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NBC reporter kidnapped in Syria,
released unharmed after 5 days

New York Post, by Andy Soltis Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 12/18/2012 8:18:47 AM Post Reply

Richard Engel, NBC’s award-winning chief foreign correspondent, was kidnapped in war-torn Syria and held for five days before being released unharmed, the network announced today.The network said early today that Engel and his crew had been kidnapped by "an unknown group," but that are currently out of the country.A Turkish media report yesterday that Engel and Aziz Akyavas, a Turkish journalist working with Engel, had been missing since last week quickly went viral and fueled fears they had been killed in the fighting.

Anxiety rises as Americans
face start of Obamacare

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 12/18/2012 8:00:04 AM Post Reply

This March will mark three years since Obamacare became law, and it still has not had any serious effect on most Americans´ lives. That´s the way President Obama and the law´s Democratic authors planned it; they conveniently pushed the dislocations and unhappy consequences of national health care well past their re-election campaigns.But Obamacare will be here soon, with an Oct. 1, 2013, start of enrollment in insurance exchanges and a Jan. 1, 2014, deadline for full implementation. The political results could be deeply painful for democrats

Most of Duke lacrosse players´ claims
dismissed by U.S. Appeals Court

News & Observer (Raleigh N.C.), by Anne Blythe Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 12/18/2012 7:54:53 AM Post Reply

Though five years have passed since North Carolina’s attorney general exonerated three former Duke University lacrosse players of phony rape allegations, the lawsuits they filed against the prosecutor, the city of Durham, its top administrators and law enforcement officers remain open in federal court.But on Monday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that takes the heft out of much of the former players’ claims.

Can Islam reform?

American Thinker, by James Lewis Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 12/18/2012 7:28:03 AM Post Reply

When liberals sound out on religious fundamentalism they never seem to think of Islam. Yet the Religion of Surrender -- Islam means "surrender," not "peace" -- is by far the most fundamentalist religion in the world. Everything is supposed to go back to the Qur´an, written in the Arabian Desert in the 7th century, straight from the mouth of Allah and therefore impossible to question. If you can´t question something you´re set for mind-lock, and all the troubles flow from that.

The Strategic Concentration
of Modern Children

American Thinker, by Christopher Chantrill Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 12/18/2012 7:02:58 AM Post Reply

Back in the good old days, when a few million humans were evenly distributed across the planet, every young man was a rampage killer. In the dawn raid, the idea was to kill all the men in the neighboring village and grab a few women. (Snip) A mere thousand years ago, the Vikings liked nothing better in the autumn than to rampage up the rivers of southern England. Now we have the modern rampage killer, who, with benefit of modern technology, can kill a whole classroom of children on his own, without benefit of a band of brothers.

Karachi polio killings:
Vaccination workers shot

BBC [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/18/2012 6:34:53 AM Post Reply

Five Pakistani polio vaccination workers--four of them women--have been shot dead in the country´s largest city Karachi, officials say. The victims were reportedly working with a UN-backed programme to eradicate polio, which is endemic in Pakistan. No group has said it carried out the shootings, but the Taliban have issued threats against the polio drive and are active in parts of Karachi. The attacks took place in three separate locations in the city. Meanwhile, a teenage girl was wounded in an attack when gunmen opened fire on a team of female health workers on the outskirts of Peshawar in the

Islamic jihackers – coming
soon to a bank near you

Telegraph [UK], by Willard Foxton Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/18/2012 6:30:54 AM Post Reply

While our fumbling politicians and toothless regulators aren´t having much success at dealing with out-of-control, too-big-to fail-banks, it seems that online cyber-jihadis are having some success in damaging them. Last week, a group calling itself the "Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters" (named for an islamic militant killed by British Troops in Palestine in the 1930s) issued a warning on Pastebin that it would target US banks, in protest over YouTube not removing the film The Innocence of Muslims. Since then, they´ve made good on their threat. Institutions including Bank of America, PNC Financial Services Group, and SunTrust have seen large-scale

´Give me a break´ -
Tarantino tires of defending
ultra-violent films after
Sandy Hook massacre

Independent [UK], by Matilda Battersby Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 12/18/2012 6:28:43 AM Post Reply

In the wake of Friday’s shootings at a school in Connecticut which left 26 dead, arts events across America were cancelled. But director of ultra-violent film Django Unchained went ahead with a press junket on Saturday, and went on to remark that he is tired of defending his films every time American is rocked by gun violence. Speaking in New York Quentin Tarantino said: “I just think you know there´s violence in the world, tragedies happen, blame the playmakers. It´s a western. Give me a break."

