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With a Speech, Cardinal
Set Path to Papacy

Wall Street Journal, by Stacy Meichtry Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/16/2013 7:48:58 AM Post Reply

VATICAN CITY—It took Jorge Mario Bergoglio four minutes to convince fellow cardinals he was their leader. Speaking in the Paul VI grand hall of the Vatican, the Argentine cardinal warned the Catholic Church against focusing too much on matters close to home—advice that came against the backdrop of a papacy that had been consumed by infighting among Vatican officials, a dwindling flock in Europe and secular trends in the West. The 76-year-old Father Jorge, as he is known back home, said Roman Catholicism needed to shift its focus outward, to the world beyond Rome—rather than being "self-referential," he said.

Obama in Jerusalem

New York Sun, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/16/2013 7:43:15 AM Post Reply

When President Obama gets to Jerusalem next week, one of the signals to listen for is an indication of what country he thinks he’s in. Normally this is clear when the President — any president — goes to the capital of a foreign country. He’s in whatever country the capital is capital of. But Mr. Obama has been refusing to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Not only that, but he has been refusing to admit that Jerusalem is even in Israel.

ICE freed 122 Arizona criminals

Arizona Republic [Phoenix,AZ], by Daniel Gonzalez and Lindsay Colum Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 3/16/2013 7:39:28 AM Post Reply

More than a third of the 342 illegal immigrants released from detention facilities in Arizona last month were convicted criminals, and one of them was categorized as a Level 1 offender, the highest risk, according to data released by the federal government Friday. The new information also showed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released more people in the state than the 303 originally indicated by ICE, and for higher-level offenses, said Matthew Benson, spokesman for Gov. Jan Brewer. “This has become a moving target in terms of information provided by the federal government from the very start,” Benson said.

President Obama bombs in
comments about a nuclear Iran

New York Daily News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 3/16/2013 7:28:35 AM Post Reply

Approaching his first presidential trip to Israel, President Obama offered a fresh and foolish — if not feckless — assessment of the Iranian nuclear threat. "Right now, we think it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually deliver a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don’t want to cut it too close,” the President told an Israeli television interviewer, in the process cutting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off at the knees and giving the mullahs breathing room to keep enriching uranium.

WWII in color: Rare photos
from 1942 show Flying Fortress
bombers and their heroic crews
in The Mighty 8th Command

Daily Mail (UK), by Snejana Farberov Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 7:11:54 AM Post Reply

Millions of poignant black-and-white photos have come out of the World War Two era, but it is not often that scenes from the deadliest conflict in human history can be seen in living color. In 1942, LIFE Magazine sent Margaret Bourke-White, one of its four original staff photographers and the first female photojournalist accredited to cover WWI, to take pictures of the VIII Bomber Command, commonly known as the Eighth Air Force or The Mighty 8th. The photographs, executed in brilliant hues that make them look almost like oil paintings, put on full display the massive

History Channel´s surprise
hit The Bible tops flailing
American Idol in ratings with
13.1million viewers

Daily Mail (UK), by Alison Moodie Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 7:02:05 AM Post Reply

It´s the David and Goliath of television: an obscure religious miniseries has beaten television´s former top show in the ratings. The premier of the History Channel´s The Bible attracted 13.1 million viewers, topping American Idol´s 12.8 million viewers on Wednesday of the same week. The ratings have confounded Hollywood´s biggest decision-makers. Overt religious programming can be a notorious tough sell to the public, while American Idol has dominated television for the past eight seasons.

Poll: Majority of voters say White
House tours should be resumed

The Hill (DC), by Amie Parnes Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/16/2013 6:50:08 AM Post Reply

A majority of voters believe the White House should resume tours of the White House, according to a new poll conducted for The Hill. Fifty-four percent of those surveyed in the poll said that the White House should continue the tours of the mansion, while 28 percent said they should not be resumed. The poll found that 18 percent were unsure of whether the tours should be brought back. The national survey of 1000 likely voters was conducted on March 14. It has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.

Has Rand Paul peaked too soon?

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 6:46:28 AM Post Reply

In all likelihood, Rand Paul cannot be nominated for president by the Republican Party unless he distances himself to a considerable degree from the views of his father. The younger Paul seems to understand this. For example, he has recently showed far more sympathy for Israel (which he visited) than Ron Paul ever displayed. But Rand Paul’s filibuster against (non-existent) drone attacks on American citizens minding their own business in the U.S. may well have changed all that. It gave Paul rock-star status among a fairly broad array of conservatives. Having achieved that status

Ten Years After: A National Disgrace

Time, by Joe Klein Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 6:42:06 AM Post Reply

This is a month for painful anniversaries. It is 10 years since the start of the benighted war in Iraq. It is also one year since March 11, 2012, the day Staff Sergeant Robert Bales allegedly massacred 16 civilians in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan. But I´m more concerned about a silent anniversary: the next day, March 12, 2012. (Snip)There´s been a lot of flag-waving and patriotic blather from politicians, but there´s also been a scandalous absence of action. The First Lady has been a valuable spokesperson for military families, but the President´s record has been less than mediocre.

