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Bachmann still hasn’t paid
presidential campaign staffers

Salon, by Alex Seitz-Wald Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/11/2013 4:52:44 AM Post Reply

Over a year after she dropped out, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has refused to pay five staffers from her failed presidential bid, according to a former top campaign official. Peter Waldron, her controversial former national field coordinator, told Salon the dispute started when former Iowa straw poll staffers refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement that would bar them from discussing any “unethical, immoral, or criminal activity” they witnessed on the campaign with police or reporters. Waldron said the staffers are owed a mere $5,000, and that Bachmann has more than $2 million in her campaign account,

Indiana Boy Abducted in
´94 Found in Minnesota

Associated Press, by Ken Kusmer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/11/2013 4:49:07 AM Post Reply

Richard Wayne Landers Jr. was just 5 years old when he and his paternal grandparents, who were upset over custody arrangements, disappeared from Wolcottville, a town about 30 miles north of Fort Wayne. Nineteen years later, news that he has been found living under an assumed name in Minnesota left his mother overjoyed and "jumping up and down," her husband said Thursday shortly after police announced the break in the case. Indiana State Police said the now 24-year-old Landers was found in Long Prairie, Minn., thanks in part to his Social Security number.

The Sperm Donor Trap: Should
Your DNA Follow You for Life?

Daily Beast, by Lizzie Crocker Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/11/2013 4:46:49 AM Post Reply

William Marotta thought he was being a good samaritan when he responded to a $50 ad on Craigslist seeking a sperm donor. He provided a description of himself—blond, blue-eyed, healthy—and even offered up his swimmers at no cost. Marotta met with the prospective parents, a lesbian couple, who lived nearby in Kansas, and signed a contract ensuring his beneficent deposit wouldn’t land him in any sticky situations. He then handed over the fruits of his manual labors, wiped his hands clean of any responsibility, and walked away. Or so he thought.

The New, Media-Numbed Normal

PJ Media, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/11/2013 4:37:32 AM Post Reply

Associated Press stories on the economy and the fiscal cliff during the previous week tell us that we’re in for four more years of having the so-called “essential global news network” and the rest of the establishment press tell us that we aren’t really seeing what we can see right in front of us. Meanwhile, their headlines and the stories they choose to ignore demonstrate a dogged determination to keep those who don’t follow the news closely from seeing what they don’t want them to see. The AP’s headline writers and Christopher Rugaber already had their minds made up

Womp, womp: The U.S. loses ground
in economic freedom, again

Hot Air, by Erika Johnsen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/11/2013 4:32:40 AM Post Reply

The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation have released their annual Index of Economic Freedom for 2013, and bad news, friends: More top-down regulations, more federal intrusion, expanded deficit spending, and heightened rent-seeking are in fact not conditions conducive to economic freedom. Based on measures relating to the rule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency, and open markets, the United States came in tenth place, following Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Chile, Mauritius, and Denmark. The least-free countries were Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba, and North Korea in dead last.

Pentagon considers hiring freeze,
contract delays

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/11/2013 4:29:44 AM Post Reply

Washington – The Pentagon will begin taking steps to freeze civilian hiring, delay some contract awards and curtail some maintenance to prepare for drastic budget cuts if Congress can´t reach an agreement on a final spending plan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday. Speaking to reporters, Panetta said that department officials must also develop detailed plans to implement unpaid furloughs for civilian personnel. The furloughs would kick in if the automatic cuts are triggered. But Panetta said he has asked defense leaders to ensure that any initial moves they make now should be reversible if at all possible,

2 dead, 3 wounded in
South Side attacks

Chicago Tribune, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/11/2013 4:22:29 AM Post Reply

Two men were wounded, one fatally, in a shooting in the South Shore neighborhood this evening, police said. Two others were shot, one fatally, in a separate Englewood neighborhood attack. The most recent shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Honore Street. One man died and another was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said, and he´s expected to survive. An earlier shooting took place about 6:13 p.m. in the 2000 block of East 71st Street — near Jeffery Boulevard —said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala.

The American People React
to Zero Dark Thirty

American Thinker, by Elise Cooper Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 1/11/2013 4:11:02 AM Post Reply

The movie Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, has renewed the discussion over enhanced interrogation techniques. Kathryn Bigelow, the director, and Mark Boal, the screenwriter, point out that "torture" by CIA officers was instrumental in getting the information needed to find bin Laden. American Thinker interviewed former high-ranking CIA officials who were at the Agency during those perilous times to get their opinions on the movie.

Louisiana Governor Jindal proposes
ending state income tax

Reuters, by Kathy Finn Original Article

Posted By: Howard Adams- 1/10/2013 11:37:31 PM Post Reply

Republican Governor Bobby Jindal said on Thursday he wants to eliminate all Louisiana personal and corporate income taxes to simplify the state´s tax code and make it more friendly to business. The governor did not release details of his proposal, but his office released a statement confirming that the taxes are targets of a broader tax reform plan. "Our goal is to eliminate all personal income tax and all corporate income tax in a revenue neutral manner," Jindal said in the statement. (Snip) ...Jindal will propose balancing the tax loss by raising the sales tax, now at 4 percent...

