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Michelle Obama talks about
daughters´ weight challenges

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:10:18 PM Post Reply

First lady Michelle Obama says her family faced weight challenges when her daughters were younger and she took action to get them eating healthy and exercising. "I never talked about weight in the household, we just started making changes," she said in a Google Hangout Monday. "It didn´t make them feel bad about themselves." Obama said she started surrounding them with healthy foods so they could make the right choices, and then tried to make physical activity fun. She said she often turns on some music and works up a good sweat with her kids for 30 minutes.

Barbara: ´Well-Known´
Actor Gave Me Chicken Pox

Entertainment Tonight, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/4/2013 9:07:57 PM Post Reply

Barbara Walters returned to The View on Monday after a six-week absence to recover from a head injury and chicken pox and opened up for the first time about her recovery. (Snip) Walters revealed that while visiting a friend in Miami in January, she shared a New Years hug and kiss with an unnamed "well-known actor" who ended up contracting a bad case of shingles. She explained that chicken pox can be transferred by someone with shingles and said this is how she caught the illness. She also described the fall she suffered at the British ambassador´s residence

Obama´s EPA Nominee Vowed
Not ´To Sit Around and Wait
for Congressional Action´

Cybercast News Service, by Joe Schoffstall Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:05:41 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama today nominated Gina McCarthy, who has vowed "not to sit around and wait for congressional action" when issuing environmental regulations, to replace Lisa Jackson as Environmental Protection Agency administrator. McCarthy currently heads the Environmental Protection Agency´s air and radiation office. On May 1, 2010, in the keynote address for the Green Education Celebration at University of Massachusetts Boston, McCarthy said she did not go to Washington to wait for congressional action while working at the EPA and that she did not intend to do so in the future. "I love listening to Sen. Kerry.

American Conservative Union
Chair: Legalize Illegal Aliens

Cybercast News Service, by Michael W. Chapman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 8:56:23 PM Post Reply

American Conservative Union Chairman Al Cardenas said he supported a bipartisan Senate effort at immigration reform, stressing that the proposal must include a way for an estimated 11 million illegal aliens to “come out of the shadows” and be given “a legal status where they can be secure in this country for their future and that of their children.” Cardenas made his remarks on the Spanish-language Telemundo show Enfoque on Sunday, noting that immigration is an issue he plans to stress at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., which

The Unofficial Merger of the GOP
and Democrat Party!

Canada Free Press, by A.J. Cameron Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 3/4/2013 8:46:39 PM Post Reply

People continually complain that with the different faces who have disgraced the Offices of the President and Vice President, the one hundred (100) seats within the Senate and the four hundred thirty-five (435) seats within the House of Representatives, nothing improves for the masses, only for those who are elected and special interests. This is frustrating and we need to assess why, so we can change this ‘continuing resolution’. It appears that the GOP and the Democrat Party have merged.

Sequester Exaggerations Exposed
By Egypt Foreign Aid

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/4/2013 8:22:27 PM Post Reply

Mideast: What are we to make of the U.S. suddenly finding $250 million to spare for Egypt during a supposedly devastating sequester? Has this administration miraculously parted a sea of red ink? No one can say Secretary of State John Kerry isn´t predictable in his first weeks as the nation´s chief diplomat. The ex-Vietnam protester, who contemptuously threw his medals on the steps of the U.S. Capitol four decades ago, is giving the new post-Arab Spring Egypt under Muslim Brotherhood crony Mohammed Morsi some $250 million in immediate foreign aid, termed "economic assistance."

Barack Obama’s
Defective Public Character

Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/4/2013 8:16:14 PM Post Reply

Sequestration, for all its problems–and I consider it to be an abdication of responsible governance–is helpful at least to this extent: it captures, in a single, still-unfolding act the problematic character of the president. To understand why, let’s update our effort to follow the bouncing Obama ball. Here’s some of what we know. (a) The president and his administration are responsible for the sequestration idea. (b) Before that fact became widely known, Mr. Obama misled Americans of that fact in a debate with Mitt Romney–and his aides did the same thing in the aftermath of the debate.

Carbon Power Politics

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/4/2013 8:14:23 PM Post Reply

President Obama gave his second-term global warming agenda a lot more definition Monday with a new Environmental Protection Agency chief to replace Lisa Jackson. Picking Gina McCarthy, one of her top lieutenants and the architect of some of the agency´s most destructive carbon rules, is a sign he intends to make good on his vow of "executive actions" if Congress doesn´t pass cap and tax. Over the last four years running the EPA´s air office, Ms. McCarthy has been a notably willful regulator, even for this Administration. Her promotion is another way of saying that Mr. Obama has

A Painless Path To
More Revenue Is
Open To Obama

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/4/2013 8:13:04 PM Post Reply

