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Johanns: ´Chuck earned
his endorsement´

Lincoln Journal Star [Neb], by Don Walton Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/2/2013 5:52:57 PM Post Reply

Sen. Mike Johanns said Saturday he will vote to confirm Chuck Hagel´s nomination for secretary of defense. In the wake of Hagel´s contentious confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, the green light from Nebraska´s senior Republican senator could be timely and pivotal in helping pave the way for additional Republican support in the Senate. As Johanns noted in a telephone interview, he is the member of the Senate who knows Nebraska´s former Republican senator best. But, Johanns said, "do not think he got a pass from me because he´s a friend."

White House releases photo of Obama
shooting at Camp David

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: charliecoconut- 2/2/2013 5:46:12 PM Post Reply

The White House has released a photograph of President Obama skeet shooting at Camp David -- some proof for critics skeptical about whether Obama, amid efforts to tighten gun control, saying he takes target practice at the presidential retreat and that he has a “profound respect” of the tradition of hunting. The official photo apparently depicts Obama – wearing protective glasses and earmuffs -- firing the shotgun Aug. 4, 2012. It was released Friday on the White House’s Flickr account.

In Hard Economy for All Ages,
Older Isn’t Better ... It’s Brutal

New York Times, by Catherine Rampell Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 2/2/2013 5:46:01 PM Post Reply

Young graduates are in debt, out of work and on their parents’ couches. People in their 30s and 40s can’t afford to buy homes or have children. Retirees are earning near-zero interest on their savings. In the current listless economy, every generation has a claim to having been most injured. But the Labor Department’s latest jobs snapshot and other recent data reports present a strong case for crowning baby boomers as the greatest victims of the recession and its grim aftermath. These Americans in their 50s and early 60s — those near retirement age who do not yet

Mother, sister found
stabbed in Monticello

Pharos-Tribune [Logansport, IN], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/2/2013 4:41:06 PM Post Reply

Monticello — State police and White County law enforcement arrested a man Saturday after finding his mother and 7-year-old sister stabbed at a Monticello home. At about 1:23 a.m. Saturday, Indiana State Police, Monticello Police and the White County Sheriff´s Department responded to a 911 call about possible stabbings at 5642 E. Richey Park, Monticello. Police allege that David Scott Rodenbarger, 20, stabbed his mother, Michelle Haskins, 41, and his half-sister, Jillian Haskins, 7, all whom resided at the above address, for unknown reasons. Michelle was able to make the 911 call before

The Anti-Snobbery of ´Downton Abbey´

Wall Street Journal, by Raymond Zhong Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 2/2/2013 4:29:37 PM Post Reply

London - The Anti-Snobbery of ´Downton Abbey´ The creator of the hit television series on class and comfort in our increasingly uncertain times. Julian Fellowes, the creator and writer of "Downton Abbey," doesn´t take long to say what he thinks is the message of his smash television drama. "I think the—well, not even the subtext, the supertext—of ´Downton,´ " he says not five minutes after we sit down for coffee Monday morning at the Savoy Hotel in central London, "is that it is possible for us all to get on, that we don´t have to be ranged in class warfare permanently—that for the general public,

Shootings leave 1 dead, 3 hurt

Chicago Tribune, by Adam Sege Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/2/2013 4:12:28 PM Post Reply

Three shootings in the city since Friday night have left a 21-year-old man dead and three people hurt, Chicago police said. The fatal shooting happened about 8:30 p.m., Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said. Officers found the man in a hallway of a three-story apartment building in the 3900 block of North Central Avenue, in the Northwest Side´s Portage Park neighborhood. He was taken to Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 8:58 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner´s office.

