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Revealed: Jobless mother of 11
getting a new six-bed home on the
council owns a horse (which costs
her £65-a-month in stable fees)

Daily Mail [UK], by Luke Salkeld Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/19/2013 9:40:37 PM Post Reply

Taxpayers have already paid for the upkeep of her 11 children and for a purpose-built six-bedroom home to move them all into. And yesterday it emerged the state is also providing jobless Heather Frost with enough money and time to keep her own horse – something that many families can only dream of. Miss Frost, 37, apparently has the means to keep a grey mare called Annie, which she bought last year. The paddock fees, food and vet bills are estimated to total around £200 per month.(Snip) A worker at the paddock claimed Miss Frost had recently arranged

The Islamic cloud over
Brennan and Hagel

Washington Times, by Adm. James A. Lyons Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 9:38:54 PM Post Reply

Two key national security nominations by President Obama are up for confirmation following Congress‘ recess this week: former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense, and John O. Brennan, the president’s key counterterrorism adviser, to be the director of the CIA. Both candidates have had to address issues based on their past and current activities and associations. Troublingly, a number of questions still remain unanswered. One explosive issue is a report by John Guandolo that broke last week on Tom Trento’s “TrentoVision Show” and also was carried by Glenn Beck on Feb. 11. The report stated

´Today is my last day´: What OC
college student, 20, told terrified
carjacking victim as he went on bloody
25-minute murder spree after gunning
down woman in his parents´ house

Daily Mail [UK], by Thomas Durante and Associated Press Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/19/2013 9:32:35 PM Post Reply

A 20-year-old college student has been identified as the ruthless killer who gunned down three people during a chaotic murder and carjacking spree before turning the gun on himself. Ali Syed, of Ladera Ranch, California, was identified by police this afternoon, hours after the early morning massacre that began at his parents´ home. His 25-minute shooting reign of terror through Orange County left a bloody trail of dead and injured victims in a series of carjackings and gunfire, police have said. Authorities reported at least five places where victims had been shot in the early morning violence

Christie: ‘Gov. Cuomo and I
Have a Lot of the Same Values’

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 9:31:44 PM Post Reply

New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie said he and Democrat Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo have “a lot of the same values,” but dismissed the notion that he and Cuomo agree on “98 percent of the issues.” Christie was criticized after he was quoted in the Glen Falls New York Chronicle last week, saying, “I’m not much different from Andrew Cuomo. I probably agree with him on 98 percent of the issues.” During a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 12, Christie implied he was quoted incorrectly, saying he and Gov. Cuomo only share similar backgrounds.

Liberal Bias Central to
Obama Media Edge

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/19/2013 9:30:41 PM Post Reply

Politico writers Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen are on to something with their feature published today about President Obama’s mastery of the mainstream media. Their conclusion that the president and his staff have broken new ground in manipulating journalists and shaping favorable coverage of the administration is so obvious that it is almost inarguable. As I have argued several times over the past four years, no president since John F. Kennedy has enjoyed the sort of advantage or lack of serious scrutiny that the president has received. Vandehei and Allen are right when they point out that the calculated leaks

Fineman: "It´s Hard To Get
Answers To Simple Questions"
From White House

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 9:27:55 PM Post Reply

HOWARD FINEMAN: I´ve watched over the years, as succeeding administrations take more and more territory and more and more sort of power for themselves to determine the rules and the rights of the conversation. Even reporters asking simple questions, simple direct factual questions of low-ranking administration officials, have a hard time getting answers. I know this working at The Huffington Post, we have a big bureau now, we have a lot of reporters throughout digging all the time. It´s hard to get answers to simple questions because this White House does try to control the flow of information.

Tiger Woods: Golfing with
President Obama was ´pretty cool´

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 9:21:16 PM Post Reply

Tiger Woods said Tuesday that his weekend golf outing with President Obama was "pretty cool" and that he and the president teamed up for a win against a pairing of U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Houston Astros owner Jim Crane. "He´s just a wonderful person to be around. And we won," Woods said at a press conference ahead of the Match Play Championship, according to Sports Illustrated. Woods also joked that Obama is "an avid golfer, and so am I." The comments by the 14-time major tournament champion were the first window

‘This is big government’: 500
furloughed at GE plant subsidized
and lionized by White House

Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/19/2013 9:11:43 PM Post Reply

In 2009, the Obama administration gave $24.8 million in stimulus tax credits to GE’s famous “Appliance Park” factory compound. VP Joe Biden toured the plant as a stimulus success declaring: So those who talk about this is big government, this is big government giving a little bit of help to jump start America to lead the world in the 21st century…In 2010, Appliance Park won a $2.5 stimulus grant. In 2011, a Commerce Department official toured Appliance Park touting Obama’s push to increase U.S. manufacturing. Then in 2012, GE CEO and Obama Jobs Czar Jeff Immelt announced

Lots of L.A. names in James Beard
first-round nominations

Los Angeles Times, by Russ Parsons Original Article

Posted By: HisHandmaiden- 2/19/2013 8:48:44 PM Post Reply

First-round nominations for the 2013 James Beard Foundation restaurant awards have just been announced, and for Southern California, it’s a mix of trusted old favorites as well as some shiny new stars.[Snip] Final nominations will be announced March 18 and the awards will be presented May 6 at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.[Snip] OUTSTANDING WINE PROGRAM: 4 Olives Wine Bar, Manhattan, Kansas; A16, San Francisco; Addison at the Grand Del Mar, San Diego...

