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Army Removes Crosses,
Steeple from Chapel

Fox News, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/24/2013 10:32:45 PM Post Reply

The U.S. military reportedly ordered soldiers to remove a cross and a steeple from atop a chapel and to board up cross-shaped windows at a remote American forward operating base in Afghanistan. The removal of Christian symbols from the chapel at Forward Operating Base Orgun-E came after a solider complained — leading American Atheists president David Silverman to send a letter to the Pentagon. “Soldiers with minority religious beliefs and atheists often feel like second-class citizens when Christianity is seemingly officially endorsed by their own base,” Silverman told Fox News.

Father of Chandra Levy concerned
about latest development in case

Fox News, by Cristina Corbin Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/24/2013 10:22:38 PM Post Reply

Prosecutors and defense attorneys from the Chandra Levy murder case are meeting secretly to discuss the testimony of a witness, according to Levy´s father, who said he hopes the conviction of his daughter´s killer is not in jeopardy. The U.S. attorney´s office in Washington has not commented on the post-trial proceedings, but lawyers on both sides have reportedly met twice since December. Robert Levy told FoxNews.com he had been told the talks involve the testimony of a witness, but did not know the specific subject matter. "It´s all secret," Levy said of the meetings in Washington

Clinton Added Teeth To CRA,
Obama Turned Them Into Fangs

Investor´s Business Daily, by Paul Sperry Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 1/24/2013 10:12:32 PM Post Reply

Despite new evidence the Community Reinvestment Act led to riskier lending and played a key role in the subprime mortgage crisis, the Obama administration is broadening the anti-redlining regulation´s authority and scope, spooking bankers. A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation´s pre-eminent economic research group, states that the CRA "clearly" had a major impact on the flood of subprime loans made in the late 1990s and 2000s, which directly led to the housing crisis.

Cyber Threat Looms

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/24/2013 9:54:54 PM Post Reply

The United States is facing a catastrophic cyber attack by nations or non-state groups that could cripple the country’s economy, a former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday. Retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell, who headed both the National Security Agency (NSA) and served as director of national intelligence, said in a speech that one example of a devastating cyber attack would be the crippling of the U.S. economy through cyber attacks on banks and financial institutions. “We have a national problem and it is significant. The next big issue will be a cyber 9/11,” McConnell said during

Top ´Fast and Furious´
official to resign

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 9:21:36 PM Post Reply

Republicans expressed satisfaction Thursday at news Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the top Justice Department figure who had knowledge of the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation, is resigning. "He knew about reckless tactics, failed to take seriously allegations that they were continuing, and only owned up to his failures once they were publicly exposed," said House oversight committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, who led a months-long investigation into the botched operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

Mother deemed insane when she
drowned her daughter, 3, in
2010 is free because doctors
say she´s regained her sanity

Daily Mail [UK], by Rachel Quigley Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/24/2013 9:19:33 PM Post Reply

A mother who was deemed insane after drowning her three-year-old daughter in the bathtub has been allowed to walk free from jail just three years later - because doctors say she regained her sanity. Jennifer Bigham, from Modesto, California, admitted killing the toddler in 2010 and was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. After doctors ruled she is now sane, Bigham has been allowed to walk free and was released from jail on Tuesday. The 26-year-old was pictured smiling in her blue hospital gown as she was released from the hospital.

Reporter On Obama’s ‘Amateurish’
Press Corps: ‘When They’re Near
Him, They Lose Their Minds’

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 8:43:23 PM Post Reply

Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, author of the BuzzFeed special book on the 2012 campaign Panic 2012, joined Martin Bashir on Thursday where he revealed that journalists who covered President Barack Obama during the campaign were sometimes so overcome by his presence that they would “lose their minds” and behave in “juvenile” and “amateurish” ways. Among other anecdotes, Hastings admitted that he once had the opportunity to ask the president hard questions, but was so similarly moved by his presence that he only asked “soft” questions. (Snip) Hastings revealed one

Report: USAID probed
for alleged bid-rigging

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Julian Pecquet Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 7:50:22 PM Post Reply

Criminal investigators are looking into allegations that the top lawyer for the State Department´s aid agency rigged a bid and that top officials tried to cover it up, according to The Associated Press. The AP reported Thursday that the Justice Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development´s inspector general are investigating whether USAID general counsel Lisa Gomer interfered last year to guarantee that a now-canceled bid for a “senior government-to-government assistance adviser” would be won by the agency´s retiring chief financial officer, David Ostermeyer.

