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Like a Good Neighbor,
State Farm Flees Illinois

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/15/2013 9:15:58 AM Post Reply

State Farm is keeping the move quiet so as not to alarm employees. But the Dallas Morning News reports that it is a “major business relocation” already underway and that this is “one of the biggest stories in the Dallas-area real estate market and will ultimately involve thousands of workers.” Texas-based real estate expert Bob Gibbons notes in a blog post that State Farm’s Dallas office space lease--about 2.5 million square feet of workspace in a few different places--is the Dallas area’s largest-ever office space lease by a single company. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported this week,

Marco Rubio State of the Union
Response: Why "Watergate" matters

Washington Times, by Eric Golub Original Article

Posted By: lmruth- 2/15/2013 9:15:09 AM Post Reply

After President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address, Florida Senator Marco Rubio delivered the Republican response. Obama offered government activism. Rubio extolled free enterprise. This is a worthy "national conversation." The liberal Obama media instead obsessed over Rubio reaching for a cup of water during his speech. Liberals called it a gaffe. CNN even speculated this could end his political career. As expected, Obamatrons piled on. A speech contrasting the Reagan world vision with European social democracy governance favored by Obama was lost in the fog of MSNBC, CNN, and liberal comedians.
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Carnival rescue bus breaks down
while bringing passengers home

CBS News, by Anne Werner Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/15/2013 9:10:52 AM Post Reply

Thousands of passengers erupted into cheers Thursday night as the crippled triumph finally pulled up to the dock. As they stepped onto dry land, and into the arms of their loved ones some couldn´t contain their excitement. Carnival then chartered a caravan of buses to transport folks out of Mobile, Ala. To add insult to injury, at least one of those buses became stranded on the way to New Orleans, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner. The nightmare started Sunday, when an engine fire knocked out power.

Tense About Race In Minneapolis

Powerline, by Scott Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Ruhn- 2/15/2013 9:09:04 AM Post Reply

A cafeteria food fight turned into a riot at South High School in Minneapolis yesterday. The school’s security officers were insufficient to the task. Police officers dispatched to the scene sprayed mace and placed the school on lockdown to get a handle on the situation. Three or four students and a staff member ended up in the hospital. What’s going on? The Star Tribune discreetly reports that parents and students ascribe the hostilities to “racial tensions between Somali-American students and others.” Who might those others be?

Meteorites slam into Russia
as meteor seen streaking
through morning sky

CBS News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/15/2013 9:00:32 AM Post Reply

MOSCOW A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia´s Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and injuring more than 500 people, many of them hurt by broken glass. Fragments of the meteor fell in a thinly populated area of the Chelyabinsk region, the Emergency Ministry said in a statement. (Snip) A spokeswoman for the Emergency Ministry, Irina Rossius, told The Associated Press there was a meteor shower, but another ministry spokeswoman, Elena Smirnikh, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying it was a single meteor.

LBJ library releases Lady
Bird love letters

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 8:55:47 AM Post Reply

A presidential library has released a Valentine´s Day present: Lyndon Johnson´s love letters to Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor during their whirlwind, 10-week courtship in 1934. In fact, LBJ — then a 26-year-old congressional aide — asked Lady Bird, 21, a recent University of Texas graduate, to marry him just days after they met. "It is an important decision," Johnson wrote to his intended. "It isn´t being made in one night ... but your lack of decision hasn´t tempered either my affection, devotion or ability to know what I want." Lady Bird replied that his sudden proposal

Florida Lawmakers Gush
Over Jeb Bush

Associated Press, by Gary Fineout Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 2/15/2013 8:53:27 AM Post Reply

TALLAHASSEE | Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush returned Thursday to the state capital, where he was showered with high praise and urged by fellow Republicans to run for president. Bush was making his first visit to Tallahassee in more than two years. His last visit came when he attended Gov. Rick Scott´s inauguration. He made stops in the Florida Capitol, where he talked to legislators about education and immigration — while stopping short of rendering his opinion on such items as Scott´s own pitch this year to give teachers an across-the-board $2,500 pay raise. "The Legislature is about ready to start,"

