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Obama and family arrive in
Hawaii for Christmas

Associated Press, by Matthew Daly Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/22/2012 8:52:44 AM Post Reply

KAILUA, Hawaii- President Barack Obama and his family have arrived in Honolulu to spend Christmas in Hawaii, where the president was born and raised. Air Force One touched down in Honolulu minutes after midnight local time on Saturday. The first family departed the plane and traveled quickly to their vacation house in the beach town of Kailua, a scenic, sleepy beach town on the east side of Oahu. Kailua is roughly 12 miles from downtown Honolulu. Obama´s vacation house sits near a Marine base, on the north end of a five-mile stretch of beach popular among windsurfers and paddle surfers.

NRA aims at foes, but shoots itself in
the foot with LaPierre´s statements

New York Post, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 12/22/2012 8:39:12 AM Post Reply

Liberal pundits who spent the last week since the Newtown massacre treating the National Rifle Association as a pinata often underestimate the group’s popularity and hold on the loyalty of a large and influential membership. But the NRA’s first public statement since the school shooting shows its leadership is as tone deaf to the mood of the country as its critics are to the thinking of gun-rights supporters.

Pope grants pre-Christmas
pardon to former butler

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 12/22/2012 8:15:16 AM Post Reply

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict has pardoned Paolo Gabriele, his former butler who was convicted in October of leaking sensitive documents that alleged corruption in the Holy See, the Vatican said on Saturday.The Vatican said the pope visited Gabriele in the Vatican´s jail on Saturday morning to tell him personally of the pardon. Gabriele was then released and had already returned to his family, the Vatican said.

John Kerry: Obama’s “Perfect
Choice” For Secretary of State

Front Page, by John Perazzo Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 12/22/2012 7:21:37 AM Post Reply

When Barack Obama nominated John Kerry to be America’s next Secretary of State Friday afternoon, he called Kerry the “perfect choice” to replace Hillary Clinton. Stating that “few individuals … grasp our foreign policies as firmly as John Kerry,” Obama said the Senator will not “need a lot of on-the-job training.” He then praised Mr. Kerry’s combat service in the Vietnam War and his subsequent tenure of service in the Senate, where Kerry has been intimately involved in “every major foreign policy debate for the past 30 years.” Notably, President Obama made no mention of what occurred after Kerry’s

Boehner says he’s staying as
speaker after ‘fiscal cliff’ failure

The Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 12/22/2012 7:11:30 AM Post Reply

Hours after his fellow Republicans delivered a crushing blow to him, House Speaker John A. Boehner said Friday morning the rebellion wasn’t aimed at him, but rather at federal spending. He also laughed off talk that he may lose his speakership. “While we may have not been able to get the votes last night to avert 99.81 percent of the tax increases, I don’t think — they weren’t taking that out on me,” he said at a press conference.

NRA chief calls for armed guards in schools
in first post-Newtown press conference

New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 12/22/2012 6:47:39 AM Post Reply

The head of the National Rifle Association said that armed guards in schools are needed to protect our children from the “genuine monsters” walking among us during a press conference interrupted twice by protesters. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre during the powerful pro-gun group´s first press conference following the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

“An Opinion on Gun Control”

Power Line, by Steven Hayward Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 5:51:54 AM Post Reply

Glenn Reynolds has a link to an extraordinarily thorough and convincing blog post about the “gun issue” in the aftermath of Sandy Hook that is the most impressive I’ve seen anywhere. It’s by a fellow named Larry Correia, a novelist and obvious gun expert; his blog is called Monster Hunter Nation. It is clear from the opening paragraphs that Mr. Correia knows what he is talking about. I’d love to see him up against that nitwit Piers Morgan on CNN.(Snip)So now that there is a new tragedy the president wants to have a “national conversation on guns”.

Former First Daughters admit to
nibbling on Gingerbread White Houses

New York Daily News, by Carol Kuruvilla Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 5:44:08 AM Post Reply

The gingerbread houses created by the White House kitchen take weeks to plan, bake, build, and decorate — and this year even wire. Althought meant to be seen, not eaten, some first children are now revealing that members of the first families have, in fact, indulged in a nibble of the holiday confections. Jenna Bush swears she saw her sister Barbara nibbling on the gingerbread, marzipan and chocolate creation while their dad was in the White House. Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton, (and even Hillary Clinton herself) have grudgingly admitted to sneaking a bite of forbidden frosted goodness.