A Superb Appointment for SEC Chief

PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 7:43:26 PM Post Reply

President Obama has nominated my former boss, Mary Jo White, to be the next chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He could not have made a better choice. I worked for Mary Jo for nearly a decade when she was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for nine years, from 1993-2002. It’s not enough to say she’s one of the best lawyers in the country; she’s also one of the best people I’ve been fortunate to know. She is whip smart and tough. She is also a model of integrity and rectitude. She will do what the SEC ought to do: aggressive enforcement against

Bank of America issues "bond crash´
alert on Fed tightening fears

Telegraph [UK], by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/24/2013 7:36:55 PM Post Reply

The US lender said investors face a treacherous moment as central banks start fretting about inflation and shift gears, threatening a surge in bond yields. This happened in 1994 under Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan when yields on US 30-year Treasuries jumped 240 basis points over a nine-month span, setting off a “savage reversal of fortune in leveraged areas of fixed income markets”. A similar shock this year is “likely” if the US economy continues to gather strength. “The moment we hear the first rhetorical talk of exit strategies by central banks this could turn,” said chief investment strategist,

Panetta: ´Everyone Entitled to a
Chance´ to be Combat Soldier
in ´Gender Neutral´ Military

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 7:34:22 PM Post Reply

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that whether they are male or female "everyone is entitled to a chance" to become a combat soldier in a military that will now adopt "gender netural" standards. “If members of our military can meet the qualifications for a job--and let me be clear, we’re not talking about reducing the qualifications for a job--if they can meet the qualifications for the job then they should have the right to serve,” Panetta said at a Pentagon press conference. The Defense Department announced today that it would rescind its 1994 policy restricting women

Shaming fat people into losing
weight is the only way to solve
obesity epidemic, leading health
academic claims

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 7:27:44 PM Post Reply

A leading health academic has called for fat people to be ´shamed and beat upon socially´ in order to halt the obesity crisis. In a controversial article, Daniel Callahan, the 82-year-old president emeritus of The Hastings Center a New York think-tank specializing in health policy ethics, calls for increased stigmatization of obese people to try spur weight-loss across America. The senior research scholar says fat people should be treated like smokers who have become increasingly demonized in recent years and thus ´nudged´ by negative attitudes of those around them into giving up the unhealthy

Honey, I Shrank The Army;
On Brink Of A Hollow Force

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/24/2013 7:18:05 PM Post Reply

Defense: As sequestration looms and an advocate of military budget cuts prepares to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense, the Army reports that it will have to cut base operations by almost a third, jeopardizing its missions. ´The readiness of our Armed Forces is at a tipping point," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey wrote to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a Jan. 14 letter also signed by the chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

Barack Obama provides
landing pad for fly

Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 7:17:00 PM Post Reply

The buzzing insect stole the show as the President announced his two new members of his second administration, cutting wild loops around the leader of the free world before landing squarely on his forehead. The official White House transcript simply reads: "This guy is bothering me here - (swatting at a fly.)" Meanwhile, the pool report which describes the President´s movements throughout the day, noted that "the president spoke for about five minutes while being menaced by a house fly". It wasn´t the first time Mr Obama has shared camera time with a fly.

Feinstein´s Gun Control:
Ill-Conceived Legislation

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/24/2013 7:11:08 PM Post Reply

Gun Control: We really don´t want to say it, but we have to because it´s true: The Democrats aren´t letting a tragedy go to waste — they are pushing a firearms ban on top of the victims of the Newtown shooting. Led by the once pistol-packing Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the Democrats have put forth legislation that would outlaw more than 150 types of weapons, from rifles to pistols to shotguns. They are calling it the "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013." But it´s more like the "Second Amendment Violation of the Century."

Surprise! Obama Comes
Out As A Real Leftist

Washington Post News Media, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/24/2013 7:04:39 PM Post Reply

The media herd is stunned to discover that Barack Obama is a man of the left. After 699 teleprompted presidential speeches, the commentariat was apparently still oblivious. Until Monday´s inaugural address, that is. Where has everyone been these four years? The only surprise is that Obama chose his second inaugural, generally an occasion for "malice toward none" ecumenism, to unveil so uncompromising a left-liberal manifesto. But the substance was no surprise. After all, Obama had unveiled his transformational agenda in his very first address to Congress, four years ago. It was, I wrote at the time,

Meet the 23-year-old squatter who
moved into palatial $2.5Million
waterfront mansion - but there´s
nothing neighbors or police can*

Daily Mail [UK], by Snejana Farberov Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 6:59:55 PM Post Reply

Andre Barbosa can safely say that he has one of the nicest homes on the block in Boca Raton, Florida. But the 23-year-old Brazilian national does not own or even rent the palatial $2.5million estate legally - he is a squatter. Barbosa, originally from the neighboring Pompano Beach, moved into 580 Golden Harbour Drive in July Now he is threatening to use an obscure real estate law that allows people to claim a property as their own if they stay there for seven years. No one witnessed Barbosa breaking into the 7,522-squae foot, five-bedroom, six-bathroom waterfront home,

