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Scientists subject to effects of
sequesters as research decisions
get fresh scrutiny

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/12/2013 7:24:24 AM Post Reply

Some of the toughest sequester spending decisions involve taxpayer-financed research, where funding today can produce huge benefits tomorrow — but can the government really afford to spend $227,437 to study pictures of animals in National Geographic magazines? That is one of the 164 grants the National Science Foundation approved last week as it sought to balance its research mission with less funding that means the independent agency will award about 1,000 fewer projects with taxpayer money this year.

Pew: For Every 10 Americans,
Only 3 Trust The Government

CBS News (DC), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 3/12/2013 7:21:46 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON – The Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. has found that fewer Americans than ever trust the decisions made by the government. Data collected from a survey taken in January of this year indicates that all demographics and partisan groups experienced an increasing lack of faith in government leadership, according to a release posted on the Pew Research website late last week.

Joe Lieberman to join
conservative think tank

Politico, by Byron Tau Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 3/12/2013 7:19:02 AM Post Reply

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman is joining the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, the organization announced Monday. Lieberman — Al Gore’s vice presidential running mate in 2000 and a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 — will co-chair AEI’s American Internationalism Project, an effort to rebuild a bipartisan consensus about big foreign policy questions. “There is an urgent need to rebuild a bipartisan — indeed non-political — consensus for American diplomatic, economic, and military leadership in the world,” Lieberman said in a statement.

Stranded for TWELVE HOURS:
Hundreds of motorists are stuck
all night and Eurostar suspended
as snow storm wreaks havoc

Daily Mail [UK], by Suzannah Hills, Mark Duell Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/12/2013 7:08:02 AM Post Reply

Hundreds of drivers were left stranded in their vehicles in freezing conditions for up to 12 hours overnight as snowfall continued to wreak havoc across the country this morning. Motorists were stuck for hours in the bitter cold in long tailbacks on the A23 and M23 in Sussex as ice and snow made roads across much of the South East impassable. Conditions on the A23 were still being described as treacherous this morning while just one lane was open on the M23. The M20 and M25 were also affected by the poor weather. The train network was also badly hit

The Falklands referendum has
humiliated Cristina Kirchner’s
bullying, delusional regime

Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/12/2013 6:59:40 AM Post Reply

Today is a proud day for the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands, who have emphatically voted to remain a British Overseas Territory. [Snip] Of 1,517 votes cast in the two-day referendum, 1,513 were in favour of keeping the current status, while just three votes were against. There was a turnout of more than 90% from 1,672 British citizens eligible to vote in a population of about 2,900…. Dick Sawle, a member of the island´s legislative assembly, said: "To get a 99% result on the ´yes´ vote, with only three voting ´no´, I think is an absolutely phenomenal result

Falkland Islanders vote Yes
in referendum to remain
part of Britain

Telegraph [UK], by Neil Tweedie Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/12/2013 6:51:28 AM Post Reply

The people of the Falklands have delivered one of the most emphatic votes in recent history when 99.8 percent of those taking part in a referendum on the future of the islands said yes to remaining a British overseas territory. Just three people responded with the answer “No” to the question: "Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?” [Snip] In truth, the outcome of the poll was never in doubt, but the size of the Yes vote, combined with a turnout of 92 percent

Obama to Nominate Sharia Supporter,
Illegal Immigrant Advocate as Labor Secretary

American Thinker, by Matthew Vadum Original Article

Posted By: EnsignO´Toole- 3/12/2013 6:28:47 AM Post Reply

President Obama reportedly intends to nominate in-your-face radical leftist lawyer Thomas Perez as his next Secretary of Labor. Now an assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, Perez is a former top aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and possibly a perjurer.

Stories for the Justices

American Spectator, by Anne Hendershott Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/12/2013 6:14:01 AM Post Reply

As the United States Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments challenging the constitutionality of laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, some of the Justices may recall that it was ten years to the day that they began hearing the case that made this one possible. On March 26, 2003, oral arguments began in Lawrence v. Texas—a case challenging the constitutionality of anti-sodomy laws—a case that Justice Antonin Scalia predicted would open the door to “judicial imposition of homosexual marriage.” Scalia was right. Lawrence held that intimate consensual sexual conduct

Mr. President: Instead of harming
the troops, cut here instead

American Thinker, by Dustin Siggins Original Article

Posted By: EnsignO´Toole- 3/12/2013 6:12:09 AM Post Reply

In the political battle over sequestration, President Obama is jumping full-tilt into a scorched-earth tactic: eliminating tuition assistance for the Marines and Army. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who outlined billions in cuts the president could look at to eliminate wasteful spending. First from the op-ed, options abound: Federal dollars were spent to study "how cocaine affects the reproductive habits of Japanese quail" at a cost of $181,000. Fourteen point eight million dollars is spent on unemployment checks sent to millionaires.

