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Obama Demagoguery Supplemented
by a Touch of Cruelty

Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 5:39:07 AM Post Reply

In the Great Sequestration Debate, here’s what we know: (a) The president has paternity of an idea he now characterizes as a brutal and senseless assault on America. (b) The president and his then-chief of staff, Jack Lew, misled the public about their role in giving birth to the sequester idea. (c) House Republicans have twice passed legislation to avoid the sequester cuts with carefully targeted ones, but Senate Democrats refused to act. (d) Mr. Obama has brushed off a Republican plan to give him flexibility to allocate the $85 billion in spending cuts, which makes no sense

4 Pinocchios for Arne Duncan’s
false claim of ‘pink slips’ for teachers

Washington Post, by Glenn Kessler Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 2/28/2013 5:39:04 AM Post Reply

Duncan’s claim, on one of the Sunday morning shows, that teachers were already getting pink slips because of the looming sequester was actually the second time he had made this assertion. “I was on a call yesterday, people are starting to give RIF [reduction in force] notes,” Duncan said in a meeting with reporters Feb. 21, three days before his appearance on CBS. “Schools are already starting to give teachers notices.”Oddly, however,

Cases of rare ´untreatable´ superbug
that killed seven in a year rocket as
health officials warn of outbreak

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/28/2013 5:37:32 AM Post Reply

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors to be on the lookout for an untreatable multidrug-resistant ´superbug´ emerging in the U.S. The ´superbug´ springs from a bacteria called Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriacea, 15 types of which have been seen in the U.S. in the last year. The unique bacteria can cause pneumonia, intestinal and urinary tract infections, and bloodstream infections.[Snip] The infections are associated with mortality rates of 40 to 50 percent. The rise means health care providers must ´act aggressively to prevent the emergence and spread of these unusual CRE organisms,´ the CDC said.

An Administrative Amnesty

Washington Free Beacon, by Lachlan Markay Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 5:32:40 AM Post Reply

The Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement division was ordered last week to reduce their illegal immigrant detainee populations to 26 percent below the legally required level, according to a research organization that monitors immigration issues. That reduction is significantly greater than those required by the impending budget cuts the department has cited for the release of the detainees. The announcement of detainee releases on Tuesday set off a firestorm on Capitol Hill. The White House has tried to distance itself from the decision, which was closely followed by the public announcement of the departure

The Worm & the Norks

Weekly Standard, by Geoffrey Norman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 5:29:13 AM Post Reply

North Korea, the most renegade and unpredictable of the world´s nations, recently tested a nuclear bomb, which predictably raised tensions that are high under ordinary conditions and that, according to the North Korean regime, is the fault of the U.S. As Reuters reports: North Korea accused the United States on Wednesday of contributing to an "unpredictable" situation on the divided Korean peninsula and abusing its power in the U.N. Security Council to impose its "hostile policy" against Pyongyang. There is, however, reason to be hopeful that tensions may be eased.

The Business Case for
Healthier Food Options

Wall Street Journal, by Michelle Obama Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 2/28/2013 5:29:04 AM Post Reply

For years, America´s childhood obesity crisis was viewed as an insurmountable problem, one that was too complicated and too entrenched to ever really solve. According to the conventional wisdom, healthy food simply didn´t sell—the demand wasn´t there and higher profits were found elsewhere—so it just wasn´t worth the investment. But thanks to businesses across the country, today we are proving the conventional wisdom wrong. Every day, great American companies are achieving greater and greater success by creating and selling healthy products. In doing so, they are showing that what´s good for kids and good for family budgets

Former NPR CEO: Get
Off Government Funding

National Review Online, by John Fund Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 5:25:38 AM Post Reply

NPR has had many political challenges since its government funding allowed it become branded as the main source of radio news for upper-income liberals. Just last year, Mitt Romney declared he would end federal funding for public broadcasting. But now it faces the suggestion from its former chief executive officer that NPR would be better off without the government subsidy it’s gotten since the 1970s. Ken Stern, who was NPR’s chief operating officer before becoming its CEO in 2006, has said that even though the network now gets “less than 10 percent of its funding” from government,

