Friday, March 7, 2014

In the news, Saturday, February 8, 2014


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Some links to some sources may require subscription.

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from ABC News (& affiliates)


5 Most Cringe-Worthy Blunders From Obama’s Ambassador Nominees
President Obama’s A-list campaign fundraisers are turning out to be B-list ambassador nominees. Several of his nominees in recent weeks have had cringe-worthy moments in their confirmation hearings. And people are starting to take notice.

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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)


Job Loss Under Obamacare: A Feature, Not a Bug


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from Allen West

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from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens

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from The American Conservative



from The American Spectator


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from Ancestry.com


Finding Moms and Grandmoms in the Family Tree
Finding mothers and grandmothers in records can be difficult with married names and maiden names being interchangeable at your ancestor's discretion.


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from AsiaNews


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from Associated Press



from BBC News (UK)


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from The Blaze


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from Breitbart


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from BuzzFeed
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from CBC News (Canada)


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from CBS News (& affiliates)


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from Ceasefire Magazine (UK)


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from Charisma News


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from Choice and Truth
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from The Christian Science Monitor


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from CNN


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from CNSNews.com (& NewsBusters)


Seinfeld On PC Criticism: 'This Really Pisses Me Off'
Race-baiting reporter tries to accuse Seinfeld of only bringing white people on his show.


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from Columbia Basin Herald


Grand piano history to be preserved Monday
The grand piano in the Wallenstein Theater needs your help to conserve it and discover its history.


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from Conservative Firing Line


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from Conservative Outfitters


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from Cyndi's List


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from The Daily Beast


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from The Daily Caller


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from Daily Mail (UK)


Catfish oversight, weather radios and a Christmas tree tax: Meet the pork-filled $956 BILLION Farm Bill
The massive five-years agriculture spending plan, signed Friday by President Obama, includes a $3 million plan for Christmas tree taxes
Most of the bill covers food stamps, with the number of benefit recipients doubling since Obama took office
The U.S. will spend $1 billion per year loaning money to sugar barons so they can keep prices stable and avoid overseas competition
Another $100 million will go to study how to get Americans to buy more maple syrup
$1 million will buy weather radios for rural Americans, despite plunging hundreds of weather apps for smartphones and plunging access rates


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from Discovery News




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from Doubtful News


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from EarthSky


Volunteers needed to observe and time the March 20, 2014 Occultation of Regulus
Live in New York City or Long Island? You're in the perfect location! On March 20, 2014, watch the asteroid 163 Erigone occult the 1st-magnitude star Regulus shortly after 2:06 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.


View from space: Sochi Winter Olympic sites
A satellite view of the skiing and snowboarding sites for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.


What would hyperspace travel really look like?
[from 14 Jan 2013] Physics students shed new light on Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive system – using Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.


What would happen if the sun disappeared?
If the sun disappeared, we’d have no idea for eight-and-a-half minutes. And then, cloaked in eternal night, Earth would drift into space.


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from East Oregonian



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from Examiner.com


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from Facecrooks

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from Family Tree Magazine


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from The Farmacy (& Strawbale City)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


Scientists Confirm Fukushima Radiation in California Kelp

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from The Federalist


Conservatives Should Stop Crying Pot!
The more conservatives freak out about pot legalization, the more likely voters will be to tune them out


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from The Federalist Papers


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from Forbes


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from Fox News (& affiliates)


10 Things You Didn't Know About the Beatles
Fifty years ago on Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show."


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from Freedom Foundation (WA)


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from The Guardian (UK)


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from Health and Happiness
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from The Heritage Foundation  (The Foundry)


Deep Distrust of the Government is American Norm


The Debt Ceiling Returns as National Debt Reaches $17.3 Trillion


Cronyism Corrupted Sochi Olympics
Enjoy the Olympics. They’re meant to show Russia at its best. But they really show how little the country has changed, and how far it has to go.


