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Long Lines, Tall Tales,
and Federalized Elections

PJ Media, by J. Christian Adams Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 10:03:55 AM Post Reply

President Obama’s State of the Union address contained a justification for more federal control over state elections. In the past, creeping federalization over state elections was properly justified by state racial discrimination, then the sketchier reason of inadequate numbers of welfare recipients registering to vote. This year, long lines at the polls served as the bogeyman for the latest federal intrusion into state elections. President Obama announced a “bipartisan” commission tasked with recommending solutions to the “problem” of long lines at the polls. This is a solution in search of a problem, because

Obama blackmails taxpayers
while blaming Republicans

Fox News, by Peter Morici Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 10:01:30 AM Post Reply

President Obama is at it again. Unable to manage the government or the economy effectively, he threatens to victimize taxpayers and stick Republicans with the blame. It appears likely sequestration will require $85 billion in cuts to defense and non-entitlement government spending. Unwilling to acknowledge the government has a spending problem — over the last five years, outlays are up $1 trillion and three times the amount required by inflation — and that tax revenues are short because his policies have instigated the weakest recovery since the Great Depression, President Obama is threatening draconian measures

Did Obama supporter vote 6
times in 2012? Ohio poll
worker target of investigation

Fox News, by Eric Shawn & Meredith Amor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 9:57:19 AM Post Reply

The Obama/Biden lawn sign remains proudly planted in front of Melowese Richardson´s Cincinnati home, three months after the presidential election. It seems that President Obama has an especially ardent supporter in the veteran Ohio poll worker. Richardson told a local television station this month that she voted twice for Obama last November. She cast an absentee ballot and then voted at the polls as well. "Yes, I voted twice," Richardson told WCPO-TV. "I, after registering thousands of people, certainly wanted my vote to count, so I voted. I voted at the polls." Authorities also are investigating if

Mackey the Maverick

National Review Online, by John Fund Original Article

Posted By: Aspenhuskerette- 2/19/2013 9:54:32 AM Post Reply

John Mackey, the co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Markets, says he doesn’t court controversy. But he also believes in speaking his mind. Last month he angered liberals by telling an NPR interviewer that Obamacare was “technically speaking” a form of fascism. “Socialism is where the government owns the means of production,” he explained. “In fascism, the government doesn’t own the means of production, but they do control it — and that’s what’s happening with our health-care programs and these reforms.” Mackey backed off his comments later in a blog post. The F-word “stirs up too much negative emotion with its

TEXT-Pistorius affidavit
at Pretoria bail hearing

Reuters, by David Dolan Original Article

Posted By: Emerson- 2/19/2013 9:38:59 AM Post Reply

Following are the central extracts of the court affidavit of Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last week. (Snip)read out in Pretoria magistrates court by the head of Pistorius´ defence team, Barry Roux. - By about 2200 on Feb. 13 we were in our bedroom. She was doing yoga exercises and I was in bed watching television. My prosthetic legs were off. We were deeply in love and I could not be happier. - I have received death threats before. I have also been a victim of violence and burglaries before. For that reason

Feminine Mystique at 50

National Review Online, by Lauren Noble Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 2/19/2013 9:30:03 AM Post Reply

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. While the controversial book offers much to disagree with, there is no denying how much circumstances have changed for women in America since its publication. She wrote about “the problem that has no name”: “The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States.

Comcast pulls gun shop ads
from cable network

ABC12 (Flint, MI), by Kristen Abraham Original Article

Posted By: Summernite- 2/19/2013 9:29:11 AM Post Reply

A gun shop owner said firearm manufacturers, distributors and retailers are being targeted unfairly after Comcast announces it´s dropping all gun shop ads from its nationwide cable network. The cable company recently acquired NBC Universal and this is a long standing policy there. When a local ad agency recently placed an order for Williams Gun Sight in Davison Township, it was denied. Owner Tom Wright said he´ll take his business elsewhere.

Oscar Pistorius: ´I thought
that Reeva was in bed´-
bail hearing as it happened

Guardian [UK], by Paul Owen Original Article

Posted By: Emerson- 2/19/2013 9:26:29 AM Post Reply

1.20pm GMT Summary Here are today’s key points: • Oscar Pistorius has given his account of the night his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp died at his house in Pretoria. In a statement read out by his lawyer, the Paralympic and Olympic star said the two were in bed asleep on Wednesday night when he got up and went to the balcony to close a sliding door and get a fan. He heard a noise in the bathroom and assumed it was an intruder, he said. Feeling vulnerable without his prosthetic legs, he got his gun and shot through the door, he

Pre-schoolers ask Obama,
Why aren´t you at work?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 2/19/2013 9:13:49 AM Post Reply

Letterman: President Obama really got kind of cocky at his State of the Union last week. At the end he showed America his birth certificate from Kenya. Fallon: A California judge says Kim Kardashian’s divorce trial from Kris Humphries begins on May 6th. While the preshow on E! will begin March 1st. Fallon: The Grammy Awards were the other night. Gotye won Record of the Year. Parents said, “Who’s Gotye?” While their kids said, “What’s a record?"

