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Stubborn, Secretive Obama Admin
Failed to Inform Congress of
Its Intent to Grant Bin Laden
Son-In-Law a Civilian Trial

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 9:57:55 PM Post Reply

Sen. Lindsey Graham is up in arms, and he should be. The Obama administration failed to inform Congress that it planned to bring Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, to New York City for a civilian trial on charges of conspiring to kill Americans. Ghaith is not a common criminal. He has been a top al Qaeda lieutenant of his late father-in-law for years; he appeared in a video alongside bin Laden taking credit for the 9-11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000, most of those casualties at the World Trade Center in New York.

White House raps McConnell over
civilian terror trial criticism

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 9:41:47 PM Post Reply

White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday that the intelligence community disagreed with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell´s (R-Ky.) assessment that trying the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden in federal court posed a threat to national security. "With all due respect to Senator McConnell, that´s not the assessment of the intelligence community," Earnest said Friday. "It´s not the assessment of the Department of Justice. It´s not the assessment of the Department of Defense. So he´s certainly welcome to his opinion, but that´s not the assessment

Lion slipped out of holding pen before
killing sanctuary worker

Reuters, by Liala Kearney Original Article

Posted By: WIBadger- 3/8/2013 9:33:55 PM Post Reply

SAN FRANCISCO - The African lion that killed a California wildlife sanctuary worker had slipped out of its holding pen, which apparently was left improperly secured, and crept up on the woman inside a larger enclosure to attack her, the coroner said on Friday. (snip) Hanson was cleaning the larger enclosure when the lion escaped from its holding pen, apparently by lifting a gate that slides open and shut vertically, Fresno County Coroner Dr. David Hadden told Reuters.

Michelle Obama hearts
Teresa Heinz Kerry

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 9:33:37 PM Post Reply

The first lady had this to say at a State Department Women of Courage awards ceremony Friday: I ...want to thank Secretary Kerry for hosting us here today. Needless to say, we are all thrilled to have you as our new Secretary of State, for no other reason than I love your wife. You do know that. I love our Secretary, but Teresa Heinz Kerry is another woman of courage who has been just a dear friend and supporter to me for a very long time, and it is just a thrill

Four-fifths of Ed Schultz´s viewers
agree with U.S. drone policy

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 9:29:32 PM Post Reply

Discussing the Obama administration´s drone strike policy last night, MSNBC host Ed Schultz asserted that "many Americans want to know how the United States can order the killings of American citizens without due process." "This controversy is not going away," Schultz, a critic of the administration´s drone program, said. "The boundaries of transparency are still undefined." Yet in a survey of his (reliably liberal) viewers, 78 percent said they agreed with "the policy of targeted killing of American citizens." These results may have come as a surprise to Schultz --

Park ranger: Supervisors
pushed sequester cuts that
visitors would see

Fox News, by Judson Berger Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/8/2013 9:27:33 PM Post Reply

Another federal employee has come forward to claim the Obama administration resisted efforts to ease the impact of sequester. A U.S. park ranger, who did not wish to be identified, told FoxNews.com that supervisors within the National Park Service overruled plans to deal with the budget cuts in a way that would have had minimal impact on the public. Instead, the source said, park staff were told to cancel special events and cut "interpretation services" -- the talks, tours and other education services provided by local park rangers. "Apparently, they want the public to feel the pain," the ranger said

The Obama Doctrine -- kill American
terrorists overseas, try foreign
terrorists in New York City

Fox News, by Jay Sekulow Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 9:22:12 PM Post Reply

As an attorney who’s spent more than a dozen years protecting the right of both America and Israel to wage war against international terrorism, including appearances before the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at the Hague, I’m stumped. My American Center for Law & Justices colleagues at our offices all over the world from Jerusalem, to France, to Washington, D.C. --who are even at this moment at an anti-terrorism conference in Israel -- are puzzled. Here’s our question for the Obama administration: are we at war or not? On the one hand, the administration

US cancels award for Egyptian
woman due to anti-US tweets

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 9:16:07 PM Post Reply

The State Department has canceled the award it planned to give an Egyptian activist whose Twitter account included virulently anti-American and anti-Semitic statements. The decision Friday comes a day after the administration postponed the award, while it looked into the recently discovered tweets from activist Samira Ibrahim. Some of the tweets praised attacks on U.S. diplomatic installations and against Israeli civilians in Bulgaria. Ibrahim initially claimed she

CBS Fawns Over Caroline Kennedy;
Rose Wonders If She Will Run
For President

NewsBusters, by Matthew Balan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 9:08:44 PM Post Reply

Charlie Rose, Norah O´Donnell, and Gayle King gushed over Caroline Kennedy on Friday´s CBS This Morning. O´Donnell asked Kennedy is she supported a potential Hillary Clinton presidential run in 2016, which prompted Rose to wonder if the daughter of JFK might run herself for the highest elected office in the U.S. King hyped the potential nomination of Kennedy to be an ambassador to Japan: "Madame Ambassador – does that have a ring to it for you?" O´Donnell tossed the softest of softballs as a follow-up: "Do you like Japan or Canada better?"

