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The´re trying to ´Palinize´ Marco Rubio

Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 11/21/2012 12:14:58 PM Post Reply

On Twitter yesterday, some of my conservative friends beat me up for writing about Marco Rubio’s comments to GQ about the Earth’s age. Their point was that it was a silly question (it was.) And that it was feeding a liberal meme (it is.) But the notion that this means we should ignore it is also silly.(snip)And so, this is a strategy. Like Sarah Palin in 2008, Democrats view Marco Rubio as a major threat — not just for one or two elections — but someone who could undermine their advantage

Interview: Victor Davis Hanson on
the 2012 Presidential Election

PJ Media, by Ed Driscoll Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 11/21/2012 12:10:32 PM Post Reply

Another interview taken from the 2012 National Review Cruise, as Victor Davis Hanson dropped by on Saturday to discuss the election, the culture, and the dissipated state of California. (Snip) VDH discussed: ? How both sides of the aisle are trapped in their own media cocoons. ? Are conservatives “Going Galt” by tuning out the pop culture? ? How the left is living on the fumes of California’s great wealth, which they inherited, and then squandered. ? What causes a culture to lose faith in its future? ? How the news media became America’s equivalent of 1984´s Ministry of Truth.

From Rwanda to Benghazi,
Susan Rice´s Record of
Political Cronyism

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Kevin L. Martin Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 12:06:06 PM Post Reply

President Obama and Congressional Democrats have gone to great lengths to defend embattled U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s role in the aftermath of the 9-11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Ms. Rice’s defenders claim that her initial public assessment that the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was a spontaneous protest in reaction to a supposed Anti-Islam film on YouTube was based on bad intelligence. Congressional hearings have revealed that the CIA, under its former director David Petraeus, knew through intelligence on the ground and from assets overhead that this planned attack was

Rick Scott caves to health
exchange, but other GOP-led
states hang tough

Human Events, by Neil W. McCabe Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 11:59:07 AM Post Reply

The Republican governor of Florida Nov. 16 confirmed he is working with the President Barack Obama’s administration to implement its health care reforms. “The election is over,” Gov. Richard L. Scott, who was elected governor of the Sunshine State in 2010, said in last week’s speech to the 2012 National Lawyers Convention hosted by The Federalist Society. The society is a Washington-based organization whose members are drawn from the legal community and are committed to the “original intent” of the Constitution. By doing so, Scott aligned with governors who have embraced the next big step in the

Hostess faces bitter end
in bankruptcy court

MarketWatch, by Steve Gelsi Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 11/21/2012 11:56:58 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK — Hostess Brands Inc. plans to return to bankruptcy court on Wednesday seeking approval to move ahead with liquidations plans that would throw 18,500 people out of work, after a latch-ditch mediation effort met with failure. (Snip) Hostess failed to reach a contract agreement with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers Union, which represents 5,600 workers at the company. In a brief statement late Tuesday, the company said mediation proved unsuccessful.

Boehner: ´ObamaCare´ must
be on the table in ´fiscal
cliff´ negotiations

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Sam Baker Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 11:49:31 AM Post Reply

President Obama´s signature healthcare law has to be on the table for cuts as Congress tried to negotiate a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wrote in an op-ed. "We can’t afford it, and we can’t afford to leave it intact," Boehner wrote in the Cincinnati Enquirer. "That’s why I’ve been clear that the law has to stay on the table as both parties discuss ways to solve our nation’s massive debt challenge." Republicans have already made clear that they hope to go after the law´s insurance subsidies in upcoming debt talks.

A search for stability in second-
most-powerful job in Washington

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 11:45:27 AM Post Reply

Vice President Biden’s ex-chief of staff and a former Democratic leader in the Senate are among the names being touted for the second-most-powerful job in Washington. White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew presently holds that title as the gatekeeper to the Oval Office, but he is widely expected to move on — either as the successor to Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary or back to the private sector. If Lew leaves, Obama’s choice in replacing him will send loud signals to the rest of Washington about how the president plans to deal with Congress and

Alan Colmes: Don´t Hold
Susan Rice Accountable
Because She´s Black

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 11:39:11 AM Post Reply

I´ve been hoping that the race card would be played out by now but sadly, it isn´t. Yesterday on America Live with Megyn Kelly, liberal Alan Colmes said Republicans shouldn´t be criticizing Susan Rice because she´s a black woman. Colmes argued that the optics of Republicans "attacking minorities" don´t look so good. "I just don´t think it is wise for Republicans on the heels of the election to pick as their first target an African-American woman, a very accomplished one just by a purely political, strategic standpoint." “The first thing they do after an election is to

Fox’s Bob Beckel On San
Francisco Nudists: ‘Most
Of Them Were Gang Banged
Probably’ As Children

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 11:21:53 AM Post Reply

During a Fox News segment on the ongoing fight over whether nudists should be allowed to walk the streets of San Francisco, The Five co-host Bob Beckel gave a rather colorful explanation for why people become nudists in their adult life. The remarks came after co-host Dana Perino asked the table: “What happened to these people as children that they don’t want to wear any clothes?” Andrea Tantaros said the nudists are “desperate for attention.” "Most of them were gang banged probably,” Beckel chimed in. The two-shot camera showed Perino wincing in shock.

