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New world order: everybody
gets treated like a criminal

Telegraph [UK], by Janet Daley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/20/2013 4:24:12 AM Post Reply

Can you see the pattern yet? In Cyprus, everybody with a bank account is going to have a portion of his savings confiscated by the government (or maybe not, if they have a small enough amount of money in the bank to be officially excused from the cull). This fit of kleptocracy is supposed to be justified by the large numbers of Russian money launderers and currency smugglers who are known to be using Cypriot banks as a haven for their illicit cash. So what if you are a blameless resident of that island who happens to have your life

Barack Obama to be met with
pomp in Israel but low expectations

Telegraph [UK], by Phoebe Greenwood Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/20/2013 3:53:12 AM Post Reply

When Barack Obama and his 600-strong entourage touch down at Israel´s Ben Gurion airport at midday they will be met with tepid political and diplomatic expectations but spectacular pomp. One thousand American and Israeli flags are already fluttering in the streets of Jerusalem. Billboards boast of the "Unbreakable Alliance" Mr Obama is hoped to cement during his first visit to the Holy Land as president. Preparations have been under way for weeks. On Monday, helicopters hovered above Jerusalem´s Givat Ram airfield for more than three hours, rehearsing the flight President Obama will take from the Tel Aviv airport.

Philadelphia Magazine editor
faces critics on race article

Philly.com, by Robert Moran Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 3/20/2013 2:39:59 AM Post Reply

Philadelphia Magazine editor Tom McGrath and Robert Huber, author of the controversial "Being White in Philly" cover story, faced their critics at a forum Monday night at the National Constitution Center. McGrath opened by saying he was sorry to anybody who was hurt by the article, because that was not his intent, but adding that he did not regret publishing the story in the March issue. Huber told the packed auditorium of about 200 people that the purpose of the article was to explore "how white people relate to black people

Christie says N.J. has asked
federal government for $250M
to buy homes after Sandy

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Brent Johnson and Jenna Portnoy Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/20/2013 12:59:14 AM Post Reply

Lakewood — Gov. Chris Christie said today that New Jersey has asked the federal government for $250 million in Blue Acre funds to purchase homes in flood plains in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. "(It) would be a significant increase in the amount of money," Christie said at a gathering in Lakewood. "One of the places we´re really focusing on with Blue Acres will be Middlesex County." Christie called it ironic than in a place like Union Beach, which was "fairly well destroyed" by Hurricane Sandy, residents want to rebuild, but owners of homes repeatedly damaged by flooding in South River

Feinstein, Rogers: Assad
appears to have used
chemical weapon

The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/19/2013 11:28:51 PM Post Reply

The chairs of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees said Tuesday briefings lead them to believe Syrian President Bashar al Assad has crossed President Obama’s “red line” and used a chemical weapons on his citizens, and that U.S. military action should be taken once this is confirmed. “This is highly classified and we have been advised to be careful with what we say,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on CNN. “I’m told that the White House has been briefed…and the White House has to make some decisions in this.

It could be worse: Houstonians´
total tax burden, minus
federal income taxes, ranks
near the U.S. bottom

Houston Chronicle, by Carol Christian Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/19/2013 10:52:16 PM Post Reply

Houstonians have one of the nation´s smallest tax burdens, according to a yearly analysis by the District of Columbia. Based upon 2011 tax rates, Houston ranks 47th out of 51 U.S. cities in an assortment of taxes owed by a hypothetical family of three, excluding federal income taxes. The report, published in September, compares tax rates for residents of Washington, D.C., with those in each state´s largest city. Compiled each year since 1997, the report puts together an estimated total tax burden for hypothetical families of various income levels,

Companies announce strong
results from Gulf appraisal well

Houston Chronicle, by Jeannie Kever Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/19/2013 10:44:20 PM Post Reply

