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Janet Napolitano In 2016?

Posted on | February 5, 2013 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Via Drudge:

So, what happens if Hillary Clinton doesn’t run in 2016?
It is hard to imagine the presidential field without a woman contender, and here’s one to keep your eye on: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Napolitano is quietly making it known that she is considering the race, and there is reason to take her seriously.

Yeah, I can see the GOP, Tea Partiers, and basically anybody else with a functioning brain being more than a little motivated to work against Big Sis if she’s on the ticket.

Now, if she brings on Bill Maher as VP, would the double negative somehow work?

Category: Democrats

Third Option–Term Limits

Posted on | February 5, 2013 | 40 Comments

by Smitty

The Instapundit in USAToday:

There are two possible ways to address this problem. One is to elect people that everyone trusts. The problem with that is that there aren’t any politicians that everyone trusts — and, alas, if there were, the odds are good that such trust would turn out to be misplaced.
The other option is to place less power within the political sphere. The less power the government has, the less incentive for corruption, and the less that can go wrong when the government misbehaves. The problem with this approach is that the political class likes a powerful government — it’s one of the reasons that the Washington, DC, area, where much of the political class lives, is beginning to resemble the Capital City in The Hunger Games, prospering while the rest of the country suffers.

Maybe it’s a variation on the second option, but I predict that the 22nd Amendment is expanded upon to cover Congress, and perhaps even the SCOTUS, in the next couple of decades. As Director Blue pointed out a couple of years ago, incumbency has bred a Ruling Class, and substantially corrupted the Founder’s idea of self-rule. This is disastrous on at least two fronts:

  1. There is no way, given a 300 million+ population, that the number fit to hold office is that small. We can’t be that hurting for talent.
  2. There is no excuse for our system of government to overgrow itself to the point that it takes a professional cadre with a lifetime of knowing where the bodies are buried in order to operate the thing. No. We keep it simple, and we swap out the people in charge at a reasonable frequency so that the playing field stays level.

The bad news is that the voters chose to run us hard aground last November. The good news is that the goal for what to do, restore our Constitution to a representative state, is a straightforward. The exact path we take to get there, whether through or around the GOP, remains to be seen.

Update: linked by Jackie Wellfonder.

Update II: linked by Bob Belvedere.

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LIVE AT FIVE: 02.05.13

Posted on | February 5, 2013 | 4 Comments

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Suspect In Chris Kyle Murder Claims PTSD

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Alabama Hostage Standoff Ends As FBI Storms Bunker
Hostage taker dead, hostage recovered safe

Skeleton Reveals Richard III Went Down Fighting
England’s last Plantagenet king fought manfully to the end



POLITICS
New York City Bids Farewell To Ed Koch

Ed Koch, 1924-2013, RIP

Famous mayor died Friday of congestive heart failure
The best of Ed Koch

Obama’s Gun Control Push Moves States To Fight It

GOP Finding Few Takers For Massachusetts Senate Race

John Kerry: “I Have Huge Heels To Fill”

Obama To Meet With Labor, CEOs On Immigration

Secretary Of The Army To Unveil New PTSD Review At Joint Base Lews-McChord

Richard Laird Becomes Latest Alabama Democrat To Turn Republican

Boy Scouts To Make Decision On Gays This Week – Or Are They?



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Slips Along With Asian Equities: NYMEX $96.03, Brent $115.39
UBS Posts 4Q Loss On Libor Fine, Reorganization Costs
U.S. May Sue S&P Over Mortgage Debt Ratings
Investors Fret Over Politics In Italy, Spain
Yum Beats Estimates, Warns On KFC In PRC Chicken Woes
Stocks Slip On New Europe Fears
Oracle Buying Acme Packet For $2.1 Billion
Gannett Revenue Rises. Profit Beats Forecast
Microsoft And Huawei Debut WinPhone For Africa
Why Vine’s Going To Grow Into Something Huge
How’s Windows 8 Doing? Microsoft Reflects 90 Days In
Facebook Creating Location-Sharing App?
Wireless Carriers Prepare To Fight FCC Plans For Free Wi-Fi
BlackBerry 10 Ad A Winner With Super Bowl Fans
Google’s Chromebook Gains Momentum: Just Enough To Annoy Microsoft
FreedomPop Expanding Free LTE Service To Tablets
Energy Department Confirms January Hack
Oracle Pushes Out New Java Update To Plug Security Holes