Watch Chris Matthews Reference
‘Mickey Mouse’ Five Times
In 75 Second To Describe Republicans

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/24/2013 6:49:18 PM Post Reply

During his final thought on Thursday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews denounced Republican state legislators who are attempting to implement plans to break up their state’s Electoral College votes by congressional district — a system that the states of Maine and Nebraska already have on the books. Matthews referenced Mickey Mouse or the Mouseketeers no less than five times in the space of one minute and 15 seconds during to describe Republicans during this monologue. “Let me finish tonight with this – this Mickey Mouse club that’s back; the Republican Party’s plan

Feinstein calls for banning more
than 150 types of firearms during
dramatic press conference

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/24/2013 6:41:41 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein staged a dramatic press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill with 10 weapons at her side and unveiled legislation instituting a government ban on more than 150 types of firearms, including rifles, pistols and shotguns. Flanked by other anti-gun liberal lawmakers, including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, Feinstein announced the introduction of the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2013.” The legislation being pushed by Feinstein — who has long history of calling for gun bans — would prohibit the sale, transfer, importation and manufacture of certain firearms.

Why filibuster reform failed,
and where it might go next

Washington Post, by Ezra Klein Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/24/2013 5:57:15 PM Post Reply

A few thoughts on filibuster reform: 1. The reason there wasn’t root-and-branch reform of the filibuster is that most Senate Democrats didn’t want root-and-branch reform of the filibuster. (Snip) The reason it doesn’t is that time is precious. The talking filibuster had many virtues, but at its core, it got the causality of the problem backwards. The reason the minority doesn’t burn time on the Senate floor talking isn’t because they don’t want to. It’s because the majority doesn’t want them to. 3. The reform idea that held the most promise was the “41-vote rule.” Right now, breaking a filibuster requires the majority

Cuomo Bows to Mother Nature

New York Times, by Eleanor Randolph Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/24/2013 5:35:13 PM Post Reply

New York has yet to receive an estimated $30 billion from Washington for Hurricane Sandy relief, but Governor Andrew Cuomo already knows one way he plans to spend it. (Snip) “There are some parcels that Mother Nature owns,“ he said earlier this month in his official State of the State speech. “She may only visit once every few years, but she owns the parcel and when she comes to visit, she visits.” To deal with such intrusions, the governor wants to give homeowners in these areas a choice. New York will help them rebuild a better house — on stilts, for example, higher than future floodwaters.

John Kerry Tears Up During
Smooth Confirmation Hearing

ABC News, by Dana Hughes Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/24/2013 5:31:57 PM Post Reply

First there were near-tears, and then a protester had to be forced out, but Sen. John Kerry took it all in stride. Kerry choked up at his secretary of state confirmation hearings this morning when discussing his father’s history in the U.S. Foreign Service, and how he was “equally proud” of both that history and his own as part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “If you confirm me, I would take office as secretary proud that the Senate is in my blood, but equally proud that so, too, is the Foreign Service,” the Massachusetts Democrat

Focus on teaching our teachers

Detroit News [MI], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/24/2013 5:03:22 PM Post Reply

2013 has just started, but a slew of new education studies and reports have already emerged. It´s intimidating to sort through all the numbers and percentages and wonder what it really means — and more importantly, what it means for kids in Michigan. But a new study from the Center for Michigan focuses on what citizens would like to see in schools. It´s a refreshing perspective. (Snip) Residents gave the K-12 system an average score, which meshes with the state´s lackluster test results when compared with others states. Looking ahead, most residents want to ensure teachers

US only ´advises´ against traveling
to Benghazi while other countries
say get out ´immediately´ from
Libyan city as ´imminent and
specific´ terror threat emerges

Associated Press, Daily Mail, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/24/2013 4:58:56 PM Post Reply

The State Department has only ´advised´ Americans against traveling to the Libyan city of Benghazi even after Britain, Germany and the Netherlands today urged their citizens to immediately leave the in response to what was described as an imminent threat against Westerners. The US pointed to a travel advisory issued earlier this month and did not strengthen its warning even after the European countries issued statements variously describing the threat as specific and imminent but none gave details as to its exact nature. The warnings come a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified to Congress about

Exclusive: Gov´t probes
possible USAID bid rigs

Associated Press, by Larry Margasak Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/24/2013 4:53:57 PM Post Reply

Washington - The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into possible contract rigging by the general counsel at the government agency that distributes foreign aid, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. Memos from the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development also reveal that the IG is investigating whether Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg tried to interfere with the internal investigation. (Snip) The original investigation focused on whether Lisa Gomer, USAID general counsel, may have "wired" a contract last May so the winner of the solicitation would be the agency´s retiring chief financial officer, David Ostermeyer.

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