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Karzai gives U.S. more
time for handover

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/17/2013 9:50:33 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan- Afghan President Hamid Karzai released a statement Sunday granting the United States an extra week to complete the handover of Bagram Prison. The transfer of control of the prison has been a persistent source of tension between Afghanistan and the United States. In a statement Wednesday, Karzai warned "any more delays could harm the bilateral relations." However, a new statement from the presidential palace said Karzai has agreed with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel´s request for an extra week

Being White in Philly

Philadelphia Magazine, by Robert Huber Original Article

Posted By: noproblems- 3/17/2013 8:58:58 AM Post Reply

My younger son goes to Temple, where he’s a sophomore. This year he’s living in an apartment with two friends at 19th and Diamond, just a few blocks from campus. It’s a dangerous neighborhood. Whenever I go see Nick, I get antsy and wonder what I was thinking, allowing him to rent there.One day, before I pick him up for lunch, I stop to talk to a cop who’s parked a block away from Nick’s apartment.“Is he already enrolled for classes?” the cop says when I point out where my son lives.

Danse Macabre:
A Scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet

New Yorker, by David Remnick Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 3/17/2013 8:43:29 AM Post Reply

Sergei Yurevich Filin, a man of early middle age and improbable beauty, sat behind the wheel of his car on a winter night driving toward home. It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the center of Moscow, a light snow in the air, snow on the rooftops, snow piled up in the lanes. Traffic was thick but brisk. Nearby, spotlights illuminated the Kremlin towers. Laughing skaters sliced along a vast rink set up for the season on Red Square.

Need leaders worthy of respect

Morning Journal [Lorain, OH], by Tom Skoch Original Article

Posted By: Harlowe- 3/17/2013 8:35:22 AM Post Reply

Respect for authority was one of the key concepts drilled into me as a child by my parents, who came of age in the Great Depression and then endured the rigors and discipline demanded by World War II. The inclination to respect authority stuck with me while many others in the Baby Boomer generation began to raise hell on the streets and inside of families, challenging parental and social authority. Having said that, the corollary of respecting authority is the expectation of being treated with respect by others, all the way up to our national leaders.

As drone monopoly frays,
Obama seeks global rules

Reuters, by Tabassum Zakaria Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 3/17/2013 7:29:46 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, who vastly expanded U.S. drone strikes against terrorism suspects overseas under the cloak of secrecy, is now openly seeking to influence global guidelines for their use as China and other countries pursue their own drone programs.The United States was the first to use unmanned aircraft fitted with missiles to kill militant suspects in the years after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

2 3/4 Cheers for Mitch McConnell

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/17/2013 6:51:38 AM Post Reply

CPAC is drawing to a close. The speakers who got the most press, and the most enthusiastic receptions, were mostly those you would expect: Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin. But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was also well worth listening to, and to some, I suspect, surprisingly hard-hitting:(Snip for video)There has been talk about a primary challenge to McConnell next year by someone ostensibly more conservative. We conservatives have done some stupid things in recent years, but trying to unseat McConnell would be a new low. McConnell is a solid conservative; his lifetime ACU rating,

Up the Yangtze River
With a $50 Paddle

New York Times, by Seth Kugel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 6:46:26 AM Post Reply

As the Hai Nei Guan Guang 2 blasted its deafening foghorn and pulled into the Yangtze River port of Fengjie, I brimmed with confidence. Two days earlier, I had nervously boarded a similar workaday passenger boat along another leg of the Yangtze, no idea what was in store. But now, I knew the routine. I’d say san-deng (third-class), hand over some cash, receive a handwritten slip with my cabin number, step over sunflower-seed-spitting passengers camped on the floor and settle into whatever rock-hard bunk remained in a room of instant-noodle-slurping Chinese passengers.

Obama keeps rolling the
dice on green energy

Washington Examiner, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 6:42:22 AM Post Reply

Like a desperate gambler who doubles down on a losing bet, President Obama is calling for spending $2 billion more on green energy projects. Apparently these billions will succeed where previous billions have failed. "We cannot afford to miss these opportunities while the rest of world races forward," said Obama at a campaign-style rally Friday afternoon at the Argonne National Laboratory just outside Chicago. The money will come from leases for offshore drilling. This might be a good idea if the administration were willing to increase offshore leasing. At least that way we would be expanding domestic production,

Dog bound for Phoenix ends
up on flight to Ireland

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 6:38:41 AM Post Reply

PHOENIX – An English Springer Spaniel named Hendrix ended up taking a serious detour on his way from New Jersey to Phoenix this week. He ended up in Ireland after being put on the wrong flight. United Airlines spokeswoman Megan McCarthy says the 6-year-old dog was traveling in cargo Thursday when the mix-up happened. When the error was realized, she says the airline took immediate steps to get Hendrix back to his owner. Phoenix television station KNXV reports that the first word owner Meredith Grant got about the mix-up was in a phone call

The shaky science behind
same-sex marriage

Washington Post Writers Group, by George F. Will Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 6:32:38 AM Post Reply

