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Social Security: It’s
Worse Than You Think

New York Times, by Gary King and Samir S. Soneji Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 1/7/2013 9:24:55 AM Post Reply

Congress and President Obama have pushed through a relatively modest stopgap measure to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” but over the coming years, the United States will confront another huge cliff: Social Security. In the first presidential debate, Mr. Obama described Social Security as “structurally sound,” and Mitt Romney said that “neither the president nor I are proposing any changes” to the program. It was a rare issue on which both men agreed — and both were utterly wrong.

Elizabeth Warren Wikipedia page
ethnically cleansed

Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/7/2013 9:23:59 AM Post Reply

One of, if not the, greatest controversies surrounding Elizabeth Warren was her claim to be Native American, specifically Cherokee. The controversy was sparked in late April 2012, when the Boston Herald revealed that in the late 1990s Harvard Law School had promoted Warren as a Native American faculty member. The public was unaware that Warren claimed to be Cherokee. When confronted by reporters, Warren claimed not to know why Harvard was promoting her as Native American. Over the ensuing weeks, information was uncovered by a law professor that starting in the mid-1980s, when she was at U. Penn. Law School,

Iowa sex case prompts
profound personal decision

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/7/2013 9:22:54 AM Post Reply

Maybe you too thought with that fiscal cliff band-aid we were done with serious problems for a while. Nope. You may have heard about the Iowa dental assistant, Melissa Nelson? Poor thing. Her employer of 10 years, Dr. James Knight, fired the 32-year-old woman for being "irresistible." And the other day all seven men on the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that, why yes, having seen the plaintiff, that seems like a reasonable decision by their fellow male. Especially given that Mrs. Knight, the dentist´s wife who gives away about 20 years to the married assistant, had demanded that

Pope says Church must stand firm
against "intolerant agnosticism"

Reuters, by Phillip Pullella Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 1/7/2013 9:22:20 AM Post Reply

Pope Benedict said on Sunday that Roman Catholic leaders must have the courage to stand up to attacks by "intolerant agnosticism" prevalent in many countries. The pope and the Church have come under increased attack because of their opposition to homosexual marriage and women priests. The pope has repeatedly denounced what he says are attempts to push religion out of public debate.

Cocooning Is the Wrong
Solution for Conservatives

American Thinker, by James G. Wiles Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 1/7/2013 9:19:20 AM Post Reply

Should conservatives and persons of faith simply withdraw from the public square, live our lives, and quietly await the inevitable collapse of what the indispensible Walter Russell Mead calls Blue State America? Some people seem to think so. The question was first raised in 1996 in the journal First Things by the late Fr. John Neuhaus. In an essay called "The End of Democracy," Neuhaus talked about the possibility of civil disobedience by persons of faith as a response to unjust laws and court rulings. He was speaking of the Clinton Administration.

What Is the Future of Conservatism?

Commentary Magazine, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/7/2013 9:14:31 AM Post Reply

Like the ancient parable of the blind men describing the same elephant from different perspectives, conservatism can mean many different things to many different people. Indeed, given the relatively straightforward and down-to-earth meaning of the word,conservatism actually lends itself to considerable linguistic legerdemain. One can use the word to refer to a temperament, an ideology (or ideologies), an objective tendency, or simply an unwillingness to heed the forces of progress as fashion dictates. It seems to me that the future of each of these varieties of conservatism is assured. The conservative temper stems from the crooked timber of humanity

Detouring around the Hillary truth

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/7/2013 9:03:34 AM Post Reply

Any fawning story about Hillary Rodham Clinton is obliged to declare her the “most widely traveled secretary of state in American history.” A gusher Saturday in The New York Times did just that, but quietly inserted the facts later. Near the end, it mentioned that, while Clinton visited the most countries, 112, Condoleezza Rice actually logged more than 1 million miles on the job, 50,000 more than Saint Hillary. That makes Rice the champ because “most traveled” should mean most miles. But apparently facts don’t count if the winner is a black conservative.
Source corrected by staff

Chuck Hagel´s Biggest Problem:
He´s Like President Obama

National Journal, by Ron Fournier Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/7/2013 9:03:12 AM Post Reply

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense Secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn’t suffer fools – a striving politician who considers himself above politics. Hagel’s intellectual arrogance angers party colleagues, raising suspicions about what he really stands for, and doubts about whether he’s a team player. In other words, Obama has picked a man very much like himself. Hagel is Obama in a GOP jersey. That may be the biggest reason why Hagel’s confirmation in the Senate, while likely, will not be easy.

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.

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