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Source: CT Murderer Lived
in Windowless Basement
Playing Violent Video Games

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/18/2012 10:49:59 AM Post Reply

Adam Lanza, the shooter who massacred 20 children and six adults last Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School, spent hours in the windowless basement of his home playing violent video games like "Call of Duty" and obsessing over "guns and military equipment." Peter Wlasuk, a plumber who worked at the Lanza home, told The Sun that Lanza "lived in the basement" and he found it "strange." "He had a proper set up down there — computers, a bathroom, bed and desk and a TV," Wlasuk said. "There were no windows.” Wlasuk said he went down to the

Obama´s true record on gun control:
a mix of inaction and occasionally
giving in to the gun lobby

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/18/2012 10:39:09 AM Post Reply

Obama’s response to the tragedy at Newtown has been admirable in tone (boy, this guy can give a speech) but actually quite light in content. “These tragedies must end,” he said, implying serious action to reform access to guns – and the White House has promised that he will act "swiftly". But his rhetoric has been just as misleadingly ambitious in the past. After the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, Obama wrote that it was a time for “a new discussion on how we can keep America safe for all our people.” The discussion never happened.

Team Obama still raising money--
off Sandy Hook shootings

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/18/2012 10:36:34 AM Post Reply

They won the campaign handily and even had $14.2 million to spare, but the Obama-Biden campaign is still raising money, this time off the president´s comments about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut. In email from chief campaign advisor David Axelrod that urges supporters to watch President Obama´s moving address to the community of Newtown, there are two links that open a page with a video player featuring the president´s speech and two donate buttons asking for $15-$1,000 for his campaign. "The next chapter begins today. Stand with President Obama

IRS rule threatens to shut
down the small businesses
that prepare tax returns

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/18/2012 10:20:22 AM Post Reply

Small business owners who prepare tax returns for a living every year must either seek additional training or close their doors due to a new Internal Revenue Service regulation set to take effect at the end of this year. “Despite a federal lawsuit filed in March by three independent tax preparers and the Institute for Justice (IJ), the IRS refuses to budge on its December 31 deadline for roughly 350,000 tax-return preparers to comply with a mandatory continuing-education requirement, which will be followed next year by an IRS-mandated exam,” IJ’s Dan Alban writes at Doublethink Magazine (which I edit).

States Give ObamaCare
A Massive Vote
Of No Confidence

Investor´s Business Daily, by IBD Staff Original Article

Posted By: RustMB- 12/18/2012 10:19:26 AM Post Reply

Health Reform: If ObamaCare is such a great idea, why are so many governors — including several Democrats — refusing to play along? What do they know that the administration isn´t telling the rest of us? So far, not one part of ObamaCare has worked as planned. Almost immediately, the administration had to distribute huge numbers of waivers to companies because its initial rules would have forced them to drop their low-cost plans. ObamaCare´s high-risk pools promised to cover hundreds of thousands...

Facebook´s Instagram claims
´perpetual´rights to users´ photos

Telegraph [UK], by Matt Warman Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/18/2012 10:12:53 AM Post Reply

Newly announced changes to Instagram´s terms and conditions give the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site ´perpetual´ rights to all images uploaded, and allow Instagram to use them for commercial purposes without identification. "You acknowledge that we may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such," the new terms say. That may let advertisers use teenagers’ photos for marketing, raising privacy and security concerns, Jeffrey Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, told Bloomberg. Facebook itself was sued by users angry that their images had been used as part of ´sponsored stories´, and settled the case

Bob Schieffer: If Sandy Hook
Shooter Had Arab Name, ‘People
Would Be Going Nuts’

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/18/2012 10:11:44 AM Post Reply

During a Sunday morning panel discussion on the potential political impact of Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer put forth the idea that if the shooter had an Arab name, people would be much more inclined to revamp public policy to address such gun violence, much like how government fundamentally changed its role after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Schieffer’s comment came in response to panel guest James Peterson suggesting that addressing the “proliferation of guns” in America “should be a new front in the ‘War on Terror.’”

Bernie Goldberg To O’Reilly:
Both Liberals And Conservatives
Guilty For Politicizing CT Shooting

Mediaite, by Josh Feldman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/18/2012 10:05:18 AM Post Reply

Bill O’Reilly brought on Bernard Goldberg tonight to take on the almost immediate politicization of last Friday’s tragic shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. Both O’Reilly and Goldberg agreed that the liberal media was very quick to jumpstart the gun control debate, but Goldberg acknowledged there was a fair amount of politicization on the right from people who he said want assault weapons not because of the Second Amendment, but because of their paranoia over the government coming to take away their guns. (Snip) O’Reilly was amazed at how it “took minutes” for liberal pundits to direct

Husband of top deputy to Susan
Rice tweets anti-Kerry messages

Daily Caller, by Jamie Weinstein Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 12/18/2012 9:34:59 AM Post Reply

The husband of one of Susan Rice’s top deputies at the United Nations intimated on Twitter on Saturday that he would prefer someone other than John Kerry be appointed the next secretary of state, now that Rice is out of the running. Bruce Jones, a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution and the husband of Ambassador Elizabeth M. Cousens, the U.S. Representative on the U.N. Economic and Social Council and Alternate Representative to the U.N. General Assembly, tweeted two comments seemingly disparaging the prospect of a Kerry nomination.

