Lucianne.com News Forum - HomePage - RSS (http://www.lucianne.com/) http://www.lucianne.com/rssfeed/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:18:01 GMT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:18:01 GMT Lucianne.com Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:24 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521672 D8893713E33123D3F9C37D1B7412B030E6979CECF71CBCB88EB07CEAB69A8FD2 Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Posted By: deepdish- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:24 GMT The administration asked for public comments on a plan to expand offshore drilling. When they came in 2'to'1 in favor, the Interior Department sat on the news. Time for a "Texas tea" party? (snip) An e'mail dated Oct. 27, 2009 from MMS Director Liz Birnbaum to other senior MMS and DOI officials, including Salazar's chief of staff, confirmed the result and discussed ways of hiding it from the American people. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:13:12 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521671 BA1106CB6BC1FF23944479F9AA37CD5FDE5085BDA0D9341F9752E81C26B89BFE Washington Times, by Frank J. Gaffney Jr. Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:13:12 GMT Does this sound familiar? President Obama decides to overturn some element of our national security. The decision is taken without regard for evidence that the consequences could be dire, on the grounds that the president believes "our values" necessitate a change. Only after the presidentially directed change in course is announced is a study launched to figure out how to implement it. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:10:13 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521670 3F5F4110554D6F5F35DC6AB81214CD6379A6A7A6B6A60E44556DFC4D2912B70C Newsbusters, by Jeff Poor Posted By: Rufus2007- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:10:13 GMT With Washington, D.C. buried beneath at least 20 inches of snow, and with more in the forecast, common sense would suggest global warming alarmists look elsewhere to make the argument to raise awareness for their concerns. But no, Dylan Ratigan thinks it's ridiculous to suggest all the snowfall totals could cast doubt on the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:08:28 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521669 0213810BE02BE8677B1F7A40A18005EF18B74A5484963F9E916C5AA483457209 National Review Online, by Daniel Foster Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:08:28 GMT Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.) will back Senate Republicans' filibuster of President Obama's nominee to the National Labor Relations Board, Craig Becker: The move is likely to infuriate labor groups who have fought hard for Craig Becker's nomination to serve on the five'member NLRB ' and will likely give Republicans enough support to sustain a filibuster Tuesday. “Mr. Becker’s previous statements strongly indicate that he would take an aggressive personal agenda to the NLRB, Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:04:21 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521668 70C55CCF13914154E331FBB96CA5ECFF82FDE291EEA58F1BC2C459638684D7F3 ABC News, by Sunlen Miller Posted By: GaGardener- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:04:21 GMT In the Oval Office this morning, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum in conjunction with his wife’s launch of a nationwide campaign to tackle childhood obesity, what he called the “most urgent” health issue facing the country. (Snip) The memorandum creates a 90'day plan creating a task'force to provide “optimal coordination” between private sector companies, not'for'profits, agencies within the government and other Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:02:48 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521667 9609B47AE5C7061449B7E4A667AEF4F9EB4794C7E43EF04B8C6E57A55823B213 Big Government, by Andrew Marcus Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:02:48 GMT Below is the entirety of Andrew Breitbart’s remarks during his Keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville last weekend. During Breitbart’s 33 minute long address, he threatens to upend the entire media establishment, calling them out on their hypocrisy while demanding they change their ways, or else. The entire speech is available in this post and is broken down into four parts, but if you would like to view Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:00:17 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521666 695FF7539C2594AFC24DE9B77C162A01785A5620CD61503B8C524DEE50001229 Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:00:17 GMT Taking America back from the Marxist jaws of Barack Obama starts with your own children in the privacy of your own home. Obama’s Marxist agenda for the USA did not start on Nov. 4, 2008. It started long before when he and his domestic terrorist pal Bill Ayers were force'feeding a radical agenda through the public school system. Had the cunning Marxist Obama and Ayers ever told an assembly of adults that America was no Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:57:30 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521665 5656373129791F91B40B0AB13EE4C14BA5826F8B8270A236EE85E4E3231D7AB5 Canada Free Press, by Jerry McConnell Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:57:30 GMT What is the matter with that man in our White House? Will he ever stop trying to spend every nickel and dime that Americans have, including our savings that we worked hard for to ease our retirement years? He acts like a poor kid that suddenly comes into some money and it is burning a hole in his pocket to get spent. It is an infatuation and an obsession that the money has got to be disposed of regardless of how infantile or worthless Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:54:55 