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LIVE AT FIVE: 02.07.13

Posted on | February 7, 2013 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama Yields To Congressional Demands For Killer Drone Memo

John Brennan, nominated to succeed Petraeus as CIA director

Avoids confrontation over memo, which endangered Brennan’s nomination

Protests Erupt After Slaying Of Tunisian Opposition Leader
Prime Minister sacks Islamist government

Boy Scouts Punt Decision On Gays To May
Decision will be made during annual meeting



POLITICS
Senate Democrats Seek To Stave Off $1 Trillion In Sequestration Cuts

“Hey, remember when I threatened to veto sequester weaseling?
You do? Damn.”

Panic rises as sequesters draw near

Virginia House Speaker Derails Senate’s Redistricting Plan

Nomination Of REI Head To Interior Sparks Mixed Reactions In Utah

Chris Christie Flames Former White House Doc Over Weight Remarks

Pentagon Cuts Persian Gulf Carrier Force To One Due To Budget Constraints

Senate Panel Postpones Vote On Hagel Nomination

Supermarkets Protest Proposed FDA Food Labeling Rule Stemming From Obamacare

Marco Rubio To Deliver GOP Response To State Of The Union

Democratic Congressmen Push For End To Federal Weed Restrictions



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Ends Flat As Market Weighs Supply Levels: NYMEX $96.64, Brent $116.52
Postal Service To End Saturday Delivery
Asian Shares Pause Before ECB Meeting
Royal Bank Of Scotland To Pay $612 Million In Libor Case Settlement
Liberty Global To Buy Virgin Mobile For $16 Billion In Challenge To BSkyB
Home Depot To Hire 80,000 Seasonal Workers
VISA Posts Higher 1Q Profit
Microsoft’s Surface Pro Packs A Punch
Twitter’s Vine App Gets 17+ Rating After Pr0n Controversy
Ubuntu Phone OS Handsets To Hit The Market In October
iTunes Sells 25 Billionth Song, Now Sells 21 Million Songs Per Day
Hackers Access Federal Reserve Website, Data
Microsoft, Symantec Take Down Bamital Botnet
Next XBox May Not Play Used Games



SPORTS
Knicks Can’t Stop Wizards’ Wall; Wall Stops Knicks’ Streak

John Wall and Amare Stoudemire grapple for a loose ball

Wall leads Washington to 106-96 victory

Bruins Edge Habs 2-1

O’s Valencia Linked To Alleged Miami PED Clinic

Heat Beat Rockets 114-108

Spartans’ Pair Beats Golden Rats’ Three Of A Kind

Nyets Win Sloppy Against Pistons, 93-90

Kevin Garnett Scores Season-High 27, Leads Celtics Over Raptors

Cavs Thrash Bobcats 122-95

Nats Sign Former Pitcher Micah Owings To Minor League Deal As First Baseman



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Honey Boo Boo’s Mama Drops 100 Pounds

Honey Boo Boo and Mama June at lunch in Beverly Hills

No diet, no surgery – but the show is making her more active

Rihanna Shows Up To Support Chris Brown At Parole Violation Hearing

Brandi Glanville Cheated On Eddie Cibrian Before His Affair With LeAnn Rimes

Justin Bieber Allegedly Hooked Up With Rihanna

No Boobs, Butts, Genitals Or Lapel Pins At The Grammys This Year
Yeah, suuuuure

Fergie Pregnant? Josh Duhamel Has No News To Report

Rockies Star Todd Helton Busted For DUI

Miley Cyrus: I Will Never Have Long Hair Again

Twilight Heartbreak On The Horizon!



FOREIGNERS
Emergency Crews Arrive In Solomons For Tsunami Relief
Islamic Summit Opens With Calls For Syrian Dialogue
EU Officials On Strike Over Pay Again
French, Malian Troops Clash With Islamists Near Gao, Over 100 Jihadis Killed
Syrian Protesters Throw Shoes At Ahmadinejad
Egyptians Protest Sexual Violence Against Women
Media Reveal Secret CIA Drone Base In Saudi Arabia
Obama To Visit Israel For The First Time



