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DHS releasing hundreds of illegal
immigrants, blaming budget cuts

Fox News, by Judson Berger Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/26/2013 8:53:54 PM Post Reply

The Department of Homeland Security has started releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants held in local jails in anticipation of automatic budget cuts, in a move one Arizona sheriff called politically motivated -- and dangerous. (Snip) The numbers, though, are in dispute. ICE officials said that it´s unclear how many ultimately might be released and that only 303 have been released from four Arizona facilities so far, though all those are in Pinal County. According to ICE, 2,280 detainees are still in custody in those facilities. Babeu described the move as a "mass budget pardon" and suggested

Democrats complain about
presence of debt clock
on Capitol Hill

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 8:47:32 PM Post Reply

Some members of Congress apparently don’t like to be reminded about how much debt the country continues to rack up. During a House Financial Services Committee hearing Tuesday on the budget, two Democrats complained after House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling instructed that two monitors in the hearing room display a real-time running national debt clock. California Rep. Maxine Waters and Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison both issued complaints about the displays, according to video of the hearing. “Clearly it is a political prop designed to message ideologically,” Ellison said. Waters asked that the debt clock not be on display whenever Democrats spoke,

GOP Shouldn’t Fear
Standing Up to Obama

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/26/2013 8:36:46 PM Post Reply

With the sequester all but certain to go into effect at the end of the month, the only suspense associated with the topic is whether the Democratic expectation that the public will blame it all on the Republicans will be vindicated in the coming weeks. So far, polls show them to be largely correct, and should the administration’s predictions of post-sequester doom and gloom come true it may not be possible for the GOP to resist the pressure to give in to the president’s demands for more tax increases. This belief

The Talented Mr. Lew

King Features Syndicate, by Rich Lowry Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/26/2013 8:14:53 PM Post Reply

Some guys have it, and some don’t. I’m referring to that special quality that makes powerful institutions want to throw fistfuls of dollars at them in senseless acts of high-priced beneficence. Jack Lew has it like nobody’s business. You might think the bespectacled treasury-secretary nominee is just another brainy budget wonk and miss the animal magnetism that makes his employers lose all sense of financial proportion around him, paying him astronomical sums, forgiving his loans, and granting him generous golden parachutes. Yes, Jack Lew is a rare talent — at the art of getting paid.

Why Rand Paul voted to
Confirm Chuck Hagel as
defense secretary

Yahoo News, by Chris Moody Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/26/2013 8:13:36 PM Post Reply

Only four Republicans crossed party lines on Tuesday to approve President Barack Obama´s defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, but no senator sparked more confusion than Kentucky´s Rand Paul, a vocal critic of Hagel who nonetheless cast his vote in favor of the former Nebraska senator. Just hours after he had voted against a procedural measure to end debate over Hagel´s nomination, Paul offered his support for Hagel´s confirmation. Paul´s spokeswoman explained that the senator decided to support Hagel because he believes that presidents should get "some leeway" on political appointments, an opinion he has been open about in the past.

House Republicans: Don’t Buy
Sequester Scare Tactics

National Review Online, by Betsy Woodruff Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/26/2013 8:10:23 PM Post Reply

Despite the president’s “Sequestration Is Armaggedon” road show, Republican members of Congress seem uniformly unflapped by the impending automatic budget cuts. “It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury and signifying nothing!” Representative Tim Huelskamp (R., Kan.) tells National Review Online with a laugh. “I’m not a great Shakespeare fan, but it fits now here. And I really think most Americans will wake up on Friday morning and say, ‘Come on, what was it all about?’” Huelskamp adds that he’d prefer to hold off sequestration and make minor reductions

Organizing For Corruption

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 8:07:41 PM Post Reply

Corruption: The White House denies a report that it is selling access to the president for $500,000 through its new Organizing for Action "social welfare group." Frankly, that´s not believable, given what´s already been going on. As if it weren´t bad enough already that President Obama has decided to keep his campaign machine active as a tax-exempt, "social welfare organization" to advocate his political agenda, it´s a fact that anyone who writes a check for $500,000 sits on OFA´s "national advisory board" and gets face time with the president four times a year.

Obama and the Sequester Scare

Wall Street Journal, by Phil Gramm Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 8:06:33 PM Post Reply

President Obama´s message could not be clearer: Life as we know it in America will change dramatically on March 1, when automatic cuts are imposed to achieve $85 billion in government-spending reductions. Furloughed government employees, flight delays and criminals set free are among the dire consequences the president has predicted. If the Washington Monument weren´t already closed for repairs, no doubt it too would be shut down. Scare tactics such as these are similar to the ones that were made when I co-authored the first sequester legislation in 1985, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act.

Is Obama Headed For A
Mayan Calendar Moment?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 8:04:33 PM Post Reply

Sequestration: The president is trying to sow panic over a 2.4% trim in federal spending. But countless Americans have had to cut more from their budgets. Well may they wonder: Why can´t Washington? To hear President Obama tell it, the sky will fall this week and it all will be the Republicans´ fault. He´s on the road trying to scare up outrage over the $85 billion in automatic cuts to federal spending that kick in, barring action from Congress, this Friday. So where is the panic? Despite the administration´s best efforts to produce it, we see none.

