LIVE AT FIVE: 07.17.14

I didn’t get much reading done last week, what with a lack of money for new books, a lack of time to stop by the library, and a lack of spare time to actually read what I did pick up last week thanks to the truck breaking down for a day – which, thanks to Northern Virginia’s idiosyncratic transit network, meant a day and a half wasted on bus and Metro riding that I could have spent reading.

Anyway, I finally got around to Variable Star, which is billed as a collaboration between Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson. For those of you unfamiliar with the backstory on this, apparently RAH had written the outline in 1955, but never done anything else with it. When it was found (less its last page) after Virginia Heinlein’s death, Robinson was asked to finish it in his own style, which he did, and the result is something that’s neither fish nor fowl. As Nicholas Whyte said in Strange Horizons, “This is, frankly, not a great book.” I have to agree with him; with its many references to events and characters from Heinlein’s other works, and shameless Tuckerizations, it’s amusing for people who like that sort of thing, but the opening chapters are painful to read and the deus ex machina that saves the day is downright infuriating. Also, contra Whyte, the book seems as obsessed with sex and sexual relations as any of Heinlein’s later, lesser works, which is an annoying distraction since it all seems rather forced and gratuitous, a signal by Robinson that he, too, is hep, cool and with it. It’s not nearly as bad as For Us, The Living, but that’s damning with faint praise. If you really like Spider Robinson and view him as the obvious heir to Heinlein’s legacy (I don’t) then you’ll probably enjoy the book; if not, then you might want to read it once and move on.

And then we have Iver Cooper’s 1636: Seas of Fortune, which is a different kettle of tropical fish altogether. In the old days, Seas of Fortune would probably have been called a fix-up, since it began as a series of short stories, but here forms a pair of short novels dealing with a USE colony in the Guianas (and a refugee marrano from Brazil who plays an important role) and the Japanese colonization of America’s Pacific Coast with exiled Christians under the rule of daimyo Date Masumune, who was not himself Christian. Both stories are entertaining, but whether they’re worth almost nine bucks is another question, especially since the paperback is less expensive. What’s up with that, Baen?

Finally, a couple of short stories. First, Sarah Hoyt’s The Price of Gold, which is an amusing little romantic fantasy that dances along the edge of horror without falling in. The plot concerns a secret high school for magicians, the misfit boy who apparently can’t do magic at all despite his parents both being wizards, and the precocious girl whose magical skills are exactly the opposite – she’s so good, not even her teachers know what her limits might be. When the misfit boy disappears, and nobody else seems to care, our heroine sets off to solve the case – and finds the boy may have a talent their teachers aren’t equipped to appreciate.

Much less sweet (and considerably more frustrating) is Marko Kloos’ Measures of Absolution, a story set in his Frontlines universe that returns us to the hostile slums of Detroit which we previously saw in his debut novel Terms of Enlistment. This time the story is from the POV of Andrew Grayson’s squadmate Corporal Jackson, who finds out why her squad almost got wiped out – but the question is whether she’ll survive to let anyone higher in the chain of command know. I’d have been a lot happier with “Measures of Absolution” if it hadn’t ended abruptly at AN EXTREMELY DRAMATIC POINT, but as it is, it’s a good read but immensely frustrating. Maybe we’ll get to see the rest of the story after Marko finishes ~~Angels~~Angles of Attack. Maybe we won’t. In the meantime, if you don’t mind being left hanging, it’s a good story.

Finally, on a completely unrelated topic, it’s been a while since we all got together for drinks, snacks, and goodnatured hijinkery, and frankly, I don’t care to wait for CPAC. How many of you would be interested in getting together someplace in DC or Northern Virginia for beverages (adult & otherwise), nibblements and conversation? We can either follow the example of the recent Northern Virginia Moron Meetup, which reserved a private room and pre-ordered trays of appetizers after people chipped in money, or we can just pick a bar, restaurant, or lounge someplace and agree to meet there at a certain day & time. This would probably, tentatively happen in mid-October or later. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Category: Books

They Found Peggy Joseph!

Posted on | July 16, 2014 | 33 Comments

Everybody remembers the Florida woman who, during the 2008 campaign, gleefully declared in a TV news interview after an Obama campaign rally that if Obama was elected, she wouldn’t have to worry about putting gas in her car or paying her mortgage.

Over the years, whenever the headlines told of bad economic news I’d wonder aloud, “Whatever happened to Peggy Joseph?”

