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Abraham Lincoln

Cybercast News Service, by Walter E. Williams Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 2/19/2013 10:47:07 AM Post Reply

Steven Spielberg´s "Lincoln" has been a box-office hit and nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, who portrayed our 16th president. I haven´t seen the movie; therefore, this column is not about the movie but about a man deified by many. (snip) In an 1858 letter, Lincoln said, "I have declared a thousand times, and now repeat that, in my opinion neither the General Government, nor any other power outside of the slave states, can constitutionally or rightfully interfere with slaves or slavery where it already exists."

Obamacare´s Health Exchanges
Are Customer Free Zones

Forbes, by Sally Pipes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 10:44:38 AM Post Reply

Last month, the CEO of the nation’s largest health insurance company warned that he and his peers may balk at participating in Obamacare’s insurance exchanges — online, government-run portals where consumers and small businesses without conventional employer-sponsored coverage may shop for policies starting next year. “We will only participate in exchanges that we assess to be fair, commercially sustainable and provide a reasonable return on the capital they will require,” UnitedHealth Group Inc. CEO Stephen Hemsley said.

Businessman Considering
McConnell Primary Challenge

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 10:39:45 AM Post Reply

A Kentucky businessman has been quietly reaching out to local Tea Party and grass roots organizations, testing the waters for a primary challenge against GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell. Matt Bevin is owner of Bevin Manufacturing Co, a firm founded 160 years ago. He was also CEO of an investment management firm. He is potentially the first Tea Party challenger to emerge for the 2014 midterms. Sarah Duran, President of the Louisville Tea Party told The Hill, "We met with him to just discuss our feelings about the Senator, our feelings about someone running against him, what

Michelle Obama and the girls spend
Presidents Day weekend at a top
ski resort with a team of private
instructors after closing air
space for their plane

Daily Mail [UK], by Meghan Keneally & Lydia Warren Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 10:20:09 AM Post Reply

Michelle Obama and her daughters spent Presidents Day weekend enjoying private lessons with numerous instructors at a top skiing resort in Aspen, Colorado, it has emerged. The Obama girls, shadowed by security, enjoyed the hospitality of wealthy Democratic donors Jim and Paula Crown - and angered other visitors by shutting airspace so they could land their plane. Their trip came as President Obama golfed with Tiger Woods in Florida - a day out that was kept under wraps from the public and the media despite the taxpayer

Whole Lotta Redactin’ Going On

Washington Free Beacon, by CJ Ciaramella Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 10:09:12 AM Post Reply

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its second batch of emails from former administrator Lisa Jackson’s secret email address Friday, but the researcher who sued the agency to obtain the records says it improperly redacted nearly all of the information. The emails, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), are from Jackson’s pseudonymous, secondary email account under the name “Richard Windsor.” The emails are the second of four batches of roughly 12,000 emails from the “Richard Windsor” account the EPA has been ordered to disclose.

Deadline looming, Obama urging
Congress to deal with budget cuts

CBS News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 10:06:17 AM Post Reply

As the clock ticks on the automatic spending cuts set to kick in on March 1, President Obama will hold an event this morning to urge Congress to come up with an alternative plan to avert the cuts. The White House says Mr. Obama will emphasize the potential negative effects of the so-called sequester - the $1.2 trillion over 10 years in cuts - by standing with first responders, people who the White House says will be directly affected by the cuts. The president "will be joined at the White House by emergency responders - the kinds of working

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:

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