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Back to Vacation: Obama Takes
Midnight Flight to Hawaii. Round-trip
cost of president´s return trip:
$3.6 million

The Weekly Standard, by Daniel Harper Original Article

Posted By: Scouts Out- 1/2/2013 11:00:20 AM Post Reply

After Congress agreed temporarily to avert the "fiscal cliff" last night, President Barack Obama hailed the deal in brief remarks delivered from the White House, and then headed to Air Force One to take a midnight flight to Hawaii. Obama had left his family days earlier to return to Washington to deal with the "fiscal cliff."
Headline split by staff

Primary care doctors growing scarce

San Francisco Chronicle, by Drew Joseph Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 10:57:20 AM Post Reply

Roughly 4 million additional Californians are expected to obtain health insurance by 2014 through the federal health law, an expansion that will likely exacerbate the state´s doctor shortage and could even squeeze primary care access in the Bay Area, experts say. Even without the Affordable Care Act, a worsening doctor shortage had been forecast as the state´s and nation´s population ages and grows, and as a generation of older doctors retires. But by mandating that individuals have insurance and expanding Medicaid, the law will extend coverage to an additional 30 million Americans and place a greater strain

Rooftopping? It´s just jaw-
dropping! Vertigo-inducing pictures
taken by rooftopper who
wants to take photography to
new heights

Daily Mail (UK), by Sean O´Hare Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 10:47:29 AM Post Reply

If the thought of walking along the edge of skyscrapers completely unrpotected turns you queasy, it´s probably best you look away now. Daring photographer Tom Ryaboi snaps the Toronto skyline from the top of skyscrapers as a pioneer of the heart-stopping photography movement rooftopping. To achieve these breathtaking photographs, he often has to evade security guards, dogs - and even urban falcons defending their nests. Scroll down for video

Anderson Cooper, Kathy Griffin
double down debasing CNN brand
two nights straight

Baltimore Sun, by David Zurawik Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 1/2/2013 10:39:51 AM Post Reply

Kathy Griffin´s desperate efforts to get some shock buzz New Year´s Eve on CNN were so obvious that I vowed I wouldn´t write about her (Snip)So, why am I writing about it now if I made that vow on New Year´s Eve not to? Because Tuesday night, Cooper had Griffin back on his show, and the two acted like a couple of adolescents celebrating how naughty they had been the night before. And this went on a long, long time, with video highlights and Cooper letting Griffin plug her next junky special.

Intel Is Reportedly Going
To Destroy The Cable Model
By Offering People The Ability To
Subscribe To Individual Channels

Business Insider, by Jay Yarrow Original Article

Posted By: LadyVet- 1/2/2013 10:39:05 AM Post Reply

Intel is reportedly on the cusp of delivering something that consumers around the world have been wanting for a long, long time. Kelly Clay at Forbes reports Intel is going to blow up the cable industry with its own set-top box and an unbundled cable service. Clay says Intel is planning to deliver cable content to any device with an Internet connection.

The wink that says Aloha!
Obama jets back to Hawaii
after Congress passes deal to
avert the fiscal cliff as
Republicans ´surrender´ on tax cuts

Daily Mail (UK) & Reuters, by Thomas Durante & Reuters Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 10:31:53 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama jetted back to Hawaii last night to continue his holiday vacation, just hours after Congress passed a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. The consensus among political observers is that Obama leaves Washington victorious after winning $620billion in tax hikes from Republicans in exchange for minimal spending cuts. The President was in a triumphant mood as he addressed the nation after the vote on Capitol Hill - even winking at photographers before boarding Air Force One for a flight back to the beach-front mansion where Michelle and the children are staying.

Obama schedules potentially
‘catastrophic’ debt-ceiling ‘fiscal
cliff II’ for February

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 10:21:33 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama scheduled another so-called “fiscal cliff” crisis for February by announcing late Jan. 1 he would refuse to negotiate any curbs on his use of the nation’s maxed-out credit card. “I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they’ve already racked up through the laws that they passed,” he claimed during a late-night appearance on the last-minute resolution to the December 2012 fiscal cliff. However, the GOP-led Congress wants to use its authority over the nation’s debt ceiling to pressure Obama to shrink future spending,

Fiscal cliff deal raises taxes and
the deficit. The Republicans didn´t
compromise: they surrendered

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/2/2013 10:15:52 AM Post Reply

It’s probably premature to wish America a happy New Year. The fiscal "compromise" that finally passed Congress was a one sided deal that leaves many questions unanswered. The headline figures are that individuals earning more than $400,000 and families earning more than $450,000 will see their tax rates rise.[Snip]Rates on capital gains and dividends go up and a 2 percent payroll tax cut is due to expire. According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the ending of the payroll reduction will raise taxes on 77.1 percent of households. The average cost will be $1,635.

