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Why So Serious? Is
Conservative Despair
Justified?

PJ Media, by Andrew Klavan Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 1/8/2013 6:15:35 AM Post Reply

So last week, in what was perhaps a moment of madness, I posted a request on my Facebook page: Tell me your political predictions for the year. Among the more restrained answers: “Hyperinflation,” “Civil War,” “financial collapse,” “terribly awful things.” Optimist though I am, I can’t help feeling there’s something to this downhearted consensus. After living through the most peaceful and prosperous half century that any nation has ever experienced in the history of humankind, it seems impossible to believe we would re-elect a mediocre reactionary out to “fundamentally transform” our success into failure. But we did,

Dem lawmakers say courts should
resolve debt-limit standoff

The Hill (DC), by Alexander Bolton Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 6:04:15 AM Post Reply

Democratic lawmakers are urging President Obama to force Republicans to take him to court over the controversial issue of raising the debt ceiling. They believe the Supreme Court will have to ultimately resolve the battle over spending now raging between Republicans and the president. But how the courts will rule is shrouded in uncertainty because little case law exists to serve as meaningful precedent, say legal scholars. Democrats in Congress argue Obama should not feel constrained by the 1917 debt limit law, which the federal government is projected to hit in late February, because it conflicts with other laws.

Reid: Sandy Was Much Worse
Than Katrina, You Know

Townhall, by Guy Benson Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/8/2013 5:59:48 AM Post Reply

Whether he´s publicly recapitulating the hallucinations of an imaginary friend, or wrongly assuring the public that various government programs are "fully funded," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tends to struggle with the truth. The recent high-octane bout of partisan wrangling over whether to pass a porked-up Sandy relief bill is finally complete, and Reid is unhappy that Congress didn´t spend more money. To emphasize his frustration, he downplayed the severity of Hurricane Katrina´s destruction in order to cast Sandy as far worse -- thus indicting those who opposed even one cent of unrelated "relief"

The case against Mark
Sanford for Congress

Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/8/2013 5:49:38 AM Post Reply

We’ve been hearing rumblings about it for a while now, but National Review’s Jim Geraghty is hinting that former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford may announce for Congress early next month. I, for one, hope he does not. And it’s not about the sex, either. This old AP lede explains why Sanford has disqualified himself from public service: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will cut short a secretive Appalachian Trail hike and return to work Wednesday after revelations he’d been gone for four days with no contact with his staff, wife or state leaders. (Emphasis mine.)

Senator Feinstein´s All-Out
Assault On Gun Rights

Forbes, by Larry Bell Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/8/2013 5:40:46 AM Post Reply

Capitalizing upon the tragedy that savagely took the lives of 20 children and 7 others in Newtown, Connecticut, Senator Feinstein is introducing a gun ban bill which has been in the works for over a year which represents a direct assault upon Second Amendment rights. According to a December 27th posting on her website and a draft bill obtained by the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, the legislation would define “assault weapons” to comprise a much larger variety of firearms than ever before, require current owners of those included to register them with the Federal Government

The New Liberal Aristocracy

National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 5:35:14 AM Post Reply

‘Limousine liberal” is an old American term used against those who inherited lots of money and then became “traitors to their class” by embracing populist politics. The Roosevelts and Kennedys enjoyed the high life quite apart from the multitude that they championed. And they were exempt, by virtue of their inherited riches and armies of accountants and attorneys, from the higher taxes they advocated for others. Few worried about how their original fortunes were made long ago, or that as lifelong government officials they had their needs met by the state. Most were relieved instead that as very rich people

Listen All Y’all
It’s a Sabotage

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill McMorris Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 5:32:41 AM Post Reply

Lawmakers and activists are attempting to rein in union exemptions from extortion laws after several high profile acts of suspected union sabotage in 2012. Labor groups are immune from prosecution under the Hobbs Act, a 1946 provision that criminalized extortion and robbery using the threat or fear of force. Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) attempted to close that loophole last year with the Freedom from Union Violence Act (FUVA). The bill never left committee but Lee has pledged to crack down on the sabotage and violence some unions use during labor disputes.

A tax even Chuck Schumer hates

New York Post, by Sally C. Pipes Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 1/8/2013 5:26:26 AM Post Reply

Among the five new ObamaCare tax hikes that kicked in Jan. 1, one in particular is attracting opposition from both Republicans and Democrats: the tax on medical devices. Last month, 18 Democratic senators and senators-elect (including New York’s own Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand) wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid, asking him to delay implementation of this 2.3 percent excise tax on the sales of everything from pacemakers to tongue depressors. The House already voted to repeal the tax, which is projected to extract as much as $29 billion from medical-device firms.

