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America´s sadness belt: Alarming
map shows residents in South and
Midwest are far more likely to be
depressed, obese and hate their jobs

Daily Mail [UK], by Helen Pow Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 3/15/2013 11:57:36 AM Post Reply

West Virginia is the saddest state in America - but its neighbors aren´t much chirpier. A new well-being ranking shows the United States has an alarming ´sadness belt´ in the South and Midwest where many residents are depressed, obese and disgruntled at work. Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee scored almost as low as West Virginia in the annual Gallup poll, which looks at six categories including life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors and basic access.(Snip)Ohio and Indiana also performed poorly in 2012´s list and have hovered on the sadder side since 2008. In stark contrast, Americans living

Fey talks Palin, Globes on
´Actors Studio´

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 11:53:53 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK- "Inside the Actors Studio" will kick off its 19th season with an in-depth interview with U.S. television and film actress Tina Fey, Bravo Media said. (Snip) The multiple award-winner talked to host James Lipton about her comedy roots in Chicago, being the first female head writer for "Saturday Night Live," serving as co-host of the Golden Globes with Amy Poehler and her role in national politics as a Sarah Palin impersonator. Asked during the chat who first noticed her resemblance to Palin, Fey joked it was "SNL" producer Lorne Michaels´ doorman.

Vice President´s press secretary
has to apologize after
forcing journalist to delete
photos he took of Biden
at a public event

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 11:47:16 AM Post Reply

The Vice President´s office had to issue an apology today after a staffer forced a journalist to delete pictures that they had taken of Biden at a public event. Mr Biden was speaking at an event about ending domestic violence when one of his staffers approached a student journalist and asked them to delete the photos they had taken. Jeremy Barr is an accredited student journalist at the University of Maryland-College Park with approval to attend the event, though he was seated in an area for the public and not the press.

´I wish I could wear a fake
mustache and wander through
Tel Aviv´: Obama reveals fantasy
of being a regular tourist...
as he prepares to dine with
Miss Israel on diplomatic trip

Daily Mail (UK), by Helen Pow Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 11:42:00 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama fantasizes about donning a ´fake mustache´ and wandering around Israel like a regular tourist. The President let slip the amusing wish as he prepares to travel to the country next week, where he will give a speech to thousands at the Jerusalem Convention Center and dine with Ethiopian-born beauty queen Yityish Aynaw - the first black woman to be crowned Miss Israel. Revealing how he misses the ´spontaneous interactions´ he used to have abroad, Obama told Israeli Channel 2 this week that he´d also ´love to sit at a cafe and just hang out´ when traveling but

´Go and Repair My House´

Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/15/2013 11:04:04 AM Post Reply

I´ll tell you how it looks: like one big unexpected gift for the church and the world. Everything about Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio´s election was a surprise—his age, the name he took, his mien as he was presented to the world. He was plainly dressed, a simple white cassock, no regalia, no finery. He stood there on the balcony like a straight soft pillar and looked out at the crowd. (Snip)"That is more than strength," he said of the man on the screen. "This is not cynical humanity. This is showing there is another way to be."

There’s nothing like a brawl

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 3/15/2013 10:28:40 AM Post Reply

Two cats fighting on the back fence can ruin a man’s sleep, but in the cat world, the noisy arguments between Tom and his feline lady friends rarely settle anything. All they accomplish is more cats. The Democrats have used this formula to great advantage over the years, squabbling like cats and moving on to win elections so they can put far-reaching legislative programs in place. Most of all, Democrats love to fight. “I’m not a member of an organized political party,” the comedian and philosopher Will Rogers famously said. “I’m a Democrat.”

‘Leading by Example’ and
the Keystone Pipeline

National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/15/2013 10:21:46 AM Post Reply

While many have long seen America as the global bad boy, everybody likes Canada. If Uncle Sam tucks his pack of Marlboros under his T-shirt sleeve and plays by his own rules, the Canadian moose — or whatever their Uncle Sam equivalent is — always wears his blue blazer and school tie and does his chores without being asked. Canada is a global citizen, a good neighbor, a northern Puerto Rico with an EU sensibility that earns its gold stars from the United Nations every day. This fact should have relevance below the 49th parallel. Right now, we’re all waiting

Dick Morris to CPAC: Stop
Talking Balanced Budget, Roe v.
Wade, Entitlement Reform

PJ Media, by Bill Straub Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 10:18:41 AM Post Reply

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Dick Morris, whose once rock-solid political reputation has taken a shellacking in the wake of some questionable recent analyses, said Thursday that Republicans need to acknowledge “we lost’’ the last presidential election and make the changes necessary to get back in the game. “Republicans can come back,’’ he said. “They must come back.’’Morris, the former political consultant turned network talking head who has worked on both sides of the political aisle, is somewhat notorious for confidently predicting that Republican Mitt Romney would defeat President Obama

