NBC News – by Mike Brunker and Noelle Walker

SAN FRANCISCO — An 85-year-old American war veteran detained for more than a month in North Korea arrived in the United States on Saturday, a day after he was unexpectedly released by Pyongyang for “humanitarian” reasons.

“I’m delighted to be home,” Merrill Newman said in a brief statement to reporters after arriving in San Francisco on a flight from Beijing shortly after 9 a.m. local time (noon ET). “It’s been a great homecoming and I’m tired, but ready to be with my family now — and thank you all for the support we got and I very much appreciate it.”   Continue reading “American veteran detained for a month in North Korea arrives home after ordeal”

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PRINCETON — Princeton University is getting ready to administer the first doses of a vaccine against meningitis.

The Ivy League school has experienced an outbreak of type B meningococcal disease, which is sometimes life-threatening.

The vaccine for that particular strain is only licensed for use in Europe and Australia but not in the U.S.   Continue reading “Princeton to begin meningitis B vaccinations”

Huffington Post – by Alissa de Carbonnel and Pavel Polityuk

KIEV, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Crowds toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in the Ukrainian capital and attacked it with hammers on Sunday in the latest mass protests against President Viktor Yanukovich and his plans for closer ties with Russia.

The statue’s felling – a symbolic rejection of Moscow’s power – came after opposition leaders told hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to keep up pressure on Yanukovich to sack his government.    Continue reading “Kiev Protesters Toppled Lenin Statue”

I recently spent $6,500 on a young registered Black Angus bull. I put him out with the herd but he just ate grass and wouldn’t even look at a cow. I was beginning to think I had paid more for that bull than he was worth. 

Anyhow, I had the Vet come and have a look at him. He said the bull was very healthy, but possibly just a little young, so he gave me some pills to feed him once per day.    Continue reading “My Farm Bull”

One of Israel’s German-built Dolphin-class attack submarineAlalam

Germany plans to sell two battleship destroyers to the Israeli regime for one billion euros ($1.3 billion), a German-based daily reports.

The torpedo-carrying warships are to be used to “to protect Israeli pipelines,” major German newspaper, the Bild, reported Saturday but did not mention a source.

According to the report, the Tel Aviv regime’s national security adviser Yossi Cohen visited Berlin last week.   Continue reading “Germany to sell 2 destroyer warships to Israel”

Business Insider – by Michael Kelley

Protesters in Ukraine have reportedly toppled a statue of former Russian leader Vladimir Lenin as demonstrations against President Viktor Yanukovich’s turn toward the Kremlin continue.

The monument was erected in the 1950s when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.

This video shows the statue falling and the subsequent celebration:   Continue reading “Protesters Just Toppled The Lenin Statue In Kiev — This Video Captures The Historic Moment”

The Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has promised to improve education quality vastly by pushing for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

This year, 45 states and the District of Columbia have implemented the Common Core standards and curricula based on those standards.   Continue reading “Is this Common Core math question the worst math question in human history?”

Before It’s News – by Monica Davis

People are under the delusion that if guns and weapons are banned, or when buyers have to go through background checks and licensing, that all the evil people will be without guns and life in the United States will return to the peaceful days of a century ago.

Not..

Thieves steal guns. They steal them from pawnshops. They steal them from homeowners. They steal them from national guard armories. They buy and sell them through crooked soldiers. And–drum roll, please: they steal them from SWAT.    Continue reading “Gun Control? Gangs And Thieves Target Law Enforcement To Steal Weapons”

Sheriff Rick ClarkBizPac Review – by Janeen Capizola

For one South Carolina sheriff, defying President Obama’s order to lower the American flag to half-staff in honor of former South African PresidentNelson Mandela is simple: Mandela “was not an American.”

Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark took toFacebook Friday to explain to seemingly supportive residents why he will not lower the flag at the Sheriff’s Office for Mandela, despite Obama’s Dec. 5 Presidential Proclamation:   Continue reading “‘He was not an AMERICAN!’: Sheriff defies Obama’s order to lower flag for Mandela”

The inequality has put 100 million Americans below the poverty line.Press TV

The “Inequality Boom” is what social scientist Sheldon Danziger, President of the Russell Sage Foundation here in New York, uses to describe the current condition of 100 million Americans – if the cost of housing, transportation and healthcare were subtracted from the median income of full-time workers. It’s a boom because under Danziger’s hypothesis, 100 million Americans is a whopping 33 percent of the total population; the Census Bureau figures only 15 percent of Americans, or 45 million, are below the $24,000 annual income level for poverty in a family of four.   Continue reading “100 million Americans below poverty line”