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Argentine labour leader files
complaint against officials for
last week’s extended looting

MercoPress [Montevideo, Uruguay], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 12/28/2012 11:32:37 PM Post Reply

The head of Argentina’s organized labour, Hugo Moyano filed a complaint before a federal criminal court against cabinet chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina and Security Secretary Sergio Berni who openly and repeatedly accused the teamsters leader of being behind the extended rioting and looting of last week when four people were killed, hundreds injured and arrested and left millions of dollars in damages. The complaint accuses the defendants of “violence instigation” and “false claims” when they stated that the teamsters union of Moyano and the gastronomic workers union of

Chávez appreciates loyalty
of the Venezuelan army

El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 12/28/2012 11:28:38 PM Post Reply

Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro read over on Friday a greeting message to the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB). The message was sent by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez from Havana, Cuba, where he is recovering from a cancer surgery. Joined by the high military command and top leaders of ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Maduro claimed to be fully subordinate to the Venezuelan leader and proceeded to read out the message. In there, Chávez appreciates the army loyalty "at this very complex and difficult time."

Chelsea Clinton, Still
NBC’s Pretend Journalist - Thread Closed

Daily Download, by David Zurawik Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 12/28/2012 11:26:34 PM Post Reply

I know there are questions on my beat larger and more pressing than who’s worse as a TV journalist, Chelsea Clinton or Jenna Bush Hager, the presidentially-connected, pretend correspondents at NBC News. But I continue to be fascinated by a network news division putting someone as outrageously unqualified as Clinton on a prime-time newsmagazine. I watched her again last week in a softer-than-soft piece on a weight loss program started by Pastor Rick Warren at his Saddleback Church, and I can say with absolute certainty that she has not improved one lick in the last year.

More than 200 pounds of khat
found at Dulles

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 12/28/2012 11:04:19 PM Post Reply

STERLING, Va. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has seized more than 200 pounds of an illegal stimulant from the Middle East that was shipped as air freight to Dulles International Airport. The agency says it found 214 pounds of khat (COT) while inspecting freight that was listed as wood coffee tables. The drug had been shipped from Doha, Qatar, and has an estimated street value of $30,000. Khat is a leafy plant that´s chewed for its stimulant effect. It´s classified as a dangerous narcotic in the United States.

Don’t Drink the Inside-the-
Beltway Fiscal-Cliff Kool-Aid

National Review Online, by Avik Roy Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/28/2012 10:51:31 PM Post Reply

Given the alternatives that are being bandied about in Washington, there can be no doubt that, from a policy perspective, going over the fiscal cliff is the far superior option. Temporary extensions of tax cuts don’t do much for the economy; temporary extension of unemployment benefits retards job-seeking; and the whole grab-bag of accounting gimmicks allows Congress to avoid owning up to the true scale of the budget deficit, a budget deficit that will get cut in half if we go over the cliff. The most common conservative rejoinder to these arguments is political: that Republicans will be blamed

Hobby Lobby Defies
Obama Administration with Civil
Disobedience for Religious Liberty

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ken Klukowski Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/28/2012 10:49:55 PM Post Reply

“We must obey God rather than men!”—Acts 5:29. Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s application for an emergency injunction protecting them from Obamacare’s HHS Mandate on abortion and birth control, Hobby Lobby has decided to defy the federal government to remain true to their religious beliefs, at enormous risk and financial cost. Hobby Lobby is wholly owned and controlled by the Green family, who are evangelical Christians. The Greens are committed to running their business in accordance with their Christian faith

Tribune Columnist Challenges
Obama To Come To Chicago
For Funeral Of A ‘Ghettoized’
Minority Murder Victim

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/28/2012 9:37:16 PM Post Reply

John Kass, columnist for The Chicago Tribune, appeared on CNN on Friday where he discussed the tragic increase of violence and murder that has struck his city in recent years. He said that lawmakers and members of the press have been guilty of “papering over” how bad the situation in Chicago was getting, and of “ghettoizing” the minority children who become the victims of gun violence in the inner city. Kass concluded by challenging President Barack Obama to come to Chicago for the funeral of one of the “hundreds and hundreds” of African-American and Latino children killed every year

Six-year-old girl shot in face by Taliban
and left for dead gets free surgery in US

NBC News [New York], by Greg Cergol Original Article

Posted By: 4Justice- 12/28/2012 9:28:25 PM Post Reply

A 6-year-old girl -- shot and left for dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year -- received free reconstructive surgery at a hospital in the U.S. Friday. (Snip) The nonprofit children´s organization, based on Staten Island, helped bring Marizeh to the U.S. after the attack that cost the girl her right eye. Taliban fighters ambushed Marizeh´s family as they drove home in a remote, unidentified region of Afghanistan last spring, said Montanti. Her father tried to hide the girl under his feet inside the family car but she was shot in the face, after watching both her father and brother murdered.

