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Automatic cuts are getting
a big yawn from Washington

Washington Post, by Lori Montgomery Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 12:20:29 AM Post Reply

As deadlines go, the March 1 sequester lacks punch. Nobody’s taxes will go up; the U.S. Treasury won’t run out of cash. Government offices won’t immediately turn out the lights and lock the doors. No federal worker will be furloughed for at least 30 days. So Washington felt little need to cancel the Presidents’ Day break. On Friday, President Obama flew to Florida for a long weekend of golf. And Congress left town for nine days, with scant hope of averting deep cuts to the Pentagon and other agencies in the short time remaining when lawmakers return

Will young adults face
‘rate shock’ because of
the health-care law?

Washington Post, by N. C. Aizenman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 12:17:30 AM Post Reply

Many young, healthy Americans could soon see a jump in their health insurance costs, and insurance companies are saying: It’s not our fault. The nation’s insurers are engaged in an all-out, last-ditch effort to shield themselves from blame for what they predict will be rate increases on policies they must unveil this spring to comply with President Obama’s health-care law. Insurers point to several reasons that premiums will rise. They will soon be required to offer more-comprehensive coverage than many currently provide. Also, their costs will increase because

How Dare Ted Cruz?

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/15/2013 11:44:27 PM Post Reply

Democrats might well be spending the day after the unsuccessful attempt to end debate on the nomination of Chuck Hagel pondering why President Obama and Vice President Biden were so obsessed with shoving an unqualified and incompetent candidate down the throats of the Senate. Politico has a fascinating story about why President Obama and Vice President Biden were unwilling to listen to sense about Hagel and went all in on the nomination even after clear signs of trouble about the former senator were apparent. But owning up to the sorry truth that what the White House likes

Dems Face Uphill Task
to Take Back House

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/15/2013 11:35:49 PM Post Reply

It´s almost two years until the midterm elections in 2014, so people can be excused their occasional flights of fancy. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) released a memo to his colleagues arguing that the Democrats are well-poised to win a majority in the House in next year´s elections. His three-page memo has a veneer of plausibility to it. That veneer, however, is no match against the headwinds of reality. In 2012, Democrats picked up eight seats in the House, leaving the GOP in the majority with 234 seats.

So total is the Left´s cultural
ascendancy that we dare
not mention the socialist
roots of fascism

Telegraph [UK], by Daniel Hannan Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/15/2013 11:31:51 PM Post Reply

´I am a Socialist,´ Hitler told Otto Strasser in 1930, ´and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow´.[Snip] Its leaders stood for collectivism, state control of industry, high tariffs, workers´ councils. Around Europe, fascists were convinced that, as Hitler told an enthusiastic Mussolini in 1934, ´capitalism has run its course´. One of the most stunning achievements of the modern Left is to have created a cultural climate where simply to recite these facts is jarring. History is reinterpreted, and it is taken as axiomatic that fascism must have been Right-wing, the logic seemingly being

Global Warming Consensus
Looking More Like A Myth

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/15/2013 11:23:50 PM Post Reply

Environment: The global warming alarmists repeat the line endlessly. They claim that there is a consensus among scientists that man is causing climate change. Fact is, they´re not even close. Yes, many climate scientists believe that emissions of greenhouse gases are heating the earth. Of course there are some who don´t. But when confining the question to geoscientists and engineers, it turns out that only 36% believe that human activities are causing Earth´s climate to warm. This is the finding of the peer-reviewed paper "Science or Science Fiction? Professionals´ Discursive Construction of Climate Change" and this

Will Obama Trade A Carbon
Tax For Keystone XL?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/15/2013 11:16:13 PM Post Reply

Taxes: The president may try to satisfy both environmentalists and pro-growth blocs by tying the shovel-ready project curiously left out of the State of the Union to just-introduced carbon-tax legislation. Having failed to lower the sea levels in his first term, President Obama, in the first SOTU of his second term, highlighted the need for fighting climate change and proposed an Energy Security Trust Fund to siphon off money from those who actually produce abundant and useable energy to fund alternative energy sources which constitute a rounding error in the percent of energy produced by various sources.

The Minority Youth
Unemployment Act

Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/15/2013 11:14:04 PM Post Reply

One paradox of the Obama Presidency is how it has retained the support of young people and minorities despite the damage its policies have done to their economic prospects. In his latest attempt to increase the minority youth jobless rate, President Obama is proposing to raise the minimum wage. In his State of the Union address, Mr. Obama proposed an increase to $9 an hour by 2015 from $7.25, and then indexing the minimum to inflation. "Employers may get a more stable workforce due to reduced turnover and increased productivity," the White House says.

