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Veterans' Voices : Overcoming Transition Challenges

Transitioning from military service or returning from deployment and adjusting to a new life can be challenging for our troops—support from family, friends, and VA helps make the difference in setting our Veterans on the path to success.

If you would like to help support our veterans and their families of all wars, please contribute to any of these outstanding veterans’  organizations:

• FISCHER HOUSE FOUNDATION
• WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT
• DRYHOOTCH.org

Video of the Day: Korean pop star and YouTube sensation Psy gave Britney Spears a surprise visit on the Ellen Show

THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED due to the discovery of this article.

Update on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM by Basil Ryan

There’s a new YouTube King.

South Korean sensation PSY’s “Gangnam Style” has become You Tubes’s most-watched video of all time, passing Justin Bieber’s 2010 upload “Baby” early on Saturday.  Read more...

Eleven Foods You Can't Buy Anywhere Anymore

Like our contemporaries my brother and sister grew up with Hostess brands—Wonder bread, Hostess Twinkies, cupcakes and fruit pies (my favorites), Ho Hos and Suzy Qs (my brother’s favorites).  The Fiscal Times had this fun story about “11Eleven Foods You Can't Buy Anywhere Anymore.”

The 10 Most Incredible Cars of the Future

The Fiscal Times takes a look at what consumers may be driving a few decades from now.  Check out more of these stunning designs like the Mercedes Benz F-125 Concept (pictured above).

Sandra Fluke for Person of the Year?

Time Magazine has nominated a left-wing hero for its annual honor.

According to Jim Kelly, managing editor of TIME magazine, candidates are chosen based on TIME's classic definition of the magazine's Person of the Year—which is the person who most affected the events of the year, for better or for worse. I think what has happened over the years is that the Man of the Year title, Person of the Year title, has become non-honorific. It was never meant to be solely that.  Read more.

Here is a glimpse of TIME’s Person of the Year 2012 Panel Discussion.

RELATED STORY

• Pakistani Girl [Malala Yousufzai] Shot By Taliban Receiving Medical Treatment in the U.K.

Santa and a Semi-Automatic HO HO HO!

The Scottsdale Gun Club offers a [peppermint] twist on traditional Christmas family picture greeting card.

Video of the Day: 1976 Hostess Commercial

Only You Can Prevent”Fiscal Cliffs:” A Slide Show

“Fiscal cliff” is the popular shorthand term used to describe the problem that the U.S. government will face at the end of 2012, when the terms of the Budget Control Act of 2011 are scheduled to go into effect.

We hope you get a chuckle out of  Only You Can Prevent ”Fiscal Cliffs:”  A Slide Show.

Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary Concert in London

Mick Jagger has been quoted as as saying:

“[I would]rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m 45." 

As it turned out, Jagger’s band is now 50, he’s 69, and the Rolling Stones continue to churn out rock and roll, including their greatest hits. 

Neil McCormick The Telegraph’s chief pop and rock music critic reviews the Rolling Stones’ gig at London's O2 Arena, part of the British rock band's 50th Anniversary Tour.  Read McCormick’s review>>

RELATED STORIES

• Rolling Stones kick off 50th Anniversary Tour: What the Critics Are Saying (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Rolling Stones’ 50^th Annivery gig at London's O2 Arena photo album (The Telegraph)

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Obama Would Do Well to Heed the Words of President Washington

“… The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.  …”

—George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

Obama’s  and previous administrations' entanglements in the Mideast particularly now in Egypt and its recently elected Muslim Brotherhood government.  

Let’s not forget that Adolf Hitler  and his socialist party was “democratically” elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933.  Once more the president demonstrates how inept his administration has been when it comes to foreign policy and the sinister actors in the Middle East.  It wasn't that long ago we ran a 10-part series on the Muslim Brotherhood produced by Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy. 

Surely if we could readily find information about this terror organization with roots dating back to WWII and ties to Hitler’s Third Reich, couldn’t the White House?

