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´It´s like a bunch of savages´:
Thousands of passengers stranded
on a disabled Carnival cruise ship
fighting over food and toilets
and sleeping in tents

Daily Mail [UK], by Sarah Malm Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/11/2013 2:03:38 PM Post Reply

The more than 3,000 passengers on the stricken cruise ship stuck off coast of Mexico have turned into ´savages´ and are fighting over food, relatives have claimed. Those on board have no power and have been forced to sleep on deck in tents as there is no air conditioning in the sweltering cabins. The toilets are also not working meaning that passengers have had to make do with bags or buckets. Brent Nutt, whose wife Bethany is on board, claimed that brawling had started because some passengers have got so hungry and food is so scarce.

Texas Ranked Top Exporting State for 11th Consecutive Year

Office of the Governor Rick Perry, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: draggingtree- 2/11/2013 1:55:35 PM Post Reply

Texas is ranked as the number one exporting state for the 11th year in a row, according to 2012 annual trade data released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce. "The fact that Texas is ranked the nation´s top exporter for the 11th year in a row further demonstrates that our strong economic climate provides a broad range of opportunities for businesses to succeed," Gov. Perry said. "Our longstanding commitment to holding the line on taxes, snip

Obama praises Pope Benedict XVI

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/11/2013 1:52:00 PM Post Reply

President Obama praised Pope Benedict XVI on Monday, just hours after the pontiff announced his resignation. "On behalf of Americans everywhere, Michelle and I wish to extend our appreciation and prayers to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI," Obama said in a written statement. The president said he "warmly" remembers the meeting he and the first lady had with Pope Benedict in 2009, "and I have appreciated our work together over these last four years."[Snip]The president "told the pope of his commitment to reduce the number of abortions and of his attention and respect for the positions of the Catholic Church,"

Hadiya Pendleton´s parents to attend
State of the Union address

Chicago Tribune, by Christi Parsons Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/11/2013 1:33:43 PM Post Reply

The parents of Chicago shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton will join First Lady Michelle Obama at the State of the Union address on Tuesday, as the president urges Congress to combat gun violence. Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton and Nathaniel A. Pendleton´s daughter Hadiya was shot and killed on Chicago’s South Side in January, just days after the teenager traveled to Washington, DC to mark the president´s inauguration.She was an honor student and band majorette at King College Prep High School. According to the White House, the First Lady´s box at the address will include Americans from middle class families whose lives

Thousands, including Sarah Palin,
expected at memorial service
for Navy SEAL sniper Chris
Kyle today at Cowboys Stadium

Dallas Morning News, by Jeff Mosier Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/11/2013 1:24:02 PM Post Reply

Among those expected to attend today’s service is former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who posted the following to her Facebook page this morning: Todd and I are in Dallas today to attend Chris Kyle’s memorial and funeral service. I find it sad to see that flags aren’t flying at half staff for this American hero. We’re surrounded today by American patriots here in Texas – by Chris’ fellow veterans and active duty warriors. In honor of them, I hope our commander in chief pays his respects in some gesture of condolence for their comrade in arms

Florida Dem Engulfed in Scandals

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 1:17:45 PM Post Reply

Florida Democratic State Rep. Daphne Campbell and her family are being investigated for several counts of fraud and corruption. The Miami Herald reports the Campbell family scandals include attempting to change Florida law in order to get out of five traffic tickets, Medicaid fraud, tax fraud, identity fraud, grand theft, voting fraud, wrongful deaths, and mistreatment of seniors. Campbell denies any wrongdoing. Campbell claims photographs showing her husband’s car (with her campaign bumper sticker) running several red-lights were digitally altered.

Scientists suggest beer after a workout

Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 2/11/2013 1:13:17 PM Post Reply

Researchers at Granada University in Spain have found that beer can help the body rehydrate better after a workout than water or Gatorade. Professor Manuel Garzon also claimed the carbonation in beer helps to quench the thirst and that its carbohydrate content can help replace lost calories, The Telegraph reports. The study involved a group of students who were asked to work out until their body temperature reached 104 degrees. Researchers then gave beer to half of the students and water to the other half.

Navy SEAL Christopher Kyle’s
memorial draws thousands of
mourners

Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley Original Article

Posted By: drive- 2/11/2013 1:11:31 PM Post Reply

Thousands are gathering at Cowboys Stadium for the Monday afternoon public memorial service for former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, killed at a Texas shooting range on Feb. 2. Killed with Mr. Kyle was his friend Chad Littlefield. The suspect, Iraq War veteran Eddie Ray Routh, is being held in jail on a $3 million bond, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Kyle is going to be buried at Texas State Cemetery in Austin, following a 200-mile-long funeral procession that will start near Dallas on Tuesday, AP says.

