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Fed Beige Book mentions Pa.,
Ohio drilling impact

Associated Press, by Kevin Becos Original Article

Posted By: John c- 3/7/2013 5:31:59 PM Post Reply

PITTSBURGH - The U.S. Federal Reserve´s latest survey of regional economic trends is mentioning the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom. The Fed´s latest Beige Book issued Wednesday mentions that Pennsylvania banks see customers paying down loans with natural gas royalty money. In neighboring Ohio the Fed says shale gas activity is expanding at a robust pace, but some auto dealers are worried they´re lose technicians to energy companies. Economists say it´s interesting that bankers and other businesses in the northeast are mentioning shale gas.

Closing White House Tours
Backfires on Obama

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/7/2013 5:25:42 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Let´s go to the audio sound bites. I mentioned that the president is having a little trouble here with the sequester and the White House tours being shut down. In fact, in Politico there´s a story: "Now Democrat Worry: Did President Obama Cry Wolf? -- 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."

MetLife to move 2,600 jobs
to NC from NE, Calif.

Associated Press, by Emery P. Dalesio Original Article

Posted By: beancounter- 3/7/2013 5:24:50 PM Post Reply

RALEIGH, N.C. - Insurance giant MetLife Inc. said Thursday it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other incentives that could reach $100 million. The insurer is shifting the jobs from Lowell and Boston, Mass.; Somerset, N.J.; Bloomfield, Conn.; Johnstown, Pa.; Warwick, R.I.; and Aliso Viejo and Irvine, Calif., MetLife spokesman John Calagna said. The positions will be consolidated in Charlotte, which will become the U.S. headquarters for MetLife´s retail business,

New York Hearing Set as Son-in-Law
of Bin Laden Is Caught

New York Times, by Mark Mazzetti & William K. Rashbaum Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/7/2013 5:23:54 PM Post Reply

Washington - A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden was recently arrested in the Middle East, was transferred to the United States and is now in a New York jail, according to two people briefed on the matter. The son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a former spokesman for Al Qaeda, was taken into American custody in Jordan and will appear in court in New York on Friday, one person said. He is facing numerous charges, including material support for terrorism. (Snip) Mr. Abu Ghaith’s capture is a rare recent case in which a Qaeda operative was detained overseas rather than killed.

Left in Uproar Over
Chafets Book on Ailes

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/7/2013 5:15:02 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Zev Chafets. Zev Chafets, author of the book on me -- the semibiographical tome on me, Army of One -- has a new book out on Roger Ailes. They excerpted three chapters. Well, it´s three pages in Vanity Fair on my computer. The excerpt features Ailes saying, "I like Joe Biden, but he´s as dumb as an ashtray." They excerpt Zev Chafets capturing Ailes saying, "The problem with Obama is he lazy. He´s never earned a dime in his life." That really made Wolf Blitzer mad. I mean, that really made him mad. See, when you call a black

Kelly Osbourne rushed to hospital
after suffering seizure: report

New York Daily News, by Rachel Maresca Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/7/2013 5:10:16 PM Post Reply

Kelly Osbourne has been rushed to the hospital due to a sudden seizure while filming an episode of E!´s "Fashion Police." An ambulance immediately rushed to the scene where Osbourne, 28, was taken away on a stretcher with a white sheet covering her whole body including her face to block her from any media. "It happened while they were shooting ´Fashion Police,´" a source told the Daily News. "Kelly said she wasn´t feeling well, and then Melissa said, ´Oh my God, she´s having a seizure!´ Melissa helped put her on the floor and then lay down next to her and talked her through it."

While the Old Bulls Went
Out to Dinner, the New
Kids in Town Threw a
Filibuster Party

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/7/2013 5:09:19 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Okay, folks, what we have here is a fascinating object lesson. What we have here is a golden opportunity. What is happening in the aftermath of the Rand Paul filibuster is very useful. This is extremely eye opening. The filibuster itself was eye opening and has its own educational aspects. But what´s happening in the aftermath is almost as intriguing to me. The way I would put it is, the establishment decided to go out to dinner last night. Obama took McCain and Lindsey Graham and

Rand Standing

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/7/2013 5:05:33 PM Post Reply

Whatever you think of the point he was trying to make--and in our case, that´s not much--there´s no denying that Sen. Rand Paul´s filibuster yesterday was quite a piece of political theater. As BuzzFeed.com reports: Paul´s nearly 13 hour long filibuster could mark a key turning point not only in the Kentucky Republican´s meteoric political career, but for a Republican Party that has struggled to find any footing since November´s electoral defeats. Fueled in large part by support from a Twitter political class that flexed its muscles on policy issues, Republicans rallied around Paul in a way that

Chavez Body to Be
Permanently Displayed

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/7/2013 4:53:31 PM Post Reply

