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Am I a Threat?

American Thinker, by A Marine Officer Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 12/21/2012 8:16:37 AM Post Reply

I am a Commissioned Officer currently serving on Active Duty in the United States Marine Corps. I have deployed five times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I have been granted a Top Secret security clearance three times during my career after thorough background investigations (and polygraph tests) by various Federal agencies. I have never in my life been treated for any type of psychological disorder. I am also the owner of several firearms; I own two "assault" rifles, a shotgun, and three handguns.

America’s Failing Mental Health System:
Families Struggle to Find Quality Care

Time Magazine, by Maia Szalavitz Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 12/21/2012 8:07:46 AM Post Reply

When Paul Raeburn needed immediate help for his suicidal son, he had few good options. The teen had threatened to sit on nearby railroad tracks until a train came. Even though Raeburn, a leading health and science writer, was in a position to know more about the best available mental health services and treatment options for his son than most, when a crisis hit, he felt he only had one choice: to call the police and risk that his child would wind up incarcerated rather than hospitalized.

The Tired Race Card

National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 12/21/2012 7:52:12 AM Post Reply

When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren’t all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow? I was in the room when, during the Democratic convention, civil-rights hero John Lewis suggested that Republicans wanted to “go back” to the days when black men like him could be beaten in the street by the enforcers of Jim Crow. I thought it an outrageous and disgusting bit of demagoguery. The audience of Democratic delegates cheered in a riot of self-congratulation.

For ‘A Well-Regulated Militia,’
What Firearms, Gear, and
Skills Should You Own?

PJ Media, by Bob Owens Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/21/2012 7:48:34 AM Post Reply

The brutal murders of 20 schoolchildren and six adults in Newtown, CT, stunned the world last week. A mentally ill young man apparently discovered that his long-suffering mother was going to attempt to have him committed to a psychiatric facility; he took out his rage upon her and then his former elementary school’s faculty, staff, and students. It was senseless. It was barbaric. As parents, it is difficult for us to cope with the thought of having our youngest beloved ripped from us by any method, much less something as abhorrent as intentional, callous murder.

Boehner Plan B: House
Republicans humiliate their leader

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/21/2012 7:39:33 AM Post Reply

House Republicans embarrassed their speaker Thursday night by shutting down his Plan B to protect all but millionaires from a tax hike, come Jan. 1. How close was the GOP to having enough support for Speaker John Boehner’s plan? A senior leadership aide replied glumly, “Not close enough.”The outcome stunned House leadership: In one vote (or nonvote), the all-or-nothing crowd handed the high ground back to the president, who can now rightly claim that House Republicans would rather raise everyone’s taxes than raise them on millionaires. It is a stunning miscalculation, one that allows the president and

Reagan’s House Heroes Stop Plan B

American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/21/2012 7:22:24 AM Post Reply

Call it a Reykjavik Moment. An Air Traffic Controllers Moment. Both of which were Reagan Moments. Moments in American history when, under extreme pressure, Ronald Reagan simply refused to buckle. Against all the chorus shouted from the media and congressional bleachers — that he had failed by walking out on a bad deal with Gorbachev or recklessly fired striking air traffic controllers who were striking against federal law — Ronald Reagan never blinked. And the fact that he didn’t blink made America — and the world — an infinitely better place. Thursday night 13 conservative House Republicans defeated

Drunken Santas, carol-singing
soldiers and a surprise visit
from Mr T: Nine generations
of First Families reveal what
it´s REALLY like to Christmas
in the White House

Daily Mail (UK), by Helen Pow & Meghan Keneally Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/21/2012 7:13:21 AM Post Reply

Christmas crossed partisan and generational divides in a new Christmas special where five former First Ladies and a host of former first children all sat down to talk about the holiday season in the White House. Jenna Bush Hager talked about how she loved having Mexican food for their holiday meal, and Amy Carter said a highlight for her was when the annual theme turned to Victorian dolls which she loved as a child. Barbara Bush talked about how the man who dressed up as Santa may have dabbled in the eggnog. ´Do you remember the Santa

Cabinet contender Chenault
is frequent Obama guest at
White House

The Hill [Washington DC], by Megan R. Wilson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/21/2012 7:06:45 AM Post Reply

American Express chief executive Kenneth Chenault, who is seen as a potential Cabinet pick for President Obama, is a familiar face at the White House, the Federal Reserve and other agencies, records show. Chenault is a member of Obama’s Jobs Council and has made 18 trips to the White House since 2009, according to visitor logs. He’s also made stops at the Federal Reserve, including two sit-down chats with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in 2009 and 2010, and has kept in regular contact with senior officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Australian boy´s egg collection
turns into nest of deadly snakes

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/21/2012 7:02:40 AM Post Reply

A 3-year-old Australian boy was lucky to escape uninjured after a collection of eggs he found in his yard hatched into a slithering tangle of deadly snakes. Reptile specialist Trish Prendergast said Friday that young wildlife enthusiast Kyle Cummings could have been killed if he had handled the eastern brown snakes -- the world´s most venomous species on land after Australia´s inland taipan. Kyle found a clutch of nine eggs a few weeks ago in the grass on his family´s 3-acre property on the outskirts of the city of Townsville in Queensland state, Prendergast said.

