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Iron Sharpening Iron

Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/9/2013 12:43:53 AM Post Reply

I wanted to associate myself with Jonathan’s insightful post on the response by Senators McCain and Graham to Rand Paul’s filibuster. Although my views on national security are much closer to those of McCain and Graham, their sneering, bitter attacks on Senator Paul were not only misguided; they have done a great deal to help the Paul-ian cause. Senators McCain and Graham could have–should have–offered a careful, measured response to Rand Paul’s argument. Instead, McCain in particular has gone on a petty, mocking rant, including referring to Paul and some who supported him as “wacko birds.”

Lanier students´ White
House tour canceled

Houston Chronicle, by Ryan Rockett Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/9/2013 12:23:22 AM Post Reply

Students and parents at Houston ISD´s Lanier Middle School were thrilled about their chance to visit the White House and learn firsthand how the government operates. The students boarded planes for Washington on Friday after having learned a more painful lesson. Their White House tour was scrapped, a victim of federal budget cuts stemming from the sequester. "Our kids are learning a terrible lesson in civics," said Heather O´Connor, whose 12-year-old son was one of the 80 students who had been scheduled to visit the White House early Saturday. "This is extremely disappointing."

Senator: EPA lied about
using private emails

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/9/2013 12:18:57 AM Post Reply

Environmental Protection Agency officials lied when they said a top official only once used his private email for public business, Sen. David Vitter said on Friday as he released copies of several emails in which that official conducted business with the EPA’s director and with outside groups. The revelation comes on the heels of charges from Republicans and a private sector author that former agency Director Lisa Jackson also had a private email address she used to avoid open-government transparency laws

My filibuster was just the beginning

Washington Post, by Sen. Rand Paul Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/9/2013 12:08:47 AM Post Reply

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. I will speak until I can no longer speak” — and I meant it. I wanted to sound an alarm bell from coast to coast. I wanted everybody to know that our Constitution is precious and that no American should be killed by a drone without first being charged with a crime.

With canceled tours, White House
teaching how democracy works

Washington Post, by David Nakamura Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/9/2013 12:05:24 AM Post Reply

The White House tour is a civics lesson on American democracy. And starting Saturday, when 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. shuts its doors to the public, that lesson will focus on the dysfunctional state of the union. The Obama administration announced this week that it would indefinitely suspend all tours of the president’s residence to help the nation cope with $85 billion in mandatory across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester. Across the country, parents and students preparing for spring-break trips to Washington were aghast. Kids very bummed out,”

President Obama had dinner with Bill
and Hillary Clinton on Friday night...
but where was Michelle?

Daily Mail [UK], by Meghan Keneally Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 11:05:31 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama had a quiet dinner with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday night, but there was no sign of Michelle. Mr Obama´s spokesman Josh Earnest announced that the trio had dinner together on Friday night, and it comes as little surprise that he needed a little time to vent to like-minded politicians that evening as it was the night that the sequester went into effect. This dinner kicked off a handful of other relaxed meals that the President has scheduled over the past few days, as he tried to ease relations

The calm before the solar storm?
NASA warns ´something unexpected
is happening to the Sun´

Daily Mail [UK], by Mark Prigg Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/8/2013 10:51:16 PM Post Reply

´Something unexpected´ is happening on the Sun, Nasa has warned. This year was supposed to be the year of ´solar maximum,´ the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. But as this image reveals, solar activity is relatively low. ´Sunspot numbers are well below their values from 2011, and strong solar flares have been infrequent,´ the space agency says.[Snip] It observed just a few small sunspots on an otherwise clean face, which is usually riddled with many spots during peak solar activity. Experts have been baffled by the apparent lack of activity--with many wondering if NASA simply got it wrong.

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:

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