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Obama: I can´t do
´Jedi mind meld´

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 3:26:03 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama, seeking to illustrate Friday that he has done all he can to avert sequester cuts, invoked a few memorable analogies. First there was one from the movie "Star Wars" -- although he mixed up his space dramas a bit. "I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that´s been floating around Washington: That somehow, even though most people agree that I´m being reasonable, that most people agree that I´m presenting a fair deal -- the fact that they don´t take it, means that I should somehow do a Jedi mindmeld with these folks

Bonnie Franklin, ‘One Day
at a Time’ Actress, Dies at 69

New York Times, by Douglas Martin Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 3:24:47 PM Post Reply

Bonnie Franklin, whose portrayal of a pert but determined Ann Romano on the television show “One Day at a Time” in the 1970s and ’80s spun laughter out of the tribulations of a divorced woman juggling parenting, career, love life and feminist convictions, died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, family members said. They had announced the diagnosis in September. Ms. Franklin also acted on the stage and in movies and for years sang and danced in a nightclub act.

Transcript: Obama´s press conference
on spending cuts

CNN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/1/2013 3:21:03 PM Post Reply

President Obama stepped into the White House Press Briefing Room to give a statement and take questions about the forced spending cuts scheduled to begin Friday. Find a transcript of the press conference after the jump. Obama: Good morning, everybody. As you know, I just met with leaders of both parties to discuss a way forward in light of the severe budget cuts that start to take effect today. I told them these cuts will hurt our economy. They will cost us jobs. And to set it right, both sides need to be willing to compromise. The good news is

87,000 Texans face a cut in
jobless benefits; As much as
$44 a week

Houston Chronicle, by L.M. Sixel Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/1/2013 3:16:26 PM Post Reply

Approximately 87,000 Texans will see their unemployment compensation benefits drop as much as $44 a week beginning next week as a result of federal sequestration, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. Unemployed Texans who have exhausted their original 26 weeks of unemployment benefits and are now receiving federal extended benefits will see their weekly pay cut by 10 percent, according to the commission. The cut will not affect the initial 26 weeks of benefits, which are funded by a state payroll tax on employers. However because of the high rate of unemployment, the federal government provides eligible unemployed workers

Michigan governor clears
way for state takeover of Detroit

Reuters, by Steve Neavling & Karen Pierog Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 3:15:39 PM Post Reply

Detroit - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder on Friday formally declared Detroit in a fiscal emergency and said he had identified a top candidate to take over financial management of the destitute city. The declaration virtually assures that the state of Michigan will assume control of Detroit´s books, though Snyder was careful to say there is still a window of 10 days for city leaders to convince him otherwise. "I believe it´s appropriate to declare the city of Detroit in financial emergency," (Snip) Some residents have said he should name an African-American to manage a city that is 83 percent black.

It takes a month to furlough
a federal worker for a day

Washington Examiner [DC], by Steve Contorno Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/1/2013 3:11:59 PM Post Reply

Federal workers returning to their offices Friday could find furlough notices sitting on their desks, but it will be a while before most of them are actually forced to take unpaid leave. Agency heads have warned that $1.2 trillion in federal cuts that took effect Friday will force them to cut the hours of hundreds of thousands of federal employees to help save $40 billion by year´s end. But it can take a month or more to actually furlough a federal employee. And that means it´s possible that President Obama and congressional Republicans could strike a deal

Senator: Obama´s Golf Weekend
With Tiger Cost As Much As
341 Federal Workers Furloughed

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 3:07:50 PM Post Reply

In a sharply written statement, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama blasts President Obama for campaigning and not governing. He calls Obama´s response to the sequestration "the most cynical behavior I have seen during my time in Washington." Adds the senator, "Replacing the sequester would require the President to save $85 billion out of a $3,500 billion federal budget. One would think that any President would leap at the opportunity to make government more effective and responsive. But what does the President do instead? He says Republicans are ‘cutting vital services for children’ in order

Personal income drops in
January by largest
monthly amount in 20 years

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 3:02:59 PM Post Reply

Today’s economic report has good and bad news, and both are tempered by the effects of government intervention. The Commerce Department reports that personal income dropped 3.6% in January, the worst such monthly decline in exactly 20 years, but that consumer spending seems unaffected: Personal income decreased $505.5 billion, or 3.6 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) decreased $491.4 billion, or 4.0 percent, in January, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $18.2 billion, or 0.2 percent. In December, personal income increased $353.4 billion,

Should the feds go after
gun buyers who fail
background checks?

