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The debt ceiling isn’t Obama’s
problem. It’s the GOP’s problem.

Washington Post, by Greg Sargent Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/4/2013 2:22:54 PM Post Reply

Obama and Dems have vowed not to negotiate with the GOP over the debt ceiling. This morning, I asked what “not negotiating” would look like in the real world, and whether it’s even possible. But another question may be even more relevant: Do Republicans really have the leverage in the debt ceiling fight they think they have? Some Republicans are now coming out and acknowledging that the GOP may not be in a strong position in the debt ceiling battle, after all. Here’s Newt Gingrich, on Morning Joe today, telling Republicans that a debt ceiling fight is a “loser”

Gov’t Posts 61 New Federal
Regulations, Including 500-
Page Rule to Protect ‘Critical
Habitat’ of Flycatcher

Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/4/2013 2:20:41 PM Post Reply

The federal government posted 61 new regulations in the Federal Register on Friday, including the Department of Interior’s 500-page document outlining a new rule to protect the southwestern willow flycatcher’s “critical habitat” in six states. That small insect-eating bird’s habitat covers 1,227 miles of streams and 208,973 acres in California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico, on “federal, state, tribal and private lands.” The flycatcher’s habitat covers 37 counties in those six states, according to the rule posted at www.regulations.gov. “The effect of this regulation is to conserve the flycatcher´s habitat under the Endangered Species Act,”

It´s official: Obama wins presidency

Politico, by Ginger Gibson Original Article

Posted By: congaree53- 1/4/2013 2:18:55 PM Post Reply

The outcome wasn’t a surprise: Barack Obama was re-elected Friday to a second term as president. There was no fretting about Ohio’s 18 electoral votes. There was no doubt about who would take Florida’s 29. And it was just a matter of reading a script to officially cast Virginia’s 13.The votes of the much discussed but quickly forgotten Electoral College were tallied and certified in a joint session of Congress on Friday. For Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, there were 332 votes cast. Republican Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan received 206 votes.

´Bad´ News From Politico:
´Gun Control (as a Media
Meme) Doesn´t Survive Christmas´

Newsbusters, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/4/2013 2:11:27 PM Post Reply

I´m almost surprised that the Politico´s web site background isn´t all black because of news delivered by its "On Media" reporter Dylan Byers on Tuesday. The "bad" news is that "gun control" as a media obsession appears to have largely disappeared, especially when you consider that some of the primary remaining stories on the topic are about David Gregory´s illegal but unprosecuted (as of yet) brandishing of a magazine on Meet the Press, a New York newspaper´s publication of an interactive map of two counties´ pistol permit dwellers, and said newspaper either feeling threatened or

Federal judge rules EPA overstepped
authority trying to regulate water
as pollutant in Virginia

Fox News & Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/4/2013 2:09:27 PM Post Reply

Virginia officials scored a key victory Thursday in their battle with the Environmental Protection Agency over what EPA critics describe as a land takeover. U.S. District Judge Liam O´Grady in Alexandria ruled late Thursday that the EPA exceeded its authority by attempting to regulate stormwater runoff into a Fairfax County creek as a pollutant. O´Grady sided with the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, which challenged EPA´s stormwater restrictions "Stormwater runoff is not a pollutant, so EPA is not authorized to regulate it," O´Grady said. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says the ruling could

House overwhelmingly approves
$9.7 billion in Hurricane
Sandy aid to pay for flood
insurance claims in 354-67 vote

New York Daily News, by Dan Friedman , Joseph Straw* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/4/2013 2:06:32 PM Post Reply

Take that, John Boehner. The House, after a delay caused by its back-stabbing Republican speaker, overwhelmingly approved a $9.7 billion package Friday to pay flood insurance claims resulting from Hurricane Sandy. The vote came more than two months after the storm — and after Boehner was pilloried by both Democrats and some Republicans for dawdling on the aid commitment.The 354-67 House vote sent the bill to the Senate, which was expected to pass it by unanimous consent. It is the the first piece of a $60.4 billion aid package that President Obama has requested for the region.

New Hampshire Legislator: We
Need to ´Restrict Freedoms´
of Conservatives

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/4/2013 2:06:24 PM Post Reply

A New Hampshire legislator wants her constituents to know that she feels conservatives are the "single biggest threat" her state faces today, and she wants to use her powers to legislate to "pass measures that will restrict" the freedoms of Granite State conservatives. In a blog post made last month on the left-wing site Blue Hampshire, 3rd District State Representative Democrat Cynthia Chase advised her fellow legislators to use their positions to make New Hampshire less welcoming to any conservative or libertarian planning on moving to her state—not to mention those already in residence.

