Successful elsewhere, 'tea party' fails to find traction in California
Photo: Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) talks to reporters after accompanying family members who voted in the California primary at the Brywood Elementary School in Irvine. DeVore, a "tea party" favorite, lost to Carly Fiorina. (Damian Dovarganes, Associated Press / June 8, 2010)
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Nearly $1 trillion in untapped resources could fundamentally alter economy
Just what we don’t need, another reason to stay in Afghanistan. I say this because I strongly suspect the U.S. is going to want a piece of this mineral payload!
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Photo: A bleak Ghazni Province seems to offer little, but a Pentagon study says it may have among the world’s largest deposits of lithium.
Dave Stancliff/For the Times-Standard
Posted: 06/13/2010 01:30:28 AM PDT
Muslim terrorists' favorite American target is New York. No offense to its residents, but you couldn't pay me to live there. I'm a firm believer in the law of averages and when I heard about yet another terrorist attack, my suspicions were confirmed.
Since 9/11, the city has been a recruitment poster for every Muslim extremist in the world. Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, recently left a car bomb in Times Square that didn't go off.
My concern all along has been “sleeper cells” of terrorists in our country. I've often wondered how terrorists get into the U.S. I'm sure some are born here or come into the country legally, and like Shahzad, become U.S. citizens.
I discovered that some terrorists are actually invited into our country because of international politics. Sound crazy? Before I explain, let's define a Presidential Memorandum:
READ THE REST HERE.Wooster Collective points to a remarkable piece of street art, that appeared on the streets of Berlin a few weeks ago. What you see in this photo below, is a creation by an unknown artist, who has created a subtle but effective lenticular image on the slats of a fence. Head-on it doesn’t look like much, but when you move yourself to the left (or right), an image of a face appears.
What are the three types of Presidential memorandums? Who knows? Who cares? You might after reading this Sunday’s AS IT STAND’s column in The Times-Standard:
Presidential Memorandums: or how to stay under the media radar
More prosecutions sought in 17 months than any previous administration
In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions.
“Hired in 2001 by the National Security Agency to help it catch up with the e-mail and cellphone revolution, Thomas A. Drake became convinced that the government’s eavesdroppers were squandering hundreds of millions of dollars on failed programs while ignoring a promising alternative.
He took his concerns everywhere inside the secret world: to his bosses, to the agency’s inspector general, to the Defense Department’s inspector general and to the Congressional intelligence committees. But he felt his message was not getting through.
So he contacted a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.”
Though he is charged under the Espionage Act, Mr. Drake appears to be a classic whistle-blower whose goal was to strengthen the N.S.A.’s ability to catch terrorists, not undermine it.
A flourishing and unregulated industry of pot delivery services is circumventing bans on storefront dispensaries and bringing medical marijuana directly to Californians' homes.
In April, 758 services advertised direct delivery of marijuana to patients on Weedmaps.com, a commercial listing service.
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For San Francisco’s controversial proposed sit/lie law, the inciting incident happened on a Wednesday night in early December in the Haight — an act of violence so brutal it inspired a grass-roots movement.
For the full story, check out Scott James's column on the sit/lie controversy.
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Before long-awaited game, Bradley says, ‘We believe we're going to win’
The last time the USA defeated the powerful English soccer team to win the World Cup Finals was the year I was born; 1950.
PHOTO: U.S. national soccer players, including Jozy Altidore, front, train at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, on Friday.
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“Why does one of the largest newspapers in the country allow its political writer to routinely disrespect the president in a casually insulting way?”
Eric Boehlert asks…
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It just depends on what state you're in these days whether you have a chance of getting justice in the courts. If you are in Texas, it...