Washington Post, by Brad Plumer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 2:58:42 PM Post Reply

In 2010, nearly 80,000 Americans were denied guns after providing false information about their criminal histories during the background check. Technically, it’s a felony to lie during this process. Yet only 44 would-be buyers were ever charged with a crime, according to the New York Times. That may sound like a weirdly obscure statistic. But it’s a statistic that has become increasingly central to the debate over guns inside Congress. Gun-control advocates are currently pushing for Congress to expand the system of background checks so that it covers all gun sales — not just sales at federally licensed gun dealers,

Rep. Roby: ‘Unconscionable’ for Obama
to ‘Use Our Military Families as Pawns
in His Crusade for Higher Taxes’

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 2:56:05 PM Post Reply

Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.) Friday accused President Barack Obama of using “military families as pawns in his crusade for higher taxes.” “It is unconscionable what the president is doing,” Roby said during a press conference on Capitol Hill on the automatic spending cuts, known as the sequester, that began to take effect today. “We cannot tax our way out of the sequester, these automatic cuts. “We can’t tax our way out of debt,” she said. “The president received his tax increase in January, it’s time that he and the Senate get serious about mandatory spending reforms so we

CPAC’s Empty Chairs

National Review Online, by Editors Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/1/2013 2:50:57 PM Post Reply

The sponsors and organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) are voluntary associations that are of course entitled to advocate conservative causes as they see fit, including by controlling who is and who is not invited to participate in the conference. But as friends of CPAC and fellow conservative advocates, we nevertheless regret that CPAC has excluded the gay conservative group GOProud and declined to invite New Jersey governor Chris Christie. GOProud is the most conservative gay group of note (perhaps the only gay group rightly called conservative), and that conservatism extends to its circumspection about many planks

Government by fake disaster movie

Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 2:43:10 PM Post Reply

A few weeks ago, Ann Coulter announced that she was bored of American politics and spending her days watching Turner Classic Movies. I confess that, when it comes to Beltway melodrama, I, too, am fighting vainly the old ennui, and minded to plump up the pillows and settle back with a bucket of bonbons and a beribboned Shih-tzu for an all-night Norma Shearer marathon. At least, unlike Washington, there's a chance you may catch something you haven't already seen a hundred times before. For example, I've a yen to see "Roberta" (RKO, 1935), in which Irene Dunne sings:

My Boy, Sweet Andrew

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Orson Bean Original Article

Posted By: dman- 3/1/2013 2:38:37 PM Post Reply

Andrew came a-courting one day. He had been introduced to my daughter, Susie by my son Max, her brother. Max and Andrew were best friends. Just out of college, Max worked as a busboy at a high-end restaurant called 72 Market Street. Andrew was a waiter (higher status) at a nearby diner called Hal´s. Susie brought him home to seek her father’s approval. My wife, the actress Alley Mills, and I had them to dinner. Andrew sat at the table in front of a window. Holding forth, he waved his arms to emphasize some point or other, leaned back ...

President Obama asks the White
House Press Corps for suggestions
on how to work with Republicans

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 2:38:19 PM Post Reply

During his press conference today, President Obama turned to the White House Press Corps to get ideas about how to work with Republicans. From the transcript: Q It sounds like you’re saying that this is a Republican problem and not one that you bear any responsibility for. THE PRESIDENT: Well, Julie, give me an example of what I might do. Q I’m just trying to clarify your statement. THE PRESIDENT: Well, no, but I’m trying to clarify the question. What I’m suggesting is, I’ve put forward a plan that

Opposition leader
says Venezuela government
lying about Chavez´s health

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 2:29:54 PM Post Reply

Caracas, Venezuela - Opposition leader Henrique Capriles says Venezuela´s government is lying about President Hugo Chavez´s condition and that the truth will be known within days. Capriles tweeted the accusation as Vice President Nicolas Maduro assured Venezuelans on national TV that their cancer-stricken president continues a difficult and slow recovery from Dec. 11 surgery. Chavez has not been seen nor heard from since, other than in some proof-of-life photos. The government says he returned from Cuba Feb. 18 and is at Caracas´ military hospital. On Thursday, Maduro said Chavez was

Abby Huntsman: Reverend
Al´s Kind Of Republican

NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 2:29:51 PM Post Reply

Turns out today is the 159th anniversary of the founding of the Republican party. So who did Al Sharpton have on his MSNBC this evening to discuss it supposedly from the GOP point of view? "Republican" Abby Huntsman, daughter of Jon. After somehow divining that if Abe Lincoln were around today he would want a "conversation" on immigration and gay marriage, Abby described today´s Republican party as populated by people who want "absolutely no government." View the video after the jump. There was an amusing moment when Abby told Al "you remember" political events from 1912.

Female kicker Lauren Silberman
set to become the first woman
to try out for the NFL when
she attends regional combine

New York Daily News, by Seth Walder Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 2:20:35 PM Post Reply

Even if kicker Lauren Silberman doesn´t catch the eye of a single NFL team during her tryout Sunday, she will have made a significant impact on the history of the league. Silberman is the first woman to perform at an NFL regional combine, 10 smaller combines that provide a chance for lesser known prospects to make an impression on scouts. She will kick at the Jets facility in Florham Park, N.J., Sunday with fellow prospects - all male - in hopes of sparking an interest from teams that might draft them late or send them an

Obama Tipped His Sequester Strategy
in 2012 Des Moines Register Interview

RushLimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 2:14:49 PM Post Reply

RUSH: I´ve got a story from 2012 during the presidential campaign and the debates about Obama and the sequester that I know everybody´s forgotten about, and, to me, in the real world it would be a bombshell or close to it. It won´t be in this case, because I guarantee you the way the low-information voter is seeing Obama, they´d probably stop being able to keep up with him ten minutes into the press conference. But all they know is, my gosh, he´s trying, and it´s the Republicans´ fault.

