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Tagg Romney won´t seek
Kerry´s Senate seat

CBS News, by Lindsey Boerma Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/4/2013 10:10:51 PM Post Reply

No, there will not be a Senator Romney anytime soon. Looking to quiet chatter that he´s considering running in the special election to fill newly-minted Secretary of State John Kerry´s Massachusetts Senate seat, Mitt Romney´s eldest son Tagg issued a statement today breaking the news to supporters: "The timing is not right." "I have been humbled by the outreach I received this weekend encouraging me to become a candidate for the U.S. Senate," he said. "I love my home state and admit it would be an honor to represent the citizens

The Point of Obama’s Gun Tour

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/4/2013 10:10:43 PM Post Reply

With President Obama heading out on the road today for another campaign stop to promote his gun control package, thanks go, as they often have in the past, to Vice President Biden for helping to put the issue in perspective with some unscripted candor. The tenor of the discussion about the proposals has, since the president first unveiled them last month, been largely emotional as it seeks to tap into the universal horror felt by Americans about the Newtown shooting. But Biden made it clear that any thought that the White House’s advocacy on guns was geared to prevent

Obama, Gore, stop whining
about right-wing media

CNN, by Howard Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/4/2013 10:06:09 PM Post Reply

I never realized that the conservative media were so eye-poppingly powerful. So mighty, in fact, that liberal politicians can´t seem to stop talking about how they are running roughshod over the country. My response: Can we please stop the whining? The latest to rant about the right is Al Gore. The former vice president told Charlie Rose that President Barack Obama had been cautious, and when the CBS anchor asked whether there was "a very hostile environment for progressive ideas," Gore had his culprit ready: "Fox News and right-wing talk radio. In Tennessee

Flame retardants may
leach from your walls

San Francisco Chronicle, by Stephanie M. Lee Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/4/2013 9:51:36 PM Post Reply

Couches throughout the nation have become notorious for containing flame-retardant chemicals that may do more harm than good. Now, it turns out, those chemicals may also be leaching from the walls that surround you. Because of laws passed in the 1970s, many homes and workplaces built in the United States since then contain foam insulation doused with flame retardants. Not only are these substances potentially hazardous, but they also often do not make a structure any safer from fire, say researchers from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and other institutions, in a study published in November.

New Malware Attacks Smartphone,
Computer to Eavesdrop

CNBC, by Cadie Thompson Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/4/2013 9:37:19 PM Post Reply

A recently discovered new form of Android malware called DroidCleaner can not only infect your smartphone, but also targets your PC to spy on you. Researchers at the security firm Kaspersky Labs have uncovered new malware which poses as a "cleaner" app -- or an app used to free memory on Google´s OS -- in the Google (GOOG) Play app store. Once an Android user downloads the app, the malware infects the user´s smartphone and can also be uploaded to the user´s PC if they plug the device into their Windows computer in the USB drive mode.

Janet Napolitano for...President?

Townhall, by Kate Hicks Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 9:28:53 PM Post Reply

I know, I know. It is way too early to be talking about 2016, and believe me when I say I´m still recovering from 2012. But...The Washington Post´s She the People blog asserts that current Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has suggested she´s interested in running for the top job in four years, joining a list that includes Martin O´Malley, Deval Patrick, Hillary Clinton, and of course, Joe Biden. If, as she has maintained, Hillary really isn´t interested in the job, says STP´s Karen Tumulty, then Napolitano is a viable female candidate,

Standoff in Alabama Ends in Boy’s
Rescue and Kidnapper’s Death

New York Times, by Robbie Brown and Campbell Robertson Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/4/2013 9:27:38 PM Post Reply

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — A six-day standoff between an angry and violent survivalist who held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker and a legion of local, state and federal law enforcement officials ended on Monday with the death of the kidnapper and the freeing of the boy.(Snip)sensing that Mr. Dykes was becoming rattled and that the threat to the boy was growing more severe, the authorities dropped two devices into the bunker that created loud explosions, heard by people across the highway. The explosions disoriented Mr. Dykes, and immediately afterward two or three men moved into the bunker

