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Oscar Pistorius and the ‘roid
rage’ defense: It’s no
Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card

Washington Times, by Patrick Hruby Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 5:27:56 AM Post Reply

Did “roid rage” — a state of heightened anger and aggression linked in popular culture to anabolic steroid use — play a part in Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius allegedly killing his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day? If so, could it help in his legal defense? According to media reports, police found anabolic steroids and other PEDs while searching the Pretoria, South Africa home of Mr. Pistorius, 26, charged with premeditated murder in the shooting death of 29-year-old model and law school graduate Reeva Steenkamp. Mr. Pistorius, one of the world’s best-known athletes, appeared in a packed Pretoria courtroom Tuesday and denied he intended

It’s Good to Be
the Duke (or Is It?)

National Review Online, by Michael Austin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 5:19:14 AM Post Reply

Aside from all the soap-opera titillation on Downton Abbey, the metaplot is about the changing socioeconomic structure in England in the early 20th century (not unlike Mad Men’s take on America’s entry into the turbulent ’60s). One reason we’re all fascinated, whether we hate feudal vestiges or not, is that these grand houses and families lived like, well, aristocracy, until within living memory. Yet the U.K.’s changing economy and tax codes destroyed the lifestyles of many of these families in just the past century. Great Britain’s largest landowners are still families with centuries-old pedigree, like the Cavendishes,

Obama’s obedient lap dog

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 5:12:15 AM Post Reply

Members of the national media are never so unattractive as when they turn the spotlight on themselves, and their weekend hissy fit after President Obama ignored them proves the point. It was the equivalent of a lovers’ quarrel over leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube. It makes for juicy gossip among the neighbors, but ultimately, nobody really cares. Yet WaWaWa went the wail when the White House press corps traveled to Florida and couldn’t get a staged picture of Obama playing golf with Tiger Woods. The First Duffer wouldn’t even reveal his score. The outrage! The drama!

Another Business
Visited by Obama Closes

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/20/2013 5:07:30 AM Post Reply

Last week, it was announced that Ray´s Hell Burger just outside Washington, D.C. would be closing its doors. A fan of the burger joint was President Obama, who had visited the location with his Russian counterpart. Well, it´s happened again. In August, Obama visited Star Brewery in Dubuque. And now a local publication reports that the business is closing its doors. THonline.com reports: Star Restaurant and Ultra Lounge apparently has closed. A sign posted on the front door of the Port of Dubuque restaurant, at 600 Star Brewery Drive,

This is How China Hacks America:
Inside the Mandiant Report

Daily Beast, by John Avlon Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/20/2013 5:03:31 AM Post Reply

The Chinese government just got caught with a smoking cyber gun. Cybersecurity consultant Mandiant released a much-anticipated report Tuesday morning, offering the most detailed look to date inside the Chinese People Liberation Army’s direct involvement in hacking into American government and corporate websites. The PLA Unit 61398 is identified by the report as the most prolific hacking group inside the Chinese government. Dedicated to infiltrating English-language sites, the unit recruits English-language proficient speakers and experts in computer security, but otherwise scrubs any mention of its organization from Chinese-language websites. Operating out of a 12-story, 130,663 square foot facility

What if One Day We
Get a Bad President?

PJ Media, by Frank J. Fleming Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 4:50:28 AM Post Reply

I believe I have noticed a problem with President Obama’s declaring that he can blow up Americans with drone strikes without due process. Stick with me here; this is a bit of an esoteric argument. Now, like most people, I celebrate every time Obama obtains more power. Now he can do whatever he feels needs to be done for the country and not be burdened with getting the approval of his lessers first. So the more powerful the presidency, the better for us all. But I had a terrible thought: What if one day we get a bad president?

Growing wealthy on the farm

Washington Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 4:46:21 AM Post Reply

IN ADDITION to a great football game, this year’s Super Bowl audience witnessed a memorable paean to the hardworking American farmer: a Dodge commercial featuring the recorded gravelly tones of the late Paul Harvey. Farm-state politicians were quick to exploit it: Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) told reporters he “hope[s] the people of America will wake up and appreciate the family farmers of America.” Actually, farming no longer resembles the hardscrabble family enterprise of so much mawkish marketing. Much of it is dominated by large operators supplying not only the U.S. dinner table but also far-flung export markets.

Marco Rubio: The Electable Conservative?