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and ConocoPhillips said late Tuesday that their Shenandoah-2 well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico could prove to be one of their largest discoveries in the Gulf. The well in the Shenandoah Basin has more than 1,000 feet of net oil pay, a measure of the vertical thickness of a hydrocarbon-bearing area. Bob Daniels, Anadarko senior vice president for deepwater and international exploration, said the find is of higher quality than those previously discovered in the Lower Tertiary. “With ownership in the successful Shenandoah wells, the adjacent Yucatan prospect and the very encouraging

Worker admits cutting 10
babies at abortion clinic

Associated Press, by Maryclaire Dale Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/19/2013 10:41:22 PM Post Reply

PHILADELPHIA — A medical assistant told a jury Tuesday that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies during unorthodox abortions at a West Philadelphia clinic, at the direction of the clinic´s owner. And she said Dr. Kermit Gosnell and another employee did the same to terminate pregnancies. Adrienne Moton´s testimony came in the capital murder trial of Gosnell, who owned the clinic and is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies. Prosecutors accuse him of killing late-term, viable babies

Obama´s Dangerous Flip-Flops
On Missile Defense

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 3/19/2013 10:34:58 PM Post Reply

Missile Defense: The administration beefs up our Alaskan-based interceptors it once downgraded in response to North Korea´s threat, while ending the final phase of the Europe-based defense against Iran it once supported. We welcome the Obama administration´s decision to place an additional 14 ground-based interceptors (GBI) at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., by 2017, as well as a second TPY-2 phased-array X-band long-range missile defense radar system in Japan following North Korea´s deployment of a new road-mobile missile. We are reminded that if President Obama

Obama Israel trip likely
to be short on results

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/19/2013 10:33:23 PM Post Reply

President Obama departed Tuesday night on his first trip to Israel, a largely symbolic visit that even his aides say isn’t likely to forge progress on peace with Palestinians, the Syrian civil war or Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The president will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has clashed with Mr. Obama on a broad range of security issues. But in a tactic reminiscent of Mr. Obama’s handling of congressional Republicans at home, the centerpiece of the president’s visit will be a speech to the Israeli people, rather than tough talks

Islamic law comes
to rebel-held Syria

Washington Post, by Liz Sly Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/19/2013 10:30:26 PM Post Reply

ALEPPO, Syria — The evidence was incontrovertible, captured on video and posted on YouTube for all the world to see. During a demonstration against the Syrian regime, Wael Ibrahim, a veteran activist, had tossed aside a banner inscribed with the Muslim declaration of faith. And that, decreed the officers of the newly established Sharia Authority set up to administer rebel-held Aleppo, constitutes a crime under Islamic law, punishable in this instance by 10 strokes of a metal pipe. The beating administered last month offered a vivid illustration of the extent to which the Syrian revolution has strayed from its roots

Defense team in ‘House of Horrors’
abortion doctor trial charges racism

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/19/2013 10:27:35 PM Post Reply

Racism motivates the prosecution of an abortion doctor accused of murdering a woman and seven babies at his “house of horrors”, according to his defense attorney, who likened the prosecution to “a lynching.” “This is a targeted, elitist and racist prosecution of a doctor who’s done nothing but give (back) to the poor and the people of West Philadelphia,” attorney Jack McMahon told the jury yesterday, per the local ABC affiliate. “It’s a prosecutorial lynching of Dr. Kermit Gosnell.” Gosnell is accused of killing babies after they were born alive, sometimes using scissors to cut the

Jane Goodall’s ‘Seeds of
Hope’ book contains borrowed
passages without attribution

Washington Post, by Steven Livingston Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/19/2013 10:27:24 PM Post Reply

Jane Goodall, the primatologist celebrated for her meticulous studies of chimps in the wild, is releasing a book next month on the plant world that contains at least a dozen passages borrowed without attribution, or footnotes, from a variety of Web sites. The borrowings in “Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants” range from phrases to an entire paragraph from Web sites such as Wikipedia and others that focus on astrology, tobacco, beer, nature and organic tea. Goodall wrote “Seeds of Hope” with Gail Hudson, who has contributed to two other books

