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It Took A Judge, But NYC´s
Soda Nazi Is Stopped Flat

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/12/2013 8:11:10 PM Post Reply

Liberty: The New York State Supreme Court came down hard on the side of average New Yorkers, and against their out-of-control despot, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Strike one on the Soda Nazi. In a ruling stunning in its strong language and moral censure, Judge Milton Tingling struck down the Big Apple´s infamous ban on large sugary soft drinks on the brink of its implementation. The judge declared Mayor Mike "Big Gulp" Bloomberg´s soda diktat "unconstitutional," "arbitrary and capricious," and said it "would create an administrative Leviathan and violate the separation of powers doctrine." More than that, according to Judge Tingling,

A Ryan Reboot

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/12/2013 8:08:53 PM Post Reply

The political class seems to be scandalized that Paul Ryan had the cheek Tuesday to propose another reform budget. Doesn´t the House Budget Chairman understand that the 2012 election settled every political question in President Obama´s favor? Er, no. The federal fisc is still a shambles—despite the tax increase on millionaires and billionaires that Mr. Obama said would solve everything and despite the modest sequester spending cuts he says are too painful to abide. Thus Mr. Ryan´s proposal for fiscal 2014 is still an important document, even if it has no chance of becoming law this year, because it

Ryan Shows How To Balance
The Budget Without Tax Hikes

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/12/2013 8:07:03 PM Post Reply

Deficits: Rep. Paul Ryan´s latest budget plan shows that we can balance the budget in just a decade without any new taxes and still increase spending if we get rid of the massive cost of ObamaCare. Released on Tuesday, the House budget committee chairman´s plan achieves what seemed impossible only recently — a balanced budget in 10 years. Even more astounding, Ryan gets there without touching Social Security and by leaving Medicare virtually untouched over the next decade. And he does so while letting spending climb an average 3.4%. How? First, Ryan takes the current revenue forecast as a given.

Infant the latest victim
of Chicago gang violence

Associated Press, by Don Babwin Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/12/2013 7:59:23 PM Post Reply

CHICAGO — A 6-month old girl became the latest innocent victim of Chicago gang violence when a gunman ambushed her father while he was changing her diaper along a South Side street and unloaded round after round into the two of them. Jonylah Watkins died at a hospital Tuesday after surgeons did what they could to repair the damage from the five bullets that tore through her body during Monday´s attack in Woodlawn. Her father, Jonathan Watkins, was in serious but stable condition Tuesday after receiving treatment for wounds to his buttocks and side and a graze to his face

Obamacare May Bite You
At The Vet’s Office

CBS Miami, by Eliott Rodriguez Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/12/2013 6:52:05 PM Post Reply

Pet owners listen up: You may want to start saving more money for veterinarian care this year. The reason goes all the way back to Washington and an unintended consequence from medical reform. Dog owner Lori Heiselman was surprised where her veterinarian posted a warning on Facebook. The notice read: “Because medical equipment and supplies will be going up in cost, that extra expense will have to passed on to the customers.”

Rubio vs. Paul vs. Issa
for top lawmaker

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 6:32:59 PM Post Reply

On the eve of the annual conservative bash known as CPAC, the titans of the movement are gathering Wednesday night to determine who the best lawmakers, journalists, activists and staffers are in the business. Maybe the hardest choice for those attending the Weyrich Awards sponsored by Coalitions for America: who is the top Washington lawmaker, Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Darrell Issa or Sen. Marco Rubio? The annual event is adding something new this year. It has renamed the award for congressional staffer of the year for Michael Schwartz, the former chief of staff to Sen. Tom Coburn

George P. Bush runs for Texas office

Associated Press NewsBreak, by Will Weissert Original Article

Posted By: Rafter- 3/12/2013 6:13:33 PM Post Reply

George Prescott Bush filed the official paperwork Tuesday to run for Texas land commissioner next year, hoping to use a little-known but powerful post to continue his family´s political dynasty in one of the country´s most-conservative states. Bush spokesman Trey Newton told The Associated Press that Bush spoke with current Land Commissioner Jerry Paterson before formally declaring his candidacy Tuesday. Paterson has already announced he´s leaving the post to run for lieutenant governor. An attorney and consultant from Fort Worth and Spanish-speaker, Bush is considered a rising star among conservative Hispanics.

