First they came for Andrew Breitbart, and the legacy media did not care because they did not like Breitbart….  Then they came for Fox News, and the legacy media did not care because they do not like Fox;  Then they came for the Associated Press, and some inside the legacy media began to twitch……  Then they came for James Rosen…. and again, more twitching.  Now they come for CBS and Sharyl Attkisson…..  Soon the regime will have no-one left to expose their corruption.

WASHINGTON DC – CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson said on Tuesday that her personal and work computers have been “compromised” for over two years.

Attkisson told a local Philadelphia radio station that she has been working with investigators to discover the source of the activity.

“There has been an issue in my house and there has been an issue with my computers that’s gone on for quite a long time that we’re looking into,” she said. (more…)

NEWARK NJ – US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a dramatic belly landing at Newark International Airport last night.

Terrified passengers managed to escape the plane unharmed after the plane’s pilot – named by witnesses as Edward Powers – performed a heroic emergency landing.

Video footage of the turboprop twin-engine plane coming down on the runway showed a dramatic shower of sparks flying from its underbelly as it scraped across the tarmac, however, miraculously no fire was started. (more…)

(Via Daily Caller)  Famed Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz ranks Sen. Ted Cruz among the school’s smartest students, adding that the Canada-born Texan can run for president in 2016.

Cruz was a “terrific student,” Dershowitz told The Daily Caller. “He was always very active in class, presenting a libertarian point of view. He didn’t strike me as a social conservative, more of a libertarian.”

“He had brilliant insights and he was clearly among the top students, as revealed by his class responses,” Dershowitz added. […]

Cruz “was an outstanding student in my class,” Dershowitz said. “Without a doubt he is among the smartest students I’ve ever had… I’ve had great students but he has to be at the top of anyone’s short list, in terms of raw brain power.”  (continue reading)

Washington, D.C.). Three families of Navy SEAL Team 6 special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013, to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist’s death.

 DATE: MAY 9, 2013

PLACE: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB (HOLEMAN LOUNGE)

Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team 6 special operations servicemen will be retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.

The areas of inquiry at the press conference will include but not be limited to: (more…)

….. or Brad Pitt, or Matt Damon et al.

No, in real life, heroes are just ordinary people putting one foot in front of the other, trying to keep their head above water, and when life sticks them in the middle of an issue – they choose to do the right thing.

The unselfish thing.

For no particular reason.

Such is the case for Charles Ramsey, the man who heard a woman’s cries for help and walked over to the neighbors door still holding part of his dinner from McDonalds, a Big Mac.

The raw honesty of the guy just exudes through his reaction and responses.    Such reactions and responses you would likely expect to see and hear from yourself, your friends, or your loved ones if they were in the same or similar circumstances. (more…)

Update 2:  Two More arrests.   In addition to original 52-year-old suspect Ariel Castro – (suspect photo below) Police are now reporting that his two brothers have also been arrested.

•Amanda Berry went missing in 2003 when she was 16-years-old
•Gina DeJesus disappeared when she was 14-years-old in 2004
•Michelle Knight disappeared in 2002 when she was 20-years-old

•All three women kidnapped on the same busy Cleveland block (link)
•All three of the women were found alive in a Cleveland home and are now being treated at a local hospital
•The 52-year-old man who owns the house has been arrested and is in police custody – Neighbors STUNNED !!
•The women had a girl with them, thought to be about 3-years-old

Amanda Berry is pictured center being reunited with her sister.  (link)

Backstory – Three girls who went missing a decade ago have been found alive after they were kept in the dungeon of a Cleveland, Ohio home. Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were found alive on Monday inside a house alongside a third woman identified as Michelle Knight. A 52-year-old man named Ariel Castro and his two brothers have been arrested and are in police custody in connection to the case.

Amazing video with man, Charles Ramsey, who aided their rescue below. (more…)

[…] The lights in the arena went dark as the  marquee flashed an introduction for the guest.

‘By now you know his inspirational story,’  it said.

‘His perseverance in the face of great  adversity represents all that is Boston Strong.’ (more…)

A fitting tribute today to memorialize the lost lives from the West Texas fertilizer plan explosion last week.   Thankfully President Obama attended the service and represented our nation in sending a nation’s prayers.

I’ll bust his chops when President Obama selfishly manuevers his activity based on ideological advancement;  But he should also be praised on this one for a fitting tribute to an American community in painful grief.   Well done Mr. President – and Thank You.

TEXAS –  President Barack Obama told mourners at an  emotional memorial service for victims of a Texas plant explosion that their  community is not alone at this time of great tragedy.

With a dozen flag-draped coffins of before  him, Obama said: ‘We’re neighbors too. We’re American too, we stand with you and  we do not forget.’ (more…)

Hat Tip WeaselZippers:   DUBAI –  An off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday.

The woman, 28, was on 24-hour shore leave in Dubai when she was attacked by a bus driver after he picked her up from the Mall of the Emirates shopping center.

“I noticed he did not take the main road and when I asked him he told me not to worry,” she said, according to the Daily Mail. (more…)

– Today seems a fitting day to review this again –

One of the frustrating realities of our polarized time is the media creating a skewed and left leaning view of all things political. However, even with this headwind, each day many more people choose to engage in and honest discovery and understanding of what’s going on. Whether because they stumble upon a concern, or whether they happen across some information that makes them rethink their prior position and views, it can lead to an engagement with us from a perspective of their only reality view having been determined by the lens of the media.

Indeed that can be, and often is, an incredibly frustrating conversation because they bring an embedded and sometimes flawed bias into their narrative. One of the more common misunderstandings stems from the media hatred of George W Bush and his actions, aptly called Bush Derangement Syndrome (BSD).

What I want to do here is not change anyone’s mind, but rather to remind people what led to some of Dubya’s decisions in his own words.

I must first emphasize at the time of Dubya’s tenure in the White House I was not a supporter of many “Bush policies”, however, I did understand his reasoning.

Sometimes research into “why” was needed to understand this reasoning, but there were valid reasons nonetheless. It is unfair for the liberal media, or for any Johnny-come-lately to re-write his motivation as illicit, it was not. In hindsight some of his policies and approaches may have been wrong, but it generally is unfair to look in the rear view mirror to judge. Again, at times it is important to stop the conversation, pause, and remind ourselves what was going on at the time. (more…)