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Excerpt: The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of an era. The skills required to use the cameras and chemicals required by the photography of the mid-19th century were far beyond those of most people -- until a man named George Eastman created a company called Kodak, which made cameras that ordinary people could use. … The difference is that, although the Postal Service is technically a private business, its income doesn't cover all its costs -- and taxpayers are on the hook for the difference. (The Marines made Tom Sowell a photographer, and it has stayed with him for life. Kind of like how I shout at people. My DIs taught me that skill. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: A 55-year-old Italian high school teacher is out of a job following a vicious threat against Jews in his country. According to reports, convicted Holocaust denier Renato Pallavidini warned that if Facebook deleted his posted photo of Mussolini shaking the hand of Hitler, he would go on an antisemitic rampage in Torino .
Michelle Obama: "Distressed" about Daley, Madigan, Hynes clout
Excerpt: When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley's City Hall in the early 1990s, she was "distressed" by how a small group of "white Irish Catholic" families -- the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans -- "locked up" power in Illinois.
What Bill Daley taught the White House
Excerpt: Daley’s departure raises a bigger question, however. Brought in to rebuild the White House’s relationship with the business community and Congress, Daley leaves the job as Obama seems to have found his stride by explicitly running against Congress and, to a lesser extent, the business community. “What he learned was that business refused to make nice regardless of what he did,” said one former White House aide of Daley. “Wall Street was just never going to be there.” (Jon Corzine was Wall Street to the core and he was there for him. Anyone who think that “Wall Street was never going to be there” for Obama needs to read “Repo Men” by Kevin D. Williamson.
Obama re-election effort picks up speed amid noise of NH primary
Excerpt: President Obama’s re-election campaign appears to be picking up speed.
Just days after administration officials said Obama wouldn’t be doing much campaigning, the president appears to be doing just that and he's using the New Hampshire primary to rev up his campaign. (Won’t be doing much campaigning? It’s all he’s ever done, all he knows how to do. ~Bob.)
Does Retiree Health Insurance Encourage Early Retirement?
Excerpt: In the United States
Children of the Corn: The Renewable Fuels Disaster
Excerpt: Deficit hawks, environmentalists, and food processors are celebrating the expiration of the ethanol tax credit. This corporate handout gave $0.45 to ethanol producers for every gallon they produced and cost taxpayers $6 billion in 2011. So why did the powerful corn ethanol lobby let it expire without an apparent fight? The answer lies in legislation known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which creates government-guaranteed demand that keeps corn prices high and generates massive farm profits. Removing the tax credit but keeping the RFS is like scraping a little frosting from the ethanol-boondoggle cake. The RFS mandates that at least 37 percent of the 2011-12 corn crop be converted to ethanol and blended with the gasoline that powers our cars. The ethanol mandate is causing corn demand to outstrip supply by more and more each year, creating a vulnerable market in which even the slightest production disturbance will have devastating consequences for the world’s poor. It is time for the federal government to stop requiring cars to burn food. (Another Green disaster for poor and working people. ~Bob.)
A Fine for Not Using a Biofuel That Doesn’t Exist
Excerpt: When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law. But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist. (Huh. I understand that there is plenty of this fuel in Never-Never Land
Workplaces ban not only smoking, but smokers themselves
Excerpt: More job-seekers are facing an added requirement: no smoking — at work or anytime. As bans on smoking sweep the USA, an increasing number of employers — primarily hospitals — are also imposing bans on smokers. They won't hire applicants whose urine tests positive for nicotine use, whether cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or even patches. … The bottom line will benefit because health care costs for tobacco users are $3,000 to $4,000 more each year than for non-smokers, says Bon Secours' Cindy Stutts. "There's also an impact on productivity," she says, because smokers take more breaks.
The Force Is Not With You: Cash-strapped Minnesota
Excerpt: A small Minnesota St. Cloud
The Stephanopoulos Standard: Republicans can turn media bias to their advantage.
Excerpt: A funny thing happened on the way to the New Hampshire
Excerpt: A few days ago, the California High Speed Rail Peer Review Group, an expert body mandated by state law, expressed serious doubts about the proposed Los Angeles-San Francisco rail system. It concluded that it "cannot at this time recommend that the legislature approve the appropriation of bond proceeds" because the project "represents an immense financial risk" to the state. But hell hath no fury like a state agency scorned. The California High-Speed Rail Authority issued a quarrelsome response claiming that the rail system is, well, a bargain!
Obama's Arrogant Authoritarianism
Excerpt: Last week, President Barack Obama took the latest step on his road toward an arrogant, new authoritarianism with four illegal appointments that entirely trampled on the Constitution's requirements. More troubling still, the President chose to shred the Constitution all in the name of serving his Big Labor agenda while killing jobs in the process. The President's actions once again gave voice to his animating view of governing: doing so is much easier when one isn't constrained by the Constitution and its checks and balances.