Our Incorrigible Media

Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 7:59:21 AM Post Reply

For the last several weeks, as you are no doubt aware, the Washington Free Beacon and other news outlets—most of them conservative—have been investigating secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel’s positions, finances, associations, career history, and utterances. Which seems to us to be precisely what you would expect an intrepid and creative and entrepreneurial press to do when the president of the United States nominates a controversial former senator to one of the most important cabinet posts in the land. Apparently, though, and without our knowing it, you and I have passed through an inter-dimensional portal and have entered

Confidential, expensive USDA
sensitivity training: ‘The
Pilgrims were illegal aliens’ [Videos]

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 7:29:54 AM Post Reply

Footage of the United States Department of Agriculture’s compulsory “Cultural Sensitivity Training” program reveals USDA employees being instructed to refer to the Pilgrims as “illegal aliens” and minorities as “emerging majorities” — at “a huge expense” to taxpayers. The video clips were made public Thursday evening by the conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch, which obtained them through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made on May 18, 2012. Footage of the United States Department of Agriculture’s compulsory “Cultural Sensitivity Training” program reveals USDA employees

Sweet Home Alabama! Jubilant
passengers of the stricken
Carnival cruise ship finally
dock in Mobile after suffering
five days of overflowing
sewage and sleeping under
sheets in a giant tent city

Daily Mail (UK), by Laura Collins & Louise Boyle* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 7:17:13 AM Post Reply

Weary but jubilant passengers finally set foot on dry land on Thursday after five days stranded at sea aboard the crippled Carnival cruise ship. The Triumph finally docked in Mobile, Alabama at 9.30pm local time after a slow crawl into port, battling head-on winds and strong currents. As the ship inched alongside, loud cheering and strains of the song Sweet Home Alabama could be heard from the decks as the vessel blew her horn. Some passengers had written Valentine´s Day messages while another had scrawled: ´The ship´s afloat, so is the sewage.´

Russian Billionaire´s Mega-Yacht
Makes Waves in NYC

CNBC, by Robert Frank Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 2/15/2013 7:09:37 AM Post Reply

On Wednesday, a private yacht sailed slowly and quietly up the Hudson River and docked near midtown Manhattan.This wasn´t just any yacht, however. It was Eclipse -- the largest private yacht in the world. And its presence is sure to touch off a frenzy of speculation about its owners and future. Seeing Eclipse docked off the midtown piers is the boating world equivalent of seeing a blue whale swim up the Hudson in the dead of winter. It just doesn´t happen -- or hasn´t happened. Eclipse´s owner, the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, is famously private and averse to publicity.

The Boston Globe vs
Free Speech

American Thinker, by Ilya Feoktistov and Charles Jacobs Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 2/15/2013 7:05:45 AM Post Reply

A troubled young man plans to go on a shooting rampage at a local mall. A devoted fan of other mass murderers, he gets pleasure watching videos of cruel and graphic violence: actual beheadings, disembowelments, maimings. He hates his neighbors and wishes for their deaths. He´s been taught to hate by religious extremists who dominate his community while intimidating their opponents into silence. The FBI catches him before he can go through with his plan to machine gun shoppers at the mall, though the Bureau ignores the people who indoctrinated him.

President´s visit anything but
welcome for the Rahmfather

Chicago Tribune, by John Kass Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 7:05:23 AM Post Reply

The big guy is coming to Chicago, and that can´t be good for the not-as-big guy on the fifth floor of Chicago´s City Hall. In politics, stuff rolls downhill. The big guy on Pennsylvania Avenue doesn´t want stuff on his shoes, and neither does the not-as-big guy on LaSalle Street. What´s rolling downhill now is the aftermath of the slaying of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old innocent shot to death a mile from Obama´s Chicago home in Kenwood. In the short term, the politics have indeed been masterful.(Snip) Yet it is the street crimes happening right now that plague

Sewage-laden Carnival cruise ships
docks in Mobile, Ala.; passengers
finally disembark from vacation
vehicle turned smelly nightmare

