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House Should Overhaul
Disastrous Senate Deal

National Review Online, by Deroy Murdock Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/1/2013 5:02:36 PM Post Reply

The House of Representatives should make massive changes to the so-called fiscal cliff deal that passed the Senate 89–8 at 1:39 a.m. today. That amended measure then can proceed to a conference committee for further improvement before advancing to final passage in both houses and President Obama’s signature, if he favors the legislation. These additional steps are required for three key reasons: First, laws should be passed through regular order, rather than Soviet-style backroom discussions and near-unanimous approval by rubber-stamp legislatures. The lawmaking gyrations of the last few weeks have been unseemly and an international embarrassment unworthy

Only the Beginning . . .

National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/1/2013 5:01:02 PM Post Reply

There are lots of ways of calculating the ratio between cuts and raising taxes in the fiscal-cliff deal — but the computations all are nightmarish — especially in comparison with the seemingly long-ago euphoria among the tea-party-driven Republicans following the landslide 2010 midterm elections in the House. One thing, however, is clear: Obama and his supporters will not view Republican concessions as magnanimous but rather as a green light for further tax hikes in 2013, as the president himself pontificated in his pre-victory-lap press conference. For Obama and his base, deficits are always a symptom of too little taxation

Kaul: Nation needs
a new agenda on guns

Des Moines Register, by Donald Kaul Original Article

Posted By: glyptodon- 1/1/2013 4:09:02 PM Post Reply

Donald Kaul suffered a heart attack back in July and discontinued writing his weekly column for the opinion website OtherWords.org. Depending upon how you count, that was Kaul’s second or third retirement. Today, Kaul announces that he’s ba-a-a-ck. This time, he’s only promising to write when events move him and not to be pinned down by a weekly column.

CNN viewers stunned as Kathy Griffin tries
to perform oral sex on Anderson Cooper
live on New Year´s Eve broadcast

Daily Mail (UK), by Rachel Quigley Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 1/1/2013 3:12:22 PM Post Reply

For six years she has been shocking audiences across America as they prepare to ring in the new year. But this year, Kathy Griffin really surpassed herself during CNN´s live New Year´s Eve broadcast when she simulated oral sex on co-host Anderson Cooper as well as making jokes about his ´sack´.Even when Cooper had to take a minute from the upbeat, lighthearted show for some serious news on the fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington, Griffin told him it should be called ´the fisting cliff´.Viewers continued to be shocked and appalled

Pictured: The extraordinary
scene when a disused New
York airport was turned into
massive parking lot for thousands
of cars damaged in Superstorm Sandy

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/1/2013 2:27:54 PM Post Reply

A small neglected Long Island airport, once used as a U.S. Naval base, is the new home of thousands of derelict cars damaged in Superstorm Sandy. About 15,000 storm-ravaged vehicles are parked bumper-to-bumper on runways and taxiways at the Calverton Executive Airport, which years ago was the site of a Grumman aircraft-manufacturing plant where the military assembled F-14 and tested lunar roving vehicles. Insurance Auto Auctions Corp. has agreed to pay the town of Riverhead, which owns the airport, $3,200 per month for every acre taken up by the cars.

Poverty, prostitutes and the long,
slow death of the Soviet Union:
Haunting pictures show des-
perate struggle to survive
in last days of USSR

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/1/2013 2:22:32 PM Post Reply

If you´re feeling the pinch in our age of austerity, you might want to hark back to life in the last years of the Soviet Union. Shop shelves were often bare, long lines for food were a regular sight and some children just didn´t have that youthful glint in their eyes you might expect. As was the essence of communism, the USSR´s economic system was highly centralised and based on inflexible five-year plans rather than market forces. Years of military expansion also hindered growth.[Snip]The unrest grew to such an extent that the USSR finally collapsed on Boxing Day 1991, shortly

Senate Votes to Kill Its
Own Pay Raise

Roll Call, by Niels Lesniewski Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/1/2013 2:14:48 PM Post Reply

Buried in the fiscal cliff deal passed by the Senate early Tuesday morning is a provision to halt a scheduled salary increase for members of Congress themselves. The bill contains a one-sentence provision that would block a scheduled cost-of-living adjustment for representatives and senators that is due to take place when the continuing resolution under which the federal government is currently operating expires on March 27. Congressional pay has not been increased since 2009, in part because the vote is so unpopular with the public given the recent recession, the push for deficit reduction and the high disapproval ratings

Why we fight

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/1/2013 2:10:47 PM Post Reply

My resolution this year is to be much more diplomatic and emollient and generally more sympathetic to the other point of view. Naah. Just kidding. But what I did think would be a good idea at the start of yet another year´s blogging is to remind ourselves where we´re at and why it is that I do the things I do, write the things I write, and say them in the uncompromising, no-prisoners-taken way I say them. You might think it was because of people like this man--Richard Parncutt, Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz in Austria

A Lesson for the Media

American Thinker, by Leo Rennert Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/1/2013 12:27:42 PM Post Reply

The Senate Homeland Security Committee report on the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, which killed four people, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, makes for painful reading. The committee´s findings, following a review of thousands of documents, shed new light on the utter confusion that prevailed at the highest levels of the administration in the days following the attack. Although U.S. intelligence almost immediately recognized the incident as a premeditated terrorist attack, administration officials, from President Obama on down, hedged and pretzled their comments to a fare-thee-well.

