Tampa Tribune, by Richard Mullins Posted By: Hazymac- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:41:25 GMT TAMPA '' For years, political campaigns have made millions of automatic, pre'recorded calls to the home phones of America, imploring people to vote this way or that. Now, with the campaign for president and Senate topping a full Nov. 5 ballot, those calls are starting to ring up cellphones, too. Here's the bad news if you're burning with frustration over the cellular minutes you just lost listening to a political pitch: The calls aren't going to stop. Go ahead and sign up on the Do Not Call Registry, but it won't help. Cellphones are the new frontier for political "robo'calling,"

Tampa Tribune, by Richard Mullins Posted By: Hazymac- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:41:25 GMT TAMPA '' For years, political campaigns have made millions of automatic, pre'recorded calls to the home phones of America, imploring people to vote this way or that. Now, with the campaign for president and Senate topping a full Nov. 5 ballot, those calls are starting to ring up cellphones, too. Here's the bad news if you're burning with frustration over the cellular minutes you just lost listening to a political pitch: The calls aren't going to stop. Go ahead and sign up on the Do Not Call Registry, but it won't help. Cellphones are the new frontier for political "robo'calling,"

Tampa Tribune, by Charles S. Faddis Posted By: Hazymac- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:33:52 GMT Several years ago, prior to my retirement from the CIA, I was meeting with a senior Iranian asset in the Middle East. I had finished debriefing him on the intelligence he had to provide, and we had launched into a more expansive conversation about the overall direction of American policy toward Iran. I was trying to explain the rationale behind our sanctions regime and the thought process that had led us to conclude that we could persuade the Islamic Republic of Iran to modify its behavior. The asset interrupted me. "You really don't have any idea who you are dealing

Tampa Tribune, by Charles S. Faddis Posted By: Hazymac- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:33:52 GMT Several years ago, prior to my retirement from the CIA, I was meeting with a senior Iranian asset in the Middle East. I had finished debriefing him on the intelligence he had to provide, and we had launched into a more expansive conversation about the overall direction of American policy toward Iran. I was trying to explain the rationale behind our sanctions regime and the thought process that had led us to conclude that we could persuade the Islamic Republic of Iran to modify its behavior. The asset interrupted me. "You really don't have any idea who you are dealing

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Posted By: Donttaxmebro- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:12:32 GMT On Sunday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Washington Post columnist George Will said that last week’s decision — and subsequent reversal — by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to take funding away from Planned Parenthood was strictly about abortion and less about women’s health, adding that the case illustrates how far liberals are willing to take the fight to defend abortion. “This is not about women’s health. This is about providing 300,000 abortions a year. Planned Parenthood cleverly cast this saying, ‘We are in the mammogram business.’ They’re not in the mammogram business — they are in the referral of mammograms.

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Posted By: Donttaxmebro- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:12:32 GMT On Sunday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Washington Post columnist George Will said that last week’s decision — and subsequent reversal — by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to take funding away from Planned Parenthood was strictly about abortion and less about women’s health, adding that the case illustrates how far liberals are willing to take the fight to defend abortion. “This is not about women’s health. This is about providing 300,000 abortions a year. Planned Parenthood cleverly cast this saying, ‘We are in the mammogram business.’ They’re not in the mammogram business — they are in the referral of mammograms.

Corpus Christi Caller Times [TX], by Elaine Marsilio Posted By: JoniTx- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:07:11 GMT CORPUS CHRISTI — Clarissa De La Paz said she has caught herself writing at school like she texts with her friends. "I'm just, like, 'Oh my gosh! I just said LOL,'" the Ray High School junior said. OMG moment or no prob? Clarissa, 16, tends to erase those kinds of mistakes before she turns in an assignment, but some teens may not be so lucky. After all, texting is ingrained in the typical teenage lifestyle. In the Corpus Christi Independent School District, texting lingo has invaded some classroom assignments such as written essays, typed opinions about up'and'coming technology and answers

Corpus Christi Caller Times [TX], by Elaine Marsilio Posted By: JoniTx- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:07:11 GMT CORPUS CHRISTI — Clarissa De La Paz said she has caught herself writing at school like she texts with her friends. "I'm just, like, 'Oh my gosh! I just said LOL,'" the Ray High School junior said. OMG moment or no prob? Clarissa, 16, tends to erase those kinds of mistakes before she turns in an assignment, but some teens may not be so lucky. After all, texting is ingrained in the typical teenage lifestyle. In the Corpus Christi Independent School District, texting lingo has invaded some classroom assignments such as written essays, typed opinions about up'and'coming technology and answers

Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf Posted By: MissMolly- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:17:44 GMT After Newt Gingrich lost the Nevada caucuses Saturday, he could've given a gracious concession speech like a more conventional candidate. Instead he offered a reminder of why it is so difficult to believe anything he says. (Snip) It's an appealing notion of what a politician owes to the regular Americans who help fund their campaigns. But it sounds like pious baloney coming from a guy who has been urging Rick Santorum to drop out of the race for weeks. In any case, he began his remarks by pledging to stay in the race all the way to the Republican convention.

Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf Posted By: MissMolly- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:17:44 GMT After Newt Gingrich lost the Nevada caucuses Saturday, he could've given a gracious concession speech like a more conventional candidate. Instead he offered a reminder of why it is so difficult to believe anything he says. (Snip) It's an appealing notion of what a politician owes to the regular Americans who help fund their campaigns. But it sounds like pious baloney coming from a guy who has been urging Rick Santorum to drop out of the race for weeks. In any case, he began his remarks by pledging to stay in the race all the way to the Republican convention.