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From the UK’s Daily Mail: He is still revered around the world as a peace-loving working class hero. But by the time he died, John Lennon was a closet conservative embarrassed by his radical past, according to his former personal

From Pravda: The occult background of the Soviet rule has been discussed no less than the legendary occult of the Third Reich. What role has Joseph Stalin, who ruled the country of “victorious socialism” for nearly 30 years, played in

Makes sense to me. Is there a reason to not do this? From the Marine Corps Times: “MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — In a significant reversal, the Marine Corps has begun using optics at entry-level training, and could do

From the UK’s Daily Mail: If the U.S. soccer team were hoping for the home advantage during Saturday’s Gold Cup final then they were in for a nasty surprise. Despite being the ‘home’ side in California’s Rose Bowl stadium, the

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From the UK’s Daily Telegraph: The Western alliance marks 100 days of bombing Libya on Sunday with political leaders adamant that the regime, which violently crushed a popular uprising in February, is isolated and collapsing from within. However defence analysts

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Join Andrew Breitbart and Melanie Morgan for Troopathon 2011, today from 4pm to Midnight EDT! Troopathon brings together famous celebrities from radio, television, the movie, musicians, journalists, and more to create a one-of-a-kind event with one purpose – to support

From Reuters: Lebanon’s Hezbollah is preparing for a possible war with Israel to relieve perceived Western pressure to topple Syrian PresidentBashar Assad, its guardian ally, sources close to the movement say. The radical Shi’ite group is watching the unrest in

From Ynet news: WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama spoke Monday at a fundraiser for potential Jewish donors to his 2010 presidential campaign and assured then that Jerusalem and Washington’s relations were unshakable. “One inviolable principle will be that the

Now this is a bizarre story. The Austrian town of Hallstatt, which is declared a World Heritage site….has been copied by the Chinese. Germany’s Der Spiegel has the story: New Chinese village…they’re copying the lake, too Residents of the Austrian

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The drill sergeant. A backbone of the US Army. Gotta respect these soldiers, each and every one. The Military Times gives us an update as the competition begins: FORT JACKSON, S.C. – Think your Monday was tough? Try being a

Foreign Policy has this report about the coalition between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wafd Party. If history is any guide, it’s the fanatics and the most committed who end up on top with these sort of arrangements. These are

From the New York Times: The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications

From the UK’s Daily Mail: Border patrol officials exchanged up to 300 rounds of gunfire with drug runners from Mexico but just six came from the suspects, authorities admitted. In a show of power which appears to have been massively

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Made out of a half-built Soviet warship, China bought it and completed it as an aircraft carrier. The ship is not yet completed. [youtube 3vHoNKAEeGc nolink]

WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. These videos were apparently shot at the rooftop of the Al Kark mosque in Daraa. The soldiers joke: “Your father told you to watch out, but you didn’t.” [youtube hHQeNVoGMD0 nolink]

From the Institute for Energy Research in Washington: WASHINGTON– Michael Bromwich, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE), testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. As has seemed to become his custom,

From the Associated Press: BAGHDAD — Five American troops were killed Monday in central Iraq, U.S. officials said — the single largest loss of life for the American military in Iraq in the past two years. The military said in

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More proof that our soldiers are tough as nails and have, well, GUTS. From the Daily Mail: Private Moss was on patrol in Paktika Province in Eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, March 16, when his unit was attacked – likely by

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” –G.K. Chesterton

Kudos to the Military Times for putting together this tribute to the more than 540 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who died for their country in the past year. Please take a moment to watch the video and see their

From the Associated Press: Capping an extensive trip to Europe, President Barack Obama said that the United States must always “leave room” to throw financial and moral support behind nations fighting for freedoms even during tough economy times.

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From the UK’s Daily Mail: Poland’s former president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa has snubbed an invitation to meet with President Barack Obama. Mr Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, had been invited by Polish President Bronislaw

From the Associated Press: CHICAGO — In 2000, David Coleman Headley called a phone number he saw on a recruiting poster in a mosque in Pakistan, and in doing so launched a nearly decade-long career as a terrorist. For the

Ynetnews reports: For the first time ever, ordinary Russians can now see documents that appear to confirm long-standing rumors that Vladimir Lenin had Jewish heritage. In a country long plagued by anti-Semitism, such heritage can be a significant taint, especially

This is how he signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey yesterday….note the date.

Discrimination, or necessity? The Marine Corps Times reports on how marines with gold grills have had their careers hurt because they are not as “presentable” as those without. An excerpt: TAMPA, Fla. — The rapper Paul Wall once said his

Here is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech at AIPAC tonight in Washington, DC. As you can hear from the video (especially the second), leftist protesters– who’d paid to get in– tried to heckle Bibi but were drowned out by applause

From the Daily Telegraph: Barack Obama is no more O’Bama than I am O’Done. And the Irish know it. They’re watching, bemused, as the most powerful man in the world comes to visit their President and Taoiseach, then visit Moneygall,

From AFP: Gunmen armed with rockets and explosives stormed a major Pakistani naval air base, triggering gun battles that killed five military personnel, three weeks after the US killing of Osama bin Laden.

From AFP: Six medical students were killed and 23 others wounded in a Taliban suicide attack at Afghanistan’s main military hospital in Kabul on Saturday, officials said. The blast took place at lunchtime in a tent used as a dining