Wall Street Surges Amid Fiscal Relief

Fox Business, by Adam Samson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 10:14:25 AM Post Reply

The markets soared in the first trading session of the year as Wall Street traders breathed a collective sigh of relief that lawmakers finally passed legislation to avert the fiscal cliff. As of 9:32 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 192 points, or 1.5%, to 13294, the S&P 500 soared 22.6 points, or 1.6%, to 1449 and the Nasdaq Composite rallied 75 points, or 2.5%, to 3095. After months of political sparring on Capitol Hill, lawmakers finally passed a budget bill Tuesday. The move came after essentially 24-straight hours of wrangling in both chambers of Congress

Court: Hutterites Must
Pay Workers´ Compensation

Associated Press, by Matt Volz Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/2/2013 10:03:46 AM Post Reply

HELENA, Mont. - A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers´ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion. The 4-3 decision upholds a 2009 law requiring religious organizations to carry workers´ compensation insurance, which the Legislature passed after businesses complained they could not outbid the religious workers. The Big Sky Colony of Hutterites in northwestern Montana sued, saying the law targeted its religion and infringed on its beliefs. Its members have no personal property and make no wages

The Man Who Said ‘Nay’

New York Times, by Maureen Dowd Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 9:59:50 AM Post Reply

Michael Bennet was supposed to be going off a cliff in Vail. But instead of his usual New Year’s trip to a ski lodge with his wife and three daughters, the junior senator from Colorado found himself in a strange, unfamiliar place in the middle of the night: breaking with the president and his party to become one of only three Democratic senators and eight senators total to vote against President Obama’s fiscal deal. “I was a little surprised that the margin of the vote was so big,” said a weary Senator Bennet,

The Unspeakable Truth About
Rape in India

New York Times, by Sonia Faleiro Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 1/2/2013 9:56:59 AM Post Reply

I LIVED for 24 years in New Delhi, a city where sexual harassment is as regular as mealtime. Every day, somewhere in the city, it crosses the line into rape. As a teenager, I learned to protect myself. I never stood alone if I could help it, and I walked quickly, crossing my arms over my chest, refusing to make eye contact or smile. I cleaved through crowds shoulder-first, and avoided leaving the house after dark except in a private car. At an age when young women elsewhere were experimenting with daring new

´Journal News´
hires armed security guards

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: Not your typical New Yorker- 1/2/2013 9:12:21 AM Post Reply

The Journal News of West Nyack, N.Y., has hired armed security guards to defend its offices after receiving a torrent of phone calls and emails responding to the paper´s publication of the names and addresses of area residents with pistol permits. RGA Investigations, a private security company, "is doing private security at on location at the Journal News as a result of the negative response to the article," according to a police report first obtained by the Rockland County Times (Nanuet, N.Y.) and shared with POLITICO.

Fiscal Cliff Deal Kills Insolvent
Obamacare Element

Breitbart.com, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: M2- 1/2/2013 9:11:05 AM Post Reply

As part of the fiscal cliff deal reached by Congressional leaders and Vice President Joe Biden last night, the so-called CLASS Act – an integral component of Obamacare – will be repealed. CLASS Act – the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act -- is a new long-term entitlement program that even Democrats recognized was completely unsustainable It would pay $50 per day for long-term care services for anyone who had paid into the system for five years. In order for the program to work, people would probably have to pay $3,000 per month into the system.

Sources: Enough Republicans Willing
to Unseat Speaker Boehner

Breitbart.com, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: M2- 1/2/2013 9:07:32 AM Post Reply

American Majority Action spokesman Ron Meyer told Breitbart News late Tuesday that enough House Republicans have banded together in an effort to unseat House Speaker John Boehner from his position--they just need a leader to take up the mantle. “At least 20 House Republican members have gotten together, discussed this and want to unseat Speaker Boehner--(snip) Meyer said the conservatives have considered House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) to take the helm after Boehner is knocked out.
Author's name corrected by staff

The Real Country-Killer in 2013

American Thinker, by Jonathan Mosely Original Article

Posted By: M2- 1/2/2013 8:52:32 AM Post Reply

Never mind the "fiscal cliff." America went bankrupt, technically, at midnight on December 31, 2012. We hit the debt ceiling of $16.394 trillion. Yet the U.S. government needs to borrow more money than is legally allowed. (snip) "What would you cut?" candidates are asked. This is a trap. Attack journalists twist whatever a candidate answers into a scandal of heartless cruelty.

A 2013 Conservative Call to Arms

American Thinker, by Rob Cunningham Original Article

Posted By: M2- 1/2/2013 8:45:55 AM Post Reply

In 2013, conservatives can offer no greater tribute of respect to our Founding Fathers and our fellow citizens than to resolve, from this day forward, to relentlessly expose, ridicule, deride, mock and publicly shame arrogant progressives in a manner that, for the first time in our adult lifetimes, communicates this one undeniable founding truth: America was never supposed to be this way. The progressive left´s ultimate weapon of choice in emasculating America´s strength has clearly and undeniably been outed as radical debt accumulation.

