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French planes pound Islamist
camps in northern Mali desert

Reuters, by Elena Berton & Tiemoko Diallo* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/3/2013 8:57:46 AM Post Reply

Paris/Bamako - French warplanes pounded Islamist rebel camps in the far north of Mali, military sources said, hours after French President Francois Hollande visited the West African country.Thierry Burkhard, spokesman for the French army in Paris, said on Sunday the overnight raids targeted logistics bases and training camps used by the al Qaeda-linked rebels to the north of the desert town of Kidal. "These were important air strikes," Burkhard told Reuters. He said the bombing raids took place around the settlement of Tessalit, close to the Algerian border, one of the main gateways into the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains

For Sen. Robert Menendez,
allegations tarnish a shining moment

Star Ledger [Newark,NJ], by Christopher Baxter Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/3/2013 8:49:00 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — John Kerry wiped away a tear Wednesday as he said farewell to Senate colleagues who had gathered in the chamber to wish him well as the next secretary of state. But conspicuously absent was Sen. Robert Menendez, who a day earlier had been approved to replace Kerry as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, one of the most coveted posts on Capitol Hill. The achievement marked an improbable ascension by Menendez, 59, born to Cuban immigrants, raised in gritty Union City and practiced in the hurly-burly of Hudson County politics. Yet the week hardly had

Seven Reasons Why it´s a Photoshop

American Thinker, by Michael Harlin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/3/2013 8:44:14 AM Post Reply

I´m sure we´ve all seen by now the "photo op" of President Obama shooting skeet. If he´s shooting skeet then I´m Daffy Duck. Skeet [clay disks of bright colors] are thrown by a machine from two towers erected to the right and left of the shooter. (There are other set ups like ones used for "sporting clays" but that isn´t represented in the White House photo release.) Usually, the skeet is thrown about ten or more feet above the ground. The shooters are arranged in a semi-circle at various stations around the semi-circle. The "group" of shooters lines up

Barak says reported Syria
strike shows Israel is serious

Reuters, by Alexandra Hudson Original Article

Posted By: Toledo- 2/3/2013 8:42:27 AM Post Reply

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday an attack on a Syrian arms complex showed Israel was serious about preventing the flow of heavy weapons into Lebanon, appearing to acknowledge for the first time that Israel carried out the strike.Israel has maintained official silence over Wednesday´s raid, which Syria said targeted a military research center north-west of Damascus. "I cannot add anything to what you have read in the newspapers about what happened in Syria several days ago," Barak told a security conference in Munich on Sunday.

Deadliest sniper in U.S. military
history is ´shot and killed point-
blank by veteran suffering from
PTSD´ at Texas gun range

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson & Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/3/2013 8:06:33 AM Post Reply

A former Navy Seal, expert sniper and best-selling author was reportedly gunned down at a Texas shooting range Saturday by a veteran who is recovering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Ex-Navy Seal Chris Kyle, 39, and another man were shot point-blank around 3:30 p.m. at a charity event on behalf of Kyle´s security firm at the gun range at Rough Creek Lodge and Resort in Erath County. The suspect, 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh, was arrested roughly five hours later in Lancaster, Texas after a police chase. He was driving Kyle´s truck at the time of the arrest, police said.

Media Follows Obama´s Orders
to Mock Skeet-Gate Skeptics

Brietbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 2/3/2013 7:40:38 AM Post Reply

Some of you younger folks might not remember this, but there was a time when the media questioned Power. No, really, once upon a time, the media saw it as its duty to be forever questioning and skeptical of Power, especially when Power was in pursuit of more power. For example, Obama is attempting to grab more power for The State and criminals by way of gun control laws that infringe on our Second Amendment civil rights.

