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Amazon´s human robots: They trek
15 miles a day around a warehouse,
their every move dictated
by computers checking their work.
Is this the future of the
British workplace?

Daily Mail (UK), by Sarah O´Connor Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 8:41:33 PM Post Reply

Between a sooty power station and a brown canal on the edge of a small Midlands town, there is a long blue building that looks like a smear of summer sky on the damp industrial landscape. Inside, hundreds of people in orange vests are pushing trolleys around a space the size of nine football pitches, glancing at the screens of their hand-held satnav computers for directions on where to walk next and what to pick up when they get there. They do not dawdle — the devices in their hands are also measuring their productivity.

Ron Fournier: I Got Threatened, Too

National Review, by Greg Pollowitz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 8:35:42 PM Post Reply

Earlier I posted that I didn’t read a threat in the e-mail between Sperling and Woodward, but this piece by Ron Fournier of the National Journal has changed my mind. His opener: The fight between the White House and journalistic legend Bob Woodward is a silly distraction to a major problem: The failure of President Obama and House Republicans to lead the country under a budget deadline. Woodward-gate is a distraction the White House welcomed, even encouraged, as part of a public-relations strategy to emasculate the GOP and anybody else who challenges Obama. It is a distraction that briefly

Blowback to Administrative
Amnesty Intensifies

Washington Free Beacon, by Lachlan Markay Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 8:31:41 PM Post Reply

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) announcement that it will release thousands of illegal immigrant detainees has led left-wing activists to criticize the administration’s immigration policy and suggest the announcement was political in nature. The criticisms mirrored those leveled by opponents of amnesty proposals and pro-enforcement advocates, signaling a broad ideological opposition to the move. The DHS announcement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must reduce its illegal immigrant detainee populations by 26 percent sparked major pushback among

Press corps to Woodward: Really?

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/28/2013 8:28:18 PM Post Reply

Bob Woodward has suggested that the White House threatened him. Many of his colleagues in the press corps aren´t buying it. By the standards of this White House, a statement like the one senior White House official Gene Sperling wrote to Woodward last week -- "I think you will regret staking out that claim" -- is both mild and familiar, reporters who have dealt with the Obama administration say. "It´s not a big deal. You´ve been yelled at by people in the White House, I´ve been yelled at by people in the White House --

Once Again, Woodward Takes
On All The President´s Men

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 8:22:08 PM Post Reply

Scandal: A senior administration official tells the reporter who unearthed Watergate he "will" regret challenging the president on the cause and effects of sequestration. Keep digging, Bob. Nobody died at Watergate. If President Obama has an enemies list, Bob Woodward is probably at the top of it. After all, it was Woodward who started the unraveling of the president´s "sequestration apocalypse" mantra by confirming it was the White House´s idea in the first place. When President Obama said the "sequester is not something that I proposed," he lied. His then-OMB Director Jack Lew, recently confirmed as Treasury

Why Public Schools
Should Teach the Bible

Wall Street Journal, by Roma Downey & Mark Burnett Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 8:15:33 PM Post Reply

Have you ever sensed in your own life that "the handwriting was on the wall"? Or encouraged a loved one to walk "the straight and narrow"? Have you ever laughed at something that came "out of the mouths of babes"? Or gone "the extra mile" for an opportunity that might vanish "in the twinkling of an eye"? If you have, then you´ve been thinking of the Bible. These phrases are just "a drop in the bucket" (another biblical phrase) of the many things we say and do every day that have their origins in the most

Domestic Oil Production At
Record Level Despite Obama

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 8:07:37 PM Post Reply

Earlier this month oil output hit its highest level in the U.S. since the summer of 1992. That´s good, but it could be better. The Obama administration won´t get out of the way. During the week of Feb. 15, the U.S. produced 7.118 million barrels of crude per day, according to Energy Department data. Domestic production hasn´t been that high since the third week of August 1992, when the country was pumping 7.12 million barrels a day. A year ago, domestic producers were putting out only 5.817 million barrels a day and we were importing 9.091 million barrels per day.

Administration Afraid Sequestration
Won´t Bring Disaster

Investor´s Business Daily, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 7:56:29 PM Post Reply

The worst-case scenario for us," a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told the Washington Post, "is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens." Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2% — and the country survives. That a government now borrowing 35 cents of every dollar it spends reduces that borrowing by 2 cents "and nothing bad really happens." Oh, the humanity! A normal citizen might think this a good thing. For reactionary liberalism, however, whatever sum our ever-inflating government happens to spend today

