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Risë Stevens, 99, Stalwart
at the Met for Decades
in Carmen Role, Is Dead

New York Times, by Margalit Fox Original Article

Posted By: Philoctetes- 3/22/2013 12:52:26 PM Post Reply

Risë Stevens, the internationally renowned mezzo-soprano who had a 23-year career with the Metropolitan Opera, where she practically owned the role of Carmen during the 1940s and ’50s, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 99. Her son, Nicolas Surovy, confirmed the death. On the Met’s roster from 1938 to 1961, Ms. Stevens was a superstar in an era when operatic superstardom was conferred mostly on sopranos and tenors. A Bronx native from a modest background, she was widely admired as a populist who help democratize the rarefied world of opera.

Zbigniew´s Advice To Obama:
Tell Netanyahu No War To
Stop Iran Getting Nukes

NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 12:29:21 PM Post Reply

Zurprise, zurprise: Zbig wouldn´t go to war to stop Iran getting nukes. On Morning Joe today, Jimmy Carter´s former national security adviser had some advice for President Obama: tell Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that America will not go to war against Iran. Attacking Iran´s nuclear facilities would surely be an act of war. Yet doing so might well be the only way to prevent the ayatollahs from getting the A-bomb. Unfortunately, neither Joe Scarborough nor anyone else on the panel including daughter Mika asked Brzezinski

OFA organizing birthday
parties for Obamacare

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 12:24:05 PM Post Reply

Obama group Organizing for Action is urging supporters to celebrate the third anniversary of Obamacare at local events where they will talk about how to support the law´s implementation in the months to come. "We know full well that passing health care reform wasn´t easy -- it took a lot of time, dedication, and hard work from millions of Americans to keep the pressure on Congress to act," an email invite from national OFA organizing director Sara El-Amine says. El-Amine says one of OFA´s main tasks this fall will be to help sign up for health insurance.

Under pressure from
Obama, Israel, Turkey talk

Politico, by Josh Gerstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 12:16:58 PM Post Reply

AMMAN—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan spoke by telephone Friday, after a prolonged effort by President Barack Obama and his aides to overcome a deep chill that had settled into the relationship between Israel and Turkey. "I welcome the call today between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Prime Minister Erdogan," Obama said in a written statement issued as he departed Israel for Jordan during a trip to the Mideast. "The United States deeply values our close partnerships with both Turkey and Israel, and we attach great

Nick Clegg: we were wrong to
back illegal immigrant amnesty

Telegraph [UK], by Rowena Mason Original Article

Posted By: markinalpine- 3/22/2013 12:10:53 PM Post Reply

The deputy Prime Minister said it risked "undermining public confidence" to let illegal immigrants stay if they have been in the country for more than 10 years. In his first major speech on immigration, he abandoned the controversial proposal, which was championed by the Liberal Democrats at the last election. Mr Clegg previously supported the idea of "earned citizenship" for illegal immigrants. (snip) "Despite the policy´s aims, it was seen by many people as a reward for those who have broken the law," he said.

GOP senator: ´Inane´ Obama wrong
to lecture Israel on empathy

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 12:08:02 PM Post Reply

Breaking the traditional rule of not slamming the president while he´s overseas, a GOP Senate leader Friday hit President Obama for saying "inane things" and lecturing Israelis about their empathy for Palestinians. "He´s said all sorts of inane things, stringing words together to make them sound good" while in Israel this week, slammed Texas Sen. John Cornyn. "He´s the last person who ought to be lecturing the Israelis," Cornyn added in an interview on the Andrea Tantaros Show, a nationally-syndicated radio program. Obama has been criticized for telling Israeli students on

Biden´s $459,388.65 Hotel Bill

The Weekly Standard, by Jeryl Bier Original Article

Posted By: Hermoine- 3/22/2013 11:55:43 AM Post Reply

Vice President Biden and his entourage spent a little time in London in early February during his first foreign trip of the second term of the Obama administration. -snip-The accompanying document justifying the "sole source" contract notes that the vice president´s group required "approximately 136 hotel rooms for 893 room nights."

Obamacare official: “Let’s
just make sure it’s not a
third-world experience”

Washington Examiner, by Philip Klein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 11:54:44 AM Post Reply

With time-running out before the major provisions of President Obama’s health care law are set to be implemented, the official tasked with making sure the law’s key insurance exchanges are up and running is already lowering expectations. “The time for debating about the size of text on the screen or the color or is it a world-class user experience, that’s what we used to talk about two years ago,” Henry Chao, an official at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services who is overseeing the technology of the exchanges said at a recent conference. “Let’s just make sure

Drivers face high gas prices
despite US oil boom

Associated Press, by Jonathan Fahey Original Article

Posted By: grandpa- 3/22/2013 11:53:23 AM Post Reply

The U.S. is increasing its oil production faster than ever and U.S. drivers are guzzling less gas. But you´d never know it from the price at the pump. (Snip) A major reason cited for high gasoline prices over the past two years -- fighting and political tensions in the Middle East and North Africa -- doesn´t apply this year. Libyan production has returned after collapsing during the country’s revolution two years ago. And higher production from the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has made up for Iran’s declining output in the face of Western sanctions.

