Understanding the Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi alliance

Hamas’s war with Israel is not a stand-alone event. It is happening in the context of the vast changes that are casting asunder old patterns of behavior and strategic understandings as actors in the region begin to reassess the threats they face.

CNN anchor doesn't know what an automatic weapon is, but he's pretty sure you can buy one anywhere

In the good old days, you could count on CNN's Piers Morgan to be the network's gun control standard bearer. His quest to limit firearm ownership may have been riddled with inaccuracies, half-truths, and cognitive dissonance, but that didn't stop him. Night after night he kept beating the anti-gun drum. ...Until he embarrassed himself right out of a job.

Refracking Ready To Rejuvenate Shale Revolution

Wells sunk as little as three years ago are being fracked again, the latest innovation in the technology-driven shale oil revolution. Thanks to the dual-deployment of horizontal well drilling and hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas firms have unlocked massive new reserves across the United States, completely transforming America’s energy fortunes in just a matter of years. It’s a common but very serious mistake to predict the future based on what holds true today. In this case, those who have predicted the demise of the shale revolution may soon be forced to eat their words. The pace of technological change is accelerating, redefining possibilities along the way. --Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest, 20 August 2014

ISIS: The Real Threat

In recent months the Islamic State (IS; formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS) has managed to position itself as the most significant threat to regional stability in the Middle East. The organization has become a reviled global term, a synonym for extremism and a symbol of unbridled slaughter. The mass executions carried out by IS in Iraq and Syria, documented and distributed en masse for all to see, reflect the shock and awe strategy used by IS in the areas it has captured. In addition, its threats to conquer other Middle East states have resounded widely, giving it the media status of a global power in the making. In this way, IS has made itself the de facto replacement of al-Qaeda as the jihadist terror organization endangering world peace.

Pimping and pandering

One of my greatest challenges was to help my son understand the difference between “intelligence” and “smarts”. “Intelligence” is the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations. “Smarts” is the skilled use of reason and the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria. “Smarts” indicate the ability to use “intelligence” for the betterment of the situation and those involved in it.

Mainstream Media Romanticizing Foley beheader as ‘Black Beatle John’

The British mainstream media, in another era called the scribes of the ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ continue to go to great lengths to romanticize brutal terrorists who slaughter and maim innocents in their demented mission for world takeover through Caliphate.

Obama and Holder take over from Jackson and Sharpton

The Obama-Holder team has now taken over the investigation of the Ferguson, MO shooting. At the same time, that team has, apparently, effectively usurped both the city’s authority and the titles of “biggest race hustlers and race-baiters in America” from the team of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Note: I assume the Jackson-Sharpton team is now demanding royalties from both Holder and Obama.

Lack of a clear policy or any semblance of leadership by the Obama administration

It's quite frightening and saddening to realize that while our President is reluctant to fight ISIS and stop their reign of terror, he has no problem using military tactics against his own people in our own country.

Israeli airstrike in Gaza kills 3 senior Hamas military leaders in major blow to group

Where Did ‘Military-Style’ Police Gear in Ferguson Come From? Hint: It’s Not Necessarily the Pentagon

Much of the weaponry and apparel on display during police action to quell riots and looting in Ferguson, Mo., doesn’t look like surplus equipment supplied by the Pentagon but rather hardware purchased elsewhere, a Heritage Foundation expert says.

Unlikely Bedfellows: Mines That Run On Solar Or Wind Power

Mining companies are often seen as dinosaurs when it comes to making changes that will benefit the environment, but that perception may be shifting as some companies turn to renewable energy to cut costs and lighten their carbon footprint.

High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in class assignment

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Mount Everest and Pollution

Environmentalists have switched their assault on the world economy to a new frontier, previously unaffected by their agenda – peaks, Mount Everest to be more specific, located between China and Nepal in the Himalayas. The 29,029 feet mountain is in danger. What is the crisis? According to the National Geographic team, the mountain is “overcrowded with inexperienced climbers and polluted with waste.”

Big Fat Lies About Fat

Americans are obsessed with fat; either with eating it or being it. We’ve been told that we’re too fat and we’re told that eating fat is bad for you.

The Obamas to Adopt Illegal Alien Children, Liberal Democrats to Follow Suit…..

-Satire Reeling from withering criticism from both the Left and the Right for his lack of leadership and solution for the influx of illegal alien children from Mexico and Central America, the President called his friend and longtime confidant Hugh Betcha to announce a solution to the immigration problem on the southern border. Hugh, Ace Reporter for Canada Free Press and Chief of the Immigration News Bureau of the Stoos Views Media Conglomerate rushed to Foggy Bottom to meet his friend in the Oval Office. Hugh, winner of La Raza’s “Most Trusted Caucasian Reporter, 2014” award, and man with unlimited access to the White House, settled back in his favorite overstuffed chair to listen to his friend.

Different types of Jihad-including an attack on our economy

Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamed Mahathir told a banking conference in Kuala Lumpur in November 2002 that: "A universal Islamic banking system is a jihad worth pursuing."

"My quality of life shot"

Part 1: “I was in a coma for four days” Part 2: “It was really a sham” Part 3: "My quality of life shot" Between 1994 and 2007, annual per-patient spending on diabetes drugs more than doubled, from $495 to $1048 per. A study by Doctor Caleb Alexander of the University of Chicago Hospitals found that during the same period, the three-year death rate for people with type 2 diabetes dropped by less than one in two hundred.

“Nixon’s the One” for Media Hypocrites

Our media were so fixated on the “militarization” of the police in Ferguson that most of them failed to highlight the fact that Democratic Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s decision to call in the National Guard was another and more potent form of militarization.

Ferguson: The Media’s Problem Is That We All Don’t Think Alike

The ongoing media frenzy over the Ferguson shooting has many of us collectively shaking our heads, as the visuals suggest all black people have been whipped-up into a torch and pitchfork mob, calling for the stringing up of a murderous cop who killed an innocent black youth.

60 percent of Democrat voters fear bosses will switch them to ObamaCare policies

This is one of the reasons liberalism enjoys its moments of political ascendancy, but never really takes hold as a philosophy the nation accepts on an enduring basis. Simply put: One of the cures for liberalism is when its advocates find they have to live with its consequences.