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Ryan blames Republican election loss
on poor communication, turnout

Reuters, by Thomas Ferraro Original Article

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

Ending a self-imposed silence about the November election, 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said on Wednesday that he and presidential running mate Mitt Romney lost not because of ideas, but due to ineffective communication. Ryan said Democratic President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden also prevailed because they did a better job with ´´technology and (voter) turnout.´´

N. Korea nuclear test may
target U.S.

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/24/2013 12:09:19 AM Post Reply

PYONGYANG, North Korea- North Korea said Thursday it plans more rocket launches and nuclear tests that may target the United States. (Snip) KCNA quoted the commission as saying: "In the new phase of our century-long struggle against the United States, we do not hide the fact that various satellites, long-range missiles that we will continue to launch and high-level nuclear test we will conduct will target our sworn enemy, the United States." Yonhap, citing a South Korean intelligence source, said North Korea has completed all technical preparations for a nuclear test, which would be its third

Colin Powell: Latent Democrat?

Washington Examiner, by Gregory Kane Original Article

Posted By: Vastrightwingconspirator- 1/23/2013 11:58:28 PM Post Reply

Recently the former secretary of state -- rumored to be a Republican -- has been quite vocal in criticizing his own political party. In no way am I saying Republicans are above criticism and do everything right. But there´s something about Colin Powell´s recent attacks that sound so, so, well, so Democratic National Committee-ish. Take, for instance, this gem: "There is a dark vein of intolerance in this party. They still sort of look down on the minority." Sounds ominous, no? And it sounds like the refrain we heard from Democrats throughout the 2012 presidential campaign

Dems Introduce Bill Banning
High Capacity Magazines

Breitbart Big Government, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/23/2013 11:57:22 PM Post Reply

In a move specifically designed and carefully calibrated to prevent no shooting tragedies, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg (D) took the lead today in attempting to target ammunition magazines. Lautenberg proposed new legislation that would prevent magazines from holding more than ten rounds at a time. President Obama proposed just that in his staged photo-op surrounded by children last week. Lautenberg bloviated, “The latest tragedy in Newtown was a wake up call for our nation, and now we must now turn our grief into action to reduce further tragedies. It is clearer than ever

Flybe boss blames ‘brutal’ air tax
burden for plans to slash 300 jobs

Scotsman [Edinburgh], by Dominic Jeff Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/23/2013 11:42:37 PM Post Reply

Flybe chief executive Jim French has announced the first jobs cull in the firm’s 30-year history in a sweeping attempt to steer the airline back to profit. Scots-born French blamed the “brutal impact” of rising taxes on air travel for the move, which will see 10 per cent of a 3,000-strong UK workforce laid off in a bid to save £35 million and get back into the black next year.(Snip) “However, faced with the brutal impact of a 160 per cent rise in air passenger duty (APD) over the past six years and the consequent 20 per cent

A Tough Morning for Hillary

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 11:31:14 PM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her long-awaited appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning to testify on Benghazi. In her prepared remarks, Clinton said: “As I have said many times since September 11, I take responsibility.” But this is responsibility in its unique Washington sense of responsibility without consequences. Clinton remains in her cabinet position and, while four underlings have been reassigned, she herself has suffered no consequences as a result of the disaster for which she says she is responsible. Senator Rand Paul criticized Clinton for her alleged ignorance of the security concerns

Rand Auditions for
Role of Insurgent Leader

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 11:29:06 PM Post Reply

Senator Chuck Schumer earned some chuckles among Democrats when he said today that the decision by House Republicans to suspend any limits on the national debt for three months was evidence that “The president stared down the Republicans. They blinked.” The GOP chose to remove, at least for a time, any threat of a government shutdown because they knew they were locked in an unequal struggle with the White House and the Democratic majority in the Senate. By backing down on the debt ceiling deadline, the House leadership decided they’d be better off avoiding

NYPD Commissioner says department
will begin testing a new high-tech
device that scans for concealed weapons

New York Daily News, by Rocco Parascandola Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/23/2013 11:22:47 PM Post Reply

Get ready for scan-and-frisk. The NYPD will soon deploy new technology allowing police to detect guns carried by criminals without using the typical pat-down procedure, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday. The department just received a machine that reads terahertz — the natural energy emitted by people and inanimate objects — and allows police to view concealed weapons from a distance. “If something is obstructing the flow of that radiation, for example a weapon, the device will highlight that object,” Kelly said. A video image aired at a Police Foundation breakfast Wednesday showed an officer, clad in a New York

It makes a difference,
Secretary Clinton

Washington Post, by Erik Wemple Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 11:09:26 PM Post Reply

