BLM Spurned Chief Ranger's Recommendation to Close National Monument Near Mexican Border for Safety Reasons | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) -- The chief ranger of the 478,000-acre Sonoran Desert National Monument, which sits in south-central Arizona about 60 miles north of the Mexican border, recommended that the monument be closed to the public because of what he believed to be a safety threat posed by drug smugglers coming across the Mexican border and moving through the monument."

Mrs. Obama’s Separate Hawaii Travel Likely Costs at Least $63,000 | The Blog on Obama: White House Dossier

I'm fine with their 10000 vacations......I always want our Officials safe....however...just IMAGINE if this was GWB.....

The decision by First Lady Michelle Obama to leave on schedule for her two-week Hawaii vacation and not wait a few days for her delayed husband will probably cost taxpayers more than $63,000 in additional expenses, according to a White House Dossier analysis.

President Obama was supposed to depart for Hawaii Saturday, but decided to stay in Washington until Congress finishes its work for the year. He’s now expected to depart today or tomorrow. But Mrs. Obama chose to leave without him Saturday, taking their two children and the dog along with her."

Boy, 13, Busted For Illegal Marker Possession | The Smoking Gun

Good lord...this is what public education is coming too......

According to an Oklahoma City Police Department report, the boy was spotted “in possession of a permanent marker” by Roosevelt Middle School teacher DeLynn Woodside. The 50-year-old educator told cop Miguel Campos that the student was “writing on a piece of paper, which caused it to bleed over onto the desk.”"

FT.com / US / Economy & Fed - Slow US growth highlights fragility

The US economy grew slower than Wall Street analysts had expected in the third quarter, and the housing market continued to struggle, highlighting the challenges of sustaining a fragile recovery.

Analysts, who had initially forecast that 2010 would see a modest upturn in housing, are now predicting that prices will decline in 2011 by as much as 10 per cent, as a record number of distressed properties floods the market. The ongoing weakness has prompted some Wall Street economists to call for major intervention by Washington to head off prolonged stagnation."

Barney Frank: Not Allowing Gays and Straights to Shower Together is ‘Discrimination’ | The Blaze

I always thought "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" was just a dumb way to handle this situation...(Not that I have a clue how to address it ) However...all I can say is "Here We Go".....

Not allowing gay military personnel to shower with straight military peronnel would be “discrimination.” That’s the position of Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), an openly gay member of Congress who is a proponent of banishing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy."

Mass. School Requires Permission Slips to Recite Pledge of Allegiance | The Blaze

I swear...only in this State......jeez..................

A public school in Brookline, Massachusetts is bringing back the Pledge of Allegiance. Except now, in a move that suggests the recitation and its words are controversial, the school is requiring parents to sign a permission slip so their kids can participate."

American Thinker: Seeds of Financial Catastrophe

Although our economy is still struggling to recover from what is now the longest recession since the Great Depression, the latter was a much greater catastrophe. From 1929-1939, unemployment reached as high as 25%, industrial production dropped 46%, wholesale prices fell 32% and foreign trade dropped 70%.

There is a general consensus about one of the most significant contributing factors to the financial crisis of the Great Depression:"

Harry Potter Actress Beaten, Called a Prostitute by Family for Seeing Non-Muslim | The Blaze

Afshan Azad, the 22-year-old British actress who portrayed Padma Patil, a classmate of Harry Potter in the blockbuster Hollywood films, was reportedly beaten, called a ‘whore’ and threatened with death by members of her own family after dating a young, non-Muslim man."

CBS Airs Fake George W. Bush Cover Mocking ‘Decision Points’ | The Blaze

Jeez...."it was just a mistake"......

Yes, you’re reading that right. CBS aired a Bush book cover that says, “Desision Points: How I Managed to Go Eight Years without Making One Good Decision.” CBS has since backpedaled, saying it was an unintentional mistake:

“Good catch: it’s a mistake no one could see because you’d have to freeze the frame to notice it. Another cautionary tale about the risks of the internet age – clearly, we have to be more careful when downloading material.”"

