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Top Dog: U.S. Marines welcome
their newest bulldog, Chesty

Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/17/2013 5:34:35 AM Post Reply

He’s only nine weeks old, but has already entered recruit training. That would be “Chesty,” the pedigreed English bulldog and future Marine Corps mascot, who arrived at Marine Barracks in the nation’s capital on Valentine’s Day. The handsome and distinguished young Chesty will enter obedience school and canine “recruit training,” earn the title of Marine and be named the next Marine Corps mascot on March 29. His official duties include marching in myriad events, including the Friday twilight parades at the facility, looking tough but buff in his own custom dress blues. Mascots and Marines have a long history,

Here´s Why Astronomers Did Not Detect
The Russia Meteor Ahead Of Time

Business Insider, by Dina Spector Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/17/2013 5:30:18 AM Post Reply

It was an incredible day for near-Earth objects, with two rare cosmic events occurring on the same day. First, a tiny asteroid actually hit Earth, creating a significant explosion over eastern Russia around 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 15 in that part of the world. Less than 24 hours later, a larger asteroid, 2012 DA14, passed safely above Earth at a distance of around 17,200 miles, the closest an object of that size has come to our planet since scientists began monitoring the skies. Astronomers had been tracking that asteroid for about a year and knew

White Paper Suggests U.S. Could
Launch Drones Into U.S. Cities

Daily Beast, by Kal Raustiala Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 5:05:36 AM Post Reply

President Obama´s deep embrace of drones as a tool against terror was thrust into the spotlight last week by the release of an official “white paper” detailing when, and why, the federal government could intentionally kill American citizens. Many have found the whole idea of targeting Americans for death abhorrent; the analysis has been called “chilling” and full of “twisted definitions.” The government’s white paper declares that the Constitution doesn´t protect citizens who act as senior leaders of al Qaeda from death from above. That, and the idea that judges have no real role to play in the targeting process,

Crime (and Plagiarism) Pays—
in Speakers´ Fees

Bloomberg Businessweek, by Keenan Mayo Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 4:56:27 AM Post Reply

This week, the Knight Foundation, a nonprofit promoting “quality journalism,” forked out a $20,000 speaking fee for disgraced science writer and author Jonah Lehrer to discuss his plagiarism and other journalistic indiscretions. While many questioned the sincerity of his mea culpa, Lehrer’s towering fee drew the most scrutiny. On Thursday, the Knight Foundation issued an apology of its own, explaining that it had put “itself into a position tantamount to rewarding people who have violated the basic tenets of journalism. … It was simply not something Knight Foundation, given our values, should have paid.” Whether or not that’s true,

Would New Gun Laws Spark
Widespread Civil Disobedience?

PJ Media, by Paul Hsieh Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 4:50:23 AM Post Reply

In his State of the Union address, President Obama doubled down on his gun-control proposals, again demanding that Congress ban so-called “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines.” This is not a surprise. What has been a surprise are the increasingly open calls for defiance from gun owners, state legislatures, and local law enforcement. If the president’s proposals become law, he may move the country into turbulent waters we haven’t seen in many years. Gun control has long been a controversial issue in American politics. However, there are three aspects to this issue that make this more volatile

New York Times Wrong on
Menendez Story Origins

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 4:49:51 AM Post Reply

The New York Times on Saturday published a story with a headline claiming “Inquiry of Democratic Senator Started With a Partisan Push,” referring to the multiple ongoing investigations of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. Times reporter Eric Lipton named National Legal and Policy Center chairman Ken Boehm as the person behind the story. “Sandwiched between two doctors’ offices at a roadside plaza here is the headquarters of a small team of veteran Republican investigators, operating almost as a private detective squad, who since late last year have had a determined goal: bringing down Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat

Environmentalists suing the Interior
Department over… solar zones

Hot Air, by Erika Johnsen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 4:44:44 AM Post Reply

Oh, the sweet, sweet irony of environmentalist infighting. The Obama administration (while somehow finding every excuse in the world to dawdle and delay on major economy-impacting items like federal drilling permits, hydraulic fracturing rules, and the Keystone XL pipeline) decided to make an especial project out using public lands for utility-scale solar plants. The Interior Department identified ‘solar zones’ across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, and prioritized designing a program to fast-track solar permits for their designated areas. The entire purpose of this ostentatious bureaucratic exercise, of course, is to help the Obama administration beef up

The case for picking
an American pope

Washington Post, by Scott Appleby Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 4:40:43 AM Post Reply

An American pope? No chance. That was the consensus a mere eight years ago — a blip in church time — upon the death of Pope John Paul II. Both Europe, the institutional epicenter of the Catholic Church, and the developing world, its demographic stronghold, were too resentful of America’s global footprint: its ostentatious wealth, its ubiquitous military presence and its saber-rattling, diplomacy-scorning president bent on prosecuting two unpopular wars. Big Brother hardly needed a partner in the Vatican. Nor did U.S. social trends inspire confidence among the men who would elect the next pope.