Web of Influence

Washington Free Beacon, by Mary Lou Byrd Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 1:10:10 PM Post Reply

A controversial Democratic donor now under federal investigation has affiliations with numerous Latino groups that have allowed him access to high-level Obama Administration officials. United States Spain Council (USCC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, lists SFM Holdings, of which Melgen is the president and general partner, as an organizational member of the council. Melgen’s connection to USSC links him to his long-time friend Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.). Menendez is the honorary chairman of the council. Both Menendez and Melgen are under investigation. Menendez is facing a Senate ethics probe for his relationship with

Senate committee sets
vote on Hagel nomination

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 1:07:23 PM Post Reply

Senate Democrats will press ahead with President Obama´s nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the next defense secretary, despite protestations from several Republicans that they don´t yet have enough information to make a decision. Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat and Armed Services Committee chairman, said Monday morning that he will schedule a committee vote for Tuesday afternoon — the precursor to holding a floor vote in the full Senate. Mr. Hagel, himself a former Republican senator, has drawn stern opposition from Senate Republicans who argue that he took dangerous stances in the past on Iran and Israel

Rick Perry does California a favor

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: draggingtree- 2/11/2013 1:00:11 PM Post Reply

Texas Gov. Rick Perry was scheduled to be in California the start of this week. The Associated Press reported the governor planned to meet with executives in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Orange County. Gov. Perry´s office said he would meet with leaders in the high-tech, biotech, financial, insurance and entertainment industries. The visit follows a modest radio ad campaign launched last week – which then spawned nationwide media attention – aimed at promoting the Lone Star State´s lower taxes and friendlier business climate. snip

Hillary Clinton reveals what
REALLY led to Benghazi massacre -
and demolishes White House claim it
was triggered by anti-Islam film

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 2/11/2013 12:45:18 PM Post Reply

The State Department has said that it never believed the September 11th attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was the result of a protest over an anti-Islam movie - directly contracting the rest of the Obama administration. By trying to distance her department from the inept and deceptive handling of the Benghazi attack, which left U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American officials dead, Hillary Clinton could help herself politically for a 2016 presidential run. A dramatic new account by the State Department reveals that Stevens was locked inside a ´safe room´ choking to death from diesel-heavy smoke

Media Whistle Past Menendez
Prostitution Scandal

NewsBusters, by Geoffrey Dickens Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 12:30:16 PM Post Reply

Allegations of shady campaign contributors and procurement of prostitutes are usually the ingredients of a political scandal that send the media into a feeding frenzy – unless, of course, the figure involved is a Democrat. When news broke that the FBI opened an inquiry into New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez’s jaunts (that may have included solicitation of prostitutes) to the Dominican Republic with a longtime campaign contributor, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks responded with barely a murmur.

Islamists Stealing Christian Children
to Train as Suicide Bombers

Frontpage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 2/11/2013 12:29:21 PM Post Reply

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that 19 children, who were to be sold to fundamentalist Islamic boarding schools (madrassas), have been rescued. Traffickers lied to the children’s parents, saying they would take the children to Christian boarding schools in Dhaka, when in fact, they were intending to sell the children to various madrassas. Students from Dhaka University discovered the children and rescued them. This is not the first instance of Christian children being trafficked to madrassas, as upwards of 150 children have been rescued from similar situations since July 2012.

WaPo´s David Ignatius Implores
Obama To Do Immigration Reform
Without Destroying Rubio

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 12:25:22 PM Post Reply

As NewsBusters reported, CBS News political director John Dickerson a few days before Barack Obama´s second inaugural advised the President to destroy the Republican Party. On the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius went in a completely different direction imploring Obama to "get out of the zero sum game Washington where to do something good on immigration reform he´s got to destroy Marco Rubio" (video follows with transcript and commentary): CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Marco Rubio has been designated as the Republican respondent, right, which is pretty smart I guess because he´s the hot hand. I

National Security Leaders to
Congress: ´Stop Sequestration Now´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 12:17:09 PM Post Reply

In a letter to congressional leaders organized by the Foreign Policy Initiative, national security leaders says, "stop sequestration now." The letter is signed by former senators Norm Coleman and Joe Lieberman, former defense secretary Bob Gates, Bill Kristol, and many others. "Sequestration will result in unacceptable risk for U.S. national security. It will degrade our ability to defend our allies, deter aggression, and promote and protect American economic interests. It will erode the credibility of our treaty commitments abroad. It will be a self-inflicted wound to American strength and leadership in the world," reads the letter.

Dorner´s LAPD firing case
hinged on credibility

Los Angeles Times, by Jack Leonard* Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/11/2013 12:15:20 PM Post Reply

For a Los Angeles Police Department disciplinary panel, the evidence was persuasive: Rookie officer Christopher Jordan Dorner lied when he accused his training officer of kicking a mentally ill man during an arrest. But when a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge examined the case a year later in 2010 as part of an appeal filed by Dorner, he seemed less convinced. Judge David P. Yaffe said he was "uncertain whether the training officer kicked the suspect or not" but nevertheless upheld

John Birch Society hoping
to gain traction in state

Portland Press Herald [ME], by Edward D. Murphy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 12:14:41 PM Post Reply

