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Court: Obama appointments
are unconstitutional

Associated Press, by Sam Hananel Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 10:57:56 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit says Obama did not have the power to make recess appointments earlier this year to the National Labor Relations Board. Obama claims he acted properly because the Senate was away for the holidays. But the court says the Senate technically stayed in session when lawmakers gaveled in and out every few days for so-called "pro forma" sessions.

The Keystone to Bringing Jobs

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill McMorris Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 10:49:21 AM Post Reply

Six GOP lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a proposal to make Pennsylvania, the “Keystone State,” the nation’s 25th right-to-work state. The legislation, which would end the longstanding practice of forcing employees to join unions as a condition of work, has stalled several times over the past decade. The bill’s sponsors say new laws in Michigan and Indiana forced the state’s hand. “The needs of our economy dictate that it must be adopted at some point in time,” said state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe. “The victory of right-to-work in Michigan and Indiana certainly thrust the spotlight on it and made the

New fee on credit
cards starts Jan. 27

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Patricia Sabitini Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 10:40:13 AM Post Reply

CINCINNATI - The consumer advocacy group Consumer Action is urging people to be on alert for so-called checkout fees some retailers could begin to impose on credit card transactions starting Jan. 27. Merchant trade groups contend most retailers, fearing customer backlash, will not charge the fee. But Consumer Action wants cardholders to be aware of the possibility and options for fighting back. "We´re not sure whether retailers are going to charge these fees," said Ruth Susswein, deputy director of national priorities at Consumer Action in Washington, D.C. "They may not for competitive reasons.

Britain is experiencing ´worse
slump than during Great Depression´

Telegraph [UK], by Rowena Mason Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 10:39:54 AM Post Reply

Ministers today admitted Britain is facing "very, very grave difficulties" after figures showed the economy did not grow at all in 2012. Both George Osborne, the Chancellor, and Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said they do not underestimate the scale of the challenge but insisted the Goverment is on a "path of repairing our public finances". Despite their optimism, City analysts warned that the economy is still "in crisis", more than four years after the financial crash of autumn 2008. Economists from the Royal Bank of Scotland said the last four years have produced the worst

Bailout Results in 26 Illegal
Immigrants Detained in Portland

KiiiNews [South Texas], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 10:35:19 AM Post Reply

PORTLAND- The City of Portland had one of their largest illegal immigrant bailouts this week, when 26 immigrants from Guatemala were captured and turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol. It happened just after 2 a.m. Wednesday on Highway 181, near the Wildcat exit. Portland Police Officer Weldon Wright said he was watching a couple of vehicles going through town and decided to check their license plates. That´s when one of them took off at a speed of over 100 miles an hour. The officer concluded that the vehicle was trying to keep him from

Secret Hearings in Case
of Chandra Levy Slaying

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 10:26:12 AM Post Reply

A judge has been holding secret hearings in the case of the man convicted in the 2001 killing of intern Chandra Levy. Court records show the hearings have taken place behind closed doors but neither prosecutors nor defense lawyers have revealed the purpose of the sessions. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney´s office, which is handling the case, didn´t immediately return a call seeking comment Friday. Several media organizations, including The Associated Press, are petitioning to open the proceedings. The next hearing takes place on February 7 in D.C. Superior Court.

What if I shake my arm
really fast? Photographs that
capture 1960s astronauts
testing the durability and
toughness of their spacesuits

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 10:18:41 AM Post Reply

Vintage photos show the behind the scenes testing that was underway in the U.S. during the space race in the 1960s. Black and white pictures compiled by San Diego Air And Space Museum show Bill Elkins, a chief engineer at Garrett AiResearch, modeling Advanced Extravehicular Suit (AES), a long-endurance lunar suit he developed for astronauts to wear to the moon. Mr Elkins shows off the suit in a collection of photographs as he tests the suit for flexibility. Though Elkins´ creation beat out four other space suit manufacturers to secure a contact with NASA,

U.S. Should Act Unilaterally
on Climate Change

Bloomberg News, by Cass R. Sunstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 10:16:14 AM Post Reply

As his second inaugural address made clear, U.S. President Barack Obama is committed to taking action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and thus to confront the threat of climate change. There are plenty of bad objections to taking such action, and we will be hearing a lot of them in the weeks and months to come. Yet one criticism -- let us call it the Sophisticated Objection -- deserves respectful consideration, not least because answering it will help us to specify the steps we ought to be taking. Those who make the Sophisticated Objection acknowledge that

The Logic of the Progressive
Healthcare Death Cult

American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 1/25/2013 10:10:19 AM Post Reply

Let us not waste another breath responding to the mock outrage with which progressives react to accusations such as Sarah Palin´s "death panel" remark. Whether ObamaCare´s Independent Payment Advisory Board should correctly be described as a "death panel" or a "cost-reduction system" is actually a stale semantics debate, given that when they are not acting outraged, leftists explain their real intentions quite clearly. Cutting to the chase, the proper question to ask is, "Why are progressives willing to condemn the old and infirm to death?"