SPORTS
Jed Lowrie Faces Detour En Route To Spring Training

Former Astros IF Jed Lowrie

Oakland trades Chris Carter, Brad Peacock, and minor league catcher Stassi to Houston for Lowrie and Francisco Rodriguez

Short-handed Clippers Fall To Wizards, 98-90

Cashman: Yankees Haven’t Talked To A-Rod About PED Allegations

Europol Says Match-Fixing Widespread In Soccer

Former Cy Young Winner Brandon Webb Retires

LeBron James Nearly Perfect, But Bobcats Make Heat Sweat Before Losing 99-94

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FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
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Justin Timberlake Denies Calling Britney A Bitch

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BLOGS & STUFF
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Pat Dollard: Ron Paul Now Blames America And Chris Kyle For Not Following Christ
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Jawa Report: People Begging For A Good Ass Kicking
This Ain’t Hell: Ron Paul Is Not Clever
Hit & Run: Five Disturbing Aspects Of The DOJ White Paper On The President’s License To Kill
Sister Toldjah: Border Control – This Reassures Me. Not.
Lonely Conservative: Yikes! Janet Napolitano For President?
Gateway Pundit: “Impeach Obama” Bumper Sticker Prompts Road Rage Incident
Beltway Confidential: Kasich’s Obamacare Cave Shows How Hard It Is To Fight Big Government
Power Line: Barack Obama Comes To Minneapolis
Weekly Standard Blog: McConnell Says Opposition To Hagel Intensifying
Fran Tarkenton: Mickelson Was Right On Taxes
American Thinker: Electric Car Sales Plummet In January
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JustOneMinute: The Possible California Oil Boom
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Svitlana Buchyk: Mystery Woman in Menendez HookerGate Scandal

Posted on | February 4, 2013 | 18 Comments

Matthew Boyle of Breitbart.com just published a photo of a woman who reportedly “worked” for Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Palm Beach opthamologist at the center of the scandal surrounding embattled Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). Melgen’s office was raided by the FBI last week, amid accusations that Menendez attended “wild sex parties” with prostitutes during trips to the Dominican Republic provided by Melgen.

The Russian-born woman, Svitlana Buchyk, figures prominently in the prostitution accusations against the scandal-plagued Menendez, who is in line to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. Kathleen McGrory and Melissa Sanchez of the Miami Herald reported:

Public records show that a woman named Svitlana Buchyk got into a minor crash while driving a Chevrolet Impala on Miracle Mile in Coral Gables in 2010. The car belonged to Melgen’s wife. Buchyk gave Melgen’s North Palm Beach address as her own.
Buchyk spoke briefly with a Miami Herald reporter by telephone Thursday, saying she had worked for Melgen in the past.
But Buchyk wouldn’t answer questions on the type of work she did, and was eager to defend Melgen — particularly when asked about stories of Melgen’s alleged sexual liaisons with prostitutes.
“He is an amazing person,” she said. “He was always with his family. There is nothing else I can say.”
Buchyk added that many women would have liked to have spent time with her former employer.
“He treated me well,” she said. “He had money. He was very generous.”

The photo published by Boyle shows Buchyk in front of what appears to be Melgen’s private jet during a May trip to Hawaii, not long after a tipster using the name “Peter Williams” contacted an ABC News reporter with allegations about Menendez’s trips to the Dominican Republic, a Caribbean island nation where prostitution is legal and as many as 100,000 prostitutes reportedly ply their trade. In his e-mails, “Williams” described Buchyk as “one of the most regular participants in the activities the Doctor [Melgen] arranges for the Senator [Menendez],” and said the woman “has traveled with them in the jet, sailed with them in the yacht, and has repeatedly visited the Doctor’s house.”

Melgen has a history of spending big money on his mistresses, Boyle reports, noting a 2002 federal court case involving Yuddehiris Dorrejo, a woman on whom Melgen spent $700,000, allegedly in exchange for “an intimate romantic relationship” that began in 1998.

Melgen, who has contributed generously to Menendez’s political campaigns, reportedly owes $11.1 million in unpaid federal income taxes.

UPDATE: Andrew O’Shea at Viral Read has a selection of photos of Svitlana Buchyk, including bikini/lingerie shots.

Amazing, the quality of womanhood available to guys who can afford to cheat the IRS out of $11.1 million.

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Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Dominican Republic, Florida, New Jersey, Scandal, Sex

HookerGate: What Did @AliciaMenendez Know, and When Did She Know It?

