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HHS Awards $6 Million
Contract for Parking Spaces

Weekly Standard, by Jeryl Bier Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 7:39:06 PM Post Reply

Earlier this week, a listing entitled "Parking Spaces at Democracy Blvd." appeared on the Federal Business Opportunities website. The contract was awarded on February 19th before the sequester took effect, but the timing could still prove embarrassing for the Obama administration. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the five-year lease for 1,076 parking spaces in Bethesda, Maryland, for National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees at a cost of almost $6 million. This breaks down to $1,115 per space per year. The facilities are located at One Democracy Plaza and Two Democracy Plaza in Bethesda, pictured here:

Judicial Watch Sues State Department
for Benghazi Security Details

Breitbart´s Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 7:33:42 PM Post Reply

On March 5, Judicial Watch announced that it had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking details on a nearly $400,000 contract the State Department awarded to a private company for security at the American consulate in Benghazi. The company was hired prior to the Benghazi attack on Sept. 11, 2012, as the agreements appear to have been signed on Feb. 17 and May 3, 2012. But as Breitbart News reported, on Sept. 14--just three days after the Benghazi attack--State Dept. spokesperson Victoria Nuland denied that the State Dept. had hired any private security.

Russell Simmons Slams NRA
for Hiring Black Spokesman

Breitbart´s Big Hollywood, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 7:19:08 PM Post Reply

Colion Noir, a young African American who is conservative and pro-gun, is the National Rifle Association´s newest spokesman, but apparently this has proven too much for rap and entertainment mogul Russell Simmons. After seeing the NRA´s intro video of Noir´s upcoming NRA News show, Simmons took to Twitter to tell the gun group, "Dear @NRA, we don´t trust you. Sincerely, Black America." Simmons then wrote a longer attack at Globalgrind.com, saying that "black people ain´t got no time" for the NRA.

Appeals Court Curbs Border
Agents’ Carte Blanche Power to
Search Your Gadgets

Wired, by David Kravets Original Article

Posted By: hoosier observer- 3/8/2013 7:18:26 PM Post Reply

A federal appeals court for the first time ruled Friday that U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche authority to search the cellphones, tablets and laptops of travelers entering the country — a “watershed” decision in the court’s own terms and one at odds with the policies of the President Barack Obama administration. The ruling by a divided 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the most significant privacy decision in the digital age following the Supreme Court’s ruling last year requiring authorities to get warrants to place GPS tracking devices on suspects’ vehicles.

It´s The Growth, Stupid!

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 7:14:51 PM Post Reply

Fiscal Policy: Overlooked in all the sequestration hand-wringing over whether to cut spending or close tax loopholes is the easiest and least painful solution of all: simply growing the economy. Say, why not do that? Democrats and Republicans alike are taking their eye off the prize. Economic growth — not tax hikes or even spending cuts — is the best way to balance the budget. The historical record clearly shows that robust economic activity is what expands the tax base and floods the Treasury with new revenues. Growth should be priority No. 1. Yet neither party is

Obama´s Foreign Policy
Miracles Never Materialized

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 7:07:36 PM Post Reply

When he first ran for the White House, President Obama promised foreign policy miracles. Now North Korea vows a "pre-emptive nuclear attack" and Iran is closer to nukes than ever. It was all just a matter of being smart. In 2007, as revealed in the New Yorker, he confessed that "I think that I´m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters, I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors, and I´ll tell you right now that I´m gonna think I´m a better political director than my political director."

Republicans aim to take Keystone
decision out of Obama’s hands

Daily Caller, by Michael Bastasch Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 7:05:09 PM Post Reply

House Republicans have released a plan to fast-track the long delayed Keystone XL pipeline that would take the final decision out of the president’s hands. “It’s been over four years and thousands of pages of environmental reviews. The experts have weighed in. Now is the time to build the Keystone Pipeline,” said Nebraska Republican Rep. Lee Terry, author of the draft legislation. The draft bill would mean that the pipeline would not need a presidential permit and that the final environmental review done by the State Department in 2011 would satisfy all the requirements of the National

What Is The U.S. Doing
At Chavez´s Funeral?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 6:59:36 PM Post Reply

Amateur Diplomacy: Somebody explain to us why an official U.S. delegation was sent to Caracas for the funeral of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. It only boosts our enemies while diminishing America. The death of Chavez this week should have been an opportunity for the U.S. to rally global support for Venezuela´s battered democrats and make a stand for democracy. Instead, the Obama administration has done all it can to validate and bolster Chavez´s gangsterly minions desperate to perpetrate their Marxist kleptocracy. Already these surviving Chavistas have made clear who they are and what the U.S. can expect: President Obama called for

More Are Quitting the
Workforce Than Getting Jobs

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 6:55:58 PM Post Reply

Jobs: Who can complain about nearly a quarter-million jobs created in February? Until, that is, you learn that more people left the labor force than got new jobs, continuing a long-term trend under President Obama. The White House, which is always quick to caution about reading too much into a bad monthly jobs report, was eager to tout the February numbers as evidence that the nearly four-year-old recovery is finally "gaining traction." Why not celebrate? The economy added 236,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7%, the lowest it´s been since December 2008.