Whole gaggle ‘wasn’t looking’
during presidential election

Washington Times, by Charles Hurt Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 11:11:52 AM Post Reply

BOCA GRANDE, Fla. — During this time of Thanksgiving, it is altogether fitting and appropriate that we stop to give thanks for one of our most important and cherished freedoms in America: our freedom of the press. Without the vigorous and unflinching watchdogs of truth and justice, where would we be today? This freedom is why after eight months of hiding from the confrontational reporters who follow him most closely, President Obama finally got smoked out of the West Wing and was shamed into appearing before the demanding press a week after he secured re-election.

U.S. To ´Become Largest Global
Oil Producer´ By 2020, ´Net Oil
Exporter´ By 2030 - If We Let It

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Vespa Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 11:00:12 AM Post Reply

In a striking blow for the environmental left, the International Energy Agency has released a report detailing how the United States is on track to outpace Saudi Arabia in oil production. This surely puts the Obama administration in a bind concerning its green energy monomania that has dominated their energy policy for the past four years. This finding shows that the United States can be energy independent, and we have the resources to do so. However, the boot of government is trying to centralize and

Obama´s Southeast Asia
Trip All Style, No Substance - Thread Closed

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 11/21/2012 10:58:35 AM Post Reply

Diplomacy: So amid all the colorful and flirty photos from President Obama´s first tour of Southeast Asia, what did he actually accomplish? As usual, he served himself politically in what was largely a Potemkin mission abroad. It was obvious enough from the rubelike gaffes that the president hasn´t been particularly interested or attentive to the affairs of Thailand, Burma or Cambodia as he made his first trip since his re-election. It was pretty much all style over substance. In his tour of Burma, billed as an historic first visit since Burma´s 2007 move to democracy,

SF Supes Approve Nudity Ban

KNTV-TV [San Francisco, CA], by Chris Roberts Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 10:55:01 AM Post Reply

San Francisco supervisors approved a much-publicized nudity ban Tuesday. The vote was close, but 6 to 5 was enough for the ban to pass. It will need a second reading and another approval majority vote before it becomes final. The issue was sparked by a group of dedicated nudists in the city´s Castro District, where shopkeepers, parents, and proponents of decency say they had had enough. The ban says people can´t show "genitals, perineum or anal region" in public. Supervisor Scott Wiener is the legislation´s sponsor. Violations of the ban would risk a $100 fine,

Navy Fires Two More Commanders

Stars and Stripes, by Cristina Silva Original Article

Posted By: Grateful- 11/21/2012 10:45:06 AM Post Reply

NAPLES, Italy — The Navy on Monday dismissed two commanders amid allegations of misconduct, weeks before they were both scheduled to assume new commands. Capt. Ted Williams was relieved as commander of the amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney, and Cmdr. Ray Hartman was relieved as commander of the amphibious dock-landing ship USS Fort McHenry, said Cmdr. Marc Boyd, spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Europe/Africa. The Navy would not describe the nature of the allegations. Both investigations center on personal conduct, Boyd said.

HHS Releases Insurance, Pre-
Existing Conditions Regulations

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 10:44:47 AM Post Reply

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released long-awaited proposed regulations outlining which types of health care services insurance companies must offer and which pre-existing conditions they can take into account when adjusting premiums. Days after it extended the deadline for states to decide if they will establish an insurance exchange, HHS issued proposed regulations outlining what the Obamacare law calls Essential Health Benefits – the package of health care services insurance companies must provide in order to be allowed to sell their product on the exchanges. The EHB regulation is important,

Who killed
Hostess?

American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 11/21/2012 10:44:31 AM Post Reply

The left is madly spinning (aka, lying about) the impending demise of Hostess, trying to blame the free enterprise system, and even Mitt Romney´s former firm, Bain Capital. This is a lie. It was inside job of the left, with a prominent Democrat helping himself to consulting fees and a hundred thousand dollars a year sinecure for his son. Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO is in the lead on the disinformation campaign, last week stating: "What´s happening with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what´s wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street vultures

As More Climate Talks Loom,
Senator Presses Treasury on its
Plans For $100bn Global Green Fund

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Goodenough Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 10:38:08 AM Post Reply

Ahead of the next big international climate meeting, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner how the administration proposes the raise contributions to a $100 billion climate fund to which the U.S. signed up three years ago. In a letter to Geithner Tuesday Vitter, the incoming ranking member on the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, said he was “interested to ascertain how Treasury plans on finding the lion’s share of an additional $100 billion, to give away to foreign nations while we continue

A Sudan Surprise

Washington Free Beacon, by Adam Kredo Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 10:34:40 AM Post Reply

Sudan has played a key role in arming Hamas militants with sophisticated Iranian-made rockets, experts said. The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) principal objective in Gaza is to rid Palestinian terrorists of sophisticated Iranian-produced rockets that are capable of striking deep into Israel’s heartland, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. These rockets originated in Sudan and were then smuggled into Gaza with Iran’s help, sources said. The existence of these advanced Fajr-5 rockets reveals the deepening ties between Iran and its terrorist proxies in Gaza and Sudan, where the rockets were housed before shipment.