Obama Wants to Invest in Infrastructure
and Make it Impossible to Build Anything

Front Page Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 6:31:25 AM Post Reply

If you heard one theme that Obama has been on about at the beginning of both of his terms, it’s infrastructure. During his last campaign, Obama even described it as “Nation Building at Home”, implicitly admitting that he beat down America to the level of Iraq or post-war Japan. All the bridges, we were told, were seconds away from falling down. The highways were full of potholes. The schools were leaning farther than a Pisan tower and if we didn’t build light rail across California, all the illegal aliens would have no choice but to run down

Rob Portman’s gay marriage epiphany

Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 6:26:02 AM Post Reply

You’ve probably heard that Sen. Rob Portman reversed his position on gay marriage, citing the fact that he recently found out his son was gay. Not everyone on the left is celebrating Portman’s epiphany. In fact, some observers are calling it selfish. For example, Jonathan Chait wrote, “By Portman’s own account … he opposed gay marriage until he realized that opposition to gay marriage stands in the way of his own son’s happiness.” It might surprise you to learn that I agree. This has nothing to do with whether or not gay marriage is good or bad policy,

The Road to Republican Revival

Wall Street Journal, by Jeb Bush Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/16/2013 6:18:35 AM Post Reply

My dad recently said, "Put away the harps!" He was speaking about his health, but I believe what he said applies to the conservative movement and the future of the country. Americans have the sense that the economy is fragile, that its rewards are unfairly tilted toward the few, and that the greatest prosperity in this century will be enjoyed by people in other lands and not by our children. This conclusion is wrong. America could be on the threshold of its greatest century. With new drilling technologies, the United States will soon have an energy surplus. This means trillions of dollars

Obama: Get ´off of oil for good´

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 6:16:52 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday America must "get off of oil for good" and urged Congress to set up an Energy Security Trust to fund energy research. In his weekly radio and Internet address -- recorded Friday at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, where he spoke Friday about the proposal -- the president said the United States is "poised to take control of our energy future." "We produce more oil than we have in 15 years," he said. "We import less oil than we have in 20 years. We´ve doubled the amount of renewable energy

CDC: Man died of rabies
from kidney transplant

CNN, by Elizabeth Cohen & John Bonifield Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/16/2013 6:13:11 AM Post Reply

A Maryland man recently died of rabies that he contracted from a tainted kidney he received in a transplant operation a year and a half ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Health care teams are now giving anti-rabies shots to three other patients who received organs from the same donor as the patient, the CDC said. The Maryland man and three other people -- in Florida, Georgia and Illinois -- received organs from a person who died in Florida in 2011. Coincidentally, both the donor and the recipient who died are members of the military.

Eco-terror advocate bashes
climate ´deniers´ on film

Washington Examiner [DC], by Ron Arnold Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 6:10:01 AM Post Reply

Last month a Pew Research Center/USA Today poll confirmed what poll-watchers knew during last year´s campaign season: Climate change was the lowest-ranked priority on President Obama´s second-term agenda. Last Friday, Big Green´s entertainment division churned out yet another attempt to turn that around with a panicky new global-warming documentary. It opened on 51 screens with a weekend gross of $45,000 (that´s $882.25 per screen, according to the Internet Movie Database). It was produced at an estimated cost of $1.5 million and comes with a screaming title: "Greedy Lying Bastards." The illegitimi, of course, are "deniers," a term evocative

Optimism in the Air

National Review Online, by Larry Kudlow Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 6:02:28 AM Post Reply

You might not know it from the acrimonious political debate on cable and broadcast TV, or on talk radio, or on websites and blogs. But here’s a counterintuitive observation: Amidst all the negativism out there, I believe optimism is in the air. That’s right. Optimism. Sometimes you have to search for it, or read it in the fine print. But I believe the political economy is getting better, not worse. Let me make a few points to defend what most folks believe is an indefensible position. The stock market is hitting record highs daily, returning a tremendous amount of wealth

The Ethanol Bubble

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 5:55:21 AM Post Reply

When the price of a commodity rises to stratospheric heights for no apparent reason, it’s likely hysterical speculation. Only the government could come up with a bubble in a commodity that’s merely speculative. This week, the going price for a “renewable identification number” hit a high of $1.10, which is up 3,500 percent from the 3 cents it would have fetched just a few months ago. Renewable identification numbers are ethanol production credits created by the Environmental Protection Agency to help companies meet federal quotas for the production of a fuel that doesn’t actually exist.

