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Boehner: Obama Can’t Take
Executive Action on Climate Change

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/14/2013 8:24:58 PM Post Reply

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) challenged President Barack Obama’s assertions about climate change policy on Thursday, saying there was not anything the president could do if Congress refuses to pass the climate bill Obama called for in his State of the Union speech. “I don’t know what actions the president thinks he can take,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference Thursday. “I don’t think he has the ability to impose a national energy tax on Americans without the authority of Congress.” “He may attempt to do this, but I’m not sure how much he can really do,” said Boehner.

Obama says his is ‘most
transparent administration´ ever

The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/14/2013 8:20:07 PM Post Reply

President Obama on Thursday hailed his administration for its transparency. “This is the most transparent administration in history,” Obama said during a Google Plus “Fireside” Hangout. “I can document that this is the case,” he continued. “Every visitor that comes into the White House is now part of the public record. Every law we pass and every rule we implement we put online for everyone to see.”The president said this holds true even on the issue of Benghazi, a controversy which he said was “driven by campaign” year politics and one that Congressional Republicans were clinging to

Boxer Introduces Carbon Tax Bill
Three Months After WH Promised
´We Would Never Propose´ One

Cybercast News Service, by Craig Bannister Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/14/2013 8:16:13 PM Post Reply

Today, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced a bill to levy a carbon tax. But, back on Nov. 15 of last year, Pres. Obama´s press secretary promised the administration would "never" do so. According to Reuters, the new tax law "would set a $20 tax for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent a polluter would emit beyond a set limit, which would rise 5.6 percent annually over a 10-year period." Last November, however, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that would never happen:

Obama: ´At Some Point
You Run Out of Money´

Weekly Standard, by Jeryl Bier Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/14/2013 8:12:30 PM Post Reply

It´s Valentine´s Day, and today the Republicans heard President Obama say those three little words they never thought they´d hear: "out of money." While speaking on early childhood education in Decatur, Georgia, the president said, according to the White House transcript: So we’ve worked to make college more affordable for millions of students and families already through tax credits and grants and loans that go farther than before. But taxpayers can’t keep subsidizing ever-escalating price tags for higher education. At some point you run out of money. So colleges have to do their part.

The Rules of Attraction

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/14/2013 7:46:46 PM Post Reply

Notre Dame´s football program is best known for stories about fake girlfriends, but across campus in the sociology department they´re interested in real ones--and boyfriends and wives and husbands as well. "Notre Dame Sociologist Elizabeth McClintock studies the impacts of physical attractiveness and age on mate selection and the effects of gender [meaning sex] and income on relationships," announces a university press release. "Her research offers new insights into why and when Cupid´s arrow strikes." In one ingenious study, published in 2011 in the journal Biodemography and Social Biology, McClintock explored sex differences in "revealed sexual preferences."

Christopher Dorner Confirmed
Dead in Autopsy on Burned-
Out Cabin Remains

ABC News, by Russell Goldman* Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/14/2013 7:42:43 PM Post Reply

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Christopher Dorner, the ex-police officer who declared he was on a quest to kill his former law enforcement colleagues, is dead. Authorities this evening confirmed that remains found after a fiery standoff at a mountain cabin Tuesday were, in fact, Dorner´s. "The charred human remains located in the burned out cabin in Seven Oaks have been positively identified to be that of Christopher Dorner," the San Bernardino County Sheriff and Coroner´s Office said in a written statement. "During the autopsy, positive identification was made through dental examination."

Rahm Emanuel Toying With 2016
Presidential Run, Sources Say

Daily Beast, by Lloyd Grove Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 2/14/2013 7:38:31 PM Post Reply

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is said by well-connected Democrats to be considering with the idea of running for president if Hillary Clinton opts out of the 2016 race. The 53-year-old Emanuel, who is busy raising money for his 2015 reelection campaign in the Windy City, has had discussions both over the phone and face to face in the past month with Democratic Party donors and fundraisers about a possible White House run, according to sources. It’s unclear who raised the subject—Emanuel or the donors—and the mayor’s press secretary didn’t offer any clarity on who said what to whom.

Pelosi: Congressional Pay Cut
Undermines Dignity of the Job

The Hill, by Mike Lillis Original Article

Posted By: PaleAle- 2/14/2013 7:36:35 PM Post Reply

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers´ jobs. "I don´t think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "I think it´s necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded." The comments were made in the context of the looming sequester, which would force across-the-board cuts affecting most federal offices, including Congress.

