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Federal appeals court ruling may
force California prisons to hire witches

Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/26/2013 2:20:25 AM Post Reply

California taxpayers, who already pay for prison chaplains covering such faiths as Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant and American Indian religions, might have to add witches to the list. A lawsuit working its way through the federal court system would require state prisons to hire Wiccan chaplains. Two female convicts who practice Wicca sued the state for refusing to hire a paid full-time Wiccan chaplain and “by failing to apply neutral criteria in determining whether paid chaplaincy positions are necessary to meet the religious exercise needs of inmates adhering to religions outside

Powers to offer Iran sanctions
relief at nuclear talks

Reuters, by Fredrik Dahl & Justyna Pawlak Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/26/2013 2:08:02 AM Post Reply

Almaty - World powers are expected to offer Iran limited sanctions relief on Tuesday if it agrees to halt its most sensitive nuclear work, in a new attempt to resolve a dispute that threatens to trigger another war in the Middle East. In their first meeting in eight months - time that Iran has used to expand atomic activity that the West suspects is aimed at developing a bomb capability - the powers hope Iran will engage in serious talks on finding a diplomatic solution. But with the Islamic Republic´s political elite pre-occupied with worsening internal infighting ahead of a June presidential election,

Rocket hits outskirts of
Ahskelon; none injured

YNET News [Israel], by Neri Brenner Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/26/2013 1:46:26 AM Post Reply

A Grad rocket fired from Gaza landed on the outskirts of Ahskelon. No injuries were reported. The rocket landed on a road in the city´s industrial zone, causing some damage. Security forces are at the scene. The area´s residents reported hearing echoes of an explosion. Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed that sappers have located and collected the remnants of the rocket. (Snip) This is the first time a rocket has been fired from Gaza at Israel since the conclusion of Operation Pillar of Defense in November. Security forces have expressed concern that the growing unrest in the West Bank

War profiteering, racial discrimination and a
´financial sham´: The allegations that
cloud Jim Crane, Democrat donor
and Obama´s golfing buddy

Daily Mail [UK], by Laura Collins Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/26/2013 12:56:49 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama has described it as proof ‘I’d better keep my day job.´ According to Tiger Woods, it was ‘just a great round of golf with Ron and Jim.’ Much has been made of Obama’s President’s Day golfing weekend in Florida--from its cost to his questionable choices over his playing partners--but little has been reported about the questionable background of Democratic donor Jim Crane who hit the links alongside the President and Woods.[Snip]This is a man whose company’s business practices have been the subject of several investigations, costly legal suits and eye-watering settlements and whose own methods have drawn excoriating

Kerry Vows Outreach
to Entirely New Country
He Just Made Up

FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 2/26/2013 12:17:04 AM Post Reply

Our economy may be toast and our international influence couldn’t even toast bread, but a side benefit of this administration is that life now imitates The Onion. [Snip] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry may need a map or new glasses after he confused the central Asian countries of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, inventing an entirely new nation known as “Kyrzakhstan.” The newly minted diplomat was referring to Kyrgyzstan, a poor, landlocked nation of 5.5 million, which he appeared to confuse with its resource-rich neighbour to the north, Kazakhstan.

People Make Mistakes, But
Government Makes Deadly Errors

Investor´s Business Daily, by Thomas Sowell Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/25/2013 11:19:19 PM Post Reply

John Stuart Mill´s classic essay "On Liberty" gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people´s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing "that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging."(Snip) What Sunstein does not tell us is what sort of creatures, other than people, are going to override our mistaken decisions for us. That is the key flaw in the theory and agenda of the left.

No open door: White
House denies selling access
to President Obama
to wealthy supporters

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/25/2013 10:58:48 PM Post Reply

The White House refuted a report Monday that President Obama’s former campaign team is selling access to him for wealthy donors who contribute at least $500,000 to a newly organized advocacy group pushing his liberal agenda. White House press secretary Jay Carney offered a flat “no” when asked by reporters if donors to the group Organizing for Action — a spinoff of Obama for America — would be rewarded with quarterly meetings with Mr. Obama in exchange for their hefty contributions to the tax-exempt group. “Of course not,”

GOP pushes back on
Obama sequester warnings,
says he should seek deal

Washington Post, by David A. Fahrenthold and David Nakamura Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/25/2013 10:51:32 PM Post Reply

Republicans on Monday rejected President Obama’s high-pressure push to avert a series of budget cuts called the sequester, saying that Obama was engaged in scare tactics and political campaigning when he should be seeking a deal. “This is not time for a road-show president,” Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) said at a news conference with other House Republicans. “This is time to look for someone who will lead and work with us, because we’re willing to work with them to solve America’s problems.” The lawmakers criticized Obama for a planned trip Tuesday

Michelle Obama’s Oscar
presentation raises questions
about the role of a first lady

Washington Post, by Krissah Thompson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/25/2013 10:49:20 PM Post Reply

Is this what Michelle Obama looks like untethered to the pressure of a campaign? Is she free to follow her whims without worries about political backlash? The first lady became the buzz of the weekend when she beamed into the Academy Awards from the White House to present the award for best picture with Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson. Attendees and viewers were flabbergasted at the satellite image of the elegantly dressed Obama, flanked by young service members in full regalia, opening the envelope to name Ben Affleck’s “Argo” the winner.

