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A New Obama?

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/11/2013 11:20:48 AM Post Reply

The big story of the moment is that President Obama has suddenly decided to talk with lesser political beings. The famously aloof President who began his second term as if the 2012 election campaign wasn´t over is inviting Members of Congress, and even some of its evil Republicans, to lunch and dinner. The question is whether this is merely a tactical feint or if Mr. Obama really wants to accomplish something in the next two years and realizes he needs Republicans to do it. He certainly has ample reason to conclude his bash-Republicans strategy has stopped working.

US citing security to censor
more public records, analysis finds

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/11/2013 10:52:38 AM Post Reply

The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored in the name of national security files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act more often than at any time since President Barack Obama took office, according to a new analysis by The Associated Press. Overall, the Obama administration last year answered its highest number of requests so far for copies of government documents, emails, photographs and more, and it slightly reduced its backlog of requests from previous years. But it more often cited legal provisions allowing the government to keep records or parts

Will the Right Come Around on Pot?

Reason, by A. Barton Hinkle Original Article

Posted By: zoidberg- 3/11/2013 10:52:26 AM Post Reply

Advocates of treating marijuana more like alcohol gained another ally recently: the United Nations. The U.N. would claim otherwise. In fact, the U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board would hotly deny it. The agency’s latest report laments the legalization of pot in Colorado and Washington, declaring the approval of recreational marijuana use “in contravention to” the 1961 U.N. Convention on Narcotics.(Snip)Here in the U.S., United Nations disapproval can only help the cause of legalization where it needs help the most: on the right.(Snip)The syllogism is easy enough to follow: The U.N. should not tell Washington what it can do

Obama to address advocacy group
amid fundraising scrutiny

The Hill [Washington DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/11/2013 10:46:31 AM Post Reply

President Obama will speak Wednesday to the nonprofit organization that grew from his reelection campaign despite questions over the group´s fundraising practices, an official for Organizing for Action (OFA) confirmed Monday. The president will address the advocacy group´s "founder´s summit," a two-day event for donors and supporters at a Washington-area hotel. According to The New York Times, donors will pay $50,000 to attend the event, and other speakers will include OFA Chairman and former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, as well as Jon Carson, the group’s executive director and the former director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

The Chicago Roots of President
Obama´s Leadership Style

American Thinker, by Michael Bargo Jr. Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/11/2013 10:43:16 AM Post Reply

Speaker Boehner and the Republican House are frustrated that they can´t get President Obama or Senate leader Reid to compromise with them. The regular rules of order in Congress are that the committees hold hearings, both parties have input into the writing of legislation, and eventually the Senate and House leaders have a conference to come to mutually agreeable terms. This conference report results in a bill that is submitted to the president for signing. But the president doesn´t seem to follow the old established rules.

Obama Says Defense He Fought
Can Stop North Korea

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 3/11/2013 10:27:37 AM Post Reply

Missile Defense: As Pyongyang threatens a nuclear strike, the administration says our missile defenses can handle anything they can throw against us or our allies. If so it´s not because of anything the president did. ´I can tell you that the United States is fully capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Thursday after North Korea´s raging runt, Kim Jong-un, said Pyongyang was scrapping the 1953 armistice deal that ended the Korean War. He threatened a "preemptive" nuclear strike against the U.S.

In Texas, a wrongly convicted man
relies on God and church

American Thinker, by David Paulin Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/11/2013 10:26:39 AM Post Reply

Michael Morton, who spent nearly 25 years in a Texas prison before DNA testing exonerated him of his wife´s murder, was married on Saturday in Liberty City, a small town in East Texas. The story of Morton´s marriage to Cynthia May Chessman, a divorced mother with three children, has much to do with God and the First Baptist Church Liberty City, according to an article on Sunday in the wedding section of The New York Times, "Ready to Share a Life of Front-Page News."

Opinion: Too much talk of taxing

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Judd Gregg Original Article

Posted By: nhchemist- 3/11/2013 10:24:46 AM Post Reply

Many who march in the army of the president say that all they want is to return to the good old days when Bill Clinton rode the range and rich people paid their fair share of taxes. Back then, they say, all was good. In 2000, the top tax rate was 39.6 percent and there was a 2.9 percent Medicare tax on top of that. (Snip) This means that the top stated rate for taxes is now 43.4 percent — a rate that is higher than that paid in Clintonian times.

Saudi Arabia may stop beheading
due to swordsmen shortages

Ahram Online [Cairo, Egypt], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/11/2013 10:22:10 AM Post Reply

A joint Saudi committee composed of representatives of the ministries of interior, justice and health is mulling the replacement of beheading with firing squads for capital sentences due to shortages in government swordsmen, Saudi daily Al-Youm reported on Sunday. The committee argued that such a step, if adopted, would not violate Islamic law, allowing heads – or emirs – of the country´s 13 local administrative regions to begin using the new method when needed. "This solution seems practical, especially in light of shortages in official swordsmen or their belated arrival to execution yards in some incidents;

Jeb Bush: I’m ‘in Sync’With Lindsey
Graham on Immigration Reform

ABC News, by George Stephanopoulos Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 3/11/2013 10:10:31 AM Post Reply

During an interview for “This Week,” former Florida governor Jeb Bush told me that he was “in sync” with South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on the issue of immigration reform. Graham, a key member of the bipartisan group of senators pushing for immigration reform, took Bush to task after the former Florida governor said Monday that he did not support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, which is a key component of the plan being pushed by the Senate group. Bush subsequently reversed course and said he could in fact support a plan

Fail: Chrome, Firefox, and IE all
crack during hacking competition

Washington Post, by Meghan Kelly Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 3/11/2013 9:52:06 AM Post Reply

Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox all fell to the mercy of the hackers Thursday. That is, in a controlled environment. Security firms Vupen and MWR Labs were able to crack the browsers during a condoned bug-hunt, with one company winning $100,000 for finding a huge hole. The Pwn2Own competition is an event at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. The competition was created by HP’s DVLabs as part of its Zero Day Initiative: an attempt to get more people to find and report bugs as opposed to exploiting them for personal gains.

Two Senators

Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/11/2013 9:26:29 AM Post Reply

This is from not-for-attribution interviews with two Republican senators who attended the dinner with the president on Wednesday night at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington. One was heartened and impressed by the meeting while retaining his skepticism as to whether it might open the way to pronounced progress in pursuit of a so-called grand bargain. The other was more optimistic and left the meeting moved. Each independently mentioned one aspect of the conversation that troubled them both: The president, while friendly and forthcoming, seemed to withdraw somewhat when talk turned to continuing the process. Both senators said

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

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