AP: GOP Fails To Show Scandal In Benghazi Deaths

From an irony proof Associated Press:

Dems: GOP fails to show scandal in Benghazi deaths

By CHARLES BABINGTON | May 9, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year’s fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats.

You see? That’s the only way in which Benghazi matters. How much it hurts Hillary or other Democrats.

History suggests it might be a tough lift. The issue is complex, the next presidential election is more than three years away, and a number of reports and officials have disputed criticisms of Clinton’s role when she was secretary of state.

That is, the Republicans will fail because the American public is too lazy to remember this.

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Seven Take-Aways From The Benghazi Hearings

From Bryan Preston at Pajamas Media:

7 Things We Learned from the Benghazi Whistleblower Hearing

By Bryan Preston | May 8, 2013

1. There were multiple stand-down orders, not just one. Special operations forces were told, twice, by their chain of command not to board aircraft to Benghazi to rescue the Americans then under attack. The U.S. deputy diplomat, Greg Hicks, testified that the military commander, Lt. Col. Gibson, had his team ready to go twice. They were on the runway about to board a flight to Benghazi in the middle of the attack. They were ordered to stand down and remain in Tripoli to receive wounded who would be coming out of Benghazi. One of the orders came in the middle of the attack, the other came toward the end after Hicks’ team had traveled from Tripoli to Benghazi.

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AP Says House Benghazi Hearings Are All Politics

From the Associated Press:

GOP Benghazi probe stokes political controversy

By DONNA CASSATA | May 8, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up information about last year’s deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, rejecting administration assurances to the contrary and stoking a controversy with implications for the 2016 presidential race.

Damn those Republicans are evil. Is there nothing they won’t do for political advantage? Clearly, there is nothing to their accusations, or the AP would have never led of their report on today’s hearings this way.

Republicans on five House committees are pressing ahead with their own investigations despite an exhaustive independent review that blistered the State Department…

A report made by either current of former State Department employees or hirelings.

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Another Green Energy Car Company Shuts Down

From USA Today:

Another company backed by DOE loans shuts down

Vehicle Production Group closed its office, but owes $50 million to the Energy Department

Chris Woodyard | May 8, 2013

A Michigan maker of vans for the disabled that received a $50-million Energy Department loan has quietly ceased operation and laid off its staff.

Vehicle Production Group, or VPG, stopped operations after finances dipped below the minimum threshold required by the government as a condition of the loan, says its former CEO, John Walsh. Though about 100 staff were laid off and its offices shuttered, it has not filed for bankruptcy reorganization.

VPG, of Allen Park, Mich., received its Energy Department loan under the same clean-energy programs under fire by House Republicans, especially the $527 million to troubled plug-in hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive and $535 million to solar startup Solyndra, which filed for bankruptcy reorganization…

VPG stopped operations after its assets were frozen by the Energy Department, he says.

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Disability Rolls Now Exceed Population Of Greece

From CNS News:

10,962,532: U.S. Disability Beneficiaries Exceed Population of Greece

By Terence P. Jeffrey | May 7, 2013

(CNSNews.com) – The total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,962,532 million in April, which exceeds the 10,815,197 people who live in the nation of Greece.

It also exceeds the population of every individual state in the union, except the top seven. It also far exceeds the population of New York City, which is only 8 million.

According to newly released data from the Social Security Administration, the record 10,962,532 total disability beneficiaries in April, included a record 8,865,586 disabled workers (up from 8,853,614 in March), 1,936,236 children of disabled workers, and 160,710 spouses of disabled workers…

April was the 195th straight month that the number of American workers collecting federal disability payments increased…

And yet we’re told the recession has been over since June of 2009.

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Salon: Fox Ruined ‘Cred’ Of Benghazi Witnesses

From Salon Magazine:

Benghazi returning as big scandal

The GOP may finally get its wish with three new whistle-blowers, but has it already undermined its cred?

By Alex Seitz-Wald | May 6, 2013

There’s been a lot of smoke in the would-be scandal over the Benghazi attacks, but no real fire yet.

Think of the willing blindness that went into that one sentence alone.

But that may change when three “whistle-blowers” give what Republicans expect to be explosive testimony this week before Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Oversight Committee. The controversy over the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in the Libyan city has smoldered, mainly on the right, but the testimony will likely push it back into the mainstream and could be an enormous distraction for an already injured second-term Obama.

