The Right Stuff In The Morning
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Good morning! In the news today: The White House admits it should have sent someone more senior to the Paris march, but fails to provide a convincing explanation for why Obama or Biden didn't go; Hollande asked Netanyahu to stay away; ISIS hacks the U.S. central command social media accounts; Mitt Romney appears to be all in, gearing up for another run; Ryan gets out; and 2014 in fact doesn't seem to be the hottest year on record.
Have a great day.
Keith
Inexplicable . . . Who can even fathom the White House decision not to send the president or some other senior administration official to march along with world leaders in Paris Sunday, in solidarity with the principle that terrorists must not be permitted to rip free speech from Western civilization? White House Dossier
White House admits Paris error . . . “We should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there,” said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest during Monday’s briefing. But that “someone,” Earnest indicated, should not have been the president. White House Dossier
White House effort to insulate Obama falls apart . . . White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest Monday insisted that President Obama could not have attended Sunday’s march in Paris because security arrangements would have had an adverse impact on the event, but he admitted that the White House had not even consulted the Secret Service on the matter. White House Dossier
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Biden has other, very important work to do . . . Okay, I get it. Vice President Biden failed to attend the march in Paris because he has very important things to do. "Vice President Biden will host the first ever Caribbean Energy Security Summit in Washington, DC on January 26, 2015," the White House announced. White House Dossier
Holder declares war on terror back on . . . Attorney General Eric Holder Sunday acknowledged that the United States is in a “war” against terror, just about a year and a half after President Obama declared the war over. White House Dossier
Topping the day: Obama will meet with bipartisan congressional leaders.
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ISIS backers hack U.S. Central Command . . . The Twitter feed and YouTube accounts of U.S. Central Command — which controls all U.S. troops in the Middle East and south Asia — were hijacked Monday by hackers claiming to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The attack came as Obama was at the Federal Trade Commission, announcing that he would push Congress for new legislation to bolster cybersecurity. Reuters
Rubio: U.S. attack not "if, but when" . . . Florida Sen. Marco Rubio warns that “thousands of people around the world” are plotting terror attacks like the one on the staff of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and that an attack on America is “not a question of if, but when.” Says Obama kills terrorist instead of interrogating to get info. Yahoo News
West struggles to halt flow to Muslim war zones . . . For more than a decade, Western governments have struggled to stem the flow of their citizens traveling to fight in war zones in Muslim countries. But last week’s commando-style raids in France — carried out by at least one man who traveled to Yemen in 2011 to train alongside the Qaeda affiliate there — were deadly reminders that those measures have done relatively little to reduce the threat. New York Times
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Romney moves to reassemble campaign team . . . Mitt Romney is moving quickly to reassemble his national political network, calling former aides, donors and other supporters over the weekend and on Monday in a concerted push to signal his seriousness about possibly launching a 2016 presidential campaign. Washington Post
Romney 3.0 . . . Shortly after Election Day in 2012, a Mitt Romney supporter moaned about the failed GOP nominee’s performance: “We had no message, and we gave it to the worst communicator in the world.” Two years later, Romney is mulling over another campaign for the White House, and this time, he says, things will be different. Politico
Why conservatives should relish a Romney run . . . This time, with a battle for the middle, the influence of moderate voters will be diluted, as that of conservatives was last time. Daily Caller
Ryan Rules out 2016 run . . . Ryan, a budget wonk who has worked to curb entitlement spending, has said previously that he would not run for president if Romney — with whom he had a strong working relationship during and after the unsuccessful 2012 campaign — were to jump into the race. Politico
Ryan will be able to pretty much run Republican economic policy as chairman of the House Ways and Mean Committee.
Democrats next big issue . . . Democrats are seizing on the fight for mandatory paid leave in the United States as their next big pocketbook issue. The Hill
GOP forces Social Security change . . . Republicans say they passed the rule change to force reforms to the disability program, which they claim is rife with fraud and mismanagement. Democrats, unable to stop the shift, have called it a "stealth" move to cut benefits. Reuters
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Hollande asked Netanyahu not to attend rally . . . French President Francois Hollande did not want Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to come to Paris Sunday to participate in the march against terror so as not to divert attention from the theme of national unity the million-person event was intended to symbolize, according to Israeli media reports. Washington Free Beacon
The French just can't help themselves. Political correctness outweighs principle even in France's darkest hour.
France fears more terrorists at large . . . French authorities said Monday that as many as six members of a terrorist sleeper cell involved in last week’s attack on a satirical magazine in Paris may still be at large, as U.S. officials investigated the actual role played by al Qaeda’s main affiliate in the Middle East. Washington Times
Charlie Hebdo to publish more Mohammed cartoons . . . The next edition of Charlie Hebdo, out on Wednesday with a million-copy print run, will "naturally" contain cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, along with jibes against politicians and religions across the board, said the stricken weekly's lawyer. Telegraph
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Muslim leaders to hold "stand with the Prophet" rally . . . Muslim leaders from across America will gather in Texas this weekend to hold the annual Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect conference, a weekend forum that is being billed as a “movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message,” according to event information. Washington Free Beacon
Perfect timing.
2014 was really not so hot . . . Climate scientists and environmentalists sounded the alarm this year after Japanese climatologists reported 2014 was the warmest year on record based on global surface temperature readings. But satellite temperature data shows that 2014 was not even close to be the warmest on record. Daily Caller
What? The models all said we'd be roasting like the surface of the sun by now.
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