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Author Quotes Then-Professor
Obama Saying, ´I Don´t Believe People
Should Be Able To Own Guns´

Cybercast News Service, by Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/6/2013 5:13:20 PM Post Reply

In his new book, At the Brink, economist and author John Lott Jr., assesses the presidency of Barack Obama and recalls conversations regarding gun laws they had while working at the University of Chicago. In Chapter Three, Mr. Lott discusses gun-control and takes the reader back to his time at the University of Chicago, where he and then-professor Barack Obama spoke on numerous occasions about guns in America. "I don´t believe people should be able to own guns," Obama told Lott one day at the University of Chicago Law School. Lott explains that he first met Obama

Man of Straw

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/6/2013 5:09:41 PM Post Reply

The New Yorker´s Ryan Lizza has responded to the argument we made in yesterday´s column, namely that Barack Obama´s repeated musings to the effect that it would be nice to have dictatorial power amount to an acknowledgment, as we put it, "that he is ineffectual: that he lacks the political skill either to strike a compromise or to bend his opponents to his will." As Lizza sees it, the problem is "the tendency of many Washington pundits . . . to invest the Presidency with far more power that [sic] the Constitution gives it."

Will Rand Paul Break the
Filibuster Record Today?

National Journal, by Brian Resnick Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/6/2013 5:02:07 PM Post Reply

A snow day is a perfect day for a filibuster. No one really wants to work, so we might as well gather round and listen to a long, rambling tale on warfare and the legal limitations of drone warfare. Forget Netflix, this is the real House of Cards. And it´s awesome. Take this as your chance to watch one of the most celebrated — ahem detested — pageants of the American political process. As of this publishing, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is more than an hour into a filibuster of the confirmation proceedings for Obama´s CIA pick,

The Powerless Presidency

New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/6/2013 4:27:57 PM Post Reply

Last Friday’s press conference by Barack Obama marked the end of an era. It was March 1st, the day that the sequester was set to kick in, and the President had just come from a meeting with congressional leaders in the Oval Office. On the eve of previous fiscal deadlines, the White House and Congress often found a way to reach a deal, even if it was only a patchwork solution or a temporary fix. Not this time. A deal on the sequester was never really possible. Back in January, in return for agreeing

Sayonara, Asian Allies

Weekly Standard, by Ross Terrill Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/6/2013 4:05:22 PM Post Reply

The Senkaku Islands dispute is the first Japan-China security crisis in seven decades of peace. This puzzling contretemps between Asia’s two giants unnerves the region, whose waters host half of global trade, and President Barack Obama faces a test. American power anchors the China-Japan balance in a tripod that is the unsung secret of East Asia’s peace and progress. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is worried. “As a result of the trust and confidence between Japan and the United States having gone through a pretty rocky period,” he told the Washington Post on February 16, “Japan’s foreign policy clout

Exclusive Excerpt:
Roger Ailes Off Camera

Vanity Fair, by Zev Chafets Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/6/2013 3:27:33 PM Post Reply

Roger Ailes is one of the most powerful—and controversial—characters in television media, pilloried by critics and many in the mainstream media and lionized by conservative viewers who can’t get enough of his posse of charismatic hosts. His Fox News was accused of being the “communications arm of the Republican Party” in 2010 by then White House communications director Anita Dunn and has been criticized by Barack Obama himself (criticism that Ailes publicly countered with gusto, claiming the president “just has a different belief system from most Americans”).

Zimbabwe: Lion Mauls Woman to
Death While She has Sex with Lover

International Business Times [UK], by Hannah Osborne Original Article

Posted By: Rafter- 3/6/2013 3:15:38 PM Post Reply

A lion killed a woman while she was having sex in the bush with her boyfriend, reports have emerged. He managed to escape wearing nothing but a condom. The woman, identified as Sharai Mawera, was mauled to death in the attack in Mahombekombe, Kariba in Zimbabwe. She was severely injured in her neck and stomach. Her boyfriend, a fisherman who was not identified, heard the lion roar, MyZimbabwe reported. They had been having sex in a sideways position and he managed to escape wearing nothing but a condom. He turned back to see Mawera being mauled and rushed to

Top CDC Official Clueless
on WH Vaccine Claims

National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/6/2013 2:22:07 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration continues to stumble in its effort to dramatize the impact of sequestration. During a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday morning, Representative Andy Harris (R., Md.) challenged the White House over misleading claims about sequestration’s impact on vaccines for children. Harris asked Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), whether or not he was consulted by the White House regarding its state-by-state report on the negative impact of sequestration. Frieden, curiously, was unable to answer the question. “I would have to get back to you on that,” he said.