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521664 AE31328063280A28D25A40B5DE21F7A5582EF31614DCFB45103DD238AD8FD679 Big Journalism, by James Hudnall Posted By: KarenJ1- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:54:55 GMT Imagine if you could get full salary and benefits for a decent paying job and you didn’t have to work to get it. All you had to do was be accused of a crime. What crime, you ask? How about molesting school kids? That’s what the teachers‘ unions in states like California and New York State are doing: coddling accused criminals — at your expense. And it’s probably going on elsewhere as well. Believe it or not, New York is a lot tougher on them Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:51:21 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521663 3DA9840B9110708D65D253E7E37C46B4039E4B12FF4A2B6B3561B8E8DCB7D7EA Arizona Republic [Phoenix, AZ], by Shaun MacKinnon Posted By: fiesta del sol- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:51:21 GMT Researchers at Northern Arizona University think they may have found an environmentally safe and readily available weapon against the tree'eating armies of bark beetles. (Snip)NAU's School of Forestry was on the hunt for ways to fight the marauding bugs, which have chewed through millions of acres of the West's pine forests, leaving behind dead trees and the risk of wildfires. A research assistant suggested using sounds to aggravate the Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:48:34 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521662 D605D7BFA068CDA747C982F7FD50DC0526F40D3680DB3D6C906D0DE07E2B3EB3 Associated Press, by Jocelyn Noveck Posted By: JoniTx- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:48:34 GMT NEW YORK — So you're a guy? Poor you!You get slapped on your bottom at birth, then spend the rest of your life being shoved around by wives and girlfriends who make you mow the lawn, listen to their friends, return their phone calls, eat fruit at breakfast, shop for lingerie instead of watching the game, put your underwear in the basket and put the toilet seat down. Such was the state of affairs between Mars and Venus depicted in Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:45:09 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521661 043C64B9C34F849C217621F1861B66DFC5AC652F7DF9A5D39F0F454D1A46FB6E FrontPage Magazine, by Jamie Glazov Posted By: MichaelvdGalien- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:45:09 GMT Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. (Snip) These are the type of people CAIR supports and even our government supports. The IRS grants CAIR and other such organizations non'profit organizational status and tax free benefits, while you and I are forced to pay taxes to support the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. Something doesn’t seem right and Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:34:43 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521660 B4A8478FEE78C2B7927A27456A609ACAE7E2237CE5BA4EF91781320AA7535344 ABC News, by Teddy Davis Posted By: JoniTx- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:34:43 GMT Rep. Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican who has recently been under attack by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and lavished with praise by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), is ruling out a 2012 run for president. "I'll give you as Shermanesque a quote as I can," said Ryan. "I am not going to run for president. I'm just not going to do it. My head's not that big, and my kids are too small.” Ryan, who made his comments on Sunday to “Upfront Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:31:34 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521659 B1B277AD030D6C733AA08322556DC7EB2A547A9F43F1F56A69233F12A16E8ADC Washington Post, by Linda Villarosa Posted By: GaGardener- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:31:34 GMT Last month, Michelle Obama announced that she hopes to make a deep and lasting policy impact by spearheading an initiative to reduce childhood obesity. (Snip) If she’s smart, which she is, what Mrs. Obama won’t do is heap all the blame on you for the extra weight you’re carrying. And she also won’t place 100 percent of the responsibility for losing it squarely on your shoulders—beefy as they seem to have become. Anyone who’s Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:29:35 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521658 980AE631AED3FBA0ADAB7E9C461FDFB21C1DD5F41927813EA277581D8E09EEE6 Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Posted By: PageTurner- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:29:35 GMT Socialism: The lights are flickering in oil'rich Venezuela, a victim of the same shortages that appear wherever socialism is tried. With the grid verging on collapse, the final irony is to see Hugo Chavez calling Cuba to fix it. Most leaders serious about fixing a collapsing power grid call up companies like Bechtel or APR Energy because they're capable of swiftly setting up small power plants in emergencies, even in infrastructure wastelands such Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:28:05 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521657 3E6F739E6784E4F188D3103D037A3AE37E617A4B3721F90B066529EA21044463 Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Posted By: PageTurner- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:28:05 GMT Iran: Incredibly, the Bush national security team's sole holdover has announced Peace in Our Time as the only hope against a nuclear Tehran. There is no defense for Secretary Robert Gates. Appearing in Paris with the French defense minister on Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates made an announcement to the world that will astonish our friends and embolden our enemies. "We must still try and find a peaceful way to resolve Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:26:04 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521656 01AE448B04AB87FD04D67ED91C9221F7C783288D1C6862D8997D3F6A3A556B1C Associated Press, by Bashir Adigaun Posted By: BuckeyeRon- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:26:04 GMT ABUJA, Nigeria ' Parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday to take over for the ill president of oil'rich Nigeria, whose absence has stoked unrest in Africa's most populous country. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed measures calling on Jonathan to act as president and commander in chief until President Umaru Yar'Adua returns from Saudi Arabia, where he has been receiving medical Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:21:33 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521655 06977CA1BA04F992F9435193046482087F62FBD217F0B47920EAD42434F6FBF2 NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Posted By: JoniTx- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:21:33 GMT The media's hate parade against the former governor of Alaska hit a disgraceful peak Monday night when comedian Stephen Colbert said on national television, "Sarah Palin is a f**king retard." In a five minute segment bashing the former vice presidential candidate for her remarks at Saturday's National Tea Party convention, as well as her use of crib notes '' surprise! '' the Comedy Central star ended with the controversy surrounding White Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:14:27 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521654 EED86D3F59862545BD0AE72EC6E6D12822019FEAB515EBC5CEDE453436D721F8 Investor's Business Daily, by Ed Carson Posted By: slyscribe- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:14:27 GMT Voters are souring on the economy and the government’s remedies, according to February's IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index. It fell 4.1% to 46.8, matching December’s level and the weakest since July. “Persisting high unemployment and a wobbly stock market dampened January’s optimism,” said Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP, IBD’s polling partner. Readings below 50 signal pessimism. Confidence in federal Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:10:28 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521653 C1023983F1A092250835C74DF7049D9D8DA9D7B5E587723347FA1DB7545AFEFE Boston Herald, by Gayle Fee & Laura Raposa Posted By: JoniTx- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:10:28 GMT Rehearsals begin next week on the Improv Asylum’s musical spoof “You’re a Good Man, Scott Brown,” a send'up of the historical senatorial election and the political madhouse that ensued.“We will follow our hero’s path from obscurity to winning the election, but the goal is to poke fun at everybody,” head inmate Norm Laviolette told the Track. “There’s more than enough material to go around.” Besides Brown, the Asylum will poke fun at Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:57:56 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521651 BFED5351AFB3BDE59923855589CC257E24B4C04BF4E81EA75EF5580575995014 Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell, MT], by Melissa Weaver Posted By: cactus- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:57:56 GMT A Bigfork bartender found an unlikely cure for winter blues in a famous blue can. Spam'O'Rama, an irreverent homage to the canned meat, celebrated its eighth year at Bigfork’s Garden Bar on Saturday afternoon. “I love Spam. It’s a beautiful meat product,” said Mark “Mister” Langlois, the bar’s owner and a lifelong devotee to the mystery meat. Spam'O'Rama entrants competed for prizes in carving and cooking categories. About fifty Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:55:08 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521650 A5539F559D595256E97524FBA502812B4ABA468B99CBB3B447B08A5AA140CF5B Boston Herald, by Hillary Chabot Posted By: GaGardener- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:55:08 GMT U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is expected to take his first high'stakes vote today, weighing in on President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board pick in what could be a litmus test for his independent streak. “This vote could identify early on what kind of a senator he’s likely to be and what it means to be a Scott Brown Republican,” said Bruce Schulman, political science professor at Boston University. Brown, who drove his trademark GMC truck to Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:27:34 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521649 EAC7E894942431185F30A700C23F36C43932A21B4658D62602918E6ECDCEFFE0 McClatchy Newspapers, by Renee Schoof Posted By: SpinMaster- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:27:34 GMT WASHINGTON ' Despite the Obama administration's efforts to create jobs making wind turbines in America, some companies say that sluggish demand for wind energy is holding them back. The U.S. installed more wind power last year — 9,900 megawatts, or enough to power 2.4 million homes — than in any other year. The growth in wind'farm installations in the U.S. was a product of federal stimulus spending. Nonetheless, wind' Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:11:56 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=521648 1FEBDEEAC118B64B585B6CC1BDB8C43AF508193A0515DED3C1CFE971C44B43F3 Financial Times [UK], by Edward Luce Posted By: Aud- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:11:56 GMT Washington ' Sarah Palin, the former US presidential running'mate, on Sunday hinted strongly she was preparing a 2012 presidential bid and suggested that Barack Obama needed to take radical steps, such as going to war with Iran, to boost his chance of winning a re'election. Ms Palin’s comments to Fox News Sunday followed a provocative speech on Saturday to the Tea Party Convention in Nashville. Amid chants of “Run,