Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
As GSN reports, the items the DHS is looking to acquire include the following;
- 111 Centurion CPX2500 Soft Shell Riot Control System upper body and shoulder protection, which must “effectively protect the torso and shoulders from blunt force trauma.”
- 123 Centurion TPX200 thigh/groin protection systems “designed for blunt trauma protection during riot control situations,” said the solicitation. The gear “protects the thigh area and has an adjustable and removable groin protector.”
- 110 Hatch TS70 Centurion hard shell shin guards, which must provide “substantial protection from flying debris. Non-ballistic weapons, and blows to the leg.”
- 189 MaxPro-Police riot helmets, which have a “high impact molded half shell helmet with integral visor and neck protector.”
The solicitation also includes a request for 116 pairs of tactical gloves and 128 forearm protectors. The contract includes four additional one year option periods. The equipment will be delivered to a Federal Protective Service facility in Alexandria, VA, within 45 days of the award.
The Corbett Administration has delayed submitting Common Core academic standards, which were initially scheduled to be implemented on July 1st. This comes at a time when critics fear the standards would impede upon local control, while proponents say the standards give value to a high school diploma and help to ensure that students are prepared to join the workforce. We’ll be joined by Peg Luksik, of Pennsylvanians Against Common Core, and David Patti, President and CEO of the PA Business Council.
David Patti of the PA Business Council (PBC) accepted $262,391 from the Gates Foundation to promote Common Core.
Dr. Luksik wrote a commentary on the politics behind Governor Corbett’s announced delay of implementation: “Playing Politics” - In May, the Corbett administration announced that they would delay submitting the Chapter 4 regulations implementing the latest version of Common Core…Many of those opposed to Common Core hailed that announcement as a victory. It was not. It was a political maneuver.
Hide your IP address: a high level of security hides your computer’s IP address entirely. There are several services that do this including Hot Spot Shield, which is VPN (virtual private network) software, and the search engine StartPage.
TrustChip is placed into the micro SD slot of mobile devices and is “all-in-one key management, authentication and encryption,” according to the company’s website.
Silent Circle, and not Skype, has been independently verified to have end-to-end encryption of information without any back doors for wiretapping.
Cell phones are more difficult to protect but looking where the signal bar is and the letter/number designation showing connectivity, usually shows a few bars and 3G or 4G LTE. If it shows 2G or GPRS, that’s an initial sign you might be hacked.
OTR (for “off the record”) offers “end-to-end” encryption. The server only sees the encrypted version of your conversations, thwarting eavesdropping.
To use OTR, both you and the person you’re chatting with need to use instant messaging software that supports it. For Apple users, a Mac OS X client called Adium, works with Google, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo’s chat networks, among others. Windows and Linux users can use Pidgin.
The web site plan is to 'test' the system by sending a message full of terrorist buzz words to the agency Wednesday at 7 pm EST.
But words designed to catch the scanner's interest litter the script, including famous American landmarks such as 'Manhattan,' 'Golden Gate Bridge', 'Brooklyn Bridge',' Verrazano Narrows Bridge' and 'Financial District.'
It also included words associated with terrorists such as 'death to millions of Americans,' 'strike at any second' and 'oppressive regime.'
Hey! How’s it going? I’m all right.
My job is so shitty I wish I could overthrow my boss. It’s like this oppressive regimewhere only true believers in his management techniques will stay around. I workmarathon-length hours and he’s made all these changes that have made it the worst architecture firm to work at in Manhattan. Like he moved the office to the Financial District and fired my assistant. She was the only one who knew where theblueprints were! I need access to those blueprints to complete my job! F my life, right? And he keeps trying to start all these new initiatives to boost revenue, but seriously we just need to stick to what we do best. There’s only one true profitcenter. I seriously feel ready to go on strike at any second.
I just read this article about how these free radical particles can cause the downfallof good health and accelerate aging. These could actually cause death to millions of Americans. If these particles are flying around undetected everywhere, does that mean we’re all radicalized?
