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Kasich’s Obamacare flip
burns conservatives

Politico, by David Nather & Jennifer Haberkorn Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 8:18:33 PM Post Reply

Conservative groups wanted to stop the march of Obamacare expansion at ground zero: the states. But one of their best hopes just caved. John Kasich, the fiercely conservative governor of Ohio, announced Monday that he’s going to expand Medicaid dramatically using federal money — a 180-degree turn from what conservative groups swore their allies in governors’ mansions would do when the Supreme Court gave them an out last year. That leaves Kasich, who built his political identity arguing for smaller government, at odds with the same movement conservatives who propelled him to victory

Tarkenton: Mickelson was
right on taxes

USA Today, by Fran Tarkenton Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/4/2013 8:04:39 PM Post Reply

Pro golfer Phil Mickelson has gotten a lot of flak for his recent comments about threatening to make "drastic changes" in his life due to state and federal tax increases. Never mind that he later backed off, saying he should have kept his thoughts to himself and apologized to those he "upset or insulted." Mickelson was telling the truth. If there´s anything that should upset or insult Americans, it´s just how much of their money the government takes. Mickelson estimates that more than 60% of his earnings are snatched in federal and state taxes (he lives in California).

Newtown Shows America The
Way To Fight Gun Violence

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/4/2013 7:55:58 PM Post Reply

Crime: Education officials in Newtown, Conn., site of the December school massacre that stunned the nation, have requested more armed police officers in schools — exactly the common-sense remedy IBD called for. Last month, in an editorial warning that the Obama administration´s gun-control measures won´t reduce gun violence, we noted that "sensible proposals for armed security and increased police presence at our schools are off President Obama´s agenda." The policymakers closest to the tragedy, however — whose constituents expect them to do something effective — say increased police presence is at the top of their agenda.

Storm Thurmond´s secret
daughter dies

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/4/2013 7:53:56 PM Post Reply

Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years to avoid damaging his political career, has died. She was 87. Vann Dozier of Leevy’s Funeral Home in Columbia, S.C., said Washington-Williams died Sunday. A cause of death was not given. Washington-Williams was the daughter of Thurmond and his family’s black maid. The identity of her famous father was rumored for decades in political circles and the black community. But not until after the South Carolina Republican died in 2003 at age 100 did Washington-Williams come forward

Poor Kids Are No Excuse For
America´s Poor Education

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/4/2013 7:37:15 PM Post Reply

Education: It´s a depressingly common annual headline: U.S. students fare poorly compared with those in other countries even though America spends far more on its schools. But a new report wants you to believe that U.S. schools really aren´t so bad compared with other developed countries. It´s just the greater number of poor kids they have to educate that makes them appear bad. This is nothing more than a rehash of the tired ideology that schools cannot be held responsible for how well students learn. Vested interests in education do not like the results revealed by standardized tests,

Tagg Romney won´t seek
Senate seat

UPI, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/4/2013 7:33:35 PM Post Reply

Boston--Tagg isn´t it. The son of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he won´t be a Republican candidate in a special election for the U.S. Senate. Tagg Romney played a high-profile role in his father´s unsuccessful presidential campaign last year, acting as a top surrogate and behind-the-scenes adviser and strategist. He told the Boston Herald in a statement GOP Republican candidate in a race to fill former Sen. John Kerry´s seat after Kerry was confirmed secretary of state last week. "I have been humbled by the outreach I received this weekend encouraging me to become a candidate

Obama´s Big Spending Ways
Will Mean More Tax Hikes

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/4/2013 7:32:56 PM Post Reply

Taxes: President Obama said over the weekend that there is "no doubt" the federal government needs more revenues. But that´s true only if you assume Obama´s oversized government is here to stay. In his Super Bowl Sunday interview with Obama, CBS News anchor Scott Pelley asked him if, after having just wrangled a major tax increase on wealthier families, he was done with tax hikes. Obama´s answer: No way. "There is no doubt," he said, "we need additional revenue." No doubt? Really? This after Obama raised taxes $500 billion to help pay for ObamaCare, and after he piled

Karl Rove
leading effort
to stop the Tea Party
and conservative grass roots

Canada Free Press, by Robert Laurie Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 2/4/2013 7:32:43 PM Post Reply

If there was one big loser on November 6th - other than Mitt Romney - it was Karl Rove. Despite trying to portray himself as little more than an observer, “the architect” had his hands all over the election. Via his two political organizations, Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies and American Crossroads, Rove squandered hundreds of millions of dollars and came away with absolutely nothing to show for it. First, he spent months bragging that he’d managed to raise $300 million to spend in the upcoming contest

Carney Tries to Walk Back
Obama´s Boasting on
Skeet Shooting

Breitbart Big Government, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 7:00:52 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama, in an attempt to appear sympathetic to gun owners´ concerns as he pursues a gun-banning agenda in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, recently bragged that he goes skeet shooting at Camp David “all the time.” Responding to the blowback from skeptics who doubted Obama was telling the unvarnished truth (Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) challenged Obama to a skeet shooting contest), the White House not only released a photo of Obama shooting skeet, but White House press secretary Jay Carney also tried to water down Obama’s statement. Carney claimed Obama had “never pretended to or

