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Transcript: Secretary of State John
Kerry Reveals New Details on U.S.
Involvement in Syria Conflict in
Fox News Interview

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 12:46:11 PM Post Reply

In an interview conducted Tuesday by Fox News correspondent James Rosen, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke about efforts he’s spearheading since taking over the post from Hillary Clinton. In the interview, Kerry became the first U.S. official to confirm on the record that the U.S. is training military forces off-site in the Syria conflict. He also disclosed on the record for the first time his visit to a Benghazi survivor at Walter Reed, saying he doesn’t know why survivors haven’t yet been heard from.

US bipartisan bill to make
Israel ´strategic ally´

Jerusalem Post, by JTA Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 3/5/2013 12:43:20 PM Post Reply

Washington - A Republican and a Democrat in the US House of Representatives introduced legislation that would make Israel a "major strategic ally," a one of a kind designation. The bill, introduced Monday by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), was timed for the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, and 13,000 activists are expected to lobby for it and for Iran-related bills on Tuesday. The "major strategic ally" bill codifies a number of existing facets of the relationship, including annual defense assistance and cooperation on missile defense, energy research and cyber security.

TSA Will Permit Knives,
Golf Clubs on U.S. Planes

Bloomberg News, by Jeff Plungis Original Article

Posted By: TrueBlueWfan- 3/5/2013 12:36:52 PM Post Reply

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will let people carry small pocketknives onto passenger planes for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, along with golf clubs, hockey sticks and plastic Wiffle Ball-style bats. The agency will permit knives with retractable blades shorter than 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) and narrower than 1/2 inch at the widest point, TSA Administrator John Pistole said today at an aviation security conference in Brooklyn.

Gov. Christie: ‘Real leadership’
could have prevented sequester

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Meghashyam Mali Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 12:32:31 PM Post Reply

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Monday blasted Washington for failing to prevent the sequester, saying the debate showed a lack of “real leadership.” “Real leadership would get this fixed. You get everybody in the room and you fix it, and you don’t let them leave until you fix it,” Christie said at a press conference in Jersey City, N.J. “That’s what real leadership is, not calling a meeting two hours before the thing’s going to hit to have a photo-op in the driveway at the White House,” he added. “That’s not real leadership.”

Dan Rather: America is parachuting
into the ‘Valley of the Stupid’

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 12:20:18 PM Post Reply

On CNN last night with host Piers Morgan, former CBS broadcaster Dan Rather explained that the sequestration cuts was proof that the political leaders were failing America. Listen, nobody wants to say it and some can accuse me of the harshness of the language, but we have been parachuting into the ‘Valley of the Stupid.’” Rather said bluntly. “And that’s the way it’s viewed around the world. The United States . . . this is dumb.” Rather blamed Republicans for creating the controversy to boost their chances in the 2014 midterm elections.

I´m worth at least £20BILLION!
Saudi prince blasts Forbes
after they said he´s ´only
worth £13billion´ in rich list

Daily Mail [UK], by Steve Nolan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 12:15:21 PM Post Reply

A Saudi prince has claimed that a list charting the world´s richest richest people has understated his massive wealth. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has severed ties with Forbes magazine after its annual list estimated his net worth at $20billion (£13billion). The figure saw the investor ranked at number 26 on the rich list joint with American Carl Icahn and Canadian media mogul David Thomson. But the prince´s office has claimed that his net worth is more like $29.6billion (£19.5billion), a figure that would have put him in Forbes´ top ten just behind L´Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.

GOP lawmakers say spending bill
should target contraception mandate

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Sam Baker Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 12:07:15 PM Post Reply

A group of House Republicans said Tuesday that a bill to fund the federal government should include provisions targeting the contraception mandate in President Obama´s healthcare law. GOP lawmakers reintroduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the contraception mandate. They also pressed their party´s leaders to roll back the provision as part of a continuing resolution later this month to keep the federal government operating. "This attack on religious freedom demands immediate congressional action," the 14 lawmakers wrote. "Nothing short of a full exemption for both nonprofit and for-profit entities will satisfy the demands of the Constitution and common sense."

TSA Sealed $50-Million Sequester
-Eve Deal to Buy New Uniforms

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/5/2013 12:06:03 PM Post Reply

The impending sequester did not prevent the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from acting in late February to seal a $50-million deal to purchase new uniforms for its agents--uniforms that will be partly manufactured in Mexico. Soon after this new investment in TSA uniforms, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned Americans that the lines are already lengthening at airports due to the sequester.