Questioning Hillary Clinton’s
concussion, and other outrages

Washington Post, by Melinda Henneberger Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 8:26:08 AM Post Reply

Head injuries are no joke, but the backlash against those who initially questioned whether Hillary Clinton’s concussion was for real seems like an overreaction, too; you don’t have to be hateful to have wondered if she really had the flu and fell down right before she was supposed to testify about the security situation at our consulate that was really just a house in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans were killed by terrorists in September. After all, public officials are routinely less than forthcoming about their health,

Texas House Republicans
resoundingly say ‘no’ to
bipartisan fiscal cliff deal

Houston Chronicle, by Richard Dunham Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 8:15:34 AM Post Reply

Texas Republican House members just said no to the bipartisan deal to pull the nation back from the “fiscal cliff.” While both Texas senators — Republicans Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn — joined 87 other colleagues in an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 257 to 167 to make the Bush-era tax cuts permanent for about 99 percent of Americans, the state’s delegation to the House of Representatives opposed the deal in a vote late on New Year’s night. All nine Texas Democrats joined the 90 percent of House Democrats favoring the deal, which passed comfortably.

2 teens on West Side among
15 shot, 3 fatally, on New
Year´s Day

Chicago Tribune, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 8:06:10 AM Post Reply

Two teenagers were shot and seriously wounded this afternoon in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, among at least 15 people shot since midnight Monday, three of them fatally, authorities said. Paramedics were called about 4:30 p.m. to the 2600 block of West Chicago Avenue for two people who’d been shot, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford. They were both taken in serious to critical condition to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, said Langford. Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala said the victims, both males in their teens, were shot in the chest

This Was CNN

PJ Media, by Michael A. Walsh Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/2/2013 8:01:51 AM Post Reply

Last night’s vulgar stunt by somebody named Kathy Griffin, performed on somebody named Anderson Cooper in the course of “covering” the happens-every-year ball drop at Times Square for CNN, should rightly mark the end of the network as a serious news outlet. (You can watch it here.) No one should be surprised. CNN and indeed much of American journalism, has been heading this way since advent of the Snark Generation — Harvard-educated princelings who, having failed to land a writing job on The Simpsons, took their tiny little sacks

What the "fiscal cliff" bill
means to taxpayers

CBS News, by Jill Schlesinger Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 7:55:59 AM Post Reply

The Senate passed a deal to address the so-called "fiscal cliff" 90 minutes after the midnight deadline by a vote of 89 to 8. The bill then moved to the House of Representatives, which passed the measure 257-167 late Tuesday night. In addition to the tax changes, the Senate and House agreed to a two-month delay in addressing $110 billion in government spending cuts (aka the "sequester"), which were due to go into effect Jan. 2. Some government agencies had already made arrangements to comply with the cuts, not knowing whether or not a deal would occur.

´Saving´ the Middle Class

American Thinker, by Jeffrey Folks Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/2/2013 7:46:03 AM Post Reply

Obama won re-election by selling the idea that he was the champion of the middle class. Now he is forcing them into poverty and driving them from their homes. That is the effect of new taxes going into effect on Jan. 1, regardless of how negotiations on the fiscal cliff turn out (unless, as seems unlikely, Congress decides to extend all of the Bush tax cuts to everyone). The new marginal rates on dividends and interest (43.4%) and capital gains (20%, or 23.8% including the ObamaCare surcharge for high earners) will be devastating for the middle class.

House scraps vote on Hurricane
Sandy aid before wrapping session

CNN, by Deirdre Walsh and Dan Merica, Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/2/2013 7:36:44 AM Post Reply

Washington -- In a move that surprised many lawmakers and angered others, House Republican leaders wrapped up this session of Congress Tuesday night without voting on a package that would have provided billions of dollars in aid to victims of Superstorm Sandy. The Senate passed the $60.4 billion measure last week, and senators from New York had called on the House to take it up promptly. But because the House failed to act and a new Congress will be sworn in Thursday, the entire legislative process will have to start over -- delaying the package from disbursing money to affected states.

Paparazzo Killed After Chasing
Justin Bieber’s Ferrari

CBS News (Los Angeles), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/2/2013 7:32:50 AM Post Reply

SEPULVEDA PASS — A paparazzo was fatally struck by a car after taking photos of Justin Bieber’s white Ferrari during a traffic stop Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Shortly before 6 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers had pulled over the Ferrari for allegedly speeding on the 405 Freeway near the Getty Center. The 18-year-old Canadian singer was not in the vehicle during the traffic stop,

Cliff Win May Be Obama’s Last

Commentary, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/2/2013 7:28:48 AM Post Reply

President Obama got the best of both worlds with the passage of the deal to prevent the country going over the fiscal cliff. He got the massive tax hike on wealthier Americans that he wanted and paid for it with no spending cuts. Though he acted throughout the crisis as if he might prefer the political advantage that he would gain by a Republican refusal to pass these measures, the avoidance of the cliff prevents the economy from going into a tailspin that would blight his second term.

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