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Gun ban would protect more
than 2,200 firearms

Associated Press, by Eileen Sullivan Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/17/2013 4:33:45 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- Congress´ latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle that is nearly identical to one of the guns One model of that firearm, the Ruger .223 caliber Mini-14, is on the proposed list to be banned, while a different model of the same gun is on a list of exempted firearms in legislation the Senate is considering. The gun that would be protected from the ban has fixed physical features and can´t be folded to be more compact. Yet the two firearms are equally deadly.

Report: Bill would set an
8-year path to residency

Associated Press, by Alicia A. Caldwell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 4:08:42 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today. President Barack Obama´s bill would create a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. The bill includes more security funding and requires business owners to adopt a system for verifying the immigration status of new hires within four years, the newspaper said.

Chicago teen killed hours
after her sister attended
Obama’s speech on violence

Chicago Sun-Times, by Becky Schlikerman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/17/2013 3:51:27 AM Post Reply

Hours after Janay Mcfarlane’s little sister sat just feet away as President Barack Obama spoke in Chicago Friday about the violence plaguing the nation, Mcfarlane was shot to death in North Chicago, her family and authorities said Saturday. “I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out,” said Mcfarlane’s mother, Angela Blakely. Mcfarlane, 18, was in North Chicago visiting friends and family. She was with a friend late Friday night when a bullet meant for a friend struck Mcfarlane, Blakely said. Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. in an alley in

Marco Rubio survives his water
bottle moment with style

The Guardian Observer [UK], by Paul Harris Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/17/2013 1:51:18 AM Post Reply

It could have been a career-ending moment. Given the task of delivering the official Republican response to Barack Obama´s state of the union speech last week, rising star Senator Marco Rubio made a catastrophic gaffe. Sweating under the lights in a television studio, the darling of the party right suddenly bent down and reached over awkwardly to grab a bottle of water and take a desperate swig. (Snip) But Rubio has now shown a canny political instinct in handling the crisis, which many observers believe might just have rescued his career and put his hopes of eventually mounting a

Seniors lean Republican, young people
more Democratic, right? Not so much

Guardian [UK], by Harry J Enten Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/17/2013 1:41:10 AM Post Reply

Republicans have a problem with young people 18-29. Democrats have a problem with seniors over 65. The story taken from this dichotomy is popular and simple enough: Republicans are the party of crusty old folks who are going to die, and Democrats are the party of the youth, who will lead a continued resurgence into office. I´m not so sure about this story; (snip) Indeed, if you came of age during the Franklin D Roosevelt administration, you are more Democratic than the nation as a whole. If you could first vote during the administrations of Ronald Reagan or George HW Bush,

Are you middle class?
Map reveals how you need to
take home $67k in Maryland
but just $39k in Mississippi

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 2/17/2013 12:57:03 AM Post Reply

Middle class in the U.S. can mean something very different depending on where you call your home state. Census bureau numbers show a shocking disparity in the definition of ´middle income´ - with Maryland boasting an average of $67,469 and Mississippi posting an appallingly low $39,078, a difference of $28,391. Debate over the definition of middle class comes after President Obama´s State of the Union address this week. He detailed his plan to get the middle class back on track, mentioning the term a total of 8 times in his speech on Tuesday. ´It is our generation´s task, then, to

After Obamacare health
exchange deadline passes,
26 states opt in with feds

Washington Times, by Tom Howell Jr. Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/17/2013 12:02:22 AM Post Reply

Twenty-six states have chosen to let the federal government run the online insurance markets required next year by President Obama’s health care law instead of taking on the job themselves or partnering with the feds. The Department of Health and Human Services had encouraged states to run their own markets, or “exchanges,” that help the uninsured find coverage, but only 17 states and the District of Columbia took on the task and seven states decided to split the duty with the Obama administration, according to a breakdown by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Fiscal trouble ahead
for most future retirees

Washington Post, by Michael A. Fletcher Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/17/2013 12:00:10 AM Post Reply

For the first time since the New Deal, a majority of Americans are headed toward a retirement in which they will be financially worse off than their parents, jeopardizing a long era of improved living standards for the nation’s elderly, according to a growing consensus of new research. The Great Recession and the weak recovery darkened the retirement picture for significant numbers of Americans. And the full extent of the damage is only now being grasped by experts and policymakers. There was already mounting concern for the long-term security of the country’s rapidly graying population. Then the downturn destroyed

Pope Benedict XVI’s leaked
documents show fractured
Vatican full of rivalries

Washington Post, by Jason Horowitz, Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 11:36:42 PM Post Reply

Vatican City — Guests at the going-away party for Carlo Maria Viganò couldn’t understand why the archbishop looked so forlorn. Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Viganò ambassador to the United States, a plum post where he would settle into a stately mansion on Massachusetts Avenue, across the street from the vice president’s residence. “He went through the ordeal making it very clear he was unhappy with it,” said one former ambassador to the Vatican, who attended the Vatican Gardens ceremony in the late summer of 2011. “And we just couldn’t figure out, us outsiders and non-Italians,

