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Rahm Emanuel Sends Letters to
Mutual Funds Urging Them to
Blacklist Gun Manufacturers
That Oppose Gun Safety Laws

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 5:50:39 PM Post Reply

Below is a statement from the office of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel who sent letters to a number of mutual funds urging them to blacklist gun manufacturers who don’t support reform to gun laws. Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced that he is asking several mutual funds to divest and blacklist any gun manufacturers that oppose commonsense gun reforms. The Mayor’s letters sent to the mutual funds today come on the heels of his request last week to commercial banks asking them to stop providing financial services to gun companies that stand in the

Liberals Misread Rubio Interview

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/30/2013 5:21:56 PM Post Reply

RUSH: So what do you think the big immigration news is today? Take a wild guess what the big immigration news today is. That´s exactly right. In fact, the only news on the immigration front in the Drive-By State-Controlled Media seems to be my interview with Florida Senator Marco Rubio yesterday. And you know why? You know why that´s the only immigration news out there? It´s because the Drive-Bys seem to think that my praise of Rubio means that I have suddenly decided to support amnesty. I've got the sound bites to prove it. I don't know what they heard,

Navy SEALs Remind Us
What´s Still Possible

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/30/2013 5:10:01 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Kathryn and I last night went to a dinner here in Palm Beach that honored Navy SEALs. The place was sold out. There were 400 people there, tables of ten and 12, and we went with a bunch of friends. You know, we at TwoIfByTea.com, we sponsor the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, and they have an annual big dinner at the Waldorf Hysteria and a number of other satellite events. And every time, particularly with where the country is now in a pop culture sense, every time I find myself at one of these events I feel like I've gone back in a time warp.

´Heckle´ and Jive

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/30/2013 5:07:12 PM Post Reply

It started as an awkwardly written article by Ken Dixon, a reporter at the Connecticut Post of Bridgeport. It became a fast-moving rumor and in some cases an outright lie propagated by national journalists. It wasn´t even the original story´s lead but began but began 23 paragraphs into the report on a Monday gun-control hearing by a state legislative panel in Hartford: "The Second Amendment!" was shouted a couple of times by as many as a dozen gun enthusiasts in the meeting room as Neil Heslin, holding a photo of his slain 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, asked why Bushmaster

Wizards of Smart Surprised
by Shrinking Economy

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/30/2013 5:06:14 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, the economy in the fourth quarter, they told us, grew at a rate of 1.1%, I think is what they said. But it turns out that´s not the case. The economy actually contracted, gross domestic product. "The US economy posted a stunning drop of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter, defying expectations for slow growth and possibly providing incentive for more Federal Reserve stimulus." That's what's gotten us into this problem. Anyway, the economy shrunk. You know what the Democrats are out saying? This is the best looking contraction that there's ever been in

The Left’s Year One

American Spectator, by George Neumayr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/30/2013 4:59:25 PM Post Reply

After seizing power, the architects of the French Revolution instituted a new calendar, declaring the beginning of their regime ”Year One,” thus symbolizing their total contempt for tradition. They wanted the world to know that they were rebuilding French society from scratch. The left under Obama is approaching that level of revolutionary arrogance. Regarding itself as vastly enlightened, it seeks to institute a kind of cultural and political Year One in which America rises above all traditional understandings of human nature and embraces such changes as women in front-line combat, gay marriage,

Why I hate Twitter

The Week Magazine, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/30/2013 4:54:35 PM Post Reply

S oren Dayton and Rob Bluey — two conservative tech geniuses — talked me into joining Twitter during a lunch Ed Morrissey organized at an Iraqi restaurant in Minneapolis during the 2008 Republican convention. Life hasn´t been the same since. Of course, I can hardly claim to be an early adopter. But by virtue of signing up in 2008 (my original handle was @MattLewis01), I was at least well ahead of the curve. And soon enough, I became not only a proponent of Twitter, but also a sort of evangelist. It´s hard to even fathom now, but at the time, few journalists were really using Twitter.

What´s an Assault Weapon?

Reason Magazine, by Jacob Sullum Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/30/2013 4:51:23 PM Post Reply

Last week Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced a new, supposedly improved version of the federal "assault weapon" ban that expired in 2004. But like that earlier law, which the California Democrat also sponsored, Feinstein´s bill prohibits the manufacture and sale of guns based on characteristics that have little or nothing to do with the danger they pose. Although arbitrary distinctions are a defining characteristic of "assault weapon" bans, recent polls indicate that most Americans support them. New survey data suggest one possible explanation: Most Americans don´t know what "assault weapons" are.

Marco Rubio’s Charm Offensive

National Review Online, by Robert Costa Original Article

Posted By: johngalt1- 1/30/2013 4:47:52 PM Post Reply

It’s 4:20 p.m. on a dreary Monday and Marco Rubio is pacing beside his desk, a black handset pressed to his ear. He’s on the phone with conservative talk-radio host Michael Medved. A few minutes earlier, he was on an online radio program. After he finishes with Medved, he’ll call Newsmax, a conservative news website. On Tuesday, he’ll dial Rush Limbaugh. Between calls, Rubio monitors Twitter on his laptop and phone and keeps an eye on C-SPAN, which is broadcasting Senate floor speeches. He occasionally sips from a bottle of mineral water. “Who’s next?” Rubio asks, turning toward his press

President´s illegal-immigrant
uncle wins final deportation hearing

Boston Herald, by John Zaremba Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/30/2013 4:45:23 PM Post Reply

