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Free speech rights don’t apply
if liberal crowd takes offense

Washington Times, by Rebecca Hagelin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 5:28:01 AM Post Reply

Liberals love the First Amendment. Except when they hate it. Recently I wrote in my regular Washington Times Monday column, “How To Save Your Family,” a piece lamenting the confusion created by gender-bending fashion models and the emerging sentiment that little children somehow show their true, transgendered selves when they show “inquisitiveness about the other sex, and all the trappings of male or female life.” I cited a leading expert on children and gender dysphoria, Kenneth Zucker, who believes that children who seem confused about their gender identity should enter therapy with the goal

The American Way with Guns

Weekly Standard, by Geoffrey Norman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 5:13:20 AM Post Reply

Among the guns I own, my favorite is a Pennsylvania long rifle made for me by an old friend. It is a flintlock, shoots a .50 caliber ball, and uses black powder. The wood is rich, sinuous, curly maple. The trigger guard and butt plate are brass. It is a beautiful piece, and only the most ardent anti-gun zealot could resist its palpable appeal. First you admire it, then you want to hold it, and next you feel the urge to put it up to your shoulder and fire it. And it shoots. Oh, Lord, does it shoot.

Tribes win new power to prosecute
non-Indians for domestic violence

McClatchy Newspapers, by Rob Hotakainen Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/1/2013 5:07:22 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Congress on Thursday gave Indian tribes new power to prosecute non-Indians in tribal courts for any crimes linked to domestic violence. Ending a 16-month battle with the Senate, the House of Representatives voted 286-138 to approve the plan as part of an expansion of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. Republican opponents relented after failing to win enough votes to reauthorize the law without the provision. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama, who said he’d sign it. “I’m ecstatic,” said Deborah Parker, the 42-year-old vice chairwoman of the Tulalip Tribes

What About Bob?

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/1/2013 5:01:40 AM Post Reply

The biggest story for America today is the automatic spending cuts triggered by the sequester. The biggest story for the DC Beltway? Whether Bob Woodward was “threatened” by the White House. The Washington Post veteran became the news after writing that President Obama’s insistence that the Republicans agree to raise taxes to avoid a sequester amounted to “moving the goalposts.” On Wednesday, he followed up by calling the president’s statement that an aircraft carrier would not be deployed because of the sequester “a kind of madness.” There are two things of note here.

Why the GOP Doesn’t
Love Chris Christie

Daily Beast, by David Freedlander Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 4:56:54 AM Post Reply

A day after it was revealed that the American Conservative Union was snubbing Chris Christie and not extending an invitation to him to speak at its annual Conservative Political Action Conference confab next month, the New Jersey governor bounded into the center of the auditorium at the Pine Brook Jewish Center in Montville, preceded by short, campaign-style video that ended with him intoning in the voiceover: “Sometimes you may look at me and think I am spoiling for a fight. Not all the time. But I will tell you this—I am going to fight for the things

Eastleigh by-election: Margaret Thatcher,
not Barack Obama, must be David
Cameron’s role model for 2015

Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/1/2013 4:53:31 AM Post Reply

A remarkable night for UKIP in the Eastleigh by-election, narrowly losing to the Liberal Democrats while beating the Conservatives by more than a thousand votes, and Labour by over 7,000 votes. This is a humiliating defeat for David Cameron’s “modernising” agenda, and a slap in the face for the metropolitan elites in the Tory Party whose obsession with gay marriage, foreign aid, climate change, and a multitude of big government initiatives have alienated large sections of the party’s grass roots. It’s also a clear message from voters that Cameron’s promise of a referendum on British membership

The Mysteries of Fargo

New York Times, by Ross Douthat Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 4:48:03 AM Post Reply

No statistical trend makes progressives quite as self-satisfied as the higher-than-average rates of teen pregnancies and out-of-wedlock births in many conservative states. As I’ve had reason to argue before, this self-satisfaction is somewhat misplaced, since higher abortion rates in blue states rather than, say, varying sex education curricula tend to explain most of the blue-red difference. But those unstable red-state family structures are still a real problem, and it’s fair enough for liberals to note that social conservatism (whether in policy or in culture) doesn’t necessarily produce the kind of social outcomes that it seeks. However, there are conservative states

Ukip leader Nigel Farage:
Eastleigh by-election result
is´sign of things to come´

Telegraph [UK], by James Kirkup Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/1/2013 4:46:18 AM Post Reply

Ukip stunned the Conservatives by beating them into third place in Eastleigh and came within 2,000 votes of the Liberal Democrats, who retained the seat. Mr Farage’s party took only 4 percent of the vote in Eastleigh at the 2010 general election.[Snip] Something is changing,” he said. Ukip took votes from all three main parties, he said: "People are sick and tired of having three social democrat parties that are frankly indistinguishable from each other." Mr Farage added that Ukip is reaping the benefits of its focus on issues like immigration: “We are the party prepared to talk about

Green fatigue sets in: the
world cools on global warming

Independent [UK], by Sam Masters Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/1/2013 4:43:43 AM Post Reply

Public concern about environmental issues including climate change has slumped to a 20-year low since the financial crisis, a global study reveals. Fewer people now consider issues such as CO2 emissions, air and water pollution, animal species loss, and water shortages to be “very serious” than at any time in the last two decades, according to the poll of 22,812 people in 22 countries including Britain and the US. Despite years of studies showing the impact of global warming on the planet, only 49 per cent of people now consider climate change a very serious issue –

Why Do Some Liberals
Become Conservatives?