Obama´s idea of ´compromise´

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/1/2013 12:24:29 PM Post Reply

What was McConnell thinking? The fiscal cliff deal passed by the Senate contains $1 in spending cuts for every $41 in tax hikes. Brietbart: According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion-a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts. When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts-cuts that never ultimately came-they did so at ratios of 1:3 and 1:2.

U.S., Venezuela may be
exploring post-Chávez thaw

Miami Herald, by Andres Oppenheimer Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 1/1/2013 12:08:15 PM Post Reply

While Venezuela’s announcement that President Hugo Chávez’s bout with cancer has taken a turn for the worse is making big headlines, there is another development in the Venezuelan drama that has gone almost unnoticed: high-level U.S.-Venezuelan talks preparing for a post-Chávez future may have already started. Well-placed U.S. officials tell me that Roberta S. Jacobson, the top U.S. State Department official in charge of Latin American affairs, held a long telephone conversation with Venezuela’s Vice President and Chávez-designated heir Nicolas Maduro on Nov. 21, where the two discussed, among other things, the possibility of restoring ambassadors.

Not an Awful Deal

American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/1/2013 11:18:20 AM Post Reply

After about an hour of studying last night’s budget deal, I find it right on the borderline between (A) awful-tasting medicine we still need to take for our health and (B) a cure that is worse than the disease. But careful, careful attention pushes the calculation every-so-slightly toward the former. This isn’t even a 51-49 proposition, but only a 50.1-49.9 proposition. Still, here’s why the option of a “yes” vote for House Republicans — notwithstanding my warnings yesterday that “no deal” is better than a bad deal — is not an unacceptable decision. First, obviously

Liberalism’s $400,000 Problem

New York Times, by Ross Douthat Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/1/2013 10:59:01 AM Post Reply

If the tax debate could be simplified to a liberal desire to make sure the tax burden is borne by those who can most easily afford it and a conservative desire to keep taxes as low as possible on as many people as possible, the fiscal-cliff bargain that was struck between Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden over the last 48 hours — a bargain that could still fail to pass the House, but probably won’t — seems to offer something credible to both sides. One the one hand, it includes a real Democratic concession, which substitutes

King Obama the Irrelevant

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/1/2013 10:41:29 AM Post Reply

The "fiscal cliff" fiasco has made it clear that President Barack Obama is entirely irrelevant to the everyday task of governing. He is not interested in it, and he is not good at it. He is great at campaigning and terrible at leading. He is essentially a symbol, a political celebrity who could be re-elected forever because people seem to like what they think he stands for, and what he tells them he stands against. But he does nothing positive for the country. The deal that took shape on Capitol Hill

Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 In Spending Cuts
For Every $41 In Tax Increases

Breitbart, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: WhamDBambam- 1/1/2013 10:40:42 AM Post Reply

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion—a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts. When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so at ratios of 3:1 and 2:1.
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even if article has them

Global warming should rule
out the expansion of coal

Seattle Times, by Bruce Ramsey Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/1/2013 10:36:40 AM Post Reply

Awareness of global warming is several decades old, and Seattle is proud to be a leader. We drive hybrid cars. We recycle our garbage. We vote Democratic. We’re good, no? “No,” says Peter Ward. Ward is a professor of biology and of earth and space science at the University of Washington. He is a specialist on the Cretaceous period, from 135 million to 65 million years ago, when the sea level was higher than today and Puget Sound country was a steaming jungle. He is an expert on extinctions. He is a writer of science books

The Gloater in Chief

American Thinker, by Mike Razar Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/1/2013 10:31:27 AM Post Reply

Yesterday I watched the President of the United States once again disgrace his office with a partisan speech disguised as a news conference, attacking the Republican Party even as his minions are negotiating with it. Supposedly, some of the issues have been resolved---badly in my view--- but that is not my point in this note. Every progressive voice, every elected official, every pundit, every faux journalist has adopted this arrogant tone. "Elections have consequences", they crow. That´s right. Even with less than 51% of the popular vote, their opinion

60 crushed to death in Ivory
Coast stampede, minister says

CNN, by Stephanie Halasz and Laura Smith-Spa Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/1/2013 10:30:05 AM Post Reply