The fire sale at the White House

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 3/5/2013 11:33:01 AM Post Reply

Bubba was a piker. The Clinton White House sold sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom that were cheap at the price. Barack Obama is auctioning off access to His Grandiosity for really big bucks. Unlike Hillary, Michelle doesn’t even have to straighten up the room and make up the bed when the guests leave. The White House reacted with considerable heat Monday to editorials in The New York Times and The Washington Post scolding the president for putting “major campaign donors” on an “advisory board” and giving them frequent “access” to the president.

Florida legislature rejects
ObamaCare Medicaid expansion

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 11:31:05 AM Post Reply

Reuters reports a hitch in Governor Rick Scott’s plans to expand Medicaid coverage, as directed by the ObamaCare plan he once vowed to oppose: On the eve of convening of the 2013 session, the House Select Committee on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rejected the expansion. A Senate counterpart committee postponed consideration of the issue, which is sure to be one of the biggest controversies of the session. Scott, a Republican who bitterly fought President Barack Obama’s national healthcare plan as a candidate and in his first two years as governor, stunned conservative

Delco boy who was struck
in schoolyard dies

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Rita Giordano and Chris Palmer Original Article

Posted By: phillyred- 3/5/2013 11:29:15 AM Post Reply

Bailey O´Neill, honor student and ardent sports fan, turned 12 on Saturday. For months he had been preparing to receive the sacrament of confirmation, a Catholic rite of passage, at St. Joseph´s Church on March 18. Instead, he received last rites on his birthday, and the Collingdale, Delaware County, church is now preparing for his funeral. After suffering seizures, O'Neill was put into a medically induced coma about two weeks after being punched in a schoolyard Jan. 10 in what his family has called a bullying incident at Darby Township School. He died at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Sunday, officials said.

Reid warns GOP not to filibuster
Halligan nomination to DC court

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ramsey Cox Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 11:25:57 AM Post Reply

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Republicans should not filibuster a vote on the confirmation of Caitlin Halligan to serve on the District of Columbia circuit court. Reid filed a cloture motion on her nomination Monday, setting up a procedural vote for Wednesday morning. “If someone doesn’t want to vote for her, have them vote no, but don’t stop her from having an up-or-down vote out here,” Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “If my Republican colleagues choose to filibuster Ms. Halligan’s confirmation a second time, their naked partisanship will be exposed."

Israel on Verge of Revealing
New Government

FrontPage Magazine, by P. David Hornik Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/5/2013 11:14:39 AM Post Reply

President Obama is supposed to be in Israel in about two weeks. Israel doesn’t have a government. The Israeli elections were on January 22. Contrary to widespread expectations, the right didn’t score a big win; instead the electorate returned complex, angular results. The religious right gained, the secular right lost a lot, and a brand-new party that could be loosely described as secular-centrist, Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid, made a big splash by coming in second with 19 seats (out of a total of 120 in the Knesset).

Lewis, Holmes Norton urge Washington
Redskins to change team name

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Bob Cusack Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 11:12:20 AM Post Reply

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) are urging the Washington Redskins to seriously consider changing the team’s name. Lewis, a civil-rights hero, told The Hill that “we have to be sensitive” to the concerns that the name is offensive to some people. He said the NFL team “should consider” a name change, pointing out that he has been asked similar questions about the Atlanta Braves’s “Tomahawk Chop,” which has attracted criticism from Native American groups. In a phone interview on Monday, Norton said,

Army Spokesman Reminds Employees
and Civilians Not to Criticize
Commander in Chief

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 11:05:04 AM Post Reply

Stephen D. Abney, the chief public affairs official for the Army’s Joint Munitions Command, recently sent a message to all 6,000 employees he speaks for: Don’t criticize President Barack Obama or any political party to members of the press. The message was received by civilian contractors as well. “It’s not meant for contractors… It wasn’t intended for contractors,” said Abney of the email, which details how folks should deal with the press because of sequestration (mandatory spending cuts).