Turkey: US Embassy bomber
had terror conviction

Associated Press, by Suzan Fraser Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/2/2013 3:57:30 PM Post Reply

Ankara, Turkey-The suicide bomber who struck the U.S. Embassy in Ankara spent several years in prison on terrorism charges but was released on probation after being diagnosed with a hunger strike-related brain disorder, officials said Saturday. The bomber, identified as 40-year-old leftist militant Ecevit Sanli, killed himself and a Turkish security guard on Friday, in what U.S. officials said was a terrorist attack. Sanli was armed with enough TNT to blow up a two-story building and also detonated a hand grenade, officials said. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that

Yemen says intercepted ship
carrying weapons was Iranian

Reuters, by Mohammed Ghobari* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/2/2013 3:48:59 PM Post Reply

Sanaa-Yemen confirmed on Saturday that a ship intercepted last month off its coast was an Iranian vessel trying to smuggle explosives and surface-to-air missiles to the country, the state news agency Saba reported. Officials in Washington said earlier this week that the seizure of the ship on January 23 had been coordinated with the U.S. Navy and that the intercepted shipment was believed to have been from Iran and destined for insurgents, likely to be Shi´ite Muslim Houthi rebels mainly based in northern Yemen.(Snip)"The source said that the ship, with its cargo, was handed over to eight Yemeni

Obama Eliminates Breakfast for US
Troops in Afghanistan, Stuffs Own Face

FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: happywarrior- 2/2/2013 3:40:11 PM Post Reply

If only American soldiers in Afghanistan were unemployed Democratic voters in Chicago, then they might be getting three square meals a day from the government. But the military is the one place that Obama feels comfortable slashing expenses. While spending at an uncontrollable rate unseen since the last days of the Roman Empire in every other area, Obama has been cutting “waste” in the military like 20,000 Marines, Tricare healthcare for veterans and breakfast for soldiers serving in areas where he would only venture accompanied by heavy firepower. Warren Buffett and other

Macworld: Double Robotics + iPad
= Never leave your house again

Los Angeles Times, by Chris O´Brien Original Article

Posted By: LOL Thomas- 2/2/2013 2:53:07 PM Post Reply

Stand by the Double Robotics booth at the Macworld trade show, and you hear the same thing over and over again as people walk by: "I would never have to leave the house again." Or: "I would never have to go to the office again." That´s the reaction to the Double, a remote-controlled robot stand that will be available this spring for $2,000. (Snip) Insert an iPad on top of the Double and download the company's app on that iPad and another iOS device. Use the second iOS device to steer the Double from miles away. The robot uses sensors and gyroscopes (much like the Segway) to stay balanced.

Super Bowl XLVII ads to
watch for: Football just fills
time between commercials
featuring Kate Upton, the
E*Trade Baby and a nerd-
kissing Bar Refaeli

New York Daily News, by Don Kaplan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/2/2013 2:35:46 PM Post Reply

Without a horse in the race for Sunday night´s big game, New Yorkers may pay more attention to the Super ads. Here are ten we think are worth watching for: 1. Anheiser Busch bought a whopping four and a half minutes of airtime at $3.8 million per 30 seconds, including the first commercial of the game which features its new, more alcoholic beer, Black Crown.[Video] 2. Audi is offering a 60-second spot about a boy who “embarks on one of the most pivotal moments of his adolescence: prom night.”

Alabama hostage crisis
stretches into day 5: Suspect
holding a young boy hostage
has holed up in bunker
for days on end in the past

New York Daily News, by Victoria Cavaliere Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/2/2013 2:30:04 PM Post Reply

An Alabama man holding a terrified young boy hostage in an underground bunker might not be giving up any time soon, authorities said. Police were negotiating through a 4-inch ventilation pipe with the man, believed to be Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65,a Vietnam veteran and retired truck driver with a wicked temper and a history of threatening neighbors. Authorities were tight lipped about the conversation with Dykes but said the hostage situation, which entered its fifth day on Saturday, might stretch on for a while. Dykes is holding a 5-year-old boy identified as Ethan

Missing New York mother Sarai Sierra
found ´stabbed to death´ in Turkey

Daily Mail [UK], by Lydia Warren & Nina Golgowski Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/2/2013 2:15:00 PM Post Reply