Feinstein: ‘I’m not gong
to lay down and play dead’

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/19/2013 10:21:31 PM Post Reply

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) shot back late Tuesday at the notion her federal assault weapons ban bill was doomed after Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) decided against including it in a base bill of gun control measures. “This is very important to me and I’m not gong to lay down and play dead,” she said on CNN. “I think the American people have said in every single public poll that they support this kind of legislation.” Reid earlier Tuesday said the Senate would vote on Feinstein’s bill as an amendment to

Leaderless: For one hour,
Obama and Biden both abroad

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer & John Sopko Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/19/2013 10:14:12 PM Post Reply

Nobody is threatening a coup, but there could be a brief period Tuesday night when both President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden are out of the county at the same time. Mr. Obama is scheduled to depart Washington for Israel at 8 p.m. Mr. Biden, in Rome for the installation of Pope Francis, is not due to return to Washington until 9:20 p.m. While Mr. Obama remains commander-in-chief no matter where he travels, administrations try to avoid situations where the nation’s top two officials are beyond U.S. shores simultaneously. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney told

Conyers: Many Imprisoned Illegals
Let Go by ICE ‘Had One or Two
Misdemeanors Only’

Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/19/2013 10:08:55 PM Post Reply

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) defended the recent release by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of 2, 228 incarcerated illegal aliens by saying that only 467 of those had been convicted of a misdemeanor “or two.” “We learned at a recent hearing before the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee that 72 percent of the people released had no criminal record at all,” Conyers said Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, where ICE Director John Morton testified that the releases were done becaus

Obama parties with Chris
Matthews for St. Patrick’s Day

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/19/2013 10:02:55 PM Post Reply

Although he was a couple days late, President Obama didn’t mind throwing a St. Patrick’s Day party with his favorite Irish Americans this evening. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews attended the party which was reportedly large enough for several hundred people including Kathleen Sebelius, Sens. Patrick Leahy, Bob Casey and Bill Nelson, Reps. Steny Hoyer, Joe Kennedy and Gerry Connolly, and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains performed for the ceremony and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny attended as well. Obama explained that he had several new Irish Americans joining his cabinet adding that the “next four

Apparently the Assault Weapons
Ban Didn’t Deserve a
Vote After All

National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/19/2013 10:02:16 PM Post Reply

Hey, remember President Obama’s big rallying cry at the State of the Union, that all the various “common sense reforms” on gun control deserved a vote? Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that her assault weapons ban would not be included in the legislation brought to the floor of the Senate. Apparently, it didn’t deserve a vote after all! By the way, all of that chanting at the State of the Union… did everyone know they were chanting at Harry Reid? And will the usual

Michael Steele Claims He
Can Beat Up ‘Numb Nuts’
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/19/2013 9:56:09 PM Post Reply

The public feud between former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and current RNC Chairman Reince Priebus took on a new dimension on Tuesday when Steele suggested he could win in a physical fight with Priebus. Appearing on Andrea Tantaros’ radio program, Steele said that he “would clean his clock” if forced to fight Priebus with “just one knock to the head.” “Who would win in a steel cage match?” Tantaros asked Steele regarding the ongoing fight between the two Republican chairmen. “Oh, no question. I would clean his clock,” Steele replied.

Family’s Home Raided over
Facebook Photo of Child’s Rifle

Fox News, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/19/2013 9:54:10 PM Post Reply

New Jersey police and Dept. of Children and Families officials raided the home of a firearms instructor and demanded to see his guns after he posted a Facebook photo of his 11-year-old son holding a rifle. “Someone called family services about the photo,” said Evan Nappen, an attorney representing Shawn Moore. “It led to an incredible, heavy-handed raid on his house. They wanted to see his gun safe, his guns and search his house. They even threatened to take his kids.” Moore was not arrested or charged.

