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Former Obama Economic
Adviser Destroys His Push
for Minimum Wage Hike

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/4/2013 10:41:46 PM Post Reply

Economic policy: President Obama´s call for a minimum-wage hike is hardly surprising — it´s a staple of liberal politics. What is surprising is that Obama´s former top economic adviser would trash it in the New York Times. Obama is famously close-minded to views he doesn´t already hold, which may explain why Christina Romer is back to teaching economics instead of running his Council of Economic Advisers. On Monday, the New York Times published an op-ed by Romer in which she delicately but systematically dismantled Obama´s call for a 24% hike in the federal minimum wage over the next

Budget crisis eases as Republicans
seek to avoid shutdown

Reuters, by David Lawder & Richard Cowan Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/4/2013 10:36:42 PM Post Reply

Washington - Tension over the fiscal crisis eased on Monday as President Barack Obama called more opposition lawmakers to find a way to stop $85 billion in damaging budget cuts and congressional Republicans announced a plan to prevent a government shutdown. Eager to resolve fiscal fights overshadowing his second term, the Democratic president called Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins and Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn after speaking to other Republican senators over the weekend. An aide to Collins, a moderate, told Reuters that the pair discussed the need for a bipartisan

More Reporters Step Forward to
Discuss Obama White House’s Petty
Treatment of Press

NewsBusters, by Howard Portnoy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:35:24 PM Post Reply

An article in Monday’s U.S. News & World Report by Ken Walsh, a veteran journalist who covered five presidencies, notes a growing “unhealthy antagonism … between the West Wing and the mainstream media.” If the assessment is accurate, it could mean that the press, after four years of mindless obeisance to this administration, is finally ready to provide frank coverage, warts and all. The sea change, if one is in the cards, started with the now-infamous brouhaha involving another old hand, Bob Woodward, and White House economic adviser Gene Sperling. Since Woodward publicly asserted that he was

Cabinet Picks May Set Policy
on Climate if Congress Fails

New York Times, by John M. Broder & Matthew L. Wald Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/4/2013 10:29:06 PM Post Reply

Washington - President Obama on Monday named two people to his cabinet who will be charged with making good on his threat to use the powers of the executive branch to tackle climate change and energy policy if Congress does not act quickly. (Snip) The appointments, which require Senate confirmation, send an unmistakable signal that the president intends to mount a multifaceted campaign in his second term to tackle climate change by using all the executive branch tools at his disposal. But even with Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Moniz in place, Mr. Obama would have to confront major hurdles

National Journal’s Ron Fournier
Asks Why Obama Doesn’t Just
Murder John Boehner

NewsBusters, by Jeffrey Meyer Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:27:20 PM Post Reply

**UPDATE** Earlier version of blog incorrectly stated that Ron Fournier had deleted tweets in question when in fact they are still on his account. It appears as though the days of civility and integrity in journalism are long gone. On March 1, National Journal’s Ron Fournier, formerly the Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press, took to Twitter to express his dissatisfaction with government sequestration, suggesting that President Obama: Can handle Bin laden, not Boehner? He may be POTUS, but Obama incapable of “a Jedi mind meld.”

Brian Williams Claims His Reporting
is ´Cleansed of Political Opinions,´
´Down the Middle´

NewsBusters, by Kyle Drennen Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:21:39 PM Post Reply

Appearing on left-wing actor Alec Baldwin´s weekly WNYC talk radio show, Here´s The Thing, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams laughably asserted that his reporting was void of any political bias: "My work has been so cleansed, as I see it, and as I´ve tried, of political opinions over 27 years....I can try to call it down the middle, and try to be fair about it, and do a ´just the facts´..." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Throughout the interview, Baldwin gushed over how supposedly objective Williams was:

CPAC turns away Pamela Geller.

American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article

Posted By: MDMuskrat- 3/4/2013 10:20:16 PM Post Reply

CPAC already has earned headlines for narrowing the conservative tent this year. Now, after not inviting Chris Christie to speak, and declining to allow GoProud to participate, CPAC is refusing to allow Pamela Geller to have a booth or rent rooms to conduct events. From her own site, Atlas Shrugs, Pamela writes: (snip) “This year, I applied to speak and was ignored. I tried to get a room for an AFDI event, "The War on Free Speech," and was ignored. So, for the first time in five years, I won´t be at CPAC.”

Victim calls Cypress HS
teen´s suspension ´crazy´

WFTX-TV [Ft. Meyers, FL], by Matt Grant Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/4/2013 10:13:10 PM Post Reply

Ft. Meyers, FL - A Cypress Lake High School teen who had a gun pointed at him last week says he would be dead if not for the quick action of another student, who was suspended despite disarming the gunman and being called a hero. The victim, who Fox 4 is not identifying, spoke out after the school suspended the teen who wrestled the .22 caliber RG-14 revolver out of the hands of the 15-year-old gun wielding suspect on a school bus last Tuesday. "Do you think he would have killed you?," asked Fox 4 reporter Matt Grant. "Yeah," the victim said. Nearly a week after the incident, the victim says

Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’
Advice to Kids in Unsafe
Areas: Exercise Indoors

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:12:23 PM Post Reply

Michelle Obama participated in a Google+ Hangout Monday involving her “Let’s Move!” campaign. In response to a question about what parents should do in unsafe areas, she advised that kids should exercise indoors: That’s where we as a community have to come together for our kids. You know, schools are an important place to get our kids active again because that’s where they’re spending most of their day, but when I was growing up, our church was that place. You know, we did activities in the basement of our church, and it seemed like the biggest basement

Jay Carney fires back at
George Will for his ‘will
not take seriously’ remarks

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/4/2013 10:06:41 PM Post Reply

During Monday’s White House press briefing, press secretary Jay Carney took a retaliatory dig at Washington Post columnist George Will, who last week said he cannot take Carney seriously anymore. “You know, it’s funny — I did see that,” Carney said. “It’s funny you raised it. I love the structure of the sentence. It’s very George Willian. But I have a lot of respect for George Will. I’ve been on the panel on ‘This Week’ with him many times in my previous life. I think he’s a very smart guy.” “And despite the fact a few days before the election, he predicted a Romney landslide very confidently

Last US WWII veteran who
captured Japan´s Tojo dies at 93

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/4/2013 10:00:58 PM Post Reply

Albany, New York - John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93. (Snip) The upstate New York native was part of a five-man unit ordered to arrest Tojo at his home in a Tokyo suburb on Sept. 11, 1945, nine days after Japan´s surrender ended the war. While the soldiers were outside, Tojo attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Wilpers ordered a Japanese doctor at gunpoint to treat Tojo until an American doctor arrived.

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."

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