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Ed Gillespie seeks ´diverse´
Republican candidates in
the fight for 2014

Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/6/2013 9:29:55 PM Post Reply

The GOP´s "big tent" thinking is alive and well. On Wednesday, the Republican State Leadership Committee launched the Future Majority Caucus to support women, blacks or Americans of Hispanic and Asian descent running for office on the state level. The mission statement: The new caucus will expand the scope of recruitment and support for candidates "to more closely reflect the diversity of our nation." Running it all: that would be Ed Gillespie, who has returned to chair the committee itself after a year as senior advisor with Mitt Romney´s presidential campaign. He has a full plate.

REI chief is Obama´s
pick for Interior secretary

Los Angeles Times, by Kathleen Hennessey & Neela Banerjee Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/6/2013 9:20:18 PM Post Reply

Washington - President Obama nominated a former petroleum engineer and commercial banker who is also a conservationist and chief executive of an environmentally conscious retailer to lead the Interior Department on Wednesday, making an unorthodox selection for his first female nominee to his second-term Cabinet. Sally Jewell, president and chief executive of Recreational Equipment Inc., has no government credentials and little public policy experience. (Snip) In announcing his choice, Obama cast Jewell as someone who would seek a balance. "She knows the link between conservation and

Karl Rove Is Not
a Conservative

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/6/2013 9:17:58 PM Post Reply

Karl Rove — "The Architect," as President George W. Bush called him — crafted Bush´s two presidential campaigns and served as a key player in Bush´s White House. Now, with an assist from The New York Times, Rove is presenting himself as a conservative leader. On Sunday, the Times reported that American Crossroads, the super PAC Rove started, was beginning a new program called "The Conservative Victory Project." This project, as the Times put it, will "recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and tea party enthusiasts." But Rove is no conservative.

Shooter Identified FRC
as Target on Southern
Poverty Law Center Website

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/6/2013 9:12:04 PM Post Reply

Floyd Lee Corkins II, who pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to the Aug. 15 shooting at the Family Research Council (FRC), identified his target on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which includes a “Hate Map” that labels the FRC as “Anti-Gay.” As the court filing’s “Statement of Offense” for United States of America v. Floyd Lee Corkins II reads, “He was a political activist and considered the FRC a lobbying group. He committed the shooting for political reasons. He had identified the FRC as an anti-gay organization

After Floating Idea of Lifting Ban
on Gays, Scouts Delay Decision

New York Times, by Kirk Johnson Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/6/2013 9:09:25 PM Post Reply

The Boy Scouts of America, which confirmed last summer its policy barring openly gay people from participation, then said last week that it was reconsidering the ban, announced Wednesday that it would postpone a decision once more, until May, as talk of gay men and lesbians in the ranks has roiled a storied organization that carries deep emotional connection and nostalgia for millions of Americans. An end to the national ban, which the United States Supreme Court said in 2000 was legal free speech by a private organization, would create a new moment of risk, experimentation and change,

FBI sources: Menendez
investigation moved to Newark, NJ

Daily Caller, by David Martosko & Charles C. Johnson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/6/2013 9:05:47 PM Post Reply

Two FBI sources have told The Daily Caller that the bureau’s inquiry into Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is now based in New Jersey, not Miami. One added that pressure is mounting from the highest levels of the Justice Department to pursue the investigation. The change of focus away from the bureau’s Miami field office indicates that the government is focused primarily on Sen. Menendez — and not on his longtime donor Dr. Salomon Melgen, as political observers have speculated. Menendez is embroiled in a scandal sparked by allegations that he slept with

$10G degree deal:
Governors push state schools
to offer bachelor´s bargain

FOX News, by Joshua Rhett Miller Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 2/6/2013 9:02:13 PM Post Reply

The $10,000 bachelor´s degree could be coming to a campus near you. What began as a challenge from billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates to make college more affordable is now catching on with governors eager to stem spiraling tuition costs and mounting student debt.[Snip] The bargain baccalaureate could prove popular with students and parents, frustrated with ever-mounting tuition costs that can´t guarantee jobs for graduates. Nationally, student loan debt tops $1 trillion and the price of going to college has risen 440 percent in the last 25 years, according to Sallie Mae.

