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Cardinal Turkson: Africa´s
best hope for pope

Associated Press, by Laura Burke Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 3/9/2013 12:04:38 PM Post Reply

Accra, Ghana-Often cast as the social conscience of the church, Ghana´s Cardinal Peter Turkson is viewed by many as the top African contender for pope. The 64-year-old head of the Vatican´s peace and justice office was widely credited with helping to avert violence following contested Ghanaian elections. He has aggressively fought African poverty, while disappointing many by hewing to the church´s conservative line on condom use amid Africa´s AIDS epidemic. Turkson´s reputation as a man of peace took a hit recently when he showed a virulently anti-Islamic video, a move now seen as hurting his papal prospects.

Dianne Feinstein: ´It´s legal
to hunt humans´ with high-
capacity magazines [Video]

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/9/2013 12:04:19 PM Post Reply

At a Senate judiciary committee hearing on Thursday, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein shot down a proposed amendment exempting veterans from her “assault weapons” ban, bizarrely arguing that it’s legal to hunt humans with high-capacity magazines. “The time has come, America, to step up and ban these weapons,” Feinstein said. “The other very important part of this bill is to ban large capacity ammunition feeding devices — those that hold more than 10 rounds. We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit

Rand Paul’s Beginning

New York Sun, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/9/2013 12:00:48 PM Post Reply

Senator Rand Paul’s filibuster will prove to be just the beginning, the senator himself is reporting in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post. He asserts, as many of us deduced, that his 13-hour stand on the floor of the upper chamber wasn’t just about whether John Brennan should be confirmed as director of central intelligence. It was about spurring “a national debate about the limits of executive power and the scope of every American’s natural right to be free.” He says that the Senate “has the power to restrain the executive branch”

Nigeria Islamist group says has
executed seven foreign hostages

Reuters, by Angus McDowall Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 3/9/2013 11:48:24 AM Post Reply

Dubai-Nigeria based Islamist group Ansaru said on Saturday it had killed seven foreign hostages it seized on February 7 from a construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Service said. The group issued a statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of the Sinam al-Islam network accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the dead hostages, SITE said. One screenshot showed a man with gun standing above several prone figures lying on the ground. Ansaru, which has kidnapped other foreigners in the past, had blasted into the compound using explosives and abducted a Briton, an Italian,

Bid to defund Obamacare gains
momentum in Senate GOP

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/9/2013 11:39:00 AM Post Reply

This week it appeared Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee would wage a lonely war over their threat to hold up a continuing resolution to fund the U.S. government if they are not given a vote on a budget amendment to defund Obamacare. Now, it’s not quite so lonely. Sens. Marco Rubio and James Inhofe have joined Cruz and Lee, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that he “looks forward to supporting” the amendment. It’s a significant step forward for Cruz and Lee.

Hagel: Don’t worry
about North Korea

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/9/2013 11:34:05 AM Post Reply

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters not to worry about North Korea’s threat to carry out a preemptive strike on Washington D.C. after the United States led a push for a new round of United Nations sanctions on the regime. “[T]he United States of America and our allies are prepared to deal with any threat, and any reality that occurs in the world,” Hagel said during a media availability on his way to Afghanistan when asked about North Korean bellicosity. “Second, we are aware of — of what’s going on.

Texas Student Disciplined for
Refusing to Recite Mexican
National Anthem, Lawsuit Says

Fox News Latino, by Ildefonso Ortiz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/9/2013 11:28:14 AM Post Reply

MCALLEN, TEXAS – A Texas couple claims their daughter’s school district tried to force her to sing the Mexican national anthem and recite that country´s pledge of allegiance against her will -- then punished her for standing her ground. When the teen refused to participate, arguing it was against her beliefs as an American, she was eventually thrown out of the class and then given a failing grade for that day’s assignment, the lawsuit says. William Brinsdon filed the lawsuit on behalf of his daughter, Brenda.

What Rand Paul Misses

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: OhMy- 3/9/2013 11:25:37 AM Post Reply

It was Wednesday, shortly before Senator Rand Paul’s bravura 13-hour filibuster, the Jimmy Stewart star turn in Paul’s crusade to have the Constitution ban a bogeyman of his own making: the killing of American citizens on American soil by America’s armed forces — a scandal that clearly cries out for action, having occurred exactly zero times in the 20 years since jihadists commenced hostilities by bombing the World Trade Center.

Nigeria army says 20 Boko
Haram suspects killed

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 3/9/2013 11:12:53 AM Post Reply

Nigeria´s army said on Saturday it had launched an operation in the northern city of Maiduguri, the bastion of Islamist group Boko Haram, that led to the deaths of 20 suspected militants and two soldiers. The soldiers on Friday stormed a location where some Boko Haram men were found and "we exchanged fire with them and about 20 of them died in the crossfire. We also lost two of our soldiers while three were injured," said army spokesman Lt Colonel Sagir Musa. Some 25 Boko Haram suspects were also arrested.