No competent wrap-up of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate testimony today can omit her clash with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. The lawmaker drilled in on signals from the administration that the attacks on the Benghazi, Libya, diplomatic compound were connected to spontaneous protests over that famous anti-Islam video. Johnson to Clinton: “We were misled that there were supposedly protests and something sprang out of that — an assault sprang out of that. And that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact

Romney to be honored Friday
at D.C. luncheon

CBS News, by Lindsey Boerma Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/23/2013 10:51:06 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney will make it to Washington, D.C. for inauguration week after all. The 2012 GOP presidential nominee and his wife Ann are scheduled to attend a luncheon in their honor Friday at Washington´s J.W. Marriott hotel, National Journal reported this afternoon. The reception will be hosted by two of Romney´s biggest campaign fundraisers: Virginia philanthropist Catherine Reynolds and hotel tycoon Bill Marriott, Jr. Romney, a longtime friend to the Marriott family, serves on Marriott International´s board of directors. While on the trail, he and his traveling staff stayed almost exclusively at Marriott hotels.

Hillary on Not Doing Sunday Shows After
9/11/12: ‘There Are Other Things I Prefer
to Do on Sunday Mornings’

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/23/2013 10:50:39 PM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the reason that Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice went on five Sunday morning television shows in her place following the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya was because “there are other things that I prefer to do on Sunday mornings.” Five days following the terrorist attacks on the Benghazi compound, Rice insisted on five separate TV talk shows that the attack sprang from a protest over an obscure anti-Muslim video posted on YouTube, even though the CIA in Libya told Washington within 24 hours that militants were responsible for the attack.

Conservative group slams
A&M for liberal bias

Houston Chronicle, by Erin Mulvaney Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 10:48:22 PM Post Reply

A conservative student group from Texas A&M University said the school displayed its "far-left agenda" by hosting actor Danny Glover at a campus event. The Texas Aggie Conservatives posted portions of Glover´s comments about the Second Amendment, which he made during a breakfast to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 17. The event was organized by the Memorial Student Center Woodson Black Awareness Committee. The conservative group later created an online petition slamming the university for inviting "radical leftist speakers" to speak at the annual MLK event. The petition accuses the university of funding

Damon’s anti-fracking flick
bombs at box office

Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 10:38:09 PM Post Reply

Matt Damon’s anti-fracking movie “Promised Land” is not making the box-office splash environmental groups may have hoped for. The film, co-written by John Krasinski of “The Office,” has brought in a scant $7.5 million since its opening on Dec. 28. In contrast, “Texas Chainsaw 3D” has brought in $33.6 million since its opening on the same weekend. The theatrical feature film about a town with natural-gas reserves only cost about $15 million to produce, but the Los Angeles Times predicts “it’s a long shot that the film will end up being a hit even given its modest budget.”

Tears and rage on Benghazi

Washington Times, by Guy Taylor and Shaun Waterman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 10:32:57 PM Post Reply

She teetered on the verge of tears and laughed out loud. She pounded a table with her fists and snapped at lawmakers Wednesday. And once again, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted blame for the death of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, but repeatedly deflected criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the attack and its aftermath. With a dramatic flair, Mrs. Clinton displayed the full spectrum of emotions during

Gun control proposals
could split President
Obama, Harry Reid

Washington Post, by Paul Kane Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 10:28:58 PM Post Reply

The success of President Obama’s starkly liberal second-term agenda will rest largely on the shoulders of Senate Majority leader Harry M. Reid, who has been a rock-solid political ally and a valued legislative tactician for Obama during his first term. But for the first time since Obama became president four years ago, his political interests and Reid’s may be diverging. Not so much because there is huge disagreement on the president’s agenda, but because helping Obama may hurt vulnerable Democrats in the Senate. Reelected and unconcerned about ever having to face voters again, Obama seems

General Dynamics blames $2
million loss on defense cuts

Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley and Marjorie Censer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 10:27:02 PM Post Reply

One of the nation’s largest federal contractors reported a $2 billion loss Wednesday and blamed it on defense cuts, a sign that the government spending that provided the rocket fuel for the metro area’s decade-long economic expansion is now dissipating. General Dynamics, based in Falls Church, said it was devaluing its information technology business by $2 billion amid falling government demand. The announcement was particularly worrisome because IT contracting is the key ingredient to the metro area’s government-powered growth.

What Difference?