Divisions Among Republicans Stalling
Formation Of Benghazi Select Committee

Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Kerry Picket Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 10:54:11 AM Post Reply

Top Republicans with classified information about the terrorist assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi last September may not want to see a House Select Committee formed to investigate the attack that left four Americans dead, including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, although a number of Senate and House Republicans remain unsatisfied with information they have received from the Obama administration about the deadly attack. Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA), a subcommittee chairman on the House Appropriations Committee, has re -filed a resolution to form such a select committee. Only Speaker John Boehner can allow the

Narrative Fail: Poll Shows Obama
Sequester Blame Game Backfired

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 10:47:13 AM Post Reply

For weeks and weeks, the media aided and abetted President Obama´s crying of wolf over sequester. As Obama hit the campaign trail (literally) to blame Republicans for the upcoming spending cuts that would result in the end of America as we know it, the media went right along with him every step of the way (my personal fave is here). Meanwhile, it was conservative media reporting the truth -- the truth that it was Obama who had proposed sequester and signed it into law; the truth that it was Obama who had proposed sequester and

Hartford Courant Urges Less
Secrecy of Newtown Details

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Dr. Susan Berry Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 10:42:09 AM Post Reply

An editorial in the Hartford Courant last Wednesday states that Connecticut “lawmakers, the judiciary and law enforcement” are engaging in unusually heightened secrecy with regard to details of the tragic Sandy Hook shootings on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Connecticut. The editorial argues that the public deserves to have questions answered about the horrific shooting, and the legislature needs the information as it is making policy decisions in reaction to the event. Awful as the details are, secrecy is a mistake. It ignites public worry. It prevents ordinary people who might know critical details from becoming law enforcement allies.

Tucker Carlson: ‘The
Post’s piece is wrong’

Washington Post, by Erik Wemple Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/5/2013 10:35:05 AM Post Reply

Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson said this morning of the conflicting news accounts published by his site and the Washington Post: “The Post’s piece is wrong,” he told the Erik Wemple Blog early this morning. Yesterday afternoon The Post’s Carol Leonnig and Ernesto Londoño reported that an escort in the Dominican Republic had recanted earlier claims made in a videotaped interview with the Daily Caller that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez (D) had paid her to have sex with him. The woman has never met the senator, reported The Post, based on “court documents and two people

Waxman on Keystone: ‘We
Don’t Need this Dirty Oil’

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 10:34:41 AM Post Reply

Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) – the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee – said that America does not need the “dirty oil” that would be imported through the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, which received long-awaited favorable environmental review from the U.S. government. “We don’t need this dirty oil. To stop climate change and the destructive storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires that we are already experiencing, we should be investing in clean energy, not building a pipeline that will speed the exploitation of Canada’s highly polluting tar sands,”

TSA Sealed $50-Million Sequester-
Eve Deal to Buy New Uniforms

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 10:30:06 AM Post Reply

Feds keep hiring with sequesters
in place: 400 jobs posted on
first day back

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 10:18:41 AM Post Reply

The sequester cuts are now officially in place, but many government agencies appear to be hiring freely anyway. The U.S. Forest Service on Monday posted help-wanted ads for a few good men and women to work as “recreation aides” this summer, the Internal Revenue Service advertised for an office secretary in Maryland, the U.S. Mint wanted 24 people to help press coins, and the Agriculture Department said it needs three “insect production workers” to help grow bollworms in Phoenix. Monday marked the first regular workday under sequestration, and federal agencies posted more than 400 job ads by 6 p.m.

Dems say sequester will hurt
blacks, women more than others

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 10:13:52 AM Post Reply

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said Monday night that the $85 billion in cuts to federal spending, known as the sequester, will disproportionately affect blacks and other minorities, in part because they are more likely to work for the government. "Sequestration will impact everyone, but it will have a particularly harmful effect on communities of color who were hit first and worst by the great recession, and have yet to significantly feel the effects of the recovery," Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said Monday. "Federal budget cuts under sequestration would quickly mean cuts to federal, state and local

Pope Benedict XVI, Sarah Palin, Roberto
Duran and other big-name quitters who
walked away for better or worse

Cleveland Plain Dealer [OH], by Michael Heaton Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/5/2013 10:13:24 AM Post Reply

Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world recently when he announced that he was resigning due to age and health problems. Some people said popes aren´t allowed to retire. Some praised him for admitting he was not able to continue and making room for someone else. Quitting is controversial. Being a quitter is not something much admired. Unless you quit smoking. Some people quit for love, others for money. Some people are forced to quit while others quit on their own. Some can´t stop quitting because it gets them attention -- for a while.

$1.5 million on a new type of
beef jerky? Sen. Coburn targets
Defense Department waste

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 10:08:23 AM Post Reply

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Senator Tom Coburn blasting the Defense Department over wasteful spending. He insists there are plenty of expenses to cut from the defense budget without hurting the military. For instance, $1 million to send a spaceship to another galaxy, $1.5 million to cook up a new type of beef jerky, and why spend any amount of money on a 46-minute video production called "Grill It Safe" featuring grill sergeants showing off their own recipes. Now, we spoke with

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