PJ Media, by Jean Kaufman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 4:38:20 AM Post Reply

These days it may seem as though the entire nation is moving ever leftward. But on the personal level it’s actually much more usual for political change to go in the opposite direction: from left to right. It’s not that uncommon an event, either — in fact, there’s a whole literature of political memoir written by left-to-right changers (such as David Horowitz and Norman Podhoretz, to name just two). One changer closer to home is founder and former CEO of PJ Media Roger L. Simon, who talked about his own story in a recent speech

Eastleigh by-election: Ukip
inflicts major setback
on David Cameron

Telegraph [UK], by James Kirkup, Rowena Mason Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/1/2013 4:33:56 AM Post Reply

The UK Independence Party has inflicted a major political setback on David Cameron by beating the Conservatives into third place in the Eastleigh by-election. Ukip came second in Eastleigh as the Liberal Democrats hung onto the seat despite recent allegations of a sex scandal involving a senior party figure. Being defeated by both their coalition partners and Ukip will add to the growing doubts that the Conservatives can win the next general election. Eastleigh is one of the Conservatives’ target seats and the party has flooded the seat with MPs over the last weeks, hoping to seize a constituency

Every single bit of gun advice
Biden gives will get you arrested

Hot Air, by Mary Katharine Ham Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 4:32:58 AM Post Reply

These are the people who think they know better than you and should dictate your firearms choices. Erika highlighted Vice President Joe Biden’s most recent gun non-safety advice today: I said, “Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.” (Snip)The only person who should ever take Biden’s gun advice is David Gregory, who is of course exempt from gun laws because he has very important points to make. And, when it comes to gun laws for thee

Calif. governor to rule
on ex-Manson follower

Associated Press, by Linda Deutsch Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 4:23:54 AM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to decide Friday whether a former Charles Manson follower will be released on parole after serving more than 40 years in prison. Bruce Davis would be only the second Manson related murder defendant to be granted parole since Manson´s murder spree began in 1969. He was not involved in the notorious Sharon Tate-LaBianca killings but was convicted with Manson and others in the murders of a musician and a stuntman. Steve Grogan, another participant in those murders, was released many years ago after he agreed

Woodward Right About Obama
Moving Sequester Goal Posts

Breitbart’s Big Government, by John Sexton Original Article

Posted By: LOL Thomas- 3/1/2013 12:58:52 AM Post Reply

There are two stories circulating around Bob Woodward this morning. (Snip) But the White House also wanted the issue to disappear until after the election, so in conjunction with Congress it proposed (and the President specifically endorsed) an enforcement mechanism called sequestration. In exchange for agreeing to a package of $1.2T in cuts with no revenues as a failsafe, Republicans agreed to raise the debt limit high enough that it would not be reached until after the election. The significant point is that the trigger for sequestration was not the same date as the implementation date.

Is the President
Still Relevant Here?

Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/28/2013 10:44:17 PM Post Reply

After Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, they continued to dominate debate and marginalize President Bill Clinton. That led to one of Clinton’s most memorable moments, when he declared at a 1995 press conference: “The president is still relevant here.” It was a low moment for Clinton, but he would have the last laugh—he’d recover his voice and easily win re-election. Looking back on that moment, George Stephanopoulos explained Clinton’s ill-advised remark by noting it was a “Perfect example of the stage direction coming out of the actor’s mouth, as opposed to the script.”

ICE: Report About Director´s Resignation
´Inaccurate And Misleading´

Breitbart´s Big Government, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/28/2013 10:39:59 PM Post Reply

Is it a coincidence that Gary Mead, the director of Enforcement and Removal Operations for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is suddenly retiring after DHS came under fire for releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants? The Associated Press doesn´t appear to think so. The AP theorized that Mead may be taking the fall for the action by DHS. The AP’s coverage noted that Mead had "resigned after hundreds of illegal immigrants were released from jails because of government spending cuts." That´s not the case

Chevron ultradeep well
shows high production

Houston Chronicle, by Zain Shauk Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/28/2013 10:33:19 PM Post Reply

Chevron said Thursday that a test well it drilled through a thick layer of salt more than 5 miles below sea level had a high rate of oil production, an indicator of the promise of an emerging field in the Gulf of Mexico. The test well at the St. Malo field, located about 280 miles south of New Orleans, had a production rate of more than 13,000 barrels of oil per day, the company said. The well was drilled in waters 7,000 feet deep and reached 20,000 feet below the seafloor. At a total depth of more than 5 miles

Sequestration: Obama
trapped by his own tactic

Washington Times, by James Valvo Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/28/2013 10:22:48 PM Post Reply

President Obama is riding a pretty long, unbroken streak of policy victories that is scheduled to come to an end this week. The $85 billion sequester that will reduce spending by a scant 2.4 percent marks the first serious misstep by a president who is overseeing the largest expansion of federal government intervention in the economy in two generations. Mr. Obama has either expanded federal control or protected hard-fought gains during his time in office. He hasn’t gotten everything he wanted, to be sure, but this looks like his first step backward.