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: The Company Sleaze-Bob Menendez Keeps
Bob Owens: Left-Wing Terrorist Pleads Guilty, Media Ignores Left-Wing Terrorism
Power Line: Liberal Shooter Planned Mass Murder
Lonely Conservative: Family Research Council Shooter Inspired By Southern Poverty Law Center
Breitbart: SPLC Website Provided Shooter With His Targets
Israel Matzav: Is Chuck Roast? Hagel Refuses To Disclose Foreign Funding Sources
American Digest: The U.S. Postal Service – How It “Works” In The 21st Century
The Blaze: PPP – Fox News Both Most And Least Trusted News Source
Sister Toldjah: @ChrisRock – Obama Our “Boss” And “Dad”
Twitchy: Who’s Your Daddy? Hilarity Ensues As Citizens School Chris Rock On Why It’s Not Obama
JustOneMinute: We Had To Tax The Retirement Plan In Order To Save It
Rand Paul: Containment And Radical Islam
AmSpecBlog: Rand Paul Opts For Realism And Restraint
Weasel Zippers: RINO Lindsey Graham To Offer Resolution Supporting Obama’s Drone Program, Assassination Of American Citizens
Right Scoop: Rove Responds To Accusations He’s Gone To War With Tea Party; @DLoesch Fisks Hannity Interview On Twitter
Investors.com: CBO – Obamacare Exchange Subsidy Cost Hiked By $233 Billion
Gateway Pundit: Bruce Willis Speaks Out Against Gun Control Proposals By Obama, Democrats (Video)


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Is Senator Menendez Doomed?

Posted on | February 6, 2013 | 30 Comments

Short answer: Hell to the yes!

Two FBI sources have told The Daily Caller that the bureau’s inquiry into  Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is now based in New Jersey, not  Miami. One added that pressure is mounting from the highest levels of the  Justice Department to pursue the investigation.
The change of focus away from the bureau’s Miami field office indicates that  the government is focused primarily on Sen. Menendez — and not on his longtime  donor Dr. Salomon Melgen, as political observers have speculated.
Menendez is embroiled in a scandal sparked by allegations that he slept with  underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.

(Hat-tip: Viral Read.) There are rumors that powerful Democrats are now working to hasten the downfall of Menendez. Why do you think mainstream reporters are getting the greenlight for stories like this one by Shane Goldmacher of National Journal?

When Robert Menendez arrived in the U.S. Senate in 2006, he was a relative pauper in a chamber often called a millionaires’ club. The New Jersey Democrat ranked 97th out of 100 senators in terms of his personal wealth, according to financial records filed that year and compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
So Menendez’s decision last month to use his personal funds to reimburse a prominent political contributor $58,500 for two flights to the Dominican Republic came at a major cost. The repayment amounts to between 32 percent and 87 percent of the assets Menendez reported holding in bank accounts and stock, according to his latest financial-disclosure form, which was filed last year.
Menendez repaid Florida eye doctor and political donor Salomon Melgen only after his free flights aboard Melgen’s plane became public and the subject of a Senate ethics complaint.

Attempts by certain liberal journalists (e.g., Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post) to minimize the seriousness of this scandal will prove ineffectual, because if Senator Menendez tries to hang on, it might inspire greater scrutiny to other politicians connected to Dr. Melgen, and those other politicians don’t need that scrutiny.

Say hello to the underside of the Democrat bus, Senator Menendez.




 

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

VIDEO: Why Moms Need Guns

Posted on | February 6, 2013 | 8 Comments

Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women’s Forum explains to Sean Hannity why Second Amendment rights are so important for women:

Becca Lower has the transcript of the interview:

I think this view is not something that the media is covering. I think it’s something that people haven’t really considered, and I really wanted to speak to women about this very important Constitutional right. And explain to them the cases. I had an Appendix which had twenty-one examples of women defending themselves against violent attack with firearms. . . .
I have an example of a woman who was attacked by five armed intruders. I had an example where a woman defended her child from being kidnapped. I had multiple examples of women with babies, with young children, trying to defend themselves. And so no one who criticized me bothered to read the written testimony that I submitted to the Senate.

Read the rest of the transcript. Gayle Trotter is the co-founder of a Washington law firm, a woman of genuine accomplishment, and you have to ask yourself: Why do to the media act as if Sandra Fluke speaks for all women, while ignoring an excellent role model like Gayle Trotter?

Follow Gayle Trotter on Twitter.

