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Drone strikes: Who´s on the ´kill list´

Los Angeles Times, by Tom Campbell Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 1:20:51 PM Post Reply

Who decides who will be killed by U.S. drone attacks? Protectors of civil liberties have expressed dissatisfaction with the present system of unreviewed presidential discretion, whether in the hands of George W. Bush or Barack Obama. Must an individual have attacked America or Americans to make the "kill list"? Are the standards higher if the target is a U.S. citizen? How much "collateral damage" is acceptable? And, above all, how comfortable are we with one person, albeit the commander in chief, making these decisions? Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence

Budget-busting burgers: Beef,
chicken supply could be casualties
of Congress, Obama sequester fight

Washington Times, by By Seth McLaughlin & Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/16/2013 12:47:56 PM Post Reply

If the spending sequesters happen, get ready for the great beef shortage of 2013. The Obama administration said Thursday that the across-the-board cuts would mean furloughs for food safety inspectors, and if those inspectors aren’t on the job, meat-processing plants can’t open. That means 2 billion pounds of beef and pork and potentially more than 3 billion pounds of poultry will never make it to the market, causing shortages and price spikes across the economy. “This is going to adversely affect every consumer in America,” said Sen. Mark L. Pryor, Arkansas Democrat.

First lady, Joe Biden in town

Aspen Times [CO], by Rick Carroll Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 12:46:58 PM Post Reply

ASPEN — Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha and Malia, arrived Friday in Aspen to enjoy Presidents Day weekend. Law-enforcement officials declined to discuss the first lady´s plans for the short stay, but Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo said that his agency will be providing assistance to the Secret Service during the visit. DiSalvo said his understanding is that Obama will leave town by Sunday. Vice President Joe Biden also is visiting the area this week, with a short ski trip planned in Snowmass Village, according to published reports. Sgt. Brian Olson, of the Snowmass Village Police Department,

Pythons not Florida´s only
invasive animal problem

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 12:43:36 PM Post Reply

KEY LARGO, Fla. — While hunters stalked the elusive Burmese python through Florida´s Everglades over the past month, state and federal wildlife officials set traps for other animals menacing native wildlife in a fragile ecosystem. The python gets most of the attention in Florida´s animal kingdom and is accused of decimating populations of native mammals in the Everglades, but wildlife officials say other species including feral cats, black-and-white tegu lizards and Cuban tree frogs pose equally serious threats. And while a state-organized Python Challenge was held this year, a Kitty Cat Challenge or

Final count in Florida´s
Python Challenge hunt: 68

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 12:40:23 PM Post Reply

MIAMI— Florida wildlife officials say 68 Burmese pythons were caught and killed during a public hunt for the invasive snakes in the Everglades. That tally might not seem impressive, considering that roughly 1,600 people signed up for the state-sponsored Python Challenge. But Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials say the hunt may have prevented thousands more pythons from being born in the Everglades. Female pythons can lay 50 to 100 eggs at a time. The Python Challenge began Jan. 12 and ended Sunday. Wildlife officials said Saturday that the longest python

Sunning and skiing for Obamas
as the president and Congress
takes a vacation

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/16/2013 12:35:15 PM Post Reply

With no solution yet for automatic budget cuts due to kick in March 1, both President Obama and congressional lawmakers have decamped from Washington for vacations. Mr. Obama arrived in Florida Friday night for a four-day, President’s Day weekend of golf lessons and relaxation with a wealthy campaign donor who was once the target of anti-minority bias complaints, while first lady Michelle Obama is vacationing separately in the ski mecca of Aspen, Colo., with their daughters. The president hit the links Saturday morning at the Floridian Golf Club, a private, gated golf community in

NBC News Reporter Stops
Returning Carnival Cruise
Passenger From Quoting Bible

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 12:34:14 PM Post Reply

As stranded Carnival Cruise passengers began finally disembarking in Mobile, Alabama, late Thursday evening, MSNBC had NBC News correspondent Mark Potter on the scene to speak with them. One young lady during her over three minute interview tried to cite a Bible verse that helped her get through the ordeal, but Potter pulled his microphone away and quickly ended the discussion (video follows with transcript and commentary): MARK POTTER, MSNBC REPORTER: It sounded like you guys handled it pretty well. Were there some passengers who seemed to have a really rough time on board?

