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Dems preserve US-Mexico food stamp
´partnership,´ while USDA prepares
for meat inspector furloughs

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/18/2013 10:17:26 AM Post Reply

Salmonella outbreaks. E. coli outbreaks. Millions of dollars in economic losses. These are among the scenarios the Obama administration warned about last month as it claimed the sequester would force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to furlough meat inspectors. But while the administration prepares to take that step, it continues to pursue a "partnership" with the Mexican government to "raise awareness" about food stamps among immigrants from that country. When a top Senate Republican proposed cutting off funds for that program last week -- in the form of an amendment to

Female soldier, 30, smuggled
$1MILLION during Afghanistan
deployment and spent it on plastic
surgery and an 18-wheeler truck

Daily Mail [UK], by Helen Pow and Meghan Keneally Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 3/18/2013 10:10:37 AM Post Reply

A female soldier smuggled $1million from Afghanistan and spent the cash on plastic surgery, a vacation and an 18-wheeler truck and trailer, a court has heard. Tonya Long, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison and has been ordered to pay back the money she stole after organizing a double billing scheme. Long, who also goes by Tonya Long-Keebaugh, was convicted of bulk cash smuggling and aiding and abetting the same crime in what authorities called a kickback scheme.

1 dead, explosives
found in Fla. college dorm

CBS News and Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 3/18/2013 10:01:08 AM Post Reply

ORLANDO, Fla. - Hundreds of students have been evacuated from a dorm on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando after explosives devices were found while authorities were investigating a death. Police were called to Tower 1 early Monday after a fire alarm went off. Arriving officers found a man dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police told local TV stations they found a handgun, an assault weapon and improvised explosive devices on the scene. It was not immediately known whether the dead man is a student. About 500 students were evacuated

Plan to Tax People´s Bank Accounts
Prompts Cash Withdrawals in Cyprus

Associated Press, by Menelaos Hadjicostis Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/18/2013 10:00:39 AM Post Reply

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Cyprus´ president said Sunday that he is trying to amend a key provision of an unpopular eurozone bailout plan that would tax deposits in the country´s banks to reduce its effect on small savers. But in a nationally televised speech, President Nicos Anastasiades also urged lawmakers to approve the tax in a vote Monday, saying it is essential to save the country from bankruptcy. About 25 lawmakers from the communist-rooted AKEL party, the socialist EDEK and the Greens said they won´t vote for the tax in the 56-seat Cypriot parliament amid

Family ID’s OU’s Steve Davis
as plane crash victim

Tulsa World, by Amanda Bland Original Article

Posted By: RayLRiv- 3/18/2013 9:57:48 AM Post Reply

A family member confirmed that former University of Oklahoma football quarterback Steve Davis (1973-1975) was one of two men killed in an Indiana plane crash Sunday. Davis’ brother, Joe Davis, told the Tulsa World a Tulsa police officer notified his brother’s fiancée at their Tulsa home around 9:45 p.m. The family was told pilot Wes Caves died as well.

RNC: Republicans should ‘embrace
and champion’ immigration reform

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/18/2013 9:43:28 AM Post Reply

At the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Charlotte in January, members of the so-called “Growth and Opportunity Project” — the group assigned to perform an autopsy on the party’s 2012 losses — insisted that their job was not to set policy for the GOP. Their recommendations, they said, would focus on things like voter outreach, technology, and messaging, and would leave bigger questions of policy to elected leaders. “We’re not a policy group,” said committee member Ari Fleischer, “and we’re not going to make policy recommendations.”

Marine with concealed carry permit
stops man from beating woman

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: nota bene- 3/18/2013 9:42:41 AM Post Reply

A Wisconsin Marine Corps veteran used a concealed weapon to stop a man on the street from nearly kicking his ex-girlfriend to death on Tuesday. Charlie Blackmore was driving home from work at 4:00 am when he spotted the woman on the ground being kicked in the head and stomach by her much larger ex-boyfriend. The Marine veteran said he jumped out of his car and ran over to shake off the suspect. ‘I said “stop” and he starts coming towards me and that’s when I drew on him[SNIP] noting that Wisconsin’s concealed carry law allowed him to do so.

Why France Is Ripe for
its Own Hugo Chavez

RealClearWorld, by Fabio Fiallo Original Article

Posted By: cebuyer- 3/18/2013 9:38:28 AM Post Reply

As a connoisseur of revolutionary processes, Leon Trotsky asserted that a revolution seems impossible until it becomes inevitable. As a matter of fact, this is what happened in Venezuela in 1998, when Hugo Chávez assumed power after winning a presidential election.Until then, Venezuela was living in what could be called a "soft democracy." People used to go periodically to the ballots, choosing largely between the two leading, traditional parties.

Is It Time To Starve The Beast?