Have you seen the second season of Breaking Bad? I just finished it. I couldn’t believe that episode where they poison the guy with ricin! That was the bomb! I won’t say any more because I don’t want to reveal the earth-shattering events to come.
Oh! So I’ve been planning a big trip for the summer. I’m thinking of visiting all of the most famous suspension bridges in the United States. So probably like the Golden Gate Bridge, The Brooklyn Bridge, and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. I’m gonna bring my younger brother and I know he’ll want to go to bars, so I’m thinking of getting him a fake drivers license, but I hope that doesn’t blow up in my face.
Okay, I gotta run! I’m late for flight school. I missed the last class where we learn how to land, so I really can’t miss another one. Talk to you later!
The director of the movie, James DeMonaco, makes an attack on the NRA, an organization filled with millions of law-abiding gun owners.
People who don’t break the law are somehow evil for exercising the Constitutional rights.
To be sure, DeMonaco did admit that the leadership of the scary 2022 United States was based on the NRA. Here’s what he said:
“I layered in these New Founding Fathers, this regime that we voted into power at some point, some kind of NRA-thing that took over the country…But I kind of left that to the audience. I think sometimes in my writing I try to spoon feed too much, it’s better to let the audience make their own decisions on things.”
The lead actor states that the problems of the world are largely caused by our affluence. I guess that being successful is a bad thing. Now there's a message for young people.
Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life legal group, released audio on Monday of a conversation between Ania Joseph, president of Pro-Life Revolution, and Sherry Wan, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent.
Only 17 carefully selected documents have been publicly released thus Congressional leaders have called for a more complete release. The documents present a far more complicated picture of al Qaeda than the one advanced by Obama. In the months after bin Laden’s death and throughout the 2012 presidential campaign.
According to Congressional sources: among the revelations: bin Laden kept careful tabs on his affiliates and
helped plan attacks from the compound in Abbottabad; the strong ties
between al Qaeda central (AQC) and Pakistan’s Directorate for
Inter-service Intelligence (ISI) were perhaps deeper than many analysts
had imagined; senior Iranian officials cultivated the on-again,
off-again relationship between AQC and the Iranian regime; al Qaeda
central and the Taliban in Afghanistan were far closer than the
administration, interested in jump-starting negotiations with the
Taliban, let on.
Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 was subjected to an aborted trial for
leaking the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War to the New York Times,
said that the Manning prosecution was far tougher than anything that he
had endured.
"This is part of Obama's overall policy of
criminalising investigative reporting on national security," he said.
"If the government has its way, it will become very hard in future to
expose official corruption or disclose information in the public
interest other than leaks made by the administration itself."
The access to the war logs is the critical component of the government's case in which allegedly Bin Laden himself instructed his followers to download.
A local Tennessee politician posted a photo of a man aiming a shotgun at the camera with the caption "How to wink at a Muslim." As a result, the Feds suggest that anti-Muslim speech can be punished. Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, was quoted by the Tullahoma News suggesting that some inflammatory material on Islam might run afoul of federal civil rights laws.
The government may, indeed, play a useful and entirely constitutional role in urging people not to engage in speech that amounts to religious discrimination. But it may not, under the First Amendment, prevent or punish speech even if it may be viewed as hostile to a religion. Judicial Watch for example noted that restricting free speech is unconstitutional.
"The sum of all fossil-fuel resources plus technically recoverable but undiscovered oil and natural gas in the United States and Canada nearly equals the sum of such resources found in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, and Qatar put together" (quoted on p. 187, Vali Nasr, The Dispensable Nation).
