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The Death of Another Tyrant

Commentary Magazine, by Ben Cohen Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/5/2013 9:22:59 PM Post Reply

Finally, after weeks of speculation, the news is official: Hugo Chavez is dead. Venezuela’s Comandante, who kept an iron grip on power for 14 years, left this world, appropriately enough, on the 60th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death. The similarities between the two dictators are compelling. Both Stalin and Chavez profoundly believed in a new, revolutionary morality that dispensed with such trifles as a free press and an independent judiciary. Even more pertinently, just as Stalin was, in his final months, obsessive to the point of paranoia about doctors in the pay of Zionism and Western imperialism poisoning him

Obama playing both economic
savior and Grim Reaper

Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 9:22:23 PM Post Reply

President Obama has a messaging problem. The White House typically trumpets each bit of positive economic news as proof that Obama is ushering in a wave of new jobs. At the same time, the president has been traveling the country warning that doomsday is at hand, that $85 billion in federal spending cuts that kicked in March 1 are about to devastate the economy. The problem with the White House´s dueling messages became apparent Tuesday when the Dow Jones industrial average surged to an all-time high. If the economy was in such danger from so-called sequestration,

Violence Against Women Act--
Passed in GOP-Controlled
House--Covers Transgenders

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 9:13:22 PM Post Reply

Provisions in the recently passed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that single-out gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT) put domestic violence among those groups at the center of the federal effort to address such violence nationwide. After it passed the Democrat-controlled Senate, the Republican leadership brought the bill up for a vote last week in the House and it passed. It has now been sent to President Obama for his signature. The new law does not provide a definition for transgender or bisexual. However, the American Psychological Associationdefines transgender as

Family backs adult
care center that refused
CPR to dying woman

Los Angeles Times, by Hailey Branson-Potts Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/5/2013 8:59:51 PM Post Reply

The family of an 87-year-old woman who died after a staff member at a Bakersfield nursing home refused to perform CPR last week backed the decision and said they do not plan to sue the facility. In a statement to the Associated Press, the family said the woman did not want life-prolonging intervention at the home. "We understand that the 911 tape of this event has caused concern, but our family knows that mom had full knowledge of the limitations of Glenwood Gardens and is at peace," the statement read.

Bill O’Reilly Blows Up In Epic
Segment With Alan Colmes, Rages
At Him: ‘This Is Just Bull-Blank!’

Mediaite, by Josh Feldman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 8:42:23 PM Post Reply

Bill O’Reilly brought on Alan Colmes and Monica Crowley to talk about President Obama‘s seeming reticence to offer any meaningful spending cuts, but most of the segment involved O’Reilly getting into a shouting match with Colmes over Colmes not being able, as O’Reilly viewed it, to provide concrete examples of what Obama wants to cut. O’Reilly repeatedly shouted at Colmes, called him a liar, and declared his claims to be “bull-blank.” Colmes told O’Reilly that it shouldn’t be a surprise that Obama is trying to get Congress back in the hands of the Democrats in 2014,

Hugo Boss

Slate, by Christopher Hitchens Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/5/2013 8:40:35 PM Post Reply

Less than a day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s communication minister appeared on television to announce that the socialist leader was in failing health, Chávez has died. In 2010, Christopher Hitchens wrote about a 2008 visit to Venezuela with actor Sean Penn during which he gained a rare insight into Chávez’s mental health. Recent accounts of Hugo Chávez´s politicized necrophilia may seem almost too lurid to believe, but I can testify from personal experience that they may well be an understatement. In the early hours of July 16—(Snip) Venezuela´s capo officiated at a grisly ceremony.

NY Rep. Jose Serrano Tweets That
Hugo Chavez ‘Was Committed to
Empowering the Powerless’

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 8:37:45 PM Post Reply

In the One More Thing segment tonight, Eric Bolling pointed out the NY Representative Jose Serrano tweeted the following in reaction to Hugo Chavez’s death: (Snip) In a statement, he elaborated further: “I met President Chavez in 2005 when he came to my district at my invitation,” said Congressman Serrano. “His focus on the issues faced by the poor and disenfranchised in his country made him a truly revolutionary leader in the history of Latin America. He understood that after 400 years on the outside of the

The Great Ammunition Myth

National Review Online, by Charles C. W. Cooke Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/5/2013 8:34:46 PM Post Reply

Last year, the Social Security Administration put out a procurement request for 174,000 rounds of “.357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition,” prompting a few on the Internet to work themselves up into something of a frenzy. “It’s not outlandish,” claimed Paul Joseph Wilson, one of a team of professional paranoiacs on the Infowars website, “to suggest that the Social Security Administration is purchasing the bullets as part of preparations for civil unrest.” “Something strange is going on,” harmonized Breitbart’s William Bigelow. Even Mark Levin was concerned.