When on March 26 the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about whether California’s ban on same-sex marriages violates the constitutional right to “equal protection of the laws,” these arguments will invoke the intersection of law and social science. The court should tread cautiously, if at all, on this dark and bloody ground. The Obama administration says California’s law expresses “prejudice” that is “impermissible.” But same-sex marriage is a matter about which intelligent people reasonably disagree, partly because so little is known about its consequences. When a federal judge asked the lawyer defending California’s ban what harm same-sex marriage

Supercuts

Weekly Standard, by Ryan Lovelace Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 6:21:52 AM Post Reply

The barbershop of the U.S. Senate has run deficits of approximately $350,000 a year for each of the last 15 years. So Senate sergeant at arms Terry Gainer has decided to try out a new model, one that has looked rather unfashionable during the Obama era: privatization. Gainer has tried to trim Senate Hair Care Services for the past few years. Now the political climate troubling everyone else on Capitol Hill is allowing him to move faster than he anticipated towards privatizing it completely. “I’ve accelerated my goal to get there through leveraging sequestration,” Gainer explains.

Cruz: ‘Count Me
a Proud Wacko Bird’

National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/17/2013 6:18:15 AM Post Reply

“Liberty is under assault from every direction,” Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) told an enthusiastic crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, but conservatives are finally starting to turn the tide in their favor. “For the last three weeks, conservatives have been winning,” he said during his keynote address on Saturday. “We’re winning right now.” Cruz, who spoke without a script, prompter, or podium, closed out the three-day gathering on an optimistic note, and largely devoid of the calls for change or moderation that were prevalent in many of the speeches delivered throughout the conference.

Sarah Palin Plays CPAC for Laughs

Daily Beast, by Howard Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/17/2013 6:15:15 AM Post Reply

Sarah Palin called President Obama a liar and compared him to financial swindler Bernie Madoff as she fired up the CPAC conference and tried to propel herself back into the political conversation. In a punchy but disjointed speech on Saturday, Palin also took swipes at Karl Rove and the Republican Party while insisting that politicians concentrate on rebuilding the country. But she did not offer a single substantive specific, other than her repeated calls to respect the Second Amendment. She was, however, pretty funny, more standup comic than political practitioner. Palin’s exchange of Christmas gifts

At CPAC, Hunger for New Leadership

Roll Call, by David M. Drucker Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/17/2013 6:11:01 AM Post Reply

The grass-roots activists that fuel the Republican Party’s gas tank appeared less divided during the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference than they did in flux as they try to determine which road to take next, and whom to follow. With bitter 2012 election losses still on their minds, it might be easy to interpret the debates at CPAC as a movement — and, by extension, a political party — torn asunder. But the respectful tone that accompanied panels exploring immigration changes, candidate recruitment and the role of the U.S. in the world, and the equally raucous applause

O doesn’t have prayer in Mideast

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 6:07:13 AM Post Reply

Near the end of his insider’s account of the Bush administration’s efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace, author Elliott Abrams cautions about temptations in Washington to put “daylight” between America and the Jewish state. Whatever the circumstances, he writes, the result is that Israel always feels less secure and is thus less likely “to take risks for peace.” The passage is part of a riveting chronicle of the last administration, but also serves as a not-so-subtle slap at the current one. With Barack Obama preparing for Tuesday’s trip to Israel and the West Bank,

Brawley in bid to block pay grab

New York Post, by Michael Gartland Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 6:04:42 AM Post Reply

Tawana Brawley’s defenders are demanding the state attorney general block the seizing of her wages — 25 years after she falsely accused a man of rape. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, disgraced lawyer Alton Maddox argues that Steven Pagones — the former prosecutor who successfully sued Brawley, Maddox, C. Vernon Mason and the Rev. Al Sharpton for defamation in 1997 after Brawley falsely identified him as one of several men who assaulted her in 1987 — shouldn’t receive a cut of Brawley’s earnings from her nursing job. “New York and Virginia have conspired

Bachmann attacks Obamas over ´life
of excess´ during address at CPAC

The Hill (DC), by Alexandra Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 6:01:13 AM Post Reply

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) criticized the Obamas for living a "life of excess" in her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, questioning the first family´s amenities in the face of budget cuts. “They deserve to live in the White House, they deserve to fly on a private plane… [but] this is a lifestyle that is one of excess," she said. "We found out there are five chefs on Air Force One. There are two projectionists who operate the White House movie theater. They regularly sleep at the White House in case the first family

The Lyndon Johnson tapes:
Richard Nixon´s ´treason´

BBC, by David Taylor Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/17/2013 5:57:21 AM Post Reply

After the Watergate scandal taught Richard Nixon the consequences of recording White House conversations none of his successors have dared to do it. But Nixon wasn´t the first. He got the idea from his predecessor Lyndon Johnson, who felt there was an obligation to allow historians to eventually eavesdrop on his presidency. "They will provide history with the bark off," Johnson told his wife, Lady Bird. The final batch of tapes released by the LBJ library covers 1968, and allows us to hear Johnson´s private conversations as his Democratic Party tore itself apart over the question of Vietnam.

