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Man of the Moment

Washington Free Beacon, by Andrew Evans Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 1/28/2013 10:07:44 AM Post Reply

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s name surfaced repeatedly over the course of the weekend’s National Review Institute Summit in Washington D.C., so it was only appropriate that the governor himself gave the final address on Sunday afternoon. Yuval Levin, editor of the domestic policy journal National Affairs, praised Jindal on Saturday morning for “thinking creatively about how to use the strengths of his state to build on its weaknesses. Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) included Jindal in a list of several politicians whom he called the “children of Reagan” during his lunchtime address on Saturday.

Immigration proposal: border
security, visa overhaul,
then normalization

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/28/2013 10:01:28 AM Post Reply

A bipartisan group of Senators have already released the conceptual structure of an immigration reform compromise, if not the legislative language. This is getting plenty of press today, and it will probably take most of the attention in politics this week for both its own substance and how it plays in both parties and among voters. The compromise provides normalization for most of the illegal immigrants in the US, but puts certification of border security and a visa-program overhaul first — as well as all of those applying legally for immigration as of the bill’s passage:

Militants attack oil pipeline
in Algeria, two dead

Reuters, by Lamine Chikhi Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/28/2013 9:57:09 AM Post Reply

Algiers-Suspected Islamist militants attacked an oil pipeline in northern Algeria on Monday, killing two guards and wounding seven other people, a security source told Reuters. The Djebahia region, some 70 km (45 miles) east of the capital, is a stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) which earlier this month killed 37 foreigners at a gas plant in the south, and is where its leader Abdelmalek Droukdel is believed to be based, the source said. Militant attacks are relatively rare in the north of the country where there is a heavy security presence that pushed

Hey, Parents: Meet Neo-
Soviet NYU, Princeton
Professor Steven Cohen

PJ Media, by Kim Zigfeld Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/28/2013 9:56:07 AM Post Reply

Not surprising: following the passage of the Magnitsky Act — which penalizes Russians who were involved with the brutal torture and murder of a human rights attorney — supporters of Vladimir Putin’s KGB dictatorship criticized Americans for supporting American values in Russia. But would you be surprised to learn that one of those minions is not just an American citizen, but a professor emeritus at New York University and Princeton? Professor Steven F. Cohen — husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of ultra-liberal The Nation – has been speaking up for the interests of Putin and Russia’s KGB.

MSNBC Host: Thank God
and Country Abortion
Was There to Save Me

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/28/2013 9:50:08 AM Post Reply

We´re used to MSNBC´s Toure saying outlandish things, but his latest commentary in celebration of the 40t anniversary of Roe v. Wade is by far the worst. During a segment last week, Toure went on what he called an abortion rant in which he thanked God and country abortion was there to "save him" at a time when taking care of a baby and becoming a father would have been inconvenient for him. He also refers to abortion as a "safety net." Got that? Toure was willing to end the life of an unborn child so

Confessions of a
Liberal Gun-Owner

New York Times, by Justin Cronin Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 1/28/2013 9:22:52 AM Post Reply

I am a New England liberal, born and bred. I have lived most of my life in the Northeast — Boston, New York and Philadelphia — and my politics are devoutly Democratic. (Snip) I am also a Texas resident and a gun owner. I have half a dozen pistols in my safe, all semiautomatics, the largest capable of holding 20 rounds. I go to the range at least once a week, have applied for a concealed carry license and am planning to take a tactical training course in the spring.

Vegas ads, betting on gay
tourists, mock straights

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 1/28/2013 9:11:16 AM Post Reply

If you feel uncomfortable, declasse and stared-at during your next trip to Las Vegas, blame it on the gambling mecca´s new ads bidding for the nation´s lucrative gay tourism market. Each one of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority´s new pictorials features a tag line: "Everyone´s WELCOME Even straight people." And, BTW, guess who´s dropping into Sin City tomorrow? The president himself on a quick 4,200-mile day-trip aboard Air Force One. At $182,000 per flight hour that makes for a $1.5 million minimum photo op to plug his immigration reform ideas.

