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China warns against Korea escalation

BBC News [UK], by Lucy Williamson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 8:21:19 AM Post Reply

China has appealed for calm on the Korean peninsula, hours after North Korea said it had scrapped all peace pacts with the South and threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes. China, the North´s only major ally, said all sides should continue to talk and avoid "further escalation". Pyongyang has reacted angrily to another round of sanctions imposed by the UN over its recent nuclear test. The sanctions restrict luxury goods imports and banking activities. Beijing provides fuel, food and diplomatic cover to Pyongyang. It has repeatedly voted in favour of UN sanctions imposed over the nuclear programme, but enforcement of the

Rotten to the Core:
The Feds´ Invasive
Student Tracking Database

Creators, by Michelle Malkin Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/8/2013 8:18:01 AM Post Reply

While many Americans worry about government drones in the sky spying on our private lives, Washington meddlers are already on the ground and in our schools gathering intimate data on children and families. Say goodbye to your children´s privacy. Say hello to an unprecedented nationwide student tracking system, whose data will apparently be sold by government officials to the highest bidders. It´s yet another encroachment of centralized education bureaucrats on local control and parental rights under the banner of "Common Core."

Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent
NYC High School Graduates
Cannot Read

CBS New York, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 3/8/2013 8:17:18 AM Post Reply

It’s an education bombshell. Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system. The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2´s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.

Feinstein: Drones Need Regulation to
Protect Privacy of ‘Hollywood Luminaries’

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 8:17:18 AM Post Reply

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) explained several of the new legal and political challenges drones present policymakers Thursday on “Hardball.” Among the concerns cited by Feinstein was the fear drones could be used in such a way that compromises the privacy of “Hollywood luminaries:” CHRIS MATTHEWS: Do you think, senator, that technology, and you and I have grown up with the dynamic, almost unbelievable exponential growth in what mankind can do with technology, is that playing to the paranoia in people – they think if we have the capability we’re going to use it against average citizens who

The Washington spending axe fell –
and nothing much happened

Telegraph [UK], by Janet Daley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 8:17:06 AM Post Reply

There used to be an old pacifist witticism that went: "What if they had a war and nobody came?" In Washington at the moment, the question might be: "What if they slashed public spending and nobody noticed?"[Snip]Everybody still there? Good. Airports at a standstill? Nope. Pupils roaming the streets untaught and unsupervised? Nope. Any noticeable alteration in life as we have known it? Nope. Of course, it´s early days yet. We are only a week or so into the Terror so maybe eventually the sky really will fall in and the taps run dry. But then again, maybe

´We´re fully capable of defending ourselves´:
U.S. dismisses North Korea´s threat of
´thermonuclear war´ against America
in revenge for sanctions

Associated Press, Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 8:03:07 AM Post Reply

The Obama administration today dismissed a threat by North Korea and warned that U.S. is ´fully capable´ of defending itself from a ballistic missile attack by the communist regime. White House spokesman Jay Carney was responding to the North´s vow to launch a nuclear strike against America. North Korea state media warned of a ´thermonuclear war´ as an unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang´s Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for ´pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the headquarters of the aggressors.´ That threat came in retaliation for tough new U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang following its recent nuclear test.

How the GOP forced Obama´s hand

Politico, by CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN and JAKE SHERMAN Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 3/8/2013 7:49:57 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama used to want a grand deficit deal because he philosophically believed it was best for the country, and politically believed it was best for him.Now he needs it because he has no choice. Obama’s failure to avert $85 billion in spending cuts known as the sequester underscored the limits of his outside strategy and signaled that he could not persuade Republicans to raise revenue again without a comprehensive agreement to overhaul the Tax Code and entitlements

Thief broke into two cars late
at night ´because he was
suffering from insomnia and
was trying to tire himself out´

Daily Mail [UK], by Sam Adams Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 7:47:49 AM Post Reply

A thief who broke into two cars in the middle of the night told a court he did it because he was trying to cure his insomnia. David Pinnock stole a mobile phone, sunglasses, CDs and a hat, from the cars in South Shields, while out riding his bike on February 6. The 30-year-old was arrested shortly after the break-ins, and pleaded guilty to two counts of theft from a motor vehicle at South Tyneside Magistrates´ Court. His solicitor told the court that Pinnock, of South Shields, has trouble sleeping, and was trying to tire himself out when he

North Korea’s crazy sabre-rattling
is no laughing matter

Telegraph [UK], by Con Coughlin Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 7:34:52 AM Post Reply