Last-minute deal on
cliff looking more likely - Thread Closed

InvestmentNews, by Mark Schoeff Jr. Original Article

Posted By: obviousity- 12/28/2012 8:49:15 PM Post Reply

Senate leaders will try to cobble together a legislative package over the weekend to avert nearly $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts slated to go into effect at midnight on Monday. Following a meeting with House and Senate leaders on Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama said that he is hopeful that Congress can resolve the so-called fiscal cliff over the next 72 hours. [snip] It also would set a framework for deficit reduction in 2013 while suspending $1.2-trillion in domestic spending cuts over the next 10 years.

Looks like ’TKK is all talked out

Boston Herald, by Gayle Fee Original Article

Posted By: John c- 12/28/2012 8:29:20 PM Post Reply

Talk radio fans should prepare themselves to say goodbye to News Talk 96.9 FM because word from insiders is that WTKK is switching to a music format next week. Our spies inside parent company Greater Media tell us that WTKK will begin broadcasting music — most likely a rhythmic format — a day or so into the New Year. The switch would kill the city’s only FM talk station, leaving WRKO-AM the only major talker left in the market. WTKK, on the air since 1999, featured on-air yakkers including Don Imus, Michael Graham, Jay Severin, Herald columnist Margery Eagan and

Here´s Why Someone
Would Need To
Own An ´Assault´ Rifle

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 12/28/2012 7:51:03 PM Post Reply

Guns: The left keeps asking why anyone needs an "assault" rifle. Here´s one reason — in 2010, a Texas teen used a rifle similar to the one used in Newtown to defend his younger sister and himself from home invaders. The left quite often exposes its raging elitism through its odious habit of asking why anyone would need the things that it doesn´t like, from guns to big homes to monster trucks. The implication is that if the elitists don´t want whatever it is, then no one should be allowed to have it — except, of course,

Real Housewives of the Beltway

Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 12/28/2012 7:45:08 PM Post Reply

The fiscal-cliff melodrama has become one of those bad cable reality shows, a sort of "Real Housewives of New Jersey" without the sincerity though not without the plastic surgery. In the latest episode on Friday, the actors met at the White House in a last-ditch attempt to avert the cliff they had created, and that they all claim would be a catastrophe to jump off, but that they hope they can blame on each other if they do. On second thought, this script would be laughed right off cable.

Desert Storm Victor Stormin´
Norman Schwarzkopf R.I.P.

Investors Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 12/28/2012 7:43:03 PM Post Reply

Leadership: The hero of Desert Storm gave America a taste of victory after the wasted sacrifice of Vietnam and demonstrated that only the sometimes-unwise decisions of politicians can keep us from victory over our enemies. Schwarzkopf, called "Stormin´ Norman" because of his reportedly explosive temper, led America to two sorely needed military victories: a small one in Grenada in 1983 and a big one as de facto commander of allied forces in the Gulf War in 1991. Grenada was the first step in a recovery from the legacy of Vietnam, where defeat was snatched from the

Newtown Killer Was Not
Wearing Body Armor

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/28/2012 7:30:30 PM Post Reply

Contrary to media reports, the Newtown killer was not wearing body armor when he gunned down more than two dozen innocent people, including his own mother. Adam Lanza went into the Sandy Hook Elementary School wearing a utility vest, not a bullet proof vest, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said Thursday. “It was a fishing type vest, a jacket with a lot of pockets; it was not a bullet-proof vest,” Vance said. It was the kind of vest you can go to Wal-Mart or Cabela’s to buy any day of the week, for fishing.

Boy Scout gives senator
a good ‘talking to’
about federal budget

Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Caleb Knox Original Article

Posted By: davesenior- 12/28/2012 7:28:25 PM Post Reply

To the Hon. Max Baucus, United States Senate: I am a 17-year-old junior at Whitefish High School. I am aware that your job is to represent me, and seeing that you were unaware of my existence up to this point, I would like to inform you of one of the places I would expect you to stand politically. I have some real concerns that came upon me while viewing the Government Accountability Office’s Long Term Fiscal Outlook, January 2011. [SNIP] To be blunt, I have learned to spend my money more carefully and wisely than our government.

Why not let taxes rise
on the middle class?