Obama Speechwriter Takes Credit
for Inaugural: ´One Of The
Hardest Speeches I´ve Written´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 10:04:53 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama´s speechwriter, John Favreau, takes credit for the president´s Second Inaugural Address in an interview with the Huffington Post. "It was one of the hardest speeches I´ve written," Favreau tells the left-leaning website. Sam Stein of Huffington Post reports: It is surprisingly difficult to write speeches for President Barack Obama, one of the most gifted orators in recent political history. Yes, written words tend to sound better when he´s reciting them. But the sheer number of speeches he´s delivered and the magnitude of the moments in which they are given make it tough to be original

Is This LEGO Star Wars Toy Racist?

Time Magazine, by Matt Peckham Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/25/2013 9:56:15 AM Post Reply

Racism is sadly alive and well in the world, but in a LEGO Star Wars toy set? Have a look at the picture above: That’s LEGO’s rendition of “Jabba’s Palace,” as in Jabba the Hutt, the giant alien slug-creature that hassled Han Solo and his pals over a snarling sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi. According to the Turkish Cultural Community of Austria, it’s also a racially prejudiced riff on at least two revered religious structures, reports The Telegraph. TCCA apparently believes the toy set resembles the Hagia Sophia, originally a structure in Istanbul that began

Senators not in ‘millionaires´ club’
would be hurt by lost paychecks

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Erik Wasson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 9:54:49 AM Post Reply

The Senate is often called the “millionaires´ club,” but some of its members would feel the pain if a blown budget deadline costs them their paychecks. Provisions in the “No Budget, No Pay” debt ceiling bill that is headed to the Senate floor would impound senators´ salaries if the upper chamber doesn’t approve a budget by April 15. For most of the upper chamber, the loss of the $174,000 annual salary would be no hardship. Many senators are millionaires many times over, having earned substantial fortunes outside of politics. But for a small group of senators whose net

White House: Schools must
open sports to disabled

USA Today, by Greg Toppo Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 9:49:16 AM Post Reply

The Obama administration for the first time is telling school districts across the USA that they must give disabled students equal access to extracurricular sports, a move that advocates say has been years in the making. In a letter to schools due out Friday, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Seth Galanter of the Department of Education says schools should provide "reasonable modifications" to allow disabled students to participate – for instance, providing a deaf track athlete with a flashing light that goes off simultaneously with the starter pistol that others hear.

Police in Iowa city to buy their
own semi-automatic AR-15s

Fox News, by Joshua Rhett Miller Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 9:33:11 AM Post Reply

Police in one Iowa city could soon be buying their own assault rifles to carry in squad cars to ensure they aren´t outgunned by criminals in the wake of several high-profile shootings involving semi-automatic AR-15s, FoxNews.com has learned. Half of the 50-member force in Marion, Iowa, will take part in the upgrade, paying for the $2,000 guns in installments deducted from their paychecks, according to Police Chief Harry Daugherty. He said the proposal, expected to be approved by the city’s seven-member City Council late Thursday, will mean initial responders will have enough firepower to deal with heavily armed suspects.

Italian tourist busted at
posh East Side steakhouse for
forgetting wallet, even after
offering iPhone as collateral
until he could return with cash

New York Daily News, by Kerry Burke & Joe Kemp Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 9:19:19 AM Post Reply

Welcome to New York, pal — now go to jail. An Italian tourist spent his second night in the city behind bars after staff at an upscale East Side steakhouse called cops when he claimed he left his wallet at a friend’s place. Graziano Graziussi, a 43-year-old lawyer from Naples, is a regular at Smith & Wollensky — but this time, barely 24 hours into his latest two-week stay in New York, he realized he didn’t have his wallet on him when a waiter presented him with the $208 bill Monday night. “I forgot my wallet,” the clean-cut Graziussi

Jindal: GOP should change
‘just about everything’

Washington Times [DC], by Jessica Chasmar Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 9:11:51 AM Post Reply

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is calling on Republicans to “recalibrate the compass of conservatism” following a crushing blow to the GOP on Election Day. Mr. Jindal is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting Thursday night in Charlotte, N.C. Speech excerpts released early Thursday indicate Jindal will be the latest of conservatives to urge a change within the GOP, the Associated Press reports. “We do not need to change what we believe as conservatives — our principles are timeless,” Jindal says. “But we do need to re-orient our focus to

Obama, Clinton to appear in
joint ´60 Minutes´ interview

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/25/2013 9:11:36 AM Post Reply

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear together in their first joint interview this weekend. The president and Clinton, who is expected to leave the State Department within days, will tape the interview Friday at the White House with "60 Minutes" anchor Steve Kroft. It will be the president´s first dual interview with anyone other than first lady Michelle Obama. Obama and Clinton forged a strong working relationship over the past four years — and former President Bill Clinton played a vital role in Obama´s reelection campaign last fall.