CPAC missteps again

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/6/2013 2:17:50 PM Post Reply

My posts on turmoil caused by CPAC’s decision to exclude New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the conservative gay group GOProud and the need for younger, more forward-thinking conservative leadership have engendered a very positive reaction from conservatives, many of them under 40 years old. But it didn’t please Al Cardenas, the head of the Conservative Union, which puts on CPAC. On Sunday afternoon I received this e-mail from him: Respectfully, I believe that you have totally missed the point regarding our invitations at CPAC.

Whisper campaign:
Jeb is old news

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 2:09:03 PM Post Reply

Wednesday´s Washington snow storm cancelled former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush´s latest media tour to promote his book on immigration and feed his burgeoning presidential campaign, but that didn´t stop the conservative whisper campaign denouncing his moderate policies. Several conservative activists, lobbyists and Hill staffers told Secrets that Bush missed his chance to run for president in 2012 and that his new support for taxes and an immigration policy that clashes with the latest GOP star, Sen. Marco Rubio, also of Florida, leaves him out in the cold. "Jeb Bush is so yesterday´s potatoes," said a key conservative source.

RIGHT NOW: Rand Paul Is
Doing A Real, Old-Fashioned
Filibuster On Civil Liberties And
Obama´s CIA Nominee

Business Insider, by Grace Wyler Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/6/2013 1:45:06 PM Post Reply

With the Senate prepared to confirm John Brennan as the next CIA Director, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul is filibustering the vote over concerns about the President Barack Obama´s record on civil liberties. "I will speak until I can no longer speak," Paul said. "I cannot sit quietly and let [the President] shred the Constitution."

White House Tours, Arranged by
Congress, Halted; But WH-Arranged
Easter Egg Roll Is Still On

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 1:36:08 PM Post Reply

The White House may be closed to spring break visitors because of staff shortages blamed on spending reductions, but it looks like the White House Easter Egg roll, a party for 35,000 hosted by the Obama family, is still on. Since public tours of the White House are arranged through congressional offices, cancellation of those long-planned tours might place additional pressure on lawmakers who did not find a way to avoid the sequester. But admission to the Easter Egg roll -- a White House tradition dating back to 1878 --

Hawaii Senate passes Steven Tyler
Act that seeks to protect celebrities’
privacy

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/6/2013 1:33:48 PM Post Reply

HONOLULU — The Hawaii state Senate passed the so-called Steven Tyler Act Tuesday, a bill that seeks to protect celebrities from overeager paparazzi by creating a civil violation if people take unwanted photos or videos of others in their private moments. The Aerosmith frontman from Massachusetts asked Sen. Kalani English to sponsor the legislation after unwanted photos were taken of him and his girlfriend last December and published in a national magazine, causing family drama.

NYC Deputy Mayor Trashes Rand Paul’s
Anti-Drone Crusade: Americans Are
‘Okay’ With Obama’s Drone Program

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 1:30:27 PM Post Reply

As Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) mounts a filibuster to prevent the U.S. Senate from confirming President Barack Obama’s nominee to become the next Central Intelligence Agency Director due to the White House’s drone warfare program, the hosts of MSNBC’s Now delved into public opinion on the matter. New York City’s Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson claimed that Paul is displaying his “idiosyncratic” style in filibustering Obama’s nominee. He added that most Americans trust the president and his determinations as to who should be subject to drone strikes. “Because you are the deputy mayor of New York City, you understand

Ted Cruz Goads Eric Holder Into
Admitting That Killing Americans
With Drones On U.S. Soil
Is Unconstitutional

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 1:24:49 PM Post Reply

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice sent shockwaves through the nation when Attorney General Eric Holder informed Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in writing that the White House would be within its legal authority to execute an American citizen via drone on U.S. soil if that person was determined to pose a threat to national security. On Wednesday, testifying before a Senate panel, Holder was prodded repeatedly about this assertion by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Holder eventually admitted that it would not be constitutional to execute an American citizen without due process.

It´s ´I Told You So´on Obamacare - Thread Closed

Townhall, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/6/2013 1:14:44 PM Post Reply

"What we´ve learned through the course of this program is that this is really not a sensible way for the health care system to be run." (Snip) He was talking about the apparently surprising need to halt enrollments in a program designed as a temporary bridge for people with pre-existing conditions who couldn´t wait to be covered by the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) when it fully kicks in next year. The program was allocated $5 billion, but some estimate it would take $40 billion to fund the effort. Such surprises are becoming routine.