Apocalypse not

New York Post, by Michael A. Walsh Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 5:20:03 AM Post Reply

At the city level, it’s known as “firefighters first”; inside the Beltway, as the Washington Monument effect: In any budget crisis, the first thing politicians do is to inflict as much pain on the public as possible. Cut cops; close parks, libraries and emergency rooms. The idea is to make people suffer so they’ll clamor for tax increases — and keep the pols’ gravy train running smoothly. Never before, however, have we seen the tactic taken to such extremes on a national level as President Obama is now, as he hypes the allegedly dire consequences (a whopping 2 percent trim

The story of Pope Benedict’s controversial
red shoes, which he will give up

Washington Post, by Caitlin Dewey Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/28/2013 5:15:09 AM Post Reply

Pope Benedict XVI will give up his Swiss Guard protection, his Twitter account and even the name “Benedict” when he officially abdicates Wednesday. But judging by the Twitter chatter, the greatest loss of all may be his shoes. The pope’s red leather loafers became something of a trademark during his time in office, landing Benedict in a few unexpected places — including the style pages of Esquire magazine, who named the pontiff “accessorizer of the year” in 2007. Several pairs were handmade by an artisan in the north of Italy who has also cobbled

Chief Justice Roberts´ Long War
Against the Voting Rights Act

Mother Jones, by Adam Serwer Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/28/2013 5:10:25 AM Post Reply

When he was in his late 20s, John Roberts was a foot soldier in the Reagan administration´s crusade against the Voting Rights Act. Now, as chief justice of the Supreme Court, he will help determine whether a key part of the law survives a constitutional challenge. Memos that Roberts wrote as a lawyer in President Reagan´s Justice Department during the 1980s show that he was deeply involved in efforts to curtail the effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act, the hard-won landmark 1965 law that is intended to ensure all Americans can vote. Roberts´ anti-VRA efforts during the 1980s ultimately failed.

Bloomberg´s Much Ado
About Nothing Much

Roll Call, by Stuart Rothenberg Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 5:00:37 AM Post Reply

The strategy was pretty clear from the start. Pick a fight in a place where you have a substantial advantage and where almost nobody else is playing, dump a ton of money attacking one candidate and supporting another, and then declare victory when — surprise! surprise! — your candidate wins. That is what happened in the special election in Illinois’ 2nd District, where Democrats held a primary Tuesday that was tantamount to selecting the district’s next member of Congress. The seat is open because Democrat Jesse L. Jackson Jr. resigned. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super PAC, Independence USA, spent $2.5 million

Caroline Kennedy Said to Be
Candidate for Envoy to Japan

Bloomberg News, by Hans Nichols Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 4:54:34 AM Post Reply

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, is a leading candidate to become President Barack Obama’s nominee as U.S. ambassador to Japan, according to two people familiar with the matter. Kennedy, 55, would replace Ambassador John Roos, a former technology lawyer and Obama campaign donor, as the U.S. envoy in Tokyo, according to the people, who asked for anonymity because the decision hasn’t been made official. While the president has signed off on Kennedy’s nomination, her vetting for the post hasn’t been completed, said one of the people.

All the President’s Thugs

PJ Media, by J. Christian Adams Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 4:49:30 AM Post Reply

Hey, Bob, you can’t say we didn’t warn you. We knew this White House was capable of attacking even the great Bob Woodward for telling the truth. You could have listened to Michael Barone. He saw it coming even before Barack Obama was elected. In October 2008, he penned “The Coming Obama Thugocracy.”I experienced it when DOJ press harpy Tracy Schmaler yelled at a half dozen reporters, as the White House official did to you, about my under-oath testimony involving the New Black Panther dismissal. Her victims included Pete Williams, Quin Hillyer, and Shayrl Attkisson.

