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Sen. Schumer Asks Gun Retailers To
Stop Sales As Congress Debates

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 1/14/2013 1:57:13 AM Post Reply

Sen. Charles Schumer says retailers that sell assault weapons should stop offering them for purchase while Congress discusses gun regulation legislation. Schumer on Sunday released a letter he sent to major retailers asking for a voluntary moratorium. The New York Democrat says consumer demand for guns has gone up in the weeks since the December mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

Bill Clinton fibs
about gun control

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 11:11:32 PM Post Reply

At a speech before the Conusmer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 9, Bill Clinton stated: “Half of all mass killings in the United States have occurred since the assault weapon ban expired in 2005, half in the history of the country.” But that statement is untrue, as Glenn Kessler of the Washngton Post demonstrates. Asked by Kessler about his statement, Clinton’s spokesman declined to comment or to say where Clinton got his numbers. As Kessler, a professional fact-checker, says, “this always makes us suspicous.” It seems clear that Clinton

French jets bomb major
Malian city in north

Associated Press, by Rukmini Callimachi and Baba Ahmed Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 10:36:11 PM Post Reply

BAMAKO, Mali — French fighter jets bombed rebel targets in a major city in Mali´s north Sunday, pounding the airport as well as training camps, warehouses and buildings used by the al-Qaida-linked Islamists controlling the area, officials and residents said. The three-day-old French-led effort to take back Mali´s north from the extremists began with airstrikes by combat helicopters in the small town of Konna. It has grown to a coordinated attack by state-of-the-art fighter jets which have bombarded

Obama acknowledges
involvement in Somalia raid

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 10:24:58 PM Post Reply

President Obama ordered U.S. forces to support French troops in a failed mission to rescue a hostage in Somalia, Mr. Obama notified Congress on Sunday. At least once French soldier was killed during the operation Friday. The president said U.S. combat aircraft “briefly entered Somali airspace” to support the operation Friday. “These aircraft did not employ weapons during the operation,” Mr. Obama said. Mr. Obama said he directed U.S. forces to participate in the mission because it furthered “national security interests.” In 1993, U.S. special forces hunting

Pentagon begins campaign to
bust ‘myths’ about nominee Hagel

Washington Times, by Rowan Scarborough Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 10:23:27 PM Post Reply

The Pentagon has begun a campaign to rebut what it calls “myths” about Defense Secretary-designate Chuck Hagel and is sending to senators documents purporting to show that he is pro-Israel and tough on Iran. The papers — one of which is titled “Chuck Hagel’s Record: Myths and Facts” — kick off what is expected to be a strong lobbying effort by the Obama administration and liberal groups to win Mr. Hagel’s confirmation by the Senate Armed Services Committee and then the full Senate. Republicans have voiced opposition, principally because of his statements about those two countries

Sen. Murphy: Congress ready
for ban on assault weapons

Washington Times, by Sean Lengell Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 10:21:57 PM Post Reply

Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday said there is growing momentum in Congress for a ban on so-called assault weapons, saying lawmakers’ attitudes toward gun control have changed significantly in the wake of last month’s shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn. “This issue is going to continue to move,” Mr. Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, said on CNN’s “State of the Union. “I do think that even in the Democratic caucus you see members like [Sens.] Joe Manchin and Mark Warner who previously probably never would have considered

The lowdown on Lew

Washington Post, by Robert J. Samuelson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 10:19:12 PM Post Reply

In selecting Jack Lew, the White House chief of staff, to replace Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary, President Obama has sent some not-so-subtle messages: The Treasury’s autonomy will be curbed; the president doesn’t much fear another financial crisis (otherwise, his nominee might have more financial-market experience); and the president isn’t conciliating his Republican and business critics (otherwise, his nominee would be less partisan). In many ways, the choice of Lew makes perfect sense

Hagel’s Cuba problem

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 10:17:36 PM Post Reply

Much of the focus on Chuck Hagel’s record has been on his views on Israel, Iran and sequestration. Equally troubling to those who have taken a forceful stand against Castro’s dictatorship in Cuba, however, has been his dismissive attitude toward the Castros and his enthusiasm to end the U.S. embargo with no quid pro quo. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has already expressed serious concerns about Hagel’s views on Cuba. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), former chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and now chairman of the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee, put out a statement

Colin Powell Tries to Clean
Up Hagel’s Mess, Fails

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 10:07:11 PM Post Reply

Former secretary of state Colin Powell emerged this morning to voice his support for Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense. Powell characterized Hagel as a strong supporter of Israel, a move that surely anticipates Hagel’s own in his confirmation hearing. In defending Hagel’s pro-Israel credentials and dismissing the significance of Hagel’s now-infamous reference to the “Jewish lobby,” Powell offered a revealing response. “That term slips out from time to time,” he told NBC’s David Gregory.