NYT Goes Birther: Attacks
´Canadian-Born´ Cruz,
Calls Him ´McCarthyite´

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Tony Lee and Stephen K. Bannon Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 11:02:49 PM Post Reply

Liberals, the mainstream media, and establishment Republicans often reveal which conservatives they fear by their level of disdain and vitriol. This week, they put their crosshairs on freshman Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a Tea Party conservative of Hispanic descent who undermines the mainstream media´s ability to advance their false notion that being a minority and Tea Partier are mutually exclusive. He is a conservative who showed no desire to defer to the Senate´s "courtly" ways, the preferences of the institution´s old bulls. The sinking ship that is the New York Times,

Photos: Roman Abramovich´s
yacht docks on Manhattan´s
West Side; gawkers being kept away

New York Post, by Kevin Fasick Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 10:57:31 PM Post Reply

The world’s largest yacht is in town, and its owner would like some privacy. The $1.5 billion floating palace of Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich is nestled amid the West Side docks — but no one is saying why it’s here. The 533-foot yacht, which might look more at home on the French Riviera, sailed slowly up the Hudson Wednesday past stunned sightseers. The publicity-shy and security-conscious Abramovich isn’t disclosing why the ship chose to berth in New York, but it’s believed it will be here until mid-April.

´Times,´ ´WaPo´ Launch
Racially-Coded Attack
Against Ted Cruz

Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 2/16/2013 10:50:44 PM Post Reply

Apparently, the "Washington Post" and "New York Times" don´t like the idea of a non-white U.S. Senator acting all uppity. It´s fine for the lily-white Elizabeth Warren to immediately come out guns blazing, but over the past couple of days both news outlets ripped into in Texas Senator Ted Cruz for not knowing his place. As we all know, the base of the Democratic Party is made up of union workers, who see Hispanics as a threat to their jobs, and rich, white, coastal liberals whose only contact with the Latino community is on grass-mowing day. And so

Brothers celebrate lottery
win by blowing up house

Wichita Eagle [KS], by Denise Neil Original Article

Posted By: pearlyjo- 2/16/2013 10:50:22 PM Post Reply

Two brothers who were celebrating a $75,000 winning lottery ticket by purchasing marijuana and meth accidentally blew up their house on Friday, said Sgt. Bruce Watts of the Wichita Police Department. The explosion sent one of the brothers – a 27-year-old – to the hospital, where he remains in serious but stable condition with second-degree burns on his hands, arms and chest. The other brother was sent to jail, Watts said. The brothers were in a house in the 100 block of North Nevada Court, near Douglas and West Street, about 7 p.m. Friday, Watts said. One of the brothers went to the kitchen

After 15 years in solitary,
convicted terrorist pleads
for contact with others

Los Angeles Times, by Richard A. Serrano Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 10:23:47 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Ramzi Yousef, inmate No. 03911 at a federal "supermax" penitentiary, is serving life with no parole plus 240 years in a 7-by-11-foot cell with no bars and one small high window, far from other inmates, prison staff and the world beyond the fortress deep in the Colorado Rockies. He has been there for 15 years, in nearly 24-hour solitary confinement at the prison they call the "Fortress in the Rockies." Even his meals provide little relief, with the food trays shoved by unseen guards through a sally port between two steel doors.

Popular D.C. Burger Joint
Forced to Shut Down

CBS [Washington DC], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 9:34:39 PM Post Reply

ARLINGTON, Va.— One of the D.C. area’s iconic burger joints is no more. Ray’s Hell-Burger, where the likes of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and the Russian president have gone for a juicy burger, has been shut down after failing to pay its rent. Arlington County General District Court on Feb. 8 served an eviction notice to the restaurant, located in the Colonial Village Shopping Center along Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, for unpaid rent and ordered owner Michael Landrum to pay more than $39,000 in overdue rent and damages.

State of the Union speech:
The president’s annual letter to Santa

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 2/16/2013 9:08:36 PM Post Reply

Once upon a time, a State of the Union speech occasionally produced something memorable. James Monroe, in his seventh try, came up with the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, which would be the cornerstone of American foreign policy for decades. Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the Four Freedoms in 1941, arguing that people “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Four years later, he proposed a second bill of rights, arguing that the first attempt neglected a government guarantee of equality in “the pursuit of

Fastest drive across
Africa set by Fiat Panda

ANSA [Italy], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 8:16:44 PM Post Reply

Rome - The Guinness World Book of Records added a 2012 Fiat Panda to its pages this week after it clocked the fastest overland trip from Cape Town to London ever recorded. Driven by British endurance racers Philip Young and Paul Brace, the Italian minicar covered the 10,000-mile transcontinental haul in 10 days, 13 hours and 30 minutes, a full day ahead of the previous record set in 2010 by a team driving a Land Rover. Drivers said the Panda´s light weight and fuel-efficient engine gave it an edge over the trucks and SUVs favored by most trans-African racers.

