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U.S. Embassy in Algeria Posts ...
´Rubik’s Cubes Portrait of
Martin Luther King Jr.´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 12:17:31 PM Post Reply

With Americans being held hostage in Algeria, the U.S. embassy in that country is posting Facebook photos of ... "Rubik’s Cubes Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr." Here´s a screen grab: (Snip) Earlier in the day, however, the American embassy in Algeria did acknowledge the hostage crisis. The embassy posts on Facebook a statement given by State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland: State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said yesterday, "We condemn in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on British Petroleum personnel and facilities

A little bit of Solyndra
— yours for $9.50

San Francisco Chronicle, by David R. Baker Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/17/2013 12:17:14 PM Post Reply

At this point, it’s entirely possible that no one wants Solyndra’s solar modules except political junkies and clean-tech geeks. But an electronics dealership in Santa Clara will happily sell you one for $9.50. HSC Electronic Supply scooped up a few hundred of the unique, tube-shaped modules that were left at Solyndra’s Fremont HQ after the company plunged into bankruptcy in 2011. HSC announced their availability Wednesday. Solyndra’s collapse, after the company received $528 million in federal loans to build its factory, touched off a political firestorm and turned into a public relations disaster that the solar industry is still struggling

Texas A&M rises to top of 2013
preseason rankings on the
shoulders of Johnny Manziel

CultureMap [Houston, TX], by Matthew Postins Original Article

Posted By: Four_Leaf Resident- 1/17/2013 12:12:59 PM Post Reply

In college football, the only time it pays to be No. 1 in January is when the final polls of the season are released. But the Texas A&M Aggies are certainly abuzz, thanks to CBSSports.com’s Dennis Dodd. On Tuesday, Dodd released his 2013 preseason power poll. Never mind that the college football season doesn’t start for eight months. He has the Aggies as his No. 1 team. Yes, Texas A&M. Even though Alabama won the national title and proved that they reload in Tuscaloosa, not rebuild.

Scarborough Warns: GOP ‘Better
Tread Lightly,’ Obama Gun Proposals
Enjoy ‘Overwhelming Support’

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 12:10:07 PM Post Reply

After reviewing President Obama‘s 23 “executive actions” signed into law yesterday, Joe Scarborough said Thursday morning that his Republican Party had better proceed with caution, seeing as how he believes the policy proposals have the “overwhelming” support of the American people. The president’s plan included universal background checks on gun purchases, which Scarborough said has the support of at least “85% of Americans.” The president’s call for a restoration the “military-style assault weapons” ban, the MSNBC host said, enjoys at least “60/40? support. “Almost 7 in 10 americans support” limiting

Mark Levin Trashes CBS’s Bob Schieffer:
‘Phony Journalist,’ ‘Propagandist’
And Obama ‘Cheerleader’

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 12:03:32 PM Post Reply

After CBS reporter Bob Schieffer compared taking on the gun lobby to ending segregation or America defeating the Nazis in World War II, conservative radio host Mark Levin bashed the journalist as a “phony” who is a “propagandist” acting as a “cheerleader” for the Obama administration. “You should hear the media today. It’s pathetic. If we were talking about the First Amendment as I’ve said repeatedly, they’d be going nuts about a dictator,” Levin began. “But because we’re talking about the Second Amendment, they cheer him on. Where’s this jerk from CBS, this Bob Schieffer,

Senate panel sets Clinton´s
Benghazi, Kerry´s confirmation
hearings

Reuters, by Patricia Zengerle Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 11:59:05 AM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, January 23, to answer lawmakers´ questions about the September attack on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, the panel said, the same day she will appear before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Clinton´s testimony had been delayed for several weeks after she sustained a head injury. Her appearance will clear the way for the confirmation hearing for Senator John Kerry to succeed Clinton as secretary of state, which is now set for Thursday, January 24.

Study: Many school Bible
classes in Texas ´problematic´

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 11:52:07 AM Post Reply

AUSTIN — Some 60 public school districts across Texas offer courses on the Bible, but at least a third aren´t meeting state requirements to be unbiased and academically and legally sound, a study released Wednesday concluded. Written by Mark Chancey, a professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University, the study found that many districts´ courses favor conservative Protestant interpretations of the Bible. Many also present "problematic treatment of Judaism" while "promoting pseudo-scholarship, particularly regarding science and American history." "At a basic level, students are often being taught to experience Judaism only through Christian eyes," said Chancey,

Tom Brokaw Compares Silence
On Gun Violence To Not
Speaking Out Against
Segregation In 1960s

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 11:42:08 AM Post Reply

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, NBC’s veteran newsman Tom Brokaw called for a “holistic” approach to addressing gun violence, and said that remaining silent on the issue is akin to not speaking out during racial segregation in pre-civil rights America. (Snip)“It reminds me a lot of what happened in the South in the 1960s during the civil rights movement,” Brokaw explained. “Good people stayed in their houses and didn’t speak up when there was carnage in the streets and the total violation of a fundamental rights of African-Americans as they marched in Selma, and they let

