Inside Eielson AFB
by Maj. Michael Dye
EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Memorial Day is right around the corner, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to pause and reflect on our Air Force history. Relative to the other Services' pasts, ours is pretty short. I aim to summarize from our Air Force history those key "nuggets of knowledge" in an attempt to explain the emergence of our air power strategy.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Republicans Are Finally Getting Nervous About Ron Paul's Secret Delegate Strategy
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For several weeks I have been writing about Ron Paul's upset victories at district and state GOP conventions, and about the surprising success of his delegate strategy. Now, with Paul's delegate sweeps in Maine and Nevada, it looks like Mitt Romney and the Republican Party are finally starting to catch on to the trend.
Paul supporters swept this weekend's state GOP conventions, picking up 21 of 24 RNC delegates in Maine and 22 out of 28 delegates in Nevada. The twin victories come on the heels of Paul's surprise delegate wins at district caucuses and state conventions in Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado, and Louisiana, as well as a Paul-friendly takeover of the Alaska GOP.
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Andrew Sullivan’s non-threatening Jesus
Catholic Anchor Online
By FR. ROBERT BARRON
The cover story for “Newsweek” magazine during Holy Week, penned by political and cultural commentator Andrew Sullivan, concerns the “crisis” that is supposedly gripping Christianity. Weighed down by its preoccupation with doctrines and supernatural claims, which are incredible to contemporary audiences, compromised by the corruption of its leadership, co-opted for base political ends, Christianity is verging, he argues, on the brink of collapse. The solution Sullivan proposes is a repristinizing of Christianity, a return to its roots and essential teachings. And here he invokes, as a sort of patron saint, Thomas Jefferson, who as a young man literally took a straight razor to the pages of the New Testament and cut out any passages dealing with the miraculous, the supernatural, or the Resurrection and divinity of Jesus.
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By FR. ROBERT BARRON
The cover story for “Newsweek” magazine during Holy Week, penned by political and cultural commentator Andrew Sullivan, concerns the “crisis” that is supposedly gripping Christianity. Weighed down by its preoccupation with doctrines and supernatural claims, which are incredible to contemporary audiences, compromised by the corruption of its leadership, co-opted for base political ends, Christianity is verging, he argues, on the brink of collapse. The solution Sullivan proposes is a repristinizing of Christianity, a return to its roots and essential teachings. And here he invokes, as a sort of patron saint, Thomas Jefferson, who as a young man literally took a straight razor to the pages of the New Testament and cut out any passages dealing with the miraculous, the supernatural, or the Resurrection and divinity of Jesus.
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World's toughest job is underappreciated
Anchorage Daily News
By JOHN HALL
Yesterday I retired. That's right, as of midnight last night and after thirty years I am no longer a partner in Alaska Emergency Medicine Associates. I walked out of the Providence Hospital Emergency Department for the last time. No more chest pains, sore throats, pneumonias, blood clots, appendicitis or gall bladder pain. No more lacerations, broken bones, runny noses or gun shot wounds. No more migraine headaches, dislocated shoulders, gout attacks or beads stuck in little boys' noses.
I am retired. Right now I am sitting here at the kitchen table with the bottoms of my trousers rolled, measuring out my life with cups of coffee and getting ready to pick up the phone to call my youngest daughter and ask, "What do I do now?"
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By JOHN HALL
Yesterday I retired. That's right, as of midnight last night and after thirty years I am no longer a partner in Alaska Emergency Medicine Associates. I walked out of the Providence Hospital Emergency Department for the last time. No more chest pains, sore throats, pneumonias, blood clots, appendicitis or gall bladder pain. No more lacerations, broken bones, runny noses or gun shot wounds. No more migraine headaches, dislocated shoulders, gout attacks or beads stuck in little boys' noses.
I am retired. Right now I am sitting here at the kitchen table with the bottoms of my trousers rolled, measuring out my life with cups of coffee and getting ready to pick up the phone to call my youngest daughter and ask, "What do I do now?"
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The election
Anchorage Daily Planet
Opinion
While we are unsure what $35,000 will get the city in the way of answers to questions about the April 3 disaster that passed for a municipal election, it is time to get on with the investigation.
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While we are unsure what $35,000 will get the city in the way of answers to questions about the April 3 disaster that passed for a municipal election, it is time to get on with the investigation.
