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Federal workers owe $3.5
billion in back taxes

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/9/2013 8:43:32 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — The number of federal workers and retirees who owed delinquent income taxes jumped by nearly 12 percent in 2011, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday. Nearly 312,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.5 billion in back taxes as of Sept. 30, 2011, the agency said. The year before, about 279,000 workers and retirees owed $3.4 billion. Overall, the 9.8 million workers included in the data had a delinquency rate of 3.2 percent. That´s better than the general public. The IRS says the delinquency rate for the general public was 8.2 percent.

Bomb hits as Hagel visits Afghanistan

Associated Press, by Rahim Faiez & Kimberly Dozier Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/9/2013 8:33:32 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan— A suicide bomber on a bicycle struck outside the Afghan Defense Ministry on Saturday, one of two attacks that killed at least 18 people as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited the nation, officials said. Nine people were killed in the bombing at the ministry, a fresh reminder that insurgents continue to fight and challenges remain as the U.S.-led NATO force hands over the country´s security to the Afghans. About a half hour later, another suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Khost, the capital of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan.

Heroes of Operation No Return

Daily Express [UK], by Dan Townend Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/9/2013 8:32:39 AM Post Reply

Even for British special forces the odds were unappealing. Sixty men with limited air support travelling in open-top Land Rovers across the desert in Saddam Hussein´s back yard were up against more than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers. The mission for the men of the Special Boat Service was to persuade the feared Iraqi Fifth Corps to surrender on the eve of the Allied Forces´ invasion of the country in March 2003 as they tried to overthrow the cruel dictator.[Snip]What happened next saw the men scattered across the desert as they fled the enemy. As details emerged of what had gone wrong

Don´t Touch Obama´s Stash

American Thinker, by Peter Wilson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/9/2013 8:30:13 AM Post Reply

Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs published an article in the Financial Times last week, titled "Obama has always planned to slash spending." The claim sounds ridiculous, but in fact there´s a kernel of truth in it. Obama has proposed cutting both discretionary non-defense and defense spending, but these cuts are more than offset by rises in Social Security and Means-Tested Entitlements, which he shows no interest in reforming. According to Sachs: Each year [Obama] has put a budget on the table. Each year that budget has called for a sharp decline in discretionary spending as a share of

Phoenix mayor, council open the
women´s bathroom door for men

American Thinker, by Joseph LaRue Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/9/2013 8:24:59 AM Post Reply

On Feb. 26, the Phoenix City Council passed the so-called "Bathroom Bill," which will allow not only "transgendered" men, but also any man who thinks he is a woman to use many of the same public restrooms that women and young girls use. The bill, which passed 5-3, is a sterling example of how a mayor and city council can quickly forego their duty to protect women and children in order to win the praise and support of special-interest groups in the community. While opening the women´s bathroom door to "transgendered" individuals and men who claim to be women,

Eating super-hot chili peppers was
the secret to Hillary Clinton´s
success as the most traveled
secretary of state in history

Daily Mail [UK], by Helen Pow Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/9/2013 8:18:47 AM Post Reply

The secret to Hillary Clinton´s legendary stamina has been revealed--hot peppers. The most traveled Secretary of State in history says she eats truckloads of sweat-inducing chillis, fueling the nearly one million miles she logged in her four years in the role.[Snip]´...apparently, it´s one of the ways you can flush your system. It wakes you up. It flushes your system, maybe from whatever viruses are there. It seems Ghattas didn´t adopt Clinton´s habit, as she described the 65-year-old´s daily regime as ´exhausting.´ ´I´m about half her age, and I could barely keep up,´ Ghattas told Politico in the interview.

Brewer´s Medicaid push
widens rift in Arizona GOP

Arizona Republic [Phoenix], by Mary K. Reinhardt Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 3/9/2013 7:20:54 AM Post Reply

Gov. Jan Brewer’s push to expand Medicaid is driving a wedge through Arizona’s Republican Party, with the governor and mainstream business interests battling grass-roots party loyalists. (snip)Brewer and other Republican governors who have embraced expansion are finding it a hard sell in their legislatures, where lawmakers, particularly first-termers, are bombarded by conservative GOP officials questioning their Republican credentials and threatening their political careers.

Former Bush Adviser Continues
Crusade Against Palin, Conservatives

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 3/9/2013 6:44:54 AM Post Reply

Former George W. Bush chief political strategist Matt Dowd continued to try to diminish Sarah Palin and conservatives by once again making false claims about the former Alaska governor. On Sunday´s "ABC´s This Week," Dowd assailed CPAC for, in his mind, lessening its credibility by inviting conservatives like Palin and not liberal Republicans favored by the northeastern elite like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. “CPAC, to me, has totally diminished its credibility as an organization,” Dowd said

Honk If You Were
Ever Devoted to a Car

Wall Street Journal, by Michael Medved Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 6:04:55 AM Post Reply

