Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy

Latest Articles

Post New Article

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes
to exempt Hollywood from gun law

Washington Times [DC], by Cheryl K. Chumley Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 9:57:45 AM Post Reply

New York may have some of the toughest gun-control laws in the nation, but at least one government official is scurrying to carve out legislative exemptions for Hollywood to ensure the new crackdowns don’t tie the hands of moviemakers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing to revise a January gun law so that moviemakers and Hollywood executives could still use real weapons, rather than fake ones, in their shots — even in scenes that take place on public streets, Fox News reports. The guns could not contain real ammunition, however.

The Press Officially
Abdicates Its Role

PJ Media, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 9:55:55 AM Post Reply

As sequestration D-Day approaches courtesy of President Barack Obama, nicknamed “President Armageddon” by the Wall Street Journal, to be followed in a month by the debt-ceiling deadline, it’s important to understand just how completely the nation’s establishment press has not only abandoned its obligations in ways our Founders never anticipated, but has also chosen to become a team of de facto presidential advisers. The first clue I detected as to what’s really happening was Jim VandeHei’s and Mike Allen’s horrific exercise in deceptive self-pity (“Obama, the puppet master”) at Politico on February 18.

As March moves in, NASA´s eyes peer
through the lingering storms

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 2/28/2013 9:52:25 AM Post Reply

No, this isn´t another one of those space telescope shots of distant star clusters whose light has been traveling toward Earth for millions of light-years ever since Larry King´s birth. This photo is actually taken back down at Earth, by an Infrared Imaging Suite. It´s aboard the NPP satellite whose fiery, night-time launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base we described here 16 months ago. From 521 miles high the two-ton satellite flashes around the globe photographing every square inch of the planet every day, creating a digitalized history of the globe´s environment for future scientists to compare with theirs.

Democratic congressman says ‘no
additional enforcement’ needed
on Southwest border [Video]

Daily Caller, by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 9:48:25 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Democratic Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke told The Daily Caller that “no additional enforcement” is needed on the Southwest border, despite the U.S.-Mexico border remaining the “primary gateway” for moving illegal drugs into the U.S. “Because we no longer have an active metric from DHS and border security can mean different things to different people, I just want to point to the facts. The safest cities in America are along the border. The border is safer than the rest of the country,” O’Rourke told TheDC Wednesday after a Border Advocacy Day event where participants argued

New Biden brag: He
desegregated movie theaters

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 9:40:33 AM Post Reply

Vice President Joe Biden is amazed when whites try to act like they know what blacks have been through, but given a chance this week to brag on his part to end Jim Crow laws, he bit: he helped to desegregate movie theaters as a kid. Biden, who grew up in Pennsylvania and Delaware, hosted an event at the Naval Observatory vice presidential residence Wednesday night to celebrate Black History Month. After being introduced by Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis, one of the original 13 Freedom Riders attacked by the Ku Klux Klan, the vice president

Obama has lost all
credibility on sequestration

Washington Examiner, by Conn Carroll Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 9:36:01 AM Post Reply

This has not been a good week for President Obama’s campaign to use $44 billion in automatic spending cuts as leverage to force Republicans to vote for higher taxes. First, legendary journalist Bob Woodward dismantled the White House’s account of how the sequester was created. Now, Woodward is telling Politico that the White House responded by threatening him if he went forward with his claim. Then Education Secretary Arne Duncan was caught in a baldfaced lie about the sequester causing teacher layoffs. On Face the Nation last Sunday Duncan told CBS, “As many as 40,000 teachers could lose

This Summer, Fire Island
Isn’t the Place to Bare All

New York Times, by Marc Santora Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/28/2013 9:20:52 AM Post Reply

New Yorkers who want to be naked at the beach this summer might want to head to New Jersey. The last major sanctuary in the state to frolic in the ocean without a swimsuit, Lighthouse Beach on Fire Island, will begin enforcing a state ban on nudity. “Twenty years ago, people would go down there to sunbathe,” said Lena Koschmann, the chief ranger of Fire Island National Seashore, a unit of the National Park Service. “Fast forward to today. You have thousands of people and you have more of a party atmosphere. There has also been an increase

This Old (White) House: Fascinating
black and white photos show the
Truman-era reconstruction of the
White House after it was declared
to be in danger of collapsing

