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Holder order gives feds access to citizens' data

Hot Air
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Holder order gives feds access to citizens' data
Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on an order allowing the government new authority to sweep up millions of records about U.S. citizens and to analyze data about innocent Americans for suspicious patterns of behavior. Read more...

Senate panel to probe state marijuana laws

The Hill
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Senate panel to probe state marijuana laws
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced Thursday that he will hold a committee hearing over newly passed marijuana laws in 2013.  Read more...

New Jersey pension costs seen skyrocketing

Bloomberg
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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New Jersey pension costs seen skyrocketing
New Jersey’s pension contribution may consume one-fifth of its annual budget by 2018 under a law enacted by Republican Gov. Chris Christie, according to a group led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Richard Ravitch, former New York lieutenant governor.  Read more...

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Pelosi claims GOP wants to 'scalp' seniors

CNS News
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Republicans are putting wealthy Americans ahead of senior citizens when they propose cost-saving changes to entitlement programs. Read more...

Cash-strapped Detroit issuing bonus checks

CBS News
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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The cash-strapped City of Detroit has issued bonus checks to nonunion city employees. Read more...

Obama's 'red line' gives opening to Assad

Associated Press
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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President Obama's chemical weapons position on Syria may have given Bashar al-Assad an unintended opening: The embattled Syrian leader appears willing to use other deadly tactics, including Scud missiles, without fear of U.S. retaliation. Read more...

SEIU seeks to unionize in-home health workers

Star Tribune
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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The Service Employees International Union will be approaching the Minnesota state government for the authority to unionize thousands of in-home personal care assistants — the people who care for elderly and disasbled people in their homes. Read more...

Aetna CEO warns rates to double under Obamacare

Bloomberg
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Health insurance premiums may as much as double for some small businesses and individual buyers in the U.S. when the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions start in 2014, Aetna's chief executive officer said. Read more...

Hatch blasts CEOs for backing tax-rate hike

The Hill
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Republican tax-writers lashed out in recent days at both the White House, for pushing corporate tax reform in a deal, and at chief executives, for saying they could get onboard with tax-rate hikes. Read more...

Pelosi to Obama: Pay off members' election debt

Politico
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has asked President Obama to help pay off the $14 million-plus debt owed by House Democrats from this past election, according to Democratic sources.  Read more...

Boehner: Obama wants power over debt ceiling

Daily Caller
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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House Speaker John Boehner said President Obama wants the “unlimited ability” to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, which he opposed as a senator and presidential candidate. Read more...

Firm offers solution to fracking's biggest problem

CNN Money
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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One of the big environmental (and financial) challenges the oil and gas industry faces is the amount of water a fracking well requires. Read more...

Israeli minister charged with 'breach of trust'

Associated Press
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Israel's powerful foreign minister was charged Thursday with breach of trust for actions that allegedly compromised a criminal investigation into his business dealings, throwing the country's election campaign into disarray just weeks before the vote. Read more...

N. Korea ships Scud parts to Egypt by way of China

The Washington Free Beacon
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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United States intelligence agencies recently uncovered a covert deal between North Korea and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government to ship Scud missile parts from North Korea through China to Egypt. Read more...

Amtrak to replace all its high-speed trains

Bloomberg
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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The announcement by Amtrak, the U.S. intercity passenger railroad, that it will replace its fleet of Acela trains may create new competition for Bombardier Inc., supplier of equipment used since the service’s start. Read more...

Co-inventor of the bar code dies at 91

Associated Press
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Norman Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores and has boosted productivity in nearly every sector of commerce worldwide, has died. He was 91. Read more...

FARC battles drug cartels for gold

Mining.com
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and a new generation of drug gangs (known locally as “Bacrims”) are increasingly turning to gold mining to finance their terrorist acts, reveals a report released Thursday by political risk firm Exclusive Analysis. Read more...

Michigan gun law expands places citizens can carry

The Detroit Free Press
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Changes to the concealed weapons law passed the state House Thursday evening, allowing highly trained gun owners to carry their weapons in formerly verboten places, like schools, day care centers, stadiums and churches. Read more...

Teacher of the year fired for public exposure

NBC New York
Thursday, December 13, 2012
News
A New Jersey teacher caught running naked through an apartment complex is the first to lose his job under a speedier new tenure law. Read more...