Gun ban would protect more
than 2,200 firearms

Associated Press, by Eileen Sullivan Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 4:33:45 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- Congress´ latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle that is nearly identical to one of the guns One model of that firearm, the Ruger .223 caliber Mini-14, is on the proposed list to be banned, while a different model of the same gun is on a list of exempted firearms in legislation the Senate is considering. The gun that would be protected from the ban has fixed physical features and can´t be folded to be more compact. Yet the two firearms are equally deadly.

Report: Bill would set an
8-year path to residency

Associated Press, by Alicia A. Caldwell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 4:08:42 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today. President Barack Obama´s bill would create a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. The bill includes more security funding and requires business owners to adopt a system for verifying the immigration status of new hires within four years, the newspaper said.

Chicago teen killed hours
after her sister attended
Obama’s speech on violence

Chicago Sun-Times, by Becky Schlikerman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 3:51:27 AM Post Reply

Hours after Janay Mcfarlane’s little sister sat just feet away as President Barack Obama spoke in Chicago Friday about the violence plaguing the nation, Mcfarlane was shot to death in North Chicago, her family and authorities said Saturday. “I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out,” said Mcfarlane’s mother, Angela Blakely. Mcfarlane, 18, was in North Chicago visiting friends and family. She was with a friend late Friday night when a bullet meant for a friend struck Mcfarlane, Blakely said. Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. in an alley in

Marco Rubio survives his water
bottle moment with style

The Guardian Observer [UK], by Paul Harris Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/17/2013 1:51:18 AM Post Reply

It could have been a career-ending moment. Given the task of delivering the official Republican response to Barack Obama´s state of the union speech last week, rising star Senator Marco Rubio made a catastrophic gaffe. Sweating under the lights in a television studio, the darling of the party right suddenly bent down and reached over awkwardly to grab a bottle of water and take a desperate swig. (Snip) But Rubio has now shown a canny political instinct in handling the crisis, which many observers believe might just have rescued his career and put his hopes of eventually mounting a

Seniors lean Republican, young people
more Democratic, right? Not so much

Guardian [UK], by Harry J Enten Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/17/2013 1:41:10 AM Post Reply

Republicans have a problem with young people 18-29. Democrats have a problem with seniors over 65. The story taken from this dichotomy is popular and simple enough: Republicans are the party of crusty old folks who are going to die, and Democrats are the party of the youth, who will lead a continued resurgence into office. I´m not so sure about this story; (snip) Indeed, if you came of age during the Franklin D Roosevelt administration, you are more Democratic than the nation as a whole. If you could first vote during the administrations of Ronald Reagan or George HW Bush,

Are you middle class?
Map reveals how you need to
take home $67k in Maryland
but just $39k in Mississippi

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/17/2013 12:57:03 AM Post Reply

Middle class in the U.S. can mean something very different depending on where you call your home state. Census bureau numbers show a shocking disparity in the definition of ´middle income´ - with Maryland boasting an average of $67,469 and Mississippi posting an appallingly low $39,078, a difference of $28,391. Debate over the definition of middle class comes after President Obama´s State of the Union address this week. He detailed his plan to get the middle class back on track, mentioning the term a total of 8 times in his speech on Tuesday. ´It is our generation´s task, then, to

After Obamacare health
exchange deadline passes,
26 states opt in with feds

Washington Times, by Tom Howell Jr. Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/17/2013 12:02:22 AM Post Reply

Twenty-six states have chosen to let the federal government run the online insurance markets required next year by President Obama’s health care law instead of taking on the job themselves or partnering with the feds. The Department of Health and Human Services had encouraged states to run their own markets, or “exchanges,” that help the uninsured find coverage, but only 17 states and the District of Columbia took on the task and seven states decided to split the duty with the Obama administration, according to a breakdown by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Fiscal trouble ahead
for most future retirees

Washington Post, by Michael A. Fletcher Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/17/2013 12:00:10 AM Post Reply

For the first time since the New Deal, a majority of Americans are headed toward a retirement in which they will be financially worse off than their parents, jeopardizing a long era of improved living standards for the nation’s elderly, according to a growing consensus of new research. The Great Recession and the weak recovery darkened the retirement picture for significant numbers of Americans. And the full extent of the damage is only now being grasped by experts and policymakers. There was already mounting concern for the long-term security of the country’s rapidly graying population. Then the downturn destroyed

Pope Benedict XVI’s leaked
documents show fractured
Vatican full of rivalries

Washington Post, by Jason Horowitz, Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 11:36:42 PM Post Reply

Vatican City — Guests at the going-away party for Carlo Maria Viganò couldn’t understand why the archbishop looked so forlorn. Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Viganò ambassador to the United States, a plum post where he would settle into a stately mansion on Massachusetts Avenue, across the street from the vice president’s residence. “He went through the ordeal making it very clear he was unhappy with it,” said one former ambassador to the Vatican, who attended the Vatican Gardens ceremony in the late summer of 2011. “And we just couldn’t figure out, us outsiders and non-Italians,