They´re back! Lisa Rinna,
Joan Rivers and Omorosa
join the line up in
first promo pics from All-
Star Celebrity Apprentice

Daily Mail (UK), by Bianca Carneiro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 11:11:04 PM Post Reply

Maybe they´ll have better luck the second time around. All-Star Celebrity Apprentice, which filmed last fall around New York City, debuted it´s first promo pictures on Friday with all your favourite famous contestants back in action. The Donald Trump-hosted competition series brings back 14 players from previous seasons, including Lisa Rinna, Stephen Baldwin and LaToya Jackson. Scroll down for video-Rounding out the cast is actor Gary Busey, magician Penn Jillette, rapper Lil Jon, former basketball star Dennis Rodman, country music star Trace Adkins, Twisted Sister´s Dee Snider, author Marilu Henner,

Obama´s Nominees Exhibit
Extremism And Incompetence

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/15/2013 11:08:12 PM Post Reply

Cabinet: Imagine a defense secretary decimating the Pentagon, a CIA chief favoring killing U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and a treasury secretary ignorant of where his own money resides? Say hi to President Obama´s new team. Republican senators are being attacked endlessly for "filibustering" — which they are not — former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel´s nomination as defense secretary. In fact, Democratic senators similarly demanded 60 votes for at least two of President George W. Bush´s nominees. Republicans are not but should be trying to derail Hagel.

CIA Finds Seven New Bin
Laden Photos, Still Won´t Release

Breitbart Big Peace, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 11:02:44 PM Post Reply

This afternoon, DOJ informed Judicial Watch that the CIA has uncovered another 7 photos of Osama bin Laden´s body, taken after the raid that ended his life on May 1st, 2011. The previous known photos of bin Laden have been classified and withheld from the public. Today´s letter from DOJ states that these new photos are "of the same nature" as the other photos and will also be classified and withheld. "This revelation raises new questions," said Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch. "This Administration´s over-the-top secrecy is disturbing."

Hoyer: Eliminating the
deficit in 10 years would
‘savage’ the economy [Audio]

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 10:58:40 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer told The Daily Caller that eliminating the nation’s deficit by balancing the budget within 10 years would “savage” the economy. Speaking in the halls of the Capitol Building, Hoyer told TheDC he opposes efforts by Republicans to achieve a balanced budget in the next decade because it would “very deeply” cut important defense and non-defense programs. “Part of this is the assumptions they’re [Republicans] going to make but if they make honest assumptions, they’re going to have to savage both the economy and national security to get to where

Top Banker Says Government
Caused Housing Crisis

Investor´s Business Daily, by Paul Sperry Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/15/2013 10:57:08 PM Post Reply

Bribed by federal bailouts and threatened by lawsuits, top bankers have grudgingly gone along with the narrative that greed and deregulation caused the recession. But one prominent CEO is breaking ranks as he leaves the embattled industry. While running regional giant BB&T for two decades, John Allison had an insider´s view of the factors behind the crisis. A burst of greed wasn´t one of them, he says. Nor was deregulation. "The financial industry was not deregulated, it was misregulated," he asserted.

Good News: Delay Of ObamaCare´s
Launch More Likely

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/15/2013 10:52:27 PM Post Reply

Health Care: Now that ObamaCare appears unstoppable, the question is can it be delayed? Thanks to bureaucratic bumbling combined with the law´s massive complexity, delay appears to be increasingly inevitable. On Thursday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus told HHS to cough up details on how it plans to get ObamaCare "exchanges" ready in time in dozens of states. Baucus´ demand came after the Health and Human Services official in charge of implementing the law, Gary Cohen, issued the same bland assurances he has been for months that everything is on track for Oct. 1,

4 shot in 90 minutes Friday night

Chicago Tribune, by Peter Nickeas & Liam Ford Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 10:46:45 PM Post Reply

Chicago police were flagged down by a man on the street as they responded to a shots fired call Friday night and found a woman lying on the ground, bleeding from a gunshot wound to her shoulder. She and three others were wounded between about 5:55 p.m. and 7:20 p.m. on the South and West sides, according to Chicago police. The woman, whose age wasn´t available, was shot in the 1100 block of North Pulaski Road, just a bit south of Division Street in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood about 7:05 p.m.

Pelosi: Republicans in
Congress ‘do not believe
in government’ [Video]

Daily Caller, by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/15/2013 8:57:31 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Republicans in Congress “do not believe in government” and are “poised” to shut it down. “The Republicans are poised to shut down government. The Republicans are poised to let sequestration go forward, which is — sequestration — you know what that word means? Well, what it means to the American people is unemployment, no jobs; take us to recession. It’s not quite an exact Latin translation, but that’s what it means,” Pelosi said to laughter at a Capitol Hill press conference on Friday. In the absence of a formal budget,

Historic education reform ‘parent
trigger’ wins in Los Angeles,
deals blow to teachers union

Daily Caller, by Robby Soave Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/15/2013 8:51:29 PM Post Reply