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 took away the John Birch Society´s prime issue -- communism -- but the organization is hoping to rebuild itself using Ron Paul supporters and opposition to a one-world government as a base. Anna Morkeski, the conservative organization´s state field director, said Maine´s status as a staunch Paul state, at least among Republicans -- initially, most of the Maine delegation to the party´s national convention last August backed Paul -- makes it a natural for the organization.
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A Property Rights Revolution
for 2013

American Thinker, by Mark J. Fitzgibbons Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 2/11/2013 12:07:45 PM Post Reply

A previously apolitical organic farmer in Virginia has set off a property rights revolution that would make Founders Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and author of Virginia´s Declaration of Rights George Mason proud. Martha Boneta had a business license for her tiny farm store in scenic Paris, Virginia, yet she was threatened with fines of up to $5,000 per violation per day for selling organic tea and wool products crafted from her rescued animals, and for hosting a birthday party for eight 10-year-old girls. Officials from Fauquier County using zoning ordinances to bully Mrs. Boneta

3 dead, including gunman, after
shooting inside Delaware courthouse

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 2/11/2013 12:05:16 PM Post Reply

A suspected gunman and two women were killed after shots were fired inside a courthouse in Delaware, police say. Wilmington police told Fox 29 that a man walked into the lobby of the New Castle County Courthouse on Monday morning and opened fire. Delaware State Police Sgt. Paul Shavack said officers exchanged gunfire with the shooter before he passed metal detectors. Shavack did not say whether the shooter killed the two women or whether they were killed in the gunfire. Shavack also did not say how the shooter died. Shavack said police had not confirmed that one of the women

Karl Rove´s Latest Project
Won´t Solve the GOP´s Problem

The New Republic, by Nate Cohn Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 2/11/2013 12:04:48 PM Post Reply

Karl Rove´s bizarre denial after Fox News projected Ohio for President Barack Obama was the only election-night performance worse than American Crossroads´. His super PAC distributed more than $175 million to 30 candidates, of whom 21 lost, despite ample opportunities to take down vulnerable Democrats, like Claire McCaskill, or win open seats, like Dick Lugar´s in Indiana. You´d think that such a miserable showing in last year´s election would dissuade donors from giving more money to Rove, but instead Rove is launching a new money machine, the Conservative Victory Project

Braves backtrack, won’t use
‘screaming savage’ on batting practice
caps after all

Yahoo! Sports, by David Brown Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 2/11/2013 12:00:21 PM Post Reply

The Atlanta Braves have decided to silence the "screaming savage" this season. Apparently reversing course after people complained loudly enough, the Braves won´t be using a culturally insensitive caricature of a Native American on their batting practice caps. Congratulations to them for doing something that should have been obvious. Instead, the familiar letter "A" in neoclassic Atlanta Braves script appears on the cap, as in the photo above. The letter "A" never offended anyone, unless you were the lead character in a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel. Only a cynic would call the Braves´ decision a victory for political correctness

What Our Society Has Become

Canada Free Press, by Douglas V. Gibbs Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 11:55:42 AM Post Reply

Today’s democrats are often called “socialists” by their opposition, and though that is probably true, what today’s progressive liberals truly are is something worse. These people are statists, which are people who believe that only the ruling elite understand how a society should be run, and that it is up to them to engineer that society so that eventually it becomes a peaceful utopia equipped with equality, fairness, and a share-and-share alike attitude. Heaven on Earth, I suppose you could say. Samuel Adams called the concept “utopianism.” Karl Marx called it communism.

Small Business Administrator Mills
leaving Obama administration

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 2/11/2013 11:53:00 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Karen Mills is leaving her post as head of the Small Business Administration, opening yet another Cabinet-rank job for President Barack Obama to fill at the start of his second term. Obama says Mills played a leading role supporting start-up businesses and entrepreneurs. Mills has served as SBA administrator since 2009. (snip)Mills is the latest executive branch official to leave during the traditional turnover at the beginning of a second term.

Crime & Incompetence: Guide
to America’s Immigration Crisis

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 11:50:57 AM Post Reply

Just as the powers that be in Washington, DC are about to open the“bi-partisan” path for amnesty via 11+ million illegal immigrants, along comes Whistleblower author Marinka Peschmann to open the pandora’s box called the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Investigative journalist Marinka Peschmann’s eye-opening book, Crime & Incompetence: Guide to America’s Immigration Crisis takes the reader into the world of crime, corruption, and incompetence that run an uninterrupted daily course at the USCIS. From its opening pages that shine the spotlight on the politicians and

The Corrupt Origins of the
Melgen-Menendez Dominican
Port Security Deal

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Michael Patrick Leahy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/11/2013 11:22:44 AM Post Reply

The saga of the Dominician port security deal that has embroiled Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and his friend and major donor Dr. Salomon Melgen began in December 2000 when retired Major General Javier Juan Rene Beauchamp, Commander of the Dominican Armed Forces from 1975 to 1978 and "one of the strong men of the government of 12 years of Joaquín Balaguer," was assassinated at his home in the Dominican Republic just months after Hipolito Mejia was elected as the country´s new president. In 1973, then Brigadier General Beauchamp was part of an elite military squad that

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