We survived! Deadline passes for ´end
of the world´ without raining fire or
killer earthquakes - so we´ll just
let the Mayans get on with it

Daily Mail [UK], by Beth Stebner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/21/2012 6:57:00 AM Post Reply

Phew! You can let out your breath now - the earth is still safely on its sphere despite Doomsdayer predictions of an impending apocalypse to coincide with the end of the Mayan age. The human race has successfully navigated the 11.11am deadline on 21.12.12 - at least it appears so with no reports of the globe being besieged by raining fire or killer earthquakes. For centuries, the ending of the Mayan calendar, which occurs today, has been taken as a sign of an impending Armageddon. But now there may be a few sheepish looks in a corner of

TIME Magazine Honors Andrew
Breitbart in End of Year Issue

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/21/2012 6:53:25 AM Post Reply

In the December 19th edition of TIME Magazine, Andrew Breitbart was honored in the publication´s "Tribute to Those We Lost" for 2012. Andrew was a warrior, a new media pioneer, and a loving husband and father. He is terribly missed by all those here at Breitbart News. The full text of TIME´s tribute can be read below: Maybe the most telling thing about the news that conservative blog impresario Andrew Breitbart had died was that many people didn’t believe it, even though it was reported on his website.

Revealed: U.S. carried out 333
drone strikes in Afghanistan
this year alone - more than
the entire drone strikes in
Pakistan over the past
eight years COMBINED

Daily Mail [UK], by Bet Stebner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/21/2012 6:49:20 AM Post Reply

The United States carried out more drone strikes in Afghanistan this year than it has done in all the years put together in Pakistan since it launched the covert air war there eight years ago, it has been revealed.[Snip] All of these strikes, Wired notes, are occurring during a time when U.S. troops are thinning out their presence in Afghanistan and the war is winding down. The incredible use of remotely-piloted drones mark a new way of fighting the war in Afghanistan as the forces left behind depend more and more on these weapons.

Reproduction without sex,
a liberating future

CNN, by Aarathi Prasad Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 12/21/2012 6:44:39 AM Post Reply

Last year on the 50th anniversary of the creation of the contraceptive pill its inventor Carl Djerassi spoke of the coming dramatic changes to reproductive options -- of the technologies that will have just as big an impact on society in the 50 years to come. After sex without reproduction, reproduction without sex. In an article in the UK´s "traditional values" tabloid, the Daily Mail, titled "A Terrifying Future for Female Fertility," Djerassi said, "There are an enormous number of well-educated, proficient women who, when facing the biological clock, first pay attention to their professional ambitions...

Walmart SELLS OUT of guns as
Americans rush to stockpile
weapons in aftermath of
SandyHook school shooting

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/21/2012 6:38:29 AM Post Reply

Demand for firearms has exploded in the U.S., wiping store shelves clean of guns and ammo in nearly every town, city and state since the school shooting in Connecticut and ensuing calls for stricter gun laws. Gun retailers as large as Walmart are nearly sold out of every type of firearm, including semiautomatic rifles like the one that 20-year-old Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school on Friday. A quick search for a handful of firearms that Walmart advertises turned up no results at store locations in a dozen states, including

Trash on the Hudson

American Spectator, by Mark Tooley Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 12/21/2012 6:32:22 AM Post Reply

Bill Murray would seem an unlikely Franklin Roosevelt. But the promos for Hyde Park on Hudson show him surprisingly persuasive, amid the charm and beauty of FDR’s upstate New York estate. There he famously entertained the King and Queen of England in 1939 as part of his stagecraft for persuading Americans eventually into another wartime alliance with Britain against Germany. It was a sort of hot dog summit, with the somewhat surprised royals enjoying mustard on casual American fare in a picnic. But I’ll be skipping this movie, thanks to reviews from the New York Post and the Washington Post,

Fiscal cliff: were the
Mayans right after all?

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/21/2012 6:27:26 AM Post Reply

America’s government chose not to govern yesterday, as Republican House Speaker John Boehner cancelled a tax vote in Congress because he calculated that he didn’t have the votes to pass it. The result: America now looks set to go over the fiscal cliff. The Mayans might have been wrong about the end of the world, but they might be on target about the end of John Boehner’s career. Aside from being very bad news for America’s economy, this is a disaster for Republicans. What went wrong? Earlier on in the day the House had narriwly passed

Santa distributes needles and condoms
in Bronx health clinic video

Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 12/21/2012 6:25:34 AM Post Reply

A Bronx health clinic is promoting its services with a new video featuring Santa Claus distributing free needles and condoms. CitiWide Harm Reduction (CitiWide) posted the video, titled “Santa Passes Out Clean Needles for Christmas,” on its website for the holiday season. The video features not only Santa, but also clinic workers dressed like elves dancing to José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” with various needles, drug kits and condoms. CitiWide is a needle-exchange program that offers drug users clean needles and other products to help combat HIV and hepatitis

France´s Anti-Rich Boomerang

RealClearWorld, by Fabio Fiallo Original Article

Posted By: cebuyer- 12/21/2012 6:06:05 AM Post Reply

Throughout the election campaign that brought him to the country´s executive office in May of this year, France´s President Francois Hollande proudly advertised himself as a rich-basher. Remarks like "I don´t like the rich" and "my enemy is the world of finance" were often well received by voters inclined to believe that economic activity is a zero-sum game in which a capitalist´s gain implies a worker´s loss, and vice versa.