Afghanistan And Iraq
Head To Hell,
Thanks To Obama

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 8:42:54 PM Post Reply

War On Terror: Iranian-backed Shiite terrorists aligning with Iraq´s prime minister, and the Taliban´s likely return in Afghanistan, are milestone events. President Obama is engineering a double U.S. defeat. Future historians — if there is enough freedom in the world of the future for the profession to endure — will long debate whether Obama´s foreign policy was childishly naive or spectacularly sinister. At the Democratic convention last year, Obama claimed he "blunted the Taliban´s momentum in Afghanistan." But with the United Nations´ civilian war deaths report revealing this week a 20% increase in women and girls killed or hurt

Obama and Congress trash talk from
the golf course, while the fiscal
doom of the Sequester looms

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 8:32:05 PM Post Reply

American politics went a bit silly over the weekend. A draft bill leaked from the White House (policy is rarely “announced” anymore; it “drips”) that suggests the administration is cooking up his own immigration proposal. The Republicans went wild, accusing Obama of undermining bipartisan congressional efforts with egocentric tomfoolery. “Does the president want a result?” asked Senator McCain. “Or does he want another cudgel to beat up Republicans?” Of course, he wants both--that’s how politics works. Part of the story here is that the President is trying to upstage the Republicans by driving his own agenda, something he’s been doing

The President Is Raging
Against a Budget
Crisis He Created

Wall Street Journal, by John Boehner Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 8:25:39 PM Post Reply

A week from now, a dramatic new federal policy is set to go into effect that threatens U.S. national security, thousands of jobs and more. In a bit of irony, President Obama stood Tuesday with first responders who could lose their jobs if the policy goes into effect. Most Americans are just hearing about this Washington creation for the first time: the sequester. What they might not realize from Mr. Obama´s statements is that it is a product of the president´s own failed leadership. The sequester is a wave of deep spending cuts scheduled to hit on March 1.

Obama Touts Gun
Control, Not Gang
Control, In Hometown

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 8:23:57 PM Post Reply

Gun Control: On his way to a play date with the world´s most famous golfer, President Obama stops in America´s most violent city to push universal background checks that Chicago´s violent street gangs will totally ignore. Janay McFarlane, 18, was killed late Friday just hours after her younger sister joined a group of teens onstage for President Obama´s speech in Chicago on gun violence. McFarlane was shot to death hours after her little sister, Destini, 14, sat just feet away as Obama spoke in the aftermath of the similar murder of Hadiya Pendleton.

President Armageddon

Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 8:21:35 PM Post Reply

President Obama returned from a long weekend with his golfing buddies on Tuesday to take up his by now familiar political stand: If Republicans don´t raise taxes in return for more spending, the world will end. We wish he´d stayed on the putting green. Flanked by emergency medical personnel, Mr. Obama made his usual threat of Armageddon if automatic spending cuts go forward on March 1. Americans can expect more such melodrama in the coming days, so as a public service we thought we´d break down the President´s three biggest political tricks.

Media Protect Obama
By Ignoring Gasoline
Price Rise

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 8:19:53 PM Post Reply

Bias: As of Tuesday, U.S. gasoline prices had increased for 32 straight days. The media, however, aren´t interested. They would be, though, if a Republican — particularly a Bush — were in the White House. According to the American Automobile Association, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.748 Tuesday, up from $3.730 on Monday and about 15 cents higher than a week ago. A month ago that same gallon cost $3.304 and a year back it was $3.565. It was $1.83 a gallon the day before Obama was first inaugurated.

Why We Fight II

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 8:10:29 PM Post Reply

Some of you may have caught an impassioned, frustrating and despairing piece I wrote the other day wondering why I bother. It was a variation on the point I made in this blogpost on Obama´s mendacity, which I´ll repeat because it seems to me a pretty accurate diagnosis of just how deeply we´re in it: I´ll tell you what I fear. I think we have now reached that stage of last-days-of-the-Roman-Empire intellectual and moral depravity where almost no one in our dominant corporate/political/financier/lawyer class believes it´s worthwhile or even possible to do the right thing any more.

