Shot and Beaten, A Marine Crawls From Chosin to Safety

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The Chinese thought they killed a wounded Marine private Ed Reeves with a bullet as they massacred troops in a stricken US convoy. When the Chinese discovered Reeves alive as they stacked US bodies, they proceeded to beat him with the butts of their rifles until satisfied he was dead. Reeves recounts this horrific encounter and his amazing escape to safety after being left for dead.

American jobs are a small price to pay for Obama’s ‘climate change leadership’

 

What’s a good way to push an economy that just suffered a GDP contraction, after five years of anemic growth, into a full-blown recession?  Barack Obama has your answer, as he once again demonstrates his eagerness to make other people pay a steep price for his “legacy.”  Fox News has details of the big new offensive in Obama’s War on Energy:

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Gun maker breaks ground in Pike County, salutes USA

 

Patriotism was a prominent theme as gun manufacturer Kahr Firearms Group celebrated its new location in Pike County on Thursday with a groundbreaking and barbecue.

"We are very happy to be in Pike County, in a place where people love the Second Amendment and love guns. It is a great place to be," Kahr founder Justin Moon said. "I just wish the rest of the country could be like Pike County."

The groundbreaking included a flag ceremony, the Pledge of Allegiance, the singing of "God Bless America" and "God Bless the USA," and a prayer from the Rev. Hyung Jin Moon, Justin Moon's brother, in which he mentioned the greatness of living in a free country.

Kahr Firearms Group includes Auto-Ordinance Corp., maker of the Tommy Gun, purchased in 1998; and Magnum Research, maker of the Desert Eagle, purchased in 2010.

"When good people carry guns, bad people think twice," Justin Moon said.

The gun manufacturer bought the long-empty 600-acre Pike County Business Park on Well Road in Blooming Grove for $2 million last year and is expanding manufacturing and moving its entire New York operation out of that state to escape what it describes as an unfriendly gun climate there.

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Making Friends & Influencing People: "USA must be nuked. We are tired of them in this world."

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 From the comments.

Objective military assessment: Bowe Bergdahl case

I am writing this because last night I heard Fox News’ Harris Faulkner refer to Army SGT Bowe Bergdahl as a local hero. I just listened to Bergdahl’s father refer to his son’s character.

So, we must have a discussion of the truth here. Army SGT Bergdahl was not “captured” by the enemy in 2009. He abandoned his assigned post on his Forward Operating Base (FOB), leaving his weapon. Several U.S. Army Soldiers lost their lives in search for Bergdahl. His disappearance can only be classified as desertion and the media must not be so giddy about a good news story that they don’t tell the truth — which is apparent to many. The allegation of desertion is serious. It is grave because it occurred during a war, during combat operations.

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Sonic Robbed Same Day Gun Ban Announced

Breitbart News reported that Sonic restaurants asked law-abiding "customers [to] refrain from bringing guns" to their restaurants on May 30.

On that same day, according The Topeka Capital Journal, two individuals who may have realized law-abiding citizens were unarmed walked into a Topeka, Kansas Sonic and robbed it.

According to police, the suspects are two black males, both of whom were wearing hoodies and white pants.

This same thing happened to Jack in the Box once they asked law-abiding citizens to quit carrying guns in their restaurants.

More with video @ Breitbart

The Wild Food Trailguide

Via  Michael via WRSA

 Foraging Reference Recommendation

Small enough to pack along, limited to seventy common plants so as not to be overwhelming, with very good line drawings, detailed descriptions for ID, uses and preparation. Distribution maps, habitat, seasons, uses other than for food (dye, soap, insecticide, medicine and many more too numerous to list). And most importantly, a section on poisonous plants, some of which bear a striking resemblance to edible ones. I really can’t do it justice here, except to say that it’s one of the best such I’ve seen.

Highly recommended.

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Ukraine Update from Ukraine Reader

News media reporting of the situation in Ukraine has nearly vanished in the past couple of weeks. Here is an update from reader Jacob Dreizin, a US citizen who speaks Ukrainian and Russian.

Mish,

Just wanted to give you an update on Ukraine. A lot has happened since I wrote you last.

The rebels in the eastern regions are clearing their hinterland of minor government positions, and securing their supply lines from Russia. The Russian government has started to allow volunteers and weapons to move across the border without interference from its side.

Whether intended or not, it is the classic insurgent battle plan. Once this stage is completed, the remaining government forces in Donetsk and Lugansk regions will be so isolated as to have no choice but to "temporarily redeploy and regroup", that is, to retreat.

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Buchanan Knew the Limits of Presidential Authority

 

John Brown was hung by the State of Virginia in October, 1859 after being tried on a charge of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, his intent being the overthrow of Virginia’s government and inciting rebellion within the State. His act of treason against Virginia was not an act of treason against the other States, and his trial followed the letter of the United States Constitution.  Read more at: http://www.ncwbts150.com/ActsofTreasonAgainstNorthCarolina.php

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman

North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission

"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"

www.ncwbts150.com

"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"

Buchanan Knew the Limits of Presidential Authority

“Mr. [James] Buchanan, the last President of the old school, would as soon have thought of aiding the establishment of a monarchy among us as of accepting the doctrine of coercing the States into submission to the will of a majority, in mass, of the people of the United States. 

When discussing the question of withdrawing the troops from the port of Charleston, he yielded a ready assent to the proposition that the cession of a site for a fort, for purposes of public defense, lapses, whenever that fort should be employed by the grantee against the State by which the cession was made . . . [and] the little garrison of Fort Sumter served only as a menace, for it was utterly incapable of holding the fort if attacked . . . [and the attempt to provision it would be] readily construed as a scheme to provoke hostilities.”  

(Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. I, Jefferson Davis, 1881, pp. 216-217) 

“Article 3, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution defines treason as “only” levying war upon the United States, or giving aid and comfort to their enemies. The “United States” is in the plural, signifying free and independent States that are united in a cause. The word “THEIR” is most important because it also signifies that treason is defined only as levying war upon “THEM” – the free and independent States, not something called “the United States government.” This of course is precisely what Lincoln did when he levied war upon the Southern States.”

Dr. Thomas L. DiLorenzo, Loyola College

“[Dr. Marshall DeRosa writes] . . . that Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution states that “Treason against the United States shall consist of levying war against THEM or adhering to THEIR enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” [DeRosa explains:] “This is why Lincoln’s invasion of the Southern States was the very definition of treasonous behavior under the Constitution.”

(The Long March Through the Constitution, C. Williamson, Jr., Chronicles, June 2014, pg. 27)

"........(journalists) guys who came (out) of Nam, didn’t want some faggoty job like being a judge, which is to say a wannabe transvestite in a black nighty."

 

 "......Marco Hernandez, a federal judge of near-perfect ignorance......"

A serious question in an Internet age is who qualifies as a journalist and therefore for press credentials and protection under shield laws and Times vs. Sullivan. Clearly a fifteen-year-old semiliterate garage-blogger should not. Clearly a site like The Unz Review should. How to decide and who decides are not easy questions.

Who should not decide is easy: the Federal Government. In Forbe’s, I find one Marco Hernandez, a federal judge of near-perfect ignorance, who lists seven requisites that in his view must be met if one is to be, in effect, a federally licensed journalist. (Note that Hernandez was appointed by Obama, consistently hostile to the press Federal jusges are not appointed for competence, but for allegiance.)
Anyway, Hernandez. For those of us who mightl have to work in the deep shadow of his overhanging brow ridges, this is bad news. Let us examine his requirements.

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