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Jackson leaves EPA
to mixed reviews

Washington Times, by Ben Wolfgang Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/27/2012 11:22:47 PM Post Reply

A hero to the environmental movement and a constant thorn in the sides of Republicans and the energy sector, outgoing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson presided over one of the most controversial and dramatic periods in the agency’s history. She made her mark by helping craft new automobile fuel standards, imposing a ban on new coal-fired power plants, and being among the loudest in calling for action to combat climate change. But Ms. Jackson, who announced her resignation Thursday after four years at the helm of the EPA, also sustained several legal defeats

Possible strike at docks
would cripple key U.S.
ports, hurt economy

Washington Post, by Brad Plumer and Michael A. Fletcher Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/27/2012 11:18:21 PM Post Reply

Thousands of dockworkers from Baltimore to Houston are threatening to go on strike Sunday over their pay, a move that could throttle an array of key ports and disrupt commerce at a critical juncture for the economy. Nearly half of the nation’s ocean-bound container traffic runs through the 14 threatened ports on the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, and a work stoppage would crimp imports of household goods, clothing and frozen foods, among other items. The biggest hub, in the New York area, handled $208 billion worth of goods last year. A widespread strike

On Wall Street, realization is
sinking in over the elusiveness
of ‘fiscal cliff’ deal

Washington Post, by Zachary A. Goldfarb Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/27/2012 11:15:41 PM Post Reply

Wall Street is finally waking up to the troubling prospect that lawmakers may not reach a deal to avert the “fiscal cliff” before the new year, with stocks swinging dramatically Thursday in response to news from Capitol Hill. Financial markets had been climbing in recent weeks on the expectation that President Obama and the Congress would reach an agreement, adding further momentum to an economy that has been gaining strength. But with the final days trickling away before the year-end deadline, the markets Thursday experienced their greatest volatility since the summer.

Veterans frustrated by
VA disability claims backlog

Star-Telegram [Fort Worth, TX], by Alex Branch Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 12/27/2012 10:57:09 PM Post Reply

Infantryman Josh Odom was seven months into his first tour in Iraq when someone lobbed a grenade over the gate at the combat outpost he guarded. It exploded six feet from the Rockwall native, driving three chunks of shrapnel deep into his right shoulder. One pierced his lung. (Snip) Delays in the processing of disability claims are a familiar problem at the VA, one that federal officials have long vowed to solve. But in fiscal 2012, the average time to complete a VA disability compensation or pension claim

Feinstein: All Gun Owners Should
Be Registered, Fingerprinted

Breitbart´s Big Government, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/27/2012 10:51:25 PM Post Reply

Even as news that Sen. Dianne Feinstein´s (D-CA) "Assault Weapon" ban is really a ban on some of the most popular civilian-owned handguns in the U.S., details of her promised legislation also show that it will require gun owners to register their guns with the government. Feinstein´s legislation does this by banning the import, possession, and transfer of hundreds of different weapons, but making special allowances for gun owners who already own the weapons on the ban list. On first read, the owner of an AR-15,

Hobby Lobby faces millions
in fines for bucking Obamacare

CNN, by Eric Marrapodi Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 12/27/2012 10:45:40 PM Post Reply

Washington - Craft store giant Hobby Lobby is bracing for a $1.3 million a day fine beginning January 1 for noncompliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare. The company opposes providing some contraceptives to employees through its company health care plan on religious grounds, saying some contraceptive products, like the morning after pill, equate to abortion. After failing to receive temporary relief from the fines from the Supreme Court, Hobby Lobby announced late Thursday through its attorneys that it "will continue to provide health

Can you spot the ´invisible
animal´? Incredible images
show nature´s disappearing
act when predators are near

Daily Mail [UK], by Matt Blake Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 12/27/2012 10:44:02 PM Post Reply

Whether they are hunters or the hunted, these cunning animals are all masters of disguise who can fool even the most beady-eyed passer by into believing they are not there. Some hide under lily pads, some dissolve into the bark of a tree while others slip seamlessly into the snow, either to hide from a hungry predator or silently stalk an unwitting prey. But the one thing from which they cannot hide is the all-seeing camera lens of photographer Art Wolfe. He has spent over 35 years roaming the deserts of Africa, the rainforests of South America, the mountains

Hypocrisy Of Liberals
Who Cling To Their Guns

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 12/27/2012 10:39:12 PM Post Reply

Gun Control: A different set of gun laws applies to network anchors, but even stranger is a newspaper publishing a map showing not only who has a firearm but also telling predators who doesn´t. It should have been sufficient for the Gannett-owned Journal News, headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., reporting on increased calls for stricter gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn., to have noted that about 44,000 people in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties in the Lower Hudson Valley — one of every 23 adults — was licensed to own a handgun.