Feinstein: Gun Owners Should
Decide Between ‘Personal Pleasure’
and ‘General Welfare’

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/25/2013 10:35:57 PM Post Reply

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she believes a Wednesday Judiciary Committee hearing will “make the case” that her assault weapons ban is constitutional. The witness list for the hearing is United States Attorney for Colorado John Walsh, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, and two lawyers. Also at the witness table will be Neil Heslin, father of a Newtown, Conn., shooting victim, and a Newtown EMS medical director. Former GOP Rep. Sandy Adams (Fla.), a onetime police officer, rounds out the witnesses. “I think we will make the case

Chinese hackers seen as increasingly
professional, methodical, as they
plunder Web for secrets

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/25/2013 10:23:46 PM Post Reply

Beijing - Beijing hotly denies accusations of official involvement in massive cyberattacks against foreign targets, insinuating such activity is the work of rogues. But at least one piece of evidence cited by experts points to professional cyberspies: China’s hackers don’t work weekends. Accusations of state-sanctioned hacking took center stage this past week following a detailed report by a U.S.-based Internet security firm Mandiant. It added to growing suspicions that the Chinese military is not only stealing national defense secrets and harassing dissidents but also pilfering information

Ivy League Muslim prayer service
filled with homophobic invective

Daily Caller, by Eric Owens Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/25/2013 10:19:14 PM Post Reply

The notably anti-gay sermon accompanying a Muslim Friday prayer on Feb. 15 on the campus of Cornell University didn’t go over so well. The Cornell Sun first reported the story. “Not all homosexuals are pedophiles, but all pedophiles are homosexuals,” the person who delivered the sermon said, according to junior Ihsan Kabir, president of the Committee for the Advancement of Muslim Culture. “Homosexuals are freaks and q****s who want a pink earth,” was another lesson preached, Kabir said, according to The Sun. But wait! There’s more! The person who gave the Friday Sermon then

‘Statist propaganda:’ Michelle
Obama slammed for using military
as ‘props’ during Oscars appearance

Daily Caller, by Vince Coglianese Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/25/2013 10:11:09 PM Post Reply

First lady Michelle Obama is under fire after she appeared as a long-distance award presenter on the Oscars Sunday evening, flanked by active-duty American service members. The well-dressed members of the military stood attentively behind the first lady inside the White House as she presented the award for best picture to the movie “Argo.” But the use of those service members has left some of her critics fuming. Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist for The Washington Post, noted that Michelle Obama didn’t even acknowledge the military during her appearance: She declared of

Obama Administration Warns of
Cuts at Non-Existent Agency

National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/25/2013 10:10:08 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration has spent much of the past few weeks sounding the alarm about the impact of sequestration, but it appears it may have overreached, warning of cuts to a federal agency that no longer exists. Though the National Drug Intelligence Center closed in June 2012, three months before the Office of Management and Budget issued its (supposedly) comprehensive report on the impact of sequestration on each federal agency, the report notes on page 121 that the NDIC would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget.

Former Surgeon General
C. Everett Koop dies at age 96

CNN, by Dana Ford Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/25/2013 10:00:34 PM Post Reply

Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, a pediatric surgeon turned public health advocate, died Monday. He was 96. Koop served as surgeon general from 1982 to 1989, under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He was outspoken on controversial public health issues and did much to raise the profile the office of the surgeon general. He died peacefully at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College said in a news release announcing his death. "Dr. Koop did more than take care of his individual patients -- he taught all of us about critical health issues

The Obama Admin Can Airlift
Support, When It Wants To

PJ Media, by Ron Capshaw Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/25/2013 9:59:14 PM Post Reply

For those who cite Benghazi as proof the White House’s pratfalls on intelligence, I counter with the Hollywood-White House secret airlift of the First Lady to last night’s Oscars. Hollywood certainly regarded this as a successful intelligence operation. The planners behind the operation–Academy President Hawk (what better name for an intelligence agent) Koch, Oscar Producers Neil Moran and Craig Zedon–saw themselves in their secret meetings at the White House to work out the logistics as “behaving like the CIA.” The White House colluded in this vocabulary describing the operation as

Heroes, Not Props: FLOTUS
Ignores Military Members
During Oscar Appearance

Breitbart´s Big Hollywood, by Christian Toto Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/25/2013 9:52:52 PM Post Reply

Folks on both sides of the ideological aisle will be debating First Lady Michelle Obama´s appearance on the Oscars for some time, but one matter is instantly clear. The First Lady was flanked by several members of the U.S. military during her satellite appearance from The White House to announce the Best Picture winner, and she failed to acknowledge their presence or their heroism. Nor did Obama name check Best Picture nominee Zero Dark Thirty, the film detailing the successful hunt for Osama bin Laden, arguably her husband´s finest achievement

