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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". MomeNoun Archaic. a fool; blockhead. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... Review Threads: Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!) Review Thread Two:...

The Mullahs Humiliate America -- Again and Again Obama's appeasement bears its catastrophic fruit. January 14, 2016 Joseph Klein On January 12th, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard seized two U.S. naval patrol boats with ten sailors aboard. The vessels had evidently strayed a little over a mile into Iranian territorial waters. Iran released the sailors a day later, but not before trying to reap as much propaganda value from the incident as possible. The semiofficial Fars news agency claimed "the American ships were 'snooping' around in Iranian waters." The captors photographed the sailors after they were evidently forced to their...

Video honors memory of 9/11 and First Responders Great images

Hillary's Emails: Hating Israel Released emails reveal just how deeply Clinton and her advisers despise the Jewish State. January 14, 2016 Ari Lieberman There are many reasons to dislike Hillary Clinton. For one, she's an unrepentant liar, fabricating everything from her Brian Williamesque brush with death in Bosnia to her parent's pedigree to her claim that she believed a video caused the deaths of four heroes in Benghazi. She is also unethical, having accepted large sums of money to the Clinton Foundation from countries and entities working on behalf of foreign governments impacted by her decisions as secretary of...

For the 2016 elections, the Democrat candidates are virtually unanimous on gun control.  They support President Obama's executive orders, and want to go beyond what he is pushing: From the hill: "I absolutely agree with what the president is trying to do with his executive order," Sanders said to a cheers at a Democratic candidate forum. Clinton was not in attendance. "I know I'm being attacked as being a stooge for the NRA. Well, some stooge, I have a D-minus lifetime voting record," he said. From Time.com: Today, Clinton's calculus has changed. She has come out this campaign in...

Did Mohamad al-Halabi visit his terrorist nephew in Damascus? Florida Hezbollah Imam Travels to Syria and Back Did Mohamad al-Halabi visit his terrorist nephew in Damascus? January 14, 2016 Joe Kaufman    Mohamad al-Halabi, a.k.a. Mohamad al-Fouani, the imam of the American Islamic Center of Florida, may operate out of Pompano Beach, Florida, however a good part of his life still resides in the Middle East, including his associations with the terrorist organization Hezbollah. In November, al-Halabi left the shores of the United States to travel to his native home of Syria. While there, he visited family, but were they...

Donald Trump took his front-running campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to Pensacola, Fla., on Wednesday night. And, holy cow, did people come out in droves to see him. Here's a photo of the crowd taken by WaPo's own Jenna Johnson. *snip* Trump's campaign claimed it gave out 20,000 tickets; the arena holds 11,500 people. According to Jenna's reporting, there were "at least 11,000" in attendance and "several thousand more were turned away." Large crowds are the rule, not the exception, at this point for Trump. He had 8,000 people in Lowell, Mass., earlier this month; more than 2,000 showed...

And how Obama instead is making gun violence worse. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. The harder Obama pushes his unconstitutional gun control measures, the harder Americans push back. Each proposal hardens the consensus in favor of the Bill of Rights and against his latest gimmick. His Town Hall was buried in the ratings by viewer apathy. Those who tuned in had to watch as he was unable to answer which mass shootings his proposals would have actually prevented. And now the State of the Union looks...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates lead the Gulf Cooperation Council in raising energy prices and cutting subsidies in response to fiscal pressures created by the slump in crude oil prices, according to Arab Petroleum Investments Corp. (APICORP), Dammam, Saudi Arabia. While welcoming the trend as "a step in the right direction, APICORP warns, in a review of reforms introduced so far, that "the path for energy-pricing reform will be long and fraught with risks." Increases in energy prices traditionally kept low by governments reduce household welfare and increase input costs of industries, the group notes. It urged governments...

Harney County, Oregon fire marshal Chris Briels has resigned after county officials refused to allow use of the fairgrounds for a town meeting on Friday night. Briels is a leader of the Harney County Committee of Safety and the retired fire chief of Burns, Oregon. "Oregon Live" reported the story quoting Briels as saying "I will not work for a government or a person that I do not believe in or have faith in...I will not work for somebody that I don't trust." Mr. Briels appeared with the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge yesterday and...

