Mark Whittington
Mark R. Whittington is a writer residing in Houston, Texas. He is the author of The Last Moonwalker, Children of Apollo, Dark Sanction, and Nocturne. He has written numerous articles, some for the Washington Post, USA Today, the LA Times, and the Houston Chronicle.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry in Connecticut Rustling for Gun BusinessesGov. Rick Perry’s latest rustling expedition in search of businesses to entice to Texas from blue states has taken him to Connecticut and meetings with gun manufacturers who are still reeling from the passage of new gun control laws. -
House Republicans Want to Return to the Moon, Just Not Pay for ItAlan Boyle of NBC News reports that the House Republicans are preparing a NASA authorization bill that will cancel President Obama’s asteroid mission in favor of a return to the moon in preparation to going to Mars. -
Bill Ayers Wants Obama on Trial for 'War Crimes'Conservatives have made much over the years about the early political alliance and friendship between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, a retired terrorist now safely ensconced in academia. Now that alliance seems to have been broken. -
Is the Supreme Court Arizona Decision Actually a Victory for Voter Integrity?Most supporters of voter integrity believe that they lost in the Supreme Court decision that struck down an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for those registering to vote. But J. Christian Adams suggests that the decision was a great victory. -
Obama: 'I Am Not Dick Cheney' or is He?According to Politico, President Obama, in a television interview with Charlie Rose, in effect stated that he is not Dick Cheney. He said this in the context of a defense of a National Security Agency snooping program that Cheney helped to develop. -
House to Propose SHIELD ACT to Protect Electricity Grid Against EMP EventAccording to the Washington Examiner, the House is preparing to unveil and plan that would harden the nation’s electricity grid against the ravages of either a solar flare or an electromagnetic pulse cause by the explosion of a nuclear bomb.
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Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride, First Women in SpaceValentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride are somewhat linked for the fact that they were the first women to fly in space for their respective countries. But their careers also illustrate the difference that each country approached women in space. -
Jennie Wade, the Only Woman to Die at GettysburgMary Virginia Wade, also known as Jennie Wade, has the dubious distinction of being the only civilian to be killed by direct action at the Battle of Gettysburg. She was just 20 years old when the Army of Northern Virginia arrived on July, 1863. -
Landing on the Moon: NASA's Project Mighty EagleEver since President Obama decided to bypass the moon and send the next human explorers to an asteroid, development on a vehicle capable of landing people on the lunar surface has been set aside. That doesn't mean that technology development has stopped. -
'True Blood' Season 6 Episode 1 'Who Are You Really?'When we last met our intrepid heroes in “True Blood” most of them were running for their lives from Bill Compton, who had become a bloody and blood thirsty vampire god and seemed to be very angry.
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Landing on the Moon: NASA's Project MorpheusEver since President Obama decided to bypass the moon and send the next human explorers to an asteroid, development on a vehicle capable of landing people on the lunar surface has been set aside. That doesn’t mean that technology development has stopped. -
Microwave Hot Water Heater Claims Energy SavingsOne of the more energy intensive appliances in any home is a hot water heater. The principle of how it works, according to HowStuffWorks, is surprisingly simple, though it is also energy intensive whether the heat comes from gas or electricity.
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Now Michael Bloomberg Wants New Yorkers' Food ScrapsThe latest scheme to come from the fertile brain of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is to force people living in the city over which he presides to recycle food scraps, according to the New York Times.
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What Obama Can Do About Scandal Driven Poll CollapseThe Washington Examiner reports that a new CNN poll shows that President Obama’s approval rating has collapsed to 45 percent. Moreover he has dropped 17 points among the under 30 demographics. Less than half of Americans trust the president. -
CBS News Personalities Display Ignorance of Cable News, Iranian PoliticsTwo recent incidents suggests that the quality of on air talent at CBS News has suffered a marked decline, not just from the Walter Cronkite era but even from the 24 or so years Dan Rather was occupying the anchor seat.
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Louis Leon, a Jewish Soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia at GettysburgOne of the private soldiers who fought at Gettysburg was Louis Leon, a member of the 53rd North Carolina Regiment attached to Robert Rodes’ Division, which in turn was part of Ewell’s Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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Private Elbert Corbin, a Civil War Medic at GettysburgThe Gilder Lehman Institute of American History tells the story of Private Elbert Corbin, who was present at Gettysburg as part of the 1st New York Light Artillery. Most fascinating was what Private Corbin did after the battle.
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Sarah Palin Gives a Stemwinder at the Faith and Freedom Coalition ConferenceAccording to the Washington Post, Sarah Palin gave a stemwinder of a speech before the “Road to the Majority Conference” put on by the Faith and Freedom Coalition before “an adoring crowd of religious conservatives.” -
The IRS Scandal is Not Going Away Any Time SoonBreitbart Big Journalism is suggesting that the media is trying to “bury” the IRS scandal story. However a story in The Hill reports that the scandal is not going away any time soon. The congressional investigation will be a long, hard slog.
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Hassan Rouhani's Election as President of Iran Changes NothingAccording to the Washington Times, the Obama administration congratulated Hassan Rouhani for his election as president of Iran. Why it would do such a thing is not entirely clear. Rouhani is described as a “moderate” but that is only a matter of degree.
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Marco Rubio Surprisingly Still Popular Despite Immigration ReformHot Air notes that a new Gallup Poll has Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL as surprisingly popular among Republican voters, despite his stance on immigration reform that has so angered conservatives. There may be a few reasons for this. -
Orrin Hatch: IRS Administrating Obamacare Subsidies 'Scary'Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is sounding the alarm about the IRS and Obamacare in a new piece in the Wall Street Journal. Bottom line is that if you loved how the IRS handled the tax status of conservative groups, you’ll adore how it handles health care.
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Hacking of CBS News Reporter's Computer Rouses ParanoiaThe news, confirmed by CBS News, that the computer of that network’s reporter Sharyl Attkisson was hacked on multiple occasions by an unknown party is fueling speculation and paranoia, driven by the Obama scandals
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In 'Burn Notice' We See How Michael and Fi First Met“Burn Notice” has started its seventh and lamentably final season with Michael in a hellish undercover operation in the Dominican Republic and his old friends and mom back in Miami at loose ends.