Thanks to documentary film director Joel Gilbert, now we know:

Ms. Joseph told Gilbert, after viewing the 2008 segment together that gave her notoriety, that not only has Obama not been paying her gas or mortgage, but both have gotten progressively harder to pay.
“During that time, we needed a change, but change for the better, not for the worse,” an awakened Peggy Joseph told Gilbert.
“He had a very big voice, just like the Wizard of Oz,” Joseph said, comparing Obama to the famous phony wizard. “The wizard was this little teeny-teeny tiny man, and I think it’s the same thing with Obama, the man behind the curtain,” Ms. Joseph said in a reflective, disappointing tone.
Ms. Joseph looks back at the time of her 2008 interview, saying, “I was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. That’s how I feel.”
“What I learned is never trust the Wizard,” Joseph now says. “It’s within ourselves to have the determination, the courage, and the brains, to bring us to our destiny.”

What many people will find most surprising is that, contrary to widespread belief, Peggy Joseph wasn’t looking for a handout. She is not a welfare mooch. In fact, she is a suburban soccer mom, a Haitian immigrant who works hard as a nurse to support her four children. The question that remains now: Why can’t Republicans reach people like Peggy Joseph with a message of hope, growth and opportunity?

Maybe the Black Conservatives Fund can find an answer.

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Economics

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.16.14

Posted on | July 16, 2014 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVE: 07.16.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Israel Resumes Air Strikes On Gaza As Truce Deal Collapses

People play outside a bomb shelter on the beach in Ashdod

Hamas attempt to play good cop/bad cop fails miserably

Gaza residents call for peace as conflict roars on

Top Hamas leader targeted as ceasefire collapses

BRICs Set Up Bank To Counter Western Hold On Global Finances
Branches to open in Shanghai, India; $100 billion reserve pool established

Dollar Rallies As Yellen Hints At Rate Hike
Fed to maintain near-zero interest rate until economy improves

POLITICS
VA Alleges “Tremendous Progress”On Backlogged Claims

VA Undersecretary for Benefits Allison Hickey

Congress, IG skeptical

House Approves Short-Term Fix For Highway Trust Fund

Californians Ready To Vote On Splitting State Into Six

Two Former Utah AGs Arrested On Bribery Charges

Baptist Minister Wins Harsh GOP Primary For NC-6

Issa Slams White House Over Aide’s Subpoena Defiance

5th Circuit Rules University Of Texas Can Use Race As A Factor In Admissions

Policy Analyst Palmer Defeats State Rep DeMarco In AL-6 GOP Primary

Henry Kissinger Gets Heart Valve Replaced

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Rebounds From NY Close On Bargain Hunting: WTI $100.32, Brent $106.17
Asian Stocks Steady As Red China GDP Hits Target
JPMorgan Pulls Back From Mortgage Lending On Foreclosure Worries
Wall Street Down As Investors Digest Earnings
Reynolds American Closes Deal To Buy Lorillard For $27.4 Billion
June Retail Sales Reflect Consumer Qualms
Apple, IBM Team Up for Business Apps & Services
Google’s Project Zero Attacks Web Security Threats
SGI, SAP Collaborate For Real-Time Analytics
Novartis, Google To Work On Smart Contact Lenses For Diabetics
LeapFrog Takes On Apple with New Hardware Aimed At Kids

SPORTS
Derek Jeter Bids Farewell To All-Star Game, Leads AL To Victory

Farewell to the Captain

MVP Trout, Cabrera chip in 2 RBI each en route to 5-3 win for Junior Circuit

Jimmy Graham Signs Four Year/$40 Million Deal With Saints

No Guarantee Sterling Will Be Out By Start Of NBA Season

Wade, Heat Agree To Two-Year Contract

Pens: No Surgery For Crosby

NASCAR Introduces New Elements For Chase Cars

Ogumikes First Sisters Named To WNBA All-Star Game

Perfect Setup For Clippard At All-Star Game

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lindsay Lohan To London?

LiLo with London friends

Wants to be regarded as actress, not celebrity

Tammy Bruce To “The View” As The Anti-Rosie – As Suggested By Sarah Palin?

