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Intelligence boss begs Congress
to grant sequester flexibility
that Obama rejected

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 1:15:14 PM Post Reply

National Intelligence Director James Clapper warned that the sequester cuts as written “jeopardizes” national security, but — in direct contrast with President Obama — promised to implement the spending cuts more prudently if Congress will allow it. “Sequestration forces our intelligence community to reduce all intelligence activities and functions without regard to the impact on our mission,” Clapper — who said he would have to “let go” of 5,000 contractors — told the Senate Intelligence Committee today. “Congress directed that the National Intelligence Program use an even more set of rules to carry out these cuts than that

Fact check: Bloomberg claims more
people die of obesity than hunger

Washington Examiner, by Michal Conger Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 1:10:40 PM Post Reply

“For the first time in the history of the world more people will die from overeating than undereating this year,” declared New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg last night on “The Late Night Show With David Letterman.” “Isn’t that remarkable,” Letterman remarked, before moving on to talk about how food companies get people addicted to their products. But Bloomberg’s claim calls for closer inspection. He’s not the only one saying it: a recent Global Burden of Disease study concluded obesity now a more serious problem than malnourishment in the world, with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa.

White House: Deficit Reduction
Priority of the GOP

Weekly Standard, by Jeryl Bier Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 1:06:37 PM Post Reply

President Obama has often talked about the need to reduce the budget deficit. Before his run for the presidency, Senator Obama was rather harsh in his criticism of George Bush´s deficits. And in July 2011, during the debt ceiling crisis, the president even addressed Congressional leaders in a talk the White House titled "President Obama on Deficit Reduction: “If Not Now, When?” During the talk, he said: We keep on talking about this stuff and we have these high-minded pronouncements about how we´ve got to get control of the deficit

Looks Like Truth Is A
Republican´s Best Friend

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 1:00:54 PM Post Reply

Principle: From fighting on the sequester to refusing to accept ObamaCare as a permanent fixture, Republicans are finding that truth-telling carries political benefits. The White House, meanwhile, is off balance. When President Obama proposed sweeping budget differences under the rug in 2011 by offering congressional Republicans a Gramm-Rudman-style sequester that would cut discretionary spending across the board,both the White House and GOP negotiators were certain it would never be triggered. When it became clear this year the sequester would indeed happen, the president was certain Republicans would blink. He had the advantage, after all, of the bully pulpit.

Sequester Hits the Hill: Capitol
Lines ´Ridiculous, a ´Disaster´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 12:59:12 PM Post Reply

Lines to get into the Capitol today are “ridiculous” and a “disaster,” according to staffers who work in members’ offices on Capitol Hill. Obama suggests we keep "Washington" out of the arguments against his health-care plan. “The lines wrap around the building,” according to a Senate staffer, who says folks waiting in line to get inside are getting soaked by the steady stream of rain. “?It’s very unusual. Lots of people late to meetings today. And now Obama´s pulling up to the Senate, so it’s going to be even more of a disaster.” President Obama is

From jaunts to Scotland to
crying at trees, Judd’s memoir
provides fodder for critics

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 12:51:43 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — If Ashley Judd jumps into the Kentucky Senate contest to challenge Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell in 2014, expect to hear more about “All That is Bitter and Sweet.” That’s the title of Judd’s 406-page memoir, full of potentially harmful quotes that could end up being thorns in the side of the Hollywood actress and liberal activist during a campaign in a conservative-leaning state like Kentucky. Take Judd’s writing in the 2011 manuscript about how Tennessee — not Kentucky — is the place she seemed destined to live for the “rest of my life.”

How Paul Ryan proposes to
balance budget in 10 years

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 12:51:05 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — House budget chairman Rep. Paul Ryan on Tuesday unveiled the GOP’s budget proposal that would slash $4.6 trillion in projected government spending over the next decade in order to balance the country’s budget by 2023. “We owe the country a balanced budget,” the Republican congressman and 2012 vice presidential nominee said during a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday. Ryan’s plan includes a combination of tax reform, reform of entitlements and repeal of President Obama’s health-care law.

Online poll: Rand Paul the
conservative pick for
president in 2016

Daily Caller, by Spencer Amaral Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 12:45:22 PM Post Reply

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is leading an online poll being conducted by Contract From America as the conservative pick for president in 2016. With 190,000 votes cast as of Monday morning, Paul leads, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio rounding out the top three. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are running in last place, ranked 32 and 31 respectively. Contract From America (CFA) is a nonprofit conservative organization that promotes the “Contract From America” that was first drafted and embraced in 2010 by tea party Republicans.