Family of CA elderly woman who
died after being denied CPR says
she didn’t want intervention

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/5/2013 8:32:31 PM Post Reply

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Family of CA elderly woman who died after being denied CPR says she didn’t want intervention.

Economic Optimism In U.S.
Plunges To A 15-Month Low

Investor´s Business Daily, by Ed Carson Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/5/2013 7:57:04 PM Post Reply

With tax hikes and rising gasoline prices sapping consumers´ pocketbooks and politicians preaching sequester gloom and doom, the IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index plunged 5.1 points in March to 42.2, the lowest since December 2011. The federal economic policies confidence gauge fell 11% to 35.5, also a 15-month low. The six-month outlook index cratered 18% to 38.8, the worst since October 2011. The personal financial outlook reading lost 4.4% to 52.2, though that´s still above the neutral 50 level separating optimism and pessimism. January personal income sank 3.6%, the most in 20 years, in the wake of fiscal cliff tax hikes on

Why Is Obama´s Growing DHS
Army Buying Armored Vehicles?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/5/2013 7:51:51 PM Post Reply

Security: In addition to stockpiling over a billion bullets and thousands of semiautomatic weapons the feds would deny U.S. citizens, the vehicle of choice for fighting the counterinsurgency war in Iraq is appearing on U.S. streets. The sequestration question du jour is why the Department of Homeland Security, busy releasing hundreds, if not thousands, of deportable and detained illegal aliens due to budget constraints, is buying several thousand Mine Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles? And just who are they intended to be used against?

Dems And Press Cry Over
Sequester Cuts And The Poor

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/5/2013 7:43:59 PM Post Reply

Sequester: The press and Democratic lawmakers complain that the automatic cuts will hurt the poor, minorities and women most. So why were they silent about the president´s policies that caused these groups far more harm? Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a story headlined: "As Automatic Budget Cuts Go Into Effect, Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard." It wasn´t exactly a model of unbiased reporting. While the story noted that the sequester spares "many programs that aid the poorest," it failed to explain that these programs represent the vast bulk of the money spent on the poor.

Antibiotic Resistant
Bacteria Rising in Hospitals

Bloomberg News, by Elizabeth Lopatto Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/5/2013 6:12:37 PM Post Reply

A group of potentially fatal germs that are difficult to treat because they resist antibiotics are becoming more of a threat, according to a U.S. report. About 4 percent of U.S. hospitals and 18 percent of long- term acute care hospitals, such as those that provide ventilation and wound care, had an infection from carbapenem- resistant Enterobacteriaceae, in the first half of 2012, according to a report released today by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This family of germs includes organisms such as Klebsiella and E. coli. Healthy people usually don’t get infected from these germs.

Congressman: No Golf for
Obama Until WH Tours Resume

National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 5:48:16 PM Post Reply

Representative Louie Gohmert (R., Texas) has filed an amendment to the House GOP’s six-month continuing resolution that would bar federal funds from being spent on President Obama’s golf outings until public tours of the White House start up again. Earlier today, the White House announced that it was cancelling public tours beginning March 9 as a result of spending cuts mandated by sequestration. Below is the relevant section:

White House Tells Agencies
to Bring the Pain

National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 5:44:40 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration is urging federal officials not to exercise maximum flexibility in implementing automatic spending reductions in order to validate White House talking points, according to an e-mail sent Monday. In the message, Charles Brown, a regional director of the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), recalls asking senior administration officials “if there was any latitude in how the sequestration cuts . . . could be managed” in order to minimize their impact on federal fish inspections. Brown said officials in Washington advised him against trying to lessen the impact of

Understanding the Limbaugh Theorem:
Obama Inflicts Pain for Political Gain

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/5/2013 5:29:15 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Well, what´s so funny, that I said he doesn´t even know the loop on it? Is that what was funny? All right. Well, maybe I will. I don´t know. I´m conflicted over whether or not to do this. My instincts are saying, "Don´t do it." But everybody´s saying, "No, you gotta do it." So I don´t know. I´ll think about it. Anyway, I know you´re wondering what I´m talking about. We´re talking about things here, the staff, back and forth. I got e-mails from listeners,

‘Freedom’ license plate
banned in Washington D.C.

