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EPA Increases Mandates For
Fuels That Don´t Exist

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 2/27/2013 5:16:45 AM Post Reply

Energy: In yet another green folly, the lawless Environmental Protection Agency continues to fine gasoline producers for not using cellulosic biofuels in quantities that don´t exist, making only more pain at the pump. Last month, a federal court dealt a serious blow to the Environmental Protection Agency´s renewable fuels push by ruling that the agency exceeded its authority by mandating refiners use cellulosic biofuels, which aren´t commercially available. The EPA´s lawless response in a lawless administration was to raise its requirements. In 2005 and 2007, Congress twice amended the Clean Air Act to establish

Hi Harry! Prince charms children in
classroom visit to Lesotho charity and
even gets an ´official´ chalk portrait

Daily Mail [UK], by Rebecca English Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/27/2013 5:15:15 AM Post Reply

With a toothy grin and prominent ears it may not be the most flattering Royal portrait. But Prince Harry was delighted with the sketch on a South African classroom chalk board. As a royal you have to take everything in your stride and his morning´s work included a lesson in sign language, cooking up a batch of doughnuts - and proving something of a storm on the dancefloor. The third in line to the throne was a natural with the children he met today at the Kananelo Centre for the Deaf in Lesotho, which is supported by his charity, Sentebale.

My Horsemeat Lunch

Daily Beast, by Christopher Dickey Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/27/2013 5:15:05 AM Post Reply

The horse butcher in my Paris neighborhood never has a line outside his shop, but he does a steady business with an older clientele. I’ve passed the entrance on the market street, Rue Poncelet, many times—it’s unmistakable, with its thin red neon tubes outlining like halos three horses’ heads that might once have graced a small carousel—but I´d never been in. When I stopped by Tuesday morning to pick up a horsemeat steak, a gray-haired gentleman in a fedora and cloth coat was just purchasing a horsemeat sausage. A familiar clochard, or bum, stopped by to chat.

Obama Wants to Stop Blame Game,
but Blames GOP for Sequester

Roll Call, by Steven T. Dennis Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/27/2013 5:07:33 AM Post Reply

At a shipyard in Virginia, President Barack Obama pointed the finger at the GOP for the impasse over the automatic spending cuts set to hit on Friday — even as he insisted he’s not interested in playing a “blame game.” Obama said he’s not out for political advantage. He said he told the nation’s governors on Monday that he’s run his last campaign. “I’m not interested in spin, I’m not interested in playing a blame game. At this point, all I’m interested in is solving problems,” he said. But Obama earlier said the GOP is at fault

Barack Obama Pulls a Move
Almost Worthy of Saddam Hussein

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/27/2013 4:56:09 AM Post Reply

Shortly before U.S. troops stormed Iraq to oust its dictator, Saddam Hussein released thousands of prisoners from Iraqi jails. Some were petty criminals, some were hardcore, some were terrorists. Hussein unleashed them to build his own popularity and to sow chaos. Today, Barack H. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security is doing this: 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 has begun to release what it deems low-priority illegal immigrants from detention. The move is proving controversial. Immigrant-rights groups say

Random man confirmed by Senate
to lead world’s greatest military

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/27/2013 4:51:17 AM Post Reply

He’s not random, though. A truly random man wouldn’t have earned the sturdy liberal support that Hagel’s Israel-focused Jew-baiting and left-of-Obama foreign policy brought him. In the end, despite weeks of dirt being dug up, not a single Democrat voted against him at any stage of the process. (That’s not including Reid’s no vote last week, as that was purely procedural.) Which is not to say he’s a bad guy. It may be, as Chuck Schumer believes, that he’s just … slow. Congrats, America.The final vote: 58-41, which is a bit closer than the 71-27 margin on cloture earlier today.

Anti-gun Democrat shoo-in
to replace Jackson Jr.

Associated Press, by Sophia Tareen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/27/2013 4:43:38 AM Post Reply

CHICAGO -- The newly-elected Democratic nominee to replace disgraced former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. vowed to become a leader in the fight for federal gun control and directly challenged the National Rifle Association in her victory speech. But it remains to be seen if Robin Kelly´s primary win Tuesday night in the Chicago-area district, aided by a $2 million ad campaign funded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg´s super PAC, would fuel the national debate.Kelly, a former state representative, emerged early as a voice for gun control in the truncated primary season after Jackson resigned in November.

Sea Shepherd whale activists called
pirates, lose ruling by 9th Circuit
judges

The Oregonian, by Richard Read Original Article

Posted By: annapolis2010dad- 2/27/2013 2:43:18 AM Post Reply

A federal appeals court panel has branded a Northwest anti-whaling group "pirates," ordering a halt to attacks on Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters. The outspoken opinion, which reads at times more like "Moby Dick" than a court decision, hands a victory to Miller Nash, a Portland law firm that took the controversial step of representing Japan´s whale hunters.

