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Tunisia frees man suspected of
attacking U.S. consulate in Benghazi

Xinhua News Agency [China], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/8/2013 1:24:52 PM Post Reply

Tunis - A Tunisian court has freed a man suspected of attacking the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, due to insufficient evidence, official TAP press agency reported Tuesday, quoting an "authorized judicial source." The suspect, Ali Harzi, was freed at the request of his lawyer for lacking of evidence, TAP said. Harzi, who was arrested in October last year as he attempted to enter Turkey with forged documents, was later extradited to Tunisia where he was detained upon arrival on the charge of belonging to a terrorist network. Following his arrest, Tunisian Interior Minister, Ali Laarayedh,

The ´hell no´ caucus

Politico, by Jim Vandehei & Mike Allen Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/8/2013 1:22:04 PM Post Reply

Freshman Rep. Tom Cotton, a veteran of two wars and with a pair of Harvard degrees, got a pleasant surprise last year that helped him win a very competitive Republican primary — and then a very easy general election. It was a FedEx envelope full of checks that he didn’t ask for, from a group he hardly knew — the Club for Growth. Tucked inside that envelope and several to come were $300,000 in checks from Club members, enough to help lift the 35-year-old former Army captain from obscurity — and 47 percentage points down

Be Ready To
Mint That Coin

New York Times, by Paul Krugman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 1:22:01 PM Post Reply

Should President Obama be willing to print a $1 trillion platinum coin if Republicans try to force America into default? Yes, absolutely. He will, after all, be faced with a choice between two alternatives: one that’s silly but benign, the other that’s equally silly but both vile and disastrous. The decision should be obvious. For those new to this, here’s the story. First of all, we have the weird and destructive institution of the debt ceiling; this lets Congress approve tax and spending bills that imply a large budget deficit — tax

Sarah Palin’s Brother: From Alaska,
He Can See a Third, `American Party’

Bloomberg News, by Don Frederick Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 1/8/2013 1:17:12 PM Post Reply

There’s a new voice in the Palin family making the call for political upheaval, with Sarah’s brother — Chuck Heath Jr. — calling for “the disgruntled citizens of the United States… Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians… persons of every race, religion, economic status, and whoever else is interested, join together and form a new party.” He adds, in a posting on his Facebook page: “I’d simply call it, the American Party. ” Heath — who on a personal website identifies himself as “father, teacher, author” and “Alaskan gold miner” — may want to work on that name.

Obama chooses inauguration speakers

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/8/2013 1:16:33 PM Post Reply

President Obama has selected an Atlanta pastor and the widow of a slain civil rights leader to deliver the invocation and benediction at his inauguration. Myrlie Evers-Williams, former chair of the NAACP and widow of Medgar Evers, will deliver the invocation, and the Rev. Louie Giglio of Passion City Church in Atlanta will deliver the benediction, the inaugural committee announced Tuesday. Evers-Williams fought for justice for 30 years after her husband, the Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP, was gunned down in his driveway in 1963. She authored three books about their civil rights work. Giglio founded Passion Conferences,

White House ramping up
gun violence discussions

Associated Press, by Julie Pace Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/8/2013 1:12:22 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Facing an end-of-the-month deadline, the Obama administration is calling gun owner groups, victims´ organizations and representatives from the video-game industry to the White House this week for discussions on potential policy proposals for curbing gun violence. President Barack Obama has ordered an administration-wide task force to send him proposals by the end of January. The group, led by Vice President Joe Biden, was formed in response to last month´s horrific massacre of 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. Biden will meet Wednesday with gun violence victims´ groups and gun safety organizations,

White House ramps up talks
on gun control measures

Fox News & Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 1:10:18 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration is making a big push this week to gather ideas for a comprehensive plan to curb gun violence, amid reports that the Vice President Biden-led task force is homing in on a host of gun control measures. Biden plans to meet Wednesday with gun safety organizations and gun violence victims´ groups, a White House aide told Fox News. The next day, he plans to meet with gun ownership groups as well as advocates for sportsmen. Biden has also scheduled a meeting with representatives from the entertainment and video game industries.

Giant squid filmed alive
in deep sea for first time

CBS News, by Bailey Johnson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/8/2013 1:07:45 PM Post Reply

The mysterious and mythical giant squid has never been spotted alive in the deep sea -- until now. A team from Japan´s National Science Museum has captured footage of a giant squid in its natural habitat: nearly a third of a mile below the surface of the ocean. It is the first such video of its kind. Giant squids, which can grow up to 60 feet in length, have been found dead on beaches and photographed in the ocean and -- more often -- on the surface. But scientists have never seen video of the strange creature below the waves

