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Jeb Bush won’t rule out
2016 presidential bid

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:36:01 AM Post Reply

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Monday he would consider running for president in 2016. Speaking on NBC’s “The Today Show,” Bush was asked directly if he could rule out a bid in the next cycle. “I won’t [rule it out] but I’m not going to declare today either,” Bush said. “That’s way off into the future,” Bush added. “I have a voice and I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican Party can regain its footing, because we’ve lost our way.” Bush did not actively consider running in 2012, eventually

Opposition to Obamacare
Rising Again

PJ Media, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:25:37 AM Post Reply

If the law is unpopular now, how much more will people hate it when they hear for the first time that they are being forced to buy health insurance, that many of them will not be able to keep the plan they are on now, or that their employer may drop their company health insurance because it’s cheaper to pay the fine? Those tens of millions of Americans who have not been paying attention are in for the shock of their lifetimes. Reason Magazine: February’s Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll puts opposition to the law

Sperling: But I Was So
Respectful to Bob Woodward

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:16:25 AM Post Reply

The White House strategy for trying to bottle up the Bob Woodward controversy? Pile on the charm to make people think that the legendary Washington Post reporter had an irrational overreaction. Gene Sperling, top adviser on President Obama’s economic council, told ABC News this morning that the exchange was actually “polite.” “I do truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying saying that Potus asking for revenues is moving the goal post. I know you may not believe this, but as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim,”

Congressional Abdication

National Interest Magazine, by Jim Webb Original Article

Posted By: MDMuskrat- 3/4/2013 10:14:36 AM Post Reply

IN MATTERS of foreign policy, Congress, and especially the Senate, was designed as a hedge against the abuses exhibited by overeager European monarchs who for centuries had whimsically entangled their countries in misguided adventures. America would not be such a place. The Constitution would protect our governmental process from the overreach of a single executive who might otherwise succumb to the impulsive temptation to unilaterally risk our country’s blood, treasure and international prestige. Congress was given the power to declare war and appropriate funds, thus eliminating any resemblance to European-style monarchies when it came to the presidential war power.

Demanding Benghazi Docs,
Senators to Delay Brennan Vote

PJ Media, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:11:25 AM Post Reply

Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain told Face the Nation that they want additional documents from the White House on what their response was to the Benghazi attack and are willing to hold up the vote to confirm John Brennan for CIA Director. The White House has been stonewalling Congress for months regarding emails and other documents about the attack and Congress has tried unsuccessfully to put pressure on the president by attempting to filibuster his national security nominees. CBS: Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. will not move forward President Obama’s nominee

National Security Trumps
Smokey the Bear

Weekly Standard, by Dan Blumenthal & Michael Mazza Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:06:20 AM Post Reply

Inside the beltway, there is a pervasive sense of impending doom. The rest of the country may not much care, but sequestration is here. According to warnings by the Obama administration, failure to avert these automatic spending cuts will lead to planes falling from the skies, bridges collapsing, federal penitentiaries moving to a voluntary self-incarceration policy, and the Jersey Shore returning to the airwaves. Nevermind that if these things actually mattered to the president he could have fought to prevent them. But on one issue there should certainly be a sense of doom:

The Reverse-Joads of California

Wall Street Journal, by Allysia Finley Original Article

Posted By: afortiori- 3/4/2013 10:03:33 AM Post Reply

During the Great Depression, some 1.3 million Americans—epitomized by the Joad family in John Steinbeck´s "The Grapes of Wrath"—flocked to California from the heartland. To keep out the so-called Okies, the state enacted a law barring indigent migrants (the law was later declared unconstitutional). Los Angeles even set up a border patrol on the city limits. Soon the state may need to build a fence to keep latter-day Joads from leaving. Over the past two decades, a net 3.4 million people have moved out of California for other states.

Review: George Strait, to the heart

Herald-Leader [Lexington Ky], by Walter Tunis Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/4/2013 10:02:45 AM Post Reply

All artists, whether they hail from the world of country music or not, should be lucky enough to be in on the sort of retirement party George Strait threw for himself on Saturday night at Rupp Arena. With hitmaker Martina McBride along to share the bill, the veteran Texas singer brought together three decades of plain speaking and traditionally minded hits, and served them with preciously little fuss but plenty of conversational charm. The 10 members of his Ace in the Hole Band — an ensemble loaded with splendid Lone Star craftsmen — served as congenial, understated accompanists.

Obama’s campaign of pain

Washington Examiner, by Conn Carroll Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:58:32 AM Post Reply

President Obama is just 42 days into his second term in the White House but he is already done governing. As The Washington Post reported this weekend, Obama is already “executing plans to win back the House in 2014, which he and his advisers believe will be crucial to the outcome of his second term and to his legacy as president.” “The goal,” The Washington Post reports, “is to flip the Republican-held House back to Democratic control, allowing Obama to push forward with a progressive agenda on gun control, immigration, climate change and the economy during his final

Embarrassing Obama gaffe: Lets
slip he too watches Fox News

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 3/4/2013 9:42:51 AM Post Reply

Conan: Scientists have discovered the reason why women talk more than men. It’s because they think we’re listening. Fallon: Kim Kardashian wants to marry Kanye West, but they’re not going to rush it. Also because Kim Kardashian is still married to someone else. Conan: Traces of horsemeat were found in Ikea’s Swedish meatballs. Wow, it almost makes you want to stop taking your family to dinner at a furniture store. Conan: Ben Affleck’s Oscar speech said his marriage “is work.” Made him the first man in history to NOT get laid after winning an Oscar.

