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The Audacity of Nope

Weekly Standard, by William Kristol Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/26/2013 5:05:18 AM Post Reply

President Obama has gone on the offensive at the beginning of his second term, and Republicans aren’t happy campers. Of course, every Republican camp is unhappy in its own way. There are the lamenters. Shouldn’t Obama have been less partisan in his Inaugural Address? (Snip)So what’s to be done? Here’s the outline of a three-step program. The first is to remember the words of Pope John Paul II: Be not afraid. The odds against Republicans and conservatives have been much worse in the past. A little courage now would go a long way.

Rubio shows opposition to
immigration reform is an inch deep

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/26/2013 4:58:02 AM Post Reply

I’ve certainly been pleasantly surprised by the popularity of Sen. Marco Rubio’s immigration policy among tough conservatives. From Grover Norquist to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to Sean Hannity, Rubio has gotten favorable to glowing reviews from previously hard-line opponents of comprehensive immigration reform. On Wednesday he was pitching his plan on staunch conservative Mark Levin’s radio show. At one point (at the 4:30 mark) Rubio called the current system “de facto immigration,” meaning that by not enforcing current law we are already giving those here illegally a free pass. For Levin, this was compelling.

It’s time to take on the media

Legal Insurrection, by Anne Sorock Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/26/2013 4:55:27 AM Post Reply

Ace of Spades blog has posted a piece documenting the void of a Fourth Estate in America today, enjoining all of us who have been following its malpractice to do something: The media no longer hides it in their actions. They are fully fused with the Obama Administration and DNC. The only way in which they do hide it is by simply lying when confronted about it: They’ll issue a snide denial, then go about doing precisely what it is they were accused of doing. As I learned while interviewing veteran Kevin Tully,

Sarah Palin Out At
Fox News Channel

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/26/2013 4:50:48 AM Post Reply

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Fox News Channel are parting ways, according to a report in Real Clear Politics. After three years as a paid contributor for the channel, FNC and the former Republican vice presidential nominee have decided to cut ties. A source close to Palin told Real Clear Politics that it was the governor’s decision not to renew their contract. “It’s my understanding that Gov. Palin was offered a contract by FOX, and she decided not to renew the arrangement,” the source close to Palin told RCP.

Woman Sues Match.Com
After Date Attacks Her

ABC News, by Russell Goldman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/26/2013 4:44:17 AM Post Reply

A Las Vegas woman is suing Match.com for $10 million, after the online dating service allegedly paired her with a man who stabbed her 10 times in the face and chest in an attempt to kill her. Mary Kay Beckman, 50, claims in a lawsuit filed earlier this month that she joined the website looking for a "healthy loving relationship," but instead was nearly killed. Beckman says she went on a few dates in October 2011 with Wade Ridley, but after ending the relationship came home one day to find him in her garage with a knife.

How the fate of gun control is
tied to presidential popularity

Guardian [UK], by Harry J. Enten Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/26/2013 4:35:14 AM Post Reply

Want to know how people feel about President Obama´s gun control plan? Simply ask whether they approve or disapprove of how the president and his administration are doing their job. The two questions are nearly perfectly linked, and that could have major consequences for the future of gun control legislation. The latest ABC/Washington Post polls prove the strong relationship. Many individual gun proposals are highly popular. In fact, seven tested gun measures, including background checks and bans on assault weapons and semi-automatic handguns, have majority support ranging from 51% to 88%.

Rahm Emanuel presses banks on guns

Politico, by Jonathan Martin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/26/2013 4:27:18 AM Post Reply

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, moving to take a lead role in the gun control debate, is turning up the pressure on banks that do business with firearms manufacturers. Emanuel is sending letters to two major financial institutions, TD Bank and Bank of America, which offer lines of credit to gun makers suggesting that they stop lending money to the manufacturers if they don’t come out for new gun restrictions. “TD Bank currently aids the gun manufacturing industry through a $60 million revolving line of credit with Smith & Wesson, a gun manufacturer that produces the AR-15 —

Hillary’s lesson in escaping
the blame game

Washington Times [DC], by Col. Ken Allard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/26/2013 3:09:54 AM Post Reply

If you thought the long-anticipated Hillary hearings were going to be a feet-to-the fire payback for Benghazigate, then maybe you should think again. In her back-to-back appearances Wednesday, departing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton left Senate and House Republicans hitless, winless and basically befuddled. Little Leaguers enjoy a 10-run rule that brings such uneven contests to merciful endings — so the little nippers can lick their wounds and try again another day. If Congress had anything similar, Mrs. Clinton might have ended her testimony hours earlier, beaten rush-hour traffic

Muslim women finally able to
embrace manicures thanks to new
´breathable´ nail polish that
fits religious restrictions