Washington Post, by Marc A. Thiessen Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/28/2012 7:25:49 PM Post Reply

Barring a last-minute breakthrough, taxes will go up for every American taxpayer on Jan. 1 — and that’s a development conservatives should welcome. Don’t get me wrong, it would be better not to raise taxes on anyone, pursue pro-growth tax reform and cut the size of government instead. But that’s not what the American people voted to do last month. Americans cast their ballots for big government. Now it’s time to pay for it. Until now, the growth of government under President Obama has not hit the pocketbooks of most Americans. During Obama’s first term, federal spending

Obama Gives Raise to Biden,
Congress as Fiscal Cliff Looms

Breitbart Big Government, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/28/2012 6:38:53 PM Post Reply

Imagine you are working for a company that is going bankrupt, but everyone you work with and your bosses are getting pay raises. Seem absurd? Not if you work for the failing federal government, because President Obama has decreed that Vice President Biden, members of Congress, and most federal workers are getting raises for 2013. As the U.S. government is losing its luster on the bond market and as the fiscal cliff looms, President Obama issued an executive order to give everyone raises. Obama has generously bestowed a $6,379 per year raise on Grampa Joe;

Chicago police backtrack after
confirming 500th homicide

Chicago Tribune, by Jeremy Gorner & Peter Nickeas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/28/2012 5:46:11 PM Post Reply

Hours after Chicago police listed the shooting death of a West Side man as the city’s 500th homicide of the year, the department backtracked and said the city has yet to reach the grim milestone. Superintendent Garry McCarthy had told the Tribune Thursday afternoon that the homicide count stood at 499. Hours later, Nathaniel T. Jackson, 40, was gunned down outside a store in the Austin neighborhood and the department confirmed Friday morning that his death was the 500th homicide. Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a statement noting that "Chicago has reached an unfortunate and tragic milestone."

Not the absurdity
he thought he
was exposing

Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 12/28/2012 4:49:54 PM Post Reply

A week ago on NBC´s "Meet The Press," David Gregory brandished on screen a high-capacity magazine. To most media experts, a "high-capacity magazine" means an ad-stuffed double-issue of Vanity Fair with the triple-page perfume-scented pullouts. But apparently in America´s gun-nut gun culture of gun-crazed gun kooks, it´s something else entirely, and it was this latter kind that Mr. Gregory produced in order to taunt Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. As the poster child for America´s gun-crazed gun-kook gun culture, Mr. LaPierre would probably have been more scared by the host waving around a headily perfumed Vanity Fair.

Criminal justice reform
saving states billions

Washington Times [DC], by Newt Gingrich & Pat Nolan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/28/2012 4:02:22 PM Post Reply

The news media are enthralled with the drama of the wrestling match at the brink of the “fiscal cliff.” However, the taxpayers should keep their eyes on the equally gripping story of the budget shortfalls facing virtually every state. Our governors and state legislators are grappling with insolvent pension systems, ballooning Medicaid expenditures, skyrocketing prison costs and falling tax revenues. Still, there is good news. Rather than being paralyzed by partisan gridlock, state leaders have found bipartisan agreement on an important issue: criminal justice reform. This is a recent development. For years, battles over prison reforms have bitterly divided

Gen. Schwarzkopf,
a man for his times

Washington Times [DC], by Rowan Scarborough Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/28/2012 3:59:14 PM Post Reply

The twist in the long military career of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is that a 35-year Army soldier is remembered more for what he did in the air than on land. Commanding his first war, the four-star infantryman decided on a strategy to eject Iraqi forces and liberate Kuwait that showcased air power — the precision weapons and strike jets that had been developed (but had gone mostly unused) in the preceding 20 years. When Operation Desert Storm kicked off on the night of Jan. 17, 1991, he watched in a command post in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, —

Crime Is Up and Bloomberg
Blames iPhone Thieves

New York Times, by Michael M. Grynbaum Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 12/28/2012 2:44:43 PM Post Reply

Hold onto your iPhones! Major crime in New York City inched up this year, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Friday fingered the culprit: too many iPhones and iPads were being swiped. A rise in thefts of shiny Apple products accounted for the slight increase in the city’s annual crime index, a statistic that covers a number of felonies, including murder, grand larceny and robbery, Mr. Bloomberg said on Friday morning during his weekly radio show. As of Monday, the Police Department recorded 3,484 more major crimes in 2012 than for the same period last year. The increase in Apple product

US evacuates Central
African Republic embassy

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/28/2012 2:17:50 PM Post Reply

The US says it has evacuated its embassy in the Central African Republic as rebels threaten to advance towards the capital, Bangui.[Snip] Earlier, CAR President Francois Bozize appealed to the US and France to help block the rebel advance. The UN has said it is evacuating its non-essential staff from the country. US state department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the embassy had suspended operations and that the ambassador and other staff had left the country on Thursday. "This decision is solely due to concerns about the security of our personnel and has no relation to our continuing and long-standing diplomatic

Infectiously Positive Man Implores
Americans To Pay Down The Debt By
Donating From Their Paychecks

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/28/2012 2:12:29 PM Post Reply

When is the power of positive thinking not sufficient to solve to a pressing problem? Most of the time, actually, but particularly in the case of America’s spiraling national debt and the looming crisis that mounting debt presents. Since the end of August, America’s debt as ballooned by $400 billion – 100 billion more dollars than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. For businessman Scott Soucy, stopping this runaway spending is a challenge he is ready to tackle. This jolly fellow has a plan to get America’s lawmakers to the table to address the debt,

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