Get Off of Your Cloud

New York Times, by Maureen Dowd Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/27/2013 12:13:23 AM Post Reply

When Marissa Mayer became queen of the Yahoos last summer, she was hailed as a role model for women. The 37-year-old supergeek with the supermodel looks was the youngest Fortune 500 chief executive. And she was in the third trimester of her first pregnancy. Many women were thrilled at the thought that biases against hiring women who were expecting, or planning to be, might be melting. (Snip) Now Mayer has caused another fem-quake with a decision that has a special significance to working mothers. She has banned Yahoos, as her employees are known, from working at home

First lady of publicity? Outcry over
Michelle Obama´s FIVE television
appearances in past two weeks
(not including her two Sesame
Street PSAs)

Daily Mail (UK), by Beth Stebner Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/26/2013 11:42:25 PM Post Reply

The first lady has come under criticism for her recent media blitz, with some lambasting her for her unprecedented number of appearances on entertainment and programs. Michelle Obama has certainly made the rounds in the past week, from promoting an anti-obesity campaign with late night host Jimmy Fallon to her surprise Oscars appearance announcing the Best Picture winner. Critics complain that Mrs Obama is overstepping her reach and risks losing favor with the public for being overexposed.

Kelly declares victory in Democratic
race to replace Jackson Jr. in Congress

Chicago Tribune, by Rick Pearson, Bill Ruthhart* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/26/2013 11:31:53 PM Post Reply

Former state Rep. Robin Kelly won the Democratic primary Tuesday night in the race to replace the disgraced Jesse Jackson Jr. in Congress, helped by millions of dollars in pro-gun control ads from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s political fund. A snowstorm and lack of voter interest kept turnout low as Kelly had 53 percent to 24 percent for former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson and 11 percent for Chicago 9th Ward Ald. Anthony Beale with more than three-fourths percent of precincts counted. Kelly will formally take on the winner of the Republican primary in an April 9

Civil Rights and the
Collapse of Birmingham, Ala.

American Thinker, by John Bennett Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/26/2013 11:29:02 PM Post Reply

Birmingham, Alabama is considered by many to be the birthplace of the civil rights movement. Today, African-Americans in Birmingham benefit from a numerical majority in the population, corresponding majorities in government jobs, and political control of the city. But civil rights won´t address what ails the city now. Birmingham is recognized as one of the most violent and poorly-run cities in the nation. The city runs a massive deficit, and is county seat of Jefferson County, which recently cut a deal with a European bank as part of the largest government bankruptcy in U.S. history. Underlying this fiasco

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
signs bill legalizing Internet gambling

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/26/2013 11:26:24 PM Post Reply

TRENTON, N.J. — Get ready for betting in your jammies, at work, from the kitchen table, or at the beach: New Jerseyans — and possibly many others — will soon be able to gamble over the Internet. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill Tuesday legalizing Internet gambling, hours after the state legislature passed a revised bill that made the changes he wanted. They included setting a 10-year trial period for online betting, and raising the taxes on the Atlantic City casinos’ online winnings from 10 to 15 percent. New Jersey became the third state in the nation

Swine flu jab linked to sleep
disorder: Fears one million
children received jab that can
increase risk of narcolepsy

Daily Mail [UK], by Jenny Hope Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/26/2013 11:13:26 PM Post Reply

Almost a million children were given a swine flu jab which put them at increased risk of the sleep disorder narcolepsy, say scientists. New research shows the Pandemrix vaccine carries a 14-fold extra risk of triggering narcolepsy, in which sufferers can fall asleep suddenly and unexpectedly. For every 55,000 doses delivered, it is estimated around one child developed the condition. Pandemrix was the main vaccine used in the UK during the swine flu pandemic three years ago. It was given to six million people in high-risk groups, including children and those with conditions such as diabetes, heart disease

Bank chief raises the prospect
of a base rate below zero
in bid to kickstart spending

Daily Mail [UK], by Hugo Duncan Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/26/2013 11:03:51 PM Post Reply

Negative interest rates could become a reality in an ‘extraordinary’ move by the Bank of England to kick-start the economy, one of its senior officials revealed yesterday. Deputy governor Paul Tucker said a reduction of the base rate to below zero should be considered four years after it was cut to a record low of 0.5 per cent. But the very suggestion that million of savers should suffer fresh hits to their hard earned nest eggs caused outrage last night. Critics said prudent savers and pensioners have been punished enough by rates kept deliberately low to help support borrowers

Republican attorneys general
see Obama misuse of power

Washington Times, by Tom Howell Jr. Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/26/2013 10:51:23 PM Post Reply