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/26/2013 3:00:16 AM Post Reply

A ´breathable´ nail polish, which allows water vapors to pass through to the nail, is causing a stir among devout Muslim women who are unable to wear regular polish because of the washing involved in daily prayers. Muslims´ pre-prayer ritual includes washing the arms and face completely, where water must touch every surface - an impossible feat if a layer of paint is covering the nails. But Inglot Cosmetics, a company from Poland which is available in the U.S. at Macy´s, has released a new line of permeable polish called O2M which will

Obama’s Declaration of Collectivism - Thread Closed

National Review Online, by Larry Kudlow Original Article

Posted By: steveW- 1/26/2013 2:59:28 AM Post Reply

One of the least remarked upon aspects of President Obama’s inaugural speech was his attempt to co-opt the Founding Fathers’ Declaration of Independence to bolster his liberal-left agenda. Sure, the president quoted one of the most important sentences in world history: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” So far, so good.

PBS Special Follows the
´Rise of the Drones´

U.S. News & World Report, by Jason Koebler Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/26/2013 2:51:13 AM Post Reply

Over the past three years, American unmanned aerial vehicles—or drones—have killed hundreds of people, both suspected terrorists and civilians, in Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan. During that time, they´ve proved to be useful for situations where using ground soldier or manned planes is deemed too risky. Now, drones come in all different shapes and sizes and can be used for a wide variety of tasks, such as surveillance, natural disaster monitoring, search-and-rescue, and border patrol. Government officials and companies have started to see the potential domestic uses for drones, and last year, Congress required

President Obama meets with
Hispanic Congressional leaders
to discuss immigration reform
as he prepares for legislative
push on issue next week

Daily Mail (UK), by Damian Ghigliotty Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/26/2013 2:45:43 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama and senior administration officials met with leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the White House this morning to discuss the need for immigration reform as a way to revive the country’s dwindling middle class. The president is getting ready to launch a campaign next week aimed at overhauling the nation´s immigration system and creating legal status for millions of people living in the U.S. undocumented. One of the central themes of Friday´s conversation with the group of Democratic representatives was equal opportunity for U.S. citizens, whether those citizens were born

Darrell Issa: NLRB recess
appointees should step down now

Washington Examiner [DC], by Sean Higgins Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/26/2013 2:37:20 AM Post Reply

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, emailed reporters the following statement in reaction to today’s ruling by the DC Court of Appeals that President Obama’s recess appointees to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional: The President, who taught Constitutional law, should’ve known better. As the Oversight Committee examined in a hearing a year ago, President Obama’s appointments looked like an obvious election-year pander to big labor bosses. Today, we know that it is American workers who are going to pay the price for the Administration’s arrogant miscalculation.

Proposal to ban welfare
recipients from playing lottery

WTVD-TV [Raleigh NC], by Staff and Associated Press Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 1/26/2013 2:04:54 AM Post Reply

Raleigh, N.C. -- North Carolina lawmakers are drafting legislation that would ban people on welfare or those who are in bankruptcy from buying lottery tickets. Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, R-Wake is helping draft the legislation. Stam told ABC11 the vendor selling the lottery ticket would be penalized if they knew the person was on welfare or in bankruptcy. That stipulation is not sitting well with some convenience store clerks that don´t want to be left to enforce a new law.
Source corrected by Staff.

More signs that global
warming is just hot air

Daily Express [UK], by John Ingham Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/26/2013 12:41:14 AM Post Reply

Global warming is likely to be less extreme than claimed, researchers said yesterday. The most likely temperature rise will be 1.9C (3.4F) compared with the 3.5C predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Norwegian study says earlier predictions were based on rapid warming in the Nineties. But Oslo University’s department of geosciences included data since 2000 when temperature rises “levelled off nearly completely”. Professor Terje Berntsen said: “The Earth’s mean temperature rose sharply during the Nineties. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity. We are most likely witnessing natural fluctuations in the climate system

Court rejects EPA biofuel mandate

Houston Chronicle, by Zain Shauk Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:37:13 AM Post Reply

A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday canceled a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency that required refiners to buy cellulosic biofuels as a way of supporting the nascent alternative fuel industry. Cellulosic biofuel is ethanol fermented from products other than corn, which is the major source of biofuel production in the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the mandate for 2012, which would have held oil refiners accountable for purchasing 8.65 million of gallons

Obama recess appointments
unconstitutional

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:33:45 AM Post Reply

In a case freighted with major constitutional implications, a federal appeals court on Friday overturned President Obama’s controversial recess appointments from last year, ruling he abused his powers and acted when the Senate was not actually in a recess. The three-judge panel’s ruling is a major blow to Mr. Obama. The judges ruled that the appointments he made to the National Labor Relations Board are illegal, and hence the five-person board did not have a quorum to operate. But the ruling has even broader constitutional significance

