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Possible NYT layoffs rattle media

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 1/11/2013 10:02:53 PM Post Reply

In the news business, no one is safe - not even senior editors at The New York Times. The media business was shaken on Friday when it was reported, first in New York Magazine and confirmed by POLITICO, that managing editor John Geddes, assistant managing editors Jim Roberts and Susan Edgerly, former Washington editor Rick Berke, and former Times Magazine editor Jerry Mazorati could all be casualties of the Times’ effort to cut costs. “It is hard to imagine there are too many sacred cows left in any newsroom, given the general state of our industry,”

Senator Reid Takes Fresh Aim

New York Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/11/2013 10:02:49 PM Post Reply

During a tight re-election campaign in 2010, when the vote of gun owners was crucial, Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader of the Senate, not only showed his prowess with a 12-gauge shotgun — hitting two clay pigeons from the air — but also invited Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, as his guest for the opening of a new shooting range in Searchlight, Nev. (Snip) It turned out his solidarity with the N.R.A. extended to quietly inserting an amendment that year into President Obama’s health care reform law that restricted the ability of physicians

Activists Document Sit-In by Families
of Bombing Victims in Pakistan

New York Times, by Robert Mackey Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/11/2013 9:44:19 PM Post Reply

Hours after it started on Friday night, Pakistani television began to report on a protest in the city of Quetta, where relatives of scores of people killed in bomb attacks one day earlier sat beside coffins in the street, refusing to bury their loved ones until they received assurance that the state would protect them. As my colleague Salman Masood reports, most of those killed in Thursday’s twin bomb attacks were Shiite Muslims from the Hazara ethnic group. Hazaras in Pakistan have been the target of a murderous campaign by Sunni Muslim extremists from the Taliban and a related militant group,

Mark Levin: "I Can Barely
Contain My Fury At What
Is Going On"

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/11/2013 9:32:59 PM Post Reply

MARK LEVIN: You know folks, I´ll be honest with you. I just told a friend of mine -- even though I sit behind this microphone and I try to be civil and so forth -- I can barely contain my fury about what´s going on in this country. I´m just being honest with you. I can barely contain it. I´m so frustrated by this tyranny, you have no idea. Now we can analyze it, we can intellectualize it, we can parse it and so forth and try to unravel it. But I´m just telling

The Gun Control Bubble Pops

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/11/2013 9:31:35 PM Post Reply

In the weeks since the Newtown shooting, the conventional wisdom has been that the country was so outraged about gun violence that the basic rules of Washington politics had been forever altered. The assumption was that a re-elected President Obama would get any sort of gun control legislation passed that he wanted and that the National Rifle Association would be powerless to stop him. But even before next Tuesday’s announcement of the recommendations made to the president by Vice President Biden, it appears as if everyone in the capital knows that it is highly unlikely

MSNBC´s David Corn:
Rush Limbaugh Is ´Calling
For John Wilkes Booth´

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/11/2013 9:29:18 PM Post Reply

The hyperventilating over gun restrictions by the liberal media is getting absurd. On Friday, MSNBC´s David Corn appearing on Hardball actually said that conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is "calling for John Wilkes Booth" by discussing on his program the possibility that the government in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, might take away people´s firearms (video follows with transcript and commentary):CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh said the president cannot be stopped when it comes to getting what he wants. You don´t think

A land less free

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/11/2013 9:24:32 PM Post Reply

The United States is no longer a beacon of freedom to the world. Countries once looked to America for inspiration on how to escape poverty and embrace prosperity, but now they can find better examples to follow. The Heritage Foundation on Thursday noted our fifth consecutive decline in its annual Index of Economic Freedom. It’s a sad day when countries such as Chile and Mauritius can outdo the red-white-and-blue when it comes to opportunity. U.S. economic policy has broken faith with the Founding Fathers, who preached the value of property rights, sound money and the rule of law.

Why I Brought Piers
Morgan That ´Little Book´

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/11/2013 9:20:50 PM Post Reply

When I appeared on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight to debate gun control on Thursday night, I came armed with a copy of the Constitution of the United States. I did so for a very simple reason: for too long, the left has been getting away with the lie that they are pro-Second Amendment. Then they proceed to violate the most basic concept of the Second Amendment: that we have a right to keep and bear arms. It is fine to have a rational conversation about how to balance rights with the risk and rewards of particular firearm ownership.

