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Hagel: Iran’s Government
‘Elected’ and ‘Legitimate’

National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 2:46:58 PM Post Reply

Former senator Chuck Hagel defended his vote against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group, claiming it would have been unprecedented and potentially harmful to give that designation to a representative of a “legitimate” government. The Islamist regime in Iran, Hagel said, was “an elected, legitimate government, whether we agree or not.” The Iranian government is currently gearing up for elections by arresting “anti-revolutionary” journalists, and deciding whether or not to allow pro-reform candidates to participate, many of whom have been living under house arrest for years.

Romanians, Bulgarians answer
UK immigration fears

Associated Press, by Alison Mutler Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/31/2013 2:37:24 PM Post Reply

Bucharest, Romania - The scaremongering is all over British tabloids: Romanians and Bulgarians (Pickpockets! Scam artists! Scroungers!) flooding into the UK by the thousands once work restrictions are lifted next year. Tired of the stereotypes, some are striking back.(Snip)In the UK, statistics show that almost 1 million Eastern Europeans have come to Britain over the past decade, and data from the 2011 census showed that Polish is now the second-most common tongue in the country. Romania and Bulgaria are the EU´s poorest nations. Britain´s jingoistic tabloid press has been stoking fears of a second wave of migrants next year.

Student Debt Climbs, Credit
Risk Gets Steeper: Report

CNBC, by Paul O´Donnell Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/31/2013 2:34:48 PM Post Reply

Americans now owe an average of $27,253 in student loans as the delinquency rate has increased by more than 47 percent since 2005, according to a new report. Some 27 million borrowers, or slightly more than 13 percent of the country, have two or more outstanding student loans, according the report from FICO Labs, the research arm of the credit-score agency. That number has more than doubled in the past eight years. In the 2005 report, the average student loan debt was $17,233. In the latest study, the average credit score for new loans was going down

Obama´s Act of
Constitutional Disobedience

Townhall, by Phil Kerpen Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 2:27:28 PM Post Reply

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals emphatically smacked down the crazy idea that the president has the power to make recess appointments while the Senate is not in recess. "An interpretation of ´the Recess´ that permits the President to decide when the Senate is in recess would demolish the checks and balances inherent in the advice-and-consent requirement, giving the President free rein to appoint his desired nominees at any time he pleases, whether that time be a weekend, lunch, or even when the Senate is in session and he is merely displeased with its inaction,"

America´s Suicidal Cities

National Review Online, by John Fund Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/31/2013 2:18:05 PM Post Reply

Some major American cities are dying, and the worst part is that these grievously ill patients often are refusing to take even the mildest medicine that would make things better. Take Detroit, a city that has become a synonym for urban failure. The murder rate of one per 1,719 people last year was more than eleven times the rate in New York City. One contributing factor may be that two-thirds of Detroit’s streetlights are broken. Once the fourth-largest city in the country, Detroit’s population has dropped by almost 30 percent since 2000 to below 700,000.

Hagel Stumbles His
Way Through Hearing

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/31/2013 2:15:48 PM Post Reply

The first hours of Chuck Hagel’s Senate confirmation hearing did little to gladden the hearts of his supporters. While the strict partisan divide over the nomination should ensure that he would get the support of a majority of senators, his bumbling performance undermined any notion that the president’s choice to lead the Pentagon was winning over any of his critics. More to the point, his effort to portray his recent recantations of his long-held skepticism about attempts to stop Iran from going nuclear, his criticisms of Israel, and his belief in engagement with Hamas and Hezbollah

Former head of failed Cedar Falls
brokerage gets 50-year
federal sentence

Gazette [Cedar Rapids, IA], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/31/2013 2:13:35 PM Post Reply

Update: A Cedar Falls man will spend 50 years in federal prison for his part in a massive financial fraud scheme, a federal judge ordered at a sentencing hearing Thursday. Russell Wasendorf Sr. 64, stole more than $215 million in customer funds from his commodity futures business, Peregrine Financial Group. (Snip) Thursday’s sentence worked out to approximately 10 years for each count. The judge did not impose any fines against Wasendorf, due to the massive amount of restitution required. The restitution amount exceeds $215 million. In court Thursday, the judge noted more than 13,000 people were

Chuck Hagel, John McCain
Butt Heads at Defense Secretary
Confirmation Hearing

ABC News, by Chris Good Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/31/2013 2:12:29 PM Post Reply

Facing a rocky confirmation process, Chuck Hagel today defended his record before his former Senate colleagues, including an openly impatient Sen. John McCain. "I´m on the record on many issues, but no one individual vote, no one individual quote, no one individual statement defines me," Hagel said in his opening statement at his first confirmation hearing for secretary of defense. "My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead in the international community to confront threats and challenges together," Hagel said.
Headline resplit by staff.