Posted on | February 4, 2013 | 15 Comments

“Alicia Menendez is a Senior Advisor to NDN and its sister organization, the New Policy Institute. . . . Ms. Menendez comes to NDN/NPI as a well-established television commentator and experienced organizer in important emerging communities. You can find her talking about national politics just about every week on the cable news networks, Fox and MSNBC. . . . She also spent time as a television segment producer and on-air contributor for RNN TV in New York, and was a primary surrogate on her father’s successful 2006 bid for the US Senate in New Jersey.”
— Simon Rosenberg, “Alicia Menendez Joins the NDN Team,” New Democrat Network, Jan. 13, 2010

“In NDN’s calculus, the long-term success of the Democratic Party will depend heavily on the party’s ability to ‘master the new media and technology tools that are changing the way we all communicate and advocate.'”
— Discover the Networks

Parlaying powerful family connections into a lucrative career in politics and media is not an unusual story in Washington, and it appears that the daughter of embattled Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) has traveled that familiar path, as Adam Hose reports at Viral Read:

Alicia Menendez . . . graduated from Harvard College in 2005, with an honors degree in Studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality. . . . She is founder of dailygrito.com, has appeared on MSNBC Live, CNN International, BBC World and Fox News and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.
Ms. Menendez is a self-proclaimed feminist and has addressed women’s issues in politics in many different ways. In a March 2008 piece she wrote . . . focused on then-NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, after it was discovered he had been paying for the services of prostitutes. She seemingly excused his actions for biological, boys-will-be-boys reasons . . . Then during the 2012 presidential election (as well as her father’s own re-election campaign), in a piece for NBCLatino.com, she addressed “The GOP’s Lady Problems,” claiming that because Republicans desire to discuss women’s issues in terms of the economy, deficit and jobs, instead of contraception, abortion rights and equal pay, they were out of touch with women in general.

Read the whole thing. Alicia Menendez leveraged her father’s political connections into a career that includes being a HuffPo “star,” even while her father was leveraging his own connection to a Palm Beach campaign contributor into free flights to the Dominican Republic for (alleged) sex parties with young prostitutes.

Isn’t it therefore incumbent on Alicia Menendez to explain what she knew about her father’s involvement with Dr. Salomon Melgen, who is now the target of an FBI investigation? Certainly, other journalists are now demanding answers to these disturbing questions:

In an editorial Sunday, the Newark Star-Ledger said the scandal surrounding the senator raised “serious  doubts about his fitness to serve as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.” . . .
Menendez is facing a Senate ethics probe and an FBI investigation into a donor,  who is suspected of providing him with free trips on his private jet and  underage prostitutes during visits to the Dominican Republic, according to  reports from the media website The Daily Caller and a complaint filed with the  Justice Department by a watchdog group.

Does the Huffington Post employ Alice Menendez as a journalist, or is her “job” just a partisan patronage sinecure for the overprivileged daughter of a powerful (and possibly corrupt) Democrat? What are they really paying her for? Is it possible that Alicia Menendez is using her influential connections to help pressure her fellow “progressives” in the media to ignore her father’s sleazy scandal?

Oh, what a coincidence: Senator Menendez’s office has gotten one of the women to deny knowing the Senator!

So if Yaneisi Fernandez says she’s never met Menendez or worked as a prostitute, then obviously he must be innocent, right? I mean, when in doubt, you’ve got to take the word of alleged Dominican prostitutes. Because they’re as honest as New Jersey Democrats.

Alicia Menendez is on Twitter. Maybe you can ask her some questions.

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Category: Corruption, Democrats, Dominican Republic, Media Bias, New Jersey, Scandal, Senate, Sex

Dominican Prostitute in Menendez Scandal Says They Were ‘Very Mistreated’

Posted on | February 4, 2013 | 27 Comments

Here’s this morning’s Menendez headline stack at the Drudge Report:

I point this out because there were people in the comments of my post this morning (“HookerGate: Miami Herald Confirms Elements of Menendez Prostitute Story“) who were wondering if the mainstream media were going to ignore this story and let Menendez skate. And the answer to that question is, I don’t think they can, even if they wanted to.

