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Thursday, December 25, 2014

In the news, Thursday, September 21, 1939


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from Spokane Daily Chronicle

Final Empire Edition
p. 3
ENDEAVOR SOCIETY WILL HAVE PARTY
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hardt are the parents of a girl, Shirley Ann, born this week at Gibson Hospital.

Inland Edition
p. 2
KERMIT ROOSEVELT WOULD AID BRITISH
Kermit Roosevelt was reported today to have offered his services to the British government and expressed willingness to become a naturalized British subject in order to take an official war-time post in London.  It was reported that Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, had found an official post for Roosevelt--son of Theodore Roosevelt--in one of the war-time ministries.

Fireside Edition
p. 1

ROOSEVELT URGES REPEAL OF EMBARGO
Declares Provisions Are Dangerous to Security

Assassination of Rumanian Premier Gives a New Twist to the War Picture
Calinescu Is Slain by Iron Guard Group in Bucharest

Rescue at Sea. Cameraman Catches Aerial Rescue of Crew on British Freighter Sunk by Submarine
Wirephoto: A British Royal Air Force flying patrol boat circles the sinking British freighter Kensington Court as a lifeboat (left) with the freighter's crew of 34 pulls away from the stricken ship. Two such flying boats picked up all the men. British authorities said it was the first case where an entire crew had been rescued in this manner. The Kensington Court, the British government said, had sent out an SOS after having been attacked by a submarine somewhere in the Atlantic.

RUSSIANS-NAZIS SCOUR POLAND

Son of Germany's War Ace Is Slain
Captain Barcon von Richtofen, 29, son of Baron Manfred von Richtofen, most famous German World War ace, has been shot down and killed in an air battle.

p. 2
JEWS OF POLAND FIND NO HAVEN

p. 4
NOT MUCH BETTER THAN NOTHING

Would Repeal of Neutrality Law Bolster Third Term Plan?


Spokane Weekly Chronicle
p. 1
VARNER HANDED PRISON SENTENCE
Howard C. Varner, former postmaster at Electric City, near Grand Coulee Dam, pleaded guilty in federal court here today to charges of embezzling postoffice funds.

p. 2
CONCRETE POUR RECORD BROKEN
The concrete production record, considered by engineers to be the outstanding mark of them all -- 11,072 cubic yards a day for six consecutive months, set by the MWAK company -- was shattered this week by Consolidated Builders, Inc.

p. 3
REMOVE TIMBER FROM DAM AREA

p. 6
Waterfall at Dam Eighty Feet High

p. 8
FRANK A. BANKS RETURNING SOON TO COULEE POST
Grave diggers are setting some kind of a speed record in removing the remains of Indians and white people from within the 151-mile reservoir above the dam.

Miss Tarvin to Be Bride Next Spring
George Raymond Jeffers, 36, Coulee City, was jailed here on a charge of petty larceny by check.

HOWELLS ACQUIRE ELMER CITY HOUSE
Sam Seaton is remodeling his home.
Henry Taschereau is building living quarters at the Seaton service station, which he manages.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

In the news, Friday, December 19, 2014


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from Conciliar Post

Loneliness and Christmas go hand-in-hand in our confused culture. Stress, blow-ups, and annual arguments are the only Christmas traditions many people know. You probably find Christmas loneliness and stress normal rather than shocking. Our lives do not match up to “Christmas: Hollywood style.” When December twenty-sixth rolls around, we still live in a draughty house, the scroll-work on the bannister still comes off in our hand, and we are still working at the Bailey Building and Loan Company rather than travelling to Tahiti or going to college.

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from CNET

Secure your Facebook account in six easy steps
View your Facebook profile as the public and your friends see it, and then use Facebook's global settings to restrict access to and use of your posts, photos, and other information.

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from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com)  [Information from this site may be questionable.]

NEW DISCOVERY: The Antichrist Nation Of Turkey Is Now Reviving The Mark Of The Beast

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from The Heritage Foundation
from The Spokesman-Review

Safeway store in Liberty Lake part of big Haggen expansion
Haggen will buy 146 Safeway and Albertson’s stores in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Arizona. The company will balloon from a small chain with 18 stores and 16 pharmacies to one with 164 stores and 106 pharmacies. The Liberty Lake Safeway store, at 1233 N. Liberty Lake Road, is the only location in Spokane county affected by the Haggen deal. The Bellingham company will also acquire Albertsons stores in Wenatchee and Walla Walla.

7-year-old boy in critical condition after near-drowning
A 7-year-old boy was in critical condition Friday night after he was found unresponsive in a hotel swimming pool in Coeur d’Alene.