Manti Te´o: Story Attributed
To Parents Hard To Reconcile
With Hoax Report

National Public Radio, by Mark Memmott Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 1/17/2013 11:41:53 AM Post Reply

If you´re trying to make sense of the news that Notre Dame football star Manti Te´o now says he was the victim of a hoax and that the woman he thought was his "girlfriend" never existed and never died, you´ll want to read an Oct. 12 story published by the South Bend Tribune. The newspaper tells readers today that the earlier story was based in large part on "a taped interview on Oct. 10 with Te´o´s parents, Brian and Ottilia, Te´o´s father said the initial meeting between Manti and [the girlfriend] came in person

Now is the time

Connecticut Post, by President Barack Obama Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 11:38:23 AM Post Reply

As a society, our first task must be to care for our children -- to shield them from harm and give them the tools they need not only to pursue their dreams, but to help build this country. That is how we will be judged. And in the wake of the tragedy in Newtown, it´s clear we have a long way to go. That´s why, last month, I asked Vice President Biden to lead an effort to come up with concrete steps we can take right now to keep our kids safe, help prevent mass shootings,

Panetta: People don´t ´need´
assault weapons

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 11:34:44 AM Post Reply

Even if that were true, what the heck does "need" have to do with it? We don´t "need" 150 daily newspapers in the country either, or hundreds of TV channels, or thousands and thousands of books. And while we´re at it, do we really "need" so many protestant religious demoninations? There is no "need" to bear arms - only the right to do so, guaranteed by the Constitution. Reuters: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta joined the gun control debate on Thursday when he told troops at a military base in Italy that only soldiers needed armor-piercing bullets or assault weapons.

US taxpayers giving $4B
to foreign firms for green
energy projects, study says

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 11:32:59 AM Post Reply

U.S. taxpayers have forked over nearly $4 billion to foreign-owned companies as part of a stimulus program that pays cash grants to green-energy firms, according to a newly released congressional report. The report from Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee charged that the Treasury Department-administered program has "failed" in its goal of putting Americans to work. "Billions of dollars have filled the coffers of overseas firms while the evidence of the promised permanent jobs and economic growth here in the United States is scarce," the report said. The program is separate from the Energy Department fund
Headline corrected by staff

Profile: Mokhtar Belmokhtar

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/17/2013 11:28:25 AM Post Reply

Mokhtar Belmokhtar - who is accused of ordering the attack on a gas facility in eastern Algeria in which foreign workers have been killed and taken hostage - is a one-eyed war veteran with the nickname "Mr Marlboro". He acquired the nickname because of his role in cigarette-smuggling across the Sahel region to finance his jihad, now waged under the banner of the Signed-in-Blood Battalion. "Belmokhtar has been active in political, ideological and criminal circles in the Sahara for the past two decades," Jon Marks, an academic at the London-based think-tank Chatham House, told the BBC.

Algeria hostage Belfast man
Stephen McFaul is free

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/17/2013 11:20:33 AM Post Reply

A Belfast man who was held hostage at a BP facility in Algeria has been freed and has spoken to his wife. Stephen McFaul, 36, who was travelling on an Irish passport, was being held along with other foreign nationals. Mr McFaul´s 13-year-old son has said he can´t wait to give his father "a big hug". The Belfast man had managed to contact his relatives twice before while in captivity. But after receiving no further contact since Wednesday, his family made a plea for him to be released unharmed. In a statement, issued through local MP Paul Maskey,

Obama Second Term Preview:
We Are All Chicagoans Now

Breitbart Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 11:20:18 AM Post Reply

In March 2003, amidst simmering legislative controversy over the future of Chicago’s lakefront airport, Meigs Field, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley sent bulldozers in the dead of night to carve the letter “X” several times into the runway, rendering the airport useless and ending the debate. That stunt is a model for President Barack Obama’s second term, in which he is determined to exceed the boundaries of his power. On every front, the Obama administration is testing its constitutional limits. Yesterday’s announcement of 23 executive orders to implement gun control without the consent of Congress

UPDATE: Reports of Operation at
Site Where Hostages Are Being
Held by Terrorists in Algeria

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 11:12:41 AM Post Reply

Jennifer Griffin reported on the latest developments out of Algeria, where Al Qaeda-linked terrorists attacked a natural gas complex Wednesday and took dozens of hostages, including some Americans. The facility, which is right on the Libyan border, was surrounded by the Algerian military Thursday. Troops opened fire from helicopter gunships when some of the suspected attackers tried to leave. A spokesman for a militant group involved in the attack told local media that 35 hostages were killed and that seven were still being held. Griffin said that claim has not been confirmed by U.S. officials, describing the

Malicious virus shuttered
U.S. power plant -DHS

Reuters, by Jim Finkle Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/17/2013 11:07:24 AM Post Reply

A computer virus attacked a turbine control system at a U.S. power company last fall when a technician unknowingly inserted an infected USB computer drive into the network, keeping a plant off line for three weeks, according to a report posted on a U.S. government website. The Department of Homeland Security report did not identify the plant but said criminal software, which is used to conduct financial crimes such as identity theft, was behind the incident. It was introduced by an employee of a third-party contractor that does business with the utility, according to the agency. DHS reported the incident