SNL Loses Three More Cast Members

Marvel Makes Thor A Woman

Baby Girl On The Way For Nick & Vanessa Lachey

Rihanna Tweets #FreePalestine, Immediately Retracts It

Why Anna Kendrick Is Okay Not Being On The Most Beautiful List

“Once Upon A Time” Could Get “Frozen” Spinoff

Cameron Diaz Comes Full Circle

From Ugly And Bullied To Unspeakable Armenian Lookalike

Billy Joel’s Mom Rosalind Joel Dead At 92; Christie Brinkley Leaves Touching Tribute On Instagram

“Napoleon Dynamite” 10th Anniversary Reunion Pics

Nicole Richie: What You Won’t See On TV

Nikki Finke Hoaxed By “Exclusive” Hollywood Tip

FOREIGNERS
Red China Economic Growth Accelerates To 7.5% In Q2
Strongest Philippine Storm Of The Year Kills 5
EU May Impose New Ukraine Sanctions
UK Teachers Hail Education Secretary Gove’s Departure
Moscow Subway Derailment Kills 21
Red China Removes Oil Rig That Provoked Vietnam
35 More Terrorists Killed In NWA Strikes
458 Children Rescued From Group Home In Mexico
Turkish President Approves Kurdish Peace Process Law

BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: The Problem With Feminism
The Quinton Report: John Bolton Raised Over $2.3 Million In Q2 For His PACs
Michlle Malkin: Jose Antonio Vargas – The Face Of The Entitled Illegal Alien
Twitchy: Was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Always Such A Badass?
Yes. Next question?
American Power: Open-Borders Democrat (And Hypocrite) Martin O’Malley Won’t Accept Illegals In Maryland
American Thinker: A Plague On All Houses
BLACKFIVE: Obama Brings Tranquility To The World
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin Announces Support For Johnson & Loudermilk For Congress
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, July 15
Jammie Wearing Fools: Dozens Of Disney World Workers Arrested In Pedophilia Stings
Joe For America: Feds Offer $6000 Each To House Illegals
JustOneMinute: But What About The Movies?
Protein Wisdom: April Sands Doesn’t Understand How Anyone But Straight White Men Can Vote Republican
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To Progressives
The Gateway Pundit: Black Conservatives To Hold Event To Counter Annual NAACP Conference
The Jawa Report: Ministry Of Jiggly – Free Kurdistan Edition
The Lonely Conservative: For Obama, Bipartisanship Means Republicans Saying “Mr. President, You’re Right”
This Ain’t Hell: Kristen Gwynne Writes The Stupidest Article In The History Of Journalism
Weasel Zippers: TV Reporter Suspended For Saying Inner City Violence Stems From “Young Fatherless Black Men”
Megan McArdle: Online Ads Have Invisible Mojo

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Category: Live at Five

Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Son Describes Abuse by Feminist Pagan Fiction Author

Posted on | July 15, 2014 | 39 Comments

Marion Zimmer Bradley was famous for her Avalon novel series.

“Wicca refers to the practice of European paganism popular throughout Europe and North America. . . . Dianic Wicca refers to a more radical women-only practice, named for the Goddess Diana. The novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley have been influential for Dianic Wiccans . . .”
— “Dianic Wicca,” Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature

Last month I reported on this startling revelation:

Moira Greyland is the daughter of famed novelist Marion Zimmer Bradley, who died in 1999. Greyland’s father –Bradley’s second husband, Walter Breen — was accused of sexually molesting a 12-year-old boy in 1989, ten years after he separated from Bradley, who was accused of covering up her for husband’s pedophile activities. Bradley’s own tendencies toward lesbianism have been noted, but now Moira Greyland has claimed that she was molested by her mother . . .

Moira Greyland said her mother first molested her at age 3 and the last time when Moira was 12, describing the chaos of her childhood home (“out of control drugs, orgies, and constant flow of people in and out”) with a mother who was “cruel and violent.” Now Moira’s brother Mark is speaking out about Bradley’s abuse:

There was always drama and there was always the invisible blade of what would happen if all of this dreadful secret got out. The atmosphere of fear of discovery was simply everywhere and there was no place to hide. . . .

He talks about his mother’s fans in the feminist neo-pagan movement:

When women started approaching her saying stuff like “you saved my life; now I don’t have to kill myself”, she started wearing new faces around them and more and more of them would gather around her.
Some of them were so angry they treated me like I was a crime for daring to be male around her. Others would give me the deer in the headlights look then look away.
There were times these unhappy women would gather around her by the dozens and I would stand back and watch her on stage and happy. I saw the rituals and the other weirdness close up and then at a distance. What they got out of it was something I did not understand, but I could see that the people were volatile and likely to blow up for invisible reasons.
Feminism to me was a lot of very unhappy women telling stories to each other about how they had been hurt. They were getting ready to change the world and I didn’t want to be in front of that train when it started rolling.

