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Unemployment in France
hits 14-year high

Telegraph [UK], by Rebecca Clancy Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/7/2013 6:41:50 AM Post Reply

The jobless rate in the eurozone´s second-largest economy increased hit 10.6pc in the final quarter of last year, up from 10.2pc in third quarter, the national statistics institute Insee said. French unemployment has been climbing steadily since the end of 2011 and is now at its highest since 1999. Concerns about high debt amid a slowing global economy have driven up unemployment rates across Europe. While France has avoided the worst of the crisis so far, its high and rising unemployment rate indicates its economy is also in trouble. At the start of the year car maker Renault

Rand Paul Yields The Floor, Ending
Nearly 13 Hour-Long Filibuster
Over Obama’s Drone Strikes

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/7/2013 6:25:49 AM Post Reply

After nearly 13 hours of filibustering, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) finally yielded the floor, putting an end to his historic protest against the administration’s lack of answers on its authority to execute targeted assassinations of American citizens abroad and on U.S. soil.Sen. Paul began his filibuster of Obama’s CIA pick John Brennan at 11:47 a.m. ET Wednesday and wrapped up at 12:39 a.m. Thursday morning. Upon conclusion, Republicans present in the Senate applauded for their colleague’s efforts in bringing awareness to the administration’s executive overreach.

Is the South Still Racist?

Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Henninger Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 6:08:31 AM Post Reply

At times even a chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court finds it useful, as the saying goes, to put the hay down where the goats can get it. And so it was last week in oral arguments over a big voting-rights case. At issue in Shelby County v. Holder was whether some states in the American South, unlike many states in the North, must still submit any change in voting practices to the Justice Department for approval, as required by one section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted,

Can the IRS handle Obamacare?

Daily Caller, by Ryan Ellis Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 6:03:15 AM Post Reply

This week the IRS announced that it was finally able to begin accepting all individual income tax returns to process refunds — nearly two months after tax season officially began. Up until now, millions of Americans wanting to claim tax refunds have been stymied by the IRS’s inability to update its computer systems to reflect the new post-fiscal cliff tax law. The bad news for taxpayers is that things will only get worse as the IRS begins to implement most of the provisions of the Obamacare healthcare law. According to a series of reports published by the non-partisan

Websites such as CaseyAnthonyIsInnocent.com
fuel moral, financial support for ´the
most hated woman in America´

New York Daily News, by David Boroff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:59:38 AM Post Reply

"The most hated woman in America" lives off the kindness of strangers. And quite a few strangers, it seems. Casey Anthony, found not guilty in the 2011 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, is so hated that she rarely shows her face in public. She came out of seclusion on Monday for the first time since her acquittal, only to admit in a bankruptcy hearing in Tampa that she has no job, no car and little money. "I guess you could say I´m living free off the kindness" of others, Anthony said. Much of that kindness is coming online.

Hillary Clinton’s Vision for a
More “Palatable” America

Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:54:11 AM Post Reply

In my earlier post on the Obama White House turf wars that continually impede the administration’s ability to form coherent and thoughtful policy prescriptions, I mentioned Vali Nasr’s piece in Foreign Policy and his evident sympathies for the Hillary Clinton wing of the administration over the Obama wing. If Clinton does indeed run for president in 2016, as many expect her to, stories like these will serve as the building blocks of her campaign: she shared in the administration’s successes, the storyline will go, but the failures only occurred because nobody listened to her. That storyline is bunk,

Obama´s ´partisan message
management´ is catching up to him

Creators Syndicate, by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/7/2013 5:48:03 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- I do not know about you, but to me this sequestration imbroglio is getting interesting. Last week, I wrote of my surprise that a basic untruth was being repeated over and over again by the White House, to wit, that the Republicans were responsible for the monstrosity of sequestration. I wrote that, as I recalled it, sequestration was an idea introduced by the White House to coax the Republicans and the Democrats into a deal in the summer of 2011 to raise the ceiling on the national debt. Remember that deal?

Winning on Principle

American Thinker, by J. Robert Smith Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 3/7/2013 5:45:54 AM Post Reply

"Set aside the merits and think about the politics" is the pith of Ramesh Ponnuru´s advice to conservatives at Bloomberg.com a few days ago. In a short article titled: "Do Conservatives Actually Want to Win Elections," Ponnuru examines a few recent instances where conservatives are presumed to eschew the practical in favor of the dogmatic. As to the first -- setting aside the merits and thinking about the politics -- it begs the question: "Why on earth would conservatives divorce merit -- or principle -- from politics?"

Americans speak every language,
but only English unites us

Boston Globe, by Jeff Jacoby Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:43:04 AM Post Reply

Gabriel Gomez, one of three Republicans vying for the US Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, speaks Spanish like a native and seems intent on making sure every voter knows it. The Cohasset businessman, a former Navy SEAL commander, announced his candidacy last month in an online video that opened in Spanish: “Me llamo Gabriel Gomez, y yo estoy anunciando que voy a correr para ser senador de los Estados Unidos.” Then he switched to English: “For those of you who don’t speak Spanish, today I’m announcing my run for US Senate.”