I recently said goodbye to a car I drove and cherished for several years, repeating an experience familiar to most baby boomers. Bringing our 20-year-old son into the garage the night before taking the vehicle back to the dealer at the expiration of the lease, I unsuccessfully invoked the bittersweet nature of the moment. "Take a good look," I said. "This is the last night he´s going to spend in this garage—the only home he´s ever known." My son didn´t get it. "Sometimes you´re really weird, you know that, Dad? I don´t think your car is going to feel

The Revolt Against FEMA

Washington Free Beacon, by Mary Lou Byrd Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 5:50:42 AM Post Reply

Some New Jersey hurricane victims are complaining that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is doing more harm than Superstorm Sandy did when it hit over four months ago and washed away their homes and businesses. “FEMA has caused more damage to the shore than Sandy did,” said George Kasimos, a flood victim from Toms River, N.J. He is the founder of the growing grassroots group, Stop FEMA Now. The group feels FEMA is responsible for suffering and uncertainty for many Sandy victims who cannot start to rebuild. FEMA issued Advisory Base Flood Elevation Maps

Brennan´s Oath

Power Line, by Scott Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/9/2013 5:42:41 AM Post Reply

John Brennan took the oath on his swearing in as DCIA today on a draft of the Constitution. The photo is below. Commentators on the photograph make something of the fact that the draft Brennan swore on lacked the Bill of Rights. Has anyone bothered to read the Federalist lately? Publius (Hamilton) in Federalist 84 makes the case that a bill of rights is unnecessary and perhaps even dangerous to the liberties protected by the Constitution. C’mon, people, maybe Brennan is a Hamiltonian. Or maybe Brennan is, as the rumor has it, a Muslim, allegedly converted

White House visitors, get lost

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/9/2013 5:37:50 AM Post Reply

Brownie troops, baseball teams and kids from places like Ottumwa, Texarkana and East Gondola who have been washing cars and saving dimes for years to pay for their senior trip, can scratch the White House off the list of places to see in Washington. In a fit of pique over how sequestration didn’t shut down the government, President Obama has canceled all public tours. Last year, when things were going more his way and Mr. Obama was in a more generous mood, he called the historic building “the people’s house.” Clarity and hospitality before sequestration. Now, it’s hit the road.

While You Weren’t Looking,
Obama Kills Military Commissions

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/9/2013 5:33:03 AM Post Reply

In the blink of an eye, the second Obama term has turned the clock back to the pre-9/11 days, when al-Qaeda was a law-enforcement problem, not a national-security challenge. Remember the great ruckus over the administration’s attempt to give Khalid Sheik Mohammed & Co. a civilian trial in lower Manhattan? In what would, in effect, reward their savagery in killing nearly 3,000 Americans a few blocks from the federal courthouse, the administration proposed to endow them with all the constitutional rights and peacetime civilian due process protections of American citizens, despite the fact

A Star is Born

Weekly Standard, by Lee Smith Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 5:24:43 AM Post Reply

Since Samuel Tadros first reported for THE WEEKLY STANDARD on prospective International Woman of Courage Award winner Samira Ibrahim’s anti-Semitic, pro-9/11 tweets Wednesday afternoon, some observers have argued that the State Department, as Jeffrey Goldberg writes, “narrowly averted a moral and public relations disaster.” That’s true insofar as you agree that her public statements are odious. However, it’s instructive to see this from another perspective as well—a perspective that has no problems with anti-Semitism, that celebrates suicide bombings against Israeli civilians as well as 9/11, and sees Hitler not as an embodiment of evil but as a bold visionary,

The Bible: Beyond the Pale

American Spectator, by Jackson Adams Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 5:16:30 AM Post Reply

Ever since medieval mystery plays, the Bible has offered a lucrative playground for show business. The Good Book’s engrossing stories and a guaranteed audience provide the ingredients of success for a profession wedded to ratings. Believers rightly approach these attempts with trepidation. After all, not a little Christian blood has been spilled over the correctness of artistic forays into the spiritual. Jews and Muslims, Abraham’s other children, even ban such projects altogether. It is sensitivity to these issues that makes the brazen approach of the History Channel’s mini-series The Bible so lamentable. Rarely does a program manage to cheapen

Rich slum dogs

New York Post, by Dan MacLeod Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 5:13:35 AM Post Reply

Bill Gates would probably prefer the Waldorf. Mayor Bloomberg yesterday put his foot in his mouth by suggesting homeless shelters are bursting at the seams because anyone can get a bed — even the filthy rich. “You can arrive in your private jet at Kennedy Airport, take a private limousine and go straight to the shelter system, walk in the door, and we’ve got to give you shelter,” the billionaire mayor fumed on his weekly WOR radio show. “That’s what the law is. I didn’t write the law.” He was referring to a decree signed by Mayor Ed Koch

Conservative brand of
Catholicism thrives in Africa

Los Angeles Times, by Robyn Dixon Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/9/2013 5:05:57 AM Post Reply

KAMPALA, Uganda — On Sunday mornings, worshipers arrive two hours early to wait in line for one of 200 seats in the Missionaries of the Poor chapel. By the time Mass begins at 8 a.m., they have been joined by 2,000 more parishioners who sit outside in the sun. Roman Catholic churches in Uganda are packed these days, the participants traditional-minded, their faith vibrant and strong. Across Africa, the church reinforces the staunchly conservative values of a population that often attends services several times a week, for hours on end. Catholic leaders also provide homes and food for poor and disadvantaged people

