Biz Pac Review – by Cheryl Carpenter Klimek

President Obama has had a tough year, and during Friday’s end-of-the-year press conference he was asked if it had been his worst year ever.

NBC’s David Gregory asked Sunday’s Meet the Press panel to weigh in on that question, with the best assessment coming from Republican strategist Ana Navarro.   Continue reading “Obama’s bad year: Any worse he’ll need a ‘bottle of whiskey and a box of Kleenex’”

Washington’s Blog

Putting Fukushima In Perspective

There was no background radioactive cesium before above-ground nuclear testing and nuclear accidents started.

Wikipedia provides some details on the distribution of cesium-137 due to human activities:   Continue reading “Wave of Radiation from Fukushima Will Be 10 Times Bigger than All of the Radiation from Nuclear Tests Combined”

Before It’s News – by Due Diligence

7 dead as unusual weather mix sweeps nation, threatens holiday travelers.

The weekend before Christmas, mother nature is gifting — or, rather, clobbering — the United States with a little bit of everything. Ice storms, snow, flooding, thunderstorms, tornadoes and record-setting warmth are all in store, and with this maddening mix comes a massive headache for more than 94 million expected holiday travelers.   Continue reading “Winter Weather Wreaks Havoc for the Holidays”

Vehicles are searched indiscriminately at a border checkpoint. (Source: Eric Gay/AP Photo)Police State USA

EL PASO, TX — An American woman was humiliated and sexually assaulted for hours when she tried to re-enter the United States at a checkpoint manned by U.S. border patrol agents.   Suspecting she had drugs inside her orifices, the federal agents detained her, chained her to a table, and subjected her to a series of invasive and traumatic cavity searches, finger penetration, scans and X-rays… all without a warrant.  She was then billed for the “services.”   Continue reading “Woman was probed, cavity searched, & X-rayed when she tried to reenter the USA”

sharpton_obamaConservative Tree House – by Sundance

This past Thursday, a town hall meeting hosted by Al Sharpton and the National Action Network in Chicago to address gun violence exploded into a revolt against: “Chicago Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and black alderman in City Hall, with panel and audience members calling to vote out their elected officials.

One 82-year-old preacher even called for “Tea Party” style meetings in some of Chicago’s south side communities such as Altgen Gardens and Trumbull Park.  (via Breitbart)   Continue reading “Rut Roh – Al Sharptongue Was Not Expecting This In Chicago – “Don’t blame white people, blame the right people”…”

Gunned down: Dustin Friedland, pictured with wife Jamie, was shot dead while protecting her from carjackers at a New Jersey mall. Four people have been arrestedDaily Mail

Four men have been arrested over the death of a lawyer shot in front of his wife during a carjacking outside a New Jersey mall last week, authorities said on Saturday.

The suspects in the fatal carjacking on Sunday last week, in which Dustin Friedland was killed at The Mall, Short Hills, were arrested in a series of raids overnight.    Continue reading “Four men arrested for killing lawyer, 30, who was shot dead while protecting his wife in carjacking at New Jersey mall”