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This Isn´t Hard, Mr. President:
Do You Think You Can Kill Us
on American Soil or Not?

Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/16/2013 5:47:58 AM Post Reply

Does President Obama think that he has the power to kill American citizens on U.S. soil? If he accuses a guy in the Arizona desert or rural Montana of being an Al Qaeda terrorist, is it ever kosher to send a drone over to blow him up, as was done to Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen killed in Yemen? Or is it never okay to drone strike an American citizen to death here in the United States? It´s an easy question. Answering it wouldn´t jeopardize national security in any way. So why do Obama Administration officials keep dodging it? Asked the question

Enough with the Kumbaya Olympics.
Let’s keep wrestling.

Washington Post, by Donald Rumsfeld Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 5:42:43 AM Post Reply

The International Olympic Committee issued a surprise decision on Tuesday to exclude wrestling from the 2020 Olympic Games. For a number of years, the committee has drawn fire for its lack of transparency. With its secret vote to remove one of the original Olympic sports — one that dates back 21 / 2 millennia to the first games in ancient Greece — it has added another decision that deserves scrutiny. Let me suggest that when advocates of wrestling make their case for readmission, the committee pay special attention to the case for this proud sport,

Unyielding GOP politicians doing
what voters ask

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/16/2013 5:41:58 AM Post Reply

U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz flew home from Washington last week, leaving behind a capital baffled by Republicans like him in Congress: those who stubbornly refuse to compromise with President Barack Obama, a tactic that some see as damaging the GOP brand and pushing the nation repeatedly to the brink of fiscal chaos. Back in his Utah district, Chaffetz drove to the Dairy Keen and barely had bitten into a bacon cheeseburger before a diner begged him to stop Obama´s health care overhaul. "It´s the stupidest plan in the world," said Phoebe Eason

Obama´s Drone Obsession
Ruffling Feathers

American Thinker, by Elise Cooper Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 2/16/2013 5:39:07 AM Post Reply

President Obama´s latest executive order allows for the killing by drone strikes of American citizens abroad. The administration attempts to find its justification for this in American law: a targeted U.S. citizen has to have recently been involved in terrorist activities and pose "an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States." Although many national security advisers do not disagree with this tactic, they do have some reservations. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told American Thinker he believes that the issue should be not killing those who take up arms against the U.S., including American citizens

A Pope on St. Patrick’s Day?

National Review Online, by Michael Potemra Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 5:36:38 AM Post Reply

The rules say the conclave has to begin 15 to 20 days after the death of the Pope. In the current case, of course, there is no death of the Pope, and thus no need for the traditional Novemdiales period of nine days’ mourning; this, combined with the fact that the world’s cardinals were given ample (17 days) notice of a vacancy in the papal office, made me think it reasonable that the cardinals could move speedily to an election, in the first couple of weeks of March. But Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi

Cheater´s capital

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 5:30:26 AM Post Reply

It should come as no surprise to anyone who has lived, worked or interned in Washington that the city has been named as “America’s least faithful city,” according to a poll conducted by an online dating website tailored for “married dating.” Infidelity has always been rampant in the nation’s capital. Who can forget the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Gary Hart’s “Monkey Business” or former Sen. John Ensign’s affair with the wife of one of his top staffers? This form of Potomac fever strikes members of both parties, but Washington’s real infidelity is typically not between politicians and their wives, but between politicians

The Bonfire of the Vanity

American Spectator, by Daniel J. Flynn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 5:26:46 AM Post Reply

Fire a narcissist at the risk of firing up his imagination. Pride remains one of the seven deadly sins, as much as we try to cast the ancient vice as a modern virtue. The Los Angeles Police Department didn’t fire Christopher Dorner for falsifying a report against a fellow officer or for being an all-around fruit loop. A grandiose figure always sees something enormously sinister in his fall. So Dorner wrote in his manifesto — merely penning one signifies egomania —of his fight to “reclaim my name” and “the conspiracy to have me terminated.”

Civil-rights heir’s ‘stolen’ $ouvenirs

New York Post, by Geoffrey Earle Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 5:22:20 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Beat it! In a humiliating end to a once-promising political career, former Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. agreed to plead guilty to a laundry list of graft in a $750,000 fund-raising scandal — including stealing donations to buy luxury items such as fur capes, a $43,350 gold Rolex watch and a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia. As part of the plea agreement, Jackson, the son of the civil-rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, agreed to forfeit the multitude of personal items bought with donations between 2007 and 2009 that had no conceivable connection to campaign business.