Daily Mail (UK), by Beth Stebner Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 9:17:54 AM Post Reply

Its history dates back to one of America’s founding fathers, when George Washington selected the location for the White House, and in the two centuries it’s been in existence, the People’s House has boarded every president save the Father of His Country. But during the Great Depression and in the two world wars, the annual budget for repairing the White House was drastically cut and ideas of renovation pushed to the back burner, meaning that all but the most simple patch-ups were ignored. During the Truman presidency, a near gut-renovation was deemed a necessity,

Pianist Became a Cold-War
Hero, Media Star

Wall Street Journal, by Jennifer Maloney Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 9:17:31 AM Post Reply

Van Cliburn became an international cultural hero when he won a Cold War-era piano competition in the Soviet Union and then rocketed to unheard-of stardom for a classical musician in the U.S. Mr. Cliburn, who died Wednesday at age 78 near Fort Worth, Texas, stunned the world in 1958 when, soon after the Soviet Union had launched the first satellite in orbit, he won that country´s first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition—intended to showcase Soviet talent. The same year, his recording of Tchaikovsky´s Piano Concerto No. 1 became the first classical album to sell more than a million copies.

WH Senior Adviser Plouffe:
Woodward Washed Up

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Breitbart News Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 9:15:43 AM Post Reply

Wednesday night, in the aftermath of the blow-up regarding the White House’s email to Bob Woodward suggesting he would "regret" his reporting of sequestration, White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe took to twitter to bash Woodward as a past-his-prime hack: That, of course, is the same theme that the entire Obama-supporting media from BuzzFeed to Slate suggested. The White House-coordinated media sure knows its cues.

Turns out, those D.C. pols fighting
over our money make much more
than we do

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 2/28/2013 9:12:05 AM Post Reply

You may have noticed in the news recently that the folks we just sent to Washington to do the people´s business, aren´t. In fact, lead from behind by President Obama, they´re not doing much of anything except trying to dodge blame for not getting much of anything done. You may recall the "fiscal cliff" we were driving over not so long ago. Now, there´s "sequestration," which has to do with -- read this carefully now -- mandatory cuts of future increases in federal spending.

FBI jets for war on terror
used for top officials´
personal, business travel

Washington Guardian, by John Solomon Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/28/2013 9:12:01 AM Post Reply

Two corporate-style jets that the FBI persuaded Congress to lease for fighting global terrorism have instead been used the majority of the time to ferry Attorney General Eric Holder, his predecessor in the Bush administration and FBI Director Robert Mueller on business and personal trips at an expense of millions of dollars to taxpayers, an investigation has found. The bureau´s state-the-art, sleek Gulfstream V jets logged 60 percent of their hours between 2007 and 2011 on "non-mission flights" that cost taxpayers $11.4 million, according to an investigation

Feds, media rebut Sarah Palin
´stockpiling bullets´ claim

Politico, by Ken Cirilli Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/28/2013 9:06:42 AM Post Reply

The feds say Sarah Palin is firing blanks with her claim that the government is “stockpiling bullets” for potential civil unrest in case the country defaults on its loans. While government agencies are, in fact, purchasing large amounts of ammunition, they are doing so for training exercises and shooting ranges, according to federal officials. The Washington Post last month summed up the Department of Homeland Security’s buying of more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition for training with an article headlined, “Not so sinister: Homeland Security is stockpiling ammo for target practice.” And last summer, the Social Security Administration’s Office

Lanny Davis: Obama White House
Threatened Washington Times
Over My Column

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Breitbart News Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 9:02:23 AM Post Reply

Lanny Davis, who served under President Bill Clinton as special counsel to the White House, told Washington, D.C.´s WMAL this morning that the Obama White House had threatened the Washington Times over his column, warning that the Times would suffer limited access to White House officials and might have its White House credentials revoked. Davis, a centrist Democrat, is sometimes critical of the Obama administration´s policies. Davis was speaking with Breitbart News editor Larry O´Connor, who co-hosts a morning show on WMAL. Davis said he had never spoken publicly about the threats before, but they seemed relevant

Big show on the border

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/28/2013 8:53:47 AM Post Reply

John McCain and Lindsey Graham were almost giddy when they emerged from a White House meeting on immigration reform on Tuesday. The Senate duo insist President Obama understands Republican concerns about border security as critical to getting immigration legislation through Congress. “It’s one of the best meetings I’ve ever had with the president,” gushed Mr. Graham, South Carolina Republican, one of the four Republican senators in the bipartisan Gang of Eight looking to craft an immigration-reform bill. “I think the president’s very sincere in wanting a bill, and wanted to know what he could do to help.”

