-election budget surprise has been President Obama´s resistance to John Boehner´s proposal to get $800 billion in new revenue by closing tax loopholes. Here´s one likely reason: the high tax rates of his blue-state Democratic brethren. One of Mr. Boehner´s ideas, taking a cue from Mitt Romney, would impose a limit on annual deductions. During the campaign Mr. Romney suggested a range for a deduction cap, anywhere from $17,000 to $50,000 a year, and many liberal pundits praised the idea on equity grounds.

Five-Point Action Plan for
President Obama to Reduce
Violence by the Mentally Ill

National Review Online, by D.J. Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 5:31:25 AM Post Reply

President Obama said the federal government has to do something meaningful to prevent future shootings, like the recent massacre of 26 children and adults at a school in Newtown, Connecticut. Here is what the federal government can do to prevent violence related to mental illness: 1. Start demonstration projects of Assisted Outpatient Treatment (e.g. Kendra’s Law in New York, Laura’s Law in California) throughout the country. AOT allows courts to order individuals with mental illness to stay in treatment as a condition of living in the community. It is only applicable to the most seriously ill

Let America’s Gas Industry Boom

New York Post, by Donald J. Boudreaux Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 5:24:35 AM Post Reply

Researchers at the Energy Department just released a comprehensive economic analysis, finding that the United States can reap massive economic benefits from allowing the export of natural gas. Will the Obama administration go for the gold — or continue yielding to anti-export hysteria? In recent years, the nation has seen astonishing technological innovation in the natural-gas sector. Companies have discovered vast, gas-rich shale deposits under US soil. And they’ve developed new, high-tech means of extraction. The estimated reserves of recoverable domestic gas are now over 2.2 trillion cubic feet. The expansion in supply has already brought a dramatic drop

The mainstream media vultures gather

Washington Examiner, by Hugh Hewitt Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 5:19:39 AM Post Reply

"Show up and shut up." Rabbi Harold Kushner was my guest for a PBS series on God in America, and this was his condensed version of advice for those who would comfort the grieving. It ought to circulate around the halls of American broadcast media for once again there were no boundaries the collective media would respect in the aftermath of the murders in Newtown, Conn. The rush to assemble a media mob is now expected and the ratings consequences to the networks of ignoring such a horror are no doubt enormous, but the intrusion into the awful grief

The perils of legalizing pot

Newsweek, by David Frum Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/17/2012 5:11:00 AM Post Reply

We’re not doing well providing work for our young people. When they do find work, they’ll probably earn less than their parents, probably form less stable intimate relationships, and age into more uncertain retirements. But, hey, don’t say we do nothing for our kids. Instead of work, marriage, and security, we can offer pot, porn, and videogames. Marijuana possession is now legal in Colorado and Washington. California also allows marijuana possession, if users can pay a doctor to prescribe it as “medicine.”

State Department to get
independent Benghazi report

CNN, by Elise LaBolt Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/17/2012 5:07:39 AM Post Reply

Washington -- After months of accusations and political recriminations, the State Department is getting ready to present the most detailed explanation yet regarding the circumstances surrounding the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Monday, the State Department is expected to get a report on the incident from the independent Advisory Review Board, sources in the State Department told CNN Sunday. The review was ordered by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Congress will receive the report from the board ahead of a classified briefing for members on Wednesday

The morally serious argument
of the pro-gun lobby

The Week, by Joel Golinkin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 5:04:11 AM Post Reply

I n 1966, Charles Whitman killed 16 people from "the Tower" at the University of Texas. Nothing changed. In 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold massacred 13 at Columbine High School in Colorado. Nothing changed. In 2007, 32 dead at Virginia Tech. Nothing changed. Twelve killed in Aurora this summer. Nothing changed. Now, 20 children senselessly murdered in Newtown, Connecticut. Nothing will change. With so much senseless slaughter, many Americans quite reasonably wonder why the hell people are allowed to own handguns at all, and why we can´t do anything to change it.

Gun control lessons
from Lyndon Johnson

Washington Post, by Joseph A.Califano, Jr. Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 4:59:29 AM Post Reply

If ever there were a moment for President Obama to learn from history, it is now, in the wake of Friday’s shootings at the elementary school at Newtown, Conn. The timely lesson for Obama, drawn from the experience of Lyndon B. Johnson — the last president to aggressively fight for comprehensive gun control — is this: Demand action on comprehensive gun control immediately from this Congress or lose the opportunity during your presidency. In the aftermath of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (just weeks after the fatal shooting of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Road to Damascus

PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 4:55:35 AM Post Reply

Michael Totten was recently at a meeting in Morocco where the “friends of the Syrian resistance” conferred at a truce in a posh resort. The girls were pretty, the scenery spectacular and the food excellent among participants dressed in Western fashion “hunched over laptops and iPads”: Pre-packaged videos play during breaks in the main room. They’re professionally-made short documentaries about the atrocities being committed a few thousands miles to the east. You could dismiss them as propaganda, but they seem solid enough and not terribly different from what I’ve seen on Frontline,

Those cigarette taxes are
sure working out, eh?

