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A state-by-state look
at the Northeast blizzard

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2013 4:40:26 AM Post Reply

A look at effects in states and provinces in the path of the storm sweeping across the Northeast and southern Canada: --- CONNECTICUT Gov. Dannel P. Malloy imposed a travel ban Friday on the state´s highways and deployed National Guard troops around the state for rescues or other emergencies. A coastal flood warning was posted for southern Fairfield County, saying Friday evening´s high tide could be 3 to 5 feet higher than normal in western Long Island Sound. The state´s two biggest utilities planned for the possibility that up to 30 percent of their customers -

‘Suicide Conservatives’

New York Times, by Charles M. Blow Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/9/2013 12:17:00 AM Post Reply

There used to be a political truism: Democrats fall in love, while Republicans fall in line. That’s no longer true. Not in this moment. Democrats have learned to fall in love and fall in line. Republicans are just falling apart. Last week, the opening salvos were launched in a very public and very nasty civil war between establishment Republicans and Tea Party supporters when it was reported that Karl Rove was backing a new group, the Conservative Victory Project, to counter the Tea Party’s selection of loopy congressional candidates who lose in general elections. The Tea Party was having none

Mr. Cantor looks
for middle ground

Washington Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/9/2013 12:15:42 AM Post Reply

A HEALTHY SKEPTICISM is always in order with regard to grand political speeches, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s effort Tuesday to reposition and rebrand his Republican Party was no exception. In promising to move from partisan budgetary trench warfare to an agenda both more open to compromise and more clearly connected to the “real-life concerns” of Americans, Mr. Cantor was transparently trying to dig out of the political hole in which his party finds itself. We’ll find out soon enough whether his words

600 homeless children in D.C.,
and no one seems to care

Washington Post, by Petula Dvorak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/9/2013 12:13:56 AM Post Reply

I don’t care what we call our football team. I don’t care about Lance Armstrong’s doping or RGIII’s knee, or whether Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o knew his dead girlfriend never existed in the first place, or any of the other sports dramas we’ve spent gobs of energy on in these past few weeks. Here’s what we ought to be talking about: 600 kids. The District has set a dubious new record for the number of homeless kids crammed inside a scary, abandoned hospital that serves as the city’s makeshift family homeless

Time to break up the big banks

Washington Post, by George F. Will Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/9/2013 12:10:48 AM Post Reply

With his chronically gravelly voice and relentlessly liberal agenda, Sherrod Brown seems to have stepped out of “Les Miserables,” hoarse from singing revolutionary anthems at the barricades. Today, Ohio’s senior senator has a project worthy of Victor Hugo — and of conservatives’ support. He wants to break up the biggest banks. He would advocate this even if he thought such banks would never have a crisis sufficient to threaten the financial system. He believes they are unhealthy for the financial system even when they are healthy. This is because there is a silent subsidy — an unfair competitive advantage

Publication of hacked George
W. Bush e-mails raises
journalism ethics questions

Washington Post, by Paul Farhi Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/9/2013 12:07:30 AM Post Reply

By the old rules of journalism, George W. Bush’s private e-mails to his family might never have been published or broadcast, certainly not without his permission. Most news organizations would have thought twice about publishing personal messages that were, in essence, stolen goods. But that was then. The former president’s private communications and photos sent to family members went far and wide over the Internet on Friday after they were published by a Web site. The Smoking Gun, which specializes in unearthing material about criminal and legal matters, disclosed the Bush family’s personal correspondence in a story based

Facebook Temporarily
Suspends Tea Party Mom

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/8/2013 11:50:37 PM Post Reply

In at least the second such encounter in recent weeks, the social media website Facebook has run into issues with conservatives posting information that has caused the site to block Tea Partiers from posting--at least temporarily. Now, Facebook blocked two stay-at-home Tea Party moms from posting material that’s pro-conservative and critical of liberals including President Barack Obama, Breitbart News has learned. The two moms--Patty and Lisa (they requested Breitbart News not use their last names, as they have “received death threats on our page and would prefer to remain somewhat anonymous”)

US evaluating next
steps in Syria conflict

Australian Associated Press, by Jo Biddle Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/8/2013 11:44:50 PM Post Reply

The United States is weighing its next steps to try to end the conflict in Syria, new Secretary of State John Kerry says, adding there has been "too much killing" in the 22-month war. His comments on Friday came amid hints of deep divisions in President Barack Obama´s cabinet over US policy in Syria, where some 60,000 people have died as opposition rebels battle to oust President Bashar al-Assad. It was revealed this week that the White House had rejected secret plans drawn up last summer by Kerry´s predecessor, Hillary Clinton, and former CIA chief, General David Petraeus, to arm

GOP Leaders Wield
Unlikely Weapon Against
Obama: Bob Woodward

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/8/2013 11:41:10 PM Post Reply