The Los Angeles Board of Education signed off on a parent-led plan to turn a failing public school over to a private charter company this week — the city’s first use of the controversial “parent trigger” law. The 5-1 vote granted parents in downtown Los Angeles final approval to convert 24th Street Elementary School into a charter school. The new school will be better equipped to handle demographic changes to the area, parents said. The parents held after-school meetings at each others’ houses for more than a year in order to craft a worthwhile charter proposal. “It’s been very

Krauthammer: Definition Of
Liberal Is To Take Failed
Program And "Double Down
And Make It Universal"

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/15/2013 8:47:09 PM Post Reply

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I find this amazing. First of all, just hearing him say every first grader in America has to be prepared for a high-tech economy, that is a bit early, I think. The other part of this is here we are with $16 trillion in debt, a trillion dollars a year of deficits. We have created already, with under Obama, the biggest entitlement in 50 years. And now he wants to create a new entitlement for preschool for every 4-year-old in the country. The worst part of this, this isn´t just any new entitlement.

Senators Push Brennan
on Misleading Testimony

Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/15/2013 8:38:16 PM Post Reply

John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency, is getting renewed scrutiny for a highly questionable claim he made during his confirmation hearings last week. On Tuesday, two Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Marco Rubio and James Risch, wrote to Brennan to request additional information concerning Ali Harzi, a suspect in the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi. Brenan, in an exchange with Rubio, had said of Harzi that the U.S. government “didn’t have anything on him.” The claim is almost certainly false.

John Kerry to Dine
With Assad . . . Again?

Weekly Standard, by Lee Smith Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/15/2013 8:27:19 PM Post Reply

John Kerry is traveling to the Middle East and Europe later this month to unveil his new plan to get Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down. "I believe there are additional things that can be done to change his current perception," the new secretary of state said this week. "My goal is to see us change his calculation." The State Department hasn’t released an itinerary yet, but there’s some speculation that Kerry may use the opportunity to visit Damascus to see his one-time dining companion. Indeed, pro-Assad Arab media outfits claim that Kerry will visit Assad.

A&M prof´s mom was close
enough to feel warmth of meteor

Houston Chronicle, by Carol Christian Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 8:16:12 PM Post Reply

Texans who might worry about the prospect of getting hit by a falling meteorite probably take some comfort in knowing the planet´s most recent brush with a huge chunk of space matter took place half a world away in south central Russia. But for Texas A&M physics professor Igor V. Roshchin, Friday morning´s meteorite appearance was very close to home - his boyhood home of Chelyabinsk, where his mother still lives. Roshchin said he got an email about 1 a.m. Friday from his mother, Aida I. Roshchina,

False Media Narrative: Hagel
Filibuster ´Unprecedented´

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Larry O´Connor Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 8:11:42 PM Post Reply

You´ll hear it all over cable news and the networks and in every lede paragraph from the Washington Post to the LA Times: Republicans are conducting an unprecedented filibuster of Chuck Hagel. Where did the media get this buzz word that´s repeated breathlessly by the obedient servants of the White House? From the White House, of course: Asked about the Senate vote during an online “fireside hangout,” Obama said that he expects that Hagel will be confirmed. But he slammed Senate Republicans for their “unprecedented filibuster” of a defense chief nominee.

Here come the "Ben Carson
for President" t-shirts

Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/15/2013 8:09:35 PM Post Reply

Here come the “Ben Carson for President” t-shirts. And campaign websites. And speculation. The warm glow of public appeal for Dr. Carson is growing after his recent provocative speech at the National Prayer Breakfast before an audience that included President Obama. The pediatric neurosurgeon cut a fearless, straightforward path through health care, taxes and American woes, prompting The Wall Street Journal to run an immediate op-ed titled “Ben Carson for President,” declaring that Dr. Carson “may not be politically correct, but he’s closer to correct than we’ve heard in years.” Many agree, and have acted on the sentiment.

$1000/Hr: Obama Books World´s
Top Golf Pro for Vacation

Breitbart Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/15/2013 8:07:59 PM Post Reply

Economic growth is in the negative, unemployment is on the rise, Walmart´s forecasting a disastrous February for retail sales, poverty´s up, gas prices are up, the cost of health care premiums are up, middle class incomes are falling, consumer confidence is at a two year low, our deficit is unsustainable, and Barack Obama has just signed up for private golf lessons with two of the top teachers in the country. You might want to go back and read that last part again. Safely re-elected and with no concerns whatsoever that the media will take issue with his elitist behavior

Obama’s minimum wage proposal
a stealth pay raise for unions

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/15/2013 7:53:49 PM Post Reply

If President Obama succeeds in raising the minimum wage law, he’ll have given many unions an automatic pay increase, a new report shows. “An analysis of union collective bargaining agreements available from the Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards indicates that many service, retail and hospitality industry labor unions—such as UNITE-HERE or the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)—peg baseline wages to the federal minimum wage,” the Center for Union Facts (CUF) observes. “Thus, in many cases, raising the federal minimum wage will either trigger wage renegotiations or automatic wage hikes for certain unionized employees.”

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