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How President Obama Lost His
Shirt to John Boehner

Forbes, by Ralph Benko Original Article

Posted By: supersid- 1/29/2013 10:16:50 PM Post Reply

The House, under the leadership of Speaker John Boehner, has precipitated a postponement in the debt ceiling fight until May. (Snip) Dealt a weak hand, Boehner managed to 99% outfox, on tax policy, a president who had the massive apparatus of the executive branch, the Senate majority, and a left-leaning national elite media whooping it up for a whopping tax increase. Even more impressively, Boehner pulled it off with steady nerves while under heavy pressure from the anti-spending hawks in his own caucus.

Police in Mexico pull 14
slain musicians from well

Associated Press, by Porfirio Ibarra Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/29/2013 10:00:43 PM Post Reply

MONTERREY, Mexico — Police pulled 17 bodies from a well in northern Mexico and 14 of them have been identified as members of a musical band kidnapped by gunmen last week, an official said Tuesday. Investigators have finished searching the well but are still trying to determine a motive in the killings of the Kombo Kolombia band members and crew, said a Nuevo Leon state official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the case.

Obama: Unless you were a
Native American, you came
from someplace else

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 9:58:32 PM Post Reply

This afternoon in Las Vegas, President Obama reminded most American citizens that they were descended from immigrants themselves. Obama warned that the issue was an emotional one, but that it was important for Americans to not view it as “us versus them.” “It’s really important to remember our history,” Obama continued. “Unless you were one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else, somebody brought you,” he said.

Cornyn, Cruz cast 2 of only 3
votes against John Kerry

Houston Chronicle, by Richard S. Dunham Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/29/2013 9:55:48 PM Post Reply

Senators from every other state voted to confirm John Kerry as Secretary of State. Once again, Texas stood alone. Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz were among the three dissenters as the Massachusetts senator (and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) was approved as the replacement to Hillary Clinton. The third “no” vote: Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe. Needless to say, all three naysayers are Republicans. The final vote was 94 to 3.

Elmwood Park man admits conspiring
with brother to steer illegal
campaign contributions to Menendez

The Record [Hackensack, NJ], by Justo Bautista Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/29/2013 9:55:17 PM Post Reply

An Elmwood Park man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring with his brother to violate federal election law by steering $21,400 in illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. Benedetto Bigica, 45, admitted that he worked with his brother, Joseph, of Franklin Lakes, from April 2005 to April 2008 to make the illegal contributions, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. As part of the scheme, Benedetto Bigica, an owner and president of Open MRI and Imaging-Newark, agreed to serve as a straw contributor along with two other family members for Joseph Bigica, who then reimbursed them for their

Ashley Judd splits from
Scottish racer husband
Dario Franchitti

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/29/2013 9:55:07 PM Post Reply

Ashley Judd has split from her husband of 13 years Dario Franchitti. The 44-year-old U.S. actress and the Scottish racing driver, 39, announced they were ending their marriage in a joint statement on Tuesday. They told People.com: ´We have mutually decided to end our marriage. ´We´ll always be family and continue to cherish our relationship based on the special love, integrity, and respect we have always enjoyed.´(Snip)The couple did not have any children together, with Judd telling Scottish newspaper Sunday Mail in 2005: ´It´s unconscionable to breed, with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.´

Arrest numbers signal 9 percent
jump in illegal immigration in 2012

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/29/2013 9:53:15 PM Post Reply

Even as President Obama travels to Las Vegas Tuesday to call for legalizing illegal immigrants, the latest numbers from the U.S. Border Patrol suggest that the flow across the nation’s southwest border jumped by 9 percent last year. The Border Patrol made 356,873 arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2012, up from 327,577 in 2011, according to figures obtained by the Associated Press and confirmed by The Washington Times. Border Patrol officials estimate that apprehensions are a good proxy for illegal crossings, so when the numbers go up

Payroll tax saps consumer outlook

Washington Times, by Patrice Hill Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/29/2013 9:51:24 PM Post Reply

It was the tax cut that nobody noticed two years ago. And it was rarely mentioned in the fight between Congress and the White House last year over the expiring Bush-era tax cuts. But this month, the payroll-tax cut suddenly registered on everybody’s radar screen — when it went away. The Jan. 1 expiration of the 2 percentage point cut in the tax every worker pays to finance Social Security has prompted a huge drop in consumer confidence, wiping out all the gains registered in 2012, the Conference Board reported Tuesday. Though long expected and not much discussed

Commander: Special
ops to lose $1 billion

Washington Times, by Kristina Wong Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/29/2013 9:49:50 PM Post Reply

The commander of U.S. Special Operations Command said Tuesday that his unit’s budget would lose $1 billion this year as a result of the defense budget stalemate in Washington. During an annual National Defense Industrial Association conference for special operators, Navy Adm. William McRaven noted that the Defense Department is operating on a continuing resolution, which limits spending to 2012 levels, even as automatic, across-the-board spending cuts called sequestration are set to begin March 1. “The continuing resolution … in all honesty puts a greater constraint on us than sequester