Caracas, Venezuela - Venezuela´s acting president says Hugo Chavez´s embalmed body will be permanently displayed in a glass casket so that "his people will always have him." Vice President Nicolas Maduro says the remains will be put on permanent display at the Museum of the Revolution, close to the presidential palace where Chavez ruled for 14 years. Maduro says the president will lie in state first for at least another seven days. A state funeral for Chavez attended by some 33 heads of government is scheduled to begin Friday morning. Tens of thousands have already filed past his glass-topped casket

Brennan confirmed as CIA director -
but not without drama

CBS News, by Lucy Madison Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/7/2013 4:41:07 PM Post Reply

Following an epic, old-school,13-hour filibuster of John Brennan´s confirmation to helm the CIA, the Senate nevertheless approved the nominee today by a vote of 63-34, with a number of Republicans breaking ranks to vote in his favor. Three senators who caucus with Democrats -- Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. -- voted against Brennan´s confirmation, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., did not vote. Brennan, who has long served as the president´s top counterterrorism official, was widely expected to gain Senate approval

Dr. Manny: I am completely against
this new medical ‘death test’

Fox News, by Dr. Manny Alvarez Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/7/2013 4:33:54 PM Post Reply

Let me be very clear: I did not go into medicine to decide who lives and who dies. I went into health care because I wanted to heal, to comfort, to educate and to study the illnesses that afflict my patients. And I don’t need a crystal ball to know when a patient is extremely safe or when he or she is going to die. So I am somewhat confused as to the purpose of this new ‘mortality index.’ A new study from the University of California, San Francisco with funding from the federal

Investigators seeks answers
in lion´s fatal attack

Associated Press, by Gosia Wozniacka and Tracie Cone Original Article

Posted By: cheeflo- 3/7/2013 4:24:57 PM Post Reply

The Seattle-area intern fatally mauled by a lion at a Central California exotic animal park loved lions and tigers since childhood, "was absolutely fearless" around them and hoped to work at a zoo after her six-month internship, her father said late Wednesday. "She was at ease with those big cats," Paul Hanson, a Seattle-area attorney, said of his daughter, Dianna Hanson, 24. "They liked her."

Final cardinal arrives to
participate in conclave

Associated Press, by Nicole Winfield Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 3/7/2013 4:19:55 PM Post Reply

Vatican City — The last cardinal who will participate in the conclave to elect the next pope arrived in Rome on Thursday, meaning a date can now be set for the election. But it´s not clear when that decision will come. Some American and other cardinals say they want to continue the pre-conclave meetings that have been going on all week for as long as it takes so they can discern who among them has the stuff to be pope and discuss the problems of the church. Some Vatican-based cardinals, defensive about criticisms of the Vatican´s internal governance

What Do Mother Teresa and
Oprah Have in Common?
Big Heads in Korea

Wall Street Journal, by Evan Ramstad Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/7/2013 4:06:14 PM Post Reply

EUMSEONG, South Korea—Round a bend on a two-lane country road in central South Korea and Chung Geun-hee´s life work comes into view: dozens of giant granite heads. Like a Stonehenge gone wild, they stretch down a ridge line, up another and around a hill. Turn in to a parking lot and hundreds more come into view. For 20 years, Mr. Chung has ordered 12-foot-high busts of famous people from a sculpting school he owns in China, then has shipped them to the grounds of a psychiatric hospital and elderly care facility

What Liberals Need to
Understand About ´Gun Guys´

Atlantic, by Hope Reese Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/7/2013 3:34:59 PM Post Reply

Dan Baum is not your typical gun guy. He has a lifelong love of firearms he can trace back to the age of five. But he´s also a Jewish Democrat and a former staff writer for The New Yorker and feels like a misfit next to most gun owners, who identify overwhelmingly on the conservative side of the spectrum. In order to bridge this gap, Baum set off on a cross-country journey, chatting with everyone from a gun store owner in Louisville to a wild boar hunter in Texas to a Hollywood armorer.

U.S. to send delegation to
Chavez funeral

Washington Post, by Nick Miroff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/7/2013 3:31:11 PM Post Reply

Venezuela’s long, weepy goodbye to Hugo Chavez carried on Thursday as foreign heads of state — and even a delegation sent by the Obama administration — made their way to Caracas in advance of Friday’s funeral. Venezuelan authorities have not said when Chavez will be laid to rest, nor exactly where. It was just one of many uncertainties facing the country after Chavez succumbed to a long battle with cancer Tuesday at age 58, after 14 years in power. In what appeared to be a conciliatory gesture, U.S. officials said a delegation of congressional members and State Department

Why Rand Paul´s Case Against
the White House Matters

National Journal, by Ron Fournier Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/7/2013 3:26:32 PM Post Reply

Why was that so hard? Only after Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky rallied public support against President Obama did the White House answer a simple and constitutionally critical question: “Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on an American soil?” Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a two-sentence letter to Paul on Thursday, saying the answer is no. White House spokesman Jay Carney added that “if the United States were under attack, there were an imminent threat,” the president has the authority

Berlusconi gets jail sentence
in wiretap trial

Reuters, by Manuela D´Alessandro Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/7/2013 3:23:15 PM Post Reply

MILAN - An Italian court sentenced ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday to one year in jail over the publication by his family´s newspaper of a transcript of a leaked wiretap connected to a banking scandal in 2006. Under Italian law, the 76-year-old media billionaire would not have to serve any jail time until the appeals process has been exhausted, and a higher court could overturn the ruling.