Crude oil production in February from seven major US shale plays is expected to fall 116,000 b/d to 4.83 million b/d, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s latest Drilling Productivity Report (DPR). The agency last month also projected a 116,000-b/d loss for January (OGJ Online, Dec. 7, 2015). The DPR focuses on the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Marcellus, Niobrara, Permian, and Utica, which altogether accounted for 95% of US crude oil production increases and all US natural gas production increases during 2011-13. Production from the Eagle Ford is seen dropping 72,000 b/d during the month to 1.15 million b/d,...

Months ago we started hearing it from longtime Republican pundits and leaders. It was mentioned casually by most, almost as if an afterthought. But in reality they knew then and know now that a combination of a crowded field of candidates and quirky GOP rules could all but guarantee that the will of the voters could have little to do with deciding the GOP presidential nomination. That would return Republicans back to the days of the old "Taft" style of intraparty Republican politics of the 1950s, minus the late Sen. Robert Taft's more conservative philosophy. In 1952 it took a...

This photograph violates international law. Article 13 of the Geneva Convention (III), governing the treatment of prisoners of war, requires Iran to protect prisoners against "insults and public curiosity." This photograph -- including a female sailor apparently forced to wear a headscarf - is a quintessential example of "public curiosity" and would be interpreted as insulting throughout the Muslim world. (And if you don't think Iran is in a state of armed conflict against the United States, tell that to the families of hundreds of American soldiers who've lost their lives to Iranians and Iranian-backed terrorists.) The sight of members...

A police constable in Pennsylvania killed a 12-year-old girl when he fired a shot at the girl‘s father that passed through the man‘s arm and hit her, officials said on Tuesday. Ciara Meyer was pronounced dead at her home on Monday morning after Constable Clarke Steele attempted to "enforce an eviction order" on her family in Duncannon, north of Harrisburg, according to officials.

There are two ways to talk up bipartisanship. You can give the notion lip service. You can lament its loss in modern politics. You can lay the blame of partisan rancor on the times and not at your own clay feet. You can say, "It's one of the few regrets of my presidency -- that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better," as President Barack Obama shared in his State of the Union address Tuesday. Believe me. I am sick and tired of criticizing the president. I miss the first term, when there were...

Lt. Gen. Jacob-Farj-Rafael “JFR” Jacob, an Indian Jew who had a storied career in India’s military, has died at 92. (Some reports said he was 93.) Jacob died Wednesday in New Delhi following a short illness, according to several Indian media outlets. The American Jewish Committee, which in 2013 awarded Jacob with its Global Leadership Award, said in a statement Wednesday that the general was “for decades the most prominent member of his country’s Jewish community” and was its highest-ranking Jewish military officer. Among his countrymen, Jacob was best known for negotiating the 1971 surrender of more than 90,000 Pakistani...

Its a common them. Heard Rush say it the other day. Romney lost because four million McCain voters stayed home. The problem with that claim is the Republicans actually increased their votes in seven of the nine swing states while Obama's vote fell in the other two. Take a look at the numbers.

Actor Alan Rickman, known for films including Harry Potter, Die Hard, Truly Madly Deeply and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, has died at the age of 69. The star was suffering from cancer, his family said. His agent confirmed the news to BBC News. He was known by film fans for roles including Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films, Hans Gruber in Die Hard and the Sheriff of Nottingham in 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

"Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction," President Obama said at his State of the Union address. Then he went on to describe an economy in decline.

Welcome to the world of “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH), Obama’s transformative new regulation. How will AFFH work? The city of Dubuque gives us one of our best and most frightening previews yet. An account of Dubuque as a forerunner of a post-AFFH world comes to us courtesy of a stunning report by Deborah Thornton, a policy analyst for Iowa’s Public Interest Institute. The report tells the story of how Dubuque was pressured to cede large swathes of its governing authority to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has forced the city to direct its limited low-income “Section...