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Supporter of Iranian dictatorship
brought Chuck Hagel to Rutgers
University for 2007 speech

Daily Caller, by Charles C. Johnson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/18/2013 5:44:42 AM Post Reply

A pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas candidate for the Iranian presidency, a man linked to Iranian-controlled front groups, brought former Republican Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to speak at Rutgers University in 2007, according to another professor on campus. Hooshang Amirahmadi, who led Rutgers’ Center for Middle Eastern Studies when Hagel came to campus, is the founder and president of the American-Iranian Council. He arranged for Hagel’s speech on March 2, 2007, the faculty source told The Daily Caller.

Gangsterville

National Review Online, by Kevin D. Williamson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/18/2013 5:36:21 AM Post Reply

Chicago – Hey, man. Hey, man. What you need?” The question is part solicitation, part challenge, and the challenge part is worth paying attention to in a city with more than 500 murders a year. The question comes from a young, light-skinned black guy with freckles. We’re in the shadow of what used to be the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects, only a 15-minute walk from the Hermès and Prada boutiques and the $32 brunch at Fred’s that identify Chicago’s Gold Coast as highly desirable urban real estate, a delightful assemblage of Stuff White People Like.

A Black Father
in the House

American Thinker, by Kevin Jackson Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 2/18/2013 5:32:59 AM Post Reply

By now you likely have heard that Chris Rock considers Barack Obama America´s father. If that is true, then would somebody call Child Protective Services and find us foster parents! For Chris Rock, America´s true Founding Fathers were disappointingly white. I suspect that whatever the color of America´s Founding Fathers might have been, they would not have approved of having a failure like Obama among their esteemed membership. Thought the Founding Fathers had many flaws, they were smart enough to eliminate the self-indulgent institution of slavery from America´s future.

Why ´President´s Day´ properly
belongs to George Washington

Washington Examiner [DC], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/18/2013 5:30:23 AM Post Reply

Although popularly known as “Presidents’ Day,” February 18 this year is officially the federal celebration of “Washington’s Birthday.” George Washington, the father of this nation, is deserves the recognition that the more popular name fails to convey. Washington is remembered for his military service in the American Revolution and as the nation’s first president. But neither of these is the chief reason he is honored today. There have been greater military leaders than Washington and arguably greater presidents as well. But Washington’s greatest achievement was beyond the emotional scope of most great military and political leaders:

JFK items auctioned 50
years after his assassination

Reuters, by Daniel Lovering Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/18/2013 5:25:20 AM Post Reply

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - President John F. Kennedy´s Air Force One bomber jacket sold for $570,000 at an auction on Sunday of items that belonged to a longtime aide, nearly 50 years after the president´s assassination. The jacket was among thousands of items, including letters, photographs and books, that had been tucked away in drawers and file cabinets at the home of David Powers, who died in 1998, said Dan Meader, auction appraiser at John McInnis Auctioneers. They were discovered in recent years by relatives as they prepared Powers´ Arlington, Massachusetts, residence for sale, Meader said.

Feds’ Sandy fiasco

New York Post, by Josh Margolin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/18/2013 5:12:41 AM Post Reply

The feds weren’t ready to handle even the most basic needs of their own workers as Hurricane Sandy walloped the region last fall, records obtained by The Post reveal. Government officials requested emergency-communication equipment as the storm bore down — but never got it, the records show. They were left to talk to one another and Washington, DC, over personal cellphones after their government-issued equipment — satellite phones and all — failed. And as night fell, they had to try to bribe hotel owners with generators to get rooms for evacuees and responders.

A little fear is a dangerous thing

Washington Times, by Kyle Scott Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/18/2013 5:06:41 AM Post Reply

Fear is now a stronger motivation among the American people than liberty and justice. Motivated by fear, the American public looks the other way while government officials use drones to kill U.S. citizens. Americans are told drones must be used in the name of security. Some elected officials also sincerely fear another terrorist attack on the United States from Islamic terrorists. While that fear is justified, allowing it to overwhelm constitutional limitations on executive and military authority does more damage than any terrorist ever could. If the Constitution is pushed aside in the name of security due to fear,

Will Obama Trade A Carbon Tax
For Keystone XL?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 2/18/2013 5:03:32 AM 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

Congressional staffers often travel
on tabs of foreign governments

Washington Post, by T.W. Farnum Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/18/2013 4:56:07 AM Post Reply

About a dozen congressional staffers flew business class on a trip to China last summer and stayed at luxury hotels while touring the Great Wall and the Forbidden City and receiving a “briefing on ancient artifacts and dynasties” at the Shanghai Museum. The all-expenses-paid visit came courtesy of China. The Chinese government hosted a day of meetings with officials in Beijing followed by eight days packed with outings to destinations often frequented by tourists along with a stop at a missile frigate and two others related to national security — the official theme of the trip.

