Another Hamas Commander Blows Himself Up :)

Via Angry Mike

Thirty-year old Ibrahim Nagib al-Ghoul, a commander in Hamas, (a terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip) for all intents and purposes self-destructed. The event that appears to be a major misfortune was attributed as a “workplace accident.” According to Palestinian media outlets, nine other members of Hamas’s al-Qassam brigades (a militant wing of Hamas) were injured in the “accident."

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"A different angle of the tank man of Tiananmen Square"

Via Ninety Miles From Tyranny

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I had the popular one on my kitchen wall when I lived in Can Tho.

The “maliciousness and corruption of former IRS official Lois Lerner are now clear.”

 

This report underscores what we have known for many months now,” Sekulow said.

The committee said its report makes clear “the extent to which Lerner acted to ensure that the agency intentionally waged a battle against conservative 501(c)(4)’s, violating their rights of freedom of speech and association, because it had an ideological disagreement with the Supreme Court and with the Tea Party.”

“It’s not the job of the IRS to overrule the Supreme Court, and it’s not the job of the IRS to crush political movements its leaders dislike,” the committee said. “Her deep involvement in this scheme raises even more questions about who else was involved – including at the White House.”

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GOP wins special election for Florida House seat

Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a hotly contested special election Tuesday for the U.S. House with a campaign in which he championed repeal of President Obama's health care law and said Sink would be a vote to advance the president's agenda.

Jolly is a lobbyist and former aide to the late Rep. C.W. "Bill" Young, whose death last October sparked the special election. Jolly was backed by Young's family and while he was outspent two-to-one by Sink's campaign, a flood of nearly $5 million in outside money evened the playing field in a race in which nearly $12 million was spent, including $9 million of outside special interest money.

He narrowly defeated Sink by 3400 votes, 48.4%-46.5%, in a district contained entirely within Pinellas County. While Sink displayed an early advantage with early and mail-in vote tallies, Jolly rebounded with a strong Election Day turnout among GOP voters.

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Snowden accuses Senate intelligence chair of hypocrisy over CIA disclosures

Via avordvet

 

NSA whistleblower accuses Dianne Feinstein of double standards, pointing out her lack of concern about widespread surveillance of ordinary citizens

The whistleblower Edward Snowden accused the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee of double standards on Tuesday, pointing out that her outrage at evidence her staff were spied on by the CIA was not matched by concern about widespread surveillance of ordinary citizens.

Snowden, the former contractor whose disclosures to journalists revealed widespread surveillance by the National Security Agency, was responding to an explosive statement by Senator Dianne Feinstein about the CIA’s attempts to undermine a congressional investigation into interrogation and detention.

In a surprisingly combative statement on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Feinstein, who has been widely criticised by privacy experts for failing to hold the NSA to account, accused the CIA of conducting potentially unconstitutional and criminal searches on computers used by her staff.

The remarks put the Democratic senator on a collision course with the CIA’s director, John Brennan, who strongly denied “hacking” the committee’s computers. Feinstein described the controversy as “a defining moment for the oversight of our intelligence community”.

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Terry's Texas Rangers Reunion Photo Including a Black CSA Veteran

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 Terry's Texas Rangers Reunion Photograph, 1913, 10" x 8" albumen on a grey 13.5" x 11.75" paperboard. This photo features many gray-bearded Rangers posing with their friends and family-over fifty people in all-on a sunny day at the entrance of a grand brick building at San Marcos, Texas. In the lower left corner reads, "Terry's Texas Rangers / and Friends / San Marcos, Texas / October 29, 1913."

Near the center stands a black member of the unit, wearing his reunion ribbon over his left breast.

 The name of this Confederate veteran is unknown. (Another photograph from 1913 exists featuring only the veterans in the same location without family and friends; the black veteran is in that photo too.) Photographs of black Confederate veterans, particularly those from Texas, are rare.

This storied cavalry unit was one of the most famous Texas outfits serving in the Civil War.