March Madness, Vatican Style:
Who´ll Come Out of the Sweet Sistine?

Wall Street Journal, by John D. Stoll Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/12/2013 6:09:11 AM Post Reply

VATICAN CITY—Tuesday, 115 princes of the church will lock themselves up in the Sistine Chapel to choose a new pope. Tom Rauen is giving conclave watchers a virtual chance to vote, too. Mr. Rauen has created a game that mimics the single-elimination tournaments made famous by college and professional sports in the U.S. In this fictional matchup, cardinals are divided into brackets against one another and it is up to the contestant to decide who would make a better pontiff. People who end up picking correctly win what Mr. Rauen calls a "swag bag" of goodies,

Charm has its limits

Washington Post, by Dana Milbank Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 6:02:32 AM Post Reply

It’s week two of the president’s charm offensive, and already there is dissension in the ranks. Jay Carney, the occasionally charming spokesman for the newly charming president, began his daily media briefing Monday with a smile, a sunny disposition and a bit of percussion on the lectern. Bum-ba-da-bum-bum, he drummed with his hands. “Happy Monday!” began Carney, wearing a festive yellow tie and striking a casual pose. “Good afternoon. Thanks for being here for your White House briefing. Spring is here early.” But it was not long before the White House press secretary was back in his winter of discontent.

On Facebook, you are
what you ´like,´ study finds

Los Angeles Times, by Geoffrey Mohan Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 5:59:55 AM Post Reply

Attention Facebook users: Do you "like" Mozart, science, "The Colbert Report" and curly fries? Chances are you´ve got a high IQ. Have you clicked the thumbs-up icon for Tyler Perry, Harley-Davidson and Lady Antebellum? Perhaps you´re not quite as cerebral. What you endorse on the popular social media website may say a whole lot more about you than you intended, researchers from the University of Cambridge in Britain have found. You may not think twice about your fondness for NASCAR, "The Bachelor" and Oklahoma State University, but those affirmations fit the pattern of a person who´s conservative

Not so fast, Mr. President

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 5:55:11 AM Post Reply

The president says any cuts to the federal leviathan would harm women, children and maybe their puppies and kittens — and so far he’s been able to get away with this fib. Now, the government’s own inspectors general are collectively saying: “Not so fast, Mr. President.” These watchdogs serve as “the eyes and ears of Congress embedded within the federal bureaucracy,” and they’ve identified $67 billion in rampant waste, fraud and abuse. In a report Tuesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee collected and tallied the value of all the unimplemented recommendations from the internal auditors.

More sequester fallout: Michelle
Obama can only get Adele and
Beyonce to sing at her birthday party

Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/12/2013 5:51:36 AM Post Reply

We all have to tighten our belts these days. And that’s especially painful for the First Lady, who usually wears hers up around her ribcage. Her Highness’s 50th birthday party isn’t until next January, but it’s already being put together. When you’re pinching pennies, you have to plan ahead! Sounds like it’ll be a modest, low-key affair, as the Daily Mail reports: ‘America’s First Lady will be holding a huge celebrity-packed party for her birthday at the White House next year and, as she adores Adele and Beyonce, she has asked them both to sing,’

Congress Goes AWOL

Weekly Standard, by John McCormack Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 5:40:34 AM Post Reply

When news broke that the Obama administration was lifting the rule excluding women from combat units, the rare sound of bipartisan applause reverberated on Capitol Hill. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, one of two conservative women in the Senate, said she was “pleased” with the change, issued in late January: “I’ve seen firsthand servicemen and women working together in a range of dangerous operations to achieve our military objectives?—?and today’s announcement reflects the increasing role that female service members play in securing our country.” To the extent that opposition to the Obama administration’s policy was even acknowledged, it was portrayed

Ryan’s Conservative Budget

National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 5:34:31 AM Post Reply