Visions of Drones Swarming
U.S. Skies Hit Bipartisan Nerve

New York Times, by Scott Shane & Michael D. Shear Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/9/2013 5:02:15 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — The debate goes to the heart of a deeply rooted American suspicion about the government, the military and the surveillance state: the specter of drones streaking through the skies above American cities and towns, controlled by faceless bureaucrats and equipped to spy or kill. That Big Brother imagery — conjured up by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky during a more than 12-hour filibuster this week — has animated a surprisingly diverse swath of political interests that includes mainstream civil liberties groups, Republican and Democratic lawmakers, conservative research groups, liberal activists and right-wing conspiracy theorists.

The Scariest Jobs Chart
Ever Isn´t Scary Enough

National Public Radio, by Jacob Goldstein Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 4:55:31 AM Post Reply

One of the defining graphs of our time (yes, there are defining graphs of our time) comes from the blog Calculated Risk. It tracks the job market in every U.S. recession and recovery since WWII — and it shows just how brutal the the past few years have been. (Snip for graphic) Business Insider calls this the Scariest Jobs Chart Ever. But the Scariest Jobs Chart Ever isn´t quite scary enough. The chart cuts off when employment gets back to its previous peak. But, because of population growth, getting back to where we were five years ago

Obama’s Drone Debacle

Daily Beast, by Daniel Klaidman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 4:50:10 AM Post Reply

You know it’s not a good day for the Obama administration when a paragon of the Tea Party right is roasting the president and liberal twitter feeds are lighting up in support. But that’s exactly what happened earlier this week when Kentucky Senator Rand Paul mounted his “talking filibuster” to block the confirmation of CIA nominee John Brennan. Paul kept up the parliamentary maneuver for 13 hours in an effort to extract answers from the administration about its covert drone program, and particularly the question of whether it is legal to target American citizens on U.S. soil.

Alaska Senator Smacks Down Fellow
Dem and his ‘East Coast Values’

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 4:43:30 AM Post Reply

Two Democrats are tangling over what one considers interference in his state by a congressman who doesn’t “understand that East Coast values do not always apply to other parts of the country.” It started when Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who is running in the special election to fill John Kerry’s vacant Senate seat, asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to stand by a Fish and Wildlife Service decision to reject a proposal to build a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. “I, like you, believe we should respect the judgment of our scientists

Juan Williams: I didn’t plagiarize
that think tank, I plagiarized my
researcher who plagiarized it

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 4:29:35 AM Post Reply

Via Ace, the material apparently went from point A (the Center for American Progress) to point B (the researcher) to point C (the final column) with little alteration, by Williams’s own admission. Just to be clear: Is the B-to-C transaction so routine among pro columnists that Williams can safely use it as an ethical defense to A-to-B plagiarism? The way, say, a congressman might defend a charge that he’s been bribed by insisting no, he was merely “lobbied”? B-to-C differs from A-to-B insofar as B knows he’s being plagiarized, but the fact remains that C’s still passing off

In Making Play for the House,
President Obama Could Lose the Senate

National Journal, by Josh Kraushaar Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 4:22:16 AM Post Reply

President Obama’s advisers have telegraphed their goal to win control of the House in 2014, which would give the president unfettered control to advance his favored policies. But the bigger concern for the White House should be the more realistic possibility that they could lose the Senate in 2014 – an outcome that’s only enhanced by the president’s second-term strategy focusing on rallying the base over centrist governance. It’s no coincidence that on Wednesday, in a welcome about-face, Obama belatedly engaged a charm offensive with Republicans, inviting leading senators to a private dinner and pow-wowing with Paul Ryan

Afghan bombers strike
during US official´s visit

Associated Press, by Rahim Faiez & Kimberly Dozier Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 4:15:12 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber on a bicycle struck outside the Afghan Defense Ministry on Saturday, one of two attacks that killed at least 18 people as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited the nation, officials said. Nine people were killed in the bombing at the ministry, a fresh reminder that insurgents continue to fight and challenges remain as the U.S.-led NATO force hands over the country´s security to the Afghans. About a half hour later, another suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Khost, the capital of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan.

My warning to Britain: Why the
left-wing mayor of German town
wants you to see what happened
when Romanian migrants moved in

Daily Mail [UK], by Louise Eccles Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/9/2013 1:19:50 AM Post Reply

Softly-spoken pensioner Marlene Bothge seems an unlikely owner of a 200,000-volt stun gun, but after her neighbours stole the light bulbs from the corridor of the seven-storey tower block in which she used to live, she no longer felt safe without it. ´I am sad it has come to this´, she says. ´This is a weapon young people carry, not 65-year-old women. I should not feel threatened in my own home.´ As we talk outside the crumbling tower block, now surrounded by rubbish, discarded furniture and human excrement, Mrs Bothge fidgets nervously

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.”

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