White House immigration
bill offers path to residency

USA Today, by Alan Gomez Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 7:30:28 PM Post Reply

Washington - A draft of a White House immigration proposal obtained by USA Today would allow illegal immigrants to become legal permanent residents within eight years. The plan also would provide for more security funding and require business owners to check the immigration status of new hires within four years. In addition, the nation´s 11 million illegal immigrants could apply for a newly created "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa, under the bill being written by the White House. The draft was obtained from an Obama administration official who said it was being distributed to various

Scientists unveil new detectors in
race to save Earth from next asteroid

Guardian [UK], by Robin McKie Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 7:12:08 PM Post Reply

Boston - The extraterrestrial double whammy that Earth only partially avoided on Friday has triggered an immediate response from astronomers. Several have announced plans to create state-of-the-art detection systems to give warning of incoming asteroids and meteoroids. These include projects backed by Nasa as well as proposals put forward by private space contractors. (Snip) Deep Space Industries – which is based in McLean, Virginia – proposes building 10 spacecraft at a cost of $100m (£65m) over the next four years, though it has not indicated who will fund missions.

President Obama visits Treasure
Coast: What would a weekend
trip to the Floridian cost?

WPTV-TV [West Palm Beach, FL], by Melissa E. Holsman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 7:05:19 PM Post Reply

PALM CITY, FL — So how much would it cost to pop into Palm City from Washington DC for a weekend of golf at the posh Floridian, such as the three-day getaway President Barack Obama has on tap this weekend? Try around $8,000, including costs for airfare, a chartered helicopter, Floridian guest quarters, golf fees, meals and caddie tips. And that´s if you´re a guest of the ritzy waterfront golf community, founded in 1996 by H. Wayne Huizenga and purchased in 2010 by Houston Astros owner Jim Crane, who is hosting Obama´s visit. If you´re a Floridian member,

Osborne and Obama
have got it wrong

Telegraph [UK], by Janest Daley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/16/2013 5:48:59 PM Post Reply

Is there anybody in charge on either side of the Atlantic who has the remotest understanding of what is happening with the economy? Or even a glimmering of what would be required to bring about its recovery? If there is, then it is the best kept secret in public life. Judging by the pronouncements and policy decisions of a Left-of-centre administration in Washington and a Right-of-centre government here, this total absence of comprehension seems to be common to those of all political persuasions in positions of power: it is the universal blind spot of the governing class. The ability

If the leader of the free
world can lie with such
impunity we are doomed

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/16/2013 5:45:06 PM Post Reply

Earlier this week in his State of the Union address President Obama made some observations on climate change so brimming with falsehoods I´m surprised his nose didn´t fall off.[Snip]The point is that the President of the USA has access to any number of fact checkers and advisers and if he stands up and addresses the nation with a farrago of complete untruths then the buck stops with him. This dissembling and mendacity becomes all the more culpable when it forms the basis of major public policy decisions which will have a serious impact on people´s lives in the US and

Charter school´s success
boosts city neighborhoods

St. Louis Post-Dispatch [MO], by Elisa Crouch Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/16/2013 4:45:31 PM Post Reply

In a rare turnabout, Rodney and Leah Gunning Francis fled the suburbs for the city. And they did it for a school. They left Webster Groves in 2011 so their two young boys could get into City Garden Montessori, a charter school in the Botanical Heights neighborhood — an area once known for drug sales and murders, not stellar education. “We got a lot of, ‘Why would you want to do that? Why are you going? What about the boys?’” said Rodney Francis, who leads a social service agency near downtown. Others are making the move with them. And their migration is seen by city leaders as promising evidence

Massachusetts will lose 60,000
jobs if Congress enacts
sequestration, report says

Boston Globe, by Tracy Jan and Bryan Bender Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 2/16/2013 4:41:59 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts will lose more than 60,000 jobs, much of it in the defense industry, and $127 million in federal research funding, harming a critical sector of the state economy, if Congress allows across-the-board spending cuts to go into effect in March, according to a report released Friday by Representative Edward Markey of Malden. The automatic cuts, known in Beltway parlance as “sequestration,” were scheduled to take place in January under a 2011 budget deal to raise the nation’s debt limit, but the crisis was temporarily averted when Congress struck a last-minute

Watch : Canadian Parliament
Debates Zombie Invasion

Time Magazine, by Erica Ho Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 2/16/2013 4:38:17 PM Post Reply

If the zombies ever do rise up in the U.S., Canada will be prepared. On Thursday in the House of Commons, Canadian politicians debated the prospect of a zombie invasion and demanded to know what the government was prepared to do in case a (typically) American epidemic began to spread northwards. Winnipeg representative Pat Martin asked Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird if he was coordinating with the United States to prepare for an eventual zombie apocalypse. It wasn’t an entirely serious discussion, of course; as the Washington Post put it, the back-and-forth was a “playful jab”

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