 

Category: Constitution, Feminism

Hate Kills: Left’s Demonization of Conservative Group Inspired Shooter

Posted on | February 6, 2013 | 56 Comments

Who told Floyd Corkins that the Family Research Council was a leading opponent of the gay-rights agenda? Who convinced Floyd Corkins that opponents of the gay-rights agenda were evil people who need to die? Whoever they are, they’ve got blood on their hands:

After years of thinking it over, Floyd Corkins finally had a plan.
He’d bought a gun and learned how to use it. He’d loaded three magazines. And he had stopped by Chick-Fil-A to pick up 15 sandwiches, which he planned to smear in the dying faces of staffers he expected to kill at the Family Research Council in Washington.
It would be a statement, he said, “against the people who work in that building,” according to documents filed in U.S. District Court, where Corkins pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three charges related to the August shooting at the conservative policy group.
Corkins told Judge Richard Roberts that he hoped to intimidate gay rights opponents. . . .
“They endorse Chick-Fil-A and also Chick-Fil-A came out against gay marriage, so I was going to use that as a statement,” prosecutors quoted Corkins as telling investigators.

Guess what? The Southern Poverty Law Center — which did much to demonize the Family Research Center by listing them as a “hate” group — is embraced as a valuable partner by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. So, in effect, the Obama administration has given its imprimatur of approval to this terrorism against conservatives.

Read more about the SPLC/DOJ partnership at Atlas Shrugs.

UPDATE: Steve Ertelt at LifeNews quotes Family Research Council President Tony Perkins:

“The Southern Poverty Law Center can no longer say that it is not a source for those bent on committing acts of violence. Only by ending its hate labeling practices will the SPLC send a message that it no longer wishes to be a source for those who would commit acts of violence that are only designed to intimidate and silence Christians and others who support natural marriage and traditional morality.”

Again, I repeat: The Department of Justice under Eric Holder is fully in partnership with the SPLC and thus tactitly endorses this group’s terroristic war of intimidation against conservatives.

UPDATE II (Smitty): welcome, Instapundit readers!

 


Category: Crime, Gays, Terrorism

Karl Rove On Hannity

Posted on | February 6, 2013 | 23 Comments

by Smitty

The Daily Caller:

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” former Bush deputy chief of staff Karl Rove took on detractors of his new political action committee, the Conservative Victory Project.
Rove, who founded the American Crossroads PAC that created the Conservative Victory Project, insisted that the upstart spinoff is not simply a resource for establishment candidates and incumbents.


You make the call. What I want out of the GOP is a solid reform plan. The Reverse Gramsci. Pouring a few million into TV ads and then losing seems a somewhat incomplete approach.

Via Instapundit, one discovers Mark Levin is slightly more animated.

Shapiro puts it thusly:

The question is whether this will be the party of Ronald Reagan or the party of George W. Bush.

In the latter case, I see little need to hang around, as the obituary has been done twice, by John McCain and Mitt Romney. Reform, GOP; or die, die, die.

via Prudence Paine

Category: Uncategorized

The Liberal Consensus Factory

Posted on | February 6, 2013 | 7 Comments

Otherwise known as the news media:

In the wake of the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks quickly moved to exploit the tragedy to push for more gun control legislation while mostly ignoring solutions that respect gun owners’ Second Amendment rights.  . . .
Stories advocating more gun control outnumbered stories opposing gun control by 99 to 12, or a ratio of 8 to 1.

Via Memeorandum.

Category: Uncategorized

ObamaCare: Unexpectedly!

Posted on | February 6, 2013 | 10 Comments

Everything Democrats say is a lie. Remember what they promised ObamaCare would do, now that we see what it actually does:

Remember when they said it would actually save money for the federal government? Remember when they said nobody would lose their current insurance? Lies, lies, all lies. The Democratic Party is so deliberately dishonest that no decent person would ever vote for any Democrat.

Category: Uncategorized

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.06.13

Posted on | February 6, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Justice Department Memo: Drone Strikes On Americans Can be Legal

Attorney General Eric Holder

Drone strikes okayed for thoughtcrime

Hollande Warns Britain About Its Demands On EU
Says EU not just a trade community in response to Cameron’s desire to get out from under finance, justice rules

Quake Off Solomons Triggers Tsunami
Magnitude 8 quake off Santa Cruz Islands



POLITICS
Jet-Setting Panetta Sticks Taxpayers With The Tab

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

No accounting for weekly commutes to California; did Panetta reimburse DoD for flights?
Unrelated: SecDef announces extension of some military benefits to same-sex spouses