Obama Job Approval
Rating Lower than Nixon´s

Breitbart´s Big Government, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/29/2013 9:45:33 PM Post Reply

According to Gallup, President Obama is tied with George W. Bush for most unpopular re-elected president since Gallup began measuring presidential job-approval in 1945. In fact, Gallup found that apart from Bush, "every president...has had a higher job-approval rating in the January following his reelection than Obama has." Obama´s approval rating is at 52. Think about it this way--following reelection, President Reagan´s approval numbers beat Obama´s by 11 points, President Eisenhower´s beat Obama´s by 21, and a much-derided Republican President named Richard Nixon

Glenn Beck Celebrates Death
Of Republican Party With
Cake, Confetti, And Footage
Of Dying Elephants

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 9:44:31 PM Post Reply

On his BlazeTV show last night, Glenn Beck dressed as a doctor and declared the death of the establishment Republican Party, celebrating with an appropriately-themed cake and footage of actual elephants dying. With co-host Pat Gray lying on a gurney — a metaphor for the “dead” GOP — Beck explained that “the media is celebrating the fact that the GOP is on its death bed and the president did some excessive GOP-is-dead celebrating at the inauguration as well, ignoring the 60 million Americans who voted against him.”

O’Reilly Confronts Colin Powell
In Wide-Ranging Interview On
Obama And GOP’s Racial Politics

Mediaite, by Josh Feldman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 9:37:07 PM Post Reply

General Colin Powell has been very critical of the Republican party in recent years, and tonight he appeared on Bill O’Reilly‘s show to defend his criticisms of the GOP. O’Reilly grilled Powell on why he continues to support President Obama despite the bad economic numbers and made him defend his claim that the Republican party has a problem with minorities. O’Reilly also brought up a criticism that Powell is just bitter with the party because they made him look bad following his 2003 speech before the United Nations on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Ignore Lena Dunham´s
´Girls´ at Your Own
Peril, Conservatives

Breitbart´s Big Hollywood, by Kurt Schlichter Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/29/2013 9:36:27 PM Post Reply

There’s plenty about Girls to annoy conservatives, yet this often creepy, usually skeevy, critically-acclaimed HBO series is also a test for conservatives. Will we finally heed Andrew Breitbart´s warnings about the importance of taking pop culture seriously or just keep fiddling as the culture burns? If conservatives are going to be in the popular culture – and act to change it – they can’t simply ignore shows like Girls that capture the zeitgeist, even if the zeitgeist makes their skin crawl. Season two is well under way, and conservatives need to participate

Hagel in 2003: Israel
Keeps ‘Palestinians
Caged Up Like Animals’

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 9:33:22 PM Post Reply

Defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel protested what he called the “completely distorted” record on Israel that his critics are promoting in an interview earlier this month with his hometown newspaper. The former Nebraska senator said an accurate assessment would show “unequivocal, total support for Israel.” Yet a decade earlier, the same newspaper–the Lincoln Journal Star–quoted Hagel making a startling accusation against Israel in a Jan. 12, 2003 article. Israel, Hagel declared, was “keep[ing] Palestinians caged up like animals.” Hagel does not elaborate on the claim or explain how Israel keeps Palestinians caged up like animals

Immigration reform could
boost cost of Obamacare
by hundreds of billions

Washington Examiner, by Philip Klein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 9:28:49 PM Post Reply

Earlier today, I posted on why I thought it was unlikely that immigration reform would actually pass this year. But there’s another reason why it will be difficult for Republicans to back legislation as currently outlined – immigration reform could represent a massive expansion of Obamacare, potentially costing hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. As the Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff details, legalizing immigrants who are currently in the country illegally could make millions of them eligible for Obamacare. Though the exact number is difficult

Loyola Students: Professor Required
Us to Attend Van Jones Lecture

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Rebel Pundit Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 9:19:43 PM Post Reply

An event this past Wednesday at Loyola University Chicago featuring former Obama administration official Van Jones strayed far from the marketed title of “2013 MLK Celebration,” instead encouraging students to embrace a “new patriotism” and the “ugly-unequal founding” of America. Several students reported that they were compelled by their “environmental sustainability” professor to attend the radical lecture—students who up until that evening told me they had no prior familiarity with Van Jones. One student interviewed said approximately thirty students attended this class.

SF Archbishop: Legalizing Gay
Marriage is Like ‘Legalizing
Male Breastfeeding’

Cybercast News Service, by Michael W. Chapman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 9:15:06 PM Post Reply

Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, said that same-sex “marriage” is so contrary to nature that legalizing it would be like “legalizing male breastfeeding.” In a Jan. 28 interview with Mary O’Regan for the Catholic Herald in England, Arbp. Cordileone cautioned against using the term “gay marriage” because it is a natural impossibility, and to keep using those words only perpetuates a charade. He likened the impossibility of same-sex marriage to another biological impossibility: “Legislating for the right for people of the same sex to marry is like legalizing male breastfeeding.”

