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Obama says ´aloha´ to
vacation as first family
arrives back in Washington

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/6/2013 2:28:03 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama has returned to Washington after a winter vacation in Hawaii that was interrupted by the ´fiscal cliff´ crisis. Obama arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Sunday morning after an overnight flight as Sasha and Malia return to school tomorrow. The president´s annual end-of-year visit to his native state was disrupted just after Christmas when he was forced to return to the capital to help broker a solution on a plan to avert a combination of tax increases and spending cuts that could have plunged the economy back into recession.

A Contrary View: Fiscal
Cliff Deal a Win for
Republicans and America

American Thinker, by Mike Razar Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/6/2013 2:21:24 PM Post Reply

As a recent critic myself of Republican leadership, I would like to congratulate Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor and the entire Republican leadership in the House and the Senate. They have succeeded in luring the President and his minions into a deal they will come to regret. All the wise guys disagree with me. Of course, the progressive media are crowing about President Obama´s great victory. They are touting his brilliant negotiating skills. They are positively giddy with schadenfreude for conservatives.

Rep. Tiberi (R-OH):
´No Faith In This President
To Lead on Anything´

Breitbart Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/6/2013 2:17:53 PM Post Reply

With President Obama busy demagoguing, Republicans are moving toward the conclusion – too late, of course – that they should stop relying on the President for negotiations and compromise. With regard to spending cuts and the debt ceiling, Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R-OH), chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee on taxes, said to The Hill, “Clearly, having presidential leadership on any big issue makes it a heck of a lot easier to get it done.” But, he added, “we don’t have faith in this president to lead on anything.

Missing Fashion Mogul Vittorio
Missoni Turned Family Business
Into a Global Brand

ABC News, by Alyssa Newcomb Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 1/6/2013 2:08:49 PM Post Reply

Rescuers searched by air and sea today off the coast of Venezuela for the plane carrying Italian fashion mogul Vittorio Missoni, the man credited with turning his father’s fashion house into a global empire that includes hotels, housewares and bicycles. The 58-year-old left the remote Los Roques archipelago Friday on a twin-engine plane bound for Caracas, Venezuela. On board were his wife, two friends and two pilots. Thirty minutes after takeoff, the plane vanished into the Caribbean, leaving the tight-knit Missoni clan anxiously waiting for answers.

Can You Imagine
King George III Telling Our Nation’s
Founders They Couldn’t Have Muskets?

Townhall, by Doug Giles Original Article

Posted By: lcl4- 1/6/2013 2:03:57 PM Post Reply

Don’t you love how the Left and their step-n-fetch media mavens are trying to make law-abiding gun owners the bad guys? You don’t? Yeah, me neither. From Hollywood’s heavily armed guarded elite to the radical, anti-gun commie rag Journal News, peaceful and upright average Joes are being isolated and concentrated on as the bane of America’s existence just because we righteously and lawfully keep and bear arms. Hollywood has even cobbled together a little tsk-tsk black and white video demanding our government do something about gun violence

Stark Evidence of US,
British Naval Decline

American Thinker, by James G. Wiles Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 1/6/2013 12:33:18 PM Post Reply

Is it actually possible that, as you read this, the United States Navy has only one supercarrier battle group at sea? Read on - and be amazed. Look no farther than these two news items, both from today´s Sunday Times of London, to see the effect of two decades of shrinkage in the size of the United States Navy and the retreat of the Royal Navy from the high seas

Vitriol Over Falklands
Resurfaces, as Do Old Arguments

New York Times, by John F. Burns Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/6/2013 12:09:23 PM Post Reply

LONDON — They have barely 3,000 inhabitants and far more sheep than people. They are more than 8,700 miles from London. For much of the year, they are bitterly cold and wind-swept, with only open sea and ice between them and Antarctica. President Ronald Reagan, who tussled with Margaret Thatcher over them as he rarely did on any other issue that engaged the two leaders, described them once as “that little ice-cold bunch of land down there.” But the Falkland Islands, the focus of a short war between Britain and Argentina in 1982

Violent demonstrations injure
dozens of police in Northern Ireland

CNN, by Peter Taggart Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/6/2013 12:02:03 PM Post Reply

Belfast, Northern Ireland -- Petrol bombs, smoke canisters and hurled bricks have injured dozens of police during weeks of violence in Northern Ireland, officials said Sunday. At least 52 officers have been wounded since pro-British protests erupted in the Northern Ireland city of Belfast last month, police said. Authorities have arrested 70 people in connection with the violence. Tensions have been high since City Council members there voted a month ago to stop flying the Union Jack flag year-round, restricting it instead to certain days. Politicians, clergy and community leaders were meeting Sunday

Scaled-Back Inauguration
Loses its Appeal - Thread Closed

Wall Street Journal, by Elizabeth Williamson Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 1/6/2013 11:56:46 AM Post Reply

Washington--President Barack Obama´s public swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 21 is prompting a different kind of oath within the capital´s tourism industry, as the prospect of disappointing attendance threatens to dent spending on all manner of travel goods and services, from luxury hotel suites to servings of the president´s favorite chili. Mr. Obama´s 2009 inauguration drew an estimated 1.8 million people to Washington, more than any other gathering on the National Mall, according to officials at Destination D.C., the city´s main tourism and convention marketer.