Conservative Base Running
out of People to Purge

PJ Media, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 5:52:59 AM Post Reply

First, the “liberal-lites.” Then, the moderate conservatives. Then, RINOs compromisers, pragmatists, intellectuals, pundits, those with Ivy League educations, GOP governors who expand Medicaid, senators who flip-flop on gay marriage, those who don’t hate Obama enough, and anyone named Romney. Did I miss anyone the conservative base has purged in recent months? The list is long and getting longer all the time. Pretty soon, the Republicans will be able to hold their convention in a conference room at the Holiday Inn. Casting about desperately for someone else to kick to the curb, the right wing has targeted GOP political “consultants”

ACLU finds domestic drones
the Worst. Thing. Evah.

Hot Air, by Jazz Shaw Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 5:50:15 AM Post Reply

One of the stable of writers at Huffpo is getting the Left all up in arms over the latest complaint from the ACLU. This week, the new topic of outrage is drones, but not the ones flying over Afghanistan. (At least not today.) They’re more concerned with the idea of domestic law enforcement using the new technology to fight crime. Because they’re way worse than helicopters or something. As drone regulation legislation works its way through Congress and the 30 (so far) state legislatures where it has been introduced,

I´m a black Republican,
and I´m not alone

Guardian [UK], by Crystal Wright Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/17/2013 5:46:29 AM Post Reply

Oh, the irony. This year´s Conservative Political Action Conference has more diverse conservatives than ever speaking and all the mainstream media can do is focus on who´s not attending. Let´s get this out of the way. CPAC is a private organization and reserves the right to invite whom they want to speak. The purpose of the conference each year is to gather conservatives from all spectrums who believe in the principles of free markets, small government and individual success and responsibility. What´s great about CPAC is that its guests cover the bookends of conservatism,

Must voters have to prove
citizenship to register?

Associated Press, by Jesse J. Holland & Jacques Billeaud Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/17/2013 5:34:06 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- The Supreme Court will struggle this week with the validity of an Arizona law that tries to keep illegal immigrants from voting by demanding all state residents show documents proving their U.S. citizenship before registering to vote in national elections. The high court will hear arguments Monday over the legality of Arizona´s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "Motor Voter" voter registration law that doesn´t require such documentation. This case focuses on voter registration in Arizona, which has tangled frequently with the federal government

Gulp, Sarah Palin´s back!
The wild woman of Republican
politics stuns CPAC with
barrage of jokes about soda bans
and Obama

Daily Mail (UK), by Snejana Farberov Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/17/2013 5:16:07 AM Post Reply

She came, she quipped, she gulped. Sarah Palin was back to her old rogue self while speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action conference Saturday, cracking jokes about President Obama, mentioning her ´rack´ and sipping from an oversized soda cup on stage. In what was part political speech, part a stand-up routine, Mrs Palin delivered plenty of zingers and one-liners, but offered very little in the way of substantive discourse about the challenges facing the Republican Party and the country at large. Her 25-minute meandering address to members of the Republican Party consisted of punch lines

Why it´s become clear that
Obama´s White House is open
to the rich and closed to the poor

Telegraph [UK], by Mark McKinnon Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/17/2013 5:07:51 AM Post Reply

Once, only nobles were granted an audience with the King. In America, we´ve prided ourselves on abandoning those privileges of class some 237 years ago, following that little uprising in the 13 colonies. And we again congratulated ourselves at 12:01 pm Eastern Time on January 20, 2009, just moments after Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and as he committed to making his administration the most transparent and open in history. But more than four years later it is time to ask questions.

For Robert Menendez, a
senator set apart, closeness
to rich donor draws scrutiny

Washington Post, by Peter Wallsten, Carol D. Leonnig* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/17/2013 5:03:07 AM Post Reply

The intimate gathering stretched late into the night. Cigars and champagne toasts, a “picadera” of Dominican appetizers — only the finest at the well-appointed Caribbean retreat of the rich American doctor. Some of the moneyed attendees slipped into stylish guayaberas for the evening, but the guest of honor, Sen. Robert Menendez, stuck to a stodgy blue blazer with a pin on the lapel. The New Jersey Democrat posed stiffly beneath a huge cubist-style painting. He was the center of attention but still somehow out of place among the guests invited by his traveling buddy, the Palm Beach ophthalmology mogul

VIDEO: Feds Swarm Metra Train
After Detecting Nuclear Risk

CBS Chicago, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: annapolis2010dad- 3/17/2013 4:11:37 AM Post Reply

It was stunning for those who watched Thursday night as federal agents investigated a possible nuclear threat at Chicago’s Ogilvie Transportation Center. CBS 2´s photojournalist Lana Hinshaw-Klann happened to be at the scene and used a cell-phone camera to record agents in action. Reporter Dave Savini looks into what agents were looking for and what they found. Sources say the agents were members of the elite TSA VIPR team on the 5:04pm Union Pacific West line. They were carrying hand-held nuclear-detection devices that picked up a reading.

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