American Thinker, by Jeff Greenlee Original Article

Posted By: EnsignO´Toole- 3/18/2013 9:38:02 AM Post Reply

The exact time when the government ceased serving ´We the People´ and became our master is impossible to pinpoint. The best estimate coincides with the beginnings of the progressive (isn´t "regressive" a better description?) movement and Theodore Roosevelt. What TR started, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States from 1913-1921, expanded exponentially and the movement was on.

A History Lesson
From Clarence Thomas

Reason, by Damon W. Root Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/18/2013 9:35:27 AM Post Reply

In Django Unchained, director Quentin Tarantino’s bloody ode to the spaghetti western set in the pre-Civil War American South, Samuel L. Jackson portrays the despicable character of Stephen, the head house slave on a hellish Mississippi plantation. (Snip) “He’s conjuring the house Negro, yes, but playing him as though he were Clarence Thomas.” It was not the first time a liberal writer had taken a cheap shot at the conservative Supreme Court justice. But the comparison to the slave power system was particularly contemptible, especially because no Supreme Court justice since Thurgood Marshall has written more frequently or powerfully

Hill Poll: Voters prefer
Republican budget ideas,
but dislike GOP

The Hill [Washington DC], by Lara Seligman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/18/2013 9:29:17 AM Post Reply

More voters trust the Democratic Party than the Republican Party on budgetary issues, according to the results of a new poll for The Hill — even though a strong majority actually prefer Republican fiscal policies. The discrepancy would appear to be rooted in the GOP’s image problem, as the party attempts to recover from a bruising general election and recalibrate for a new generation of voters. Respondents in The Hill Poll were asked to choose which of two approaches they would prefer on the budget, but the question’s phrasing included no cues as to which party advocated for which option.

The lesson from CPAC: 4 months later,
conservatives´ healing is incomplete

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 3/18/2013 9:25:11 AM Post Reply

For a change, Ron Paul did not capture the Straw Poll victory at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. His son did. Paul´s boy, Rand, the filibustering freshman senator, narrowly edged out another freshman senator, Marco Rubio, in a 23-candidate field, plus 20 write-ins, with almost 3,000 conservatives voting during the three-day CPAC meeting just outside Washington. It´s one measure of how wide open the Republican field is at this early stage of the 2016 presidential contest.

Why consumers are fleeing the media

CNN, by Howard Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/18/2013 9:22:06 AM Post Reply

The slow-motion shrinkage of the news business is driving away part of the public. A Pew Research Center survey says that 31% of those questioned have deserted a particular news outlet because it no longer provides the kind of news and information they had come to expect. And they have noticed this despite the fact that six in 10 overall have heard little or nothing about the industry´s financial woes. Talk about cutting our own throats. This is the most depressing news we´ve heard about the news business in quite some time. Who are these customers who are slipping away?

RNC releases ‘Growth and
Opportunity’ project

Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/18/2013 9:07:09 AM Post Reply

The Republican National Committee releases the results of their Growth and Opportunity project, the results of a lengthy study to highlight the failure of the party. “We met with, or spoke to more than 2,600 people, both outside Washington and inside the Beltway. We spoke to voters, technical experts, private sector officials, Party members, and elected office holders,” write the authors of the study. “We sought out Republicans from all ideological backgrounds. We convened in-depth focus groups with voters in Iowa and Ohio who used to call themselves Republicans, but who left the Party because

Biden Press Office Apologizes
for Forcing Reporter
to Delete Photo|

American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 3/18/2013 9:00:46 AM Post Reply

Just imagine if VP Cheney´s office had accosted a reporter at public event and demanded that a photo be deleted from the reporter´s camera. It would be the lead story on every MSM outlet, offered as proof of the rising tide of fascism. Yet such an incident happened last week with VP Biden, and virtually no mention of it can be found in the mainstream media.

Feminist Leaders Compared to
Religious Right Leaders

American Thinker, by Janice Shaw Crouse Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 3/18/2013 8:59:14 AM Post Reply

A recent study found that the number of working women who believe that a career is as important as being a wife and mother has fallen 23 percent since the 1970s. Apparently, women are growing more and more uncomfortable with hardcore feminism and believe that it is out of alignment with the views, values, and aspirations of ordinary women. Let´s ride the feminist wave backward a bit and revisit a few feminist icons. How much do you know about their private lives? As they say, "The proof is in the pudding."

Cyprus Postpones Debate
on Deposit-Tax Proposal

Wall Street Journal, by Jenny Paris and Matina Stevis Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 3/18/2013 8:47:25 AM Post Reply

Cyprus postponed for yet another day an emergency parliamentary session to discuss a bailout plan that will see the country´s bank depositors share part of the burden, the house speaker said Monday. The Cypriot parliament is now scheduled to meet Tuesday at 1600 GMT, house speaker Yannakis Omirou told reporters. The parliament had been due to meet Monday at 1400 GMT as the government sought to push the levy through parliament before banks reopened Tuesday after a three-day bank holiday. The vote delay means that the bank holiday will likely be extended for at least another day.