Pro-Menendez Voxxi Goes Strangely Silent During Scandal

Obama Crony Wins Contract To Provide Smartphones For The Jobless


House GOP Open To Improved Background Checks

U.S. Military Launches Training Program For Mexican Forces

California Democrats Propose Liability Insurance Mandate For Gun Owners

Outgoing EPA Boss Sparks New Controversy (Video)

Big Dangers As Obama Democrats Flout Budget Laws



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Rise In Asia On Positive Economic News: NYMEX $96.68, Brent $116.70
Microsoft Bets $2 Billion On Dell To Help Future Of Both Companies
U.S., S&P Settle In For Bitter Combat
Japan Stocks High, And Set To Go Higher
Toyota Posts $1.09 Billion Profit, Ups Forecast
Zynga Posts Surprise Profit And Big Revenue Beats Estimates
Microsoft’s Surface Pro – Floor Wax Or Dessert Topping?
Pew Study Finds 61% Of Facebook Users Have Taken Extended Breaks
Amazon Launches Virtual Currency, Courts Developers, Engagement
Google Wins Landmark AdWords Case In Australia
Facebook Eyes App To Track Friends



SPORTS
Lindsey Vonn Tears Knee Ligaments, Breaks Tibia In Crash

Lindsey Vonn being airlifted to an Austrian hospital

Injury ends her run at the world championship; may be healed up in time for 2014 Winter Olympics

Ryan Braun Says He Used PED Clinic Owner Only As Consultant

Nyets Fail Big Test Against Short-Handed Lakers

Wolverines Outlast Buckeyes For OT Win

Rockets Rout Warriors, 140-109


Crosby Catches Puck With Face, Returns For Penguins Win

Hot-Shooting Razorbacks Down #2 Gators

Lightning Loses Fight And Game To Flyers

Nationals Sign Snyder, Accardo To Minor League Deals With Invite To Major League Camp



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Britney Definitely Heading For Las Vegas

Britney Spears

Formal announcement expected soon

DA Moves To Vacate Chris Brown’s Probation, Says Community Service May Have Been Faked

Chris Pratt Gets “Guardians Of The Galaxy” Lead

Tony Parker Uses Brown-Ocean Fight As Evidence For Lawsuit

Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry To Have “Friends” Mini-Reunion On Perry’s “Go On”


Naomi Watts’ “60 Minutes” Segment Getting No Support From Nicole Kidman

Kate & Wills Take Babymoon Vacation In Mustique

Glittery THR Oscar Party Draws Steven Spielberg, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lawrence (Video)

Melissa McCarthy: My Daughters Aren’t Allowed To Watch “Bridesmaids” Yet

Charles Michael Davis Lands Key Role In “The Originals”

Adam Brody, Leighton Meester Dating

Sean Bean Cast In Wachowskis’ “Jupiter Ascending”



FOREIGNERS
Hundreds Of Jihadis Killed In Mali; French Troops To Pull Out In March
Nork Video Shows U.S. City In Flames After Missile Attack
Ahmadinejad Visits Egypt As Diplomatic Relations Thaw
Bulgaria Implicates Hezbollah In July’s Israeli Tourist Bus Attack
Japan Frees Detained Chicom Fishing Boat
Delhi Gang Rape Trial Begins; Victim’s Friend Testifies
Magdalene Laundries Survivors Reject Taoiseach’s Apology



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Footage In Nork Nuke Video Looks Familiar To Gamers
Pat Dollard: Nork “Dream” Video Shows U.S. City Under Missile Attack
Veronique De Rugy: The Sky Won’t Fall If Sequestration Goes Through
Power Line: Obama Seeks To Avoid Going Over Half Of The Fiscal Cliff
NRO Corner: Obama Proposes Tax Increases, Spending Cuts To Avoid Sequester
Hit & Run: Obama – Never Learn Not To Spend
Lonely Conservative: Seven Million Americans Could Lose Health Insurance Thanks To Obamacare
Legal Insurrection: Someday Everyone Will Be On A Kill List For Fifteen Minutes
Flopping Aces: Obama’s Drone Memo – The Mind-Boggling Hypocrisy Of The Left Is Alive And Well
Breitbart: Krugman Says U.S. Needs Death Panels, Sales Taxes
Ramesh Ponnuru: The Disgusting Consequences Of Plastic Bag Bans
Gateway Pundit: Illegal Aliens Interrupt House Hearing On Immigration
Atlas Shrugs: Lawsuit – Ground Zero Mosque Imam Scammed Donors To Finance Lavish Lifestyle



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