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Disastrous raid on the Branch
Davidians compound near Waco
quietly remembered 20 years later

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/1/2013 9:31:20 PM Post Reply

The 20th anniversary of the disastrous raid on the Branch Davidians compound near Waco passed quietly Thursday, as colleagues of the four agents who died gathered in private and local officials made no plans to mark the day. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives held a ceremony in Waco to honor agents Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeehan, Robert John Williams and Steven Willis, the four agents who died in the Feb. 28, 1993 raid. Six Davidian members also died in that raid, which began a 51-day standoff that ended with the compound burning and the deaths

GOP Rep. Explodes At CPAC: Not
Inviting Chris Christie Shows They
Have A ‘Suicidal Death Wish’

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 9:24:00 PM Post Reply

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) exploded at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday in an appearance with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. When asked about the conference’s decision not to invite New Jersey’s Republican Gov. Chris Christie for, among other reasons, his decision to scold Congressional Republicans for stalling to approve a bill that would fund post-Hurricane Sandy relief projects, King went off on the conference for having a “suicidal death wish.” Blitzer asked King about CPAC’s decision not to invite Christie. “What do you make of that?” Blitzer asked.

‘It Seems Your Party Lies A Lot’:
Cavuto Battles Dem Congressman
Over Which Party To Blame
For Sequester

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 9:15:48 PM Post Reply

Fox’s Neil Cavuto and Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) went head-to-head Friday afternoon over which party is responsible for today’s budget sequestration, and whether the Democratic Party’s push to tax the rich is an honest maneuver. After initially imploring both parties to “get their act together,” Rangel took a swipe at the political right, saying that “you can’t just save money by cutting off people and firing people during the recession.” “You just zoomed them,” Cavuto said, referring to wealthier Americans that Rangel would like to tax more.

The $6 Trillion Man--Debt
Up That Much Under Obama

Cybercast News Service, by Terry Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 9:10:43 PM Post Reply

The debt of the federal government has now increased by $6 trillion during the time that Barack Obama has been president, according to the U.S. Treasury. At the close of business on Jan. 20, 2009, the day Obama was first inaugurated, the debt of the federal government was $10,626,877,048,913.08. At the close of business on Thursday, Feb. 28, the debt of the federal government hit $16,687,289,180,215.37. That means that so far during Obama’s presidency, the total debt of the federal government has increased by $6,060,412,131,302.29. According to the latest estimate from the

Obama signs sweeping
US budget cuts into effect

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 8:57:12 PM Post Reply

US President Barack Obama has signed into effect a wave of steep spending cuts that he has warned could damage the US economy. The cuts - known as the sequester and drawn up two years ago - will take $85bn (£56bn) from the US federal budget this year. Last-ditch talks at the White House to avert the reductions before Friday´s deadline broke up without agreement. The IMF has warned the cuts could slow global economic growth. The BBC's Mark Mardell in Washington says the cuts were designed to be so brutally painful that politicians would be forced to agree on a better way of balancing

Obama pardons 17, including
man with firearms charges

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 8:57:09 PM Post Reply

President Obama on Friday pardoned 17 people around the country, including a Georgia man whose offense was possession of an unregistered firearm. Larry Wayne Thornton of Forsyth, Georgia, faced four years of probation until Obama´s pardon. The pardon has the potential to come under scrutiny, as Democrats and Obama himself have called for stricter gun-control laws in the wake of last year´s elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. In response to that shooting, Democrats have called for a range of options, including reinstating an assault weapons ban, and forcing all firearms purchasers to undergo background checks.

Study: Volcanoes have climate effect

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 8:48:35 PM Post Reply

Boulder, Colo. - The reason why Earth did not warm as much as expected between 2000 and 2010 could be down to dozens of volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide, U.S. scientist say. A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder said emissions from moderate volcanoes around the world might have masked some of the effects of global warming. (Snip) Scientists have been blaming increases in stratospheric aerosols since 2000 on human greenhouse gas emissions, but volcanoes may have been responsible for as much as 25 percent of it, they said. "This new study indicates it is emissions

State Department: Keystone
pipeline won’t hurt the environment

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 8:42:06 PM Post Reply

TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline will not harm the environment, the State Department — in a blow to environmentalists who want to block the project — wrote in a newly-drafted report on the latest proposed route. “[T]he draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area,” the State Department draft report says, as Think Progress noted. “Today’s report again makes clear there is no reason for