The coming Iran-Iraq war

The Peninsula [Doha, Qatar], by Khalid Al Sayed Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/10/2013 11:34:28 PM Post Reply

US defence secretary Leon Panetta signed a document at the end of 2011 ending the war in Iraq. However, there was no jubilation in Iraq after the departure of the last US tank. One reason could be that after the US invasion and Saddam Hussein’s ouster, Iraq came under the control of Iran. What Washington did was actually hand over the keys of Iraq to Iran on a gold plate, and another chapter of Iranian domination over Iraq started, and became complete with the ascension to power of Nouri Al Maliki as prime minister. In two years of Arab Spring, the pace of political developments in the region has been

Police: Former death row
inmate kills mom

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: beancounter- 1/10/2013 11:20:12 PM Post Reply

VALLEJO, Calif — A California man once sentenced to death for killing two people in the 1960s was under arrest Thursday after police said he led officers to the body of his 89-year-old mother. Investigators said Dennis Stanworth, 70, called Vallejo police just before noon Wednesday and said he had killed his mother at his home. Stanworth led officers to the body of Nellie Turner Stanworth. Investigators wouldn´t say how she was killed. Lt. Jim O´Connell said in a news release that Stanworth was arrested for investigation of murder and booked into the Solano County Jail. Stanworth was sentenced to death in 1966

California testing limits
of gun-control rules in
wake of Newtown shooting

Fox News, by Claudia Cowan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/10/2013 11:18:35 PM Post Reply

California already has the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Buying a handgun requires registration, a safety certificate, a 10-day waiting period and a rigorous background check. All direct person-to-person sales are banned and concealed-carry permits are rare. But now, in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, lawmakers in the Golden State have launched into a new legislative frenzy to restrict firearms further. And they´re confident the measures will pass, given Democrats have a two-thirds "super majority" in both chambers -- which means they have the power to pass legislation and get constitutional amendments

In Debate with Breitbart´s
Shapiro, CNN´s Piers Morgan
Calls the Constitution
´Your Little Book´

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/10/2013 11:15:07 PM Post Reply

“You come in here, brandish your little book as if I don’t know what’s in there--” “My little book? That’s the Constitution of the United States. It’s our founding document, Piers.” “I know what’s in your Constitution.” “Do you really?” That was the climax of a heated debate between Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro and CNN’s Piers Morgan on live television this evening--one in which Morgan came off much the worse for wear.

101 killed, 200 injured
in Quetta, Swat blasts

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/10/2013 11:10:11 PM Post Reply

Quetta/Peshawar: At least 101 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in bombings in Pakistan yesterday, officials said, with most casualties caused by sectarian attacks in the city of Quetta. Two coordinated explosions killed 69 people and injured more than 100 in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan in the evening, said Deputy Inspector of Police Hamid Shakil. In another incident, 21 were killed and more than 60 injured in a bombing when people gathered to hear a religious leader in Mingora, the largest city in the northwestern province of Swat, police and officials

Limbaugh Asks CNN: How Would
You React If Bush/Cheney Tried
To Use Executive Order On Abortion?

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/10/2013 11:10:07 PM Post Reply

On his radio show this afternoon, Rush Limbaugh challenged CNN to ponder how they’d react if President George W. Bush had invoked an executive order on abortion, in contrast to what he sees as a supportive attitude towards President Obama‘s invoking executive order on gun control. “If George Bush, and Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales got together and decided too many people were dying because of abortion in this country, and said that they were looking at ways to curb abortion, and one of the things they were doing was using executive orders on abortion,” Limbaugh said

Biden to Present Gun
Control Proposals Tuesday

Commentary Magazine, by Alana Goodman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/10/2013 11:03:22 PM Post Reply

The White House isn’t wasting any time on the gun control debate. After meeting with gun-rights advocates today, CBS News reports that Joe Biden will present his gun control proposals to President Obama as soon as Tuesday: After consulting with a series of stakeholders in the ongoing debate over gun control, Vice President Joe Biden will present his recommendations for reducing gun-related violence in America to President Obama on Tuesday, he said today. The vice president, speaking to reporters before a meeting on gun violence with sportsmen and women

2 St. Lucie schools have
grief counselors after teacher
slain by son in North Palm

Palm Beach Post [FL], by Sonja Isger* Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/10/2013 10:57:20 PM Post Reply

The St. Lucie County School District plans to have grief counselors at two elementary schools today after a teacher was stabbed to death in a Palm Beach County home—a crime to which authorities say her son confessed. Gloria Farajian was a second grade teacher at White City Elementary School for almost eight years and had been teaching art at Parkway Elementary School this year. The school district will have counselors at both schools.(Snip) Farajian said he stopped taking prescribed medication for paranoia, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and knew it was wrong that he killed his mother,