You can read the whole thing. Most people have no idea how influential Bradley was in 20th-century neo-paganism. Categorizing her pagan feminist genre as “lifestyle fantasy” novels, historian Brian Stableford has recounted how Bradley “became something of a guru to numerous writers of a similar stripe, several of whom — including Diana L. Paxson and Gael Baudino — described themselves as priestesses of ‘Dianic Wicca.'” Bradley and Paxson were co-founders of the California-based Center for Non-Traditional Religion, subsequently renamed the Fellowship of the Spiral Path, which is focused on the “Triple Goddess” (Maiden, Mother, Crone) of neo-pagan belief.

Dianic Wicca is quite nearly a synonym for “lesbian paganism” or “feminist witchcraft.” It was founded by a crazy Hungarian-born woman known as Zsuzsanna Budapest who became a feminist, divorced her husband, abandoned her two sons and turned lesbian. In 1975, she was arrested for violating a Los Angeles ordinance against fortune-telling, leading to what she has called “The Last Great American Witch Trial.” She is director of the Women’s Spirituality Forum, which sponsors the International Goddess Festival.

A three-day festival of ridiculous mystic nonsense for $375:

Join us for a blissful weekend filled with magic, sisterhood, and deep connection to the rhythms of the Earth! Once again, we gather together in the coastal redwoods of California among the enchanted energies of Mother Nature to honor the Goddess, ourselves, and one another. . . .
Evenings are reserved for us to come together in the Gaia Bowl, our sacred ritual space of “Fire & Light.” It is here that we call to the Goddess and weave our magic; honor and invoke our Foremothers; hold Initiation and Ordination rituals; and drum, dance, and sing our prayers — for ourselves and the Earth! All of nature is just a step outside your cabin door.

The connection between this pagan/lesbian/feminist “spirituality” and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s career is well-known, and her colleague Diana Paxson reacted to the abuse accusations:

I saw Marion’s children at family parties, and in passing when I was at Greenwalls for meetings, which usually took place in the Center for Non-Traditional Religion’s room over the garage. I never personally observed, nor had any reason to suspect, that she was abusing either of her children.
After living elsewhere for a number of years, both of Marion’s younger children have now returned to the Bay Area. Moira’s brother is currently living with us at Greyhaven. . . .
Our women’s circle met once a month to explore women’s spirituality and study the goddesses. The circle included both straight women and lesbians. I do not recall any overt sexuality within the circle, and I neither observed nor heard about any abusive relationships between Marion and any other woman or girl.

Bradley’s feminist fan Alyssa Rosenberg is disturbed:

A significant theme of Zimmer Bradley’s answers in her 1998 deposition [in a lawsuit related to her ex-husband’s sexual abuse of boys} is the idea that very young teenagers ought to be able to make their own sexual decisions, including about whether to have sex with adults who proposition them. She rejects the idea that any element of coercion is possible in these interactions, particularly when a teenager is physically larger than an adult. . . .
Answers like these throw passages from “The Mists of Avalon” into a new and disturbing light. Take one passage about a Beltane ritual. Zimmer Bradley writes that “The little blue-painted girl who had borne the fertilizing blood was drawn down into the arms of a sinewy old hunter, and Morgaine saw her briefly struggle and cry out, go down under his body, her legs opening to the irresistible force of nature in them.”
Without the context of Zimmer Bradley’s personal history, it is possible to read this sentence as a description of an ancient religious practice that is unsettling both in its depiction of an altered state and behavior that contemporary readers would not find acceptable. In the context of her testimony, and an article she wrote about sensual relationships between older and much younger women in literature, we lose the reassurance that the author shares our moral and ethical presumptions.

Whose “moral and ethical presumptions” are these, Ms. Rosenberg? Aren’t you trying to impose your morality on these neo-pagans? Isn’t your reaction rather — what’s that word? — judgmental?

Maybe you should consult a Dianic high priestess.

