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Chad calls for urgent African
help to fight Islamists in Mali

Reuters, by Ange Aboa* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/27/2013 5:59:29 PM Post Reply

Yamoussoukro - Chad´s President Idriss Deby appealed to West African leaders on Wednesday to urgently speed up deployment of their forces to northern Mali where Chadian and French forces are locked in bitter fighting with al Qaeda-linked rebels.(Snip) Regional heavyweight Nigeria has deployed some 1,200 soldiers in a bid to snuff out links between the alliance of Islamist groups in Mali, which includes al Qaeda´s north African wing AQIM, and its home-grown Boko Haram militant movement. But most African units remain in southern Mali, leaving French and Chadian forces responsible for security in the recaptured northern towns

John Kerry Shows Off
His French Language Skills

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/27/2013 5:42:58 PM Post Reply

Secretary of State John Kerry showed off his French speaking skills at a joint press conference with his counterpart in Paris today: The official State Department transcript of the event translates Kerry´s remarks into English: "SECRETARY KERRY: (In French - Via interpreter) Thank you very much, Minister. Thank you for your warm hospitality. Thank you very much for welcoming us here today. It’s a great pleasure for me to be here with Foreign Minister Fabius. We just finished one of those wonderful French lunches that have been drawing Americans to Paris for centuries.

Budget Cuts Could Force Army
and Marines to Cut 200,000 Troops

Weekly Standard, by John McCormack Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/27/2013 5:35:23 PM Post Reply

Many conservatives and Republicans are greeting the looming sequestration spending cuts with a collective yawn. "The much-ballyhooed ´sequester´ is a cut of $85 billion in a nearly $4 trillion federal budget. Good, let’s do it," writes one contributor to National Review Online´s symposium on sequestration. It´s true that sequestration is a tiny cut to total federal spending. But it is also true that sequestration is a major cut to defense spending. According to the House Armed Services Committee, the 2011 Budget Control Act (the law that imposed both

Mystery of the massacred manta
rays: Just why DID dozens of
these bloodied sea creatures wash
up on the beach in Gaza?

Daily Mail (UK), by Mark Duell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/27/2013 5:34:43 PM Post Reply

Dozens of Manta Ray fish were mysteriously washed up on the beach in Gaza City today and carted off to market by Palestinian fishermen. It was the first time the fish had been seen on the beach for six years, according to a local video report purporting to show fisherman examining the Rays. Reaching up to an extraordinary 23ft in length, they are one of the largest living fish and have developed skeletons of cartilage rather than bone. Scroll down for videos - The Rays can weigh more than 12 stone and sell for around

Why Totalitarians Release Prisoners

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/27/2013 5:29:37 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Here´s Sarine in Hollywood. Sarine, it´s great to have you on the program. Hello, sir. CALLER: (garbled) RUSH: One thing, I can barely hear you. The quality of the phone you´re on is not the best. That may be why we misunderstood your name. CALLER: Okay, let´s try this other phone. RUSH: Yeah. Get a little bit closer to the microphone. CALLER: Got you. RUSH: Okay. CALLER: Rush, dittos, to start with. Mega, mega dittos. All the best to you, my friend. This regime that is elected by the clueless and the uninformed has come very, very close to --

Dr. Ben Carson will speak at
CPAC after stealing spotlight
from President Obama

Washington Times [DC], by Jennifer Harper Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/27/2013 5:29:24 PM Post Reply

It was almost inevitable. The American Conservative Union has announced that Dr. Ben Carson will be a featured speaker at CPAC 2013 - the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in mid-March. “Dr. Ben Carson represents the optimism and hope of the future of the conservative movement, while at the same time he articulates the deep fiscal and social challenges that our nation faces,” says chairman Al Cardenas. Dr. Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has been on conservative radar plenty since his straightforward speech about the state of America

Unprecedented: Spoiled-Brat President
Does Intentional Harm to the Country in
Order to Beat Republicans on Sequester Cuts

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/27/2013 5:20:24 PM Post Reply

RUSH: You know, this really is unprecedented. It´s not getting any attention. It´s not getting any commentary whatsoever. It´s barely even being reported. But, I mean, this is serious stuff. The president of the United States has opened up the jails. The president of the United States, because of budget cuts which have not happened yet, has released 500 or so illegal immigrants, and, by definition, of law, they are criminals. We mentioned this late in the program yesterday. Hundreds of illegal alien

Pulling the Plug on Federal Agencies´ TVs

Daily Caller, by Joanne Butler Original Article

Posted By: JoanneButler- 2/27/2013 5:19:47 PM Post Reply

Back in the 1980s, a friend of mine was laid off from a defense contractor. That night he unplugged the cable box to his TV — to send his family a message that things were going to be tough for a while. I suggest that, especially in light of the sequester, the federal government follow my friend’s example and get busy pulling the plug on unnecessary televisions and cable TV contracts.