Good news: There’s
hope for civilization

Hot Air, by Mary Katharine Ham Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/28/2013 4:44:44 AM Post Reply

You have to look outside the Beltway, of course, but occasionally there’s a glimmer. Pat Wesner is a mother of four, with one grown, disabled son in her care and another serving in Afghanistan. On Tuesday, she stumbled on the perfect crime when $11,000 fell off a Brinks truck with no one around to see it. “If you saw how the change hit the ground and sprayed out like a halo with the sunshine, I just went, ‘Oh my goodness. It’s money.’ And again with the dollar bills going all over.

As trend wanes, Vegas
casinos fold on poker rooms

Associated Press, by Hannah Drier Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/28/2013 4:34:24 AM Post Reply

LAS VEGAS-- The Tropicana hoped to step back into the big leagues when it opened its poker room in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, touting it as the coolest in town. But that same morning, federal agents shut down the three biggest online poker sites on the Internet. Last September, less than a year and a half later, the iconic casino quietly swapped out its green felt tables for slot machines. It´s a story that´s become increasingly common as the crackdown on Internet gambling weakens pokers´ appeal, and the casinos that once competed

D.C.’s main shelter crowded
with large families

Washington Post, by Annie Gowen Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 2:02:21 AM Post Reply

In the moments just before sleep and after the shelter staff banged on the door to enforce curfew, Sharisse Baltimore and her children said their prayers. The four oldest, curled up on small cots squeezed together in a row, always asked for “safety-ness, happiness and health.” In the fall, Baltimore added something else to the list. She wished for a subsidized housing voucher so her family could move into their own home. Last Friday, that happened. A shortage of affordable housing for larger families with four or more children is a big factor behind crowded conditions at the District’s main

Obama´s dangerous defense experiment

Los Angeles Times, by Howard P. "Buck" McKeon Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/28/2013 2:01:42 AM Post Reply

Mindful of the repeated rounds of cuts the military has already endured, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, recently delivered a grim warning: "If you want [the military] to be doing what it´s doing today, then we can´t give you another dollar." His worries reflect reductions that started in 2009 and have reached crippling levels, even in President Obama´s proposals to avert sequestration. I take the general at his word, but I am concerned that the president does not. Sequester hurts national security, not just because 50% of the cuts fall on the military´s 18% share of the overall

Owner appeals dog´s death sentence

Daily Press [Montrose, CO], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/28/2013 2:01:32 AM Post Reply

The owner of a dog that was ordered put down after it repeatedly bit a Montrose woman last year has appealed, according to Montrose Municipal Court clerks. The appeal for Dutch the dog´s life will be taken up by Montrose County Court. Veteran Jeremiah Aguilar was convicted of owning a dangerous dog in violation of city ordinance. He was ordered on Feb. 14 to hand over Dutch to Animal Control, but did not do so, officials allege. (Snip) Aguilar´s case took the cyber world by storm after initial Internet reports erroneously stated the woman had severely beaten Dutch without provocation.

Boehner to curb codels due to sequester

Washington Post, by Paul Kane Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 1:58:45 AM Post Reply

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) is curbing taxpayer funding of congressional trips abroad as part of the belt-tightening prompted by automatic spending cuts that begin Friday, according to Republicans. In a Wednesday meeting with his Republican Conference, Boehner told the lawmakers that delegations headed abroad are forbidden from using taxpayer-funded military aircraft once the cuts take affect, according to Republicans in the room. This includes trips to review ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, severely limiting lawmakers ability to visit the war regions. The cuts, commonly known as the sequester, will trim $85 billion from federal spending

Actor Dale Robertson Dies in
California Hospital

Associated Press, by Ken Miller Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 1:49:53 AM Post Reply

