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I’ll be riding across the deserts of Texas with
wounded warriors to show the unbelievable character of our men
and women in uniform... it’s a ride to herald people who were
dealt a severe blow and said, ‘I’m not going to let it tear me down.’”
- President George W. Bush

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Has the West already lost its will to survive?

Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele Original Article

Posted By: davesenior- 5/26/2013 2:17:33 AM Post Reply

Have the terrorists already won? Did the enormity of 9/11 somehow short-circuit our brains so that we now view smaller levels of political violence as somehow acceptable? Or are we being intentionally conditioned to excuse terrorism as a legitimate means of effecting social change? [SNIP] The evidence is overwhelming that, whether intentionally or not, Western society has become habituated to violence that in previous generations would have spurred not just outrage but immediate action.Call it the terrorist’s best friend —the ultimate reason why terrorism is effective in the first place— a sort of Stockholm syndrome response to violence.

Jumping to conclusions

PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez Original Article

Posted By: Hazymac- 5/26/2013 1:24:44 AM Post Reply

The news article reads like a scene from Marvel comics. The Washington Post reports that a “French soldier [was] stabbed in neck by robed attacker” in Paris. Robed? You mean like Dr. Strange? (Snip) Pity the readers who thought it was about robes. There is something definitely afoot, for despite the the mystery about which we should not jump to conclusions the authorities seem to have a very definite idea what the actual words are which no one is allowed to utter. Any article using those specific words or phrases, none of which are supposed

Judge bars racially charged
protests from private property

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Vernon Clark Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 5/26/2013 1:02:48 AM Post Reply

A Common Pleas Court judge has blocked a religious group from holding loud, racially charged demonstrations in front of the entrance to One Liberty Place at 16th and Chestnut Streets. Judge Ellen Ceisler, in a ruling issued Thursday, barred gatherings by a group that the owners of One Liberty Place said spewed hatred toward whites, women, and gays. They said the demonstrations disrupted the peace, disturbed passersby, and interferred with business at nearby shops. The group, which calls itself the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, gathered weekly, bullhorns in hand, and chanted offensive rants,

In North Carolina, unimpeded
GOP drives state hard to the right

Washington Post, by Michael A. Fletcher Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/25/2013 10:14:35 PM Post Reply

RALEIGH, N.C. — Backed by throngs of chanting supporters, dozens of liberal demonstrators are subjecting themselves to arrest each Monday at the state legislature here to protest a flurry of bills that could transform North Carolina into a model of conservative governance. The state’s hard turn to the right comes less than five years after people took to the streets here to celebrate the 2008 victory of Barack Obama, the first Democratic presidential candidate to capture the state since Jimmy Carter in 1976. The win prompted Obama’s supporters to crow about the growing influence of progressive

Hezbollah chief defends group’s
involvement in Syrian war

Washington Post, by Loveday Morris Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/25/2013 10:12:39 PM Post Reply

BEIRUT — The leader of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah on Saturday defiantly defended sending his fighters to support President Bashar al-Assad’s army in neighboring Syria and proclaimed that they would be victorious. Hasan Nasrallah’s televised address provided the clearest public acknowledgment to date that his men are fighting alongside Assad’s troops and will continue to do so. As he spoke, Hezbollah and government forces were escalating an assault on the strategically important Syrian town of Qusair. A staunch ally of Iran as well as Assad, Hezbollah has deepened its involvement in Syria’s two-year-old civil war in recent weeks

Leak Inquiries Show
How Wide A Net U.S. Cast

New York Times, by Ethan Bronner * Original Article

Posted By: Ken M.- 5/25/2013 9:56:32 PM Post Reply

Washington — Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters’ sources for two other articles about terrorism. In a separate case last year, F.B.I. agents asked the White House, the Defense Department and intelligence agencies for phone and e-mail logs showing exchanges with a New York Times reporter writing about computer attacks on Iran. Agents grilled officials about their contacts with him, two people familiar with the investigation said.