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: nhchemist- 3/5/2013 5:28:49 PM Post Reply

The word “FREEDOM” is among the list of banned vanity license plate slogans for Washington D.C., according to a government file obtained by a Freedom of Information Request filed by the transparency website GovernmentAttic.org. Other banned phrases include anti-tax messages such as "TAXKLLR" and "TAXRUS4" as well as any reference to the President of the United States such as “OBAMA,” “BARACK,” and “OBAMA44.? “RONPAUL” is also banned.

Hugo Chavez, fiery Venezuelan
leader, dies at 58

Associated Press, by Frank Bajak Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/5/2013 5:28:07 PM Post Reply

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the death in a

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez dies

USA Today, by Girish Gupta Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/5/2013 5:24:49 PM Post Reply

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the socialist leader who assailed U.S. influence in Latin America in his campaign against capitalism and democratic freedoms, died Tuesday. He was 58. Chávez succumbed to cancer after months of treatments in Cuba, whose communist leaders he admired and propped up with cheap Venezuelan oil. In power for 14 years, Chávez used oil money and vitriol to spread his "Bolivarian revolution" to neighboring states, playing a role in bolstering leftward turns in Ecuador and Bolivia and backing revolutionaries in Colombia. He hectored the United States often, belittling

Record Tax Revenue
Not Enough for Dems

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/5/2013 5:21:24 PM Post Reply

RUSH: The Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal government is going to take in a record number of dollars via tax revenue this year. That record is $2.7 trillion. Now, there´s two things about this. That $2.7 trillion in tax revenue, it´s an all-time record -- and who do you think is paying the majority of that $2.7 trillion when you understand that 48% of Americans are not paying any income tax? We´ve had the information up on my website for years about the breakdown. The top 1% pays X; the top 5% pays X.

Email tells feds to
make sequester as
painful as promised

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/5/2013 5:16:09 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequester’s effects, with an email this week appearing to show officials in Washington that because they already had promised the cuts would be devastating, they now have to follow through on that. In the email sent Monday by Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C., Mr. Brown asked “if there was any latitude” in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen

My Unwavering Faith in America

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/5/2013 5:15:54 PM Post Reply

RUSH: We´ve been talking about the sequester. Obama is purposefully inflicting pain on people in order to experience political gain. Now, one of the challenging things about this, as you all know, is we are attempting outreach to the low-information voters out there. I´ve heard people say, "But, Rush, by definition low-information voters are not listening to you." Oh, yes, they are. You must understand, folks, that most low-information voters don´t think of themselves as low-information voters. You remember when Mitt Romney made his campaign appearance last May to the usual batch of Republican donors,

Not a Dictator

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/5/2013 5:12:34 PM Post Reply

Let´s dwell on that interesting exchange at Friday´s press conference between President Obama and CNN´s Jessica Yellin: Yellin: Mr. President, to your question, what could you do--first of all, couldn´t you just have them down here and refuse to let them leave the room until you have a deal? Obama: I mean, Jessica, I am not a dictator. I´m the President. So, ultimately, if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say, we need to go to catch a plane, I can´t have Secret Service block the doorway, right? When we first heard Obama´s "I am not a dictator," as

Fox to Launch Sports Cable Network .

Wall Street Journal, by William Launder Original Article

Posted By: Toledo- 3/5/2013 4:49:49 PM Post Reply

News Corp NWSA +2.37%.´s Fox said it will launch its highly anticipated Fox Sports 1 network on Aug. 17, with content ranging from Nascar races to college basketball.The launch of a national sports cable channel culminates a more than decade-long effort by Fox to establish itself as a destination for televised sports, a market that has long been dominated by Walt Disney Co.´s DIS +1.22%juggernaut ESPN network.Fox has in recent years invested heavily in sports programming,

TSA to allow small knives,
sporting gear on planes

Los Angeles Times, by Hugo Martin Original Article

Posted By: Hazymac- 3/5/2013 4:33:15 PM Post Reply

For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, federal airport screeners will allow passengers to carry onto a plane small knives, as well as golf clubs, hockey sticks and pool cues. The policy change, which will take effect April 25, was immediately criticized by flight attendants, who say the move will create an unnecessary risk and further crowd the already limited space in the overhead bins. "While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked

Nolan Ryan could leave
Rangers by the end of
spring training, sources say

Star-Telegram [Fort Worth, TX], by Randy Galloway Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/5/2013 4:23:51 PM Post Reply

Yes, there´s been a shift of power in Arlington, which may or may not be the same as a power struggle, but the end result is the same. Either way, Jon Daniels wins and a guy named Rick George wins, because the ownership group of the Texas Rangers decided that was the direction to go. And the loser in all this? Nolan Ryan. All the above is a surprising development, and a risky development — I also say it’s a stupid development, because why jack with what has worked so well — but all of the above has been thoroughly sourced.

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