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Obamacare Mandates Have Members of Congress, Staffers Jumping ShipHot Air reports that many members of Congress and their staffers may be about to flee public service. At issue seems to be the exploding costs of health insurance under the Obamacare law. Oh, the delicious irony. -
Obama Stumbles into Intervention into SyriaAccording to CBS News, the Obama administration has decided, somewhat belatedly, that the Assad regime has crossed the “red line” and did in fact use chemical weapons on its own people. Now the president has to do something. -
Sarah Palin Now Back at Fox NewsThe news that Sarah Palin is now back on the air at Fox News as a contributor came as something of a surprise, considering that the governor and the news network were supposed to have had a divorce back in January. -
How My Dad Used Automotive Mechanics to Teach Me the Value of Hard WorkThe main source of conflict between myself and my dad when I was a young, entitlement addled whipper snapper was his tireless, patient, but occasionally exasperated efforts to teach me the value of hard work.
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IRS Seizure of Medical Records More Evidence of LawlessnessAccording to the Daily Caller, in March, 2011 15 IRS agents are alleged to have barged into the corporate headquarters of an unnamed California health care provider and seized 60 million medical records, claiming to be serving a warrant.
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Sarah Palin Calls Bill Maher Out on His 'Retarded' Trig Palin 'Joke'Bill Maher, the HBO ranter, seems to have stepped into it during a live performance in Los Vegas. According to Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, Maher made an attempt at a joke in which he called Trig Palin, Sarah Palin’s youngest child, “retarded.”
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Now Sarah Murnaghan Has a Chance at LifeSarah Murnaghan, a 10 year old Pennsylvania girl, has been snatched literally from the brink of death, thanks to a thus far successful lung transplant, according to the Wall Street Journal. She thus has defeated both cystic fibrosis and her own government
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Joe Biden Accuses Gabriel Gomez of Being Afraid of Rand Paul and Ted CruzOne sure fire way to understand who the left is really afraid of is to witness who they use as bogey men to inflame their base. According to The Weekly Standard, Vice President Joe Biden unveiled the identities of the latest enemies of the people.
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Aaron Sorkin's Left Wing Alternate History 'The Newsroom' Draws NighMary Katherine Ham notes that HBO subscribers are about to be punished with a new season of Aaron Sorkin’s science fiction series, “Newsroom,” set in some alternate universe in which all liberals are good and pure and the right is the root of evil.
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Inevitably, Bush Now More Popular Than ObamaBreitbart’s Big Government notes that the latest Gallup poll shows that former President George W. Bush has become more popular that the current President Barack Obama. The development will come as a surprise to some but it is inevitable.
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How the Immigration Bill May Hurt Marco Rubio, but Help Ted CruzSen. Marco Rubio, R-FL said, in a Spanish language interview on Univision, that immigration reform would involve amnesty for those illegal aliens who can pass a background check and pay a fine regardless of enhanced border security.
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Armed Citizens Project Giving Away Free Shot Guns to Potential Crime VictimsThe prescription that many well meaning people have to tamp down on gun violence is to restrict the private ownership of fire arms. However the Associated Press reports that a private group in Houston is pursuing a different approach.
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NSA Snooping Provides Rand Paul with an Issue -- and a ProblemWhatever one thinks about NSA snooping of both phone and internet records, and opinion varies and not necessarily along party lines, the revelation has given Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. a ready-made issue for his potential 2016 presidential run.
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NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Living on MarsIf NASA is to fulfill the goal to land humans on Mars and presumably return them safely to the Earth, it will have to solve a number of technological challenges. According to a recent article in Wired Magazine, one of them is learning to live on Mars.
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'Bag2Go' to Cut Down on Baggage Being Lost by Air LinesAirbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, has developed a new air travel’s innovation that actually makes the experience of traveling by airline more convenient and less stressful than the other way around, according to the Australian Business Traveler.
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Japan 'Invades' California and It's a Good ThingThere was a time, in the living memory of some, that the idea of Japanese troops storming the beaches near the Marine base at Camp Pendleton, California would have been the cause of great alarm. It still is, but from a different quarter.
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Now Bill Maher is Trashing Ronald ReaganBill Maher, the mad cap HBO ranter who uses his cable soapbox to purvey the outrageous, seems to be running out of living conservatives to trash. He recently turned his infamous snark on the late President Ronald Reagan.
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How Edward Snowden's Ideological Journey Led Him to Expose NSA's PrismEdward Snowden, the NSA leaker who revealed to the UK Guardian the workings of the Obama administration’s phone and internet snooping system and then fled to Hong Kong has gone on quite an ideological journey.
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The Premise of 'The Purge' Absurd and Offensive“The Purge” is based on the premise that after a period of economic calamity coupled with a crime wave, an evil, right wing government has come to power in the United States that has come up with a unique solution to both problems.
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Aging Bourbon in Months Instead of Years a Winner for Cleveland WhiskyTraditionally bourbon is made by fermenting sour mash made from corn and then distilling it into a clear liquid. Then it is stored in oak barrels to age for several years before being bottled and served.
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Abner Doubleday Fought at Gettysburg but Didn't Invent BaseballAbner Doubleday is more famous for doing something that he turned out not to have done than he is because of his Civil War record. But he performed a crucial role at the Battle of Gettysburg that helped to gain an eventual Union victory.
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NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Surviving in SpaceIf NASA is to fulfill the goal to land humans on Mars and presumably return them safely to the Earth, it will have to solve a number of technological challenges. According to a recent article in Wired Magazine, keeping the crew healthy is one of them.
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Obama Passive in the Face of Chinese StrategyWhile the Obama administration is seeking closer military ties with China, as the Washington Times reports, the communist state is pursuing a strategy of encircling the United States with a series of alliances and with its growing naval power.
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Sergeant Sommers and His Forbidden BooksThe case of Master Sgt. Nathan Sommers is being seen as an example of how the Obama administration is imposing political correctness, even among serving men and women in the military, according to a story in Fox News.
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Fracking Win Provides an Opportunity for California RepublicansThe Wall Street Journal reports that in a rare defeat for the environmental lobby in California, an attempt to ban hydraulic fracking failed in the state assembly, 37 to 25, with 12 Democrats joining with 35 Republicans to vote down the ban.
