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What’s Jeb Bush up to?

Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 3/5/2013 6:59:36 AM Post Reply

When Jeb Bush speaks, people — especially Republicans — listen. And so, it’s worth examining Bush’s surprisingly newsy appearance on the “Today” show Monday in which the former Florida governor addressed immigration, the budget fight and his own future political aspirations. Yes, Bush was ostensibly on the show to promote his new book. But, by weighing in on immigration (he said no longer supports a path to citizenship, though in a later interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, he said that he could support one under the right circumstances)

Barack Obama a ´dithering,
controlling, risk-averse´ US president

Telegraph (UK), by Peter Foster Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/5/2013 6:54:38 AM Post Reply

The insider-account of the damaging divisions between the White House and the State Department comes as diplomats around the world wait to see if John Kerry, the new US secretary of state, can persuade Mr Obama to greater engagement on Syria, Egypt and the wider Middle East. Vali Nasr, a university professor who was seconded in 2009 to work with Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama´s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, records his profound disillusion at how a "Berlin Wall" of domestic-focused advisers was erected to protect Mr Obama.

A Drone? A Really Big Bird? A UFO?
What Did Alitalia Pilot See Near JFK?

CBS New York, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 3/5/2013 6:50:05 AM Post Reply

A mystery in the sky over New York City on Monday got one commercial airline pilot’s attention. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a report from the pilot, who claims he saw an unmanned or remote-controlled aircraft while on his final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport. The pilot, who was at the controls of Alitalia Flight AZA 60, a Boeing 777, spotted what may have been a drone about four to five miles southeast of the airport at an altitude of 1,500 feet while on final approach to Runway 31 Right at about 1:15 p.m.

Young Adults Retreat
From Piling Up Debt

Wall Street Journal, by Neil Shah Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 3/5/2013 6:40:38 AM Post Reply

Young people are racking up larger amounts of student debt than ever before, but fresh data suggest they are becoming warier of borrowing in general: Total debt among young adults dropped in the last decade to the lowest level in 15 years. A typical young U.S. household—defined as one led by someone under age 35—had $15,000 in total debt in 2010, down from $18,000 in 2001 and the lowest since 1995, according to a recent Pew Research Center report and government data. (Snip)In addition, fewer young adults carried credit-card balances and 22% didn´t have any debt at all in 2010

It´s ´I told you so´ on Obamacare

Los Angeles Times, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 3/5/2013 6:40:10 AM Post Reply

"What we´ve learned through the course of this program is that this is really not a sensible way for the healthcare system to be run." That was Gary Cohen, director of the Department of Health and Human Services´ Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, talking. He was specifically responding to the apparently surprising need to halt enrollments in a program designed as a temporary bridge for people with preexisting conditions who couldn´t wait until the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) fully kicks in next year.

The Sequester Amnesty

American Spectator, by Jed Babbin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 6:10:24 AM Post Reply

Because the word “sequester” sounds more like a bronchial infection than a governmental disaster, President Obama failed to terrorize House Republicans into raising taxes in order to avoid it. They tried everything they could think of to scare us. We’d have meat shortages because federal inspectors would be laid off, long lines at airport security stations would get longer because the TSA molesters would be cut back. Education Secretary Arne Duncan earned four “Pinocchios” from the Washington Post’s Fact Checker column for brazenly lying about teachers he said were already being laid off in West Virginia.

State: No Environmental Reason
To Delay Keystone XL

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 3/5/2013 6:08:53 AM Post Reply

War On Energy: In yet another clean bill of health, the State Department´s draft review says the pipeline from Canada will not affect global warming or harm aquifers it crosses. But it will create jobs and economic growth. The U.S. State Department´s second Keystone XL supplemental environmental impact statement, which represents the project´s fourth environmental review, finds the pipeline would not accelerate global greenhouse gas emissions or significantly harm the natural habitats along its route. This sent the administration´s environmentalist base into spasms of hysteria. Greenies had warned that the extraction of crude

In second term, Obama
is all politics, all the time

Washington Examiner [DC], by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/5/2013 6:02:22 AM Post Reply

In the last campaign, many Democrats took offense when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said his No. 1 priority was to make Barack Obama a one-term president. Some, including Obama himself, accused McConnell of making that vow when Obama first came to office, suggesting the Republican never even gave the new Democratic president a chance. In fact, McConnell said it in October 2010, after the stimulus, after Obamacare, and just before midterm elections, in which Republicans scored big gains. But in any event, Democrats charged McConnell with bad faith and obstructionism. How could a president deal with an opposition leader

150 years later, Union sailors from
USS Monitor to be buried at Arlington

Fox News, by Greg Wilson Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/5/2013 5:58:57 AM Post Reply

