The Inconvenient Truths in Tom Cotton’s Letter to Iran; Here’s What Really Happened in California When Gun Sales DOUBLED; Armed Black Militants Call For Murder of Cops...

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• The Inconvenient Truths in Tom Cotton’s Letter to Iran
• Skilled gunsmith helps Kurds turn ISIS’ guns on terrorists
• Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10
• Israel: Bibi promises quick coalition, after victory
• Gunmen storm Tunisian museum, kill two Tunisians, 17 foreign tourists
• Thomas Sowell: Ruinous ‘Compassion’
• The Big, Fat “American Worker Recruitment First” Lie of H-1B
• With The Jinx, where does journalism end and entertainment begin?
• Here’s What Really Happened in California When Gun Sales DOUBLED
• McDonald’s Assaults Reporter for Asking About McNugget Ingredients at SXSW
• Armed Black Militants Call For Murder of Cops
• Rapper Azealia Banks: I Hate White Americans

The Inconvenient Truths in Tom Cotton’s Letter to Iran Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:18 AM PDT Jonah Goldberg, It has been an Iranian tradition since 1979 to end Friday prayers with chants of “Death to America!” In a purely rational world, that would be all one needed to know that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Skilled gunsmith helps Kurds turn ISIS’ guns on terrorists Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:15 AM PDT  In their fight against ISIS, the Kurdish army known as Peshmerga has a secret weapon – a second-generation gunsmith so skilled he can practically turn a bucket of rusty bolts into a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10 Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:12 AM PDT  Microsoft Corp is making its biggest push into the heavily pirated Chinese consumer computing market this summer by offering free upgrades to Windows 10 to all Windows users, regardless of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Israel: Bibi promises quick coalition, after victory Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:09 AM PDT  Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right and is likely to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Gunmen storm Tunisian museum, kill two Tunisians, 17 foreign tourists Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:06 AM PDT  Gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia’s national museum, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians on Wednesday in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Thomas Sowell: Ruinous ‘Compassion’ Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:36 AM PDT  It is fascinating to see brilliant people belatedly discover the obvious — and to see an even larger number of brilliant people never discover the obvious. A recent story in a San... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Big, Fat “American Worker Recruitment First” Lie of H-1B Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:32 AM PDT Michelle Malkin,  You’ve heard it from Big Government lobbyists. You’ve heard it from Big Business lackeys in both political parties. And you’ve heard it from journalists,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

With The Jinx, where does journalism end and entertainment begin? Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:28 AM PDT  In one of the many chilling moments of HBO’s The Jinx, murder suspect and Manhattan real estate heir Robert Durst mumbles to himself during a break from his interview with director Andrew... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here’s What Really Happened in California When Gun Sales DOUBLED Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:24 AM PDT  As we all know, it’s part of liberal dogma that gun ownership causes crime. It’s right up there with the idea that taxes create jobs, the theory that government can solve... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

McDonald’s Assaults Reporter for Asking About McNugget Ingredients at SXSW Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:21 AM PDT Fast food giant scrambles to stop reporter from asking questions. Anthony Gucciardi, McDonald’s is admittedly losing money fast each and every month as consumers reject their GMO-laden... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Armed Black Militants Call For Murder of Cops Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:14 AM PDT “The only good pig is a pig that’s dead” Armed Black Panthers called for the murder of police officers during an open carry march at the South by Southwest festival on Monday.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Rapper Azealia Banks: I Hate White Americans Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:10 AM PDT “I hate everything about this country,” she said. “Like, I hate fat, white Americans.” Rapper Azealia Banks hates “white Americans” and everything about the U.S.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Final Toast, Doolittle Raiders! ...

THE FINAL TOAST ! 

They once were among the most universally admired and revered men in the United States .. There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942, when they carried out one of the most courageous and heart-stirring military operations in this nation's history. The mere mention of their unit's name, in those years, would bring tears to the eyes of grateful Americans.  Now only four survive.   After Japan 's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, with the United States reeling and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn the war effort around.   Even though there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was devised. Sixteen B-25s were modified so that they could take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been tried -- sending such bi g, heavy bombers from a carrier.     The 16 five-man crews, under the command of Lt. Col. James Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet, knew that they would not be able to return to the carrier. They would have to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a safe landing.   But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military caught wind of the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted on. They were told that because of this they would not have enough fuel to make it to safety.  And those men went anyway.    They bombed Tokyo and then flew as far as they could. Four planes crash-landed; 11 more crews bailed out, and three of the Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three were executed.   Another died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew made it to Russia .           The Doolittle Raiders sent a message from the United States to its enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no matter what it takes, we will win.   Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a motion picture based on the raid; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ," starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and emotional box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the national lexicon. In the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM proclaimed that it was presenting the story "with supreme pride."      Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson , Arizona , as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with the name of a Raider.     Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is transported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away, his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion, as his old friends bear solemn witness.    Al so in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy Doolittle was born.   There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving Raiders, they would open the bottle, at last drink from it, and toast their comrades who preceded them in death.   As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February, Tom Griffin passed away at age 96.   What a man he was. After bailing out of his plane over a mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was sent to Europe to fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured, and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp.   The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts ... there was a passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that, on the surface, had nothing to do with the war, but that was emblematic of the depth of his sense of duty and devotion:    "When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home, he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her clothes. At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he walked them up to her room the next morning. He did that for three years until her death in 2005."   So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s. They have decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to continue.   The events in Fort Walton Beach marked the end. It has come full circle; Florida 's nearby Eglin Field was where the Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission. The town planned to do all it can to honor the men: a six-day celebration of their valor, including luncheons, a dinner and a parade.   Do the men ever wonder if those of us for whom they helped save the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their sacrifice? They don't talk about that, at least not around other people. But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this week, and if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might want to offer them a word of thanks. I can tell you from first hand observation that they appreciate hearing that they are remembered.   The men have decided that after this final public reunion they will wait until a later date -- some time this year -- to get together once more, informally and in absolute privacy. That is when they will open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are only two of them.   They will fill the four remaining upturned goblets. And raise them in a toast to those who are gone.

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Netanyahu poised for third straight term as Israel PM after chief rival concedes

NOW WATCH OBAMA "PENALIZE" ISRAEL FOR HAVING THE EFFRONTERY TO ELECT THE CANDIDATE THAT OBAMA WANTED TO LOSE. ALL OF B.O.'S SPOKESPEOPLE AND SYCOPHANTS WILL CONTINUE TO ASSERT THAT WE ARE STILL CLOSE FRIENDS WITH ISRAEL -- WHILE KERRY IS GIVING AWAY ANYTHING TO LOCK UP A NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN, WHICH HAS PROMISED TO OBLITERATE ISRAEL.