Obama Treats Himself to
Boys´ Weekend in Florida

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 5:20:13 AM Post Reply

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.— Faced with a lonely weekend of rattling around the White House without his wife and daughters, President Barack Obama arranged a golf outing with some buddies. In Florida.(Snip) It´s a weekend with the boys, presidential style. Eyebrows might have been raised at the thought of the president, any president, high-tailing it out of Washington, without his family, for some "me time" hundreds of miles away from the Oval Office. First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha are on an annual, President´s Day weekend ski vacation out West. As it turns out,

The Obama Scorecard

Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 5:18:11 AM Post Reply

Liberalism has its advantages. It puts government in the driver’s seat and encourages the creation of more and more government programs that sound good and seem nice. Who could be against them? In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama touted a College Scorecard his administration would develop “to give students and families clear information about college costs and quality.” Who could oppose that? Conservatives should. A College Scorecard put together at the Department of Education in Washington is redundant, meeting a need that has long since been met. US News & World Report, the old newsmagazine,

Texas Senator Goes on Attack
and Raises Bipartisan Hackles

New York Times, by Jonathan Weisman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 5:09:35 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — As the Senate edged toward a divisive filibuster vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be defense secretary, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, sat silent and satisfied in the corner of the chamber — his voice lost to laryngitis — as he absorbed what he had wrought in his mere seven weeks of Senate service. Mr. Hagel, a former senator from Mr. Cruz’s own party, was about to be the victim of the first filibuster of a nominee to lead the Pentagon. The blockade was due in no small part to the very junior senator’s relentless pursuit

Iowa Gov. Branstad tells Karl Rove
to butt out of Iowa races

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/16/2013 5:09:22 AM Post Reply

Turmoil deepened Friday among leading Republicans over efforts to ward off controversial candidates in the next election, as Iowa Republican Gov. Terry Branstad blasted a new candidate-steering plan by Karl Rove and warned him to stay out of state and congressional races. “I basically told Karl Rove that what he was doing is counterproductive and he needs to stay out of it,” said Branstad, recounting a phone call to Rove, the leader of the new Conservative Victory Project super PAC.

Obama´s Voting Initiative
Greeted With Skepticism

Roll Call, by Amanda Becker Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 5:01:39 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union pledge to create a nonpartisan commission to “improve the voting experience in America” has triggered reactions from the election-overhaul community that range from guarded optimism to overt disappointment. Although voting-rights advocates are happy that Obama is trying to address some of the barriers that greeted voters on Election Day, they differ as to whether a presidential commission can play a viable role in the process. “This should be a critical part of the larger mission of modernizing elections so every eligible citizen can vote and have that vote counted,” Brennan Center for Justice President

Russian Politician: Meteor
Was Just ‘Americans
Testing Their New Weapons’

Mediaite, by Josh Feldman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 4:59:53 AM Post Reply

Every good crisis has its share of conspiracy theories, and the meteor that blew up over Russia on Thursday has inspired some truly inventive conspiracy theories (Jose Canseco won the day with his completely out-there theory about a North Korean missile). Now a prominent member of the Russian government is getting on the conspiracy bandwagon, saying that the meteor was, in fact, not a meteor, but a weapon being tested by the United States government. Russian liberal leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky shared his rather unique take on yesterday’s meteor scare.

Urgent, impassioned campaign
against gun violence interrupted
for vacation and some golf lessons

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2013 4:54:39 AM Post Reply

I know what you’re thinking but let’s be fair. If he took a break from insinuating that gun-rights supporters don’t care about children getting shot for nothing more than a few lessons with the local club pro, that would be callous. But he’s not. He’s taking a break from those insinuations for lessons with thousand-bucks-an-hour top pro instructor Butch Harmon. He’s not taking this gun-control thing lightly, guys. Not now, I mean. He took it pretty lightly for the past 10 years or so, especially during election years, but now he’s serious. Or he will be, once he finally gets

The G.O.P.’s Nasty Newcomer

New York Times, by Frank Bruni Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/16/2013 4:51:23 AM Post Reply

When a Vesuvius like John McCain tells you that you belch too much smoke and spew too much fire, you know you’ve got a problem. And Ted Cruz, a Republican freshman in the Senate who has been front and center in his party’s effort to squash Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense, has a problem. He’s an ornery, swaggering piece of work. Just six weeks since his arrival on Capitol Hill, he’s already known for his naysaying, his nit-picking and his itch to upbraid lawmakers who are vastly senior to him

RI records spotlight double
life of Legion founder

Associated Press, by Michelle R. Smith & Nicole Winfield Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/16/2013 4:42:51 AM Post Reply

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Newly unsealed documents in a lawsuit brought against the Roman Catholic order Legion of Christ show the group´s former second-in-command testified he discovered the order´s founder, the late Rev. Marcial Maciel, had fathered a daughter in 2006, but never confronted him about his double life and didn´t share the news with the group´s broader membership.The documents, previously sealed in a lawsuit in Superior Court in Rhode Island, include thousands of pages of testimony from high-ranking leaders at the Legion, its members, and relatives of Rhode Island widow Gabrielle Mee,

