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That’s All Folks
PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 3/5/2013 4:57:37 AM

Would you rather learn that your worst forebodings had been true; that things were not only as bad as you had feared, but worse than you could have imagined? Or would you prefer the consolation of empty hope, no matter how slender … and change no matter how slow … and hope … and change … and hope …? Former State Department adviser Vasili Nasr, “a university professor who was seconded in 2009 to work with Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, records his profound disillusion at how a “Berlin Wall” of domestic-focused advisers

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But, we all knew Jarrett was running things.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: pineledger, 3/5/2013 5:08:05 AM     (No. 9208804)

Meanwhile the Resident votes present and continues to campaign.


Reply 2 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 3/5/2013 7:50:36 AM     (No. 9208931)

FTA:"If Nasr right, the administration spends more time infighting than combating America’s enemies. And it spends more time politicking than anything else."

Gee! I hadn´t noticed, until now , that all he does is campaign.


   

 

  


 

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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 3:14:37 PM     Post Reply
I am always amazed — amazed — when anyone has the gall to dismiss, even laugh off, the suggestion that the right to keep and bear arms is a smart and necessary provision for a free society. Human history (not to mention current events!) is too chock-full of examples of nefarious regimes violently abusing and controlling their people, and the freedoms enjoyed by American citizens are the exception, not the rule. During a committee hearing of the Oregon state senate in considering their own state package of gun-control legislation last week, one testifier reminded the assembled lawmakers of one

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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 3:11:15 PM     Post Reply
A few years ago I interviewed a handyman to do some work on my house. I noticed a teardrop tattoo at the top of his left cheek. Prior to hiring him, I searched online for what this design signified. My mouth dropped when I found out. A teardrop tattoo can mean he murdered someone. So I hired someone else. Plastic surgeons and dermatologists are seeing more and more people who want their tattoos removed, often because they worry that the tattoos could cause problems with employment. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS),

Is a Breitbart.com vs.
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Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 2:29:32 PM     Post Reply
Andrew Breitbart has become an iconic and beloved figure on the right, so it’s hard to imagine his eponymous empire could be in danger of losing conservative support just one year after his passing. But if recent events are a harbinger of things to come, that’s at least a possibility. It all started last October, when BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins penned a controversial piece, arguing the outlet was “plagued by an unusual degree of disorganization and rampant infighting…” The report might have been easily dismissed, had it not been soon revealed that Breitbart.com’s Dana Loesch was suing Breitbart.com

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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 2:22:14 PM     Post Reply
And now the last of them is gone. Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Paul II—three who won the Cold War and, it isn´t too much to say, saved the West (at least for a while!)—are no longer with us. Their examples remain. They knew what they believed but also knew they had to justify their beliefs, and that one could adjust prudently to circumstances without yielding on principle. They stood firm when in power, and they took risks to get there, challenging the conventional wisdom and the respective establishments of their nations or institutions.

   

 

  


 
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Telegraph [UK], by Nick Britten    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 10:46:18 AM     Post Reply
The 16-year-old drew up detailed plans to massacre his classmates in Northamptonshire using handguns and home-made bombs. He created intricate classroom plans and a hit-list of fellow students and where they sat, and said he would carry on shooting until the police arrived, at which point he would take his own life. But after warning users on a forum that he would be armed and ready "20 minutes from now", one user called the FBI, who alerted police in England. On Monday the boy, who cannot be named because of his age,

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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 6:14:16 AM     Post Reply
Frustration is taking its toll in the liberals’ war against guns. President Obama, pushing his broad gun control agenda, said we should be ashamed if we’ve forgotten the Newtown shooting so soon. The New York Times opined that Obama is being shouted down by the “gun lobby,” even though he and Biden had been crisscrossing the country “…making a forceful case for a package of laws that would reduce gun violence.” That, of course, is the media narrative on gun control. For every issue there is a narrative: a set of assumptions and boundaries of thought

Complex Napoleon Rivalry
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 5:52:11 AM     Post Reply
GOLFE-JUAN, France—Frank Samson has prepared for a long time to meet his Waterloo. The French lawyer impersonates Napoleon Bonaparte at re-enactment battles, but it is no idle hobby. Mr. Samson has found what he says are perfect replicas of the French general´s gray overcoat, he has studied Napoleon´s native Corsican tongue and he has had himself crowned emperor of France, in a cathedral yet. In 2015, he wants to lead thousands of military enthusiasts into the ultimate re-enactment: the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo in Belgium. But an American rival stands in his way. Mark Schneider, an actor in Virginia

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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 5:42:18 AM     Post Reply
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Washington Examiner, by Byron York    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 5:37:13 AM     Post Reply
As the bipartisan Gang of Eight works to complete a comprehensive immigration reform bill, there has been a growing consensus among Senate Republicans that the bill — so far seen by no one outside the Gang — should be the subject of multiple hearings and extended consideration inside the Senate Judiciary Committee. But on Sunday there were signs that consensus does not extend to the Republicans inside the Gang. Appearing on CBS, longtime immigration reform advocate and Gang member Sen. John McCain suggested the immigration issue is so familiar to lawmakers that multiple hearings will not be necessary.

   

 



 
Liars! Illegal Immigration
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 5:25:44 AM     Post Reply
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Obama´s Dangerous Nuclear Dance
Daily Beast, by Leslie H. Gelb    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 5:11:33 AM     Post Reply
The White House press corps should ask President Obama this question: You’ve told Iran’s leaders that if they come close to marrying a nuclear warhead with a missile that can hit the United States or our allies, they should expect a U.S. military attack on their soil. (Snip)Administration officials would never admit it, but the main reason for their being tougher on Iran than North Korea seems tied to American domestic politics as much or more than anything else, specifically the standing of Israel and oil versus Korea and Japan.

How Texas Became
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New York Times, by Bryan Burrough    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/8/2013 5:04:06 AM     Post Reply
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM     Post Reply
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