Democratic Senator: ´Much of
Progressive Agenda is Going
to Be Driven´ by Obama Using
Executive Power

Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 9:10:47 PM Post Reply

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) says that he believes President Obama in his second term will drive the progressive agenda forward with a more aggressive use of executive power. “We’re going to see a president of the United States use his executive powers as much as he’s allowed to under federal law and under the Constitution, in a more aggressive way than last time,” Brown said in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Brown added, “You’re going to see the president use the executive powers that are within his constitutional

More made-in-China pet treats recalled
amid growing antibiotics scare as
pet death toll tops 500

Daily Mail [UK], by Nina Golgowski Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/29/2013 9:10:25 PM Post Reply

Another dog treat manufacturer is recalling their products across the U.S. this week after more than 500 pet deaths and thousands of illnesses were linked to similar treats that were all made in China. [Snip]Among the recalls were from Nestle Purina PetCare Co. which recalled their popular Waggin’ Train and Canyon Creek Ranch brand dog treats. Del Monte Corp. also recalled their Milo’s Kitchen Chicken Jerky, as well as their Chicken Grillers home-style dog treats. Hartz says no illnesses have been reported by pet owners directly connected to their treats.

Sessions: Obama Immigration
Enforcement Chief Must Resign

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 8:59:24 PM Post Reply

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director John Morton. “Last year, I joined with my colleagues at a press conference with the top representatives of the nation’s rank-and-file immigration law enforcement officers,” Sessions said on Tuesday. “The president with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office and the Border Patrol. Those associations or unions elected to serve as the voice of their fellow officers gave a chilling report at that press conference right over in the Senate building with several other

The Doctor´s Office as Union Shop

Wall Street Journal, by David Leffell Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/29/2013 8:56:46 PM Post Reply

As the country moves toward the effective start date of the Affordable Care Act in 2014, the operational and economic elements of this vast legislation are becoming clearer. Yet one likely outcome of the act that will directly affect the quality of patient care, and could affect its cost, has gone virtually unnoticed and unreported: the increasing trend for physicians to become employees, rather than self-employed. This development represents a potentially radical factor in the transformation of health care—the doctor as union worker.

U.S. ´backed plan to launch chemical
weapon attack on Syria and blame
it on Assad´s regime´

Daily Mail [UK], by Louise Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/29/2013 8:56:44 PM Post Reply

Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad´s regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country. A report released on Monday contains an email exchange between two senior officials at British-based contractor Britam Defence where a scheme ´approved by Washington´ is outlined explaining that Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons. Barack Obama made it clear to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that the U.S. would not tolerate Syria using chemical weapons against

Judge rules in favor of
ICE agents suing Obama

Canada Free Press, by Jim Kouri Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/29/2013 8:56:16 PM Post Reply

Federal Judge Reed O’Conner ruled on Friday that 10 ICE agents and officers indeed do have standing to challenge in Federal court the so-called Morton Memo on prosecutorial discretion and the DREAM directive on deferred action. The agents filed their complaint in October, charging that unconstitutional and illegal directives from DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton order the agents to violate federal laws or face adverse employment actions. This is a major first step for the ICE agents in their case against the administration!

Fox News Fights Back
Against Obama Smear

Commentary Magazine, by Bethany Mandel Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/29/2013 8:52:13 PM Post Reply

Recently in an interview with the liberal magazine the New Republic on “his enemies, the media and the future of football,” President Obama took aim not just at his antagonists on Capitol Hill but also those in the press, particularly Fox News. He told the New Republic: One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates. If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them

Agents Rescue 14 Illegal
Immigrants from Confined Space

My Harlingen News [TX], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/29/2013 8:49:02 PM Post Reply

SINTON, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector rescued 14 illegal immigrants who were confined in the back of a cargo truck Tuesday. The immigrants, 12 of whom are from Mexico and two from El Salvador, were rescued after agents assigned to the Corpus Christi Station pulled the vehicle over. Once the vehicle stopped, the driver and two passengers jumped out and fled on foot. Agents opened the cargo area of the truck and rescued the immigrants from the unventilated, confined space from which they had no means of escape. Agents then offered

Tony Blair given award for
helping Poles come to the UK

Telegraph [UK], by Peter Dominiczak Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/29/2013 8:47:53 PM Post Reply

The former prime minister was given the award at the annual Polish Business Leaders´ Awards in Warsaw. Mr Blair did not attend the ceremony and his award was accepted on his behalf by Robin Barnett, Britain’s ambassador in Poland. Mr Blair was given the award for backing the country’s efforts to join the EU and well as opening up the British labour market to the country in 2004. A message of thanks featuring Mr Blair was reportedly screened at the ceremony in which the former prime minister said he has “a lot of admiration for Poland and the Polish

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