White House: Congress
to get classified drone info

NBC News, by Becky Bratu Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/6/2013 9:01:31 PM Post Reply

Reversing its earlier course, the White House will now brief members of Congress on a memo detailing the justification for drone strikes against U.S. citizens, an administration official said Wednesday night. "Today, as part of the president´s ongoing commitment to consult with Congress on national security matters, the president directed the Department of Justice to provide the congressional Intelligence committees access to classified Office of Legal Counsel advice related to the subject of the Department of Justice White Paper," the official said. The Justice Department paper, first obtained by

Closest Earth-like planet
´stroll across park´

Associated Press, by Marcia Dunn Original Article

Posted By: Hermoine- 2/6/2013 8:35:01 PM Post Reply

Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined. Astronomers reported Wednesday that the nearest Earth-like planet may be just 13 light-years away — or some 77 trillion miles. That planet hasn´t been found yet, but should be there based on the team´s study of red dwarf stars. Galactically speaking, that´s right next door. If our Milky Way galaxy were shrunk to the size of the United States, the distance between Earth and its closest Earth-like neighbor would be the span of New York's Central Park, said Harvard University graduate student

Scott Brown in talks with
Fox News

Boston Herald, by Hillary Chabot Original Article

Posted By: John c- 2/6/2013 7:43:34 PM Post Reply

Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is in talks with the Fox New Channel to join the network, a Fox spokeswoman has confirmed. She declined to say what role Brown would play at the cable network. The network recently cut ties with former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and former Clinton presidential advisor Dick Morris. Brown, who lost his Senate seat to Democrat Elizabeth Warren in November, announced last Friday he would not be running in the special Senate election o fill the seat being vacated by Secretary of State John F. Kerry.

Immigration Law Enforcement
Put On ICE By Obama

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/6/2013 7:36:55 PM Post Reply

Rule Of Law: A federal judge rules that border agents can proceed with a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of DHS directives ordering the agents to break the law — or have their careers threatened. When those charged with enforcing existing federal law on immigration have to sue their bosses to be allowed to do their jobs, it doesn´t say much for the prospects of immigration reform being hammered out in Congress, allegedly a legislative priority of a president who picks when, how and if he´ll enforce the law. On Friday, Federal Judge Reed O´Conner ruled that 10 Immigration and

Liberals Nervous
Over Sequester

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/6/2013 7:35:46 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I think the time is right to tell you the details, the relevant details about this sequester business. Because it´s another news story or budget story that is being misreported, it´s being presented as the next crisis, we may not be able to survive it, it contains massive spending cuts, oh, no! And none of that is true. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I mentioned squaring this whole business on the sequester, because it´s another thing that´s being demagogued, and it´s another thing that´s being portrayed as "Draconian spending cuts" that people

Like Your Plan, Lose Your
Plan Under ObamaCare

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/6/2013 7:31:21 PM Post Reply

Who believed President Obama when he swore that under the Democrats´ health care overhaul, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan"? No one should have. The promises of ObamaCare have been empty, cynically made for political expediency with the understanding that the public has a short memory. But this one lingers, as it should, because it was so obviously faithless the moment it was uttered. Some politicians will say most anything to get elected or to pass legislation. Truth is optional.

CBO Update: Obamacare Will Cost $1.3T,
Account for 53% of All Federal Spending --
and 7 Million People Will Lose Insurance

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/6/2013 7:30:17 PM Post Reply

RUSH: President Obama´s health care law. We have more health care news, and every day we learn more about what an utter disaster this is, what an utter disaster awaits us. This is from the Washington Times, Stephen Dinan. "President Obama´s health care law will push 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage -- nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released [yesterday]." Folks, you know all this. I don´t know whether you remember it or not, but all during the debate and the run-up to Obamacare,

The Unscary Sequester

Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/6/2013 7:26:26 PM Post Reply

Washington is in a fit of collective terror over the "sequester," aka the impending across-the-board spending cuts. Trying to explain the zero economic growth at the end of 2012, White House spokesman Jay Carney blamed Republicans for "talk about letting the sequester kick in as though that were an acceptable thing." He left out that President Obama proposed the sequester in 2011. Then on Tuesday Mr. Obama warned about "the threat of massive automatic cuts that have already started to affect business decisions." He proposed tax increases and "smaller" spending cuts to

Iran And Egypt: An Axis Of
Evil Blooms In The Mideast

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/6/2013 7:24:56 PM Post Reply

Islamism: A long-feared Mideast nightmare is beginning, thanks to a poisonous mixture of dormant historical forces and misguided U.S. policy. Cairo and Tehran, once America´s allies, are forming a new axis of evil. It would be bad enough if two once-dependable U.S. allies in the most strategically vital region of the world were becoming enemies of the West in isolation. But the top-level meeting of the Middle East´s two most populous Islamic powers takes place as a historic upheaval within the region continues — a disruption largely of President Obama´s doing. Soon-to-be-nuclear-armed Islamofascist Iran´s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Obama´s Colossal Politics

Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Henninger Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/6/2013 7:21:51 PM Post Reply

Who wouldn´t want to live in Washington? It´s a wonderful world, a place where every problem of life can be reduced to just two words. Gun control. Immigration reform. Climate control. The deficit, which of course can be solved in two words: a "balanced approach." Things so hard haven´t been so simple since Tinker Bell taught children to fly in "Peter Pan," also with two words—pixie dust. Gun control stands out. After the Newtown killings in December, President Obama channeled a national gun-control law through Joe Biden.