More than 700 pages of
healthcare rules released

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Megan R. Wilson & Elise Viebeck Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 8:38:19 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration on Friday released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement portions of the Affordable Care Act. The four rules, which are scheduled for publication in mid-March, finalize both major and minor parts of the healthcare reform law that Congress passed in 2010. Three of the regulations are final and roll out the multistate healthcare exchanges and reforms to the insurance market, including provisions to encourage cost-sharing, stabilize health insurance premiums and prevent providers from denying coverage. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said the rules would

First woman slated to
lead Air Force Academy

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 8:37:39 PM Post Reply

Air Force Academy, Colo. - Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson has been chosen to be the next superintendent of the Air Force Academy, the first woman to hold the job. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Johnson´s appointment Friday. Academy officials said the Senate must first approve her promotion to a three-star lieutenant general, the rank required to become superintendent. It wasn´t immediately clear when the Senate would take up her promotion and when she would assume command. Johnson would replace Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, who has been superintendent since June 2009.

DNC won’t repay Duke Energy
for Charlotte convention costs

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 8:32:48 PM Post Reply

The Democratic National Committee has no plans to repay Duke Energy for an unprecedented $10 million line of credit it guaranteed to help the Democratic convention’s local host committee put on President Obama’s three-day nominating convention in Charlotte, N.C., last September. A Duke company official said the company was claiming the money as a business expense for tax purposes, meaning shareholders will foot $6 million of the cost, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer. The large loan and the secrecy surrounding it have government watchdog groups deeply concerned. They say the arrangement raises serious conflict-of-interest

How Iran Went Nuclear

Wall Street Journal, by David Feith Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 8:15:12 PM Post Reply

Cambridge, Mass. It has been more than three years since President Obama revealed the existence of the secret Iranian nuclear facility at Fordo—a uranium-enrichment plant buried deep inside a mountain and surrounded by missile silos and anti-aircraft batteries. Is the world due for another surprise soon? If anyone has standing to speculate, it is Olli Heinonen, who says he first "got a whiff" of Fordo six years before Mr. Obama acknowledged it. In the fall of 2003, Mr. Heinonen was in his office at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna when a man appeared unannounced.

World Doesn´t End, Obama Hardest Hit

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 8:10:59 PM Post Reply

´Just to make the final point about the sequester," said President Obama at his press conference Friday, "we will get through this. This is not going to be an apocalypse, I think, as some people have said." That´s a relief, but it is also a major walk-back, since the "some people" who have been predicting apocalypse are the President and senior members of his Administration. Normal Americans awoke Friday to find that the veneer of civilization had not fallen away. If the federal government does end up spending $44.8 trillion over

The Namibian women who still
dress like colonists: Tribe
clings to 19th century dress
´to protest against the Germans
who butchered them´

Daily Mail [UK], by Leon Watson Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 3/1/2013 8:03:22 PM Post Reply

Shot in the vast expanse of the world´s largest desert, these stunning portraits of the Herero tribe of Namibia look like they´re from a bygone age. But, dressed in the costumes that have been appropriated from their colonial past, the men, women and children are taking part in a modern re-enactment of their peoples´ bloody history. The tribe´s now traditional costumes, pictured here by Jim Naughten, are seen by anthropologists as a fascinating subversion of their former rulers´ fashion, showing how the tribe survived a concerted effort by German colonialists to wipe them from the face of the earth.

Burning Questions About Benghazi Still Abound

Investor´s Business Daily, by Sen. Ron Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 7:53:32 PM Post Reply

Over five months ago, terrorists in Libya successfully assaulted the American diplomatic post in Benghazi. Four brave Americans died: Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. On Jan. 23, I asked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a simple question: Why didn´t she just pick up the phone and call the survivors to determine what actually happened in Benghazi? Instead of providing a simple answer, she displayed exasperation, launched into an indignant reply, and ultimately dismissed my question with one of her own: "What difference, at this point, does it make?" This administration´s behavior in the aftermath of

Personal Income Drop Is
Bottom-Up Economics Failure

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 7:41:23 PM Post Reply

Economy: The economy racked up another dubious achievement in January, when personal income suffered the biggest drop in 20 years and disposable income suffered its biggest decline in more than 50. Is this what "bottom-up" prosperity looks like? According to the Commerce Department report issued Friday, personal income fell by $505.5 billion in January — a 3.6% drop — erasing all the income gains made since last September. On a real, per-capita basis, it´s even worse, with incomes falling 4.2% in January, leaving income still well below where it stood when President Obama took office four years ago promising "hope and change."