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Study: PTSD Could Be Prevented Through Drug TherapyCan Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD be prevented? Some researchers, including Emory University neuroscientist Raul Andero Gali, thanks to studies done with mice that had been deliberately traumatized and then given an experimental treatment.
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William Barksdale's Charge at GettysburgConfederate General William Barksdale started his career as a lawyer and newspaper editor in Mississippi in the 1840s. He enlisted to fight in the Mexican War in 1847 with the rank of Captain in the 2nd Mississippi Regiment.
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The Robo-Raven, the Bird-Like Drone so Real Looking it Fools Other BirdsRobo-Raven, according to a recent piece distributed by PR Newswire, is an attempt to create an aerial drone that looks and acts like an actual bird, flying by flapping its wings. The Washington Times suggests that it works only too well.
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NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Landing on MarsIf NASA is to fulfill the goal to land humans on Mars and presumably return them safely to the Earth, it will have to solve a number of technological challenges. According to a recent article in Wired Magazine, landing on Mars is one of them.
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Contrary to Obama, Distrust in Government is a Feature, Not a BugBreitbart quotes President Obama during an event in San Jose in which he commented on the effects of the multiple scandals that have rocked his administration. The president, as he tends to do, misses the point entirely.
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Poll: Gomez/Markey Massachusetts Senate Race a Dead HeatThe Weekly Standard cites a new poll that suggests that the special election in Massachusetts to fill John Kerry’s vacant senate seat is a dead heat between Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez.
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GOP Representative Crafts Proposal to Repeal and Replace ObamacareAs the Affordable Care law, also known as Obamacare, continues to careen toward the inevitable “train wreck” that Democratic Senator Max Baucus predicted, some Republicans are already thinking about what will replace it.
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NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Storing Fuel in SpaceIf NASA is to fulfill the goal to land humans on Mars and presumably return them safely to the Earth, it will have to solve a number of technological challenges. According to a recent article in Wired Magazine, storing fuel long term in space is one.
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A.P. Hill, Lee's Argumentative General at GettusburgAccording to the Civil War Trust, A.P. Hill graduated from West Point in 1847 and went on to serve in the Mexican War and the Seminole War. He resigned his commission upon the secession of Virginia from the Union.
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Henry Heth, the Man Who Accidentally Started the Battle of GettysburgHenry Heth (pronounced “Heath”) was a Confederate general in command of a division in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Battle of Gettysburg. He was famous for two things during the Civil War.
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Multiple Sclerosis 'Breakthrough' Treatment ReportedAccording to a recent story in Sky News, researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago may have developed a treatment that halts the progression of multiple sclerosis without the side effects of other treatments.
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How 3-D Printing Will Change the Way We Shop for ShoesSoon, thanks to the emerging technology of 3-D printing, the way we buy shoes may well change forever. “Sex and the City’s” Carrie Bradshaw will not have to go from store to store to add to her ample shoe collection as part of shopping therapy.
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NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Advanced Propulsion SystemsIf NASA is to fulfill the goal to land humans on Mars and presumably return them safely to the Earth, it will have to solve a number of technological challenges. According to a recent article in Wired Magazine, going to and from Mars is one of them.
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How Ronald Reagan Saved the World from Global Warming 26 Years AgoA recent article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that along with ending 1970s stagflation and destroying the Soviet Empire, President Ronald Reagan saved the planet from global warming, which would make him the greatest president ever.
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Obama NSA Snooping into Phone, Internet Data Raises QuestionsThe one thing one has to consider when looking at the amassing of phone records by the NSA as well as the access to computer files, is the context in which it happened. The reason why one should be appalled is that Obama did it.
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IRS's 'Mr Spock' Goes to Congress and Gets HumiliatedOne could almost feel sorry for Faris Fink, the IRS official who starred as Mr. Spock in the “Star Trek” moral boosting video made with so much of our hard earned tax money. Being before an angry congressional committee cannot be a lot of fun.
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New Theory: Black Holes Lack a Singularity, Are Natural Star GatesAccording to a recent article in SciTech, two researchers have published a paper that may change our understanding of black holes and how they operate. The study has some remarkable implications for far future space travel.
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John Bell Hood at GettysburgGeneral John Bell Hood commanded a division in Longstreet’s Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Gettysburg. His division played a crucial role in the second day of the battle when Longstreet attempted to turn the Union left flank
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NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Getting into SpaceIf NASA is to fulfill the goal to land humans on Mars and presumably return them safely to the Earth, it will have to solve a number of technological challenges. According to a recent article in Wired Magazine, getting the Mars ship into space is one of t
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Martin Bashir's Playing the Race Card Over the IRS Scandal Inevitable as it is TediousHot Air suggests that MSNBC’s Martin Bashir’s playing the race card over the IRS scandal is proof that the insane asylum masquerading as a cable news network has gone downhill since Keith Olbermann was giving the royal order of the boot.
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Samantha Power a Worse Appointment Than Susan RiceThe appointment of Susan Rice as his National Security Advisor may not be the most bone headed move President Obama has done in his term in office. The other appointment he made, Samantha Power as UN Ambassador, exceeds it.
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Saving Sarah MurnaghanFederal judge Michael Baylson has done a number of things with his emergency order that placed 10 year old Sarah Murnaghan on the adult lung transplant list, as Fox News reported, most of them good, but one an opened can of worms.
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Engineer Invents a Substitute for Food?According to a recent article in Io9 an electrical engineer named Rob Rhinehart has claimed to have created a thick, liquid concoction that would replace most if not all food for consumption. Rhinehart called his new food substitute “Soylent.”
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New Handwashing Monitor Bracelet Could Cut Down on Hospital Borne InfectionsMIT Technology Review recently noted that a new device that shows health care workers when they have successfully washed their hands will help cut down on the 100,000 deaths per year that occur because of infections that occur in hospitals.
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Lewis Armistead Falls During Pickett's Charge at the Battle of GettysburgLewis Armistead fell in action while leading a brigade during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. His death was considered a poignant tragedy because of his pre Civil War friendship with General Winfield Hancock, who commanded the Union defense.