Teacher Forced to Remove Reagan Quote,
Bible Verses

FOX News, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 1/13/2013 10:01:13 PM Post Reply

A New York public school teacher who advised a school Bible Study club has filed a civil rights lawsuit against her school district after she was forced to remove all religious content from her classroom — including a quote from former President Ronald Reagan. Joelle Silver, a veteran teacher in the Cheektowaga Central School District in western New York, said she received a “counseling letter” signed by her superintendent that ordered her to remove all religious-themed items from her classroom or else she could be fired. The eight-page letter informed the teacher that “your rights to free speech

Obama Authorized U.S.
Participation in Botched
French Somalia Mission

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 10:00:13 PM Post Reply

President Obama informed Congress Sunday evening that U.S. forces were present in Somalia on Friday for a French raid to rescue a hostage from al-Shabaab. The attempt to rescue the intelligence officer who had been held by the terrorist group for three years went very wrong, though. One French commando was killed in the operation and another is missing. Al-Shabaab claimed that the commando is now their hostage. And French army consultant Denis Allex, the pseudonym for the intelligence officer, is presumed dead. “Extremely violent fights took place

White Plains home on handgun
permit database burglarized

News12 (Westchester, NY), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jeffreyabigail- 1/13/2013 9:54:23 PM Post Reply

A White Plains home on handgun permit database burglarized. Officials say the target of the burglary was the homeowner´s gun case. Police are trying to determine if the break-in was a result of the homeowner´s name and address being published by the Journal News last month, along with thousands of other registered gun owners.

New Mexico´s Latina Gov. Susana
Martinez makes waves in the GOP

Los Angeles Times, by Mark Z. Barabak Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/13/2013 9:53:52 PM Post Reply

SANTA FE, N.M. — In 2010, New Mexico´s Susana Martinez made history, being elected the nation´s first Latina governor. Since November, she´s made waves, criticizing Mitt Romney for the harsh rhetoric of his presidential campaign and chiding fellow Republicans for actions that, she says, have needlessly estranged Latinos from the GOP. "We have to make sure that as Republicans we don´t just visit Latinos during election time, but that we make them part of the solution," Martinez said in an interview. "It´s extremely important that we elect people that look like the population they serve." Martinez is a strong favorite

California´s debt still a
heavy cloud over state´s future

Los Angeles Times, by Evan Halper and Chris Megerian Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/13/2013 9:48:27 PM Post Reply

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown proclaimed last week that California, which now has enough cash to pay its day-to-day bills, can no longer be described by naysayers as a "failed state." But even though it appears to be free of the deficit that dogged the Capitol in recent years, the state is no model of financial health. Sacramento is legally obligated to pay many billions of dollars withheld from schools, local governments and healthcare providers as lawmakers struggled repeatedly to balance the books. It owes Wall Street more per resident than almost every other state.

Journal News gun permit
map used by burglars to
target White Plains home?

Newsday [NY], by Timothy O´Connor and Meghan H. Murphy Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/13/2013 9:43:14 PM Post Reply

A White Plains residence pinpointed on a controversial handgun permit database was burglarized Saturday, and the burglars´ target was the homeowner´s gun safe. At least two burglars broke into a home on Davis Avenue at 9:30 p.m. Saturday but were unsuccessful in an attempt to open the safe, which contained legally owned weapons, according to a law enforcement source. One suspect was taken into custody, the source said. The gun owner was not home when the burglary occurred, the source said. The victim, who is in his 70s

Toledo police claim inroads
against rise in gun violence

Toledo Blade, by Taylor Dungjen Original Article

Posted By: ledwith- 1/13/2013 9:39:04 PM Post Reply

They say it´s a story of survival. Protect yourself and what´s yours by whatever means necessary. “It´s either kill or be killed,” said Eric Anderson, 18. “It´s playin´ for keeps. You gotta live like this.” Mr. Anderson was one of 199 people in Toledo who were shot in 2012, down slightly from the 210 reported shootings the year prior, but still a dramatic increase from 121 shootings in 2010, the first year the Toledo Police Department started keeping track of such statistics.

US played ´limited´ role
in botched French rescue bid

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/13/2013 9:34:01 PM Post Reply

The United States said Sunday it played a limited support role in France´s botched bid to rescue a kidnapped secret agent in Somalia. "United States forces provided limited technical support to the French forces in that operation, but took no direct part in the assault on the compound where it was believed the French citizen was being held hostage," President Barack Obama said in a letter to Congress.

