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Venezuelan opposition leader
faces fresh charges

Los Angeles Times, by Chris Kraul & Mery Mogollon Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 5:50:30 PM Post Reply

Caracas, Venezuela - Leading Venezuelan opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez appeared before prosecutors in Caracas on Thursday to answer charges of influence peddling while he was a state oil company employee in 1998, an accusation he described as “political persecution." Lopez, a strong critic of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez and cofounder of the center-right Justice First party, is accused of funneling $120,000 in donations to his party from the state-owned oil monopoly PDVSA while he was a top-level employee there in the late 1990s.

Michael Hastings: "There Are
People Waiting For Woodward
To Die So They Can Dish Stuff On Him"

Real Clear Politics, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 5:33:31 PM Post Reply

Buzzfeed and Current TV contributor Michael Hastings joins Current TV to talk about Bob Woodward’s claims that the White House threatened him and his ongoing criticisms of the Obama administration. Cenk says, “[Woodward´s] such a great microcosm of the media in Washington. He went from challenging the government to being like a spokesperson for the establishment, and that right there in a nutshell is exactly what happened to the Washington media between the 1970s and now.” Hastings says, “He does hold all of these [politicians´] secrets.

Al Qaeda chief killed in Mali,
Chad´s president says

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 5:33:28 PM Post Reply

N´Djamena, Chad - A presidential spokesman says that Chadian President Idriss Deby announced that Chadian troops fighting to dislodge an Al Qaeda affiliate in northern Mali killed one of the group´s leading commanders, Abou Zeid. Officials in Mali and France, which is leading an international military intervention in Mali against Islamic extremists, could not confirm reports of the death of Abou Zeid. He is a leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and was behind the kidnapping of several Westerners. The Chadian president´s spokesman said that Deby announced the death of Abou Zeid

Obama Tipped His Sequester Strategy
in 2012 Des Moines Register Interview

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 5:30:54 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. He came out and he started this press

Romney likens 2012 race to ´roller coaster,´
in exclusive ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview

Fox News, by Chris Wallace Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 5:23:51 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney, in an exclusive interview with "Fox News Sunday," said the end of the 2012 presidential race was like getting off a roller coaster. "We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs. But the ride ends," Romney said. "And then you get off. And it´s not like, oh, can´t we be on a roller coaster the rest of our life? It´s like, no, the ride´s over." The 2012 Republican presidential nominee and his wife Ann spoke extensively with "Fox News Sunday" in their first post-election interview.

The Left Comes for Bob Woodward

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 5:20:34 PM Post Reply

RUSH: I tell you, folks, they are coming for Bob Woodward. This is a sight to behold. This is one of the many things I said about Bob Woodward yesterday on this program. RUSH ARCHIVE: 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

Republican lawmakers stand athwart
marriage equality at their peril

Daily Caller, by George Scoville Original Article

Posted By: ragu- 3/1/2013 5:17:13 PM Post Reply

Craig Stowell always suspected his brother might be gay, and he made sure to let his brother know he would love him no matter what if his brother ever came out to the family. It was the right thing to do. But Stowell didn’t become involved in political fights for marriage equality until Republicans in the New Hampshire legislature introduced HB 437 in 2011 to repeal the Granite State’s 2010 law conferring the same state protections on same-sex marriages that traditional marriages enjoy.

Barack Obama´s Masterful Demagoguery

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 5:13:18 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Here is President Obama from the press conference this morning, and this is blaming the Republicans for all of this. OBAMA: Let´s be clear. None of this is necessary. It´s happening because a choice that Republicans in Congress have made. They´ve allowed these cuts to happen because they refused to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole -- RUSH: Do you hear that? OBAMA: As recently as yesterday they decided to protect special interest tax breaks for the well-off and well-connected, and they think that that´s apparently more important than protecting our military or

Regrets, I´ve Had a Few

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 5:09:44 PM Post Reply

The world came to an end this morning as the federal budget sequester took effect. In other news, Bob Woodward, the legendary Washington Post reporter who was half the team that broke the Watergate story, is on the outs with the White House. The tiff began last Friday, when an op-ed piece Woodward wrote for last Sunday´s paper appeared on the Post´s website. Drawing on reporting from his most recent book, "The Price of Politics," Woodward argued that President Obama´s efforts to blame the sequester on congressional Republicans constituted, as Woodward delicately put it, "partisan message management."

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,

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