Obama voters stunned to
discover that they too are
“millionaires and billionaires”

Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 1/4/2013 1:42:31 PM Post Reply

Congratulations, genuises. Turns out you’re rich! Democratic Underground: America: You break it, you buy it. Twitchy.com has more reaction as Obama voters get their latest, smaller paychecks. The next time an Obamabot complains about taxes, or rising prices, or falling wages, or anything else having to do with the money coming out of his own pocket, you just need to ask him one question: “Why are you so greedy?” P.S. Trending: #WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek

Two months of arguing over
10 hours of savings

Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/4/2013 1:37:21 PM Post Reply

The politics of the "fiscal cliff" deal is debatable: On the one hand, Boehner got the "Bush tax cuts" made permanent for most Americans; Obama was forced to abandon his goal of increasing rates for those earning $250,000. On the other, on taxes Republicans caved to the same class-warfare premises (the rich need to pay their "fair share") they´d successfully fought off a mere two years ago; while on spending the Democrats not only refused to make cuts, they refused to make cuts even part of the discussion.

Conyers Reintroduces
Reparations Effort

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/4/2013 1:36:34 PM Post Reply

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced two reparations resolutions on the first day of the 113th Congress. The first, H.R. 40, is “to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.”

The Jobs Report

Commentary Magazine, by John Steele Gordon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/4/2013 1:31:08 PM Post Reply

It’s another dreary jobs report out this morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, detailing yet another month of the apparently endless “Obama Recovery,” the worst since the Great Depression lingered on and on in the 1930s. Employment rose by 155,000 and the unemployment rate stayed the same at 7.8 percent (the November unemployment rate, originally reported at 7.7 percent, was revised upwards a notch in this report). It’s not surprising that it stayed the same, as the civilian workforce rose by 192,000 last month. In other words, job growth is barely keeping pace with population growth.

Policy ace Michele Flournoy
could be first female Defense chief

Los Angeles Times, by Shashank Bengali & Matea Gold Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/4/2013 1:31:01 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — It´s a long way from playing volleyball at Beverly Hills High School to being the most powerful woman in Washington, but Michele Flournoy could cap such a remarkable journey if President Obama selects her as Defense secretary. Flournoy, little known outside the world of military policy, is on the shortlist to lead the Pentagon in Obama´s second term. She would be the first woman in that role. An inveterate policy wonk who first worked in the Pentagon under President Clinton and later co-founded a respected think tank, Flournoy, 52, has spent two decades climbing

God Bless Richard M. Nixon

American Spectator, by Ben Stein Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/4/2013 1:27:18 PM Post Reply

One hundred years ago, as of January 9, in a small home in Yorba Linda, a suburb of Los Angeles, Richard Nixon was born in a house his father built. Without family connections, without family money, with a natural shyness, he became a U.S. Representative when he was in his early 30s, and a U.S. Senator very shortly afterwards, and then Vice President to Dwight Eisenhower from 1953-61. He lost a squeaker of an election that many observers believe was stolen by the Chicago Democratic machine in 1960 to John F. Kennedy.

In suburbs of L.A., a cottage
industry of birth tourism

Los Angeles Times, by Cindy Chang Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/4/2013 1:27:10 PM Post Reply

USA Baby Care´s website makes no attempt to hide why the company´s clients travel to Southern California from China and Taiwan. It´s to give birth to an American baby. "Congratulations! Arriving in the U.S. means you´ve already given your child a surefire ticket for winning the race," the site says in Chinese. "We guarantee that each baby can obtain a U.S. passport and related documents." That passport is just the beginning of a journey that will lead some of the children back to the United States to take advantage of free public schools and low-interest student loans,

POOF! The Democrats’ Favorite Tax
Argument, Used Since 2001, Gone!

National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/4/2013 1:19:45 PM Post Reply

The final Morning Jolt of the week includes a quiet backtrack, a prominent conservative columnist taking an . . . unexpected turn, and this assessment of future tax debates: After a Frustrating Tax Concession, Much Friendlier Political Terrain in 2013. So to those of us who want the federal government to tax as little as possible and control its spending, raising taxes on individuals making more than $400,000, or households making more than $450,000 from 36 percent to 39.6 percent stinks. But that 3.6 percentage point tax hike on top earners

There’s No Case for Hagel

Weekly Standard, by William Kristol Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/4/2013 1:15:22 PM Post Reply

In the three weeks since Chuck Hagel’s name emerged as President Barack Obama’s likely choice as the next secretary of defense, there´s been a lively, if lopsided, debate about his qualifications for the job. The debate’s been lopsided because the arguments for Hagel have been so startlingly weak. It’s not just that those arguing for Hagel form an unusually motley crew, even by the standards of the anti-Israel swamp in which many of them frolic. What´s striking about the case for Hagel is its absence. His backers can cite no significant legislation for which Hagel was responsible

US Congress missing prominent
pro-Israel voices

Jerusalem Post, by Hilary Leila Krieger Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/4/2013 1:04:51 PM Post Reply