Weapons made with 3-D printers
could test gun-control efforts

Washington Post, by Michael S. Rosenwald Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 2/19/2013 9:01:28 AM Post Reply

Twenty minutes into his State of the Union address last week, President Obama entered the realm of uber-geekery — three-dimensional printing. The magical devices capable of printing prosthetics, violins and even aircraft parts have the potential, the president said, “to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.” Forty miles away from the Capitol, in Glen Burnie, Md., Travis Lerol is proving Obama’s point — with guns. In a spare bedroom, where an AR-15 rifle leans against the wall, Lerol is using a 3-D printer no larger than an espresso machine to make plastic rifle parts

Democratic lawmaker apologizes for
suggesting women afraid of rape
can’t be trusted with guns

Daily Caller, by Patrick Howley Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 8:54:58 AM Post Reply

Democratic Colorado state Rep. Joe Salazar apologized Monday for suggesting some women are so unjustifiably afraid of being raped that they are liable to start shooting wildly. Salazar, arguing in favor of disarming college students, said Friday on the Colorado House floor that women fearing rape may suddenly and haphazardly ”pop a round at somebody.” “It’s why we have call boxes; it’s why we have safe zones; it’s why we have the whistles — because you just don’t know who you’re gonna be shooting at. And you don’t know if you feel like you’re gonna

Pizza shop offers 15 percent
discount to all gun owners

Daily Mail [UK], by Jessica Montoya Coggins Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 8:33:56 AM Post Reply

Sharp shooters in Virginia Beach have a new favorite target- and this one is a pizza place. All Around Pizza and its owner Jay Laze have found a unique way to demonstrate their ardent support for the Second Amendment: they offer a fifteen percent discount on pizza for gun owners. A customer seeking the discount at All Around Pizza can bring in their weapon or a concealed weapons permit. Laze felt inspired by a similar discount offered at a Utah frozen yogurt store. ´I thought it was a great idea and I was wondering why nobody here was doing it.

America’s most crime-ridden little town:
Pine Bluff, the small community that’s
second only to Detroit for law-breaking

Daily Mail [UK], by Tara Brady Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 8:17:53 AM Post Reply

Pine Bluff in Arkansas might seem like any other struggling town in the United States.[Snip]Last year there were 18 murders alone in Pine Bluff, which has a population of just 49,000--seven times the national average per capita. Two people have already been killed this year and recent figures ranked it the second most dangerous metropolitan area in America after Detroit, which has a population of 1.8million. ´To have 18 homicides is just an outrageous number for a town this size,´ Police Chief Jeff Hubank told The Independent. ´The reality is, the little old white lady with the kitten on her

Pope blesses thousands at Vatican
as details of ailments emerge

Los Angeles Times, by Tom Kington Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 2/19/2013 8:16:26 AM Post Reply

VATICAN CITY -- A week after Pope Benedict announced his resignation, more than 50,000 supporters jammed into St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for his next-to-last weekly blessing, as it emerged the aging pontiff may have gone blind in one eye. Addressing the cheering crowd, which was larger than usual for the Sunday Angelus, Benedict appeared to criticize the infighting that has plagued the Vatican during his reign. “The church, which is mother and teacher, calls on all its members to renew their spirit, turn back firmly toward God

Anger at funeral of slain
South African model Steenkamp

Reuters, by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 2/19/2013 8:05:04 AM Post Reply

Amid the grief, some mourners at South African model Reeva Steenkamp´s funeral on Tuesday demanded punishment for her boyfriend, Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, who has been charged with her murder. A hearse took Steenkamp´s body to the Victoria Park Crematorium in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth for a private funeral attended by more than 100 relatives and friends.

Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals

Los Angeles Times, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 2/19/2013 8:02:33 AM Post Reply

"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through their fingers. Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee combined raised just more than $1 billion, and all we got are these lousy T-shirts. Since conservatives are losing the culture, goes the argument, which in turn leads to losing at politics, maybe that money could be better spent on producing some cultural ammo of our own? It´s a bad idea.

Pregnant Duchess makes first Royal visit
with bump clearly on show as author
Hilary Mantel faces backlash for
calling her ´plastic´ and ´painfully thin´

Daily Mail [UK], by Francesca Infante, Rebecca English Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 8:02:09 AM Post Reply

Thousands of people came out in support of the Duchess of Cambridge after Hilary Mantel launched a scathing attack about her. The double Booker Prize winner, whose latest books are set in the Tudor court, dismissed Kate as a ‘machine-made’ princess, ‘designed by committee’. But where the author described her as ´plastic´ and as a personality-free ‘shop window mannequin’ with a ‘plastic smile’, many have come out to say that the Duchess is a warm, intelligent woman. Mantel, 60, compared Kate unfavourably to both Anne Boleyn--one of her historical heroines--and to Princess Diana, insisting both had more personality.