When North Korean dictators start ranting about the prospects of all-out war with the West, my instinctive reaction is to wonder if they´ve stopped taking their meds for some reason. After all, if the North Koreans were really serious about starting a fresh war, their chances of success are negligible – even if they do have a few basic nuclear warheads. The Americans would simply shoot down their Nodong missiles and wreak a terrible revenge on Pyongyang. And yet there is something deeply troubling about the latest outburst by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, who has made some bellicose noises

Rand Paul´s New Friends

BuzzFeed, by Rosie Gray Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 3/8/2013 7:20:47 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has friends all over the spectrum — from establishment conservatives to the freewheeling libertarian devotees of his father — after a nearly 13-hour filibuster of John Brennan´s CIA nomination on Wednesday. He´s also managed to make two of the Senate´s most establishmentarian figures, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, look like outliers, and Republicans are privately grumbling about them. He´s managed, in other words, through showmanship and relationship-building, to finally mainstream his father´s lonely brand of contrarianism.

Rand Paul Shifts Political Orbit

American Thinker, by Jonathon Moseley Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 3/8/2013 6:43:00 AM Post Reply

The political world changed its orbit Wednesday as Rand Paul seized the spotlight in his March 6 filibuster. Rand Paul -- not this author´s favorite before -- is probably now the 2016 front-runner for president. But the difference results from fundamental changes in substance. How can one day be that big of a deal? Because Rand Paul demonstrated a reproducible, winning formula. It was as if Ronald Reagan were granted just one day to come back to Earth to remind the Party of Lincoln of "how it´s done." Rand demonstrated a repeatable formula that all Republicans can copy.

It’s too bad we can’t
impeach Bill Clinton again

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 6:12:40 AM Post Reply

In a Washington Post op-ed, Bill Clinton argues that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which he signed into law, is unconstitutional. This raises an obvious question: Why did Clinton sign an unconstitutional piece of legislation into law? As slick as he is, Clinton can’t provide an answer. He does explain why he signed DOMA in 1996: [At that time] in no state in the union was same-sex marriage recognized, much less available as a legal right, but some were moving in that direction. Washington, as a result, was swirling

Juan Williams column
cribs from think-tank report

Salon, by Alex Seitz-Wald Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 6:08:58 AM Post Reply

Fox News pundit Juan Williams lifted — sometimes word for word — from a Center for American Progress report, without ever attributing the information, for a column he wrote last month for The Hill newspaper. Almost two weeks after publication, the column was quietly revised online, with many of the sections rewritten or put in quotation marks, and this time citing the CAP report. It also included an editor’s note that read: “This column was revised on March 2, 2013, to include previously-omitted attribution to the Center for American Progress.” But that editor’s note mentions only the attribution problem,

One dinner does not a
Great Divider unmake

Washington Examiner [DC], by Mark Tapscott Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 5:59:59 AM Post Reply

Tennessee´s Sen. Bob Corker -- one of a dozen Republicans invited to break bread with President Obama this week -- emerged from the dinner Wednesday evening describing the atmosphere and discussion as "sincere and open." That shouldn´t be newsworthy, but these aren´t normal times. To hear mainstream media sages like CBS´ Norah O´Donnell tell it, the problem is the intractability of "the Republican leadership" in their dealings with Obama, who, as a result, believes having a "clear and open discussion" with them is impossible. Set aside for a moment O´Donnell´s and other mainstream media types´ habit of peddling

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith should
be locked up at Guantanamo
with his terror pals

New York Daily News, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/8/2013 5:55:21 AM Post Reply

Great congratulations to federal and local counterterrorism professionals for capturing Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law and a core member of Al Qaeda in its most lethal years. He has the blood of nearly 3,000 innocents on his hands. For he was there with Bin Laden on the brink of 9/11 and he was there with Bin Laden in its aftermath. Bringing Ghaith to justice, as much as justice can be gotten for the infinite infamy of the attack, is a major accomplishment and testament to the U.S.’ determination never to forget. That said, it is an affront that Ghaith

Obama on His Heels

Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 5:45:58 AM Post Reply

In January, pretty much all of respectable Washington had a sense of where President Barack Obama’s second term was headed. His approval ratings were sky high. His liberalism was pure and untroubled by thoughts of post-partisanship. His second-term agenda of immigration reform, gun control, climate change, and tax reform was clear. He would roll over the opposition. The dawn of a liberal age—a permanent majority, perhaps—was at hand. Stinking Republicans? Obama didn’t need them. The president, wrote Politico’s Glenn Thrush, had “a new mandate—achieving bipartisan results through force, not conciliation.” Obama was “armed with an approval rating in the 50s.”