Sequester Railroads Biden’s
Pricey Plane Travel

Fox News, by Jana Winter Original Article

Posted By: PaleAle- 2/28/2013 7:21:22 PM Post Reply

As the federal budget goes off the rails, Joe Biden´s getting back on -- with Amtrak. The looming sequester is forcing the veep to once again take the train -- as opposed to military aircraft -- to his weekend trips home to Delaware. Biden said Wednesday he initiated the change, calling it the one thing about the sequester that´s working to his "benefit." Speaking at the National Association of Attorneys General, Biden said that while he took nearly 8,000 train trips as senator, the Secret Service made him travel by air because the Amtrak "gives too many opportunities for people

Maxine Waters: Sequester Could
Cause ‘170 Million Jobs’ to Be Lost

National Review Online, by Charles C. W. Cooke Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/28/2013 6:21:44 PM Post Reply

Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), in an attempt to outdo President Obama’s claims that even minor cuts will bring the republic’s long run to an ignominious end, warned today that the sequester could cause “over 170 million jobs” to be lost:(Snip for video)134 million people have jobs in America.

Citing baggage, Kentucky politicians not
enthusiastic about Ashley Judd campaign

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/28/2013 6:11:43 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — As actress Ashley Judd makes an appearance here in the nation’s capital for a speech on Friday, a number of politicians back in Kentucky are busy pouring cold water on the idea that she could win if she runs for Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell’s U.S. Senate seat in 2014. “I think McConnell would like to see her in the race, because she’s got a lot of defects right out the gate,” Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, told The Daily Caller in a brief interview. But what’s more immediately damaging to Judd is how a contingent

Calling Karl Rove

American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 2/28/2013 6:08:44 PM Post Reply

Nothing, and I do mean nothing, could be more divisive to the conservative cause or to the Republican cause (two different things at times, but not in this case) than to have a third-party gubernatorial bid in a key swing state currently governed by Republicans, against a duly nominated candidate who is the sitting attorney general, with a history of punching way above his weight politically, a history of political canniness, and a record of being way ahead of the curve in promoting thoughtful, sensitive reforms for mental-health law and also being ahead of the curve in promoting thoughtful,

Drive-Bys Side with White
House,Throw Media Icon Bob
Woodward Under Bus

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 5:32:00 PM Post Reply

RUSH: I don´t know, folks. I don´t know. I´m just not sure that what we´re dealing with here is a "you´re gonna have a dead horse in your bed tomorrow morning" kind of threat. I don´t think that´s what we´re dealing with. I do think the White House is gonna take care of Woodward with a death panel down the road. That´s how they´re gonna deal with this. We´ll never know. Woodward´s gonna get sick and the death panel will come in there and that will be that.

Michelle Obama: Give that
First Lady her own TV show!

Independent (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 5:28:41 PM Post Reply

Phew! It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Michelle Obama (though probably not as busy as when she was a vice-president of the University of Chicago Medical Centre and a mother-of-two with a partner who was off politicking all the blooming time). She’s been on American TV six times in the past fortnight, promoting her healthy-living “Let’s Move!” campaign. US right-wingers have moaned she’s not a celebrity; we say, give her a show! The Oscars And the award for the best supporting wife in politics goes to…

More Americans struggle
to repay student loans

Associated Press, by Christopher S. Rugaber Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 2/28/2013 5:27:53 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- More Americans are falling behind on student loans, threatening their ability to obtain mortgages and other credit in the future. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says more than 31 percent of people with student loans at the end of last year were 90 or more days delinquent. That compares with less than 25 percent at the end of 2008. Student loans were the only type of credit to increase through the Great Recession and afterward. Student debt amounted to $966 billion at the end of last year, up 34 percent from four years earlier.

More Details Emerge on
Obama´s Prison Purge

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 5:20:02 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Yesterday we had the shocking news that the regime had released hardened criminals from the illegal immigrant population. They were in jail. Hardened criminals were jailed from the illegal alien population. The doors were opened to the jails, and they were just released, all because of the sequester. The sequester hadn´t even happened. It hasn´t happened yet. New York Times story: "White House Says it Wasn´t Involved in the Detainee Release."

Violent homeless crowd attacking
patrons at Think Coffee shop

New York Post, by Jessica Simeone and Gillian Kleiman Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/28/2013 5:14:17 PM Post Reply

A violent homeless crowd is plaguing a popular Chelsea coffee shop — repeatedly attacking customers and each other with chairs and tables, the store’s management said. Think Coffee manager Matt Fury told cops yesterday that he´s concerned with a lack of police response to his company´s 8th Avenue location, near 14h Street, where 911 calls are constant. "One [homeless person] has thrown a chair once, one has hit someone, one has thrown a table," Fury, 40, told NYPD brass yesterday at a Sixth Precinct community meeting. "It always ends in violence." The manager said sometimes, when he called police, NYPD either didn´t

Obama Desires Constant Chaos

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 5:12:20 PM Post Reply

RUSH: I mentioned this yesterday, I think, and the day before. This sequester really is chump change in terms of the amount of money being talked about and the possible negative impact of the sequester happening. It´s chump change compared to the continuing resolution fight, which comes up at the end of March. I think the one thing here, if the regime is surprised by anything -- and I don´t know that they are. But it wouldn´t surprise me if Obama and the White House really expected the Republicans to come to the