College grads taking more
unpaid internships, jobs
out of chosen field

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Lauren Mennen Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/3/2013 7:30:05 AM Post Reply

Recent college graduates and even those who have been out of school for several years now are finding an increasingly harder time getting a job in this economy. The amount of young adults – from ages 18 to 29 – who are unemployed rose over 1.5 percent in January to 13.1 percent, according to statistics released Friday. The overall unemployment rate had a smaller increase - rising 0.1 percent to 7.9 percent - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

How two scientists are using the New York
Times archives to predict the future

GIGAOM, by Laura Hazard Owen Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 2/3/2013 7:16:57 AM Post Reply

Researchers are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict future disease outbreaks, riots and deaths — and hopefully prevent them.Researchers at Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict future disease outbreaks, riots and deaths — and hopefully prevent them. The new research is the latest in a number of similar initiatives that seek to mine web data to predict all kinds of events.

The crisis of conservatism
on both sides of the pond

Daily Mail [UK], by Melanie Phillips Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 7:15:25 AM Post Reply

The agony of the US Republicans, engulfed by an existential crisis since the second term victory of Barack Obama, reminds me so much of the UK Conservatives’ similar crisis after the accession of Tony Blair to power in 1997.[Snip]The Tories, aghast at the inversion of the natural order by which they assumed they had a divine right to rule, looked in bewildered mortification upon the upstart Blair whom they found it impossible to dislodge--and arrived at precisely the wrong conclusion about both conservatism and British society. It was a fundamental error that I believe the Conservative Party is still making

Human remains found in Leicester car
park DO belong to Richard III as
scientists prepare to reveal
results of DNA testing

Daily Mail [UK], by Mario Ledwith Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 7:05:08 AM Post Reply

A skeleton found underneath a car park in Leicester is expected to be confirmed as that of Richard III. The remarkable discovery of the remains, entailing a curved spine back and wounded skull, was made last September. Since then scientists have been conducting a range of tests to establish whether the remains do indeed belong to the Plantagenet King. Researchers from Leicester University will hold a press conference on Monday morning where they will present the findings of their investigation. Philippa Langley, who initially funded the excavation of what is now a Leicester City Council car park, said she was

Duke of Edinburgh invites climate change
heretic David Bellamy to Buckingham Palace

Telegraph [UK], by Ricahrd Eden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 6:53:55 AM Post Reply

The Prince of Wales warned in March 2009 that there were “less than 100 months to act” to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change. His father is known to be more sceptical. Now, the Duke of Edinburgh has invited Britain’s best-known global warming heretic to give a lecture at Buckingham Palace. David Bellamy, who described last month how the BBC “froze him out” when he dismissed global warming as “poppycock”, is to give the inaugural David Bellamy Lecture at the Palace next month. Prince Philip is holding the event as honorary fellow of the Chartered

Our Foreign Policy Establishment:
Looking for Love in
all the Wrong Places

American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 2/3/2013 6:46:45 AM Post Reply

Like the addlepated women who write love letters to an imprisoned murderer in the belief that the love of a good woman will turn him around, the U.S. foreign policy establishment repeatedly acts as though the power of their love and financial generosity will turn foreign thugs into responsible democratic leaders. They did this with the Soviet Union until Reagan upset their game, and now they are doing it with the Islamists.This week there´s been lots of ink on the disastrous affairs in the Middle East and North Africa and I´ll discuss what I consider the best of the commentary

Google boss Schmidt labels
China an ´IT menace´

BBC [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 6:41:31 AM Post Reply

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt uses a new book to call China an Internet menace that backs cyber-crime for economic and political gain, reports say. The New Digital Age - due for release in April - reportedly brands China "the world´s most active and enthusiastic filterer of information". China is "the most sophisticated and prolific" hacker of foreign companies, according to a review obtained by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). China denies allegations of hacking.[Snip]The New Digital Age analyses how China is dangerously exploiting an Internet that now permeates politics, business, culture and other aspects of life, the WSJ says.