A New Year´s Eve fireworks display in Ivory Coast turned from celebration to tragedy early Tuesday when more than 60 people were crushed to death in a stampede, officials said. Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said another 40 people were injured, two of them seriously. Earlier, state media reports suggested that between 100 and 200 people had been hurt. The 60 dead included 26 children, 28 women and six men, said Minister of Youth Alain Lobognon, via his official Twitter feed, after visiting the hospital morgue where the bodies were taken. The official AIP news agency earlier said

All-volunteer military may
desensitize U.S. to war, some fear

McClatchy Newspapers, by Matthew Schofield Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/1/2013 9:47:04 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Before a roadside bomb in Baghdad burned and tore apart Jerry Majetich, before 62 operations put him back together, even before he volunteered for the Marines, then the Army, there were five older brothers who’d enlisted and a mother who’d served as an Army nurse in Korea. (Snip) Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, has spent decades voicing such fears. He’s one of the few politicians around who still yearn for a draft. “Now, we’re never going to get the draft back,” he said. “But I really believe the greatest risk isn’t to the military

Rubio Slams Deal: ‘I
Just Couldn’t Vote for It’

National Review Online, by Robert Costa Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/1/2013 9:39:23 AM Post Reply

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida says the Senate’s fiscal-cliff compromise, which passed the upper chamber early Tuesday, was a political mistake. “I just couldn’t vote for it,” Rubio told reporters. “I ran, just two years ago, on the idea that I wanted to be part of solving the long-term problems this country faces. Time and again, we’re given choices here that don’t involve that.” “The real fiscal cliff is still there,” he said. “We’ll be back here again. In March, we’ll have a showdown like this all over again.”

Monumental deceit: How our politicians
have lied and lied about the true pur-
pose of the European behemoth

Daily Mail [UK], by Chrstopher Booker Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/1/2013 9:19:57 AM Post Reply

Forty years ago today, in what was arguably the most fateful political move ever made by a British Prime Minister, Edward Heath took us into what was then called the ‘Common Market’. Such a step had scarcely been mentioned at the previous General Election, and the British people had very little idea of what they were letting themselves in for, other than a trading arrangement that might make it easier for us to sell our goods to our Continental neighbours.[Snip]We have seen that supposedly cosy club we joined transformed, step by step, into a vast, bloated bureaucratic empire, imposing its

New Year´s Thoughts from
Our House to Yours

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 1/1/2013 9:18:48 AM Post Reply

A lot of people are looking at 2013 and feeling pessimistic. That´s silly, of course. Sure, The Incompetents got reelected. The economy still sucks. It´s likely to get worse because Barack Hussein Obama doesn´t have a clue about capitalism, doesn´t want to and is focused on transforming the America he didn´t grow up in. He´ll be out campaigning and speechifying on something else divisive any day now.

Shell drilling rig grounds off
Kodiak Island after towlines
fail for 5th time

Anchorage Daily News, by Lisa Demer Original Article

Posted By: John c- 1/1/2013 8:29:27 AM Post Reply

Royal Dutch Shell’s Kulluk drilling rig, re-secured to two vessels with towlines early Monday, grounded around 9 p.m. in rocky water off the southern coast of Kodiak Island during a pounding Gulf of Alaska winter storm, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A command team that includes Shell briefed reporters on the disaster with the Kulluk late Monday night. It broke loose from a Shell-contracted ship, the Aiviq, around 4:40 p.m. Monday. Then around 8:15 p.m., with the grounding imminent, the second tow boat, a borrowed tug named the Alert, was directed to lose

The Fiscal Cliff Deal´s Biggest
Winner May Be George W. Bush

The New Republic, by Jonathan Cohn Original Article

Posted By: DaddyO- 1/1/2013 8:24:15 AM Post Reply

First things first. At 12:00:00 a.m., we go over the fiscal cliff. And at 12:00:01 a.m., most Americans will be talking about the new year, not the new fiscal regime. That´s entirely appropriate. In theory, midnight will usher in huge policy shifts: The tax code will return to what it was in the Clinton era, while a series of automatic spending cuts will begin to take effect. (snip) It’s as if President George W. Bush finally won—the tax cuts he’d always wanted would be staying on the books indefinitely, "starving the [government] beast" of the resources it needs to survive.

Low wages, incompetent managers and
what you have to do to become full-time:
Confessions of an ex-Best Buy
Geek Squad agent

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/1/2013 8:18:49 AM Post Reply

He took the job to become a tech support guru, but what he got in return were nothing but headaches. A jaded former Best Buy employee crafted a 1,100-word blog post shortly after quitting--and dishing the dirt on the electronics giant. In a piece posted to the Tape Noise Diary blog on Sunday, user JayCruz writes that he had high hopes after scoring a job with the Geek Squad in 2009 after attending technical school. [Snip] But it wasn´t long before he realized that his job involved more retail-related tasks and less IT problem solving.

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