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The French are winning handily in Mali

Christian Science Monitor, by Dan Murphy Original Article

Posted By: TrikiTriki- 2/1/2013 4:05:08 PM Post Reply

Some frankly silly thoughts and ideas have been punctured in the past few days about France´s invasion of Mali. Most importantly, that the French military effort to roll back the advance of salafy jihadis who had captured much of the north of the country, bringing a reign of amputations and torture to locals for what they deemed violations of Islamic law, would turn into a repeat of Dien Bien Phu, where French forces were defeated by a 45,000 man Viet Minh army backed by both China and the Soviet Union.

Ed Koch, Betrayed by Obama

Breitbart Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 2/1/2013 4:00:42 PM Post Reply

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who passed away today at the age of 88, was in the news until just a few weeks ago, reacting--angrily--to the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense. Koch had a visceral understanding of the evil and danger of Islamic terrorism--he had Daniel Pearl´s last words inscribed on his tombstone--and in the last few years of his life, he became alarmed at the anti-Israel drift of his Democratic Party, particularly under the leadership of President Barack Obama, whom he felt had betrayed him.

Easy to see why
Tehran endorses Hagel

Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/1/2013 3:55:15 PM Post Reply

You don´t have to be that good to fend off a committee of showboating senatorial blowhards. Hillary Clinton demonstrated that a week or so back when she unleashed what´s apparently the last word in withering putdowns: What difference does it make? Quite a bit of difference, it seems. This week, an oversedated Elmer Fudd showed up at the Senate claiming to be the president´s nominee for Secretary of Defense, and even the kindliest interrogators on the committee couldn't prevent the poor chap shooting himself in the foot.
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Texans´ Lineman JJ Watt
´Marries´ 6-Year-Old Fan for a Day

ABC News, by Christina Ng Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/1/2013 3:53:46 PM Post Reply

A 6-year-old´s woeful YouTube video about not being old enough to marry Houston Texans defensive lineman JJ Watt lead to a surprise proposal, complete with a Ring Pop ring, a white jersey wedding gown and a first dance to Justin Bieber. "It first started when we saw on the news that JJ Watt was having a hard time finding a good girlfriend because of his fame and everything," Lindsey Bartay, mother of the mournful Breanna in the YouTube video, told ABCNews.com. "He wanted to make sure he had the right one." "I called her in because she loves him,"

An Inadequate
Contraception Compromise

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 2/1/2013 3:32:29 PM Post Reply

Last year’s Supreme Court decision declaring ObamaCare constitutional ensured that the massive expansion of government power would go forward, but it did not remove all legal challenges to the legislation. Religious organizations that rightly objected to the bill’s mandate that even those who objected on religious grounds had to pay for services that violated their beliefs. Opponents of the mandate were falsely portrayed last year as taking part in a Republican “war on women” that helped whip up support for President Obama and the Democrats.

Rick Perry: Country´s Economy
in Trouble Without Texas

Daily Caller, by Willam Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: Hooverdog- 2/1/2013 3:22:55 PM Post Reply

Texas Governor Rick Perry claimed this week that the health of the U.S. economy is dependent in large part on Texas. Perry said, “You think about what’s happening in the country, job-wise, economic impact-wise, if you were to take Texas out of that mix, this country would be in trouble.” Texas has done so well under Perry that he wants to give $1.8 billion in tax rebates to the people of Texas, saying, “That money will do more good in the hands of taxpayers and citizens.” Because the Texas state constitution forbids such a move, Perry says he will try to pass a constitutional amendment so he can give the people their money back.
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Brazil´s Tax-Cutting,
High-Growth Socialists

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/1/2013 3:13:11 PM Post Reply

Free Markets: Unemployment in socialist Brazil has hit a record-low 4.6%, the government said Thursday, two days after it proposed a $15 billion tax cut. So why can´t the U.S. elect socialists who deliver such results? The short answer is that Brazil, now 10 years under socialist rule, has learned lessons about taxing the rich, spending, drilling for oil and defending the currency since its earlier socialistic days of runaway inflation, high taxes and low growth. In short, it knows that free-market reform works. Brazil´s free-market changes largely began with the presidency of centrist Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 1995.

2nd Oval Office Readied in
White House Rehab Project

Real Clear Politics, by Alexis Simendinger Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/1/2013 3:09:07 PM Post Reply

This summer there will be two Oval Offices in the White House complex, and it won’t be a case of double vision. In preparation for a major, two-year renovation of the West Wing, the government is undertaking extensive work to complete a new executive office for President Obama at the south end of the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building, RCP has learned. The president’s facsimile Oval Office, created as a nearly identical replica of the most famous ovoid room in the world, is slated to be ready for occupancy by August if Obama is ready to move

Proposal to amend ObamaCare
contraceptive rule met
with skepticism

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/1/2013 3:04:35 PM Post Reply

Conservative and religious groups panned the Obama administration´s long-awaited "accommodation" meant to spare religious-affiliated groups from the so-called contraceptive mandate, calling a proposal unveiled Friday "radically inadequate." The Department of Health and Human Services announced the broader opt-out Friday a year after Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged to address complaints from Catholic schools, religious-affiliated service providers and other organizations. The proposed regulations, though, did not satisfy the widespread concerns about the ObamaCare rule requiring near-universal access to contraceptive coverage for employees.

