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Two Cheers for Rebranding

Tribune Media Services, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 5:24:28 AM Post Reply

Ever since Mitt Romney lost the presidential election, there’s been a lot of talk about how the Republican party needs to “rebrand” itself. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal wants, among other things, for the GOP to stop being “the stupid party.” Representative Paul Ryan has concluded that the watchword for the Republican party needs to be “prudence.” Senator Marco Rubio is the frontman for the most tangible aspect of the rebranding effort: getting on the right side of the immigration issue. In the process, he’s become something of the de facto point person for the party. The latest entrant into this effort:

Touching photo of 3-year-old girl
saluting her father goodbye before
his 9-month deployment to Afghanistan

Daily Mail [UK], by Leslie Larson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/8/2013 5:20:21 AM Post Reply

The photo of an adorable toddler saluting her father as he prepared to leave on his nine-month deployment to Afghanistan has touched the hearts of people across the country. Daniella Moen, 3, wanted to be like all the other soldiers who joined her dad, U.S. Army Chaplain Captain Dan Moen, when the national anthem played at his farewell ceremony at Fort Drum, NY on January 11. The girl´s mother, Sasha, was on hand to capture the tender photograph, which has gone viral and become an inspiration to the thousands of military families waiting for their loved ones to come home.

The Twisted Truth on Obama´s
Benghazi Response

American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/8/2013 5:19:47 AM Post Reply

According to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, as reported at The Weekly Standard, President Obama was completely aloof from the events in Libya on September 11. He neither asked nor ordered anything. He did not respond to information sent to the White House. He was not involved at all, during the seven-plus-hour attack that resulted in the deaths of four American government employees, including an ambassador. A few months back, when, for the sake of argument, we were all giving Obama the benefit of the doubt on being human, albeit wretchedly so, I felt compelled to qualify

Al Jazeera and the
Global Jihad in America

Accuracy in Media, by Cliff Kincaid Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 5:19:05 AM Post Reply

By refusing to investigate the Al Gore/Al Jazeera deal, it would appear that Capitol Hill “conservatives” like Republican Reps. Michael McCaul, Steve Scalise, and Paul Broun are adopting the view that we have nothing to fear from the global jihad and its instruments of propaganda being positioned on U.S. soil. This view finds support from Scott McConnell, writing in Patrick J. Buchanan’s magazine, The American Conservative, who says there should be no “national loyalty oath” for a new cable channel in America and that the transaction is “welcome news.” Al Jazeera is the voice of the Muslim Brotherhood

Harry, Henry & Hagel

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 5:16:51 AM Post Reply

‘Give the guy a break.” That was Sen. Harry Reid’s answer to ABC this week when asked about Chuck Hagel’s incoherent performance at his confirmation hearing for defense secretary. Now an Armed Services Committee vote on Hagel has been delayed after 25 Republicans sent a letter asking him to answer questions about whether foreign money paid for any of the work he did or speeches he gave after leaving the Senate. So far, Reid hasn’t joined those asking for more info. But he wasn’t always this reticent. Back when President George W. Bush named Henry Kissinger to chair the 9/11 Commission,

Would Lincoln have
droned Robert E. Lee?

Washington Examiner [DC], by Mark Tapscott Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 5:10:56 AM Post Reply

President Obama´s use of drones to kill U.S. citizens fighting alongside terrorists is not easily sorted. It puts two constitutional absolutes into conflict -- the guarantee of due process to every American, and the obligation to provide for the common defense. Sometimes it helps to clarify an issue by viewing it in a different historical context, such as this imagined conversation between President Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton the day after the Battle of Cold Harbor in June 1864: Lincoln: Stanton, have you seen these casualty reports? Stanton: Yes, Mr. President, they are horrible. So many dead boys

Menendez´s Chief of Staff Provides
Talking Points to Rebut Scandal

Roll Call, by Kate Ackley Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 5:06:53 AM Post Reply

Sen. Robert Menendez’s chief of staff sent an email to some of his boss’s closest supporters Wednesday that supplies talking points to combat news reports linking the New Jersey Democrat to a potential travel and ethics scandal. The missive offers an inside glimpse into the behind-the-scenes public relations campaign to bolster Menendez’s fortunes. “I’m attaching a memo with talking points I hope you’ll use as you appear before the media or whenever you have opportunities to set the record straight on behalf of Senator Menendez,” read the text of the email, sent Wednesday and obtained by CQ Roll Call.

Facebook login error blocks access
to 100s of websites including
Pinterest, CNN, Hulu

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/8/2013 5:03:45 AM Post Reply

A Facebook error on Thursday caused major disruption to some of the top visited news websites. Internet users, who were logged into their Facebook accounts, were unable to connect to popular web destinations including CNN, Huffington Post, Washington Post and Gawker. When users tried to visit those websites, the landing page would appear for just a moment before they were re-directed to a Facebook page with an error message. The error was first noticed around 4pm on Thursday and lasted until about 4:40pm, with people relying on Twitter to report the interruption. Though their desired web destination would load

‘Friends of Hamas,’
Friend of Chuck Hagel?

