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What Did Arafat Get for
Killing U.S. Diplomats?

American Spectator, by Andrew B. Wilson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 6:16:27 AM Post Reply

History is sometimes made in the unmaking — with some of the critical facts in an appalling event being hurriedly and knowingly swept under a rug like so many pieces of broken glass. This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of such an event in the making and masking of history. In the early evening of March 1, 1973 (like today, a Friday), eight gunmen from the Black September Organization — the same terrorist group which had created havoc six months earlier at the 1972 Munich Olympics — stormed the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum

Florida man swallowed by
massive sinkhole in his bedroom

CNN, by Tina Burnside Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/1/2013 6:13:38 AM Post Reply

A 36-year-old man disappeared Thursday night when a sinkhole opened up under his bedroom in Florida, swallowing him as his brother tried to rescue him, authorities said.Right after the ground started to give way in his home in Brandon, his brother frantically tried to keep him from sinking into the hole, an emergency official said. The first deputy on the scene pulled the victim´s brother from the edge of the growing chasm, said Jessica Damico, a spokeswoman for the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.Authorities have been unable to contact the man as the sinkhole expanded.

The cardinal running the Vatican
until the next Pope is chosen
has the building wired

New York Daily News, by Corky Siemaszko Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 6:10:41 AM Post Reply

Until a new Pope is chosen, the Vatican will be run by a crafty cardinal who has the place wired. Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone has been tapping the phones of high-ranking members of the church hierarchy for more than a year to find the culprits who leaked embarrassing internal documents to reporters, a church official admitted Thursday. “Some wiretaps or some checks” have been authorized, said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman. The secret surveillance operation involved the wiretapping of “two or three” telephone lines, Lombardi said. He did not say whose lines.

RNC event snags 2016 hopefuls

Politico, by Jonathan Martin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 6:05:50 AM Post Reply

Five of the most talked-about potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates will spend the weekend together next month huddling with top Republican donors near Miami. The RNC has snagged former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to attend their quarterly finance meeting, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO. The Republican VIPs will convene at Coral Gables’ ritzy Biltmore Hotel over the weekend of March 9th-10th for an event that’s a perk for the RNC’s top donors.

The Democratic Majority Is Doomed

Wall Street Journal, by Pete du Pont Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/1/2013 6:00:14 AM Post Reply

Many argue the coalition that elected and re-elected Barack Obama represents a long-term shift in the electorate that will determine elections and public policies for generations. Some of commentators think conservatives have lost their relevance, and the Republicans are about to go the way of the Whigs. It´s an interesting theory, but of course it´s wrong. Politics, like much in life, tends to move like a pendulum, shifting back and forth around equilibrium. While the liberal Democratic coalition is ascendant now, a few decades ago people were speaking about the decline of the Democrats. More recently,

Obamageddon

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 3/1/2013 5:56:08 AM Post Reply

If you´re reading this after midnight on Friday, March 1, the dreaded Beltway hour of doom known as the "sequester" has arrived and the news is that the world has not ended. You can pinch yourself to make sure. This does not mean there won´t be more political histrionics, but the beginning of applying reason to Washington is understanding that it is possible to cut at least some federal spending. (Snip)The White House political calculus seems to be that if Americans see that cutting 2.3% of federal spending is possible without catastrophe, they might learn something from the experience.

President Obama’s accelerating
abandonment of principle

Fox News, by Liz Peek Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/1/2013 5:54:10 AM Post Reply

How ironic is the recent news that President Obama engages in crony capitalism and that he doesn’t always play by the rules? Our righteous president has often leveled such charges against America’s corporate leaders, suggesting they skirt the law of the land, and that the playing field is not level for ordinary people. How disappointing then to find a pattern of favoritism and hypocrisy emerging from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The most recent revelation concerns health insurance exec Sara Horowitz, who recently won a tax-free $340 million federal loan to set up insurance co-ops

Obama is playing a new game

Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 3/1/2013 5:49:33 AM Post Reply

Everyone has been wondering how the public will react when the sequester kicks in. The American people are in the position of hostages who´ll have to decide who the hostage-taker is. People will get mad at either the president or the Republicans in Congress. That anger will force one side to rethink or back down. Or maybe the public will get mad at both. The White House is, as always, confident of its strategy: Scare people as much as possible and let the media take care of the rest. Maybe there will be a lot to report, maybe not,

President Obama´s actions show
he isn´t serious about governing

Washington Examiner [DC], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 5:45:36 AM Post Reply

In a few days," President Obama said earlier this week, "Congress might allow a series of immediate, painful, arbitrary budget cuts to take place -- known in Washington as the sequester. Instead of cutting out the government spending we don´t need -- wasteful programs that don´t work, special-interest tax loopholes and tax breaks -- what the sequester does is it uses a meat-cleaver approach to gut critical investments in things like education and national security and lifesaving medical research." The "arbitrary" cuts begin today, but they didn´t have to. Senate Republicans listened to Obama. Although they didn´t yield to his demand

‘Don´t listen to the haters!’
Michelle Obama tells of the
struggles of her youth as
she leads 6,000 school
kids in dance off

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/1/2013 5:42:57 AM Post Reply

The First Lady brought a crowd of more than 6,000 school-aged kids to their feet in Chicago Thursday while she danced and jumped around to the beat of thumping music at an event to support her ´Let´s Move!´ campaign against childhood obesity. ´Although I am the First Lady of the United States of America, listen to this, because this is the truth, I am no different from you,´ she shouted to the crowd. ´The only reason that I am standing up here today is that back when I was your age I made a certain set of choices with my

The Demise of Section 5?

National Review Online, by John Fund Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 5:39:39 AM Post Reply

Liberal groups may very soon see a provision of the Voting Rights Act they cherish and exploit declared unconstitutional because they would not listen to the Supreme Court’s warning about its deficiencies. Instead, they engaged in a reactionary defense of a sweeping federal power that badly needed updating and retooling. Now they may lose it all, if Wednesday’s hearing before the Supreme Court on Shelby County v. Holder, a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, provides any clues. In 2009, the Supreme Court came close to invalidating Section 5, which forces nine — mostly Southern —

‘Duck Dynasty’ flies in the
TV ratings on the wings of
Jimmy Kimmel-Morrissey dust-up

Washington Post, by Lisa de Moraes Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/1/2013 5:34:12 AM Post Reply

A Jimmy Kimmel/Morrissey catfight over a show about duck-call manufacturers has handed A&E network its biggest audience ever. Nearly 9?million people watched Wednesday night’s third-season debut of “Duck Dynasty” — one night after “DD” family members appeared on Kimmel’s ABC late-night show, getting Morrissey’s knickers in a knot. “Duck Dynasty” is now the No.?1-rated nonfiction series on cable this year. The back-to-back episodes with which “Duck Dynasty” opened its third season more than doubled the franchise’s second-season launch.

Grandson gives emotional salute
to grandfather Gen. ´Stormin
Norman´ Schwarzkopf as he
is laid to rest at West Point

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/1/2013 5:32:25 AM Post Reply

Max Schwarzkop, the grandson of the late U.S. Four Star General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, gave a moving tribute to his grandfather today as he was laid to rest at West Point. Schwarzkopf, the no-nonsense Desert Storm commander famously nicknamed ´Stormin´ Norman,´ graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, soaking up its values: ´Duty, Honor, Country.´ He married here. He taught here. And on Thursday he was buried here. His family and friends joined Kuwaiti officials, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Vice President Dick Cheney, gray clad cadets and a detail of New Jersey

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

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