Scandal-Plagued Steve Capus
Out as NBC News President

Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/1/2013 3:01:36 PM Post Reply

For months now, Breitbart News has made Steve Capus the poster boy for the ongoing scandals and instances of editorial fraud that occurred under his watch as NBC News president. During his tenure, no fewer than the equivalent of five RatherGates happened; and after two, three and four of these incidents, it became glaringly apparent that Capus was the problem. Today, action was finally taken. Capus is no longer with NBC News. Whether Capus resigned or was forced out because someone on the NBC board finally decided his moral illiteracy needed to come to an end doesn’t matter.

Kerry: Obama Offered
Me the Job a Week
Before Susan Rice Pulled Out

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/1/2013 2:58:23 PM Post Reply

John Kerry says that President Obama offered him the secretary of state job a week before Susan Rice publicly pulled out of the running for the job. “He called me, actually a week before Susan got out of the thing,” Kerry tells the Boston Globe. “He called me and said, ‘You’re my choice. I want you to do this.’ He asked me to keep it quiet. I did. I sat on it.” At the time, Rice pulling out of the running for the top State Department job suggested that the position had simply fallen to Kerry,who had been in a neck-and-neck competition for the job. Now it seems that the White House allowed Susan Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, to publicly save face by publicly withdrawing from a job that was never going to be offered to her in the first place.
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Politicians Should Listen to
Economists on Free Trade

Heritage, by Bryan Riley Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/1/2013 2:40:08 PM Post Reply

On February 8, the government will release data for 2012 imports and exports. This annual release often ignites a debate about trade policy. But among economists, there’s not much debate over the benefits of free trade. The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business regularly surveys economic experts. Last year, in response to several questions about trade policy, economists agreed on the following points: Free trade benefits the United States; The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been good for the United States;

Scott Brown will not
run for US Senate

Boston Globe, by Noah Bierman and Stephanie Ebbert Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/1/2013 2:27:52 PM Post Reply

Scott Brown, who surprised the political world with his upset victory in the 2010 special election, announced Friday afternoon that he will not enter the special election to replace John F. Kerry. “I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time,” (Snip)“And I know it’s not the only way for me to advance the ideals and causes that matter most to me.”

Once extinct here,
wolverines on the rebound

Seattle Times, by Linda V. Mapes Original Article

Posted By: maggie2u- 2/1/2013 2:15:04 PM Post Reply

LEAVENWORTH, Chelan County — Biologist Don Youkey picked his way along a log nailed to a tree trunk nearly five feet above the ground and reached overhead to hang a cow knuckle bone and chunk of raw rib meat. He hopes the tasty new bait will lure one of the newest carnivores cruising these snowy woods to trigger a remote camera that will snap its photo: Gulo gulo, the wiley wolverine. Once shot on sight, trapped and poisoned as vermin, wolverines were extinct in Washington by the 1930s but they are making a comeback, repopulating portions of their historic home range

Adam Carolla calls out ´racist´ gun
control proponents for ignoring
dead black inner-city kids

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: CarrotFarmer87- 2/1/2013 1:26:57 PM Post Reply

On his Thursday podcast, comedian and Fox News contributor Adam Carolla confronted the push for gun control in the wake of December’s tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. His rant, inspired by former Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ opening remarks before a congressional committee on Wednesday, focused on the racial component of gun control. According to Carolla, the author of “Not Taco Bell Material,” the calls for gun control only come when it happens somewhere besides inner-city urban areas. “Listen, here’s the deal,” Carolla said. “It’s nice. It’s not going to do anything, but it’s nice.

Terror attack on U.S Embassy in
Turkey: Westerners warned to ´be
vigilant´ as suicide bomber blows
himself up at security gates

Daily Mail [UK], by Leon Watson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/1/2013 1:25:07 PM Post Reply

Westerners in Turkey have been warned to be vigilant after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive today in front of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara. The blast in the capital killed the bomber and a guard at the entrance gate before the British mission in Istanbul made clear officials feared there could be further outrages. The White House condemned the attack on the U.S. Embassy as ´an act of terror´ while the British embassy warned Westerners to ´be vigilant´. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Turkey´s interior minister, Muammer Guler, said the bomber was likely connected to

Kidnapped boy heard crying
for parents from Alabama bunker

Los Angeles Times, by Michael Muskal Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/1/2013 1:14:53 PM Post Reply

A four-inch-wide ventilation pipe has become the umbilical cord linking the outside world to a 5-year-old boy who has been held prisoner by a murder suspect in an underground bunker in rural Alabama since Tuesday. As the standoff enters its fourth day, the gunman, Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, is holding firm against official entreaties to release the child, snatched off of a school bus and taken into the shelter. The boy, whose needed medication is sent into the bunker through the pipe, has been crying for his parents, according to Mayor Virgil Skipper of Midland City, Ala.,

