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The Boys Who Cried Crazy

American Spectator, by Matt Purple Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/13/2013 9:28:24 AM Post Reply

It was the day after Rand Paul’s filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination, and all was not well at MSNBC. Lawrence O’Donnell took to the cameras to accuse Paul of being “empty-headed” and pulling a “stunt.” The Kentucky senator was guilty of “spewing infantile fantasies about a serious subject” that might turn off mature critics of President Obama’s drone program. O’Donnell then brought in guests E.J. Dionne and Ryan Grim. Usually the interview segments on Lawrence’s show consist of everyone sitting inside a warm intellectual bubble, exchanging insufferable smirks and musings about how Republicans don’t believe in the Theory of Relativity.

Feds let Medicare provider give away
$20 grocery cards to lure patients

Washington Guardian, by Phillip Swarts Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/13/2013 9:25:45 AM Post Reply

The Department of Health and Human Services has given qualified approval for a Medicare provider to give away $20 grocery gift cards to induce seniors to get more taxpayer-funded health screenings, despite concerns the promotion could run afoul of federal anti-kickback laws. The HHS inspector general, the agency´s internal watchdog, gave the OK in a little-noticed advisory opinion earlier this year, declaring it would not punish the provider´s good intentions even if the giveaway strayed into questionable legal territory. “The goal of the gift card program was to incentivize patients to receive health screenings and other clinical services,”

Does John McCain have standing to
complain about “political stunts”?

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/13/2013 9:19:09 AM Post Reply

Quick, what was the last speech by a Republican that energized the base as much as Rand Paul’s filibuster? Some may cite Paul Ryan’s dynamic acceptance speech at the 2012 Republican Convention. But the better answer, I think, is Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech in 2008. Palin’s speech was brought to us by John McCain, the same guy who now attacks Rand Paul for engaging in a stunt. In fairness to McCain (and to Palin), his running mate said nothing in her speech that he, or other national security conservatives, could have found objectionable. Palin spoke rousingly without promulgating half-baked views

George H.W. Bush surprised
by flash mob at Texas A&M

CBS News, by Lindsey Boerma Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/13/2013 9:16:21 AM Post Reply

Former President George H.W. Bush got an off-syllabus lesson during a recent visit to the Texas A&M school named for him. Finishing up what he thought was an orthodox photo op March 1 at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at the College Station, Texas, university, the 88-year-old Bush - joined by his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, and his granddaughter, Bush 43´s daughter Jenna Bush Hager - was besieged by several dozen students spontaneously bursting into a choreographed rendition of Brooks & Dunn´s "Boot Scootin´ Boogie." "That´s a flash mob, grandpa,"

Federal judge: Arizona can
ban classes promoting ‘racial
resentment against ‘whites’

Daily Caller, by Eric Owens Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/13/2013 9:14:30 AM Post Reply

A federal appeals judge has upheld most of a 2010 Arizona state law that prohibits school districts from offering coursework that endorses the overthrow of the United States government or stokes resentment toward a race or class of people. Friday’s ruling, by A. Wallace Tashima of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, declared three of the four sections of the law constitutional, reports the Arizona Daily Independent. The ruling stems from a case concerning a school district’s intervention to forcibly alter coursework in a controversial Mexican-American studies program in Tucson schools.

Frack to the Future

Creators Syndicate, by John Stossel Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 3/13/2013 9:07:08 AM Post Reply

Celebrities are now upset about fracking, the injection of chemicals into the ground to crack rocks to release oil and gas. With everyone saying they want alternatives to foreign oil, I´d think celebrities would love fracking. I´d be wrong. Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and their group, Artists Against Fracking, don´t feel the love. Yoko sang, "Don´t frack me!" on TV. Stopping fracking is the latest cause of the silly people. They succeeded in getting scientifically ignorant politicians to ban fracking in New York, Maryland and Vermont. Hollywood gave an Oscar to "Gasland," a documentary that suggests fracking