Thank You, David Gregory

National Review Online, by David French Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/27/2012 10:38:24 PM Post Reply

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then your stunt is worth a thousand op-eds. In less than one minute of screen time, you demonstrated several things: First, even “banned” magazines are ridiculously easy to acquire. How long did it take your producers to find that magazine? Five minutes? Ten minutes? There are millions upon millions of these cheap and easy-to-manufacture items in circulation, and “banning” them will have exactly the effects you so brilliantly demonstrated on national television. Second, labyrinthine gun-control restrictions serve mainly to instantly (and often

Why Do Democrats love Revolvers?

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/27/2012 10:35:20 PM Post Reply

If I were a semiautomatic pistol, I would be getting a complex. What Democrats really hate is semiautomatic rifles, although it isn’t clear exactly why. True, the Sandy Hook killings were carried out with such a weapon, but in the scheme of things, rifles of any sort are rarely used as murder weapons. In 2011, according to the FBI, there were 14,612 victims of homicide in the U.S., down 14.7% from 2007. Of those 14,612, only 323 were murdered with any type of rifle. More than five times as many were killed with knives. More were killed with blunt objects, and more than twice as many were killed

Man pushed to death in front of NYC
subway train, second time this month

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 12/27/2012 10:34:55 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK – New York City police say a man has been shoved in front of a subway train and has been killed. Investigators are searching for the woman believed to have pushed him Thursday night in Queens. It´s the second time a man was shoved to his death on subway tracks this month. Ki-Suck Han was pushed in front of a train in Times Square on Dec. 3. A photograph of him moments before the train hit him was published on the cover of the New York Post and caused an uproar. Thursday´s subway killing happened on a platform for the 7 train, which connects Manhattan and Queens.

Stigmatizing Gun Owners
Makes Civil Debate Impossible

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/27/2012 10:28:44 PM Post Reply

The decision of a newspaper in New York’s Westchester County to publish an interactive map that allowed readers to discover the names and addresses of owners of legal guns is generally being debated as one about whether the Gannett-owned Journal News showed good judgment. It didn’t, but the problem goes a lot deeper than whether or not a newspaper ought to publicize information that is legally available to the public in this manner. The controversy goes to the heart of the entire discussion about guns in this country. No matter what those behind this stunt say

Chicago sued for alleged
discrimination against black teachers

Reuters, by James B. Kelleher Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 12/27/2012 10:28:00 PM Post Reply

CHICAGO - The Chicago Teachers Union has sued the nation´s third largest school district, saying Mayor Rahm Emanuel´s campaign to reform or close underperforming public schools discriminates against African-American teachers and staff. The federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday and announced on Thursday is the latest battle with the city since teachers staged a week-long strike in September. It alleges that more than half of the tenured teachers fired in the most recent round of school closings and turnarounds were African American. But blacks make up less than 30 percent of the tenured teaching

L.A. gun buyback nets 2,037 firearms,
including 75 assault weapons

Los Angeles Times, by Richard Winton Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 9:59:58 PM Post Reply

A one-day gun buyback event in Los Angeles on Wednesday gathered 2,037 firearms, including 75 assault weapons and a rocket launcher, officials said. The total was nearly 400 more weapons than were collected in a similar buyback earlier this year. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the collection at two locations was so successful that the city ran out of money for supermarket gift cards and got a private donation through the city controller to bolster the pot. The gun buyback was moved up from its usual Mother´s Day date in response to the horrific massacre Dec. 14 that claimed the lives of

Is Every Single Animal
and Reptile Endangered?

Canada Free Press, by Alan Caruba Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 9:49:00 PM Post Reply

If it sometimes seems to you that every single animal and reptile is endangered, you can thank that element of the environmental and animal rights movements that has spent millions to foster this absurd belief. Animals and reptiles, fish and birds, lizards and turtles, all are born in the wild and all are food for other species. Nature doesn’t pick favorites, but thanks to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), humans do. I say “the wild”, but the wild is not some far off place, but rather, for example, it is the vast forested area along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Virginia and beyond. The “wild” has become our

December 27, 2012:
The Day Freedom Died in America

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 9:39:52 PM Post Reply

It was five months before the November 6 presidential election when CFP columnist, Northeast Intelligence Network’s Doug Hagmann courageously tried to warn Americans of a deliberate government planned Civil War in an article titled, “The planned re-election of Obama, revolutionary style”. “According to my source, there is talk among the highest levels of the uppermost echelon of the Department of Homeland Security, which he describes as effectively under the control of Barack Hussein Obama. During this call, he said that the DHS is actively preparing for massive social unrest inside the

Barbara Walters Has No Political
Questions for Obamas; Asks
About Family Dog Bo

NewsBusters, by Jeffrey Meyer Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 9:28:23 PM Post Reply