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Good Bye to Alaska's Prosperous Economy
Alaska Gas Pipelines
by Richard Peterson
For some time we have asked, “why is Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude oil selling for such a high price”. This article from Northrim Bank lays it out and while Alaskans have been basking in the $40/bbl premium soon Canadian producers will break out and reach the West Coast. We have been aware of a proposal to rail Canadian crude to Delta to ship in TAPS to Valdez. It doesn’t make economic sense unless you look at the differential. At $40/bbl even $20/bbl you can do strange things. We are aware of Bakken producers railing crude to the East and West Coasts. One just ordered 1200 new tank cars and will soon be flooding the West Coast with much cheaper oil.
The New Holocaust Deniers
PJ Media
By Robert Zubrin
Recently, in conjunction with publication of my new book, Merchants of Despair, which exposes the crimes of the global Malthusian movement, I was interviewed on the radio by a liberal talk show host. When I brought up the issue of race- or caste-targeted forced sterilization programs instituted in Peru, India, and many other Third World countries with USAID and World Bank funds, the host chose to deal with the matter by pooh-poohing the existence of these atrocities.
I was shocked. These programs are not secret, and their horrors have received some, if less-than-deserved, coverage in the mainstream media. Indeed, the members of the Fujimori government were brought to trial and convicted of genocide for their enforcement of such policies.
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By Robert Zubrin
Recently, in conjunction with publication of my new book, Merchants of Despair, which exposes the crimes of the global Malthusian movement, I was interviewed on the radio by a liberal talk show host. When I brought up the issue of race- or caste-targeted forced sterilization programs instituted in Peru, India, and many other Third World countries with USAID and World Bank funds, the host chose to deal with the matter by pooh-poohing the existence of these atrocities.
I was shocked. These programs are not secret, and their horrors have received some, if less-than-deserved, coverage in the mainstream media. Indeed, the members of the Fujimori government were brought to trial and convicted of genocide for their enforcement of such policies.
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The European Revolt Against Reality
Hoover Institution
by Josef Joffe
Forget for a moment François Hollande, who sent Nicolas Sarkozy packing on Sunday. Set aside, too, the triumph of the radical left and the neo-Nazis in Greece who together captured one-third of the vote.
Look instead at Europe's real mess: the sickly state of the EU-15, the core of the Union, most of which today uses the euro: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
In the 1970s, their average growth clocked in at 3.2%, in the 80s at 2.5%, in the '90s at 2.2%—and in the '00s, 1.2%. Yes, the 2008 crash was bad for everybody, but Europe is still heading down. This year, growth is likely to end up at an anemic 1%.
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by Josef Joffe
Forget for a moment François Hollande, who sent Nicolas Sarkozy packing on Sunday. Set aside, too, the triumph of the radical left and the neo-Nazis in Greece who together captured one-third of the vote.
Look instead at Europe's real mess: the sickly state of the EU-15, the core of the Union, most of which today uses the euro: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
In the 1970s, their average growth clocked in at 3.2%, in the 80s at 2.5%, in the '90s at 2.2%—and in the '00s, 1.2%. Yes, the 2008 crash was bad for everybody, but Europe is still heading down. This year, growth is likely to end up at an anemic 1%.
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Obama's Soros-Controlled Energy Council
Townhall
By Ken Blackwell
When politicians want to look busy while avoiding tough decisions during an election year, what do they do? They form commissions and councils.
And when President Barack Obama saw Americans struggling with higher gasoline and home energy prices, did he encourage more domestic oil exploration, off-shore drilling, or coal production, while lowering taxes on energy? Of course not. After all, with political observers expecting a close presidential race this year, Obama needs the financial and institutional support far-left environmental groups. The result has been the President anointing certain energy sources - such as wind and natural gas - as energies of the future, while implementing regulatory hurdles for more dependable fuels like oil and coal.
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By Ken Blackwell
When politicians want to look busy while avoiding tough decisions during an election year, what do they do? They form commissions and councils.
And when President Barack Obama saw Americans struggling with higher gasoline and home energy prices, did he encourage more domestic oil exploration, off-shore drilling, or coal production, while lowering taxes on energy? Of course not. After all, with political observers expecting a close presidential race this year, Obama needs the financial and institutional support far-left environmental groups. The result has been the President anointing certain energy sources - such as wind and natural gas - as energies of the future, while implementing regulatory hurdles for more dependable fuels like oil and coal.