Woodward Revelations Expose
Obama As Bully Of Media

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/1/2013 7:36:52 PM Post Reply

Press Bias: "WoodwardGate" is snowballing into a Washington press corps obsession. But all Bob Woodward did was report facts, and he is among numerous journalists threatened by this White House. They won´t admit it, but all the political reporters in Washington always wanted to be Bob Woodward. Especially the Bob Woodward played by Robert Redford as he hung out with Dustin "Carl Bernstein" Hoffman in the film "All the President´s Men." Every Washington political writer always wanted to come to the nation´s capital and personally work a story — burn up the phone lines, cultivate high-level sources and connect

Mark Steyn not so sure Maxine
Waters misspoke with her ´170
million job´ loss sequester claim

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: CarrotFarmer87- 3/1/2013 7:09:22 PM Post Reply

On Hugh Hewitt’s Thursday radio show, National Review columnist Mark Steyn reacted to the sequestration deadline. He explained to fill-in host Guy Benson that this shows the elected officials think every bit of government is essential. But he also said some of the fiscal mismanagement could stem from a lack of literacy in economics and numbers “You know, what’s crazy about this is that let’s pretend that the officials who are speaking on this, the cabinet secretaries who are coming out and telling us that the world will come to an end tomorrow

Keystone XL gets blessing from U.S.
State Department, clears major hurdle

Calgary Herald [Canada], by James Wood & Dan Healing Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 6:26:05 PM Post Reply

The American government is making no final conclusion yet on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline but says that the fate of the project will not materially impact the growth of Alberta´s oilsands. TransCanada´s $7-billion pipeline project — proposed to ship oilsands crude to refineries on the United States Gulf Coast — has been in the crosshairs of environmentalists keen to halt oilsands expansion. (Snip) The project will then be subject to a final decision by President Barack Obama. The report released Friday was drafted to not make a recommendation, said Jones.

Hamas warns Obama:
Don’t visit Temple Mount

Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 3/1/2013 6:23:37 PM Post Reply

Designated terrorist group Hamas has warned President Obama against visiting the holy Temple Mount site in Jerusalem when he visits Israel next month, saying the action would be “a diplomatic catastrophe.” Mr. Obama hasn’t confirmed a visit to the Temple Mount. But Muslim leaders have heard rumors and have issued a blunt statement nonetheless, The Times of Israel reports. Hamas said a visit by Mr. Obama to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is located just on the southern side of the Mount, would be “an imminent danger which the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem have never faced,”

Thousands of illegal immigrants
already released, according to report

Fox News & Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/1/2013 6:03:48 PM Post Reply

Thousands of illegal immigrants ticketed for deportation have been released from federal detention centers in recent weeks, according to a report that came out even as the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano denied any involvement in the policy. Plans to release illegal immigrants in anticipation of looming budget cuts were announced earlier this week, but the report by The Associated Press detailed the policy had already taken effect and on a much larger scale. (Snip) Napolitano claimed Thursday that she had no part in her department’s decision to release low-risk detainees

Cameron accuses Labour
candidate of supporting
Argentina during the
Falklands’ war

MercoPress [Montevideo, Uruguay], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/1/2013 5:56:26 PM Post Reply

Ahead of a much disputed by election at Eastleigh, Hampshire, Prime Minister David Cameron had a chance to make an impression during the PM questions on Wednesday accusing Labour hopeful John O’Farrell of supporting terrorism and Argentina because he wanted Great Britain to lose the Falklands’ war. In effect PM Cameron rebuked O’Farrell who during the campaign admitted to feeling “as surge of excitement” when he learned that the IRA had nearly assassinated then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the Brighton hotel bomb on October 1984

Exclusive photos: The by-invitation only
Hermès Museum is in a class by itself

CultureMap [Houston, TX], by Clifford Pugh Original Article

Posted By: Four_Leaf Resident- 3/1/2013 5:55:31 PM Post Reply

As the world´s premier maker of luxury leather goods, Hermés creates treasured items from the most beautiful materials on earth. The art of craftsmanship remains the company hallmark. But for inspiration, designers retreat to a small space above the famed Hermés Paris flagship store on Faubourg Saint-Honoreè. Here, in what was once the office of Émile-Maurice Hermés, who headed the company from the 1920s until his death in 1951, they return to the past amid the many treasures the Hermés family collected over the years.

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

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