Beverly Cancels Memorial Day
Parade Due To Lack Of Veterans

WBZ-TV [Boston, MA], by Jim Armstrong Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 5/25/2013 8:50:05 PM Post Reply

Beverly - This Sunday, the streets of Beverly will look just like they always do. And that’s the problem, some veterans say. The city has cancelled its annual Memorial Day parade for what’s believed to be the first time since the end of the Civil War. Many veterans who were gathered at the Herman A. Spear American Legion Post on Friday night are upset by the decision. “It’s not right to me,” says Ron Innocenti. He is a Vietnam veteran who has not only marched in the city’s Memorial Day parade in the past, he says he has also been its grand marshal. He hates to cancel because

Syria activists look to a
grave for evidence against Assad

Los Angeles Times, by David S. Cloud Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/25/2013 8:37:52 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON— The hunt for proof that Syrian government forces used banned chemical weapons may come down to a rotting corpse exhumed late last month from a makeshift cemetery near Damascus. The grave diggers — a Syrian doctor and several medical students — were seeking tissue from the remains of a man who had died of respiratory failure after a rocket allegedly spewed poison gas on Dariya, a suburb of the Syrian capital, on April 25. Reaching the cadaver several feet down, the team sliced open the cloth shroud, cut into the torso and removed a small piece of lung.

Bonedigger the crippled lion forms
an inseparable bond with Milo the
miniature sausage dog who even
helps him cleans his teeth!

Daily Mail [UK], by Sara Malm Original Article

Posted By: Topic Thunder- 5/25/2013 8:37:26 PM Post Reply

A lion and a miniature sausage dog have formed an unlikely friendship after the little dog took the king of the jungle under his wing as a cub. Bonedigger, a five-year old male lion, and Milo, a seven-year old Dachshund, are so close that Milo helps the lion clean his teeth after dinner. The 500lbs lion dwarfs little Milo, yet after the dog took the disabled lion into his protection as a cub, Bonedigger has rarely left his side. The two have been inseparable over the past five years at G.W. Exotic Animal Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.

Claws come out as PETA goes after
anonymous online commenters
for shelter kill claims

New York Post, by Julia Marsh Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/25/2013 8:26:04 PM Post Reply

The animal rights group PETA is hunting down personal information for anonymous commenters who allegedly defamed the organization by lambasting its pet euthanasia policy on the Huffington Post, according to a new Manhattan civil lawsuit. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the court to release names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other private details about three bloggers who reacted to an April 2 posting by a no-kill shelter advocate that's received almost 5,000 comments and 240,000 "likes" on Facebook. The missive,

A speech to ´kiss and
make up´ with his base

American Thinker, by Silvio Canto, Jr. Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 5/25/2013 8:10:30 PM Post Reply

What do you do when your base is angry about Guantanamo? I guess that you promise to close it again. You also blame Congress for not giving you the money to do it. The problem is that it was a Congress controlled by Democrats that did not provide the funding. What about drones? You promise that we will "drone" more carefully from now on. Let´s hope that the terrorists will cooperate by keeping children away from them. What about tapping reporters phones? You say that it was about national security and because that "darn Congress"

Marine sues, claims he was
‘detained over Facebook posts’

WTVR-TV [Richmond, VA], by Scott Wise Original Article

Posted By: hoosier observer- 5/25/2013 7:59:37 PM Post Reply

Richmond, Va. – The Chesterfield Marine who claimed he was wrongfully detained over posts he made to Facebook has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Chesterfield Police officers and other government workers, according to his attorneys from The Rutherford Institute. They claim Brandon Raub’s First and Fourth Amendment Rights were violated when FBI agents appeared at Raub’s Chesterfield home last summer. Raub claims the agents questioned him about his Facebok postings on the government’s version of 9/11 and the role of the Federal Reserve.

