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The Battle of Bob Woodward

PJ Media, by Michael Walsh Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/2/2013 4:31:16 AM Post Reply

The Obama administration, I believe, will come to rue the day it declared war on the dean of the Washington press corps, Bob Woodward of Watergate fame. Now, I have never met Woodward, although I’ve been friendly with Carl Bernstein, the other half of the Watergate duo, for many years. (Snip) It’s axiomatic today that “mainstream” journalists are corrupt tools of the liberal ascendancy, ethical roundheels who finally found Mr. Dreamboat in Barack Hussein Obama and have spent the years since 2008 lying on their backs and moaning. And that’s partly true. Obama was the culmination

Dr. Ben Carson: I don’t think Chris
Christie and GOProud should
be excluded from CPAC

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/2/2013 4:23:41 AM Post Reply

Via the Andrea Tantaros Show, I assume his point here about the urgency of economic renewal will form the core of his CPAC speech so consider this a sneak preview. Interesting little exchange between him and Tantaros: She seizes on his message about opposing political correctness to steer him towards criticizing Christie’s and GOProud’s exclusion on those grounds, that it’s a form of conservative PC. But that’s not really where he takes it. He comes back at her, essentially, with something similar to Mitch Daniels’s idea of a “truce” on social issues.

Fast Cars, Hot Temper, Guns:
Finding the Real Oscar Pistorius

ABC News, by Steven Schnee* Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/2/2013 4:12:53 AM Post Reply

Today in South Africa, Oscar Pistorius´ lawyers are trying to reach a settlement with a woman who accused him of assault and called the police. Pistorius sued her for libel, saying the short time he spent in jail ruined his reputation and caused him to lose endorsement deals -- even though no assault charges were ever filed. "It´s such a compelling, heart-warming story of a young man putting those carbon fiber blades on -- there were millions of people with disabilities around the world who [thought], ´I´m going to cheer for him. I could be him," said Christine Brennan,

Fighting the Real Enemy

American Thinker, by Bruce Walker Original Article

Posted By: thudlike- 3/2/2013 3:13:05 AM Post Reply

Creeping totalitarianism is silently supplanting normal human thoughts and beliefs with an omnipresent and soul-destroying moral pathology. Although many wish to find another name for totalitarianism -- something that suggests that it has a purpose beyond power -- that is a mistake. "Socialism" for example, is a dull, empty word. Orwell´s horrific 1984 described a state based upon "Ingsoc" -- English Socialism -- but the Inner Party did not believe in redistributing wealth or helping the poor.

IRS moves to collect billions
in fees from healthcare law

The Hill, by Ben Goad Original Article

Posted By: mambo 5- 3/2/2013 3:09:22 AM Post Reply

The Internal Revenue Service on Friday unveiled its proposal to raise tens of billions of dollars through annual fees on health insurers, prompting fierce criticism from industry groups who warn the costs will be passed along to consumers. The proposed rule from President Obama´s healthcare law will be published for public consideration in Monday’s Federal Register. The rule would assess annual fees on most insurers that would total $8 billion next year and rise thereafter, eclipsing $14 billion in 2018, according to the IRS.

Menendez mends fences
after a month of scandal

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Matt Friedman Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/2/2013 12:51:14 AM Post Reply

Newark — Of all the adjectives used to describe Sen. Robert Menendez — wonkish, intense, diligent — the words soft and cuddly have rarely found their way into the discussion. But today, the hard-edged Democrat from Hudson County who may face a Senate ethics investigation over accusations of improprieties, addressed a friendlier audience: a group of children from a Head Start program in Newark. "Hi. Good morning. So my name is Bob and I work for all of you," Menendez told the 4- and 5-year-old children gathered about him on the floor of a classroom at the Metropolitan Baptist Church,

CPAC Turns Away Pamela Geller

Breitbart's Big Government, by Breitbart News Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 3/2/2013 12:30:19 AM Post Reply

For the last four years, Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com and the American Freedom Defense Initiative have held events at CPAC featuring guests she invites to discuss the influence of Islamism on America. But this year, the American Conservative Union (ACU) has no room for Geller or her message. [Snip] In years past, the events were standing room only thanks to their popularity, but that apparently was not enough to counter pressure brought to bear from somewhere to exclude Geller’s message. Geller and her coworkers recently won a court battle allowing them to post ads that countered

Obama´s Sequestration
plan works to perfection

American Thinker, by Keith Edwards Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/1/2013 11:56:23 PM Post Reply

Anyone who is up in arms about Obama being the Bully-in-Chief and having their heart strings pulled because one of his White House toadies threatened a couple of liberal media types need to get your heads out of your rears! We´re talking about second term full-on hyper socialist agenda mode for team Obama. And what just took place at 12:00am this morning was the lynch pin in Obama´s plan to cover up his crashing of the economy by successfully blaming sequestration and the pending economic catastrophe on the Republican Party

The number of New Yorkers
migrating to Texas grows

Houston Chronicle, by Erin Mulvaney Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/1/2013 11:48:20 PM Post Reply

A growing number of New Yorkers have been moving away from the city lights to Texas´ wide open spaces, with the largest spike in the Houston area. The Center for an Urban Future, a New York-based think tank, analyzed IRS Migration data and found a 34 percent increase in the number of New York City residents moving to the major cities in Texas, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio, between 2005 and 2010. The group analyzed hundreds of counties across the United States and, compared to other cities that saw a decrease, it found Texas had positive