Couple recounts harrowing
Dorner ordeal

Los Angeles Times, by Adolfo Flores and Robert J. Lopez Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/14/2013 7:34:47 PM Post Reply

Fugitive former police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner was apparently holed up inside a Big Bear area condo for as many as five days before the husband and wife who own the property surprised him and then were tied up and gagged, the couple said Wednesday night. (Snip)The couple said Dorner had been at the condo in the 1200 block of Club View Drive since as early as Friday, when they arrived to do maintenance in the yard. He told them he watched them — and even said they were "hardworking, good people." The couple slept at another property nearby.

FDA approves first retinal
implant for rare eye disease

Reuters, by Julie Steenhuysen Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/14/2013 7:16:41 PM Post Reply

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first artificial retina, an implanted device that replicates some of the function of the retina, helping to restore vision to people blinded with a rare genetic disorder, the agency said Thursday. The device, made by privately held Second Sight Medical Products Inc of Sylmar, California, is intended to replace the function of light-sensing cells in the retina destroyed by retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited degenerative disease that affects about 100,000 people nationwide.

In San Francisco, there´s
little life for his party

Los Angeles Times, by Mark S. Barabak Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/14/2013 7:09:47 PM Post Reply

SAN FRANCISCO — Think you´ve got it rough? Meet Howard Epstein. He´s a longtime Republican activist in a city that hasn´t had a Republican mayor in nearly half a century, where a GOP endorsement is an epithet and party registration is vanishingly small, trailing far behind the ranks of Democrats and people who prefer no party at all. (Snip)"I´m used to it," he says, after a bite of corned beef sandwich at a saloon in the city´s Financial District. Not just to losing, but to being pulverized, election after election after election.

Occupy LA Honors Chris Dorner,
Copkiller Who Killed Minority Officers

FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/14/2013 6:56:07 PM Post Reply

Chris Dorner set out to kill an Asian woman and a Black man, not because they did anything to him, but to get revenge on his own lawyer. His ex-girlfriend described him as paranoid and twisted. And that gives him all the qualifications to be another 99 percent hero. Just another reminder that the Occupy crowd are some of the worst people in the world. But maybe they can start Occupy Burning Cabins now. The statement of support and solidarity was posted on the Occupy Los Angeles’ official Facebook page Wednesday. The statement came in

Pew Research Center: More negative
than positive response to President
Barack Obama´s State of the Union speech

Miami Herald, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/14/2013 6:16:03 PM Post Reply

From the Pew Research Center: Unfavorable: 58 percent Favorable: 42 percent Twitter users had a wide range of reactions during and immediately after President Obama´s State of the Union speech. Topics that drew the most attention were education, the minimum wage, the economy, gun control and the deficit. And despite all the media attention, Pew finds most Americans don´t view the State of the Union speech as very important.

Peretz on New New Republic:
´I Don´t Recognize Magazine
I Used to Own. We Were
Liberal But Not Narrowly Partisan´

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/14/2013 6:12:12 PM Post Reply

Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor of the New Republic, has come down strongly on the new iteration of the magazine he first purchased in 1974. So shocked by the content since Facebook´s Chris Hughes took over is Peretz that he published a piece at the Wall Street Journal Thursday titled "The New New Republic: I don´t recognize the magazine I used to own. We were liberal but not narrowly partisan":The New Republic has abandoned its liberal but heterodox tradition and embraced a leftist outlook as predictable as that of Mother Jones or the Nation.

Indiana Guardsman Gunned
Down While Shielding
2-Year-Old Son

CBS 2 News (Chicago), by Dana Kozlov Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/14/2013 6:02:14 PM Post Reply

EAST CHICAGO — Home from Afghanistan for just five months, 25-year-old Indiana National Guardsman Willie Cook was gunned down while shielding his two-year-old son. CBS 2´s Dana Kozlov reports its another case of mistaken identity, with no one in custody. Two-year-old Antoine Cook uses a toy cell phone to talk to his father. It’s all he has. “And to know that your 2 year old has to pretend to talk to his dad,” said Laquana Norwood. On February 2, Cook, was shot and killed while in a car near his grandmother’s East Chicago house where he

Pennies, Marijuana and Cell
Phones: The Top Questions
for Obama´s Google Hangout

Townhall, by Derek Khanna Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/14/2013 6:02:12 PM Post Reply

Today at 4:50 PM ET, President Obama will take questions in a Google+ Hangout. 16,514 people submitted 7,520 questions and cast 97,853 votes for what questions that they wanted President Obama to answer. This is President Obama´s second Google Plus Hangout. His first took place on January 30, 2012. On August 29, 2012, President Obama participated in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread. In that thread he responded to 10 questions (most of which were the most popular questions). Some of the questions that he chose to respond to were "soft-ball" questions such as,"Who´s your favourite [sic] Basketball player?