Economics and Social Issues
are Linked by Morality

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/27/2013 5:12:17 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Okay, Warren, New Jersey, as we start on the phones, this is Robert. Great to have you, sir. Hello. CALLER: Ex-military, American-Cuban, Two If By Tea, Marco Rubio for president, mega dittos, Rush. RUSH: Well, it´s great to hear such an enthusiastic first caller today. Great to have you here, sir. CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I just wanted to quickly talk to you about how the Democrats constantly intermingle emotional terms when concerning the necessary cuts as being Draconian, when ultimately if there are no cuts made, the most Draconian thing will happen.

Black Chamber of Commerce CEO
on Obama: ‘I Had Hopes Because
He Was Black, Shame on Me’

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/27/2013 5:07:19 PM Post Reply

National Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Harry C. Alford told The Daily Caller that he ”ignored” President Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment in 2008 and “had hopes” for him “because he was black.” “I don’t really support him too well and he knows it and that’s a badge of honor. He’s bad. He’s bad and I supported him. I voted for him the first time around. I had hopes because he was black. Shame on me,” Alford told TheDC at the National Press Club after an anti-gun control news conference. “Then when he started doing all these

Rare Criticism of Michelle
Obama from the Left

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: noddy- 2/27/2013 5:07:12 PM Post Reply

´´It’s time for first lady Michelle Obama to raise her game,´´ writes liberal Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy in Wednesday´s edition. ´´Nothing wrong with telling kids to eat their peas or showing them how to Hula-Hoop. But after four years of focusing on the body, she’d do well to spend these next four on building strong minds.´´ Milloy says there´s been too much attention paid to Michelle´s body (her arms, bangs, designer clothes), and not enough attention paid to her ivy league education: "Where is that intellectually gifted Princeton graduate, the Harvard-educated lawyer and mentor

Liberal Racists
Warn of Chaos

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/27/2013 5:01:45 PM Post Reply

"A Democratic group is under sharp criticism for controversial online messages about Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell´s wife," reports WFPL-FM, an NPR station in Louisville, Ky. For months Progress Kentucky, a liberal super PAC, has been stalking McConnell, the Bluegrass State´s senior senator, holding "demonstrations at his offices and home." But the attack on Mrs. McConnell, who in public goes by her maiden name of Elaine Chao, took place on Twitter. The station quotes a Progress Kentucky tweet dated Feb. 14: "This woman has the ear of (Sen. McConnell)—she´s his wife.

Homeland Security official quits
after illegal immigrants freed
over budget cuts

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 2/27/2013 4:57:47 PM Post Reply

Washington - The senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants announced his resignation the same day the agency said that hundreds of people facing deportation had been released from immigration jails due to looming budget cuts, according to a resignation letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. The government said he had told his bosses weeks ago that he planned to retire. Gary Mead, executive associate director over enforcement and removal operations at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, disclosed his departure

Teacher pink slips claim
by Duncan not backed
by evidence

Washington Post, by Lyndsey Layton and Karen Tumulty Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/27/2013 4:05:44 PM Post Reply

The descriptions of the post-sequester landscape that have been coming out of the Obama Administration have been alarming, specific--and, in at least some cases, hyped. “There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can’t come back this fall,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” When he was pressed in a White House briefing Wednesday to come up with an example, Duncan named a single county in West Virginia and acknowledged, “whether it’s all sequester-related, I don’t know.”

