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Photo-op president shooting blanks

New York Post, by Michael A. Walsh Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 5:18:33 AM Post Reply

President Obama’s exercise in gun legislation by photo-op and executive order yesterday may cheer liberals and outrage the NRA, but it will do almost nothing to curb gun violence. Some of the new rules — 23 in all — may at first glance seem reasonable, such as expanding the amount of information available for background checks. So does the boilerplate admonition to “launch a national safe and responsible gun-ownership campaign.” (But, psst, the National Rifle Association’s been doing that for years.) And some actually make sense, such as helping schools and churches develop more effective emergency-response programs. But all these are tepid, marginal stuff.

Abbott wades into gun control fray
with ads aimed at New Yorkers

Austin American-Statesman [TX], by Jonathan Tilove Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 5:13:03 AM Post Reply

Attorney General Greg Abbott Wednesday launched a Google web ad campaign inviting New Yorkers who feel their gun rights are threatened by a new law just signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to move to Texas where they will have the right to bear arms, and, with lower taxes, more money to buy ammo. The provocative web ads, paid for with Abbott campaign funds, will appear as a pop-up on screens on a variety of media web sites, including that of The New York Times, for those accessing the sites in Manhattan and Albany. “Is Gov. Cuomo looking to take your guns?

Takes One to Tango

New York Times, by Maureen Dowd Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 1/17/2013 5:09:56 AM Post Reply

President Standoffish doesn’t want to be seen as a stiff. “Most people who know me know I’m a pretty friendly guy,” he protested at his White House press conference on Monday. “And I like a good party.” Maybe. But the president always seems to be dancing alone. And that was the vibe of his swan-song press conference for Act One of his presidency. His words were laced with an edge — churlish, chiding and self-pitying. He sardonically presented himself as Lonely Guy, shafted by the opposition, kicking around the White House on his own.

CNN/Time Poll: Slight dip in support
for gun control measures in last month

CNN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 5:07:46 AM Post Reply

Washington – There is strong support from Americans for many of the proposals to curb gun violence that President Barack Obama announced Wednesday, but according to a new national poll, public support has slipped a bit when compared to surveys taken immediately after last month´s mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. A CNN/Time Magazine/ORC International poll also indicates that Americans generally favor stricter gun control and think that it is too easy to buy guns in this country, but they don´t believe that stricter gun laws would reduce gun violence all by themselves.

Mark Sanford On Run for Congress,
a Second Chance at Politics

Daily Beast, by John Avlon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 5:02:59 AM Post Reply

The former governor, who ended his second term in disgrace after admitting to an extramarital affair with an Argentinean woman he described as his “soul mate,” had previously been considered a leading potential contender for the 2012 GOP nomination before the scandal consumed those ambitions. But suddenly, Sanford is back. Among many locals, he is considered the front-runner in the special election to fill the congressional seat held by Tim Scott before he was appointed to the U.S. Senate—an unusual degree of turnover in a state where Fritz Hollings served as junior senator to Strom Thurmond for 36 years.

Second-Term Reckonings

PJ Media, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 4:53:36 AM Post Reply

A rule of the modern age: all confident, reelected presidents trip up in the second term. LBJ was sunk by Vietnam. Reagan faced Iran-Contra. Bill Clinton had his comeuppance with Monica. George W. Bush was overwhelmed with the Iraqi insurgency and Katrina. And Obama will have his as well, obsequious media or not. Supposedly fundamental partisan swings of an era usually prove transitory: LBJ’s landside led to Nixon four years later, whose landslide then led to Carter in 1980, whose supposed new politics of humility and apology led to Reagan, whose small government-paradigm shift nonetheless by 1992

Bonkers: Tragic story of
Notre Dame linebacker’s dead
girlfriend appears to be … a giant
hoax; Update: Te’o issues statement

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 4:49:16 AM Post Reply

Normally I’d stick a non-political link in Headlines or the Greenroom but odds are good that this is the most gripping, mind-bending post you’ll read on the Internet this year. You don’t have to know or like college football to follow it. If it were a movie, it’d be “Vertigo,” not “Rudy.” I’m not even going to excerpt it. Just read it, and pay attention to the timeline of Te’o´s relationship with “Kekua” near the beginning. There’s no way he wasn’t in on it, right? Who else could the details of the relationship have come from?