Did you catch Neville Obama
speaking on peace?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 1/25/2013 9:06:42 AM Post Reply

Apparently history was not a strong suit in college days for Barry Obama -- or his highly-paid speechwriters. In his 2,106 word aspirational tone poem from the Capitol steps at Monday´s official inauguration, Obama called for many people to do many things and vowed a myriad of vows, already faded in the memory of millions -- as usually happens to inaugurals and State of the Union shopping lists. Among those 2,100 words, four shockers leapt out at the eyes and ears of many Americans not in the news media: "Peace in our time."

Obama highjacking the
American Revolution

Creators Syndicate, by Patrick J. Buchanan Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 1/25/2013 9:05:59 AM Post Reply

“Second Term Begins With a Sweeping Agenda for Equality,” ran the eight-column banner in which The Washington Post captured the essence of Obama’s second inaugural. There he declared: “What binds this nation together … what makes us exceptional — what makes us American — is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago.” Obama then quoted our Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among

2nd suspect arrested in
college shooting

Houston Chronicle, by Dale Lezon, Brian Rogers Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 9:03:55 AM Post Reply

A second suspect wanted in the shooting at Lone Star College earlier this week was arrested early Friday morning near Dallas. Trey Foster, 22, was taken into custody without incident about 1 a.m. at a home in the Plano area, said Alfredo Perez, spokesman for the U.S. Marshal´s Service. Perez said Foster was driven to the Harris County Sheriff´s Office and arrived about 6:30 a.m. He is expected to be questioned by investigators. The arrest was made by members of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force.

Study finds Greenland’s ice
may not be as vulnerable to
climate change as scientists feared

Houston Chronicle, by Eric Berger Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 8:59:08 AM Post Reply

New research suggests that Greenland’s vast ice sheet isn’t as fragile as some climate scientists feared. The work, published in Nature this week (see abstract), indicates the majority of ice on Greenland could remain intact for hundreds of years even if the planet warms considerably.The study used ice cores to study conditions during a period of natural global warming that occurred between 115,000 and 130,000 years ago, when temperatures were about 14.5 Fahrenheit degrees higher than they are today. This was known as the Eemian period. During this inter-glacial time about 75 percent of Greenland’s ice sheet remained intact.

Le Monde: ´The Muslim religion
is the subject of a profound
rejection by the French´

American Thinker, by Andrew Bostom Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 8:50:53 AM Post Reply

Yesterday (1/24/13), Le Monde (hat tip Religion of Peace) published IPSOS survey results of French public attitudes towards Islam under the self-explanatory headline, "La religion musulmane fait l´objet d´un profond rejet de la part des Français" ["The Muslim religion is the subject of a profound rejection by the French"]. The key findings, expressed in Le Monde´s characterization, with "unusual clarity" by the French populace, reveal: •74% of those surveyed believe Islam is an intolerant religion •80% maintain Islam attempts to impose its dictates upon others

Obama Democrats Mess with
Texas, Plot to Turn Lone
Star State Blue

Breitbart Big Government, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 8:47:38 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s former national field director Jeremy Bird has launched an organization with a plan to turn Texas blue for the first time in decades, Politico reports. Bird’s new organization, “Battleground Texas,” will target Hispanic voters in the state to try to swing the Lone Star state in the direction of Democrats. Texas has for a long time been a Republican Party stronghold, and its 38 electoral college votes are crucial to any GOP presidential candidate’s run for office. If Texas becomes a battleground or Democratic Party state, Republican presidential candidates may be in dire danger.

Big Money, Big Protest, Big
Muscle: Obama´s New Left-
Wing Political Machine

Breitbart Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 8:43:23 AM Post Reply

While Republicans contemplate how to improve their party’s political performance at the Republican National Committee (RNC) winter meeting, which opens today, Democrats are already taking politics to a new level, creating parallel organizations to advocate for President Barack Obama’s agenda and using their political clout to rearrange private business relationships to their liking. American politics has never seen anything like it. Politico reports today that major donors--including billionaire George Soros (above), bailout beneficiary Citi and others--were approached by Obama campaign veterans to donate millions to Organizng for America, the president’s new 501(c)4 non-profit advocacy group.

The Diversity Cult´s
Attack on the Military

FrontPage Magazine, by Arnold Ahlert Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 1/25/2013 8:30:08 AM Post Reply

Center for Military Readiness (CMR) president Elaine Donnelly continues to challenge outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s elimination of the ban against women serving in combat. A 42-page report, “Defense Department ‘Diversity’ Push for Women In Land Combat” is a no-holds-barred assessment of the pitfalls that attend women serving in combat units. In a memo released Monday, Donnelly reveals why the report is necessary. “Secretary Panetta is making this move on his way out the door, cutting Congress, and the American people out of the decision-making process…Congress…should schedule long-overdue hearings that examine the full consequences of imposing gender-based

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