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Tomorrow, Cyprus could vote to leave
the euro. This is political dynamite

Telegraph [UK], by Mats Persson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/17/2013 12:42:04 PM Post Reply

There are two ways to look at the hugely controversial bailout agreed for Cyprus in the early hours of Saturday morning, in which the small island nation--accounting for only 0.2 per cent of eurozone GDP but whose troubles will have an impact far beyond its size (including on some 25,000 Brits in Cyprus)--received a €10bn rescue package in return for a series of unusually harsh conditions. In a shock to everyone, including admittedly Open Europe, the deal included a “tax” on depositors: 6.75 percent for anyone with less than €100,000 in a Cypriot bank account, 9.9 percent for anyone with

CPS denies it banned book

Chicago Sun-Times, by Lauren Fitzpatrick Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 3/17/2013 12:36:13 PM Post Reply

Chicago Public Schools’ removal of the graphic novel Persepolis from classrooms sparked protests Friday and outcry from the autobiographical novel’s Iranian-born author. The district denied Friday it had banned the book outright from CPS schools, saying instead it only removed them from 7th grade classrooms for being “inappropriate.” CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett also ordered up training for any high school teachers who wish to continue using the illustrated story of Marjane Satrapi growing up in revolutionary Iran.

Big names litter road to pension disaster

Chicago Sun-Tmes, by Dave McKinney Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 3/17/2013 12:32:29 PM Post Reply

Federal securities regulators implicitly blamed former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his budget office for the fraudulent manner in which state bond investors were misled about Illinois’ sickly pension ledgers. But in making a nearly unprecedented case of securities fraud against the state, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday laid bare a trail of responsibility for Illinois’ nearly $100 billion pension crisis that extends far beyond the impeached ex-governor’s scandalous time in office.

Cardinal George on
Pope Francis: ‘This
Man Is a Pastor’

National Review Online, by Patrick Brennan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/17/2013 12:11:45 PM Post Reply

This morning David Gregory interviewed Francis Cardinal George of Chicago about this week’s election of a new pope and the issues confronting the Church in general. The cardinal described Francis’s greatest strength as his eagerness to cultivate close relationships with his flock, “especially among the poor,” calling him a “pastor” above all else. The cardinal also expressed excitement over the new pope’s Latin American roots, saying that “he means very much to the Latino population” of the United States. He mentioned that “many priests

Ann Coulter does a 180
on Chris Christie

American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 3/17/2013 11:40:15 AM Post Reply

During a twenty minute-plus, highly entertaining speech/comedy routine at CPAC yesterday, Ann Coulter turned against Chris Christie, who was her darling not so long ago. I suppose Ann must now think it was a good thing that the GOP ignored her advice on making Chris Christie its nominee. And imagine if Ann had been so influential that voters had actually followed her advice and elected Christie President!

In Cyprus, bank depositors reamed
by EU, IMF in bailout deal

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/17/2013 11:05:53 AM Post Reply

How would you feel if your bank, through no fault of yours, needed a bailout and to help pay for it, the government demanded you give up 10% of your deposits? Yeah, I thought so. Wall Street Journal: Depositors in Cypriot banks will be hit with a one-off tax on their savings, as part of a €10 billion ($12.96 billion) bailout for the Mediterranean island from the euro zone and the International Monetary Fund. The deal, announced early Saturday, marks the first time in the euro zone´s five-year-old financial crisis

Arms Trade Treaty
Could Make Guns
as Scarce as Ammo

Breitbart´s Big Government, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/17/2013 10:48:03 AM Post Reply

Contrary to the American Bar Association´s (ABA) contention that the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) "is consistent with the Second Amendment" and "would not require new domestic regulations" to hamper the exercise of the rights therein, the reality is that if ratified, the ATT could make guns as scarce as ammo and the exercise of the Second Amendment difficult indeed. And here´s how this would happen--the ATT contains ambiguities regarding the application of new firearm regulations and import restrictions.

Obama library battle heats up

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/17/2013 10:47:44 AM Post Reply

March Madness is here, and the competition is getting intense. And the battle for President Obama´s library appears to have boiled down two finalists: Chicago and Hawaii. Universities and community groups in both places are busy lobbying the president´s people for the facility that the contestants see as an economic and cultural boon. (Snip) "Advocates for placing the library in Chicago speak of Obama´s coming of age as a community organizer there and his service in the Illinois Senate and as the state´s U.S. senator. They say a presidential library on the city´s South Side could revitalize the community

Ann Coulter at CPAC: ‘Stop
panicking Republicans, Obama is
the worst incumbent president’

PJ Media, by Matt Vespa Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/17/2013 10:42:18 AM Post Reply

Ann Coulter gave a feisty speech CPAC on Saturday afternoon. She blasted the media for disseminating false dog whistles about race saying,”calling someone ‘lazy’ is racist for liberals. Including the words ‘Chicago’, ‘Obama went golfing” etc., which served their purpose in protecting the president from his failed agenda with the electorate. She also railed against the so-called “War on Women,” saying that Democrats have already won that war – and that Ted Kennedy has the “only confirmed kill” in this non-conflict. She also took a jab

What Went Wrong With Bernard Lewis?

American Thinker, by Andrew Bostom Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/17/2013 9:55:19 AM Post Reply

I spent an hour with my colleague, the prolific author Robert Spencer, discussing Bernard Lewis, nonagenarian doyen of Islamic Studies. [Snip] Accrued over a distinguished career of more than six decades of serious scholarship, Bernard Lewis clearly possesses an enormous fund of knowledge regarding certain aspects of classical Islamic civilization, as well as valuable insights on the early evolution of modern Turkey from the dismantled Ottoman Empire.

´Reactionary Liberalism´ Backfires

American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/17/2013 9:53:10 AM Post Reply

The Late Great Peter Bocking said of politicians: Of course they are utterly self obsessed, that is why they go into politics. Where else can these people get to play "Simple Simon Says" with everybody´s lives? They should have fixed terms, after which we strangle them and throw their bodies into a bog. The traditional way. This week, we saw two such self-obsessed politicians go one up on Peter´s suggestion -- they threw themselves into the bogs. There was Mayor Bloomberg´s comeuppance by the judiciary, which ruled his soda-buying limit was so arbitrary and capricious that it was unconstitutional.

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,

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