Main Street Deserves
a Level Playing Field

American Spectator, by Ned Ryun Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/15/2013 10:12:20 AM Post Reply

One of the basic principles of the conservative movement is that the market, not the government, should pick economic winners and losers. The only role that government should play is to ensure a fair and level playing field. When it comes to sales taxes, that principle has gone out the window in the Internet age. Here’s an example: If you need a new pair of running shoes, your neighborhood sporting goods shop is compelled by state law to collect any sales taxes due. But the same is not necessarily true for a store selling shoes online. Under current law, states

Dianne Feinstein — more than
a sixth grader, less than
a Senator doing her duty

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/15/2013 10:09:06 AM Post Reply

As a pensioner, when I’m not blogging, I spend much of my time reading and watching sports on television. But nothing I do these days is more amusing than watching Ted Cruz annoy the legacy Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and cause some of them to betray their foolishness. The latest victims were Dianne Feinstein and Chairman Patrick Leahy. Feinstein has proposed a ban on 157 different models of assault weapons. Many of them are commonly used, which means that, under the Supreme Court’s decision in Heller, banning them is problematic in terms of the Second Amendment.

Biden praises Hagel’s
‘moral courage,’ ‘integrity’

Washington Examiner, by Michal Conger Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 10:01:54 AM Post Reply

Vice President Joe Biden was full of praise for Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel today, speaking at the Pentagon where he administered Hagel’s ceremonial swearing-in for his new post. Biden noted that the crowd of diplomats and military officials included both Democrats and Republicans, despite Hagel’s contentious confirmation process. “That’s a testmanet to the fact, for all you media listening, that all of us who know Chuck Hagel know the president made a really, really fine decision,” he said. The vice president praised Hagel for his “moral courage,” saying the secretary stood out among the members of

Obama´s Fantasy: ´Put on a Disguise,
Wear a Fake Mustache and I Can Wander
Through Tel Aviv and Go to a Bar´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 9:55:23 AM Post Reply

President Obama revealed a fantasy of his in an interview with an Israeli television station. “Sometimes I have this fantasy that I can put on a disguise, wear a fake mustache and I can wander through Tel Aviv and go to a bar and have a conversation,” Obama told Israel´s Channel 2, according to ABC. He added, “I’d love to sit at a cafe and just hang out.” Obama, of course, has constant security around him. “The last time I was there as a senator, I still had the option of wandering through the Old City of Jerusalem.

Despite Cuts, Schumer Gets
Marine Corps Band to Play
at St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 9:49:01 AM Post Reply

Forget the sequester. If you´re Chuck Schumer, there are ways around it. Consider the recent example of a U.S. Marine Corps band cancelling its scheduled performance at a St. Patrick´s Day parade due to the "sequester"--and Chuck Schumer´s successful "push" for the band to come anyway. "U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today announced that after his push, the U.S. Marine Corps Band will perform at the upcoming Rocky Point St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 17th," Schumer´s office announces. "The band was originally scheduled to perform, however, the parade coordinator was recently told by the

Rick Perry Slams McCain,
Romney At CPAC, Says They
Aren´t Conservative

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 9:39:34 AM Post Reply

"The popular media narrative is that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals, as evidenced by the last two presidential elections. That’s what they think. That’s what say. That might be true if Republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 and 2012," Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) said in his address at CPAC this afternoon. Perry also slammed President Obama for undocumented illegal immigration being released from detention centers due to sequestration cuts. "This president´s posture, it´d be laughable if he hadn´t taken it one step too far, dangerously releasing criminals onto our streets to make a political point,"

Fake war hero sentenced
to year in prison

Tampa Tribune, by Ray Reyes Original Article

Posted By: Mobyclik- 3/15/2013 9:38:56 AM Post Reply

TAMPA He claimed he was a war hero injured in Iraq and bilked the Veterans Administration for thousands of dollars in medical care. He even persuaded the organization Vacations for Veterans to give him a free trip to Hawaii.(Snip)Crane portrayed himself as "the most decorated veteran in Florida," U.S. Assistant Attorney Amanda Kaiser said. Crane had falsely said he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Purple Hearts, an Air Medal and other war-related awards. He told local veterans´ groups that "he was blind in one eye, had 24 metal plates in his face, took a bullet in his back

John Podesta Channels Rand Paul
to Undercut Obama on Drone Warfare

National Journal, by Ron Fournier Original Article

Posted By: drive- 3/15/2013 9:37:44 AM Post Reply

When you’re President Obama and you´re lambasted by Clinton-era White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, it’s far past time to give Congress the rules and justification for killing U.S. citizens without due process. “Give them up, Mr. President,” Podesta wrote in a scathing op-ed on drone warfare published in the Washington Post today. Podesta is no Rand Paul, the libertarian GOP senator from Kentucky whose 13-hour marathon forced the secretive Obama administration to concede, grudgingly, that a U.S. president can’t target American citizens on U.S. soil for drone attacks.

