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Pistorius Asks Court to
Restore Travel Rights

ABC News, by Liezl Thom Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/12/2013 4:45:07 AM Post Reply

As Oscar Pistorius’ lawyers prepare to convince the Pretoria High Court that he should be given back his passport, prosecutors have indicated they will oppose the Olympic athlete’s application to have his bail conditions amended. Pistorius is out on more than $110,000 bail after he was arrested for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day. He wants to be able to travel outside the country and have his in-country oversight eased. As part of the conditions for his release, he may not travel outside South Africa and is prohibited from using alcohol or any banned substances.

5 US troops die in
helicopter crash in Afghanistan

Associated Press, by Heidi Vogt Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/12/2013 4:43:10 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has killed five American service members, officials said Tuesday. Monday night´s crash brought the total number of U.S. troops killed that day to seven, making it the deadliest day for U.S. forces so far this year. Two U.S. special operations forces were gunned down hours earlier in an insider attack by an Afghan policeman in eastern Afghanistan. The NATO military coalition said in a statement that "initial reports" showed no enemy activity in the area at the time.

Female senator tweets about ´very
uncomfortable´ screening by TSA

The Hill[Washington, DC], by Keith Laing Original Article

Posted By: mitzi- 3/11/2013 11:56:55 PM Post Reply

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) complained Monday she was subject to a very uncomfortable screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). McCaskill tweeted about the experience before boarding a flight on Monday. The senator, who has complained about the TSA´s security techniques in the past, tweeted that she was selected for a pat-down and that the experience was not a pleasant one. "?Today in my airport screening, test on my hands was positive," McCaskill wrote to her 89,100 followers. "Got private, more aggressive pat down. OMG. #veryuncomfortable?."

CBC´s Fudge Escalates Push
for Obama Cabinet Diversity

Roll Call, by Jonathan Strong Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 3/11/2013 11:56:44 PM Post Reply

Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Marcia L. Fudge is escalating her campaign to urge President Barack Obama to pick African Americans for his cabinet, publicly releasing a letter that slams the first black president for a lack of diversity among his closest advisers. “The people you have chosen to appoint in this new term have hardly been reflective of this country’s diversity,” the Ohio Democrat said in the March 11 letter. Fudge adds that CBC members’ offices have received phone calls from angry constituents questioning why Obama hasn’t nominated anyone with the ability “to speak to the unique needs of African Americans.

Their relationship is
sailing! Tiger Woods spends
romantic week on his yacht
with skier Lindsey Vonn
after making career comeback
at golf tourney

Daily Mail [UK], by Shyam Dodge Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 3/11/2013 11:43:51 PM Post Reply

Tiger Woods celebrated his big win on Sunday with new love US Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn. The famous athletes sailed the Florida seas on Tiger´s massive yacht named Privacy, after a full week of nesting on his ocean vessel while the sportsman played the Cadillac Championship Golf Tournament. But it was only a couple years ago that he and his ex-wife Elin Nordegren docked in the same Marina spot tucked away in the same corner for the annual event. The last several years have not been easy on the former highest ranking golfer in the world. Struggles in his

Lawmaker looks to rein in program after
free cell phones sent to dead people

Fox News, by Barnini Chakraborty Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/11/2013 11:37:11 PM Post Reply

Washington – Dead people don’t need cell phones. That’s the message Rep. Tim Griffin of Arkansas wants to send Congress, after he says a controversial government-backed program that helps provide phones to low-income Americans ended up sending mobiles to the dead relatives of his constituents. Griffin has introduced a bill that targets the phone hand-out program, which has ballooned into a fiscal headache for the government. “This program demands reform,” Griffin told FoxNews.com on Monday. “There is a lot of waste in it and we need to be asking ourselves, ‘Where do we draw the line? Do we

The War Against the
Second Amendment
Has Only Just Begun

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/11/2013 11:29:54 PM Post Reply

In an interview with Jason Mattera which was conducted last month but is just now hitting the news, Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky admitted that the Democrats’ effort to ban “assault weapons” is “just the beginning.” In addition, Schakowsky says that she wants to ban all handguns, and thinks this can constitutionally be done, despite the Second Amendment. I think it is obvious that Schakowsky was only saying what a great many Democrats believe: In a closely related development, a New York judge has thrown out Mayor Bloomberg’s decree

Soda Ban and the
Government Leviathan

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/11/2013 11:26:06 PM Post Reply

In recent decades, the judiciary has been at the forefront of efforts to expand the power of government and to restrict the rights of the individual citizen. But today at least one judge has struck a blow against the nanny state and its billionaire advocate. Justice Milton A. Tingling of the New York State Supreme Court handed down a ruling today that prevents the city of New York from putting into effect Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s law banning the sale of certain sizes of sugared drinks. While Bloomberg’s administration plans to appeal the decision, for now the effort to prevent

