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Obama Plays Cat and Mouse With
GOP on Gay Rights, Guns,
Immigration, and Climate

National Journal, by Ron Fournier Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/1/2013 4:38:32 PM Post Reply

Like a cat toying with a mouse, President Obama is torturing Republicans one issue at a time--exposing how the GOP is dangerously bucking social, demographic, and scientific realities. This president-and-prey drama played out Thursday when the Obama administration told the Supreme Court that California’s same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution’s equal-protection clause. Whether or not you agree with the White House´s position, there is no denying that gay rights are achieving mainstream acceptance. Even deeply rooted beliefs on marriage are changing.

Chris Wallace: Ann Romney
feels pain of loss

Politico, by Patrick Gavin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/1/2013 4:33:15 PM Post Reply

“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace scored the first sit-down interview with Mitt and Ann Romney following the November election on Thursday and he previewed with POLITICO, the conversation, which it airs in its entirety on Sunday. “It’s not a softball interview,” Wallace said. “There are plenty of tough questions.” He described the interview as being emotional at parts and said Ann Romney appeared to still be struggling with the loss. “He’s in a better place than she is,” Wallace said. “Not to say she’s bitter — and she enjoys her life. Look, they live on the beach,

Syrian rebel chief says US food,
medical aid won’t help his fighters
defeat Assad’s forces

Associated Press, by Ryan Lucas & Ben Hubbard Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 3:58:46 PM Post Reply

Beirut - The head of Syria’s rebels said Friday that the food and medical supplies the United States plans to give his fighters for the first time won’t bring them any closer to defeating President Bashar Assad’s forces in the country’s civil war. “We don’t want food and drink, and we don’t want bandages. When we’re wounded, we want to die. The only thing we want is weapons,” Gen. Salim Idris, chief of staff of the opposition’s Supreme Military Council, told The Associated Press by telephone. The former brigadier in Assad’s army warned that the world’s failure to provide heavier arms

Obama’s Abusive Staff

Commentary, by Peter Wehner Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 3/1/2013 3:58:18 PM Post Reply

There’s been a lot of attention to the battle between the White House and Bob Woodward, but this article by National Journal’s Ron Fournier, on the toxic relationship he has with some high-ranking White House sources, is also worth reading. Last week Fournier sent out a tweet that angered the White House.(Snip)The official angered by my Woodward tweet sent me an indignant e-mail. “What’s next, a Nazi analogy?” the official wrote, chastising me for spreading “bull**** like that” I was not offended by the note, mild in comparison to past exchanges with this official.

Sinkholes: common, costly and
sometimes deadly

CNN, by Michael Pearson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/1/2013 3:46:17 PM Post Reply

The kind of sinkhole that suddenly opened up under a Florida home is more common than you might think. Let´s take a look at what causes them, where they happen and just how dangerous and costly they can be: What causes sinkholes? Many sinkholes form when acidic rainwater dissolves limestone or similar rock beneath the soil, leaving a large void that collapses when it´s no longer able to support the weight of what´s above, whether that be an open field, a road or a house. These are called "cover-collapse sinkholes," and it would appear this is what´s happening in Florida,

The Feds (and Everyone Else) Should
Leave Lance Armstrong Alone

Atlantic Magazine, by Stuart Stevens Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 3:42:35 PM Post Reply

The United States Department of Justice has now decided to join in the "whistleblower" lawsuit against Lance Armstrong by former teammate Floyd Landis. This means that at a time when the president says we are facing Armageddon for lack of government resources, millions more dollars will be spent focused on what a bunch of 20-something kids did in Europe a decade ago. This is nuts. (Snip) We are actually to believe that harm has come to the reputation of an organization so flawed that "going postal" is slang for an underappreciated and overworked employee shooting fellow underappreciated

Documents: US released more
than 2,000 immigrants

Associated Press, by Alicia A. Caldwell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/1/2013 3:39:50 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON— The Associated Press has learned that the Homeland Security Department released more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation from immigration jails in recent weeks because of looming budget cuts. It also planned to release 3,000 more during March. The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal government budget documents reviewed by the AP, are significantly higher than what the Obama administration acknowledged this week as a "few hundred" illegal immigrants who were released under the budget-savings process. The budget documents show that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement released roughly 1,000 illegal immigrants

Debi Austin, featured in
anti-smoking ´Voicebox´ ad, dies

Los Angeles Times, by Ari Bloomekatz Original Article

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

Deborah "Debi" Austin, a Californian who became a symbol of the anti-smoking movement for her powerful role in advocacy and education, died last week. She was 62. Austin, of Canoga Park, is perhaps best known for her role in a public-awareness television ad in the mid-1990s and later spots she filmed after being diagnosed with cancer of the larynx and receiving a laryngectomy. "They say nicotine isn´t addictive," Austin says in one ad, taking a drag of her smoke. "How can they say that?" Her raspy voice, poised demeanor in the face of adversity, and dark hole

Obama: ‘I Am Not A Dictator,’
Can’t Just Use ‘Jedi Mind
Meld’ To Force GOP Into Deal

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/1/2013 3:26:57 PM Post Reply

During his lengthy press conference this morning, President Obama joked that he is unable to use a “Jedi mind meld” to force the Republican House to go along with his plan for avoiding budget sequestration. He also said “I am not a dictator” when asked why he doesn’t just force the GOP opposition into agreeing on a deal. After the president challenged the press corps to suggest anything more he could do to prevent sequestration, CNN reporter Jessica Yellin joked that he could lock his opposition in a room and “refuse to let them leave the room until you

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

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