J.C. Penney has a terrible week

MSN Money, by Kim Peterson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/7/2013 3:22:01 PM Post Reply

Could things get any worse for J.C. Penney (JCP)? Nearly every day of the past week has brought fresh news about something going wrong at the struggling retailer. It´s hard to keep track of all the misfires surrounding the company right now. Thursday, news emerged that Penney had laid off 2,200 employees in its stores and corporate offices. The layoffs actually cheered investors up a bit: Penney´s stock price was up more than 2% in afternoon trading. Here´s a list of the setbacks Penney and CEO Ron Johnson have suffered recently: Analysts losing faith. There aren´t many analysts left

Was Mother Teresa
actually sort of a jerk?

The Week, by Keith Wagstaff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/7/2013 3:07:55 PM Post Reply

A new study claims the beloved nun might not have been as helpful to the poor as she could have been. It´s highly likely that one day, the Catholic Church will officially recognize Mother Teresa as a saint, a position she´s held in the popular imagination for years. A new study in the religious studies journal Religieuses, however, says that the late Mother Teresa´s reputation is mostly hype — a result of a church declining in popularity trying to boost its image. (Snip) Of course, this isn´t news to fans of Christopher Hitchens, the erudite atheist who made it

US postpones award for Egyptian
woman over anti-Semitic tweets

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/7/2013 2:54:24 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration is postponing an award for an Egyptian activist who was subjected to a "virginity test" after protesting in Cairo´s Tahrir Square. The State Department had said Samira Ibrahim would be among recipients of an International Women of Courage award presented by Secretary of State John Kerry and first lady Michelle Obama on Friday. Now the State Department says she won´t be honored Friday because of anti-American and anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday officials will first study the tweets, which include support for attacks against U.S. diplomatic

Applebee’s waitress asks patron
for ID, gets own stolen driver’s
license in return

Yahoo News, by Dylan Stableford Original Article

Posted By: Hooverdog- 3/7/2013 2:49:48 PM Post Reply

Imagine you´re a waitress, out with friends on a night off, when you lose your wallet. Cash, credit cards, driver´s license—all gone. Your bank later informs you that checks are being issued in your name. It´s a pain, but you carry on. Two weeks later, you´re at work when four people walk in and sit in your section. They start ordering drinks. You ask to see their IDs. A woman in the group hands a driver´s license to you. You look down, and it´s yours.

Transgender MMA Fighter´s
License Under Review

ESPN, by Franklin McNeil and Melissa Isaacson Original Article

Posted By: Phosphene- 3/7/2013 2:48:37 PM Post Reply

Florida State Boxing Commission officials are reviewing the mixed martial arts license of Championship Fighting Alliance women´s featherweight tournament participant Fallon Fox after learning she is a transgender female. Fox revealed her original gender to SI.com on Monday, two days after Fox landed a knee to the chin of Ericka Newsome, who was knocked out in 39 seconds of their quarterfinal bout in Coral Gables, Fla. It is believed that Fox is the first transgender male or female to participate in an MMA event.

Pelosi: Obama has given
GOP plenty of time

Politico, by Jake Sherman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/7/2013 2:48:34 PM Post Reply

Nancy Pelosi is not one of the legions of political insiders who thinks President Barack Obama´s distance from Republicans is a stumbling block to a grand deficit bargain. "This president has been so respectful and has given so much time to the Republicans and their views to the point at that one time in one of our meetings I said to the president, ´Mr president, I´m busy and I don´t have any more time for this. You´re the busiest person in the world. If and when they come up with a new idea why don´t we

Limbaugh Heaps Praise On Rand
Paul In Interview: You Are ‘A
Hero To A Lot Of People Today’

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/7/2013 2:38:40 PM Post Reply

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh invited Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on his program on Thursday for a thorough debriefing following the senator’s marathon filibuster on Wednesday. In a wide-ranging interview, Paul told Limbaugh that he was thought it was important to have a debate about President Barack Obama‘s approach to American citizens who are viewed by the administration as being subject to a drone strike. Limbaugh heaped praise on Paul for his ability to “take this president on” and said that many see him as “a hero” today. “I was thinking of

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