Will GOP´s new vision be
shaped by Paul or Rubio?

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 9:36:38 AM Post Reply

The backdrop to the giant stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting featured somewhat ghostly images of Ronald Reagan, who was born in 1911; Barry Goldwater, born 1909; Jesse Helms, born 1921; and William F. Buckley, born 1925. Above the pictures of those now-departed leaders was the convention´s motto, AMERICA´S FUTURE: THE NEXT GENERATION OF CONSERVATIVES. Talk about conflicting messages. The motto conveyed a young, forward-looking vision. The pictures said old, old, old. And the conflict continued when two of the Republican Party´s new leading lights, Sen. Rand Paul

Joe Biden showing no signs
of VP work strain

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 3/15/2013 9:35:16 AM Post Reply

This is today´s complete work schedule for Vice President Joe "BFD" Biden published by the self-proclaimed most transparent White House in American political history. The 70-year-old Roman Catholic abortion advocate could be adding to the drone kill list or coloring Easter eggs. DAILY GUIDANCE FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT, Friday, March 15th, 2013

Caddell Unloads on
´Racketeering´ GOP Consultants

Breitbart Big Government, by Michael Patrick Leahy Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 9:34:59 AM Post Reply

Pat Caddell, the Fox News Contributor and Democrat pollster who engineered Jimmy Carter’s 1976 Presidential victory, blew the lid off CPAC on Wednesday with a blistering attack on "racketeering" Republican consultants who play wealthy donors like "marks." "I blame the donors who allow themselves to be played for marks. I blame the people in the grassroots for allowing themselves to be played for suckers....It´s time to stop being marks. It´s time to stop being suckers. It’s time for you people to get real," he told the audience that included two top Republican consultants.

Obama to call for $2
billion green energy fund

Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 9:32:56 AM Post Reply

President Obama in Illinois Friday will call for the creation of a $2 billion Energy Security Trust, which would take government royalties from offshore oil and gas leasing and use the money for research in green-energy technologies. Obama hinted at such a proposal in his State of the Union Address and will make the announcement at Argonne National Laboratory, just outside Chicago. The initiative comes as Republicans pressure Obama to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project that would carry oil from Canada to refineries in Texas.

Iraq War Could Cost
More than $6 Trillion

Reuters, by Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll Original Article

Posted By: viola- 3/15/2013 9:32:27 AM Post Reply

The Iraq war has cost the U.S. more than $2 trillion so far and with interest could swell to more than $6 trillion, according to a study released Thursday. The study, part of the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, drew from actual expenditures from the U.S. Treasury and future commitments.

Politico’s Roger Simon:
CPAC Is The ‘Militant Wing’
Of The Republican Party

Newsbusters, by Jeffrey Meyer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 9:29:23 AM Post Reply

Nothing is more amusing than having a liberal “columnist” comment on the state of the conservative movement. It seems as though Politico’s Roger Simon is one such liberal who feels it is his duty to trash conservatism on a regular basis. Speaking with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin on March 14, Simon commented that CPAC is “the militant wing of the Republican Party.” Simon, who criticizes conservatives on a regular basis believes that the majority of speakers at CPAC are “on the extremes of American politics.” [See video after jump.

Conservative Leader to Karl
Rove: ‘Get Out of the Way’
and Let Us Lead

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 9:28:58 AM Post Reply

David Bossie, president of the conservative group Citizens United, said that if Republicans are to reverse their electoral fortunes and score much-needed political victories, establishment consultants such as Karl Rove need to “get out of the way.” “If the Republican establishment leadership can just get out of the way of the conservative movement and of the Tea Party and give people something to look forward to – a positive image of America, a positive vision for the future of America economically, from a foreign policy,

Rep. Conyers: ‘The Debt Is Not
Endangering Us a Bit … We
Don´t Think There´s a Problem’

Cybercast News Service, by Jon Street Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 9:25:24 AM Post Reply

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said on Thursday that the nation’s current debt of $16.7 trillion is “not endangering” the country, adding that “some debt is not a bad idea” and that he and other congressional Democrats “don’t think there’s a problem.” Conyers and other liberal Democrats spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference about their initiative to compel Congress to cancel the across-the-board budget cuts (sequester) of $1.2 trillion over 10 years, which actually are reductions in the rate of increase in federal spending and amount

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