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White House: GOP responsible
for contracting economy

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

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 3:23:37 PM Post Reply

White House press secretary Jay Carney laid the blame for a surprise economic contraction squarely at the feet of congressional Republicans Wednesday, saying economic threats during the "fiscal cliff" negotiations had prevented important defense spending. "Our economy is facing a major headwinds, and that´s Republicans in Congress," Carney said. The Commerce Department projected Wednesday that the nation´s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. Carney said that was partially attributable

Suspension warranted for
Vijay Singh

ESPN, by Bob Harig Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/30/2013 2:59:57 PM Post Reply

The PGA Tour´s anti-doping program initiated more than four years ago has been met mostly with a yawn. Just one player -- a journeyman pro who seemingly had good reason for taking a banned substance -- has been suspended, and the notion that the game is devoid of such illicit activity has largely been upheld. That´s why the Sports Illustrated report that Vijay Singh admitted taking a substance that is banned--but not tested for--will be watched with great interest. Singh, who turns 50 next month, has compiled a Hall of Fame career built on hard work and resiliency.

With or without Exxon, Iraq Kurds
strive for energy autonomy

Reuters, by Isabel Coles Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/30/2013 2:45:53 PM Post Reply

Arbil, Iraq - Behind the closed doors of their offices in the United States, top executives and lawyers for Exxon Mobil are poring over two sets of contracts, weighing a decision that could shift the balance of power in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki last week hastily convened a meeting with Exxon´s chief executive Rex Tillerson in a bid to woo back the U.S. major, (Snip) Industry sources say Maliki has offered Tillerson substantial incentives to stay in Iraq´s southern oilfields as long as the company forfeits its assets in the autonomous Kurdish region. A final decision is due within the next few

War On Poverty As Senseless
As War On Drugs

Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 1/30/2013 2:38:15 PM Post Reply

My favorite reading genre is the mystery novel and I´m a fan of Ian Rankin´s work which chronicles Inspector John Rebus´ cases in Edinburgh, Scotland. The book I´m reading now, "The Naming of the Dead" was written about the 2005 G8 conference that took place in the Gleneagles Hotel in Aucterarder, Scotland. Rankin describes the arrival of the hundreds of thousands of marchers and protesters holding signs that read "Make Poverty History" and I always marvel at how so many people who have never known poverty think politicians can end it.

´I´m gay´: Manti Te´o hoaxer
says it WAS him on the phone
as he admits he fell in love
with the football star

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 2:37:31 PM Post Reply

The man who hoaxed Manti Te’o has revealed that he is gay and was in love to the college football star during their fake relationship. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo said that he fell ‘deeply, romantically in love’ with the Notre Dame linebacker even though he was playing him for a fool. Tuiasosopo also confirmed that it was him impersonating Te’o’s ‘girlfriend’ Lennay Kekua, even though recordings of their conversations sound high-pitched and feminine.

´Incalculable waste´ in U.S.-
paid $100 billion Afghan fund

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 2:26:13 PM Post Reply

The unprecedented $100 billion program slated to rebuild war-torn Afghanistan has been ravaged by theft, cost overruns, bribes, unused facilities and "incalculable waste," and now the federal auditor of the reconstruction effort is urging Congress to make sure taxpayers are getting their money´s worth before spending more. But, warned an urgently written quarterly report to Congress from the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, even if Congress gives the OK, auditing how Afghanistan spends the largest rebuilding fund in U.S. history will be difficult after American troops leave in October 2013.

Taco Bell pulls Super Bowl
ad after allegations that
it’s insensitive to vegetable
lovers [Video]

Daily Caller, by Taylor Bigler Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 2:21:28 PM Post Reply

Taco Bell has pulled an outrageously offensive Super Bowl ad after a Twitter campaign shamed the fast good chain into doing the right thing. (Except not really.) Taco Bell’s alleged offense? Discouraging people from eating their vegetables. In the ad, the narrator suggests that bringing a tray of raw vegetables to a football party is a really lame decision (which it is). “Veggies on game day is like punting on fourth and one. It’s a cop out,” Taco Bell guy says, and then suggests that people will “secretly hate you” unless you bring a Taco 12 Pack.

Gabrielle Giffords’ husband
smacks down Wayne LaPierre

Washington Post, by Greg Sargent Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/30/2013 2:13:02 PM Post Reply

Perhaps the most important moment so far in today’s Senate Judiciary hearing on guns came when astronaut Mark Kelly directly confronted NRA head Wayne LaPierre over the shooting of his wife, Gabrielle Giffords. Between that exchange and another one involving Senator Dick Durbin, LaPierre’s argument was completely unmasked for the sham that it is. During the hearing, LaPierre repeatedly voiced the talking point that there’s no need to expand the background check system because criminals don’t cooperate with background checks. Kelly responded: The Tuscon shooter was an admitted drug user. He was rejected from the U.S. Army

WH: Death of girl who performed
at inaugural underscores need
for gun control

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 2:07:58 PM Post Reply

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney lamented the murder of a teenage girl who performed in her school band at President Obama’s inauguration last week, adding that her death underscored the need to implement the administration’s proposals to reduce gun violence. “The president and the first lady’s thoughts and prayers are with the family of Hadiya Pendleton,” Carney replied when asked if Obama had heard of the shooting. “If we can save even one child’s life, we have an obligation to try when it comes to the scourge of gun violence . . .