Justice Department wants Spokane to improve how it investigates police force

Washington Gov. Inslee’s budget proposal boosts school spending
Gov. Jay Inslee unveiled a budget proposal that would spend $2.3 billion more for public schools, strengthen mental health and child welfare systems, boost parks and implement tougher environmental rules. He’d pay for it with a string of new and increased taxes, along with cuts and savings in existing programs.

Plan funding divides STA board
Voters will decide in April if they want to increase sales tax by 0.3 percent to fund a plan that would extend hours and expand service to new areas, as well as fund a trolley-like fixed route between Browne’s Addition and Spokane Community College.

Bald eagles crowd Lake Pend Oreille
The lake’s kokanee population is rebounding as a result of state recovery efforts, and this fall’s spawning in shoreline gravel beds has left mats of the dead salmon floating in the lake and collecting in bays and around docks. This banquet explains why the eagle count farther south on Lake Coeur d’Alene has been slower to build this year.

Changes in Cuba could take awhile
How does one end almost 54 years of hostility toward a next-door neighbor? That’s about to become clear as the Obama administration and the communist government of Raul Castro move to normalize more than a half-century of bitter animosity between the United States and Cuba.

U.S. spy identified
A former intelligence official in the United States on Thursday publicly identified Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, who U.S. President Barack Obama hailed as one of Washington’s most valuable assets, as the unnamed spy traded for three Cuban intelligence agents jailed in the United States.

Rubio rides Cuba wave
As the 2016 Republican presidential primary lurched ahead this week, no GOP prospect had a ride quite like Marco Rubio.

Response to Sony hack poses dilemma
With U.S. intelligence analysts quietly pointing to North Korea as having a hand in the destructive hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment computers, Obama administration officials scrambled Thursday to consider what, if anything, they should do in response.

In brief: Pakistan forces kill 59 militants
Pakistani jets and ground forces killed 59 militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, the army said today, days after Taliban fighters killed 148 people – most of them children – in a school massacre.
8 kids killed in Australian home
SYDNEY – Eight dead children and a woman suffering from stab wounds were found inside a home in a northern Australian city today.

U.S. says IS leaders killed in airstrikes
Two senior Islamic State group leaders were killed in U.S. and coalition airstrikes in northern Iraq over the past week, U.S. officials said Thursday, as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel approved new orders for several hundred troops to deploy to Iraq to train Iraqi forces.

In brief: Car hits crowd, killing 3
Pedestrians were filing out of a church Christmas service when a car sped around other vehicles at a red light and plowed into the crowd before hitting another car head-on, police and witnesses said. Three people were killed, and several more were injured,
Still no longshoremen deal
While West Coast seaports struggle to keep up with billions of dollars of cargo, dockworkers and their employers apparently aren’t close to a new contract nearly six months after their old deal expired.
City bans elephant tool
The circus will stop coming to Oakland starting in 2016 after a tool used by elephant handlers was banned in the city.

Phoenix fires embattled police chief
Embattled Phoenix police Chief Daniel Garcia was fired Thursday, hours after he held an unauthorized news conference to request a two-year contract from the city saying it was “time to silence the critics.”

Group seeks to reintroduce grizzlies to Selway-Bitterroots
An environmental group has petitioned the federal government to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Selway-Bitterroot mountains of Idaho and Montana, saying the region is critical to the bears’ recovery in the Lower 48 states. Re-establishing grizzlies in the Selway-Bitterroots would provide a link between genetically isolated bear populations in Yellowstone National Park and the Northern Rockies, said Andrea Santarsiere, the Center for Biological Diversity’s staff attorney. Past studies indicate that the 16 million-acre region could support 300 to 600 grizzlies.

Board of Education endorses pay ladder for Idaho teachers
Idaho’s state Board of Education has unanimously endorsed legislation to set up a “career ladder” for Idaho teachers, phasing in substantial pay increases if teachers meet performance standards.

Loyal feline greeter Yodie absent from Libby Center
Libby Center’s loyal tabby has disappeared without a trace. The black-striped golden-brown kitty that appeared each morning and afternoon to greet schoolchildren went missing following the Thanksgiving holiday.

Spokane County prosecutor ends bad-check partnership
Spokane County’s new prosecutor will briefly end a long-standing and controversial deal with a Missouri company that uses the office’s letterhead to target bad-check writers. But Prosecutor-elect Larry Haskell said he believes there’s value in the program and he wants to continue the partnership once he has staff in place to address ethical concerns. The county’s contract with the company, BounceBack Inc., will expire next month.

