News of the Week for December 7th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Watchdog reveals thousands of docs relating to disclosure of taxpayer data to White House<\/a> House Intelligence report fails to address key facts, questions in Benghazi scandal<\/a> <\/p>\n Rapper Faces Life in Prison for Album Cover<\/a> Newly-Elected GOP Senate Majority Must Repeal 1968 Handgun Purchase Ban<\/a> <\/p>\n New, Legally Binding Treaty Emerges on First Day of UN\u2019s Lima Climate Conference<\/a> Mann’s tree ring proxy train wreck<\/a> <\/p>\n Peak Number Of Americans Delaying Medical Care Over Costs<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Al Qaeda plot to blow up 5 passenger planes in Christmas ‘spectacular’<\/a> 75 Years Ago: Russia Invades Finland <\/a> ISIS Militants Claim They Have Produced ‘Dirty Bomb’ Using Stolen Radioactive Uranium<\/a> Islamic militants attack Chechen capital; 20 dead<\/a> White House Ignores Ongoing Cyber Massacre on US<\/a> Swiss photographer held hostage by Muslims for two years escapes by cutting captor’s throat<\/a> <\/p>\n Recount set to begin in Barber-McSally race<\/a> Mostly Peaceful Black Panthers Planned to Bomb Gateway Arch and Murder St. Louis County Prosecutor<\/a> Conservative leaders gang up to block Jeb Bush, say he opposes Reaganism<\/a> Mostly Peaceful: St. Louis Man Beaten to Death With Hammers<\/a> Minnesota Plans To Eliminate Gender Distinctions For High School Sports <\/a> Poor Kids in Baltimore Have It Worse Than Those in Nigeria <\/a> Nuclear Attack From Aliens Eradicated Life On Mars, Physicist Claims<\/a> Heartland Brewery receives backlash for \u2018racist\u2019 slogan<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nAn IRS watchdog is acknowledging that thousands of documents related to requests between the White House and the tax agency for unauthorized tax information exist — but says it must withhold them all due to privacy concerns.<\/p>\n
\nThe 37-page House Intelligence Committee report that was released late last week was widely cited by the mainstream media as clearing the Obama administration of wrongdoing in the Benghazi scandal. <\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nLike countless artists before him, San Diego-based rapper Brandon Duncan’s new album features a picture of a gun and bullets on its front cover. However Duncan, who raps under the name Tiny Doo, could be the first artist to go to jail for his choice of album art.<\/p>\n
\nWith January fast approaching and the newly-Republicans in the House and Senate about to take their seats, it seems fitting to point out a frivolous and burdensome gun control law the GOP needs repeal or amend — namely, the ban that forbids a law-abiding citizen from buying a handgun from a retailer in a state outside his or her state of residence. <\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
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\nAt a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Lima, Peru, delegates from 196 parties are drafting a new legally binding treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that is to be completed next year in Paris, France. At the outset of negotiations, environmentalists are calling for the new treaty to mandate a cap and tax on greenhouse gas emissions to go into effect by 2020. And to eliminate the use of fossil fuels altogether by 2050.<\/p>\n
\nEric Worrall writes: Mann\u2019s thermometer spliced hockey stick has taken even more damage in the last few days, with Steve McIntyre helpfully providing reconstructions based on tree rings which demonstrate how, without the benefit of Mike\u2019s scientifically dubious \u201cnature trick\u201d, the hockey stick simply disappears \u2013 tree rings demonstrably don\u2019t correlate with temperature.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nOne in three Americans has put off seeking medical treatment in 2014 due to high costs, according to Gallup \u2014 the highest percentage since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nTERRORISTS are plotting to blow up five European passenger jets in a Christmas “spectacular”, security experts say.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday was the 75th anniversary of the start of the Winter War, when Soviet troops invaded Finland in a raw bid for territory. It was a David-versus-Goliath match-up, fought keenly over 105 days by the brave, resourceful, and overwhelmed Finns, but without the same result (although Russia suffered nearly five times the casualties).<\/p>\n
\nIslamic State militants are claiming that they have built a “dirty bomb” with radioactive uranium that was reportedly stolen from Mosul University after ISIS seized the city of Mosul in June.<\/p>\n
\nPolice waged hours-long gunbattles with Islamic militants who attacked Chechnya’s capital Thursday, leaving at least 20 people dead and underscoring Russia’s vulnerability just as President Vladimir Putin used patriotic and religious imagery in his state-of-the-nation address to defend his standoff with the West.<\/p>\n
\nThe Obama administration has faced a larger threat of cyber attacks from foreign enemies than any administration before it, yet has demonstrated a continuing de facto policy in dealing with the onslaught of cyber attacks against our nation: doing nothing. Not only does our current administration mostly ignore the intrusions and sabotage entirely–they carry on like nothing ever happened.<\/p>\n
\nA Swiss wildlife photographer who was held hostage by Islamic extremists for more than two years has dramatically escaped to his freedom by cutting his captor\u2019s throat with a machete.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nThe state’s first-ever congressional recount begins this week in the nail-biter race between Republican Martha McSally and U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz.<\/p>\n
\nWell now, these riots are blowing up in Obama and Holder\u2019s faces now, so to speak.<\/p>\n
\nConservative leaders who had a hand in key Republican victories including Ronald Reagan\u2019s presidency, the Contract with America and the birth of the Tea Party, are ganging up to oppose a Jeb Bush presidential bid, declaring him easier to beat than Bob Dole or John McCain.<\/p>\n
\nGood luck finding this reported by the national media.<\/p>\n
\nHere are twelve reasons it\u2019s a terrible idea to gender-bend school sports.<\/p>\n
\nA global survey of 15- to 19-year-olds living in vulnerable cities shows that social support and outlook are driving factors in health outcomes<\/p>\n
\nThe ancient life on Mars was eradicated by aliens armed with nuclear weapons, plasma physicist and an expert in propulsion technologies Dr John Brandenburg believes. He therefore warns that a nuclear attack of this kind will also happen on Earth.<\/p>\n
\nThe beerhouse is drawing criticism for its Bavarian Black Lager, which promises customers will become ‘a slave to the flavor.’ Several people, including Kristen John Foy of the National Action Network, say the slogan is racist and inappropriate.<\/p>\n