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Obama´s Jobless Recovery
Continues Unabated

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/1/2013 9:29:22 PM Post Reply

Economy: So the economy created 157,000 new payroll jobs in January. Wow. At this rate, we might actually get back down to Bush-era unemployment rates sometime, oh, within the next 100 years. The January jobs report is supposed to be good news. After all, the economy has now added a total of 6.1 million jobs over the past three years, and the BLS revised last year´s jobs numbers sharply upward. But it doesn´t take much effort to notice that, when it comes to job creation, we are barely treading water. Case in point: Despite these "big" gains,

Sandra Fluke: Opposing
Contraception Coverage Akin to
Opposing ‘Leukemia Coverage’

National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/1/2013 9:26:13 PM Post Reply

On MSNBC’s NewsNation with Tamron Hall this afternoon, Georgetown law graduate Sandra Fluke discussed the Obama administration’s proposed new rule change for the contraception mandate and religious exemptions. “If you take a step back and think about that, you work at a restaurant or you work at a store, and your boss is able to deny you leukemia coverage or contraception coverage or blood transfusions or any number of medical concerns that someone might have a religious objection to,” Fluke said. “So the folks who are still objecting [to the mandate] have some

Carney: Hagel Did ‘A
Fine Job’ at Hearing

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/1/2013 9:21:58 PM Post Reply

White House press secretary Jay Carney said he thought defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel answered questions “appropriately” and did “a fine job” at Thursday’s confirmation hearing, adding what he felt was unfair television coverage of the many tense exchanges that occurred between Hagel and his questioners. “If you take all the news clips, not the whole performance, but the news clips that have dominated television reporting on this, they have focused on a series of exchanges that I think, by any estimation, largely represent badgering by questioners over issues like,

Hackers target Twitter, could
affect 250,000 user accounts

Reuters, by Alexei Oreskovic Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/1/2013 9:15:38 PM Post Reply

San Francisco - Anonymous hackers attacked Twitter this week and may have gained access to passwords and other information for as many as 250,000 user accounts, the microblog revealed late on Friday. Twitter said in a blog post that the passwords were encrypted and that it had already reset them as a "precautionary measure," and that it was in the process of notifying affected users. (Snip) "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident," Twitter said. "The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have

Obama Still Owes
Axelrod Big Bucks

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/1/2013 9:14:12 PM Post Reply

Two formerly prominent officials in President Barack Obama’s first term received large payments for services from the president’s reelection campaign, Obama for America. According to the end of year filings, OFA owes David Axelrod’s media consulting firm, Axelrod Strategies, $300,000 and owes AKPD Message & Media, a firm Axelrod founded, $153,432. Robert Gibbs, Obama’s former press secretary, has also received payments from the Obama for America campaign, including at least $60,000 in December for consulting and professional service media.

Retail Workweek Hits 3-Year
Low In ObamaCare Shift

Investors Business Daily, by Jed Graham Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/1/2013 9:12:14 PM Post Reply

The fly in the ointment of January´s jobs report was the apparent shift to part-time work ahead of a key ObamaCare deadline. Although retail payrolls grew by 32,600, total hours worked in the industry dipped, Labor Department data out Friday showed. The explanation? Rank-and-file retail workers logged the shortest workweek since early 2010: just 30.1 hours, on average, vs. 30.4 in December. Remarkably, aggregate hours worked in the retail sector fell below their January 2012 level, even though industry payrolls are up 200,000 over that period.

Terminal Dimmitude

Weekly Standard, by Noemie Emery Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/1/2013 9:07:28 PM Post Reply

Vietnam veteran and ex-Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Isolation) made a stunning impression in his audition for the role of secretary of defense yesterday, though it was not quite the one that he wished. "Though he was being asked about things he had said over the course of the past 15 years, it was what Hagel said yesterday…that had his defenders reeling in shock and even his critics aghast at how poorly he handled himself," wrote John Podhoretz in the New York Post. Said Roger L. Simon, "They had to send him a note in the middle of the proceedings to remind him of the administration’s position on

Obama Advisor on Hagel Hearing:
´Baffling and Incomprehensible´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/1/2013 9:00:37 PM Post Reply

An advisor to President Obama describes Chuck Hagel´s hearing as, "somewhere between baffling and incomprehensible." The advisor made the comment to the New York Times. The Times reports: Dealing with Iran is complicated, but President Obama´s policy on the question of whether a nuclear-armed Iran could be successfully "contained´´ - the way the Soviet Union was during the cold war - is simple. His answer is no. But in the weeks of preparation for his Senate confirmation hearing to be defense secretary on Thursday, either no one explained that to Chuck Hagel, Mr. Obama´s

Dozens of Harvard students disciplined
in inquiry into cheating on
take-home final exam

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/1/2013 9:00:21 PM Post Reply

Boston - Harvard University said Friday it issued academic sanctions against approximately 60 students who were forced to withdraw from school for a period of time in a cheating scandal that involved the final exam in a class on Congress, drawing criticism from a high-profile alumnus. The school implicated as many as 125 students in the scandal when officials first addressed the issue last year. The inquiry started after a teaching assistant in a spring semester undergraduate-level government class detected problems in the take-home test, including that students may have shared answers.