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 5:00:26 AM Post Reply

On Wednesday the Senate canceled a vote on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to become the next Secretary of Defense. Today, Ben Shapiro reports on a possible reason for that delay. On Thursday, Senate sources told Breitbart News exclusively that they have been informed that one of the reasons that President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has not turned over requested documents on his sources of foreign funding is that one of the names listed is a group purportedly called “Friends of Hamas.” Breitbart called the White House

Can Social Media Disarm
Syria’s Chemical Arsenal?

Daily Beast, by Eli Lake Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 4:56:05 AM Post Reply

If you are a Syrian military officer in charge of some nasty chemical weapons, you’ve probably been friended or Skyped by the U.S. government. The message is simple: think twice before using or selling that mustard gas you are guarding. On July 18, when a suicide bomber struck a meeting of Syria’s security cabinet, killing the defense minister and President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law, it was a major victory for Syria’s opposition. But it was also a cause for serious alarm at the Pentagon. In public, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned what was left of the regime’s leadership

Inside the White House Press Corps

PJ Media, by Bill Straub Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 4:48:06 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON – Several years ago I was sitting at a hotel bar in Waco, Texas, with Ron Hutcheson, then the White House correspondent for the old Knight-Ridder News Service, simultaneously watching the Daytona 500 and competing in a video trivia game. Naturally the discussion turned to the job of covering the president of the United States, George W. Bush, who was at that moment busily clearing brush out at his ranch in nearby Crawford, Texas, leaving reporters with little to do but watch race cars circle a track, answer dumb questions and drink beer.

Rand Paul is more
like father after all

Washington Post, by Dana Milbank Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/8/2013 4:39:04 AM Post Reply

After former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle was killed Saturday at a Texas shooting range, former congressman Ron Paul tweeted a shockingly cold sentiment. “Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that ‘he who lives by the sword dies by the sword,’?” wrote Paul, who as a presidential candidate opposed military action. The message quickly drew a dissenting view from Capitol Hill, where one senator issued a statement calling Kyle “a hero like all Americans who don the uniform to defend our country. Our prayers are with his family during this tragic time.” That senator was Paul’s son, Rand Paul.

The Tea Party can survive Karl
Rove´s wrath, but being purged
from Fox News could help kill it

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/8/2013 4:39:02 AM Post Reply

According to Politico, “a political colonoscopy is going on before our eyes.” Yuck. Karl Rove has set up a Super PAC to keep controversial conservatives from winning Republican primaries and the Senate leadership has established a “buddy system” to keep Tea Party congressmen in line (“buddy” as in “you should probably vote the way we tell you to, buddy…”). But the most important changes are taking place at Fox where heavyweights Sarah Palin and Dick Morris are out as contributors. A lot of this is post-election house clearing (CNN has moved staff around, too) but it also suggests is blaming

Death of the Dinosaurs: New
Proof of Asteroid or Meteor Impact

ABC News, by Ned Potter Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/8/2013 4:35:50 AM Post Reply

Go digging with dinosaur hunters and they will show you that the last of the Cretaceous beasts died out suddenly, 66 million years ago. For 30 years the prevailing theory has been that T. rex and its brethren were wiped out by a comet or asteroid crashing in Central America, kicking up so much dust and ash that the Earth cooled for years afterward and made survival impossible. Or was it really that simple? Some scientists, digging into well-preserved layers of the earth, said the timing was off. Yes, there is a 110-mile-wide crater, called Chicxulub,

Lawmakers consider
regulating drone strikes

Associated Press, by Kimberly Dozier Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/8/2013 4:32:59 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- CIA Director-designate John Brennan´s vigorous defense of drone strikes to kill terror suspects - even American citizens - overseas is causing key lawmakers to consider lifting secrecy from what has become an important weapon in the fight against al-Qaida. Brennan, President Barack Obama´s top counterterror adviser, was grilled for more than three hours Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the drone program he leads, as well as on the CIA´s harsh interrogation techniques during the Bush administration, which he denounced, and on leaks of classified information to the media, which Brennan vehemently denied being a part of.

Victory for David Cameron as EU
budget faces cuts for first
time in history

Telegraph [UK], by Bruno Waterfield, James Kirkup Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/8/2013 4:25:54 AM Post Reply

Proposals tabled early on Friday morning for Brussels budgets for the period 2014 to 2020 would slash the EU´s spending by £30 billion between 2014 and 2020 compared to current levels of spending. The historic cuts package tabled by Herman Van Rompuy, the EU president, after a bitter battle between the Prime Minister and François Hollande, the French President, could save the British taxpayer up to £500 million a year. A "negotiating box" was tabled at 6.30am on Friday morning and the first ever deal that reduces EU expenditure was close to agreement after Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor

Iran´s top cleric rejects
direct talks with the US

New York Times, by Thomas Erdbrink Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/7/2013 11:05:26 PM Post Reply

Tehran. Iran´s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected any idea of bilateral talks with the United States on Thursday in a speech in which he scoffed at Iranian officials who might consider such negotiations. (Snip)The ayatollah´s objection is an edict to which other Iranian officials, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, must adhere, and it comes after several high-ranking Iranian officials, including Mr Ahmadinejad and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, had said the Obama administration had been taking positive steps toward Iran.