Former Clinton aide: Obama ‘complicit’
in perpetuating white supremacy

Washington Examiner [DC], by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 5:36:34 AM Post Reply

Imara Jones, who worked on economic policy under former President Bill Clinton, charges President Obama with exacerbating the problem of “white supremacy” in the United States by failing to use the fiscal cliff negotiations to ameliorate racial injustice. “Our collective denial over the fundamental injustice at the heart of our economic system is a result of white supremacy,” wrote Jones, who was special assistant to the U.S. Trade Representative for the last two years of Clinton’s presidency, on Color Lines. “White supremacy is a low-level assumption about characteristics that white people allegedly have which transforms inequality

It´s a good thing he has nine
lives! Meet Prickly Pete, the cat
whose curiosity nearly did kill him
after he got stuck in a CACTUS

Daily Mail [UK], by Snejana Farberov Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/22/2012 5:32:16 AM Post Reply

A cat in Arizona is lucky to be alive after getting into an especially thorny situation which has earned him a new nickname – Prickly Pete.[Snip]Arizona Humane Society’s Emergency Animal Technicians received a call about a cat that got caught on the spiky succulent near 19th Avenue and the appropriately named Cactus Road. Before rescuers arrived on the scene, the kitty somehow managed to free himself from his thorny trap and ran off, according to AZFamily.com. But the EMTs spotted cactus pods leading away from the scene. They followed the prickly trail in hopes of locating the cat

US denied access to ´multiple´ suspects
in custody in Benghazi terror attack

Fox News, by Catherine Herridge Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 5:29:51 AM Post Reply

"Multiple" suspects are in custody connected to the deadly terrorist attack Sept. 11 on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, but U.S. access to the suspects so far been denied, an intelligence source tells Fox News. "There are more suspects beyond those held in Tunisia and Egypt. Our access has been frustrated," the intelligence source said. Since October, federal agents have sought access through the Tunisian authorities to Ali Harzi, who is thought to have played a role in the attack but is not considered a ring-leader.

Facebook to sell access to your
inbox for a dollar at a time

Daily Mail [UK], by Alex Gore Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/22/2012 5:21:22 AM Post Reply

Facebook has launched a pilot scheme selling strangers access to users´ inboxes. The social networking website has introduced a fee, believed to be $1, to guarantee that messages are routed to a recipient´s ´inbox´ and not their ´other´ folder, where they are likely to be ignored. Facebook has billed it as giving users the chance to hear from people they do not know but who have an ´important´ message for them. It argues the fee will actually cut down on the amount of unwanted messages. But the trial, which began yesterday, has sparked fears that businesses will be happy to

Top Republican Senator will
oppose Hagel nomination

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 5:20:33 AM Post Reply

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), the Republican whip, told me in a phone interview this morning he would oppose the nomination of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense: “I can’t support a Hagel nomination if it comes,” he said. He is the first senator to expressly state he would oppose Hagel. He told me he thinks there would be substantial opposition to Hagel on both sides of the aisle. “I’ve heard prominent Democrats concerned about his position on Israel. Many Republican have said they did not want to prejudge. But it would be a bad move

Don’t Blame Boehner

National Review Online, by Larry Kudlow Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 5:16:42 AM Post Reply

When you lose an election you get frustrated. When you’re sitting in a subpar 2 percent economy, and are faced with tax hikes rather than marginal rate reductions, you get even more frustrated. And when you’re staring at $47 trillion in spending over the next ten years, and $8.6 trillion in deficits, your frustration levels climb even higher. These are among the frustrations that led a number of House Republicans to pull back from Speaker John Boehner’s so-called Plan B. Nobody looked good on the Republican side when Thursday night’s vote fell through.

The Obama´s head to Hawaii for
a tropical Christmas...but looming
fiscal cliff means the president has to
return early to Washington next week

Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/22/2012 5:11:45 AM Post Reply

At the end of a busy day during which he attended a funeral, nominated his new Secretary of State and stared over the ´fiscal cliff´ President Obama packed his family off to Hawaii for Christmas. The president, Michelle, Malia and Sasha departed for his native state on Friday evening, shortly after he had delivered a statement on extended the last Bush administration´s tax cuts. Obama had told reporters ´see you next week´ at the end of his appearance in the briefing room, but the White House did not specify when the president would return to Washington. The Obama family

Man Out of Time

American Spectator, by Daniel J. Flynn Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 12/22/2012 5:09:31 AM Post Reply

Jack Webb, who died thirty years ago this weekend, arrived at the right time. “After the war, people were much more realistic,” notes Peggy Webber, star of more than 100 Dragnet episodes. “They wanted things to be as honest as possible. And he filled the bill.” Dragnet, as the just-the-facts catchphrase it inspired indicates, depicted police work without the frills. Whereas other detective stories attracted listeners through the promise of a weekly shootout, Dragnet snagged them by keeping the weapons holstered. The iconic music, gimmicky teasers promising to reveal case results, and insistence that the show dramatized real-life events

Fiscal-Cliff Follies

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 5:05:12 AM Post Reply

Maybe America won’t go over the “fiscal cliff” after all. President Obama yesterday urged Congress to pass a middle-class tax cut for those making under $250,000 and adopt yet another unemployment-benefit extension while punting everything else — including mandatory spending cuts — until next year. The offer came one day after Speaker John Boehner was forced to yank his own tax bill from the House floor; he was unable to get enough Republicans to support a plan to keep Bush-era tax cuts in effect for Americans making less than $1 million. Recalcitrant House conservatives believed such an action —

The Economic Year in Review

Weekly Standard, by Irwin M. Stelzer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 5:00:11 AM Post Reply