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Reuters Sobs: Disgraced Sanford Wins House Seat

From Reuters:

Disgraced South Carolina ex-governor Sanford wins House seat

By Harriet McLeod | May 7, 2013

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – Former Republican Governor Mark Sanford made a stunning political comeback on Tuesday, rebounding from a sex scandal to beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a personality-driven election for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives that put a national spotlight on South Carolina.

What a nice unbiased headline. Has Reuters ever described Bill Clinton as "disgraced"? Besides, didn’t Mark Sanford do what he did ‘for love’? (Which is something Clinton could never claim.)

Aren’t we supposed to forgive anything and everything, if love is involved?

Sanford regained the First Congressional District seat he held from 1995 to 2001 before serving two terms as governor, the second of which was marred when he tried to hide an affair by falsely saying that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.

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Pentagon Finally Accuses China Of Cyber Attacks

From the New York Times:

U.S. Blames China’s Military Directly for Cyberattacks

By DAVID E. SANGER | May 6, 2013

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”

While some recent estimates have more than 90 percent of cyberespionage in the United States originating in China, the accusations relayed in the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on Chinese military capabilities were remarkable in their directness. Until now the administration avoided directly accusing both the Chinese government and the People’s Liberation Army of using cyberweapons against the United States in a deliberate, government-developed strategy to steal intellectual property and gain strategic advantage.

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US Gun Homicides Down Nearly 50% Since 1990s

From the Associated Press:

Reports show gun homicides down since 1990s

By ALAN FRAM | May 7, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun homicides have dropped steeply in the United States since their 1993 peak, a pair of reports released Tuesday showed, adding fuel to Congress’ battle over whether to tighten restrictions on firearms.

A study released Tuesday by the government’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that gun-related homicides dropped from 18,253 in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011. That’s a 39 percent reduction.

Another report by the private Pew Research Center found a similar decline by looking at the rate of gun homicides, which compares the number of killings to the size of the country’s growing population. It found that the number of gun homicides per 100,000 people fell from 7 in 1993 to 3.6 in 2010, a drop of 49 percent.

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Tebow Tops Forbes’ List Of Influential Athletes

From an quietly outraged Forbes Magazine:

Tim Tebow Tops Forbes’ 2013 List Of America’s Most Influential Athletes

By Tom Van Riper | May 6, 2013

Well, this would seem to be a first. The four most influential athletes in America really don’t play. At least not lately.

Idle NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has been back in the news, but not for any heroics: he was recently cut loose by the New York Jets after a one-year experiment as a part-time QB behind Mark Sanchez failed to yield results…

“For a backup quarterback to be talked about so much is incredible,” says Stephen Master, senior vice president of Sports for Nielsen, which conducted the surveys…

The three athletes in line behind Tebow haven’t seen much action over the past several months either: Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and Derek Jeter…

Meanwhile, from the Los Angeles Times:

Jason Collins memoir reportedly rejected by at least one publisher

By Chuck Schilken | May 6, 2013

Jason Collins may already be old news just a week after he became the first active male athlete in a pro team sport to publicly reveal he’s gay…

Collins is seeking a book deal for his planned memoirs, but at least one of the publishing houses his representative contacted has turned down the veteran NBA center.

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Transgenders Gain Admission To Sports Teams

From the (gay) sex obsessed New York Times:

Changing Sex, and Changing Teams

By IAN LOVETT | May 6, 2013

LOS ANGELES — … Professional sports have grappled with this question for decades, since Renée Richards, who was born male, underwent sex-change surgery and sued the United States Tennis Association to be allowed to play in the women’s draw at the 1977 U.S. Open: How, if at all, should transgender athletes be allowed to compete?

Surely, it is one of the burning issues of the day.

And now, high schools are beginning to take on the issue as well, as a small but growing number students who identify themselves as transgender have begun demanding access to the same school activities, like interscholastic sports, that other students enjoy.

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Senate Passes Internet Tax, But House Might Not

From the Associated Press:

Internet sales tax bill faces tough sell in House

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | May 7, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Traditional retailers and cash-strapped states face a tough sell in the House as they lobby Congress to limit tax-free shopping on the Internet.

To which we say, ‘thank God for the House.’

The Senate voted 69 to 27 Monday to pass a bill that empowers states to collect sales taxes from Internet purchases. Under the bill, states could require out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes when they sell products over the Internet, in catalogs, and through radio and TV ads. The sales taxes would be sent to the states where a shopper lives…

Which will turn every mom and pop internet site into a tax collector for the IRS.

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