Obamacare: Democrats Starting to
Run But There’s No Place to Hide

PJ Media, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/16/2013 12:28:49 PM Post Reply

It was inevitable that once the blanks contained in Obamacare began to be filled in, that even Democratic supporters of the law would start running away from it, so toxic it is going to be to any politician who supported it. The unintended — and intended – consequences are proving to be a nightmare for the health insurance consumer and the government seems powerless to do anything about it. A hearing on Thursday of the Senate Finance Committee turned into a Democratic Obamacare bashing-fest as four powerful Democratic Senators “laid into” the administration’s top regulator on new

Warning: This Will Get
Your Blood Boiling

Breitbart´s InstaBlog, by Lisa De Pasquale Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/16/2013 12:26:12 PM Post Reply

We´ve all heard about the free Obama phones. A friend was recently looking for a part-time work and found this listing on Craig´s List [note: the "DMV" refers to DC, Maryland, Virginia]: Street Teams & Leaders Earn $500-$2000 A Week (DMV Area) Thank You for responding to our ad. Let us reassure you that if you are looking for an exciting opportunity you have found it here. We are a major telecommunications provider who has been tasked with the distribution of the FREE LIFELINE government cell phone program. What is it? This is a federally funded program that gives people

Moving gear difficult in
Afghan withdrawal

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 12:24:31 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Carrying out the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will be difficult, with an immense amount of equipment to be moved and no nearby seaport, a general said. President Obama ordered that the U.S. Afghan contingent is to be cut by half over the next year and troops can be flown home, but large pieces of equipment must go by sea, The New York Times reported Thursday. "Afghanistan is not Iraq, and it´s harder," said Lt. Gen. Raymond V. Mason, the Army´s deputy chief of staff for logistics. "Number 1, it´s landlocked. And we have no Kuwait.

(Insurance Against) Fire in the Sky

National Review Online, by Andrew Stuttaford Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/16/2013 12:24:10 PM Post Reply

Writing in the WSJ earlier this week Ed Lu and Martin Rees remind us that our planet is forever traveling through a dangerous neighborhood (not that the people of Chelyabinsk will need reminding of that), and, quite correctly, argue that we should take a few precautions: …The chance in your lifetime of an even bigger asteroid impact on Earth [than Tunguska in 1908]—with explosive energy of 100 megatons of TNT—is about 1%. Such an impact would deliver many times the explosive energy of all the munitions used in World War II, including the atomic bombs.

Cuccinelli: ´You Can´t Win
if You Don´t Fight´

Breitbart Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak & Stephen K. Bannon Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 12:19:51 PM Post Reply

Ken Cuccinelli is the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia and a proud conservative. He was one of the first Tea Party candidates in 2009, and built a national profile for his successful election that year. Since then, he has led the charge by challenging the Obama administration’s expansions of federal power, winning victories for Virginia and the nation. He is now running for Governor and will likely face Democrat Terry McAuliffe, Clinton apparatchik and former Democratic National Committee chair. Mr. Cuccinelli is a Roman Catholic, married for over 20 years with seven children.