Officials: ‘No sign of
life’ inside sinkhole

WTVT-TV [Tampa, FL], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 2:10:29 PM Post Reply

TAMPA - It was just after 11 p.m. Thursday when Jeremy Bush said he heard the sound of a car crashing into his home. But it wasn´t a car crash at all. It was a massive sinkhole that swallowed one of the bedrooms in the Seffner house at 240 Faithway Drive. Inside that room was Jeremy´s brother, Jeff. The family was watching TV only moments earlier. Some of them had gone to bed. Jeremy said he immediately rushed into his brother´s room, seeing his dresser, mattress and box spring swallowed in the hole.

‘Harlem Shake’ Protests
in Tunisia and Egypt

New York Times, by Robert Mackey Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 2:09:38 PM Post Reply

The rapid evolution of the “Harlem Shake,” from a dance to a song to a viral video craze to a new form of Middle East protest, continued apace on Thursday. Hundreds of protesters danced outside the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, and students and ultraconservative Islamists known as Salafists clashed in Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian town where the wave of uprisings in the Arab world began with a very different gesture of defiance. The clashes in Tunisia came one day after conservative Salafists had tried and failed to stop the recording of a “Harlem Shake” video

President Obama says $85B in spending
cuts WILL kick in Friday as leaders
FAIL to compromise on replacement plan

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 1:57:30 PM Post Reply

President Obama said Friday that people across the country should brace for layoffs and pay cuts after he and congressional leaders failed to compromise on a replacement for $85 billion in across-the-board spending reductions set to kick in just before midnight. ´Starting tomorrow, everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol … They´re going to have less pay, the janitors, the security guards. They just got a pay cut, and they got to figure out how to manage that,´ Obama said. ´That´s real... that´s not a scare tactic.´ Obama made the remarks

Frustrated McIlroy
walks off course at Honda

Associated Press, by Doug Furguson Original Article

Posted By: antiquegolf- 3/1/2013 1:56:20 PM Post Reply

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. Rory McIlroy abruptly walked off the course Friday at the Honda Classic, telling reporters who followed him to his car he´s "not in a good place mentally." He later said it was more dental than mental, releasing a statement that he couldn´t concentrate because of a sore wisdom tooth. The surprising departure raised serious questions about golf´s No. 1 player with the Masters just more than a month away. McIlroy has played only four rounds in three tournaments this year, and this was a clear sign of frustration.

Hillary watches from the wings

Deutsche Welle [Germany], by Volker Depkat Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 1:50:07 PM Post Reply

As US Secretary of State John Kerry makes his way through Europe and the Middle East, you wonder what his predecessor is thinking. In fact, Hillary Clinton is likely harboring greater ambitions, says Volker Depkat. Will she do it? Will Hillary Clinton run for president in 2016? This question was in the room before President Barack Obama had spoken the last words of his oath of office on January 20. Should she do it, it would hardly come as a surprise. Hillary Clinton´s marriage with Bill is, whatever else it may be, a political partnership unseen since the days of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Video: Michelle Obama And Serena
Williams Dance To House Music

Buzzfeed.com, by Amy Odell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 1:49:24 PM Post Reply

On Thursday, the FLOTUS celebrated her "Let´s Move" campaign´s third anniversary with an event in Chicago that closed with her dancing on stage with a bunch of school kids. Famous fit people on stage with her included Serena Williams, Bo Jackson, Colin Kaepernick, Dominique Dawes, Gabby Douglas, and Bob Harper from The Biggest Loser. Nike also pledged $50 million to the Let´s Move initiative, so Michelle had a lot to celebrate.

Obama slams GOP for
‘dumb’ spending cuts

Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 1:35:50 PM Post Reply

Slim hopes for a last-minute deal to avert spending cuts that kicked in Friday were dashed with an unproductive meeting between President Obama and congressional leaders at the White House. After hosting House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for nearly an hour, Obama declared the inevitable cuts “unnecessary and inexcusable.” “Washington sure isn’t making it easy,” he said during an appearance in the White House briefing room. “We shouldn’t be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on.”

´Know Your Place´: Elite
Media Target Herman Cain

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 1:31:46 PM Post Reply

There is no greater danger to the left (and therefore the media) than minorities who "forget their place" and join the Republican Party. Each time this occurs, it represents a two-part existential threat. First, these apostates undermine the cherished media narrative that portrays Republicans as intolerant of anyone who isn´t white or male. Second, those who think for themselves might give others ideas. And so, in order to terrify others into "knowing their place," the media targets "runners" for personal destruction. In order to destroy apostates, the left and the media are merciless and oftentimes

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