If the last two decades of Islamic immigration have taught us anything in the West, it's that tolerance is like salt; it's necessary and beneficial, but too much of it will kill you. We're forced to learn this lesson, it seems, after every violent Islamic atrocity, and we learned it again last week when a serving British soldier was murdered in the street by two Islamic barbarians, one of whom claimed that they were forced to do this terrible thing by the Koran, which is then quoted as justification. I couldn't help noticing that this very important and relevant piece of information was carefully left out of all the news reports, as if it really didn't matter. Instead we were fed the usual blizzard of the usual platitudes from the usual suspects like the Muslim Council of Britain, but crucially we heard no rejection by any Muslim of the Islamic scripturally-mandated doctrine of violent armed jihad, which is the actual problem here. Islam endorses armed jihad. It is a religion of violence and terror. Allah says so, and everybody knows how "akbar" he is because we hear about it whenever some innocent person is murdered in the name of his religion. We should not be expected to ignore the violence and hatred in Islamic teachings simply to avoid offending moderate Muslims.
[Pat Condell] Source: LYBIO.net
If they were really that moderate, they would face up to what their religion teaches and disown it. Instead, they prefer to dissemble and equivocate, and say it's got nothing to do with Islam. But we can all read, and we know that's a lie, and that last week's murder was all about Islam from start to finish and from top to bottom. It was written right through it like a stick of seaside rock. I-S-L-A-M spells jihad. And by the way, please no more garbage about jihad being a journey. It's a journey, all right, into mental illness, and we're not going along for the ride. If the British police were as quick to arrest Islamic bigots as they are ordinary citizens who post offensive messages on Twitter, this disgusting murder would never have happened.
One of these savages was known to police, and had already committed a prosecutable offence, but for reasons best known to themselves they chose to ignore him, until he committed this murder. Then we saw swift and decisive action as people were arrested for posting offensive (not libellous, offensive) messages on Twitter, and an 85 year-old woman was arrested and held in police custody for shouting outside a mosque. In a just and sane society, the officers who made those arrests would themselves be arrested and charged with wasting police time.
Meanwhile, media darling Andy Choudary is free to preach his message of hatred all day long while enjoying police protection as well as generous state benefits. He gets paid more for attacking and insulting our values than our soldiers get for defending them, and it's to our country's eternal shame that nobody is the least bit surprised. Of course it's not just soldiers now who need to watch their backs in Britain because these two savages also told us that nobody here is safe. We're all to blame, apparently, for their mental illness. We're all oppressors of Islam.
We're all invaders and crusaders and God knows what else, but perish the thought that all Muslims should be to blame for the violence endorsed by their religion and repeatedly carried out in its name. No, they're not even to blame for the hate-stirring bigots who preach in their mosques without a murmur of protest. That's got nothing to do with them. Instead, anyone who points out the violent nature of Islamic teachings is automatically accused of stirring up hatred, when, in fact, they're responding to hatred that has already been well and truly stirred up, incubated, nurtured and fed by Islamic bigots in mosques and universities, and by the government and police's mealy-mouthed multi-culti cowardice and dishonesty in dealing with them.
[Pat Condell] Source: LYBIO.net
We can do something about universities, maybe, but only Muslims can affect what happens in mosques because nobody else goes in there. If a mosque is allowing people to preach hatred and violence on its premises, then everyone who attends that mosque and who doesn't protest about it is culpable.
I know very well that if I attended a meeting and somebody was advocating death to anyone from the platform I would have plenty to say about it, and I wouldn't care how sacred the space was. We keep hearing about an anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of this atrocity, as if Muslims are somehow the real victims. They're not. What we need is a Muslim backlash, and we need it now. You may be a moderate peaceful Muslim, but there's nothing moderate or peaceful about your religion, and you know it.
The bigots who preach in your mosques, who take sustenance from your religion are hiding behind you. And your silence is helping them to do it. If your mosque is letting anyone preach hatred and violence on its premises you have a duty to call the police, and the police have a duty to take off their politically correct tinted glasses, to go into that mosque (without removing their shoes) and arrest that person. Anything less than this and you're on the wrong side. And make no mistake, this is the moment to take sides and to show that you are taking sides.