Consider this latest report from David Martosko and Charles C. Johnson at the Daily Caller:

A Dominican prostitute’s firsthand account of sex parties allegedly attended by New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez refers specifically to another participant: Vinicio “Vinicito” Castillo Seman, the scion of a prominent Dominican political family who serves as a lawyer for his cousin, Dr. Salomon Melgen, in the Caribbean nation. . . .
At least one of the women allegedly involved has said she was younger than 18 when she first had sex with Sen. Menendez.
In her account, sent via email on April 21, 2012 to the liberal advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the prostitute identified “Vinicito” by name as a participant, along with Melgen and Menendez. . . .
“It was during some yacht outings that I realized I needed to get out of there,” the young prostitute wrote in one email included in that collection, “because these people are so important and they do whatever they want with whomever they want.”
“Vinicito was there, who goes to many of the doctor’s functions and invents things [to do] with the young girls, and then forces them to do the same things with the doctor’s friend. And he really liked it and wanted to take them to another place, but I don’t know where. They threatened those girls and told them to not talk, and that they couldn’t leave.” . . .
In an April 28 email to CREW about the sex parties, the same woman said that “we women are very mistreated,” especially “the younger ones between 16 and 18 years old.”

Go read the whole thing. Menendez denies banging hookers, underage or otherwise, during his Caribbean holidays, but Menendez also originally denied accepting free flights to the Dominican aboard his shady Palm Beach campaign contributor’s private jet — until the FBI started snooping around, and Menendez figured out the jig was up.

What you’re beginning to see now is the drip-drip-drip effect: Once the scandal got serious enough that the New York Times was forced to report on it, that served as a signal to other news organizations that this is a legitimate story, rather than (as many mainstream reporters had apparently wanted to believe) just some flimsy thing ginned up by Menendez’s right-wing enemies.

Guess what? There’s much, much more to come.

Remember that, on Oct. 31, I was able to name Menendez as the focus of the scandal even before the Daily Caller published its first article about the scandal. And what I’m hearing through the grapevine now is that there is so much related stuff — various interesting details about Senator Menendez’s divorce, for example — that the sources are doling out to other news organizations bits and pieces that Daily Caller and Breitbart.com don’t have time to report. There is an entire dossier on Menendez, in other words, and now that there’s blood in the water and lots of journalistic sharks circling the scandal-plagued senator, the contents of that file will be unloaded.

Marc Caputo of the Miami Herald describes the “mystery novel” aspects of the Menendez story and the shadowy tipster who broke it:

The investigation into his ties with Menendez began in August, after the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent an agent the complaint that “Peter Williams” first sent to CREW months before.
CREW, ABC News the FBI had trouble getting Williams to be forthcoming. He refused to meet with them or speak on the phone.
CREW’s executive director, Melanie Sloan, said Williams was also suspicious because the self-described American citizen and father of two daughters claimed to know about the illicit activity since 2008. But he only complained in an election year when control of the Senate was up for grabs.
At one point, on Sept. 12, FBI agent Regino Chavez emailed Williams and said “we have been able to confirm” most of the information he provided. But it’s not clear what that information was.
On Nov. 1, Chavez seemed annoyed that Williams had provided him no access to the alleged prostitutes yet two others gave an interview with the conservative Daily Caller website just before the election that Menendez won. Those prostitutes were not underage and neither claimed Menendez consorted with minors.
Williams suggested that he was not aware of those two prostitutes. They can’t be found any longer. Their former lawyer, Melanio Figueroa, has stopped returning press calls.
The email trail with the agent, sent anonymously to reporters late last month before Menendez was set to chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ends in late December.

Hmmm. So the FBI agent Chavez was “able to confirm” the mysterious tipster’s information in September, and yet it was not until January that the FBI raided the Palm Beach offices of Menendez’s big donor Dr. Melgen. Could it be that powerful political figures at the Justice Department were less than eager to pursue this investigation?

Just askin’ questions. As Professor Jacobson says, I’m “all over the story like a U.S. Senator on a Dominican prostitute.” Expect more, soon.