President Obama vows to
make Nancy Pelosi speaker
of the House again

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/7/2013 10:24:12 PM Post Reply

President Obama, speaking to House Democrats at a party retreat in Lansdowne, Va., on Thursday, told lawmakers that if they stick to their principles, “I expect Nancy Pelosi will be speaker again.” The president said immigration, gun control and the economy are his top priorities for the year, and he offered some oddly-worded praise for Mrs. Pelosi, the House minority leader. Mr. Obama opened his remarks by saying how much he loves Mrs. Pelosi and then immediately pivoted to talking about how she “generates” good-looking grandchildren.

Obama:‘I Often Search Scripture to
Figure Out How I Can Be a Better
Man as Well as Better President´

Cybercast News Service, by Melanie Hunter Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/7/2013 10:22:24 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Thursday said he often searches scripture “to figure out” how to be a better man and president. “Sometimes I search scripture to determine how best to balance life as a president and as a husband and as a father. I often search for scripture to figure out how I can be a better man as well as a better president,” Obama said. The president said he often searches “for the words to console the inconsolable.” “And most of all I know that all Americans,

Slaying suspect Dorner
lauds Piers Morgan;
CNN host blames
‘deranged criminality’

Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/7/2013 10:22:16 PM Post Reply

Gun-control advocate and CNN host Piers Morgan found himself in an uncomfortable situation Thursday after hearing rogue cop Chris Dorner, who allegedly killed a police officer and two others, was a big fan of his. “The LA cop-killer murder spree has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with deranged criminality. I hope they catch him asap,” Mr. Morgan tweeted a little over an hour ago. A bizarre manifesto by Mr. Dorner was first published by KTLA-TV, where he praised President Obama and his gun control efforts, along with media that touted those efforts, such as Mr. Morgan.

Why did Mr. Obama overrule
his advisers on Syria?

Washington Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/7/2013 10:20:09 PM Post Reply

WE NOW know that President Obama’s national security team overwhelmingly supported providing arms to the rebels in Syria. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a Senate committee that he and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, backed a plan that would have vetted, trained and armed selected opposition groups, which have been pleading for such U.S. support for more than a year. According to the New York Times, the strategy was developed by former CIA director David H. Petraeus and supported by former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Sen. Robert Menendez and the
mainstream media: Malfeasance?

Washington Post, by Erik Wemple Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/7/2013 10:18:13 PM Post Reply

Matthew Boyle is standing by his story. On Nov. 1, Boyle published a piece on the Daily Caller site titled “Women: Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex in the Dominican Republic [VIDEO]“. To sort of nail down the story, Boyle conducted an Internet-video interview with two Dominican women who attested to having been (under)paid to have sex with Menendez and to having been treated both affectionately and indifferently by him. The Daily Caller story introduced some terms now referenced frequently in hard-nosed coverage on the Democratic New Jersey senator. The romps

Mountain manhunt for ex-cop
accused of killing 3

Associated Press, by Tami Abdollah Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/7/2013 10:14:08 PM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES -- A fired police officer who threatened to bring "warfare" to the Los Angeles Police Department went on a shooting rampage that left a policeman and two others dead and set off an extraordinary manhunt Thursday that put Southern California on edge, led hair-trigger officers to mistakenly shoot at innocent citizens and forced police to guard their own. The search for Christopher Dorner had three states and Mexico on alert before shifting Thursday afternoon to the snowy mountains around Big Bear Lake

Obama hands off
on Benghazi action

Washington Times, by Guy Taylor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/7/2013 10:11:06 PM Post Reply

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Thursday revealed he personally broke the news to President Obama that the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, was under attack last year — but he and the president didn’t speak the rest of the night as the assault on the compound unfolded. Mr. Panetta said he and Mr. Obama, along with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, discussed the attack for 15 minutes in the Oval Office the afternoon of Sept. 11,

Call Obama’s sequester bluff

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/7/2013 10:09:41 PM Post Reply

For the first time since Election Day, President Obama is on the defensive. That’s because on March 1, automatic spending cuts (“sequestration”) go into effect — $1.2?trillion over 10 years, half from domestic (discretionary) programs, half from defense. The idea had been proposed and promoted by the White House during the July 2011 debt-ceiling negotiations. The political calculation was that such draconian defense cuts would drive the GOP to offer concessions. It backfired. The Republicans have offered no concessions. Obama’s bluff is being called and he’s the desperate party. He abhors the domestic cuts.

NYT Ignores Leftist Website
Connection to FRC Shooter,
Yet Suggested Palin Map
Inspired Jared Loughner to Kill

Newsbusters, by Clay Waters Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/7/2013 10:06:59 PM Post Reply

Floyd Corkins Jr. pleaded guilty on Wednesday to wounding a security guard at the Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group fighting against gay marriage, on August 15 last year. Corkins was carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches at the time – the restaurant chain noteworthy for its public, Christian-based opposition to gay marriage – and intended to rub the sandwiches in his victims´ faces. The New York Times made do with a brief from Reuters that did not mention a vital angle

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