´He´ll go down in history as a great
artist´: George W. Bush´s painting
teacher talks about his prowess -
and penchant for painting dogs

Daily Mail [UK], by Meghan Keneally Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 8:54:45 PM Post Reply

An artist who taught former President George W. Bush how to paint both animals and landscapes in a recent month-long course is now speaking out about his skills as a late-in-life painter. Mr Bush spent four weeks in private lessons alongside his sister-in-law in a home in Boca Grande, Florida where they improved their technique and expanded their artistic horizons. ´He has such a passion for painting, it´s amazing,´ said instructor Bonnie Flood. She revealed that the former President loved painting pictures of dogs, though she eventually broke him of his habit and helped him

Jackson Compares Chavez
to Founding Fathers

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/8/2013 8:35:53 PM Post Reply

Jesse Jackson Sr. defended the legacy of deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Friday, saying that U.S. presidents owned slaves and democracies “evolve” and “mature” in an interview with CNN. “What do you say to the Venezuelans, not only in the opposition but those who have fled the country, who considered Hugo Chavez a vile dictator?” Wolf Blitzer asked Jackson. “Well, you know, democracies mature,” Jackson replied. “Our first 15 presidents owned people. They owned slaves. Democracies mature.”

Obama Choice for Labor Secretary
Said to Be Justice’s Perez

Bloomberg, by Hans Nichols & Steven Komarow Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 8:34:08 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama is close to choosing Thomas Perez, currently the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, to be labor secretary, according to two people familiar with the matter. Perez would replace Hilda Solis and ensure that the Labor Department was led by another Hispanic, according to the people, who requested anonymity to discuss personnel matters that haven’t been announced. As Obama fills out his second-term cabinet, a process that began in January with his announcement of three white males for the top positions at the Central Intelligence Agency, State and Defense departments, White House officials

Republicans Hate on Ashley Judd

ABC News, by Chris Good Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/8/2013 8:31:02 PM Post Reply

Hating on people is an essential part of campaigns. There are groups dedicated to it; our political parties become almost entirely consumed with hating on people every two years. A lot of money goes into it. But when it comes to Ashley Judd, Republicans are pouring Haterade over the actress as if she had just won a bowl game. Judd, a Democrat, may or may not challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the nation’s second-most-powerful Republican, for his Kentucky Senate seat in 2014, and the GOP has gone out of its way to make even the notion

GOP lawmaker rips Napolitano
for releasing detainees

Washington Times, by Jerry Seper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 8:03:33 PM Post Reply

A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee on Friday called into question the leadership abilities of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, expressing “outrage” at what he called the department’s questionable response to sequestration — including the release of detainees from detention centers across the country. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas also questioned in a letter to Ms. Napolitano the issuance of furlough notices to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel, demanding a list of alternative cost-saving measures that were considered,

Rand Paul vows to continue
pressing Obama on drone policy;
filibuster only ‘the beginning’

Yahoo! News, by Chris Moody Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/8/2013 8:00:56 PM Post Reply

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul stood for 13 hours on the Senate floor this week in protest of the Obama Administration´s drone policy, but he never knew he would stay that long. In an op-ed in the Washington Post published Friday, Paul outlines what went through his mind throughout the filibuster, and how fellow lawmakers cheered him on: If I had planned to speak for 13 hours when I took the Senate floor Wednesday, I would’ve worn more comfortable shoes. I started my filibuster with the words, “I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination for the CIA.

TSA Allowed at Least 11 Airport
Employees With Criminal Backgrounds
To Receive Security Badges

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Burke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 7:56:09 PM Post Reply

The Transportation Security Administration´s (TSA) mismanagement of a program responsible for issuing security badges to aviation employees resulted in at least 11 individuals with criminal backgrounds obtaining badges that allowed access to secure areas of U.S. airports. An aviation employee is anyone who is allowed unescorted access to secured areas of airports. This includes airport employees in addition to TSA Officers. According to a Feb. 22 report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG),

Obama Proposed Vaccine Cuts, But
White House Blamed Sequestration

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/8/2013 7:42:44 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration claims that because of the $44 billion in across-the-board spending cuts (sequestration) this year, tens of thousands of American children will not be vaccinated. However, the idea to cut the vaccination program – at a rate higher than sequestration might do – was introduced by the president himself in his 2013 budget proposal over a year ago. On its website, the White House displays an interactive map where viewers can track how many children it claims will not receive vaccines due to sequestration.

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

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