Judge Judy: ´China´ Lawsuit
Against TV Judge May Be Bogus

TMZ, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/13/2013 9:02:47 AM Post Reply

It looks like the woman suing Judge Judy for more than half-a-million bucks for beaucoup expensive silverware and china may already be getting what she´s owed ... and her lawsuit against the TV jurist might be bogus. (Snip)Patrice Jones -- the ex-wife of Randy Douthit, Judge Judy´s producer -- is suing Mrs. Sheindlin for $514,421.14, claiming a conspiracy in which Randy sold Judy the former couple´s expensive, Christofle china and flatware for $50,000 when it was actually worth more than 10 times that amount, and it was allegedly done to cheat her. But according to divorce documents obtained by TMZ

3,000 More Dead Pigs Won´t Making
the Huangpu River Any Worse

The Atlantic, by Alexander Abad-Santos Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/13/2013 8:51:24 AM Post Reply

The Huangpu River, a source of drinking water to Shanghai´s 23 million residents, should basically be called rotting swine soup. Some 3,000 more decomposing pigs have been found in the river near Shanghai since Monday, bringing the number to about 6,000 dead hogs, but authorities claim that water is just fine. "If the water is contaminated, we will put more disinfectants and activated carbon to purify the water," Qian Huizhong, Deputy Director of Xiaokunshan Water Plant in Shanghai was quoted as saying in Xinhua, China´s state-run news agency. Officials also said "no pollution has been found" in Shanghai´s water quality.

Obama looking for ways to resume
White House tours for school groups

The Hill.com, by Meghashyam Mali Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 3/13/2013 8:27:42 AM Post Reply

President Obama said his administration was looking at ways to resume White House tours for school groups.“This was not a decision that went up to the White House,” noted Obama in an ABC News interview aired on Wednesday, saying the directive came from the Secret Service.“What I’m asking them is: are there ways for example for us to accommodate school groups who may have traveled here with some bake sales. Can we make sure that kids potentially can still come to tour,” Obama added.The president said that the Secret Service had faced a difficult decision over whether to

Mark Levin ´convinced´
GOP leadership ´has a
Republican death wish´

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: sparky86- 3/13/2013 8:22:33 AM Post Reply

On his Tuesday radio show, conservative talk show host Mark Levin said House majority whip Kevin McCarthy, who this weekend claimed Congress could soon pass a comprehensive immigration bill, has a political death wish. “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m convinced the Republican leadership — particularly in the House — has a Republican death wish,” Levin said. “When you put these Mickey Mouse types in charge of the Republican Party in the House, what do you get, Mr. Producer? You get mice turds. And that’s what we have here: mice turds from the likes of [Rep.] Kevin McCarthy.” McCarthy had told CNN

L.A. Unified settles Miramonte
abuse claims for $30 million

Los Angeles Times, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 3/13/2013 8:06:17 AM Post Reply

The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay about $30 million to settle 58 legal claims filed by students and parents in connection with lewd-conduct charges against a former teacher at Miramonte Elementary School, plaintiffs´ lawyers said Tuesday. Each of the victims will receive about $470,000 under the preliminary deal struck with L.A. Unified, the lawyers said. The settlement covers about half of the identified victims at the school and is designed to avoid long drawn-out litigation that could potentially do more harm to the children, those attorneys said. A Los Angeles County Superior Court

Justice Department’s voting rights
section hurt by unprofessional
behavior, report says

Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz, Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/13/2013 7:45:45 AM Post Reply

A report released Tuesday by the Justice Department’s inspector general found the department’s voting rights section mired in deep ideological polarization and distrust, in some cases harming its ability to function over the past two administrations. The 258-page review by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz found “numerous and troubling examples of harassment and marginalization of employees and managers.” The unprofessional behavior included racist and other inappropriate e-mails, Internet postings, blogs, and personal attacks by voting rights lawyers and staffers.