State’s first charter school on probation
Seattle’s First Place Scholars hasn’t met requirements

EPA eyeing water quality rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it plans to come up with updated water quality standards for Washington partly tied to how much fish people eat – in case the state doesn’t do it by next year.

In brief: Four people injured in Highway 2 crash
Four people were injured Wednesday night and U.S. Highway 2 in North Spokane was blocked for several hours when a motor home turned in front of a passenger car and was hit.
Idaho towns must cut air pollution
The state of Idaho has two years to work with Silver Valley communities to create a plan to reduce air pollution in the towns of Pinehurst, Smelterville and Kellogg.
Man sentenced in pornography case
A 31-year-old man was sentenced to five years in federal prison this month after pleading guilty to distributing child pornography via the Internet from his parent’s home in Chattaroy.

Icahn promises Taj Mahal $20 million to stay open
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn pledged $20 million on Thursday to keep Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal casino open indefinitely, eliminating a plan to shut it down Saturday.

Dow Jones surge continues
The Dow Jones industrial average had its biggest surge in three years Thursday, its second straight triple-digit gain following the Federal Reserve’s reassurance that it was in no hurry to raise interest rates.

Ex-billionaire jailed on contempt charge
BUTTE – Embattled real estate mogul Tim Blixseth was taken away in handcuffs Thursday after a federal judge ordered the onetime billionaire jailed until he accounts for millions of dollars he owes his creditors.
Amazon to deliver in one hour in Manhattan
Amazon.com launched a service Thursday that promises one-hour delivery of household products to its Prime customers in Manhattan.
Lawsuit dropped over ‘Just Mayo’ label
Hellmann’s mayonnaise maker Unilever has withdrawn its lawsuit against the maker of “Just Mayo.” Unilever said Thursday that it decided to withdraw the lawsuit so that Hampton Creek can address its label with industry groups and regulatory authorities.

IRS chief: Budget cuts could delay tax refunds
Budget cuts at the IRS could delay tax refunds, reduce taxpayer services and hurt enforcement efforts, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Thursday.

Ford air bag recall goes national
Ford Motor Co. has agreed to government demands to expand a driver’s side air bag inflator recall to the entire U.S. The Ford national recall covers certain 2005 to 2008 Mustangs and 2005 and 2006 GT sports cars.

Watchdog group challenges big timber producer’s ‘green’ label
A watchdog group is challenging the environmentally friendly “green lumber” certification for Plum Creek Timberlands, one of the nation’s biggest landowners and timber producers. The Center for Sustainable Economy, based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, filed the complaint Thursday with a nonprofit group that verifies whether timber producers follow standards for environmentally responsible logging, including replanting after harvest, protecting water and biological diversity, and complying with environmental laws and regulations.

Editorial: Consider the big picture of police camera issue

Amy Goodman: Failed Cuba policy finally collapsing

Harold Schulweis, innovative and influential rabbi, dies at 89

Obituary: French, James Benjamin “Ben”
(1918 - 14 Dec 2014)

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from The Telegraph (UK)

Stonehenge discovery could rewrite British pre-history
The most important discovery at Stonehenge for a generation could be destroyed by David Cameron's plan to build a tunnel at the World Heritage Site

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from The Wall Street Journal

Obama Plays Down Benefits of Keystone Pipeline
President Sees Very Little Impact on U.S. Gas Prices, Consumers

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from The Washington Times (DC)

Obamacare’s Christmas surprise
If you like your health care plan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has a Christmas surprise for you! When will this new present arrive? December 25th.

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In the news, Thursday, December 18, 2014


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from The American Conservative

Rejecting the “BuzzFeed” Model
First, it is very unlikely that people who click on kitten slideshows on BuzzFeed are going to stick around for the serious news reporting. They are two different audiences. Second, by encouraging this sort of atmosphere in the news, we feed people’s cravings for the silly, the crass, and the thoughtless—and the more we feed those inclinations, the less we cultivate an appreciation for the nuanced, the thoughtful, and the serious.

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from Breitbart

SONY HACK: STUDIO WARNED NOT TO CAST DENZEL WASHINGTON DUE TO HIS RACE
The actual facts of the story do not support the headline and opening paragraph of this Sony leak report in The Independent. My reading of the actual story is that Sony should be applauded for its decision to cast Denzel Washington in “The Equalizer,” despite the apparent belief that black stars in big films cost studios money at the international box office.

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from Christian News Network
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from CBS News (& affiliates)
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

from Conservative Post
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Obama punishes Military Chaplain for quoting the Bible   [Video]
The military chaplain who was punished for quoting the Bible during a suicide-prevention seminar is speaking out.