Think Again: Intelligence: I served in the CIA for 28 years and I can tell you, America
Excerpt: On major foreign-policy decisions, however, whether going to war or broadly rethinking U. S.
Terror in Tampa- CAIR Denial
Excerpt: "We all have to die, so why not die the Islamic way?" Sami Osmakac, a 25-year-old immigrant who plotted a suicide terror attack in Tampa Paradise . Osmakac was arrested Saturday night, after receiving nonfunctioning guns and explosives from the FBI and making a martyrdom video. Although he initially planned to blow up a car bomb outside of Tampa
Democrats and Executive Overreach: It's a mistake to excuse Obama's disregard for the Constitution. Precedents set now will be exploited by the next administration. By Michael Mcconnell
Excerpt: One reason so many Americans entrusted Barack Obama with the presidency was his pledge to correct the prior administration's tendency to push unilateral executive power beyond constitutional and customary limits. Yet last week's recess appointments of Richard Cordray as the first chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new members to the President's National Labor Relations Board—taken together with other aggressive and probably unconstitutional executive actions—suggest that this president lacks a proper respect for constitutional checks and balances.
Excerpt: Ben Bernanke’s zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) and command-economy efforts to maintain mispricing of risk, debt and assets are destroying capital and capitalism. No wonder his policies have failed so miserably. To understand why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s efforts to restart economic “growth” have failed so completely and miserably, we need to compare the present with the end of the Great Depression. There is a wealth of irony in the Chairman’s supposed expertise on the Great Depression, as his policies have backfired on “fixing” the Great Recession. Rather than “fix” the economic malaise by re-inflating the credit-boom bubble, he has only increased the systemic vulnerability to a much greater crash.
The Cruelest Cuts By Arnold
Excerpt: On January 3rd, President Obama released his vision for military expenditures going forward. It is a plan that calls for reducing troop strength by tens of thousands because, Mr. Obama contends, "we've succeeded in defending our nation, taking the fight to our enemies, reducing the number of Americans in harm's way, and we've restored America
Excerpt: Dare one hope that finally the Iranian regime is starting to crack? Certainly a number of observers appear to think so. 'Reza Kahlili', a pseudonymous former CIA operative in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the force that underpins the regime's power base, has written that a split has opened up within the Revolutionary Guards which offers the west a rare opening to act against the regime.
Video: GUNS & GOD
UN nuclear agency confirms Iranian uranium enrichment at bunker, increasing nuke fears
Excerpt: [Iran Iran Tehran Iran Iran
DEA helped Colombian drug trafficker launder cash, new report reveals
Excerpt: Undercover agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, working with their Mexican counterparts, helped transfer millions of dollars in drug cash and even escorted a shipment of cocaine via Dallas to Spain Colombia to Mexico and the United States
Excerpt: Mexico 's government allowed a group of undercover U.S.
The Case for Military Action Against Iran
Excerpt: Iran ’s 30-year war against the United States Iran
When is Something Racist? When the Left Says It Is by Mark Tapson
Excerpt: Obviously a pointed commentary on Michelle Obama’s high-end wardrobe and frequent lavish getaways such as a glitzy Spanish jaunt and her family’s recent $4 million, 17-day trip to Hawaii
US orders expulsion of Venezuelan consul
Excerpt: The United States has ordered the expulsion of Venezuela 's consul general in Miami amid reports linking the diplomat to an alleged Iranian plot to target sensitive US
Former U.S.
Excerpt: Baxam converted to Islam while in the Army and ended up trying to join a jihad terror group. Here again, the mainstream media would ignore this. Yet if even a half, or a third, or a tenth as many converts to Christianity ended up trying to join violent terror groups in accordance with what they believed to be the dictates of their faith, the New York Times and NBC News and Christiane Amanpour would be running banner-headline, prime time, breathless investigations of what it was about Christianity that caused converts to go mad. But for this? Nothing.
Excerpt: For some reason, those who encountered Jew Jurian, even though they were residents of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan -- a nation dedicated to living out the peaceful and tolerant teachings of Islam -- were unable to tolerate him and his name. How did so many Misunderstanders of Islam end up there?
The Dream Ticket Could Be a Conservative Nightmare by Bernard Goldberg
Excerpt: Bill Keller, who used to run the New York Times and now is one of the paper’s many liberal columnists, has come up with an idea: He wants President Obama to gently push Joe Biden aside and put Hillary Clinton on the ticket this November to run as his vice presidential candidate. If you’re a Democrat, this is a pretty good idea. If you’re a Republican, you have every right to be worried. An Obama-Clinton ticket would be formidable, more formidable that a ticket with ole’ reliable Joe Biden on it. (He threw his grandmother under the bus, Biden would be nothing. But would Obama sleep soundly at night? ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Includes a picture. By J. Christian Adams Not surprisingly, the White House deliberately concealed the existence of the grotesque party from the public and the press corp. That pesky 16% real unemployment rate required stealth. The Alice
DOJ inspector general refuses to investigate Occupy public safety threats
Excerpt: The Department of Justice’s inspector general has refused to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder’s response to public safety threats stemming from the ongoing “Occupy” movement nationwide, especially in New York City and Washington , D.C.