8 armed men drive onto tarmac
of Brussels airport and steal diamonds
worth millions from plane

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 2/19/2013 7:56:46 AM Post Reply

BRUSSELS — Eight masked gunmen made a hole in a security fence at Brussels’ international airport, drove onto the tarmac and snatched some $50 million worth of diamonds from the hold of a Swiss-bound plane without firing a shot, authorities said Tuesday. The gang used two black cars in their daring raid late Monday, grabbed the cache of stones and sped off into the darkness, said Anja Bijnens, spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor’s office.

How the Left Dupes
Conservative Voters

American Thinker, by J. R. Dunn Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 2/19/2013 6:21:13 AM Post Reply

Too little serious conservative analysis of the 2012 presidential campaign has yet appeared. This is understandable. The results of the election were disheartening to the point of shock. The campaign defied all historical precedent, all commonsense interpretation. The Romney ticket should not have lost and did not deserve to lose. The Democrats, fielding the least worthy ticket in the past century -- and that´s saying something -- did not deserve to win. The reasons they did are myriad and complex. But before we get too far down the road, there is one lesson that has to be grasped:

Appreciating Bobby Jindal

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/19/2013 6:20:20 AM Post Reply

Recently, Republicans have exhibited a fascination with the “flavor of the month” in presidential politics. Flavors have included Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Herman Cain, and now Dr. Benjamin Carson. The tendency towards such infatuation is understandable, especially given the Party’s tendency to nominate stale candidates like Robert Dole, John McCain, and (many would say) Mitt Romney. Unfortunately, though, a few speeches and appearances on conservative talk shows provide a dramatically insufficient basis for judging a person’s suitability for the presidency. We need to see a potential presidential candidate circle the track at least once before making such judgments.

To Beat Political Despair,
Tell Better Stories

American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/19/2013 6:15:19 AM Post Reply

MOBILE, Ala. — The despair grows. It metastasizes. It eats away at the sinews of the conservative movement. It leaves gaping holes in our confidence, our energy, and our trust in the salability of our principles. It robs us of creativity, of strategic sense, and of tactical flexibility. And it makes us look and sound less like winners — which, in turn, makes us less attractive in the public eye and thus less likely to actually become winners in the battles we undertake. Look, this isn’t a lament about the state of affairs in the national consultant kingdom.

The Faux Empiricist

National Review Online, by Rich Lowry Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/19/2013 6:09:38 AM Post Reply

The least-plausible sentence in the English language is “We know this works,” when those words are spoken by President Barack Obama. He said them the other day in his State of the Union address about early-childhood education. President Obama called for universal preschool funded by the federal government in cooperation with the states. He cited “study after study” showing that investment in pre-K pays for itself several times over by creating better outcomes for children. He said this about two months after the release of a devastating report on the ineffectiveness of the federal government’s already existing

Why Are We Suddenly Getting
Hit By So Many Space Rocks?

Slate, by Phil Plait Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/19/2013 6:07:06 AM Post Reply

The sky is falling! At least, that’s what I’m hearing on the news and on social media. A lot of people are scared about asteroid impacts right now, and it’s hard to blame them. When you have a near-miss by an asteroid the size of an office building just hours after a monster meteor rocks Russia which happened just a day before a fireball blazed over California which was just days after reports of a similar event over Cuba…well, it really does seem like the Universe is trying to kill us. Are we under attack? Are all these rocks

The Coming Failure of
´Accountable Care´

Wall Street Journal, by Clayton Christensen* Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/19/2013 5:57:53 AM Post Reply

Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of pilot programs called Accountable Care Organizations have been launched over the past year, affecting tens of millions on Medicare and many who have commercial health insurance. The ACOs are in effect latter-day health-maintenance organizations—doctors, hospitals and other health-care providers grouped together to provide coordinated care. The ACOs assume financial responsibility for the cost and quality of the care they deliver, making them accountable to patients. With President Obama´s re-election making it certain that the Affordable Care Act will begin taking full effect next year, the number of ACOs will continue

The Hagel-Cruz Bait and Switch

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/19/2013 5:48:28 AM Post Reply

The effort to confirm Chuck Hagel as the next secretary of defense never seemed in as much trouble than it did this weekend. The Senate failed to pass a cloture measure last Thursday that would have cut off debate about the nomination. A new revelation about yet another offensive statement by Hagel in which he claimed the U.S. State Department was controlled by the Israeli Foreign Ministry not only forced the former senator to issue another unpersuasive and ambivalent disavowal. It also raised the possibility that many of the national Jewish organizations that had been silent about the nomination

Report ties 100-plus cyber attacks on
U.S. computers to Chinese military

Washington Post, by William Wan Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/19/2013 5:43:36 AM Post Reply

BEIJING — A U.S. security firm has tied more than a hundred cyber attacks on U.S. corporations to China’s military, according to a report released Tuesday. The 60-page study by investigators at the Alexandria-based Mandiant security firm presents one of the most comprehensive and detailed analysis to date tracing corporate cyber espionage to the doorstep of Chinese military facilities. And it calls into question China’s repeated denials that its military is engaged in such activities. The document, first reported by the New York Times, draws on data Mandiant collected from 147 attacks during seven years it traced back

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