William F. Buckley Jr.
and CPAC´s Mission

the American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 3/7/2013 5:40:55 AM Post Reply

CPAC is another week distant. Speakers announced. Cue the usual controversies. This year’s controversy awards go to the alleged “snubbing” of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — a speaker last year but not invited this year. Another winner in the controversy department is the decision not to have official participation by a gay group — GOP Proud . (And full disclosure here, last year I was a panelist at CPAC and, alas, cannot attend this year. I will miss it.)

TSA rule change: Knives
down, shoes must go

Washington Post, by Jonathan Capehart Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:38:04 AM Post Reply

You know, I’m just thrilled that air travelers will soon be permitted to carry small knives, hockey sticks and golf clubs on board airplanes. Now all those parents coming home from Disneyland or Disney World won’t have to toss out their harmless souvenirs for their kids. And the would-be MacGyvers among us won’t be rendered defenseless now that they can bring Swiss Army knives and other bladed instruments on board again. You never know when they will come in handy. In episode 134, MacGyver used one to slide down a canvas backdrop. And in episode 45,

Brennan Signals
Our Saudi Partners

American Thinker, by Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 3/7/2013 5:33:50 AM Post Reply

When President Obama met Saudi King Abdullah in London in 2009, the former bowed low before the latter. No American president had ever so abased himself before one of the world´s most oppressive rulers before. Now, Mr. Obama has nominated John Brennan to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Signals Intelligence, or sigint, is the science of interpreting signals sent by enemies of the United States. With his Arabic-language skills, John Brennan ought to be good at interpreting signals.

When America Was Female

Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:30:44 AM Post Reply

The photos of the historic suffragette March on Washington on March 3, 1913, that were all over the place over the weekend were a reminder of how far America has come in the last century, and of how much American women have been at the forefront of pushing the international rights of women forward. But as I admired their bonnets and their courage, their side-buttoned boots and hooded woolen cloaks and looks of fierce determination, the women in the 100-year-old images also raised for me some slightly more prosaic questions. Why were some staging tableaux wearing breastplates

Winter Storm Saturn: Eastern Beast

The Weather Channel, by Jon Erdman Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 3/7/2013 5:25:40 AM Post Reply

As Winter Storm Saturn heads farther east into the Atlantic Ocean, the rain and snow mixture in the Mid-Atlantic States will come to an end Wednesday night. The storm dumped up to 20 inches of snow in western Virginia on Wednesday. Temperatures were just barely mild enough to prevent any major accumulations in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Farther north, a rain and snow mixture changing to all snow will spread into the New York City metro area and southern New England Wednesday evening into early Thursday accompanied by strong, gusty winds.

Team America Shut Down

National Review Online, by George Weigel Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 3/7/2013 5:25:33 AM Post Reply

During his not altogether serene tenure as papal spokesman and head of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, S.J., has perfected a rhetorical style that is redolent of the years of Pius XII and the last heyday of the Papal Court, when the Vatican daily, L’Osservatore Romano, would begin a story based on an interview with the pontiff with the stock phrase, “As we gathered from the august lips . . .”

Ragtime Cowboy Joe Biden

Washington Times, by Emily Miller Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:25:21 AM Post Reply

The vice president of the United States shouldn’t dispense advice that would put anyone taking it behind bars. In his role as President Obama’s top lobbyist for gun control, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been shooting from both hip and lip, promoting the shotgun as the alternative to the sporting rifle. The shotgun is a great weapon, for self-defense and otherwise, but only when used responsibly. “My shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15,” Cowboy Joe explained in an interview with Field & Stream magazine, “because [if] you want to keep someone away from your house,

O’s Rx: maximize America’s pain

New York Post, by Michael A. Walsh Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/7/2013 5:20:38 AM Post Reply

Planning on taking the kids to see the White House this spring? Forget about it: “Due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration, we regret to inform you that White House tours will be canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013, until further notice,” says a recorded message at the visitors’ center. OK, what about a trip to the sunny, scenic southwest? Maybe not: The Department of Homeland Security has already released 2,000 illegal aliens facing criminal deportation, and promises to set lose another 3,000 by month’s end. Of course, you may want to just stay home anyway, with the TSA threatening longer lines

Once Again, Obama Suggests
That Laws Don’t Apply to Him

Weekly Standard, by Jeffrey H. Anderson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:16:23 AM Post Reply

President Obama has grown fond of saying that he’s “not a dictator,” “not a king,” and “not the emperor,” but is instead “the president.” Whether his tendency to clarify a seemingly obvious point reveals his inner desires or not, his actions in a variety of ways suggest that he doesn’t think the president shares his fellow citizens’ ongoing obligation to obey the law. To the contrary, he seems to view the president as being somewhat above the law. The latest example involves Obama’s legal obligation to submit a budget by the first Monday in February. We’ve now passed

