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Lance Armstrong: I´m like Bill
Clinton and people will forgive me

Daily Mail (UK), by Daniel Bates Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 3:34:54 PM Post Reply

Lance Armstrong has claimed that the public will forgive him for being the biggest drug cheat in the history of sport - just like they did Bill Clinton for his affair while in office. The disgraced cyclist said that he saw the former President’s rehabilitation as a model for his own and that in a decade he will be back on top again. With breathtaking arrogance, Armstrong said that Clinton was a ‘hero of mine’ and that he wanted to copy him and become ‘president of the world’.

Google Pays Fine Over
Street View Privacy Breach

New York Times, by David Streitfeld Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/12/2013 3:25:25 PM Post Reply

Google has agreed to pay $7 million as a result of an investigation brought by a coalition of state attorneys general, officials said Tuesday, in one of the largest fines for violating privacy in the digital age. The fine stems from the Street View case, where Google deployed special vehicles to photograph the houses and offices lining the world’s streets. But for several years the company was also secretly collecting personal information — e-mails, medical and financial records, passwords — as it cruised by. It was data-scooping from millions of unencrypted wireless networks. “Consumers have a reasonable expectation of privacy,

Sam’s Smear

National Review Online, by Ramesh Ponnuru & Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/12/2013 3:18:57 PM Post Reply

‘Every contributor to this collection . . . blandly ignores the possibility that there could be any real issue of a rational kind in American politics today which would justify the existence of an opposition, and proceeds to a sociological-psychological analysis of the extraordinary fact that there is one.” Frank Meyer was writing more than 50 years ago, but the impulse he described is still at work. The explanation for conservatives’ opposition to President Obama and his agenda must be found not in our ideas but in our pathologies.

EPA official who wanted to ‘crucify’
oil companies praised EPA nominee
for help in ‘shaming states’

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 3:16:48 PM Post Reply

Al Armendariz, the Environmental Protection Agency official who said regulators should “crucify” a few oil and gas companies as a warning to the industry, praised Gina McCarthy for proposing air rules that were “icing on the cake” for agency effort to “sham[e] the states” into greener policies. Armendariz made the comments in a 2012 email to other colleagues released by Sen. David Vitter, D-La. who is raising questions about McCarthy, Obama’s nominee to run the EPA. “We have set things in motion, including empowering and shaming the states, to clean up the oil/gas sector,”

California Seizes Guns as Owners
Lose Right to Keep Arms

Bloomberg, by Michael B. Marois & James Nash Original Article

Posted By: SpeedMaster- 3/12/2013 3:07:45 PM Post Reply

Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital. They knocked on the door and asked to come in. About 45 minutes later, they came away peacefully with three firearms. California is the only state that tracks and disarms people with legally registered guns who have lost the right to own them, according to Attorney General Kamala Harris. Almost 20,000 gun owners in the state are prohibited from possessing firearms, including convicted felons, those under a domestic violence restraining order or deemed mentally unstable.

´I´m eight months pregnant,
woo!´ Jenna Bush reveals her
due date is fast approaching
as she shows off bump in
figure-hugging dress

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 2:44:40 PM Post Reply

A heavily pregnant Jenna Bush Hager appeared on the Today Show this morning, presenting one of her last stories before she takes maternity leave. So far the glowing 31-year-old has tried to conceal her baby bump with shapeless shift dresses, but today the eight months pregnant mother-to-be decided on a blue, figure-hugging, cap-sleeve dress. While at times she sat with her arms crossed protectively over the bump, she seemed mostly unafraid to show off her new figure with animated hand gestures, smiling and commenting to Matt Lauer: ´Eight months pregnant, woo!´

Cleanup in aisle 1: Teen´s
‘mourners’ trash Brooklyn shops

New York Post, by Kevin Sheehan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 2:40:25 PM Post Reply

A vigil for a teenager fatally shot by cops turned into a riot in Brooklyn last night, as a mob of outraged thugs ransacked stores, broke car windows and assaulted residents in East Flatbush. The chaos erupted after about 200 people gathered to mourn 16-year-old Kimani “Kiki” Gray, a reputed Bloods gang member who was shot after pulling a gun on police Saturday. Kimani GrayAt about 9 p.m., a splinter group broke off from the main ceremony and ran wild, causing havoc in several stores, including a Rite Aid. “They poured in here, like 40 or 50 of them.

Rodman: I´m going on
vacation with Kim in August

CNN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 2:27:58 PM Post Reply

NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman plans to return to North Korea in August, CNN affiliate KXJB reported Monday. Rodman, who recently visited the communist nation, said he plans to vacation with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "I don´t condone what he does, but he´s my friend," Rodman told KXJB while in Fargo, North Dakota, for a promotional appearance. Rodman, who was giddy throughout the interview, insisted the North Korean leader doesn´t want war. Opinion: Don´t be fooled by Dennis Rodman´s trip to North Korea Rodman: I´m going back to North Korea Rodman: Diplomat or naive?