Starbucks to Bloomberg on
Sugar Drink Restrictions: Eat It

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/11/2013 11:21:57 PM Post Reply

When Americans think of rebel companies, they’re unlikely to think of Starbucks, the largest chain of coffee shops on the planet. Nonetheless, Starbucks is leading the rebellion against government overreach. On Monday, Starbucks announced that it would ignore all restrictions against sugary drink size, stating it was exempt. “Because customers can make so many choices in their beverages,” explained Starbucks spokeswoman Linda Mills, “we feel that most of the beverages fall outside of the ban.” Milkshakes, said Mills, do not apply. No drink, in fact, with over half milk falls under the ban.

In U.S., nuclear energy loses
momentum amid economic
headwinds, safety issues

Washington Post, by Steven Mufson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/11/2013 10:57:53 PM Post Reply

Two years after the tsunami that crippled Japan’s Fukushima power complex, the U.S. nuclear industry is facing fundamental and far-reaching challenges to its own future. Only five years ago, industry executives and leading politicians were talking about an American nuclear renaissance, hoping to add 20 or more reactors to the 104-unit U.S. nuclear fleet. But today those companies are holding back in the face of falling natural gas prices and sluggish and uncertain electricity demand. Only five new plants are under construction, while at least that many are slated for permanent closure

Rand Paul masks
his true worldview

Washington Post, by Michael Gerson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/11/2013 10:55:05 PM Post Reply

Since arriving in the Senate in 2011, Rand Paul has been probing here and there for issues of populist resonance. Audit the secretive, sinister Federal Reserve. Rein in those TSA screeners patting down little girls. In each instance, Paul (R-Ky.) has evoked the fear of oppressive government without tipping over into the paranoia of his father’s most dedicated supporters. It has been a diluted, domesticated, decaffeinated version of the ideology that motivated Ron Paul’s presidential races. On drones, Rand Paul finally hit pay dirt.

President Paul: Rand Rising?

National Review Online, by John Fund Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/11/2013 10:51:47 PM Post Reply

Palm Beach, Fla. — Those who doubted that Rand Paul was will running for president need to change their minds after considering how he energized the conservative grass roots with his 13-hour Senate filibuster last week. Paul took a narrow issue — as he put it, “whether an American can be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime” — and captured the attention of political activists. As social media lit up with praise for his efforts, many of his fellow senators joined him on the floor, in solidarity with his demand

An American Pope?
Cardinal Dolan may charm
his way to the Vatican

FOX News, by Greg Wilson, Perry Chiaramonte Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 3/11/2013 9:21:50 PM Post Reply

Cardinal Timothy Dolan is quick with a quip and, more often than not, he is the target of his own sense of humor -- a trait that will continue to serve him well if he is to become the first American pope. While archbishop of Milwaukee a decade ago, Dolan once wore the Green Bay Packers’ trademark “cheesehead” hat during a homily. Last September, he shared a stage at Fordham University with Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert for a moderated discussion of humor and faith and more than held his own in generating laughs. And when named a cardinal

War Games: Unstable North
Korea Voids 1953 Armistice

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/11/2013 8:18:16 PM Post Reply

War: A decaying regime with nuclear weapons and long-range missiles threatens war. It would be dangerous to dismiss this as mere bluster from a leader who consults ex-NBA stars with a fondness for wedding dresses. North Korea´s army has formally declared invalid the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953, an article in Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea´s ruling Workers´ Party, reported Monday. Threats from North Korea have customarily been treated with a high degree of skepticism. This is not 1950 with a revolutionary China ready and willing to come to its aid.

How Hugo Chavez helped
create Apprenda

Business Review [Latham, NY], by Barbara Pinckney Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/11/2013 8:11:34 PM Post Reply

It might be said that the late Hugo Chavez played an important role in the founding of one of the Albany, NY area’s fastest growing technology firms. Abe Sultan, co-founder of Apprenda—a Clifton Park firm whose cloud computing software has attracted $16 million in venture capital and clients such as JP Morgan Chase—fled his native Venezuela in 1999 to escape Chavez’s socialist rule. He planned on staying in the United States for less than a year, but the threat remained as long as Chavez was in power. Chavez died March 5 of cancer,

Obama Should Cut His Million-Dollar
Golf Games, Not White House Tours

Investor´s Business Daily, by Michael Ramirez Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/11/2013 8:04:14 PM Post Reply

