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RedState´s Erick Erickson Chides
Conservatives for becoming
´professional victims,outrage pimps´

Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 1/22/2013 1:03:44 PM Post Reply

Congratulating President Obama on his second inauguration, RedState’s Erick Erickson penned a piece on Tuesday that aimed criticism toward his fellow conservatives. His message: enough with the perpetual outrage. The president’s policies are destructive to the economy, Erickson asserted, but “I do not think the President means to do this maliciously. I do not think he is treasonous. I do not hate him. I am not outraged by it.” The outrage can instead be directed toward Republicans: While Obama is doing what he set out to do,

Beyoncé Lip-Synced at Inauguration,
and Even Beyoncé Truthers Are
in Denial

Atlantic, by Alexander Abad-Santos Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 1/22/2013 12:49:13 PM Post Reply

Twenty-four hours after she sang pretty much the best version of the national anthem since Whitney Houston, word is emerging that Beyoncé chose to switch to a pre-recorded version of "The Star Spangled Banner" for Monday´s inauguration. Not that anyone wants to believe it — not even the "Beyoncé truthers" — but here´s the new evidence that there is no Santa Claus completely perfect live version of the song: Beyoncé switched tracks. The Times of London and The New York Post are both touting midday "exclusives," citing new interviews with the spokesperson for the U.S. Marine Band,

Nigeria to keep troops in
Mali until crisis resolved

Reuters, by Emma Farge &Tim Co*ks Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/22/2013 12:48:19 PM Post Reply

Geneva-Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday his country´s troops would stay in Mali to support military operations against al Qaeda-linked rebels until the crisis there was resolved. Nigeria plans to deploy up to 1,200 troops as part of a West African intervention force to support French troops battling Islamist militants in the Sahara.(Snip)"We cannot pull out until we have solved the problem. I cannot tell you when we will solve the problem, but Nigeria is totally committed and we remain committed until the crisis is resolved," he told Reuters in an interview in Geneva. As well as deploying troops,

Did Oprah fall out with the Obamas?
The queen of talk who spent the last
inauguration partying with the First
Couple jetted out of the country this
time around and didn´t even tweet a
´congrats´

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 12:37:43 PM Post Reply

Among the dozens of A-list celebrities attending President Obama´s second inauguration, one famous face was notably absent. Oprah, the queen of media who was once considered Obama´s staunchest celebrity supporter, skipped the inaugural festivities this year and instead jetted out of the country for a couple speaking engagements. Her absence was glaring after the role she played in Obama´s 2008 campaign and his inauguration in 2009. Oprah´s backing of Obama in 2008 was her first ever political endorsement. She joined Obama on the campaign trail from Iowa to South Carolina to New Hampshire,

Exclusive: Beyoncé lip-synched Star
Spangled Banner at inauguration

London Times (UK), by Nico Hines Original Article

Posted By: Mike PHX- 1/22/2013 12:27:45 PM Post Reply

Beyoncé did not sing the national anthem live at President Obama’s inauguration. Millions of viewers around the world were stunned by the singer’s spectacular rendition of the anthem but The Times has learnt that she was lip-syncing to a pre-recorded backing track. A spokeswoman for the Marine Corp Band said it was standard procedure to record a backing track and Beyoncé decided shortly before her performance to rely on the studio version rather than risk singing it live on the Capitol.

L.A. church leaders sought to hide
sex abuse cases from authorities

Los Angeles Times, by Victoria Kim* Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 1/22/2013 12:23:03 PM Post Reply

Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor plotted to conceal child molestation by priests from law enforcement, including keeping them out of California to avoid prosecution, according to internal Catholic church records released Monday. The archdiocese´s failure to purge pedophile clergy and reluctance to cooperate with law enforcement has previously been known. But the memos written in 1986 and 1987 by Mahony and Msgr. Thomas J. Curry, then the archdiocese´s chief advisor on sex abuse cases, offer the strongest evidence yet of a concerted effort by officials

David Brooks: "One Of The
Best Inaugural Speeches
In The Past Half Century"

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 12:18:38 PM Post Reply

GWEN IFILL, PBS: Did you get the sense he was speaking to everybody, including people who didn´t vote for him, David? DAVID BROOKS, NEW YORK TIMES: Yes, but making an argument. It was about collectivity. There´s no question about that. Four years ago, it was about being trans-partisan, about healing divides. He was sort of above the fray. Now he´s in the fray. He´s picked a team. And his team is his party, his belief system. And I thought he made the case for a very pragmatic, prudential, incremental, but progressivism, a more forthright case for