Hot Air, by Jazz Shaw Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/17/2012 4:48:23 AM Post Reply

Taking a break from the firestorm of sad news this weekend, let’s circle back and see how things are going in the states which have chosen to sin tax their way back to prosperity. First, my own home stomping grounds of New York, which has been seeking a way to stave off total fiscal collapse by jacking up one of the highest tobacco tax rates in the nation. How’s that working out for ya? ALBANY – Chronic cigarette-tax evasion continues to cost New York State at least $1.7 billion a year

Fraud and Racketeering at CAIR

FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/17/2012 3:06:33 AM Post Reply

35,000 Pakistanis have been killed in Muslim terrorist attacks since September 11. The death toll in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, which mostly consist of Muslim-on-Muslim violence, is swiftly rising through the tens of thousands. While it’s obvious that Islamists victimize non-Muslims, it’s not always noted that they victimize Muslims first. The first goal of every Islamist movement, from your political Islamists to your unfriendly neighborhood Islamist militia toting its black flags and assault rifles around the yard, is to set up a corrupt totalitarian system in a Muslim country

John Kerry: Assad’s Man in Washington

FrontPage Magazine, by Arnold Ahlert Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/17/2012 2:53:59 AM Post Reply

Now that U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice has had her name withdrawn from consideration for Secretary of State, it appears that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) is next in line for the job. Sources have told ABC News that the president has tabbed the Massachusetts senator, but that the official announcement is being delayed by other pending Cabinet decisions, as well as the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. (Snip) Kerry’s lack of judgment is nothing new. For the last decade, he has been the federal government’s highest-ranking apologist for

Sen. Feinstein to introduce
gun-control bill next year

Los Angeles Times, by Morgan Little Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/17/2012 2:26:16 AM Post Reply

Washington - Two days after the shooting deaths of 26 people at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, Sen. Dianne Feinstein pledged Sunday that she would introduce new gun-control legislation at the beginning of next year’s congressional session. “It [the bill] will ban the sale, the transfer, the transportation and the possession,” the California senator said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Not retroactively, but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets.” Feinstein said the purpose of her proposal, a version of the assault-weapons ban that expired in 2004,

Soyuz put in place for
mission to space station

Associated Press, by Peter Leonard Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/17/2012 1:45:34 AM Post Reply

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz craft was placed into launch position at a Russian-leased facility in the freezing, windswept southern Kazakhstan steppe Monday ahead of the start to a five-month mission for three astronauts at the International Space Station. The craft was rolled out of its hangar on a flatbed train at exactly 7 a.m. local time (0100 GMT), in strict accordance with tradition. NASA´s Tom Marshburn, Russian Federal Space Agency´s Roman Romanenko, and Canadian Space Agency´s Chris Hadfield will blast off Wednesday and travel for two days before reaching three other astronauts

Sec. Clinton´s Concussion Raises More
Questions About Health, Benghazi

Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/17/2012 1:31:09 AM Post Reply

When the State Department revealed on Saturday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had fainted last week and suffered a concussion due to a stomach virus, the announcement left more questions than answers regarding Clinton´s health. (Snip) This is the second time Clinton will not be able to answer key questions about Libya because of her health. Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said Clinton was first asked to go on the Sunday shows after terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi but was too worn down to do so. Rice ultimately went on the Sunday shows in Clinton's

Conservatives Bash Boehner´s
Reported Tax Hike Offer

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/17/2012 1:11:48 AM Post Reply

Conservative Republicans in the House are seriously concerned with reports that House Speaker John Boehner has abandoned GOP principles in his behind-closed-doors fiscal cliff negotiations with President Barack Obama by offering a tax rate increase. (Snip) "If the offer is in fact true – and we’re still hearing this just from anonymous ´sources´ – then Speaker Boehner must have forgotten that nearly all Republican House members, including himself, campaigned on opposing just such tax increases,” Huelskamp said in an email. “Caving into President Obama´s tax increase demands would not only

Report: Boehner Caves Again, Offers
Obama Year Delay on Debt Limit

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/17/2012 1:03:09 AM Post Reply

House Speaker John Boehner apparently broke from Republican Party principles yet again this weekend, this time with a reported agreement to give President Barack Obama a full year-long free ride that would give up all GOP leverage until early 2014 on the debt ceiling. “House Speaker John A. Boehner has offered to push any fight over the federal debt limit off for a year, a major concession that would deprive Republicans of leverage in the budget battle but is breathing new life into stalled talks over the year-end ‘fiscal cliff,’” the Washington Post reported late Sunday evening.

Paralysed woman´s
thoughts control robotic arm

BBC News, by James Gallagher Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/17/2012 12:09:15 AM Post Reply

Unrivalled control of a robotic arm has been achieved using a paralysed woman´s thoughts, a US study says. Jan, who is 53 and paralysed from the neck down, was able to deftly pick up, move and place a variety of objects in a manner similar to a normal arm. Brain implants were used to control the robotic arm, in the study reported in the Lancet medical journal. Experts in the field said it was an "unprecedented performance" and a "remarkable achievement". Jan was diagnosed with spinocerebellar degeneration 13 years ago and progressively lost control of her body.

Portrait of the Attorney
General as a young militant

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/16/2012 11:43:27 PM Post Reply

A while ago, The Daily Caller reported that, as a student at Columbia University, Eric Holder participated in an armed takeover of the University’s former ROTC office. John wrote about this at the time, but I want to expand. According to the Daily Caller, Holder was among the leaders of the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), which demanded that the former ROTC office be renamed the “Malcolm X Lounge.” The change, the group insisted, was to be made “in honor of a man who recognized the importance of territory as a basis for nationhood.” This statement shows the separatist nature

Why we must stop ignoring North Korea

Chicago Tribune, by Gregg Andrew Brazinsky Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/16/2012 11:42:45 PM Post Reply

Seoul and Washington have made the Korean peninsula a more dangerous place. (Snip) Having become one of a handful of nations to put a satellite in orbit, the regime can boast of a technological achievement that will help to mobilize its people. And it has embarrassed South Korea, which recently suspended its own effort to launch a rocket. Most ominously, Pyongyang has come one step closer to being able to hit the United States, South Korea or Japan with a nuclear payload. It is impossible to know if this is what the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea really intends.

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