Iraq violence: ´Many dead´ in
Kirkuk police HQ attack

BBC [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 6:32:29 AM Post Reply

At least 16 people have been killed as suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a police HQ in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, medical sources say. Officials said militants had tried to seize the compound after a bomb exploded at the gates, but were unsuccessful. A police chief was hurt. [Snip] Kirkuk is ethnically mixed, and at the centre of a dispute between Baghdad and the Kurds over oil and land rights. Two weeks ago at least 10 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the offices of the Kurdish Democratic Party in the city.

The Way Out

New York Times, by Bryan Mealer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/3/2013 6:15:35 AM Post Reply

WHEN the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers take the field during the Super Bowl today, the teams will have five players who come from a small, conflicted region in the northern Everglades known as Muck City. The dark, silty soil surrounding the Florida towns of Belle Glade and Pahokee, some 45 miles west of Palm Beach, creates a fertile region for agriculture. Many of the black residents of the area were drawn there by the opportunity to work in the vegetable fields that surrounded the towns. The migrant workers, who by and large settled in run-down boardinghouses,

Writer Jimmy Breslin gets
final victory in feud
with mayor Ed Koch

New York Daily News, by Denis Hamill Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/3/2013 6:08:21 AM Post Reply

The death watch is over. Jimmy Breslin has outlived Ed Koch. About five years ago, I was eating in a diner on Ninth Ave. near the Port Authority in Manhattan and Ed Koch had just finished eating at another table with some friends. As he was leaving he nodded to me and I said, “How’m I doing, Ed?” (Snip) The Breslin-Koch feud dates back to 1986 when Koch appeared on a talk show and said he intended to run for three more terms as mayor and then “give the eulogy at Jimmy Breslin’s funeral.”

Satisfaction Not Guaranteed:
Reading Lance Armstrong

New Yorker, by Ian Crouch Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/3/2013 5:57:06 AM Post Reply

Lance Armstrong is a liar, or at least was a liar, though the old motherly wisdom here probably stands: once, always. And depending on one’s perspective, his athletic accomplishments are at best tainted and at worst entirely invalidated—though you try riding a bike up the Col du Tourmalet. His accomplishments as a humanitarian and fundraiser, meanwhile, are surely somehow altered by his having been unmasked as a cheater and bully, though they may endure as valuable contributions and even be celebrated as such. But what about his standing and reputation as a writer? First, a point of clarification:

Toxic air plane crash warning

Daily Express [UK], by Ted Jeory Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 5:51:12 AM Post Reply

Passenger jets risk “dropping out of the sky” because airlines refuse to fit detectors that could save pilots from poisonous cabin air, a toxicologist told the Sunday Express. Professor Chris van Netten, former US government adviser, says the industry is putting profits before the health and safety of passengers or crew. He says that by failing to fit monitors that can “easily” detect leaks of odourless, colourless and toxic carbon monoxide, there is always the risk that pilots could inhale fumes and be rendered incapable of safely flying the plane. Professor van Netten, who is Canadian, is a world authority

The six foods that will cut your
cholesterol in just three months...
and you don´t have to give up
cheese, chocolate or breakfast eggs

Daily Mail [UK], by Victoria Fletcher Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 5:44:14 AM Post Reply

Your cholesterol is too high. Well, perhaps not specifically you, but thousands of Britons have this news broken to them by doctors every day. We all have an amount of this special type of fat in our blood. It is essential for many bodily functions, but most of us--60 percent--have too much. High cholesterol is a key factor in developing heart disease, which claims three times more lives than breast cancer and twice as many as lung cancer. The good news is that lowering your cholesterol is the biggest thing you can do to reduce your risk.