National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 10:24:33 PM Post Reply

We learned today from Secretary Clinton — “What difference, at this point, does it make?” — that the actual causation and circumstances of the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi are not so important — and by implication that the nation for days was given a false or at least incomplete explanation by its highest officials of a spontaneous, video-fueled demonstration rather than a pre-planned Islamist operation. Two thoughts arise, aside from her own health issues (no doubt brought on by an admirable but grueling regimen of travel in often inhospitable places) that make such testimony understandably taxing

Holding Obama to his
inauguration promises

Washington Times [DC], by Reince Priebus Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/23/2013 10:21:25 PM Post Reply

Monday’s inaugural festivities offered Americans a chance to celebrate our country and the enduring success of our democracy. With the pomp and circumstance over, however, our attention returns to the challenges facing the nation. The unsolved problems of President Obama’s first term are all the more urgent now that he begins his second. Chief among them is our out-of-control federal spending. Left unchecked, the president’s addiction to borrowed money will jeopardize the future of the next generations — of our children and grandchildren. The time to act is now. In his inaugural address, Mr. Obama said he agrees,

‘Madam Secretary, You Let
the Consulate Become
a Death Trap’

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 10:14:26 PM Post Reply

After a campaign season of mounting furor over the Obama administration’s twists and turns on the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, today’s long-anticipated testimony of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the bombshell that wasn’t. Through morning and afternoon hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and then the House Foreign Affairs Committee, postponed from their original dates because of the secretary’s medical crises, Clinton came prepared to bite back at her challengers and confronted the mere handful of Republicans willing to go toe-to-toe with her. Then, during the second hearing, administration officials leaked

Obama´s covert plans for climate

Politico, by Darren Samuelsohn Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/23/2013 10:11:16 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama got green hearts fluttering when he devoted more time to climate change than any other single issue during his inaugural address. But don’t expect a climate crusade. It’s more like covert action.There are no plans to enlist Al Gore or other rock stars of the environmental movement for a public campaign on the dangers of global warming. Don’t expect to see a new cap-and-trade bill.(Snip) Energy insiders say the White House will dribble out executive actions and federal rules over the next four years — the same low-key, bureaucratic approach the administration has taken since 2009.

Mickelson Bullied into Apology
After Slamming CA Tax Rate

Breitbart Sports, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/23/2013 10:06:32 PM Post Reply

Three days after golfer Phil Mickelson publicly said California´s high tax rate may force him to make "drastic changes" to his career or consider leaving the state he loves for financial reasons, he was bullied into apologizing for what Mickelson said were "insensitive comments." Mickelson issued an apology on Tuesday and, in his first remarks to reporters since his comments on Sunday, expressed deep regret on Wednesday at a press conference at Torrey Pines, CA, where this weekend´s PGA Tour event is being held. Sports writers and others in the mainstream press resoundingly mocked

Seven Things Hillary Clinton
Was Saying When She
Adjusted Her Glasses

New York Magazine, by Dan Amira Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/23/2013 9:50:29 PM Post Reply

During her daylong testimony to the House and Senate foreign relations committees on the deadly assault in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced pointed questions, provocative allegations, and, from her Democratic allies, lavish praise. Through it all, she routinely touched her eyeglasses to subtly communicate a range of emotions. There were seven distinct variations. The "Is This Dude for Real?" Adjustment

The showstopping emerald earrings
worn by Beyonce at Obama's inauguration-
and they're worth a cool $1.8millon

Daily Mail [UK], by Tamara Abraham Original Article

Posted By: anniej- 1/23/2013 9:48:07 PM Post Reply

President Obama's inauguration ceremony yesterday was full of fashion moments. But Beyonce's earrings made for one of the most sensational details. The star sang the National Anthem out with a pair of dazzling emeralds at her ears, worth a cool $1.8million, according to designer Lorraine Schwartz. Designed with Beyonce in mind - the bright hue stood out against her loose blonde waves and black embroidered Emilio Pucci gown.
Headline and text corrected by Staff.

Video: Security guard pepper-sprays
pro-lifers outside abortion clinic

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/23/2013 9:42:08 PM Post Reply

Peaceful protesters who are part of a national movement pursuing broad political, cultural, and social change were pepper-sprayed by a security guard. No, this story has nothing to do with Occupy Wall Street. Instead, itinvolves three pro-life Mississippians who were apparently pepper-sprayed by a security guard at an abortion clinic. “This morning pro-lifers were singing and praying in front of Mississippi’s lone remaining abortion clinic when a security guard pepper-sprayed three of them in the face,” Life Site News says. “The aggressor was Roy Benjamin, a private, armed security guard who works for Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in Jackson.”

Republicans grapple with deep
divisions, de-Romneyization,
as RNC meets in Charlotte

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/23/2013 9:36:50 PM Post Reply

CHARLOTTE — Members of the Republican National Committee meeting here in North Carolina — a location chosen in part because it, along with Indiana, was one of only two 2008 Obama states that turned to Republicans in 2012 — are deeply divided over what ails their party. On one end of the spectrum are those who stress the GOP’s failure to appeal to Hispanics and other minorities, arguing that the party must make fundamental changes to broaden its appeal. On the other end are those who stress the GOP’s failure to master even

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