Washington–The 113th US Congress was sworn in on Thursday without some of the most prominent pro- Israel voices that have been heard on Capitol Hill in recent years. The number of Jewish lawmakers also dropped, despite three new Jewish representatives and a senator, but pro-Israel activists said they expected the new Congress to remain as supportive of Israel as in years past. Veteran backers of Israel with senior positions in their respective chambers, including Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut), Rep. Howard Berman (DCalifornia) and Gary Ackerman (DNew York), either retired or lost their election bids. Other loud voices for Israel

Accused kidnapper, pimp
goes free as prosecutors fume

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, by Levi Pulkkinen Original Article

Posted By: shalimar- 1/4/2013 12:52:47 PM Post Reply

As police search for his co-defendant, a 28-year-old man charged with kidnapping, robbery and attempted human trafficking was cut loose after his arrest in a move prosecutors in Seattle describe as troubling. King County prosecutors contend the men planned to take a 22-year-old woman to Las Vegas and force her to work as a prostitute, or kill her if she refused to cooperate.. The pair’s alleged victim suffered a severe head injury after diving from a speeding car to escape ...

Workers making $30,000 will take a
bigger hit on their pay than
those earning $500,000
under new fiscal deal

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/4/2013 11:30:05 AM Post Reply

Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under the new fiscal cliff deal, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Earners in the latter group will pay an average 1.3 percent more--or an additional $2,711--in taxes this year, while workers making between $30,000 and $200,000 will see their paychecks shrink by as much as 1.7 percent--or up to $1,784 - the D.C.-based think tank reported. Overall, nearly 80 percent of households will pay more money to the federal government as a result

Giant thermometer for sale at
$1.75 million

Associated Press, by Mark J. Terrill Original Article

Posted By: FL_Absentee_Voter- 1/4/2013 11:29:24 AM Post Reply

BAKER – There´s a new thermometer on the market. But it´s unlikely to fit under your tongue. The 134-foot landmark in Baker, billed as the world´s largest thermometer, has been put up for sale. The asking price: $1.75 million. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday the price includes the now vacant gift shop at the base and 4 acres around it. Erected in the sweltering city in 1991, the thermometer with nearly 5,000 light bulbs was intended as beacon for motorists headed to and from Las Vegas on I-15.

Should Your Children Pay
for My Rollercoaster?

American Thinker, by Jack Cashill Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/4/2013 11:24:27 AM Post Reply

On Wednesday I joined a Facebook conversation among my New Jersey relatives and friends voicing their outrage over the delay in the $60-billion Sandy relief package. Hoping to make people think, I wrote, "I want our roller coaster up and running by this summer, and I don´t care if we have to borrow from the Chinese to do it." I was referring here to the Seaside Heights roller coaster that somehow managed to slide off itscrumbling pier and land standing upright in the ocean. In the process, it became something of a symbol of Sandy´s wrath.

Unemployment Rises for Women,
African-Americans in December

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 1/4/2013 11:21:39 AM Post Reply

Government unemployment numbers for December showed that while the general unemployment rate remained flat at 7.8 percent, unemployment for women and African-Americans rose despite an economy that created 155,000 jobs. Unemployment for women rose to 7.3 percent in December from 7.0 percent while the rate for African-Americans rose sharply to 14.0 percent from 13.2 percent in November. Unemployment among African Americans has remained quite high throughout the sluggish economic recovery of the past several years
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White House War on Women Escalates

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/4/2013 11:21:04 AM Post Reply

The White House’s Flickr account recently released a photo of President Barack Obama and his top advisers. The complete absence of women in the image is another reminder that females are underrepresented in Obama’s staff. Additionally, the president still pays his female employees significantly less than their male counterparts. The Obama White House in 2011 paid female staffers 18 percent less than their male colleagues:

What some liberals really
think of gun owners

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/4/2013 11:18:33 AM Post Reply

I don´t think this is a widespread belief on the left - only among the kooky left who never seem to get the attention that kooky conservatives get. Mark Green, former candidate for New York city mayor, equates gun owners with child molesters: Former Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Mark Green appeared on MSNBC´s Hardball on Thursday where he advocated for the strictest of gun ownership laws. He said that there should be a registry where people can go to see if their neighbor is a gun owner, just as "Megan´s Law" allows for individuals to see

Welfare recipients ‘missing’

Boston Herald, by John Zaremba Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/4/2013 10:59:20 AM Post Reply

Red-faced state officials admitted last night they are trying to find as many as 19,000 missing welfare recipients — after the controversial taxpayer-funded voter registration pitches the state mailed to their addresses last summer were sent back marked “Return to sender, address unknown.” The Department of Transitional Assistance contacted 477,000 welfare recipients who were on their books from June 1, 2011, to May 31, 2012, after settling a voter-rights lawsuit brought by Democratic-leaning activist groups that demanded an aggressive voter information effort by the state. That $274,000 push by DTA resulted in 31,000 new voter registrations — but revealed

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