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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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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
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Pakistani Court Orders Arrest of Muslim Clerics After Mob Kills Couple Accused of Blasphemy
Pakistani Court Orders Arrest of Muslim Clerics After Mob Kills Couple Accused of Blasphemy
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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.
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
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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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President Obama at a White House Hanukkah Dinner: I Am ‘Jewish in My Soul’
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from io9
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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
No, The 1967 Borders Won’t Be Enough for the Palestinians
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from The Political Insider
Top American Generals Stand United in BOLD, PUBLIC STANCE Against BARACK OBAMA
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Top American Generals Stand United in BOLD, PUBLIC STANCE Against BARACK OBAMA
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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 Slate's The Vault Blog
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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.
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.
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.
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
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 Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)
Conspiracy Theorists Will Be Buzzing After This Strange Thing The Obama Admin Just Ordered
(Western Journalism)
Conspiracy Theorists Will Be Buzzing After This Strange Thing The Obama Admin Just Ordered
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