Organized at Houston in September 1861 by Benjamin Franklin Terry, the Rangers-formally known as the 8th Texas Cavalry-fought numerous Civil War military engagements, including many under General Nathan Bedford Forest near the end of the war. Colonel Terry, unfortunately, was killed in the unit's first engagement in Kentucky in December 1861. The volunteers went on to fight honorably at the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and the Atlanta Campaign. The regiment officially mustered out on April 26, 1865, but most continued fighting in other Confederate units.

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500.  

@ Heritage Auctions

“I said to myself, if I’m going to cark it (die) I’m going to have a beer, so I got a Goldie out of the fridge and drank that.”

 

Rod Sommerville, 54, made a very interesting decision after being bitten by a deadly eastern brown snake in Queensland, Australia. Somerville hit the snake on the head, killing it, called the ambulance and grabbed a beer from the fridge.

He said that he knows panic makes situations of this sort worse, so he decided to remain calm, reports the New Zealand Herald.

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Gun Law Critic, James Kaleda, Targeted By NJ State Police – ARRESTED

 

Last week I broke the story of well known and outspoken NJ Gun Law Critic, James Kaleda, being targeted by the New Jersey State Police over claims that he provided false information on a NJ Non Resident Firearms I.D. Card Application.

At that time I promised that I would be following the story closely and update readers as things developed.

Well, they have. Early last week James advised, via Social Media, that Police Officers from Pennsylvania were at his home and he was being taken into custody on an arrest warrant issued by the NJ State Police for the charge of providing false information on a NJ Non Resident Firearms I.D. Card Application.

An offense that is treated as a third degree felony in New Jersey,  punishable by up to five years in State Prison if convicted.

Mr Kaleda was detained and is currently being held in the Northampton County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania. An extradition hearing was held on Friday March 7th 2014, when extradition was waived. Mr Kaleda now awaits NJ State Police Authorities to have him transferred to NJ before he can go before a NJ Judge to post bail. A process which the State apparently has up to ninety days to complete.

Mr Kaleda has retained noted NJ Firearms Law Expert and Attorney, Evan Nappen, for his defense. Mr Nappen has stated he plans to mount a vigorous defense of his client on the charges.

Obviously this situation has raised significant concerns and alarms for the over 1 million Citizens of NJ who own firearms and could easily find themselves in a similar situation.

More @ Ammoland

Sessions: global warming alarmists spreading ‘deliberate misinformation’

Via Billy

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama took to the floor of the Senate this week and delivered a harsh critique of the Climate Change Caucus’s efforts. Sessions said their all night talk-a-thon was pointless, considering the fact that Democrats hold the majority and could bring legislation to address the issue if they wanted to act against the will of the American people.

“Why wouldn’t the Majority Leader bring a bill to the Senate floor to approve President Obama’s climate agenda?” Sessions asked. “[Because] the American people do not support this and neither does most of Congress.”

Sessions also said the claims of global warming alarmists have escalated from exaggerations to outright misinformation.

“Exaggeration isn’t even a fair word to describe it,” he said. “It has become deliberate misinformation. … The climate is not warming faster than experts predicted as the president claimed.”

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A Brief History of the Alabama Red Rovers

 

Via Jeffery "Twice the number of men were massacred at Goliad vs. the Alamo. One account I read in "Early Settlers of Lawrence County and Alabama" states that when the men were about to be executed, they were on the their knees and one facing away from the Mexicans. One of the men stood up and said, "Boys, they are going to kill us---die with your faces to them, like men!"

In November of 1835, urges for help went out to newspapers throughout the United States. One such urge printed in the Huntsville Democrat read:

“If Volunteers from the U. States will join their brethren in this section, they will receive liberal bounties of land. We have millions of acres of our best land unchosen and unappropriated. Let each man come with a good rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition – and come soon. Our war-cry is “Liberty or Death.” Our principles are to support the Constitution, and DOWN WITH THE USURPER!”

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