Welcome to Debt Anonymous:
Why America Needs to Act Now

Daily Beast, by Mark McKinnon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/18/2013 4:52:04 AM Post Reply

“If we are worried about health-care costs in the year 2025, why do we have to worry about it now?” So said the king of the debt-deniers, economist Paul Krugman, last week on Morning Joe. Wow. We don’t have a spending problem like an alcoholic doesn’t have a drinking problem. “Our nation is on an unsustainable fiscal path.” That was the opening line in “The Moment of Truth” report delivered to President Obama more than two years ago by his own fiscal commission, when the nation’s publicly held debt was $9 trillion, or about 63 percent

Rubio Raises More Than $100,000
Off Water Bottle Incident

ABC News, by Arlette Saenz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/18/2013 4:40:46 AM Post Reply

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has hauled in some serious cash since his water sipping moment Tuesday during the Republican response to the State of the Union. Reclaim America, Rubio’s PAC, has raised more than $100,000 by selling more than 3,450 water bottles since Wednesday, a source close to Rubio confirmed to ABC News. The white water bottles, which bear the name “RUBIO” in bright red letters, come with a minimum donation of $25. “Send the liberal detractors a message that not only does Marco Rubio inspire you … he hydrates you too,” the donation request read. Late night comedians have spoofed

Column: Our collective
obsession with the trivial

Associated Press, by Liz Sidoti Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/18/2013 4:34:13 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- Persistently high unemployment. A sluggish economy. Debt. Deficit. Obesity. Fundamental disputes over guns, immigration and the climate. A to-do list that would exhaust even the most vigorous multitasker. A meteor in Russia, even. Yet what created one of the buzziest brouhahas in America last week? Florida Sen. Marco Rubio´s inopportune sip of water on live TV. Enormous challenges pack the nation´s plate, but this country just can´t seem to get enough of the small stuff. It sometimes feels as if the collective obsession with the trivial is drowning out significant moments and overshadowing important debate.

´There´s battle lines being drawn ...´

Morning Journal [Lorain, OH], by Tom Skoch Original Article

Posted By: Harlowe- 2/18/2013 12:57:22 AM Post Reply

Here’s a riddle, but it’s not funny, and I’m almost afraid to contemplate the answer: What do you get when you cross aggressive government attempts to strip citizens of their Second Amendment rights with at least 65 million American gun owners, who have just bought roughly 65 million more guns in only the last four years? Let’s just say, “trouble” could be a euphemism for an answer. (Snip) Why are our government “servants” — elected and otherwise — trying to criminalize law-abiding taxpayers with confiscatory and unconstitutional laws and regulations?

Corruption scandal shocks,
saddens metro law enforcement

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Bill Torpy * Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/17/2013 11:53:55 PM Post Reply

All eight Forest Park police sergeants were called to the department Tuesday for routine training. Victor Middlebrook and Andrew Monroe, two solid officers recently promoted to sergeant, were teamed up and told to head to their training station. They then walked into a room filled with federal agents and their boss, Chief Dwayne Hobbs, who was having one of the worst days of his 40-year career. The two sergeants were being arrested, accused of being part of a group of Atlanta area officers who allegedly served as bodyguards for agents posing as drug dealers. Hobbs was flummoxed when federal

“Huge problems” plague Georgia
WIC program, cost taxpayers millions

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Rhonda Cook * Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/17/2013 11:45:51 PM Post Reply

A federal program that provides food for low-income women and their children is so badly mismanaged in Georgia that state taxpayers could be slammed with a $20 million penalty. Systemic problems in the Women, Infants and Children nutritional program, commonly know as WIC, have allowed stores to charge the government outrageous prices for basic commodities such as milk, according to a review of state and federal records by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The situation is so dire that federal officials want Georgia to stop approving new stores as WIC vendors until the state gets its act together.

‘Downton Abbey,’ Season 3
Finale: TV Recap

Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 11:03:26 PM Post Reply

The gods of Downton Abbey seem to require a sacrifice after every birth. A few weeks ago we lost Sybil and tonight we lose Matthew. This episode originally aired in the U.K. on Christmas, but there isn’t much holiday spirit. It actually takes place a year after the last episode’s cricket match. Young Sybil is becoming a toddler. First, the happy news. It’s a boy for Mary and Matthew; the earldom is secured. The young family shares a tender moment before Matthew drives home to Downton from the hospital. He meets a tragic end when his car

2 Senate Opponents Vow
To End Bid to Block Hagel

New York Times, by Ravi Somaiya Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/17/2013 11:01:30 PM Post Reply

Two of the most outspoken Republican critics of Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense indicated Sunday that they would no longer hold up his Senate confirmation. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on Fox News Sunday that he would stand aside because Mr. Hagel had disavowed comments that he was said to have made (Snip) “I don’t believe he is qualified,” Mr. McCain said. “But I don’t believe that we should hold up his nomination any further because I think it’s a reasonable amount of time to have questions answered.”