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In 'The Passage to Power' Lyndon Johnson Gains the PresidencyThe latest volume in Robert Caro’s massive biography of President Lyndon Johnson, “Passage to Power,” covers the years between Johnson’s abortive run for the presidency in the 1960 election to the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination.
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How Winfield Scott Hancock Saved the Day Twice at GettysburgMajor General Winfield Scott Hancock was as responsible as just about any other Union officer for the victory of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg. He helped to save the day not once, but twice in the course of the action.
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Brain Scanning Computer Allows Communication by ThoughtThe University of Western Ontario has announced the results of a research study that demonstrates that using a computer interface human beings can respond to yes/no questions simply by thinking the answers.
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Jesse Ventura Goes After Chris Kyle's Widow so He Can Run for PresidentThe Washington Times notes that Jesse Ventura, former wrestler, former action star, and former governor of Minnesota, is suing the widow of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle for defamation surrounding an account of a bar fight in Kyle’s book.
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Tea Party Victims of the IRS Speak Before CongressUSA Today notes how representatives of a number of tea party and other conservative groups recounted before the House Ways and Means Committee how they were victimized by politically motivated harassment by the IRS.
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Will Bureaucratic Rules Kill 10 Year Old Sarah Murnaghan?Whatever the medical reasons for denying 10 year old Sarah Murnaghan a lung transplant, and thus condemning her to death, the political optics are terrible beyond human description, according to Hot Air.
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Jubal Early, Lee's 'Bad Old Man,' at GettysburgJubal Early, one of Robert E. Lee’s more colorful generals, was ironically a staunch defender of the Union, voting as a delegate at the Virginia Convention in 1861 against secession. Nevertheless, once Virginia left the Union, he fought for the south.
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NASA Searches for Technology Fixes for Astronaut Psychological StressBesides the effects of radiation and microgravity during long term voyages to Mars, NASA planners are keen to mitigate some of the psychological effects of such space missions. How to prevent astronauts from killing each other out of stress?
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NASA: Mars Curiosity Findings Highlight the Need for Radiation Sheilds for AstronautsNASA recently evaluated the data sent back by the Mars Curiosity as it traveled between Earth and Mars about radiation exposure during the voyage as a way to determine what risks would occur to astronauts taking the same voyage.
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Company Raising Funds for Safe Gun TechnologyWhen Adam Lanza appeared at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, he used a firearm that was stolen from his mother, who turned out to be his first victim. She was not to be his last victim.
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Dan Sickles, the Man Who Almost Lost the Battle of GettysburgEven before he won infamy on the second day of Gettysburg, Major General Dan Sickles had been the subject of scandal and controversy. A politician before the war, Sickles was an enthusiastic womanizer and carouser
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How the IRS Entertained Itself at Our ExpenseThe latest detail in the unfolding IRS scandal is the revelation that the tax agency spent lavishly on conferences, to the tune of $50 million over about three years, that were part team building exercises and part excuses to party.
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What 'Game of Thrones' Has to Teach About Real World PoliticsMuch band width is still being taken up by reactions to the ending of the second to last episode of season three of “Game of Thrones,” the HBO series based George R.R. Martin’s study of power politics in a fantasy universe.
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Lautenberg's Death Gives New Jersey's Christie a Problem and an OpportunityFrank Lautenberg, World War II veteran, unabashed liberal, and the “last of the swamp dogs” as CNN described him, as departed from the United States Senate as well as this life, leaving New Jersey Governor Chris Christie with a problem and an opportunity
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Longstreet and the Gettysburg Countermarch ControversyGeneral James Longstreet was the commander of the I Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia at the time of Gettysburg and was considered the defector second in command of the army that had invaded Pennsylvania in June, 1863.
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New Software to Allow a Robot Butler to Anticpate Its Owners NeedsWired recently reported that some researchers at Cornell have produced some software that may advance the day when people will be able to have personal robot servants that not only act on command, but anticipates ones needs.
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White House Aides Wish Eric Holder Would Go AwayA story in the New York Times illustrates the extent of the trouble Attorney General Eric Holder now finds himself in. Publically the White House still supports him. Privately some White House aides wish he would do the decent thing and resign.
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IRS Agents at the Heart of the Scandal Are Beginning to TalkAccording to the Conservative Intelligence Briefing, one of the spins put on the IRS scandal is that the harassment of tea party and conservative groups was the result of rogue, low level agents has started to unravel.
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The President Mitt Romeny CounterfactualThanks to Time Magazine and the publication of a new book, The Romney Readiness Project, we have a look into a counterfactual Romney Administration. It is clear that had Obama lost, we would have been living in a different world by now.
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General Richard Ewell and His Gettysburg ControversyConfederate Lt. General Richard Ewell, who commanded a corps at Gettysburg, has been a subject of controversy ever since the battle was fought, 150 years ago as of this writing. Some have blamed him for the Confederate loss in the battle.
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Study on Rats Shows Promise of Spinal Cord Injury RepairSciTech reports that a study conducted by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine holds out the promise for the repair of spinal injuries, giving hope to people who are paralyzed due to the traumatic injury.
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NASA and Bigelow Aerospace Plotting a Commercial Return to the MoonWhen President Obama announced in 2010 that America would not, after all, return to the moon, Congress and a number of private entities, including a number of Apollo astronauts, reacted negatively.
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Why MSNBC's Ratings Have Tanked and What Can Be Done About ItThe Hot Air story about the collapse of MSNBC’s ratings and the continuing ascendency of Fox News is interesting in what it says about the political beliefs of those people who pay attention to the news and try to stay informed.
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The Decline and Fall of Detroit is a WarningDetroit, once one of the great manufacturing cities of the world, has seen better days. In fact, with a declining population and large parts of it in ruin, Motor City resembles Ancient Rome of the late 5th and early 6th Centuries AD after the barbarians.
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Bill Maher Thinks the Pope is an Atheist and so is Barack ObamaIn his eternal quest to say something more outrageous than he has ever said before, the HBO ranter Bill Maher suggested that both Pope Francis I and President Barack Obama “might be an atheist” according to the Daily Caller.
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The Death of General John Reynolds on the First Day of GettysburgMajor General John Reynolds represents one of the “what ifs” of the Battle of Gettysburg. According to a biography in Civil War Home, Reynolds was offered command of the Army of the Potomac in the wake of Chancellorsville.
