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Where is the Brennan Coverage?

Amerian Spectator, by Luca Gattoni-Celli Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/9/2013 5:35:18 AM Post Reply

John Brennan’s confirmation hearing was hot news yesterday. Yet by about 10 a.m. or so this morning, coverage of Brennan’s nomination had been pushed off the virtual front pages of sites like Politico, the Huffington Post, and the Washington Post to make way for stories about whether the Redskins should change their politically incorrect name and mascot, celebrity gossip, and Republican governors making an incremental shift on an obscure aspect of an old issue that has been covered to death: Obamacare (pun intended). Full disclosure: I cared a great deal about this story

Bishops won’t be Obama’s pawn

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/9/2013 5:25:02 AM Post Reply

Good for the Catholic bishops. About a week ago, with much fanfare, Team Obama announced a “compromise” to the contraceptive mandate it aims to impose on employers. Thursday, the bishops said they’ve seen the offer and it doesn’t amount to much: The administration’s highly restrictive view of what qualifies as a religious ministry still puts Catholic universities, charities and hospitals at risk. The bishops also resisted the administration’s effort to get the church to take protection for itself at the expense of others, especially private individuals and family-owned businesses. “We cannot now abandon them,” said the bishops’ statement.

Big Job: Wrong Man

Weekly Standard, by Geoffrey Norman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2013 5:20:55 AM Post Reply

It can be tempting, if you are not a Washington insider or intimate, to put the Chuck Hagel business out of mind. Or try, anyway. He did so badly in the confirmation hearings that, as Stephen Hayes writes, “any senator who takes the advise-and-consent role seriously had to have real concerns about [Hagel’s] basic competence.” Still, presidents are entitled to appoint the people they want, you think, even when they are, manifestly, not the best possible choice or even up to the job. (Snip)But, then, this is not just any old cabinet post. Hagel will not be running

Dan Rather on Reddit: No one proved
that Bush documents were forged

Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2013 5:11:37 AM Post Reply

On a Reddit AMA (Ask me anything) yesterday, former CBS broadcaster Dan Rather (Now with AXS-TV) was understandably asked a question about ‘Rathergate’ – the story on George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard that used forged documents in the report. Rather responded brusquely: Number 1 – the facts of case are not in dispute. Number 2 – no one had ever established that the documents were forged (those who attack them argued that we didn’t do enough to demonstrate that they were not forged) The whole documents argument

With Plea Deal, Jesse Jackson Jr.’s
Fall From Grace Seems Complete

Daily Beast, by John Avlon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2013 5:01:43 AM Post Reply

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. agreed Friday to plead guilty to charges of misusing campaign funds, in an apparent bid to an end a federal investigation that threatens to also implicate his wife, former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson. Both had resigned their offices in recent months, reportedly as part of the congressman’s negotiations with prosecutors. For the scion of what was once the country’s most influential African-American family, the plea deal represents a precipitous fall from grace that overlaps with the ascent of another African-American Chicago family to the White House. The Jackson dynasty appears to be done.

Sen. Menendez defends his relationship
with political donor Melgen

The Hill (DC), by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2013 4:47:53 AM Post Reply

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) defended his relationship with Florida doctor and political donor Salomon Melgen in an interview with Univision on Friday, saying he didn’t do anything on his friend’s behalf that he doesn’t regularly do for others. Melgen, a close friend of Menendez’s, reportedly overbilled the U.S. government by almost $9 million in Medicare payments, inviting a federal audit. Menendez acknowledged contacting officials to complain that the Medicare billing rules were unclear, but the senator denied that his close ties to Melgen had anything to do with him raising the issue.

Rescued Alabama Hostage Ethan Celebrated
Birthday With SWAT Team, FBI Agents

ABC News, by David Muir & Christina Ng Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2013 4:43:53 AM Post Reply

As a beaming 6-year-old Ethan said "cheese" for photos and played with toy cars at his birthday party, there were no immediate signs of the turmoil the young boy had endured just days earlier. The boy, identified only as Ethan, was held hostage in a nearly week-long standoff in Alabama. He was physically unharmed after Jimmy Lee Dykes kidnapped him from a school bus and held him hostage in a booby-trapped underground bunker.Ethan was rescued by the FBI Monday after they rushed the bunker where Dykes, 65, was holding him. Dykes was killed in the raid.

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.

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