Obama still backs new gun
ban; top senator less certain

CNN, by Tom Cohen Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 6:54:12 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama on Monday reiterated his call for a comprehensive package of steps against gun violence as the focus on possible Senate legislation appeared to narrow to expanded background checks and limited ammunition magazines, rather than a ban on semi-automatic rifles that mimic assault weapons. Obama took part in a discussion with Minneapolis officials before telling police officers and others that an increase in gun violence nationwide, including the Connecticut school massacre in December, made it vital to address the issue now. "No law or set of laws can keep our children completely safe," Obama said

Revealed: Marine who ´killed´
famous sniper threatened to
´blow his brains out and
kill his family months before
shooting two men at gun range’

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 6:47:43 PM Post Reply

Police now say that the former marine accused of killing the country’s best sniper and another man at a shooting range now says that he threatened to kill himself and his family back in September and he was hospitalized. A police report from the September 2 incident states they were alerted to the threat when they received a call about 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh, who is now in jail on two murder counts for allegedly killing Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. ‘Eddie stated he was hurting and that his family does not understand what he has been through,’

Gunman dead and boy hostage ALIVE
after FBI agents storm bunker after
´fearing for imminent safety of Ethan´

Daily Mail [UK], by Laura Collins, Thomas Durante Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/4/2013 6:15:51 PM Post Reply

FBI agents today stormed an underground bunker to rescue a five-year-old boy being held by an armed survivalist who died in the raid. Authorities were forced to act after growing concern for the suspect’s mental state, observing him with a gun and ultimately ´fearing the child was in imminent danger,´ they revealed this afternoon. The boy, known as Ethan, is believed to be in a fine condition. The gunman, 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, is deceased. FBI Special Agent in Charge Steve Richardson said during a news conference that negotiations had broken down and Dykes had been seen holding a gun.

Howard Kurtz Tells Obama
and Gore ´Stop Whining About
Right-Wing Media´

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 6:01:39 PM Post Reply

Liberal media members defending Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are about as rare as Halley´s Comet. Yet that´s what CNN´s Howard Kurtz did Monday in a piece surprisingly titled "Obama, Gore, Stop Whining About Right-wing Media."After a brief introduction, Kurtz relayed how former vice president Al Gore responded to Charlie Rose´s recent question about whether there was "a very hostile environment for progressive ideas" by saying, "Fox News and right-wing talk radio...[T]he fact that we have 24/7 propaganda masquerading as news, it does have an impact." "OK, Gore doesn´t like Fox," Kurtz observed.

Outgoing EPA chief regrets lack
of dialogue with rural America

The Hill [Washington DC], by Zack Colman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 5:57:08 PM Post Reply

Departing Departing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson said she wished she had communicated better during her tenure with rural regions that felt victimized by the agency’s pollution rules. “If I were starting again, I would from day one make a much stronger effort to do personal outreach in rural America," Jackson said in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters published Monday. Clashes with rural GOP lawmakers characterized much of Jackson’s time in Obama administration, but Jackson has lamented what she says are inaccurate claims about the scope of EPA’s agenda.

GOP seizes on Obama´s blown
budget deadline

The Hill [Washington DC], by Erik Wasson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 5:54:04 PM Post Reply

Congressional Republicans are seizing on the White House’s failure to meet the Feb. 4 legal deadline to produce an annual budget as a gift that will help them recover from months of political beatings. The White House on Monday declined to say when President Obama’s delayed 2014 budget will come out. “President Obama missed a great opportunity today to help our economy. This was supposed to be the day he submitted his budget to the Congress. But it’s not coming. It’s going to be late. Some reports say it could be a month late,”

Treasury nominee Jack Lew
accused of breaking Medicare
law by Republicans

Washington Times [DC], by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 5:44:24 PM Post Reply

Senate Republicans are sending a letter Monday to the White House budget office arguing that President Obama’s nominee to be treasury secretary, Jacob “Jack” Lew, was complicit in breaking a Medicare budget law. The letter comes the same day that Mr. Obama officially missed another deadline in the budget law by failing to submit his blueprint on the first Monday in February. The president has only met that deadline once in his tenure. On the Medicare funding issue, federal law requires that if the program’s funding becomes imbalanced, its trustees are required to issue a warning, and the president

U.S. to sue S&P over ratings
ahead of financial crisis

Reuters, by Aruna Viswanatha & Jonathan Stempel Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 5:35:24 PM Post Reply

