The Motley Fool – by Bob Ciura

The United States becoming a net exporter of natural gas is an idea that seemed virtually impossible just a few years ago. The increase in domestic natural gas production has been dramatic, thanks to technological developments that have made previously untapped resources suddenly viable. Due to new ‘fracking’ technologies, the vast ocean of natural gas the United States is currently sitting on may hold the keys to our national energy independence.   Continue reading “Natural Gas Storage Tanks are Drying Up With Exports on the Horizon”

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 2, 2009 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela reacts at the Mandela foundation, in Johannesburg, South Africa, during a meeting with a group of American and South African students as part of a series of activities leading to Mandela Day on July 18th. Israel's state archive has published a 50-year-old letter stating that the Mossad spy service unwittingly offered paramilitary training to a young Nelson Mandela in 1962, and released a number of other documents showing a tense relationship between the Jewish state and apartheid-era South Africa. The release of the documents in the wake of Mandela’s death appear to be aimed at blunting criticism of Israel's close alliance with South Africa's apartheid rulers. (AP Photo/Theana Calitz-Bilt, Pool, File)Yahoo News – by JOSEF FEDERMAN

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s state archives has published a 50-year-old letter from the Mossad spy agency claiming it unknowingly offered paramilitary training to a young Nelson Mandela, along with documents illustrating the Jewish state’s sympathy for the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1960s.

The release of the documents on the archives’ website in the wake of Mandela’s death appear to be aimed at blunting criticism of the close alliance Israel later developed with South Africa’s apartheid rulers.   Continue reading “Document: Israeli Mossad trained Mandela”

Homeland Security News Wire

Last Friday, Mississippi joined forty other states and announced it would comply with the REAL ID Act, according to the U.S.Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Coalition For A Secure Driver License(CSDL). Forty-one states and territories are fully or partially compliant withREAL ID – of which twenty states are fully compliant.

The Examiner reports that the deadline for other states to adopt the measure has been postponed until 2016.   Continue reading “Mississippi to comply with REAL ID”

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President Obama wants you to know that he’s just like you! He signed up for health insurance, just like he’s forcing you to do. The only difference that while the little people are stuck getting error messages on the Obamacare website or getting the runaround by a navigator on the phone, Obama is on vacation while his staffers work to enroll him in a “symbolic” plan that he won’t even use.   Continue reading “Privilege: Obama vacations as staffers bypass Obamacare site to enroll him in “symbolic” insurance”

cookiemomap.jpgFox News

CHANHASSEN, MINN. –  A Chanhassen mother who has been baking cookies for the kids on her children’s bus for 15 years has been shut down by an anonymous complaint.

Every Friday, Anne Tabat has met the school bus in her subdivision with a basket of cookies. It began as a thank you to the bus driver. And, Tabat said, she couldn’t give the driver a cookie without giving one to every child on the bus.   Continue reading “Mom who baked cookies for school bus riders for 15 years shut down by complaint”

MPR News – by Bob Collins

On the day Anne Tabat was born, her grandmother gave her a cookie recipe book. She’s been “the cookie lady” ever since.

“Cookies are destiny,” she says.

Every Friday, she’s met the school bus in her Chanhassen subdivision, with the notion of thanking the bus driver for his efforts. She came bearing cookies because, she notes, you can’t just give a bus driver a cookie and ignore the kids. She’s been at the bus stop every Friday ever since — 15 school years.  Continue reading “In suburban isolation, ‘cookie lady’ built community at the school bus stop”

U.S. President Barack Obama reacts to a question during his year-end news conference in the White House briefing room in Washington, December 20, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstYahoo News – by Ros Krasny

President Barack Obama, as signaled earlier in the year, signed an executive order on Monday setting federal civilian and military pay rates for 2014, and including the first raise for civilian workers in four years.

Military and civilian employees will get a 1 percent raise in the new year, consistent with the level laid out in Obama’s earlier budget proposal.

The order had to be signed before January 1 to allow federal agencies to update their pay systems for the new year.  Continue reading “Obama signs order for federal worker pay raises in 2014”

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WND

On Dec. 19, the Obama administration made its 14th change to Obamacare without requesting congressional action to make the amendments. Such a move is precisely why an effort is underway in the House of Representatives to sue President Obama and force him to abide by constitutional restraints.