DOJ: 95% Drop in Youth
Victimized by Guns; 6x More
Likely to be Victimized by
Knife; Children of Unmarried
3.8x More Likely To Be Victims

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/11/2013 9:19:28 PM Post Reply

A new Justice Department study looking at violent crimes committed against “youth”—defined as Americans from 12 to 17 years of age—discovered that the rate of "serious violent crime" committed against youth by a perpetrator using a firearm dropped 95 percent from 1994 to 2010. The study—“Violent Crime Against Youth, 1994-2010”--also discovered that American youth who were victims of a serious violent crime in 2010 were six times more likely to have been attacked by a perpetrator wielding a knife than one wielding a gun. Serious violent crimes against youth perpetrated at schools dropped 62 percent from

Obama Golfed in Hawaii
with Former Rezko Crony

White House Dossier, by Keith Koffler Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 1/11/2013 9:12:16 PM Post Reply

While on vacation in Hawaii this month, President Obama played golf with Allison Davis, a former business partner of Tony Rezko who also helped give Obama his start in the legal profession. Rezko is the former Obama associate and fundraiser who was convicted of corruption and fraud and currently sits in prison. Davis, who is male, partnered with Rezko on a series of government-funded low and mixed income housing development projects in Chicago. While Davis himself has never been charged with wrongdoing, a number of the projects were high-priced failures that resulted in poor living conditions for residents.

White House Does
Damage Control on NYT
Gun-Control Report

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/11/2013 9:10:48 PM Post Reply

Someone tell Dianne Feinstein: For all the Democrats’ talk about passing another assault-weapons ban, that now appears unlikely to happen. According to the New York Times, the administration’s prospects of pushing an assault-weapons ban through Congress are slim and, as a result, the White House “is focusing on other measures it deems more politically achievable.” The story suggests that the White House doesn’t want to spend political capital on “a losing cause at the expense of other measures with more chances of success.” Though the administration will recommend the passage of such a ban, it’ll be a hollow

The key Benghazi
questions still unanswered

Washington Times, by Adm. James A. Lyons Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/11/2013 9:10:05 PM Post Reply

We now have the so-called Independent Accountability Review Board report on the Sept. 11 attack on our Benghazi special mission compound. While it concludes there was no spontaneous mob protest outside the compound, it fails to provide answers to many key questions. For example, it does not address why the Obama administration continued to lie to the American public for the better part of two weeks, saying that the attack on our consulate was mob violence that got out of control over a 14-minute anti-Islamic video that few had seen. Some officials, including former

U.S.-born Taliban fighter
wins prison prayer lawsuit

Associated Press, by Charles Wilson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/11/2013 9:03:52 PM Post Reply

INDIANAPOLIS — An American convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban must be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates at his high-security prison in Indiana, a federal judge ruled Friday. Barring John Walker Lindh and his fellow Muslims from engaging in daily group ritual prayer violates a 1993 law that bans the government from curtailing religious speech without showing a compelling interest, U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled. The judge blocked the prison from enforcing its ban on daily group prayer, but she noted that her ruling does not prohibit the prison

The Obama Oval Office –
Why Does It Look So Crappy?

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 1/11/2013 8:59:22 PM Post Reply

An earlier post today indicated shock at how rather…cheap the Obama Oval Office appeared in a recent photo. From the colors to the wall art to the what may very well be the worst drapes of any current national leader in the entire world. (They really are that bad) So let’s take a quick compare contrast of today’s Barack Obama Oval Office and compare it to some past presidents. Here is the photo of today’s Oval Office that caused many to remark at how badly the decorating was. Note the odd linoleum-looking table

Obama approves reconciliation talks
between Afghanistan and Taliban

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/11/2013 8:56:13 PM Post Reply

President Obama announced today that he has agreed that Afghan President Hamid Karzai should proceed with peace negotiations between the Taliban and the new government that has replaced them. “Any peace process, any reconciliation — it is not for the United States to determine what the terms of this peace will be,” Obama said during a joint press briefing with Karzai today. “It is not possible to reconcile without renouncing terrorism, without them recognizing the Afghan Constitution, and recognizing that if there are changes that they want to make to how the afghan process operates then