Cutter: Obama Will Activate
Campaign Apparatus To Take
On The NRA

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 11:01:31 AM Post Reply

Former Obama for America deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter joins Ed Schultz to discuss President Obama´s plan to use his own campaign apparatus to help get Americans to speak out in favor of responsible gun ownership. STEPHANIE CUTTER: President Obama provides the leadership here, and he said the American people have to speak up and make their voices heard in this debate. Just like the NRA is doing with there membership. And President Obama´s network across this country, grassroots individuals, who organize, volunteered with their time to get the president reelected are much more powerful than the

Dreamliner in meltdown as hi-tech
Boeing jets are grounded in Europe
and US amid fears its electric
´car batteries´ can trigger fires

Daily Mail [UK], by Daniel Miller Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/17/2013 11:00:06 AM Post Reply

Boeing´s flagship 787 Dreamliner planes were grounded worldwide today after corrosive fluid leaked from its high-tech battery system forcing a packed passenger jet to make an emergency landing. Flight officials in Europe, America and Asia banned the craft from taking off amid fears the faulty lithium-type batteries, which are used in electric cars and laptops, could start fires on board. The dramatic move spells disaster for the aviation giant and comes after 137 passengers and crew members on an All Nippon Airlines flight were evacuated down escape chutes when smoke was detected on board. Airlines were today scrambling

´Electric car is not dead,´ GM says

Detroit News, by David Shepardson * Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/17/2013 10:58:51 AM Post Reply

General Motors Co. North America chief Mark Reuss said he isn´t giving up on electric vehicles, despite struggling industry sales in 2012. "The electric car is not dead," Reuss said at the Automotive News World Congress on Wednesday night. He said despite setbacks, the Detroit automaker isn´t giving up on electric autos, even though it had to abandon its initial forecast for its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt. In 2011, GM sold fewer than 7,700 Volts, below its target of 10,000. It then abandoned goals to sell 45,000 in 2012 and was forced to idle its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant

Gov. Rick Perry fires
back at Obama´s gun limits - Thread Closed

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/17/2013 10:56:43 AM Post Reply

We now appear to have entered a kabuki era of American politics. With a gaggle of school children as living props and an obsequious vice president at hand, President Obama Wednesday proposed a broad array of actions he says might curb American gun violence. Down in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry promptly posted on his website a strong critique of Obama´s plans, warning that mere laws, which he called "the last redoubt of secularism," were totally insufficient to address the "evil prowling in the world." Obama´s legislative ideas, which he well knows have little if any chance

Dem Rep. Jim Moran: ´Older White
Guys Most Insecure Component of
Society; Much The Problem´

NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 10:51:40 AM Post Reply

Weird stuff. Then again, we are talking about Jim Moran. Appearing on Al Sharpton´s MSNBC show this evening, the Dem Congressman from Virginia declared that "older white guys" were "the most insecure component of our society." Added Moran, possibly alluding to the difficulties in adopting additional gun control measures, "we´re much the problem with these kind of things." Joan Walsh was there to support the self-doubting Moran. "There are a lot of terrific older white guys out there," reassured Walsh, naming Moran and Vice-President Biden among them. View the video after the jump.

Rubio: Obama ‘doesn’t have the
guts to admit’ that he doesn’t
believe in the Second Amendment

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 10:47:54 AM Post Reply

Last night on FOX News’ The O’Reilly Factor, Sen. Marco Rubio R-Fla. criticized President Obama’s call for Congress to pass stricter gun control laws. “I’ll let you in on secret, I mean, the President is a liberal.” Rubio said wryly, “And this is part of the liberals’ long time dreams for our country and he sees this as a opportunity to get some of these things done. Rubio asserted that Obama obviously believes that banning guns was a good solution and has wanted to ban guns during “his entire political career.” “I think that

Sen. Leahy: ‘We Ought to
Be As Protective of Our
Children As Our Deer’

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 10:40:26 AM Post Reply

Endorsing President Obama’s call for gun control legislation on Wednesday, Sen. Patrick Leahy said large magazines, “assault weapons” and the “gun-show loophole” must be addressed. “In Vermont, we restrict the number of rounds you can have in your semiautomatic for deer hunting. I think we ought to be as protective of our children as our deer,” he told Georgetown University Law School students. (Leahy used similar phrasing a few minutes earlier, when he told the Georgetown students: "[A]bout the only gun law we have in Vermont is during deer season. If you have a semiautomatic,

President Obama´s Cat-Food
Future For Retirees

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 1/17/2013 10:37:38 AM Post Reply

The Obama Economy: Americans are drawing down their 401(k)s for nonretirement needs in record numbers, just as Social Security goes bust. This portends poverty for millions as the White House fiddles. Cat food, anyone? One out of four U.S. workers with 401(k) retirement savings accounts has been forced to cash them out or borrow from them at high costs just to stay solvent. The Washington Post, citing a report from financial advisory firm HelloWallet, said the withdrawals have drained $70 billion, or an astonishing near-quarter of the total $293 billion, in America´s retirement accounts "undermining already shaky retirement

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