GOP lawmakers: Obama administration
blocking access to Benghazi survivors

Washington Times, by Gus Taylor Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/18/2013 8:32:29 AM Post Reply

More than six months since the deadly attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, Republican lawmakers say they are still looking for answers and are frustrated that the White House is blocking access to an unknown number of survivors. The Washington Times learned Friday that the State Department has failed to respond to a letter written nearly three weeks ago by two House Republicans seeking answers about the survivors, as many as seven of whom are believed to still be at Walter Reed

U.K. Stocks Decline as
Cyprus Triggers Selloff

Bloomberg, by Sarah Jones Original Article

Posted By: JackBurton- 3/18/2013 8:31:17 AM Post Reply

U.K. stocks retreated, sending the FTSE 100 Index (UKX) lower for a second day, after the euro area forced Cyprus to adopt an unprecedented levy on bank deposits, threatening to reignite the region’s debt crisis. Barclays Plc (BARC) and Prudential Plc (PRU) led a selloff in financial firms, both falling at least 2.5 percent. Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. fell with mining companies as base metals declined and a newspaper said the company may write down more than $1 billion this week. The FTSE 100 Index lost 60.77 points, or 0.9 percent, to 6,428.88 at 10:33 a.m. in London,...

Wrong Battle, Wrong Enemy

PJ Media, by Clayton E. Cramer Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/18/2013 8:24:57 AM Post Reply

Ever since the election, there has been something of a battle going on within the Republican Party, as conservatives look for someone to blame for the loss. (Snip) In fact, both the “realists” and the ideologues are right — and wrong — but not for the reasons that they think. The core problem we are facing is that political campaigns should only be the final stage. Here is the problem: low-information voters are a big chunk of the electorate, especially in the Democratic Party, but the Republican Party isn’t free of them either.

They hate us so much,
they live here!

New York Post, by S.A. Miller Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/18/2013 8:21:14 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — New York isn’t just the prime target of al Qaeda plots — it’s the No. 1 recruiting ground for homegrown terrorists, a top terrorism researcher told The Post. “The picture of New York you get is that you’ve got people targeting it, you’ve got [terrorists] living there and you’ve had it in the past used as a recruitment center, then you have a pretty big problem,” said Robin Simcox, a researcher at the London-based Henry Jackson Society. His latest study, “Al Qaeda in the US,” found that New York was home

A fantastic report about the
economic impact of food stamps

Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/18/2013 7:59:23 AM Post Reply

The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow writes a must-read about the economic impact of food stamps in Rhode Island and the dependency experienced by both businesses and families. At precisely one second after midnight, on March 1, Woonsocket would experience its monthly financial windfall — nearly $2 million from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. Federal money would be electronically transferred to the broke residents of a nearly bankrupt town, where it would flow first into grocery stores and then on to food companies, employees and banks, beginning the monthly cycle that has helped Woonsocket survive.

The Other Drone Question:
Is Obama Building A
Federal Police Force?

American Thinker, by Tara Servatius Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/18/2013 7:37:36 AM Post Reply

Less than two weeks ago, Sen. Rand Paul´s demanded to know whether the president believed he had a right to kill an American citizen on American soil with a drone, finally getting an answer that had to be dragged out Attorney General Eric Holder. An equally important, but still unasked question is whether the president intends to build a federal, drone-based "public safety" force to police local communities. (Snip) Put it all together, and it sure looks like Obama is building the backbone for that national police force he wanted the first time he ran for office.

High court reflects diversity
of modern marriage

Washington Post, by Robert Barnes Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/18/2013 7:35:54 AM Post Reply

There’s a widow who was a pioneer of the “modern marriage” and someone who never wed. Two divorcees. There is a husband who married relatively late in life and adopted two children. Another is a prolific procreator, with enough children to field a baseball team and enough grandchildren to form a basketball league. One is in an interracial marriage, which would have been illegal in his state only 20 years before his wedding. As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the American tradition of marriage, the justices display a wide range of personal choices reflective of the modern experience.

The Perfect Amnesty Storm

Washington Free Beacon, by Mary Lou Byrd Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/18/2013 7:21:43 AM Post Reply

The recent release of illegal immigrants in detention, the Obama administration’s renewed push for amnesty, and the planned furlough of thousands of border patrol agents will result in more illegal crossings, immigration experts and border officials say. “It’s the perfect storm,” said Stuart Harris, the vice president of Local 1929 of the National Border Patrol Council in El Paso, Texas. The planned furloughs of border patrol guards and the push for immigration reform has now given illegal immigrants the perfect opportunity to come across the border, he said. “Now’s the time to do it,” Harris said.

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