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The manufactured crisis of sequester

Washington Post, by George F. Will Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/22/2013 10:58:33 PM Post Reply

Even during this desultory economic recovery, one industry thrives — the manufacture of synthetic hysteria. It is, however, inaccurate to accuse the Hysteric in Chief of crying “Wolf!” about spending cuts under the sequester. He is actually crying “Hamster!” As in: Batten down the hatches — the sequester will cut $85 billion from this year’s $3.6 trillion budget! Or: Head for the storm cellar — spending will be cut 2.3 percent! Or: Washington chain-saw massacre — we must scrape by on 97.7 percent of current spending!

Caligula’s Horse

National Review Online, by Peter Kirsanow Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/22/2013 10:54:22 PM Post Reply

Chuck Hagel easily proved himself unfit to be secretary of defense during his nomination hearing. Not only was he ignorant of fundamental aspects of the job, but his positions on some of the critical defense issues of the day are preposterous if not dangerous. No one disputes that his performance at the hearing was the worst and most embarrassing of any nominee for any prominent position in memory. Yet by all reports he will be our next secretary of defense. Why? The explanation heard most frequently from senators and pundits alike is a robotic “the president is entitled

McConnell Throws a No-Hitter

National Review Online, by Daniel Foster Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/22/2013 10:51:43 PM Post Reply

I’ve learned a few things (I hope) in my three and half years covering politics in the Obama era. And Number One With a Bullet is this: if you ever want to know where to find the rightward-most, feasible position for Republicans to take in a given political crisis — and as the president is wont to point out, there’s a new one every week — look for Mitch McConnell. He’s usually sitting there in a folding chair, waiting for everybody else to show up. McConnell’s disposition on a given issue can be either heartening

Oh Goodie: DoD Spends $5.2
Million on “Goldfish Studies”

Townhall, by Daniel Doherty Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 9:37:40 PM Post Reply

And unsurprisingly, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul isn’t happy about it. In truth, Paul has become one of the most outspoken Republican advocates in the upper chamber for cutting military spending -- a position too many on the Right seem wholly uncomfortable with. But after studying Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) shell-shocking report last year exposing Washington´s wasteful spending habits, Paul seems insistent that there are plenty of ways both Republicans and Democrats can come to together to reduce annual federal expenditures. And cutting military spending, he argues, is a good place to start:

Watch: Jimmy Fallon Performs ‘The
Evolution Of Mom Dancing’ …With
First Lady Michelle Obama

Mediaite, by Matt Wilstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 9:26:28 PM Post Reply

First Lady Michelle Obama is making her second appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Friday night, and as the show wrote on Twitter, they just “couldn’t wait” until tonight to show America this epic segment. The last time the first lady was on the show, she brought Jimmy Fallon to the White House where the two competed in a fitness competition to promote her “Let’s Move” campaign to fight obesity. This time, Obama was on Fallon’s turf. Fallon decided to bring back a classic segment from last year’s Father’s Day, “The Evolution of Dad Dancing,” this time recreated as

Austin Sigg 911 tape:´I murdered
Jessica Ridgeway, I have
proof that I did´

KMGH-TV [Denver, CO], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: zephyrgirl- 2/22/2013 9:18:48 PM Post Reply

Jefferson County, Colo. - A judge ruled on Friday that there is enough evidence for a teen to stand trial for murder and attempted abduction about an hour after prosecutors played a 911 tape where Austin Sigg admitted to killing 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway and to trying to kidnap a female jogger. The five-minute recording played during a Friday preliminary hearing began with the teen´s mother, Mindy Sigg, calling 911 on the night of Oct. 23, 2012. "I need you to come to my house, my son wants to turn himself in for Jessica Ridgeway's murder," the mother tells a dispatcher.

Senator to Hagel: Open Your Archive

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 9:17:14 PM Post Reply

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has written a letter to Chuck Hagel to ask that he open his Senate archive at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Graham, who also asks Hagel to authorize the release of past speeches organized by the Washington Speakers Bureau, believes interested parties should have access to the former Nebraska senator´s record. Graham first reminds Hagel, who has been nominated as secretary of defense, that he promised disclosure at his Senate confirmation hearing. He writes, "During your appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee,

Firearms Companies Restricting Sales
To Government Agencies In Areas
That Restrict Gun Rights

Cybercast News Service, by Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 2/22/2013 9:13:59 PM Post Reply

A growing number of firearm and firearm-related companies have stated they will no longer sell items to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens´ rights to own them. According to The Police Loophole, 34 companies have joined in publicly stating that governments who seek to restrict 2nd Amendment rights will themselves be restricted from purchasing the items they seek to limit or ban. Extreme Firepower Inc., located in Inwood, WV has had a longstanding policy that states: "The Federal Government and several states have enacted gun control laws that restrict