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National Security - 'Change You Can Believe In'
American Thinker
By Kerry Patton
In 2008, President Obama campaigned with the slogan "change we can believe in." When it comes to national security, change is exactly what he has been creating ever since he took office. None of those changes are for the better.
The president has finally realized that his economic policies have utterly failed. He cannot successfully campaign on gas prices, unemployment, or the national debt. The only ammunition he has left in his campaign arsenal comes from national security. Yet national security has become a politicized flip-flop extravaganza as well.
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By Kerry Patton
In 2008, President Obama campaigned with the slogan "change we can believe in." When it comes to national security, change is exactly what he has been creating ever since he took office. None of those changes are for the better.
The president has finally realized that his economic policies have utterly failed. He cannot successfully campaign on gas prices, unemployment, or the national debt. The only ammunition he has left in his campaign arsenal comes from national security. Yet national security has become a politicized flip-flop extravaganza as well.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Alaska's Oil Price Premium Can't Last; "Huge Arbitrage" will drive investment to displace ANS Crude
Alaskanomics.com
by Blythe Campbell
A blog posting by David Hackett examines the reasons behind the recent high prices of North Sea Brent Crude oil relative to West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTI), noting that these two crudes historically traded at close to the same price. The huge increase in oil production from North Dakota has disrupted traditional oil transportation and supply patterns - there is no efficient way to transport oil south of Oklahoma to the refineries on the Gulf coast. North Sea Brent is trading at about $20 more per barrel.
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by Blythe Campbell
A blog posting by David Hackett examines the reasons behind the recent high prices of North Sea Brent Crude oil relative to West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTI), noting that these two crudes historically traded at close to the same price. The huge increase in oil production from North Dakota has disrupted traditional oil transportation and supply patterns - there is no efficient way to transport oil south of Oklahoma to the refineries on the Gulf coast. North Sea Brent is trading at about $20 more per barrel.
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Thousands expected for Fairbanks STOMP parade; tips for avoiding traffic
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
By Staff
FAIRBANKS — This Saturday thousands of service members will take to the streets to participate in the Salute to Our Military Parade from Fort Wainwright to Pioneer Park and thousands more will line the streets to watch the parade.
If you’re hoping to take part in the day’s festivities, getting there could be a headache: Here’s a quick rundown of traffic delays, road closures and parking tips from the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, which is organizing the event.
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FAIRBANKS — This Saturday thousands of service members will take to the streets to participate in the Salute to Our Military Parade from Fort Wainwright to Pioneer Park and thousands more will line the streets to watch the parade.
If you’re hoping to take part in the day’s festivities, getting there could be a headache: Here’s a quick rundown of traffic delays, road closures and parking tips from the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, which is organizing the event.
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Leftist race-baiters
Anchorage Daily Planet
By Walter E. Williams
MSNBC's Chris Matthews, in a recent debate with former Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, called the Republican Party the "grand wizard crowd." Grand wizard is the title given to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. It is truly misinformed to call Republicans the party of the Klan.
Throughout our history, most Klansmen and most racists have been Democrats. Here are a few racist quotes from major Democratic figures.
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By Walter E. Williams
MSNBC's Chris Matthews, in a recent debate with former Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, called the Republican Party the "grand wizard crowd." Grand wizard is the title given to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. It is truly misinformed to call Republicans the party of the Klan.
Throughout our history, most Klansmen and most racists have been Democrats. Here are a few racist quotes from major Democratic figures.
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Lousy bill
Anchorage Daily Planet
Editorial
Thank goodness Senate Republicans have the sense to block a Democrat-backed bill to extend the current student loan interest rate because of how it will be funded.
The Stop Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012 would have amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the student loan interest rate until 2013.
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Thank goodness Senate Republicans have the sense to block a Democrat-backed bill to extend the current student loan interest rate because of how it will be funded.
The Stop Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012 would have amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the student loan interest rate until 2013.
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Scytl: Voter Fraud Facts and Fiction
Townhall
By Michelle Malkin
With six months until Election Day, conspiracy theories are percolating on the Internet like bubbling mud pots at Yellowstone: Left-wing billionaire George Soros is going to rig the election for Barack Obama. Foreigners will oversee the nation's entire vote-counting system. The fix is in, and all is lost.