New York Times, by Nate Silver Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 4:40:43 AM Post Reply

Some commentators have expressed surprise upon learning about the very conservative voting record of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union address last week. Since winning his Senate seat, Mr. Rubio has generally sided with other Republicans as part of a party that has steadily grown more conservative over the last three decades. (Mr. Rubio’s recent support for immigration reform is more of an exception than his usual rule of sticking to the party line.) Being reliably conservative, however, is hardly a liability for someone who might hope to win

Rand Paul´s extraordinarily
difficult path to the presidency

The Week, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 4:37:17 AM Post Reply

W hen Chris Wallace asked Sen. Rand Paul on Fox News Sunday how serious he was about making a real run for the presidency, Paul replied: "I would absolutely not run unless it were to win." "We won´t make a decision until 2014," Paul said, adding that he believes America is ready for a "libertarian Republican narrative." The path forward seems obvious. Paul must solidify his father´s libertarian-leaning support, sprinkle in some mainstream conservative backers (folks his dad could never reach), and — voila! — he will have assembled a "libertarian-Republican" coalition capable

Crime Writer Patricia Cornwell
Wins $51 Million in Legal Suit

ABC News, by Susanna Kim Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 4:33:09 AM Post Reply

Fiction crime-writer Patricia Cornwell was awarded $50.9 million by a jury on Tuesday after she claimed her former financial management firm cost her tens of millions of dollars in lost money over four years. Cornwell, 56, is accustomed to writing about a heroic medical examiner investigating complex mysteries, but she was in the middle of a drama of her own. In October 2009, she filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts against her former accounting firm and business manager, Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP and its former principal, Evan Snapper. The trial began on Jan. 7

Stuart Varney on MSNBC Editing
Paul Ryan’s Comments on President
Obama: ‘They Are Misleading America
Quite Deliberately’

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/20/2013 1:54:33 AM Post Reply

Sean Hannity exposed what he says is “deceptive editing” by MSNBC of Rep. Paul Ryan talking about how the Obama administration leaked its immigration plan over the weekend. They cut down Ryan’s interview with ABC’s ‘This Week’ and played two clips back-to-back of him saying, “Leaking this out does set things in the wrong direction,” and “This particular move — very counterproductive.” Hannity noted that MSNBC left out the substantive policy disagreements behind Ryan’s opposition to the White House’s plan.

Minnesota companies revolt
over call to end tax-free
business transactions

Fox News, by Joseph Weber Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/20/2013 1:48:46 AM Post Reply

Minnesota businesses are blasting a plan by Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton to make the North Star State one of the few that taxes companies for business they do with other businesses. Firms in the state say the plan to tax such business services as advertising, legal advice and even printer fees will dull their competitive edge, in addition to adding perhaps thousands in extra costs a year. The proposed 5.5 percent tax would be imposed on business-to-business services. It´s just part of a larger package of increases that Dayton has proposed to help trim the state’s $1.1 billion budget deficit.

McCain defends immigration
plan to angry residents

Associated Press, by Christina Silva Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/20/2013 1:44:57 AM Post Reply

PHOENIX— Arizona took center stage in the national immigration debate Tuesday as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured the state´s border with Mexico and Sen. John McCain defended his proposed immigration overhaul to an angry crowd in suburban Phoenix. The presence of the top officials is the latest sign that Arizona will play a prominent role in the immigration debate as President Barack Obama looks to make it a signature issue of his second term. Napolitano toured the border near Nogales with the highest-ranking official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the incoming chairman of the Senate´s homeland

Auction of microcars
brings in $9.1 million

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Mark Davis Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/20/2013 12:00:55 AM Post Reply

Madison, Ga. — Fill a room with tiny cars, then toss in a bunch of people with big wallets. Result: $9 million in sales. OK, $9.1 million, to be precise. When the gavel sounded for the final sale Saturday evening at the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum, more than 200 cars, plus other memorabilia, had changed hands in two days of spirited bidding. Auctioneers thought the sum might hit $6 million; the total was more than 50 percent higher.(Snip) The top price: $322,000 for a 1958 F.M.R. Tg 500 “Tiger,” a bubble-topped, bug-eyed curiosity once manufactured in Germany.

The Real State of the Union

FrontPage Magazine, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 2/19/2013 11:08:05 PM Post Reply

In his State of the Union speech on February 12, President Barack Obama failed to note that this nation’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, was born on the same date 204 years earlier. Perhaps that’s because it was Lincoln who said: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Obama removed all doubt about his foolishness — at least in his public statements, though possibly not in regards to his and fellow progressives’ larger agenda — when he told the assembled senators and congressmen that, concerning the state of the economy,

Official: 14 hurt in Kansas
City gas blast, fire

Associated Press, by Maria Sudekum Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/19/2013 11:07:14 PM Post Reply

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A gas explosion that sparked a massive, block-engulfing blaze in an upscale Kansas City shopping district injured 14 people, a city official said Tuesday evening, adding it is believed that an accident by a utility contractor may have caused the blast. City Manager Troy Schulte said he did not know of anyone being reported missing and had not heard of any fatalities. Earlier Kansas City police had said the blast was caused by a car crashing into a gas main just after 6 p.m. Fire officials said