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NASA Funds a 'Food Replicator' with a 3-D PrinterNASA recently announced that it has rewarded a $125,000 contract to a company called Systems and Materials Research Consultancy of Austin, Texas to study the feasibility of using the emerging technology of 3-D printing to create meals for future astronaut
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Alternate Gettysburgs: Could the South Have Won?Gettysburg is one of those iconic battles in military history that gets picked over by fans of military minutia, many of whom wonder how the outcome of the battle might have been different. Could the Confederates have won?
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Dark Invasion - Chapter OneGabriella Doria, having survived a Nazi vampire hunter in World War II Venice, embarks on her latest mission, to meet and turn Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to the allied side before the invasion of Europe.
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America Must Strike Back Against Chinese Cyber WarRecent Chinese hacking attacks, which have, among other things, compromised American weapons systems technology, has thus far elicited a passive response from the Obama administration.
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As Americans Turn Against Intervention in Syria, Obama Inches Toward ItHot Air reports that a new Gallup Poll reports that Americans are overwhelmingly against any kind of military intervention in the Syria civil war. This is at a time when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. is demanding it and President Obama is inching toward it.
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Rand Paul Seeks to Expand Republican Base in Reagan Library SpeechSen, Rand Paul, R-KY, finished his journey to California, in search of West Coast campaign donations, with a speech at the Reagan Library in which he laid out how he intends to ask for West Coast votes, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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J.E.B. Stuart and His Gettysburg ControversyThe role of J.E.B. Stuart in the run up to the Battle of Gettysburg has always been a matter of controversy. One of the traditional roles of cavalry in the 19th Century was to provide intelligence on the opposing army. This Stuart failed to do.
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Could Aliens Be Found by Searching for Dyson Spheres, Ring Worlds, or Star Ships?The conventional strategy for hunting intelligent life in the universe is attempting to detect radio or television transmissions from advanced civilizations. A recent article in Universe Today suggests hunting for actual alien artifacts.
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How a Group of Seamstresses Hand Made the Apollo SpacesuitsMovies and TV shows about the space program tend to focus on its more glamorous aspects, which is to say mainly the astronauts who traveled into space. But 400,000 plus other people worked to put men on the moon, most unsung.
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Why Hillary Clinton Would Likely Not Win in 2016Liberals, when confronted with the various scandals that are devouring the Obama Administration, console themselves with the belief that Hillary Clinton is an unstoppable force certain to be elected president in 2016.
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How Does One Brand and Advertise Legalized Pot?A former Microsoft executive named Jamen Shively wants to start what is in effect the Starbucks of pot. There are two things standing in his way. Recreational use of marijuana is still against federal law. It is allowed by state law only in two states.
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Pro Israel Groups Targeted by the IRS as the Scandal SpreadsThe Washington Free Beacon reports that at least five pro-Israel non profits were targeted by the IRS because they disagreed with Obama administration Middle East policies, some of them at the behest of pro Palestinian groups.
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Custer at GettysburgGeorge Armstrong Custer is best known as having led the 7th Cavalry Regiment to near destruction at the Battle of the Little Big Horn at the hands of Native American warriors. But before that battle, he had won fame in the Civil War.
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'Warrior Web' Military Super Suit Could Have Civilian ApplicationsDARPA has issued a press release updating information of a development program called “the Warrior Web” that seeks to develop a lightweight undersuit that will assist an infantry soldier in moving over rough terrain carrying heavy loads.
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Pickett's Charge, the Final, Doomed Action at GettysburgGeorge Pickett, whose name is attached to one of the most iconic foredoomed attacks in military history, graduated last in his class at West Point in 1846, according to Civil War Home. He fought with some distinction in the Mexican War.
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Support for a Special Prosecutor for Obama Scandals SoarsBloomberg is reporting that the scandals that have ravaged the Obama administration have started a slippage of the president’s approval ratings in the Quinnipiac University poll of all registered voters.
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What the Hitler Tea Kettle Says About Memories of History in Corporate AmericaBreitbart notes that J.C. Penney faced a bad news/good news phenomenon concerning a new designer tea kettle. The bad news is that it had a more than passing resemblance to Adolf Hitler. The good news is that it sold out.
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Rick Perry Preaches the Good News of the Texas Model of Free MarketsFred Barnes at the Weekly Standard notes that Texas Gov Rick Perry has been traveling the country touting the “Texas Model” of low taxes, simple to understand regulations, and small government as a way to create jobs and generate economic growth.
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How 3-D Printing Saved the Life of Baby KaibaCNN recently reported on how the new technology of 3-D printing was used to save the life of a baby who was suffering from bronchial malacia, a rare obstruction of the lungs that has caused him to repeatedly stop breathing.
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Will California Ever Embrace Hydraulic Fracking?According to Fox News, California is on the verge of another gold rush that could create jobs and draw that state out of the economic doldrums. The gold is black gold, deposits of oil and gas under the Monterey Shale Formation.
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How Social Media Gives the Politically Ambitious the Means to Self DestructDigital Trends is highlighting a phenomenon that many observers of the social and political scene have known for years, that the Internet and its various social media has provided more opportunities for people to get into trouble.
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Report: The IRS Persecuted the Tea Party Because it Wanted to and it CouldTimothy Carney at the Washington Examiner has an interesting explanation as to why the IRS went after tea party and other conservative groups. It had less to do with some kind of conscious campaign and more to do about who works for the IRS.
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New Injectable Asthma Treatment Could Be 'Game Changer'Next Big Future reports promising results of a new asthma drug called dupilumab in mid range human trials being conducted by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and the French drug maker Sanofi.
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Rand Paul: Obamacare Tracks Injuries by Turtles, Lamp Posts, and Burning Water SkiesThe UK Daily Mail notes a little reported speech made by Sen. Rand Paul. R-KY. in Iowa un which he reported that Obamacare, injuries sustained by turtle attacks, running into lampposts, and falling off burning water skies will be tracked.
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McCain's Visit to Free Syrian Army Highlights American Conundrum in the RegionThe Hill reports that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., slipped across the border into Syria and met with General Salem Idris, the leader of one of the various rebel groups, the Free Syrian Army, fighting to topple the regime of Bashir Assad.
