Monthly Archives: July 2012

God Bless the USA – Lee Greenwood

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Opening for “The Newsroom” on HBO

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4r7hIWln7Q See additional comments on Tea Party Nation. Language warning. I agree that the first step to solving a problem is to recognize that the problem exists. The second step is whether the problem is worth addressing. If it is … Continue reading

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The Collapsing US Economy and the end of the world

By Paul Craig Roberts In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washington in its pursuit of world hegemony brings us into military confrontation with Russia and … Continue reading

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California Considers Theft of Private Property

California Cities Considering (Legal?) Theft of Private Property – Why Doesn’t This Surprise Me? (Zerohedge)  All Americans should be very, very alarmed. Today’s Wall Street Journal ran a front page story on a proposal put forth by Mortgage Resolution Partners … Continue reading

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Executive Order — Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions

EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is … Continue reading

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Maybe We Really Do Need a Third Party – Erick Erickson

Senator Max Baucus of Montana receives campaign donations from the parent company of Phillip Morris. Senator Baucus then puts a provision in the highway transportation bill banning roll your own cigarette operations, a business that does not exist in Montana. Forty … Continue reading

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134 killed in southern Russia floods disaster

Flash floods deluged Russia’s southern Krasnodar, killing at least 134 people — many feared drowned in their beds — in the region’s worst natural disaster in decades, officials and witnesses said Saturday. President Vladimir Putin inspected the damage by helicopter, … Continue reading

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Iran says it has plan to close Strait of Hormuz

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will block the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the passageway through which a fifth of the world’s oil flows, if its interests are seriously threatened, a senior Iranian military commander … Continue reading

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Bill O’Reilly, Constitutional Scholar

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcyyIkvXv_o From YouTube: O’Reilly tells a viewer that government health care is permitted thanks to the preamble to the Constitution. Bestselling author Tom Woods responds. http://www.LibertyClassroom.com h/t Brock

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Insect Drones

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azQeJLUWljc From YouTube: An undergraduate engineering student at Johns Hopkins University, Tiras Lin, has used high-speed, high-resolution cameras to gain a new perspective on the mechanics of a painted lady butterfly’s flight patterns. Information gathered from his research may be … Continue reading

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Next week is the gold war

“Nothing will unnerve the paper gold shorts more quickly and do more to undercut their confidence than to strip them of the real metal and force them to come up with more hard gold bullion to make good on deliveries. … Continue reading

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Open Letter to the Tea Party Nation

I read with interest several comments on the TPN website about a post of mine that had been reproduced there. Some very good questions were raised. Most of them about what I might have ever done, what I expected the … Continue reading

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Clinton: Russia and China will ‘pay price’ for supporting Assad

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlcJjMEiHiI Russia rejects in the strongest possible terms allegations that it supports President Assad in the Syrian conflict. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Moscow and Beijing must ‘pay a price’ for backing Assad. “I do not believe that … Continue reading

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TED NUGENT: Turncoat Roberts

Chief justice’s surprise ruling means limited government is dead Yogi Berra said that when you come to a fork in the road, take it. When supposed-conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. came to a judicial conservative-liberal fork in the … Continue reading

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Caltrops

When CA at WRSA posted a link to Part V of the defensive obstacles entry he also posed a request for a cheap and simple method to construct caltrops.  For the uninitiated a caltrop is a small device that no matter how … Continue reading

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