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British hostage feared executed by
Nigerian terror group ´after UK
warplanes were seen in the area´

Daily Mail [UK], by Mario Ledwith Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 3/9/2013 12:58:33 PM Post Reply

A radical Islamist group based in Nigeria today claimed it has killed seven hostages, believed to include one Briton. Ansaru seized the men on February 16 from the site of a construction company operating in the northern part of the country. Local reports suggest that the group executed the hostages after British planes were seen in the country, leading the terrorists to believe a rescue operation was imminent. The group, also known as the Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa, released a statement saying that they had executed the hostages because of a planned rescue by British

9th Circuit Appeals Court: 4th
Amendment Applies At The Border;
Also: Password Protected Files
Shouldn´t Arouse Suspicion

TechDirt, by Mike Masnick Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 12:55:27 PM Post Reply

Here´s a surprise ruling. For many years we´ve written about how troubling it is that Homeland Security agents are able to search the contents of electronic devices, such as computers and phones at the border, without any reason. The 4th Amendment only allows reasonable searches, usually with a warrant. But the general argument has long been that, when you´re at the border, you´re not in the country and the 4th Amendment doesn´t apply. This rule has been stretched at times, including the ability to take your computer and devices into the country and search it there,

Eleanor Clift: These Obama Dinners
Are Super-Duper Important

PJ Media, by Stephen Kruiser Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/9/2013 12:47:45 PM Post Reply

For him. If you wonder why President Obama has changed course and is suddenly reaching out to Republicans in Congress, you need look no further than the recent wave of public-opinion surveys, which show his approval rating dropping precipitously, his reelection bump gone. Even though polls show the public is more likely to blame Congress for the obstruction that led to the sequester and the hardship it causes, that doesn’t mean Obama gets a free pass. He’s not getting a free pass? That’s news to me. And I pay attention to a lot of news.

The agony of Hugo Chavez:
details emerge of his final days

Reuters, by Marianna Parraga Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/9/2013 12:35:42 PM Post Reply

Caracas - Venezuela´s Hugo Chavez slid into a coma the day before he died of respiratory failure after cancer spread into his lungs, sources say.Chavez´s precise condition was one of the world´s best-kept secrets since his cancer was announced in June 2011. Since his death this week, however, details have emerged of the 58-year-old president´s battle with cancer and the last moments in the hospital with close family and senior aides.

Levin’s Last Stand

National Review Online, by Henry Payne Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/9/2013 12:35:11 PM Post Reply

Carl Levin’s retirement announcement today was delicious. The millionaire Michigan senator who gifted himself a $7,500 tax break to buy his $40,000 2012 Chevy Volt said his Number One priority in his last two years in office is cleaning up fat-cat tax breaks. “(My wife and I) decided that I can best serve my state and nation by concentrating in the next two years on the challenging issues before us,” said Michigan’s longest serving senator on his website today. “Years of bipartisan work by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that I chair have shed light

“We Need Ted Kennedy”: A
Conservative Politician’s
Unlikely Solution to the Sequester

Yahoo! Finance, by Aaron Task Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/9/2013 12:30:37 PM Post Reply

As the sequester enters its second week, one right-wing politician has a surprising answer for how to break the stalemate in Washington: “We need Ted Kennedy,” says Republican Kansas Governor and former Senator Sam Brownback. “It’s hard for a guy like me to say, but Ted would reach across the isle and say ‘for the good of the country’” we need to solve this problem, Brownback tells me in the accompanying video. “You need some people stepping up like that.” Even more surprising than a diehard conservative like Brownback lamenting the absence of Ted Kennedy is the notion

Carville likens Rand Paul’s drone
concerns to birthers, evolution
and global warming deniers [Video]

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/9/2013 12:14:23 PM Post Reply

On MSNBC’s “The ED Show” on Thursday, former Clinton adviser James Carville explained why he was not on board with Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s protestations of the Obama administration’s drone policy. According to Carville, Paul’s concerns that a drone could strike an American citizen on U.S. soil were similar to those who believe in birtherism and deny evolution and global warming. “Let’s remember, this is a party that vast numbers — vast numbers believe that the president was not born in the United States,” Carville said. “Vast numbers think that the earth is 5,000 years old,

Few insurance plans cover all services
mandated by new health-care law

McClatchy Newspapers, by Tony Pugh Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/9/2013 12:11:12 PM Post Reply

Washington — Only 2 percent of health plans available to consumers in the private insurance market offer all the coverage that will become mandatory next year under the federal health care law, a new analysis has found. That means consumers and the federal government might end up paying the cost of the new requirements through higher premiums. "Any time you add benefits to a policy, it adds to the cost of health care coverage," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America´s Health Insurance Plans, a trade association for large insurers. "And many people will be getting coverage that´s more comprehensive than

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

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