´New York Times´ Writes of
Ben Smith and BenSmithing

Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 12:14:41 PM Post Reply

The "New York Times" and BuzzFeed have some kind of relationship going on, but that still doesn´t explain the long, wet French kiss the "Times" gave BuzzFeed Politics editor-in-chief Ben Smith yesterday. It´s just a fact that when the left-wing media covers the left-wing media, it´s usually in this way -- without criticism or skepticism. Reading this you´d think Smith had never been involved in any kind of scandal or done anything unethical. (Snip) The term invented by Breitbart News does make its "New York Times" debut, however. "BenSmithing" is now

New York must update its abortion law

Journal News [White Plains, NY], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 12:12:39 PM Post Reply

The proposed Reproductive Health Act, part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s far ranging Women’s Equality Act, aims to update the state’s decades-old contraception and abortion law. The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers. Unsurprisingly, the measure has generated no small amount of controversy. The bill is being attacked by anti-abortion activists as too radical. (Snip) Since the rise of the Tea Party in the 2010 election, there has been a nationwide spike in measures aimed at further restricting abortion rights. “There are concerted efforts in Washington

Victoria´s Secret´s Customers
Keep Getting Younger

Business Insider, by Ashley Lutz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 12:03:56 PM Post Reply

Ten years ago, Victoria´s Secret sold lingerie to women in their twenties. Today, the lingerie retailer is luring in young girls by offering underwear that is cute instead of sexy, reports Sapna Maheshwari at Bloomberg News. The highly-popular Pink line is technically marketed toward college girls ages 18 to 22. “When somebody’s 15 or 16-years-old, what do they want to be?” Stuart Burgdoerfer, CFO of Victoria´s Secret, said at a conference last month. “They want to be older, and they want to be cool like the girl in college, and that’s part of the magic of what we do at Pink.”

Obamacare´s Medicaid expansion
is an offer states can´t refuse

Washington Examiner, by Shikha Dalmia Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/16/2013 12:02:00 PM Post Reply

Lingering hopes that state resistance would yet derail Obamacare were recently dealt a major and possibly fatal blow. Unable to withstand the law´s powerful and perverse incentives, six Republican governors dropped their opposition and agreed to cram more people into Medicaid. Unless the law collapses under the weight of its own internal contradictions, or the country collapses under it, it might well be a fait accompli. Medicaid, the joint state-federal program for the poor, has been devouring state budgets for decades. Indeed, a December survey by the National Council of State Legislatures

Colbert Busch won´t focus
on brother in SC race

Associated Press, by Bruce Smith Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 11:56:36 AM Post Reply

CHARLESTON, S.C.— Elizabeth Colbert Busch remembers watching the funeral of Robert Kennedy on television, with her younger brother Stephen — now the star of Comedy Central´s "The Colbert Report" — sitting in her lap. She said to herself, "Someday, if they let women run for office, I´m going to." Now, she´s making that dream a reality with a run for Congress. And she isn´t worried her brother´s fame will overshadow her campaign. "I´m not. I´m so proud of what he is and what he has accomplished," she said in an interview in her campaign office

Tens of Thousands Rally in
Tunis to Support Islamist Rulers

Reuters, by Tarek Amara Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 11:51:46 AM Post Reply

Tunis - Tens of thousands of supporters of Tunisia´s Islamist-led government marched in the capital on Saturday, one of the biggest in a series of pro-government and opposition rallies sparked by the assassination of a secular politician. The February 6 killing of Chokri Belaid, a human rights lawyer and opposition leader, has thrown Tunisia into political turmoil two years after it staged the first of the "Arab Spring" revolts. Violent protests, in which one policeman was killed, swept Tunisia after the assassination, with crowds attacking Ennahda offices in Tunis and elsewhere.

Report: $2 billion spent annually
for Medicaid emergencies, largely
for illegal immigrant baby deliveries

Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/16/2013 11:32:10 AM Post Reply

Even though federal law largely bars illegal immigrants from obtaining Medicaid coverage, the program annually pays out more than $2 billion in free emergency coverage that mostly goes to illegal immigrants, according to Kaiser Health News. The vast majority of the total emergency care reimbursements cover delivering babies, Kaiser reports. Based on a Kaiser data analysis of the states believed to have the greatest populations of illegal immigrants — including California, New York, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, Illinois and Florida — more than 100,000 people annually receive