Michelle Obama´s Dream: ´Imagine
Our Kids Begging and Pleading,
Throwing Tantrums´ for Health Food

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 6:55:21 PM Post Reply

In a speech today at George Washington University, First Lady Michelle Obama laid out her dream for a healthier-eating America. The vision, she said, requires greater "product placement." "[J]ust think for a minute what this country could look like," said Obama, according to the official White House transcript. "Imagine walking into any grocery store in America and finding the healthiest options clearly marked and centrally placed so that you know within seconds what’s good for your family when you walk in that store. Imagine opening up a menu in any restaurant

Unintended Consequences: Cable
News Taunting Good For Ego,
Not Good For Business

Mediaite, by Joe Concha Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 6:45:45 PM Post Reply

You know what you’ll never find at McDonalds? Answer: A Burger King ad. How about in a Red Sox apparel shop outside of Fenway Park? Answer: A Babe Ruth Yankees jersey. There are no Pepsi machines at Coke factories. No Fords in the parking lot at Chevy headquarters (Of course, I’m in Jersey and can’t confirm this. Can someone reading this in Michigan check?) So given those very basic rules between rivals, why haven’t cable news producers received the memo? Why, after the now-infamous Bill O’Reilly-Alan Colmes battle on Tuesday night, can’t decision-makers at (particularly) CNN and MSNBC concentrate

McCain Blasts Rand Paul’s Drone
Filibuster: ‘We Shouldn’t Be
Debating the Impossible Scenario’

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 6:36:46 PM Post Reply

Senator John McCain appeared on Friday’s Studio B and took Rand Paul to task for his 13-hour filibuster targeting the Obama administration’s policy on drones. “No one is going to be struck by a Hellfire missile from a drone that is not an enemy combatant. That’s just a fact,” McCain said. The senator believes Congress should be focusing on more important issues, including the massacre in Syria and North Korea’s potential nuclear arms capability. “That’s what we should be discussing. That’s what we should be debating. Not the impossible scenario.”

Report: Lone conservative
Elisabeth Hasselbeck ousted
from ´The View´

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/8/2013 5:42:10 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK- Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the lone conservative on the 5-host panel of "The View" in New York, has been told her contract will not be renewed, UsMagazine.com said. The report comes one day after "View" co-host Joy Behar, 70, confirmed she is leaving the show after 16 seasons to pursue other projects, including performing her standup comedy act and writing a play. Hasselbeck, 35, will be departing after nine seasons. "The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right-wing," a show insider whose name was not reported told UsMagazine.com about Hasselbeck Friday.

Sorry global warming. We´re
just not that into you.

Telegraph [UK], by Jamesa Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 5:40:33 PM Post Reply

Please excuse the radio silence: I´ve been at my old school Malvern College all week, poisoning the minds of the young with my dangerous views on sustainability, climate change, "biodiversity" and other sacred green cows. But a lot of the time, it has to be said, my work wasn´t necessary. In one geography class specifically dedicated to climate change, the first kid to stick up his hand said: "What´s wrong with the world getting warmer anyway? It will mean we get nicer summers!" Which is what the kids would no doubt refer to as an epic fail for all the

British Ambassador to Washington calls
on Obama administration to back
rights of Falkland Islanders

Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 5:35:01 PM Post Reply

Sir Peter Westmacott, the veteran British Ambassador to Washington, has an excellent piece in Politico today in advance of the Falklands referendum which is taking place on March 10 and 11. Aimed squarely at US policymakers, the article outlines why Argentina’s claims over the Falklands are unfounded, and why the future of the Falkland Islands must be decided by the inhabitants of the Islands themselves. It is a clear-cut case of self-determination. As Sir Peter writes, invoking the spirit of the American Declaration of Independence: The Argentine government claims sovereignty over the islands based on events that took place

Drones too convenient to stay overseas

Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 5:31:43 PM Post Reply

I shall leave it to others to argue the legal and constitutional questions surrounding drones, but they are not without practical application. For the past couple of years, Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security, has had Predator drones patrolling the U.S. border. No, silly, not the southern border. The northern one. You gotta be able to prioritize, right? At Derby Line, Vt., the international frontier runs through the middle of the town library and its second-floor opera house. If memory serves, the stage and the best seats are in Canada, but the concession

Rand´s Stand Shakes Up Washington

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 5:20:46 PM Post Reply

RUSH: It has. I mean, no question about it. There´s no question this Rand Paul business has totally upset the power structure in Washington, the Senate particularly. Low-information outreach working, successful. We have audio sound bite proof coming up. We are loaded today. McCain has called senators Paul and Cruz "wacko birds." Senator McCain is calling them wacko birds because of the filibuster. RUSH: We got more on Rand Paul and the sequester, and the filibuster.

