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Israel’s True Friends

New York Times, by Roger Cohen Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/7/2013 9:00:42 AM Post Reply

PRESIDENT Obama’s decision to nominate Chuck Hagel, a maverick Republican with enough experience of war to loathe it, as his next secretary of defense is the right choice for many reasons, chief among them that it will provoke a serious debate on what constitutes real friendship toward Israel. That debate, which will unfold during Senate confirmation hearings, is much needed because Jewish leadership in the United States is often unrepresentative of the many American Jews who have moved on from the view that the only legitimate support of Israel is

P.R.A.Y.
(Please Restore America Yourself)
an idea whose time has come

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 1/7/2013 8:54:43 AM Post Reply

Find a foxhole. Your president is about to declare war on you. Have it ready before Barack Hussein Obama brings out the truncheons directly following his second inauguration. Obama did not hightail it back to a $4-million Hawaii holiday for R&R after the fiscal cliff fiasco. Whatever is coming after inauguration is being planned against America far away from Washington, DC. The Obama regime is on a roll. After inauguration, the most anti-American president ever elected is coming after your country for real,

Bill Kristol’s big plans start
with Chuck Hagel nomination

Politico, by Kenneth P. Vogel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/7/2013 8:51:57 AM Post Reply

In the weeks since Election Day — as Mitt Romney faded into obscurity, John Boehner lost control of the House GOP and tea partiers turned on one another — Bill Kristol has been busy charting the future of the Republican Party. Kristol was among the first conservatives to break with GOP orthodoxy on raising taxes, and he and his allies advanced their hawkish neoconservative foreign policy by pushing the controversy that sank Susan Rice’s potential nomination for secretary of state. And Kristol is just getting started. One Kristol-linked group, the Emergency Committee for Israel, has already aired ads

The Education of John Boehner

Wall Street Journal, by Stephen Moore Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/7/2013 8:43:06 AM Post Reply

What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation: "At one point several weeks ago," Mr. Boehner says, "the president said to me, ´We don´t have a spending problem.´ " I am talking to Mr. Boehner in his office on the second floor of the Capitol, 72 hours after the historic House vote to take America off the so-called fiscal cliff by making permanent the Bush tax cuts on most Americans, but also to raise taxes on high earners.

Sen. Rand Paul´s son
arrested at North Carolina
airport, charged with
underage drinking

CNN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 8:36:14 AM Post Reply

The 19-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul was charged with underage drinking and disorderly conduct after being arrested over the weekend at North Carolina´s Charlotte Douglas International Airport, authorities said. William Hilton Paul was arrested Saturday following a flight from Kentucky to North Carolina, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff´s Office in Charlotte.(Snip) The senator´s office released a statement calling the issue a private family matter. "Sen. Paul is a national public figure and subject to scrutiny in the public arena, however, as many parents with teenagers would understand, his family should be afforded the privacy

Obama Upends Iran Debate
By Picking Chuck Hagel

Buzzfeed, by Rosie Gray and Zeke Miller Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/7/2013 8:31:42 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s decision to nominate former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense Monday will shatter a fake consensus on American policy toward Iran and challenge what have increasingly become limits of Washington conversation about Israel. Administration officials say Obama chose Hagel for mundane reasons — a personal relationship, experience with veterans issues, and even the “tradition” — but they have thrust the combative former combat veteran into a bitter Washington battleground. And the left-leaning foreign policy forces who spent four years disappointed in a the president of drone strikes and surveillance powers are suddenly feeling vindication.

Mr. Hagel and the Jews

Weekly Standard, by ELLIOTT ABRAMS Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 1/7/2013 7:59:06 AM Post Reply

During the hearings on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be secretary of defense, it’s clear that the views of gay rights organizations will be heard. There the issue seems to be whether Hagel’s apology for previous remarks and beliefs was sincere, or motivated solely by self-interest. He had years to apologize publicly, but did so only when opposition from gay rights groups threatened his nomination.

What Rules?

New York Post, by Emily Smith Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/7/2013 7:42:49 AM Post Reply

Diva Diana Ross threw a supreme hissy fit at restaurant La Scala in Beverly Hills after she was not allowed to sit at a table until her daughter showed up. The tony Italian eatery has a policy of not seating incomplete parties unless someone has a reservation. According to witnesses, Ross arrived there for lunch Thursday afternoon ahead of her daughter. She then asked to be seated, but was denied. But Ross marched forth to a corner booth anyway.

Goodbye, Lisa Jackson

National Review Online, by Jillian Kay Melchior Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/7/2013 7:37:17 AM Post Reply

Sometimes, “good riddance” just doesn’t suffice. It is hard to imagine a bureaucrat who has done more comprehensive damage to American interests than Lisa Jackson, the departing head of the Environmental Protection Agency. During her four years as administrator, Jackson has put her radical environmental agenda before the wellbeing of the U.S. economy, the integrity of science, and even the structure of the American political system itself. Start with her regulatory record. Since January 2009, Jackson’s EPA has issued 20 “major” regulations — defined as rules with an economic cost of $100 million or more each year.