Before conservatives go all Michael Moore-moonbatty, let's calm down and separate voter fraud facts from fiction. There's no time to waste worrying about manufactured scares. And there are plenty of legitimate threats to electoral integrity without having to inflate or concoct them.
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By Michelle Malkin
With six months until Election Day, conspiracy theories are percolating on the Internet like bubbling mud pots at Yellowstone: Left-wing billionaire George Soros is going to rig the election for Barack Obama. Foreigners will oversee the nation's entire vote-counting system. The fix is in, and all is lost.
Before conservatives go all Michael Moore-moonbatty, let's calm down and separate voter fraud facts from fiction. There's no time to waste worrying about manufactured scares. And there are plenty of legitimate threats to electoral integrity without having to inflate or concoct them.
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Eurozone at risk from anti-austerity revolt
The Telegraph
By Bruno Waterfield
The crisis meeting in two weeks comes as François Hollande, the newly elected Socialist French president, demands a change to the EU's economic policies, with a shift from austerity to growth.
By Bruno Waterfield
The crisis meeting in two weeks comes as François Hollande, the newly elected Socialist French president, demands a change to the EU's economic policies, with a shift from austerity to growth.
The demand has pitted him firmly against Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who is fighting to defend eurozone rules on cutting spending, but who is also coming under pressure from other European countries to relent. That pressure increased yesterday after local elections in Italy resulted in big gains for anti-austerity parties, including 20 per cent of the vote for a new movement led by Beppe Grillo, a popular comedian, who calls for Italy to leave the euro.
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Obama Seeks Sovereignty Surrender Via LOST Treaty
IBD
Editorial
Sovereignty: Even if he's not re-elected, the president hopes to leave behind a treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and to which we'd be required to give half of our offshore oil revenue.
The Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST) has been lurking in the shadows for decades. Like the Kyoto Protocol that pretended to be an effort to save the earth from the poisoned fruit of the Industrial Revolution, LOST pretends to be an effort to protect the world's oceans from environmental damage and remove it as a cause of potential conflicts between nations.
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Sovereignty: Even if he's not re-elected, the president hopes to leave behind a treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and to which we'd be required to give half of our offshore oil revenue.
The Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST) has been lurking in the shadows for decades. Like the Kyoto Protocol that pretended to be an effort to save the earth from the poisoned fruit of the Industrial Revolution, LOST pretends to be an effort to protect the world's oceans from environmental damage and remove it as a cause of potential conflicts between nations.
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European Project's Contradictory Nature Ensures Its Failure
IBD
By ALBERTO MINGARDI
Is the European Union going to last? With Francoise Hollande as the new French president, and the Greeks massively voting for extreme parties — real communists and Nazis — the entire European project is called into question. The fruits of the European crisis are acrid indeed.
The more the time passes, the more it is clear that the dream of unifying Europe was based upon an ambiguity: Was Europe to be an economically integrated area, or a bigger version of a nation-state?
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By ALBERTO MINGARDI
Is the European Union going to last? With Francoise Hollande as the new French president, and the Greeks massively voting for extreme parties — real communists and Nazis — the entire European project is called into question. The fruits of the European crisis are acrid indeed.
The more the time passes, the more it is clear that the dream of unifying Europe was based upon an ambiguity: Was Europe to be an economically integrated area, or a bigger version of a nation-state?
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Higher Education Theatre of the Absurd
American Thinker
By Robert Oscar Lopez
Higher education today is a nightmare. There are a trillion dollars in potentially toxic student debt. We see people with PhDs on food stamps, a 400% rise in tuition over 20 years, and only 49% of college grads finding jobs within a year.
According to the left, these woes result from a "conservative war on professors."
But wait. If conservatives dislike the professoriate, it is because the professoriate has done an excellent job excluding right-wingers. It is natural for people to hate those who hate them first. It doesn't surprise me if American communists hate Joe McCarthy and Ann Coulter. If educators do not want to be fighting conservatives all the time, maybe they should not have blacklisted and embargoed them for 40 years.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Better Than An Igloo: Affordable, Efficient Homes In One Of The World’s Harshest Environments
Co.Exist
By Ariel Schwartz
OK, so people on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands don’t actually live in igloos (they did once live in sod structures called Barabaras). But residents of these islands--there are about 7,000 people in total--could really use an infusion of cheap, efficient homes. And if you think that’s a tall order in more temperate climates in the continental United States, think about how difficult it is in a place where it rains over 200 days a year, wind speeds often hit 100 miles per hour, and electric power comes from diesel oil that’s shipped in from thousands of miles away.