Standard & Poor´s said it expects to be the target of a U.S. Department of Justice civil lawsuit over its mortgage bond ratings, the first federal enforcement action against a credit rating agency over alleged illegal behavior tied to the recent financial crisis. Shares of McGraw-Hill Cos, the parent of S&P, plunged 13.8 percent on Monday after news of the expected lawsuit surfaced, their biggest one-day percentage decline since the 1987 stock market crash, according to Reuters data.An announcement of a lawsuit is expected on Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter said. The news also caused shares of Moody´s Corp,

Alabama hostage standoff
in Midland City ends,
Ethan safe (live updates)

Huntsville Times [AL], by Kathryn Tuggle Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 5:27:12 PM Post Reply

MIDLAND CITY, Alabama-- After seven days spent hostage in Jimmy Lee Dykes underground bunker in Midland City, 5-year-old Ethan is free, sources have told AL.com. The hostage situation ended sometime on Monday. Sources at the scene confirm that Ethan is safe and the hostage-taker, 65-year-old ???Jimmy Lee Dykes, is dead. Multiple news outlets including WKRG and CBS are reporting that the child is alive and Dykes has been killed. (Snip) A reporter at Midland City´s local paper, the Dothan Eagle, said on Twitter Monday afternoon that Ethan´s mother was escorted by law enforcement from her home,

Boy in center of
Alabama hostage
standoff released, source says

FOX News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: CEP- 2/4/2013 5:02:52 PM Post Reply

DEVELOPING: A five-year-old boy who was being held hostage in an underground bunker in Alabama for nearly a week has been released, a law enforcement source, citing reports, told Fox News. Authorities say 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes shot and killed a bus driver last week in Midland City and then abducted the boy. Dykes is now dead, the source says, and it is unclear what the boy´s current condition is.

Ala. child hostage
standoff ends after 7 days

WSFA-TV [Midland City, AL], by John Shryock Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 4:58:05 PM Post Reply

MIDLAND CITY, AL - After seven days with few developments in the case of a child hostage standoff in the southeast Alabama town of Midland City, authorities say the crisis has come to an end. Details are limited at this moment. Reporters on scene reported hearing a loud explosion a short time ago. An ambulance was later seen leaving the scene but without emergency lights or sirens activated. Reports indicate the child is "okay". The kidnapper is said to be dead. Tune into WSFA 12 News for the latest information and continue checking back on

Obamacare Allows Government
to Take Money from the Uninsured

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/4/2013 4:36:26 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Glenn in Waterloo, Iowa. Hi. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello. CALLER: Hi, Rush. Long-time listener, first-time caller. RUSH: Thank you, sir. CALLER: Hey, I was wondering. I was watching the Norah O´Donnell show on CBS This Morning, and the boy king had an interview last night before the game. He was saying how much health care was costing so much money. I thought he fixed that. RUSH: Yeah. Well -- he-he-he-he -- another misdirection.

Rev. Jackson Calls on Obama
to Stop Chicago Violence

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/4/2013 4:29:43 PM Post Reply

RUSH: The Reverend Jackson, in Chicago. The Reverend Jackson and other relatives of victims of fatal shootings, in Chicago. Do you know, the lawlessness in Chicago, the gun violence in Chicago is now greater than when Al Capone´s gang ran the town? Did you know that, Rachel? You want to know something else? There was no gun control when Al Capone was running around running things. Back during the glory days of Chicago, no gun control. Now they´ve got some of the strictest gun control laws in the country,

Barack Obama, Straight Shooter?

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/4/2013 4:28:19 PM Post Reply

Just seven weeks after a massacre at an American elementary school, the White House released a photo of the president firing a gun. Strangely, no one seems to think this is in atrocious taste. We imagine the reaction would be quite different if it were, say, George W. Bush. But a lot of people, including this columnist, doubt that the photo depicts what it purports to show. The White House distributed the pic in response to widespread skepticism of President Obama´s assertion, in an interview with a liberal editor and a former campaign coordinator, that "up at Camp David,

Clinton Crashes Koch Funeral

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/4/2013 4:26:35 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Not long ago, ladies and gentlemen, there were a rash of deaths within the political ranks of the Democrat Party. And for every one of them the Clintons showed up. Bill and Hillary showed up at every one of these famous Democrat funerals and made the whole funeral about them. And we produced a little bit called The Funeral Crashers. You know, that reminds me, it was the Coretta Scott King funeral, and Bill Clinton showed up. He was one of the eulogists, and it took him 45 or 50 minutes

´Little House´ illness, explained:
Laura Ingalls Wilder´s sister Mary
went blind from brain disease,
not scarlet fever, new research reveals

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 2/4/2013 4:24:32 PM Post Reply

Any fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder´s beloved "Little House" books knows how the author´s sister Mary went blind: scarlet fever. But turns out that probably wasn´t the cause, medical experts say, upending one of the more dramatic elements in the classic stories. An analysis of historical documents, biographical records and other material suggests another disease that causes swelling in the brain and upper spinal cord was the most likely culprit. It was known as "brain fever" in the late 1800s, the setting for the mostly true stories about Wilder´s pioneer family. Scarlet fever was rampant and feared at the time

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