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First Budget in Four Years
for Senate Democrats

Roll Call, by Humberto Sanchez and Niels Lesniewski Original Article

Posted By: Desperata- 3/11/2013 9:19:45 AM Post Reply

Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee say they hope to keep the focus during this week’s expected marathon markup on setting a sound course for the country’s fiscal future. Though such issues have dominated the national political conversation since 2008, this week marks the first time in four years that members will actually debate a budget resolution, with proceedings expected to kick off Wednesday. Though such issues have dominated the national political conversation since 2008, this week marks the first time in four years that members will actually debate a budget resolution

40 Obama White House aides owe
the IRS $333,000 in back taxes

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 3/11/2013 9:16:06 AM Post Reply

President Obama has done a lot of talking the last year about Americans paying their fair share of taxes. Apparently he means, Do as I say, not as my staff does. A new report from the Internal Revenue Service has just revealed that 40 of Obama´s White House aides owe their employer a total of $333,485 in back taxes. This is the third straight year the US chief executive has been unable to get his own staff to keep up with a citizen´s legal income tax obligations.

Matt Lauer’s Bruising Year After Ann
Curry’s Ouster Devastated the ‘Today’ Show

Daily Beast, by Howard Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 3/11/2013 9:07:00 AM Post Reply

One day last fall, Matt Lauer walked out of his 30 Rock office and took the elevator to the 51st floor to see Steve Burke, the chief executive of NBC Universal. Lauer was feeling down. Week after week, he was getting pummeled by the press for the sinking fortunes of the Today show. The veteran host was being blamed for the messy departure of Ann Curry and the downward ratings spiral of what had been the iconic program in morning television. “If you think the show’s better off without me, let me know,

Analysis: Deification of founder
to help "Chavismo" survive

Reuters, by Andrew Cawthorne Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/11/2013 8:57:43 AM Post Reply

CARACAS - Within hours of Hugo Chavez´s death, makeshift altars were going up in homes and on street corners around Venezuela with candles, photos and offerings for the late president. Weeping beside his coffin, supporters are likening him to independence hero Simon Bolivar and even Jesus Christ. Ministers quote his words and precepts in reverential tones. Having fostered a cult of personality during his extraordinary life, Chavez is fast being deified in death. The outpouring of love and mythologizing of Chavez may seem over-the-top to detractors,

Why do the Koch Brothers
get all the sunshine?

Washington Examiner [DC], by Mark Tapscott Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/11/2013 8:57:33 AM Post Reply

Here´s a couple of data points that bear serious thought this week by transparency advocates celebrating Sunshine Week and by everybody else who cares about protecting and preserving a free and independent press: 1,130 - Number of results for search term "Koch Brothers" on The New York Times web site. 64 - Number of results for search term "The Tides Foundation" on The New York Times web site. For the few stray souls out there who don´t know, the Koch Brothers are Charles and David, principals of the Koch corporate conglomerate and chief bete noirs of President Obama, liberal journalists

In Venezuela, some have mixed views
on Hugo Chávez’s final resting site

Miami Herald, by Alfonso Chardy Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/11/2013 8:48:41 AM Post Reply

CARACAS -- On a hilltop, high above the Venezuelan capital, rises a 113-year-old structure called Cuartel de la Montaña or Mountain Barracks. On top of the old red and white building that resembles a castle stands a giant sign showing the number 4 next to the letter F. The reference is to February 4, the date in 1992 when then Lt. Col. Hugo Chávez helped lead a failed military coup against then President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Chávez used the old fort, which overlooks the Miraflores presidential palace, to direct coup operations. And it was there that he delivered

Greece may still have to quit
euro: Merkel ally

Reuters, by Gareth Jones Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/11/2013 8:42:25 AM Post Reply

BERLIN - Greece remains the biggest risk for the euro zone despite a calming of its economic and political crisis and may still have to leave the common currency, a senior conservative ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Alexander Dobrindt, general secretary of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavaria-based sister party of Merkel´s Christian Democrats (CDU), has long argued that Greece would be better off outside the euro zone. But German conservatives´ criticism of Greece has eased since the conservative-led government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras accelerated harsh austerity

Why Is America Facing
Economic and Societal Turmoil?

American Thinker, by Steve McCann Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 3/11/2013 8:41:19 AM Post Reply

How did the United States, a country founded on the principle of individual freedom and having achieved great wealth and world influence, find itself in its present financial and societal predicament? Until the bulk of the American citizenry understands the why, there is no hope of reversing the nation´s headlong plunge into the abyss. The history of mankind is replete with the rise and fall of major civilizations.