Russia Already Has Meteor Truthers

Slate, by Josh Voorhees Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/16/2013 4:25:58 AM Post Reply

2013 is already making a strong push to be the Year of the Truther (although, obviously, that´ll be no easy title to take). Via the APA: Russian nationalist lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, long known for his flamboyance and outrageous remarks, said Friday that meteorite fragments had not rained down on Russia in the morning, but that the light flashes and tremors in several of the country’s regions resulted from US weapons tests, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti. “Those aren’t meteors falling, it’s the Americans testing new weapons,” Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, told

The Last Supper: Germany´s Great
Church Sell-Off

Der Spiegel, by Matthias Schulz Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/16/2013 4:19:11 AM Post Reply

The crew tasked with demolishing the Holy Family Church in the northern German town of Barmstedt arrived bright and early and began by removing the baptismal font. Next, a bulldozer moved in and knocked down the main church hall and the bell tower. In the space of a just a few hours, this house of worship to the Almighty was reduced to a pile of rubble. (Snip) "Upon this rock, I will build my church," Jesus said with confidence. He said nothing, though, about demolishing those churches. Two millennia later, churches are being forced to make dramatic cuts due

Holder Flack, DOJ Spokeswoman
Resigns from DOJ

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 3:38:45 AM Post Reply

Tracy Schmaler, Attorney General Eric Holder’s top press defender, will resign her position on March 8. This reporter recently caught Schmaler colluding with far leftwing advocacy organization Media Matters for America to attack the reputations of whistleblowers, members of Congress, and people in the new media. People who were targets of the collusion between Department of Justice press aide Schmaler and far leftwing advocacy organizations called for her resignation in September 2012, when evidence of her activity emerged. Now, they are getting their wish. Emails uncovered last year show Schmaler worked with Media Matters to smear people

Prospect of prison looms for
ex-congressman, wife

Associated Press, by Michael Tarm & Pete Yost Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 3:24:30 AM Post Reply

CHICAGO- The prospect of prison looms over former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife after they agreed to plead guilty to charges in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items - including furs, a gold watch, a football signed by U.S. presidents and even a hat once owned by Michael Jackson. It wasn´t immediately clear how much time either Jackson could end up doing when the legal drama inevitably reaches its climax before a federal sentencing judge within a few months. But judges frown on brazen breeches of public trust,

Washington University holds porn
star panel in main university chapel

The Daily Caller, by Eric Owens Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 2/16/2013 1:02:53 AM Post Reply

At Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, students are perpetually lamenting the fact that their excellent Midwestern school isn’t mentioned more often with Ivy-caliber powerhouses. Well, this story probably isn’t going to help. Campus Reform reports that Wash. U hosted numerous porn stars in its main chapel, in a panel called “A Night With the Stars: Life, Love, and Sex in the Workplace.” It featured presentations from adult film industry stars Tori Black, James Deen and Lance Hart.

Mass. gives out 100 grand like candy

Boston Herald, by Joe Dwinell Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/16/2013 12:31:47 AM Post Reply

The roster of state workers raking in six-figure pay skyrocketed last year by an astonishing 12 percent to nearly 7,700 employees, according to a Herald review — a budget-busting bombshell that has fiscal watchdogs howling “enough.” The review comes as Gov. Deval Patrick is pushing for massive $1.9 billion in tax and fee hikes amid a sputtering state economy and a climbing jobless rate. The Herald found that 816 state workers have cracked the ranks of the $100,000-plus pay club — bringing the state total to 7,694 who earn six-figure pay, a tally that has budget watchers seeing red.

Herman Cain announced as
Fox News Channel contributor

Washington Times, by Daniel Wattenberg Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 12:25:32 AM Post Reply

Asteroid 2012DA14 missed earth, water’s not flowing uphill — and on Friday Fox News Channel announced that former GOP presidential contender and populist conservative darling Herman Cain is joining its stable of contributors. Snickering at FNC’s “fair and balanced” slogan is, of course, a favorite pastime on the left, where it’s long been an article of faith that the cable news ratings leader lists to the right. But a fair and balanced observer looking at the lineup changes the network had announced since the November elections might have descried a trending

FBI investigating allegations
Sen. Menendez patronized
prostitutes in Dominican Republic

Washington Post, by Carol D. Leonnig and Peter Wallsten Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 12:22:38 AM Post Reply

A team of FBI agents has been conducting interviews in recent weeks in the Dominican Republic and the United States, looking into allegations that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) patronized prostitutes in the Caribbean nation, but has found no evidence to support the claim, according to two people familiar with the investigation. One person said agents have asked about whether a Florida eye doctor — a close friend and major campaign donor to Menendez — provided the senator with prostitutes on vacations there. Another person said investigators are looking

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

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