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Court says Obama
exceeded authority
in making appointments

Washington Post, by Robert Barnes and Steven Mufson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:27:43 AM Post Reply

President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority by making appointments when the Senate was on a break last year, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The court’s broad ruling would sharply limit the power that presidents throughout history have used to make recess appointments in the face of Senate opposition and inaction. A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit flatly rejected the Obama administration’s rationale for appointing three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) while the Senate was on a holiday break.

Maryland faces a liberal’s
dilemma on mental health
and gun control

Washington Post, by Aaron C. Davis and Michael Laris Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:26:00 AM Post Reply

Virginia, home to the National Rifle Association’s headquarters, the Nation’s Gun Show and a conservative legislature, is by many measures a more gun-friendly state than Maryland. But in one aspect of gun control, Virginia is more restrictive than its neighbor across the Potomac. Residents of the commonwealth are almost three times as likely to be banned from owning a firearm for mental health reasons as residents of Maryland, which has been reluctant to restrict the rights of the mentally ill. For the Democratic-controlled Maryland General Assembly and Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), this poses a dilemma.

Man Repays Admiral Semmes Hotel
70 Years After Stealing Silverware

WKRG-TV [Mobile, AL], by Chad Petri Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/26/2013 12:21:11 AM Post Reply

Mobile, Alabama — A letter that arrived at the Admiral Semmes hotel last Friday tells a story starting in 1943, when 16 year-old Charles Buchanan walked through the front doors looking for work. He got a job in the kitchen. After a few weeks working there he snagged a fistful of silverware and stuffed it in his pocket hoping to get some extra cash. He says when he got back to his room he threw away his loot. In his letter he wrote “I realized my mom and dad would likely do me bodily harm and disown me so I

Obama Off To A Slow Start In
Capitol Hill Gun Campaign

Buzzfeed, by John Stanton Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:12:47 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama´s campaign operation appeared to be getting off to a shakey start Friday, sending out an ill-timed email calling on millions of supporters to flood the Capitol Hill switchboard with calls supporting gun control. Call in campaigns can be a powerful tool in lobbying Congress: when done right, lawmakers´ offices are inundated with thousands of constituents demanding to speak with the senator or congresswoman about a particular issue. Well-orchestrated campaigns can even result in the congressional switchboard going down for hours at a time, disrupting everyday life in the Capitol

FEMA awards $11.5 million grant
to program that aids Sandy victims

The Record [Hackensack, NJ], by Stephanie Akin Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/26/2013 12:00:57 AM Post Reply

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved a $11.5 million grant to fund a program that connects storm victims with resources to help them recover, officials said Friday. The federally funded Disaster Care Management Program, which is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, matches storm victims with case workers who assess their needs and help provide them with resources beyond those provided by federal and state disaster recovery programs. “As New Jerseyans rebuild in the wake of the most devastating storm in recent history, we must ensure they have

Hillary Clinton’s special eyeglasses
to stop ´double vision´

New York Post, by Geoff Earle & Gerry Shields Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/25/2013 11:59:39 PM Post Reply

Washington - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new eyeglasses aren’t just a new look — they have a special lens that’s used to treat double vision, eye doctors told The Post. Clinton, recently treated for a blood clot near her brain after a fall, wore the Fresnel lens to aid her left eye during the Benghazi hearing. “This kind of prism helps for people who are experiencing double vision,” said Dr. Vike Vicente, a pediatric ophthalmologist in Bethesda, Md. “Anybody who’s had a head injury, as the Secretary of State did, it could affect the way your eyes move,” he said.

Women in Combat: Why Did
Obama Avoid Congress?

Breitbart Big Peace, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 10:58:28 PM Post Reply

The most curious thing about outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s decision this week to allow women to assume combat roles in the military was the timing. It was announced just as departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attack--and came without any advance notification to Congress, much to the annoyance of Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee. It is not clear whether the administration wanted to bury the news--or highlight it, in the event that Clinton’s testimony had gone poorly.

Cook County Tax Bills
Show Municipalities’ Debt

CBS Chicago, by Jay Levine Original Article

Posted By: AltaD- 1/25/2013 10:53:58 PM Post Reply

Real estate tax bills will be on the way tomorrow for Cook County residents, many of them containing the cold, hard truth about where we stand. And it isn’t pretty. Chief correspondent Jay Levine has been crunching the numbers all day, after CBS 2 broke the story last night, to find out how bad things are. Taxing bodies most people probably never heard of, let alone realized they were responsible for a big part of your property taxes. They build and run libraries and schools and parks. Some of which you didn’t need or couldn’t afford, but you’re paying for

Kroft: Obama´s go-to interview

Politico, by Mackenzie Weinger & Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/25/2013 10:44:02 PM Post Reply

If news of a joint Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton interview to air Sunday came as a surprise, the man the White House chose to conduct the interview did not. Every politician has his or her preferred interviewer: for President Obama, that’s Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes.” Kroft has conducted more one-on-one interviews with Obama, both as a candidate and as president, than any other television personality. It was Kroft who interviewed Obama days before he announced his candidacy for president in 2007, Kroft who landed the first post-election interview with Obama and his wife in 2008,

Obama´s Liberal Ideas
Less Troubling Than His
Misunderstanding Of Founders

Investor´s Business Daily, by Lawrence Kudlow Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 1/25/2013 10:03:58 PM Post Reply

One of the least-remarked-upon aspects of President Obama´s inaugural speech was his attempt to co-opt the Founding Fathers´ Declaration of Independence to bolster his liberal-left agenda. Sure, the president quoted one of the most important sentences in history: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,(Snip) So far, so good. But he later connected the Declaration with his own liberal agenda: " ... that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedom ultimately requires collective action." (My italics, not his.)