AIG Is Thinking About Suing
the Government for Bailing It Out

Atlantic Wire, by Adam Clark Estes Original Article

Posted By: US Veteran- 1/8/2013 1:00:51 PM Post Reply

It´s been almost five years since AIG´s stock dropped 60 percent in a day leaving the company doomed to failure, when Uncle Sam swooped in with $182 billion to rescue it. But AIG must have a short memory, because on Monday night news emerged that the insurance company is actually thinking about suing the U.S. government over the bailout that saved it. The board will discuss the idea with shareholders at a meeting on Wednesday. RELATED: The U.S. Made $22 Billion Bailing Out AIG It´s not so much that AIG´s mad the government bailed them out.
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Blow to Obama as terror suspect
linked to Benghazi consulate
attack is freed

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 12:47:03 PM Post Reply

A Tunisian man questioned by the F.B.I about the murderous attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi has been released by a Tunisian judge due to lack of evidence, according to his lawyer. Ali Harzi, 26, was one of the few known suspects in custody the case, which has been beset by problems stemming from the weakness of the Libyan government and the power of militias in the country - some of whom may have even been involved in the attack. Christopher Stevens, who died in the September 11 attack, was the first U.S. ambassador to be

Conspiracy theory professor
says Sandy Hook shooting
may not have happened

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 12:35:23 PM Post Reply

Outrageous claims made by a professor who specializes in conspiracy theories are set to provoke grieving family by saying that the Sandy Hook massacre may not have happened at all. James Tracy, a tenured history professor at Florida Atlantic University, wrote a lengthy post on his personal blog saying that the shooting that left 20 children and six teachers dead may not have happened the way that it is widely believed, if it happened at all. Backed solely by the erroneous early reports filed during the midst of the horrendous incident, Mr Tracy ´s claim

Police: Please stop
throwing rocks at buses

Washington Post, by Mark Berman Original Article

Posted By: GreatGreyhounds- 1/8/2013 12:29:26 PM Post Reply

Metro says that Metrobuses traveling in parts of Southeast Washington are being pelted with rocks. As part of a campaign to discourage this, police are distributing a flier reminding people not to throw rocks at buses or cars. The Metro Transit Police and Metropolitan Police Department have been distributing the flier, which features a reminder that throwing rocks at vehicles is a crime. The Metro Transit Police and Metropolitan Police Department have been distributing the flier, which features a reminder that throwing rocks at vehicles is a crime.
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Planned Parenthood received $542.4
million in government grants and
reimbursements from 2011 to 2012

Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 12:18:17 PM Post Reply

Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report for 2011-2012, released Monday, reveals that the abortion and women’s health provider received $542.4 million from taxpayers in government grants and reimbursements — constituting 45 percent of the organization’s revenue. Abortions constituted 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provided from October 2010 to September 2011. According to the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, the 333,964 abortions the organization performed in that timeframe represented a record high for Planned Parenthood. The group noted that from 2009 through 2011, Planned Parenthood performed 995,687 abortions.

It’s the Foreign Policy,
and We Are Stupid

PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 1/8/2013 12:13:56 PM Post Reply

During his late, lamented campaign, Mitt Romney opined: It’s the economy, and we’re not stupid. Well, maybe. But the economy is a lot of people, millions of them actually, from the assembly line worker to the CEO, and has a surprising way of righting itself despite a plethora of bad policies. Capitalism is a mighty motor; economies rebound when you least expect them to. Not so with foreign policy. It’s in the hands of one man — the president. Yes, Congress has the right to declare war, blah blah. History has shown us again and again who

Media Matters for America funder
Bill Benter emerges as financial
sponsor of pro-Hagel ads

Daily Caller, by Vince Coglianese Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 12:12:52 PM Post Reply

One of the funders behind an ad campaign promoting Chuck Hagel’s nomination to head the Pentagon is also a major donor to the liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America. Hagel, who President Barack Obama tapped Monday as his nominee to head the Defense Department, is already under fire from critics who say he “has sought to distance the United States from Israel” during his career. According to a Foreign Policy magazine report Monday night, a substantial ad campaign aimed at swatting such attacks on Hagel is already underway, and gambling magnate Bill Benter

College Park couple says front yard
vegetable garden is under fire again

WKMG [Orlando, FL], by Kristin Giannis Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 1/8/2013 12:11:43 PM Post Reply

ORLANDO, Fla. - A College Park couple´s vegetable garden is on the chopping block again after the city threatened fines if they don´t uproot it by Thursday, according to the Institute for Justice Florida Chapter. Jason and Jennifer Helvenston are launching "Plant a Seed, Change the Law," a protest of Orlando’s law, which they say violates their constitutional right to peacefully use their property to grow their own food. In November, Local 6 broke the story about the controversial garden after the city told the Helvenstons their 25-by-25-foot front yard vegetable garden

Save the Charismatic Megafauna

National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/8/2013 12:01:13 PM Post Reply

The news that an entire family of elephants was slaughtered by poachers in Kenya is depressing. I’m a big squish when it comes to charismatic megafauna, the technical term for really awesome big animals: tigers, whales, dolphins, elephants, lions etc. But I’m also a conservative in the purest sense of the word. The conservation of these creatures is its own reward. They speak to our place in the universe, the majesty of God’s creation, the imagination of children, and countless other intangible factors that resonate from the Bible to literature to our own childhoods.