Republicans: No Secret Meetings

Washington Free Beacon, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 10:30:51 AM Post Reply

Republicans understand their political leverage is significantly diminished following their electoral drubbing earlier this month, but some fear the secretive, high-level nature of tax and spending negotiations underway risks undermining the GOP position even further. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, last week issued a strong rebuke to the “closed-door meetings” and “secrecy” that have characterized recent efforts to produce a bipartisan agreement. “Secrecy cements the status quo: more spending, more debt, more runaway government. It is the enemy of accountability, change, and reform,” Sessions said in a statement.

Laboratories of Democracy

American Spectator, by Peter Ferrara Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 11/21/2012 10:28:49 AM Post Reply

The lesson of the 20th century is that Marxism was tried and tried and tried, and failed and failed and failed. But that lesson is lost on the true believer Barack Obama and his Democrat Party. Supposedly a forward looking progressive, Obama is dragging America back into cutting edge ideas from the late 19th century, already proven wrong to everyone except those in Obama’s freeze dried corner of American culture. What else can we make of the spectacle of our re-elected, conquering, Democrat hero president -- the cultural progeny of a 1960s radical American rejectionist mother

Citizens rush council members as
chaos erupts at Newark City Hall
meeting

Newark Star-Ledger, by David Giambusso and James Queally Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 11/21/2012 10:26:26 AM Post Reply

NEWARK — A behind-the-scenes political maneuver by Newark Mayor Cory Booker to fill a vacant council seat with his choice led to a near-riot in city hall tonight, with dozens of residents rushing the council stage and police responding with pepper-spray.After weeks of jockeying for Rep. Donald Payne’s successor, Booker made an unprecedented personal appearance to cast the deciding vote with his council allies for Shanique Davis Speight, a longtime ally of power broker Stephen Adubato, over the angry objections of residents. "In the absence of a quorum, I have an obligation to sit in," Booker said

White House condemns
´outrageous´ attack in Tel Aviv

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 10:23:08 AM Post Reply

The White House on Wednesday condemned an attack on a bus in Tel Aviv that wounded at least 10 people. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those injured, and with the people of Israel," press secretary Jay Carney said. "These attacks against innocent Israeli civilians are outrageous." The bus was near military headquarters and the Israeli Defense Ministry when a bomb that had been placed inside the vehicle exploded, Reuters reports. The attack, deemed a terrorist act by Israel, touched off celebratory gunfire in Gaza that threatened to derail ceasefire talks.

Susan Rice: A secretary
of state worthy of
Obama´s administration

Politico, by Rich Lowry Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 10:18:34 AM Post Reply

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is set to go straight from misleading the country about a matter of national security to a promotion. A top candidate to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Rice famously purveyed erroneous information about the Benghazi terror attack on five Sunday shows a few days after the deadly incident. But, hey, these things happen. The conventional wisdom says Republicans should get over it and concentrate their energies on more useful pursuits like caving to President Barack Obama on taxes. We are supposed to believe that Rice’s

Why Democrats Are in Trouble

Creators Syndicate, by William Murchison Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 11/21/2012 10:06:00 AM Post Reply

"Barack Obama won because he recognized a new America." Or maybe an America more fluid, more insubstantial than post-election wisdom is ready to grant. You can´t always tell about "new" -- a truth the human race rarely acknowledges. We´ll see whether James Carville´s and Stan Greenberg´s words from a Democracy Corps survey stand up better than the consensus of November 1965, following the Lyndon Johnson-led slaughter of almost every Republican downwind from Barry Goldwater. Johnson, father of the Great Society, was all but run out of Washington on a rail after mucking up the Vietnam War.

Obama: The Worst Keynesian Ever

Forbes, by Brian Domitrovic Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/21/2012 10:02:56 AM Post Reply

The president is bent on raising taxes big time, if not on January 1, when all sorts of rates are scheduled to go up, then shortly thereafter as the new, more Democratic Congress convenes to do its damage. The rationale? The deficit is getting out of control. Indeed it is. Since January 2009, when Obama took office, the United States has run cumulative budget deficits of $5 trillion. Before that time, debt held by the public was $6.3 trillion. Now it’s $11.4 trillion, an increase of 80%. What did we get for it? Growth of 1.5% per year.

Analysts noting economic parallels
between 1937 and today

Union Leader [Manchester, NH], by Amity Shlaes Original Article

Posted By: nhchemist- 11/21/2012 9:45:06 AM Post Reply

Will 2013 be 1937? This is the question many analysts posed as the stock market dropped after the election. On Nov. 16, they noted that industrial production, a crucial figure, dropped as well. In this case, "1937" means a market drop similar to the one after the re-election of another Democratic President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936. (Snip) Industrial production plummeted by 34.5 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by half,

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