Inside John Thavis’s ‘Vatican Diaries’

Daily Beast, by Barbie Latza Nardeau Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:09:50 AM Post Reply

Vatican insider John Thavis always had a hunch Pope Benedict XVI would retire. But he had no idea it would coincide with the release of his book Vatican Diaries, which was published on February 21. “I’d like to say I had planned it that way,” he told The Daily Beast in the Vatican’s press office days after the papal resignation. “But it was just a happy coincidence.” Thavis’s book is a notebook dump of sorts gathered from 30 years working as a Catholic News Service Vaticanista—the official term used for Rome journalists who have personal cellphone numbers

Beautifully Medieval California

PJ Media, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/7/2013 5:01:44 AM Post Reply

Gates Close at Dusk At about dusk, I close two large metal gates to my driveways. The security lights come on, and I enjoy intramural life. I am not protecting my dogs from coyotes, although there are many in the vineyard, but rather the farmhouse from the odd array of visitors, the lost, and criminals that can make up the now normal nighttime world of central California. If you doubt me, just peruse the Fresno Bee for the sort of things that occur nightly. From the past year I offer the following catalogue of those who have visited the farm

WaPo: Yep, White House
is still lying about janitors

Hot Air, by Mary Katharine Ham Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/7/2013 4:55:00 AM Post Reply

This is so perfectly symbolic of the White House’s strategy on sequestration, that I had to highlight it. This is the second time the Washington Post fact-checker has awarded the administration Pinnocchios (four this time) in one week, for the same lie. Which is to say, wow, this is a really big, fat lie. First, the substance of the claim in question, made in backpedaling response to Glenn Kessler’s first fact check on the issue of janitors: “You know, those Capitol janitors will not get as much overtime. I’m sure they think less pay,

Do We on the Right
Still Trust the People?

National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/7/2013 4:51:18 AM Post Reply

The midweek edition of the Morning Jolt, making its way through the piles of snow mostly rain in northern Virginia, features the death of Hugo Chávez, Donald Trump joining the roster of CPAC speakers, the administration’s claim that it can kill U.S. citizens on U.S. soil with drones, and then this big question for conservatives to tackle . . . Our Big Challenge: Do We on the Right Still Trust the People? My fellow conservatives . . . the state of our movement is not strong. Let’s face it.

Rand Paul’s 13 Hour Filibuster – The
Talking Kind – Against John Brennan

ABC News, by Z. Byron Wolf Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/7/2013 4:45:23 AM Post Reply

Rand Paul yielded the Senate floor and his live filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA at 12:39 a.m. – a little less than 13 hours after he started talking – to applause from his colleagues a bit of a joke. “I would go for another 12 hours and try to break Strom Thurmond’s record, but I have learned there are limits and I have to go take care of one of those right now.” It is not clear if there are enough votes to block Brennan, but Paul did change the mind of some of his colleagues,

Obama promised to close Guantánamo.
Instead, he´s made it worse

Guardian [UK], by Murtaza Hussain Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 3/7/2013 1:05:58 AM Post Reply

In his letters, Guantánamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer appeals in desperation to his captors and the outside world: "Please … torture me in the old way. Here they destroy people mentally and physically without leaving marks." (Snip) Despite running on an explicit campaign promise to shut down the island prison which has become a symbol of the abuses of the "war on terror", President Obama has continued to preside over its operation. And by recent accounts, under his tenure, the conditions for prisoners there – from both a physical and legal standpoint – have become markedly

Jon Stewart voices support
for Rand Paul filibuster:
´Holy Howard Roark´s ghost´

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: Donttaxmebro- 3/7/2013 12:35:09 AM Post Reply

As Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director wound late into the night, he got the support of one unlikely media personality: Comedy Central “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart. “Holy Howard Roark’s ghost — it looks like we got us a good old fashion actual talkie filibuster,” Stewart said. “The kind our grandparents tried to tell us about but never got through, because we were too busy playing jacks and tiddlywinks with our friends waiting for our turn to freebase in the shed. Ah, the ‘70s or ‘50s

Rand Paul’s filibuster —
is it grandstanding
or something worse?

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/6/2013 11:28:31 PM Post Reply

I agree with John’s analysis of Rand Pauls’ filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination. Paul purports to be filibustering in response to Eric Holder’s statements about the circumstances under which the U.S. might launch a drone attack against citizens here at home, and the constitutionality of such attacks. But, as John showed, Holder’s position in his response on this issue, as set forth in a letter to Paul, is correct. Moreover, in his testimony today, Holder agreed with Ted Cruz that drone attacks on U.S. citizens here at home are unconstitutional unless the citizen

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