The Amazing Grace of It All

Washington Post Writers Group, by Eugene Robinson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 12:14:35 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Hussein Obama´s second inauguration was every bit as historic as his first -- not because it said so much about the nation´s long, bitter, unfinished struggle with issues of race, as was the case four years ago, but because it said so little about the subject. Reflect for a moment: A black man stood on the Capitol steps and took the oath of office as president of the United States. For the second time. Meaning that voters not only elected him once -- which could be a fluke, a blip,

´More Flexibility´: Obama
to Govern by ´Executive
Fiat´ in Second Term

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tom Fitton Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 12:03:55 PM Post Reply

Remember when President Obama was caught on a hot mic telling then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to be patient with him because he would have more “flexibility” in his second term when he would never again have to face American voters? That message wasn’t just for Medvedev to relay to then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: it was for Obama´s friends on the far left as well, who have been waiting for the “real” Barack Obama to usher in a new age of liberalism – to “fundamentally transform America,” as the president himself

Time for a new Fox?

Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 11:55:08 AM Post Reply

Does Fox News now have an All-Amnesty lineup? Looks like it. Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly have now fallen in line behind World Citizen Rupert Murdoch’s support of ”sweeping, generous immigration reform,” including a “path to citizenship.” Karl Rove was always on board, of course. What about Fox News’ viewers? Are they going to go along like sheep? They now have no network that represents their perspective on what seems to be a key issue for Obama’s second term. Is it time for a new Fox? (Wouldn’t it be time for a new Fox anyway?

World War II veteran reacts
after teens burglarize, trash
Houston home

KHOU Houston TX, by Sher-Min Chow & Jeff McShan* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/22/2013 11:42:20 AM Post Reply

HOUSTON -- Ninty-three-year-old Elbert Wood came home from a doctor’s appointment Monday morning to find his home burglarized and vandalized with spray paint. The great-grandfather still managed to have a sense of humor about the crooks. “They redecorated for me.” Wood built his northwest Houston home and has lived in it for 55 years. He pointed to the walls, windows, paintings, carpets and other personal belongings, now all tagged with graffiti. At his age, he’s heard and seen a lot. “I never heard of anything like this before.” He was wounded twice in World War II.

Big Pharma and John
Kerry Raid Medicare

American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 11:38:31 AM Post Reply

The fiscal cliff bill didn’t just raise taxes; it showered half a billion dollars on a canny Big Pharma company that knows its way around Capitol Hill. A provision in the newly-passed fiscal cliff bill allows pharmaceutical giant Amgen to sell one of its pills (Sensipar) for two more years without having to negotiate a fair price with Medicare. Sensipar is an expensive pill, and the two year delay will cost Medicare upwards of $500 million. What makes this bit of corporate welfare even more egregious is the fact that Amgen recently pleaded

Palestinians see no hope for
peace in Israeli polls

Reuters, by Noah Browning and Saleh Salem Original Article

Posted By: Ecclesiastes- 1/22/2013 11:38:04 AM Post Reply

Palestinians evinced weary indifference on Tuesday as Israelis voted in an election set to produce a hardline government keener to expand Jewish settlements on occupied land than seek peace. "Regardless of who wins, the result is the same: Israelis want this land but not the people," said Ahmed Amro, a professor at Al-Quds Open University in Ramallah, the West Bank´s capital.

Smithsonian curators scout
for Obama artifacts

Associated Press, by Brett Zongker Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/22/2013 11:31:26 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- As crowds descended and the inauguration unfolded, a few museum curators in Washington kept watch for symbols and messages that would make history. The Smithsonian´s National Museum of African American History and Culture will open during President Barack Obama´s second term, and one section will feature a large display about the first black president. Curators have been working since 2008 to gather objects, documents and images that capture his place in history. Curator William Pretzer ventured into the crowd Monday, mostly looking for memorabilia that had a personal touch - beyond the T-shirts and buttons hawked by vendors.

Support for Roe. V. Wade
Reaches All-Time High

Townhall, by Daniel Doherty Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 11:31:01 AM Post Reply

Regardless of one’s position on the High Court’s infamous decision forty years ago today to legalize abortion “[a]t any stage of pregnancy, for any reason,” most Americans -- not to mention legal scholars and academics -- recognize that Roe is bad Constitutional law. Nevertheless, support for the controversial ruling has reached an all-time high, at least according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll: Forty years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion in its Roe v. Wade decision, seven out of 10 Americans support the groundbreaking rulings, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Purdue president Mitch Daniels
deplores state of higher education

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Robby Soave Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/22/2013 11:25:56 AM Post Reply

Just one week into his new position as president of Purdue University, former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels released an open letter disparaging the current financial and professional state of American higher education. Daniels, who briefly considered a run for the Republican presidential nomination, took up his new job last week after the conclusion of his second term as governor. Those who wondered what kind of administration a conservative reformer like Daniels would bring to Purdue weren’t kept in the dark for long; the new president immediately published a laundry list of problems facing higher ed,