To Be or Not To Be Hagel

National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/3/2013 5:41:34 AM Post Reply

Four years ago, Barack Obama’s widely praised retention of Republican Bob Gates was done to reassure Washington of a bipartisan and competent continuity at Defense in difficult times. In contrast, the deliberately provocative nomination of Republican Chuck Hagel is meant to remind Washington that no longer will there be either bipartisanship or continuity, but rather a radically new direction at Defense. Senator Hagel in his testimony at times seemed genuinely befuddled and sorely confused about his own past contradictory statements, his current incoherent beliefs, and the very policy of the administration he is to serve. In political terms,

Hitler’s Toilet Resides
in a N.J. Auto-Repair Shop

Time, by Charlie Campbell Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/3/2013 5:31:41 AM Post Reply

As dinner-party conversation goes, owning Adolf Hitler’s toilet is hardly a bad place to start. An accidental antiques collector took possession of the dictator’s porcelain privy when he purchased an auto-repair shop in Florence, N.J., almost two decades ago, reports Tablet magazine. The toilet was originally installed on Hitler’s yacht, the 400-500ft Aviso Grille, which was also the very place where Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz first announced the Führer’s death on May 1, 1945. “[Hitler] wanted to ride it down the Thames in London and go live in Windsor Palace when he invaded,” the latrine’s owner,

Obama follows in the footsteps of
previous presidents by finally posing
with a gun as White House goads
the doubters to claim skeet
shooting picture is a fake

Daily Mail [UK], by Leslie Larson, David McCormack Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 5:30:18 AM Post Reply

Two days before President Barack Obama´s first trip outside Washington to promote his gun-control proposals, the White House tried on Saturday to settle a brewing mystery by releasing a photo to back his claim to be a skeet shooter. Obama had set inquiring minds spinning when, in an interview with The New Republic magazine, he answered ‘yes’ when asked if he had ever fired a gun. The admission came as a surprise to many.[Snip] Asked whether the entire family participates, the president said: ‘Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there.’ Then on Saturday morning, the White

New Obama directive will
shorten visa wait for illegal
aliens with U.S. spouses

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/3/2013 5:20:48 AM Post Reply

An estimated hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens will soon have an opportunity to become legal residents without having to serve a years-long punishment. President Obama proposed the policy change in January 2012 and it is scheduled to go into effect March 4. The change was proposed to end situations in which illegal-immigrant spouses (and often parents) have to return to their native countries to serve the “ban of admission” – as long as 10 years for staying illegally in the United States for more than a year. Applicants must show

Bank of America website crashes leaving
its customers unable to access their money

Daily Mail [UK], Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/3/2013 5:16:12 AM Post Reply

Bank of America says its online banking website crashed Friday, leaving customers unable to access their accounts. From late morning Friday, customers trying to log on saw a message that said the site was ´temporarily unavailable.´ Bank of America (BAC), based in Charlotte, N.C. and the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, said it was working on the problem, but wouldn´t elaborate on what caused the outage. ´We´re aware of the online banking issue and addressing as quickly as possible,´ Mark Pipitone, a spokesman for the bank, wrote in an email. ´We´re also working closely with our

O-Blam!-a backfire

New York Post, by Carl Campanile Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/3/2013 5:14:36 AM Post Reply

He’s full of skeet! Gun owners lampooned President Obama as Elmer Fudd yesterday after the White House released a photo — in the middle of a fierce national firearms debate — of the commander-in-chief shooting clay targets at Camp David over the summer. While the president’s shooting skills were being mocked, his own gun-control allies privately fretted that Obama risked being ridiculed as a phony for suddenly trying to portray himself as a friend of sportsmen and hunters. Or, conversely, that he was glorifying the use of guns. The photo was taken last Aug. 4, on Obama’s 51st birthday.

The case for a national ID card

Washington Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/3/2013 5:09:13 AM Post Reply

THE UNITED STATES has invested tens of billions of dollars in the past decade alone to foil illegal immigration — tightening the border, accelerating deportations, deputizing local police — while doing precious little to stop employers from hiring undocumented immigrants. That is fixable — by means of a universal national identity card — and must be fixed as part of any sensible overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. Critics of immigration reform are right that the last big attempt to fix the system, in 1986, was no fix at all. Millions of undocumented immigrants were given amnesty but without

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