UPDATE: Something I hadn’t previously realized is that Bradley’s husband Walter Breen was a notorious gay pedophile before she married him. Click here to read a 1964 account of the scandal Breen’s perversion caused in the science-fiction community. What’s fascinating — the way that a bloody car crash beside the highway is fascinating — is how Breen was protected by the “bohemian” ethos of Berkeley radicals in that era. The guy was a serial child molester, everybody knew it, and nobody felt obliged to call the cops.

Category: Feminism

Planned Perversion

Posted on | July 15, 2014 | 63 Comments

“Planned Parenthood’s Sex Ed Pushes BDSM, ‘Asphyxiation’ On Teens” is the headline at Breitbart.com, highlighting a new video from Live Action that demonstrates how America’s leading abortion provider is teaching kids about kinky sex.

Planned Parenthood’s advocacy of perversion and promiscuity — under the aegis of “Comprehensive Sexuality Education” — isn’t really anything new. They’ve been promoting this deviancy for decades, and it makes sense if you understand the economics of the abortion industry: Encouraging young girls to screw around recklessly guarantees that a certain percentage of of those girls are going to get knocked up and then pay for an abortion. So the people on the “supply” end of this supply-and-demand equation will do everything possible to increase demand for their services. Q.E.D.

Of course, the push for “Comprehensive Sexuality Education” is based on a myth that kids’ problems with sex are the result of a shortage of sexual knowledge. In fact, kids have never in history had as much access to information about sex as they do now. Whatever it is, if you can spell it, you can Google it — C-H-L-A-M-Y-D-I-A — and if schools would just teach kids basic reading and writing, they could figure out this sex stuff for themselves. Believe it or not, some of us managed to figure it out even before there was an Internet. Or cable TV, for that matter.

Kids are overloaded with sexual information. What seems to be in short supply, however, is sexual virtue. We could fix this problem pretty easily, if America’s schools weren’t run by liberals.

Suppose that a Republican wins the White House in 2016 and is crazy enough to put me in charge of the nation’s sex education agenda. Within a matter of weeks, our nation’s school counselors would receive bundles of helpful pamphlets and posters.

KEEP YOUR BRITCHES ON, MISSY!
DON’T YOU KNOW BOYS HAVE COOTIES?

Just basic common-sense stuff like that. There would also be a pamphlet called, YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT A HOMO, in which young fellows would be reminded that the odds are at least 20-to-1 against them being gay, so if they’re worried about it, they should probably stop worrying. Unless they’re getting boners thinking about Justin Bieber or something, in which case, yeah.

KATE UPTON NUDE

If you feel an overwhelming urge to click that link, you’re not a homo, unless you’re a chick, but even chicks might be curious to see Kate Upton nude without being totally lezbo, so we’ll need to ask some additional questions for the chicks:

Do you play varsity softball?
Is your favorite TV show Orange Is the New Black?
Are you a Democrat?

This is the kind of basic common-sense curriculum kids really need. Simple messages like, “Stop Wanking to Porn, You Horny Freaks” and “There Were More Than 1.4 Million Cases of Chlamydia Last Year. Don’t Be the Next Case. Keep Your Britches On, Missy.” We must implement the Four Basic Principles of Sex Education:

Fear.
Guilt.
Shame.
And more Fear.

For example, there was a 20% increase in unprotected anal sex among gay men. So we need pamphlets and posters: “Your Mother Would Be So Disappointed If You Got Chlamydia in Your Butt” and “Eewww! That’s Gross! Stop Doing That, You Weirdo!”

Most sex problems could be solved by this basic common-sense approach. The World Health Organization, however, is run by liberals, not people with common sense, so they want to spend $13,000 a year for every gay man in the world to provide them with HIV prevention drugs. This is crazy. All you need is some pamphlets and posters: “Why Do You Keep Doing It In Your Butt? Stop That Right This Minute, Young Man, or I’m Going to Tell Your Mother!”

Meanwhile, for those of you kids who aren’t homos or lezzies, you’re probably wondering, “How can I get somebody to have sex with me without catching a nasty case of chlamydia?”

Simple answer: Do you have a wedding ring on your finger? OK.

Just don’t do it in the butt. That’s gross.