Yet more shallow blithering from Meghan McCain | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Much political hay has been made recently about Speaker-elect John Boehner’s habits and quirks. His smoking, drinking, golfing, and moments of tears have proven to be great fodder for pundits, writers and talk show hosts. I thought all this would pass soon enough and his work as Speaker, not his superficial traits, would begin to shape the American public’s view of him."

EPA to double down on climate | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

So....he didn't read "How to KILL an Economy 101" Chapter one.....so we roll out Chapter 2???? Who is John Galt....

The Obama administration is expected to roll out a major greenhouse gas policy for power plants and refineries as soon as Wednesday, signaling it won’t back off its push to fight climate change in the face of mounting opposition on Capitol Hill."

Christmas Sweater Club Punished At Local High School | WUSA9.com | Washington, DC |

Candy Canes as weapons......It's official - we have collectively LOST OUR MINDS.......

HAYMARKET, Va. (WUSA) -- They call themselves the 'Christmas Sweater Club' because they wear the craziest ones they can find. They also sing Christmas songs at school and try their best to spread Christmas cheer.

Now all 10 of them are in trouble because of what they did at their school.

'They said, 'maliciously maim students with the intent to injure.' And I don't think any of us here intentionally meant to injure anyone, or did,' said Zakk Rhine, a junior at Battlefield High School."

Government liabilities rose $2 trillion in FY 2010: Treasury | Reuters

The Financial Report of the United States, which applies corporate-style accrual accounting methods to Washington, showed the government's liabilities exceeded assets by $13.473 trillion. That compared with a $11.456 trillion gap a year earlier."

PRUDEN: Nothing neutral about this unholy scheme - Washington Times

The fixers here are pursuing something called 'net neutrality,' which will change the way certain Internet providers pay for privileged rights to the Web and charge their customers accordingly. 'Net neutrality' sounds good to anyone not paying attention, but it must be accomplished by a seizure of authority to do so, a seizure not by Congress (which would be scary enough), but by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)."

Scott Brown to support New START treaty - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com

Scott is turning into Olympia Snowe LITE.....John Kerry will turn on Scott no matter what.....watch and learn!

WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry, laboring to achieve a foreign policy victory that would be a highlight of his career, gained crucial support yesterday for a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia from his Massachusetts colleague, Republican Senator Scott Brown."

Attorney General Eric Holder's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks - ABC News

'What I am trying to do in this interview is to make people aware of the fact that the threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is constant,' he said."

NJ Gov. Chris Christie commutes Aitken’s sentence | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie commuted the sentence of Brian Aitken’s Monday, reducing his sentence from seven years in prison to time already served. According to Christie’s order, he will be released as soon as it’s “administratively possible.”"

Napolitano Says DHS to Begin Battling Climate Change as Homeland Security Issue | CNSnews.com

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

(CNSNews.com) - At an all-day White House conference on 'environmental justice,' Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations."

Big freeze: Temperatures plummet to -10C bringing travel chaos across Britain | Mail Online

Sooooooooooooooooooo, How's that Global Warming workin' out for ya???

Swathes of Britain skidded to a halt today as the big freeze returned - grounding flights, closing rail links and leaving traffic at a standstill.

And tonight the nation was braced for another 10in of snow and yet more sub-zero temperatures - with no let-up in the bitterly cold weather for at least a month, forecasters have warned."

The Associated Press: New govs take office amid historic budget crisis

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's incoming governor, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, says he won't raise taxes even though he will inherit a budget deficit of at least $9 billion when he takes office in January. Ohio Republican Gov.-elect John Kasich is promising to cut taxes, despite a shortfall of about $8 billion.

And in California, incoming Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown — who ardently pursued innovative clean energy and environmental protection programs during his first stint in office, in the revenue-rich 1970s and '80s — will have to figure out this time how to close a budget gap projected at more than $25 billion."

