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Jackson Graft Case
Further Indicts Black
Caucus

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/20/2013 7:33:42 PM Post Reply

Corruption: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.´s guilty plea to fraud charges raises fresh questions about the Congressional Black Caucus. It´s a group with many laudable goals, but why do so many in it succumb to corruption? A disproportionate share of ethics cases have been brought against this exclusive club. According to a 2012 National Journal study, five of the six lawmakers under review by the House Ethics Committee were Black Caucus members. Yet just one in 10 House members belong to the group. It´s a familiar pattern. In 2009, all eight lawmakers under ethics investigation were African-American.

Hollywood Forgets 9/11

Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Henninger Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/20/2013 7:31:49 PM Post Reply

Before Hollywood blackballs "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow this Sunday evening, a final and much-deserved stare is in order at the source of this distasteful snub—Senators Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and irresistibly along for the ride, John McCain. Had Senators. Feinstein, Levin and McCain (FLM) not saddled up their high horses in a Dec. 19 letter to Sony6758.TO +0.30% Pictures denouncing the movie, "Zero Dark Thirty" would not be out of the running for best picture at the Oscars. Unjolly Ed Asner does not have the clout to intimidate the Academy Awards into dropping Kathryn Bigelow

With Axelrod At NBC,
The Politicos Become
The Press

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/20/2013 7:29:01 PM Post Reply

Press: As if media bias weren´t troublesome enough, the ascent of President Obama´s top strategist to a plum job at NBC creates an even bigger issue: that of the political establishment becoming the press. Where does it end? In a way, the hiring of David Axelrod as "senior political analyst" providing commentary at NBC seems like a fool´s errand from a business standpoint. After all, the White House senior adviser has pretty much been giving NBC and other big media outlets commentary for free during the Obama administration, if the slavish pro-Obama media bias, as well as

RINOs need to take back
the Republican Party

Washington Post, by Kathleen Parker Original Article

Posted By: supersid- 2/20/2013 7:24:06 PM Post Reply

RINO-hunting, the long-popular political sport that morphed in 2008 into a sort of hysteria-driven obsession, lately has become a suicide mission. RINO, of course, refers to Republicans In Name Only and is the pejorative term used against those who fail to march in lockstep with the so-called conservative base. I used “so-called” because, though the hard-right faction of the party tends to be viewed as The Base, this isn’t necessarily so. My guess is there are now more RINOs than those who, though evangelical in their zeal, are poison to their party’s ability to win national elections.

A culinary bucket list:
‘101 Best Restaurants
in America’

New York Daily News, by Gina Pace Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/20/2013 6:34:48 PM Post Reply

New Yorkers looking to eat in the best restaurants in the America are at quite an advantage. According to a ranking just released by the Daily Meal of the 101 Best Restaurants in America, 27 of the country´s top restaurants are in the Big Apple. The restaurants were chosen by a panel of 176 food critics, cookbook writers and others in the food business, said Colman Andrews, the editorial director of The Daily Meal. The results mix fine dining restaurants — like Eric Ripert´s swanky Le Bernardin, with affordable options like Shake Shack and SriPraPhai in Queens.

Florida´s Rick Scott´s Signs on
to Obamacare´s Medicaid Expansion

Atlantic Magazine, by Elspeth Reeve Original Article

Posted By: Rakasha- 2/20/2013 6:29:11 PM Post Reply

Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced he will accept federal funds to expand Medicaid for three years on Wednesday, after which the law would have to be reauthorized. "I cannot in good conscience deny Floridians to healthcare," he told reporters. The decision adds him to the list of conservative Republican governors who accepted the expansion even though the Supreme Court ruled that states could refuse to go along with the measure to provide health care to the poor without losing existing federal funding. Scott accepted the expansion in exchange for a federal waiver to allow the state to privatize Medicaid,

Thune Northern Hills visit
targets spending, federal debt

Butte County Post [SD], by Milo Dailey Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/20/2013 6:25:29 PM Post Reply

SPEARFISH - Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said President Barack Obama´s speech on the sequester was to raise fear about federal spending cuts and to pressure Republicans into caving in for tax hikes. Thune spoke to about 200 people at a town meeting at the Spearfish Holiday Inn Convention Center Tuesday after the president´s speech. (Snip) St. Onge rancher Russell Millar talked with Thune about new federal regulations that will increase farm and ranch costs. Millar said the newly-required containment systems around today´s farm and ranch fuel tanks are an added cost that doesn´t recognize today´s agricultural needs.

Is This Racist?

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Howard Adams- 2/20/2013 6:20:46 PM Post Reply

NPR reports on a new federal cost-cutting move: Every month, the government sends out about 5 million checks to Americans who receive federal benefits. On March 1, the Treasury Department is making those paper checks a thing of the past. Since May 2011, all new Social Security recipients are required to get direct deposit of their benefits. Some 93 percent of all recipients now do. But there are still holdouts, so the Treasury Department started a campaign and a website, Go Direct, in an effort to convince the remaining 7 percent.