Senior WH official: Obama’s GOP
outreach is a big waste of time
designed to impress the media

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 2:22:48 PM Post Reply

Look surprised. “This is a joke. We’re wasting the president’s time and ours,” complained a senior White House official who was promised anonymity so he could speak frankly. “I hope you all (in the media) are happy because we’re doing it for you.” Another said the president was sincerely trying to find common ground with stubborn Republicans. “But if we do it,” the aide hastened, “it won’t be because we had steaks and Merlot with a few senators.”… This was predictable. The White House was warned by Democratic allies in Congress and on K Street that,

Venezuela´s acting president
Maduro pledges to finish crime

El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/12/2013 2:18:48 PM Post Reply

In a rally held on Monday at the premises of the National Electoral Council (CNE) on the occasion of his enrolment as presidential candidate for the election to be held next April 14, and accompanied by his family, Venezuelan acting President Nicolás Maduro promised to continue late President Hugo Chávez´s social programs. Maduro admitted the existence of deficiencies in the health sector, and pledged he would tune up hospitals. Unlike his mentor, Hugo Chávez, Maduro addressed for nearly two hours the issue of Venezuela´s insecurity and stressed, "I want to become,

Senate Dem budget includes
nearly $1 trillion in new taxes

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Erik Wasson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 2:14:39 PM Post Reply

The first budget from Senate Democrats in four years includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes but would not balance the budget. The blueprint unveiled by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Tuesday to her Democratic colleagues would also turn off the next nine years of the sequester and replace those spending cuts with a 50-50 mix of tax increases and spending cuts. The budget would dedicate $100 billion to economic stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending and job training. Murray argues that her budget cuts $1.85 trilion from deficits over ten years.

Hagel orders halt to production
of drone pilot, cyberwarrior medal

Washington Post, by Karen DeYoung Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/12/2013 2:03:00 PM Post Reply

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the military to stop production of a controversial new medal pending a 30-day study of whether the award for drone pilots and cyberwarriors should outrank medals given for battlefield bravery. The Distinguished Warfare Medal, approved by former secretary Leon E. Panetta during his final days in office last month, was criticized by members of Congress and veterans groups because it was ranked above the Bronze Star and Purple Heart in the military’s order of precedence.

GOP renews attack on Census survey
that asks too many personal questions

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 2:02:33 PM Post Reply

Republicans in the House and Senate are resuming their efforts to take a mandatory Census Bureau survey that they say is overly intrusive, and make it voluntary. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) said on the House floor Tuesday that he would reintroduce legislation making the Census Bureau´s American Community Survey voluntary, after hearing more complaints from constituents that it asks too many personal questions. Census mails out 250,000 of these surveys per year to American households. The surveys ask dozens of questions, including whether the home has a flush toilet, when people go to work,

Witness in Trayvon Martin Case
Lied. Will It Even Go To Trial?

PJ Media, by Bob Owens Original Article

Posted By: Emerson- 3/12/2013 1:57:27 PM Post Reply

The key prosecution witness in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman has allegedly been caught in a significant lie: Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend, the state’s most important witness in the George Zimmerman murder case, was caught in a lie, it was revealed Tuesday. It was not the first piece of misinformation tied to her, but it was the most damaging to date and left prosecutors in a very awkward position. They had to publicly acknowledge that their star witness had lied under oath

Obamacare: Seven Feet of
Job-Killing Regulations

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 1:55:44 PM Post Reply

Senate Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell sent out a shocking photo showing what it looks like if you stack every page of Obamacare regulations one on top of the other. The stack reaches to more than seven feet in height and is so big it might take a 3-D printer to print it all. "This is over 20,000 pages and measures 7´ 2.5"," McConnell said of the amazing photo. "These are all the Obamacare regulations published in the Federal Register up through last week. Then last Friday they added another 828 pages." These additions

“I’m not Chavez, but I’m his
son” Maduro tells his followers

MercoPress [Montevideo, Uruguay], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 3/12/2013 1:52:58 PM Post Reply

“I’m not (Hugo) Chavez, but I’m his son”, Venezuelan acting president Nicolas Maduro said on Monday on making official his candidacy before the Electoral Tribunal for the April 14 snap election to choose a successor to the deceased charismatic leader. “For our Commander not one minute of silence, but one million years of struggle” pledged Maduro to a crowd of thousands who gathered outside the Electoral Tribunal in Caracas in support of Chavez hand-picked presidential candidate. And “if necessary we will resort to arms to defend the revolution of Commander Chavez” said defiantly the former metro driver

Report: DSCC ´re-evaluating´ Judd
following Kentucky Senate polling

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Alexandra Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 1:50:28 PM Post Reply

A survey for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee of the Kentucky Senate race may be cause for the DSCC to ´re-evaluate´ the committee´s initial interest in Ashley Judd´s potential campaign for Kentucky Senate, according to a recent report. According to the Louisville Eccentric Observer, after receiving the results of the poll, the DSCC is "re-evaluating" its initial "all-in" support for Judd. The poll was conducted for the committee by Fred Yang, who formerly worked for Gov. Steve Beshear (D), The Hill has learned. It reportedly showed Kentucky Secretary of State Allison

‘That’s Not Fair & Balanced!’: Dem
Rep And Fox Host Get Into Fiery
Exchange Over ‘Demagoguing’ Medicare

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 1:32:26 PM Post Reply

During a conversation about Republican Paul Ryan‘s House GOP budget plan, Fox host Bill Hemmer and Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen (MD) got into what can be described as a “fiery interruption-fest,” with the latter accusing Fox of not handling the topic in a “fair and balanced” manner. About midway through the conversation, Hemmer dismissed Van Hollen as having just repeated “talking points” on the Democratic Party’s desire for a “balanced approach” to fiscal reform — i.e., spending cuts and tax increases. The congressman did not take kindly to that characterization.

McClatchy-Marist poll shows
Obama tumbling in voters’ eyes

McClatchy Newspapers, by Steven Thomma Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 1:25:15 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — If President Barack Obama had piled up political capital with his impressive re-election, it’s largely gone. His approval rating has dropped to the lowest level in more than a year, with more voters now turning thumbs down on his performance than thumbs up, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. The measure of how much people like him also has dropped. He’s still vastly more popular than Congress, particularly congressional Republicans. But in the biggest political clash of the year – over the federal budget and how

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.”

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