Hillary Clinton and the
´Feminine Mystique´

Politico, by Kate Glueck Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/25/2013 7:41:28 PM Post Reply

For Hillary Clinton, any gender-related problems she encountered in previous races have been “wiped out,” and her gender would only be an asset if she runs in 2016, writer Anna Quindlen asserted on Thursday. “I think the gender issue as a problem or a deal breaker — ‘Can we have a woman as president of the United States?’ … it was wiped out,” Quindlen said at a talk at the Center for American Progress in Washington. “It was wiped out when she ran and nearly won in 2008, and it since has been even further wiped

Andrea Tantaros advises listeners
to punch Obama supporters

Washington Post, by Erik Wemple Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/25/2013 7:10:48 PM Post Reply

On her radio show yesterday, Fox News provocateur Andrea Tantaros mouthed an impassioned defense of journalists against the intrusions of the Obama administration: Let me tell you how people and journalists are being treated these days. They are being stalked, they are being spied on. In Missouri, a news station fired an anchor who talked about the IRS shakedown. Yeah, fired. This is how corrupt the left is. And now, journalists can’t even get into the IRS offices in Ohio, where this alleged scandal started, without an armed guard. This is what is happening to our press.

French anti-terror soldier has throat
slashed in Paris by ´man of North
African origin in Woolwich
copy-cat attack´

Daily Mail [UK], by Peter Allen Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/25/2013 7:05:22 PM Post Reply

A uniformed French soldier on anti-terrorist duties in Paris had his throat cut by a knife-wielding man tonight. The savage attack follows the murder of a British soldier by two men using weapons including knives and a meat cleaver. One of the suspects said they were acting in the name of Islam. Today there were fears that the Paris attack was a copy-cat crime and that a radical Muslim might once more be responsible. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said he believes the attack was aimed to kill the soldier. French president Francois Hollande said authorities were investigating any

Perry’s first veto strikes down
dark money disclosure bill

Houston Chronicle, by David Rauf Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/25/2013 7:05:01 PM Post Reply

UPDATE: Perry responds to SB 346 veto: “Freedom of association and freedom of speech are two of our most important rights enshrined in the Constitution. My fear is that SB 346 would have a chilling effect on both of those rights in our democratic political process. While regulation is necessary in the administration of Texas political finance laws, no regulation is tolerable that puts anyone’s participation at risk or that can be used by any government, organization or individual to intimidate those who choose to participate in our process through financial means. At a time when our federal government

In defense of Lois Lerner

Washington Post, by Joel Achenbach Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/25/2013 7:03:09 PM Post Reply

The week that was as seen through the lens of the one and only Joel Achenbach. Reading the commentary on the IRS hearings, it’s clear that the overriding rule in Washington opinion circles is that the moment someone says they have done nothing wrong is when the presumption of guilt hardens into an incontrovertible fact of guilt, with only the punishment left to be decided. The corollary is that if someone exercises her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, she should be immediately incarcerated. To take the Fifth is tantamount to a confession, even though the actual

We’re going to blow up plane

The Sun (U.K.), by David Willetts Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/25/2013 7:01:46 PM Post Reply

TWO RAF jets were scrambled to intercept a Pakistani airliner after two passengers allegedly declared: “We’re going to blow this plane up.” Stunned crew launched a terror alert yesterday afternoon after the men reportedly started a scuffle by trying to force their way into the cockpit of the Manchester-bound airline. The Typhoon war jets flew out from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the Boeing 777 and its 297 passengers to Stansted in Essex. Two British nationals aged 30 and 41 — who are said to be of Pakistani descent — were last night being held

Even for liberals, Obama
has crossed a line

Telegraph [UK], by Janet Daley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/25/2013 6:58:15 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama announced an end to America’s war on terror last week. In future, he declared, he would restrict the unmanned drone attacks that had been his own signature anti-terrorist initiative, and he would really, really make an effort to shut down the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay--as he had promised to do way back when he was running for president the first time. Presumably, this pronouncement was designed to win back the favour of the liberal media, which has been energetically disowning him ever since his administration staggered into the most spectacular series of Washington scandals since Watergate.