Miss Qu´ran and the feminists

American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 2/16/2013 11:25:12 AM Post Reply

The left wing propaganda machine is a wonder to behold, managing the theoretically impossible feat of propagandizing for Islam at a radical feminist rally. It happened in San Francisco, of course, where government, the media, political organizations -- everything relevant propaganda - is controlled by the left. Zombie, the sharp-eyed and quick-witted anonymous chronicler of the Bay Area left, has published a vastly entertaining and profoundly revealing photo-essay featuring Miss Qu'ran. February 14 used to be Valentine's Day, but this year Eve Ensler hijacked the date to mark the climax

No exams on Wiccan, Pagan
holidays at University
of Missouri?

Fox News, by Joshua Rhett Miller Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/16/2013 11:24:24 AM Post Reply

Students at University of Missouri don´t need to cram for exams that fall on Wiccan and Pagan holidays, now that the school has put them on par with Christmas, Thanksgiving and Hanukah. The university’s latest “Guide to Religions: Major Holidays and Suggested Accommodations” — designed to help faculty know when and when not to schedule exams and other student activities — lists eight Wiccan and Pagan holidays and events right alongside more mainstream occasions. It´s all part of the school´s effort to include everyone´s beliefs, although some critics say listing every holiday associated with fringe

Anoka-Hennepin School District´s
bully dialogue still heating
up a year later

Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN], by Paul Levy Original Article

Posted By: voxpopuli- 2/16/2013 11:21:04 AM Post Reply

Long after her hospitalizations for having had suicidal thoughts, Brittany Geldert would lie in bed each morning, debating whether to go to school. (Snip) The 16-year-old sophomore at Champlin Park High School now prefers to be called Lane, not Brittany, but she says the biggest change this school year has been in how she and other students in the district´s gay and lesbian community are treated. Nearly 12 months after a landmark settlement and a detailed anti-bullying consent decree adopted by Minnesota's largest school district, school officials, an attorney for the LGBT Rights Project

NATO air strikes for Afghan
security forces must end: Karzai

Reuters, by Mirwais Harooni * Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 11:12:50 AM Post Reply

Kabul - Afghan security forces will be banned from calling for NATO air strikes in residential areas to help in their operations, President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, three days after 10 civilians died in such a strike in the country´s east. (Snip) "Tomorrow, I will issue an decree stating that under no conditions can Afghan forces request foreign air strikes on Afghan homes or Afghan villages during operations," Karzai told more than 1,000 officers, commandos and students. If issued, such a decree would for the first time bar Afghan security forces from relying on NATO air strikes,

No one is coming to take your guns

Daily Star [Oneonta, NY], by Sam Pollock Original Article

Posted By: wethepeoplecny- 2/16/2013 11:12:40 AM Post Reply

I have some very disappointing news for some of the more-virulent foes of sane gun-control legislation. If you’re what the National Rifle Association loves to call a “law-abiding American citizen,” no one is going to take away your guns. Not the federal government. Not the state government. Not the local government. Not the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard. Not the United Nations. Not the zombies. Well, OK, I can’t absolutely guarantee what zombies might do, but they move so slowly, you shouldn’t have much trouble keeping them from your firearms.

Bear Bombers Over Guam

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 10:11:46 AM Post Reply

Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States. The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and were followed by U.S. jets as they circumnavigated Guam on Feb. 12 local time—hours before President Barack Obama’s state of the union address. Air Force Capt. Kim Bender, a spokeswoman for the Pacific Air Force in Hawaii, confirmed the incident to the Washington Free Beacon and said

Russia delivers a message
for post-superpower America as
sequestration defense cuts loom

American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 2/16/2013 9:57:05 AM Post Reply

Russia delivered a powerful message to the United States just hours before President Obama´s State of the Union address, one that our the American people are only just now beginning to learn about, starting with the conservative blogosphere. Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon reports: Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow´s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States. The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles

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