Indian police say man accused
in New Delhi gang rape has
committed suicide in jail

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/11/2013 8:39:01 AM Post Reply

NEW DELHI — A man on trial for the gang rape and fatal beating of a 23-year-old student aboard a New Delhi bus committed suicide in an Indian jail Monday, police said, but his lawyer and family allege he was killed. Ram Singh, who was accused of driving the bus during the December attack, was under suicide watch in a cell with three other inmates at New Delhi’s Tihar Jail when he hanged himself with his own clothes about 5:30 a.m., police officials said. His death in custody raised further questions about a criminal justice system

N. Korea says it has scrapped
armistice that ended Korean War

Washington Post, by Chico Harlan Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/11/2013 8:36:17 AM Post Reply

SEOUL — North Korea said Monday that it had “completely scrapped” the 1953 armistice agreement that ended the Korean War, following up on a threat made days earlier and increasing the likelihood for a strike against or a skirmish with the South, analysts said. The North has made several similar announcements in the past, most recently in 2009, and analysts said this latest declaration could prove to be bluster rather than the marker of a wholesale shift in Pyongyang’s dealings with Seoul. Experts also note that Pyongyang — whether bound by the ceasefire

Up to 11 people shot on D.C.
street corner overnight

Washington Post, by Peter Hermann Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 3/11/2013 8:28:48 AM Post Reply

Police are investigating an overnight shooting on a busy D.C. street corner that left as many as 11 people wounded, one of them seriously, authorities said. Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham said gunmen in two dark-colored cars opened fire just after 2 a.m. on a crowd of people outside Tyler House, an eight-story, low-income housing building on the south side of New York Avenue at North Capitol Street.

Harvard Search of E-Mail
Stuns Its Faculty Members

New York Times, by RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 3/11/2013 8:21:03 AM Post Reply

Bewildered, and at times angry, faculty members at Harvard criticized the university on Sunday after revelations that administrators secretly searched the e-mail accounts of 16 resident deans in an effort to learn who leaked information about a student cheating scandal to the news media. Some predicted a confrontation between the faculty and the administration. “I was shocked and dismayed,” said the law professor Charles J. Ogletree. “I hope that it means the faculty will now have something to say about the fact that these things like this can happen.”

Set for a white Easter as snow and
arctic temperatures roar back again

Daily Express [UK], by Giles Shedrick Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/11/2013 8:11:28 AM Post Reply

With just over a fortnight to go until Easter, the Met Office issued its secondmost severe weather warning, predicting “significant” snowfall and freezing temperatures. As bookies slashed the odds of a white Easter, forecasters issued a rare cold weather alert for the next five days. The return of the so-called “Beast from the East” weather system is expected to be so severe it will affect people’s health and create havoc for commuters. Met Office forecaster Steven Keates said: “The warning is fairly unusual for this time of year. Today will be particularly bitter with some of the coldest air

Suit ends in large verdict against
Summerville water heater manufacturer

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Natalie Caula Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/11/2013 8:05:55 AM Post Reply

A tankless water heater company based in Summerville has been ordered to dish out more than $700,000 by a Dorchester County jury. [Snip] Eric Bland, an attorney representing Amo, said that around 2008, those Eccotemp units began failing once the outside temperatures dropped and they froze, causing pipes to burst in some of those homes. “You can imagine a homeowner in the middle of the night, pipes burst, water leaking,” Bland said. Seventy percent of the units they purchased failed, according to Bland. “If a product fails more than three percent, it’s called an epidemic failure,” Bland said.

´US troops killed´
in Afghan attack

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/11/2013 7:54:16 AM Post Reply

Several US and Afghan soldiers have been shot dead by a gunman wearing Afghan uniform, the international military force Isaf says. [Snip] Afghan officials told the BBC the gunman was either a member of the local police or an insurgent posing as one. Last year more than 60 Nato troops were killed by rogue members of the Afghan security forces. Afghan officials said the shooting happened in Wardak province, where the Afghan government had demanded the withdrawal of US special forces over allegations of disappearances and torture by Afghan troops working with them. Earlier on Monday, police in the Afghan

Insider attack kills
2 U.S. troops, 3 Afghans

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 3/11/2013 7:51:26 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan — Officials say an Afghan police officer opened fire inside a police station while U.S. forces were visiting, sparking a firefight that killed two U.S. troops and three Afghan policemen. Monday´s incident in Wardak province appears to be the latest in a series of insider attacks against coalition and Afghan forces. It comes a day after a deadline given by Afghans for U.S. special forces to withdraw from the province.

Little Free Libraries
spread across city, world

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by Meg Jones Original Article

Posted By: Piercentire- 3/11/2013 7:38:33 AM Post Reply

Brandon Wyzbinski-Gelzer didn´t read much, but when he did, he usually picked up Reader´s Digest condensed books. So when his parents decided to turn a kitchen cabinet built by their son into a mini-library and install it in front of their east side home, an artist decoupaged pages from Reader´s Digest condensed books on the tiny repository, which features a handmade sign: "Little Free Library Brought to You by Brandon´s Tool Shed."