The New Iranian Hostage Crisis

PJ Media, by Michael Ledeen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/7/2013 7:33:31 AM Post Reply

Over and over again, we are told that direct U.S.-Iranian negotiations would be a radical departure from past practice, and might decisively improve the “relationship.” Both claims are false. Direct negotiations would not be new — talks between the United States and the leaders of the Islamic Republic have been conducted by every administration since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini brought down the shah — and there is no reason to believe that a “grand bargain” is on the horizon. The Obama administration started talking to the Iranian regime even before the 2008 elections, and those talks have continued apace.

Can Kansas make a sperm
donor cough up child support?

Hot Air, by Jazz Shaw Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/7/2013 7:31:15 AM Post Reply

There’s a rather strange case brewing out in Kansas right now involving a man being sued by the state for child support. That, in and of itself, is sadly not all that unusual in modern society, but this one has a twist. The guy was a sperm donor. But that’s not the only twist in an increasingly complicated tale. If you’re planning to donate sperm in Kansas, you may want to do it through a doctor. That’s one message from the case of William Marotta of Topeka.

Sandy Republicans Pig Out

American Spectator, by Doug Bandow Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/7/2013 7:27:50 AM Post Reply

Is nothing sacred? In Washington the answer is no. As the last Congress sought to avoid the “fiscal cliff” and raced toward adjournment, the House refused to vote on a pork-ridden bill sold as aid for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. That triggered a splenetic outburst from Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who complained that the GOP stuck a “knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyites.” It was an example of political extortion at its worst. In Washington political fraud rules. The $60 billion bill did not live up to its sales pitch.

ABC: Not Enough Democratic
Support to Confirm Hagel

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/7/2013 7:24:03 AM Post Reply

ABC´s Jonathan Karl reported this morning that there is not enough Democratic support in the Senate right now to confirm Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense:(Snip for video)"I talked this morning to top Democratic staffer in the Senate who said this is not a guarantee that he will get confirmed, that there are enough Democrats that are concerned about hagel to put him well short of 50, until he makes the case," said Karl.

Richard Nixon´s daughter
remembers him as an
unappreciated ´genius of
foreign policy´ as she honors
her father´s 100th birthday

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 7:19:45 AM Post Reply

At a ceremony commemorating the late U.S. President Richard M. Nixon´s 100th birthday, politicians, a military official and Nixon´s eldest daughter on Sunday remembered him as an underappreciated president and a foreign policy genius. Nixon, the Cold War-era Republican stalwart who opened U.S. relations with communist China, was the only American president to resign from office, leaving the White House in disgrace over the Watergate scandal. ´He looked at (the world) as a world with 200 countries and 200 leaders, and he studied every one of those leaders, and he knew most of them,´ said Bruce Herschensohn,

Two dead after South Side
shooting, West Side stabbing

Chicago Tribune, by Carlos Sadovi & Adam Sege Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 7:08:22 AM Post Reply

Chicago police were conducting homicide investigations after 19-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday evening on the South Side and another man died following a West Side stabbing. About 7 p.m. Sunday, two people approached the 19-year-old in a front yard in the 8400 block of South Martin Luther King Drive, police said. The man was struck multiple times in his chest, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Joshua Purkiss said. He was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn at 8:00 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner´s office.

Bruce Springsteen´s equestrian starlet
daughter competes at Trump
Invitational in Florida

Daily Mail [UK], by Cassie Carpenter Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 1/7/2013 6:55:35 AM Post Reply

Her father Bruce Springsteen might have been ´born to run,´ but she was born to ride. Jessica Springsteen, the only daughter of the 63-year-old rock star, mounted her loyal steed on Sunday afternoon to take part in the The Trump Invitational $100,000 Grand Prix at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. The 21-year-old equestrian, who´s been riding since she was 15, was dressed in traditional English-style riding helmet and boots along with a preppy polo shirt and white trousers.

´Palestine´ to be used in West
Bank public documents

BBC [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/7/2013 6:34:59 AM Post Reply

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told West Bank officials to prepare to put the words "State of Palestine" on public documents, official media say. Until now passports, ID cards, driving licences and other documents have been stamped "Palestinian Authority". In November, Mr Abbas led a successful campaign for the UN to upgrade the Palestinians´ status to that of a non-member observer state. The status was previously that of a non-member observer entity. In a decree carried on Sunday by the official Wafa news agency, Mr Abbas said the move on labelling public documents would help bolster the Palestinian state

Obama to nominate
Brennan as CIA head

BBC [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/7/2013 6:30:42 AM Post Reply

US President Barack Obama is to nominate John Brennan as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House has said. Mr Brennan, who has worked for the CIA for a quarter of a century, is currently the president´s chief counter-terrorism adviser. Mr Brennan, who was considered for the role in 2008, is to be formally nominated later on Monday. His appointment must be confirmed by the Senate.

