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A Scientist´s Misguided Crusade

New York Times, by Joe Nocera Original Article

Posted By: Northcross- 3/5/2013 11:10:27 PM Post Reply

Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the State Department released its “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement” for the highly contentious Keystone XL pipeline, which Canada hopes to build to move its tar sands oil to refineries in the United States. In effect, the statement said there were no environmental impediments that would prevent President Obama from approving the pipeline. Two hours and 20 minutes later, I received a blast e-mail containing a statement by James Hansen, the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA — i.e., NASA’s chief climate scientist.

NKorea vows to cancel
´53 Korean War cease-fire

Associated Press, by Foster Klug Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/5/2013 11:05:13 PM Post Reply

Seoul, South Korea - North Korea´s military is vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, straining already frayed ties between Washington and Pyongyang as the United Nations moves to impose punishing sanctions over the North´s recent nuclear test. Without elaborating, the Korean People´s Army Supreme Command boasted of having "lighter and smaller nukes" and warned late Tuesday of "surgical strikes" meant to unify the divided Korean Peninsula. The statement cited ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military drills that Pyongyang propaganda considers invasion

The Childish Defense
of Bradley Manning

FrontPage Magazine, by Alan W. Dowd Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 3/5/2013 10:44:56 PM Post Reply

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has confessed to providing military and diplomatic secrets to WikiLeaks, pleading guilty to 10 criminal counts for what he once braggingly—and erroneously—called “the largest data spillage in American history.” In fact, what Manning perpetrated was the purposeful, premeditated and arguably treasonous publication of stolen national-security secrets. This was not a leak or a spill. [Snip] Over the years, Assange and his anarchists have published operations manuals for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay; classified reports on the Battle of Fallujah;

Boy,7, suspended for shaping
pastry into gun, dad says

FOX News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 3/5/2013 10:31:33 PM Post Reply

A 7-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from school for two days for shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun, according to his father. FoxBaltimore.com reports that Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, was eating a strawberry tart when he decided to shape it into a mountain. "All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn´t look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun [kind of]," Josh told the station. Josh, who suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,

February sets another record
for Kansans applying for
concealed carry permit

Wichita Eagle [KS], by Rick Plumlee Original Article

Posted By: wildcat1- 3/5/2013 10:18:05 PM Post Reply

Two months of record-setting applications for permits to carry concealed handguns has put a strain on the state’s ability to handle those requests as quickly as required by law. State law requires the applications be approved or denied within 90 days. “We are processing applications right at the 90-day statutory requirement,” Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday. For a second consecutive month, the state received a record number of applications. Schmidt’s office reported that 3,573 applications were filed in February. That surpasses the previous one-month record

Anti-Obesity Programs
Fatten Government

Investor´s Business Daily, by Betsy McCaughey Original Article

Posted By: Emerson- 3/5/2013 10:17:57 PM Post Reply

On Feb. 26, first lady Michelle Obama walked into the produce section of a Wal-Mart in Springfield, Mo., to announce the three-year anniversary of her Healthy Food Financing Initiative, a program to bring stores selling fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods deemed "food deserts." Making it easier to buy produce will reduce obesity, Mrs. Obama claimed. (Snip) In truth, the federal government is spending recklessly on anti-obesity programs based on sham science. Before the president whines again that shaving 2.4% off the federal budget will harm the neediest,

But You Are the Pizza Police

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 9:55:09 PM Post Reply

To find what is wrong with what passes for opposition to Obama-style Big Government, look no further than this afternoon’s confounding post, “The Pizza Police,” authored by two Beltway Republican leaders, Reps. Fred Upton (House Commerce Committee chairman) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (House Republican Conference chairwoman). It is especially precious to find Rep. Upton complaining about the president’s “Washington-knows-best regulatory state” in light of his distinction as co-author of the incandescent light bulb ban, his enthusiasm for taxing Americans to underwrite Leviathan’s green-energy scam, his support for government bail-outs of favored private industries, and so on.