The Greek food brawl:
Hundreds fight each other
for free vegetables on the
streets of Athens

Daily Mail [UK], by Sara Malm Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/6/2013 6:55:09 PM Post Reply

Hundreds of people were fighting eachother on the streets of Athens during a food giveaway, prompting an outcry over the growing desperation created by economic crisis. Farmers protesting against government cuts gave away 50 tonnes of free vegetables and fruit in the Greek capital earlier today, causing chaos in the streets as impoverished and hungry people elbowed their way to the stalls. Startling images of Greeks struggling to seize bags of tomatoes and leeks thrown from a truck outside the Agriculture Ministry have sparked further debate about poverty in the debt-ridden nation. ‘These images make me angry.

Former ´Ground Zero mosque´
imam accused of pocketing donations

Reuters, by Jessica Dye Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/6/2013 6:33:58 PM Post Reply

New York - The head of a proposed mosque that was to be built near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York City was sued on Tuesday and accused of squandering millions of dollars in donations on lavish lifestyle perks for himself and his wife. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court by several donors, accuses Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf of diverting $167,000 from private donations and $3 million from the Malaysian government for his personal use. The money was intended for the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement,

Obama: Salazar’s family
‘did not cross the border,
the border crossed them’

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/6/2013 6:26:40 PM Post Reply

Speaking about outgoing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, President Obama reminded reporters that the family of the former U.S. Senator from Colorado was of Spanish descendent – dating back to the 16th century. “His ancestors were living here before the Mayflower set sail,” Obama said. “As he explains it — and relevant, as we are working to get immigration reform passed — his family did not cross the border, the border crossed them. And that’s why, when I needed somebody to lead Interior, I didn’t have to look very far.”

Israel: Obama visit will
send ´powerful message´
to Middle East

Politico, by Donovan Slack & Katie Glueck Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/6/2013 6:20:31 PM Post Reply

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said he expects President Obama´s spring visit to Israel -- his first as president -- will send "a powerful message to the Middle East." "Listen, we´re delighted that he´s coming," Oren said on MSNBC´s "The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd. "President Obama was always welcomed in Israel. He´ll be received enthusiastically by the government of Israel, by the prime minister of Israel, by the people of Israel." Asked if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “ready to make a gesture on the peace process,” Oren suggested that wasn´t the purpose of the trip.

Hagel Vote Postponed

Washington Free Beacon, by Adam Kredo Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/6/2013 6:07:24 PM Post Reply

The Senate Armed Services Committee will not hold a vote Thursday on the confirmation of secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel. The office of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.) confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that the vote has been delayed and that new date has been set.(Snip) Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) distributed a letter to his Republican colleagues calling on SASC Chairman Carl Levin (D., Mich.) to delay a committee vote until Hagel responds to the numerous questions about his financial entanglements, according to multiple Senate sources. The letter has garnered at least two dozen signatures

Hagel Vote Postponed;
New Audio Surfaces

Breitbart Big Peace, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/6/2013 6:02:32 PM Post Reply

The Senate Armed Services Committee has delayed its vote on whether to recommend former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the Senate for confirmation as Secretary of Defense, No new date for the vote has yet been given. Rumors of a postponement had been circulating all day. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), who chairs the committee and had previously indicated that a vote could take place Thursday, told Politico´s Manu Raju this afternoon: "The committee’s review of the nomination is not yet complete." The committee is still awaiting answers from Hagel regarding past speeches that he failed to turn over to the committee,

Image indicates Syria
building unscathed by Israel strike

Reuters, by Maayan Lubell Original Article

Posted By: horacer- 2/6/2013 6:00:54 PM Post Reply

(Jerusalem) - A research center that Syria said had been hit by an Israeli air strike last week appears to have remained unscathed in the attack, according to satellite images broadcast by Israeli television on Wednesday. Diplomats, Syrian rebels and security sources said Israeli jets had bombed a convoy near the Lebanese border last week, apparently hitting weapons destined for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006. Syria denied the assertions, saying the target was the Jamraya military research complex on the northwestern fringes of Damascus, 8 miles from the border.

Veterans groups praise
Vietnam combat vet Hagel,
add pressure for Senate GOP
over defense pick

Associated Press, by Donna Cassata Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/6/2013 5:17:07 PM Post Reply

Washington countering the Republican-led opposition to President Barack Obama´s nominee for defense secretary is a less flashy but powerful constituency: military veterans. Veterans´ organizations have praised Chuck Hagel, a twice-wounded combat veteran of Vietnam and deputy administrator in President Ronald Reagan´s Veterans Administration. The Veterans of Foreign Wars has called him uniquely qualified to become Pentagon chief. The Military Officers Association of America said his experience gives him "a range of perspectives." The American Legion said he was a longtime advocate for veterans. The organizations, which as congressionally chartered, stopped short of an outright endorsement.

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