Obama to Bring in ´Progressive
and Labor Leaders´ for
Immigration Discussion

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 9:24:55 PM Post Reply

Tomorrow at the White House, President Barack Obama will bring in "progressive and labor leaders" for an immigration discussion. He´ll also be meeting with "business leaders" to discuss the same topic. "In the afternoon, the President will continue his dialogue with outside leaders on a number of issues – including immigration reform and how it fits into his broader economic agenda, and his efforts to achieve balanced deficit reduction. The President will host two separate meetings at the White House, one with progressive and labor leaders and the other with business leaders.

Nobody Wants to Talk About
CNN´s ´Ethnic´ Problem

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 9:13:58 PM Post Reply

Last week a bomb went off in the news media. But the media´s own version of the Blue Wall of Silence held together again, which allowed the media to pretend nothing happened. Some in conservative media noticed and reported on the blast. But because the media protects one another almost as fiercely (and dishonestly) as it protects Barack Obama, a report that an executive vice president at CNN complained about the "ethnicity" of Soledad O´Brien´s "Starting Point" audience has been memory-holed as though it never happened. Betsy Rothstein at FishBowlDC first reported the incident.

Ginsberg rejects first filing after
lower court rules against Obama´s
labor board appointments

Fox News, by Shannon Bream Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 9:06:35 PM Post Reply

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the first individual filing related to a recent lower court decision that invalidated President Obama’s three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. A District of Columbia appeal court ruled January 25 that Obama’s appointments last January were unconstitutional because he made them when the Senate was not in full recess. The ruling immediately sparked speculation that some if not many of the companies that received unfavorable rulings from the board would file appeals.

Kasich’s cave on Obamacare
shows how hard it is to
beat big government

Washington Examiner, by Philip Klein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 8:59:07 PM Post Reply

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who campaigned as a limited government Republican, on Monday announced that he would implement one of the costliest provisions of President Obama’s health care law by expanding the state’s Medicaid program. His decision, a huge victory for the White House that will provide cover for more Republican governors to do the same, serves as a great case study on how difficult it is to impede the growth of government. When Obamacare was making its way through Congress in 2009 and 2010, the proposed expansion of Medicaid was one of its most controversial elements.

McCain: Don´t filibuster Hagel

Politico, by Manu Raju & David Rogers Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/4/2013 8:56:04 PM Post Reply

Sen. John McCain appears to have cleared the way Monday for Chuck Hagel to be the next secretary of defense. The Arizona Republican, who has been a prominent voice in the debate over Hagel, said Monday he would oppose any attempt to filibuster the nomination, likely dooming any attempt by Senate conservatives to sustain a protracted procedural fight to delay Hagel’s confirmation. “I do not believe that we should filibuster,” McCain told Politico. “To vote against is entirely the judgment of each individual senator, but a filibuster I think would be inappropriate.” Asked if he would vote for cloture

Major Cantor speech to recast
image of GOP and conservatism

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Molly K. Hooper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 8:37:06 PM Post Reply

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor hopes to put a kinder face on Republican policies in a major policy address on Tuesday. After maintaining a relatively low profile since the November elections, the Virginia Republican will reassert himself on the national stage with a highly anticipated speech at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). According to excerpts obtained by The Hill, Cantor will attempt to recast the GOP position on the role of government. “Government policy should aim to strike a balance between what is needed to advance the next generation, what we can afford, what is a federal responsibility

What we won’t ever know
about Hillary Clinton’s legacy

Washington Times, by Lisa Schiffren Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/4/2013 8:22:42 PM Post Reply

The media have allowed the Obama administration and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary “Smartest Woman in the Room” Clinton to get away with straight-up lying about the cause of the deaths of Americans in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. Some of us have been so focused on that issue that we may have missed an even bigger journalistic abdication. We will only know what really happened that night in Benghazi, and why the Obama administration chose to use a Youtube video as a scapegoat – as opposed to anything else they might have said –

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.

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