St. Louis teen pleads guilty
to "knockout game" attack

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/10/2013 10:52:30 PM Post Reply

St. Louis — A St. Louis teenager has pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in a "knockout game" attack in November 2011. Kwame Thomas, 18, of the 2800 block of Osceola Street, admitted to assaulting a 54-year-old man near Osceola and Nebraska Avenue. Thomas pleaded guilty in St. Louis Circuit Court on Monday, and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 22. The victim told police that he was approached by a group of people just after 7 p.m. on Nov. 20, 2011. One asked for a cigarette, but the man said he did not have one. He was then struck

Labor union bosses’ salaries
put ‘big’ in Big Labor

Washington Times, by Luke Rosiak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/10/2013 10:46:29 PM Post Reply

There can be riches in standing up for the working class: The Boilermakers union president earned $506,000, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars more for travel expenses, while the Laborers union president made $441,000. The Transportation Communications Union leader made $300,000, bumped up to $750,000 with business expenses. Patrick W. Flynn makes $435,000 a year in his capacity as treasurer of a 13,600-member Teamsters union local, and the $30,000 in business expenses he collects on top of costs associated with carrying out his duties

‘Disappointed’ NRA sees
White House ‘agenda
to attack’ gun rights

Washington Times, by David Sherfinski Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/10/2013 10:44:06 PM Post Reply

The National Rifle Association said it was “disappointed” with the focus of a Thursday meeting with Vice President Joseph R. Biden and other groups over new gun measures, arguing that the White House gathering had less to do with keeping the country’s children safe and more to do “with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment.” “We attended today’s White House meeting to discuss how to keep our children safe and were prepared to have a meaningful conversation about school safety, mental health issues, the marketing of violence to our kids and the collapse of federal prosecutions of violent criminals,”

´This generation´s Agent Orange:´
New registry to tally, track burn
pit illnesses among vets

NBC News, by Bill Briggs Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/10/2013 10:42:31 PM Post Reply

An American flag dangles from the Torres home, the sign of a long battle won: a new law — signed Thursday by President Barack Obama — creating a registry of U.S. service members perhaps sickened or killed by burn pits used throughout Iraq and Afghanistan to destroy waste ranging from batteries to body parts. But amid occasional smiles over the first step to formally identify the toxic effects of what’s called “this generation’s Agent Orange,” there were tears, too, in that house near Corpus Christi, Texas. Resident Le RoyTorres, 40, a former Army captain, is one of the ill veterans

Meet the "1%" Funding
Anti-Fracking Hysteria

Front Page Magazine, by Michael Volpe Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 1/10/2013 10:42:24 PM Post Reply

The world presented in Matt Damon’s new movie Promised Land is a world in which the fracking movement, well-funded by corporate oil money, takes on a ragtag bunch of idealistic environmentalists. It’s the classic David vs. Goliath story. According to a new report, the anti-fracking movement is just as well-funded by highly organized environmental groups backed by deep-pocketed liberal philanthropists and even Middle East oil money. According to a new report titled “The Environmental Movement vs. the Marcellus Shale,” the anti-fracking movement, using its friends in media and

U.S. drone strikes in
Pakistan on rise for 2013

Washington Post, by Greg Miller Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/10/2013 10:35:36 PM Post Reply

The CIA has opened the year with a flurry of drone strikes in Pakistan, pounding Taliban targets along the country’s tribal belt at a time when the Obama administration is preparing to disclose its plans for pulling most U.S. forces out of neighboring Afghanistan. A strike Thursday in North Waziristan was the seventh in 10 days, marking a major escalation in the pace of attacks. Drone attacks had slipped in frequency to fewer than one per week last year. Current and former U.S. intelligence officials attributed the increased tempo to a sense of urgency surrounding expectations that President Obama will

Baseball to Expand
Drug-Testing Program

New York Times, by Michael S. Schmidt Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/10/2013 10:29:03 PM Post Reply

Washington - A day after suffering through the embarrassment of seeing no new players selected to the Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball and its players union moved ahead Thursday by announcing that they had reached an agreement to expand their drug-testing program. For the first time, baseball will conduct in-season blood testing for human growth hormone. In addition, it will employ a new test designed to catch players using synthetic testosterone, a substance that appears to be growing in popularity because it washes out of a player’s body fairly quickly after being used, making it hard

Again, the tug of global retreat

Washington Post, by Fred Hiatt Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/10/2013 10:22:19 PM Post Reply

By nominating a defense secretary committed to shrinking the defense budget and openly entertaining a “zero option” for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, President Obama is sending a message: His promise to refocus on “nation-building at home” was no campaign slogan. He hopes for a second term with diminished foreign entanglement. His first-term record was mixed on this score. He delivered some inspiring rhetoric on American leadership. In 2009, he decided to ramp up the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. Only eight months ago in Kabul,

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