Exclusive: Time Warner asks brokers
how much its headquarters could fetch

Reuters, by Ilaina Jonas Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/30/2013 2:04:26 PM Post Reply

New York - Time Warner Inc is considering selling its iconic New York headquarters and has asked real estate brokers to evaluate the building´s worth, according to sources familiar with the situation. The company is considering a wide range of options, including selling the midtown Manhattan building and leasing it back, or moving more employees into the building and closing other New York offices, or moving out from the building entirely, one of the sources said on Wednesday. Time Warner owns or occupies space in 15 buildings in the New York metropolitan area, of which 10 are in Manhattan,

Michelle Obama tweets pictures of
freshly picked cabbage after rumors
fly that she has dropped anti-obesity
Let´s Move campaign

Daily Mail [UK], by Sadie Whitelocks Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 2:02:01 PM Post Reply

Michelle Obama promptly tweeted pictures of freshly picked vegetables today, after it was suggested that she had dropped her anti-obesity campaign Let´s Move. The White House Dossier - an unauthorized blog about the U.S. President and his family - posted an article this morning which highlighted that the First Lady had done little to personally publicize the initiative since last September. However several hours later Mrs Obama hit back via her FLOTUS Twitter account with an image of cabbage and broccoli ´harvested´ from her Kitchen Garden. The snap included a link to a soup recipe on the Let´s Move website.

Gun meeting draws anger in Clarence

WIVB News [Buffalo, NY], by Lou Raguse Original Article

Posted By: GOPJihad- 1/30/2013 2:01:37 PM Post Reply

CLARENCE, N.Y. - In Clarence, tempers flared as gun-owners met with state officials to talk about the New York SAFE Act. (*SNIP*) And some questions had complicated answers. "You´re next question is, are you going to be arrested? I can´t answer that. It would be up to the officer you encounter. They would have to decide," said Mike Green of the Division of Criminal Justice Services. Some people got very heated with their questions, complaining that law-abiding people are getting punished. "Now you´re turning them into criminals. You´re making them angry. And when angry people get together they form militias…

Did Ray Lewis use banned
deer-antler spray to
return from triceps injury?

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Mike Bertha Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 1:53:22 PM Post Reply

Sports Illustrated has published an in-depth examination of a company called Sports with Alternatives to Steroids (S.W.A.T.S.) and its relationship with high-profile athletes, including Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis. S.W.A.T.S. is an edgy sports science company run by a gym owner/former stripper. The company specializes in holographic stickers, deer-antler pills, and other, um, progressive means of enhancing a player´s performance. David Epstein and George Dohrmann write that S.W.A.T.S. owner Mitch Ross recorded a phone conversation with Lewis after the linebacker´s injury in October.

Officials to AP:
Israel hit SA-17 missiles shipment

Ynet News [Israel], by Roi Kais & Ron Ben-Yishai * Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/30/2013 1:32:27 PM Post Reply

Israel conducted an airstrike inside Syria overnight near the border with Lebanon, hitting a convoy of trucks, US and regional officials said Wednesday. The regional officials said Israel had been planning in the days leading up to the airstrike to hit a shipment of weapons bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon. They said the shipment included sophisticated, Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles, which would be strategically "game-changing" in the hands of Hezbollah. A US official said the strike hit a convoy of trucks. SA-17 missiles are self-propelled and have the capacity to hit jets at a low

Most Shooters In Chicago
Don´t Face Charges

DNAinfo.com, by Mark Konkol Original Article

Posted By: bifgroovey- 1/30/2013 1:32:24 PM Post Reply

It’s getting easier to get away with shooting people in Chicago. Last year, gunmen who shot and wounded someone got away without criminal charges 94 percent of the time, according to a DNAinfo.com Chicago analysis of police data. That’s even worse than 2011, when 91.5 percent of shooters escaped charges, according to the data.
Headline split by staff

Judge rules Fort Hood shooting
suspect still faces possible
death penalty in 2009 attack

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 1:27:14 PM Post Reply

FORT HOOD, Texas – A judge has decided a Fort Hood shooting suspect still can face the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation. The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, on Wednesday denied Maj. Nidal Hasan´s request to remove the death penalty as a punishment option. Osborn was expected to rule later on Hasan´s request to plead guilty to 13 counts of premeditated murder in the 2009 attack on the Texas Army post. But Army rules prohibit a judge from accepting a guilty plea in a death penalty case.