EXCLUSIVE: FCC Dems Narrowing Net Neutrality Gaps - Tech Daily Dose

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is making progress in narrowing gaps with his two Democratic colleagues over his controversial plan to adopt sweeping new rules for the Internet, National Journal has learned. But with the talks very fluid, and differences remaining, there's still a possibility that the regulatory initiative could be pulled at the last minute from the agenda of Tuesday's commission meeting."

Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations

This headline alone tells you all you need to know about "Net neutrality".....

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended plans for a law that would impose broadcast-type regulations on the Internet, saying Sunday that his government should protect citizens against online crimes."

Cops: Mother Cuts Out 4-Year-Old Daughter’s Heart While Reciting Koran | The Blaze

Coming to a neighborhood near you!

Police say an East London Muslim woman has been arrested for murder after she was found chanting the Koran over her 4-year-old daughter’s disemboweled body.

Young Nusayba Bharuchi’s lifeless body was found stabbed to death in the kitchen with her heart and other organs cut out and strewn around the apartment and lying next to her mother, Shayna.

London’s Daily Mail says the killing appears to be part of a religious offering. The paper reports:"

Barney Frank: Double-Dip Estate Tax Not Punishment Because Heirs Didn’t do Anything to Deserve It | The Blaze

And exactly WHAT has HE done to deserve all we will wind up paying him out of OUR pockets? A financial crisis the likes of which I've never witnessed...that's what....It's this mind-set that is so dangerous coming out of DC.

Barney Frank: Double-Dip Estate Tax Not Punishment Because Heirs Didn’t do Anything to Deserve It"

Omaha Steaks ‘Pulls’ Glenn Beck Advertising, Then Backtracks…Or Did It? | The Blaze

Earlier this week, Omaha Steaks reportedly caved to liberal pressure from StopBeck.com and Media Matters and dropped its advertising on all Glenn Beck programs. But there’s only one problem, Omaha Steaks says that never happened.

Here’s how StopBeck.com reported the yanking on Thursday (emphasis by StopBeck) via Gateway Pundit:"

The American Spectator : A Tax with Teeth and Clause

The implicit argument for the legality of Obamacare is that the country hasn't taken the Constitution seriously in decades. So why start now? Since all branches of the federal government have colluded in ignoring and violating the Constitution for this or that 'good' cause over the years, why insist on returning to it? Nancy Pelosi relied on this implicit argument when she sputtered 'Are you serious?' to a question last year about Obamacare's constitutionality."

The American Spectator : A Fatwa on Liam Neeson?

Liam Neeson is the voice of Aslan the Lion in the new 3-D Narnia film, 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader.' He's got a great voice for the role. Neeson is even from the North of Ireland, the same area from which C.S. Lewis, the beloved Christian author of The Chronicles of Narnia hailed."

The American Spectator : Scott Brown's Dilemma

BOSTON -- Noam Scheiber, writing in the New Republic, says that Barack Obama has found the model that will allow him to win a second term against all odds: the reelection of Deval Patrick as governor of Massachusetts."

Who Killed DREAM? The Tea Party Did - Newsweek

Season of the Witch! Roy Beck, CEO of the highly effective restrictionist immigration lobby Numbers USA, has posted a cold-eyed and revealing post-game analysis of his victory over the so-called DREAM Act Saturday morning. The two main conclusions:"

Robert M. McDowell: The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom - WSJ.com

Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented step to expand government's reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the agency will circumvent Congress and disregard a recent court ruling.

How did the FCC get here?"

My Way News - New population count may complicate Obama 2012 bid

WASHINGTON (AP) - The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month's devastating elections."

Republicans fail in second bid to amend START - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A second Republican bid to amend President Barack Obama's strategic nuclear arms treaty with Russia failed during debate in the Senate on Sunday and top Democrats expressed confidence they would have the votes to approve the accord."