Robert Menendez donor courted
President Obama, Harry Reid

Politico, by Kenneth P. Vogel & Tarini Parti Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/19/2013 9:49:19 PM Post Reply

Salomon Melgen had a knack for going straight to the top. He posed for pictures with President Barack Obama, flew Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on his private jet and sought advice on a port security deal from an ex-CIA agent who helped lead the hunt for Osama bin Laden, POLITICO has learned. Melgen, a wealthy South Florida eye doctor and investor, has seen his flashy forays onto the political stage backfire in spectacular fashion in the past few months. Federal investigators are probing his business dealings. He’s at the center of the controversy over Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)

Washington Examiner shifts
business model from daily
newspaper to political site
and weekly print magazine

Washington Examiner [DC], by Mark Tapscott Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/19/2013 9:29:46 PM Post Reply

Clarity Media Group executives today announced a major shift in the business model of The Washington Examiner, becoming a digital platform and weekly print magazine focused on political news and thought leadership. Here is the news release describing the changes: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2013 – Clarity Media Group today announced that daily newspaper The Washington Examiner will shift its business model in June, becoming a digital platform and weekly print magazine focused on political thought leadership. The new product, set to launch June 17, will offer news, analysis, investigative reporting and commentary on issues affecting national

Yes, Let´s ´Bail In´ Depositors

Wall Street Journal, by Holman W. Jenkins Jr. Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/19/2013 9:08:33 PM Post Reply

Politicians today face many challenges that are unrewarding to tackle, so no wonder many prefer to fulminate about too big to fail. Too big to fail, or TBTF, is a problem about which it is safe to fulminate, since neither politicians nor the public understand anything about it, and even less what to do about it. Hence Sen. Carl Levin and others in Congress tirelessly flogging a trivial J.P. Morgan JPM -0.63% "whale" scandal. Hence the bizarre Eric Holder, our attorney general, suggesting in congressional testimony that he went easy on criminal prosecution of too-big-to-fail banks—and instead of being

Study links 180,000 global
deaths to sugary drinks

USA Today, by Michael Winter Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/19/2013 9:06:01 PM Post Reply

Researchers reported Tuesday that they have linked 180,000 obesity-related deaths worldwide to sugary drinks, including about 25,000 adult Americans. Overall, 1 in 100 deaths of obese people globally can be blamed on too many sweetened beverages, according to a study presented at an American Heart Association scientific conference in New Orleans. Mexico leads the 35 largest nations in deaths attributable to over-consumption of sugary drinks, with the United States third. Japan, which has one of the lowest per-capita consumptions of sugary drinks, had the fewest sugar-related deaths.

Report: Colbert Busch wins 1st District
democratic primary; Sanford leads GOP

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Robert Behre Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/19/2013 9:02:48 PM Post Reply

Elizabeth Colbert Busch has won the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District, according to the Associated Press. Colbert Busch had nearly 97 percent of the 8,402 ballots cast by 8:30 p.m., far outdistancing her opponent Ben Frasier. She will face the winner of the GOP primary. In the GOP primary, former Gov. Mark Sanford has the early lead as election results begin trickling in. At 8 p.m. with only Charleston County reporting, Sanford led with 846 votes or just under 40 percent. Curtis Bostic was second with 404 votes, or 19 percent. Chip Limehouse was third

American Withdrawal
and Global Disorder

Wall Street Journal, by Eliot Cohen Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/19/2013 9:01:08 PM Post Reply

Since the days of the Monroe Doctrine, American foreign policy has rested on a global system of explicit or implicit commitments to use military power to guarantee the interests of the U.S. and its allies. The current administration has chosen to reduce, limit or underfund those commitments, and the results—which we may begin to see before President Obama´s term ends—will be dangerous. Some of America´s commitments are enshrined in treaties, such as Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty, which says of NATO´s 28 member countries that "an armed attack against one or more of them in

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