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Filibustering Senator Reads
Alamo´s ´Victory Or Death´
Letter To Mark Anniversary
And Give Rand Paul ´Sustenance´

Cybercast News Service, by Dan Gainor Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/6/2013 7:21:54 PM Post Reply

The Rand Paul filibuster about drone attacks on U.S. citizens became historic today, not just because it was bipartisan, but because of a letter read by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). The junior senator from Texas marked the 177th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo, by reading aloud a letter from the fort´s commander - Col. William Barrett Travis. He asked Sen. Paul if "the following letter gives the senator from Kentucky encouragement and sustenance as he stands and fights for liberty?" Col. Travis reportedly drew a line in the sand and asked any willing to fight to step over.

Michelle Obama and John Kerry to
Honor Anti-Semite and 9/11 Fan

Weekly Standard, by Samuel Tadros Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/6/2013 7:16:20 PM Post Reply

On Friday March 8, Michelle Obama will join John Kerry at a special ceremony at the State Department to present ten women the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award. The award, says the press release, is given to “women around the globe who have shown exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for women’s rights and empowerment, often at great personal risk.” Five of these awards are being given to women from Muslim-majority countries, underscoring the unique plight of women in those countries. The only problem is that one of the women to be

Republicans aim to stop
Barack Obama´s golf trips

Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/6/2013 6:33:04 PM Post Reply

A Republican congressman is aiming to prevent President Barack Obama from enjoying any more trips to the golf course, as the fight over spending cuts in Washington descended once more into farce. The Obama administration yesterday claimed that the "sequester", a series of cuts that will slash $85 billion (£56 billion) from this year´s budget, had forced it to cancel visitor tours to the White House.[Snip] Rep Louie Gohmert, a conservative from Texas, took his opposition a step further with legislation that would prevent any public funds from being used "to transport the President to or from a golf

Reality check for Left-wing opponents
of Israel: Hamas bans women from
participating in the Gaza marathon
because it´s ´un-Islamic´

Telegraph [UK], by Toby Young Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/6/2013 6:27:10 PM Post Reply

There´s a wonderful moment in Radical Chic, Tom Wolfe´s essay about the party Leonard and Felicia Bernstein gave for the Black Panthers in their Park Avenue duplex, when Field Marshall John Cox, who´s addressing the assembled group of Upper East Side socialites, refers to "the merchants" who are "the exploiters of the black community". He´s talking about the Jews, of course, and it strikes a discordant note because a majority of the rich, Left-wing sympathisers at the party are themselves Jewish.[Snip] For those who aren´t sympathetic to fashionable, PC causes, there´s something particularly satisfying about moments like this. Suddenly, the

Republicans Allow Themselves
to be Imprisoned by Media Lies

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/6/2013 5:30:01 PM Post Reply

RUSH: I sit here and I think it would be the easiest thing in the world today to be a Republican. I think this is one of the easiest things to oppose. This would be one of the easiest presidents to identify. But there doesn´t seem to be any desire on the part of any Republican anywhere to do it. Instead, they´re sitting around wringing their hands over why they lost the election, and they´re all focusing on the wrong things. And they´re all prisoners to the daily media narrative.

Fearless Cruz Breaks Down Holder

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/6/2013 5:20:10 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Let´s go to the audio sound bites, because it appears, Mr. Snerdley, that Ted Cruz actually goaded Holder into admitting that killing Americans with drones on US soil is unconstitutional. We´ve got three bites. I don´t think I can get ´em all in, but we´ll get started because these are great. Ted Cruz is fearless. This is a lesson for conservatives everywhere. They´ve been writing Holder letters. They´ve been doing all kinds of things, but Ted Cruz challenged him face-to-face this morning in Washington during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Attorney General Eric Holder
is Criminally Dangerous

Center for Individual Freedom, by Quin Hillyer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/6/2013 5:17:16 PM Post Reply

With the news today that Eric Holder has told Kentucky’s U.S. Sen. Rand Paul that President Obama “has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial,” it is now apparent that this man is criminally out of control, and a menace to society. This chilling, outrageous, tyrannical assertion of power comes on top of a stunning assertion that he himself is entirely above the law giving Congress the power to oversee federal agencies and to enforce said power — which derives directly from the Constitution —

The American Left Mourns Chavez

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/6/2013 5:13:22 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Hugo Chavez is room temperature. I know that. The smell of sulfur is everywhere, and, yes, we have the sound bites. The media in this country is extremely sad. It´s hilarious to listen to this. We have story here from USA Today, and the way they headline the story is this: "´Who Will Take Care Of Us?´ Poor Say After Chávez Dies." There´s an object lesson here about where this country is headed. We´ve joked often about the similarities between Hugo Chavez and Obama, but they´re really somewhat serious here.

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.

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