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from Consumer Reports

Why buying new luggage could save you money
Using older suitcases could result in expensive fees

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from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com)  [Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Saudi Arabia Makes New Law: If You Get Caught Bringing In Bibles You Will Be Executed

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from Heartland Institute

Obama to the FCC: Go Ahead and Break the Internet
Title II classification would give a small, unelected bureaucratic body widespread power and control over the Internet economy – allowing the FCC to play traffic cop and paymaster by controlling rates, infrastructure, mandating levels of access, and interfering with how Internet service providers (ISPs) operate.

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from The Heritage Foundation

How Much Your Taxes Are Really Costing You

Cuba Is Latest Benefactor of Obama’s Fairy-Tale Foreign Policy
In the his most recent “negotiation” with a foreign nemesis, President Obama has once again given away more and gotten less. Unfortunately for the United States, in the long run, this fairy tale is not likely to have a happy ending.

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from The Hill

Gowdy: No interest in being Speaker
A Tea Party group wants Rep. Trey Gowdy to challenge John Boehner for the Speaker’s gavel. A fellow Republican says Gowdy would certainly have his support.

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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

New street lights turned on in downtown Soap Lake

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from Independent Journal Review

President Obama at a White House Hanukkah Dinner: I Am ‘Jewish in My Soul’

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from io9

How the Ancient Romans Made Better Concrete Than We Do Now

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from Mises Institute

[H]ere was a living example of a liberal revolution that had taken its daring chance, against all odds and against the mightiest state in the world, and had actually succeeded. Here, indeed, was a beacon light to all the oppressed peoples of the world!

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from National Review
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

No, The 1967 Borders Won’t Be Enough for the Palestinians

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
from POLITICO

Rush Limbaugh: ‘I have warned you’
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is calling President Barack Obama’s move to normalize U.S.-Cuban relations “chump change” compared to what else the president has in store for his last two years.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Group petitions for grizzly reintroduction in Selway-Bitterroot
The Center for Biological Diversity said Thursday that it hopes to revive a stalled recovery plan for the animals that was finalized in 2000.

Inslee proposes tax package for budget changes
Capital gains, bottled water, out-of-state shoppers targets of taxes

Four injured in Wednesday night collision
The WSP said Ferg had been headed south in the motor home on Highway 2 near Nevada Street when she attempted to turn left and was hit by the northbound Nissan.

Inslee carbon tax plan would help complete North Spokane freeway
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday proposed an ambitious cap-and-trade program to require the state’s largest industrial polluters to pay for every ton of carbon they release.

U.S., Cuba mend relations
After a half-century of Cold War acrimony, the United States and Cuba moved on Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations – a historic shift that could revitalize the flow of money and people across the narrow waters that separate the two nations.

In brief: 14 arrested in deadly meningitis outbreak
Fourteen people connected to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy have been arrested on charges stemming from the 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people who received tainted drugs, officials said Wednesday.
Immigrants can get licenses in Arizona
The Supreme Court decided Wednesday that Arizona must offer driver’s licenses to young immigrants who entered the country illegally as children but were later shielded from deportation by President Barack Obama.
Pakistan lifts ban on executing terrorists
Pakistan’s government lifted a moratorium on executing convicted terrorists Wednesday and sought Afghanistan’s help to find the mastermind of Tuesday’s murderous attack on an army-run school in the northern city of Peshawar, as the death toll rose to 144.
Rebels in Colombia declare cease-fire
Leftist rebels negotiating a peace agreement with the Colombian government on Wednesday declared a unilateral and indefinite cease-fire in hope of drawing a reciprocal halt by the armed forces, something President Juan Manuel Santos has so far resisted.
Paintings stolen in L.A. recovered
Nine works of art that were stolen six years ago in one of the largest art heists in Los Angeles history have been recovered by investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI.

Judge tosses conviction of boy executed in South Carolina in 1944
More than 70 years after South Carolina sent a 14-year-old black boy to the electric chair in the killings of two white girls in a segregated mill town, a judge threw out the conviction, saying the state committed a great injustice.

Snow is slow to show this ski season

Low snowfall boosts budget, time for county road repair
The lack of snow that has hurt the area’s recreation industry has been a boon for county road crews seeking relief from an unexpected $2 million cost following damaging flooding caused by late snowfall last winter.

Catholic church’s lawsuit against Paine Hamblen can go to trial
A federal judge gave the go-ahead Wednesday for the Catholic Diocese of Spokane to take its legal malpractice claim to trial against the law firm that handled its 2007 bankruptcy.

Spirit Lake killing leads to prison
Dylan P. Paschall, 22, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for the March 24, 2012, involuntary manslaughter of Luke Anana-Kuewa, 18.