ABC’s Barbara Walters´ "interview" with the Obamas on Thursday´s Nightline ran much more like a celebrity infomercial. Walters was her usual self, asking questions void of substance and fawning over every detail of the First Family. With the fiscal cliff looming just weeks after the interview originally took place, Walters had no questions on any matter of political significance. She did find time to discuss the family´s dog Bo, pressing Mrs. Obama, "Does he follow you around all day?" and "What is Bo getting for Christmas?" For a reporter, Walters is pretty cozy with the White House,

Illegal immigrants say
tax credits are needed

WTHR-TV [Indianapolis, IN], by Bob Segall Original Article

Posted By: Mushroom- 12/27/2012 8:51:12 PM Post Reply

Indianapolis - Should the IRS be giving billions of dollars in tax credits to illegal immigrants? Many lawmakers say "no" after seeing an Eyewitness News investigation exposing massive fraud involving undocumented workers and child tax credits. Now some illegal immigrants are speaking out to explain why the tax credits are so important, and why Congress should not eliminate them.Salvador Presteguin is a plumber who works long hours. "Seven days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day," he told Eyewitness News while installing new pipes under a kitchen sink. When Salvador gets home,

Source: US Out of
Central African Republic

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 8:49:43 PM Post Reply

Washington - The State Department is closing its embassy in the Central African Republic and ordering its diplomatic team to leave as rebels there continue to advance and violence escalates. U.S. officials said the U.S. ambassador and about 40 others, including a number of Americans, were flown out of Bangui (bahn-GEE´) on a U.S. Air Force C-40 headed to Kenya. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were unauthorized to discuss the evacuation publicly. Rebels have seized at least 10 towns across the sparsely populated north of the impoverished country, and residents in

Judge Bans New Year’s Eve
Possum Drop

Fox News, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 8:19:25 PM Post Reply

New York City may drop a giant Waterford crystal ball on New Year’s Eve, but the folks around Brasstown, NC prefer their method – dropping a live possum. “It ain’t the new year until the possum drops” has been the saying around town for the past 19 years – but not anymore. (Snip) “We’re not gonna break no laws.” Logan said he just doesn’t understand all the fuss about using a life possum. For years, they put the critter in a decorated cage and lowered him down at the stroke of midnight. Afterwards, they released the possum into the woods. But PETA argued it was cruel.

GE still hiring workers at
new plant in north Fort Worth

Star-Telegram [Ft. Worth, TX], by Gordon Dickson Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 8:02:39 PM Post Reply

Jackie Lee was stunned when he applied for a job at General Electric´s locomotive plant in far north Fort Worth, but was rejected. (Snip) Lee, who has 22 years of experience at American but recently accepted a buyout package to leave that job, applied for a position as a locomotive assembler at the plant, known as GE Manufacturing Solutions. It was no ordinary job interview, he said; at one point, he and other applicants were placed on teams and asked to build things with Legos. The Haslet resident thought he did well in the interview -- his group built an airplane with their toy building blocks -

Canada´s energy boom draws
skilled Americans looking for work

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 7:55:23 PM Post Reply

Some out-of-work Americans might have to look no further than our neighbor to the north for employment. Canada is looking to hire tens of thousands of skilled workers for its booming energy industry. With the third-largest oil and gas reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, Canada wants to double its oil production in the next 10 years. While it has plenty of oil to tap, there aren´t enough skilled workers to help secure it. That´s especially true in the western province of Alberta, where mining the oil sands and creating the infrastructure for it is providing plenty of work.

Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf,
who led coalition forces in
the Persian Gulf War, dies

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 12/27/2012 7:32:15 PM Post Reply

Washington - A U.S. official says retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein´s forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78. The official tells The Associated Press that Schwarzkopf died Thursday in Tampa, Fla. The official wasn´t authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin´ Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper. He lived in retirement in Tampa, where he had served in

Obama´s Regulatory Surge
Empowers Bureaucrats

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 12/27/2012 7:31:04 PM Post Reply

Government By Fiat: Quietly, on Christmas Eve while no one was looking, President Obama unveiled his regulatory plans for the coming year. Why all the secrecy? What´s he got to hide? Plenty, it seems. By law, Obama was supposed to issue his regulatory plans last April. But, as with so many other things, he simply ignores the laws he finds inconvenient. Who´s to stop him? Even the Associated Press has noticed: "Since the election, the Obama administration has quietly reopened the regulations pipeline" on everything from "workplace safety to a crackdown on Wall Street," the news service wrote last week.

Hypocrisy Of Liberals
Who Cling To Their Guns

Investors Buiness Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 12/27/2012 7:19:15 PM Post Reply

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