World Citizenship Trumps
Defense Under Obama

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 7:59:37 PM Post Reply

National Security: We´re "not just" Americans, says our new secretary of state, but "citizens of the world." And globalism comes before "protecting the country from catastrophic attack," says our top general. Barack Obama apparently got his foreign policy thinking not from anything he learned at Columbia or Harvard (where we still don´t know his grades), but from noted diplomats Lionel Richie and the late Michael Jackson. "We Are the World" was their 1985 Live Aid anthem to raise money to fight famine in Ethiopia — much of which ended up in the pockets of dictator Mengistu

Ex-Bears QB Miller: Religion a
barrier for gays in locker room

Chicago Tribune, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/26/2013 7:11:58 PM Post Reply

The question of whether NFL players would accept an openly gay teammate was raised again this week with a report that team executives want to know whether former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te´o is gay. Mike Florio of NBC Sports and ProFootballTalk.com said on "The Dan Patrick Show" that teams are wondering about Te´o´s sexual orientation in the wake of the fake girlfriend hoax, because the issue has the potential to divide the clubhouse. "Teams want to know if Manti Te´o is gay," Florio said. "They just want to know. They want to know because

Republican rep demands White House
records after ´fraudulent´ tweets
on gun control

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/26/2013 7:00:52 PM Post Reply

Republican Rep. Steve Stockman on Tuesday pressed President Obama and his de facto campaign arm, Organizing for Action, for more information on White House gun-control efforts, amid new allegations that Obama supporters are flooding congressional Twitter accounts with "phony" and "fraudulent" anti-gun messages. The Texas congressman said he sent letters to both the White House and OFA after learning Monday that he and 15 other Capitol Hill lawmakers had received computer-generated tweets that included the #WeDemandAVote hashtag -- which Obama encouraged supporters to use.

Alabama Republicans not happy with
Sen. Shelby vote for Hagel

Fox News, by Ben Evansky Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/26/2013 6:55:33 PM Post Reply

As the Senate confirmed Chuck Hagel Tuesday for Defense secretary after a contentious battle, one of four Republican senators who voted for him was facing an unusual backlash from Republican voters back in his home state of Alabama. The party´s 21-member steering committee voted Monday night to ask Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., to reconsider his position on Hagel. Alabama Republican Party chairman, Bill Armistead, told Fox News that he and many of the steering committee membership had been getting a large amount of calls and emails from its members who were concerned over Hagel´s nomination and disappointed that

Joe Scarborough: Conservative
Gathering CPAC Just About
Anger and Hate

Newsbusters, by Jeffrey Meyer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/26/2013 6:50:48 PM Post Reply

In what has become a recurring theme on MSNBC, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough railed against the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for failing to invite Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J) to the event. On the February 26 edition of the program the self-described “true conservative” Scarborough slammed CPAC as not being about winning elections, but instead being an echo-chamber that focuses on “hate” and “anger.” The segment began with liberal co-host Brzezinski expressing shock over the line-up of speakers at CPAC, including Sen.Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, prompting Scarborough to throw out that,

McCain and Graham praise
Obama on immigration

Associated Press, by Erica Werner Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 2/26/2013 6:33:53 PM Post Reply

Two leading Republican senators pushing changes to the nation´s immigration laws have met with President Barack Obama and say they´re convinced of his commitment to signing comprehensive immigration legislation. The praise from Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina comes even though some other Republicans say Obama just wants to pursue immigration as a political issue to get Latino support and isn´t truly committed to a bill. Speaking to reporters after meeting with the president Tuesday at the White House, McCain and Graham said they believe Obama understands the need for strong border-security measures.

Infantile Conservatism

Yahoo News, by Pat Buchanan Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/26/2013 6:31:17 PM Post Reply

Regularly now, The Washington Post, as always concerned with fairness and balance, runs a blog called "Right Turn: Jennifer Rubin´s Take From a Conservative Perspective." The blog tells us what the Post regards as conservatism. On Monday, Rubin declared that America´s "greatest national security threat is Iran." Do conservatives really believe this? How is America, with thousands of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, scores of warships in the Med, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, bombers and nuclear subs and land-based missiles able to strike and incinerate Iran within half an hour, threatened by Iran?

Tampa waterspout causes damage,
comes ashore on Harbour Island

WPTV-TV [West Palm Beach, FL], by Carson Chambers Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 2/26/2013 6:12:14 PM Post Reply

TAMPA - A waterspout crossed northern Hillsborough Bay Tuesday morning, hitting Harbour Island. Because it moved over land, the waterspout then technically became classified as a small tornado, according to forecasters. It caused damage and frayed nerves. A chunk of roofing was quickly found in the road near One Harbour Place. It wasn´t immediately clear where the twisted piece of metal came from. A group of bank employees said they took refuge in the vault when they heard a "loud noise" and likened it to the often-referred-to freight train.