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Dick Durbin to the Contrary, Freedom of the Press Applies to EveryoneOver the weekend, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. wondered out loud whether the First Amendment to the Constitution actually applies to bloggers and tweeters while on Fox News Sunday, according to Hot Air.
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The Barbarians Rule the City in 'Mad Men' Episode 'The Better Half'The latest episode of “Mad Men,” “The Better Half,” had a couple of interesting developments concerning the love lives of two of our favorite characters, Don and Peggy. Both were just a little bit twisted.
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Obama's Strategy to Ride Out the Scandals May Be Doomed from the StartThe Hill reports that the Obama White House has hit upon a strategy for dealing with the various scandals it has brought upon itself. In essence the administration intends to batten down the hatches and hope for better days.
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California Republicans Show a Sign of Life Thanks to Farmers' RevoltThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that the moribund California Republican Party may be stirring a little to life. It seems that a revolt is brewing in California’s Central Valley over that state’s draconian environmental regulations.
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How a Food Crisis May Restrain China's Imperial AmbitionsReuters is reporting that China’s long term goal, dating back to the rule of Mao Zedong, of becoming self sufficient in food is running into some inconvenient reality, much no doubt caused by that country’s command economy.
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The Gomez/Markey Massachusetts Senate Race Turns NastyThe special senate election in Massachusetts has gotten as dirty as any contest in modern American history, with the Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez calling his Democratic opponent, Ed Markey, “pond scum.”
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On the Religion of Global Warming and How Heretics Are Dealt WithDavid Solway, at Pajamas Media, ruminates about the global warming debate and suggests that it is a fight between science and reason on the one hand and a pseudo religion permeated with corruption on the other.
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Should Kaitlyn Hunt Go to Prison for Being in Love with Another Girl?Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18 year old Florida high school student, is facing years in prison and a lifetime of being labeled as a sexual predator for engaging in what is in essence a teenage romance with a 14 year old fellow student.
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Unions Have Turned on Obamacare, Having Seen What's in the LawThe Associated Press is reporting that many unions, which once enthusiastically backed the health care reform law known as Obamacare, are now turning against it with a vengeance. To quote Nancy Pelosi, they are finding out what’s in the law.
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Now PETA Wants to Sue People Who Leave Anonymous CommentsPETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is incensed over an article in the Huffington Post that details that organization’s unsettling practice of euthanizing animals in a Virginia facility that many have assumed is a no kill shelter.
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Did Pope Francis Really Mean that Atheists Could Achieve Salvation?The Atlantic relates a recent homily given by Pope Francis I in which he suggested that there may be a path to eternal salvation to not just non Catholics, but non Christians and even, at least in certain cases, atheists.
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Eric Holder Must Resign Over the James Rosen MatterThe latest revelation concerning the scandals now consuming the Obama Administration is that Attorney General Eric Holder personally signed off on the seizure of Fox Reporter James Rosen’s emails as part of a leak investigation, according to NBC News.
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Obama Wants to Appease the Jihadis and Address Their GrievancesPresident Obama’s recent speech on national security was part attempt to distract the media and the American people from the scandals consuming his administration and part attempt to appease both the domestic left and the jihadi enemy.
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The Drive to Include Gays in Scouting May Be Just the BeginningThe news that the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has lifted the ban on openly gay scouts by 60 percent elicits the initial reaction, “Good for them and past time too.” But, as Mary Katherine Ham at Hot Air suggests, it’s not that simple.
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How I Walked Out of 'Battle Beyond the Stars'Usually I have a strong stomach where it comes to bad sci-fi. I can sit through almost everything so long as it has space ship to space ship combat and scantily clad alien chicks. I even sat through all of “Battlefield Earth,” so bad that it was good
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IRS Scandal, Coverup Could Have Affected the 2012 ElectionThe UK Daily Mail reports that the IRS’s own internal probe of the policy of harassment of tea party and conservative groups ended in May, 2012. But the results of the investigation were concealed from Congress and the American people.
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Jihadist Butcher of British Soldier Symptom of Larger Problem in EuropeThe UK Daily Mail reports that a British soldier was run down in the streets of Woolwich, a neighborhood in south-east London, by two men who then proceeded to hack his body, attempting to behead him, shouting, “Allah-uh-akbar!”
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Was the IRS's Lois Lerner Too Clever by Half in Taking the Fifth?Hit Air has a pretty good account about how Lois Lerner, a key player in the unfolding IRS scandal, may or may not have invoked her 5th Amendment rights during testimony before the House Government Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Holds the Little Round Top at GettysburgJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain was an unlikely person to become a military hero. At the beginning of the Civil War, according to his biography in Civil War Trust, he was a professor of languages and rhetoric at Bowdoin College in his native Maine.
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Drones Could Be Used to Study Tornadoes by 2015The tornado that recently flattened the town of Moore, Oklahoma has highlighted the need for more research into how these kinds of storms form, the better to predict when they happen, giving people more time to seek shelter.
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Nutrient in Mediterranean Diet Found to Fight CancerAn article in Science Daily relates how research has found that nutrient found in the Mediterranean Diet can have a beneficial effect in that it helps to cause cancer cells to die. The results have implications for cancer treatment.
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John Buford's Stand on the First Day of GettysburgGeneral John Buford, who commanded the first Union troops at Gettysburg, was an experienced cavalry commander by June 30, 1863, having fought in various conflicts against Native Americans and at Chancellorsville and Brandy Station.
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IRS Scandal Sparks Call to Delay ObamacareThe Washington Examiner reports that Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. has asked two Obama cabinet officials to suspend the implementation of the health care reform law, also known as Obamacare, pending the resolution of the IRS scandals.
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Howard Dean: Benghazi Controversy a 'Laughable Joke'Howard Dean, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former governor of Vermont, and former presidential candidate, termed the whole controversy over Benghazi a “laughable joke” according to the National Review.
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Obama Justice Department Targeting of Fox News Report Shows Contempt for First AmendmentWhen the New Yorker reported that Obama’s Justice Department had seized the phone records and emails of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter, that news alarmed some elements of the mainstream media, such as the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson.
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George Meade, the Victor of GettysburgOn the face of it, George Meade was an unlikely general to be the first to defeat General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. But where better known generals such as McClellan, Burnsides, and Hooker had failed, he succeeded.