Bipartisan group of 8 senators
reaches deal on immigration changes

Fox News & Associated Press, by Mike Emanuel Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/28/2013 9:06:06 AM Post Reply

A bipartisan group of eight senators plans to announce they have agreed on a set of principles for comprehensive immigration reform. The deal, which will be announced at a news conference Monday afternoon, covers border security, guest workers and employer verification, as well as a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country. The eight senators expected to endorse the new principles are Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado; and Republicans John McCain

Confirmed? Massive Explosion
at Iran Nuclear Facility

Breitbart.com Big Peace, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: yourblueroom- 1/28/2013 9:05:02 AM Post Reply

A report of a massive explosion at Iran´s Fordo nuclear facility, first published by World Net Daily last week and based on an Iranian source, has apparently been confirmed by Israeli officials speaking to the London Times. World Net Daily´s Reza Khalili reported on Jan. 24 that a massive act of sabotage had taken place at Fordo: An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime.

Gang Violence and Gun Control

American Thinker, by Michael Geer Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 1/28/2013 9:00:19 AM Post Reply

Guns and gangs. Haven´t read anything from the Left about that. Certainly nothing from Congress. But with FBI statistics showing more than 1,500,000 members of recognized gangs across the nation and something like 33,000 recognized gangs in the FBI´s stats, you´d think Gun Control advocates would list these as a major target of their efforts, especially since gang activity is responsible for at least 48% of criminal and violent activity throughout the US. You´d be wrong.

When Will the
Republican Panic End?

American Spectator, by Robert Stacy McCain Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/28/2013 8:55:32 AM Post Reply

No fistfights broke out during the National Review Institute’s “Future of Conservatism” Summit in D.C., disappointing my hopes for the weekend. Some sort of bloodletting — at the very least, a venting of grievances — might do everybody good after the Republican defeat in November. Alas, decorum prevailed and none of the panelists even raised their voices in anger. The most depressing moment of the conference came, perhaps not coincidentally, during a panel on immigration when radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt, representing the pro-amnesty side of the argument, announced that he really didn’t want to be debating immigration

Sharpton on 2nd Amendment:
‘People do not have the right
to unregulated rights in this
country’ [Video]

Daily Caller, by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/28/2013 8:50:34 AM Post Reply

Following a public policy meeting of African-American leaders, National Urban League president Marc Morial and National Action Network president Al Sharpton called for a new national assault weapons ban, saying the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution should be regulated. “The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are not absolute. One cannot yell fire in a crowded theater and hide behind the First Amendment,” said Morial when asked by TheDC if he supports California Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein’s assault weapon ban bill. “And we absolutely think that the idea of banning a

Beyond Selma-to-Stonewall

New York Times, by Editors Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 1/28/2013 8:43:36 AM Post Reply

By including gay rights in the arc of the struggle for civil rights — the road “through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall” — President Obama linked his presidency to ending antigay discrimination and underscored the legal wrong of denying gay people the freedom to marry. “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law,” Mr. Obama famously said in his second Inaugural Address, “for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

D.C.’s minimum wage folly

Washington Times [DC], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/28/2013 8:41:20 AM Post Reply

The nation’s post-election leftward lurch is gaining momentum. Six states, including New York and California, are agitating for a boost in the minimum wage. Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, wants the federal government to set a nationwide wage floor that will automatically rise each year. Not to be left out, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson on Tuesday circulated his proposal for a 55 percent increase in the minimum wage over the federal level, which he would only apply to employees of the “big box” retailers that liberals love to hate.It has become fashionable to pick on the stores

Sandy relief bill eats up
taxes on the rich

Washington Times [DC], by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/28/2013 8:37:25 AM Post Reply

Congress is poised to clear the final $50 billion chunk of emergency aid for Superstorm Sandy relief Monday — and in one vote, it will have used up all the new tax money President Obama won by raising rates on the wealthy in the “fiscal cliff” deal. The tax deal that Congress and Mr. Obama reached in early January cut taxes overall but let them rise on individuals making more than $250,000 a year and families with income of more than $300,000. Those increases brought the government somewhere on the order of about $40 billion for fiscal year 2013.

The Rubio Con

Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 1/28/2013 8:29:23 AM Post Reply

Sometimes a political con is just too transparent to fly: Remember the idea that Mitt Romney had defused the venerable Medicare issue in Florida because Obama had squeezed some money out of the program (money that Romney would inevitably have to squeeze himself)? Right. I suspect the con at the heart of what seems to be the immigration proposal from the Senate “Gang of 8“–seven veteran amnesty supporters plus Marco Rubio–will prove equally unworkable: According to a five-page document provided to POLITICO, the sweeping proposal — agreed to in principle by eight senators

Dereliction: 60 Minutes Ignores
Benghazi For Obama/Clinton Love-Fest

Big Journalism, by Larry O´Connor Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/28/2013 8:21:11 AM Post Reply

Only a few days after CBS News´ intrepid investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson detailed a comprehensive list of questions the White House has refused to answer regarding the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, the network had the opportunity to finally get some of those answers from Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama as they both sat with Steve Kroft for an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes. We imagine Ms. Attkisson might have thrown a handful of popcorn at her television as she watched the segment Sunday night when her colleague gently broached the Benghazi

Next question: Must women
register for the draft?