Two Navy sailors slated for heroes’ burials at Arlington National Cemetery have waited a century and a half for the honor. The men were among the crew members who perished aboard the legendary Union battleship the USS Monitor, which fought an epic Civil War battle with Confederate vessel The Merrimack in the first battle between two ironclad ships in the Battle of Hampton Roads, on March 9, 1862. Nine months later, the Monitor sank in rough seas off of Cape Hatteras, where it was discovered in 1973. Two skeletons and the tattered remains of their uniforms were discovered in the rusted hulk

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/5/2013 5:52:02 AM Post Reply

A Chinese general who once threatened to use nuclear weapons against hundreds of U.S. cities will visit the Pentagon this week as part of a U.S.-China military exchange program. Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, who is head of China’s National Defense University, will take part in a “familiarization exchange,” Maj. Catherine Wilkinson, a Pentagon spokeswoman, told the Free Beacon. “The delegation will visit Hawaii and D.C.,” she said. “A military delegation from the U.S. Pacific Command will visit China later this year for a reciprocal exchange.”

Maine governor takes on USDA
to fight food stamp fraud

Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 5:47:33 AM Post Reply

Maine Gov. Paul LePage blasted the United States Department of Agriculture for denying his request for a waiver to allow the state to require food stamp recipients to provide photo identification when using their electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards as way to cut down on fraud. “[USDA] denied our request, saying that the use of photo ID would be ineffective in reducing fraud and abuse,” he said during his weekly radio address over the weekend. “This is a shocking statement.” The USDA also claimed in their denial letter that such a requirement would result in the “material impairment

Journalists as Ring Wraiths

National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 5:39:26 AM Post Reply

Today’s Washington journalists are like J. R. R. Tolkien’s ring wraiths, petty lords who wanted a few shiny golden Obama rings — only to end up as shrunken slaves to the One. The Bob Woodward/Ron Fournier/Lanny Davis psychodrama is another small reminder that the Obama administration continues to assume that the press should be little more than a veritable Ministry of Truth. Its proper duty is to serve the White House and promote the progressive agenda of Barack Obama. Any were considered suspect who questioned whether those exalted ends should really be achieved by any means necessary —

Racist Incidents Stun Campus
and Halt Classes at Oberlin

The New York Times, by Richard Pérez-Peña and Trip Gabriel Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 3/5/2013 5:38:20 AM Post Reply

Oberlin College, known as much for ardent liberalism as for academic excellence, canceled classes on Monday and convened a “day of solidarity” after the latest in a monthlong string of what it called hate-related incidents and vandalism. At an emotional gathering in the packed 1,200-seat campus chapel, the college president, Marvin Krislov, apologized on behalf of the college to students who felt threatened by the incidents and said classes were canceled for “a different type of educational exercise,” one intended to hold “an honest discussion, even a difficult discussion.”

Women’s brains smaller than
men’s, but used more efficiently

Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/5/2013 5:36:18 AM Post Reply

A new study has revealed that while female brains are smaller than those of males, females use their brains more efficiently, achieving the same results. A team of neuroscientists from the University of California and Madrid studied the discrepancies between the male and female brains. They specifically focused on a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is a center of emotional and memory function, according to the Daily Mail. A larger hippocampus in males results in an increased presence of neurons, leading to a higher intelligence in men, the researchers said. In women, however,

Obama´s Push to Replace the
Democratic Party Hits a Snag

Atlantic, by Philip Bump Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 5:32:51 AM Post Reply

The president´s problem is simple: on November 6, he had a massive, nationwide campaign infrastructure which advocated for his policy priorities and values, and on November 7, that carefully crafted machine all but evaporated. He can give as many speeches and press conferences as he wants after winning re-election, Obama would need to face a hostile House of Representatives without all of the tools he had enjoyed as a candidate to help him bridge the most difficult gap in politics: moving people from interest to action. The Democratic Party — crippled by fundraising limits

He did it to himself

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 5:25:46 AM Post Reply

In 1985, then Sen. Warren Rudman mordantly described his new legislation for cutting the federal budget — across-the-board reductions — as “a bad idea whose time has come.” The bad idea: Vitally important programs would take the same kind of hit as the feel-good or junk programs.(Snip) Obama thought the sequester had to be stopped. And then he made it law. The president assumed that Republicans would refuse to allow such cuts to happen — that they’d strike a deal with him that would feature tax increases and much smaller budget cuts than the sequester itself provides —

Paradise Lost

Weekly Standard, by K.E. Grubbs, Jr. & Shawn Steel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 5:18:46 AM Post Reply

One early December morning, Las Vegas police moved in on the Silverton Hotel and Casino, just off the Strip and known for its 117,000-gallon aquarium. There, having located a getaway black Audi with no license plates, they arrested 31-year-old Ka Pasasouk?—?a Laotian immigrant with a violent history who had eluded deportation as well as imprisonment. The Dragnet-style work came less than 24 hours after police back in Northridge, a Los Angeles suburb known for a state university campus, discovered what they called a “very grisly tableau.” Outside an overcrowded boarding house, described in press accounts as unlicensed,