Gary Sinise plans benefit to build home for wounded Marine
Excerpt: Actor Gary Sinise, who played a soldier in the movie "Forrest Gump" who loses his legs in Vietnam , plans a benefit concert to raise money to build a home in Temecula for a Marine from Camp Pendleton who lost his legs and right arm in Afghanistan Town Square Plaza
The worst college major for getting a job is ...
If you have a student in the family, this might help. ~Bob.
State targets property-tax payers
Excerpt: As many as 5 million California
More signs the country is failing
“Today in an undergraduate class of 30 (fourth-year) students, I determined that no one--yes, no one--knew the first few lines to the Gettysburg Address. As a dedicated "true Southerner," I was afraid to ask how many knew the first few lines to "Dixie " or the identity of Robert E. Lee. Worse yet, what if they did not know the Pledge of Allegiance or the Star Spangled Banner.” --RW (From a psychologist/attorney/professor friend. ~Bob)
Marine from Camp Pendleton
Excerpt: The secretary of the Navy next week will present the Navy Cross to the family of a Marine from Camp Pendleton killed while saving the life of other Marines in Afghanistan, officials announced Tuesday. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is set to present the medal Jan. 17 to the family of Lance Cpl. Donald Hogan in a ceremony at Camp Pendleton
'We'll set our sights on Washington ': Chavez and Iran 's Ahmadinejad JOKE about attacking U.S.
Ha, ha. Wish my M1 and I were in range of the meeting. ~Bob. Excerpt: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez mocked the U.S. and joked about directing 'a big atomic bomb' at Washington as they met in Caracas Iran
Hostess files for bankruptcy; Twinkie maker’s financial woes include high cost of ingredients, debt
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hostess-files-bankruptcy-twinkie-maker-financial-woes-include-high-cost-ingredients-debt-article-1.1003893#ixzz1j5466kwO
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hostess-files-bankruptcy-twinkie-maker-financial-woes-include-high-cost-ingredients-debt-article-1.1003893#ixzz1j5466kwO
What happens to the “Twinkies Defense”? ~Bob.
"Andalusia Spring" Reclaiming "Occupied" Spain
Excerpt: Controversies over Islam dominated the Christmas and New Year holidays in Spain Spain Spain
As Many As 600,000 Illegal Aliens May Be Registered To Vote In Texas
Excerpt: One concern is that undocumented immigrants have registered to vote in Texas Texas
'Leaner' is an adjective more appropriately applied to cutting fat, not muscle By Jack Kelly
Excerpt: A weaker America is a stronger America
Excerpt: American sailors have come to the rescue of distressed Iranian fishermen for the second time in less than a week, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The United States Coast Guard cutter Monomoy "picked up six Iranian mariners after their vessel broke down" in the Persian Gulf Tuesday, the BBC reported. (Who will save their bacon—er, sorry, camel loin—after Obama guts the military? ~Bob.)
Finally: ATF Officials Involved in Fast and Furious Reprimanded
Excerpt: ATF Deputy Director Tom Brandon has suspended ATF Assistant Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations Bill McMahon, ATF Acting Deputy Director Billy Hoover and ATF Assistant Director in Charge of Field Operations Mark Chait until further notice from their cushy ATF management positions as the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, of which McMahon, Hoover and Chait were heavily involved in, is on going. The rumor is that Brandon
Guess everybody’s a RINO now. ~Bob. Excerpt: According to a Gallup survey released today, Mitt Romney is the now the only candidate who a majority of conservative and moderate/liberal Republicans nationwide see as an acceptable GOP nominee for president. Conservative Republicans are more likely to say Romney would be an acceptable nominee than either Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum. Fewer than half of conservative Republicans see Rick Perry, Ron Paul, or Jon Huntsman as acceptable nominees. And among moderate/liberal voters, none of the non-Romney candidates receives more than 40 percent when asked if they are an acceptable nominee.
City: Rat population has ‘exploded’ around Occupy D.C. camps
I hate rats, but I thought they had better taste than this. ~Bob. Excerpt: The rat population around the two Occupy D.C. camps at
McPherson Square
and Freedom Plaza
Obama picks immigration reform advocate to lead domestic policy
President Obama has picked a strong advocate of immigration reform to head his Domestic Policy Council. The White House announced Tuesday that Cecilia Muñoz, a former senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza, would replace Melody Barnes at the top of the council. White House press secretary Jay Carney announced the appointment during his press briefing.
Viva la revolucion! Mercedes channels Che Guevara for car tech
Excerpt: They said it, not me. "Some colleagues still think that car-sharing borders on communism," Mercedes-Benz Chairman of the Board of Management Dieter Zetsche said onstage at CES today, speaking about Mercedes' new CarTogether initiative. "But if that's the case, viva la revolucion!"
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