Haute couture by the postman

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 9:08:21 PM Post Reply

We first thought this was a dispatch from The Onion: The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will enhance its “cool” with the rollout of a line of apparel and accessories, targeting the young. The Postal Service, near bankruptcy, expects young hipsters to show up, perhaps in flash mobs, to order the latest in government-issued fashion. They can be the first on the block in a “Rain, Heat & Snow” brand shirt or jacket. Abercrombie & Fitch, be warned. The logic — if it can be called that — behind this adventure in haute couture is that an appeal to the kids could encourage them to use

Scientists believe Thousands of
people have been exposed to a
deadly outbreak of tuberculosis
in downtown Los Angeles

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 8:53:40 PM Post Reply

Public health officials are searching for more than 4,500 people who they believe have been exposed to a deadly outbreak of tuberculosis in Los Angeles, as part of a huge effort to contain the disease. Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in downtown Los Angeles to help officials determine why the disease is spreading and to stop it in its tracks. Eleven people have died from the disease since 2007, and a total of 78 cases have been noted. Of these, 60 were homeless people living in an area known as skid row. Scientists believe the strain is unique to the area

The Left’s Racists Are
Out to Get Ted Cruz

PJ Media, by Daniel Sosa Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 8:47:59 PM Post Reply

Senator Ted Cruz believes that attacks on Marco Rubio are because he’s a conservative Latino. “I think Democrats and the media are afraid of Marco Rubio because he is a smart, intelligent, conservative Hispanic. And they are looking for any excuse they can to attack him, because that threatens them,” Cruz told reporters during a tour of a Texas gun manufacturing plant north of Austin. “Look, he took a drink of water in a speech. And it dominated the news for days with one network saying it was a career ender.” He’s right. Cruz should know, has been the victim of this racism in recent days as well.

Black Leaders: ‘Direct Correlation
Between Gun Control and Black
People Control’

Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 8:42:05 PM Post Reply

Gun control dates back to laws before and after the Civil War that prohibited or restricted African Americans from owning firearms, a group of black leaders said Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “History is [rife] with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control,” Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, said at the event. Swimp compared the call for universal background checks for gun purchase to the time when blacks were required to register with the government. “The first gun laws were put into

FEMA archeologists find
American Indian pottery,
other items by Bayou St. John

Times-Picayune [New Orleans, LA], by Bruce Eggler Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/22/2013 8:41:44 PM Post Reply

Archeologists under contract to the Federal Emergency Management Agency have discovered American Indian pottery sherds, animal bones and pieces of clay tobacco pipes near Bayou St. John in New Orleans. Some of the items are more than 1,500 years old. "It was a bit of a surprise to find this," said FEMA Louisiana Recovery Office Deputy Director of Programs Andre Cadogan, referring to a small pottery fragment. "We clearly discovered pottery from the late Marksville period, which dates to 300-400 A.D. The pottery was nice, easily datable, and much earlier than we expected.

Court orders NLRB to justify
continuing operation in wake
of recess appointee ruling

Washington Examiner, by Sean Higgins Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 8:35:37 PM Post Reply

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today ordered the National Labor Relations Board to respond to a petition by a pro-business group that it suspend any further action in a Rhode Island case. The same court had earlier ruled that two of the three current board members were appointed unconstitutionally. Should the court grant the petition, it could force the NLRB to cease all activity. “We are not asking the court to shut down the Board, but it may have that effect. If the court shuts down the NLRB in this case,

ObamaCare and the ´29ers´

Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/22/2013 8:33:45 PM Post Reply

Here´s a trend you´ll be reading more about: part-time "job sharing," not only within firms but across different businesses. It´s already happening across the country at fast-food restaurants, as employers try to avoid being punished by the Affordable Care Act. In some cases we´ve heard about, a local McDonalds has hired employees to operate the cash register or flip burgers for 20 hours a week and then the workers head to the nearby Burger KingBKW +2.39% or Wendy´s to log another 20 hours. Other employees take the opposite shifts.

Will Ray Nagin continue to
resist the lure of a plea?

Time-Picayune [New Orleans, LA], by James Gill Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/22/2013 8:22:42 PM Post Reply

If more people charged with crimes in this country were like former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, chaos would overtake the justice system. Nagin may yet fall in line, but, so far, he seems inclined to plead not guilty. If even 50 percent of defendants refused to roll over, the courts would be swamped. They could never handle that many trials. It is such a rare case, state or federal, that does not end with a plea bargain that we must conclude either that prosecutors hardly ever file erroneous charges or possess great coercive powers. In 2011, according to

Insurer with NY´s ´worst´ record of
complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan

Washington Examiner, by Richard Pollock Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 8:20:53 PM Post Reply

A health insurance company headed by an old friend from when President Obama was an Illinois state senator got a $340 million federal loan to establish Obamacare co-ops in New York, New Jersey and Oregon despite having a chronic record of consumer and regulatory complaints. The New York-based Freelancers Insurance Company has been rated the "worst" insurer for two straight years by state regulators, and data compiled by a national insurance association show an extremely high rate of consumer complaints. The firm was founded in 2008 by Sara Horowitz, who worked with Obama while he was in the