New York Daily News, by Staff* Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 2/15/2013 7:01:33 AM Post Reply

Smell ya later! Bedraggled passengers rushed down the gangway off their crippled Carnival cruise ship Thursday night, grateful to disembark from the stinking boat after it finally reached land. (Snip) We are partying and celebrating,” tearful passenger Kelly Miller said. But the 3,143 guests who endured a four-day nightmare aboard the Triumph — confined to sweltering quarters without working toilets after an engine room fire knocked out power on the ship — also voiced their fury with the rancid ordeal. “Let us off! Let us off!” some chanted during a tiresome disembarking process

Mitt and Ann Romney now
have 20 grandchildren as
son Craig´s twins born on
Valentine´s Day

Daily Mail (UK), by Snejana Farberov Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 6:49:00 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney may have lost the election, but he is the clear winner when it comes to the number of grandchildren. On Thursday, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts and his wife welcomed their 19th and 20th grandkids born to their youngest son, Craig. Craig and Mary Romney, who already have two older sons, added a pair of twins to their growing brood. Ann Romney announced the joyous news on Twitter Thursday evening, posting a photo of her son and daughter-in-law in the hospital happily posing with their two new bundles of joy.

´It was like a scene from
the Armageddon movie´: More
than 500 people injured and
buildings smashed as meteorite
shower hits Russian town,
causes panic and knocks
out mobile network

Daily Mail (UK), by Will Stewart & Jill Reilly Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 6:39:56 AM Post Reply

A terrifying meteorite shower left more than 500 people injured, buildings devastated and the mobile network wiped out when it hit Russia this morning. Brightly burning rocks could be seen for hundreds of kilometres as they crashed at around 9.20am local time and one bystander described it ´like a scene from the Armageddon movie.´ The meteor is believed to have landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in the neighbouring Chelyabinsk region. The city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow and close to the Kazakhstan border, took the brunt of the impact.

President Unleashes a
Nationwide ´Community
Organizing´ Campaign

American Thinker, by Janice Shaw Crouse Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 6:31:12 AM Post Reply

The president´s State of the Union address (SOTU) was merely a prelude to a massive undertaking to go nationwide with his community organizing methods and objectives. This is a president who operates in campaign mode 24/7. One can make a strong case for his failure as a president, but it would be hard to claim that he lacks campaign skills. He learned at the feet of Chicago maestros. As soon as the obligatory SOTU speech was over, Mr. Obama set about revving his campaign engine -- this time for his agenda of nakedly expanding the role and reach of

Elementary school bans
white kids from tutoring

Daily Caller, by Eric Owens Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 2/15/2013 5:57:44 AM Post Reply

An elementary school principal in the Denver suburbs told parents that white children would be excluded from an after-school tutoring initiative. Andre C. Pearson, the principal at Mission Viejo Elementary in Aurora, Colorado sent letters home to parents informing them that only students of color are eligible for the program, KJCT, the local ABC affiliate, reports. Some shocked parents have alleged discrimination and segregation, reports CBS “I was infuriated,” one parent, Nicole Cox, told CBS Denver. “I didn’t understand why they would include or exclude certain groups.”

Stop the Commodification
of Israel and the Jews

Arutz Sheva [Israel], by Orit Arfa Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/15/2013 5:27:44 AM Post Reply

It’s no secret that some Jewish organizations pay their staff very generous salaries that enable them to live a more than comfortable life in America, along with benefits such as trips to Israel, dinners and parties at prestigious restaurants and venues, and the opportunity to hobnob with celebrities and public officials who love Israel and the Jews. (Snip) What would be the higher value: Jewish principle and long-term Jewish safety, or present-day comfort and prestige? For a recent example, I turn to the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense by President Obama.