Ted Cruz draws presidential
buzz, but is he eligible?

Politico, by David Cantanese Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 11:49:10 AM Post Reply

Ted Cruz may have the aura of a future presidential contender, but is he even eligible to run? The newly sworn-in Texas senator and rising Republican star was born in Canada, to a mother who was born in Delaware and Cuban father. That’s triggered a debate about whether he’s eligible for the nation’s highest office — nevermind that he’s been in Congress less than a week. While there’s no legal precedent for Cruz’s situation, most constitutional scholars surveyed by POLITICO believe the 42-year-old tea party sensation would be OK. But there’s just enough gray area to stoke controversy,

We are raising a generation
of deluded narcissists

Fox News, by Dr. Keith Ablow Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 11:44:47 AM Post Reply

A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though their test scores and time spent studying are decreasing. Psychologist Jean Twenge, the lead author of the analysis, is also the author study showing that the tendency toward narcissism in students is up 30 percent in the last thirty-odd years. This data is not unexpected. I have been writing a great

Liz won’t beat drum

Boston Herald, by Hillary Chabot Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/8/2013 11:41:16 AM Post Reply

Despite repeated claims she is “proud” of her Cherokee heritage, newly minted U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is keeping that pride under wraps and won’t be taking advantage of a chance to officially list herself as the Bay State’s first Native American U.S. senator. Aides said Warren, who describes herself as part Cherokee and part Delaware Indian, won’t contact historians at the Senate Historical Office to tell them she’s Native American. The office lists minority senators in its official directory. Warren’s aides refused further comment,

Christie walks back Boehner criticism

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Alexis Levinson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/8/2013 11:36:59 AM Post Reply

In an interview before his Tuesday State of the State Address, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walked back the brutal tongue-lashing he gave House Speaker John Boehner last week over the House’s handling of the Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill. In an interview with The Star-Ledger, Christie said it was unfair to “judge” the Speaker for his decision last Tuesday night to not bring the Hurricane Relief bill to the floor, ensuring that it would not be passed before the end of the 112th Congress. In a speech delivered the following day, Christie said Boehner and his Republican caucus

The Revenge of Obama

American Thinker, by Eileen F. Toplansky Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 1/8/2013 11:36:47 AM Post Reply

During World War II, a group known as the Monuments Men, "attempted to minimize [Nazi] damage to European monuments and architecture and then track down stolen works of art. (Snip) In his book entitled Rescuing Da Vinci, author Robert M. Edsel, quotes William Shirer who described Hitler thusly: I observed his face. It was grave, solemn, yet brimming with revenge. There was something else, difficult to describe, in his expression, a sort of scornful inner joy at being present at this great reversal of fate -- a reversal he himself had wrought. This "scornful inner joy" describes Obama well

New Medicaid debate:
hospital ‘bed tax’ renewal

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Misty Williams Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/8/2013 11:33:20 AM Post Reply

Georgia hospitals have agreed among themselves to support the extension of a special fee that bolsters the state’s massive Medicaid program. They now face a potentially larger battle — garnering the support of conservative lawmakers who balk at the idea of renewing taxes of any kind. Under the state’s two-year-old hospital provider fee, commonly called the “bed tax,” hospitals pay a percentage of their total revenue to help prop up the state’s Medicaid program for the poor. The money enables the state to draw more than $500 million in new federal matching dollars to aid hospitals that care for large

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
and husband Mark Kelly launch
gun control initiative

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 11:21:37 AM Post Reply

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched an initiative aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed six people and left her critically injured. Giffords and Mark Kelly wrote in an op-ed published in USA Today that their Americans for Responsible Solutions initiative would help raise money to support greater gun control efforts. "Achieving reforms to reduce gun violence and prevent mass shootings will mean matching gun lobbyists in their reach and resources," they wrote in the column.

Al Gore profits from
the stealth jihad

Washington Times, by Frank J. Gaffney Jr. Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/8/2013 11:16:19 AM Post Reply

Let’s call it Al Goreera. This seems a fitting title for the new network that former Vice President Al Gore is launching with the jihadists’ favorite television outlet: Al-Jazeera. The effect will be to create vast new opportunities for our enemies to propagandize the American people, a key ingredient of their “civilization jihad” against our country. It is hard to overstate the magnitude of this treachery. Imagine the furor that would have erupted if, during the Cold War, one of the United States’ most prominent former leaders had enriched himself to the tune of $100 million by giving

The ‘Truth’ Hurts

Reason, by Matt Welch Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 1/8/2013 11:14:03 AM Post Reply

For many in the media, the crowning moment of the Republican Party’s long, campaign-accelerated slide into full-blown, fact-free delusion came on election night just after Fox News called the state of Ohio—and therefore the election—for President Barack Obama. Fox contributor Karl Rove, formerly the Svengali behind George W. Bush and currently the head of the influential Crossroads GPS political action committee, forcefully disputed the projection as numerically “premature.” Exasperated co-anchor Megyn Kelly retorted, “Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better, or is this real?”

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