President Nixon gets the
star treatment

Los Angeles Times, by Jean Merl Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/6/2013 11:22:11 AM Post Reply

Paul J. Carter was 9 when Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency in 1974, watching the televised speech with his dad, a loyal Republican who had come home from work early for the event. "I … didn´t grasp the magnitude of it," said Carter, now 47 and a lawyer in Long Beach. Nearly four decades later, the boy´s puzzlement over the nation´s 37th president had evolved into a grown-up project, "Native Son Richard Nixon´s Southern California: My Life on a Map!" Made like a guide to Hollywood stars´ homes, the fold-out map is an illustrated romp through the life

Death of Hugo Chavez could
set off shock waves across region

Telegraph [U.K.], by Philip Sherwell Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 1/6/2013 11:19:48 AM Post Reply

The orchestra played and loyal lawmakers erupted in adulatory applause as Hugo Chavez invoked Fidel Castro and Jesus Christ as his revolutionary role models. His right hand raised, the fiery Venezuelan leader echoed the famous call to arms of his Cuban mentor. "Fatherland, socialism or death," he proclaimed, then added with a typical flourish: "I swear by Christ, the greatest socialist in history." That was six years ago as "El Commandante" was sworn in for his third term as president and blew kisses to rose petal-tossing crowds

The Surreal World: Capitol Hill

New York Times, by Maureen Dowd Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/6/2013 11:10:28 AM Post Reply

IT was hard not to feel sorry for John Boehner, wounded, weepy, mercilessly flogged by Chris Christie. The miserable-looking Boehner was even scaring small children. After squeaking out re-election as House speaker when crazed conservatives rebelled on Thursday, Boehner summoned gruff bonhomie as he presided at a ceremonial swearing-in for House members. But some of the kids posing for pictures seemed a little alarmed at Boehner’s awkward pats, brusque small talk and barked orders when someone posed the wrong way.

Cruz On Debt Ceiling:
Obama Trying To Scare People
With Financial Apocalypse

Breitbart News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/6/2013 10:57:05 AM Post Reply

[Video] Let me be clear, I do not support default on the debt and we should never default on the debt and the only players who are threatening to default are President Obama and Harry Reid. This is an issue, and earlier in the show you played the President threatening default. In any given month tax revenue are 200 billion and interest is 30 or 40 billion. There is it plenty of revenue to service the debt and any responsible President would´ve stood at that podium and said ´whatever happens with the debt ceiling, we will always pay our debt.

Obama Using Gun Control to
Distract from Financial Crisis

Breitbart Big Government, by Awr Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/6/2013 10:49:59 AM Post Reply

As our national debt continues to soar, taxes to rise, and the overall economy to tank, President Obama is talking about...gun control. He is doing this so he can seize on the emotions of those who operate emotionally rather than rationally, thereby diverting their attention from the real crisis our nation faces right now -- which is financial in nature. We are still headed toward the fiscal cliff we narrowly missed days ago: our rendezvous with it was only pushed back a few months. Yet the focus coming out of the White House is on

A recipe for activism
against efforts at gun control

American Thinker, by Lee DeCovnick Original Article

Posted By: Da Bear- 1/6/2013 10:44:23 AM Post Reply

"Obama Plans Broad Gun Control" screamed the Drudge Report headline. So what actions can a responsible gun owner take to stop this legislative insanity? There are, of course, the accepted channels of communications: email and phone calls to your two Senators and the Representative from your Congressional district. Having once worked as an idealistic political intern in a legislative office, I was flabbergasted at the utter contempt that the staff and "my" legislator held for the ordinary voters of the district. Respect was only paid to the large financial donors and their minions.

Benghazi – During Attack Denis
McDonough and Tom Donilon Replace
President Obama and VP Biden…

The Conservative Treehouse, by Sundance Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 1/6/2013 10:15:40 AM Post Reply

Two days ago we posted a discussion around a newly released photo from the White House. The picture was taken in the oval office on Sept 11th 2012: (Snip) The picture was taken at exactly 7:28:16pm DC time. It was dusk outside, and President Obama had just completed a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Why is this important? Because we know the conversation lasted an hour. (Snip) So this phone call between Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama started three hours after the attack began.