Cyclorama building at Gettysburg
will be demolished

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Amy Worden Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/11/2013 8:42:16 PM Post Reply

A 14-year battle over the fate of a modern structure at the heart of Gettysburg National Military Park is over. The National Park Service said Thursday that it would begin demolishing the Cyclorama building as soon as February, clearing the site ahead of the 150th anniversary commemoration of the battle. The site will be restored to its 1863 appearance, complete with a period apple orchard and replicas of the wood fences that once crisscrossed the fields, park spokeswoman Katie Lawhon said. The massive painting that the building once housed has been separately preserved.

Judge says Mennonite owners
must abide by health care law

Philadelphia Inquirer, by John P. Martin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/11/2013 8:35:21 PM Post Reply

A judge on Friday rejected claims by the Mennonite owners of a Lancaster County furniture maker that new federal health-care mandates violate their free-speech and religion rights by making them pay for employees´ contraceptive services. In a 34-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg said the owners of Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. did not prove that complying with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amounted to a "substantial burden" on their religious rights or that they qualified as a "religious employer" for an exemption. The decision was the latest in a string of conflicting rulings across the country,

Comcast’s Pro-Gun Policy

Washington Free Beacon, by CJ Ciaramella Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/11/2013 8:13:17 PM Post Reply

The NBC Sports Network, a subsidiary of the communications giant Comcast, is helping to sponsor the largest gun trade show in the country despite anti-gun rhetoric on the NBC family of television networks, including a controversial monologue by one of its sports announcers. NBC Sports is listed as one of the primary sponsors of the 2013 SHOT Show, which takes place Jan. 15 to18 in Las Vegas and bills itself “the world’s premier exposition of combined firearms.” NBC commentator Bob Costas made national headlines

National voter ID battle
set to rage again

Politico, by Emily Schultheis Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/11/2013 7:47:35 PM Post Reply

The national battle over voter ID laws that roiled the presidential campaign for a time then fizzled before Election Day is set to rage again in 2013. This year promises a flurry of new voter ID legislation across the country as well as reignited court battles in states where the laws were blocked last year and a Supreme Court ruling on part of the Voting Rights Act.All of the activity will bring the debate — which pits conservatives targeting potential election fraud against voting-rights groups convinced the laws are really about disenfranchising low-propensity liberal voters — to the forefront again.

Benghazi Suspect Released;
4 Americans Still Dead

Investors Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/11/2013 7:17:52 PM Post Reply

War On Terror: Before we confirm the president´s national security team, let´s get some answers to why no terrorists have been captured or killed after the consulate attack and why the administration doesn´t seem to care. Last Tuesday, the Tunisian government released Ali Ani al-Harzi, a leading suspect in the attack who was taken into custody after fleeing Libya for Turkey and then sent to Tunisia. A Tunisian court said he was released for lack of evidence, but more likely he was released for no lack of pressure from Islamist groups in and outside Tunisia.
Author corrected by Staff.

Obama´s Panicked Gun Control
Won´t Solve Gun Violence

Investors Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/11/2013 7:14:05 PM Post Reply

´We must act now" has become the cry — sometimes the scream — heard from politicians on the left a few weeks after the Newtown massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six of their educators. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, in an interview last week, very tellingly said regarding new gun-control laws, "the safety of our country cannot go as slow as the slowest ship in the House of Representatives or even the United States Senate." Translation: Democrats are determined to bypass the normal, orderly process of congressional hearings and votes by the elected representatives of the American people.

White House Considers
Funding for Cops in Schools

Breitbart´s Big Government, by John Sexton Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/11/2013 7:10:15 PM Post Reply

In what seems like a surprise move, the White House working group on gun control is considering expanding federal funding for cops in schools. It was the NRA´s Wayne LaPierre who, a week after the shooting in Newtown, recommended placing armed police officers in every school in America. The idea was ridiculed by the left but has been embraced by the school superintendent in Newtown at the behest of many parents. There are currently two officers present at each of the six schools in the Newtown district. The White House has found that even many Democrats

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