FAA moves closer
to widespread US drone
flights with plan for test sites

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/15/2013 4:57:40 AM Post Reply

Washington - A future in which unmanned drones are as common in U.S. skies as helicopters and airliners has moved a step closer to reality with a government request for proposals to create six drone test sites around the country. The Federal Aviation Administration made the request Thursday, kicking off what is anticipated to be an intense competition between states hoping to win one of the sites. The FAA also posted online a draft plan for protecting people´s privacy from the eyes in the sky. The plan would require each test site to follow federal and state laws

Retiring Parsippany police chief
to get $132K a year, state says

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Brendan Kuty Original Article

Posted By: Phosphene- 2/15/2013 4:49:36 AM Post Reply

Parsippany - The township police chief will soon retire with an annual benefit of $131,951.76, according to state Department of Treasury spokesman William Quinn. Anthony DeZenzo filed a retirement application with the New Jersey Police and Firemen´s Retirement System on Feb. 8, according to Quinn. DeZenzo was sworn in on Sept. 1, 2011, to lead the department, which boats more than 90 officers, making it the largest in Morris County. He joined the Parsippany Police Department in 1982 after a year with the sheriff´s office. Quinn said DeZenzo will get a monthly benefit of $10,996.

U.S. agriculture wary as Monsanto
heads to Supreme Court

Reuters, by Carey Gillam Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/15/2013 4:24:42 AM Post Reply

A 75-year-old Indiana grain farmer will take on global seed giant Monsanto Co at the U.S. Supreme Court next week in a patent battle that could have ramifications for the biotechnology industry and possibly the future of food production. (Snip) A central issue for the court is the extent that a patent holder, or the developer of a genetically modified seed, can control its use through multiple generations of seed. The Supreme Court´s decision to hear the dispute has sparked broad concerns in the biotech industry as a range of companies fear it will result in limits placed on their own patents of

Tesla CEO Musk writes rebuttal
to NY Times report he called "fake"

Fox News, by Gary Gastelu Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/15/2013 4:08:33 AM Post Reply

“When the facts didn’t suit his opinion, he simply changed the facts.” That’s the charge by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk against New York Times reporter John M. Broder, who wrote an unflattering story about his experience in the company’s latest electric car. (Snip) Broder issued a detailed response to Musk´s claims on Thursday, denying the assertion that he set out to sabotage the test. Broder’s initial review recounted a trip from Washington, D.C., to Connecticut in the $101,000 Model S, which has an EPA rated range of 265 miles per charge. Tesla has installed two sets of high-speed charging

Mali slavery problem
persists after French invasion

USA Today, by Clare Morgana Gillis Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/15/2013 3:48:15 AM Post Reply

Toya, Mali - The insurgents who have fled from invading French troops in Mali have been taking with them some of their most important possessions — slaves. The Tuareg tribes that overran Mali´s military with the help of Arab extremist groups aligned with al-Qaeda have long held slaves and many of the captives are from families that have been enslaved for generations. (Snip) Some Tuaregs took advantage of their newly won control to reclaim freed or runaway slaves, mostly black Africans. The French military arrived in January and retook Timbuktu from the Tuaregs,

Mali faces long-term threat,
House panel is told

Washington Times, by Guy Taylor Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/15/2013 3:30:37 AM Post Reply

French forces quickly dislodged terrorist enclaves from the West African nation of Mali during the past month, but a high-ranking State Department official told Congress on Thursday that the threat is long-term and that containing this branch of al Qaeda is a challenge that covers the whole region. (Snip) Compounding the situation is the fact that the group has gotten its hands on weaponry that U.S. allies originally channeled to nearby Libya, to aid groups that were fighting for the ouster of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi two years ago. After Gadhafi’s fall, the weapons “moved in all

Pope Benedict XVI gives emotional
farewell, while Vatican reveals he hit
head during 2012 trip to Mexico

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/15/2013 3:20:31 AM Post Reply

Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI´s emotional farewell took an intimate turn Thursday as he held off-the-cuff reminiscences with Roman priests. In the background, questions kept mounting about the true state of Benedict´s health and his influence over the next pontiff. (Snip) Italy´s La Stampa newspaper reported Thursday that Benedict had hit his head on the sink when he got up in the middle of the night in an unfamiliar bedroom in Leon, Mexico. Blood stained his hair, pillow and carpet, the report said. No one outside the pope´s inner circle knew, the report said, because the cut

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