Onyango Obama, the president’s illegal-immigrant uncle, will have his final immigration hearing on Dec. 3, an immigration judge in Boston ruled this afternoon. Obama, who had his case reopened last year after being arrested by Framingham police, will then be able to fight a decades-old deportation order. "Everybody wants to stay in America," Obama´s attorney Scott Bratton said after the hearing. Authorities ordered him deported in 1992, but he never left and instead lived quietly in Framingham as a liquor-store clerk. His immigration status came to light in the summer of 2011, when Framingham police

Israel officials: No
compromise on security

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/30/2013 4:41:07 PM Post Reply

As reports of an Israeli air strike on an arms convoy in Syria began to reverberate around the world, Vice Premier Silvan Shalom and Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned that Israel would not sit by in the face of any threats to its security from Syria. Israel Radio following reports that Israel Air Force warplanes struck a target on the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, hours after Lebanon reported a series of three overflights by Israel in its airspace. "The entire world has said more than once that it takes developments in Syria very seriously, developments which can be in negative

N.Y. Gov. Cuomo sees approval
rating drop after new gun laws

CNN, by Kevin Liptak Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/30/2013 4:37:28 PM Post Reply

Washington - The tough new gun restrictions pushed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have caused a hit to his approval rating, according to a poll released Wednesday, though the Democrat still remains popular with voters in the Empire State. The Quinnipiac University survey indicated that 59% of New York voters approve of the job Cuomo is doing as governor, down from a 74% approval rating in a poll released last month. Republican approval has dropped sharply, from 68% in mid-December to 44% in Wednesday´s poll. But even support among Democrats was down somewhat,

Obama administration issues
regulations for individual mandate

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Sam Baker Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 4:17:18 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration took new steps Wednesday toward implementing the individual mandate in its signature healthcare law, downplaying the scope of the unpopular provision by stressing rules that allow exemptions from the requirement to purchase insurance. The Internal Revenue Service and the Health and Human Services Department emphasized exceptions to the mandate, which were detailed in new regulations that also laid out the process by which the IRS will calculate penalties for going uninsured. The mandate requires most taxpayers to either buy insurance or

Syrian Opposition Leader Softens
Position on Talks with Assad

New York Times, by Hania Mourtada & Rick Gladstone Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/30/2013 4:01:58 PM Post Reply

Beirut, Lebanon - Syria’s top political opposition leader on Wednesday expressed willingness for the first time to talk with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad, softening what had been an absolute refusal to negotiate with the government in an increasingly chaotic civil war. The opposition leader, Sheik Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib, coupled his offer with two demands: the release of what he described as 160,000 prisoners held by Mr. Assad’s government, and the renewal of all expired passports held by Syrians abroad — a gesture apparently aimed at disaffected expatriates and exiled

Menendez denies he was
with Dominican prostitutes

Associated Press, by Pete Yost Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/30/2013 3:52:41 PM Post Reply

Washington — Sen. Robert Menendez´s office says he traveled on a plane owned by a Florida physician who is a friend and political donor, but denied that the senator had engaged with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. The New Jersey Democrat´s office issued the denial Wednesday. It said he traveled on three occasions on Dr. Salomon Melgen´s airplane. The FBI searched Melgen´s West Palm Beach, Fla., office Tuesday night and early Wednesday, but it was unclear if the raid was related to Menendez. Menendez´s office said the trips were "paid for and reported appropriately."

No reaction from White House
on skeet shooting challenge

Washington Post, by Felicia Sonmez Original Article

Posted By: Toledo- 1/30/2013 3:47:29 PM Post Reply

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is keen on having a skeet shooting contest with President Obama. The White House? Not so much. A reporter at Wednesday’s daily briefing raised Blackburn’s challenge and asked press secretary Jay Carney: “Your reaction?” “I have none,” was the response from Carney, who quickly moved on to the next questioner.

IAF Chief:
´Huge Weapons Arsenal´ in Syria

Arutz Sheva [Israel], by Gil Ronen Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/30/2013 3:41:53 PM Post Reply

Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, Commander of the IAF, described the chaotic threat facing Israel from its neighbors Tuesday, just hours before jet fighters under his command reportedly hit a major weapons convoy between Syria and Lebanon. "The example in the north, in Syria, is the most glaring one, of a state that is in a process of disintegration, about which none of us has a clue as to what will be there on the day after," Eshel said. "Add to that a huge weapons arsenal, some of which is state-of-the-art, some of it unconventional, and all of this is happening – I can't call it our back yard, but on our borders.

Syria says Israel attacked
military research center

Reuters, by Dominic Evans & Jason Webb Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/30/2013 3:38:45 PM Post Reply

Beirut - Israeli warplanes attacked a military research center in Damascus province at dawn on Wednesday, Syria´s military command said, denying reports that the planes had struck a convoy carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon. Two people were killed and five wounded in the attack on the site in Jamraya, which it described as one of a number of "scientific research centers aimed at raising the level of resistance and self-defense".(Snip)Sources told Reuters earlier that Israeli jets had bombed a convoy on Syria´s border with Lebanon on Wednesday, apparently targeting weapons destined for

Israel hits Syria arms
convoy to Lebanon: sources

Reuters, by Mariam Karouny and Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/30/2013 3:32:20 PM Post Reply

Israeli jets bombed a convoy on Syria´s border with Lebanon on Wednesday, sources told Reuters, apparently targeting weapons destined for Hezbollah in what some called a warning to Damascus not to arm Israel´s Lebanese enemy. "The target was a truck loaded with weapons, heading from Syria to Lebanon," said one Western diplomat, adding that the consignment may well have included anti-aircraft missiles. The overnight attack, which several sources placed on the Syrian side of the border, followed warnings from Israel that it was ready to act to prevent the revolt against President

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.

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