When a Politician Talks About Our Rich
Hunting Tradition, Reach for Your Gun

Reason Magazine, by Jacob Sullum Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 4:43:11 AM Post Reply

According to President Obama´s gun control recommendations, he "strongly believes that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms." But what does he think this right entails? "The President believes that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms," the White House says, "and he respects our nation´s rich hunting and sport shooting traditions." The 22-page document mentions hunting and sport shooting five more times, but there are only two mentions of self-defense, both of them in this sentence (which appears twice): "Most gun owners buy their guns legally and use them safely,

Study: Fox News shunned
at Obama press conferences,
9th among news outlets

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 3:48:33 AM Post Reply

It’s no secret that the White House carefully scripts its press conferences, and a new study from the University of Minnesota has quantified just how much President Barack Obama plays favorites in the press briefing room. The analysis, published on Wednesday by the Smart Politics group at the university’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, took a look at all of the president’s press conferences in his first term, and determined ABC, CBS, the Associated Press and NBC were favorites of Obama. “Over the course of the president’s first term, he has generally maintained

Beef contaminated with
horse meat may have been
sold in Britain for ´years´

Telegraph [UK], by Steven Swinford & Sam Marsden Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 3:40:51 AM Post Reply

The Food Standards Agency was criticised after admitting it had never carried out tests for horse meat on food sold in Britain. Seven of the leading supermarkets have cleared their shelves of frozen beefburgers after a supplier sold Tesco products which were 29 per cent horse meat. The supermarket took out newspaper advertisements to apologise to customers. The discovery was made by Irish authorities, leading to accusations that the Food Standards Agency in Britain had been taking a “light touch”. The concerns emerged as:• ?David Cameron said the discovery of horse meat in burgers was “disturbing” and “completely unacceptable”.

Rand Paul: Obama ‘arrogant and
presumptuous’ about Israel

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 1/17/2013 3:00:57 AM Post Reply

In a conference call today with a small group of journalists, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said that President Obama was “arrogant and presumptuous” in saying in recent weeks that Israel “doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” “That’s an arrogant and presumptuous point of view and doesn’t further progress on anything,” the senator said, and he returned to that view throughout the call as he discussed the location of Israel’s capital and Israeli settlements. Paul decried U.S. politicians who display “this flippant and arrogant” attitude about internal Israeli affairs,

Schumer will open, Beyonce
close, inaugural show

The Hill [Washington DC], by Emily Goodin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 2:53:52 AM Post Reply

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will be the opening act for President Obama´s inauguration while Beyonce will close the show. The fact was pointed out by Brent Colburn, communications director for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, at a media briefing on Wednesday. “I just love the idea of any show that opens with Chuck Schumer and closes with Beyonce," he said. Schumer, the chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, will make the opening remarks for Obama´s swearing-in on Monday while Beyonce will be the final act at the ceremony on the West Front of the Capitol — singing the National Anthem.

Obama names 8 citizens
to highlight his successes

Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 12:38:05 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama is featuring eight Americans as "citizen co-chairs" of his inauguration, a new role created to highlight his first-term accomplishments with examples of lives that have either been improved by his actions or inspired his presidency. Inaugural planners say the honorees include a woman with a brain tumor who no longer is denied health care for a pre-existing condition; an autoworker who got her job back after the General Motors bailout; and a gay pilot-in-training kicked out of the Air Force before the president repealed the military´s "don´t ask, don´t tell" policy.

Rick Perry Comments
On Obama’s Gun Control

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:24:15 AM Post Reply

Rick Perry has presided for some years now over America’s most successful state. His track record of success is unmatched, so his voice should be listened to. This is what he had to say about Barack Obama’s gun control pronouncements: The Vice President’s committee was appointed in response to the tragedy at Newtown, but very few of his recommendations have anything to do with what happened there. Guns require a finger to pull the trigger. The sad young man who did that in Newtown was clearly haunted by demons

Obama’s Unserious Gun Proposals

National Review Online, by John H. Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:22:40 AM Post Reply

President Obama unveiled his proposals to combat gun violence today, and they turned out to be anti-climactic. There were no surprises, unless you expected him to mention the culture of violence fostered by Democratic-party donors in Hollywood and the video-game industry. He didn’t. The administration’s gun proposals turned out to be retreads. Obama could have tried something new, perhaps something more sweeping: a ban on all semiautomatic rifles, perhaps, or even a ban that includes some handguns. Instead, the White House paper that explains the president’s proposals says the administration wants to ban “military-style

Viewed as out of touch, GOP
gathers forces to plot rebirth

Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:20:45 AM Post Reply

As House Republicans head to Williamsburg, Va., to talk strategy at their annual retreat, a top Democratic pollster warned Wednesday that voters think the GOP has fallen outside the mainstream on everything from taxes to gay rights. Pollster Stanley Greenberg, a former adviser to the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, released a Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll that found the GOP is losing ground with voters of all stripes. “The fact is that we have a set of cultural and economic issues, and budget issues, in which [Republicans] are seen as extreme and out of touch,” Mr. Greenberg said.