President Obama has been demanding new revenue for some time now. We know where there´s a cool trillion available and it won´t require an income tax hike. Will he take that option? It´s unlikely, because it would require him to change his restrictive energy policy. But the opportunity is still worth discussing. If Obama won´t take advantage, maybe the country can elect a president in 2016 who will. This story goes back to 2011, when consulting firm Wood McKenzie published the study "Energy Policy at a Crossroads." The research assessed the "impacts of increased access vs. higher taxes on U.S. oil and

Larger Spending Cuts
Would Help the Economy

Wall Street Journal, by Michael J. Boskin Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/4/2013 8:11:18 PM Post Reply

President Obama´s most recent prescription for economic growth—more government stimulus spending, new social programs, higher taxes on upper-income earners, subsidies for some industries and increased regulation for all of them—is likely to have the same anemic results as in his first administration. Recall: The $825 billion stimulus program did little economic good at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per job, even based on the administration´s own inflated job estimates. Cash for Clunkers cost $3 billion merely to shift car sales forward a few months. The PPIP (Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets)

The Rich Get Some
Center-Left Tax Sympathy

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/4/2013 8:08:14 PM Post Reply

Fairness: A new analysis finds that the rich this year will pay at rates as high as any for the past three decades. It´s enough to draw sympathy even from the center-left´s ranks. How much does the government have a right to take from you, especially when you seem to have plenty to spare? No single answer to this question of "fairness" in taxation will satisfy everyone, but it´s still worth taking a look back to see what Americans have accepted as an acceptable tax system in the past.

Report: Menendez accuser says
she made up story

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Jonathan Tamari Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 3/4/2013 7:50:31 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- One of the two women who videotaped allegations that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez paid her for sex has said in an affidavit that she was paid to make the story up, according to a report Monday in the Washington Post. The woman also said she has never met nor seen the Democratic senator, the Post reported, citing court documents and two people briefed on her claim. Instead, in an affidavit she said she and a colleague were paid by a lawyer to make up the claims and read from a script, according to the Post.

Does President Obama
Know When To Say When?

National Public Radio, by Alan Greenblatt Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/4/2013 7:32:16 PM Post Reply

Doesn´t the president get enough attention? The president is always the star of the show. When just about any major event occurs — whether it´s a downturn in the unemployment rate, a natural disaster or some crisis overseas — much of the news media ask how it´s going to play out for the president, the central actor in our national drama. But then there are additional moments when the president injects himself into non-news contexts. President Obama, in particular, seems to be fond of appearing in as many pop culture venues as possible,

Oprah Winfrey to deliver
commencement address at Harvard

Reuters, by Svea Herbst-Bayliss Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/4/2013 6:52:31 PM Post Reply

BOSTON - Talk show host, entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey will deliver this year´s graduation address at Harvard University, the Ivy League school said on Monday. "Oprah´s journey from her grandmother´s Mississippi farm to becoming one of the world´s most admired women is one of the great American success stories," Harvard President Drew Faust said in announcing her selection. Winfrey will join a long list of politicians, policy makers, captains of industry and authors - including George Marshall, Bill Gates and J.K. Rowling - who have offered their wisdom and advice to Harvard´s graduating classes.

Winter storm takes aim on
Midwest; Mid-Atlantic next

USA Today, by Doyle Rice Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/4/2013 6:31:56 PM Post Reply

A winter storm is spreading snow across the upper Midwest Monday and Tuesday and into the Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic by Wednesday and Thursday. Snowfall accumulations Monday and Tuesday should be from 6-12 inches from Fargo, N.D. through Minneapolis, Minn., through the southern suburbs of Chicago, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Brian Edwards. Winter storm warnings are in effect for most of Minnesota and parts of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. In the city of Chicago, about 6 inches of snow accumulation is expected through Tuesday. The heaviest snow is expected Monday night into Tuesday morning, with snowfall rates

Bill to allow corporate sponsorship
of N.J. rest stops advances

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

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/4/2013 5:25:46 PM Post Reply

Trenton — A Senate panel has approved a bill to allow private companies to sponsor highway rest stops. The bill (S2514) would let companies either pay the state directly for rest stop maintenance or provide support products and services. In exchange, the state would put up signs at the highway and in the rest stop acknowledging the contributions. The Senate Transportation Committee approved the bill 5-0 with no debate, sending it on for a vote in the full Senate. Its sponsor, state Sen. Donald Norcross (D-Camden) said it would save money. “Providing opportunities for sponsorships will allow us to raise

Obamacare and the GOP Govs

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/4/2013 5:25:09 PM Post Reply

RUSH: I thought about leading with this today, but my mood was in a different place, but at some point today we´re gonna get to what´s happening with these eight Republican governors who are caving on the Medicare expansion. The latest is John Kasich in Ohio. And there are reasons for it. Bob McDonnell of Virginia, Rick Scott, Florida. Scott was perhaps one of the most vocal in opposing the Medicare expansion. The Medicare expansion is an Obamacare trick, essentially, but the reason these governors find it attractive, folks, it´s all about money and

Full-Court Press to Find
Sequester Suffering

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/4/2013 5:19:26 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Okay, folks, the pressure is on to make you feel the sequester. Whether you feel it or not, the pressure is on. Janet Napolitano is saying the wait lines at the TSA, whatever it is there, the wait lines are getting longer even though they´re not. The delays are getting longer, even though they´re not. They´re doing their best. They can´t afford for this to be seen as a non-event out there, so they´ll have the Drive-Bys in their back pocket, and I want you to be ready

What is There to Hate
About America?