Donald Trump Just Gave A
Nonsensical Speech, And Even
Conservatives Were Dumbstruck

Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 5:51:28 AM Post Reply

Donald Trump gave his highly anticipated speech at CPAC Friday morning, and all anyone is talking about now is how confusing and terrible it was. Trump said he was upset that President Barack Obama did not return his calls about a free ballroom he offered to build. He said that he offered between $50 million and $100 million to the White House to build it but he never heard back. He also made a strange statement about how he wants the U.S. to go back to Iraq to take some oil.

Campaign for Obama
library in full swing

Associated Press, by Josh Lederman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 5:46:54 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - Where will President Barack Obama put his presidential library? Four years from the end of Obama´s presidency, Chicago and Honolulu are ramping up major campaigns to build the center that will house the 44th president´s records. Universities and community groups in Hawaii and Illinois are drafting plans and staking out locations. Obama won´t likely announce a decision soon, but the site he chooses will house the monument to his historic presidency and become an instrument to continue his legacy. At the University of Chicago, where Obama once taught, top officials with close ties to the White House

The Unions vs. Obamacare

Weekly Standard, by Mark Hemingway Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 5:42:17 AM Post Reply

"I heard [Obama] say, ‘If you like your health plan, you can keep it,’?” John Wilhelm, chairman of Unite Here Health, representing 260,000 union workers, recently told the Wall Street Journal. “If I’m wrong, and the president does not intend to keep his word, I would have severe second thoughts about the law.” Besides Wilhelm, some of the nation’s largest union bosses have taken to publicly criticizing the Affordable Care Act. Of course, keeping your health care plan, like many Obama-care promises, has turned out to be demonstrably untrue.

Squeeze on abuse victims

New York Post, by Jamie Schram & Dan Mangan Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 5:32:39 AM Post Reply

The NYPD is running criminal checks on domestic-violence victims so cops can have leverage if the accuser gets cold feet about pressing charges, a police source told The Post yesterday. “You’re trying to close the case, but your complainant becomes uncooperative,” the source said. “Your supervisor says, ‘Get her in here, and remind her that she has an open warrant,’ ” the source said. “They want us to use that as leverage to force them to remain cooperative.” The Post yesterday revealed that Chief of Detectives Phil Pulaski’s March 5 memo ordered cops to run criminal background checks —

Thank God Pope Francis Is a Jesuit

Daily Beast, by Jonathan Wright Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 5:23:07 AM Post Reply

If “any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell,” it is the “Company of Loyola.” So wrote John Adams to Thomas Jefferson in 1816. By this date, the Jesuits (“the Company of Loyola”) had grown accustomed to such venomous denunciations. Since their official founding in 1540 they had been falsely accused of killing an impressive number of monarchs, of seducing wealthy widows in every corner of the globe, and, as one disgruntled Scottish Protestant put it in 1615, of working ferociously hard “to make the pope the lord of all the earth.”

10 things you didn´t know about
the president´s secret army

The Week, by D.B. Grady Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/16/2013 5:17:42 AM Post Reply

The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC, pronounced: JAY-sock) is best known for the Osama bin Laden raid. But it has long served as the president´s secret army, planning and executing the most dangerous, highly classified missions of the United States military. In 2009, its snipers rescued an American ship captain held captive by Somali pirates. In 2003, JSOC hunted down and captured Saddam Hussein near Tikrit, Iraq. In 1993, two Delta snipers earned posthumous Congressional Medals of Honor for actions during the Battle of Mogadishu (a JSOC operation portrayed in Black Hawk Down).

The Secret Document That
Set Obama’s Middle East Policy

PJ Media, by Barry Rubin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 5:09:24 AM Post Reply

“… we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms. … America is not — and never will be — at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security — because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. And it is my first duty as president to protect the American people.” – President Barack Obama, Cairo, June 2009(Snip)What did the president know, and when did he know it? That’s a question made classic

Jindal at CPAC: Be the Party of More

Hot Air, by Mary Katharine Ham Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/16/2013 5:04:06 AM Post Reply

I must confess to being a longtime fan of Gov. Bobby Jindal, having written to defend him even in his darkest hour— the day after his State of the Union response. He’s a smart guy who’s overcome cultural and political obstacles to be elected a second-term governor Louisiana with 66 percent of the vote in a race with nine opponents. But mostly I like that he’s demonstrably made Louisiana a better place to live and work. I wish he’d talked more about that today. Jindal’s speech to CPAC was not a stemwinder or designed to be a crowd pleaser.

Bloomberg’s Soda Folly

National Review Online, by Rich Lowry Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/16/2013 4:58:32 AM Post Reply

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on large-size sugary drinks at certain establishments, colloquially known as the soda ban, is a lesson in how to make your cause look ridiculous. Bloomberg hoped the ban would spark a nationwide crackdown on sugary beverages. Instead, it became the subject of widespread mockery, inspired an instant-classic New York Post headline (“Soda Jerk”), and got struck down by a New York judge this week as “arbitrary and capricious.” You could say that Bloomberg jumped the shark, except shark-jumping is associated with undue health risks that may burden public hospitals in the vicinities

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