Website claims to have hacked
first lady’s financial records

The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley & Brendan Sasso Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 12:44:17 PM Post Reply

A website is claiming to have hacked into first lady Michelle Obama’s accounts and posted her personal and financial information online. The website claims to have posted the first lady’s Social Security number, credit reports, former addresses and personal banking information, although the veracity of the information has not been confirmed, and some are speculating that the claims are a hoax. It lists three phone numbers for Michelle Obama. The first belongs to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Obama used to work. The second was disconnected and the third had a generic answering machine.

For Obama, It´s All About 2014

Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 12:38:50 PM Post Reply

What’s the purpose of Barack Obama’s “charm offensive?” And who is the target? In a long analysis in the New York Times on Monday, John Harwood and Dick Stevenson argue that Obama’s outreach over the past week is being undertaken with the goal of securing something along the lines of the “grand bargain” he discussed with Republicans in July 2011. Their lede demonstrates that assumption: “President Obama will go to Capitol Hill this week to try to salvage a big deficit-reduction deal, battling not only Republican resistance but also complaints from Democrats that he mishandled his last attempt.”

Moran On Possibility Of Handgun
Ban: ´There´s Always Going To
Be People Who Are Paranoid´

Cybercast News Service, by Joe Schoffstall Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 12:29:58 PM Post Reply

On March 11, 2013, Rep. Jim Moran (D-Virginia) held the "Preventing Another Newtown: A Conversation on Gun Violence in America" forum in Arlington, VA. During the question and answer segment. MRCTV asked if they´d eventually go after handguns. Moran hesitated and said those who think government is intruding in their lives are "paranoid - "but he also said he supports legislation to limit the purchase of handguns to no more than one per month. "I can understand that there´s always going to be people who are ´paranoid´ over government attempting to intrude into their life

State Department Will Issue ´Female´
Passports to Anatomical Males

Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 12:24:38 PM Post Reply

The U.S. State Department´s policy on dealing with transgendered people will allow Americans who are anatomically male but identify themselves as female to secure U.S. passports that match their gender "identity" rather than their anatomy. The policy also allows records for births abroad to be changed to reflect the “new” gender of an individual. “The U.S. Department of State is pleased to use the occasion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month to announce its new policy guidelines regarding gender change in

German Air Force plans to
leave Fort Bliss post

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 12:12:34 PM Post Reply

FORT BLISS — Two German Air force units that have called Ft. Bliss home for decades are scheduled to leave this West Texas Army base as part of a reorganization of the German military. Col. Heinz-Josef Ferkinghoff said the German Air Force Command for the U.S. and Canada will close at Fort Bliss on Sept. 30. Operations will be moved to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, where Germany already has a flight training center. Meanwhile, the German Air Defense Center where officers receive training in the use of Patriot missiles will return to Germany within five years.

Paulson Said to Explore Puerto
Rico as Home With Low Tax

Bloomberg, by Katherine Burton* Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/12/2013 12:01:42 PM Post Reply

John Paulson, a lifelong New Yorker, is exploring a move to Puerto Rico, where a new law would eliminate taxes on gains from the $9.5 billion he has invested in his own hedge funds, according to four people who have spoken to him about a possible relocation. Ten wealthy Americans have already taken advantage of the year-old Puerto Rican law that lets new residents pay no local or U.S. federal taxes on capital gains, according to Alberto Baco Bague, Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico. The marginal tax rate for affluent New Yorkers can exceed 50 percent

Who Now Speaks
For the GOP

Human Events, by Patrick J. Buchanan Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 3/12/2013 11:57:40 AM Post Reply

Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama’s war powers. Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in the absence of an imminent threat, have the right to order U.S. citizens killed by drone strike on U.S. soil? By the time he sat down, 13 hours later, Paul had advanced to the front rank of candidates for 2016,

Many left behind as
Silicon Valley rebounds

Associated Press, by Martha Mendoza Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/12/2013 11:53:36 AM Post Reply

SAN JOSE, Calif. — On a morning the stock market was sailing to a record high and a chilly storm was blowing into Silicon Valley, Wendy Carle stuck her head out of the tent she calls home to find city workers duct taping an eviction notice to her flimsy, flapping shelter walls. "I have no idea where I´m going to go," she said, tugging on her black sweatshirt over her brown curls and scooping up Hero, an albino dog. She glanced at the glimmering windows on a cluster of high-tech office buildings just blocks away and shook her head.