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/4/2013 5:12:04 PM Post Reply

RUSH: We´re gonna start in Maple Shade, New Jersey. Hi, George. It´s great to have you with us, sir. Hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing? Thanks for taking my call. RUSH: Thank you, sir. CALLER: Hey, I got one point that I was talking to your screener about. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: Obama knows that the Soviet Union spent itself to death trying to keep up with Ronald Reagan´s Star Wars, and I think he has the intention of breaking the United States and breaking up the

Former President George W. Bush
and thousands more gather at
funeral for famed pianist
Van Cliburn who eased tensions
during Cold War with music

Daily Mail (UK), by Jessica Montoya Coggins Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/4/2013 4:52:00 PM Post Reply

He softened the chill of the Cold War with Tchaikovsky. Over 1,000 people attended the funeralfor Van Cliburn, the famed pianist who passed away Wednesday at the age of 78 after battling bone cancer. There were several high-profile mourners from the political and art world at the service at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas - including former President George W. Bush, who presented Cliburn with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003. Cliburn gained worldwide prominence when he won the the very first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958.

Behind the Doors
of the Senate Gym

Roll Call, by Meredith Shiner Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/4/2013 4:39:04 PM Post Reply

Behind a discreet set of keypad-entry double doors on the first floor of the Russell Senate Office Building lies one of the last oases of what was once the world’s greatest good-old-boys club: the Senate’s members-only gym. Senators start trickling in at 5:30 a.m. in various states of dress, without the benefit of sunlight or staff, toting gym bags, newspapers and even to-go venti coffees as custodians above loudly buff the marble floors of Russell’s rotunda. In the era of modern travel and constant campaigning, the mysterious gym — where staffers and security details

Mayor Bloomberg moves up
on the Forbes billionaires list

New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/4/2013 4:39:04 PM Post Reply

Mayor Bloomberg is moving up in the world. The 71-year-old mayor was named the world’s 13th richest person in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking — jumping from the 20th spot last year after adding $5 billion to his personal fortune. Bloomberg’s net worth now totals about $27 billion, Forbes reported.(Snip) One contender to replace Bloomberg at City Hall next year also made Forbes’ list. John Catsimatidis was ranked at number 458 with a net worth of $3 billion. Overall, it was a good year for the very rich.

Dr. Ben Carson: Your right to
own a semiautomatic should
depend on where you live

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/4/2013 4:34:56 PM Post Reply

Via the Right Scoop and Mediaite, a point of divergence from conservative orthodoxy by CPAC’s newest scheduled speaker. The urban/rural distinction was actually a key part of Breyer’s dissent in the Heller case five years ago that established an individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment: [H]andguns are not only popular tools for crime, but popular objects of it as well: the FBI received on average over 274,000 reports of stolen guns for each year between 1985 and 1994, and almost 60% of stolen guns are handguns… Department of Justice studies

Gov´t: Budget cuts already
causing airport delays

Associated Press, by Alicia A. Caldwell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/4/2013 4:28:54 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O´Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays in customs waiting lines as a result of automatic federal spending cuts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday. Both of those big-city airports routinely suffer security line delays. The Federal Aviation Administration reported Monday there were no significant flight delays in either Los Angeles or Chicago. Napolitano, who spoke at a Politico-sponsored event on the 10th anniversary of DHS, said delays will become worse.

Voting rights in a changed America

Chicago Tribune, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/4/2013 4:28:53 PM Post Reply

In understanding the case before the U.S. Supreme Court over the requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it´s worth considering a controversy from last year. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Hunsted, a Republican, decided to restrict early voting hours, acting on a law passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature. Critics said the intent was to make it harder for black voters to cast ballots.(Snip)It´s hard to see why at this stage of our history these jurisdictions must meet a higher standard than the rest of the country. Absent the preclearance rule, after all,

We can’t cut 2 percent of government
spending, but the Muslim Brotherhood
gets $250 million

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/4/2013 4:25:58 PM Post Reply

Great news for the Egyptian theocracy, courtesy of the UK Guardian: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for president Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250m in American aid to support the country’s “future as a democracy”.[...] Egypt is trying to meet conditions to close on a $4.8bn loan package from the International Monetary Fund. An agreement would unlock more of the $1bn in US assistance promised by President Barack Obama last year and set to begin flowing with Kerry’s announcement. “The United States can and wants to

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