Sequester: Drama Even
Tarantino Wouldn´t Touch

Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm Original Article

Posted By: AVFD15- 2/28/2013 8:37:48 AM Post Reply

This year, Hollywood hit award pay dirt for political dramas inspired by American history. Unlike “The Avengers” — the top-grossing superhero movie — best-picture nominees “Argo,” “Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty” featured authentic, determined and courageous Americans who endured adversity and mortal danger to overcome morally inferior antagonists. Though we´re living through the umpteenth act of a gory political spectacle involving the U.S. budget, Think Again if you expect that Quentin Tarantino will adapt it for the silver screen. Devoid of heroes or valiant rescues, the drama serially unfolding in Washington isn´t even telenovela-worthy, particularly the latest installment known as the

Republican leaders’ ‘meeting’ with
Obama: Seven minutes

Washington Times [DC], by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 8:31:46 AM Post Reply

Never let it be said that President Obama has failed to spend time with Republican leaders in seeking an alternative to automatic budget cuts that are due to hit most federal departments Friday. On Wednesday, for example, the president gave GOP lawmakers as much as seven minutes, a rare face-to-face encounter that the White House described as a “meeting.” The White House’s characterization of this momentary huddle at the Capitol as a meeting illuminates Mr. Obama’s strategy in dealing with Republicans on the budget cuts and other fiscal deadlines. With speeches and other staged events, the president has tried

Economic Official Sperling
Warned Woodward

Buzzfeed.com, by Ben Smith Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 8:28:10 AM Post Reply

The White House official whom Bob Woodward charged had crosssed a line by saying he would "regret" printing his version of a set of Washington negotiations was Gene Sperling, the director of the White House Economic Council, a source familiar with the exchange told BuzzFeed Wednesday. The email from Sperling to Woodward, which Woodward read to Politico Wednesday, has transfixed Washington, with Republicans and some in the press charging that it embodies a White House lording it over a cowed press corps. Woodward, Politico reported, called the top official — identified to BuzzFeed

´Forward!´ They Cried

American Thinker, by Warren Beatty Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 8:23:41 AM Post Reply

Benito Mussolini is one of history´s most reviled men. He was also a socialist. Mussolini began as a socialist;. Alessandro Mussolini, his father, preached a revolutionary socialism of Italian nationalism, anarchism, socialism, and communism. Alessandro had a great influence on Benito, and shaped his early political views. But in later years Benito determined that socialism was a failure because it did not recognize nationalism and natural inferiority. These revelations led to his expulsion from the socialist party and his rebirth as a fascist. In an effort to evade military service, Mussolini fled to Switzerland in 1902,

Morning Joe Agrees Woodward ‘Wrong
Guy’ To Mess With, As Scarborough
Recalls His Own WH Threats

Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 8:15:44 AM Post Reply

Given the recent developments in the tension between Bob Woodward and the White House, Joe Scarborough was especially excited to discuss the story. Finding the whole ordeal “fascinating,” the panel largely agreed that Woodward is the wrong journalist to mess with — with Scarborough recalling his own past threat from the White House.(Snip)“Where do these people come from?” Scarborough asked, as Mika Brzezinski noted, “As least they talk to the press and are not afraid.” But these types of spats happen with every White House, he added. For their part, a White House official responded, saying the email

Police investigate incident
at Walorski´s office

South Bend Tribune, by MADELINE BUCKLEY Original Article

Posted By: orlean- 2/28/2013 8:08:40 AM Post Reply

MISHAWAKA — Police are investigating an incident at the local office of U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski in which an employee working the front desk said a man came in and showed a picture of a gun with a message underneath. The employee told police a man entered the office at 202 Lincoln Way E. on Tuesday and showed him a piece of paper that depicted a semi-automatic handgun, according to a Mishawaka police report.

Next 25 Articles