WaPo civil war going public?

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/31/2013 2:08:29 PM Post Reply

Normally when a newspaper gets a friendly cite during a public event, they’re pretty happy about it. When the Washington Post gets praise from a conservative like Senator Jim Inhofe, they should be delighted about it. Rosie Gray reports at Buzzfeed that instead of popping the bubbly, the Post is breaking out into open civil war: Senator Jim Inhofe cited a blog post by conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin during the confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel on Thursday, setting in motion a public argument on Twitter.

NRA chief: Foes using Sandy
Hook 'emotion' to ban guns

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 2:05:38 PM Post Reply

The president of the National Rifle Association Thursday warned that gun control advocates have their eye on a national registry of all firearms that would be used to force legal owners to sell them to the government. David Keene told reporters, "we have been, continue to be, and will continue to be very opposed to any kind of a national gun registry system for several reasons. The historic reason, of course, is that that is a precursor in many cases of confiscation." While he noted that Washington´s biggest gun control advocate, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
Headline corrected by staff.

Accidental Tourists

American Spectator, by George H. Wittman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/31/2013 2:04:32 PM Post Reply

Richard Nixon, not known for his sense of humor, used to joke that he was an “expert” on Vietnam because he had visited it nineteen times. He would then admit most of these sojourns were refueling stops on the way to somewhere else. Staff would laugh and agree the boss was truly expert on the region. Hillary Clinton has developed the same sort of foreign policy credentials, but without the humor. Yes, it’s true that she has been to many conferences and had many meetings with foreign dignitaries, but as far as actually having worked

NLRB sides with UFCW
in Wal-Mart case

Washington Examiner, by Sean Higgins Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 1:52:29 PM Post Reply

The National Labor Relations Board sided with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and against Wal-Mart today in a case in which the retailer claimed the union was illegally picketing them. The board simply accepted at face value the union’s claim that it was not trying to organize the retail giant’s workforce and its promise not to do it again … for 60 days at least. Federal law says a union cannot picket a worksite for more than 30 days without officially filing to try to organize its workforce.

White House Warns Syria on
Weapons after Syria Threatens Israel

Arutz Sheva [Israel], by Gil Ronen Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/31/2013 1:43:45 PM Post Reply

The White House on Thursday warned Syria not to transfer weapons to Hizbullah, as tensions mounted following reported Israeli raids on a military research center and a weapons convoy. "Syria should not further destabilize the region by transferring weaponry to Hizbullah," said Ben Rhodes, a US deputy national security advisor. Syria on Thursday warned that it reserves the right to retaliate to what it says was an Israeli air strike on a military research center near Damascus, as it lodged a complaint with the United Nations. (Snip) Although Israel and Syria are technically still at war, the

U.S. faces new Al Qaeda threat as
terror group´s ´strike map´ is revealed

Daily Mail [UK], by Simon Tomlinson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 1:36:05 PM Post Reply

Al Qaeda has issued a new threat to carry out ´earth-shattering, shocking and terrifying´ attacks on the U.S. and Europe, it emerged today. In a posting on a jihadist website, the terror group said the ´coming strikes´ would target the ´heart of the land of non-belief´ as well as countries aiding France in its crackdown on rebels in Mali. The unidentified writer claimed the attacks would be ´group and lone-wolf operations, in addition to the use of booby-trapped vehicles´. U.S. officials say they are taking the threat seriously.

Homeland Security has
advice for confronting
mass murders: scissors

New York Post, by S.A. Miller Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 1:33:33 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Is your workplace getting shot up by a crazed gunman? No problem — just grab a pair of scissors and fight back! That’s some of the helpful advice in a new instructional video from the Department of Homeland Security that was posted on the agency’s Web site just a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. “If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available,” says the

Barack Obama:
The Affirmative Action President

Washington Times, by Eric Golub Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 1:26:08 PM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is officially the Affirmative Action President. Unfortunately he is not the "Affirmative Action Retired President," since the original AARP and other liberal groups refused to retire him. Under the Obama watch the economy has contracted, the debt has skyrocketed, environmental "investments" have gone bankrupt, anti-business policies have stifled growth; Americans are being murdered and kidnapped globally. Numerous scandals, alleged superior ingelligence beset by sub-par performance, are coupled with the failed policies of the administration to become the open secrets many dare not utter.

Worcester Diocese pulls invitation
to Islam critic

ASSOCIATED PRESS, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: John c- 1/31/2013 1:21:01 PM Post Reply

WORCESTER - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester has rescinded an invitation to a speaker at a men´s conference after Muslims objected to what they call the speaker´s anti-Islamic views. The diocese on Wednesday withdrew an invitation for Robert Spencer to speak at the March conference. Spencer, a Catholic, runs blogs and has written books that some consider anti-Muslim. A spokesman for the diocese says Spencer´s appearance at the conference "is being seen as harmful to Catholic-Islamic relations." A spokesman for the Islamic Council of New England called Spencer a "hatemonger" and lauded the diocese´s decision.