Beware the Ides of March: The
American empire faces danger

Washington Times, by Charles Ortel Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/25/2013 9:50:59 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK - Beware the Ides of March. The final weeks of winter and first week of spring are particularly dangerous for Empires stretched thin. Like the United States, the Roman Empire was once exceptional. Today, Italy is a minor, scandal plagued country in decline, about to be led by a coalition including a rising comedian and a fading lothario. Too much dolce vita is a dangerous thing, not to mention the shocking moral decay of the Vatican now rushing onto front pages as Italians continue to pay a heavy price, their storied nation descends ever deeper into

In Praise of Bob Woodward

Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/25/2013 9:48:13 PM Post Reply

I want to add to what Jonathan wrote about Bob Woodward calling out the White House for misrepresenting its role in sequestration and “moving the goalposts” in order to get its way. Mr. Woodward is clearly sympathetic to President Obama’s approach; he’s said as much. (“Obama’s call for a balanced approach is reasonable,” Woodward writes, “and he makes a strong case that those in the top income brackets could and should pay more.”) But Woodward has enough integrity as a journalist not to allow a willful distortion to go unchecked and unchallenged. Many in the elite media–NBC’s Chuck

G.O.P. Drafts Plan to Give
Obama Discretion on Cuts

New York Times, by Johathan Weisman & Michael D. Shear Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/25/2013 9:47:59 PM Post Reply

Washington - Congressional Republicans are preparing to counter increasingly dire warnings from President Obama about the impact of automatic budget cuts with a plan to give the administration more flexibility in instituting $85 billion in cuts, a proposal they say could protect the most vital programs while shifting more of the political fallout to the White House. (Snip) “I’m willing to raise revenue. I’m willing to raise $600 billion in new revenue if my Democratic friends would be willing to reform entitlements, and we can fix sequestration together.”

Furloughs are looming, but
the feds are still hiring

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/25/2013 9:40:01 PM Post Reply

The federal government is facing massive furloughs beginning later this week, but it is still running help-wanted ads seeking workers to answer phones — at up to $81,000 a year — or to drive cars for the State Department, for as much as $26.45 an hour. Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican and Congress’s top waste-watcher, sent a letter Monday to the White House budget office asking it to halt new hiring in low-priority jobs as a way of trying to preserve more important positions such as food safety inspectors and Border Patrol agents. His letter identified 10

Trayvon Martin’s mother:
‘Use this case as an example’

Washington Post, by Jonathan Capehart Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/25/2013 9:36:17 PM Post Reply

Sybrina Fulton wants George Zimmerman to stand trial for killing her son Trayvon Martin a year ago tomorrow in Sanford, Fla. Before that can happen, Judge Debra Nelson must determine whether the immunity from prosecution granted under Florida’s insane “stand your ground” (SYG) law applies to Zimmerman and his actions on Feb. 26, 2012. Neither Fulton nor her attorney Benjamin Crump believe it does. This is the only area where they agree with Mark O’Mara, Zimmerman’s lawyer. But Fulton says if the former neighborhood watch volunteer avoids a jury trial, “a whole lot of people need to

Texas students dress in
burqas, taught to call Muslim
terrorists ‘freedom fighters’

Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/25/2013 9:35:13 PM Post Reply

A Texas lawmaker is launching an investigation after a high school teacher reportedly invited her female students to dress in burqas and refer to Muslim terrorists as “freedom fighters.” State Sen. Dan Patrick told Fox News he is very disturbed by a Facebook photograph posted by one of the students in a world geography class at Lumberton High School, which showed them in Islamic garb. He also is investigating reports that the students were forced to write an essay based on an article in The Washington Post that blamed Egypt’s turmoil on democracy rather than the Muslim Brotherhood.

Obama’s Paycheck
Exempted from ‘Sequester’

Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/25/2013 9:22:13 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama won’t have to worry about his paycheck if the spending sequestration included in the Budget Control Act that he signed into law in 2011 begins taking effect this Friday. A report published last month by the Congressional Research Service--“Budget Sequestration and Selected Program Exemptions and Special Rules"--identifies certain programs that are exempt from sequestration and lays out special rules that govern the sequestration of others. Section 255 of the Budget Control Act includes “Compensation for the President” as one of those exemptions (Page 19).

China Has Its Own Debt Bomb

Wall Street Journal, by Ruchir Sharma Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/25/2013 9:21:27 PM Post Reply

Six years ago, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao cautioned that China´s economy is "unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable." China has since doubled down on the economic model that prompted his concern. Mr. Wen spoke out in an attempt to change the course of an economy dangerously dependent on one lever to generate growth: heavy investment in the roads, factories and other infrastructure that have helped make China a manufacturing superpower. (Snip) Even more staggering is the amount of credit that China unleashed to finance this investment boom.

DOJ to Federal Judge: We
Can Force Your Wife to
Violate Her Religion

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/25/2013 9:18:39 PM Post Reply

While presenting an oral argument in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last fall, a lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department told a federal judge that the Obama administration believed it could force the judge’s own wife—a physician—to act against her religious faith in the conduct of her medical practice. The assertion came in the case of Tyndale House Publishers v. Sebelius, a challenge to the Obama administration’s regulation requiring health-care plans to cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. Tyndale is a for-profit corporation that publishes Bibles,

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