Mummy scans reveal heart disease
plagued our ancestors BEFORE the
emergence of junk food and cigarettes

Daily Mail [UK], by Damien Gayle Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/11/2013 7:26:07 AM Post Reply

A macabre study of mummified corpses shows that heart attacks and strokes may have plagued the ancient world as well as the modern one - even without temptations like fast food and cigarettes. Researchers say their findings suggest heart disease may be more a natural part of ageing rather than being directly tied to modern vices like smoking, eating fatty foods and not exercising. CT scans of 137 mummies showed evidence of atherosclerosis, or hardened arteries, in one third of those examined - including those from ancient people believed to have healthy lifestyles.

The Sequestered Life of Julia

AmericanThinker.com, by Randy Fardal Original Article

Posted By: javaboy- 3/11/2013 6:55:07 AM Post Reply

A meticulous new analysis examines the benefits of government-administered socialism among a representative cross section of individuals. It is an insightful departure from the usual studies of socialism that analyze only collective benefits to society using statistics about such things as income quartiles and poverty levels. The new study is 27 pages and can be accessed as a PDF file via this link. As its author, I´ll summarize the results here. Julia, the president´s comic book heroine, is used as the baseline.

Death to Daylight Saving Time

American Spectator, by David Catron Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 3/11/2013 6:47:27 AM Post Reply

This morning you were required to get out of bed an hour earlier than you rose last Monday. If you are like most people, you did so in the same spirit of resignation with which you endure winter rain, believing that there are benefits to be gained from Daylight Saving Time that outweigh its discomfort and inconvenience. This belief, however, has no basis in reality. (snip) It causes dramatic spikes in expensive health problems like heart attacks, traffic accidents, and workplace injuries. In addition, it forces us to consume more energy, which is not getting any cheaper

Why Ex-Presidents
Should Stay Home

American Spectator, by George H. Wittman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/11/2013 6:16:04 AM Post Reply

There is a tendency for high-ranking former government officials traveling around the world as honored and highly paid guests to give simple solutions to complex problems. Former President Bill Clinton recently stunned politicians and journalists in Nigeria by stating that the terrorism problems in the north of that country could be overcome by the government investing more in developing agriculture in that region. Clinton’s intent clearly was to suggest that the Islamist groups such as Boko Haram were not terrorizing the northern Nigerian communities for religious reasons. He went on to state that Nigeria’s violence may appear to be rooted

How Mrs. Wyatt
Earp rewrote history

Fox News, by Amy Kirschner Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/11/2013 6:13:11 AM Post Reply

Let us now praise great men -- and let us take a good look at their women. You’ll find many who were remarkably talented and forceful in their own right, others who were minor footnotes and forgotten muses. I was thinking about these partnerships when I went in search of Mrs. Wyatt Earp, the “Lady at the O.K. Corral.” Fascinated as I was by this unknown woman with a famous last name, I had to acknowledge that she was no Eleanor Roosevelt or Madame Chaing Kai-shek. Her most memorable act was burying her legendary husband in a Jewish cemetery.

President Obama´s War
On Women And Minorities

Forbes, by Peter Ferrara Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/11/2013 6:06:55 AM Post Reply

The 2012 election featured the bottom feeding charge of a Republican War on Women. The grounds for such a charge were less than zero. But with the Democrat Party outright controlling so much of the national media, every Democrat talking point takes on added weight. opposition to abortion indicative of a “war on women?” That would overlook the fact that at least half of babies aborted are female. Maybe it is a liberal war on women. The most braindead allegation was that Republicans harbored a secret plan to ban contraceptives. The effectiveness of that charge

Why Florida Persists in
the Zimmerman Prosecution

American Thinker, by Jack Cashill Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 3/11/2013 5:59:34 AM Post Reply

Prodded by a president with a weakness for racial agitation and enabled by a politically complicit media, the State of Florida persists in a prosecution that can come to no good end. The defendant is neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. The charge is the second-degree murder. The potential outcomes range from major injustice, if Zimmerman is convicted, to mayhem in the streets, if he´s acquitted. And the state plods on as though the angels were on its side. They are not. The witnesses to the February 2012 shooting of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin are proving even more troublesome

Some Democrats seek
distance from Obama

Politico, by Alex Isenstadt Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/11/2013 5:57:33 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama says he’s ready to do whatever it takes to help Democrats win the House next year — a feat that could make the difference between limping to the end of his presidency and going out with a bang. But some Democratic candidates and operatives in the districts on which control of the House will hinge said in interviews with POLITICO that the message and issues Obama has emphasized since the election are creating a difficult political headwind for them. Obama’s political choices, they say, reflects a tone-deafness to the challenges they face competing for moderate and conservative-leaning

Bill Kristol: Rand Paul is
‘spokesman for the Code
Pink faction’ of the GOP

Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/11/2013 5:54:23 AM Post Reply

Rand Paul’s filibuster united and excited disparate wings of the conservative movement, but not everyone is happy. Over at the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol writes, [P]aul’s political genius strikes us as very much of the short-term variety. Will it ultimately serve him well to be the spokesman for the Code Pink faction of the Republican party? How much staying power is there in a political stance that requires waxing semihysterical about the imminent threat of Obama-ordered drone strikes against Americans sitting in cafés? And as for the other Republican senators who rushed to the floor

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