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The Fading Conservative Brand

American Conservative, by Rod Dreher Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/22/2013 5:59:51 AM Post Reply

I had a somewhat strange experience last night. The phone rang, and it was a pollster from LSU. She was calling for a survey they were doing about state political issues, mostly, but she also gathered demographic data for context. I normally don’t participate in polls, but because this was about state issues, I figured that my opinion might carry more weight, however minuscule. When we got toward the end of the survey, she asked me if I was a Republican, Democrat, or Independent. “Independent,” I said. That’s how I registered to vote here, and that’s how I think of myself.

California Dept. of Transportation:
‘Be Sure to Black Out the ‘United
States’ and [the] Motto’

Weekly Standard, by Jeffrey H. Anderson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/22/2013 5:54:58 AM Post Reply

For three years, a private citizen named Steve LeBard has led the effort to build a privately funded memorial in Orcutt, California—a tranquil small town located on the Golden State’s gorgeous Central Coast—to honor military veterans. And for the better part of those three years, he has run into a toxic blend of political correctness, anti-Americanism, and bureaucratic senselessness. Today, the memorial, which was to be built with private funds on a small piece of public land, remains unbuilt.LeBard is head of the private Old Town Orcutt Revitalization Association (OTORA), the type of voluntary civil association

Much Ado About Rove

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/22/2013 5:47:19 AM Post Reply

In the aftermath of their presidential election defeat, many Republicans took out their frustration on Mitt Romney and his staff. Their manifold shortcomings and mistakes, both in terms of judgment and technical gaffes, were raked over with consummate thoroughness by conservative commentators. But with Romney sensibly gone to ground (though he will break his silence this month at the annual CPAC conference) and his advisors making poor targets on their own, that got boring after a while. So with the people who determined the GOP fate in 2012 no longer such inviting targets, the spleen of some conservatives

Kerry’s pointless tour

New York Post, by Amir Taheri Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/22/2013 5:38:05 AM Post Reply

On Sunday, new Secretary of State John Kerry starts a tour of nine countries in Europe and the Middle East; the State Department calls it a “listening tour.” Yet, while listening is part of diplomacy, it can’t substitute for policy, especially in the case of the only superpower. Leaders of smaller nations might need the occasional “listening” trip to brush up their knowledge of issues and regions, but a superpower is supposed to have eyes and ears everywhere all the time, thanks to a vast and expensive diplomatic network. That Kerry might need an educational tour is doubly puzzling,

All is forbidden

New York Post, by Cindy Adams Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/22/2013 5:34:01 AM Post Reply

Kiddies, we’ve become losers. We’re losing everything. In my case, not weight — but money, patience, hair and, mostly, privileges. No longer allowed salt. Sugar is outlawed. Smoking’s second to cheating on taxes. Sodas, forget. Sounds — horn-honking, boombox blaring — could get you three-to-five. Spitting? A no-no. But who recalls when any creature actually spit in public? Happened to me only once. With a cranky camel in the Sahara. No longer may children become so heavy that if they run away they have to take the truck route.

The Singapore Cure

Weekly Standard, by Matthew Continetti Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/22/2013 5:30:00 AM Post Reply

David Goldhill is a liberal Democratic business executive whose father was killed by a hospital-borne infection several years ago. The experience drove him to study the American health care system in search of an explanation. “How is it possible,” he writes, “that my father’s death was an avoidable accident with no one to blame?” The answer shocked him. Goldhill discovered that health care is unlike any other industry: Everything about health care—how we pay for it, how we regulate it, how we judge its effectiveness, how we’re willing to accept low standards

Benedict resignation linked to inquiry
into ´Vatican gay officials´, says paper

Guardian [UK], by John Hooper Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/22/2013 5:19:14 AM Post Reply

A potentially explosive report has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, some of whom – the report said – were being blackmailed by outsiders. The pope´s spokesman declined to confirm or deny the report, which was carried by the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica. The paper said the pope had taken the decision on 17 December that he was going to resign – the day he received a dossier compiled by three cardinals delegated to look into the so-called "Vatileaks" affair. Last May Pope Benedict´s butler, Paolo Gabriele,

Asteroid Apocalypse

Daily Beast, by Michio Kaku Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/22/2013 5:15:52 AM Post Reply

Maybe Chicken Little was right after all. It was an amazing spectacle, a rapid succession of giant asteroids blazing across the sky. First, on February 15, Russia was hit with the biggest asteroid in 100 years. Barely a few hours later, an even bigger one made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded for an asteroid of its size. Then the residents of San Francisco, Cuba, and south Florida looked up and saw meteors streak across the sky, rattling their nerves.It was a historic display of nature’s cosmic firepower, something I never expected to see in my lifetime.

Let Sequestration Happen

PJ Media, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/22/2013 5:04:53 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama clearly doesn’t like how the threat of sequestration, an idea he owns but now dishonestly wants to disown, is working out. In a Tuesday speech, Obama went into campaign mode overdrive, claiming that — as summarized in a brilliant Tuesday evening Wall Street Journal editorial with the even better title “President Armageddon” — “if Republicans don’t raise taxes in return for more spending, the world will end.” Despite a fiscal cliff deal which included $15 billion in spending “cuts” (actually “reductions in projected spending”) and over $600 billion in tax increases, the president is still demanding more

Christiane Amanpour: Happy
birthday, President Mugabe!