A missing New York City woman has been found stabbed to death in Istanbul. Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old mother of two, went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul. She was last heard from on Jan. 21, the day she was due back home. The Anadolu Agency says residents discovered the body of a woman near some ancient city walls in a low-income district and that police later identified it as Sierra´s. In its report, the private NTV news channel said Sierra was stabbed to death. It said police identified her through her driver license. In its report, the private NTV news channel said Sierra was stabbed

Antonio Villaraigosa rules
out Ray LaHood´s job

Politico, by Burgess Everett Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/2/2013 2:07:05 PM Post Reply

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa late Friday shot down speculation in California and Washington about his candidacy for an Obama Cabinet position—at least until the summer. Villaraigosa for months has been the subject of buzz he would be selected to succeed Secretary Ray LaHood at the Transportation Department or as a nominee to head the Department of Commerce. But he said in a statement that he is focused on the last five months of his second term as mayor of Los Angeles. “I have said many times I will be focused on my job as mayor of Los Angeles until 11:59 and 59 seconds on

Nina Totenberg: ´Conservatives
Want To Take a Knife To
Hillary Clinton´s Throat´

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/2/2013 1:55:39 PM Post Reply

Remember all that talk about civility in political discourse after the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords? NPR´s Nina Totenberg apparently doesn´t, for on PBS´s Inside Washington Friday, she said of Hillary Clinton, "Any time conservatives can they want to take a knife to her throat": NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: I want to say a word about Hillary Clinton. Every time, you see how great her presence has really been, what a successful Secretary of State she’s been, by the fact that any time conservatives can they want to take a knife to her throat. And guess what?

Big brother to log your
drinking habits and waist
size as GPs are forced to
hand over confidential records

Daily Mail [UK], by Jack Doyle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/2/2013 1:44:20 PM Post Reply

GPs are to be forced to hand over confidential records on all their patients’ drinking habits, waist sizes and illnesses. The files will be stored in a giant information bank that privacy campaigners say represents the ‘biggest data grab in NHS history’. They warned the move would end patient confidentiality and hand personal information to third parties. The data includes weight, cholesterol levels, body mass index, pulse rate, family health history, alcohol consumption and smoking status. Diagnosis of everything from cancer to heart disease to mental illness would be covered. Family doctors will have

Lawmakers call for probe into
´botched´ ATF sting in Milwaukee

Fox News, by Barnini Chakraborty Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/2/2013 1:07:46 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON – Several members of Congress are calling for an investigation into an embarrassing series of blunders made by the Milwaukee arm of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after a newspaper reported this week that the agency conducted a months-long undercover operation that cost taxpayers thousands of dollars and netted very few results. (Snip)the agency conducted a deeply flawed sting operation that resulted in a still-missing machine gun being taken from an agent’s car, thousands of taxpayer dollars being lost in merchandise and angry residents saying that ATF officials reintroduced crime into their neighborhood.

Actor Stephen Tobolowsky recalls
how´Ground Hog Day´ went
from good to great

Seattle Times, by Moira MacDonald Original Article

Posted By: maggie2u- 2/2/2013 12:53:21 PM Post Reply

When longtime character actor Stephen Tobolowsky first read the script to “Groundhog Day,” he thought it was just another comedy; nothing special. Then the movie changed, even as they were shooting it 20 years ago in Woodstock, Ill. — and it became, in Tobolowsky’s words (and mine), “one of the greatest comedies ever created.” Tobolowsky, who played persistent insurance man Ned “Needlenose Ned, Ned the Head” Ryerson, will host a special Groundhog Day screening of the film at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown.On the phone last month, he remembered the winter chill of Woodstock —

Malians say "Thank you,
France!" as Hollande visits

Reuters, by David Lewis* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/2/2013 12:52:58 PM Post Reply