Obama’s Thirteen Words

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/5/2013 5:12:18 AM Post Reply

Remember George W. Bush’s famous “16 words”? They came from Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech, where Bush said: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” That was a true statement, but it caused immense controversy, for reasons that are now hard to remember. Fast forward to 2013, and President Obama’s State of the Union, where he said, talking about global warming: “Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense.” That statement was demonstrably false, as SEPP’s The Week That Was points out:

That’s All Folks

PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 4:57:37 AM Post Reply

Would you rather learn that your worst forebodings had been true; that things were not only as bad as you had feared, but worse than you could have imagined? Or would you prefer the consolation of empty hope, no matter how slender … and change no matter how slow … and hope … and change … and hope …? Former State Department adviser Vasili Nasr, “a university professor who was seconded in 2009 to work with Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, records his profound disillusion at how a “Berlin Wall” of domestic-focused advisers

More reporters grumbling about
nasty treatment from White House

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 4:51:39 AM Post Reply

You can tell the New York Post is a right-leaning paper from the fact that Maureen Callahan didn’t include the standard “I’m sure the president would disapprove if he knew!” disclaimer that no one actually believes. Incidentally, how many anecdotes about persistent abusiveness from the White House towards reporters will it take before the Lightbringer no longer gets the benefit of the doubt about his supposed ignorance? You’ve got people as reliably left as Jonathan Alter complaining here, for cripes sake. “I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,”

Privatize Airport Security

Commentary, by Michael Rubin Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 3/5/2013 4:50:29 AM Post Reply

Rather than use sequestration to trim waste, the Obama administration has viewed the deadline—and the Republican desire to curtail spending—as an assault on big government. If it’s a choice between defending big government and hurting the individual, President Obama appears much more inclined to punish the individual, hoping that a backlash against government-instigated inconvenience will lead Republicans to cave.(Snip)Endless airport lines under sequestration are not about security, they are about the inability of a government agency to do its job with its available means.

Casey Anthony Says She Lives
´Off the Kindness of Others´

ABC News, by Christina Ng Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/5/2013 4:44:35 AM Post Reply

Casey Anthony was forced to come out of seclusion and publicly answer questions for the first time today when she appeared in Florida bankruptcy court. "I don´t pay rent. I don´t pay utilities," Anthony said, according to the Associated Press. "I guess you could say I´m living free off the kindness of others." Anthony, 26, has gone into hiding since 2011 when she was acquitted of murdering her toddler Caylee. She was the victim of a barrage of threats and was dubbed the most hated woman in America. Aside from a few stray photos,

Toilet paper company under
fire for inadvertently printing
Bible quotes on its tissues

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/5/2013 3:59:19 AM Post Reply

Finnish company Metsa Tissue is known for printing quotes and poems on its toilet paper, but church leaders called their inclusion of Bible quotes disrespectful. The company has since apologized and removed the lines from the toilet paper. The quotes included lines from the Gospel of Matthew and First Corinthians. The toilet paper is only sold in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. A Finnish toilet paper maker has removed quotes from the Bible, including the words of Jesus, that it inadvertently placed on its rolls after protests from some Norwegian church leaders.

Battle to keep out EU migrants

Daily Express [UK], by Macer Hall Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/5/2013 3:54:49 AM Post Reply

A backlash against lifting border controls with Romania and Bulgaria appeared to be spreading in Europe last night when it emerged that even Germany wants to block the move. The country’s interior minister vowed to use the German veto when European Union ministers discuss admitting the former Eastern Bloc nations this week. Hans-Peter Friedrich warned the plans could spark a massive wave of benefits tourism and admitted to sharing British concerns about the looming influx of migrants. Speaking in a BBC interview yesterday, Mr Friedrich said that the right of free movement gives all people in Europe the opportunity

Malia and pals hit Chelsea

New York Post, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/5/2013 3:39:00 AM Post Reply

The sight of First Daughter Malia Obama at a dinner this weekend with her friends prompted one spy to describe the meal as a “young girl’s social power club gathering.” On Saturday night, President Obama’s elder daughter, 14, was spotted at giant Chelsea restaurant Buddakan with eight of her friends, including a daughter of New York Giants chairman Steve Tisch. According to witnesses, the girls were chaperoned by four parents and five security guards who dined at the table directly next to them. “She was in the middle of a gaggle of young girls,” one source told us,

Chris Christie is a great Republican,
but that doesn’t automatically
make him a good conservative

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/5/2013 3:31:19 AM Post Reply

Repeat after me: a Republican isn’t necessarily a conservative and a conservative isn’t necessarily a Republican. Conservatives tend to support the Republicans and Republicans tend to be conservative. But there´s a difference between being a party loyalist and being an ideological warrior--a simple point that seems strangely lost on many people. Take the outrage over the decision not to invite Chris Christie to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC.[Snip] Jonah Goldberg writes, “At precisely the moment the party should be making every effort to be--or at least seem!--as open as possible to differing

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