Obama´s abusive slurs
get a pass while Boehner
faces media inquisition
over ´ass´ comment

American Thinker, by Ed Lasky Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 3/4/2013 9:39:21 AM Post Reply

The media double standard is flying high, as John Boehner is suffering criticism for language used by both President Obama and the Speaker of the House, while the Commander in chief was largely above reproach in the media for similar language. (snip) While Boehner is criticized for using a word deemed inappropriate for the Speaker of the House, Barack Obama used the exact same word regarding responsibility for the Gulf Oil spill. Barack Obama in response to the Gulf Oil Spill wants to know "whose ass to kick"

White people fear becoming U.S.
minority, says Louis Farrakhan

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:29:41 AM Post Reply

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan says white people are promoting birth control for black women because they fear becoming a minority in the United States. Farrakhan spoke Saturday at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, invited by the Grand Rapids Community College Black Student Union. He says white Americans will lose their majority by 2050 and says they´ve introduced birth control to black women "because they don´t want no more black babies." MLive.com reports Farrakhan says he opposes same-sex relationships. He says he isn´t "homophobic" and isn´t "afraid

TIME Executive Editor: ´We´re All
Welfare Queens´ and ´Socialists
From the Day We´re Born´

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:21:14 AM Post Reply

"We´re all socialists from the day we´re born. You know, you don´t have to be poor or unemployed to be on Welfare. We´re all at the trough. We´re all Welfare queens." So said TIME magazine executive editor Michael Duffy on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary): CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: The word we never say besides entitlements, the even worse word is socialism. But in effect, once you’re 65 in this country when it comes to health, you´re guaranteed to be taken care of.

Poll shocker: Some voters still
trust the news media

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 3/4/2013 9:15:29 AM Post Reply

It may be hard for many educated voters to believe, but fully six out of every 100 Americans still find the news media Very Trustworthy. That compares with a proportion twice as large (12%) who find the country´s professional deliverers of news Not At All Trustworthy. A new Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 likely voters reveals that more than four-of-ten Americans (41%) believe the average media reporter (and most of them are average) is more liberal than they are. Those voters who believe reporters are more conservative than they totals 18%, presumably alcoholics for the most part.

Myriad languages, cultures
challenge health reform

Associated Press, by Garance Burke and Judy Lin Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/4/2013 9:10:38 AM Post Reply

OAKLAND, Calif. — Set on a gritty corner of Oakland´s International Boulevard, the nonprofit Street Level Health Project offers free checkups to patients who speak a total of 22 languages, from recent Mongolian immigrants seeking a doctor to Burmese refugees in need of a basic dental exam. It also provides a window into one of the challenges for state officials who are trying to implement the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama´s sweeping health care overhaul. Understanding the law is a challenge even for governors, state lawmakers and agency officials, but delivering its message to non-English

Yorkshire´s Batman stuns officers in
Bradford as he brings wanted
man into police station

Telegraph [UK], by Jean-Paul Ford Rojas Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/4/2013 9:05:24 AM Post Reply

On film, Batman’s rippling muscles and state-of-the-art weaponry strike fear into the hearts of Gotham City’s most terrifying villains. But in Bradford, a new incarnation of the caped crusader has been fighting crime despite a slightly less impressive physique. The mystery vigilante dragged a wanted man by the scruff of the neck into a city centre police station where he handed him over to officers and told them: “I’ve caught this one for you.” Dressed in a grey superhero outfit that was more joke shop than Hollywood, the “bizarre” incident was captured on CCTV last week. His paunch

Morning Joe Mocks Obama’s
‘Doomsday’ Sequester: ‘Nobody Told
Him’ He Won Election,
‘Nothing’s Happened’

Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/4/2013 8:52:12 AM Post Reply

America, those automatic spending cuts are upon us — and it’s all downhill from here. Or is it? Morning Joe wasn’t buying President Obama‘s “doomsday” scenarios during Monday morning’s discussion about the sequester. In the grand scheme of things, Joe Scarborough contended, the cuts are just a “penny on a dollar.” “Nothing’s happened,” Mike Barnicle chimed in, much to Mika Brzezinski‘s chagrin. She instead noted that his may not have affected Barnicle and Scarborough, but it is affecting people nonetheless. In the end, Scarborough noted, that Obama later admitted that the whole situation wasn’t quite so apocalyptic,

Israel on alert as locusts hit
neighboring Egypt

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/4/2013 8:42:49 AM Post Reply