Hagel the Kyoto-Slayer

Power Line, by Steven Hayward Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 5:18:58 AM Post Reply

So far most of the critical discussion about Chuck Hagel for SecDef is that he said mean things about homosexuals, or is hostile to Israel, if not in fact anti-Semitic. So far I’m curious that people on the Left in particular are forgetting Hagel’s key role in derailing the egregious Kyoto Protocol in its infancy. He was the key person behind the “Byrd-Hagel” resolution in the Senate in 1997 denouncing the Kyoto treaty in the draft form that existed at the time. The Byrd-Hagel resolution was essentially a missile aimed at the Clinton administration

Richard Ben Cramer Dies: Iconic Writer
Had an Unerring Ear for Dialogue

Daily Beast, by John Avlon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 5:15:26 AM Post Reply

News that Richard Ben Cramer died swept through the Twitterverse on Monday night, even before a hint of his passing hit the Internet. It was oddly appropriate, because the cult of Richard Ben Cramer was always first a word-of-mouth initiation, as in: “you’ve got to read this.” Journalists passed his work among them like samizdat, old articles referred to more than read, finally put online after persistent if not widespread demand. He was just that much better than anyone else.(Snip)What It Takes is now regarded as the greatest campaign book ever written,

Team Hagel Versus Team Anti-Hagel

Time, by Mark Halperin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 5:05:06 AM Post Reply

Both sides are gearing up for a confirmation fight, not knowing if they are playing almost exclusively an inside game, or if this has the potential to go wider and become an outside game too (a la Bork and Tower). Those opposing Hagel have been organizing for a long time. They are sophisticated and have an appreciation for the dynamics of press, policy, votes and quotes, and vote counting that go into successfully defying the odds and denying an incumbent president his choice for a cabinet job when the nominee in question has no ethical issues or scandals to derail confirmation.

‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman
Back on Welfare

ABC News, by Luchina Fisher Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 1/8/2013 5:02:50 AM Post Reply

Nadya Suleman, the mother who became famous when she gave birth to octuplets in 2009, is back on welfare. Suleman’s rep, Gina Rodriguez, told ABCNews.com that Suleman, the mother of 14, has once again sought out “state assistance for a brief period of time.” “She spent most of her savings while she was in Chapman Treatment center, paying for around-the-clock nannies, drivers, security and her treatment program,” Rodriguez said in an email. “She does not expect to be on longer than three months.”

The Truth About Taxes, or,
the Work of 1000 Leeches

PJ Media, by Roger Kimball Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 4:59:32 AM Post Reply

“Tax policy” is one of those phrases that has a curiously amphibious effect. On the one hand, for most red-blooded individuals it cannot but act as a soporific: “Ah, tax policy, eh? Pardon me while I get the snifter refilled.” On the other hand: for anyone in whom the instinct for self-preservation is still intact, the phrase must also act as an existential tocsin, eliciting for many something akin to the storied “fight or flight” response. In the age of Obama, “tax policy” is both a weapon and an excuse: a weapon in the war to create a more egalitarian —

DoE doubling down on
feeding “green” ambitions and
hiking third-world food prices

Hot Air, by Erika Johnsen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 4:52:38 AM Post Reply

The Obama administration has roundly refused to scale back on its relentless buoying up of the biofuels industry, despite the clamorous criticism of almost everybody except the ethanol lobby; once the supposedly ‘environmental’ zealots of our bloated federal bureaucracy and their cronyish friends have decided on a policy, that’s just all there is to it, and no, we really do not give a damn about the real-world unintended consequences. Well, leftists and rent-seekers, here are some unintended consequences: We are already dealing with inflated food prices in the United States because of the government’s mandate

The case for ending US
military aid to the Mideast

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Corinne Sauer & Robert Sauer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 4:49:00 AM Post Reply

With President Barack Obama preparing for a second term and in the midst of a seeming continual swarm of uncertainty sweeping the Middle East, now more than ever is the prudent time to reexamine the decades-old policies surrounding US military aid to the Middle East. Many abroad might be shocked to hear that we write these words from here in Jerusalem where security remains the preeminent concern on the mind of most Israelis and where only weeks ago we completed an eight-day campaign defending our citizens against missile attacks. The immediate assumption by most is that Israel is in desperate need

Starve the Beast...

Weekly Standard, by Ramesh Ponnuru Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/8/2013 4:42:34 AM Post Reply

Almost everyone is under-estimating what Republicans have just achieved in the fiscal cliff deal, including many Republicans who supported the deal. Regardless of what politicians have been saying in public, everyone who has looked at the budget projections for the next few decades understands that, absent a sudden reduction in Americans’ life expectancy or other shocking development, middle-class -benefits are going to have to be cut, middle-class taxes are going to have to be raised, or both. The war between liberals and conservatives

Alabama crushes Notre Dame, 42-14,
for second straight BCS title

Los Angelles Times, by Mike Hiserman and Chris Dufresne Original Article

Posted By: Ladyhawke- 1/8/2013 2:38:51 AM Post Reply

Alabama has won its third Bowl Championship Series title in four years, overwhelming top-ranked Notre Dame, 42-14, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Coach Nick Saban´s teams have won four national championships. He won his first as coach at Louisiana State. Former Alabama Coach Bear Bryant won six national titles.