High-flying Holder: Report
shows AG, FBI director used
luxury jets for personal travel

Fox News, by Barnini Chakraborty Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/28/2013 5:10:27 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON – Two high-tech luxury jets that the FBI convinced Congress were needed for the fight against global terrorism have instead been used to ferry around Attorney General Eric Holder and his predecessors, as well as FBI Director Robert Mueller, according to a government report released Thursday. Those officials -- which included Holder and Mueller, as well as former Attorneys General Michael Mukasey and Alberto Gonzales -- racked up nearly 700 "nonmission" trips between 2007 and 2011, at a cost of $11.4 million, according to the Government Accountability Office. Those officials are required to use government aircraft,

The Attendance Justification Tool Kit

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/28/2013 5:08:25 PM Post Reply

Do you manage a public-sector pension fund? If so, you´ve got a rough job. Unless you do it right, and probably even if you do, the obligations for which you´re responsible will probably bankrupt the government sooner or later, thanks to irresponsible politicians, greedy unions, plunging fertility rates and slow economic growth. You could probably use a getaway, and hey, the state isn´t broke yet. As long as there are still tax dollars lying around, why not use a few of them to treat yourself to a trip to Hawaii?

Wage Recession Hits 5 Years;
Worse Than Jobs Drought

Investor´s Business Daily, by Jed Graham Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 2/28/2013 4:54:45 PM Post Reply

As bad as the current job recovery has been — and it´s by far the weakest since World War II — the recovery in wages has been far worse. Five years after the recession began in December 2007, total wages in the economy have yet to fully recover in real terms, Commerce Department data show. In other words, the wage recession continues. By comparison, the longest previous post-war wage recession, which began with the 2001 downturn, was over in 2-1/2 years, even though that jobs recession lasted four years. In recoveries past, wage recessions have ended

Former Clinton aide, columnist joins Woodward
in claiming White House threat

FoxNews, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: mambo 5- 2/28/2013 4:51:20 PM Post Reply

Another member of the Washington political media stepped forward Thursday to claim he was threatened by the Obama White House, shortly after the White House denied reports that an adviser threatened famed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward. The latest claim comes from Lanny Davis, who served as counsel to former President Bill Clinton and later went on to write a column for The Washington Times.

Annual Medicare, Medicaid spending
in California tops $100 billion

Sacramento Bee [CA], by Phillip Reese Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 2/28/2013 4:48:28 PM Post Reply

Government health spending in California now exceeds the size of the entire state general fund budget. The federal and state government spent $46 billion on Medicaid (Medi-Cal), a health care program for the poor, and the federal government spent $59 billion on Medicare, a health care program for the elderly, in 2011, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. That´s roughly $2,800 per California resident. Medicare and Medicaid spending in California has doubled in the last 15 years, even after adjusting for inflation.(Snip) The government spent six times as much on Medicare and Medicaid

Congrats to Special Report
with Bret Baier

National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 2/28/2013 3:47:50 PM Post Reply

The 6 p.m. ET newscast, fronted by the network’s chief White House correspondent and Pentagon correspondent, is finishing up its 50th consecutive month as the cable news leader in its time period. Other than Fox News, the only other news program to achieve such a streak has been “NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams.” According to Nielsen, “Special Report” averaged 1.97 million viewers in February — more than the combined tune-in at the same time for MSNBC’s “Politics Nation with Al Sharpton” (718,000) and CNN’s “Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” (522,000).

Broken Justice

National Review Online, by Conrad Black Original Article

Posted By: zoidberg- 2/28/2013 3:27:51 PM Post Reply

I observed Washington’s birthday by participating in a Federalist Society telephone forum on the American justice system with two other panelists.(Snip)These are, in the briefest synopsis, that American prosecutors win 99.5 percent of their cases, a much higher percentage than those in other civilized countries; that 97 percent of them are won without trial, because of the plea-bargain system in which inculpatory evidence is extorted from witnesses in exchange for immunity from prosecution, including for perjury; that the U.S. has six to twelve times as many incarcerated people per capita as do Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan

The Curator Vanishes: Period
Room as Crime Scene

ARTnews, by Robin Cembalest Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/28/2013 3:27:37 PM Post Reply

On March 27, 1954, Barton Kestle, first curator of modern art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, boarded a train for Washington, D.C., and was never seen again. A shy specialist in the Soviet Avant-Garde, Dada, and Surrealism, Kestle had usually worked late into the night at the museum’s grand McKim, Mead, & White building, his office placed near the front entrance so he wouldn’t trip up alarms. This explains how staff came to accidentally seal and paint over his door during a rushed construction job some time in the ’50s.

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