Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy

Latest Articles

Post New Article

Discerning Frack from
Fiction: What´s Relevant

The Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm Original Article

Posted By: AVFD15- 3/14/2013 10:08:32 AM Post Reply

Last week, political, media and celebrity worlds converged to produce headlines worthy of “News of the Weird.” Sean Penn eulogized anti-American strongman Hugo Chavez as “a friend (America) never knew it had,” while Dennis Rodman declared North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “an awesome guy.” Upon returning from the starving gulag-state, Rodman scored a Sunday interview with George Stephanopoulos, and CNN declared him a “diplomatic triumph.” But perhaps the most captivating cause celebre — likely to transform advocates into media and campus darlings — is the crusade to halt the drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). However, if you expect

Schumer’s Transfer Tyranny

National Review Online, by Charles C. W. Cooke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/14/2013 10:07:20 AM Post Reply

Yesterday, S. 374, or the “Protecting Responsible Gun Sellers Act of 2013” as it has been inexplicably termed, passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by ten votes to eight. If it were to become law, S. 374 would usher in what advocates refer to as a system of “universal background checks.” It would do a lot more, besides. As it stands in our ostensibly ghoulish status quo, a free American citizen may leave his guns with his unrelated roommate for more than seven days; he may lend a gun to a friend so

Why haven’t we heard from the
Benghazi survivors, six months later?

Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/14/2013 10:05:19 AM Post Reply

We already know Hillary Clinton would answer that question with another question: “What difference does it make?” But that only works for people who think she’s a hero for getting away with endlessly lying about it, because the people who want her to stop endlessly lying about it are Republicans. And if Republicans want to know the truth about what happened, it must not be worth knowing.

Pope Francis Brings Lessons Of
Argentina´s Marriage Fight To Rome

Buzzfeed, by J. Lester Feder Original Article

Posted By: happywarrior- 3/14/2013 10:04:08 AM Post Reply

Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement, the gay rights activist who was the first to legally marry his partner in Latin America sent out a jubilant tweet. Argentina´s Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio "cannot be pope," wrote Alex Freyre, because "he lost his papabile status the instant I married @josedibellow. Same for any other Argentine priest." On Wednesday, Freyre was proven wrong.

GOP lawmakers threaten to
subpoena Benghazi survivors

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Julian Pecquet & Carlo Muñoz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/14/2013 10:02:34 AM Post Reply

Republican lawmakers are threatening to subpoena U.S. survivors of the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Exasperated GOP members say unless they get more answers from the White House, they will call on the survivors to testify before Congress, and might hold up President Obama’s nomination to replace the U.S. ambassador who was killed on Sept. 11, 2012 in Libya. The recent revelation that U.S. survivors are recuperating at Walter Reed Hospital has sparked GOP demands that the White House provide Congress with access to them. It has also breathed new life into the controversy

Children of the Corn

National Review Online, by Kevin D. Williamson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/14/2013 10:01:43 AM Post Reply

Everybody loves the idea of the self-sufficient farmer — hardy, independent, working his own land to produce what he needs on his own terms. It is a romantic vision, unless you have the experience of having lived that way: In the modern parlance, we call that economic model “subsistence agriculture,” and it is associated with places like Afghanistan and Uganda, a neolithic standard of living, and intervals of famine. But the nice thing about having a primitive economy is that the economics gets real simple real quick. Let’s say you live in Grainville, population 100,

Wisconsin’s VISTA Program Encourages
Volunteers to Overcome White ´Privilege’

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Burke Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 3/14/2013 10:01:07 AM Post Reply

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) wants its white VISTA volunteers who work with low-income, racially diverse public schools to examine the “privilege” their Caucasian race confers on them. DPI devotes an entire Web page to “Power and Privilege,” including links to racial justice workshops and online tests where VISTA volunteers can “learn about your personal bias.” One “diversity” document linked to DPI’s Web site suggests that white people “wear a white wristband as a reminder about your privilege, and as a personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.”

White House tour move
backfires on Obama

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Amie Parnes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/14/2013 9:59:00 AM Post Reply

The White House is playing defense over the decision to cancel tours at President Obama’s residence, the latest stumble for Obama in the messaging war with Republicans over the sequester. White House press secretary Jay Carney fielded a series of pointed questions Wednesday about why the tours had to be canceled. Emboldened House Republicans also challenged Obama on the issue at a private meeting on Capitol Hill. With Obama’s poll numbers dipping to near 50 percent, Republicans have seized on the issue, criticizing the president for canceling the tours as a stunt to hurt Congress,

America’s New Theocracy

American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/14/2013 9:57:44 AM Post Reply

Welcome to America’s New Theocracy. Please take a pew while we kneel reverently and pray the Gospel of Banning. Guns. Soda. Salt. SUVs. Trans Fats. Plastic bags. Have I mentioned: Styrofoam. Fracking. The Bible. Rush Limbaugh. Conservative talk radio. Fox News. Plastic bags. Smoking. Shark fin soup. Bacon. Paper Bags Oil. Coal. The internal combustion engine. Incandescent light bulbs. And don’t forget the Foie Gras. One could keep going, but suffice to say these things are on the short list of things liberals in America either have banned or seek to ban. All with a religious fervor

