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Tenaska Inc. has dropped plans for a 600-megawatt power plant in West Texas, marking the latest in a series of coal-fired projects abandoned because of cheap and abundant natural gas. The Omaha, Neb.-based company on Friday also announced that it no longer will pursue the development of a coal-fired power plant in Illinois, saying it will shift its attention to natural gas and renewable sources. Since Tenaska began pursuing the coal projects in 2006, several market and policy changes “have contributed to our belief that these projects are no longer viable,” said Dave Fiorelli, the company’s president of development. The...

Beck’s, the well–known German brewery, has merged beer and music to create the world’s first beer bottle phonograph While Heinrich Beck was beginning his brewing business in Germany in the late 1800’s, Thomas Edison was across the Atlantic Ocean working on his phonograph. Now, over a hundred years later, the Beck and Edison have merged their areas of expertise to create a beer bottle phonograph. The first music-playing beer bottle. (Image via Shine Limited) Maybe you’re used to seeing the traditional disc-shaped phonograph, but before that came the cylindrical device that could play minutes of music on it. Beck’s Record...

Three CLEAR CHANNEL/JACKSONVILLE salespeople have filed suit against the company, alleging discrimination. ARNOLD S. GAINES of the HARPER LAW FIRM filed on behalf of ANGELA MYHAND, MONIQUE BLUE and JESSICA DOWNS, stating "this action seeks declaratory, injunctive and equitable relief, compensatory damages, costs and attorneys' fees for racial and sex discrimination and retaliation suffered by Plaintiffs."

The official website of gun control advocacy group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) is hosted by the City of New York, according to publicly available web hosting records. This revelation, first reported by conservative blogger John Ekdahl on June 20, is the latest evidence of coordination between government officials and MAIG using public resources. Founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, MAIG is registered under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code as a social welfare organization granted a tax exempt status. Domain records at WhoIs.net also state that the registrant of MayorsAgainstIllegalGuns.org, MAIG’s primary website, is the New York City...

This evening, the White House announced a new nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Belgium: President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts: · Denise Bauer – Ambassador to Belgium, Department of State

In an epic and unexpected turn of events on Thursday, the House version of the farm bill failed to gain enough traction to make it into conference with the Senate, but the fact that the farm bill lives on in its current form — wedded to food stamps and chock-full of more agribusiness pork than you can shake a stick at — is a deplorable testament to the staying power of farm subsidies and the lobbyists who love them. Once you start handing out subsidies, the relevant special interests are reliably reluctant to let them go, and most unfortunately, the...

For more than a day, the plastic orange toolbox sat on the lawn under a cherry tree, a few paces from the sidewalk. No one passing the Canby home took notice. Not the runners. Not the dog walkers. Not the kids riding by on bicycles. Then curiosity drew a 31-year-old landscaper who had come to the home just after sunset to help a friend move. Ivan Velasco Rodriguez poked the toolbox with a wooden rake handle. The pipe bomb lurking inside exploded. Metal shards flying at bullet speed fatally injured Velasco Rodriguez and slammed into surrounding homes. Pieces fell on...

Hannity has an audience of black conservatives. Honest discussion of race and politics. Watch if you have time. All is not lost!

Al Qaeda's Inspire magazine confused with Esquire at Guantanamo hearing By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba | Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:41pm EDT (Reuters) - An Arabic-English interpreter confused the al Qaeda magazine Inspire with the gentlemen's magazine Esquire during a pretrial hearing in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal on Friday. The mix-up came in a hearing for five prisoners who could face execution if convicted of launching the September 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks that killed 2,976 people and propelled the United States into a global war against al Qaeda. A week-long hearing has focused on...

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Life News reported this earlier today and then a Twitter pal found the clip of her comments below. Skip to 19:30 or so for the key bit. Which “services” does she wish her unwed teenaged great-grandparents were able to avail themselves of? Let’s give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she means contraception, not you know what. America’s abortion warriors can’t be so far gone that they’re now lamenting their ancestors’ inability to terminate them out of existence. Can they?No, she means contraception. Ninety-nine percent sure. Now I’m imagining an alternate ending to “Back to the Future”...

One of the US’ top “immigrant’s rights” activists, labor leader and Democratic Socialists of America Marxist, Eliseo Medina, admits that illegal immigrant amnesty has nothing to do with compassion or economics – it’s all about permanent political power for the left.

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It’s not exactly a spoiler that “Man of Steel,” Zach Snyder’s new Superman movie, culminates in a giant, destructive battle between our hero and his Kryptonian rival, General Zod (who you know is evil because he’s played by Michael Shannon), which wreaks havoc on the city of Metropolis.How much havoc, exactly? Jordan Zakarin of Buzzfeed, being a genius, asked disaster expert Charles Watson and his crew at Watson Technical Consulting andKinetic Analysis Corp. to prepare estimates. Watson’s conclusion: Superman’s battle killed 129,000 people and injured 1 million, an impact on the scale of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki. It caused $750 billion...

"By its very nature, bureaucracy is insular and protective. Lies beget lies. Lies empower people. At its worst, government is about deception and power is about abuse. While there are valid operational needs to have and keep secrets, the reality is that by abusing secrecy restrictions, one can cover up incompetence and protect careers." -- Carlos C. Campbell, former US Navy intelligence officer From: By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War

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Peter Tatchell, the UK's most prominent homosexual activist, has done more than advocating the abolition of the age of consent, he has broken the age of consent law in Britain: "As a gay 18-year-old Australian, anti-Vietnam war draft-dodger, he came to the UK in 1971 and set up home with a 16-year-old gay lover in Shepherd’s Bush. The pair despised the law and so defied it." The homosexual age of consent in England then was 21, not 16. Later he campaigned for lowering it to 16, and now he wants it lowered again to 14. The trend is clear. When...

On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The speech was sparsely attended compared to the speech Obama had made at the same venue back in 2008 during his first presidential election campaign. And as part of the “All-Star Panel” Friday “Lightning Round” segment, Krauthammer won the privilege of posing the question to his colleagues on how to define the speech. “Obama gave a speech in Germany this week,” Krauthammer said. “Was it a) a stirring defense of the United States...

TFRW will be honoring Brad Bailey, the 2013 Champion of Freedom Award recipient, at a luncheon on June 25th at Brennan’s of Houston.TFRW is recognizing Mr. Bailey for his hard work educating the public on the urgent need for comprehensive, conservative and market‐oriented reforms to our currently broken immigration process. Mr. Bailey has been a key resource for TFRW leaders on the immigration issue and has spoken to dozens of TFRW clubs.