Montana man convicted in exchange student’s death
A Montana man who shot and killed a German exchange student caught trespassing in his garage was convicted of deliberate homicide Wednesday in a case that attracted attention as a test of “stand your ground” laws in the U.S. that govern the use of deadly force to defend life and property.

North Idaho oil train risks to be assessed under grant
North Idaho governments will use a $36,000 federal grant to update their emergency preparedness plans to address the growing number of oil trains rumbling through their communities.

In brief: Wolf attacks are suspected cause of death of commissioner’s sheep
More sheep have been killed by a wolf or wolves in northwestern Whitman County since the county’s first attack in decades occurred on Dec. 9. Both wolf depredation events occurred on sheep belonging to Whitman County Commissioner Art Swannack near his ranch north of Lamont.
Driver injured in crash in serious condition
A man injured after crashing his car into a highway barrier in central Spokane Tuesday evening has been identified as Randel C. Bocook, 53.
Alcohol suspected in I-90 one-car rollover
A woman suspected by police of driving under the influence was taken to the hospital late Tuesday after her car rolled several times when she lost control of it on Interstate 90.

NY to ban fracking, citing health risks
Handing environmentalists a breakthrough victory, New York plans to prohibit fracking for natural gas because of what regulators say are its unexplored health risks and dubious economic benefits.

Federal Reserve to take ‘patient’ approach to interest rate hike
The Federal Reserve is edging closer to raising interest rates from record lows given a strengthening U.S. economy. But it will be “patient” in deciding when to do so.

Low U.S. fuel costs cause drop in consumer prices
Plunging gasoline costs pulled U.S. consumer prices lower in November, muting inflation across the entire economy.

Russians react to fall of ruble
Russian consumers flocked to the stores Wednesday, frantically buying a range of big-ticket items to pre-empt the price increases set off by the staggering fall in the value of the ruble in recent days.

Washington’s jobless rate up in November
The unemployment rate in Washington state has increased for the third month in a row, according to the latest report released Wednesday by the state’s Employment Security Department.
Japan potato shortage leads to limit on fries
Only small fries with that? McDonald’s in Japan has begun limiting the serving size of fries as stocks of spuds run short due to labor disruptions on the U.S. West Coast.
Gap widens between rich, rest of America
In a new report, Pew Research Center said Wednesday that the gap between the nation’s wealthiest households and middle- and low-income earners is the widest it has been since the government began collecting data 30 years ago.

Editorial: Education a better investment for Idaho than tax cuts

Dana Milbank: Elizabeth Warren is not the Ted Cruz of the left

Doug Clark: Book details Patsy Clark’s road to success

Ask Dr. K: New studies on breast-fed vs. bottle-fed

Randy Mann: El Nino’s effects seen so far
The abnormal warming of sea-surface temperatures along the equator has played a major role with weather patterns for much of the West Coast over the past several months. When we experience this phenomenon, the Inland Northwest will often see much less snow than normal and California will be hit with major storms. So far, this has been the case.

Gardening: Seasonal lights grace Manito’s Gaiser Conservatory

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from TPNN (Tea Party News Network)

Obama Regime Refuses to Call North Korea Attacks on Sony ‘Terrorism’ [VIDEO]

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from Universal Free Press

He Can’t Order Them To Like Him, Or To Laugh – Obama’s Dead Silence Treatment
In a speech Monday at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, Hussein rambled on, reminding the troops that they won’t be home for the holidays and that they don’t get to share special moments with their families because of their commitment to serve the very nation he is destroying. The troops spoke volumes through their silence.

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Commerce knits the modern world together in a way that nothing else quite does. Almost anything you own these days is the result of a complicated web of global interactions. And there's no better way to depict those interactions and the social and political circumstances that give rise to them than with a map or two. Or in our case, 38. These maps are our favorite way to illustrate the major economic themes facing the world today. Some of them focus on the big picture while others illustrate finer details. The overall portrait that emerges is of a world that's more closely linked than ever before, but still riven by enormous geography-driven differences.

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from The Washington Examiner (DC)
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from The Washington Post (DC)

Sharpton to have say over how Sony makes moviesHollywood ​came to the Rev. Al Thursday as embattled Sony exec Amy Pascal ​met ​privately with the ​black leader for 90 minutes ​in a bid to fix the fallout from the ​cyberhacking ​leak of embarrassing, racially charged emails.

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from The Weekly Standard

Obama Quietly Grants 12 Pardons and 8 Commutations

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Conspiracy Theorists Will Be Buzzing After This Strange Thing The Obama Admin Just Ordered

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