Lucianne.com News Forum - HomePage - RSS (http://www.lucianne.com/) http://www.lucianne.com/rssfeed/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:02 GMT Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:02 GMT Lucianne.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:18:04 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527582 4EC6EFA677D110052C5CD246E7F0A61ABE17C715E15A976B8A58D76630003A7A New York Post, by Emily Friedlander Posted By: MissMolly- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:18:04 GMT News that the estate of real'estate baroness Leona Helmsley signed a $170 million deal to sell one of its trophy properties–the Helmsley Carlton House on Manhattan’s East Side Tuesday raises many interesting issues about the commercial real estate market, the Wall Street Journal's Developments blog reported Tuesday. Perhaps the most pressing question: What happened to that dog? The canine in question is Trouble Helmsley, the beloved Maltese poodle left behind by the late Leona Helmsley who died in 2007. Trouble initially inherited a $12 million trust fund, which was later reduced to $2 million by a Manhattan judge in 2008, Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:15:25 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527581 132CBD2EC169208F6F88D89AD288006DC8E1B78ABEAEC36DB800241F2A3DD2A5 New York Daily News, by S.E. Cupp Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:15:25 GMT As I approach my 10'year college reunion, it's clear that I missed a few classes that would have proved helpful. Those classes include "Leadership and Ethics" and "Ethical Theory," offered by the Program on Ethics and Public Life at my alma mater, Cornell University. See, I'm certain that at some point those classes would have covered the issue I've been grappling with recently, in which case I'd be able to tell you what Plato and Aristotle said about it. Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas, too. I bet you Hobbes and Locke have really super advice on this one. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:12:44 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527580 450725AE1F15A298438800F0FE6FBC535D8BDBF6A2711EA28B5A7EAACA8CF22C Politics Daily, by Patricia Murphy Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:12:44 GMT Former Rep. Eric Massa appeared for the full hour on Glenn Beck's Fox News program Tuesday afternoon, denying he groped anyone, but taking "full and complete responsibility for my misbehavior." Beck promised to give the former Democratic New York congressman a fair hearing and told his viewers he'd press Massa to shed light on a frequent Beck target '' alleged corruption in the capital. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:09:21 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527579 8CD31FC5001C20D99828932F5C8B7D69CF033A70BA104830EBD178864A0AC713 Washington Examiner [DC], by Noemie Emery Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:09:21 GMT Denial is a river that runs through the White House, where the denizens are in the grip of two major delusions: One, that the country really wants really expensive big government, and two, that Obama is "sort of like God." Since early last spring, they've been waging a fight with the reality principle, convincing themselves (and fewer and fewer in the larger political universe) that in the very next speech, Obama will recapture that old campaign magic. If people don't like what they're doing, the way to regain Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:06:08 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527578 3EFB89E23D5724797DC8CBC0E3209C3A7056518205DF20275D6FB93D01619250 Wall Street Journal, by Scott Rasmussen & Doug Schoen Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:06:08 GMT One of the more amazing aspects of the health'care debate is how steady public opinion has remained. Despite repeated and intense sales efforts by the president and his allies in Congress, most Americans consistently oppose the plan that has become the centerpiece of this legislative season. In 15 consecutive Rasmussen Reports polls conducted over the past four months, the percentage of Americans that oppose the plan has stayed between 52% and 58%. The number in favor has held steady between 38% and 44%. The dynamics of the numbers have remained constant as well. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:59:53 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527577 002BF3574F0AF5FB12B253F5D8F3BD657167B08C095015D68B9973C2CA88D834 The Hill [Washington, DC], by Emily Heil & Elizabeth Brotherton Posted By: MissMolly- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:59:53 GMT No one expects her wedding to wind up at the center of a Congressional ethics investigation. But a staffer for then'Rep. Eric Massa got a wedding gift even worse than yet another toaster oven when an incident at her New Year’s Eve nuptials wound up as part of a probe into her boss’s alleged bad behavior. The celebration of the marriage of then'Massa aide Kate Krems and Washington native Rick Lourenco is lovingly described on the Web site beantownbride.com, and it appears the Dec. 31 event is the very one at which Massa admitted to some down and dirty language. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:57:06 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527576 E9D3B6A8CDC820ACB7F71258AB43EF5DB89C28C209DD6031016E263F1CB5BEFB McClatchy Newspapers, by Margaret Talev & David Lightman Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:57:06 GMT WASHINGTON — Thousands of liberal public'option backers and conservative tea partiers launched last'chance campaigns Tuesday in the nation's capital to persuade Congress to pass — or reject — sweeping health care legislation. Democratic congressional leaders conceded that they may not have the votes for final passage of the overhaul by March 26, when Congress is to break for spring recess. They're trying to convince party moderates and abortion foes to go along. President Barack Obama wants final votes even earlier, before his March 18 departure on an overseas trip. That appears unlikely. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:54:48 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527575 72546BAECB8BC6127423E53F7C6A0E22C0C6D50A32F1E6767AD40BC3361434BD Fox News, by Ken Hoagland Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:54:48 GMT There is widespread understanding that the American people cannot win back control of their government until the federal tax system is either repaired or ripped out by the roots and replaced. For many Americans the distance between what they believe is best for the nation and what government actually does has become an infuriating chasm that was never meant to exist in a representative government designed to reflect the will of the majority. No other single public policy so reinforces a perception of self'dealing, unfairness and incompetence as the corrupted federal tax code. Bloated beyond decipherability Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:54:20 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527574 670D052693E2219932135ACB2F72925CAAB3D28F2B67550CF8CEC92411AF25A6 FrontPage Magazine, by Jamie Glazov Posted By: MichaelvdGalien- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:54:20 GMT Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of DG Counter'terrorism Publishing. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter'terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He is the co'author (with Paul Sperry) of the new book, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America. He can be contacted at davegaubatz@gmail.com and his site is MuslimMafiaInternational.com. FP: Dave Gaubatz, welcome back to Frontpage Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:53:38 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527573 22271D170A2617D97F4ECF8209F9A2C4E2784F4230DE5A042AB45FFD9664B757 FrontPage Magazine, by Humberto Fontova Posted By: MichaelvdGalien- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:53:38 GMT “My nation is hardly perfect in human rights. A very large number of our citizens are incarcerated in prison, and there is little doubt that the death penalty is imposed most harshly on those who are poor, black, or mentally ill. For more than a quarter century, we have struggled unsuccessfully to guarantee the basic right of universal health care for our people. …but Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education.” Thus did Jimmy Carter, in a May 2002 speech at the University of Havana Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:50:40 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527572 7FFD9930CCDEE0904DD9AEFCA968D6A1A2D1724F527F161C89AE1BC0BD185887 Chicago Tribune, by John Kass Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:50:40 GMT A naked, wet and angry Rahm Emanuel? That's the last image Americans need in our minds right now. But it's been seared onto our brains — just like that weird wrestling scene from the movie "Borat" — thanks to former U.S. Rep. Eric Massa, D'N.Y., who resigned the other day amid allegations he sexually harassed male staffers. "Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel," Massa said on a recent radio program, talking about taking a shower in the Congressional Gym. "I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird, Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:44:06 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527571 68FCCD5936FB7422DA819524A64719E5E79E2B93AEA68406D15239E01F7F2E2E The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ian Swanson Posted By: Pluperfect- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:44:06 GMT The U.S. Census Bureau expects to add up to 750,000 workers to its payroll by May, a hiring binge that could knock the unemployment rate down by as much as a half'point. The once'a'decade census is coming at the best possible time for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, who have taken political lumps for more than a year over a jobless rate that stands at 9.7 percent. Some think the administration will get good news as soon as the next monthly labor report, which will be released the first Friday in April. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:43:26 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527570 733F3BBC9CE2F4FDCEA6E5A3E662F4F1F5F5368B2058C53868BBDB5F66A9E2AA American Thinker, by Daniel H. Fernald Posted By: Patriot and a Lady2- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:43:26 GMT Man'made global warming (AGW) is and always has been a complete and utter fraud, but the battle is far from over. There remains, however, the question of origins. Or, as David Byrne might put it, "Where?! How...did...I...get...here?!" Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:40:11 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527569 A1DB4A2A1257395CEE97364823B2FF3700A0AD020789B97ED5B094CAA0BFB4B7 Power Line, by John Hinderaker Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:40:11 GMT Matt Drudge is trumpeting the fact that Senate staffers have been warned to stay away from the Drudge Report on the theory that it may be spreading computer viruses. (If the old rules apply, that is libel per se, isn't it?) What I thought was even more entertaining was the Drudge Report's traffic totals: The [Drudge Report] was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [There were] 10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov," the Drudge Report wrote. These numbers appeared on March 8; do the math: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:32:05 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527568 0F5573C450E46103A3A6B30D558422B1408D98C3DB203747F2C8D2B6A13B3582 ABC News, by Jake Tapper Posted By: StormCnter- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:32:05 GMT Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Tuesday criticized President Obama for rebuking the high court's decision striking down some campaign finance reform laws at the State of the Union in January. Speaking to law students at the University of Alabama, Roberts said he had "no problems" with criticism in general. "On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum," said the Chief Justice. "The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court — according the requirements of protocol — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:22:19 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527567 491BEBD14F1A7EDD99EBA10675650050EC39F478F07ACEA57F74771A94FD8125 Reuters, by Jeff Mason & Richard Cowan Posted By: Pluperfect- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:22:19 GMT WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy. Obama called the meeting at the White House with influential senators and members of his cabinet to reinvigorate one of his top domestic and foreign policy priorities, which advisers admit has suffered from the president's focus on healthcare reform. The House of Representatives passed a bill that would require the United States to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:17:19 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527566 8A09750A3E7CF827BD843DC89FAB688A020ECEB2BB503283AA06B4313262BBB4 Associated Press, by Mike Baker Posted By: Pluperfect- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:17:19 GMT PITTSBORO, N.C. – A former aide to John Edwards has been given until Friday to provide a judge with a full explanation of how he handled materials including a videotape purportedly showing the two'time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter. Andrew Young narrowly escaped jail time at a hearing Tuesday in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones, who on two occasions declared that Young would be incarcerated for contempt. But Young's attorneys eventually convinced Jones to give them a few more days to provide a full accounting Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:12:21 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527565 C0D43C0E3D221BFE901862005E4E9D5B61C72116F51C309B6914697F6413877C Associated Press, by Eileen Sullivan Posted By: Pluperfect- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:12:21 GMT WASHINGTON – It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is forbidden to board an airplane — a decision that's in the hands of about six experts from the Transportation Security Administration. The no'fly list they oversee constantly changes as hundreds of analysts churn through a steady stream of intelligence. Managing the list is a high'stakes process. Go too far in one direction and innocent travelers are inconvenienced. Go in the other direction and a terrorist might slip onto an airplane. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:10:16 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527564 3CB58A387954104AF5194E9FB856A71E5C0578A3B6369682EAC42839F7646F41 Associated Press, by Mary Claire Dale Posted By: Pluperfect- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:10:16 GMT PHILADELPHIA – An indictment against a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists, authorities say, and shows the evolution of the threat of terrorism. Colleen R. LaRose agreed to murder the artist, marry a terrorism suspect so he could move to Europe and martyr herself if necessary, the indictment filed Tuesday said. LaRose, who called herself JihadJane online, Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:07:39 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527563 029DDA9474DA0A2F8869EF02EBB00872A989DB0E289C2DF7BA0044B919390CD4 Asspcoated Press, by Erica Werner Posted By: Pluperfect- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:07:39 GMT WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti'fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast. Obama is to speak Wednesday at St. Charles High School, his second health care address in three days. His speech comes as congressional Democrats stand on the brink of delivering the president a dramatic success with passage of his sweeping overhaul legislation — or a colossal failure if they can't get it done. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:01:04 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527562 D3A5D7F1E3AF3F5E5D624D9413B0D051E85B8E0EC5206A9981709E4EC51066AC Associated Press, by Fabiola Sanchez Posted By: PageTurner- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:01:04 GMT CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's government seized control of two sugar mills Tuesday and threatened to expropriate them, accusing managers of hoarding a basic good and violating the labor rights of employees. Commerce Minister Richard Canan said authorities were taking over management of the Santa Elena and Santa Clara mills in the central state of Portuguesa for 90 days "to guarantee the operations of the mills, so our people don't go without sugar." Canan said inspectors found several tons of sugar in warehouses that "should be in distribution centers." Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:53:33 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527561 B61830C9B795C1C4835D5D28B23FD2C9D625B9D1F8DD3B0F2B9959BD78633C0B El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff Posted By: PageTurner- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:53:33 GMT Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world located in southern Venezuela has shed up to a third of its volume of water and is nowadays a "thread of water" due to a protracted, strong drought. Victim of the "El Niño" phenomenon, the nominee for one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, has lost over the past few months its majestic appearance and become a "small stream." "There is no water. It is like in the middle of the wall at your place you had a thread, the same one you would use to sew clothes. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:44 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527560 FE7A3B0691B063FB5A60188ADEC795489F21C996EFE5B7455A27A7F0B8C0C0AC Los Angeles Times, by Howard Blume Posted By: PageTurner- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:44 GMT The federal government has singled out the Los Angeles Unified School District for its first major investigation under a reinvigorated Office for Civil Rights, officials said Tuesday. The focus of the probe, by an arm of the U.S. Department of Education, will be whether the nation's second'largest district provides adequate services to students learning English. Officials turned their attention to L.A. Unified because so many English learners fare poorly and because they make up about a third of district enrollment, more than 220,000 students. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:21:29 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527559 549F2F763B9AD09D80EFEF47A6F15D4D41CCC54ED893390F2BA3D0857C8A6D74 Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Blankstein and Robert J. Lopez Posted By: PageTurner- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:21:29 GMT Authorities were hailing a 7'year'old Norwalk boy as a hero Tuesday after he hid in a bathroom and called 911 as three armed attackers burst into his home and threatened his parents. During the harrowing emergency call, the child pleaded with Los Angeles County sheriff's dispatchers to send help. "Can you come really fast? Please! Please! . . . They have guns. They shoot my mom and dad," the boy said, according to a copy of the 911 tape released by authorities. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:59 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527558 6722A3A48B4357F895A968E907F497528F2909ABFD4231C15A5DDD01EDCD6ECD Washington Times, by Joshua P. Thompson Posted By: Photoonist- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:59 GMT Is an employment test unfair if it doesn't produce a racially balanced result? A case before the U.S. Supreme Court deals with this question. The plaintiffs in Lewis v. Chicago claim that the city violated federal civil rights law because a disproportionate number of blacks failed a written exam for firefighting jobs. The plaintiffs rely on a controversial concept known as ''disparate impact'' theory ' a sort of ''guilty until proven innocent'' approach to charges of discrimination. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:20:20 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=527557 0D5B8107E71A2048528112D8DD2F7BF49A1C7752DF446026F6343ABB745F1FE1 American Thinker, by Jane Jamison Posted By: Photoonist- Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:20:20 GMT Along with her difficulties ramming health care down our throats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D'CA) has an ugly, slightly ''cobwebbed'' credibility issue that is about to get dusted off and given full, sunlit exposure due to new documents being pried loose by court order. Pelosi's ''credibility'' is under scrutiny due to her unusually harsh criticism of the Central Intelligence Agency last year.