OKLAHOMA CITY -Dale Robertson, an Oklahoma native who became a star of television and movie Westerns during the genre´s heyday, died Tuesday. He was 89. Robertson´s niece, Nancy Robertson, said her uncle died at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., following a brief illness. Dale Robertson had bit parts in films including "The Boy with the Green Hair" and the Joan Crawford vehicle "Flamingo Road" before landing more high-profile roles such as Jesse James in "Fighting Man of the Plains." In the 1950s, he moved into television, starring in series such as "Tales of Wells Fargo" (1957-62),

'Downton Abbey´ will reportedly
add a black character in Season 4

Los Angeles Times, by Meredith Blake Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/28/2013 1:40:44 AM Post Reply

“Downton Abbey” fans can expects some big changes when the series returns for a fourth season. And no, we’re not just talking about Lady Mary’s new life as a single mother or wild child Rose’s impending move to the Crawley family abode. If a report from the British tabloid the Sun is to be believed, “Downton Abbey” will be adding its first black character next season. According to the paper, producers of the hugely popular period drama have put out casting calls for men ages 25 to 30 to play “Jack Ross,” described as “a musician (singer) at an exclusive club in the '20s.”

American Student Punished for
Refusing to Recite Mexican Pledge

Fox News, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/28/2013 1:40:30 AM Post Reply

A Texas high school student has filed a federal lawsuit against her school and her teachers after she was punished for refusing to salute and recite the Mexican pledge of allegiance. The Thomas More Law Center filed the suit on behalf of Brenda Brinsdon alleging the McAllen Independent School District violated the 15-year-old girl’s constitutional rights when she was forced to recite the Mexican pledge and sing the Mexican national anthem. Brinsdon, who is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant and an American father, refused. She believed it was un-American to pledge a loyalty oath to

Woodwardgate: Media Gang-Tackle
Iconic Journalist to Save Obama

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by Breitbart News Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/28/2013 1:17:47 AM Post Reply

Wednesday night on CNN, legendary Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward stated that a “very senior person” in the Obama administration had threatened him in an email that Woodward would “regret” it if he continued to press the point that President Obama was the originator of the idea of sequestration, bore responsibility for it, and needed to stop redeploying defense resources to make political points. The Obama aide, Woodward told Politico, “yelled at me for about a half hour” as well. (Snip) So you might expect the rest of the media to stand with Woodward. You’d be wrong. They’re too busy

Republicans fear sequester
gives Obama upper hand

Politico, by Jake Sherman & Johnathan Allen Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/28/2013 1:16:07 AM Post Reply

It’s not only the size of the sequester that has House Republicans fretting. It’s not like the GOP expects the stock market to plummet or furloughs across the federal government to drive up unemployment. House Republicans fear the massive spending cuts set to take effect Friday will result in Congress continuing to cede its constitutional power of the purse. Republicans are fretting that the $85 billion in cuts will transfer big power to the administration. Lawmakers say President Barack Obama’s administration will have unilateral leeway to shutter federal programs and spend the government’s

White House Says It Was
Not Involved in Detainee Release

New York Times, by Kirk Semple Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/28/2013 1:03:59 AM Post Reply

President Obama’s spokesman said Wednesday that the White House was not involved in the plan to release hundreds of immigrants from detention centers around the country over the past several days. The decision, he said, was made by "career officials” at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, “without any input from the White House.” Immigration officials have tied the mass releases, which began last week and came to light this week, to the looming budget cuts known as sequestration. The move has been welcomed by immigrants’ advocates

Woodward Claims ´A Very Senior
Person´ at White House Emailed
´You Will Regret Doing This´;
Did Politico Pair Sit on the News?

Newsbusters, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/27/2013 10:58:43 PM Post Reply

I presume everyone remembers how when the New York Times published information about a classified program designed to track the movement of alleged terrorist funding through the international banking system Bush administration officials threatened to prosecute Times reporters and management over what they had done? No you don´t, because although some conservatives and Republicans thought it might be a worth considering it didn´t happen. You can guarantee that if it had, it would have become a TV-radio-newspaper-Internet establishment press obsession for days on end.

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