Barack Obama´s endless
campaigning is getting tiresome

Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 8:03:36 PM Post Reply

Is that a note of desperation creeping into Barack Obama’s voice as he stages another carefully-choreographed event at the White House to berate Congress for failing to live up to its responsibilities to the American people? Flanked by rows of uniformed "first responders" Mr Obama warned that the so-called sequester--the $85bn of cuts that kick in a week on Friday--would “jeopardize our military readiness [and]…. eviscerate job- creating investments in education and energy and medical research.” All true, but this grandstanding already becoming a habit of the Obama second term: abandon the business of actually cutting a deal

Security guard fights back! Moment
hero with assault rifle sends gun
attackers packing from business

Daily Mail [UK], by Tara Brady Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 7:59:46 PM Post Reply

An armed couple who stormed a business in Michigan wielding guns were forced to flee when a member of staff pulled out a semi-automatic rifle. According to police, the pair entered the tax preparation business brandishing their firearms but little did they know the security guard was carrying an AR-15. After sudden panic, the guard ran at the attackers and let off two shots resulting in the terrified duo running out of the premises before they could harm anyone. The gunfight was caught on surveillance video and has once again sparked the debate on gun ownership in the U.S.

Chris Christie, not Rubio,
best bet in 2016

USA Today, by Dewayne Wickham Original Article

Posted By: RUReadyY3K- 2/19/2013 7:31:38 PM Post Reply

The GOP´s chances of winning the White House in 2016 are linked more closely to the political fortunes of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie than those of Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Rubio is the Tea Party wunderkind who was tapped by Republicans to give the GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union Address. He began his retort with a dusted off reference to his parents' emigration from Cuba to the United States. During his political ascendancy in Florida, Rubio often talked of how his mom and dad fled that Caribbean island after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.

Exclusive: Apple, Macs hit by
hackers who targeted Facebook

Reuters, by Jim Finkle, Joseph Menn Original Article

Posted By: jond- 2/19/2013 6:08:31 PM Post Reply

Boston & San Francisco - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure describing the widest known cyber attacks targeting Apple computers used by corporations. Unknown hackers infected the computers of some Apple workers when they visited a website for software developers that had been infected with malicious software. The malware had been designed to attack Mac computers. The same software, which infected Macs by exploiting a flaw in a version

Report: Hagel Said Israel
Headed Toward Apartheid,
Netanyahu a ‘Radical’

Washington Free Beacon, by Alana Goodman Original Article

Posted By: Watlines- 2/19/2013 5:56:24 PM Post Reply

Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel said Israel is on its way to becoming an apartheid state during an April 9, 2010, appearance at Rutgers University, according to a contemporaneous account by an attendee. Hagel also accused Israel of violating U.N. resolutions, called for U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas to be included in any peace negotiations, and described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “radical,” according to the source. Kenneth Wagner, who attended the 2010 speech while a Rutgers University law student,

The most conservative
Texan in Congress? Conaway,
Hensarling tie for first

Houston Chronicle, by Richard Dunham Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 5:45:33 PM Post Reply

Who’s the most conservative House member from Texas? It’s a spirited competition, given the true-red conservative nature of the Texas Republican congressional delegation. But, since it’s awards season, the National Journal has just come out with its list of the most conservative (and liberal) members of CongressThe envelope, please. And the winner is …We have a tie. Reps. Mike Conaway of Midland and Jeb Hensarling of Dallas are tied for first in the Texas delegation with a conservative index of 95.8.

Review team: Detroit is in
financial emergency

Associated Press, by Corey Williams Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 5:38:36 PM Post Reply

DETROIT— A state-appointed review team has determined Detroit is in a financial emergency, paving the way for Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to appoint an emergency manager. The team released its findings Tuesday, saying in a report to Snyder that "no satisfactory plan exists to resolve a serious financial problem." Detroit faces a $327 million budget deficit in the current fiscal year and chronic cash-flow issues that have threatened to leave the city without money to pay its workers or other bills. The review team pointed to the city´s ongoing cash crisis.

Pickle company agrees to
drop ´midget´

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 5:34:04 PM Post Reply

CRANSTON, R.I.- A U.S. pickle maker says it has agreed to stop calling a variety of small pickles "midgets" following a complaint by a Rhode Island woman. Chelley Martinka of Cranston began her campaign in December after she spotted a jar of Cains Kosher Dill Midgets in a supermarket, The Providence Journal reported Tuesday. Martinka has a 10-month-old daughter with dwarfism, which means she will be very short of stature. Martinka called and wrote Gedney Foods, the Minnesota company that owns the Cains brand, created a YouTube video and launched a blog.

Heroin dealer nabbed for
reentering U.S. illegally
for 4th time

Boston Herald, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 5:26:48 PM Post Reply

A three-time deportee from the Dominican Republic who’s been charged with trafficking heroin in Massachusetts will be arraigned in federal court today for illegally reentering the United States for a fourth time. Juan Miguel Laboy, who is believed to be 38 or 39 years old, was spotted in Lawrence last month by a special agent from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, according to court documents. He was traced to an apartment complex in Methuen, where authorities allege he used money orders to pay rent for two units. Laboy was first deported from Louisiana in 2006, and then

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