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Unrequited Love
Weekly Standard, by Mark Hemingway
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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/27/2013 5:35:39 AM
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| On February 17, some 35,000 people showed up for a march outside the White House to protest construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The environmental lobby is going all out to stop the pipeline, which will transport oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries near Houston. In its ongoing offensive against the project, the Sierra Club has endorsed civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year existence. A Sierra Club protest outside the White House on February 13 culminated in the arrests of actress Daryl Hannah, former NAACP chairman Julian Bond, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/27/2013 6:03:12 AM (No. 9198348)
When are these journalists going to wise up and quit calling it the environmental lobby. Their correct name is eco-terrorists.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 2/27/2013 7:38:38 AM (No. 9198474)
Ah yes, the usual roundup of really dumb people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rustycfc, 2/27/2013 8:21:37 AM (No. 9198546)
these people are rich and do not care about the price of gasoline.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 2/27/2013 8:44:06 AM (No. 9198593)
"35,000 people showed up for a march" by driving their petroleum fueled cars
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Bathrooms Around the World
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Wall Street Journal, by Jeffrey Deaver
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/25/2013 3:51:59 PM
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THE BATHROOM IS LARGE, immaculate and low-lit, finished in rich wood, floor-to-ceiling mirrors and brushed metal. Wearing the thick bathrobe provided by an attendant, I walk from the shower to the wash basin. The heat radiates from the floor through my slippers. I have my own shaving gear with me but still browse through boxes and trays for accoutrements I might prefer. This is one of the nicest lavatories I´ve ever been in. It also happens to be 35,000 feet in the air. I´m aboard one of Emirates Airline´s double-decker Airbus A380s. According to the flight-progress map
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I Drive Your Truck
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National Review Online, by Lee Habeeb
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/25/2013 6:26:16 AM
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It happens now and then. You hear a story so sad, so beautiful, so filled with loss and pain and grief and love, that it makes you cry. Really cry. Two years ago, I was making a grocery run for my family on Memorial Day when a story came on the local NPR station in Oxford, Miss. It was about a father whose son had been killed in action in northwest Afghanistan. The father was Paul Monti; his son was Sergeant Jared Monti. Jared died in Afghanistan trying to save the life of one of his men.
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Why did British bystanders watch
a soldier get hacked to death?
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Daily Caller, by Mike Piccione
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/25/2013 6:11:23 AM
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The recent attack on a British soldier by assassins wielding meat cleavers while bystanders looked on raises the question: “Why didn’t anyone try to help the victim?” Because British citizens are prohibited from carrying objects that could be used as “offensive weapons.” While it is well known that Brits cannot carry guns, a lesser known law prohibits any subject of the Queen from carrying a knife of consequence, pepper spray or a stun gun.According to the United Kingdom government website, the online storehouse of British government regulations, it is illegal to:
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In Dallas, Makeover for ´Big
Tex´ Raises a Giant Ruckus
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Wall Street Journal, by Ann Zimmerman & Ana Campoy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/25/2013 6:06:29 AM
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DALLAS—It hasn´t been the best of years for Big Tex, the 52-foot-tall animatronic cowboy who has greeted visitors to the State Fair of Texas for decades. His mechanical hand, which waved from side to side as he bellowed "Hoooowdy folks," stopped working before the fair opened last September. His 60th birthday celebration, which was to include one of the country´s biggest marching bands, was rained out. Then catastrophe struck three days before the fair ended last October. After a suspected electrical short inside his size 70 cowboy boots, Mr. Tex went up in a burst of flames that devoured
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Don’t be afraid to
call evil by its name
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Boston Herald, by Joe Fitzgerald
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/25/2013 5:59:02 AM
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What would help a lot right now, as the chilling reality of savagery engulfs us, would be a cultural green light to begin calling evil what it is, to begin calling it by its name, to stop dancing around demographics because of the fear someone, somewhere will take offense. There is always someone, somewhere looking for a reason to be offended. Jesse Jackson has fashioned a lucrative career out of being perpetually peeved. It works if you know how to play the game. And one of the reasons it works is that too many people who ought to know better allow themselves
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White House silent about Holder
approving Fox News probe
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Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/25/2013 5:55:44 AM
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The White House on Friday didn’t respond to a report that Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the seizure a Fox News reporter’s phone and email records — and with no daily press briefing scheduled Friday that could mean silence from the administration through the Memorial Day weekend. NBC News reported Thursday that Holder approved the search of Fox News reporter James Rosen’s private emails and phone records in a probe of leaked government information. That revelation came just as the president ordered Holder to review Justice Department guidelines for investigating reporters. White House officials have not yet responded
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Can Obama Declare Peace?