Category: Education, Planned Parenthood, Sex

Obama’s Border Game, and Why Republicans Are Doomed to Lose It

Posted on | July 15, 2014 | 54 Comments

President Obama has deliberately provoked the current crisis along our nation’s southwestern border in an effort to force House Republicans to pass the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty plan. Illegal immigrants are pouring in by the trainload, and the violent MS-13 gang is recruiting in detention centers. Polls show that voters strongly disapprove (58%) of Obama’s handling of the crisis he caused, but an even larger majority — 66% — disapprove of how Republicans in Congress are dealing with the immigration problem:

Almost as many Republicans disapprove of their party’s handling of the issue as say they approve, with negative ratings rising to a majority among conservatives.

Republican voters are not so stupid that they can’t see the blinding truth: Republican politicians despise the people who elect them.

In 2006 and 2007, President Bush and Senator John McCain pushed for an amnesty bill that was only stopped because of the all-out opposition of conservative activists like Michelle Malkin. Nevertheless — despite the all-out opposition of those same conservative activists — the Republican Party nominated McCain as their presidential candidate, thus guaranteeing Obama’s election. If you talked to reporters who followed the “Maverick” around on his “Straight Talk Express” campaign trips, you could learn the depth of McCain’s contempt for Republican voters, especially Christian conservatives. He and his liberal advisers (e.g., Steve Schmidt) disdained the typical GOP primary voter as an ignorant, bigoted dimwit, and more than once McCain has condemned conservative opponents of amnesty as racists.

Nor is John McCain alone in this. As we recently learned in the Mississippi Senate primary campaign, the GOP’s big-money donors and the Republican establishment would rather run race-baiting ads against conservatives and illegally bribe Democrat voters than to permit a conservative to unseat one of the leadership’s reliable stooges. Thad Cochran will vote the way the money boys tell him to vote, and we know what that means in terms of immigration policy:

A trio of billionaires — Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates — say they want to “End the Immigration Impasse,” to quote the headline of their recent New York Times op-ed article.
The article will do nothing to end that impasse, however, because the authors show no understanding of why it exists in the first place.
For the authors, the way to end the impasse is for Congress to enact a comprehensive reform along the lines of the bill that the Senate passed last year. They imagine that everyone important in Washington agrees on the broad outlines of that bill and are merely squabbling over petty details. Everyone would resolve their differences in short order if they only remembered their larger purpose of serving the people.
None of this is true, of course. Some people in Washington oppose the bill, or don’t want to vote for it, and not just because of the details. Others mildly favor the bill but have reasons for letting the opponents get their way. Many suspect Speaker of the House John Boehner falls into this category.
Adelson et al say nothing to address either the opponents’ concerns about the bill — such as their worry that legalizing illegal immigrants will create an incentive for new illegal immigration — or Boehner’s concerns about angering the opponents.

The Republican Party is led and controlled by greedy unprincipled swine who believe in nothing except the aggrandizement of their own power, privilege and personal wealth. These selfish and corrupt swindlers didn’t get to where they are because they were unwilling to do whatever billionaires would pay them to do. The GOP leadership loves money almost as much as they hate voters.

Obama is now “negotiating” with House Republicans over their next agreement to betray the people who elected them.

Category: Immigration

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.15.14

Posted on | July 15, 2014 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVE: 07.15.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Egypt Proposes Cease Fire For Israel, Hamas

IDF artillery on the Gaza border

Proposal calls for ceasefire at 0900 local, reopening of border crossings, talks within 48 hours
Hamas rejects cease-fire without truce
Israel accepts Egyptian truce proposal
Hamas Scores Own Goal

Ukraine: Russian Army Officers Fighting Alongside Rebels
NATO confirms Russian military buildup near Lugansk

Negotiations To Launch BRICS Development Bank Hit Snag
Diplomats can’t agree on where bank should be located or who will head it

POLITICS
VA Watchdog Says Department Is Making Disability Payment Errors In Rush To Cut Backlog

Kristen Ruell, a QR specialist at the Philadelphia VA Regional Center, waits to testify before a Congressional committee

Rep. Huelskamp: “They are all concerned about numbers and not veterans.”

Bergdahl Returned To Active Duty

Missouri Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Teachers To Carry Guns

McDaniel Asks Court To Open Poll Records

Is California’s Latino Legislative Caucus Breaking The Law By Barring GOP Lawmaker?