Patriots Must Be Prepared
to Answer Obama´s Lies
and Deceptions

American Thinker, by Lloyd Marcus Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/13/2013 7:37:12 AM Post Reply

Mary and I were sitting at dinner with a couple of liberal friends whom we had not seen in several years. They were aware of my involvement in the Tea Party. Spontaneously, the man, with his date nodding in agreement, went into a rant about how Republicans are mean and should stop blocking government from doing what government is supposed to do. This couple is pretty intelligent. But clearly, they are clueless low-info voters -- the man an admitted subscriber to the liberal blogosphere.

Americans eat snow, claims North Korea
propaganda video. And it´s yummy

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/13/2013 7:20:18 AM Post Reply

If it’s the genuine article, North Korea’s latest propaganda video is comedy gold. It claims to show America as it really is--a nation of gun nuts who shoot children for target practice, a place where everyone sleeps on a bench and the only way to stay alive is to eat the birds. It looks like the North Koreans simply stuck a camera outside the bus station in Detroit, which, admittedly, is capturing America at its lowest (when bad people in Hell die, they go to Detroit). Any charity to be found in this Dickensian dystopia is provided by

Chris Christie town hall
in Paterson turns into
yelling match over education

Star Ledger [Newark,NJ], by Jenna Portnoy Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/13/2013 7:15:21 AM Post Reply

PATERSON — During a town hall meeting that devolved into a yelling match over education, Gov. Chris Christie called it “powerfully discriminatory” that students in urban areas must wait for failing public schools to improve rather than give private school vouchers a chance. “The answer of government so far is, ´Too bad,´” he said, standing on the pulpit at St. Luke’s Baptist Church. “´Be patient. Wait for us to fix it.´ ... When I ask you to have patience, what I’m asking you to do is to sign away years of your children’s life, years they’ll never get back.”

Obama schedule for Wednesday,
March 13

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/13/2013 7:04:15 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- President Obama meets with the House Republican Conference Wednesday, the White House said. The daily schedule indicated Obama also will:-- Receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. -- Meet with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Kerry in the Oval Office.-- Meet with chief executive officers to discuss cybersecurity, including efforts to address cyberthreats and solicit the business officials´ input on how the government and private sector can best work together to improve the nation´s cybersecurity.

Gabby Giffords´ husband
under fire after buying handgun
and assault rifle on the
day before they appeared at
supermarket where she was shot

Associated Press/Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/13/2013 6:46:37 AM Post Reply

The husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords went to a Tucson gun store a week ago to buy a .45-caliber handgun and a military-style rifle the day before he appeared with his wife at the supermarket where she was wounded in a rampage two years ago. It didn´t take long for the purchase to draw criticism from both sides of the gun debate. Mark Kelly said he bought the AR-15-style weapon to draw attention to the relative ease with which people can get the type of gun that the shooter used

Obama´s Islamist Tilt

American Thinker, by Kyle Shideler Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/13/2013 6:35:39 AM Post Reply

Important overseas populations are drawing the conclusion that the Obama administration is quietly realigning itself in the Middle East, toward the Islamists. Recently returning from a visit to Egypt, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) noted that many of the Coptic Christian minorities he met believe the United States supports the Muslim Brotherhood´s vicious rule there: "I was told people think the United States is developing relationships with the Muslim Brotherhood because it believes the party is going to remain in power," Wolf said. "[T]he feeling is that as long as the Brotherhood protects the United States´ interests in the region,

Obama’s approval drops as
Americans take a dimmer view
of his economic policies

Washington Post, by Jon Cohen & Karen Tumulty Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/13/2013 6:25:44 AM Post Reply

The afterglow of President Obama’s reelection and inauguration appears to have vanished as increasingly negative views among Americans about his stewardship of the economy have forced his public approval rating back down to the 50 percent mark, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. In December, just after he won a second term, Obama held an 18-percentage-point advantage over congressional Republicans on the question of whom the public trusted more to deal with the economy. Now, it’s a far more even split — 44 percent to 40 percent, with a slight edge for the president — but the

Sorry, Mr. Obama, the
Falklands Will Stay British

American Spectator, by Robert Taylor Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/13/2013 6:16:35 AM Post Reply

Britain has fought side by side with the U.S. for the last decade in Iraq and Afghanistan. So you would have thought that President Obama might offer Britain a little support on its most urgent foreign policy objective — the on-going efforts to stop Argentina swallowing up the Falkland Islands, lying vulnerably just 300 miles off its South Atlantic coast. Sadly, Obama seems unconcerned to show such loyalty to his ally. “Our position remains one of neutrality,” says his administration. “The United States… takes no position regarding the sovereignty claims of either party.” Thanks, Mr. Obama.

Lawsuit says Judge Judy conspired
to buy $500,000 worth of jointly owned
china and flatware for a pittance to
hurt a co-worker’s estranged wife

New York Daily News, by Nancy Dillon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/13/2013 6:07:55 AM Post Reply

Judge Judy´s sterling image is under attack in a bizarre lawsuit involving the ugly divorce of one of her show´s top producers and a half-million dollars´ worth of bone china and flatware. The famous jurist, whose real name is Judy Sheindlin, stands accused paying just $50,815 to purchase $514,421 worth of Christofle china and flatware from producer Randy Douthit, even though she knew his divorcing wife had equal ownership of the property. Douthit´s estranged wife, Patrice Jones, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles on Tuesday, saying Sheindlin knew about the couple´s "acrimonious" split and conspired with Douthit

One day in March revives a party

Washington Examiner [DC], by Noemie Emery Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/13/2013 6:02:39 AM Post Reply

Weeks from now we may realize that it was between noon and midnight on Wednesday, March 6 -- when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., began to wind down his impromptu digression -- that the Republicans´ ship finally righted itself in the water and turned around. By then, Paul had been talking for more than 12 hours, his feat had "gone viral," and the Republican class of 2010, whose formal debut had long been awaited, arrived upon stage at long last. By that time, too, 12 Republican senators had left the Jefferson Hotel where they had been treated to dinner by President Obama,

How Kwame Kilpatrick Went Bad

Daily Beast, by Jay Scott Smith Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/13/2013 5:59:02 AM Post Reply

On one fateful night in Boston, two dynamic speakers made waves at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Both men, young, black, and products of hardscrabble Midwestern cities, were considered rising stars and were getting major exposure on one of the country’s biggest stages. One of those men was a first-term state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama. The other was the charismatic first-term mayor of Detroit: Kwame Kilpatrick. To say that the fortunes of those two men have gone in opposite directions is an understatement. Obama’s DNC speech, which followed Kilpatrick’s that night, helped propel him

Obama Still Doesn’t Get It

Commentary Magazine, by Seth A. Mandel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/13/2013 5:54:47 AM Post Reply

In a CNN interview two years ago, Allen West shared a piece of advice his father gave him: “Never read your own press and never drink your own tub water.” That advice–well, the first half, anyway–is popular among athletes and other celebrities. And it’s advice President Obama clearly doesn’t take–but perhaps should. Both the New York Times and National Journal’s Ron Fournier report today that Obama’s advisors are openly admitting that the president’s outreach to Republicans is a sham, mostly because he thinks reporters aren’t smart enough to know when they’re being played–though the story

Obama names black education
czar to reduce ‘resegregation’

Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/13/2013 5:49:41 AM Post Reply

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced the appointment of David J. Johns as executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Mr. Johns’ duties will focus on improving the academic performance of black students, promoting understanding and tolerance among all Americans, as well as reducing “racial isolation and resegregation of elementary and secondary schools.” According to the president’s executive order last summer, this new position is part of an initiative to help “strengthen the Nation by improving educational outcomes for African Americans of all ages, and to help ensure that all African Americans

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