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Cost of Self-Driving Cars Plummets Thanks to Romanian Teenager's InventionThe Google Self Driving Car has as part of its suite of sensors expensive 3D radar that adds roughly $75,000 to the price of the car. NBC News reports that a 19 year old Romanian high school student has decreased that cost to $4,000.
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Opposition to Genetically Modified Food Based on HysteriaThe news that Hungary has ordered fields of genetically modified corn is distressing on a number of levels, not the least of which, as the Wall Street Journal points out, there is no evidence that GM food is harmful whatsoever.
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Public Relations Beside the Point in the IRS ScandalPolitico suggests that both the IRS and the White House are mishandling the scandal caused by the tax agency’s abuse of tea party and other groups from a public relations standpoint. The premise of the article is correct, but misses the point.
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In the Wake of the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado, Politics Rears Its Ugly HeadThe reaction of most people when confronted with a natural disaster of the enormity of the tornado that ravaged the town of Moore, Oklahoma is to set aside all quarrels and speed aid and comfort to the victims as quickly as possible.
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Why Robert E. Lee Invaded the North in June, 1863, Leading to GettysburgAfter having defeated the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May, 1863, General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia had a decision to make concerning strategy going forward.
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European Olive Oil Open Container Ban Aggravates Euro-skepticismThe International Herald Tribune reports that the European Union is about to institute a ban on restaurants serving olive oil in dipping bowls or refillable jugs. Henceforth olive oil will be served in sealed, non reusable containers.
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Rand Paul Must Walk Tightrope in 2016 Bid for the PresidencySen. Rand Paul, R-Ky continues to lay the ground work for a possible run for the presidency in 2016 by headlining a state Republican dinner in New Hampshire, the first in the nation primary state, according to the Washington Times.
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Anti-IRS Protests to Be a Show of Tea Party StrengthThe Washington Examiner reports that the Tea Party Patriots, the largest umbrella organization of tea party activists, is calling for a nation-wide protest against the IRS on Tuesday, May 21, at noon local time.
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How I was Lost and Then Got Found at the Herman Park Garden CenterThe following is a true story. My beloved and supremely understanding wife Chantal was at a work related meeting at the Herman Park Garden Center. So that we could see the new Star Trek movie, I was to pick her up at the side of the road at 4 p.m.
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Graphene Produced from the Cannabis PlantGraphene is a form of carbon the atoms of which are arranged in a hexagonal pattern one atom thick, according to a video explanation presented by the University of Nottingham. Graphene has a number of properties useful for several applications.
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Obama's IRS Has Made the Tea Party More Powerful Than Can Be ImaginedCraig Shirley, writing in Townhall, suggests that the tea party is in the unique position of having been both victimized by the federal government and hence vindicated by the same. Whoever sicced the IRS on the tea party will likely regret it.
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Mia Love Risks More Racist Attacks in Her Second Congressional BidMia Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, has announced that she will run a second time for Congress in the Utah 4th District against the man who beat her narrowly in 2012, Jim Matheson, according to the Deseret News.
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Bill Maher and Michael Moore Defines Treason in a Curious WayBill Maher, the HBO ranter, and Michael Moore, the radical film maker, were on the former’s show “Real Time” recently and expressed a rather unique definition of treason. Apparently people who oppose President Obama are traitors.
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Sun Light Sensor Patch Can Tell You when It's Time to Get in the ShadeOne of the hazards of summer is staying out too long in the sun and getting a sunburn. According to SciTech a new sensor device, developed by a design team at Michigan Tech University, will help avoid that painful experience.
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'Star Trek into Darkness' Concentrates on Special Effects and Not a Plot“Star Trek into Darkness” begins with Kirk and McCoy running for their lives through a red jungle with angry natives is hot pursuit. Meanwhile Spock is trying to stop a super volcano from destroying the alien planet.
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The Left Really was Anti-Bush and Not so Much Anti-WarMarc Lamont Hill, an academic, commentator, journalist, author, activist, and television personality, who occasionally spars with Bill O’Reilly, made an astonishing admission via a tweet according to Twitchy.
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Angelina Jolie's Mastectomy Highlights Need for More Cancer ResearchThe first hundred or so times I saw a story about how Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy, the better to avoid getting breast cancer to which she is genetically predisposed, I was impressed. Now I wish we could just move on.
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Now the IRS Wants to Know What We're Praying AboutThe Washington Examiner recounts an exchange during a recent hearing between Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill. and the soon to be former IRS acting commissioner Stephen Miller that captures the Kafkaesque nature of the IRS scandal.
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Voyager Treadmill Would Enhance Running with Virtual RealityRunning on a treadmill can be a tedious as well as a tiring experience, alleviated maybe by having an iPod playing music through ear phones. But Dvice has a story about a particularly type of treadmill that enhances running through virtual reality.
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How NASA Engineers and the First Skylab Crew Saved America's First Space StationSkylab, America’s first space station, was launched on May 14, 1973. The Skylab program almost ended before it began, thanks to a malfunction in the deployment of the space station;s head shield and subsequent damage to two solar arrays.
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'Elementary' Ends Season One with Several Twists“Elementary,” like the British version “Sherlock,” plays with the Sherlock Holmes mythos in a variety of ways. Like the British series, the show places the famous British consulting detective in a 21st Century where Conan Doyle never existed.
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In 'The Big Bang Theory' Love is Deepened, Love is Lost, and Raj Learns to Talk to GirlsIn “The Bon Voyage Reaction,” the season six finale of “The Big Bang Theory,” love is deepened by impending separation in one instance and love is ruined by the prospect of too much togetherness in another.
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How Disney's Makeover of 'Brave's' Red Haired Merida was Turned BackAs scandals go, the attempt by Disney to “girlify” red haired Merida, the heroine in last year’s film “Brave,” doesn’t much tip the importance scale next to Benghazi and the IRS. But it was, nevertheless, irritating.
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Astonishingly, Homeland Security Treats Islamists with More Forbearance Than Right WingersThe Daily Caller has uncovered a couple of memos that shows how the Department of Homeland Security views conservatives as opposed to how it views Islamic extremists. The contrast cannot be more startling.