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By Ariel Schwartz
OK, so people on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands don’t actually live in igloos (they did once live in sod structures called Barabaras). But residents of these islands--there are about 7,000 people in total--could really use an infusion of cheap, efficient homes. And if you think that’s a tall order in more temperate climates in the continental United States, think about how difficult it is in a place where it rains over 200 days a year, wind speeds often hit 100 miles per hour, and electric power comes from diesel oil that’s shipped in from thousands of miles away.
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Faculty union considers vote of no confidence against University of Alaska President Pat Gamble
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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Fired up: Warming season brings danger of wildfires with it
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Editorial
Winter-like temperatures returned earlier this month, but we all know they won’t be staying. The longer days bring heat, and nowhere in Alaska is that heat more intense than in the Interior.
Where there’s heat, there’s fire.
Most wildfires in Alaska are started by lightning. Already during a few warm days in April, the atmospheric convection created large clouds over the hills north of Fairbanks. In a few weeks, even warmer days will drive such clouds into cumulonimbus formations capable of making lightning.
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Winter-like temperatures returned earlier this month, but we all know they won’t be staying. The longer days bring heat, and nowhere in Alaska is that heat more intense than in the Interior.
Where there’s heat, there’s fire.
Most wildfires in Alaska are started by lightning. Already during a few warm days in April, the atmospheric convection created large clouds over the hills north of Fairbanks. In a few weeks, even warmer days will drive such clouds into cumulonimbus formations capable of making lightning.
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Oil prices
Anchorage Daily Planet
Opinion
Here’s something that should make Alaskans more than a little antsy: The Associated Press reports European election results and a slowdown in U.S. hiring have combined to put oil prices into a downward spin, slipping below $98 a barrel.
The AP reports this morning: “By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for June delivery was down 75 cents to $97.74 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier in the session, the contract fell to a low of $95.34 before bouncing back. On Friday, it plunged $4.05 to settle at $98.49.”
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Here’s something that should make Alaskans more than a little antsy: The Associated Press reports European election results and a slowdown in U.S. hiring have combined to put oil prices into a downward spin, slipping below $98 a barrel.
The AP reports this morning: “By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for June delivery was down 75 cents to $97.74 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier in the session, the contract fell to a low of $95.34 before bouncing back. On Friday, it plunged $4.05 to settle at $98.49.”
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Titanic priests: Sacrifice of Catholic priests recalled on 100th anniversary of ship’s sinking
Catholic Anchor
CNA/EWTN News
DENVER, Colo. — Three Catholic priests, including one hailed by Pope Saint Pius X as a martyr for the faith, were among the victims of the Titanic disaster remembered during its 100th anniversary last month.
All three of the European-born priests – Father Juozas Montvila of Lithuania, Father Josef Peruschitz, O.S.B. of Bavaria, and English rector Father Thomas Byles – are said to have declined lifeboats in order to offer spiritual aid to travelers who perished in the shipwreck, which claimed 1,503 lives.
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DENVER, Colo. — Three Catholic priests, including one hailed by Pope Saint Pius X as a martyr for the faith, were among the victims of the Titanic disaster remembered during its 100th anniversary last month.
All three of the European-born priests – Father Juozas Montvila of Lithuania, Father Josef Peruschitz, O.S.B. of Bavaria, and English rector Father Thomas Byles – are said to have declined lifeboats in order to offer spiritual aid to travelers who perished in the shipwreck, which claimed 1,503 lives.
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A Kremlin made of sand
Freedom Politics
By Leon Aron
Vladimir Putin may not be as secure as he thinks.
When Vladimir Putin returns to the Russian presidency on Monday, May 7, the pageantry surrounding his inauguration will aim to portray a picture of unassailable strength, a confident master of his domain invulnerable to pressures from within or without. But things are not quite as stable as they seem. Over the next few years, Russia's domestic and foreign policies will be shaped by an unfolding and increasingly sharp conflict between the consequences of the two events that took place in the past four months: Putin's reelection and the ensuing mass protests that erupted in more than 100 of the largest Russian cities.