Welfare recipients take out cash at
strip clubs,liquor stores and X-rated shops

New York Post, by KATE BRIQUELET Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 1/6/2013 9:34:48 AM Post Reply

They’re on the dole — and watching the pole. Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found. A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs

Syria’s Assad is defiant in rare speech

Washington Post, by Liz Sly Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 1/6/2013 9:21:27 AM Post Reply

BEIRUT — In a rare public appearance on Sunday, Syrian President Bashar al Assad pledged to intensify his war against the “terrorists” challenging his rule even as he proposed a package of reforms aimed at ending the bloodshed engulfing Syria. Appearing weary but defiant as he addressed cheering supporters at the Opera House in downtown Damascus, Assad outlined suggestions for what he called a period of “transition”, in which a new government would be formed, a “national pact” would be drafted, and a referendum would be held.

Nancy Pelosi´s photo trickery
enhances her caucus

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 1/6/2013 9:17:46 AM Post Reply

You know how it is when you plan a group photo of any kind, especially a large group. Not just families. There´s always someone moving or blinking or mugging or clowning with two fingers sticking up behind another´s head. Or, worst of all, there´s always someone late. {Snip] Well, that´s just what happened when Nancy Pelosi organized the new women´s Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives.

Pakistani soldier killed in gunfight with
Indian troops in disputed Kashmir

Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/6/2013 8:56:39 AM Post Reply

A Pakistani soldier was killed and another injured in a gunfight between Indian and Pakistani troops in Kashmir on Sunday, a disputed incident that could heighten tensions between the nuclear neighbours after a period of rapprochement. The Pakistani army said Indian troops had raided their Sawan Patra checkpost in Kashmir, a hotly contested area both countries claim as their own. The Indian military denied its soldiers had attacked a Pakistani position. "Pakistan army troops effectively responded and repulsed the attack," a Pakistani army spokesman said in a statement. The two sides then exchanged fire across the Line of Control, an

Loyal dog rescued owner from
deadly house fire by leading a
man to her nearly unconscious
body trapped inside

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/6/2013 8:47:04 AM Post Reply

A Maryland woman survived a massive house fire thanks to her dog, who helped a stranger find her nearly unconscious body trapped inside the burning home before she succumbed to the flames. Two retired firefighters, Billy Mills and Hugh Owens, happened to be in the Bowie neighborhood where the fire started Friday morning and arrived on the scene ahead of fire crews. As Mills ran around the back of the yard to check for an entrance to the house, he was met by Pumpkin, a black Labrador Retriever mix. ´He came up to me and started jumping on me,´

Study shows college students think they´re
more special than ever...even those that
can´t read or write and barely study

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/6/2013 8:29:19 AM Post Reply

Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror. Young people´s unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to rate themselves compared to their peers since 1966. Roughly 9 million young people have taken the survey over the last 47 years. Pyschologist Jean Twenge and her colleagues compiled the data and found that over the last four decades there´s been a dramatic rise in the number of students who describe themselves as being

Stafford Hospital scandal:
the scandal that
shamed the NHS

Telegraph [UK], by Laura Donnelly Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/6/2013 8:01:54 AM Post Reply

It was the scandal that shamed the NHS. Hundreds of hospital patients died needlessly. In the wards, people lay starving, thirsty and in soiled bedclothes, buzzers droning hopelessly as their cries for help went ignored. Some received the wrong medication; some, none at all.[Snip] Decisions about which patients to treat were left to receptionists, inexperienced junior doctors put in charge of critically-ill patients, and nurses switched off equipment because they did not know how to use it. Desperate relatives told the inquiry, chaired by Robert Francis QC, how patients were left so dehydrated that some began drinking from flower vases

Boehner, American Hero

New York Times, by ROSS DOUTHAT Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 1/6/2013 7:58:25 AM Post Reply

Here are a few things that happened to John Boehner, ostensibly one of the most powerful men in Washington, during the past two weeks. First his own backbenchers blew up his attempt at a fiscal cliff negotiating maneuver. Then he had to step back and let Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell hammer out the details of the fiscal cliff deal, which he then had to shepherd through his own legislative body with more Democratic than Republican votes.

Patient care must be
the primary target

Telegraph [UK], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/6/2013 7:58:14 AM Post Reply

Sensible goals are helpful, but they become a menace when meeting them is treated as the only criterion of success. The neglect, cruelty and incompetence that characterised the way that so many patients at Stafford hospital were treated by its staff has been catalogued by Robert Francis’s inquiry, as we report today. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, is correct when he states that what happened in that hospital was “simply not worthy of a civilised country”. The inquiry shows that the dismal, indeed lethal, performance was in large part a consequence of the way the Mid Staffordshire NHS

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