Teachers to wear guns
in South Dakota

Telegraph [UK], by Nick Allen Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 5:16:57 PM Post Reply

In a measure the state said would help stop massacres like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut in December, so-called "school sentinels" will be tasked with protecting children. [Snip] It reflects a growing divide between those including President Barack Obama, who believe guns need to be more strictly regulated, and supporters of the National Rifle Association who argue that more guns keep people safer. In South Dakota, supporters of the "sentinel" plan argued that schools in rural areas were too isolated to expect immediate help from police in the event of an attack. They could not

Amazing How Things Never Change

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 5:14:02 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, somebody brought to my attention today a three-minute segment of my old television show back circa 1995. The budget battle of 1995. Actually the prelude to that is what this three-minute sound bite was about. It´s funny. It´s entertaining. It´s also eye-opening to listen to this, 1995... Yeah, it´s a long time ago. The Democrat strategy is no different, the tactics are identical. I want you to hear it in context. Grab Sequester is Here Now, white comedian Paul Shanklin.

Corporate Queen Bee Syndrome

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 5:07:19 PM Post Reply

RUSH: This is International Women´s Day. Did you know that? It is. And I have here, I´ve been holding this in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers for, well, two-and-a-half hours here. From the Wall Street Journal, a story by Peggy Drexler. The author of the story is a woman, and the title of the story is, "The Tyranny of the Queen Bee." And let me give you some pull quotes, just to set this story up. "Far from nurturing the growth of younger female talent, they push aside possible competitors by

HBO to air McGreevey
documentary this month

Star - Ledger (Newark, NJ), by Matt Friedman Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 3/8/2013 4:30:40 PM Post Reply

Former Gov. Jim McGreevey’s life is about to get the HBO treatment. The premium network later this month will air a documentary called "Fall to Grace" on McGreevey’s resignation as governor and his “redemption and transformation” while studying to become an Episcopal priest and working to help female inmates, according to a press release from HBO. It’s honest,” McGreevey said today in a phone interview. The film, which will first air on Thursday, March 28, is directed by Alexandra Pelosi – daughter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Jesse Jackson’s ‘Tribute’ At Chavez
Funeral: He Fed Hungry, Lifted Poor,
Helped People ‘Realize Their Dreams’

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 4:28:00 PM Post Reply

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson is in Venezuela on Friday where he delivered a eulogy for the recently deceased Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. With actor Sean Penn in the front row, Jackson delivered a somber prayer that Chavez’ soul would find peace in the afterlife. He praised Chavez’s record as president, and prayed that there could be peace between the Latin American nation and the United States. “Death is certain. Life is uncertain. Thus, a life of service matters,” Jackson told the assembled mourners. “We pray to God today that the soul of Hugo Chavez

White House suspends public tours,
but first family trips in full swing

Fox News, by Barnini Chakraborty Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 4:22:32 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON – Visitors to the nation´s capital looking for a White House public tour are out of luck starting this weekend, courtesy of what the Secret Service says is its own decision to deal with the sequester cuts. But while the agency said it needed to pull officers off the tours for more pressing assignments, the budget ax didn´t swing early or deep enough to curtail a host of recent Secret Service-chaperoned trips like President Obama´s much-discussed Florida golf outing with Tiger Woods, first lady Michelle Obama´s high-profile multi-city media appearances, or even daughter Malia Obama´s

McCain calls Paul, Cruz,
Amash ‘wacko birds’

Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/8/2013 3:52:00 PM Post Reply

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is continuing to criticize his fellow Republicans for their filibuster of incoming CIA Director John O. Brennan over drone policy. In an interview with the Huffington Post, McCain referred to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) as “wackos.” “They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else,” McCain said. “But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.” Asked to clarify, McCain said he was referencing “Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever.”

Hillary Clinton dominates Vice President
Joe Biden and Andrew Cuomo against
GOP heavyweights in 2016: poll

New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/8/2013 3:37:02 PM Post Reply

Hillary Clinton continues to be the clear early favorite in the 2016 presidential race, a new poll has found. If the 2016 election was held today, Clinton would beat Republican favorites Chris Christie, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, according to the Quinnipiac University survey. Her presumptive Democratic rivals, Vice President Biden and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, were both bested by Christie in hypothetical match-ups. Voters preferred Clinton to the New Jersey governor by a 45 percent to 37 percent margin. She scored 50 percent against Rubio’s 34 percent and Ryan’s 38 percent.

Rand Paul’s triumph
But his ideas still dangerous

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/8/2013 2:24:10 PM Post Reply

Politicians have much to learn from the amazing scene in the US Senate on Wednesday, when Kentucky’s Rand Paul took over the floor and spent 13 hours discussing unmanned drone attacks and US foreign policy. The lesson: Do interesting, unexpected things and you can highlight issues important to you, advance policy goals you think are critical for the future of the country and elevate your own standing to the level of a national figure. “Interesting” doesn’t mean ruminating about rape or tweeting pictures of your torso or “hiking the Appalachian trail.” It requires educating yourself, speaking fluently about issues and knowing how and when to find your moment and make your point. William Kristol calls this “policy entrepreneurship.”

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