D.C. union president faces 183 years in prison

The Scribe
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Blogs
The founder and president of a private security officers’ union in Washington D.C. was convicted last week of 18 different federal offenses. He faces a maximum of 183 years in prison and $2.1 million in fines. Read more...

S. Korea salvages N. Korean rocket debris

Yonhap News
Friday, December 14, 2012
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The South Korean Navy has retrieved the debris of North Korea's long-range rocket launched earlier this week, the defense ministry said Friday, which would give a glimpse of the communist state's rocket technology. Read more...

Tea Party agrees with Obama: GOP will cave

The Christian Post
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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It isn't often that President Obama and the Tea Party agree, but both are predicting that House Speaker John Boehner will convince his troops to go along with raising taxes on America's most productive households — namely those making over $250,000 annually. Read more...

Media ignore rampant sex abuse at L.A. school

NewsBusters
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Blogs
Reports of rampant child sex abuse committed at an elementary school in Los Angeles continue to explode, but the national media does not seem too interested — at all. Is there any doubt that if there were 189 claims at a single Catholic parish that there would be screaming front-page headlines in The New York Times and the Washington Post? Read more...

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LAMBRO: Recovery mirage


LAMBRO: Recovery mirage
Donald Lambro | Everything you ever wanted to know about the Obama economy is in a single sentence about the Federal Reserve Board’s latest attempts this week to deal with unacceptably high unemployment.  Read more...

SWINDLE: Google resolution in sight


SWINDLE: Google resolution in sight
Orson Swindle | Recent media reports suggest the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected soon to end its 19-month antitrust investigation of Google with a settlement agreement that will exclude the most controversial remedy proposed by the company’s competitors and critics: search regulation. While Chairman Jon Leibowitz and I have different philosophies when it comes to antitrust and expanding the reach of the FTC, I have never doubted that we share the goal of protecting consumers in a vibrant, competitive marketplace. If these recent reports are correct, the deal will be a victory for consumers, the tech industry and the FTC.  Read more...

FORBES: Clock is ticking for fiscal cliff


FORBES: Clock is ticking for fiscal cliff
Steve Forbes | We all know the clock is ticking on the “fiscal cliff.” In a few weeks, tax increases of more than $500 billion will take effect alongside the first of $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts unless President Obama and congressional leaders are able to strike a compromise during the lame-duck session. Read more...

TYRRELL: Higher spending deadlier than 'fiscal cliff'


TYRRELL: Higher spending deadlier than 'fiscal cliff'
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. | William McGurn, the esteemed Wall Street Journal columnist and soon-to-be editor of the editorial page of the New York Post, has made an interesting observation about the fabulous Bush tax cuts that are about to lapse. They amount to a substantial sum of money for a middle-class family. For the middle class, it will be a big deal if they disappear. The Bush tax cuts have been portrayed by President Obama as a rich person’s tax cut, but now he is portraying them as a huge tax break for the middle class. All of a sudden, he says do not let them lapse. Instead, raise taxes on the wealthy. Read more...

NAPOLITANO: Opposing out-of-control government spying


NAPOLITANO: Opposing out-of-control government spying
Andrew P. Napolitano | After President Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974, congressional investigators discovered what they believed was the full extent of his use of the FBI and the CIA to engage in domestic spying. In that pre-digital era, the spying consisted of listening to telephone calls, opening mail, and using undercover agents to infiltrate political organizations and, as we know, break into their offices. Nixon claimed he did this for the protection of national security. He also claimed he was entitled to break the law and violate the Constitution. “If the president does it, that means that it’s not illegal,” he once famously said.  Read more...

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Warning: Cliff diving may be hazardous to our health

Times247
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Fiscal cliff uncertainty has reportedly killed more than 1 million jobs. Administration officials say President Obama is willing to allow the Jan. 1 deadline to pass without a deal, which might be why tax-happy Republicans have yet to see Democrats make a counteroffer on spending cuts. One thing is certain: Rich or poor, all Americans will be affected if the country goes over the cliff. Read more...

Rocket diplomacy: Hamas wages war from Gaza

Times247
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Fallen star: The career-ending affair of Gen. Petraeus

Times247
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Spin in the atmosphere: The politics of Sandy

Times247
Friday, November 2, 2012

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Economist: Fiscal cliff would 'wipe out the recovery'

Economist: Fiscal cliff would 'wipe out the recovery'
Catherine Poe | Without a deal brokered by the Republicans and Democrats, there would be a serious dollar drain from the average American’s bank account.  Read more...