´Status quo´ leader: Same
sex marriage, abortion unlikely
under Pope Francis

NBC News, by Miranda Leitsinger Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 3/14/2013 9:55:39 AM Post Reply

Known as a compassionate Argentine archbishop who eschewed the trappings of his role to live amid his flock and who focused on the poor, Pope Francis will likely keep to Catholic teachings that reject abortion and same-sex marriage, experts said Wednesday. Francis washed the feet of 12 AIDS victims living at a hospice in 2001, an action filled with symbolism in the Roman Catholic Church since it was reminiscent of Holy Thursday and the washing of the apostles’ feet by Jesus. But in 2010, while Argentina was debating

Biden’s office apologizes to student
reporter for ‘unfortunate mistake’

Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/14/2013 9:54:37 AM Post Reply

The office of the vice president has apologized to a University of Maryland student after a member of Joe Biden’s staff confronted the college reporter and forced him to delete photos of an event. Capital News Service reporter Jeremy Barr was covering Biden’s announcement of a new domestic violence initiative, he told Patch News, and accidentally sat in an area not meant for the media. Barr took a few pictures of Biden at the podium. After the event, a staffer for Biden confronted him and demanded to watch as he deleted the pictures from his camera.

Paul Ryan’s cruelly radical vision

Washington Post, by E.J. Dionne Jr. Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/14/2013 9:53:50 AM Post Reply

Thanks to this plan, nobody can take the House Budget Committee chairman seriously anymore as a policy wonk or a true deficit hawk. His budget is the work of an ideologue. It’s a bargaining ploy that even Ryan concedes is merely “a vision.” It is full of holes and magic asterisks, the biggest being his refusal to detail any of the middle-class tax deductions he would have to scrap to get to his 25?percent income tax rate. This would represent an astonishingly large cut from the current 39.6?percent rate for incomes of over $450,000 a year.

Shocking stun-gun lapse at Kennedy

New York Post, by Larry Celona and Philip Messing Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/14/2013 9:36:02 AM Post Reply

A Greek national was able to slip a stun gun past inept TSA agents at Kennedy Airport yesterday after using it in the alleged rape and assault of his ex-girlfriend in Queens, authorities said. Prodromos Vasilopoulous was about to board a Virgin Atlantic flight to London when he was picked up by authorities at the gate at around 8 a.m. He had the stun gun in his Nike carry-on bag, and had no trouble getting it past the security checkpoint, sources said. Vasilopoulous, 23, had purchased the weapon in London. “He did get through [Transportation Security Administration] screening without that stun gun

Shadow of the Gun

FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 3/14/2013 9:31:54 AM Post Reply

Every day another one of the stories comes in. A teacher panicked by a plastic gun, an army man on a cupcake, a t-shirt, a pop tart chewed into the shape of a gun or a finger gun, hits the panic button. (Snip) Gun-free zones mean places where guns cannot be mentioned, depicted or even symbolized as if the refusal to concede the existence of a firearm will eliminate the threat of it being used on the premises. This isn’t a precautionary attitude, but a pacifist one. Gun horror is not a productive emotion, but learned helplessness disguised as

Jeff Gordon drives almost
as fast as Obama spends

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 3/14/2013 9:24:38 AM Post Reply

Coincident with President Obama´s faux peace offensive on Capitol Hill, CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) holds its annual sessions for thousands of conservatives trying to revive their spirits and hopes for 2014 and 2016. We´ll be at the conference the rest of the week as Republicans Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Scott and Walker and Jeb Bush make their case before enthusiastic followers. Prediction: No one will support Obama´s drive to boost the national debt another $6 trillion. Now we´re gonna have some fun here.

Enraged protesters battle cops in
Brooklyn streets during third night
of rioting after it´s revealed that
16-year-old Kimani Gray was
shot in the back

New York Daily News, by Chelsia Rose Marcius and Shane Dixon Ka Original Article

Posted By: lasvegaslou- 3/14/2013 9:21:30 AM Post Reply

Protesters enraged over the fatal shooting of a teenager by police poured into Brooklyn streets for a third straight night Wednesday, pitching bricks, bottles and garbage in furious clashes with cops. At least 18 demonstrators were arrested along Church Ave. in East Flatbush. Police struggled to control a hostile crowd that broke away from a planned peaceful vigil for Kimani (Kiki) Gray, 16, killed by police on Saturday night.

Why is John Boehner
Leading From Behind?

National Journal, by Ron Fournier Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/14/2013 9:11:26 AM Post Reply

When an anonymous Obama adviser described the president’s nuanced approach to Libya in 2011 as “leading from behind,” a GOP talking point was born. Republicans knowingly distorted the quote into a campaign attack. “President Obama,” House Speaker John Boehner said four months before last year´s election, “needs to learn that when it comes to jobs and the economy ‘leading from behind’ is not good enough.” Now who’s leading from behind, Mr. Speaker? In a condescending and fact-challenged op-ed published today, the leader of the GOP-controlled House figuratively patted Obama on the head for finally dealing directly with Capitol Hill.