Health insurers jacking up rates by
double digits in advance of Obamacare

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 1/8/2013 1:26:19 AM Post Reply

This is only the beginning. What insurance rates will look like next year when Obamacare goes into effect is anyone´s guess, but they will almost certainly be higher than they are today. And today, the costs for health insurance are skyrocketing. (Snip) The more expensive premiums are, the larger the subsidies will be. This, of course, increases the cost of the program substantially, as will the unexpectedly high number of companies that will drop insurance coverage. It seems incredible that congress is actually going to allow the country to go through with this monstrosity. Meanwhile, before Obamacare even takes

GOP may use debt ceiling to force
Harry Reid to pass budget

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 1/8/2013 12:53:01 AM Post Reply

Tuesday marks the 1,350th day since the Senate passed a budget. The law requires Congress to pass a budget every year, on the grounds that Americans deserve to know how the government plans to spend the trillions of taxpayer dollars it collects, along with dollars it borrows at the taxpayers´ expense. But Majority Leader Harry Reid, who last allowed a budget through the Senate in April 2009, has ignored the law since then. There´s no mystery why. The budget passed by large Democratic majorities in the first months of the Obama administration had hugely elevated levels of spending in it.

Ten child criminals responsible
for 800 crimes in city

Scotsman [Edinburgh], by Alan McEwen Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/8/2013 12:49:57 AM Post Reply

A hardcore group of ten child criminals – aged as young as 11 – may be “beyond help”, police today admitted, as it was revealed they are behind a staggering 800 offences across the Capital. The tearaways make up a list of the worst young offenders in Edinburgh, with three notching up 100 or more charges, including housebreaking, joyriding and robbery. One 15-year-old boy from the east of the city has committed 117 offences in the last two years to become the most prolific under-16 criminal, while an 11-year-old boy from north Edinburgh is also among

Obama CIA Pick John
Brennan in 2010: Jihad a
´Legitimate Tenet of Islam´

Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Kerry Picket Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/8/2013 12:47:08 AM Post Reply

Monday, President Barack Obama picked top counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan to become the next head of the CIA. Brennan´s views on radical Islam may concern hawkish Senators who will scrutinize Obama´s choice for CIA chief. In May of 2010, Fox News reported Brennan defended Jihad as a "legitimate tenet of Islam.": (Snip) He repeated the administration argument that the enemy is not "terrorism," because terrorism is a "tactic," and not terror, because terror is a "state of mind" -- though Brennan´s title, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland

Exclusive - Dershowitz:
´I Will Testify Against Hagel´ on Iran

Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/8/2013 12:31:31 AM Post Reply

Prof. Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School is a legendary defense lawyer, and the country´s foremost pro-Israel advocate. He is also a steadfast supporter of President Barack Obama. Breitbart News spoke to him in an exclusive interview today about the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense. Sen. Hagel is controversial for his views on Israel, the Iraq War, Iran, and gays, among other issues. Dershowitz had, prior to Hagel´s nomination, urged President Obama publicly not to appoint Hagel to the position. Breitbart News: Does the Hagel nomination represent a

Planned Parenthood reports
record year for abortions

Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/8/2013 12:15:27 AM Post Reply

In its latest annual report for fiscal year 2011 to 2012, Planned Parenthood reveals that it performed 333,964 abortions in 2011 – a record year for the organization. According to annual reports, the organization performed 332,278 abortions in 2009, 329,445 in 2010, making the total number of abortions in three years to 995,687. Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $542 million in taxpayer funding, according to a Susan B. Anthony List analysis of the report, in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. The amount is 45 percent of Planned Parenthood’s annual

El futuro habla español
(The future speaks Spanish)

Washington Post Writers Group, by Kathleen Parker Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/8/2013 12:15:12 AM Post Reply

Washington - The new year has begun with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do? In attempting to navigate my own thoughts, I keep bumping into advice my father gave me a long time ago: “Learn Spanish. You will need it to survive in the world you will inherit.” (Snip) What was clear to my father even then is that our hemisphere could not long be segregated by language. Nor, apparently, can we be kept apart by borders, no matter how many fences we build or drones we deploy. Meanwhile, and not incidentally, our new, 113th U.S. Congress has welcomed

Music Video From
‘Most Hated Person’ in
Uzbekistan Features Depardieu Cameo

New York Times, by Robert Mackey Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/7/2013 11:28:03 PM Post Reply

Just days after receiving a Russian passport from his friend Vladimir V. Putin, the French tax exile Gérard Depardieu has done a favor for the president of another former Soviet state, with an appearance in a music video with the daughter of Uzbekistan’s authoritarian leader, Islam Karimov. The Uzbek first daughter, Gulnara Karimova — described as “something of a robber baron” and “the single most hated person in the country,” in a 2005 American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks — is engaged in an elaborate effort to make herself into an international pop star, under the stage name

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