Life after Chernobyl: Sergei
Gaschak’s photography from
inside ´the zone´

Independent [UK], by Shaun Walker Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 9:55:59 PM Post Reply

Sergei Gaschak’s photography offers an unparalleled glimpse at animal life inside “the zone”, the area of Ukraine and Belarus that has been officially closed off to human habitation since the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe of 1986. Using camera traps to take photographs mechanically, as well as taking photographs personally, Gaschak has captured what few have been able to see with their own eyes – the remarkable diversity of wildlife within the zone.

White House, senators
launching immigration push

Associated Press, by Julie Pace and Erica Werner Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 9:45:31 PM Post Reply

Washington -- Reviving an issue that has languished for years, President Barack Obama will launch a campaign next week aimed at overhauling the nation´s flawed immigration system and creating legal status for millions, as a bipartisan Senate group nears agreement on achieving the same goals. The proposals from Obama and lawmakers will mark the start of what is expected to be a contentious and emotional process with deep political implications. Latino voters overwhelmingly backed Obama in the 2012 election, leaving Republicans grappling for a way to regain their standing with an increasingly powerful pool of voters.

Indian women given kitchen
knives, chili to fend off rapists

Reuters, by Kaustubh Kulkarni Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 9:42:12 PM Post Reply

Mumbai - India´s radical Hindu nationalist party governing Mumbai has handed out kitchen knives and chili powder to women following a gang rape in the capital New Delhi that ignited a national debate on the best way to tackle sex crimes. The Shiv Sena party, an ally of the main opposition BJP, said it had handed out 21,000 knives with three-inch blades to women in the city and surrounding areas and plans to distribute 100,000. Mumbai police said they were examining the knives and considering legal action.

Russian parliament backs
ban on "gay propaganda"

Reuters, by Gabriela Baczynska and Alissa de Carbonn Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 9:31:14 PM Post Reply

Russia´s parliament backed a draft law on Friday banning "homosexual propaganda" in what critics see as an attempt to shore up support for President Vladimir Putin in the country´s largely conservative society. Only one deputy in the State Duma lower house voted against the bill, but passions spilled over outside the chamber, where 20 people were detained after scuffles between Russian Orthodox Christians and gay activists who staged a "kiss-in" protest. "We live in Russia, not Sodom and Gomorrah," United Russia deputy Dmitry Sablin said before the 388-1 vote in the 450-seat chamber.

Biden: Mental Health Check
May Have Prevented
Virginia Tech Shooting

ABC News, by Matthew Larotonda Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 9:27:20 PM Post Reply

Vice President Biden says a mental health check on gun sales may have averted the 2007 mass shooting on Virginia Tech‘s campus. Biden’s comments came after a roundtable discussion in Richmond today that included experts involved with the gun control commission convened after the university tragedy. The vice president reported the panel had reached “pretty broad consensus” over what criteria they proposed should deny a sale, including “mental capacity.” “One of the problems that was pointed out here was that there was an adjudication of the young man that committed the crime at Virginia Tech,

Mamet On Gun Control: ´The
Left Loves A Phantom Statistic´

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/25/2013 9:15:12 PM Post Reply

Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tony nominee, Oscar nominee, film director, and reformed liberal, David Mamet, penned a lengthy warning today about Obama´s gun control push for the Daily Beast: The Left loves a phantom statistic that a firearm in the hands of a citizen is X times more likely to cause accidental damage than to be used in the prevention of crime, but what is there about criminals that ensures that their gun use is accident-free? If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors,

FDA won´t regulate Pa.
birth control machine

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 9:11:14 PM Post Reply

Shippensburg, Pa. -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration won´t take any regulatory action over a vending machine at a Pennsylvania college that dispenses the morning-after pill. FDA spokeswoman Erica Jefferson said Friday that officials looked at publicly available information about the Shippensburg University vending program, spoke with university and campus health officials, and decided no action was necessary. The pill is available for $25 at a health center vending machine that´s accessible to students and university employees.

Tina Turner ´to become Swiss,
give up US passport´

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 8:27:05 PM Post Reply

US pop legend Tina Turner, who has been living in Switzerland since 1995, will soon receive Swiss citizenship and will give up her US passport, Swiss media reported Friday. "I´m very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here. ... I cannot imagine a better place to live," Turner told German language daily Blick. Turner, 73, who was born Anna Mae Bullock, lives in picturesque town of Kuesnacht, on the shores of Lake Zurich in northern Switzerland, and has passed a local civics test and interview, according to an official announcement published in the Zuerichsee-Zeitung daily.