Passengers: Power outages, overflowing
toilets on another Carnival cruise ship

CNN, by Tina Burnside & Ed Payne Original Article

Posted By: happywarrior- 3/14/2013 8:50:06 AM Post Reply

A vacation cruise aboard the Carnival Dream in the Caribbean is quickly becoming a nightmare, a month after a fire crippled another Carnival ship in the Gulf of Mexico. Several passengers aboard the Dream have contacted CNN, telling stories of power outages and overflowing toilets, all while docked in port at Philipsburg, St. Maarten, in the eastern Caribbean.

Good riddance to a medal

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 3/14/2013 8:49:20 AM Post Reply

This administration certainly loves drones, but even that ardent passion has limits. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday put a stop to production of a medal that was to be awarded to drone operators, and not a moment too soon. It wasn’t just the idea of the Distinguished Warfare Medal that offended good sense. The real outrage was ignited by the goofy idea to give it precedence over medals awarded for bravery and valor.

Francis Accedes to Papacy at a Time
of Growing Importance of the Church

New York Sun, by Conrad Black Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/14/2013 8:43:17 AM Post Reply

Let us start from the premise that no one other than intimates of Pope Francis has any idea what the new pope is going to do. Let us further agree that 95% of the editorial outpourings on the subject at this early point, probably including this one, are flimsy conjecture produced under duress of urgent request for comment, no matter how unqualified the writer (completely so in this case), to predict anything about the new pope with confidence. A few things are certain: The vast crowd in St. Peter’s Square and down the Via della Conciliazione should afflict t

Gun bill would make
SC an open carry state

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/14/2013 8:37:29 AM Post Reply

South Carolina gun laws could leave more people armed if a new proposed bill makes its way through the House and Senate. An Upstate state senator has proposed a bill that would eliminate concealed carry permits and turn South Carolina into an open carry state. Monday night a packed council chamber room gave Bright the input he was looking for on a bill to eliminate concealed carry permits and allow people to carry guns in the open, making South Carolina a "constitutional carry" state. So far, Vermont, Alaska, Arizona and Wyoming are constitutional carry states.

Pope Francis: A
Disappointment for Catholics Who
Don´t Like Being Catholic

American Thinker, by Drew Belsky Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 3/14/2013 8:26:32 AM Post Reply

How can we tell that the conclave made a good decision in elevating Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy? Exhibit A (through at least D): liberals are annoyed. But leftists´ problems with Pope Francis, well-emblazoned as they were within hours of the announcement, reveal some crucial truths about the Church that even many Catholics are loath to confront. When it came to Benedict XVI, the willfully uninformed chattering class had a field day -- rather, a field eight years

Only Seven Minutes After White
Smoke, CNN Features Women´s
Ordination Activists

Newsbusters, by Matt Hadro Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/14/2013 8:26:13 AM Post Reply

It took only seven minutes after the announcement of a new pope for CNN to interview women´s ordination activists in St. Peter´s Square. The liberal activists were the first interviewees on CNN after the white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney. Correspondent Miguel Marquez pointed out their "ordain women badges" and gave credence to their cause. "We have heard this across the U.S. and around the world, certainly, that people do want and hope for a more open, transparent, liberal, progressive church," he noted. [Video below the break. Audio here.]

Baghdad ministry bombings kill 12

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/14/2013 8:21:38 AM Post Reply

At least 12 people have been killed in a series of bomb and gun attacks on government buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police officials say. The apparently co-ordinated attacks left at least 30 people injured. The foreign and justice ministries were among the buildings targeted, reports say. Although violence has decreased in Iraq since the height of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, bombings and shootings are still common. Police say Thursday´s attacks all happened near the Allawi area, not far from the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses several foreign embassies and Iraqi government offices.

Physicists say they have
found a Higgs boson

Associated Press, by John Heilprin Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/14/2013 8:12:46 AM Post Reply

GENEVA - Physicists said Thursday they are now confident they have discovered a crucial subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson - a major discovery that will go a long ways toward helping them explain why the universe is the way it is. They made the statement following study of the data gathered last year from the world´s largest atom-smasher, which lies beneath the Swiss-French border outside Geneva. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said that what they found last year was, indeed, a version of what is popularly referred to as the "God particle"

Ah, Wilderness! Mountain
Man vs. the Building Inspector

Wall Street Journal, by Valerie Bauerlein Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/14/2013 8:11:47 AM Post Reply

BOONE, N.C.—Eustace Conway says he has stared down a grizzly bear, wrestled a thrashing buck and ridden a horse from coast to coast. But he may have met his match in the Watauga County planning department. Mr. Conway, 51 years old, is best known as "The Last American Man," the title character of a 2002 biography and National Book Award finalist by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of "Eat, Pray, Love." He has lived in the wilderness since the early 1980s. He traps, shoots and grows much of his own food, makes pants out of buckskin and stitches his own wounds.

Next 25 Articles