Republicans Friday afternoon bludgeoned the administration with an unlikely weapon in the political battle over the impending sequestration: the words of Bob Woodward, theWashington Post journalist whose exposure of the Watergate scandal in 1972 brought down the Nixon presidency. As White House press secretary Jay Carney blasted “spin doctors on the Republican side” for spreading the “fanciful concoction” that the White House wanted the sequester, House Republicans deployed a passage from Woodward’s most recent book, The Price of Politics, that tells a different story. According to Woodward

The Truth Behind
Our Entitlement Culture

FOX Business, by Steve Tobak Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 2/8/2013 11:29:08 PM Post Reply

Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget. Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem, someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it

Clashes at Tunisian opposition
leader Chokri Belaid´s funeral

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/8/2013 11:25:57 PM Post Reply

Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters as tens of thousands joined the funeral of opposition leader Chokri Belaid whose murder plunged Tunisia into new post-revolt turmoil. (Snip) The opposition has accused Ennahda, the Islamist party that dominates the ruling coalition, of eliminating the outspoken government critic after months of simmering tensions between liberals and Islamists over the future direction of the once proudly secular Muslim nation. Police fired tear gas at rioters who tried to set fire to cars opposite the cemetery in southern Tunis, sending up thick plumes of smoke and causing

China, Japan engage in new
invective over disputed isles

Reuters, by Michael Martina Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/8/2013 10:20:22 PM Post Reply

Beijing - China and Japan engaged on Friday in a fresh round of invective over military movements near a disputed group of uninhabited islands, fuelling tension that for months has bedeviled relations between the Asian powers. An increasingly muscular China has been repeatedly at odds with others in the region over rival claims to small clusters of islands, most recently with fellow economic giant Japan which accused a Chinese navy vessel of locking radar normally used to aim weapons on a Japanese naval ship in the East China Sea. China´s Defence Ministry rejected Japan´s complaint about the radar,

Rough day for celebs at
Pebble Beach Pro-Am as ESPN’s
Chris Berman hacks away
in a bunker and Condoleezza Rice
drills fan in the forehead

New York Daily News, by Sean Brennan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/8/2013 10:18:21 PM Post Reply

And they say golf is a relaxing sport. You may have a hard time selling that notion to Chris Berman – and Condoleezza Rice´s gallery victim - at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am´s opening round Thursday. Berman, the long-time ESPN anchor famous for his catch phrases and nicknames, had a less-than-memorable experience at one greenside sand trap where he spent so much time in the sand trying to chip his way out of the bunker that he should have pulled up a beach chair and ordered a couple of cold adult beverages of his choice.

Democratic Ohio Poll Watcher:
Yeah, I Voted For Obama Twice

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/8/2013 9:33:22 PM Post Reply

Think voter fraud doesn´t exist? Think it doesn´t matter in states like, oh I don´t know...Ohio? Think again. More from John Fund: The Hamilton County Board of Elections is investigating 19 possible cases of alleged voter fraud that occurred when Ohio was a focal point of the 2012 presidential election. A total of 19 voters and nine witnesses are part of the probe. Democrat Melowese Richardson has been an official poll worker for the last quarter century and registered thousands of people to vote last year. She candidly admitted to Cincinnati’s Channel 9 this week that she voted twice

GOP Rep. King: I fully
support Obama on drone
strikes on U.S. citizens

Washington Examiner, by Michal Conger Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/8/2013 9:30:11 PM Post Reply

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Friday he fully supports President Obama’s position on carrying out drone strikes on American citizens abroad who are affiliated with terror groups. “I fully support targeted operations that have been carried out,” King said. “I think the president has done the right thing.” King suggested the operations are a necessity of war, and the the issue has been overblown. “I’m not trying to minimize this, but I think there’s been a lot of liberal hand-wringing going on,” he said. King cited the Civil War, noting that the soldiers who

ICE agent: ‘ICE’s mission
now is to identify aliens
and release them’

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/8/2013 9:25:27 PM Post Reply

Congress will hear from an illegal immigrant activist and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent prohibited from arresting him. The agent testified last week that officers routinely face disciplinary action for making arrests because “ICE’s mission now is to identify aliens and release them,” according to ICE supervisors. “As a general rule, if ICE agents or officers are on duty in a public place and witness a violation of an immigration law, they are prohibited from making arrests and from asking questions under threat of disciplinary action,” ICE union head Chris Crane told the House Judiciary Committee,

American Legion: Obama’s
Immigration Plan a ‘Bad
Sequel’ to 1986 Amnesty Law

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Burke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/8/2013 9:19:08 PM Post Reply