[Pat Condell] Source: LYBIO.net
Loyalty to the ummah is no longer an option because these two murdering scumbags are part of the ummah, along with all the other murdering scumbags that your religion produces by the thousand. And it is your religion that produces these people. They have not perverted it. They are following to the letter the Islamic doctrine of violent armed jihad. All you people who claim to speak for all Muslims, you self-appointed "community leaders" with your bland empty platitudes and crocodile tears, you Muslim politicians and Muslim journalists in the liberal media who deal in evasion and excuses, this murder is on your shoulders unless you personally and publicly reject the Islamic doctrine of armed jihad. No equivocation. No ifs, buts or maybes. We don't want to hear that this has nothing to do with Islam because that's a brazen insult to our intelligence. We want a clear categorical public rejection of the Islamic doctrine of armed jihad. Anything less than this and we will know once and for all that you are complicit, and that you are, and always have been, on the wrong side.
Conservative pundit Caleb Bonham traveled to Colorado University in Boulder and asked several people to sign a “thank you” card to thank the IRS for unfairly targeting conservative groups. The giant poster board read: “Thank You IRS! Tea Party Deserves It!”
'Common Core' Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum
In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called "conservative" Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the "No Child Left Behind" act. During my time in Congress I heard nothing but complaints about this law from teachers, administrators, and, most importantly, students and parents. Most of the complaints concerned No Child Left Behind's testing requirements, which encouraged educators to "teach to the test."
Sadly, but not surprisingly, instead of improving education by repealing No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates, the Obama administration is increasing national control over schools via the "Common Core" initiative. Common Core is a new curriculum developed by a panel of so-called education experts. The administration is trying to turn Common Core into a national curriculum by offering states increased federal education funding if they impose Common Core's curriculum on their public schools. This is yet another example of the government using money stolen from the people to bribe states into obeying federal dictates.
Critics of Common Core say it "dumbs down" education by replacing traditional English literature with "informational texts". So students will read such inspiring materials as studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the EPA's "Recommended Levels of Insulation," and "Invasive Plant Inventory" by California's Invasive Plant Council. It is doubtful that reading federal reports will teach students the habits of critical thinking and skepticism of government that the Founders considered essential to maintaining a free republic.
Like Obamacare, Common Core (now dubbed "ObamaCore" by some) has sparked a backlash in the states, leading some to propose legislation forbidding state participation in the scheme. I hope these efforts lead to states not just opting out of Common Core, but out of No Child Left Behind and all other federal education programs as well.
Parents can also effectively "opt out" of programs like Common Core by seeking alternatives to government education. It is no coincidence that, as federal control over education increases, the quality of public education has declined and more parents have chosen to homeschool.
To support these parents, I have established my own homeschool curriculum. Unlike Common Core, we do not dumb down any of our offerings. Instead, the goal is to provide students with a rigorous education in history, math, English, foreign languages, and other core subjects necessary to a well-rounded education. Unlike the top-down model of nationalized education, the homeschool curriculum is deigned to encourage maximum input from parents and students. While the curriculum will reflect my belief, and interest, in Austrian economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of the struggle against state power, the curriculum is being carefully designed to not show bias toward any one religion. I hope all parents of any faith—or no religious belief at all—will feel comfortable using the curriculum.
I believe it is important for those of us concerned with education and liberty to fight our battles locally. We must oppose further encroachment on the autonomy of local public schools and work to roll-back existing interference, while encouraging and supporting the growth of homeschooling and other alternative education movements. The key to restoring quality education is to replace the bureaucratic control of education with a free-market in education. Parents should have the freedom to select the type of education that best suits their child's unique needs.
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In time for a new Bowie documentary, Five Years, here's a comprehensive look at his small screen performances, from an ice lolly ad to his Extras cameo
In March 2007, then-U.S.Senator Barack Obama called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez to resign because Obama said Gonzalez acted as President Bush's attorney rather than the role of the people's attorney.