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By Leon Aron
Vladimir Putin may not be as secure as he thinks.
When Vladimir Putin returns to the Russian presidency on Monday, May 7, the pageantry surrounding his inauguration will aim to portray a picture of unassailable strength, a confident master of his domain invulnerable to pressures from within or without. But things are not quite as stable as they seem. Over the next few years, Russia's domestic and foreign policies will be shaped by an unfolding and increasingly sharp conflict between the consequences of the two events that took place in the past four months: Putin's reelection and the ensuing mass protests that erupted in more than 100 of the largest Russian cities.
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The Moral Infrastructure
Creators.com
By Thomas Sowell
The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created.
The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to their organized disruptions of other people's lives, their trespassing, vandalism and violence is a de facto suspension, if not repeal, of the 14th Amendment's requirement that the government provide "equal protection of the laws" to all its citizens.
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By Thomas Sowell
The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created.
The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to their organized disruptions of other people's lives, their trespassing, vandalism and violence is a de facto suspension, if not repeal, of the 14th Amendment's requirement that the government provide "equal protection of the laws" to all its citizens.
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The Left’s national vote fraud strategy exposed
Canada Free Press
By News on the Net
“The ultimate goal is systematized, taxpayer-funded voting machinery that will guarantee maximum participation from the Left’s voting demographic while undermining the ability to manage elections and prevent fraud,” special report author James Simpson said. “The strategy is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan to win the 2012 presidential election at all costs, and is in keeping with the organizational methods, associations and ethics of the Community-Organizer-in-Chief, Barack Obama.”
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By News on the Net
WASHINGTON, ― Accuracy in Media’s Center for Investigative Journalism released a special report exposing the history, current tactics and implications of progressive vote fraud and intimidation.
“The ultimate goal is systematized, taxpayer-funded voting machinery that will guarantee maximum participation from the Left’s voting demographic while undermining the ability to manage elections and prevent fraud,” special report author James Simpson said. “The strategy is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan to win the 2012 presidential election at all costs, and is in keeping with the organizational methods, associations and ethics of the Community-Organizer-in-Chief, Barack Obama.”
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European Project's Contradictory Nature Ensures Its Failure
Investor's Business Daily
By ALBERTO MINGARDI
Is the European Union going to last? With Francoise Hollande as the new French president, and the Greeks massively voting for extreme parties — real communists and Nazis — the entire European project is called into question. The fruits of the European crisis are acrid indeed.
The more the time passes, the more it is clear that the dream of unifying Europe was based upon an ambiguity: Was Europe to be an economically integrated area, or a bigger version of a nation-state?
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By ALBERTO MINGARDI
Is the European Union going to last? With Francoise Hollande as the new French president, and the Greeks massively voting for extreme parties — real communists and Nazis — the entire European project is called into question. The fruits of the European crisis are acrid indeed.
The more the time passes, the more it is clear that the dream of unifying Europe was based upon an ambiguity: Was Europe to be an economically integrated area, or a bigger version of a nation-state?
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Obama Wants Power, Not Jobs
American Thinker
By Jeffrey Folks
Natural gas is a feedstock for the production of fertilizer, plastics, and many chemical products. Fortunately, America possesses vast reserves of recoverable natural gas. The low price of this gas is one factor spurring companies like Dow Chemical to expand production in the United States rather than send jobs overseas.
How many jobs? According to one reliable estimate, low gas prices resulting from hydraulic fracturing will result in the creation of one million new jobs in the U.S. in the next decade and a half. That is in addition to another half million jobs created by the fracking process itself and the countless other spin-off jobs necessary to support those expanding chemical, fertilizer, plastics, and energy industries.
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By Jeffrey Folks
Natural gas is a feedstock for the production of fertilizer, plastics, and many chemical products. Fortunately, America possesses vast reserves of recoverable natural gas. The low price of this gas is one factor spurring companies like Dow Chemical to expand production in the United States rather than send jobs overseas.
How many jobs? According to one reliable estimate, low gas prices resulting from hydraulic fracturing will result in the creation of one million new jobs in the U.S. in the next decade and a half. That is in addition to another half million jobs created by the fracking process itself and the countless other spin-off jobs necessary to support those expanding chemical, fertilizer, plastics, and energy industries.
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