An intriguing look inside religion and
Congress: Who prays and for what?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 12/18/2012 9:21:52 AM Post Reply

We´ve been hearing a lot about religion lately. It is the holiday season for such things in America. And, sadly, we´ve suffered another gaping wound from a sick outlier wreaking incomprehensible revenge on the most innocent of innocents and their caregivers. Despite the sacred separation of church and state in American governmental tradition, religion is an everyday fact of life for most Americans and is reflected in the operations of its government. [Snip] Now, the smart folks over at C-SPAN have given us a peek into the religions of Congress´ everyday operations.

Harmless Entertainment?

National Review, by Mona Charon Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 12/18/2012 9:08:56 AM Post Reply

In the wake of past mass shootings, when the “national conversation” has focused exclusively on guns, I have argued that our appallingly inadequate mental-health system was a better subject of reform. At least half of the shooters in the rampage killings that are ripping our hearts out are young men with serious mental illnesses, and our system has neither the legal nor the financial resources to get them the treatment and restraint that they, and we, desperately need.This time, mental-health reform has received passing mention, along with the usual pleas for gun control

Gun Control,
Thought Control
and People Control

Canada Free Press, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 12/18/2012 9:03:33 AM Post Reply

The gun control debate, like all debates with the left, is reducible to the question of whether we are individuals who make our own decisions or a great squishy social mass that helplessly responds to stimuli. Do people kill with guns or does the availability of guns kill people? Do bad eating habits kill people or does the availability of junk food kill people? To the left these are distinctions without a difference. If a thing is available then it is the cause of the problem.

Poll: Most want ‘fiscal cliff’
compromise but oppose cuts
that may be part of deal

Washington Post, by Jon Cohen and Philip Rucker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/18/2012 9:00:57 AM Post Reply

Most Americans want President Obama and congressional Republicans to compromise on a budget agreement, though they, too, are unhappy about the options that would avert the “fiscal cliff,” according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The strong support for compromise belies widespread public opposition to big spending cuts that are likely to be part of any deal. Most Americans oppose slashing spending on Medicaid and the military, as well as raising the age for Medicare eligibility and slowing the increase of Social Security benefits, all of which appear to be on the table in negotiations. Majorities call

Where’s Hillary Clinton’s
medical report?

Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 12/18/2012 8:57:00 AM Post Reply

We’re told she collapsed and hit her head and got a concussion, and that’s why she can’t testify about Benghazi this week. And we’re supposed to just take her word for it.Investor’s Business Daily editorializes: Outside the frothy bubble of U.S. political concerns lie only the hard realities of the real world. That’s why hard questions should be asked — and real answers demanded — of U.S. secretaries of state and those who would be them. That’s not the case with either Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,

The Only Way to Stop
School Shootings

American Thinker, by William A. Levinson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 12/18/2012 8:45:27 AM Post Reply

Senator Dianne Feinstein´s ghoulish eagerness to exploit the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut for political gain is reminiscent of stock horror movie villains who need and crave the blood of innocents for their unholy agendas. Feinstein´s agenda is an "assault weapon" ban, and it needs to be shut down before it gets started. Suppose that Feinstein had somehow been able to make all magazines larger than 10 rounds disappear overnight. Mass murderer Adam Lanza would have had to switch magazines more frequently (snip) The next question is as to whether teachers should carry guns in the classroom. Israeli teachers often do

Professor: I Want NRA Vice
President´s "Head on a Stick"

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/18/2012 8:34:47 AM Post Reply

Yesterday we brought you reports of NRA President David Keene and NRA members receiving death threats in light of the Sandy Hook tragedy and now, Campus Reform has reported that University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis has called for NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre´s "head on a stick" during a rant on his Twitter page. Loomis also called the NRA a terrorist organization. “[I] want Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick,” Erik Loomis, a professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI), tweeted. It “looks like the National Rifle Association has murdered some more children,” he added.”

Killer’s data destruction:
Adam Lanza smashed hard
drive before massacre

New York Post, by Jeane Macintosh Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/18/2012 8:19:46 AM Post Reply

Before he set off on his heinous rampage, Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza tried to cover his deadly tracks by smashing the hard drive of at least one of his cherished computers, according to investigators. The shattered drive was recovered during a search of the home of Nancy Lanza, the killer’s doting mom — and his first victim. Forensics experts were trying yesterday to piece the broken hard drive together, hoping it will help reveal clues about the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter, which left 20 little kids and six educators dead.

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."

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