Paper Nightmare! 20,000
Pages of Federal Regulations
Create Obamacare Tower (Photo)

Gateway Pundit, by Jim Hoft Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 6:04:02 PM Post Reply

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tweeted out this photo today of what he described as a #RedTapeTower – nearly 20,000 pages of #Obamacare regulations versus the original #Obamacare bill.What a nightmare. Thank you, Democrats. Mitch McConnell added this on his Facebook page: Just take a look at this giant stack: one day’s worth of ObamaCare regulations. 828 pages in one day. Overall, there are nearly 20,000 pages – with many, many more to come. This is the owner’s manual

Michelle Obama to appear
on Vogue cover

Washington Post, by Amy Argetsinger Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 5:55:31 PM Post Reply

Michelle Obama will appear on her second Vogue cover this month. Our former colleague Robin Givhan reports that the first lady was photographed wearing an ensemble by Reed Krakoff — the designer whose royal-blue dress she wore at the official swearing-in this year. Photographer Annie Leibovitz — who also shot the first lady wearing a Michael Kors ball skirt and sweater – attempted to entice Obama into one of her trademark creative shoots she’s employed for so many Hollywood celebrities (i.e., reclining in a milk bath). No such luck. Unclear if Obama posed in her own clothes,

Thinking The Unthinkable

Washington Times, by Oliver North Original Article

Posted By: Rafter- 3/12/2013 5:55:25 PM Post Reply

In my New York Times best-selling novel “Heroes Proved,” the president of the United States orders the execution of an American citizen in the United States by using precision munitions fired from a remotely piloted aircraft, or RPA — incorrectly referred to by our media as a drone. When the book came out last year, some critics derided the idea of a U.S. president issuing an executive order to kill Americans in our homeland as “over the top” and “unthinkable.” One even said the idea was “unfathomable.” Thanks to Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, we now know

Reports: Iran plans suing
Hollywood over ´Argo´

Associated Press, by Nasser Karimi Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/12/2013 5:52:09 PM Post Reply

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning "Argo" because of the movie´s allegedly "unrealistic portrayal" of the country, Iranian media reported Tuesday. Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. She is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal. Following the 1979 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days, but six embassy staffers were sheltered by the Canadian ambassador.

Even Bob Schieffer Has Limits

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/12/2013 5:41:54 PM Post Reply

RUSH: The College of Cardinals is now entering the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave to elect the next Vicar of Christ. For those of you in Rio Linda, that would be the next pope. For those of you who are Italian, it would be Il Papa. You may not know this. Yesterday on CBS, Slay the Nation, they had a roundtable. Bob Schieffer had Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn and Carl Bernstein on from Vanity Fair. Bernstein of Woodward and Bernstein fame. And they were talking about the church, the Catholic Church,

Media Mantra: Obama´s "Charm Offensive"

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/12/2013 5:35:14 PM Post Reply

RUSH: When I got home yesterday, I started immediately into show prep and no matter where I went everywhere on the Internet... I even turned on cable news. I don´t do that much anymore ´cause it´s on all day during the program. I kept seeing that Obama was on "a charm offensive." Everywhere I said, "What is this? What did I miss? What charm offensive? There´s no such thing! He´s not a charming guy." So we dug deep, folks, and do you remember the media and gravitas? It´s happened again. "Charm offensive" is the latest media thing.

Paul Ryan Presents a New Budget

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/12/2013 5:28:46 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Paul Ryan is the Republican in the House who is the budget expert. He is in charge, essentially. He leads the team that writes the Republican budget, the Republican blueprint. In this case it is a document that seeks to balance the federal budget in ten years. This is something the Democrat Party has never proposed. They have not proposed a budget in four years. Obama has, but it´s never had a prayer. His budgets have been so unrealistic that Obama´s budgets have yet to get even one vote from any Democrat.

Get in the hole! Astonishing
moment a 15ft sinkhole
swallowed a GOLFER as he
walked along the fairway of
course in St Louis

Daily Mail (UK), by Helen Pow Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 5:15:27 PM Post Reply

A Missouri father was hoping for a hole-in-one when he set out for a day of golf on Friday - but he didn´t think he´d end up the one in the hole. St Louis mortgage banker and avid golfer Mark Mihal was with three friends at the Annbriar Golf Course near Waterloo when he suddenly disappeared into the turf on the fairway of the 14th hole. The 43-year-old fell into a bell-shaped enclosure below the green that measured 15 feet deep and 10 feet wide, surprising his golf pals and the course management who said

The Limits of Moral Suasion

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/12/2013 5:15:06 PM Post Reply

In his 2012 book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010" (excerpted here), Charles Murray offered an idea about how to ameliorate the alarming social decline and stratification that he chronicled: There remains a core of civic virtue and involvement in working-class America that could make headway against its problems if the people who are trying to do the right things get the reinforcement they need--not in the form of government assistance, but in validation of the values and standards they continue to uphold.