Critics of violent films,
video games note the
call for study, not controls

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:19:17 AM Post Reply

President Obama’s plans to curb gun violence focus heavily on firearm restrictions and on mental health, but video games and movies — two cultural issues that many Americans blame for violence — got little attention Wednesday. Mr. Obama said he would ask Congress to pump $10 million into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a study on the relationship between video games and violence, but didn’t ask for any additional controls. “Congress should fund research into the effects that violent video games have on young minds,”

Americans among 20
hostages seized in Algeria

Washington Post, by Joby Warrick and Ernesto Londoño Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:16:59 AM Post Reply

Islamist militants seized at least 20 hostages, including as many as seven Americans, at an Algerian natural gas complex Wednesday in a brazen attack linked by the assailants to France’s military intervention in neighboring Mali. At least one foreign worker was reported killed in the early morning assault on the vast In Amenas gas field near Algeria’s eastern border with Libya. The attack, attributed to a unit of al-Qaeda’s offshoot in North Africa, raised concerns about a broadening of Mali’s civil war five days after French forces joined the country’s fight against Islamist insurgents.

As manufacturing bounces
back from recession,
unions are left behind

Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:15:17 AM Post Reply

Last July was a good month for factory workers in Anderson, Ind., where a Honda parts supplier announced plans to build a new plant and create up to 325 jobs. But it was a grim month in the Cleveland suburbs, where an industrial plastics firm told the state of Ohio it was closing a plant and laying off 150 people. Nearly all of the Ohio workers belonged to a labor union. Workers at the Indiana plant don’t. Their fates fit a post-recession pattern: American factories are hiring again, but they’re not hiring union members. U.S. manufacturers have added a half-million

NRA’s lobbying bags big
legislative wins in states
over the past two decades

Washington Post, by Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:13:23 AM Post Reply

In state capitals and city halls nationwide, the National Rifle Association is demonstrating its enduring ability to thwart new firearms regulations and expand rights for gun owners — even after a school massacre in Newtown, Conn., gave the gun-control cause new momentum. Just last week, Illinois state House members declined to consider proposed limits on assault weapons amid a surge of negative phone calls and e-mails from NRA members and other gun owners. In Wisconsin last week, legislators wary of provoking the NRA backed off a proposed ban on loaded firearms

Obama’s far-reaching gun-
proposals face uncertain
fate in divided Congress

Washington Post, by Philip Rucker and Ed O´Keefe Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:11:40 AM Post Reply

The gun-control agenda that President Obama unveiled with urgency on Wednesday now faces an uncertain fate in a bitterly divided Congress, where Republican opposition hardened and centrist Democrats remained noncommittal after a month of feverish public debate. By pursuing an expansive overhaul of the nation’s gun laws, Obama is wagering that public opinion has evolved enough after a string of mass shootings to force passage of politically contentious measures that Congress has long stymied. Yet there was no indication on Wednesday that the mood on Capitol Hill has changed much.

Krauthammer: ´The Things
Obama Signed Today,
the Executive Orders
Are Useless´

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/17/2013 12:09:13 AM Post Reply

While Obama´s media predictably gush and fawn over the President´s anti-gun initiatives Wednesday, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer not surprisingly had a different take. Appearing on Fox News´s Special Report, Krauthammer said, "The things he signed today, the executive orders are useless" (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary): CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I give the President credit for sincerity on this. There’s not a lot of political advantage in this as there is in a lot of other stuff he’s pushing. He didn’t have a plan to do this. This was not what he campaigned on last year.

Feds arrest several from North Jersey
in waste-hauling industry busts

The Record [Hackensack, NJ], by Peter Sampson Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/16/2013 11:51:15 PM Post Reply

Carmine Franco, the aging Bergen County trash-collection baron who has been banned from the industry in New Jersey, was arrested Wednesday along with 29 other reputed mobsters and associates in the latest crackdown on Mafia control over waste-hauling in New York and New Jersey. Franco, 77, of Ramsey, was the lead defendant in a 16-count indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan charging a dozen people with conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise that exercised illegal control over waste haulers in Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey and Westchester, Rockland and Nassau counties in New York.

Christie says it will be
weeks before Sandy aid arrives

The Record [Hackensack, NJ], by Melissa Hayes Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/16/2013 11:47:46 PM Post Reply

Governor Christie praised the House of Representatives for passing a $50.6 billion superstorm Sandy relief package Tuesday, but told attendees at his 100th town hall-style event that it will take weeks before the money arrives. Once the Senate signs off and sends it to President Obama for final approval, there will be a process for releasing the funds, Christie said. “There’s a little bookkeeping that needs to get done when you’re talking about $60 billion,” Christie said. Christie said he expected aid to come within weeks, not months. He detailed plans to create grants for homeowners and small businesses struggling

Coulter: Guns Don´t Kill People,
Mentally Ill Do

Human Events, by Ann Coulter Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 1/16/2013 11:22:35 PM Post Reply

Seung-Hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, had been diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder as a child and placed under treatment. But Virginia Tech was prohibited from being told about Cho’s mental health problems because of federal privacy laws. At college, Cho engaged in behavior even more bizarre than the average college student. He stalked three women and, at one point, went totally silent, refusing to speak even to his roommates. He was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for one night and then unaccountably unleashed on the public, whereupon he proceeded to engage in

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