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New York Sun, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/25/2013 5:49:26 AM
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President Obama’s speech at the National Defense University calling for an end to the war on terror forces the question of who gets to declare peace. The Left wing in our political debate has been agitating for some time to repeal the authorization to use military force that the Congress passed after 9/11. The President boarded the bandwagon yesterday. He vowed he would sign no laws designed to expand the mandate and declared outright that he looks forward “to engaging Congress and the American people in efforts to refine, and ultimately repeal” the congressional mandate to use force.
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Benghazi and Obama´s
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American Thinker, by James Lewis
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Posted By: magnante- 5/25/2013 9:20:44 AM
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Washington rumor has it that Obama wants to be U.N. Secretary General. There are several reasons that make that likely, and if it´s true, it throws new light on a lot of Obama´s oddities -- including his Royalty Bows, his Apology Tours, his Muslim Sellout, and the Benghazi Cover-Up. But first -- why would Obama be planning to become the chief of the U.N. before he has even finished his second term?
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Obama nominates Nuland for
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Politico, by Reid J. Epstein
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 10:08:52 PM
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President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration´s talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State´s top spokesperson, had long been expected to be nominated the post to replace Philip Gordon, who Obama picked to serve as Middle East coordinator for the National Security Council. Nuland´s nomination -- which requires Senate confirmation -- could come under scrutiny from Republicans who see her as playing a central role in shaping
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Anthony Weiner says Houston
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Houston Chronicle, by Nicole Narea
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 10:52:02 PM
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Anthony Weiner’s New York mayoral candidacy was only made more improbable today after he revealed that he visited a Houston psychiatric facility following his resignation from Congress in 2011. Haunted by scandal surrounding his sexually explicit online communications with women, the Democratic former congressman sought treatment for his compulsive behavior from mental health professionals at the Gabbard Center. According to its website, the facility provides “3-day outpatient psychiatric evaluation,” particularly to “professionals who are in personal or professional crises.” While Weiner did not disclose
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Bystanders in their own fate
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Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/24/2013 5:32:34 PM
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On Wednesday, Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, a man who had served Queen and country honorably in the hell of Helmand Province in Afghanistan, emerged from his barracks on Wellington Street, named after the Duke thereof, in southeast London. Minutes later, he was hacked to death in broad daylight and in full view of onlookers by two men with machetes who crowed "Allahu Akbar!" as they dumped his carcass in the middle of the street like so much roadkill. As grotesque as this act of savagery was, the aftermath was even more unsettling
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Mark Levin: "RINO" Issa Didn´t
Investigate IRS Before Because
He "Despises The Tea Party"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/24/2013 5:38:38 PM
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MARK LEVIN: So why didn´t Chairman Issa hold an investigative hearing a year ago? Why didn´t Chairman Camp, all Republicans, hold an investigative hearing a year ago, and all the other tripping over themselves right now? I´ll tell you why. Because the establishment Republicans, the RINO Republicans, despise the Tea Party. They despise the conservative movement. We exist to be managed, to be shuttled to the polling place, to vote for their candidates. The Karl Roves of the world, and all the rest of them. They fight us in the primaries, they fight us at the grassroots.
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Fox News’s Roger Ailes responds
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Washington Post, by Erik Wemple
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 11:00:19 PM
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Fox News chief Roger Ailes has sent a memo to his subordinates at the leading cable news network. He sent this memo to his staff today in connection with the federal investigation into an alleged leak to Fox News reporter James Rosen, a story that the Washington Post’s Ann E. Marimow broke earlier this week. The memo’s a masterpiece, too. For all those who wonder what it is about Ailes that endears his people to him — and that makes him such a good interviewee for any media reporter lucky enough to get an audience
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Obama Asks Staff to
Start Cc’ing Him on Stuff
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New Yorker, by Andy Borowitz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/24/2013 5:31:36 AM
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WASHINGTON —In a dramatic departure from existing White House procedures, President Obama requested today that his staff start cc’ing him on stuff. “Look, I know a lot of you think I’m really busy and you don’t want to bother me,” the President reportedly told his staff in an Oval Office meeting. “But cc me anyway. It’s good for me to keep up on what’s going on around here.” “It’s not good when I turn on the news and they’re talking about something at the White House and I’m like, whoa, when did that happen?”
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