Lance Armstrong Won´t Deal
With US Anti-Doping Agency

ABC News, by Neal Karlinsky Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 2/20/2013 6:19:30 PM Post Reply

Lance Armstrong has turned down what may be his last chance at reducing his lifetime sporting ban. (Snip) to get a break from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, all he had to do was tell his story to those who police sports doping. The deadline was today, and Armstrong now says he won´t do it. "For several reasons, Lance will not participate in USADA´s efforts to selectively conduct American prosecutions that only demonize selected individuals while failing to address the 95 percent of the sport over which USADA has no jurisdiction,"

Match Play delayed amid snowstorm

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 2/20/2013 6:12:45 PM Post Reply

MARANA, Ariz. -- Already a year of wacky weather on the PGA Tour, this might have topped it all -- snow. The opening round of the Match Play Championship was suspended Wednesday when a cold rain that came down sideways quickly gave way to snow from a winter storm that dumped close to 2 inches on Dove Mountain in just over an hour. (Snip)Ten matches had not even started when players were called off the course as slush was starting to form on the greens. Two hours later, The Ritz-Carlton Club was a blanket of snow as

NCAA sues Pa. over
$60M Jerry Sandusky fine

USA Today, by Michael Winter Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 2/20/2013 6:08:05 PM Post Reply

The NCAA on Wednesday sued Pennsylvania hours after Gov. Tom Corbett signed a law mandating that all of Penn State´s $60 million fine for the Jerry Sandusky child-rape scandal be spent in the state. The NCAA claims the law is unconstitutional, arguing that Pennsylvania officials cannot dictate or limit how and where the college athletics governing body spends the money. An NCAA task force has been drafting guidelines for how to spend the fine, which the sports authority levied last summer in a consent decree with the university.

Conclave brings out
cardinals´ dirty laundry

Associated Press, by Nicole Winfield Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 2/20/2013 6:01:21 PM Post Reply

VATICAN CITY — Popular pressure is mounting in the U.S. and Italy to keep California Cardinal Roger Mahony away from the conclave to elect the next pope because of his role shielding sexually abusive priests, a movement targeting one of the most prominent of a handful of compromised cardinals scheduled to vote next month. Amid the outcry, Mahony has made clear he is coming, and no one can force him to recuse himself. (Snip) But the growing grass-roots campaign is an indication that ordinary Catholics are increasingly demanding a greater say in who is fit

So Apparently Gigolo
John Kerry is a Scientist Now

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 5:47:38 PM Post Reply

The longfaced new Secretary of State, John Kerry, delivered his first major address today. It was not on the recent North Korean nuclear tests or the ongoing strife in the Middle East or the rise of China. It was on global warming aka climate change. Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first major foreign policy speech today. In his address, delivered at the University of Virginia, he discussed tackling climate change. “We as a nation must have the foresight and courage to make the investments necessary to safeguard the most sacred trust

Graham to Hagel: Did You Say Israel
Risked Becoming an Apartheid State?

Weekly Standard, by Michael Warren Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/20/2013 5:40:55 PM Post Reply

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham has just sent a letter to Barack Obama´s defense secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel. Graham asks if, at a 2010 appearance at Rutgers University, Hagel said Israel "was risking becoming an apartheid state." A law student in attendance, Kenneth Wagner, wrote a contemporaneous email detailing Hagel´s remarks, saying the former Nebrasks senator had said the state of Israel risked becoming an "apartheid state." These allegations were first reported Tuesday by the Washington Free Beacon. Here´s the relevant quote from the Free Beacon report: “I am sitting in a lecture

What is Speaker
Boehner Thinking?

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/20/2013 5:37:24 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Now we take the Byron York story in the Washington Examiner: "The GOP´s Astonishingly Bad Message on Sequester Cuts -- In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner describes the upcoming sequester as a policy ´that threatens US national security, thousands of jobs and more.´" Boehner, echoing Obama, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. And Byron York said, wait a minute, it leads to a question here. Why would Republicans support -- I mean, the Republicans support the sequester. They´re on record as supporting it.

Will the Sequester
Kill Us All?

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/20/2013 5:27:58 PM Post Reply

RUSH: I have to tell you, folks, I´m getting profoundly confused here as I listen to everybody talk about the sequester. Of course we´re one day closer now. Every day takes us one day closer. It´s a quirk of the calendar. Every day we get closer to it. And I´m gonna tell you, I don´t know what´s gonna kill more people now -- assault weapons, global warming, or the sequester. If you listen to Obama and his minions in the news media, they´re all running neck and neck.

Obama´s Sequester Flip-Flop

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/20/2013 5:22:58 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the Pentagon has just informed Congress that it will be furloughing its civilian workforce of 800,000 employees if sequestration goes into effect on March 1st. Now, the sequestration is $85 billion. So roughly half of that is defense, and that´s $42.5 billion. We spent $50 billion on Hurricane Sandy refusal efforts, or we´re going to. I think in his State of the Union that Obama proposed $83.4 billion in new spending.