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Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Dominican Republic, Florida, New Jersey, Scandal, Senate, Sex

HookerGate: Miami Herald Confirms Elements of Menendez Prostitute Story

Posted on | February 4, 2013 | 26 Comments

The shadowy (and probably pseudonymous) tipster “Peter Williams” gave specific details about the prostitutes who were allegedly provided to New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez in the Dominican Republic. Two Miami Herald reporters, Kathleen McGrory and Melissa Sanchez, traveled to Santo Domingo to check out the story and, while they were unable to locate the prostitutes, they were able to confirm certain details:

[S]hreds of evidence in Santo Domingo show that, at the very least, the women Williams described exist.
Take an apartment in Santo Domingo’s upscale Gazcue neighborhood that Williams said was used for sexual liaisons. In April emails to  a watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Williams alleged that Dr. Salomon Melgen, a friend and major campaign donor to Menendez, rented a unit for a Brazilian prostitute named Maria and a Colombian prostitute named Geraldine.
The apartment exists. When reached by phone, the landlady said that two young women named Geraldine and Maria had indeed lived there last year, and said the nationalities matched.
However, the landlady, who declined to be named, did not believe the women to be prostitutes — she said she thought they were beautiful foreign exchange students — and had never heard of Menendez or Melgen visiting the apartment. But she complained that the women had nearly destroyed the unit, even leaving the wallpaper torn up when they abandoned the apartment last year.
“They behaved very badly,” she said. The apartment has since been rented to others and is now back on the market for $1,000 a month.

You can read the whole thing. The details confirmed by the two Miami Herald reporters are important because — as anyone with experience chasing this kind of story would tell you — if the story were totally bogus, basic facts like names and addresses wouldn’t check out.

A bogus story would have make-believe girls at non-existent addresses, but instead this story has the little details right. The fact that the women have now “disappeared,” as McGrory and Sanchez report, isn’t particularly surprising, nor is it surprising that the landlady (a) thought the hookers were “foreign exchange students” and (b) didn’t know the names of their alleged clients.

Locating the two hookers in the Dominican Republic may prove difficult for the simple reason that the country is crawling with hookers:

“Prostitution is everywhere here; on the beach, in the bars, in the clubs,” said Antonio Guzman, 36, a hustler who has worked the beach for 15 years and regularly connects tourists with prostitutes. “This place runs on it.” . . .
Long before explosive allegations emerged claiming Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and a political contributor flew to the country for wild parties with several prostitutes, the Dominican Republic had cemented its reputation as a hub for sex tourism. . . .
Studies suggest between 60,000 and 100,000 women work in the sex trade in the country, according to the Center for Integral Orientation and Investigation, a health and outreach organization based in the capital, Santo Domingo.

So this Caribbean island nation where Senator Menendez paid frequent visits is a sort of regional hooker-magnet. And exactly how many trips to the Dominican Republic did Senator Menendez make on the private plane of his Palm Beach campaign contributor? There seems to be some dispute about this, Matthew Boyle reports:

Flight records obtained by Breitbart News show Democratic Party donor Dr. Salomon Melgen’s private jet was in New Jersey near Sen. Bob Menendez’s home on April 8, 2012 — Easter Sunday last year. From there, it flew straight to the Dominican Republic.
Menendez and his staff have not answered when asked repeatedly whether the Senator was on that flight. They also have not provided any accounting as to where Menendez was on Easter Sunday, either.

Read the whole thing. This is highly interesting, because on Jan. 4, Menendez paid back Dr. Melgen $58,500 for three flights, but this (alleged) Easter weekend trip wasn’t one of those, and it was during the Easter weekend trip that one of the sex parties (allegedly) took place.

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LIVE AT FIVE: 02.04.13

Posted on | February 4, 2013 | 9 Comments

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TOP NEWS
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Rescue workers carry out the 36th victim

AG Murillo promises investigation into cause of deadly explosion

India Welcomes “Mrs. Hollande”
PM’s girlfriend to be treated as spouse to avoid protocol problems in conservative India

Super Bowl Commercials Miss Big Scores
“Maybe Madison Avenue has run out of great ideas.”



POLITICS
“American Sniper” Author Killed By Friend At Gun Range

Chris Kyle, 1974-2013 RIP

No motive apparent in murder by workout buddy

Alabama Hostage Standoff Enters Sixth Day

Reid Supports Expanded Background Checks, Unsure About Assault Weapon Ban

SecState Kerry Begins With Calls To Israeli, Palestinian Leaders

Sequester Cuts Could Make America “A Second-Rate Power”, Panetta Warns

Tax Loopholes May Be Next, Obama Says

University Of Texas To Review “Inappropriate Relationships” Policy

Nebraska’s Lieutenant Governor Resigns After Paper Details His Late-Night Calls To Four Women