Cincinnati poll worker
charged with voting half dozen
times in November

Fox News, by Eric Shawn Original Article

Posted By: john56- 3/12/2013 11:27:29 AM Post Reply

She admitted voting twice in the presidential election last November, and now, Obama supporter Melowese Richardson has been indicted for allegedly voting at least six times. She also is charged with illegal voting in 2008 and 2011. The 58-year-old veteran Cincinnati poll worker, indicted Monday, faces eight counts of voter fraud. Two others, one of whom is a nun, have been charged separately.

Stupid Food and Drink Bans

Canada Free Press, by Alan Caruba Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 3/12/2013 11:15:35 AM Post Reply

Anyone, any city, and any governing body that passes laws to ban what you eat and drink has not read the U.S. Constitution. There is nothing in there granting them the power to decide what you eat and how much. Indeed, if you think about it, the Constitution was written to “preserve, protect and defend” liberty! New York City’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg continues to demonstrate an alarmingly fascist approach to everything that has to do with what the citizens of that city and its tourists may eat or drink, all in the name of “fighting obesity.”

Obama packs for an Israeli adventure

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 3/12/2013 10:58:49 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama, who stiffed the Israelis throughout his first term, is finally packing his bags for a visit to what we once called the Holy Land, before the world became an unholy mess. The Israelis have even put up an “app” on the Internet to enable everyone with a laptop to keep track of the trip in Hebrew, English and Arabic. The app, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises, will feature “real-time updates, video, photographs and behind-the-scene glimpses of the visit,” with Web links to the prime minster’s office, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

Soda-banning Bloomberg
admits to Cheez-It addiction

Washington Examiner [DC], by Michal Conger Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/12/2013 10:56:07 AM Post Reply

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose soda ban was overturned a day before it was slated to take effect, went on “The Late Night Show with David Letterman” on Monday night to talk about his campaign against sugary soda and his addiction to Cheez-Its. Bloomberg said he sees the role of mayor as as adviser, educating New Yorkers about healthy choices so fewer people die of obesity. Host David Letterman interjected. “I believe that it’s the corporate food industry, not the individual that is at fault here,” he said to applause. For once, Bloomberg erred on the side of personal responsibility.

The Al Capones Of Second Grade

New York Post, by Rich Lowry Original Article

Posted By: mc squared- 3/12/2013 10:51:25 AM Post Reply

The nation’s elementary schools are overrun by small-minded and unreasonable people, prone to hysterics, who can’t distinguish between make-believe and reality. They are called school administrators. In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre, they have been punishing little children for making gunlike gestures with their fingers and other harmless horseplay.

Beloved former mayor Ed
Koch leaves majority of his
estate to his three nephews,
$100,000 to long-time secretary

New York Daily News, by Heidi Evans, Joanne Wasserman* Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/12/2013 10:48:30 AM Post Reply

Ed Koch "adored" his sister´s three sons, and his will filed Monday could leave them more than a million dollars each. A lawyer for the beloved and brassy three-term mayor confirmed Koch´s estate is valued at a whopping $10.5 - $11 million — the result of his successful publishing career, paid speaking gigs and savvy investing. The lifelong bachelor´s 2007 will details just $850,000 in cash distributions — including six figures to his loyal secretary of nearly four decades, Mary Garrigan, the only non-family member named in the 9-page document

Texas Parks and Wildlife wins
top Texas Social Media Award

American-Statesman [Austin TX], by Michael Barnes & Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 10:41:28 AM Post Reply

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department turns 50 this year. That doesn’t mean the agency overseeing the state’s wildlife and habitat treasures is resting on its laurels. Or living in the past. Monday, the American-Statesman crowned the outdoorsy troupe the top social media producer during a casual Texas Social Media Awards ceremony at Opal Divine’s Penn Field. Nimble and targeted, the agency operates more than 100 social media sites, attracting more than 100,000 Facebook and Twitter followers. Its crisply produced videos — including a popular series on game preparation and cooking —

If I Were a Lefty Strongman

American Thinker, by Christopher Chantrill Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 10:31:28 AM Post Reply

Well, well, Mr. President. it looks like "another fine mess you´ve got us into" with the sequester squib. Not that I´m complaining, not a bit. Your government by phony crisis does wonders for the revenue at my usgovernmentspending.com. But now your chubby partner Ollie in your lefty Laurel and Hardy act is dead. I read the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger obits on the Bolivarian Ollie Chavez. According to Megan McArdle in The Daily Beast, Chavez´s record on poverty wasn´t so special. (Snip) The big problem for the poor, in Venezuela as in the United States, is that it doesn´t pay to work

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