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) will unveil the latest iteration of the GOP budget later today, kicking off a fresh round of fiscal sparring in Washington. A few things to watch out for: Ryan’s comeback Since returning to the House following his unsuccessful vice-presidential bid, Ryan has kept a relatively low public profile, opting to work behind the scenes on Capitol Hill and serving as liaison between House leadership and conservative members. The budget debate will force him back into the limelight, which Republicans are more than happy to see. “He’s obviously the best spokesman

Gabby Giffords’ Husband
Mark Kelly Tells Wolf Blitzer
Why He Bought An AR-15

Mediaite, by Tommy Christopher Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 5:30:52 AM Post Reply

Over the weekend, conservative websites like Breitbart.com and Michelle Malkin‘s site attacked retired astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, over his recent purchase of a used AR-15 assault weapon. On Monday afternoon’s The Situation Room, Kelly told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer why he purchased the gun, and said he didn’t “know anything about who Breitbart is, or anything about his website,” and that he planned all along to buy the weapon, and post about it on Facebook. Blitzer began by asserting that Mark Kelly was “causing a stir after purchasing two guns, including an AR-15 assault-style rifle,”

US-born former Army vet
known as ´The American´
fights alongside Al Qaeda

Fox News, by Greg Tepper & Ilan Ben Zion Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 5:26:19 AM Post Reply

He´s a U.S.-trained soldier turned Muslim warrior who moves between America and countries where the winds of the Arab spring blow, fighting alongside jihadists and America-hating terrorists while celebrating his bloody exploits on YouTube videos. Eric Harroun, 30, grew up in Phoenix before joining the U.S. Army in 2000. Although Harroun was never deployed during his three-year hitch, he has seen plenty of combat fighting with Syrian rebels and, more recently, Jabhat al-Nusra, a group the U.S. State Department classifies as an alias for Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Soros: Ex threw lamp at me

New York Post, by Emily Smith Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/12/2013 5:21:22 AM Post Reply

Billionaire George Soros is finally fighting back in the legal wrangle with his former mistress Adriana Ferreyr — countersuing her for defamation and assault, and alleging she threw a glass lamp at him during an argument in bed. Soros’ lawyers last night filed their response to the Brazilian bombshell’s $50 million suit in 2011, which claimed he promised her a $2 million apartment at 30 E. 85th St. but instead gave it to her love rival, his now-fiancée Tamiko Bolton. Soros’ papers state: “Soros and Ferreyr . . . engaged in a physically intimate relationship over the course of several years.

Father Marcial Maciel And
The Popes He Stained

Daily Beast, by Jason Berry Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 5:14:25 AM Post Reply

Marcial Maciel Degollado, a priest from Mexico with an extravagant name, was the greatest fundraiser for the postwar Catholic Church and equally its greatest criminal. “A life ... out of moral bounds,” is how Pope Benedict XVI described Maciel in a 2010 interview, two years after Maciel’s death. A “wasted, twisted life.” And a life that exposed shocking flaws in the Vatican and the papacy. The saga of Father Maciel opens a rare view onto the flow of money in the Roman Curia across the last half century, a time during which his rise to power and late-life crash into scandal stained the campaign for John Paul II’s sainthood and became a quagmire for Benedict XVI. In the late 1940s, Maciel began sexually plundering teenage seminarians

‘The Good, Racist People’ of Manhattan

PJ Media, by Ed Driscoll Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 5:05:13 AM Post Reply

Most of the items we link to here are bread and butter examples of media bias, misguided energy policy, or Obama, Biden or another member of the left putting his proverbial John Lobb wingtip in his mouth and twisting. But every once in a while, something that a prominent “liberal” says, when he or she believes he’s making a Profound Statement on the State of Mankind, just jumps out as being remarkably misanthropic. Even more so because it’s not a hit piece on conservatives (we’ve become increasingly inured to those, if only out of their sheer volume), but an attack

Smaller States Find Outsize
Clout Growing in Senate

New York Times, by Adam Liptak Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/12/2013 4:52:31 AM Post Reply

Big State, Small State RUTLAND, Vt. — In the four years after the financial crisis struck, a great wave of federal stimulus money washed over Rutland County. It helped pay for bridges, roads, preschool programs, a community health center, buses and fire trucks, water mains and tanks, even a project to make sure fish could still swim down the river while a bridge was being rebuilt. Just down Route 4, at the New York border, the landscape abruptly turns from spiffy to scruffy. Washington County, N.Y., which is home to about 60,000 people —

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.

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