Dem: Republicans throwing
infrastructure ´under the bus’

The Hill, by Keith Laing Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/25/2013 6:55:43 PM Post Reply

A Washington state Democrat is accusing Republicans of “throwing American infrastructure … under the bus” after a bridge collapse there this week. The portion of Interstate 5 in Washington that runs over the Skagit River collapsed on Thursday after a truck hit an overhead support structure, but Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) cited the incident in an interview as proof Republicans were blocking infrastructure investment to hurt President Obama politically. “Well, they have clearly spent the whole last five years trying to tear the president down, but they have done it by throwing the American infrastructure and

The Other Benghazi Scandal

The Weekly Standard, by Todd Linberg Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/25/2013 6:54:37 PM Post Reply

The complexity of Washington scandals as they unfold usually involves many moments at which it is possible to lose sight of the forest for the trees. Two such instances have come into sharper relief in recent weeks. One is that we still have no good explanation for U.N. ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points for her round of talk show appearances the Sunday after the 9/11/12 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. A second is that focusing on the question of whether the loss of four lives there could have been

Stafford veteran recalls
golden WWII mission

Free Lance-Star [Fredericksburg, MD], by Rusty Dennen Original Article

Posted By: ArtieC- 5/25/2013 6:29:50 PM Post Reply

Most people are lucky enough to handle maybe a few ounces of gold over the course of a lifetime. But what would it be like to be in the presence of 30 tons of the precious metal? Just ask Adam C. Glover. As a 17-year-old deckhand serving on a Navy destroyer escort during World War II, he helped move a small mountain of Polish gold from Africa to New York in a top-secret mission to keep it out of the hands of the Nazis. Glover, now 86, recalled the unlikely March 1944 adventure in a recent interview. “We pulled into Dakar,” a port in French West Africa, “and there was a whole convoy

´Detropia´ Film Explores Detroit´s
Fall and Possible Comeback

Yahoo! News, by Marilisa Sachteleben Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/25/2013 5:42:33 PM Post Reply

There´s been a lot of discussion lately about what Detroit needs. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Kevyn Orr emergency manager over Motown several months ago. If Orr can´t get the books in order in the next six weeks, the city faces possible bankruptcy, reports Reuters. Why is the once-glorious birthplace of the automobile in so much trouble? On Monday, May 27, PBS Independent Lens airs an important film, "Detropia," that explores the crisis in Detroit. Here are some issues presented in the documentary. "Detropia," a Loki Films project, is not just a film drive-by of Detroit ruins.

Pricey Beef Puts Heat
on U.S. Grilling Season

Wall Street Journal, by Kelsey Gee, Ian Berry * Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 5/25/2013 5:17:20 PM Post Reply

As Americans prepare for Memorial Day—the official kickoff to a summer grilling season of burgers and T-bones—rising beef prices have some consumers balking in the grocery aisles. Retail beef prices are widely expected to set new records in coming weeks after wholesale prices, or the amount meatpackers charge sellers for beef, hit an all-time peak this past week. After achieving new highs for three weeks, choice-grade beef, the most common variety in the U.S., jumped to $2.1137 a pound Thursday, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Justice Department Investigated
a New York Times Reporter, Too

Atlantic, by Connor Simpson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/25/2013 4:47:20 PM Post Reply

The New York Times reports the Department of Justice investigated national security leaks given to Times reporter David Sanger over his story last year about the Stuxnet virus by pulling all the email and phone records of government officials who communicated with the reporter. Last summer, Sanger reported the U.S. helped develop the Stuxnet virus and used it to attack Iran, becoming the first country to carry out a sustained cyber attack with the intent of destroying another country´s infrastructure. The was some hoopla and a hullaballoo about leaks and DOJ investigations, the Associated Press

Female suicide bomber injures 18
in Russian region of Dagestan

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/25/2013 4:43:59 PM Post Reply

A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, police said. (Snip) It was the first suicide bombing in Dagestan since the Boston Marathon bombings last month. The Tsarnaev brothers suspected of carrying out those attacks are ethnic Chechens who lived in this turbulent Caucasus province before moving to the U.S. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother who was killed a shootout with police days after the April 15 bombings, spent six months in Dagestan in 2012.

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