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Profit-Taking Drops Oil Prices: NYMEX $97.52, Brent $116.51
U.S. Stocks Rally As Dow Climbs Above 14,000 On Jobs Report
Proposed Agreement Squashes US/Mexico Tomato War
PRC Service Industries Expand As Retailing Improves
Japan Caught In Stimulus Trap?
Panasonic Shares Surge As It Returns To Profitability
Dell Plan To Go Private Could Become Real As Soon As Today
Hackers Hit 250,000 Twitter Accounts
Microsoft Sells 900,000 Surface RT Tablets In Face Of Muted Demand
HP Ships Chromebook, Looks Beyond Windows Laptops
WINE Is Not An Emulator, But It Is Coming To Android
Google, France Settle Tax Dispute
HTC Sees Q1 Revenues Flat, Margins May Slip Further
BlackBerry Faces Double Challenge In India, Indonesia
PlayStation “Orbis” Rumors: Game Recording, Controllers, And Speeds



SPORTS
Joe Flacco’s F-Bomb Caps Off MVP Night

Baltimore QB Joe Flacco, receiver Jacoby Jones after the Ravens run score up to 21-6 at halftime

Ravens defense comes through in 34-31 win, Stacy McCain hardest hit
#BlackoutBowl generates social Media moment for jokesters, advertisers
Lights out, time out in the Blooper Dome

Canadiens Beat Senators Thanks To Questionable Ref Call

Celtics Keep Winning Without Rondo, Beat Clippers 106-104

#13 Louisville Routs #25 Marquette

Metta World Peace Not Living Up To Name


Late Surge Turns Nail-Biter Into Easy 3-0 Win For Devils

Kunitz Hat Trick Leads Pens Past Caps 6-3

Baseball Pioneer Paire-Davis Dies

Nationals Announce Spring Training Broadcast Schedule



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Christina Ricci Confirms She’s Engaged

Christina Ricci and fiance James Heerdegen

Announcement comes at unveiling of Make Up For Ever event


Frank Ocean’s Producer: Chris Brown Tried To Beat The S**t Out Of Frank

Selena Gomez Back With Justin Bieber Again?

Duchess Of Cambridge Reveals Royal Baby Bump


“Warm Bodies” #1 At Box Office With $20 Million; Stallone’s “Bullet To The Head” Bombs

Oprah Slapped With Sex Discrimination Lawsuit

Britney Spears Not Headlining At Caesar’s Palace After All?

Emily Van Camp Lands Leading Role In “Captain America 2”



FOREIGNERS
French Airstrikes Target Jihadi Depots In Northern Mali
Israeli Airstrike Target Was Syria’s Main Biological, Chemical Depot
Munich Conference Breaks US/Iran Ice
ROK Begins Joint Naval Exercises With US Amid Threats From Norks
Cambodia Mourns As “King-Father” Sihanouk Cremated
Britain Hosting Talks With Afghan, Pakistani Presidents
At Least 30 Dead In Suicide Bomb Attack On Iraqi Police HQ
Burma Starts Peace Talks With Kachin Rebels In PRC
Castro Makes First Public Appearance In Three Years
Japan’s PM Abe Vows To Defend Islands From PRC



BLOGS & STUFF
Ruben Navarrette: President Obama Should Just Stop Talking About Immigration
Rick Moran: Reid Predicts Immigration Reform Will Pass Congress
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This Ain’t Hell: Chris Kyle RIP
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Gateway Pundit: NRA Chief LaPierre Says You Can’t Trust This White House (Video)
ParaPundit: Late Career Workers Hit Hardest By Declining Industries
Weasel Zippers: Bipartisan Senate Immigration Plan Gives Napolitano Final Say On Whether The Border Is Secure Enough To Legalize 11 Million Illegals
The Lid: Gang Of Eight Plan Lets Napolitano Decide Whether Border Is Secure
Twitchy: Hilarity Ensues As Twitter Users Caption & Photoshop Obama’s Shooting Photo
NYP: Obama Mocked For Releasing Shooting Photo During Gun Control Debate
Scared Monkeys: Panetta Admits Waterboarding Led To Death Of Bin Laden
American Power: Drowned In A Stream of Prescriptions
Power Line: John McCain’s Silly Question
ALIPAC: Rove Declares War On Tea Party
JustOneMinute: Making Stuff Up At The Times
Jawa Report: Saudi Cleric – Babies Should Wear Burkas So They Won’t Be So Tempting
Atlas Shrugs: Burkas For Babies
Jihad Watch: Saudi Cleric Calls For Burkas For Babies
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