New York City parents
rushing to find flu vaccines
coming up empty handed

New York Daily News, by Erin Durkin and Edgar Sandoval Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/13/2013 9:24:40 PM Post Reply

A rush on flu shots sparked by Gov. Cuomo’s health emergency declaration has left some city pharmacies and urgent care facilities empty handed. “We ran out,” said Dr. Mark Melrose, an emergency physician and owner of Urgent Care Manhattan on Amsterdam Ave. on the upper West Side. Melrose said his supply went dry Saturday after doling out 10 times the normal number of flu shots to victims of the coughing—sneezing-head-feverish epidemic sweeping the nation. “We ordered a bunch that was supposed to be here. I think we gave out between 20 to 30 vaccines before we ran out,” said Melrose

Obama: U.S. military entered
Somalia´s airspace

Politico, by Josh Gerstein Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/13/2013 9:23:39 PM Post Reply

U.S. military combat aircraft "briefly entered" the airspace of Somalia Friday in support of a French-led rescue mission, President Barack Obama told Congress in a letter Sunday. On Friday, French troops mounted an unsuccessful attempt to rescue a French national reported to be a French intelligence service agent captured in Somalia in 2009. The agent, believed to be held by the Islamic group Al-Shabaab, was reportedly killed in the raid, as was a French soldier. Obama´s letter does not mention the result of the military action in the farming village of Bulomarer on the Somali coast and describes the U.S.

CNN Edits Piers-Shapiro
Debate, But Posts Complete
Wild Jones Interview

Breitbart Big Journalism, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/13/2013 7:11:01 PM Post Reply

CNN, in an attempt to frame the gun debate as rational gun control advocates versus wild-eyed gun owners, posted two clips edited from the Ben Shapiro—Piers Moran wipeout, while at the same time posting the entire two-segment interview Morgan did with Alex Jones. This is by design; to many, Jones left an impression of a wild-eyed fanatic who couldn’t have a rational discussion, which made Morgan seem as though he represented the rational side of the argument. Shapiro, on the other hand, was even lauded by the Obama mouthpiece Washington Post as “a foe of extraordinary polemical agility.”

Gun Day Organizer: We´re
Not Extremists

ABC News, by Chris Good Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/13/2013 5:05:10 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -Partly out of dissatisfaction with the National Rifle Association, a D.C.-based media consultant is calling for a nationwide celebration of guns -- and despite accusations that he´s leading a fringe coalition, Larry Ward says the backers of Gun Appreciation Day aren´t extremists. "If being a constitutionalist is extreme, so be it," said the man who recently told CNN that if blacks had guns, slavery wouldn´t have happened. Political battle lines have already been drawn over Gun Appreciation Day, the brainchild of Ward, a Capitol-Hill-based conservative media operative who confronted gun protesters on the street shorly after

Brother and Sister reunite
after 65 years

ABC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: barbcrose- 1/13/2013 5:03:56 PM Post Reply

A brother and sister were reunited after 65 years apart, thanks to the online sleuthing of a 7-year-old boy. For Betty Billadeau and her brother, Clifford Boyson, the reunion was a lifetime in the making after they were sent to separate foster homes around the time Betty was 5 years old and Clifford was 3.

Introducing Florida´s snake
hunters: Eight hundred hopefuls
gather to flush out huge
snake infestation in reward
for cash prizes

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/13/2013 5:01:12 PM Post Reply

An armed mob set out into the Florida Everglades on Saturday to flush out a scaly invader. It sounds like the second act of a sci-fi horror flick but, really, it´s pretty much Florida´s plan for dealing with an infestation of Burmese pythons that are eating their way through a fragile ecosystem. Nearly 800 people signed up for the month-long ´Python Challenge´ that started Saturday afternoon. The vast majority - 749 - are members of the general public who lack the permits usually required to harvest pythons on public lands.

No need to look so awkward
Mr President, you’ve been through
this before: Washington
prepares for Obama´s inauguration
with practice rehearsal

Associated Press/Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/13/2013 4:57:05 PM Post Reply

Washington is at a standstill today as the final dress rehearsal is held for President Obama’s second inauguration tomorrow. Actors were drafted in to play the President, Vice President and their wives – and couldn’t help looking uncomfortable at the center of the gigantic military operation. Thousands will gather in front of the Capitol on Monday, January 21, to see President Barack Obama take the oath of office for another four-year term, with his wife and two daughters at his side. Scroll down for a Q&A on the presidential inauguration

Ed Asner Adds His Voice
to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Protest

New York Times, by Michael Cieply Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/13/2013 4:39:19 PM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES — Sunday dawned crisp and clear here, with wintry (for Southern California) temperatures lingering in the 40s and 50s. But the rhetoric was already hot, as Hollywood got ready for a Golden Globes ceremony at which the table talk — if not the stage banter — almost inevitably will turn to the political flare-up around “Zero Dark Thirty.” “I would like to condemn the movie” for making it appear that torture was effective in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Ed Asner said in a telephone interview on Sunday morning. Mr. Asner said he

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