Exxon Mobil plans multibillion-
dollar Baytown plant expansion

Houston Chronicle, by Emily Pickrell Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/5/2013 9:42:27 PM Post Reply

Exxon Mobil Corp. is expanding the capacity of its Baytown complex to boost its capacity for turning natural gas into petrochemical building blocks, a multibillion-dollar upgrade the company believes makes sense even if gas prices rise from lows that have driven a manufacturing surge. The company announced the project Tuesday afternoon at the IHS CERAWeek conference, a five-day gathering of industry heavyweights at the Hilton Americas downtown. Permit applications are pending. Irving-based Exxon Mobil is the largest U.S. producer of natural gas and plans to leverage its bounty into a huge expansion

Portland terrorism arrest:
Man accused of assisting Pakistan
bomber is city employee

The Oregonian, by Helen Jung Original Article

Posted By: Mushroom- 3/5/2013 9:42:02 PM Post Reply

A Portland man accused of helping a suicide bomber in a deadly 2009 attack in Pakistan is a wastewater operator for Portland´s Environmental Services bureau. Linc Mann, the agency´s spokesman declined to give any more details about Reaz Qadir Khan, saying ´´we´re just learning about this.´´ Khan, 48, was charged in federal court on Tuesday with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. He has pleaded not guilty.

Fox Biz slams CNBC´s
switch to reality TV

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 9:40:46 PM Post Reply

The business TV wars are heating up, now that CNBC has moved to air reality shows about car salesmen and treasure hunters, potentially providing Fox Business Network with an opening to grab more business news-focused viewers. The recent dust-up between the two business networks followed a recent story revealing that CNBC has a policy prohibiting guests from appearing on other business TV, like Fox or Bloomberg, within 24 hours of a CNBC appearance. Fox jumped on the story, airing an ad asking: "Does CNBC really think they can order CEOs around." They even ran the ad on CNBC,

Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez´s
Death: ´I Lost a Friend´

The Hollywood Reporter, by Rebecca Ford Original Article

Posted By: Hermoine- 3/5/2013 9:36:57 PM Post Reply

"I mourn a great hero," said Oliver Stone of the Venezuelan president who died on Tuesday after a long bout with cancer. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday after a long bout with cancer. He was 58. The controversial leader had a slew of Hollywood heavyweights supporting him throughout his reign, with the most vocal two being actor Sean Penn and filmmaker Oliver Stone.

Airports to Janet Napolitano:
You’re wrong about delays

Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/5/2013 9:34:49 PM Post Reply

Officials with airports cited by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as examples of how the sequester would delay airline travelers say she’s wrong — they’re not delaying flights one bit. “We haven’t had any slowdowns at all,” said Marshall Lowe, a spokesman for Los Angeles International Airport, one of the airports named by Ms. Napolitano, The Telegraph reported. Mr. Lowe added that he had been on duty all weekend — and even then, there were no reports of the security delays Ms. Napolitano warned was occurring as a result of mandated budget cuts.

Russians Conduct Huge Nuke Drill

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/5/2013 9:31:25 PM Post Reply

Russian nuclear forces conducted a major exercise last month that tested the transport of both strategic and tactical nuclear weapons near Europe, according to United States officials. The exercise raised concerns inside the Pentagon and with the U.S. European Command because it was the largest exercise of its kind in 20 years and involved heightened alert status of Russian nuclear forces. The nuclear drills were part of other military maneuvers in Russia carried out between Feb. 17 and Feb. 21. The exercises followed a recent surge in Russian strategic bomber flights

Drone strikes against Americans
on U.S. soil are legal

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/5/2013 9:27:11 PM Post Reply

Attorney General Eric Holder can imagine a scenario in which it would be constitutional to carry out a drone strike against an American on American soil, he wrote in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. “It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States,” Holder replied in a letter yesterday to Paul’s question about whether Obama

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

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