Angry labor union seeks to oust
Obama’s acting Labor Secretary

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/1/2013 8:49:18 PM Post Reply

Union workers are trying to create “change we believe in” at the top of the Labor Department by generating grassroots pressure to oust the acting secretary who has taken charge of the department since Hilda Solis’ departure. “[T]here was general consternation about the fact that Seth Harris is Acting Secretary of Labor when he is mostly responsible for the Department’s 16th out of 19th ranking in the Best Places to Work in Government which was recently published,” Alex Bastani, president of the local 12 chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE),

Poll: 17 percent of Marines
would quit if women are
moved into combat positions

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/1/2013 8:46:02 PM Post Reply

According to a Marine Corps survey of 53,000 Marines, 17 percent of male Marine respondents said they would likely leave the Corps if women move into combat positions. The results of the poll were released to The Associated Press this morning. According to the Associated Press, male Marines listed fears of being falsely accused of sexual harassment, fraternization, other Marines getting preferential treatment, and having to deal with pregnancy or personal issues that could affect the unit before they are sent to the battlefield. Four percent of female marines said that they would

GOP aims to ease bloodshed
in 2016 primary debates

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/1/2013 8:40:59 PM Post Reply

"While we were playing footsie debating each other 22 times, they were spending $100 million on technology," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said last week, referring to his party´s rigorous debate schedule in the 2012 GOP presidential primary season. The last campaign, many Republican insiders said during a recent RNC meeting, had too many debates, the result of which was a GOP arguing with itself while Democrats prepared the way for Barack Obama´s victory. There´s no doubt the Republican debates produced many damaging moments for the party.

Dell nears buyout that
could top $24 billion

Reuters, by Nadia Damouni * Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/1/2013 8:29:34 PM Post Reply

New York - Dell Inc is edging closer to an agreement to sell itself to a buyout consortium led by Michael Dell, its founder and chief executive, and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners in a deal that could top $24 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The buyout consortium is negotiating taking Dell private at $13 to $14 per share, two of the people said. This translates into an equity valuation for the Round Rock, Texas-based company of between $22.6 billion and $24.4 billion. Dell shares were up 2.5 percent at $13.57 in afternoon trading.

Argentina snubs Falklands talks

Daily Express [UK], by Macer Hall Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/1/2013 8:27:46 PM Post Reply

David Cameron was “disappointed” last night after a senior member of the Argentine government refused to meet Falkland Islanders to discuss their desire to remain British. Hector Timerman, Argentina’s foreign minister, turned down the offer of talks with Foreign Secretary William Hague after hearing islanders’ representatives would also be present. They were due to fly to London for the meeting. Mr Timerman initially requested a one-to-one meeting with Mr Hague but would not accept the offer of talks involving anyone from the Falkland Island Government which Argentina refuses to

How the Ancient
Greeks Viewed Weapons

New Yorker, by Melissa Lane Original Article

Posted By: Heil Liberals- 2/1/2013 8:26:10 PM Post Reply

One of the guns used to murder children and adults in Newtown, Connecticut, was an AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle that’s similar to a weapon used in war by American troops. A weapon of war was turned on innocents at home. That would have shocked the ancient Greeks. The pioneers of citizen armies were also pioneers of withdrawing weapons from the places of civilized life. The ancient Greek armies were manned exclusively by citizens who brought their own weapons into battle. Getting to serve in an élite combat unit required being wealthy enough to afford to buy one’s own armor.

Get ready to be startled! Millions
of Americans to be bombarded with
high-pitched text alerts every time
a child is abducted nearby

Daily Mail [UK], by Associated Press Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/1/2013 8:24:36 PM Post Reply

Millions of Americans are about to be startled by alert messages on their cellphones next time a child is abducted nearby. A new national Amber Alert system has officially rolled out in the US and because the alerts are automatically active on most newer phones, the messages have already taken tens of thousands of people by surprise. The newly-expanded emergency alert system is an effort by FEMA to update the way it reaches people with new technologies, but local officials and others worry that the lack of public education and some initial stumbles may undermine the program´s purpose,

Just one sick person in the office
means half of the communal surfaces
are contaminated by lunchtime

Daily Mail [UK], by Anna Hodgekiss Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/1/2013 8:19:35 PM Post Reply

