Yearly Archives: 2014

Great Art

Larry Porter makes a large variety of birds from natural products. The above eagle has pine cone feathers and lichen for its “bald head”. If you are interested in having a custom bird, please contact him at ownahome@copper.net.

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Republic of Texas – An Analytical Exercise

A team of intelligence analysts met recently to discuss the cause/effects of the secession of Texas and the official (re)formation of the Republic of Texas.  This is not a formal, finished intelligence product.  The contents of this post resulted from a … Continue reading

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What’s Wrong with this Chart – June 24, 2014?

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NC Strikes Down Jim Crow Gun Law

Last week, lawmakers in North Carolina voted to abolish a Jim Crow era gun law that required gun owners in Durham County to register their guns with the county. Jim Crow gun laws like this one are a reminder of … Continue reading

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Bill Gertz: Russia Test Fires Six New Air-Launched Cruise Missiles

Russian strategic air forces fired six new, precision-strike cruise missiles in test launches Friday amid new tensions between Moscow and the West over the crisis in Ukraine. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Friday that the missile firings took place during exercises … Continue reading

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Jim Jordan and Blake Farenthold – The IRS Is Lying or Incompetent

Why the IRS contends they delayed disclosure: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raD9H5S5i-I Rep. Farenthold has an extensive background in the private sector in Information Technology: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEqkA4h6Og

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Jason Chaffetz: IRS Hearings on June 23, 2014

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbZxXmbKcoQ

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Trey Gowdy: Spoliation of Evidence

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpr1L8dsTc

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Iran Sponsored ISIL Founder, Sheltered Him from U.S.

Iran long provided shelter and protection to the founder and former commander of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the predecessor to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), which rose to power due in large part to … Continue reading

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Germany Capitulates to the Fed

Germany Gives Up On Trying To Repatriate Its Gold, Will Leave It In The Fed’s “Safe Hands” Germany has decided its gold is safe in American hands. Surging mistrust of the euro during Europe’s debt crisis fed a campaign to bring … Continue reading

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The Prideful: A Highly Personal Tirade

by Francis W. Porretto Probably my worst failing — definitely my most persistent one — is pugnacity. Eagerness to blow the bugles and charge into battle ill becomes one striving for the degree of humility appropriate to any fallible man. What has … Continue reading

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Time to Take the Obama Trash Out

h/t Vince M

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How A Country Dies

(Zerohedge)   Those living during the decline of Rome were likely unaware that anything was happening. The decline took a couple of hundred years, and anyone living during the decline only saw a small part of what was happening and … Continue reading

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Kerry presses Maliki as Iraq loses control of Syrian, Jordanian borders

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad on Monday to push for a more inclusive government, even as Baghdad’s forces abandoned the border with Jordan, leaving the entire Western frontier outside government control. Sunni tribes … Continue reading

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Longtime congressman Rangel finds himself in political peril in New York primary

The longest-serving member of the influential New York delegation, he was one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus and over time came to represent one of the standards of Democratic liberalism. But the campaign for the Democratic nomination … Continue reading

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