Year: 2015

New York Daily News – by Sasha Goldstein

A massive Annapolis, Md., mansion burned to the ground early Monday, sending authorities sifting through the still-smoking wreckage of the $14 million residence in a desperate search for the home’s owners.

The 16,000-square-foot home on Childs Point Road was mostly reduced to rubble after the blaze raged out of control for some four hours after the call first came in at 3:30 a.m., the Capital Gazette reported.   Continue reading “6 unaccounted for in 4-alarm blaze that gutted mansion in Annapolis, Maryland”

Western Rifle Shooters

A reader sends:

Spent the week-end in the field.

We operated as a protection force for some folks in a base camp that comprised women and children and threatened by men with bad intent. With a little intel from the base commander and other sources, topo map, and sat photos we put out an op order. We negotiated an ORP with a local landowner and rucked into the AO behind the friendly convoy. At about a 4 mile per hour pace we covered 3 miles, entered into the AO and set up a patrol base near the friendlies but away from prying eyes.   Continue reading “How Did You Spend Your Weekend?”

Reuters

More than half the world’s wealth will be owned by just one percent of the population by next year as global inequality soars, anti-poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday

In a report released ahead of this week’s annual meeting of the international elite at Davos in Switzerland, Oxfam said the top tier had seen their share of wealth increase from 44 percent in 2009 to 48 percent in 2014.   Continue reading “Richest 1 percent will own more than the rest by 2016: Oxfam”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Irish movie star Liam Neeson has made a movie career out of killing people with guns, including his most recent film, the third movie in the Taken series.

Unfortunately, Neeson is also a raging hypocrite, and though he’s happy to appear in violent films in which he shoots one bad guy after another, he’s made it abundantly clear that he thinks that Americans shouldn’t have the right to bear the arms that have made him rich and famous:   Continue reading “Gun Company Calls For Industry Boycott of Neeson After Star’s Anti-Gun Comments”

Tenth Amendment Center

RICHMOND, Va.- (Jan. 19, 2015)  A bill introduced in the Virginia assembly would take the next step in stopping illegal federal kidnapping under the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.

Virginia stood alone and passed the first bill in the country addressing detention provisions written into the NDAA  in 2012. That law forbids state agencies, in some situations, from cooperating with any federal attempts to exercise the indefinite detention provisions written into sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act.   Continue reading “Virginia’s New Anti-NDAA Detention Bill Turns the Table on Feds”

Holbrooks Wordsmith

I picture him in a shadowy room, stretched out in a plush leather chair with a cup of steaming coffee on the table next to him. His hands are steepled at his mouth as he studies in meditative silence the bank of muted screens before him. Flickering across those screens are pundits, press conferences, and live reports from war correspondents. He killed the sound a minute before. He doesn’t need to hear the words. He understands the message all too well.

The West is closing in.

I’ve heard Vladimir Putin referred to as The Chessmaster. I’ve never sat at the board with the man so I can’t say for certain this is apt. But it does seem like the Russian leader’s moves of late have been carefully thought-out and even more carefully executed.   Continue reading “Crisis Point: Putin, The West, and the Game Being Played”

Washington Post – by Kevin Sieff

TUBMANBURG, Liberia — Near the hillside shelter where dozens of men and women died of Ebola, a row of green U.S. military tents sit atop a vast expanse of imported gravel. The generators hum; chlorinated water churns in brand-new containers; surveillance cameras send a live feed to a large-screen television.

There’s only one thing missing from this state-of-the-art Ebola treatment center: Ebola patients.   Continue reading “U.S.-built Ebola treatment centers in Liberia are nearly empty as outbreak fades”

The Telegraph – by Harriet Alexander

Continue reading “Argentine prosecutor who accused Cristina Kirchner over 1994 bombings found dead”

Zero Hedge – by James H. Kunstler via Kunstler.com

Events are moving faster than brains now. Isn’t it marvelous that gasoline at the pump is a buck cheaper than it was a year ago? A lot of short-sighted idiots are celebrating, unaware that the low oil price is destroying the capacity to deliver future oil at any price. The shale oil wells in North Dakota and Texas, the Tar Sand operations of Alberta, and the deep-water rigs here and abroad just don’t pencil-out economically at $45-a-barrel. So the shale oil wells that are up-and-running will produce for a year and there will be no new ones drilled when they peter out — which is at least 50 percent the first year and all gone after four years.   Continue reading ““Next Time Around The Feds Are Going To Have To Confiscate Stuff””

RT

Veteran US TV journalist Jim Clancy has abruptly left the international news broadcaster after 34 years, following a seemingly tangential Twitter argument over Charlie Hebdo that escalated to a verbal war between Clancy and pro-Israel social media users.   Continue reading “Long-time presenter Jim Clancy leaves CNN after ‘anti-Israel’ Twitter rant”

Mail.com

DRESDEN, Germany (AP) — A German group protesting what it calls “the Islamization of the West” vowed Monday that it won’t be silenced after its weekly rally was canceled following an alleged terrorist threat against one of its organizers.

The planned demonstration in Dresden by PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, was scrapped and local police banned all rallies Monday after being informed of a call for attackers to kill Lutz Bachmann, PEGIDA’s best-known figure.   Continue reading “German anti-Islam group vows that it won’t be silenced”

RT

Iran has confirmed the death of a general with the Revolutionary Guard in an Israeli helicopter strike, carried out in Syria.

The confirmation came in a statement published Monday on the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

At the time of the attack, General Allahdadi was on an assignment, giving “crucial advice” to the Syrian armed forces, battling extremists.   Continue reading “Iranian general, son of ex-Hezbollah leader, killed in Israeli airstrike in Syria”

Ammoland

Paso Robles, CA – -(Ammoland.com)- Weatherby’s 2015 product line features new shotguns for turkey hunters and waterfowlers, a new compact pump shotgun, six new WBY-X models and two new Range Certified Mark V rifles from the Custom Shop.

All will be featured at Weatherby’s SHOT Show booth, #12729, starting Tuesday, January 20, in Las Vegas.   Continue reading “Weatherby Has A Host Of New Gun Products For 2015”

UPI – by Amy R. Connolly

SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 19 (UPI) — Just days after Houthi militants kidnapped a top presidential aid, rebel forces seized the state-run news agency and clashed with government security at the state capital in a possible coup attempt.

Prime Minister Khalid Bahah also came under gunfire as he left a meeting with the country’s president and Houthi leaders. Bahah was not injured, but is now in hiding.   Continue reading “Yemen prime minister targeted by gunfire, rebels seize state media”