We´ve all had that sinking feeling when a stoic colleague turns up to work coughing and sneezing. [Snip] Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered when even one person comes to work sick, more than half of the commonly touched surfaces in the office will become infected with the virus by lunchtime. Some of the likeliest germ hotpots include telephones, desktops, tabletops, doorknobs, photocopier and lift buttons and the office fridge. However the study also revealed that simple interventions, such as hand washing and the use of hand sanitiser or wipes, can drastically reduce employees´

Secret Service Director to resign after 30
years with agency and less than a year
after Colombian prostitution scandal
that involved a dozen agents

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/1/2013 8:11:21 PM Post Reply

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is retiring this month after 30 years with the agency. Sullivan is stepping down less than a year after the agency became embroiled in a prostitution scandal, which involved 13 agents and officers in Cartegena, Colombia ahead of a visit by President Obama.[Snip] President Obama said Sullivan ´will be missed.´ ´I want to thank Mark Sullivan for nearly 30 years of service to our nation at the United States Secret Service, a tenure that saw the agency protect five first families including my own,´ he said in a statement. ´The Secret Service

Secret Service Director
Mark Sullivan resigns

Daily Caller, by Vince Coglianese Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/1/2013 6:58:30 PM Post Reply

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan’s resignation was announced Friday. NBC News’ Kristen Welker reported via Twitter Friday afternoon that “Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan will announce his resignation today according to multiple sources.” The Associated Press also confirmed that report through a Secret Service spokesman. Sullivan will retire effective Feb. 23 and his replacement has not been announced. Sullivan has overseen the Secret Service since 2006 and was its director during the agency’s high-profile prostitution scandal last year.

Captured Islamists say Malian
military tortured them

RT [Moscow, Russia], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/1/2013 6:17:28 PM Post Reply

Three suspected Jihadists who were arrested in the liberation of Timbuktu have said they were tortured by Malian soldiers who used a method similar to waterboarding. There are also reports of child soldiers being used by the Malian army. The three suspected militants were being held in an earthen cell in the remains of a military camp in Timbuktu, according to journalists from AP who spoke to the men. Timbuktu was freed last weekend by Malian and French soldiers after 10 months under the rule of radical Islamists, who had imposed Sharia law in the town.

The adorable foal set to
be the star of Sunday´s
game: Budweiser debuts
new Super Bowl ad showing
the life of iconic Clydesdale
from just two weeks old

Daily Mail (UK), by John Clarke Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/1/2013 6:08:03 PM Post Reply

This year´s Budweiser Super Bowl ad isn´t funny or sexy, but you just might shed a tear. For decades, Anheuser-Busch has used its famous Clydesdales in Super Bowl ads for Budweiser. Instead of a herd of majestic hoof-stomping steeds thundering across a valley floor, this year´s 60-second ad centers on the bond an adorable Clydesdale foal shares with his trainer. The latest star is barely two weeks old. A foal born January 16 at Anheuser-Busch´s Warm Springs Ranch near the mid-Missouri town of Boonville is featured in an ad that will appear in Sunday´s game

Unnecessary Presidential Roughness

American Spectator, by Daniel J. Flynn Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 2/1/2013 5:51:10 PM Post Reply

Last week’s Winter X Games killed more people than 90-plus years of National Football League play. Should anyone’s conscience really bother them for watching the Ravens play the 49ers on Sunday? Barack Obama labels himself “a big football fan” on the eve of the Super Bowl. But he envisions a kinder, gentler game, one that won’t force us “to examine our consciences quite as much.” Barack Obama told the New Republic, “If I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.” “Of all games I personally like foot ball best,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote

Former first dog Barney dies

The Hill [Washington DC], by Emily Goodin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/1/2013 5:32:07 PM Post Reply

Barney, President George W. Bush´s black Scottish terrier who became famous during his White House tenure for the “Barney Cam” videos, has died, the Bushes announced on Friday. “He never discussed politics and was always a faithful friend. Laura and I will miss our pal,” Bush said in a statement. The dog, who was twelve years old, had been suffering from lymphoma. Barney gained quite a following for his “Barney Cams,” which showed the White House from the dog´s point of view. The videos were usually focused on the holidays, with Barney —

Secret Service Director
Mark Sullivan to retire

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

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/1/2013 5:29:17 PM Post Reply

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan will retire effective Feb. 22, an agency spokesman confirmed Friday. Sullivan, who has led the agency since 2006, began his career with the Secret Service in 1983. He will be the third-longest serving head of the agency, and was responsible during his career for overseeing 23 national security special events, including the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. But Sullivan´s tenure will likely be defined by the Colombian prostitution scandal that enveloped the agency last year.

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