President Obama to nominate Chuck Hagel
his next defense secretary, senior
administration official says

Associate Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 1/7/2013 6:29:24 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - President Obama will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, a senior administration official said Sunday, choosing a former Senate colleague and a decorated Vietnam veteran and signaling he´s ready for a contentious confirmation fight likely dominated by questions about Hagel´s stands on Israel and Iran. Obama, who avoided a Capitol Hill battle by deciding not to nominate U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as his first choice for secretary of state, went ahead with Hagel, 66, even as leading Republicans announced their opposition — though they stopped short of saying they might try to block Hagel.

12 States Get Failing
Grades on Public School
Policies From Advocacy Group

New York Times, by Motoko Rich Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 6:05:16 AM Post Reply

In just a few short years, state legislatures and education agencies across the country have sought to transform American public education by passing a series of laws and policies overhauling teacher tenure, introducing the use of standardized test scores in performance evaluations and expanding charter schools. (Snip) In a report issued Monday, StudentsFirst ranks states based on how closely they follow the group’s platform, looking at policies related not only to tenure and evaluations but also to pensions and the governance of school districts. The group uses the classic academic grading system, awarding states A to F ratings.

Property, Rule of Law & Freedom

Canada Free Press, by Kelly OConnell Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 1/7/2013 6:04:57 AM Post Reply

While in the midst of a wholesale reevaluation of the right to private property, it is timely to reexamine the history of US property rights. What exactly caused America’s unparallelled level of prosperity and freedom? Certainly our economic success then created unparallelled global influence and military might. But what factors allowed America’s stunning growth in economic power in such a short period of time? This economic success was driven by a firm Rule of Law regime which supported the Constitution’s unique defense of private property.

The Principles of Taxation

Canada Free Press, by Alan Caruba Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 1/7/2013 6:01:08 AM Post Reply

“NYSR to Sell Itself in $8.2 Billion Deal” was the lead story in the December 21, 2012 edition of The Wall Street Journal.” “The New York Stock Exchange, the cornerstone of American capitalism for 220 years, agreed to be sold as part of an $8.2 billion takeover by IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. If regulators and shareholders approve, the combined company would own 14 stock and futures exchanges and five clearing operations that serve as middlemen between buyers and sellers of futures and other contracts, doing more things in more places than any other rival.

Letterman Admits He
Apologized to Palin So
He Could ‘Go Forward
Making Fun of Her’

Newsbusters, by Brent Baker Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 5:59:31 AM Post Reply

Sounds like a personal vendetta ahead of genuine regret. CBS Late Show host David Letterman admitted to Oprah Winfrey, in an interview first aired Sunday night, that he backtracked after outrage erupted following a sex joke he told involving Sarah Palin’s then-14-year-old daughter Willow, not because it was highly inappropriate, but primarily so he could continue ridiculing Willow’s mother: I’ll tell you why I apologized. I felt like Sarah Palin was somebody I wanted to continue to be able to make fun of and I felt like if I don’t apologize, if I don’t sincerely express my regret,

Hillary Clinton back to
work Monday

Agence France-Presse, by Kevin Lamarque Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 5:53:12 AM Post Reply

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will return to work on Monday after a month-long absence caused by a series of health scares, including a blood clot in her head, the State Department said.(Snip) According to the schedule, the US top diplomat will meet at 9:15 am (1415 GMT) on Monday with her assistant secretaries at the State Department in Washington. The meetings will be closed to the press. A series of other meetings is planned through the week including talks at the White House on Tuesday with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.

Infantry now shut to women;
do they want it open?

Associated Press, by Pauline Jelinek Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 5:49:51 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON— If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops — the country´s front-line warfighters — how many women will want to? The answer is probably not many. Interviews with a dozen female soldiers and Marines showed little interest in the toughest fighting jobs. They believe they´d be unable to do them, even as the Defense Department inches toward changing its rules to allow women in direct ground combat jobs. In fact, the Marines asked women last year to go through its tough infantry officer training to see how they would fare. Only two volunteered and both failed

Obama to Boehner: ´We Don´t
Have a Spending Problem´

Breitbart Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 5:42:49 AM Post Reply

In an interview with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, newly re-elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) opened up about President Obama’s utter unwillingness to cut a single dollar from federal spending. In a stunning admission, Obama reportedly told Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.” Boehner added that President Obama continues to maintain that America’s federal deficit is caused not by governmental overspending but by “a health-care problem.” Said Boehner, “They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system.” Boehner told Obama, “Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with Obamacare.

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