Lee Rodgers, Rest in Peace

KSFO Hot Talk 560, by Melanie Morgan Original Article

Posted By: dman- 2/1/2013 1:12:09 PM Post Reply

I really don´t want to write about this, I don´t want to think about this, and I don´t want it to be true. Lee Rodgers, friend and mentor, is dead. (snip) Lee and I worked together at KSFO radio on the "Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan Show, with Officer Vic" (and Sheri Yee) for 14 years, but it was always the Lee Rodgers show, and we got to go along for the ride. Lee was demanding, brilliant, perfectionistic, generous, very very loyal and HUGELY entertaining. I learned my conservative principles from him. He helped mold and shape my politics and

Energy Secretary Steven
Chu to step down

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/1/2013 1:09:54 PM Post Reply

Energy Secretary Steven Chu will be leaving his post, the White House confirmed Friday, exiting the administration at the start of President Obama´s second term after a rocky tenure. In his resignation letter, Chu said he intend to stay on board "past the end of February" to help the department find his successor. Chu´s leadership has drawn sharp criticism from Republicans who questioned his controversial support for and handling of a $528 million federal loan to solar panel maker Solyndra before the company filed for bankruptcy.

Burger King drops firm at center
of UK horse meat scandal

Reuters, by Kate Holton and Stephen Mangan Original Article

Posted By: Rafter- 2/1/2013 1:05:57 PM Post Reply

LONDON/DUBLIN -Burger King, one of the most popular fast-food chains in Britain and Ireland, said on Thursday it had stopped using one of the firms caught up in the scandal of supplying grocers with beef that contained horse meat. The British food industry has been rocked by the revelation last week that retailers including market leader Tesco and smaller chains Aldi, Lidl and Iceland had sold beef products that contained horse meat. The scandal has left Ireland´s 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) beef industry, which accounts for 21 percent of all of the country´s food and drink exports
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Mr. Mayor, R.I.P.

National Review Online, by Richard Brookhiser Original Article

Posted By: Mr. Know-It-All- 2/1/2013 12:34:30 PM Post Reply

My favorite memory of Ed Koch is a moment from one of the Democratic presidential primaries of the Eighties. He was in his hey-day: mayor of New York, omnipresent media yak-in-the-box, grand rebbe whose hand had to be kissed by any presidential candidate hoping to score with Jewish voters not only in NYC but Florida as well.

Where Is Obama Going?

New York Sun, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: drive- 2/1/2013 12:25:22 PM Post Reply

The more we reflect on the confirmation hearings for the proposed promotion of Senator Hagel to the Pentagon, the more we are left with a feeling that the Senate is failing to address the central question. The same is true for Senator Kerry’s elevation to the State Department. The solons gave him a total pass. The armed services committee did a better job in exposing Senator Hagel. But neither hearing confronted the question that is at the bottom of all this sturm and drang. Where is this administration going strategically in respect of foreign policy?

His Queeg Moment

American Spectator, by Hal G. P. Colebatch Original Article

Posted By: tnorling- 2/1/2013 12:03:24 PM Post Reply

In Herman Wouk’s classic World War II novel, The Caine Mutiny, there is a moment when a group of the ship’s officers are getting away from the increasingly eccentric Captain Queeq by relaxing ashore.(SNIP)Obama’s second inauguration speech may be his Queeg moment — an undeniable demonstration that, in an emergency, he is incapable of grappling with reality. For all his unceasing invocation of the word “change,” the outstanding thing about Obama has been his apparent inability to react, even to an imminent crisis.

The Plan to Save
Catholic Schools

Wall Street Journal, by Cardinal Timothy Dolan Original Article

Posted By: tocsin- 2/1/2013 12:01:58 PM Post Reply

This is Catholic Schools Week, when dioceses across the country celebrate the great gifts that are our Catholic schools. It has been a somewhat somber Catholic Schools Week for me, since in the Archdiocese of New York we recently announced that 24 of our schools will be closing at the end of this academic year. According to the National Catholic Education Association, the closings will join a national trend that has seen Catholic-school enrollment in the U.S. decline by 23.4% since 2000, a loss of 621,583 students. It is sometimes hard to understand why enrollment has dropped.

Minnesota´s Snowbird Tax

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: tocsin- 2/1/2013 11:47:22 AM Post Reply

You may have heard it can get cold in Minnesota in January, or for that matter in April. Last week the temperature dropped to seven below zero in the Twin Cities, which is one reason many Midwesterners head to Florida or Arizona for the winter. But now Governor Mark Dayton wants to tax the snowbirds even if they are no longer legally state residents. "There is a snowbird tax—absolutely," the Democratic Governor told reporters the other day. "It´s one of the unfairnesses that somebody can spend six months and one day out of the state

Armed guard disarms shooter
at Georgia middle school

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: GOPJihad- 2/1/2013 11:31:44 AM Post Reply

An armed guard at a Georgia middle school disarmed a student who had opened fire, wounding one person. A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said. Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown about 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said. In the aftermath, a teacher received minor cuts, he said.
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