Priebus slams ‘idiotic statements’
by Republicans as reason for losses

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

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 11:43:03 AM Post Reply

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Friday said the party played into a “caricature” of itself in the 2012 election cycle, citing “idiotic statements” and “biologically stupid things” said by Mitt Romney and other GOP candidates. Priebus didn’t specifically criticize Romney, but he cited the 2012 GOP presidential candidate’s comment that illegal immigrants should self-deport in saying Republicans needed to be more careful in what they said if they hope to defeat Democrats in elections. “It’s not necessarily what you say but how you say it,”

Obamacare May Cost Small Business
´Whiners´ 65% of Annual Profits

Breitbart´s InstaBlog, by John Sexton Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 11:22:23 AM Post Reply

Today the NY Times has a case study on the cost of Obamacare to one small business. The business in question is Baked in the Sun, a California baker with 95 employees. Baked in the Sun does about $8 million in annual revenue, however margins for bakers are tight so their annual profit is only about $200,000. Because the business has over 50 employees, they will be required to offer health insurance to their employees or pay a fine for not doing so. The owners estimate that the cost of compliance would be $108,000 per year plus

Police Departments Beg And Barter
For Ammo While DHS Buys Up
1.6 Billion Rounds In Past Year

Cybercast News Service, by Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 3/22/2013 11:14:06 AM Post Reply

The nationwide shortage of ammunition has left many police departments scrambling to get their hands on the necessary rounds - with some even bartering among each other. [Snip] Police Chief Cameron Arthur of Jenks, Oklahoma says, "Ammunition and assault weapons in general have skyrocketed...In addition to the fact, not only is it a lot more expensive, but the time to get it could be six months to a year, or in some cases even longer."

New York Prepping Tax Breaks for
Jimmy Fallon-led ´Tonight Show´

Breitbart´s Big Hollywood, by Christian Toto Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 10:59:30 AM Post Reply

Jimmy Fallon won´t officially take over as host of NBC´s The Tonight Show for some time, but New York legislators are already rolling out the red carpet for him. Make that a "green" carpet. Not only is NBC planning to ditch Jay Leno for the younger Fallon, the network is considering moving the fable talk show from California to New York. And network executives may have plenty of reasons to make such a shift. Quietly tucked into tentative state budget is a provision that would help NBC move “The Tonight Show” back to New York,

Progressive Radical Record
of Labor Nominee Tom Perez

Breitbart´s Big Government, by J. Christian Adams Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 10:49:41 AM Post Reply

President Obama has nominated Thomas E. Perez for Secretary of Labor. Perez is a radical progressive who is currently the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in President Obama’s Justice Department. Perez has amassed a record demonstrating contempt for the rule of law, hostility toward the private sector and an aversion to telling the truth under oath. If confirmed, Perez would be the most radical cabinet Secretary since Henry Wallace headed the Department of Agriculture for President Roosevelt. If the GOP Senators cannot stop Tom Perez, they cannot stop anyone.

Rebuilding a land of opportunity

Washington Times, by Jim DeMint Original Article

Posted By: MDMuskrat- 3/22/2013 10:47:40 AM Post Reply

President Obama and Congress will not solve America’s problems unless the people force them to. Washington is America’s problem. We are the solution. America remains a conservative nation. But the people crave leadership — champions who will stand up to the progressives, take on the liberal media and push back against the Republican leadership when they go wobbly. They are tired of politicians. (snip) As we move ahead, we must remember that there is a distinction between the Republican Party and the conservative movement. National Republican leaders have not advanced a conservative agenda for almost 20 years.

Jesse Jackson: ´It´s time for a
major mass civil action´ in Detroit

Detroit News, by Serena Maria Daniels Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/22/2013 10:43:27 AM Post Reply

Detroit — The Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized the state takeover of Michigan´s largest city on Friday, calling on citizens to fight back as the city is days away from being controlled by an emergency financial manager. "It´s time for a major mass civil action in the city of Detroit," Jackson said in Detroit amid wild applause. City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson and Jackson are leading government, clergy and labor leaders in announcing plans Friday to challenge the constitutionality of Michigan´s new emergency manager law. In a news conference featuring Jackson being held at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit, protesters

New ´Fast and Furious´ report
finds DHS warning signs ignored

Los Angeles Times, by Richard A. Serrano Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 10:37:30 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Even as they lost scores of illegal firearms in their Fast and Furious operation, federal ATF agents asked their Border Patrol counterparts not to pursue criminal leads or track gun smuggling in southern Arizona so they could follow the firearms themselves, and senior Homeland Security agents “complied and the leads were not investigated,” according to a new Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s report. The report, obtained Thursday by The Times, also said that a Homeland Security special agent on the border was collaborating with the ATF in Fast and Furious, but his “senior leaders”