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On Larry King Live, presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and called on him to resign. The Illinois Senator brought up a point that Gonzales was acting more like the President's attorney and not the people's attorney:
OBAMA: What you get a sense of is an Attorney General who saw himself as an abler of the Administration, as opposed to somebody that was actually trying to look out for the American people's interests. And for that reason, I think it's time for him to step down.
Mrs. Loyau-Kennett, 48, from Cornwall, was one of the first people on the scene after the two Islamic extremists butchered a soldier in Woolwich, south east London.
Loyau-Kennett was a passenger on a bus which was travelling past the scene, and jumped off to check the soldier’s pulse.
“Being a cub leader I have my first aid so when I saw this guy on the floor I thought it was an accident then I saw the guy was dead and I could not feel any pulse.
“And then when I went up there was this black guy with a revolver and a kitchen knife, he had what looked like butcher’s tools and he had a little axe, to cut the bones, and two large knives and he said 'move off the body’.
“So I thought 'OK, I don’t know what is going on here’ and he was covered with blood. I thought I had better start talking to him before he starts attacking somebody else. I thought these people usually have a message so I said 'what do you want?’
“I asked him if he did it and he said yes and I said why? And he said because he has killed Muslim people in Muslim countries, he said he was a British soldier and I said really and he said 'I killed him because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan they have nothing to do there.”
Stevens’ mission in Benghazi was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft. Stevens had to clean up the nefarious enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, the same group that killed Stevens.
The leaking of General David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell was timed to silence the former CIA chief on these matters.
General Carter Ham, AFRICOM Special Ops head, had “assets in place that could have come to the aid of the Benghazi consulate immediately (not in six hours).”
Ham was told by the White House not to send the aid to the trapped men, but Ham decided to disobey and did so anyway, whereupon the White House “called his deputy and had the deputy threaten to relieve Ham of his command.”
The White House motivation in all this is as yet unclear, but it is known that Ham retired quietly in April 2013 as head of AFRICOM.
Life imitating art, except that they are not conservatives.
May 15th, the Senate Education Committee held an informational hearing. Representing opponents of Common Core were an outstanding trio of education intellectual heavyweights:
Mr. Neil McCluskey, Associate Director Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute Ms. Joy Pullmann, Research Fellow, Education The Heartland Institute Ms. Cheryl E. Boise, Director Commonwealth Education Organization
We are expecting a bill to halt or "pause" Common Core implementation in Pennsylvania in the PA House shortly.
#3837 - Egyptian Children Playact the Return of Saladin, Vow to Fight to the Death for the Liberation of Jerusalem
Al-Hafez TV (Saudi Arabia/Egypt) - May 1, 2013 - 02:32
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” –October 11, 1798 – John Adams
“For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.” [ Alexander Hamilton- 1787 after the Constitutional Convention]
“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” [1778 - James Madison]
“The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields.” – Noah Webster
'Is this still America?' Congressional hearing turns into IRS smackdown as disgraced former commissioner and Treasury Inspector General face tea-party scandal questions
Rep. Schock: Why did IRS ask for the content of an organizations prayers?
Abdelraouf Al-Rawabdeh: "The preacher speaking from the pulpit, the philosopher, the politician, the university professor, the school teacher – they are all attuned to the conscience of the nation. Listen carefully to what I am saying. They are attuned to the conscience of the nation, and they are true to what they believe in, but they are not responsible for its implementation.
"A preacher steps up to the pulpit and declares: 'We must confront America, the spearhead of heresy.' Fine. What does he want us to do about it? He doesn’t say? Along comes the politician, whose job it is to understand the local, regional, and international balance of power, and he talks only about what he can accomplish.