According to NBC, canceling White House Tours would save the administration $74,000 a week. Taking a separate vacation and pretending to be on the PGA tour to train with Tiger Woods´ coach and then play a round with Tiger himself cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 million. As Sen. Jeff Sessions estimated, that was "enough money to save 341 federal workers from furlough." Incidentally, it happens to be enough to finance the White House tours of the "People´s House" for half of the remaining fiscal year. The White House claims canceling the tours were "mandatory." Jay Carney called the tour cancellation "unfortunate"

The GOP Plan to Balance
the Budget by 2023

Wall Street Journal, by Paul Ryan Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/11/2013 7:57:24 PM Post Reply

America´s national debt is over $16 trillion. Yet Washington can´t figure out how to cut $85 billion—or just 2% of the federal budget—without resorting to arbitrary, across-the-board cuts. Clearly, the budget process is broken. In four of the past five years, the president has missed his budget deadline. Senate Democrats haven´t passed a budget in over 1,400 days. By refusing to tackle the drivers of the nation´s debt—or simply to write a budget—Washington lurches from crisis to crisis. House Republicans have a plan to change course. On Tuesday, we´re introducing a budget that balances in 10 years—without raising taxes.

Debt Soared $5.5 Trillion
Since Last Senate Budget

Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/11/2013 7:55:38 PM Post Reply

If you want a sense of just how massive the nation´s debt problem is, consider this: The U.S. added $226 billion in new debt in just the 35 days since President Obama missed the legal deadline to submit his budget. That´s more than the government will spend this year on education, homeland security, law enforcement, housing aid, energy and the environment, combined. A 1921 law requires the president to submit his budget plan to Congress on the first Monday in February, but Obama so far hasn´t produced one, and the White House says it won´t release its plan to get

Surprise: Mitt Romney Planned
Big Middle-Class Tax Hike

Investor´s Business Daily, by Jed Graham Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/11/2013 7:49:25 PM Post Reply

You probably never heard that Mitt Romney had a plan to raise taxes on the middle class, but it´s true. Just ask the Wall Street Journal editorial board. This pretty interesting fact apparently occurred to them a few weeks after Romney lost the election, as they were tackling the subject of entitlement reform. Progressive indexing of Social Security benefits — an approach embraced by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan — "is tantamount to a tax increase," the WSJ said in no uncertain terms. Actually, during the heat of the campaign, the WSJ editorial writers seemed to heap praise on Romney for

Obama to visit Church of Nativity,
Iron Dome to be moved to airport
for photo-op - Thread Closed

Haaretz (Israel), by Barack Ravid Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/11/2013 7:47:07 PM Post Reply

During his trip to Israel this month, U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to pay a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, members of his delegation told Israeli government ministry representatives on Monday. According to a high-ranking Israeli official, that stop, scheduled for Friday, March 22, was added to his itinerary only in the past few days. UNESCO recognized the Church of the Nativity as a Palestinian World Heritage Site in June 2012, several months after Palestine became a full-fledged member of the organization. The advance American delegation responsible for organizing President Obama´s visit

Five Guys: Obamacare will
boost burger prices

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/11/2013 7:25:11 PM Post Reply

The fight over Obamacare, so far held at the 30,000-foot level, is about to hit home. The latest impact hot off the grill: prices of burgers and hot dogs at Five Guys, the national chain that started in Washington, are going to rise to cover the president´s mandated insurance coverage. "Any added costs are going to have to be passed on," said Mike Ruffer, a Five Guys franchise holder with eight of the popular restaurants in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. area.

Judge halts mayor´s soda ban,
calls it ´arbitrary and capricious´

New York Post, by David Seifman and Julia Marsh Original Article

Posted By: Rafter- 3/11/2013 7:21:28 PM Post Reply

A state judge today put a cork in City Hall´s plans to ban Big Apple restaurants and other venues from selling large sugary drinks -- a bubble-bursting defeat for Mayor Bloomberg, who has made public health a cornerstone of his tenure. Before the stunning ruling by New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling, restaurants, movie theaters, sports venues, convenience stores and other places regulated by the city´s health department would have been prohibited -- starting tomorrow -- from selling sugary drinks of more than 16 ounces.

Bad Science
and Bad Journalism
are a Bad Combination

Canada Free Press, by Alan Caruba Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 3/11/2013 6:53:03 PM Post Reply

On Wednesday, March 6, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee sent out a notice that its hearing on global warming was cancelled due to the chilly weather and a snowstorm that was about to hit the nation’s capital. The Committee was going to be treated to “a comprehensive briefing on how well scientists understand the climate and humans’ effect on it.” On the same day in 1961, the temperature had hit a record 81 degrees. In 1888, it had been 10 degrees.Anyone who thinks that humans had anything to do with either is mistaken.

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