American Legion National Commander James E. Koutz criticized President Barack Obama’s proposal for immigration reform, calling it a “bad sequel” to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. “‘A bad sequel’ is how American Legion National Commander James E. Koutz described President Obama’s proposal to grant amnesty to people who are in the United States illegally,” according to an American Legion press release from Jan. 30. “Whether it’s called ‘Pathway to Citizenship’ or some other euphemism, it’s still amnesty,” said Koutz. “It didn’t work when President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control

Terror Sting: California Man
Arrested in Taliban Car Bomb Plot

ABC News, by Jason Ryan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/8/2013 9:15:15 PM Post Reply

Federal agents arrested a California man this morning in a terror sting after he allegedly tried to detonate a car bomb at an Oakland bank as part of a Taliban plot. The FBI said the explosive device that Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose tried to use was not operable and posed no threat, and that Llaneza´s Taliban contact was actually an undercover agent. According to authorities, in November Llaneza met with a man he believed was linked to the Taliban and the mujahideen in Afghanistan.

Report: White House set to cut
nuclear arsenal by one-third

The Hill, by Carlo Muñoz Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/8/2013 9:05:22 PM Post Reply

President Obama is poised to sign off on a new internal review of U.S. nuclear weapons strategy that would reduce the arsenal by one-third, resulting in billions in savings to the Pentagon and Energy Department. The recommended reductions were included in a draft version of a classified decision directive compiled by top defense and national security officials inside the White House, according to a report by the Center for Public Integrity issued Friday. While the president has yet to officially approve the directive, including the recommended one-third cut to the nuclear arsenal, sources tell CPI Obama has

White House warns sequester
would disrupt life of nation

The Hill [Washington DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/8/2013 9:04:42 PM Post Reply

The White House warned Friday that allowing the $85 billion sequester to happen would devastate the economy and disrupt the everyday lives of millions of people.In a move intended to intensify pressure on Congress to prevent looming spending cuts set for March 1, White House officials told reporters the cuts would hamper law enforcement, hurt federal education programs, withhold mental health services and furlough thousands of workers.The officials also said there would be nothing they could do to soften the pain if the sequester happens.

Administration’s New Climate
Report: Next Ice Age ‘Has Now
Been Delayed Indefinitely’

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/8/2013 9:02:25 PM Post Reply

A federal advisory committee appointed by the Obama administration to produce a report on climate change says that if Earth’s climate were still “primarily controlled by natural factors”—rather than by man-made global warming—then the next ice age would occur within the next 1,500 years. But now, because of humans, the committee says, the next ice age has been "delayed indefinitely." “Confirmation of what are called Milankovich cycles (cyclical changes in the Earth’s orbit that explain the onset and ending of ice ages) led

Dr. Benjamin Carson Addresses National
Prayer Breakfast, Criticizes Obamacare

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/8/2013 9:00:29 PM Post Reply

Famed Baltimore neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson addressed the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning on healthcare. Dr. Carson often criticized Obamacare and government intrusion in healthcare while President Obama sat in the audience. Dr. Carson encouraged a program where newborn babies are given health savings account as an alternative to Obamacare. (Snip)DR. CARSON: Here´s my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed -- pretax -- from the time you´re born ´til the time you die.

Atlantic Council releases list
of foreign donors for Hagel

The Hill [Washington DC], by Jeremy Herb Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/8/2013 8:58:00 PM Post Reply

The Atlantic Council on Friday released a list of its foreign donors after Republicans demanded the financial information from Defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, who is chairman of the think tank. The Atlantic Council’s president and CEO sent a seven-page letter to Hagel Friday that included the list of foreign corporations, governments and government entities that fund the organization. The list includes roughly 100 corporations and 15 foreign governments, as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The amount of funding from each entity is not listed. It’s unclear whether the information will satisfy Republican demands.

Brainwashed by Obama

Washington Times, by Josh Krisinger Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/8/2013 8:56:45 PM Post Reply

In 2008, I was a 21-year old college junior and first-time voter. At the time, I had an opportunity to shake then-Sen. Barack Obama’s hand as he marched out from the student center at Georgia Tech, my college, to address a packed crowd in downtown Atlanta. Sparked by this encounter and riding the anti-Bush bandwagon, I checked my ballot box for Mr. Obama on Election Day, and optimistically began to look for the hope and change he promised. Little has improved since then, and the experience left a sour taste in my mouth toward democracy.

Obama´s Latest Jobs Promise
—Deja Vu All Over Again

Investor's Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/8/2013 8:47:32 PM Post Reply

State Of The Union: President Obama says his State of the Union speech will be "focused on job creation." Seems as though we´ve heard this song before from Obama. And we already know how it ends. In a preview of his State of the Union speech to Democrats, Obama promised that after four years of historically weak economic growth and an unemployment rate that´s been stuck at or near 8% since he took office, he´s going to turn his attention to job growth. But he´s made the same promise many times over the past four years.

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