Mourning the Filibuster’s Survival

National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/25/2013 8:24:34 PM Post Reply

They might not realize it yet, but President Obama’s liberal supporters have had a rough week. On Monday, they watched and cheered as their triumphant leader outlined a boldly progressive vision for the country, hitting all the high points: climate change, gay rights, equal pay, immigration reform, entitlement denialism, and “peace in our time.” But whatever hopes they may have had for realizing that vision suffered a serious blow yesterday. It happened the moment Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) scrapped his plans to “nuke” the filibuster. Eliminating the filibuster would have

Gatorade pulls ingredient
linked to flame retardant

Los Angeles Times, by Tiffany Hsu Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 8:22:20 PM Post Reply

Brominated vegetable oil, a synthetic chemical that has been patented in Europe as a flame retardant, will no longer double as an ingredient in Gatorade sports drinks. Molly Carter, a spokeswoman for Gatorade owner PepsiCo Inc., said the company has been considering the move for more than a year, working on a way to take out the ingredient without affecting the flavor of the drink. A recent petition on Change.org to drop the chemical – which has more than 200,000 supporters – did not inspire the decision, Carter said, though she acknowledged that consumer feedback was the main impetus.

North Korea threatens war
with South over U.N. sanctions

Reuters, by Jack Kim* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/25/2013 8:21:38 PM Post Reply

Seoul - North Korea threatened to attack rival South Korea if Seoul joined a new round of tightened U.N. sanctions, as Washington unveiled more of its own economic restrictions following Pyongyang´s rocket launch last month. In a third straight day of fiery rhetoric, the North directed its verbal onslaught at its neighbor on Friday, saying: "´Sanctions´ mean a war and a declaration of war against us." The reclusive North this week declared a boycott of all dialogue aimed at ending its nuclear program and vowed to conduct more rocket and nuclear tests after the U.N. Security Council censured it

UK heads for triple dip
as GDP contracts 0.3pc

Telegraph [UK], by Philip Aldrick Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/25/2013 8:17:37 PM Post Reply

The UK economy shrank by 0.3pc in the final three months of last year, raising the prospect of a triple dip recession, as Britain’s manufacturers suffered their worst year since the financial crisis. The official figures were the fourth quarter of negative growth in the last five and mean that the UK flatlined for last year as a whole – posting zero growth. The economy is smaller than it was in September 2011 and still 3.3pc below its pre-crisis peak.

Judge Dismisses Government Seizure
Attempt Of Tewksbury Motel

WBUR [Boston, MA], by David Boeri Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/25/2013 8:02:47 PM Post Reply

BOSTON — In what is being called a triumph for property rights, a federal judge in Boston has rejected the federal government’s attempt to seize a family-owned motel in Tewksbury under a controversial civil forfeiture law. The owners of Motel Caswell have never been charged with any crimes and have never come under police suspicion. But in a trial last November, the U.S. attorney’s office sought to take the property because it alleged the motel — the building — had “facilitated” drug crimes. “I’m in shock right now,” said 69-year-old Russell Caswell Thursday.

September 11 trial threatened
by legal dispute

Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/25/2013 7:51:45 PM Post Reply

The US defence department is at loggerheads with the chief prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay over what the charges should be. The five men, whose pretrial hearings reconvene at the naval base next week, face eight different charges. However, Brig Gen Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor, said the charge of conspiracy should be dropped because it was no longer "legally viable" following a court ruling that conspiracy – a charge that seeks to punish suspects for association with al-Qaeda – was not a recognised war crime under international law. This meant it could not legitimately be brought before a

Court overturns another
Guantanamo conviction

Reuters, by Jane Sutton Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/25/2013 7:44:17 PM Post Reply

MIAMI- A U.S. appeals court on Friday overturned the Guantanamo war crimes conviction of an al Qaeda videographer, a ruling likely to lead to dismissal of conspiracy charges in the pending trial of five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia threw out the conviction of Yemeni prisoner Ali Hamza al Bahlul, ruling that the charges of which he was convicted-conspiracy, providing material support for terrorism and soliciting murder - were not internationally recognized as war crimes when the acts were committed.(SNIP)Prosecutors had stopped defending Bahlul´s conviction

RE: Obama’s Power
Grab Slapped Down

Commentary Magazine, by John Steele Gordon Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/25/2013 7:41:39 PM Post Reply

As a follow-up to my previous post, I have now read the decision, and it is a very strong one indeed. All three judges agreed that the Senate is only in recess when it has adjourned sine die (Latin for “without a day,” i.e. without setting a date to meet again). This happens only at the end of the first session of a Congress when the second session will begin (as per Amendment XX, Sec. 2) on the next January 3rd, or at the end of the second session, when a newly elected Congress will assemble on that date.

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