Friday’s sequester meeting
to provide cover
for Obama, lawmakers

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/28/2013 10:19:47 PM Post Reply

It’s the kind of risky procrastination that any teenager facing a book-report deadline would recognize. With $85 billion in mandatory budget cuts due to start kicking in at midnight, President Obama will sit down with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday morning to discuss ways to avoid those cuts. It will be their first face-to-face meeting on the subject, although they’ve known for two months that the deadline was approaching. Neither side holds out much hope that the meeting will produce a solution. But neither can the participants — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker

For some, lessons of
boyhood include learning
to shoot and hunt

Washington Post, by Eli Saslow Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/28/2013 10:16:44 PM Post Reply

In MOUNT AIRY, Md. — Chanse Mullinix arrived home from fourth grade on the school bus, carrying a Cherry Coke and a plastic bag of his classmates’ handmade valentines. He shouted goodbye to the bus driver – “See ya!” — and ran down the sidewalk, because a youth football coach had recommended once that he run everywhere. He climbed the steps to a two-story townhouse — the only home he had ever known, and the place he sometimes referred to as a “great gun museum.” He dropped his camouflage coat into a pile of hunting gear at the entryway

Kansas Senate passes bill to require
drug tests for welfare,
unemployment recipients

Wichita Eagle [KS], by Brent D Wistrom Original Article

Posted By: wildcat1- 2/28/2013 10:14:18 PM Post Reply

TOPEKA — The Senate approved a bill Thursday requiring drug testing for welfare and unemployment benefit recipients — as well as lawmakers — suspected of drug use. The 31-8 vote, mostly along party lines, advances Senate Bill 149 to the House. Gov. Sam Brownback has been non-committal about his support for the concept of testing welfare recipients. The proposal calls for drug tests whenever state officials have reasonable suspicion that someone receiving or applying for welfare or unemployment benefits is using drugs.

Cut spending: Permanently
furlough ‘official time’ workers

Washington Times, by Matt Patterson & Trey Kovacs Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 10:12:01 PM Post Reply

As politicians of both parties ride through the country Paul Revere-like in their warning about the dire consequences of the looming automatic spending cuts coming with sequestration, a lot of Americans are worried that essential government services will see a dangerous reduction in their operating resources. Yet there is a way to cut substantial amounts of federal spending that will have zero effect on public services. Simply get rid of federal employees who do no work for the federal government. Yes, such creatures exist, thanks to a bizarre provision in federal labor law called “official time,” which allows a

More signs of intelligent
life in the House

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/28/2013 10:11:44 PM Post Reply

The Hill reports that key House Republicans seem to be on board with their leadership’s plan to pass a six-month government-funding measure that would reflect the budget cuts from the sequester. The absence of such a measure would cause the government to shut down after March 27 when the current stopgap funding bill runs out. House Democrats are expected to oppose the resolution as a protest against the reduced level of funding that results from the sequester. If so, the resolution won’t pass the House unless Republicans are nearly unanimous

War on Woodward May
Be a Tipping Point

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/28/2013 10:07:41 PM Post Reply

A week ago, the White House was absolutely sure that its position on the sequester would prevail and that the Republicans would soon be surrendering on the president’s demands for even more new taxes in order to avoid the implementation of the draconian across-the-board budget cuts. Most of the press, backed by polls that showed the unpopularity of Republicans, agreed. But the discussion has shifted a bit in the last few days and the administration’s confidence in its ability to prevail in this political struggle has to be slightly shaken, even if they are not publicly admitting it.

Woodward To Hannity: Not ‘Threatened’
By White House, But Still Concerned
About Intimidation

Mediaite, by Josh Feldman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 10:06:12 PM Post Reply

Bob Woodward sat down with Sean Hannity tonight to elaborate on all the fallout from his claim yesterday he received an intimidating e-mail from the White House telling him he’ll “regret” his reporting. He clarified that he didn’t feel personally threatened, but it was still inappropriate for the White House to engage with a member of the press in that kind of intimidating manner. Woodward told Hannity that Gene Sperling, the White House official who e-mailed the intimidating e-mail, was shouting at him before sending the e-mail,

Left rushes to defend Ashley Judd´s
´don´t breed´ and other gaffes

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/28/2013 10:00:37 PM Post Reply

Eager for a strong Democrat who could challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in his Kentucky reelection next year, liberals are rushing to defend actress Ashley Judd against claims her record of odd comments makes her the Todd Akin of the left. "Ashley Judd Is Not the Next Todd Akin," headlined an online article in Mother Jones. "The Ashley Judd Dirt-Digging Campaign Is in Effect," said the Atlantic Wire. At issue: Years of lefty comments made by activist Judd, said to be considering a run against McConnell, that likely won´t fly in the conservative state.

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