NYT Goes Birther: Attacks
´Canadian-Born´ Cruz,
Calls Him ´McCarthyite´

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Tony Lee and Stephen K. Bannon Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 11:02:49 PM Post Reply

Liberals, the mainstream media, and establishment Republicans often reveal which conservatives they fear by their level of disdain and vitriol. This week, they put their crosshairs on freshman Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a Tea Party conservative of Hispanic descent who undermines the mainstream media´s ability to advance their false notion that being a minority and Tea Partier are mutually exclusive. He is a conservative who showed no desire to defer to the Senate´s "courtly" ways, the preferences of the institution´s old bulls. The sinking ship that is the New York Times,

Photos: Roman Abramovich´s
yacht docks on Manhattan´s
West Side; gawkers being kept away

New York Post, by Kevin Fasick Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 10:57:31 PM Post Reply

The world’s largest yacht is in town, and its owner would like some privacy. The $1.5 billion floating palace of Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich is nestled amid the West Side docks — but no one is saying why it’s here. The 533-foot yacht, which might look more at home on the French Riviera, sailed slowly up the Hudson Wednesday past stunned sightseers. The publicity-shy and security-conscious Abramovich isn’t disclosing why the ship chose to berth in New York, but it’s believed it will be here until mid-April.

´Times,´ ´WaPo´ Launch
Racially-Coded Attack
Against Ted Cruz

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 10:50:44 PM Post Reply

Apparently, the "Washington Post" and "New York Times" don´t like the idea of a non-white U.S. Senator acting all uppity. It´s fine for the lily-white Elizabeth Warren to immediately come out guns blazing, but over the past couple of days both news outlets ripped into in Texas Senator Ted Cruz for not knowing his place. As we all know, the base of the Democratic Party is made up of union workers, who see Hispanics as a threat to their jobs, and rich, white, coastal liberals whose only contact with the Latino community is on grass-mowing day. And so

Brothers celebrate lottery
win by blowing up house

Wichita Eagle [KS], by Denise Neil Original Article

Posted By: pearlyjo- 2/16/2013 10:50:22 PM Post Reply

Two brothers who were celebrating a $75,000 winning lottery ticket by purchasing marijuana and meth accidentally blew up their house on Friday, said Sgt. Bruce Watts of the Wichita Police Department. The explosion sent one of the brothers – a 27-year-old – to the hospital, where he remains in serious but stable condition with second-degree burns on his hands, arms and chest. The other brother was sent to jail, Watts said. The brothers were in a house in the 100 block of North Nevada Court, near Douglas and West Street, about 7 p.m. Friday, Watts said. One of the brothers went to the kitchen

After 15 years in solitary,
convicted terrorist pleads
for contact with others

Los Angeles Times, by Richard A. Serrano Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 10:23:47 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Ramzi Yousef, inmate No. 03911 at a federal "supermax" penitentiary, is serving life with no parole plus 240 years in a 7-by-11-foot cell with no bars and one small high window, far from other inmates, prison staff and the world beyond the fortress deep in the Colorado Rockies. He has been there for 15 years, in nearly 24-hour solitary confinement at the prison they call the "Fortress in the Rockies." Even his meals provide little relief, with the food trays shoved by unseen guards through a sally port between two steel doors.

Popular D.C. Burger Joint
Forced to Shut Down

CBS [Washington DC], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 9:34:39 PM Post Reply

ARLINGTON, Va.— One of the D.C. area’s iconic burger joints is no more. Ray’s Hell-Burger, where the likes of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and the Russian president have gone for a juicy burger, has been shut down after failing to pay its rent. Arlington County General District Court on Feb. 8 served an eviction notice to the restaurant, located in the Colonial Village Shopping Center along Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, for unpaid rent and ordered owner Michael Landrum to pay more than $39,000 in overdue rent and damages.

State of the Union speech:
The president’s annual letter to Santa

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 2/16/2013 9:08:36 PM Post Reply

Once upon a time, a State of the Union speech occasionally produced something memorable. James Monroe, in his seventh try, came up with the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, which would be the cornerstone of American foreign policy for decades. Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the Four Freedoms in 1941, arguing that people “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Four years later, he proposed a second bill of rights, arguing that the first attempt neglected a government guarantee of equality in “the pursuit of

Fastest drive across
Africa set by Fiat Panda

ANSA [Italy], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 8:16:44 PM Post Reply

Rome - The Guinness World Book of Records added a 2012 Fiat Panda to its pages this week after it clocked the fastest overland trip from Cape Town to London ever recorded. Driven by British endurance racers Philip Young and Paul Brace, the Italian minicar covered the 10,000-mile transcontinental haul in 10 days, 13 hours and 30 minutes, a full day ahead of the previous record set in 2010 by a team driving a Land Rover. Drivers said the Panda´s light weight and fuel-efficient engine gave it an edge over the trucks and SUVs favored by most trans-African racers.

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