We have the freedom to
choose what we eat -
so let’s savour it

Telegraph [UK], by Graeme Archer Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/26/2013 12:33:37 AM Post Reply

What did you have for breakfast? I bet you didn’t know that you had little choice in the matter. At least Imran Hussain, of the Child Poverty Action Group, seems to think so. When the public health minister, Anna Soubry, pointed out that there are too many obese people, he agreed, but angrily: “Rather than blaming parents, ministers should look at the piles of evidence that make it absolutely clear that the real reason why our obesity problem is going to get bigger in the years ahead is because our child poverty problem is going to get much bigger

Recipe for conservative revival

Washington Post, by George F. Will Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:31:38 AM Post Reply

Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. Barack Obama — with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any reelected president when inaugurated since World War II — has a contradictory agenda certain to stimulate a conservative revival. Consider his vow to expend political capital on climate change. The absurdity of the Kyoto approach — global climate treaties agreed to by 190 nations — is now obvious even to most former enthusiasts. Obama can propose cutting U.S. fossil-fuel emissions

Kerry Runs Interference for Obama´s
Pivot from Middle East to Asia

Breitbart´s Big Peace, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 1/26/2013 12:30:44 AM Post Reply

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), who is planning a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories next month, is trying to contest rumors that Barack Obama wants to “pivot” on foreign policy from the Middle East to Asia. Kerry said at his Thursday confirmation hearing for Secretary of State: I want to take on the word "pivot." I think "pivot" implies that we´re turning away from somewhere else. I want to emphasize we are not turning away from anywhere else. Whatever we do in [Asia] should not come, and I hope will not come, at the expense of relationships in Europe or the in the Mid-East or elsewhere. It can't.

Senators nearing agreement
on broad immigration
reform proposal

Washington Post, by Rosalind S. Helderman and David Nakamur Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:29:25 AM Post Reply

A working group of senators from both parties is nearing agreement on broad principles for overhauling the nation’s immigration laws, representing the most substantive bipartisan effort toward major legislation in years. The three Democrats and three Republicans, who have been meeting quietly in recent months, plan to announce a final agreement as early as next Friday. The move would amount to the first tentative step toward comprehensive immigration reform after long-standing gridlock on the issue. The new effort was spurred in large part by the growing influence of Latino voters who strongly backed President Obama and other Democrats in November.

Court says Obama
exceeded authority
in making appointments

Washington Post, by Robert Barnes and Steven Mufson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:27:43 AM Post Reply

President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority by making appointments when the Senate was on a break last year, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The court’s broad ruling would sharply limit the power that presidents throughout history have used to make recess appointments in the face of Senate opposition and inaction. A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit flatly rejected the Obama administration’s rationale for appointing three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) while the Senate was on a holiday break.

Maryland faces a liberal’s
dilemma on mental health
and gun control

Washington Post, by Aaron C. Davis and Michael Laris Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:26:00 AM Post Reply

Virginia, home to the National Rifle Association’s headquarters, the Nation’s Gun Show and a conservative legislature, is by many measures a more gun-friendly state than Maryland. But in one aspect of gun control, Virginia is more restrictive than its neighbor across the Potomac. Residents of the commonwealth are almost three times as likely to be banned from owning a firearm for mental health reasons as residents of Maryland, which has been reluctant to restrict the rights of the mentally ill. For the Democratic-controlled Maryland General Assembly and Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), this poses a dilemma.

Man Repays Admiral Semmes Hotel
70 Years After Stealing Silverware

WKRG-TV [Mobile, AL], by Chad Petri Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/26/2013 12:21:11 AM Post Reply

Mobile, Alabama — A letter that arrived at the Admiral Semmes hotel last Friday tells a story starting in 1943, when 16 year-old Charles Buchanan walked through the front doors looking for work. He got a job in the kitchen. After a few weeks working there he snagged a fistful of silverware and stuffed it in his pocket hoping to get some extra cash. He says when he got back to his room he threw away his loot. In his letter he wrote “I realized my mom and dad would likely do me bodily harm and disown me so I

Obama Off To A Slow Start In
Capitol Hill Gun Campaign

Buzzfeed, by John Stanton Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/26/2013 12:12:47 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama´s campaign operation appeared to be getting off to a shakey start Friday, sending out an ill-timed email calling on millions of supporters to flood the Capitol Hill switchboard with calls supporting gun control. Call in campaigns can be a powerful tool in lobbying Congress: when done right, lawmakers´ offices are inundated with thousands of constituents demanding to speak with the senator or congresswoman about a particular issue. Well-orchestrated campaigns can even result in the congressional switchboard going down for hours at a time, disrupting everyday life in the Capitol

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