Top Republican legal officials say the Obama administration is reneging on key duties such as border security while overstepping its role through health care mandates and tight regulation of the energy industry, a trend that has led states to heighten their defenses against federal intrusion. As states brace for cutbacks from the sequester standoff between President Obama and congressional Republicans, several of their elected attorneys general contrast that gridlock — and not in a good way — with Mr. Obama’s precedent-setting use of executive orders and federal rule-making. “You just see it all over the place

Obama goes politicking
against spending cuts

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/26/2013 10:48:10 PM Post Reply

Employing campaign-style tactics, President Obama told shipyard workers in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday that Republican lawmakers and their opposition to higher taxes are to blame for looming economy-damaging budget cuts. “There are too many Republicans in Congress right now who refuse to compromise even an inch when it comes to closing tax loopholes and special-interest tax breaks,” Mr. Obama said at Newport News Shipbuilding, where several projects would be delayed if the $85 billion in cuts begin to take effect Friday. “That’s what’s holding things up right now.”

Impact of budget cuts depends
on where you live and who you are

Washington Post, by Philip Rucker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/26/2013 10:45:53 PM Post Reply

In Killeen, Tex., where the country’s largest Army post drives the local economy, automatic federal budget cuts would furlough about 6,000 of Fort Hood’s civil service workers for one day each week. Mayor Dan Corbin predicted home sales and construction would grind to a halt; restaurant and shop owners, he said, are “worried sick.” Of those who think the reductions wouldn’t have a painful impact, the Republican said: “I don’t know what planet these people are living on.” That planet is about 200 miles north on the interstate in Collin County: sprawling and well-to-do suburban Dallas. Sure

Elaborate surveillance operation
raises concerns about
broader Hezbollah attacks

Washington Post, by Joby Warrick Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/26/2013 10:42:23 PM Post Reply

The Israeli tourists on Arkia Airlines Flight 161 from Tel Aviv could not have known it, but their arrival in Cyprus July 6 was watched closely. A pair of trained eyes counted each passenger as the group exited the plane and boarded a shuttle, headed for resorts that had also been carefully studied and mapped. The bearded foreigner who silently tracked the Israelis had done his work well. He knew where the visitors would sleep, shop and eat. He knew how many security guards patrolled their hotel parking lots and how long it would take police to arrive

Mexico´s Pena Nieto enacts
major education reform

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/26/2013 10:26:56 PM Post Reply

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has enacted a major reform of the education system that includes new standards for hiring teachers. Under the changes, a census is to establish the exact number of schools, teachers and pupils in the country. The reforms appear set to weaken the powerful teachers´ union, led by Elba Esther Gordillo, which has largely controlled access to the profession. The union has argued that reforms could lead to massive lay-offs. Critics also say the changes could signal the start of the privatisation of education in Mexico.

Mexico Teacher Union Head
Arrested and Charged
With Embezzlement

Bloomberg News, by Eric Martin and Nacha Cattan Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/26/2013 10:22:20 PM Post Reply

Elba Esther Gordillo, a former Institutional Revolutionary Party leader who has headed Mexico’s biggest teaching union for more than two decades, was arrested and charged with using workers’ funds to pay personal expenses from a private plane to plastic surgery. Attorney General Jesus Murillo said Gordillo and others are charged with misusing as much as 2.6 billion pesos ($200 million) in union funds. Gordillo, leader of the 1.2 million- strong National Education Workers Union, was taken into custody today at the airport in Toluca, about 40 miles from Mexico City, he said. “We’re facing a case of illegal diversion of resources

There once was a place called America

The Daily Times (NM), by Susan Brown Original Article

Posted By: cjjeepercreeper- 2/26/2013 10:21:09 PM Post Reply

"There once was a place called America," our children´s children will one day write, "a bright and shining city on a hill, divinely placed by God to serve as a beacon of hope to the entire world. A land filled with generous-hearted souls who showered the needy the world over with their abundant blessings." You see, America was founded by a handful of God-fearing patriots who didn´t always agree but believed certain things like life, liberty and the personal pursuit of happiness were worth dying for.

Spending kudzu

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/26/2013 9:29:04 PM Post Reply

Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has been front and center during the latter days of the sequestration showdown, which is good, because he literally wrote the book on government waste. He produces a new edition of his “Wastebook” every year, chronicling the most absurd abuses of taxpayer money. It is wise for Republicans to bring up these horror stories when Obama is racing around the country and insisting that a 2.3 percent reduction in the rate of government growth means we can’t have firefighters or border security. Coburn’s Wastebook should be every American’s indispensable manual

Feds free illegal immigrants in
Georgia, other states

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Jeremy Redmon Original Article

Posted By: snakeoil- 2/26/2013 8:59:18 PM Post Reply

Several hundred illegal immigrants have been released from detention centers in Georgia and other states, federal officials confirmed Tuesday. They said the releases were made to cut costs in advance of automatic spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect Friday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials declined to say precisely how many detainees they have freed or where they are being released. But they confirmed some have been freed from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, 145 miles south of Atlanta.

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,

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