Beam me up, Yoda:
Obama flubs ‘Star Trek’ term

Associated Press, by Darlene Superville Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/1/2013 11:39:29 PM Post Reply

He’s not a dictator and won’t entertain the idea of a “Jedi mind-meld” with opponents. There’s no “secret formula or special sauce” he can slip foes to make them see things his way. And not to worry, he says, the situation may look dire but won’t be an “apocalypse.” So who was the guy in a suit and tie who showed up Friday in the White House briefing room, mixing metaphors and references to “Star Wars” and “Star Trek”? “I am not a dictator. I’m the president,” Barack Obama declared as he rejected the idea

Al Qaeda calls for jihadists to kill
ex-leaders Clinton, Bush, Blair

Washington Times, by Shaun Waterman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/1/2013 11:37:00 PM Post Reply

The latest edition of al Qaeda’s English-language online magazine Inspire urges readers to become “lone wolf” jihadists focused on assassinating current and former leaders of Western countries. “It is easy,” an al Qaeda “consultant” writes of killing the U.S. or French president. “These people have many weak points, especially during parties, ceremonies and election campaigns.” In the article titled “You ask, we answer,” the consultant says that “individual mujahids” or holy warriors, who are daunted by the task of killing current world leaders should consider murdering their predecessors.

Obama signs sequester
order, blames Republicans
over budget impasse

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/1/2013 11:33:55 PM Post Reply

President Obama signed an order Friday night to begin automatic budget cuts across most federal departments. The White House released a copy of the order at 8:31 p.m. Friday, directing federal agencies to reduce spending in various accounts by percentages calculated by the Office on Management and Budget. After failing to reach a deal with congressional leaders to avoid $85 billion in automatic “sequester” budget cuts, President Obama on Friday blamed the crisis squarely on Republican lawmakers.

Obama, congressional leaders
fail to reach deal on sequester

Washington Post, by Zachary A. Goldfarb Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/1/2013 11:29:55 PM Post Reply

President Obama acknowledged Friday that deep federal budget cuts are here with no end in sight, an outcome that he warned would harm the economy but said he lacked the power to stop. A final attempt to find common ground with congressional leaders at a White House meeting proved fruitless. The president continued to press for higher taxes as part of a deal, and Republicans continued to refuse — clearing the way for $85 billion in cuts this fiscal year and $1.2 trillion over the next decade. The reductions, which Obama formally ordered late Friday, are likely

Keystone XL pipeline would
have little impact on
climate change, State
Department analysis says

Washington Post, by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/1/2013 11:26:34 PM Post Reply

The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting that the project would have little impact on climate change. Canada’s oil sands will be developed even if President Obama denies a permit to the pipeline connecting the region to Gulf Coast refineries, the analysis said. Such a move also would not alter U.S. oil consumption, the report added. The lengthy assessment did not give environmentalists the answer they had hoped for in the debate over the project’s climate impact. Opponents

The Obama-Media
vs. Bob Woodward

FrontPage Magazine, by Arnold Ahlert Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 3/1/2013 11:23:32 PM Post Reply

As the result of his efforts to recount the genesis, and likely effects, of sequestration, the across-the-board spending cuts slated to begin Friday, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is getting a taste of what happens to those who challenge the Obama-Democrat-media machine. Woodward’s allegations of inappropriate pressure from the White House were not only met with attacks from high-level administration lackeys, but Obama allies in the press immediately joined the feeding frenzy before any objective evidence was available — a chilling warning to anyone who would dare defy the power structure in Washington.

Sequester spin: Obama’s
incorrect claim of Capitol
janitors receiving ‘a pay cut’

Washington Post, by Glenn Kessler Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/1/2013 11:20:03 PM Post Reply

Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to figure out how to manage that. That’s real.” — President Obama, news conference, March 1, 2013 This column has been updated with a new Pinocchio rating This was a pretty evocative image the president offered at his news conference Friday

Obama is the closest thing to
Nixon we´ve seen in 40 years

Fox News, by Patrick Caddell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 9:55:09 PM Post Reply

It is not without a bit of irony that, in the 40 years since the explosion of the Watergate story, Bob Woodward would again be under attack from the White House for trying to tell the truth. But this time the attack is coming from a Democrat. While Barack Obama may not share the Nixon pedigree, he and his White House are the closest thing to the Nixon regime of any that we have seen since then -- both in the extent of their paranoia and their willingness to suppress the truth

Senators complain after getting
´worthless´ redacted version of
Benghazi talking points

Fox News, by Staff & Chad Pergram Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/1/2013 9:49:53 PM Post Reply

Senators investigating the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya and the administration´s version of events in the aftermath were livid when the White House initially sent them documents so heavily redacted they were "worthless," a source told Fox News. The so-called Benghazi talking points were requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee, but were so heavily redacted lawmakers sent them back and demanded another set, a source told Fox News. Lawmakers sought the papers in order to find out why the administration repeatedly claimed the attack, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, a State Department employee

Why the ‘threat’ on
Bob Woodward matters

Washington Post, by Kathleen Parker Original Article

Posted By: LOL Thomas- 3/1/2013 9:41:36 PM Post Reply

To the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in. This would be an oversight. (Snip) Distrust of media, encouraged by alternative media seeking to enhance their own standing, has become a tool useful to the very powers the Fourth Estate was constitutionally endowed to monitor. When the president can bypass reporters to reach the public, it is not far-fetched to imagine a time — perhaps now? — when the state controls the message.

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

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