Ukip are the true
heirs to Thatcher

Telegraph [UK], by Thomas Pascoe Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/18/2012 6:26:15 AM Post Reply

The Conservatives are in real trouble. Unless they can stage a reconciliation with the large numbers of former Tory voters who now intend to support Ukip, they can give up any hope of challenging Labour at the next election. This morning´s polling data underscores the point. The Times (£) and the Independent both hand the opposition a double-digit lead, the result of Ukip polling around 10pc. At the weekend, ComRes put Ukip on 14pc. In the past two months alone, the Tories have lost a sixth of their support. Liberal social policies are not winning voters from the Left

The rise of the
internet anti-fan

Telegraph [UK], by Tom Chivers Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/18/2012 6:23:13 AM Post Reply

In the old days, there were fans. They listened to albums, read books, went to films. Every so often one of them went mad and started stalking the object of their devotion, or got a tattoo of their face on their face, or shot them in a hotel corridor while holding a copy of The Catcher in the Rye.[Snip] But in the last few years, we have seen the rise of the anti-fan. They are everywhere. They hate the person they´re reading or listening to, but can´t seem to stop. They obsessively hang around on the YouTube channels or blogs

The N.R.A. Is Still
Vital, Because the
2nd Amendment Is

New York Times, by David Kopel Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 12/18/2012 6:21:02 AM Post Reply

To realize that the N.R.A. is waning, just read the newspapers. Although the group has been powerful in the past, “there are signs that the N.R.A. may be losing some of its almost legendary clout,” reported The Los Angeles Times. As a Senate staffer told that paper, “The N.R.A. doesn’t carry as much weight anymore because they’ve gone over the edge.” (Snip) All the above is the narrative that the gun prohibition lobbies and their media enablers are promoting today. Does it sound familiar? It should. All of the quotes come from 1988-99,

Invincible Ignorance

Creators Syndicate, by Thomas Sowell Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/18/2012 6:08:47 AM Post Reply

Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of “gun control” advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available. If gun control zealots had any respect for facts, they would have discovered this long ago, because there have been too many factual studies over the years to leave any serious doubt about gun control laws being not merely futile but counterproductive.

Children Can Usually Recover
From Emotional Trauma

New York Times, by Douglas Quenqua Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 6:06:24 AM Post Reply

Perhaps the most remarkable part of her story is that today she sleeps just fine. On April 20, 1999, Crystal Woodman, 16, was studying for a test in the library at Columbine High School when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked in and began shooting. For seven and a half minutes she hid beneath a table listening to screams, gunfire and the two teenagers’ laughter. (Snip)And while the tender age of the Newtown schoolchildren has yielded speculation that they could be more deeply or irreversibly scarred, research does not bear out the theory, Dr. Saxe says.

The GOP And Immigration: Good
Economics, But What About The Politics?

Forbes, by Doug Bandow Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 5:58:43 AM Post Reply

Immigration policy is an unimaginable mess. Which seems strange for a nation of immigrants. Yet today many descendents of immigrants want to pull up the drawbridge. But the political dynamic is changing. While the majority of people still may prefer less immigration, they typically vote on other issues. Hispanics react more negatively to restrictive immigration policy—and especially the impression of being anti-immigrant. That is one reason Mitt Romney received little more than a quarter of that community’s votes in November.

NAACP welcomes Scott to Senate, expects
no help from ‘small government’ lawmaker

Daily Caller, by Vince Coglianese Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 12/18/2012 5:52:51 AM Post Reply

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People isn’t too excited about the appointment of Rep. Tim Scott to South Carolina’s soon-to-be-vacated U.S. Senate seat. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced her appointment of the black Republican during a noon press conference in Columbia, South Carolina. Scott will replace Sen. Jim DeMint, who is leaving to take the top position at the conservative Heritage Foundation. That appointment will make Scott the only black U.S. senator, at least until 2014, when he runs for re-election. The last black senator was Illinois Democrat Roland Burris, who left office in November of 2010.

Delicious Irony

Commentary Magazine, by John Steele Gordon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 5:48:19 AM Post Reply

Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina has appointed Rep. Tim Scott to fill the Senate seat held by Jim DeMint, who has resigned to become head of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. Scott will serve for two years and then have to run in November 2014 for the remaining two years of DeMint’s term. This just abounds in delicious political and historical irony. In 2010 Scott defeated Paul Thurmond, the son of the late Senator Strom Thurmond, to win the Republican nomination to the 1st congressional district seat in the House.