Obama made no phone calls
on night of Benghazi attack,
White House says

Washington Times, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/14/2013 5:58:33 PM Post Reply

President Obama didn’t make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House said in a letter to Congress released Thursday. “During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who had held up Mr. Obama’s defense secretary nominee to force the information to be released. Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the

Ex-San Diego Mayor Maureen
O´Connor admits taking charity
funds for gambling addiction

CBS/Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/14/2013 5:58:33 PM Post Reply

SAN DIEGO Former San Diego Mayor Maureen O´Connor acknowledged Thursday in federal court that she misappropriated $2 million from her late husband´s charitable foundation due to a gambling addiction in which she won more than $1 billion but lost even more over nearly a decade. O´Connor made the acknowledgement in an agreement with the government to defer prosecution for two years while she attempts to repay the debt. (Snip)O´Connor defense attorney Gene Iredale said O´Connor suffered a brain tumor, during which time she gambled away nearly a billion dollars of her inheritance,

CNN Guest Compares
Dorner to Django

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/14/2013 5:51:38 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Let´s do a little A-B, side-by-side comparison. On the one hand, Marco Rubio may not be qualified, not only to be president, but to be US Senator. He took a sip of water from an average looking bottle while delivering the answer to the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Meantime, elsewhere on that network, you´ve had panel discussions celebrating the relevance and the great contributions to fighting police brutality of a mass murderer, Christopher Dorner, on the very same network. CNN had a panel all excited,

VFW slams Pentagon´s drone
medal, complains it would
outrank Purple Heart

Fox News, by Barnini Chakraborty Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/14/2013 5:48:46 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON – America’s largest combat veterans group is worried the creation of a new medal for drone strikes and cyber-warfare could bestow higher honor on those using a joystick to kill terrorists than soldiers wounded on the battlefield. The Distinguished Warfare Medal, announced Wednesday, would rank higher than the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, which is given to servicemembers killed or wounded in battle. The new medal would rank immediately below the Distinguished Flying Cross. But to some, like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, creating a non-combat medal

Harry Reid Lambasts GOP
After Hagel Vote Blocked:
‘Just When You Thought
Things Couldn’t Get Worse’

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/14/2013 5:43:59 PM Post Reply

The Senate failed to move forward on Thursday with the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to replace Leon Panetta as the next Secretary of Defense. Just after the Senate Republicans blocked a vote to move forward with Hagel’s nomination, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the floor of the upper chamber to admonish his GOP colleagues for ratcheting up “the level of obstruction here in Washington.” “I regret that Republican senators, except for the valiant four, chose to filibuster the nomination of President Obama’s nominee to be secretary of defense,” Reid said.

The Growth Agenda

National Review, by Robert Zubrin Original Article

Posted By: johngalt1- 2/14/2013 5:42:36 PM Post Reply

Since its electoral defeat last November, the Republican party has struggled to find its footing. It should be clear by now that merely waging guerrilla warfare against the Obama administration on a miscellaneous set of peripheral issues won’t do. Rather, what is needed is an independent agenda organized around a central theme that is readily comprehensible to the American people and designed to deal with the critical problems facing the nation. That agenda can only be economic growth. Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can

Obama Akin to Nixon, Bush, ´They´re
War Criminals,´ Vents Cornel West

NewsBusters, by Jack Coleman Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 2/14/2013 5:39:55 PM Post Reply

That´s right -- not just Nixon ... Nixon and Bush. Can vilification from the left get much worse than that? Cornel West continues to demonstrate why parents might want to think better of sending their children to Princeton, where West purportedly teaches when he isn´t gushing over hip-hop and engaging in arcane rants over the airwaves. On his most recent radio show with co-host Tavis Smiley, West condemned President Obama´s legal justification for drone killings of Americans suspected of involvement with al Qaeda,

Obama´s Ongoing Project: Stay Above
Responsibility and Appeal to Low-Info
Voters

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/14/2013 5:38:31 PM Post Reply

RUSH: To Raleigh, North Carolina. Hi, Michael. You´re next, and it´s great to have you here. Hi. CALLER: Hi, Rush. I hope you and Kathryn have a wonderful Valentine´s Day. RUSH: Thank you, sir, very, very much. CALLER: You´re very welcome. I listened to your whole show yesterday and heard you very well describe Obama as the crusader and the warrior, but I´d like to add, what helps him with the low-information voters is he plays the victim very well. RUSH: Well, of course.

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