NJ’s operatic Gov

New York Post, by George W. Will Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 1/31/2013 1:18:57 PM Post Reply

Coyness is not part of Chris Christie’s repertoire, which does not stress subtlety, delicacy and intimation. New Jersey’s governor is more Mickey Spillane than Jane Austen and his persona, which sometimes is that of a bulldog who got up on the wrong side of the bed, is so popular he seems to be cruising toward re-election this November and does not deny that he might look beyond that. His budget for 2013 calls for spending less than did the state’s 2008 budget. He has vetoed a tax on millionaires three times. He has scrapped, exuberantly, with public-employee unions.

U.S. challenges Busch-
Modelo beer merger

USA Today & Associated Press, by Matt Krantz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 1:18:42 PM Post Reply

The U.S. Justice Department is trying to keep Budweiser and Corona apart. Justice is challenging the proposed $20.1 billion buyout of Mexico´s Grupo Modelo, brewer of Corona beer, by Anheuser-Busch InBev, brewer of Budweiser. The government says the deal would put too many top beer brands in the hands of a single company, limiting competition. The concern is especially high in 26 U.S. cities. Investors reacted negatively to the news. Industry consolidation has been rampant in the beer and spirits industry and is viewed as a way for companies to boost profit by cutting costs.

How migrants are sending £335
Billion to their struggling
families back home, more than
three times the world´s total aid budget

Daily Mail [UK], by Simon Tomlinson Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/31/2013 1:07:17 PM Post Reply

The amount of money being sent by migrants to their families back home topped £335billion last year, making it a larger economy than Iran or Argentina, it was revealed today. The figure has tripled in the last ten years and is now three times bigger than the total aid budgets given by countries around the world as more people than ever choose to live abroad.(Snip)Globally, there are more than 214million migrants, which would make it the fifth most-populated country behind China, India, America and Indonesia. World Bank officials believe the amount they donate could be billions more

N.Korea Imposes Martial Law
Ahead of Nuclear Test – Media

RIA Novosti [Russia], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/31/2013 1:06:17 PM Post Reply

Moscow - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has issued a secret order to put the country under martial law in preparation for a third nuclear test in its history, a South Korean newspaper reported on Thursday. Kim Jong-un convened an emergency meeting with top defense and security officials last Saturday and supposedly said: “The country will be under martial law starting from midnight on January 29, and all the frontline and central units should be ready for a war,” Korean Joongang Daily reported, citing an unidentified source. The paper also speculated that the new nuclear test could be held

DHS revamping immigrant
welcome materials, set to
include Obamacare

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/31/2013 1:05:48 PM Post Reply

The welcome materials the federal government directs new immigrants to read — which detail, among other facets of American life, how and where to get government benefits — are in the process of getting a bit of a makeover to increase accessibility for newcomers. The WelcometoUSA.gov website, which bills itself as “the U.S. Government’s official web portal for new immigrants,” maintained by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), will soon feature information about President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation, USCIS spokesman Chris Bentley told The Daily Caller.

HHS says it ditched
‘exchanges’ because word
doesn’t translate into Spanish

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Elise Viebeck Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 1:04:23 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration has stopped using the term “exchanges” to describe part of the healthcare law because the word doesn’t translate into Spanish, an official said Thursday. Anton Gunn, director of External Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the rebranding of the insurance exchanges as "marketplaces" was geared toward Spanish speakers who will use the system. "We´re going to use the word ´marketplace´ because it actually makes sense to people," Gunn said at a conference in Washington, D.C. " ´Exchange´ doesn´t translate to anything in Spanish, but ´marketplace´ does."

Senate rejects dollar-for-dollar
offsets to debt ceiling increases

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ramsey Cox Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 12:58:59 PM Post Reply

The Senate rejected an amendment to the House debt-ceiling suspension bill that would have required a dollar in spending cuts for every dollar increase in future the debt ceiling extensions. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced the amendments, which was tabled on a 54-44 vote. He said the amendment “assures that every time we raise the debt limit we cut spending by the same amount over a 10 year period.” Portman said his amendment would have saved the country $3 trillion.

Dem leader Reid:
´We are in a recovery´

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ramsey Cox Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/31/2013 12:53:06 PM Post Reply

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday said the American economy is "in a recovery" despite the decline in the nation´s gross domestic product (GDP). Reid made the remark after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blamed the White House for the unexpected contraction in the economy. “[McConnell] continues bad mouthing the recovery,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “We are in a recovery.” On Wednesday, the Commerce Department announced that the nation´s economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. Echoing the White House,

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