Mom Claims 5th-Grade Son’s Quiz
Blames 9/11 Attacks On United States

CBS, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: happywarrior- 3/22/2013 10:36:55 AM Post Reply

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Texas mother claims a quiz her son took blamed the United States for the September 11, 2001 attacks. Kara Sands posted on her Facebook page earlier this month a quiz her fifth-grade son at Flour Bluff Intermediate School took after watching a video entitled “Remembering September 11th.” One of the questions on the quiz asked “Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?” with the correct answer being “Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”

Disabled Sue Over Web Shopping

Wall Street Journal, by Joe Palazzolo Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/22/2013 10:27:00 AM Post Reply

Commerce has moved online. Now, the disability lawsuits are following. Advocates for disabled Americans have declared that companies have a legal obligation to make their websites as accessible as their stores, and they´ve filed suits across the country to force them to install the digital version of wheelchair ramps and self-opening doors. Their theory that the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act applies to the modern Internet has been dismissed by several courts. Still, the National Federation of the Blind and the National Association of the Deaf have won legal victories against companies such as Target Corp. TGT +0.85% and Netflix Inc.

Rand and Rubio can tap into
youthful idealism: Why this might
be key to the GOP’s survival

Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/22/2013 10:20:40 AM Post Reply

The Atlantic’s Molly Ball has a good column up that should underscore the importance of winning the youth vote. As she notes, voting habits and patterns are often formed during our early years. “The Americans who came of age under FDR,” she writes, “leaned more Democratic than the electorate as a whole for the rest of their voting lives.” Winning the youth vote isn’t just about today — it’s about tomorrow. When we look at candidates on both side of the aisle who have done well with the youth — Obama and Reagan, for example — we see some similarities.

New York man admits
faking his death

CNN, by Morgan Winsor Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 3/22/2013 10:15:35 AM Post Reply

New York -- A New York man who was accused of faking his death last summer pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Thursday, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced. Raymond Roth, 48, of Massapequa, New York, was first reported missing in the waters off Jones Beach late last July by his 22-year-old son, Jonathan Roth. Several days into an extensive search involving multiple agencies, New York State Park Police said, authorities learned the missing man was in South Carolina, where he had been pulled over for speeding. The day before Raymond Roth was pulled over, his wife, Evana,

Meet the NRA´s Biggest Recruiter

Real Clear Politics, by Debra J. Saunders Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/22/2013 10:14:35 AM Post Reply

If you want to know why Sen. Dianne Feinstein´s assault weapons ban couldn´t muster 40 votes -- that´s according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who says he will cut the ban from the Democrats´ gun bill -- attend a National Rifle Association event in Feinstein´s backyard. Though critics like to paint the organization as an out-of-touch haven for angry old white guys, Sunday´s NRA "Fun Shoot" at the San Leandro Rifle & Pistol Range was anything but. I attended a safety and shooting lesson for 12. Half of the group was female -- and white, black and Asian.

President Obama’s Twitter
Account Retweets Photo of
John Lennon’s Bloody Glasses

ABC News, by Z. Byron Wolf Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 10:11:17 AM Post Reply

The Twitter account @BarackObama tonight retweeted Yoko Ono’s picture of John Lennon”s bloody glasses from the day he was murdered. The arresting photo, which includes text that more than a million people have been killed by guns since Lennon was shot in 1980, has been retweeted more than 11,000 times since it was posted Wednesday. A retweet by the account associated with President Obama forwarded it to his more than 28 million followers. Retweets aren’t always endorsements in Twitter etiquette, but Ono’s activism comes at a time when President Obama and

Health Insurers Warn on Premiums

Wall Street Journal, by Anna Wilde Mathews & Louise Radnofsky Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 10:06:19 AM Post Reply

Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation´s biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans. The projections, made in sessions with brokers and agents, provide some of the most concrete evidence yet of how much insurance companies might increase prices when major provisions of the law kick in next year—a subject of rigorous debate. The projected increases are at odds with what

As Air Traffic Control Towers Close,
FAA Hiring ‘Community Planners’

Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/22/2013 9:58:13 AM Post Reply

As the Federal Aviation Administration is set to announce Friday the temporary closure of 238 air traffic control towers because of the sequester, the agency is planning to hire “community planners” paid in excess of $100,000 – one at an airport slated to for a possible tower closure. Funding for the community planners is exempt from sequestration, while funding for air traffic control towers are not exempt from reduced funding, according to the FAA. The FAA is hiring a community planner in Brisbane, Calif., at a salary of between $67,575 and $126,095. The agency advertised another

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