This is a good time to see where we have come during the year now coming to a close. Some things haven’t changed very much, or so it might seem. When the year began, households reported that 142 million Americans held jobs; right now, 143 million are in work. The labor force participation rate—the portion of workers in the labor market—was 63.7 percent when we (or some of us) were sleeping off New Year’s Eve hangovers, and now stands at 63.6 percent. Fortunately, the labor market has done more than return to where it was on January 1,

Former ‘BigJournalism’ star
sues Breitbart empire for $75k,
demands release from contract

Daily Caller, by David Martosko Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 12/22/2012 4:50:08 AM Post Reply

In a lawsuit signifying a schism in the house that Andrew Breitbart built, former BigJournalism.com editor Dana Loesch has sued Breitbart.com LLC, claiming the company refused to release her from a contract and warned other media companies away from hiring her. Loesch, 34, is a St. Louis-based conservative radio host. She wrote in her legal filing that the fallout from her eventual departure from the Breitbart brand was an “attempt by one vindictive party to sabotage the reputation and career of another.”

Massachusetts Free for All
Over John Kerry’s Senate Seat

Daily Beast, by Ben Jacobs Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 4:46:13 AM Post Reply

Barring an unexpected Senate confirmation fight or the Mayan apocalypse, John Kerry will be the next secretary of State. No wonder a small battalion of Democrats is maneuvering to run for Kerry’s Senate seat in Massachusetts, and one of the names being floated is Teddy Kennedy Jr. On the surface, Kennedy’s candidacy might seem plausible. After all, he is Teddy’s son, and after losing his leg to cancer as a youth, he has developed a career as an advocate for the disabled. But as a political novice who doesn’t live in the state,

Does President Obama
know what he wants?

The Week, by Joel Golinkin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 4:38:16 AM Post Reply

T he fiscal cliff. The jobless recovery. Comprehensive immigration reform. Climate change. Implementing ObamaCare. Cutting healthcare spending. Rebuilding our infrastructure. Addressing student debt. Fixing the tax code. Gun control. There is no shortage of domestic issues that this president might address.(Snip) And yet, the nature of President Obama´s campaign, coupled with a few odd choices relating to the selection of the president´s second-term cabinet, raise questions relating to whether Obama has thought carefully about what he truly cares about, or whether he is instead playing a very complicated game of whack-a-mole, reacting to events as they pop up.

Roots of John Kerry’s secretary of state
ambition lie in wake of 2004 defeat

Boston Globe, by Tracy Jan & Bryan Bender Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 4:34:40 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON – Just three months after losing his campaign to be president of the United States, a politically wounded and weary Senator John Kerry took a routine fact-finding tour of the Middle East. It was one of countless overseas trips Kerry had taken in his two decades in Congress. But this time, those accompanying the Massachusetts Democrat noticed something was different. On the return leg of the trip, during a late night stroll to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a crowd spontaneously gathered around the former Democratic nominee for the White House.

Defence cuts put us in danger,
warns Archbishop of York

Telegraph [UK], by John Bingham Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/22/2012 4:32:22 AM Post Reply

Defence cuts could place the security of Britain and the rest of the world in danger, the Archbishop of York warned on Friday night. Dr John Sentamu described the reductions already announced as “savage” and warned that reducing the size of the regular Army and filling the gap with reservists could imperil the “safety of the nation and the peace of the world”.[Snip] Dr Sentamu, who has close links with the Yorkshire Regiment which lost 10 soldiers in Afghanistan this year alone, also described British forces as the “the bravest of the brave”. In a message to troops serving

Democrat Activists in the Press Corps
Slam NRA During Press Conference
(Update: Hot Mic!)

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 4:31:03 AM Post Reply

For a week following the tragic massacre in Newtown, CT, many in the mainstream media called on the National Rifle Association to speak up. A week later, the NRA did speak up, and many in the mainstream media took to Twitter to attack what the group was saying. Some compared NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s remarks to the long-winded diatribes of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Another simply called it “nuts.”(Snip for Tweets)Mother Jones‘ David Corn slammed LaPierre for taking no questions and called the statement “propaganda,”

Congress may be stalled out,
but the EPA certainly isn’t

Hot Air, by Erika Johnsen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/22/2012 4:23:13 AM Post Reply

The Environmental Protection Agency took a strategic timeout on their zealous regulatory agenda in the run-up to last November’s election, lest their many ambitious plans for job-killing regulations should put a damper on President Obama’s prospects. Post-election, however, it has been full steam ahead for the independent agency, and they are finally starting to release some of the some of the rules and regulations to which we are all going to be forced to adjust over the coming years. On Friday of last week, the EPA issued a new soot rule

Laura Ingraham: ´Well-placed
conservative voice´ says Paul
Ryan in line to replace Boehner

The Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: CarrotFarmer87- 12/21/2012 11:19:58 PM Post Reply

After the failed effort to get the fiscal cliff “Plan B” passed this week, some powerful conservatives on Capitol Hill are reportedly pushing for Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan to replace embattled House Speaker John Boehner. On Friday night’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” fill-in host Laura Ingraham said her sources indicate a coup may already be underway in Congress. “I had a well-placed conservative voice today on the Hill email me and said he’s beginning to hear rumblings — I already gave something away, ‘he’ — he’s beginning to hear of a move to replace the speaker of the House,”

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