Biden suggests shotgun,
not AR-15, for self-defense

Washington Times, by David Sherfinski Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/19/2013 11:00:19 PM Post Reply

Vice President Joseph R. Biden encouraged people who want to defend themselves to buy a shotgun Tuesday and dismissed outright the comparison between a ban on illegal drugs and a ban on guns — rhetorically positing the idea of legalizing cocaine to make his point. Mr. Biden, in a wide-ranging Facebook town hall hosted by Parents Magazine, also said there is no one single measure that would be most effective in preventing future incidents of gun violence, but a number of them can help, including background checks on virtually all

´Mentally disabled´ death-
row inmate granted stay
of execution 30-MINUTES
before he was due to
face lethal injection

Daily Mail (UK), by James Nye & Beth Stebner Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 10:36:35 PM Post Reply

A federal appeals court has dramatically halted the execution of a Georgia 30-minutes before he was due to die by lethal injection.Warren Lee Hill was set to be executed at 7 p.m. Tuesday night, but shortly before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the stay on claims by Hill that he was mentally disabled and thus ineligible for execution, Brian Kammer, Hill’s lawyer, said. The 52-year-old death-row prisoner was sentenced to death in 1990 for the lethal beating of fellow inmate Joseph Handspike with a board studded with nails to the distress of other inmates.

The Pope’s Muffled Voice

New York Times, by Frank Bruni Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/19/2013 10:29:39 PM Post Reply

There were reports over the weekend that cardinals might tweak the rules and begin the conclave to choose Pope Benedict XVI’s successor sooner than March 15, which had been the earliest date mentioned. That would be a blessing. Already in the American news media it’s all pope all the time, a tsunami of papal coverage, and until a new pope is named, the tide won’t quit. You’d be forgiven for concluding that he’ll actually have significant sway over Catholics in this country. He won’t, not over the majority of them, not in any immediate sense. And it’s worth pausing,

Ohio Officials: Poll Worker
May Have Voted Six Times

National Review, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 10:28:12 PM Post Reply

Melowese Richardson is the Ohio poll worker who admitted to casting two votes in November for President Obama. Now, Ohio officials are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people as well and cast a total of six ballots in the 2012 election, according to Fox News. The investigation is part of a wider one into a number of cases of alleged voter fraud in Hamilton County, Ohio. Richardson says she filled out and submitted an absentee ballot on her granddaughter’s behalf, and her granddaughter has confirmed that claim, saying, “It wasn’t a big deal.”

Apple Is Building Something
Bigger Than a TV

CNBC, by Jason Stein Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/19/2013 10:24:31 PM Post Reply

Given the beating Apple has taken lately—with many questioning its future—it´s important to understand how much television means to Apple. The company´s TV plans are much bigger than just selling iTV sets. [snip] Apple is evolving into an ecosystem, a network that connects to and controls everything from your home to your car to your office. This has the potential to be as impactful as the iPhone and iPad. Today I use iOS apps to control my stereo system (the Sonos) and central air (the Nest).

The ‘Valerie Jarrett Moment’

Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti Original Article

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

Jim O’Sullivan of National Journal celebrates presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett’s despoliation of her adversaries: The trumpet blast of liberalism comes at a point in the White House personnel cycle where a cast of pragmatic, politically minded advisers has departed, many of them white males: Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Jim Messina, William Daley, David Axelrod, David Plouffe. Jarrett, among others, remains and thrives. I’m sorry, I need to clean my glasses, but is there anyone on this list who isn’t a white male? O’Sullivan, whose name also sounds suspiciously male and quite possibly white, doesn’t even bother to explain why

Biden gets testy

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 10:10:31 PM Post Reply

Vice President Joe Biden was caught off guard Tuesday by questions he was asked during a Facebook Town Hall with Parents Magazine. One questioner equated gun control to drug control -- if criminalizing drugs didn´t get them off the streets, why will criminalizing guns? -- and a second asked if limiting assault weapons and high-capacity magazines would limit people´s ability to protect themselves. "Is this Parents Magazine? I have Parents Magazine. I´ve never heard anybody in Parents Magazine ask these kinds of questions," Biden said. On the question about drug control, he tried to tamp down the notion that

FBI probes suspected
insider trading in
H.J. Heinz buyout

Washington Post, by Dina ElBoghdady Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/19/2013 9:42:40 PM Post Reply

The FBI has launched a probe into suspected insider trading activity that took place one day before H.J. Heinz announced that it would be acquired for $28 billion by a private investment consortium. The FBI confirmed the criminal investigation on Tuesday, days after the Securities and Exchange Commission froze a Swiss account that the agency said was used by “certain unknown traders” to make “highly suspicious” trades in advance of the Heinz deal. “We are consulting with the SEC to determine if a crime was committed,” said Kelly Langmesser, a spokeswoman in the FBI’s New York office.

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

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