The measure is known as the Stop This Overreaching Presidency, or STOP, Act and is sponsored by freshman Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C. He told WND this is about abiding by the Constitution.   Continue reading “At least 35 House members set to sue Obama”

Bikers surround a Range Rover in Washington Heights.CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Lawmakers have been inspired to take action in the wake of the infamous viral video showing a confrontation between a group of bikers and a man driving a sport-utility vehicle with his wife and 2-year-old daughter at his side.

As CBS 2’s Lou Young reported Monday, Alexian Lien and his family were driving down the Henry Hudson Parkway on Sept. 29, when their SUV was surrounded by bikers. Lien gunned it and ran over a biker, sparking a chase that ended when the SUV was cornered in Washington Heights, and Lien was dragged out and attacked.   Continue reading “State Bill Seeks To Prevent Another Biker Melee”

airport securityHuffington Post – by Jillian Berman

You may be better off not reading this if you’re one of the millions of Americans traveling this holiday season. However, one safety expert is desperate for you to know: Airport security in the U.S. is basically a sham.

“Checking luggage is very nice, it looks great, taking away the breast milk of the mother of a one month old baby, that looks great,” said Rafi Sela, the president of A.R. Challenges, a transportation consulting firm based in Israel. “It does nothing for security. It’s just a show.”   Continue reading “U.S. Airport Security Is ‘Just A Show,’ Expert Says”

Huffington Post – by Dave Jamieson

WASHINGTON — Minimum wage workers in a handful of states will be ringing in the new year with an automatic pay raise.

As Congress considers legislation that would boost the federal minimum wage, at least 13 states will be raising the wage floor on their own next week. They’re led once again by Washington state, which will continue to have the highest state minimum wage in the nation, at $9.32 per hour.   Continue reading “13 States Will Raise Their Minimum Wage For The New Year”

Pakistani terror video from Tehreek e Taliban threatens attacks on Washington, DC, and New York CityThe Blaze

Pakistan’s most dangerous terrorist organization, the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), has promised it will attack New York and Washington, D.C., in an act of revenge with suicide fighters, according to a newly released video obtained by TheBlaze.

The group also claims responsibility for the most deadly attack in CIA history and the failed bombing of New York’s Times Square.   Continue reading “Pakistani Terror Group Threatens Deadly Attacks on New York, Washington DC”

Come and Take ItAmmoLand – by Darren Wolfe

“…whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” – Lysander Spooner, No Treason, NO. VI., The Constitution Of No Authority   Continue reading “Democratic Socialism, Guns, and the Failure of the Constitution”

Armed TeachersAmmoLand –  by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- In an article from wnem.com, when a Michigan school volunteer asked if she could open carry a handgun at the school, the school was put into “Modified Lockdown“.

The article does not say that she was openly carrying a handgun or if she was carrying concealed, either of which were likely legal (depending on the intricacies of Michigan law) only that she asked that the school allow her to do so.   Continue reading “MI: Legal Gun Carry, Ask a Question, Lockdown a School”

Northwest Liberty News – by James White

By now, most everyone who is reading this is well aware of the insidious nature of the UN directed Agenda 21.  If you need a refresher, click here.  Much of the natural resources located within the United States are contained in areas that would be considered rural.  Is it for this reason that one of the prescriptions of Agenda 21 is to herd us into compact cities?  The elite couldn’t possibly want us out of Rural America so that they can have all of the resources to themselves… could they?  You can make up your own mind on that one.   Continue reading “Agenda 21 Has Rural America in the Crosshairs”

califmwrap1222Biz Pac Review

A war of words has broken out over police force in California getting a new armored vehicle built more for a state of war than patrolling in the Golden State.

The Salinas Police Department recently issued a news release proudly announcing the arrival of the armored truck built to survive minefield explosions, which it got compliments of federal taxpayers as part of a program to convert military equipment to law-enforcement use.   Continue reading “New armored tank for town police sparks fear, war of words”

People take shelter Sunday at a makeshift camp at a U.N. compound in Juba, SouthSudan.CNN – by Marie-Louise Gumuchian. Barbara Starr and Antonia Mortensen

(CNN) — About 150 U.S. Marines are poised to enter turbulent South Sudan to help evacuate Americans and provide security for the U.S. Embassy, two U.S. military officials said Monday.

The troops are moving from Spain to Africa, probably to the nation of Djibouti, the officials told CNN’s Barbara Starr on Monday.   Continue reading “U.S. Marines poised to enter South Sudan”