‘Not against Jewish faith’ Mursi:
comments taken out of context

Al Arabiya News [Dubai, UAE] *, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/30/2013 1:12:01 PM Post Reply

Egypt´s President Mohamed Mursi said on Wednesday spiteful remarks he made against Jews and Zionists in 2010 had been taken out of context. "As I have said before the quotes were taken out of context... I am not against the Jewish faith, I am not against Jews who practice their religion," Mursi told a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. "I was talking about the practices and behavior of believers of any religion who shed blood or who attack innocent people or civilians. That´s the behavior that I condemn." "I am a Muslim. I'm a believer and my religion

Girl who performed at Obama
inaugural events slain on South Side

Chicago Tribune [IL], by Jennifer Delgado & Liam Ford Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/30/2013 12:55:41 PM Post Reply

After taking their exams Tuesday, Hadiya Pendleton and a group of others decided to hang out at a park on Tuesday just blocks away from their high school on the South Side. But the trip ended in tragedy when the 15-year-old King College Prep sophomore was fatally shot about a week after she attended President Barack Obama’s inauguration and performed at inaugural events with the King College Prep band and drill team. (Snip) Most of those who were in the park were gang members, and those in the group did not stay on scene to help after the shootings, according to police. The shooting occurred

Kudos to Senators
Cornyn, Cruz, and Inhofe

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/30/2013 12:40:09 PM Post Reply

Yesterday, the Senate confirmed John Kerry as Secretary of State. The vote was 94-3. Kerry’s confirmation was never in doubt. Unlike Susan Rice, Kerry did not recently exhibit willful disregard for the truth on a matter of deep public conern (the Benghazi killings), although he did slander the U.S. military four decades ago in connection with the war in Vietnam. And unlike Chuck Hagel, Kerry’s stated views on foreign policy do not fall outside the mainstream of the Democratic Party (a sad commentary on that Party) and do not diverge from the positions President Obama articulated to the public

How Dare You Question the
President’s Love of Shooting

National Review Online, by Corey Dean Hall Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/30/2013 12:35:26 PM Post Reply

CNN’s Erin Burnett had the temerity to question whether or not President Obama actually shoots skeet. If there are truthers and birthers, should there now be a new term for those who are doubting President Obama’s claim that he goes skeet shooting “all the time”? And should that term be “skeeters”? If so, count CNN’s rising young star Erin Burnett among the gadflies. During a segment on Monday night, Burnett took over two minutes to dissect the president’s shooting claim — and she found it wanting.

Gun control fails
rationality test

Washington Examiner, by Randy Barnett Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 1/30/2013 12:29:11 PM Post Reply

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the various gun control proposals that have been floated in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shootings. Although they are said to be merely "reasonable regulations" of the Second Amendment´s right to keep and bear arms, most or all of these proposals are irrational and unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has established a two-tiered protection of liberty. Under the lowest tier, "rational basis review," it will uphold restrictions on liberty so long as it can imagine any possible reason why Congress might have adopted the measure. By contrast,

Ted Kennedy’s Girth

American Spectator, by Matthew Walther Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/30/2013 12:26:49 PM Post Reply

Checking out the redesigned New Republic today, I came across this bizarre sentence in an essay by Michael Kinsley: At this point, before he remarried, [Edward] Kennedy’s dual reputation for girth and senatorial statesmanship had not yet overcome his reputation as a party boy. What does “girth” mean in this context? I honestly have no idea. I just checked Chambers (no OED unfortunately), and have found these two nouns*: “the distance round something such as a tree or a person’s waist”

The Obama Vacuum

Weekly Standard, by Lee Smith Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/30/2013 12:24:15 PM Post Reply

One thing Hillary Clinton got right in her testimony before Congress last week: “When America is absent,” she said, “there are consequences.” But the administration she served has chosen to be absent, and we are seeing the consequences play out, from North Africa to the Levant, where the unchecked flow of weapons, experienced jihadist fighters, and Salafist ideology is reshaping the regional balance of power?—?and tilting it against the United States. There was no forceful response to the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb operation in September that murdered four Americans at the Benghazi consulate.

Are We Really Back to
Relying on the Egyptian
Military to Save the Day?

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 12:22:21 PM Post Reply

Back when Mubarak was clinging to power and the Tahrir Square rioting was intensifying, I cautioned that it would be foolish for the West to assume that the Egyptian military — principal recipient of tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars over the last 40 years — would step in and stop the country from falling into the grip of Islamists. The Egyptian military is a reflection of Egyptian society which, as we have now seen in election after election, is dominated by Islamists. Indeed, despite the good relations some top Egyptian military brass have had with the Pentagon,

Senate Judiciary chair rejects
Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban

San Francisco Chronicle, by Carolyn Lochhead Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 11:56:45 AM Post Reply

The Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee did not endorse colleague Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban at a packed Capitol Hill hearing on guns Wednesday in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., called for “common sense reform,” that closes loopholes in current gun laws and enforces background checks. Buthe did not endorse Feinstein’s tougher ban. “I know gun store owners in Vermont,” Leahy said. “They follow the law and conduct background checks…why should we not try to plug the loopholes in the law that allow (criminals and the mentally ill)

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