Iran moves a step closer
to getting the Bomb

Telegraph [UK], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/26/2013 5:34:47 PM Post Reply

The photographs published today by The Telegraph, confirming that Iran’s heavy-water plant at Arak is now fully operational, will be a cause for profound concern for those Western powers that are committed to preventing the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear weapons.[Snip]But in common with other states that have successfully developed nuclear weapons, such as India and North Korea, Iran is simultaneously conducting research into building a plutonium device. The heavy-water complex at Arak makes a vital contribution to this programme, as nuclear experts believe it has the potential to produce sufficient quantities of plutonium for an atomic bomb.

There is a ´diplomatic path´
with Iran, insists John Kerry

Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/26/2013 5:32:12 PM Post Reply

Mr Kerry was speaking after meeting his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle in Berlin. He expressed his "hope" that "Iran itself will make its choice to move down the path of a diplomatic solution." The five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany--the so-called P5+1--are meeting the Iranian team headed by top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Kazakhstan in a bid to break the deadlock over Iran´s programme. Mr Kerry said it "would really be a mistake in the middle of the talks for me to try to talk at any length about what the dynamics of those talks are."

Chuck Hagel confirmed as US
defence secretary by Senate

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/26/2013 5:26:32 PM Post Reply

The US Senate has confirmed former Senator Chuck Hagel as the new Pentagon chief, after a bloc of Republicans dropped their opposition to him. The former Republican Nebraska senator was confirmed by 58-41 in a simple majority vote.[Snip] The Senate move comes 12 days after Republicans delayed a vote, questioning his past positions on Israel and Iran and his qualifications for the post. But critics dropped the manoeuvre, the first for a defence secretary confirmation, after a week-long recess. Mr Obama´s Democratic Party holds a 55-45 edge in the chamber, and Mr Hagel ultimately only needed 51 votes to be confirmed.

Hagel approved as secretary
of defense in 58-41 Senate vote

Jerusalem Post, by Hilary Leila Krieger Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/26/2013 5:24:42 PM Post Reply

Washington - The US Senate voted to confirm Chuck Hagel as America´s next secretary of defense in a 58-41 vote Tuesday afternoon. The approval resolves weeks of delay and recrimination over the nomination, which Republicans initially held up over criticisms of Hagel´s record on Iran, Israel and several other Middle East-related issues.(Snip) The vote was held after enough Republican senators agreed to allow the procedure earlier in the day. With Republicans clearing the way for a vote, Hagel was all but assured confirmation on a straight up-or-down tally, as the chamber has a Democratic majority.

U.N. told atheists face
discrimination around globe

Reuters, by Robert Evans Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 5:11:35 PM Post Reply

GENEVA - Atheists, humanists and freethinkers face widespread discrimination around the world with expression of their views criminalized and subject in some countries to capital punishment, the United Nations was told on Monday. In a document for consideration by the world body´s Human Rights Council, a global organization linking people who reject religion said atheism was banned by law in a number of states where people were forced to officially adopt a faith. "Extensive discrimination by governments against atheists, humanists and the non-religious occurs worldwide," declared the grouping, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) which has some 120

Federal court blocks Fla.
law requiring drug
testing for welfare recipients

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 5:02:42 PM Post Reply

A federal appeals court Tuesday agreed to block enforcement of a Florida law that requires people who apply for welfare to submit to drug testing, calling it an unreasonable search. The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously upheld a lower court’s injunction, which stops drug testing for applicants of the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. “The simple act of seeking public assistance does not deprive a TANF applicant of the same constitutional protection from unreasonable searches that all other citizens enjoy,” the judges said.

Illegal immigrants set free
from detention centers
as sequester approaches

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 4:57:36 PM Post Reply

The sequester is officially still three days away, but the Obama administration already is making the first cuts, with officials confirming that the Homeland Security Department already has released several hundred illegal immigrants from detention in order to save money. The move is proving controversial. Immigrant-rights groups say it shows the administration was detaining folks it never should have gone after in the first place, while Republicans questioned the decision-making. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that runs the detention facilities, said that with both sequesters and the annual spending bills looming,

Obama: ´You Can´t Do
Things By Yourself´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 4:54:30 PM Post Reply

"You know, the one thing about being president is, after four years, you get pretty humble. You´d think maybe you wouldn´t but actually you become more humble--you realize what you don´t know," Obama said. "You realize all the mistakes you made. But you also realize you can´t do things by yourself. That´s not how our system works. You´ve got to have the help and the goodwill of Congress, and what that means is you´ve got to make sure that constituents of members of Congress are putting some pressure on them, making sure they´re doing the right thing."

Assault on For-Profit
Medicine Begins

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/26/2013 4:46:36 PM Post Reply

RUSH: There´s an interesting cover story at TIME Magazine. "TIME´s long investigation of American health care prices missed one thing: We pay our doctors way too much." In the current issue of TIME there´s a huge cover story by Steve Brill. It´s 24,000 words, and do you know what he concludes? He concludes that health care is very expensive, the prices are very high, and hospitals charge those high prices for the same reason that any other business would. It´s because they can, and Brill concludes in 24,000 words that Obamacare is not only gonna not help,

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