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from The Hill


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from The Hindu  (Chennai / Madras, India)


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from History


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from Huffington Post
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from IdahoReporter.com


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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)


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from Independent Journal Review


Watch Jay Leno's Best Comedic Jabs at President Obama: 3 Minutes of Non-Stop Thrashing



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from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)


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from The Jerusalem Post


Tehran sending ‘message’ as warships approach US


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from KGW-TV (Portland)


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from KHQ Local News (Spokane)


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from KING 5 (Seattle)


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from KIRO 7 Eyewitness News (Seattle)


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from KOMO News (Seattle)


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from KREM 2 News (Spokane)


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from KXLY 4 News (Spokane)


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from Los Angeles Times

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from MEDIAite


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from Media Matters for America


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from Money Talks News


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from Mother Earth News


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from Mother Nature Network


9 extremely challenging but worthwhile hikes


Best train journeys in North America


15 famous people who mysteriously disappeared
[from 2013] Though many of them are presumed dead, exactly what happened to these high-profile personalities still remains unknown.


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from National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA


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from National Geographic


New Study Shows Yoga Has Healing Powers
Poses like down dog can bring down levels of inflammation in cancer patients.


Strange “Fairy Rings” in Seafloor Explained

Photographer: Central African Republic "Falling Apart" in "Horrific Violence"
Widespread violence has erupted again in the Central African Republic, where thousands of people have been killed and nearly a million—20 percent of the population—have been displaced over the past few months.


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from National Journal


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from National Review


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from NBC News (& affiliates)


President Obama Signs Bill Granting Central State University Long-Overdue Federal Land Grant Status


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from NCWTV.com (WA)


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from Newsmax


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from New York Daily News


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from New York Magazine


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from New York Post


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from New York Times


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from Northwest Watchdog


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from NPR (& affiliates)


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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)


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from One Minute Healings


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from The Oregonian


TriMet: MAX service now 'stopping' due to weather, bus shuttles will transport riders
Lars Larson: "Billion$ spent on a hunk of junk that won't run when it's too hot, or too cold, or when a wire breaks, that kills people on a regular basis...run by a transit agency rapidly going broke. Can someone explain why we let TriMet do this?"


Portland African American Leadership Forum tries to find voice, place, amid Trader Joe's controversy



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from PBS (& affiliates)


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from Pew Research Center






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from PJ Media


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from POLITICO


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from Popular Science


Like Darwin’s Finches, But Weirder, Bat Faces Showcase Amazing Adaptations


Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else)


Laser Walkers Could Help Parkinson's Disease Sufferers
Laser beams make a bright 1960s idea portable for those with Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism.


Monkeys Raised On Omega-3-Rich Diet Have Well-Structured Brains
Eat right and you too can have a healthy monkey brain.


New Crocodile Species Found In West Africa
It diverged from its most closely related kin about 7 million years ago.


How To Use Trees To Prospect For Gold


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from Press TV (Iran)


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from PreventDisease.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from Psychology Today


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from Q13Fox News (KCPQ Seattle)


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from Quackwatch.com


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from Real Clear Politics


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from RedState


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from RetroVision


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from Reuters


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from Riel World View (Dan Riehl)


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from The Right Scoop


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from RT (Russia Today)

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from Scientific American


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from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer


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from Slate's The Vault Blog


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from Smithsonian Magazine


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from ThatsNonsense.com


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from Think Progress


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from The Times of Israel


Clip shows simulated strikes on Ben Gurion Airport, Haifa, USS Abraham Lincoln in retaliation for hypothetical attack on Iran




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from USA Today


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from U.S. News and World Report
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from Viral Nova


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from The Voice of the Martyrs


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from The Wall Street Journal


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from The Washington Examiner (DC)


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from The Washington Free Beacon (DC)


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from The Washington Policy Center (State)


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from The Washington Post (DC)



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from The Washington Times (DC)


KUHNER: Jamie Foxx and the rise of black bigotry
Age of Obama viewed as payback for slavery
[from 13 Dec 2012]

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from Weasel Zippers (100 Percent FED Up)


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from The Week


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from The Weekly Standard


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from The Wenatchee World (WA)

to be added


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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)


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from Zero Hedge


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