JERUSALEM- Israel is on a locust alert as swarms of the destructive bugs descend on neighboring Egypt ahead of the Passover holiday. Israel´s Agriculture Ministry set up an emergency hotline Monday and is asking Israelis to be vigilant in reporting locust sightings to prevent an outbreak. (Snip) Swarms of locusts have descended on Egypt, raising fears they could spread to Israel. The locust alert comes ahead of the Passover festival, which recounts the biblical story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. According to the Bible, a plague of locusts was one of 10 plagues

Londonderry mortars: Bombs
´within minutes´ of launch

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/4/2013 8:40:56 AM Post Reply

Four live mortar bombs were intercepted by police in Northern Ireland minutes before being launched, a senior detective has said. A van had its roof cut back to allow the mortars to be fired. Police believe the target was a Londonderry police station. Three men have been arrested in the operation linked to dissident republicans. [Snip] About 100 families had to leave their homes at Letterkenny Road in the overnight alert. Chief Superintendent Stephen Cargin said there could have been "mass murder if they had hit the intended target.

The Left´s Quest for Texas

FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/4/2013 8:35:40 AM Post Reply

In 1960, Nixon beat Kennedy in California following up on Eisenhower’s decisive wins over Adlai Stevenson. (Snip) Texas, with the second largest number of electoral votes, a state which leaned Democrat around the same time that California learned Republican, has become the ace in the hole. And if the Democrats can turn Texas blue, then it may be a long time until we see a Republican in the White House.

Back on the Trail

New York Magazine, by Jason Zengerle Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/4/2013 8:33:13 AM Post Reply

Late last year, a few days before Christmas, former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford embarked on a delicate political mission. He went to see his ex-wife, Jenny. It was only four years ago, in early 2009, that the couple were approaching their twentieth wedding anniversary and Sanford, a popular two-term Republican governor, was laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign. That was when, one afternoon in the governor’s mansion, Jenny went searching through some of her husband’s work papers and discovered a printed e-mail exchange between Mark and Maria Belén Chapur, the Argentine former television journalist

Help from above? The emergency services
drones that can take your picture from
400ft up… but will they be used
to spy on Americans?

Reuters, Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/4/2013 8:32:30 AM Post Reply

A small group of police and fire departments around the country are using new high-tech drones for emergency response situations stoking fears about misuse of the unmanned aircraft.[Snip] The operators of the emergency service drones say rapidly evolving drone technology is already reshaping disaster response, crime scene reconstruction, crisis management and tactical operations at home. But critics of U.S. domestic drone use worry about privacy and safety. Several dozen local police departments, federal agencies and universities have special FAA permits to fly drones in U.S. airspace. ‘Like a lot of law enforcement agencies, our first thoughts were

President rounds out second-term
energy team with a career regulator
and a MIT scientist

Associated Press, by Julie Pace Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/4/2013 8:28:14 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — A White House official says President Barack Obama on Monday will appoint a new energy secretary and new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Obama is nominating MIT scientist Ernest Moniz to head the Energy Department and EPA veteran Gina McCarthy to run the environmental agency. She currently serves as EPA´s assistant administrator for air and radiation. Obama will announce the nominations during a White House ceremony Monday morning. Both posts require Senate confirmation. The official requested anonymity in order to confirm the nominations ahead of the president´s formal announcement.

Twelve killed as Kenyan elections hijacked
by terrorists with machetes, bows
and arrows and pistols

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/4/2013 8:26:46 AM Post Reply

Multiple attacks against security forces in Kenya on Monday killed at least 12 people as Kenyans waited in long lines to cast ballots five years after more than 1,000 people died in election-related violence. A group of 200 secessionists armed with guns, machetes and bows and arrows set a trap for police in the pre-dawn hours, killing five officers, Inspector General David Kimaiyo said. One attacker also died. The group - the Mombasa Republican Council - had threatened election day attacks. A second attack by MRC secessionists in nearby Kilifi killed one police officer and five attackers, Kimaiyo said.

Let´s Help Academia
Destroy Itself

Townhall, by Kurt Schlichter Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/4/2013 8:22:35 AM Post Reply

Conservatives should welcome the decline of academia as we know it. I, for one, will celebrate its death by engaging in the same activity that characterized my four years at what some call its pinnacle– drinking a lot of Coors Light. There is still nostalgia among conservatives, especially older ones who have forgotten what college is really like, for the idea of higher education as a rigorous venue for intellectual growth, an environment of exciting and vibrant ideas shared by wise, caring educators dedicated to the pursuit of truth. Today, it is nothing of the sort.

Obama’s Fault

New York Times, by Bill Keller Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 8:20:51 AM Post Reply

Our feckless leaders may be incapable of passing a budget, but, boy, can they pass the buck. The White House spent last week in full campaign hysteria, blitzing online followers with the message that heartless Republicans are prepared to transform America into “Les Misérables” in order to protect “millionaires and billionaires, oil companies, vacation homes, and private jet owners.” Republicans retort that the budget-cutting Doomsday device called sequester was actually invented by the White House. In fact, the conceptual paternity of sequester was bipartisan. Both sides agreed that Congress should set in

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