"Once, when I was running for office, someone tried to give me a hard time. He approached me and asked: 'What do you think about America?' I asked him: 'Are you asking me as a politician or as a candidate' He said he was asking me as a candidate, so I said: 'America is an enemy state, which provides weapons to Israel, kills our Palestinian people, controls our Arab countries, expropriates our oil, and destroys our economy.' So he was pleased, but then he said: 'And as a politician?' I said: 'America is our friend. It stands by us and provides us with aid.'
"He said: 'Don’t you see that as a moral contradiction?' 'No,' I said. 'I say that America is an enemy in order to appease you, and I say it is a friend in order to get you food. You tell me which you prefer.'" […]
The evidence directly contradict claims by White House press secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the revisions of those talking points were driven by the intelligence community and show heavy input from top Obama administration officials, particularly those at the State Department.
The initial CIA changes softened the critical language about the participants in the Benghazi assault – from “Islamic extremists with ties to al Qaeda” to “Islamic extremists.” But CIA officials also added bullet points about the possible participation of Ansar al Sharia, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group, and previous warnings about the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi. Those additions came out after the talking points were sent to “the interagency,” where the CIA’s final draft was further stripped down to little more than boilerplate. The half dozen references to terrorists – both in Benghazi and more generally – all but disappeared. Gone were references to al Qaeda, Ansar al Sharia, jihadists, Islamic extremists, etc. The only remaining mention was a note that “extremists” had participated in the attack.
As striking as what appears in the email traffic is what does not. There is no mention of the YouTube video that would become a central part of the administration’s explanation of the attacks to the American people until a brief mention in the subject line of emails coming out of an important meeting where further revisions were made.
White House officials lied about the contents. It’s also difficult to reconcile with claims made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during testimony she gave January 23 on Capitol Hill.
“It was an intelligence product,” she said, adding later that the “intelligence community was the principal decider about what went into talking points.”
And what about the administration’s claims that State and White House officials weren’t involved with substantive edits? In one email, Jake Sullivan, deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, reports to State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland that he’s spoken with Obama’s top spokesman at the National Security Council, Tommy Vietor. “I spoke with Tommy. We’ll work through this in the morning and get comments back.”
In a separate email, he writes: “Talked to Tommy. We can make edits.”
Among the major takeaways from the White House’s doc dump is the fact that CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell is apparently responsible for editing the administration’s talking points (i.e. changed attack to “violent demonstration”).
The seven individuals currently live in Amherst, Cambridge, Sunderland, Northampton and New York City. Police have not released their names because a court date has not been set.
The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.
12:30 in the morning seven people were caught trespassing in a restricted area, Quabbin Reservoir is water supply for 40 percent of Massachusetts Five men, two women from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore said they were CHEMICAL ENGINEER students. No doubt they are Muslim students.
BELCHERTOWN, Mass (WHDH) -- State police have questioned seven people they say were trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir near Belchertown early Tuesday morning.
State police said a trooper saw two vehicles parked on the grass at the reservoir's entrance. The trooper saw seven people walking from the Quabbin Reservoir toward the vehicles.
The male individuals claimed to be chemical engineers. The individuals further claimed that they were recent college graduates, according to state police.
Officers on scene checked the vehicles, persons, and the park area and did not find anything suspicious. There was no evidence that the seven were committing any crime beyond the trespassing, according to police.
The seven people will be summonsed to Eastern Hampshire District Court for the offense of trespassing.
The Commonwealth Fusion Center was notified of the incident and provided with the identification of the seven individuals. Preliminary investigation suggests the individuals are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, according to state police.
State police notified the FBI's Springfield Office, which sent agents to the Belchertown Barracks to assist in the follow up investigation.
State police said it's increasing the number of routine checks our patrols make at water supply facilities around the state.
IRS demanded to know which groups paid her and “what their politics were”
Hendershott believes her articles critical of President Barack Obama’s policies and George Soros’ funding of liberal Catholic groups may have spawned the IRS audit
Audit was emotionally and financially expensive and scared the professor into silence
The significance of the email seems to be that whomever leaked the inaccurate information earlier this month did so in a way that made it appear that the White House - specifically deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes - was more interested in the State Department's desire to remove mentions to specific terrorist groups and warnings about these groups so as to not bring criticism to the Department than Rhodes' email actually stated.