Stateless man stuck on island

CNN, by Samuel Burke & Lucky Gold Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 5:43:41 AM Post Reply

In the movie "The Terminal," actor Tom Hanks plays a man who suddenly finds himself stateless when his country ceases to exist. New York’s JFK Airport becomes his only home. That movie was loosely based on a true story, but for Mikhail Sebastian being stateless is a dilemma that is all too real. Sebastian is stateless. He is an ethnic Armenian born in Azerbaijan in what was the Soviet Union. He was forced to flee when the Soviet bloc began to crumble in the 1990s. He tried to take refuge in Armenia but eventually wound up

Sen. M. Stanley Dukakis
would revive ‘good’ old days

Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 5:38:53 AM Post Reply

So M. Stanley Dukakis says he’s not a “candidate” to temporarily replace his former lieutenant governor, Liveshot Kerry, in the U.S. Senate. Maybe. But this wouldn’t be the first “lead-pipe cinch” guarantee he’s issued that didn’t turn out to be true. Personally, I think the governor once known as Pee Wee Dukakis would be a fine pick, especially for Gov. Deval Patrick. If Deval appoints him, it’ll be the first time in his six years as governor that he gets to stand beside someone shorter than himself. One thing we know for sure:

Apparently, the Pentagon Was a Little Too
Helpful to Zero Dark Thirty´s Filmmakers

Atlantic, by Adam Clark Estes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 5:30:31 AM Post Reply

As if Zero Dark Thirty needed more controversy, ABC News is now reporting that Under Secretary of Defense Michael Vickers is under investigation for leaking sensitive information to the filmmakers. "Specifically, Vickers is said to have disclosed to the filmmakers the identity of a member of SEAL Team Six -- though not a member of the team that conducted the raid on Osama bin Laden´s compound," says ABC´s Jake Tapper. This is potentially a big deal for said SEAL Team Six member, who could be targeted by terrorists, but it´s also a bit of a boondoggle for the Pentagon,

GOP sees key gaps
in report on Libya

Washington Times, by Shaun Waterman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 5:25:25 AM Post Reply

The panel investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, delivered its findings Monday to State Department officials, who said the report could be released publicly as early as Wednesday. But Republican lawmakers already have expressed skepticism about the probe’s thoroughness and frustration that their key concerns will not be addressed in the report by the Accountability Review Board — the mandated State Department panel investigating the Benghazi incident. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire Republican and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the investigative panel would not probe “interagency discussions” about what occurred

Modern Wisdom from
Ancient Minds

PJ Media, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 12/18/2012 5:24:50 AM Post Reply

The Tragic View Of course we can acquire a sense of man’s predictable fragilities from religion, the Judeo-Christian view in particular, or from the school of hard knocks. Losing a grape crop to rain a day before harvest, or seeing a warehouse full of goods go up in smoke the week before their sale, or being diagnosed with leukemia on the day of a long-awaited promotion convinces even the most naïve optimist that the world sort of works in tragic ways that we must accept, but do not fully understand.

Australian Wins Compensation
Over Sex Mishap

Associated Press, by Rod McGuirk Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/18/2012 5:22:03 AM Post Reply

An Australian court has ruled that a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex on a business trip is eligible for worker´s compensation benefits. The Full Bench of the Federal Court ruled Dec. 13 in favor of the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, and rejecting the appeal of the federal government´s insurer, ending a five-year legal battle. The woman was hospitalized after being injured in 2007 during sex with a male friend while staying in a motel in the town of Nowra, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of her hometown of Sydney.

Conservative Populism

National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/18/2012 5:19:10 AM Post Reply

The conservative failure in 2012 was not an inability to appeal to hyphenated groups on the basis of ethnic, gender, and age identification. Instead, there was a general cluelessness about how to reach the middle and working classes of all races and ethnicities by explaining how conservative principles are not just for the rich. Consider what messages candidates send by the issues they choose to address. Rather than write off the 47 percent of Americans who receive entitlements and do not pay income taxes, conservative candidates needed to wade into those groups

Hillary Clinton’s head fake

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 5:15:52 AM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to face a grilling from Congress this week over the terrorist attacks in Benghazi when she started channeling the late poet Shel Silverstein. “I have the measles and the mumps / A gash, a rash and purple bumps,” said Clinton, in effect, informing the House and Senate (with regrets!) that she was suffering too many maladies to testify as expected about the Sept. 11 attack in Libya. America’s top diplomat was to provide her first public answers regarding the murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens. Now that won’t happen.

Senator ´Pleased´ to Include $200
Million in Pork Projects in ´Sandy Bill´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/18/2012 5:11:58 AM Post Reply

Senator Mark Begich, a Democrat from Alaska, is "pleased" to include more than $200 million in pork spending in the Sandy legislation, a bill meant to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The senator´s office explains the request in a press release: Alaskans hard hit by fisheries disasters in recent years would be eligible for federal assistance, if a comprehensive federal disaster funding bill released today gains final Congressional passage. U.S. Senator Mark Begich joined the other members of Alaska´s congressional delegation in requesting the funding for Alaskans be included in the legislation,

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