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Former IRS Director of Tax Exempt Organizations Now in Charge of ObamacareHot Air reports that a career civil servant named Sarah Hall Ingram is the director of the IRS’s Affordable Care Act Office, in effect the chief enforcer of Obamacare. Aside from the fact that such an office exists, this should fill people with foreboding
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'Star-crossed' About a Boy and a Girl from Different WorldsThe CW, the network best known for its youth oriented programming, has designated a new science fiction series, “Star-crossed,” as a midseason replacement. The show appears to steal elements from at least three other dramas.
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Obama Scandals May Bring About the End of Big GovernmentDavid Axelrod, the former political consigliere to President Obama, tried to excuse the president for allowing the various scandals to get out of control because the government is “too vast” for any one man to control, he said more than he knew.
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Steven Miller's Head Will Not Be the Only One of an IRS Employee to RollSteven Miller, the acting IRS Commissioner, is the first casualty of the scandal surrounding the IRS’s targeting of tea party and other conservative groups. Despite President Obama’s public announcement of Miller’s resignation, he will not be the last.
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Benghazi Emails Raises More Questions Than it AnswersStephen Hayes, writing in the Weekly Standard, notes that the 94 pages of Benghazi related emails provided by the Obama Administration confirms the White House and State Department role in altering the infamous talking points.
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New Treatment Could Make Older Hearts Young AgainResearchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have discovered a treatment that reversing the effects of aging in the hearts of mice, making them in effect young again. The discovery has implications for the treatment of heart disease in humans.
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How I Wrote 'The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper'A couple of themes are being pushed in the media as of this writing. Those are expeditions to Mars and asteroid mining. That is one reason I decided to combine them both in my new short novel, “The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper.”
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Can 'Rodham' the Movie Make Hillary Clinton President?The UK Daily Mail has gotten a hold of the screenplay for a movie called “Rodham,” said to be about the early romance between a young law student named Hillary Rodham and this guy from Arkansas named Bill Clinton.
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Sarah Palin as the Conservative Oprah? -- Not YetNewsmax reports that Sarah Palin has turned down a deal offered by her old friend Mark Burnett to – in effect – become the conservative version of Oprah and have her own syndicated television talk show.
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How the Obama Scandals Might Affect the 2014 MidtermsPolitico suggests that the various scandals that are roiling the Obama Administration, Benghazi, the IRS, and the Associated Press, already have both Democrats and Republicans looking ahead to plan how they will affect the 2014 midterms.
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New Diabetes Treatment Being Developed with Once Every 10 Days InjectionsA new treatment for diabetes has been developed and tested in animal studies that promises to revolutionize how people suffering from the disease are able to monitor and control their blood sugar.
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Obama Empowers Rush Limbaugh by Blaming Him for GridlockWith the Benghazi, IRS, and AP phone records scandals preoccupying his administration, the Washington Examiner notes that President Obama has hit on what he says is the real reason for all of his problems. Or rather, who.
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IRS Scandal Suggests it is Time to Abolish the Income Tax and the IRSThe evolving by the hour IRS scandal, in which the tax agency targeted conservative groups for examination and harassment, as detailed by the Washington Post, cries out for not only an investigation, but legislation.
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Obama Administration Alienates the Media with AP Phone Record SeizureAnother day, another scandal for the Obama Administration. The latest has to do with the seizure of two months of phone records for the Associated Press as a result of a leak investigation by the Justice Department, according to Hot Air.
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Now You Too Can Be a Star Trek Character, Thanks to 3D PrintingA company called Cubify has started to use the emerging technology of 3D printing to provide the Star Trek fan who thinks he has everything with something new, according to Greek.com. It is providing a new set of Star Trek action figures.
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3D Printable Guns Now Available, Much to the Chagrin of GovernmentsAccording to a recent story in Forbes, a libertarian law student in Texas named Cody Wilson has managed to create the first functioning 3D printed pistol, creating all sorts of questions and headaches for politicians who seek to regulate firearms.
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Just as 'Burn Notice' Ends, '24' is Coming BackThe bad news is that the upcoming season of “Burn Notice” will be the last. The good news is that the Fox Network is bringing back”24.” So just as Michael Weston and company are being retired, Jack Bauer is coming out of the shadows,
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Sharing Missile Defense Technology with Russia the Worst of Bad IdeasBad ideas seem to flow from the Obama Administration like water. However one that seems to have eyebrows rising among Congressional Republicans is a proposal to share missile defense secrets with the Russians, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
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Republican Noncooperative with Obama a Feature Not a Bug of Benghazi, IRS ScandalsSlate has uncovered the real problem, in its view, caused by the Benghazi and the IRS scandals. They will cause Republicans to be emboldened against working with President Obama and the Democrats to get things done.
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Obama Administration Must Approve Export of Natural GasThe Washington Examiner is reporting that the Obama administration is wrestling with a question that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago, whether or not to approve the export of liquefied natural gas.
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Tesla's Elon Musk Mulls Developing 'Autopilot' Features to Electric Car LineAccording to Newsday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is mulling adding self-driving, or as he prefers to call it, “autopilot” features to the line of electric cars he is developing. He is said to be in talks with Google, which is developing self-driving car features
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Sarah Palin for Senate Part TwoWhile the National Review notes that Sarah Palin is keeping her distance from the tea party inspired draft effort to get her to run for the United States Senate, Breitbart reports on a recent poll that might give her pause.
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Benghazi Emails May Be the 'Secret Tapes' of the Watergate with a Body CountIn reading the latest Stephen Hayes piece on how the CIA assessment on the Benghazi Massacre were transformed into a talking points cover up, one has the inescapable conclusion that Hayes has become the Woodward and Bernstein of the new Watergate.
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IRS Scandal Becomes a Cancer Upon the Whole NationIt certainly didn’t take long for the IRS scandal to start exploding. The Associated Press reports that higher ups in the tax agency knew about the targeting of conservative groups as far back as 2011.
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Could the Benghazi Scandal Benefit Elizabeth Warren -- and Ted Cruz?In a story about how the Benghazi scandal may dash Hillary Clinton’s hopes to become president, the Boston Herald has put out a new name of a liberal woman who might rise in her stead to become the hope of the Democratic Party.