Marooned in Mexico

Daily Caller, by Chet Nagle Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/21/2012 5:48:28 AM Post Reply

Ion Perdicaris, a Greek-American, was kidnapped in 1904 in Tangier by Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli and held for $70,000 ransom. Outraged, President Theodore Roosevelt sent warships and Marines to Morocco, along with a message: “This government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.” Perdicaris was freed. Today, not one, but hundreds of Americans rot in Mexican jails. The State Department stopped reporting numbers years ago, but in 1998 CNN reported 400 U.S. citizens were imprisoned in Mexico, more than in any other nation.

Pork for Christmas

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 12/21/2012 5:43:23 AM Post Reply

Only Congress could do something like this. All eyes are on the fiscal-cliff negotiations to trim the $1 trillion-plus budget deficit. Running alongside but largely out of public view is a $60.4 billion emergency spending bill to provide relief to the victims of superstorm Sandy. Trouble is, the "Sandy" bill is laden with billions of dollars of spending stowaways wholly unrelated to the hurricane. Did anyone really think earmarks would stay buried? There´s $150 million in there for Alaskan fisheries. We knew Sandy made it to the Midwest, but Alaska? Marine projects

U.S. Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton
admits to secret life as escort

Sports Illustrated, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/21/2012 5:39:41 AM Post Reply

Three-time U.S. Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton admitted to working as a Las Vegas escort for the past year, reportedly offering her services as recently as Dec. 5 in a secret life that she said only her husband had known about until now, TheSmokingGun.com first reported on Thursday. Favor Hamilton, 44, who also runs a real estate brokerage firm in Wisconsin with her husband, was once featured in a Nike television commercial, a swimsuit calendar and had more recently been involved in promotional work with Disney. Her work as a call girl had allegedly taken her

Not just guns, PETA
wants hunting banned

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/21/2012 5:35:00 AM Post Reply

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to take the gun control debate to a whole new level: banning hunting. Claiming hunting desensitizes children to killing humans, the group plans to make their case Friday by crashing the National Rifle Association´s press conference downtown at the Willard Hotel where they are expected to cite some form of gun ownership and sales changes they would support. PETA officials told Secrets that they will be protesting at the hotel with signs that read "Teach Kindness, Not Killing," and "Get ALL living beings out of the crosshairs: Ban Hunting."

It´s the 21st: No doomsday yet,
Mayan calendar aside

CBS News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Jloophole- 12/21/2012 5:31:53 AM Post Reply

In the darkness before dawn Friday, spiritualists prepared white clothes, drums, conch shells and incense ahead of the sunrise they believe will herald the birth of a new and better age as a vast, 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendar comes to an end. No one was quite sure at what time the Mayas´ 13th Baktun would officially end on this Dec. 21. Some think it already ended at midnight Thursday. Others looked to Friday´s dawn here in the Maya heartland. Some had later times in mind.

Good Laws Will Never
Abolish All Evil

Boston Globe, by Jeff Jacoby Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/21/2012 5:29:42 AM Post Reply

IT IS REMARKABLE how confident so many people are that they know what causes – and just how to prevent – horrific massacres like Friday´s bloodbath at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. In a TV interview over the weekend, one observer insisted that the mass-murder in Newtown was all too predictable, given America´s failure to implement an obvious and desperately overdue reform. "Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?" this individual demanded, showing no hint of uncertainty about exactly what needs to be fixed. Who was that? Was it Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel,

Stage Is Set for a Scott Brown
Comeback — If He Wants One

National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/21/2012 5:19:17 AM Post Reply

Boston’s NPR: WBUR poll of 500 registered voters finds U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is in a strong position should there be a special election to fill U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s seat. MassINC pollster Steve Koczela looked at how well Brown would fare against four current or former Democratic members of Congress. “We matched him up theoretically against (U.S. Reps.) Ed Markey, Mike Capuano, Steve Lynch and (former U.S. Rep.) Marty Meehan, and in each one of those cases, he led by between 17 and 19 points,” Koczela said. Dang.

The Auto Bailout Failure
Is Now Complete

Creators Syndicate, by David Harsanyi Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/21/2012 5:13:29 AM Post Reply

You may recall that during the presidential election, the Treasury Department refused requests by General Motors to unload the government´s stake in the giant automaker. Taxpayers had sunk $50 billion into a union bailout in 2009 and were now proud owners of 26.5 percent of the struggling company. Reportedly, GM had growing concerns that the stigma of "Government Motors" was hurting sales in the United States. At the time, any transaction would have come at a steep loss to taxpayers and undermined the president´s questionable campaign assertions that the auto union rescue had been a huge success.

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