Obama’s sequester deal-changer

Washington Post, by Bob Woodward Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 2/22/2013 8:15:52 PM Post Reply

Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround the sequester, the term for the $85?billion in ugly and largely irrational federal spending cuts set by law to begin Friday. What is the non-budget wonk to make of this? Who is responsible? What really happened? The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”

FBI probe of defense tech
allegedly leaked from NASA
stonewalled, sources say

Fox News, by Jeremy A. Kaplan & Judson Berger Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/22/2013 8:10:04 PM Post Reply

A four-year FBI investigation into the transfer of classified weapons technology to China and other countries from NASA’s Ames Research Center is being stonewalled by government officials, sources tell FoxNews.com. Documents obtained by FoxNews.com, which summarize these and other allegations and were given to congressional sources last week by a whistle-blower, described how a “secret grand jury” was to be convened in February 2011 to hear testimony from informants in the case, including a senior NASA engineer. But federal prosecutor Gary Fry was removed from the case, which was then transferred

What If Republican Todd Akin
Advocated Rape Whistles?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 2/22/2013 7:57:25 PM Post Reply

Gun Control: The silent media ignore a Colorado Democrat who says women don´t need firearms to defend themselves from predators and a patronizing vice president who says women can´t handle an AR-15 anyway. On Monday, the Colorado House passed four gun control bills. Among them is HB13-1226. It would ban concealed weapons on college campuses, as if creating more gun-free zones, such as the one around the Aurora, Colo., theater, where 12 were killed and another 59 wounded, will prevent more massacres. Colorado is a concealed-carry state, as was Virginia at the time of the Virginia Tech shootings.

Sub-Plot Of Revisionist ´Argo´:
Rescuing Jimmy Carter

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/22/2013 7:57:19 PM Post Reply

Propaganda: Among Oscar´s favorites, "Argo" claims to be a broadly accurate retelling of real events in the Iranian hostage crisis. But it´s historic revisionism masquerading as revelation. And that revisionism, carried out by Democrat activists Ben Affleck and co-producer George Clooney, conveniently makes the Democrat laughingstock of the crisis, former President Carter, look good. The more we learn about the project, the more it smells like a bad Hollywood plot to rehab Carter´s legacy as one of the worst presidents in history. It turns out that Carter quietly collaborated on the film, and has breathlessly

Shutting Down Government For
Sequester May Backfire On Obama

Investor´s Business Daily, by Ford O´connell Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/22/2013 6:57:47 PM Post Reply

Obama´s Hyperbolic Sequester Pla First responders arrayed behind him at a press conference. Teachers furloughed from the classroom. Air-traffic controllers furloughed from the control towers. Everything but pay for the troops at risk in the armed forces. President Obama wants us to taste austerity. He wants us to see what it would be like if our representatives in Congress — and this is all Congress´ fault, in his version of events — fail to get back to Washington and avoid the sequester scheduled to take place on March 1. Can we live with fewer firemen and teachers and more

Obama Should Admit That
Dan Quayle Had It Right

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/22/2013 6:52:57 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration touts early childhood education as a ladder out of poverty. In reality, it´s a dubious solution to a misdiagnosed problem. No matter how much solid science you throw at it, nothing shakes the faith of so many in the transformative power of so-called "high-quality" schooling for preschool-age children. Late last year, the Department of Health and Human Services released results of a rigorous study showing that the Head Start program, costing $8 billion a year, has had little or no effect on the cognitive, physical or emotional well-being of kids once they reach third grade.

Former New Orleans Mayor Nagin,
Arraigned on Bribery Charges, Not
ID´d as a Democrat in 500-Word
AP Story

Newsbusters, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/22/2013 6:36:37 PM Post Reply

At the Associated Press yesterday, Michael Kunzelman managed to write a 500-word story about the arraignment of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on bribery charges without once mentioning that Nagin is a Democrat. That´s probably not a "Name That Party" record for "Most Words Used in an AP Story about a Democratic Politician Tainted by Scandal and/or Corruption," but it´s especially galling, given the mayor´s culpability (along with then-Governor Kathleen Blanco) for failing to ensure that New Orleans was evacuated on a timely basis in anticipation of Hurricane Katrina, and given the national press´s non-stop blaming of

WV House passes bill to
prevent seizure of firearms

State Journal [Charleston WV], by Whitney Burdette Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/22/2013 6:31:20 PM Post Reply

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, police officers confiscated hundreds of firearms. The West Virginia House of Delegates has taken a major step in ensuring something similar doesn´t happen here. House Bill 2471 passed the House unanimously Feb. 22. The bill, introduced by Speaker Rick Thompson, D-Wayne, would prohibit the restriction on lawful use of firearms and ammunition during a declared state of emergency. The bill is backed by the National Rifle Association and also creates a legal course of action for those whose weapons are unlawfully confiscated under this bill.

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