In the email sent on Friday, September 14, 2012, at 9:34 p.m., obtained by CNN from a U.S. government source, Rhodes wrote:
“All –
“Sorry to be late to this discussion. We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation.
“There is a ton of wrong information getting out into the public domain from Congress and people who are not particularly informed. Insofar as we have firmed up assessments that don’t compromise intel or the investigation, we need to have the capability to correct the record, as there are significant policy and messaging ramifications that would flow from a hardened mis-impression.
“We can take this up tomorrow morning at deputies.”
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Marshall-Cornwall, James, Napoleon as Military Commander;
Maughm, W. Somerset, Of Human Bondage;
McCluskey, Neal P., Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education;
McCullough, David, 1776;
McCullough, David, John Adams;
McCullough, David, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt;
McLynn, Frank, Marcus Aurelius: A Life;
McManus, John, Deadly Brotherhood, The: The American Combat Soldier in World War II ;
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McNamara, Patrick, Science and the World's Religions Volume 1: Origins and Destinies (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution);
McNamara, Patrick, Science and the World's Religions Volume 2: Persons and Groups (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution);
McNamara, Patrick, Science and the World's Religions Volume 3: Religions and Controversies (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution);
Meacham, Jon, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House;
Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy;
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Menzies, Gaven, 1421: The Year China Discovered America;
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Perrottet, Tony, The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Olympic Games;
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Phillips, Kevin, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush;
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Pimlott, John, The Elite: The Special Forces of the World Volume 1;
Pitre, Brant, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper;
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Quintus of Smyrna, The Fall of Troy;
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Redmond Magazine: The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community;
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Roberts, Ian, The Energy Glut: Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World;
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Software Development Times: The Industry Newspaper for Software Development Managers;
Software Test Performance;
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Strategy + Business;
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Sullivan, James, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America;
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Sumner, Graham, Roman Military Clothing (2) AD 200-400;
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Swanston, Malcolm, Mapping History Battles and Campaigns;
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Swiderski, Richard M., Quicksilver: A History of the Use, Lore, and Effects of Mercury;
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Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution;
Talley, Colin L., A History of Multiple Sclerosis;
Tawil, Camille, Brothers In Arms: The Story of al-Qa'ida and the Arab Jihadists;
Tech Briefs: Engineering Solutions for Design & Manufacturing;
Tech Net: The Microsoft Journal for IT Professionals;
Tech Partner: Gain a Competitive Edge Through Solutions Providers;
Technology & Learning: Ideas and Tools for Ed Tech Leaders;
Tenet, George, At the Center of the Storm: The CIA During America's Time of Crisis;
Thackeray, W. M., Vanity Fair;
Thompson, Derrick & William Martin, Have Guitars ... Will Travel: A Journey Through the Beat Music Scene in Northampton 1957-66;
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina;
Trento, Joseph J., The Secret History of the CIA;
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Ungar, Craig, House of Bush House of Saud;
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VAR Business: Strategic Insight for Technology Integrators:
Virgil, The Aeneid
Virtualization Review: Powering the New IT Generation;
Visual Studio: Enterprise Solutions for .Net Development;
VON Magazine: Voice, Video & Vision;
Wall Street Technology: Business Innovation Powered by Technology;
Wallace, Robert, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda;
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Weiner, Tim, Enemies: A History of the FBI;
Weiner, Tim, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA;
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Wolf, Naomi, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot;
Woodward, Bob, Plan of Attack;
Woodward, Bob, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House;
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A tax on toilet paper; I kid you not. According to the sponsor, "the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act will be financed broadly by small fees on such things as . . . products disposed of in waste water." Congress wants to tax what you do in the privacy of your bathroom.
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