U.S. gift of F-16 fighters headed to
Egypt, despite Morsi´s harsh rhetoric

Fox News, by Maxim Lott Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 1/22/2013 11:24:02 AM Post Reply

Four F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. this morning, bound for Egypt as part of a foreign aid package critics say should have been scrapped when the nation elected a president who has called President Obama a liar and urged that hatred of Jews be instilled in children. A source who works on the Naval Air Force Base in Dallas confirmed the departure of the state-of-the-art fighter planes to FoxNews.com. Sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks are to be given to the Egyptian government before the end of the year under a $216 million foreign aid

Dreamliner fires spark
new doubts about a green
energy technology

Washington Examiner, by Richard Pollock Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 11:11:51 AM Post Reply

When Federal Aviation Administration officials grounded Boeing´s fleet of 787 Dreamliner commercial jets last week due to unexplained battery fires, one of President Obama´s favorite green energy technologies got another black eye. Technologists and safety experts had long warned of problems with the lithium ion battery when in 2009 the president began betting billions of tax dollars that it should be the green power of choice for cars, trucks, and even aircraft. Just three years before that, a UPS cargo plane made an emergency landing

Will You Celebrate or Mourn
Obama’s Inauguration?

Canada Free Press, by Alan Caruba Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 11:03:22 AM Post Reply

Traditionally, the nation celebrates an inauguration as a demonstration of the peaceful transfer or extension of presidential power, but for half of the nation’s voters Inauguration Day 2013 is more likely to be a day of mourning, a day of fear for the nation’s ability to survive Barack Hussein Obama. Let’s start with the basics. As Terence P. Jeffrey points out in a recent commentary on CNSnews.com, “During Barack Obama’s first term as president of the United States, the debt of the federal government increased by $5.8 trillion, which exceeds the combined debt accumulated under all presidents from George Washington

Exclusive Video — James Taylor
on gun control: ‘We need to make
some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms’

Daily Caller, by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 10:57:37 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Addressing the issue of gun control, singer-songwriter James Taylor told The Daily Caller that Americans “need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms” in order to keep children safe. Following his performance at President Obama’s second inauguration, TheDC asked Taylor if he agreed with Obama’s executive actions on gun control. “I think the nation is very divided on gun control,” Taylor told TheDC, “but I think the majority of us feel strongly — even the majority of gun owners feel strongly — that

Saudi Says Negotiated Syria
Settlement ``Inconceivable’’

Leadership [Nigeria], by Staff* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/22/2013 10:54:36 AM Post Reply

Saudi Arabia´s foreign minister said on Tuesday the scale of violence used by Syria´s government when fighting rebels meant a negotiated settlement of the country´s crisis was unthinkable. ``Damascus which has been a city for the longest period of time, is carpet bombed,´´ the minister said. How can you conceive of the possibility of a negotiated settlement with somebody who does that to his own country, to his own history, to his own people? It is inconceivable to us,’’ Prince Saud al-Faisal told a news conference. He was speaking after an Arab summit focusing on economic development,

Democrats Vilify Guns, Own
Stock in Gun Companies

Breitbart´s Big Government, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 10:52:04 AM Post Reply

Several Democrats who have come out against the evils of guns since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary have also made money by investing in gun companies. Many are still making money with investments in those manufacturers now, even as they attempt to ban their products. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), for example, is a proponent of an "assault weapons" ban, who in the meantime is enjoying the money her husband makes off a $50,000 investment in the Vanguard Small Cap Growth Index fund. As of Jan. 18, that fund included 219,918 shares of stock in Ruger Firearms

Nepal to issue ´third gender´ IDs

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/22/2013 10:50:28 AM Post Reply

Katmandu, Nepal — An official says Nepal´s government will begin issuing citizenship certificates with the category "third gender" for people who do not wish to be identified as male or female. Activists hailed the decision, saying it was an achievement for gay and transgender rights. Home Ministry Bhola Siwakot says an order to issue the certificates was sent to all district administration offices. Nepal´s Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the government should issue "third gender" citizenship certificates but it took five years to implement the decision. Sunilbabu Pant of the Blue Diamond Society says the simple and clear guidelines for

Alex Haley and ´Roots´: The
Lance Armstrong of Literature

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/22/2013 10:48:56 AM Post Reply

During President Obama´s inauguration today, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander (R) quoted Alex Haley, the author made world-famous for his Pulitzer Prize-winning literary sensation, "Roots." According to The Washington Post, Haley and Alexander were longtime friends. That´s all well and good, but quoting Alex Haley at an important national occasion is not unlike quoting Lance Armstrong. Because what both men are most famous for is based on brazen fraud. Haley not only lost a high-profile plagiarism suit against his work in "Roots, but any serious look into the Haley family´s

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