The Fallows Principle

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/20/2013 5:04:14 PM Post Reply

Last night on Twitter, we put forth what we now christen the Fallows Principle: You can publish any falsehood you want with the disclaimer "Is it ´true´? I don´t know." The principle takes its name from James Fallows, a writer for The Atlantic, who in the wee hours of yesterday morning posted on the once-venerable magazine´s website an "illustration" he had found "zooming around the Internet." It showed two TV stills, stacked one atop the other. In the first, (Snip) comedian Dave Chappelle holds aloft a copy of a newspaper called "Daily Truth" with the headline "ASTEROID COMING

Michelle Obama releases
new White House portrait

Star - Ledger (Newark, NJ), by Tom Wright-Piersanti Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 2/20/2013 5:02:37 PM Post Reply

Michelle Obama released her official White House portrait today, and it´s hard to miss the photo´s most prominent feature: her bangs. The 49-year-old fashion-forward first lady debuted the bangs in January, sending the Internet into a frenzy. She recently told TV host Rachael Ray that the bangs were her version of a "mid-life crisis." The new portrait, taken in the Green Room of the White House on Feb. 12, shows

Oscar Pistorius case police
admit investigative blunders

Guardian [UK], by Davis Smith Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 2/20/2013 4:44:27 PM Post Reply

The prosecution case against the Olympics and Paralympics star Oscar Pistorius suffered a blow on Wednesday as South African police admitted a series of blunders in their murder investigation. Hilton Botha, the detective leading the investigation, crumbled under defence cross-examination after he wrongly claimed to have found boxes of "testosterone" in Pistorius´s bedroom and admitted that police had no evidence contradicting the athlete´s version of events.(Snip)The state prosecutor´s office later said there was an error in the detective´s testimony when he identified the substance as testosterone.

Hagel Stonewalls, Refuses to
Grant Access to Archive

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/20/2013 4:25:16 PM Post Reply

Omaha, Nebraska- Chuck Hagel’s archive is housed here at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. But despite his nomination for secretary of defense, reporters, as well as the public writ large, are being denied access to the thousands of papers, speeches, audio and video files, and artifacts in the archive. THE WEEKLY STANDARD is told that Hagel supports the university’s decision to keep the archives sealed. “Chuck Hagel´s record in the Senate is well documented in the public domain,” says Hagel spokesman Marie Harf in an emailed statement. “Given his extraordinary disclosures to date, which surpass the threshold applied to nominees,

Pentagon issues furlough
notice as ‘sequester’
budget cuts loom

Washington Post, by Ernesto Londoño & Anne Gearan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/20/2013 4:20:28 PM Post Reply

The Defense Department officially notified its 800,000 civilian employees on Wednesday that they are likely to be placed on periods of unpaid leave, as the Obama administration scrambled to deal with congressionally mandated budget cuts set to kick in next week. “There is no mistaking that the rigid nature of the cuts forced upon this department, and their scale, will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force,” Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta said to employees in a memo issued Wednesday.

Florida Republican Sen. Marco
Rubio calls Jerusalem Israel’s capital

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: horacer- 2/20/2013 4:01:57 PM Post Reply

JERUSALEM — An influential Republican senator has called Jerusalem the capital of Israel, taking a stand on an explosive issue between Israel and the Palestinians. The fate of Jerusalem is one of the most intractable issues in the Mideast conflict with both Israelis and Palestinians claiming rights to the city. In his first official visit to the country, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told Israel’s president on Wednesday that Jerusalem is “of course the capital of your country.” He reiterated America’s bipartisan support for Israel.

New York Times Co. Said to
Put Boston Globe Up for Sale

Bloomberg News, by Edmund Lee & Jeffrey McCracken Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 2/20/2013 3:58:02 PM Post Reply

New York Times Co. is formally exploring a sale of the Boston Globe, its only remaining business outside the core New York Times media brand, two people familiar with the matter said. The publisher is working with Evercore Partners Inc. as an adviser for a possible sale, said the people, who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The Times Co., controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, is coping with a difficult advertising market as spending on national campaigns continues to shrink industrywide.

Daily News Reporter Admits: Breitbart
´Friends of Hamas´ Story ´Accurate´

Brietbart Big Journalism, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 2/20/2013 3:46:36 PM Post Reply

The mainstream media have ignored the fact that at least one prominent supporter of Hamas has donated money to an organization associated with former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)--namely, the Atlantic Council, which receives support from the Hariri family of Lebanon, whose most prominent member, former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri, publicly backs Hamas. Instead, they have attacked a story by Ben Shapiro citing Senate sources who said they had been told Hagel had received funds from a group "purportedly" calling itself "Friends of Hamas."

Snapshots of planet Earth:
From the ghost towns of
Spain to life and laughter
on an African rubbish dump,
entries pour in for
environmental photography competition

Daily Mail (UK), by Daniel Miller Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/20/2013 3:14:47 PM Post Reply

As diverse as they are beautiful, these stunning entries for the Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition capture the ever-changing and often precarious relationship between human beings and the natural world. From the children playing with an old television set by a west African rubbish dump to a crumbling colonial-era building in Bangladesh still serving the needs of some of the country´s poorest people, daily life in all corners of the planet is brought sharply into focus. Plastic greenhouses transform the landscape in central Spain into a geometric grid of agriculture, while in another part of the country,

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