Sarah Palin´s New Conspiracy Theory
Was Debunked Before She
Even Wrote About It

Slate, by Josh Voorhees Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/27/2013 3:39:27 PM Post Reply

I´ll make this quick because, as many of you will no doubt note in the comments, the Internet seems to spend more time than it should discussing the exploits of an almost-one-term governor turned talking head turned talking head without a cable news contract. But given how much attention Sarah Palin´s latest Facebook post has gotten, it´s probably worth the two minutes it takes to debunk one of its more outlandish claims—especially given the conspiracy theory was already debunked before she even wrote about it. Here´s the snippet

Sarah Palin: Feds ‘stockpiling
bullets’ to use against us

Politico, by Kevin Cirilli Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/27/2013 3:36:48 PM Post Reply

Sarah Palin says America will eventually default on its debt and claims that the federal government is “stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest” to prepare. “If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest,” Palin wrote in a Facebook message Tuesday. The former GOP governor of Alaska was referring to the sequester,

Republicans are losing
the spending argument

Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/27/2013 3:36:33 PM Post Reply

For the past several years, congressional Republicans have focused relentlessly on a single message: Washington — led by President Obama — is spending too much money, and it needs to stop. But according to new Washington Post-ABC News polling, that laser-like focus isn’t helping Republicans win the argument over federal spending — with 67 percent of those tested disapproving of the “way Republicans in Congress are handling federal spending.”

Why Sarah Palin? Why Ted Cruz?:
´Nationalists´ and ´Federalists´

The Hill (Washington, DC), by Bernie Quigley Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/27/2013 3:09:40 PM Post Reply

Demographics are destiny. Nothing else makes history. When the changes ahead are shipped into denial is when chaos and disaster ensue. And the potential disasters America faces today do not come from global warming, nuclear weapons, the Russians, the hippies or the rednecks. They come from the economic division of America between the red states, which are rising in capital and prosperity, and the left and right coasts, which are receding in economic power. Demographer Joel Kotkin well outlines the transition in a Wall Street Journal essay yesterday title, “America’s Red State Growth Corridors.”

Teacher fired over ‘kill’ remark
nets $427G pay

Boston Herald, by Matt Stout Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/27/2013 3:05:19 PM Post Reply

The Hub’s top earner in 2012 is a grade school teacher who once said she had the “urge to kill” her boss, comments school officials used to fire her and later, paid for — to the tune of nearly $400,000 in back pay after a judge ruled they had no grounds to boot her. Teresa D. Underwood topped the city’s payroll last year with $427,522.71, an eye-popping number that dwarfed the next highest earner — Superintendent Carol R. Johnson — by more than $100,000. Former Boston Latin teacher Jonathan Bonds filled out the top three with $318,158 in pay,

Spring Break hits Cancun... in February!
Marines patrol streets as hard-partying
American students roll in

Daily Mail (UK), by Katie Davies Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/27/2013 2:59:45 PM Post Reply

Spring Break chaos has arrived early in Mexico´s Cancun this year with American college students already beginning their revelry across the resort. Hundreds of students have been pictured starting the party early in the Mexican city today, drinking heavily and dancing the night away with marines on patrol to ensure no one gets too carried away. This year Cancun was found to be the number one destination for students looking to enjoy the typically wild week-long holiday which doesn´t usually get going until March. However, some college students were out in force last night drinking and partying

Chilean government slashes fuel
tax as gas prices continue rising

Santiago Times [Santiago, Chile], by Amelia Duggan Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/27/2013 2:55:56 PM Post Reply

Finance Minister Felipe Larraín confirmed Tuesday that the government would significantly drop the gas tax this week via its Sipco mechanism, which reduces fuel taxes when gas prices spike strongly. The announcement will come as welcome news to Chilean motorists, who have seen the price of regular 93-octane fuel rise nearly 9.9 percent from US$5.41 per gallon in November to US$5.95 per gallon last week. The Sipco requires gas prices to rise 10 percent over a period of one month to a year in order for the tax rebate to kick in.

Congressman Takes No
[Bleep] From Obama

American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/27/2013 2:55:06 PM Post Reply

Sophomore U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, graduated first in his class at West Point, graduated from Harvard Law School, had a hugely successful career in the aerospace industry, and also has a think-tank background. He may be a seriously rising star. Anyway, he put out a self-explanatory press release that is a beauty to behold. Take that, Mr. Obama! Today, White House Spokesman Jay Carney asked during a press briefing what Congressman Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, would say to defense workers facing furlough because of the President’s sequester plan. The following is his statement:

How sequester cuts are made
can be telling

Los Angeles Times, by David S. Cloud Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/27/2013 2:54:21 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Only days before the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman was due to leave Norfolk, Va., for the Persian Gulf this month, the Pentagon abruptly canceled the deployment, pleading poverty. With cuts in the federal budget scheduled to take effect Friday, Pentagon officials said they feared that sending the carrier on a six-month cruise to the Middle East would empty their operations accounts. President Obama on Tuesday alluded to the decision to hold back the Truman. "The threat of these cuts has forced the Navy to cancel the deployment," he said in a speech in southeastern Virginia,

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