Merrick Wins a Tournament
He Grew Up Watching

New York Times, by Karen Crouse Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/17/2013 10:51:31 PM Post Reply

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — From the tee box, the 10th hole at Riviera Country Club looks like another vanilla par 4 on the PGA Tour, a 315-yard test that is no match for today’s generation of swashbuckling players. The hole, and the player who tamed it to win the Northern Trust Open, are proof that looks can be deceiving. Before Sunday, John Merrick might have been hard for the average golf fan to pick out in a threesome waiting to tee off. Merrick, 30, has pleasant looks and a pleasant demeanor, and in his first six years until this year on the tour, his results were perfectly pleasant:

How Europe Bankrolls Terror

New York Times, by Nasser Weddady Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/17/2013 10:46:18 PM Post Reply

When northern Mali fell to terrorists and foreign militants last April, a debate began over the causes of the country’s chaotic collapse. Many argued that it was a direct byproduct of NATO’s 2011 intervention in Libya, which sent thousands of well-armed men across the Sahara to Mali. Others pointed to Mali’s internal corruption and ethnic divisions. But little was said about the most important factor: Europeans have knowingly bankrolled Islamist radicals with ransom payments since at least 2003. Sixteen years before the 9/11 attacks, the United States sold Iran weapons indirectly in the hopes of freeing American

Country singer Mindy McCready
dead of apparent suicide

USA TODAY, by Brian Mansfield and Bill Welch Original Article

Posted By: bamapreacher- 2/17/2013 10:38:23 PM Post Reply

Mindy McCready, a country singer better known recently for her ongoing personal troubles than for her string of late-´90s hits, died Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in her Arkansas home, the Cleburne County sheriff said. Sheriff Marty Moss said his office received a call to the McCready home around 3:30 p.m. local time in Heber Springs, Ark., west of Memphis and north of Little Rock. "Ms. McCready is deceased from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound,´´ Moss told USA TODAY. He said officers found McCready at the scene.

Obama Faces Risks in Pipeline Decision

New York Times, by John M. Broder & Clifford Krauss * Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/17/2013 10:34:54 PM Post Reply

President Obama faces a knotty decision in whether to approve the much-delayed Keystone oil pipeline: a choice between alienating environmental advocates who overwhelmingly supported his candidacy or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with Canada. Canada, the United States’ most important trading partner and a close ally on Iran and Afghanistan, is counting on the pipeline to propel more growth in its oil patch, a vital engine for its economy. (Snip) They discussed the Keystone pipeline project, among other subjects, and Mr. Kerry promised a fair, transparent and prompt decision.

Bomb Attacks Kill at Least 37 in Iraq

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/17/2013 10:15:03 PM Post Reply

Baghdad - Car bombs tore through shopping areas within minutes of each other in mainly Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 100. The attacks come amid rising sectarian discord in Iraq and appear aimed at shaking Iraqis´ confidence in the Shiite-led government. The explosions struck at the start of the local workweek and primarily targeted outdoor markets. (Snip) The attacks began with the detonation of a parked car loaded with explosives in the sprawling Shiite district of Sadr City on Sunday morning.

Official results show Correa
winning Ecuador presidential election

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/17/2013 10:02:46 PM Post Reply

Quito, Ecuador – President Rafael Correa, a dynamic leftist who has championed Ecuador´s lower classes with generous social spending but faced wide rebuke as intolerant of dissent, coasted to a second re-election on Sunday. Correa won 56.7 percent of the vote against 24 percent for his closest challenger, former Banco de Guayaquil chief Guillermo Lasso, with 36 percent of the vote counted. So confident was Correa of victory that he appeared on state TV less than an hour after polls closed, hugging jubilant supporters at the Carondelet presidential palace.

New details emerge in
Pistorius murder case

CBS News, by Kelly Cobiella Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/17/2013 9:51:44 PM Post Reply

London - CBS News has learned police believe Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend of Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, was in her nightgown in the bedroom when she was first shot. She slept in the same bed as Pistorius, police said. She then ran to the bathroom and locked herself inside, where she was shot in the head, hand and arm. Pistorius reportedly broke through the bathroom door and carried his dying girlfriend down the stairs. Oscar Pistorius, famous for overcoming odds as a double-amputee to compete in the Olympics, was charged Thursday with murdering his girlfriend.

Penn State Dance Marathon
raises record $12.37M

Associated Press, by CHRISTINA GALLAGHER Original Article

Posted By: ragu- 2/17/2013 7:42:48 PM Post Reply

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - A 46-hour, no-sitting-or-sleeping-allowed dance marathon at Penn State raised more than $12.37 million for pediatric cancer research and care, shattering last year´s record-breaking total by nearly $1.7 million. The announcement delivered by student organizers to more than 700 dancers and thousands of volunteers, along with cancer patients and their families, concluded the weekend-long IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon at 4 p.m. Sunday. The event commonly known as "THON" is billed as the largest student-run philanthropy in the world. Counting Sunday´s total, students have now raised more than $100 million for the Four Diamonds Fund

Eating fast food regularly has
the same impact on the liver
as hepatitis, study finds

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/17/2013 7:37:25 PM Post Reply

A new study shows that regularly eating fast food isn´t just bad for your waistline, it can also damage your liver in ways that are surprisingly similar to hepatitis. The results were revealed on the television program, ´The Doctors,´ where it was found that even just a month of eating fast food can cause significant changes to your liver. French fries in particular were dangerous because of the extra ingredients added. ´We know that they are adding salt, and cooking it in fat, but they´re also putting sugar on them too. Why sugar? Because it helps get them golden crispy

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