Politico, by Kate Brannen Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/28/2013 8:06:11 AM Post Reply

For as long as women have been excluded from combat, they’ve also been exempt from having to register for the Selective Service System, the database kept just in case all hell breaks loose and the U.S. must reintroduce the draft. But now that women are being admitted into combat units, the justification for making only young men register is on shaky ground. “It would seem a little strange to have nearly every job in the military open to women and not also require them to register for Selective Service,” said David McKean, legal director at the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Washington and business brace
for an Obama wave of regulations

The Hill [Washington DC], by Ben Goad Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/28/2013 7:56:30 AM Post Reply

President Obama has begun to wield the power of the executive to press forward with a second-term agenda that delights the left and terrifies the right. When he said "we must act" in his inaugural address last week, liberals cheered him on, and conservatives saw that the electoral earthquake of November is likely to be followed by a tsunami of executive orders and regulations.Lawmakers, lobbyists and policy groups say they are expecting a deluge of new rules from agencies across the federal government. “They’re going to try to do with regulation what they cannot do with legislation,” said Mike House

Property taxes to rise across
Philadelphia suburbs

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Walter F. Naedele Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/28/2013 7:49:45 AM Post Reply

Hundreds of thousands of property owners in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties are getting something they probably don´t want in the new year - higher real estate taxes. Countywide increases, approved in December, affect the owners of all 382,304 real estate parcels in Chester and Delaware Counties. Some people are taking a double hit, as at least 27 towns in those counties also have increased taxes.(Snip) "Upper Darby is off the charts," said Ed Silbertstein, who owns a home there that the county estimates is worth $285,000. His annual tax bill is now $11,542,

Obama Cracks Joke When
Asked About Four Dead
Americans In Benghazi

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Larry O´Connor Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/28/2013 7:49:02 AM Post Reply

When Steve Kroft of CBS News finally got around to asking President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi resulting in the death of four brave Americans, President Obama decided it would be a good time to go for laughs. You know, I remember Bob Gates, you know, first thing he said to me, I think maybe first week or two that I was there and we were meeting in the Oval Office and he, obviously, been through seven presidents or something(Laughter)

Want to be happy? Just switch
off your phone, says expert

Daily Mail (UK), by Amanda Williams Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/28/2013 7:42:05 AM Post Reply

The secret to happiness lies in turning off your mobile phone and concentrating on your friends and family rather than text messages and emails, an expert on happiness has said. Professor Paul Dolan, of the London School of Economics, believes that the popularity of iPhones and other smart phones has seen people constantly having their attention drawn away from their nearest and dearest and to the devices instead. He warned that unless people changed their behaviour, they could suffer mental illness as a result. (Snip) He said: ´We´re constantly having our attention distracted and distraction is a cost.´

The modern office rewards narcissists
and psychopaths, say scientists

Daily Mail [UK], by Ryan Kisiel Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/28/2013 7:03:53 AM Post Reply

Look around your office. Can you spot the psychopath? The Machiaveliian? Or even the narcissist? Oliver James, a psychologist and broadcaster, has identified these three types of dysfunctional personalities among professional workers. The first, quite often bosses, compete for domination and attention and have no worries about trampling over others. The second like nothing more than to plot and scheme while the third drone on endlessly about themselves. Alarmingly, he believes there is a fourth dysfunctional type or ‘triadic person’ who is a combination of all three characteristics. Such staff, Mr James warns, have a dangerous, yet effective mix of

Romanians and Bulgarians to be told:
UK´s too cold for you in advertising
campaign to try and deter them
from coming to Britain

Daily Mail [UK], by Tim Shipman Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/28/2013 6:55:51 AM Post Reply

Plans have been drawn up for an advertising campaign denouncing Britain as cold and wet to deter Romanians and Bulgarians from coming to the UK.[Snip]Under proposals being examined in Downing Street, the Home Office and the Department for Work and Pensions, the new migrants--who are expected to number at least 70,000 over the next five years--would face tough restrictions on the benefits they could claim. One option would see new arrivals deported after three months if they don´t have a job. Another plan would require those arriving from Romania and Bulgaria to show they have the means to support themselves

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