Hot Air, by Mary Katharine Ham Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/22/2013 4:58:48 AM Post Reply

I’m trying to imagine Amanpour giving an equally non-judgmental and upbeat birthday tribute to, say, John Boehner. Amanpour tweeted birthday wishes for the 89-year-old Zimbabwe leader along with this online video, which is one dash news report but mostly sounds like a toast at someone’s 33 Years of Brutal Power-Mongering Party. Amanpour’s intro encompasses the tone pretty well: “Imagine a world leader four years older than the Pope who’s been in power for 33 years and shows no sign of calling it quits,” Amanpour said. “Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, is 89 today,

What Would President Romney Do?

National Journal, by Josh Kraushaar Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/22/2013 4:54:11 AM Post Reply

For those convinced that President Obama doesn’t deserve any blame for the fiscal gridlock, let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s imagine that Mitt Romney was elected president, and was dealing with the same Congress that Obama has faced so much trouble in getting legislation to avert sequestration and myriad fiscal emergencies. Would a President Romney be confronting the same crisis? It’s impossible to know for sure, but a look at Romney’s compromising tendencies with a Democratic Legislature as governor of Massachusetts suggest that things would look very different. Romney cut his business and political profile as a deal-maker,

President Obama holds off-record meeting
with top White House reporters

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/22/2013 4:50:45 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama held an off-the-record meeting with top White House reporters on Thursday afternoon, POLITICO has learned. The meeting, with reporters from major print and television outlets, comes days after the White House Correspondents Association complained publicly about their lack of access to the president during a golf outing in Palm Beach, Fla., and one day after Obama met with local television reporters. White House press secretary Jay Carney declined to comment on the meeting. "Potus has meetings all the time. I don´t comment on all of them," he told POLITICO in an email.

US gov´t to air-drop toxic
mice on Guam snakes

Associated Press, by Eric Talmadge Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/22/2013 4:41:50 AM Post Reply

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam´s jungle canopy. They are scientists´ prescription for a headache that has caused the tiny U.S. territory Most of Guam´s native bird species are extinct because of the snake, which reached the island´s thick jungles by hitching rides from the South Pacific on U.S. military ships shortly after World War II. There may be 2 million of the reptiles on Guam now, decimating wildlife, biting residents and even knocking out electricity by slithering onto power lines.

A final salute from 300 strangers:
Royal Marine, 70, with no family
gets a grand send-off after vicar
rallies mourners on Facebook

Daily Mail [UK], by Inderdeep Bains Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/22/2013 2:06:39 AM Post Reply

They’d never met him and they knew precious little about him. But hundreds turned out yesterday to mark the passing of a former Royal Marine who died with no known family . . . or friends. Some travelled hundreds of miles to the funeral of James McConnell in Portsmouth after a local vicar used Facebook to appeal for mourners.[Snip]Yesterday, in the biting cold, a procession through the cemetery was led by Royal British Legion standard bearers followed by a group of flag-bearing motorcycles from the legion’s riders’ branch. Two buglers from the Royal Marines band played the Last Post

Mosquito repellent Deet
´losing its effectiveness´

Telegraph [UK], by Alice Philipson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/22/2013 1:51:31 AM Post Reply

People living or travelling in areas plagued by mosquitoes are more at risk of bites after researchers found the insects are first deterred by Deet, but then later ignore it. Deet, which was developed by the US military following operations in the jungle during World War II, is one of the most widely used ingredients in insect repellents. But scientists said they needed to find alternatives to the substance, which works because mosquitoes do not like the smell, after tests showed the insects are becoming increasingly resistant to Deet.[Snip]Dr James Logan from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

´Exploding´ Boeing battery that grounded
Dreamliner fleet worldwide was ´not
properly wired´, probe reveals

Daily Mail [UK], by Kerry McDermott Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/22/2013 12:49:20 AM Post Reply

A battery that overheated on a Boeing 787 flight in Japan and forced the plane to make an emergency landing was incorrectly wired, an investigation has found. The All Nippon Airways (ANA) Dreamliner touched down in Takamatsu when the lithium ion battery sparked an on-board fire, prompting the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 787 jets due to safety concerns. Japan´s Transport Safety Board has said the battery for the aircraft´s auxiliary power unit was improperly connected to the main battery, which overheated during the flight. The board´s report said a protective valve would have prevented power from the auxiliary unit

FBI raids headquarters of The Scooter
Store as part of $100 million
Medicare fraud investigation

Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/22/2013 12:42:14 AM Post Reply