Feds Sue Law Firm Behind Debt-Collection Lawsuits

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Trades Near Two-Month Low Before US Stockpile Data: WTI $100.98, Brent $106.89
Citigroup And Mergers Help Wall Street Regain Traction
Asian Shares Gain, Count On Fed’s Support
Trump Plaza Workers Get Layoff Notices
MakerBot Brings 3D Printers To Home Depot
VW To Add SUV Production To Chattanooga Plant
EBay, Sotheby’s Team Up To Stream Auctions
iPhablet Reportedly Delayed Until Next Year
Microsoft Brings Fight To Google Chromebooks With Trio Of Sub-$200 Laptops
Adventure Time Meets Super Smash Brothers: Adventure Brothers?
Tech Giants, Startups Split On Tactics In Net Neutrality Battle

SPORTS
Yoenis Cespedes Defends Home Run Derby Title

¡El tiempo de La Potencia!

First successful defense since Ken Griffey Jr. in 1999

Who Is Morgan Shepherd, And What’s All The Fuss?

Red Klotz, Iconic Owner Of Washington Generals, Dies At 93

Ugly Reality Intrudes On World Cup’s Glow

Hernandez, Wainwright Named As Starters For All-Star Game

Olympic Medalist Alice Coachman Davis Dies, 90

Luiz Felipe Scolari Canned As Brazil’s Coach After World Cup Failure

Trophy For New College Football Championship Unveiled

Morrow Signs With Lightning For 2014-2015

Nats Experiencing Local TV Viewer Slump

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Erin Andrews Bumps Pam Oliver To Fox’s Second String

Bumped for not being blonde?

Leaving the sidelines for good after this, her 20th season

Weird Al Yankovic Gets “Tacky”(Video)

New Royal Baby On The Way

Selena Gomez Blasts Instagram Follower For “Absurd” Bullying Comment

“I’m Alive, Penis Or No Penis!”

Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts Join James Franco’s “Michael”

Gavin Rossdale To Be Gwen Stefani’s Team Adviser On “The Voice”

“Game Of Crowns” Premiere Party Fight

Christopher Walken To Play Captain Hook In NBC’s “Peter Pan”

Jenny McCarthy To Host Own Series On Sirius XM

Bethenny Frankel Responds To Criticism After Wearing Her 4-Year-Old Daughter’s Clothes

Meredith Vieira Uninterested In Returning To “The View”: “You Can’t Go Home Again”

“Real Housewife” Hurls Fake Leg Across Restaurant

Simon Cowell Double Dates With Baby Mama In The Hamptons

FOREIGNERS
C of E Votes to Allow Female Bishops
William Hague Quits As UK Foreign Secretary
Militia Shells Tripoli Airport, UN Pulls Out Of Libya
Iran Nuke Talks Uncertain After Kerry Push
Nigerian President Johnathan Promises Malala Missing Girls Will Be Home “Soon”
Red China’s Xi Invites Modi To Visit, Calls For “Early” Border Settlement
Philippines Brace For Floods And Mud Slides From Oncoming Typhoon
Kim Jong Un Supervises Rocket Launches Close To ROK Border
Hollande Booed At Bastille Day Parade
Iranian Court Hands Down Jail Sentences To Eight Facebook Activists

BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Another Unintended Consequence?
Steven Crowder: How Marriage Makes Us Stronger
Doug Powers: Eric Holder’s Justice Department To Investigate Nebraska Farmer’s Abuse Of Power
Twitchy: Voxer Blames Israel For Palestinian Deaths, Ignores Hamas “Defense” Strategy
American Power: Leftist Protesters In Seattle Depict Jews As Drinking Blood, Eating Gentile Babies
American Thinker: The Conservatives Who Deserve Blame For The Border Breakdown
BLACKFIVE: Vets For A Strong America Hold Hillary Accountable
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Eddie Vedder Is Still An Idiot
Conservatives4Palin: Chicago Blacks Slam Obama On Illegal Immigration
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, July 14
Jammie Wearing Fools: WaPo Fact Checker Says Democrats Lying Through Their Teeth On Hobby Lobby Ruling
Joe For America: Five Cases Of “How Did They Manage That?”
JustOneMinute: Back On The Border
Protein Wisdom: Small Lifeless Children Reportedly Found Washed Up On Rio Grande Riverbank
Shot In The Dark: The Democratic Party Just Isn’t That Into You Any More
STUMP: Obamacare Watch – Is Obamacare Racist?
The Gateway Pundit: Egyptian Media Calls For Destruction Of Hamas, Obama Makes Them Peace Partners
The Jawa Report: Jawa Promotion – Act of War!
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