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U.S. Postal Service to Cut Saturday Mail

The U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday delivery as part of a strategy to halt losses at an agency that hemorrhaged $15.9 billion in its most recent fiscal year.

Meacham On Drone Kills: Obama Acting Like 'American King'

By: Mark Finkelstein | February 06, 2013 | 07:41

Barack The First? Wow: who would have thought that perhaps the strongest statement yet in condemnation of President Obama's self-arrogated right to kill Americans abroad would have come from Jon Meacham?  Yet on today's Morning Joe, historian Meacham—who knows something about the use and abuse of presidential power—criticized Obama for ignoring the "rule of law" and actually described Obama as acting like "an American king."

Joe Scarborough seconded Meacham's surprising statement, adding that had this come to light under George W. Bush, impeachment would be in the air.  View the video after the jump.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2KAwCziFP

PBS NewsHour Notes Concerns Over Drone Killings; Fails to Mention Liberal Rage Over Waterboarding

By: Matt Vespa | February 06, 2013 | 18:33

In the wake of the leaked Department of Justice memo detailing the legality of targeted killings by drones on American citizens, the PBS NewsHour found it fitting to have the ACLU defend its position in why these strikes are troubling, and why American-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki should’ve been kept alive to plan acts of terror against the United States.
Of course, this is maddening to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.  Liberal publications, like The Nation, detail the dark future of drone warfare, and some anti-drone journalists, like Conor Fierdorsdorff of The Atlantic, have compared Obama to Bush.  However, even with the media either criticizing, or ignoring, this development, last night’s broadcast of the PBS NewsHour didn’t take into account the hypocrisy of liberals who were on the warpath a few years prior after release of Bush memos related to enhanced interrogation techniques.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2KArorPxF

Hagel Vote Postponed

Financial concerns, lack of disclosures hold up Hagel vote

BY: Adam Kredo  —  February 6, 2013 4:49 pm

The Senate Armed Services Committee will not hold a vote Thursday on the confirmation of secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel.

 

Another FEMA Misfire

Report: Post-Katrina FEMA funds still unspent seven years later

BY: Lachlan Markay  —  February 6, 2013 4:00 pm

More than seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, federal grant funds marked for a nature center in the city have yet to be spent, leading federal watchdogs to recommend the revocation of some of those funds.

 

Harry Reid twice wrong on '$2.6 trillion' cuts in 'This Week' interview [VIDEO]

FactCheck.org calls out Harry Reid for being doubly wrong.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) answers a reporters questions after the Democrat's weekly policy luncheon, at the US Capitol, January 29, 2013, in Washington, DC. The leaders discussed pending immigration reform, bipartisan issues and the recent Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's recess appointments. UPI/Mike Theiler 

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Updated Feb. 6, 2013 at 4:42 PM

Published: Feb. 6, 2013 at 1:12 PM

FactCheck.org called out Senator Harry Reid for being doubly wrong in his claim that Congress has already cut $2.6 trillion from projected future deficits by reducing non-defense programs alone.
The site explained that not only did the legislation he referred to applied to both security and non-security spending, but that a considerable part of the deficit reduction came from tax increases and not spending cuts.
The worst part? The senator made the same erroneous statement twice. Reid made the affirmations on ABC's "This Week" on Feb. 3rd, were he also added that further deficit reduction should include more tax increases and cuts in military spending.

"The American people need to understand that it's not as if we've done nothing for the debt. $2.6 trillion, $2.6 trillion already we've made in cuts. And all those cuts have come from non-defense programs. We need to keep our eye on the prize and continue doing something about spending, but I think that what we need to do is do some of the things that Mitt Romney talked about. He said there's some low-hanging fruit; there are a lot of tax loopholes that should be closed. I agree with him. We haven't done that.," he said.

Later on, after host George Stephanopoulos probed the Senator on the issue, he repeated his claim saying,

"I repeat: $2.6 trillion already, all coming from non-defense. If we're going to have a sequester, defense is going to have to do their share"

According to FactCheck.org Reid inflated the $2.6 trillion figure for the show. The senator referred to the same figure as being $100 billion less, three days before on the Senate Floor.
“We have already made nearly $2.5 trillion in historic, bipartisan deficit reduction,” he said on the floor Jan. 31.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/02/06/Harry-Reid-twice-wrong-on-26-trillion-cuts-in-This-Week-interview-VIDEO/5911360174331/#ixzz2KAgoxIbx

Obama’s War on the Troops

Panetta calls for soldier pay freeze one year after TRICARE cut proposal

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
February 6, 2013 12:52 pm

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a 1 percent increase next year due to “budget uncertainties” related to sequestration.