The Scooter Store, the nation´s largest supplier of mobility vehicles is suspected of defrauding the U.S. Government of over $100 million in bogus Medicare and Medicaid claims. On Wednesday, over 100 federal and state law enforcement officers raided the New Braunfels, Texas headquarters of the company as authorities after allegations the firm pressured doctors into prescribing their scooters for patients who do not need them. This follows a damning exposé by CBS This Morning in January which alleged that the company over-billed Medicare by over $100 million between 2009-2012. The CBS investigation found that The Scooter Store would harass physicians

Senate Democrats Protect
Corporate Jet Loophole

ABC News, by Jonathan Karl Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/21/2013 11:35:17 PM Post Reply

Listening to the White House, you’d think the key to averting the across-the-board spending cuts (the dreaded “sequester”) set to in place on March 1 is closing the tax break for owners of private jets. Here was White House Press Secretary Jay Carney last week: “How do you explain to a senior that we’re doing this, asking you to sacrifice, but we’re not saying that corporate jet owners should lose their special tax incentive.” On Wednesday, Carney summed up the Republican position this way: “We’d rather see our national security undermined than corporate jet

Paul to hold up Brennan’s CIA
nomination over drone strikes

Washington Times, by Shaun Waterman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/21/2013 11:25:58 PM Post Reply

Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday that he would “use every procedural option” at his disposal to block the confirmation of White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan to become CIA director if the Obama administration keeps dodging questions about its policy on lethal drone strikes against terrorism suspects, including Americans. In a letter to Mr. Brennan on Thursday, Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican, said that Mr. Brennan evaded answering a key question about the administration’s drone policy during a confirmation hearing this month before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Biden: ‘There’s a moral
price to be paid for
inaction’ on guns

Washington Times, by David Sherfinski Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/21/2013 11:22:43 PM Post Reply

Speaking at a university in Connecticut mere miles from where the December Newtown school shootings took place, Vice President Joseph R. Biden urged legislators across the country Thursday to move on gun control, warning that “there’s a moral price to be paid for inaction.” Mr. Biden, who Mr. Obama tapped to head a task force on gun violence after the shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, said politicians must be willing to speak for the fallen, now voiceless, victims of gun violence. “I can imagine how we will

Obama: Love For The
Rich Unites Republicans

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/21/2013 10:34:28 PM Post Reply

On Thursday, President Barack Obama doubled down on his usual tactic of bullying his opposition rather than negotiating with them. Speaking to race baiter extraordinaire and MSNBC host Al “Resist We Much” Sharpton, Obama explained that Republicans don’t oppose tax increases because they think it will hurt the economy, destroy jobs, and prevent investment in business. No, said our uniter president, they do it because they hate poor people and love the rich: My sense is that their basic view is that nothing is important enough to raise taxes on wealthy individuals or corporations, and they would rather see

Hagel Declined to Sign Schumer
Letter in 2007 Asking Arab
Allies to Recognize Israel

Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/21/2013 10:32:46 PM Post Reply

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel declined to sign a letter circulated by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in 2007 calling upon then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to press Arab allies of the U.S. to recognize Israel’s right to exist “and not use such recognition as a bargaining chip for future Israeli concessions.” Seventy-nine Senators eventually signed the letter, which was sponsored by Schumer and by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The Schumer-Graham letter “concerning the Responsibilities of Friendly Arab States” has not, apparently, been cited yet in the debate over Hagel’s potential confirmation as Secretary of Defense. The letter

‘Lethal Weapon’ star Danny Glover
says US should ‘abolish guns’ [Video]

Daily Caller, by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/21/2013 10:28:32 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Hollywood actor and political activist Danny Glover, star of the “Lethal Weapon” films with Mel Gibson, told The Daily Caller that Congress should “abolish guns” in the U.S. “I don’t own a gun and definitely not only Gun Control, we should abolish guns, the personal guns. That’s how far I’m willing to go,” Glover told TheDC at a TransAfrica Forum benefit event on Wednesday night. “There are many people in this country who do not have guns, who don’t own guns and are still under the same, are still susceptible to being burglarized or anything,

Immigration — the
lesser of two evils

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/21/2013 10:24:29 PM Post Reply

The president suggested he would hold off introducing his own immigration bill as long as bipartisan Senate negotiations were proceeding apace — until his own immigration bill mysteriously leaked precisely as bipartisan Senate negotiations were proceeding apace. A naked political maneuver and a blunt warning to Republicans: Finish that immigration deal in Congress, or I’ll propose something I know you can’t accept — and flog the issue mercilessly next year to win back the House. John McCain responded (correctly) that President Obama was creating a “cudgel” to gain “political advantage in the next election.” Marco Rubio, a chief architect

In sensitivity training, USDA
employees recite ‘If we work
for a federal agency, we’ve
discriminated in the past’

Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/21/2013 10:22:52 PM Post Reply

Additional clips of a United States Department of Agriculture sensitivity training class feature USDA employees being told to recite, “If we work for a federal agency, we’ve discriminated in the past.” The clips, released by the conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch Thursday evening, are the second installation of revealing footage obtained by a Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) request the organization made last May. According to Judicial Watch, the documents reveal the sensitivity training was delivered to USDA employees at least 16 times last year in an attempt to boost employees’ “emotional intelligence.”

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