This is the motto of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt as a vehicle to establish a worldwide Islamic empire governed by shariah law:

"God is our Goal.   The Prophet is our leader.  The Quran is our constitution.  Jihad is our way.  Death in the service of God is the loftiest of our wishes.  God is great, God is great.”

Read more here>>

The Nazi Origins of Modern Muslim Terror

RELATED STORIES

• Angry mobs protest Morsi's power grab in Egypt (Washington Times)
• Obama to give Egypt Muslim Brotherhood $450 million tax dollar for ‘aid’ (fireandreamitchell.com)
• Hitler's Unfulfilled Dream of a New York in Flames (Speiegeonlinel)

Update on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM by Basil Ryan

Grover Norquist: 15 Things You Don't Know About Him

Opinions & Commentary From Around the Internet: Week of November 18

• No More Twinkies: Unions to Blame 18,000 employees loss their jobs(Heritage Foundation)
• Opportunists Stockpile Twinkies for Big Payday (NYT)
• Obama Knew by 2PM on September 12 but Invented a False Narrative Nevertheless and the media does not care ( Forbes)
• Both parties’ tax plans would add to the deficit (The Washington Times)
• Grover Norquist: Washington Enemy No. 1 (WSJ)
• Boykin: 'Grover Norquist is a Muslim Brotherhood Facilitator'

Video of the Day: Watch: SEIU Supporters At LAX —Useful Idiots

KCAL9′s Dave Lopez spoke with several protesters who weren’t aware of the battle between the labor union and the airport services company.

Many years ago, a phrase was coined by the leaders of the Soviet Union to describe those in the West who naively promoted the cause of Russian Communism when in reality they were held in contempt and were being cynically used by the Soviet hierarchy.  The term "useful idiot" more than ever applies to a vast swath of citizens in the United States who have been cynically used by the hardcore left for a cause they are unwilling to understand.

2012 Christmas ideas: For a Very Special Occasion in 2013

My wife and I have taken cruises in the Caribbean before, but for our anniversary next year we are planning a more unique and intimate cruise experience—a river cruise with Viking River Cruises.

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• sign up for special offers and a chance to win a Rhine River cruise for two>>

2012Christmas Gift Ideas: For the Sportsman on Your Christmas List

CheaperThanDirt.com is America’s Ultimate Shooting Sports Discounter and offers gift cards for the gun Sportsman and enthusiast on your Christmas list.

2012 Christmas ideas: For the Starbucks Lover on Your Christmas List

 

Treat that Starbucks lover on your list to a Starbucks holiday gift set>>

The First Thanksgiving Celebration

The English colonists we call Pilgrims celebrated days of thanksgiving as part of their religion. But these were days of prayer, not days of feasting.

Our national holiday really stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest.  It's a reasonable rendition of the Pilgrim and Indian Thanksgiving history might have looked like.

Christmas Movie Recomendation

If you’re looking for a Christmas comedy movie that is a little different from the traditional fare, we highly recommend the 1994, little-known film “Trapped in Paradise” starring Nicholas Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey as the bumbling wannabe bank robbers Firpo brothers.  "Trapped in Paradise" is one of the favorites in my collection of Christmas movies.

 Summary

Though tempted by crime, Bill Firpo (Nicholas Cage) has managed to stay on the right road, unlike his jailbird brothers, compulsive liar Dave (Jon Lovitz) and kleptomaniac Alvin (Dana Carvey).  After prison-overcrowding leads to an early parole for Dave and Alvin, they get Bill to take them to Paradise, PA., where on Christmas Eve; the three brothers pull off the easiest bank robbery imaginable. Leaving the literally nice-little-town of Paradise though, is not as easy as they imagined.

"Trapped in Paradise"is a real "sleeper" in that one would never expect such a plot could produce such a funny movie--this is a credit to the Cage, Lovitz and Carney and the supporting cast.

2012 Christmas ideas: For The Gardener on Your Christmas List

We believe the gardener on your Christmas list will likely marvel at receiving a Monticello Historic Seeds Sampler.

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