Jeb Bush´s Plan to Win
Over Latinos Won´t Work

New Republic, by Nate Cohn Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 3/6/2013 1:12:45 PM Post Reply

Jeb Bush has long been one of the GOP´s most moderate voices on immigration reform, and now the former Florida governor is out with a new book that offers a plan for "resolving immigration issues for the long term" and making gains among Hispanic voters. Alas, it is not a persuasive plan. Some were surprised, others outraged after reports yesterday that Bush, in Immigration Wars, opposes a path to citizenship for undocumented workers.

Hugo Chavez: Leftist thug
turned Venezuela into Chicago

Washington Times, by Eric Golub Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 1:09:50 PM Post Reply

SACRAMENTO—Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez died from complications of cancer at age 58. With Cuba’s Fidel Castro dying, the last remaining major leftist autocracies are Chicago, New York and Los Angeles (San Francisco and Detroit have lost so many people that they no longer qualify as major). American liberals will scoff at the notion that their leaders are ruthless dictators, but the comparisons are overwhelming. Chavez was a devout socialist and anti-capitalist who nationalized businesses. In Chicago and other liberal cities, mayors crippled businesses by raising taxes to confiscatory levels. Businesses fled. Venezuela saw rampant poverty,

GOP filibuster blocks key
Obama judicial nominee

Washington Times, by Sean Lengell & Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 1:03:05 PM Post Reply

Senate Republicans on Wednesday delivered another blow to President Obama’s ability to fill high-level federal judicial openings, using a filibuster to block Caitlin Halligan’s nomination for a seat on the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Republicans have been blocking Ms. Halligan’s nomination for two years, calling her an activist on gun control, abortion rights and immigrant issues. A vote to end the filibuster was 51-41, shy of the 60 votes needed in the 100-member chamber to end debate and proceed toward a final vote. Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top

Rand Paul filibusters Brennan
nomination for CIA director

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 12:56:25 PM Post Reply

Sen. Rand Paul has taken to the floor of the U.S. Senate and is vowing to stay there “at length” in order to filibuster John O. Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to be the next CIA director. The freshman Kentucky Republican has said he will hold up the nomination until he gets more information about the U.S. drone execution program, which has become a major sore point for many lawmakers on Capitol Hill. “I will speak today until the president responds and says, ‘No, we won’t kill Americans in cafes. No, we won’t kill you at home at night,’”

Ex-representative Joe Kennedy
praises Hugo Chavez’s charity

Washington Post, by Aaron Blake Original Article

Posted By: woodsman- 3/6/2013 12:38:46 PM Post Reply

Former congressman Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) is mourning the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today, praising Chavez as someone who made a difference for poor people. Kennedy told the AP that Chavez helped 2 million Americans through a heating assistance program that the two men worked on together through Kennedy’s Citizen’s Energy charity. Kennedy said Chavez donated 200 million gallons of heating oil over eight years.

Government by Temper Tantrum

PJ Media, by Stephen Green Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/6/2013 12:21:46 PM Post Reply

As the father of two small boys, I’ve seen some tantrums these last few years. They follow a predictable script. • Child wants something • Dad says no (Snip)The government wants something. It wants to spend $3,803,000,000,000. It’s been told that it may only spend $3,759,000,000,000. (Please notice that nine zeroes are left unmolested.) And so now the government is going to throw a tantrum. It will hide its aircraft carrier, stop food-safety inspections, close the White House to tourists who flew in from hundreds or thousands of miles away. In other words,

Barack Obama, the Spending Jihadist

Washington Times, by Charles Hurt Original Article

Posted By: PeoplesRepublikNY- 3/6/2013 12:19:17 PM Post Reply

With $6 trillion down the drain, you might think that wild, drunken spending of other people’s money that we do not have is President Obama’s single greatest talent. Turns out there is something else he is even better at. That would be the hysterical, doom-and-gloom fear mongering we have witnessed these past few weeks over comparatively small cuts to the federal government. [Snip] What is truly astonishing and breathtaking here is that all of this doom and gloom Mr. Obama has predicted is precisely what he wants for this country.

Now Dems worry: Did
President Obama cry wolf?

Politico, by Glenn Thrush & Carrie Budoff Brown Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 12:18:40 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama hopes to spark a pitchfork revolt against Republicans over sequester-induced budget cuts — but many Democrats fret that he’s undermined that effort with an early strategy marred by hype, poor planning and muddled messaging. The stakes in the sequester debate aren’t quite as high as they were during the debt ceiling battle of 2011, but Democratic veterans of the Obama-Republican wars of 2009 and 2010 are getting a creepy sense of déjà vu from a White House messaging shop they believe fumbled the rollouts of the stimulus and health care initiatives.

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