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Hume: Obama tack on sequester
‘the most peculiar behavior I have
ever seen by a president’ [Video]

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:00:51 PM Post Reply

On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” network senior political analyst Brit Hume said most of the blame for what host Bill O’Reilly called the ongoing “fiscal chaos” lies squarely on President Barack Obama’s shoulders. “Congressional leaders are normally behind-the-scenes people. … They are really not normally the leading spokesman on the issues. … That’s really a presidential job,” Hume said. “President Obama’s behavior in this business about the automatic budget cuts — this itself is the most peculiar behavior I have ever seen by a president.” “A normal president would be trying to reassure the

Senators reach bipartisan
agreement on gun-trafficking bill

Washington Post, by Ed O´Keefe Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/4/2013 9:53:34 PM Post Reply

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new proposal Monday to stiffen federal penalties for people who illegally purchase firearms for someone else, signaling continued eagerness between Democrats and Republicans to find agreement on legislation to limit gun violence. (Snip) The bill would make the practice of gun trafficking a federal crime for the first time, with penalties of up to 20 years for “straw purchasers,” or people who buy a firearm for someone legally barred from doing so — a group including felons and illegal immigrants. The bill also would punish the person who

Tom Brokaw Pounds Obama For Spending
‘Entirely Too Much Time’ Campaigning,
Not Negotiating With GOP

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:49:40 PM Post Reply

Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw criticized President Barack Obama on Monday for spending “too much time” campaigning against the sequester cuts and lambasting his political opponents rather than negotiating with Republicans to avert those cuts. He said that both sides of the debate are playing electoral politics, with Obama attempting to “demonize” his Republican opponents and the GOP angling to retake the Senate in 2014. “This appears to me to be no way to run a government,” Touré observed.

Sen. Graham Backs Radical
Obama Judicial Appointment

PJ Media, by Matt Vespa Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:41:24 PM Post Reply

Caitlin Halligan, general counsel for Manhattan’s district attorney’s office, was nominated in 2010 to fill a vacancy on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and has been re-nominated four times since then. A cloture vote to move forward with her nomination failed 54-45 in 2011. The presidential judicial appointments – by custom – should be taken under consideration by the Senate, but not this one. For starters, Halligan is a pro-abortion, anti-gun zealot, who just received the support of Sen. Lindsey Graham. As Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine wrote yesterday, Halligan would be more of an activist,

National Black Chamber of
Commerce President: Barack
Obama ‘Made a Fool Out of Me’

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:35:33 PM Post Reply

National Black Chamber of Commerce President Harry C. Alford blasted President Barack Obama today on the Andrea Tantaros Show. Alford says that he supported Obama’s election 2008, but now says that Obama “made a fool out of me.” Alford says that many Americans, including prominent citizens like radio host Tom Joyner, explicitly voted for Obama because he is black. Alford says that he joined in and voted for Obama to be the first black president, but now recognizes electing Obama was a huge mistake. He slammed Obama for continually campaigning rather than leading, and for failing

White House: Obama not
focused on 2014 right now

CBS News, by Stephanie Condon Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:27:51 PM Post Reply

President Obama has already committed to an aggressive fundraising schedule this year to benefit congressional Democrats, but the White House insisted today that he doesn´t think he needs a Democratic majority in the House to accomplish his agenda. "It goes without saying that a president wants those in his party to do well," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters today. However, he added, the 2014 midterm elections are "not a focus of his particularly at this point." Mr. Obama will hold at least 14 fundraising events

Queen shows fighting
spirit, walks out of hospital

USA Today, by Kim Hjelmgaard Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/4/2013 9:26:21 PM Post Reply

LONDON -- Last month, USA TODAY wrote about the unlikely scenario that would see the United Kingdom´s Queen Elizabeth take a cue from Pope Benedict XVI and resign her office due to health reasons. No way, was the consensus from experts, and even from the queen herself -- based on past statements reflecting her attitudes to public service and the moral necessity to keep on keeping on. It´s not starting the job that´s difficult, it´s seeing it through, another British female leader -- Margaret Thatcher -- is fond of remarking, a saying of her grocer father´s.

‘The Bible’ on History
Reaches 13.1 Million Viewers

New York Times, by Bill Carter Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/4/2013 9:16:50 PM Post Reply

The record pace being set by cable programming continued Sunday night as “The Bible,” a series on the History network, reached 13.1 million viewers, the biggest audience for an entertainment show on cable television this year. Even by the standards of broadcast television, that would be an enormous audience, about twice as big as any show on NBC over the last month. Just as impressive was the show’s performance among viewers in the age groups sought by most advertisers. The Bible stories featured Sunday night, Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Moses, attracted 5.6 million viewers

Ashley Judd´s War With Kentucky´s
Coal Industry Could Doom Candidacy

Buzzfeed.com, by Andrew Kaczynski Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 9:15:45 PM Post Reply

Comments Ashley Judd made in 2010 comparing the mining practices of Kentucky´s coal industry to rape could sink her much buzzed-about Senate candidacy before it even begins. In a 2010 speech to the National Press Club in Washington, Judd called mountain top removal — the controversial but principal type of surface mining in Appalachia that involves the removal of mountaintops to extract coal — "the state-sanctioned, federal government-supported, coal industry-operated rape of Appalachia." Coal mines employe more than 19,000 people through the year in Kentucky according to a report from the state, and the mining

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

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