Timbuktu, Mali-Malians chanting "Thank you, France!" mobbed President Francois Hollande on Saturday as he visited the desert city of Timbuktu, retaken from Islamist rebels, and pledged France´s sustained support for Mali to expel jihadists.(Snip)Hollande has said that the French operation, which has 3,500 soldiers on Malian soil backed by warplanes, helicopters and armored vehicles, aims to make way eventually for a U.N.-backed African force, which is still being deployed. Drawn mostly from Mali´s West African neighbors, this force is expected to number more than 8,000. But its deployment has been badly hampered by shortages of kit and airlift capacity

´Turkish FM slams Israel for
strikes, Syria for inaction´

Jereusalem Post, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/2/2013 12:39:30 PM Post Reply

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday slammed both Israel for reported strikes in Syria earlier in the week, as well as Syria for its failure to respond to the attacks, Turkish daily The Hurriyet reported. "Why didn´t [Syrian President Bashar] Assad even throw a pebble when Israeli jets were flying over his palace and playing with the dignity of his country?" The Hurriyet quoted Davutoglu as saying. "Why didn´t the Syrian Army, which has been attacking its own innocent people for 22 months now from the air with jets and by land with tanks and artillery fire, respond

NJ Sen. Bob Menendez is
no stranger to investigations

Associated Press, by Geoff Mulvihill* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/2/2013 12:35:20 PM Post Reply

UNION CITY, N.J.- To his critics, Sen. Robert Menendez is the bad guy who always wiggles away. To defenders, he´s a respected figure persecuted in whispers and investigations. The New Jersey Democrat finds himself in familiar territory as his office acknowledges he flew on a donor´s plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010 -- but says he did not engage in sex with prostitutes there, as a conservative website reported. In his gritty, immigrant-heavy northern New Jersey hometown sometimes called "Havana on the Hudson," Menendez is revered as the Cuban-American who has risen the highest in politics

Fewer dollars and babies
threaten social programs

Washington Examiner [DC], by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/2/2013 12:22:47 PM Post Reply

Our major public policies are based on the assumption that America will continue to enjoy growth. Economic growth and population growth. Through most of our history, this assumption has proved to be correct. These days, not so much. Last week, the Commerce Department announced that the gross domestic product shrank by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. And the Census Bureau reported that the U.S. birthrate in 2011 was 63.2 per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, the lowest ever recorded. Slow economic growth and low population growth threaten to undermine entitlement programs

Obama Blames Economy on
´Bad Decisions´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/2/2013 12:19:14 PM Post Reply

In his weekly address, President Barack Obama blamed the economic problems on "bad decisions."(Snip) The president did not name which decisions were "bad," and who specifically was to blame for those "bad decisions." But he did blame Washington. "2013 can be a year of solid growth, more jobs, and higher wages. But that will only happen if we put a stop to self-inflicted wounds in Washington. Everyone in Washington needs to focus not on politics but on what’s right for the country; on what’s right for you and your families.

Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy
issues resignation

Omaha World-Herald, by Robynn Tysver & Paul Hammel Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/2/2013 12:18:56 PM Post Reply

Lincoln—Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned his post abruptly Saturday after questions were raised by The World-Herald about improper cell phone calls to four women, other than his wife, during the past four years. An investigation by The World-Herald discovered that Sheehy made thousands of late-night telephone calls to the women on his state-issued cell phone, many of them long conversations held in the wee hours of the night. Gov. Dave Heineman announced the resignation at a 10 a.m. press conference. "I´ve got a knot in my stomach. I´m deeply disappointed. He´s done a lot of good things

Iran´s New Qaher 313 Stealth
Fighter Would Be Perfect
For Attacking The US Navy

Business Insider, by Robert Johnson and David Cenciotti Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 2/2/2013 12:16:17 PM Post Reply

Iran yesterday revealed its most recent indigenous fighter jet — the “Qaher 313?. The prototype Q-313 was presented to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as a ceremonial gift during the country´s Ten-Day Dawn celebration. The festivities commemorate the 1979 revolution when the U.S. embassy in Tehran taken by force. In the previous days, the Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi had said, “The aircraft will be different from the other fighter jets Iran has already made.” Indeed, based on the first photographs released by the FARS News Agency, the new stealthy jet has a peculiar design.

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