Syria’s Assad running out
of troops to fight rebels

Washington Times, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: horacer- 3/12/2013 5:11:35 PM Post Reply

President Assad Bashar is running out of government troops to fight off rebels, a new report detailing the Syrian leader’s recruitment effort suggests. A Sunni cleric close to Mr. Assad — grand mufti Sheik Ahmad Badr al Deen Hassoun — has issued a decree for more military recruits, The Guardian reports. The decree suggests a dire need; if volunteers don’t step up, the government may start enforcing its compulsory service authorities, The Guardian says.

George P. Bush files
to run for office in Texas

USA Today, by Catalina Camia Original Article

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

George P. Bush, the grandson and nephew of former presidents, made it official Tuesday and filed his paperwork to run for Texas land commissioner next year. This will be the first political race for Bush, 36, a lawyer and real estate investor. His grandfather is George H.W. Bush, the nation´s 41st president, and his uncle is George W. Bush, the 43rd president. In a video posted on YouTube, Bush mentioned only one member of his famous family: former first lady Barbara Bush. He heralded his grandmother — or "Ganny" as he called her — for stressing "the importance of public service."

The Obama administration’s response to
the Falklands referendum is insulting,
wrong and mean-spirited

Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/12/2013 4:41:46 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration has just responded to last night’s Falklands referendum result, where more than 99 percent of the Falkland Islanders voted to remain a British Overseas Territory. As I noted earlier, the emphatic vote was “a victory for the principle of self-determination, and a powerful rebuke to those who wish to suppress it.” That’s not how Washington sees it, however, in the latest slap in the face from the Obama presidency for America’s closest friend and ally. As Agence France Presse reports, the State Department could not even bring itself to congratulate the Falkland Islanders on their historic vote

Yes, Ted Cruz Likely
Eligible to be President

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ken Klukowski Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 4:29:59 PM Post Reply

On Mar. 8, reporter Carl Cameron on Special Report on Fox News Channel was surveying potential GOP 2016 presidential candidates. Then he raised Ted Cruz--one of the most brilliant constitutional lawyers ever to serve in the Senate- the new 41-year old Hispanic senator from Texas. Cameron added, “But Cruz was born in Canada and is constitutionally ineligible” to run for president. While many people assume that, it’s probably not true. Cameron was referring to the Constitution’s Article II requirement that only a “natural born citizen” can run for

Senior administration official:
Holder’s letter to Rand Paul implies
no change to our drone policy

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/12/2013 4:26:03 PM Post Reply

An important footnote to the filibuster heard ’round the world. At first blush, this seems mundane: Paul’s interest was in limiting drone strikes on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, not overseas where all of the actual drone warfare (so far) is conducted, so of course it hasn’t changed current drone policy. But what about future drone policy, which may or may not involve strikes on American soil? Turns out it … hasn’t changed that either. “Sen. Paul’s 13 hours on the Senate floor won’t have any practical effect on our policy and how

AP Exclusive: Applying for
Obama plan not easy

Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 3:53:51 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama´s health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing your taxes. The government´s draft application runs 15 pages for a three-person family. An outline of the online version has 21 steps, some with additional questions. Seven months before the Oct. 1 start of enrollment season for millions of uninsured Americans, the idea that getting health insurance could be as easy as shopping online at Amazon or Travelocity is starting to look like wishful thinking. At least three major federal agencies, including the IRS, will scrutinize your application.

Ancient Mars could have supported
primitive life, NASA says

Space.com, by Mike Wall Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/12/2013 3:37:41 PM Post Reply

It´s official: Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars, NASA says. A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA´s Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments "shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes," NASA officials announced Tuesday in a statement and press conference.The discovery comes just seven months after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars to spend at least two years determining if the planet could have ever supported primitive life. "A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment,"

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.

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