Kerry’s “Courage” Award Debacle

Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/8/2013 5:43:20 AM Post Reply

Yesterday, Samuel Tadros reported in the Weekly Standard that John Kerry was handling his transition to running the State Department about as adroitly as one would imagine. He had an idea, and Foggy Bottom sent out a press release excitedly announcing that First Lady Michelle Obama was going to enthusiastically partake in this idea. The State Department would confer Women of Courage awards on several worthy recipients. Unfortunately, one of them happened to have a bad habit, apparently, of proclaiming viciously anti-Semitic hate speech on Twitter and was pretty happy, according to her timeline,

March Madness math: Odds of
nailing perfect NCAA basketball
bracket are one in 9.2 quintillion

Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/8/2013 5:35:33 AM Post Reply

President Obama may not know what comes after a trillion, but college basketball fans need to be familiar with quintillion. It has 18 zeroes following its primary number. March Madness looms, along with the call of the traditional workplace guessing game and the culture that accompanies it. Fans hoping to nail the perfect NCAA bracket of college basketball championship matchups have a long road in front of them, according to the mathmatically inclined who suggest that eager speculators should consider the odds “weighing against perfection.” So says Jeff Bergen, a mathematics professor at DePaul University

A Devastating 26-Word Challenge
to President Obama´s Leadership

Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 5:27:18 AM Post Reply

When Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, stopped by the Senate floor Wednesday to help out Rand Paul with his filibuster, he spoke for several minutes in the guise of asking a question. But his remarks can really be boiled down to one powerful sentence that I´ve transcribed: Mr. President, what it comes down to is every American has the right to know when their government believes that it is allowed to kill them. Ponder the modesty of that claim. He is merely asking that American citizens be given the most basic information about their legal system:

The new GOP generation stands up

New York Post, by Seth Lipsky Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 5:23:15 AM Post Reply

It’s hard to recall many more wonderful moments on the floor of the United States Senate than the filibuster mounted Wednesday night by Sen. Rand Paul against President Obama’s nominee to the CIA. The junior senator from Kentucky didn’t stop — or even intend to stop — the elevation of John Brennan, who had already cleared the Intelligence Committee by a wide margin and was sure to be waved through on the final vote. But Paul did signal that there is a faction in the Senate that comprehends that our country is in a constitutional moment. This is America 101.

Source: Preparations underway for
Obama vacation on Martha´s Vineyard

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 5:18:33 AM Post Reply

President Obama and his family are likely headed to Martha´s Vineyard for a summer sojourn again this year. A source tells POLITICO that the Secret Service has started booking accommodations on the toney island off the Massachusetts coast. (See update below) So far, the White House isn´t saying anything, but the Vineyard is abuzz with the news. The first family is expected toward the end of August, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Obama had to skip his traditional Vineyard vacation last year as he campaigned for reelection.

Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC
High School Graduates Cannot Read

CBS (New York), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/8/2013 5:14:31 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK — It’s an education bombshell. Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system. The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2´s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday. When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade. They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.

It’s time to overturn DOMA

Washington Post, by Bill Clinton Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/8/2013 5:10:04 AM Post Reply

In 1996, I signed the Defense of Marriage Act. Although that was only 17 years ago, it was a very different time. In no state in the union was same-sex marriage recognized, much less available as a legal right, but some were moving in that direction. Washington, as a result, was swirling with all manner of possible responses, some quite draconian. As a bipartisan group of former senators stated in their March 1 amicus brief to the Supreme Court, many supporters of the bill known as DOMA believed that its passage “would defuse a movement to enact

Our Petty, Country-Be-Damned President

PJ Media, by Tom Bluner Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 5:05:09 AM Post Reply

Sometimes, the smallest things can be the most revealing. On Tuesday, the nation — or at least the part that’s still paying attention — learned that President Barack Obama’s administration, in what can only be seen as an incredibly petty and virulently vindictive response to spending “cuts” imposed by sequestration (properly described in most cases as “reductions in projected spending increases”), decided to cancel all tours of the White House beginning March 9. As a result, to name just one of what are surely many examples, sixth graders at an Iowa elementary school which had received approval

Oh my: Carl Levin
to retire next year

Hot Air, by Mary Katharine Ham Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/8/2013 4:59:18 AM Post Reply

Thirty-five years is a looooong time, but I bet he would have stuck around if he thought O’s master plan to get the House back in Democratic hands next year had a real shot of working. It’d be worth running again to him if he could spend the next two years pushing the liberal dream agenda through Congress and onto Obama’s desk. As it is, since in reality he’s staring at two more years of gridlock, why bother? (Snip) Second look at a Republican-controlled Senate? Levin would have been heavily favored to win another term heading into 2014.

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