CIA Chief Brennan takes
oath on draft Constitution --
with no Bill of Rights

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/9/2013 10:26:54 AM Post Reply

Pregnant with symbolism, don´t you think? Yahoo News: Oh, dear. This is probably not the symbolism the White House wanted. Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office-behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting his status as America´s top spy-the White House took pains to emphasize the symbolism of the ceremony. "There´s one piece of this that I wanted to note for you," spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at their daily briefing. "Director Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution

Inside the Iron Tower: The Life
of Conservatives in Academia

FrontPage Magazine, by Jack Kerwick Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 3/9/2013 10:16:30 AM Post Reply

Last week, the president of Emory University, James W. Wagner, was censured by faculty members, and may even be forced to resign when faculty reconvene later this month to decide his fate. Wagner’s great sin, you see, is that in an article in his school’s magazine, he cited “the three-fifths compromise over slavery” as a paradigmatic illustration of the art of political comprise. In response to the backlash against this act of his, Wagner issued the obligatory mea culpa and deplored the “clumsiness and insensitivity” of his piece. Still, the enlightened professoriate at Emory has thus far withheld its mercy.

Sen. Jeff Sessions: ´We need to grow
the economy, not the government´

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 3/9/2013 9:49:18 AM Post Reply

Hello. I’m Jeff Sessions from Alabama, Ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. It’s my privilege to speak with you today before the Senate considers a budget plan next week. Congress has an obligation to adopt a budget that does the most good for the most people. Washington, D.C. provides a troubling illustration of our challenges. No city in America relies more on the federal government than Washington. Federal money pours every single day into every part of the city. Despite this fountain of federal funds, 1 in 3 children still live in poverty in our nation’s capital.

U.S. budget cuts end White House
tours, but not finger-pointing

Reuters, by Deborah Zabarenko Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/9/2013 9:47:00 AM Post Reply

Washington- The sixth-grade class at St. Paul´s Lutheran School in Waverly, Iowa, sent a message this week that was heard in the White House briefing room. "The White House is our house," the class said in a video posted on Facebook. "Please let us visit." But their trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which had been set for March 16, is off. White House tours will be suspended starting on Saturday due to mandated across-the-board spending cuts known as "sequestration." The move will save the federal government an estimated $74,000 a week. Many were left holding worthless tour tickets,

Critics hold the line on pro-Obama
lobbying group: ´Shut it down´

The Hill [Washington DC], by Kevin Bogardus Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/9/2013 9:27:45 AM Post Reply

Organizing for Action has given up corporate cash, but watchdog groups won’t be satisfied until it´s shut down for good. Organizing for Action has given up corporate cash, but watchdog groups won’t be satisfied until the pro-Obama nonprofit is shut down for good. The lobbying group, which was built from the remnants of President Obama’s reelection machine, has come under intense pressure from good-government advocates who say it’s ripe for corruption. “We continue to call on President Obama to shut it down,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21. “President Obama should have never gotten

Obama finds ´our democratic debates
messy and often frustrating´

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 3/9/2013 9:13:06 AM Post Reply

Hi, everybody. My top priority as President is making sure we do everything we can to reignite the true engine of America’s economic growth — a rising, thriving middle class. Yesterday, we received some welcome news on that front. We learned that our businesses added nearly 250,000 new jobs last month (236,000). The unemployment rate fell to 7.7% — still too high, but now lower than it was when I took office.

Elderly woman forced off
Metrorail explores legal action

WSVN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: yifin- 3/9/2013 9:03:54 AM Post Reply

MIAMI -- The 82-year-old woman who was dragged off the Metrorail train for singing too loudly has hired an attorney to explore her legal action. Attorney Al Carbonell sent a letter to county officials Friday in which he said his client, Emma Anderson, is happy Miami-Dade Mayor Tomas Gimenez apologized to her for the incident, which was captured on another passenger´s cell phone video. According to the letter, what Anderson and her family are seeking now is an explanation concerning the harsh treatment

Sanford, Grooms, Colbert Busch among
1st District fundraising leaders

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Rob ert Behre Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/9/2013 8:54:12 AM Post Reply

Former Gov. Mark Sanford, state Sen. Larry Grooms and businesswoman Elizabeth Colbert Busch are the top fundraisers among 1st Congressional District hopefuls, a new report shows. The candidates with the largest campaign war chests are state Rep. Chip Limehouse, former state Sen. John Kuhn and Charleston teacher Teddy Turner. All three are Republicans facing off against Sanford, Grooms and 11 others in the March 19 primary. Kuhn, Limehouse and Turner have the most money because of what they have pumped into their bids. They have contributed to — or loaned — their campaigns $500,000, $400,000 and $317,000, respectively.

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

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