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The New American – by Bob Adelmann
With a Senate committee voting to confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy (shown) as the new U.S. surgeon general 13-9 last week, he is expected to win confirmation to the post by the full Senate later this week.
If there were a candidate more perfectly qualified to occupy the bully pulpit as surgeon general in the Obama administration, one would be hard pressed to find him. Continue reading “Anti-gun Doctor Expected to be Confirmed as Surgeon General”
The handling of raw fish at three New York City Chinatown markets has led to an outbreak of a rare skin infection.
The city’s health department has identified 30 people with the infection– caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium marinum– all of whom handled live or raw seafood at the Chinatown markets in Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. Continue reading “New Yorkers Warned Of Rare Skin Infection Outbreak Caused By Raw Fish In Chinatown”
The Washington Free Beacon, March 18, 2013
Gen. James Mattis, known to his troops as “Mad Dog Mattis,” is retiring after 41 years of military service.
The Marine Corps Times is calling Mattis the “most revered Marine in a generation.”
Mattis has been commander of the United States Central Command since 2010 and led the 1st Marine Division into Iraq in 2003. Continue reading “The Best from ‘Mad Dog Mattis’”
Michelle Obama, her daughters and her mother plan a week-long solo visit to China this month that includes meetings with China’s first lady and high school and university students – and that will likely cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars.
President Obama and his family have come under heavy scrutiny for the unprecedented high travel costs during his time in office – and a week-long trip to China for four members of the First Family, members of the Secret Service and other members of the White House staff will likely cost several millions of dollars. Continue reading “Michelle Obama plans pricey trip to China as the First Family is criticized for spending hundreds of millions of dollars traveling on the taxpayer’s dime”
The Daily Caller – by Patrick Howley
Lois Lerner fears for her life if she testifies openly before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday, according to her attorney.
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa announced Sunday that Lerner will testify at Wednesday’s hearing, but Lerner’s attorney Bill Taylor said that Lerner will seek to continue invoking her Fifth Amendment rights and will also seek a one-week delay of her testimony. Continue reading “Lois Lerner fears for her life if she testifies at Wednesday’s oversight hearing”
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —A witness who helped rescue a family after their mother allegedly drove her minivan into the ocean tells WESH 2 that one of the children was screaming that their mother was trying to kill them.
Tim Tesseneer, of Rutherfordton, N.C., said he was one of the two men to first reach the minivan. Continue reading “Rescuer: Pregnant mom intentionally drove van with 3 kids inside into ocean”
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Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die
Before It’s News just received the following email from a retired American military officer who has agreed to identify himself as SFC Hawkins.
We have been requested to republish this email in full. According to SFC Hawkins, he served in the US Army from 97-01. After he got out of the Army, he had a meeting in the Pentagon after which he became a civilian contractor for the military, traveling to different states training defense contractors for the next several years. With a top secret security clearance, he put two and two together to realize what he was REALLY training these contractors for, so he decided he no longer wanted to be a ‘part of their crazy plans’. Continue reading “Reader Warns Russian Troops Everywhere”
A new state-of-the-art headband is being developed by Tufts University scientists that could help facilitate communication between the human brain and computers.
The new technology – currently being crafted at the university’s Human Computer Interaction Lab – would be capable of scanning an individual’s brain activity, determining whether the person is mentally aware enough to handle the task at hand, fatigued, or even bored with what they’re doing. Continue reading “Scientists work on backing up human brain with computers”
Activist Post – by Amanda Warren
When all hope is lost, leave it to others on the Web to reach out and help. One such example is a garbled letter left behind by a late grandmother, now decoded by other Internet users.
Here is another: a man is assaulted by an officer, trumped up charges are laid, he is jailed for 10 days and his phone is taken. When he gets it back, the footage has clearly been tampered with, leaving nothing but his word against an officer, a pending one-year jail term, a claim that there was no police call and deleted, corrupted files. Continue reading “Reddit User Recovers Altered Video of Cop, Keeps Man Out of Jail”
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The House of Delegates is considering a bill that would link Maryland’s gun registry to its criminal database.
State law requires gun owners to surrender their weapons if they’re convicted of felonies or any violent crimes, but Del. Luiz Simmons, D-Montgomery, said Maryland State Police lack a systematic way of enforcing this. They can’t use their databases to identify gun owners convicted of crimes. Continue reading “Maryland House bill would link gun, criminal registries”
EWING, N.J. – Authorities say one resident was killed in an explosion in a New Jersey housing development that also injured seven workers.
Police say the blast happened Tuesday after a gas line was damaged by contractors who were digging in the area. At least one town home was destroyed in the Trenton suburb of Ewing and 55 others damaged. Continue reading “One dead as damaged gas line explodes at New Jersey townhouse complex”
Residents of Washington, DC who are found to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana will no longer be charged with a crime after the city council voted Tuesday to reduce the penalty to a small fine.
The members voted 10-1 to drop possession of an ounce or less of cannabis to a civil fine of $25. The council did preserve a law making it illegal to smoke in public, although the maximum penalty for that infraction has been reduced from up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine to up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. That penalty is the same one facing residents who are stopped in public with an open can of alcohol. Continue reading “Marijuana on its way to being decriminalized in Washington DC”
About one in five US soldiers have been found to have a common mental illness such as depression or panic disorder upon enlisting in the Army, according to a new study.
A second study showed that over eight percent of soldiers had contemplated suicide and 1.1 percent had attempted suicide, researchers found via confidential surveys and interviews with 5,428 soldiers at Army bases across the US. Continue reading “’How did these guys get in the Army?’ New study delves into mental illness”
The last time a leaked phone call out of Ukraine was released about a month ago ostensibly by the Russian NSA equivalent, one between US assistant sec state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, it was revealed that the real puppet masters behind the Maidan movement, and the true instigators of the Ukraine “revolution” were none other than the “developed” world superpowers, lead by the US. Also revealed were tensions between the US and EU strategies on how to overthrow the current government, culminating with the infamous “Fuck the EU.” Needless to say the US, which implicitly confirmed the recording, was angry at Russia and accused it of using dirty tricks. Continue reading ““Behind The Kiev Snipers It Was Somebody From The New Coalition” – A Stunning New Leak Released”
Guerrilla America – by SAMUEL CULPER III
For the benefit of quasi-academic exercise, let’s assume that the absolute worst happens in Connecticut (CT): a federal invasion. (Although the likelihood is low right now, it could be a plausible scenario in another state for the government of tomorrow.) If I was tasked to analyze and wargame that scenario, my initial key assumptions would be: Continue reading “Invasion Models”
McClatchy DC – by JONATHAN S. LANDAY, ALI WATKINS AND MARISA TAYLOR
WASHINGTON — The CIA Inspector General’s Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA’s secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned. Continue reading “Probe sought of CIA conduct in Senate study of secret detention program”
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WESH News – by Claire Metz
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CT Post – by NICK TABOR
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Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden