News from LDH: March 2016

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

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Billy Joel & Guests - Piano Man (Gershwin Prize - November 19, 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4MYJIC1sU

Marooned Among the Polar Bears

Creativity's Most Underappreciated Component: Persistence - New research suggests we give up too easily when confronted with a problem that requires creative thinking.

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/be-warned-this-study-may-encourage-your-child-to-keep-pursuing-that-career-as-a-stand-up

Jewish billionaire David Rubinstein donates $18.5M to repair Lincoln Memorial

http://www.jta.org/2016/02/15/news-opinion/united-states/jewish-billionaire-david-rubinstein-donates-18-5m-to-repair-lincoln-memorial

Welcome to the Friends of Vinh Son Montagnard Orphanage (VSO)

http://www.friendsofvso.org/

Remembering the Vietnamese Kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QhV57J5_E

Bobby Darin Lonesome Whistle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmoZvNSuecw

Why smart people are better off with fewer friends

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/18/why-smart-people-are-better-off-with-fewer-friends/?wpisrc=nl_az_most

Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank is experiencing a Shortage of Blood Supply, especially for the following blood types; O positive, O negative, B negative and A negative blood. To find a donor center or blood drive that is convenient for you, please contact us at: 1-800-771-0059. Or see our list of donor centers and blood drives at:

www.cpbb.org

Military related links 032916

Pentagon signals an end to cuts for military pay and benefits

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2016/02/10/pentagon-signals-end-cuts-military-pay-and-benefits/80078076/

House votes to scale back GI Bill housing stipend for military kids

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/benefits/education/gi-bill-ta/2016/02/09/gi-bill-housing-stipend-cut-military-kids-passes-house-representatives/80079550/

Book Discussion on Once Upon a Town

http://www.c-span.org/video/?170817-1/book-discussion-upon-town

North Platte Canteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07DGeLvDw8I

NORTH PLATTE CANTEEN - Denis Hurst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV75-roSj0&list=PLJuIGN65M28uWDrBJQRJuh4aLX6Ngh-Wb&index=1

North Platte Our Town - World War II Canteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yAz3Eg4ywE&list=PLJuIGN65M28uWDrBJQRJuh4aLX6Ngh-Wb&index=3

Rosalie Lippincott on the North Platte Canteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYHQRKUB62I&list=PLJuIGN65M28uWDrBJQRJuh4aLX6Ngh-Wb&index=6

North Platte Canteen Movie 0001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1TdOaqSGkQ

Troop Train & Canteen Workers 221297-01.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyf1ne2BzbI

4 Reasons I Am Resigning My Commission As A Naval Officer

http://taskandpurpose.com/4-reasons-i-am-resigning-my-commission-as-a-naval-officer/

An Open Letter About MST

http://o-dark-thirty.org/2016/02/16/an-open-letter-about-mst/

Why Did I Join the Army? Independence

https://gotyour6.org/9603-2/

Long After Bergdahl’s Release, His Hometown Is Still Under Siege

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/us/long-after-bergdahls-release-his-hometown-is-still-under-siege.html?_r=0

Where Did China Get This F-22 Raptor?

Dogs of War: Wireless Harness Shows Soldiers What Their K9s Are Seeing

Republicans Won’t Stop Saying Our Military Is Weak: And the American public is starting to believe them.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/18/republicans-wont-stop-saying-our-military-is-weak/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=Flashpoints

Debunking the Republicans’ Defense Budget Revisionism: Ignore the warnings from Trump, Bush, and the rest. The Overseas Contingency Operations budget ensures that the bean counters at the Pentagon need never worry.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/17/defense-budget-pentagon-obama/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=Flashpoints

Bill introduced to end the draft

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/269094-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-end-draft-system

Overhauling the Army for the Age of Irregular Warfare: The U.S. military isn’t prepared to wage long fights against Islamic State and other enemies.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/overhauling-the-army-for-the-age-of-irregular-warfare-1455839486

Watch These American Tanks Slip and Slide Through the Norwegian Snow

This Estonian Robot Is the Swiss Army Knife of Tanks

Domestic Overlords: The 250-year precedent for deploying the United States military to police the nation's citizenry.

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/domestic-overlords

Maconaquah Student’s Patriotic Art Project Goes Viral

http://www.yournewslocal.com/?p=1191

The Caregiver of Invisible Wounds

http://militaryspouse.com/military-life/coping/the-caregiver-of-invisible-wounds/

Serving Those Who Have Served: Practical Approaches to Addressing the Invisible Wounds of War in Service Members and Post-9/11 Veterans - FIRST RESPONDERS

http://www.homebasetraining.org/Users/HomeBaseProductDetails.aspx?ActivityID=2771

EOD Bomb Suit Half Marathon

https://www.crowdrise.com/eodbombsuitmile

Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Computer Hackers to Test Security

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/pentagon-seeking-good-computer-hackers-37346012

Defense Secretary Carter pushes defense innovation on West Coast trip

http://www.federaltimes.com/story/defense/2016/03/02/secdef-carter-pushes-defense-innovation-west-coast-trip/81228768/

Latest DoD plan to close U.S. bases gets mild response in Congress

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/capitol-hill/2016/03/03/brac-round-house-appropriations/81264330/

America's silent warriors look to up their game on social media

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2016/03/02/votel-socom-social-media/81210372/

The U.S. just sent a carrier strike group to confront China

http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2016/03/03/stennis-strike-group-deployed-to-south-china-sea/81270736/

Pay, Benefit Cutbacks Hurting Troop Morale

http://www.moaa.org/Content/Take-Action/Top-Issues/Currently-Serving/Pay,-Benefit-Cutbacks-Hurting-Troop-Morale.aspx

SEAL Team 6 member receives Medal of Honor

http://www.legion.org/honor/231450/seal-team-6-member-receives-medal-honor#

X-47B UCAS Aviation History Under Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC8U5_4lo2c

2011 West Virginia University Marching Band Armed Forces Salute

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MjPmmCtHmfE?rel=0

FY 2017 Defense Bill Budget Timeline

http://www.moaa.org/Content/Take-Action/Top-Issues/Currently-Serving/Defense-Bill-Budget-Timeline.aspx

US Navy's new $13 billion aircraft carrier will dominate the seas

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-navys-new-dollar13-billion-aircraft-carrier-will-dominate-the-seas/ar-AAgzBOR?li=BBnb7Kz

How, Why, and When Russia Will Deploy Little Green Men – and Why the US Cannot

http://www.fpri.org/article/2016/03/how-why-and-when-russia-will-deploy-little-green-men-and-why-the-us-cannot/?utm_source=FPRI+E-Mails&utm_campaign=e98dddebf7-FPRI+Insights+031216&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e8d0f13be2-e98dddebf7-165231757

Army Gender Integration Implementation Plan

http://www.army.mil/standto/archive_2016-03-10/?s_cid=standto

More high-ranking officers being charged with sex crimes against subordinates

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/more-high-ranking-officers-being-charged-with-sex-crimes-against-subordinates/2016/03/19/3910352a-e616-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?wpisrc=nl_az_most

Improper rigging may have contributed to paratroopers death at Sicily drop zone

http://www.fayobserver.com/military/improper-rigging-may-have-contributed-to-paratrooper-s-death-at/article_341e1b36-78e2-5549-96cd-3d75b4db1617.html

Will You Pay More at the Commissary?

http://www.moaa.org/Content/Take-Action/Top-Issues/Family/Will-You-Pay-More-at-the-Commissary-.aspx?utm_source=Legis&utm_medium=email&utm_content=03&utm_campaign=commissary

This Day in History… March 27, 1794 - Creation of Permanent U.S. Navy

https://www.mysticstamp.com/info/this-day-in-history-march-27-1794/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=This+Day+in+History

Pennsylvania adjutant general resigns after leave of absence

http://www.richmond.com/news/ap/article_4b7dae1b-3863-5e60-aa40-fc805954b2e9.html

BRIGADIER GENERAL ANTHONY J. CARRELLI, Deputy Adjutant General - Air

http://www.dmva.pa.gov/dmvaoffices/Public-Affairs/Pages/Deputy-Adjutant-General-Air.aspx#.Vvkx-UTD_wo

Interview with Acting Adjutant General Anthony Carrelli

https://pcntv.com/2016/03/07/interview-with-acting-adjutant-general-anthony-carrelli/

Highest-ranking Navy officer yet sentenced in sex-for-secrets scandal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/25/highest-ranking-navy-officer-yet-facing-prison-time-in-sex-for-secrets-scandal/

Combat Wounded Soldiers Ripped Off In Tax Sham

http://www.disabledveterans.org/2016/03/28/tax-scam-ripped-off-combat-wounded-soldiers-for-decades/?inf_contact_key=5340c5d9973761044ea7d11f12bf2bf21ddf4f4ff59ea6acdbcac7f6001be214

Leadership and the Janitor

http://usoonpatrol.org/archives/2010/09/07/leadership-and-the-janitor

Bill would give military dads, adoptive parents 12 weeks leave

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/273751-bill-would-give-military-dads-adoptive-parents-12-weeks-leave

Terrorism related links 032916

FBI Launches “Don’t Be a Puppet” Website

https://www.fbi.gov/news/podcasts/thisweek/fbi-launches-dont-be-a-puppet-website.mp3/view?utm_campaign=email-Immediate&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fbi-this-week-radio-show&utm_content=515214

The Diplomat and the Killer

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/el-salvador-churchwomen-murders/460320/

This Movie Gets Right About War What Other Films Get Wrong

http://taskandpurpose.com/this-movie-gets-right-about-war-what-other-films-get-wrong/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&utm_content=tp-share

A mini world war rages in the fields of Aleppo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-mini-world-war-rages-in-the-fields-of-aleppo/2016/02/14/d2dfff02-d340-11e5-a65b-587e721fb231_story.html

U.S. Asks Turkey to Stop Attacks on Kurdish Fighters

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-asks-turkey-to-stop-attacks-on-kurdish-fighters-1455417440

The US intelligence chief just acknowledged a major failure of the Syria chemical-weapons deal

http://www.businessinsider.com/james-clapper-assad-regime-chemical-attacks-2016-2

Iran Marks Revolution With 'Death to America' Chants

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-marks-revolution-death-america-chants-n516406

Syrian Rebels Shift Tactics as Setbacks Mount

http://www.wsj.com/articles/syrian-rebels-shift-tactics-as-setbacks-mount-1455210551

Death Toll From War in Syria Now 470,000, Group Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/world/middleeast/death-toll-from-war-in-syria-now-470000-group-finds.html?_r=1

Healthy Institutions Don’t Boycott Israel

http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/11/healthy-institutions-dont-boycott-israel/?

Israel's Arabs: A Tale of Betrayal

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7417/israeli-arabs-betrayal

Scanning Borders, Israel Surveys New Reality of Tunnels and Terror

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/world/middleeast/scanning-borders-israel-surveys-new-reality-of-tunnels-and-terror.html?ref=middleeast

Islamic State video shows British boy known as 'Junior Jihadi' blowing up three prisoners

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12151360/Islamic-State-video-shows-British-boy-known-as-Junior-Jihadi-blowing-up-three-prisoners.html

UN to Probe 5 Serious Cases of Alleged Chemical Weapons Use in Syria

http://www.voanews.com/content/cia-islamic-state-has-chemical-weapons/3187923.html

The Death of the Most Generous Nation on Earth

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/the-death-of-the-most-generous-nation-on-earth-sweden-syria-refugee-europe/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=Flashpoints

The Last Of Nazi War Convictions Will Not End Fight Against Anti-Semitism

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=466648841&m=466648842

Nazi slave labor benefited American and British and Dutch companies and royals

https://www.facebook.com/iAMCaveman420/videos/10205111193372227/?the

Royal Dutch Shell and the Nazi Part 6: I.G. Farben, Royal Dutch Shell and Nazi slave labor

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2010/11/06/royal-dutch-shell-and-the-nazi-part-6-i-g-farben-royal-dutch-shell-and-nazi-slave-labor-2/

The peril of inaction: Russian daring and American weakness have changed the course of the war—for the worse

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21693208-russian-daring-and-american-weakness-have-changed-course-warfor-worse-peril?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20160218n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/NA/n

Countering the Islamic State's Message

http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/number-30/countering-islamic-states-message

34 page doc just slams Cliven Bundy in court; Bundy denied bail

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/16/1486205/-34-page-doc-just-slams-Cliven-Bundy-in-court?detail=email

N.S.A. Gets Less Web Data Than Believed, Report Suggests

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/us/report-says-networks-give-nsa-less-data-than-long-suspected.html

U.S. Had Cyberattack Plan if Iran Nuclear Dispute Led to Conflict

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/middleeast/us-had-cyberattack-planned-if-iran-nuclear-negotiations-failed.html

Court upholds dismissal of veteran's suit over 'Hurt Locker'

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/court-upholds-dismissal-veterans-suit-over-hurt-locker-210951867.html

Why Is the FBI Using a 227-Year-Old Law Against Apple?

U.S. Flies Stealth Fighters Over South Korea To Flex Its Muscles

Did China Just Install Surface-to-Air Missiles in the South China Sea?

How Much of Libya Does the Islamic State Control? More than you think -- and it’s growing. But putting boots on the ground could only make the situation worse.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/18/how-much-of-libya-does-the-islamic-state-control/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=Flashpoints

How the Kurds Became Syria’s New Power Brokers: And why Erdogan's war against them threatens to undermine his relationship with the United States and spark a civil war in Turkey.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/18/how-the-kurds-became-syrias-new-power-brokers/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=Flashpoints

A Graphic Novel Looks at War in Iraq

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-graphic-novel-looks-at-war-in-iraq-1454603505?mod=ST1

FPRI's David Satter Interviewed on VOA's Press Conference USA About Russia Under Putin

http://www.voanews.com/audio/3167582.html?utm_source=FPRI+E-Mails&utm_campaign=a5d67a837a-FPRI+Insights+022016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e8d0f13be2-a5d67a837a-165231757

Colin Dueck. The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 336 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-020262-0. Reviewed by Adam Quinn (University of Birmingham)

https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=44978&utm_source=FPRI+E-Mails&utm_campaign=a5d67a837a-FPRI+Insights+022016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e8d0f13be2-a5d67a837a-165231757

Coalition or Cold War with Russia?

http://www.thenation.com/article/coalition-or-cold-war-with-russia-2/

Bombing Hasn’t Worked. Bombing Won’t Work. And Yet, We Will Bomb: The UK is grasping again for an old, failed tactic, thanks to the nationalist impulse to act fast after Paris.

http://www.thenation.com/article/bombs-over-brains/

Security vs. Liberty in Time of War

http://www.fpri.org/event/2016/02/security-vs-liberty-in-time-of-war/?utm_source=FPRI+E-Mails&utm_campaign=16ac4523e3-FPRI+Insights+022016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e8d0f13be2-16ac4523e3-165231757

By The Numbers - The Untold Story of Muslim Opinions & Demographics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPvnFDDQHk&feature=youtu.be

A SEAL Team 6 member must step out of the shadows to receive the Medal of Honor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/02/28/a-seal-team-6-member-must-step-out-of-the-shadows-to-receive-the-medal-of-honor/?wpisrc=nl_az_most

Pink, the Oscars and the… rebirth of Israel?

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pink-the-oscars-and-the-rebirth-of-israel/

Pink Oscars Performance "Over the Rainbow" | LIVE 3-2-14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKqbJkfuNk

Why It's Heretical to Read the Bible Literally: Retired Bishop John Shelby Spong challenges a common tendency towards a literal reading of the Bible.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-it-heretical-read-bible-literally

Harper’s Index

http://harpers.org/archive/2016/03/harpers-index-380/

Justice Delayed for Green Beret Who Defended Afghan Boy From Rapist

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/03/02/justice-delayed-for-green-beret-who-defended-afghan-boy-rapist.html?ESRC=army_160308.nl

2 Americans killed in suspected ISIS bombing in Turkey, U.S. official says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/apparent-suicide-bombing-kills-at-least-5-in-istanbul-shopping-area/2016/03/19/40c5c242-edc0-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html?wpisrc=nl_az_most

Creative Spotlight: Q&A with Author Elliot Ackerman

http://iava.org/blogs/creative-spotlight-qa-with-author-elliot-ackerman/

A migrant worker posted a tearful video about his life in Saudi Arabia. Then things got worse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/03/21/a-migrant-worker-posted-a-tearful-video-about-his-life-in-saudi-arabia-then-things-got-worse/?wpisrc=nl_az_most

In Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State is in retreat on multiple fronts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-syria-and-iraq-the-islamic-state-is-in-retreat-on-multiple-fronts/2016/03/24/a0e33774-f101-11e5-a2a3-d4e9697917d1_story.html?wpisrc=nl_az_most

Here's What We Know About The ISIS Leader The U.S. Just Killed

http://www.hannity.com/articles/hanpr-war-on-terror-487284/heres-what-we-know-about-the-14534036/#ixzz43vwVvOG8

The U.S. military has a lot more people in Iraq than it has been saying

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/21/the-u-s-military-has-a-lot-more-people-in-iraq-than-it-has-been-saying/

Politics related links 032916

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at 79

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/13/1484728/-Supreme-Court-Justice-Antonin-Scalia-reportedly-dead-at-age-79?detail=email

Who paid for Antonin Scalia's vacation to the luxury resort in Texas?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/17/1486570/-Who-paid-for-Antonin-Scalia-s-vacation-to-the-luxury-resort-in-Texas?detail=email

Hillary Reminds Republicans Who The President Of The United States Is, Whether They Like It Or Not

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/14/1484948/-Hillary-Reminds-Republicans-Who-The-President-Of-The-United-States-Is-Whether-They-Like-It-Or-Not?detail=email

Hey Cruz and Rubio: The Constitution says there's one president at a time. His name is Barack Obama

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/13/1484874/-Hey-Cruz-and-Rubio-The-Constitution-says-there-s-one-president-at-a-time-His-name-is-Barack-Obama?detail=email

President Obama’s Supreme Court Nomination

https://www.whitehouse.gov/scotus?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=email568-image&utm_campaign=scotus

Veterans’ Wait After Trump Fundraiser Shows Hurdles for Campaign

http://www.wsj.com/articles/veterans-wait-after-trump-fundraiser-shows-hurdles-for-campaign-1455239053

Michael Moore’s ‘Where To Invade Next’ Tops Slow Weekend – Specialty B.O.

http://deadline.com/2016/02/michael-moore-where-to-invade-next-specialty-box-office-1201702546/

There are two paths to Pennsylvania's future

http://www.pahouse.com/ChooseAPath?utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=http%3a%2f%2fwww.pahouse.com%2fChooseAPath&utm_campaign=It%27s+time+for+honest%2c+transparent+and+balanced+budgeting

Week in Review: House Democrats Call For ‘People Over Politics’ Budgeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwISW1eBIRo&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fyoutu.be%2fbwISW1eBIRo&utm_campaign=It%27s+time+for+honest%2c+transparent+and+balanced+budgeting

Email from David Axelrod: Warm Memories of a Chilly Day

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/02/12/warm-memories-chilly-day?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=email567-image&utm_campaign=springfield

TED CRUZ IS NOT A LEGAL U.S. CITIZEN AT ALL

http://newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams324.htm

Trump's supporters file lawsuit challenging Ted Cruz's US citizenship

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/12/1484261/-Donald-Trump-files-lawsuit-challenging-Ted-Cruz-s-US-citizenship?detail=email

What has Bernie ever accomplished

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/12/1483928/-What-has-Bernie-ever-accomplished?detail=email

Bernie Sanders Gets Shit Done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zCPLzrGPQI#t=46

Harry Belafonte Endorses Bernie Sanders for President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NunNrElCRDs

Bernie Sanders - The President We've Been Waiting For

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=645mtthz8Io

Can you name the Presidents who were Veterans?

http://www.va.gov/health/newsfeatures/2013/february/can-you-name-the-presidents-who-were-veterans.asp

The Northeast Times: U.S. Senator Pat Toomey: Safety Of People In Philadelphia Should Be Top Priority

http://www.pagop.org/2016/01/the-northeast-times-u-s-senator-pat-toomey-safety-of-people-in-philadelphia-should-be-top-priority/

Thomas Piketty on the rise of Bernie Sanders: the US enters a new political era

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/feb/16/thomas-piketty-bernie-sanders-us-election-2016

25 Ted Cruz quotes that prove he should be the President of Planet Uranus

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/17/1486530/-25-Ted-Cruz-quotes-that-prove-he-should-be-the-President-of-Planet-Uranus?detail=email

Robert Reich: The Republican Party Died in 2016.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/17/1486523/-Robert-Reich-The-Republican-Party-Died-in-2016?detail=email

Keystone Progress PA Senate Debate in Harrisburg, February 19th 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zqwY9deDY

Killer Mike Responds to Outrage Over Hillary Clinton Comments | The View

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KljYnP7TDbg

Fact-Check: Bernie Sanders Promises Free College. Will It Work?

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/02/17/466730455/fact-check-bernie-sanders-promises-free-college-will-it-work?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160221&utm_campaign=bestofnpr&utm_term=nprnews

Ted Cruz promises the military won't offer 'gluten-free' meals under his watch

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/17/1486145/-Ted-Cruz-promises-the-military-won-t-offer-gluten-free-meals-under-his-watch?detail=email

Charles Koch wrote that he agrees with Bernie Sanders on one thing. Charles Koch is hilarious

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/19/1487956/-Charles-Koch-wrote-that-he-agrees-with-Bernie-Sanders-on-one-thing-Charles-Koch-is-hilarious?detail=email

How Republicans turned the unprecedented into the new normal

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/21/1486973/-How-Republicans-turned-the-unprecedented-into-the-new-normal?detail=email

PA Budget Hearings Viewing Schedule

http://www.senatorhughes.com/enews/2016_2_22_BudgetHearings.htm

Plan for Securing America in the 21st Century

http://joesestak.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ns-plan-final.pdf

Press Release Pat Toomey Could Not Be More Wrong on Avoiding Supreme Court Hearing but Embracing Obstructionist Partisanship

http://joesestak.com/press-release-pat-toomey-could-not-be-more-wrong-on-avoiding-supreme-court-hearing-but-embracing-obstructionist-partisanship/#more-2542

At First PA Senate Debate, Admiral Joe Sestak Reaffirms Commitment to Fracking Moratorium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur6X7Us1S9s&feature=youtu.be

Joe Sestak Tours 7 Cities in 36 Hours to Talk National Security with the People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXPf2fIbCwE

Illinois Republican lawmakers seek to penalize single mothers with outrageous bill

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/25/1491103/-Illinois-Republican-lawmakers-penalize-single-mothers-with-outrageous-bill?detail=email

The secretly-elected Heritage crew creates new headaches for House Speaker Paul Ryan

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/24/1490470/-The-secretly-elected-Heritage-crew-creates-new-headaches-for-House-Speaker-Paul-Ryan?detail=email

Cruz would pardon anti-abortion activist for crimes committed to frame Planned Parenthood

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/25/1491132/-Cruz-would-pardon-anti-abortion-activist-for-crimes-committed-to-frame-Planned-Parenthood?detail=email

Justice Samuel Alito (R) files concurrence with Mitch McConnell on Supreme Court vacancy

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/24/1490279/-Justice-Samuel-Alito-R-files-with-Mitch-McConnell-on-Supreme-Court-vacancy?detail=email

Former CIA director: Military may refuse to follow Trump’s orders if he becomes president

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/28/former-cia-director-military-may-refuse-to-follow-trumps-orders-if-he-becomes-president/?wpisrc=nl_az_most

Empower yourself against manipulative politics. Vote Smart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlsWDtHZNUE

Sessions: Trump Needs To Make Clear His Support For Equality After David Duke Answer

http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/sessions-trump-needs-to-make-clear-his-support-for-equality#.hn2ORJP80

An Open Letter to the Republican Establishment

http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/03/01/an-open-letter-to-the-republican-establishment/?platform=hootsuite

Another Reason to Hate Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Her War on Medical Marijuana

http://observer.com/2016/03/more-reason-to-hate-debbie-wasserman-schultz-her-ridiculous-war-on-medical-marijuana/

DNC Chair Joins GOP Attack On Elizabeth Warren's Agency

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/debbie-wasserman-schultz-paylenders-cfpb_us_56d4ce38e4b03260bf77e8fc

Bernie Sanders: A leader who wants to end interventionist regime change wars and invest here at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJuyOuHM8zo

TJMS/NewsOne Now Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Talks Black Women Entrepreneurs, Voting Rights, SCOTUS, & More

http://oldschool1003.hellobeautiful.com/2850929/tjmsnewsone-now-exclusive-hillary-clinton-talks-black-women-entrepreneurs-voting-rights-scotus-more/?omcamp=es-wrnb-nl&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Old%20School%201003%20-%20Wednesday%20BDO%202016-03-02&utm_term=Philly%20Old%20School%201003%20Subscribers

IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis Book review by Jodey Bateman

http://motherbird.com/Can'tHap.htm

"It Can't Happen Here" [an America in thrall to a homespun facist dictator] Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel book review by Joe Keohane. Boston Globe, www.boston.com, December 18, 2005

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Book_Reviews/It_Can't_Happen_Here.html

Ray Mabus to step down as Navy secretary

http://japan.stripes.com/news/ray-mabus-step-down-navy-secretary

It’s Time to Abandon the Pursuit for Great Leaders

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/03/its-time-to-abandon-the-pursuit-for-great-leaders-clinton-trump-sanders/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=%2AEditors%20Picks

Ted Koppel Blasts a Cowering Bill O’Reilly During Fox News Interview (Video)

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/ted-koppel-blasts-bill-oreilly-during-fox-news-interview-video/

The Rundown: Joe Sestak leads Democratic U.S. Senate race

http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/the-rundown-joe-sestak-leads-democratic-us-senate-race#.Vts1oXn2Y5s

http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/the-rundown-joe-sestak-leads-democratic-us-senate-race&template=mobileart

The top 10 Senate races of 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/04/the-top-10-senate-races-in-2016/

As primary nears, Dems wonder: Can McGinty rally?
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160304_As_primary_nears__Dems_wonder__Can_McGinty_rally_.html#DldXhPcWwGvT5Wsz.99

Globalist Insider Larry Summers: “Trump Is a Serious Threat to American Democracy”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/22664-globalist-insider-larry-summers-trump-is-a-serious-threat-to-american-democracy

Trump gets interview request from Bergdahl attorneys

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/05/trump-gets-interview-request-bergdahl-attorneys/81376684/

Democratic Divide Not About Clinton VS Bernie Sanders. Hillary Can Not Unite the General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LwfjqTA18I

Donald Trump reverses position on torture, killing terrorists' families

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/politics/donald-trump-reverses-on-torture/index.html

Open Letter on Donald Trump from GOP National Security Leaders

http://warontherocks.com/2016/03/open-letter-on-donald-trump-from-gop-national-security-leaders/

How the Republican Party created Donald Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/behind-the-rise-of-trump-long-standing-grievances-among-left-out-voters/2016/03/05/7996bca2-e253-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html?wpisrc=nl_az_most

No, the person who shoved the young lady at the Trump event was NOT wearing a Legion cap

http://www.burnpit.us/2016/03/no-person-who-shoved-young-lady-trump-event-was-not-wearing-legion-cap

Analysis: Listen to the people, schedule a vote on criminal justice reform

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/opinion-listen-the-american-people-schedule-vote-criminal-justice-reforms

Decorated Afghanistan And Vietnam War Heroes Call Out Donald Trump For Having “Dodged The Draft”

http://www.veteransresources.org/2016/03/decorated-afghanistan-and-vietnam-war-heroes-call-out-donald-trump-for-having-dodged-the-draft/?utm_source=Feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Veterans+Resources+Feed#.Vt8YOXn2bwo

Pennsylvania Statewide Poll Republican and Democratic Primaries March 1-2, 2016

http://harperpolling.com/polls/pennsylvania-statewide-poll---republican-and-democratic-primaries-march-2016

To Beat Trump, Hillary Must Become a Transformational Candidate: 9 Steps She Can Take. Hillary needs to up her game, especially if Trump is the GOP nominee.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/beat-trump-hillary-must-become-transformational-candidate-9-steps-she-can-take

4 Ways White Political Forces Steal Elections and How We Can Stop It

https://sojo.net/articles/4-ways-political-forces-steal-elections-and-how-we-can-stop-it

How Stealing Elections Became Legal

https://www.facebook.com/SojournersMagazine/videos/vb.109054332793/10153504466972794

Fort Bragg Troops Reminded to Keep Service and Politics Separate

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/03/05/fort-bragg-troops-reminded-to-keep-service-and-politics-separate.html?ESRC=army_160308.nl

Veterans Group Identifies Man Seen Shoving Protester at Trump Rally

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/03/08/veterans-group-identifies-man-seen-shoving-protester-trump-rally.html?ESRC=army_160308.nl

Admiral Sestak's speech at the Pa Democratic Committee 2016 winter meeting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBpwpOhyhs0

Trump Must Be Stopped

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/trump-must-be-stopped-15408?utm_source=FPRI+E-Mails&utm_campaign=e98dddebf7-FPRI+Insights+031216&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e8d0f13be2-e98dddebf7-165231757

Trump’s campaign rhetoric, ISIS and the law of war

http://theconversation.com/trumps-campaign-rhetoric-isis-and-the-law-of-war-55807?utm_source=FPRI+E-Mails&utm_campaign=e98dddebf7-FPRI+Insights+031216&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e8d0f13be2-e98dddebf7-165231757

How students in Chicago organized to shut down Trump

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2016/3/13/how-students-chicago-organized-shut-down-trump

Governor leads by example on call for minimum wage increase. Republicans continue game of musical chairs on budget

http://enews.pahouse.net/q/0YAoeiCGCnLeC7J6QgwfklFEqUSdznEQ0EO_k-B66zOwBdbQSBxOHuSB-

Bill Maher Full Interview Jane Mayer On Koch Brothers & Buying Elections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtxpFY2LJJE

Real Time with Bill Maher: Is Donald Trump a Con Man? (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY7WrX98I2o

Army Nurse Return Trips to Vietnam

http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/dispatches/0316.html#article3

Faces Never Forgotten

http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/dispatches/0316.html#article4

Profile in Courage: Five Years to Freedom

http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/dispatches/0316.html#article5

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says Republicans are wrong, 'let's get on with it!'

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/11/1499810/-Former-Supreme-Court-Justice-Sandra-Day-O-Connor-says-Republicans-are-wrong-let-s-get-on-with-it?detail=email&can_id=1a9e433eecdfbcb08ba0bc8b0fc752a4&source=email-why-donald-trump-will-never-be-elected-in-one-tweet-2&email_referrer=why-donald-trump-will-never-be-elected-in-one-tweet-2&email_subject=why-donald-trump-will-never-be-elected-in-one-tweet&link_id=12

President Obama’s brutal assessment of the rise of Donald Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/12/president-obamas-brutal-assessment-of-the-rise-of-donald-trump/?wpisrc=nl_az_most

Why Bernie Sanders being Jewish isn't an issue for Muslim Americans

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/muslim-american-voters-bernie-sanders-irpt/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion&iref=obinsite

The Whole Truth with David Eisenhower

http://www.wacphila.org/the_whole_truth/

Episode listings for THE WHOLE TRUTH WITH DAVID EISENHOWER

https://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vEpiDescIDNumber/31211

Another GOPer not doing his job: Pat Toomey

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Another-GOPer-not-doing-his-job-Pat-Toomey.html

Another Bad Republican Budget Properly Vetoed

http://www.senatorhughes.com/enews/2016_3_16_Budget.htm

'The Brainwashing of My Dad' documentary hits theaters—the great Right-Wing/Fox media scam exposed

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/14/1501072/--The-Brainwashing-of-My-Dad-the-documentary-on-Hate-Media-Fox-Limbaugh-premieres-this-week?detail=email&can_id=1a9e433eecdfbcb08ba0bc8b0fc752a4&source=email-cartoon-trumps-high-steaks&email_referrer=cartoon-trumps-high-steaks&email_subject=cartoon-trumps-high-steaks&link_id=9

The Koch brothers' vision for America includes destroying your public library

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/16/1502390/-The-Koch-brothers-vision-for-American-includes-destroying-your-public-library?detail=email&can_id=1a9e433eecdfbcb08ba0bc8b0fc752a4&source=email-cartoon-trumps-high-steaks&email_referrer=cartoon-trumps-high-steaks&email_subject=cartoon-trumps-high-steaks&link_id=13

On The Supreme Court, The Republican Senate Kneels Before Its Koch Masters

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/18/1503099/-On-The-Supreme-Court-The-Republican-Senate-Abjectly-Kneels-Before-Its-Koch-Gods?detail=facebook

How ‘ghost corporations’ are funding the 2016 election

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-ghost-corporations-are-funding-the-2016-election/2016/03/18/2446e526-ed14-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?wpisrc=nl_az_most

Sanders “is tapping into something that is very deep and very profound inside the Democratic Party"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/19/1503582/-Sanders-is-tapping-into-something-that-is-very-deep-and-very-profound-inside-the-Democratic-Party?can_id=1a9e433eecdfbcb08ba0bc8b0fc752a4&source=email-not-that-anyone-is-paying-particular-attention-but-president-obama-just-set-foot-in-a-once-forbidden-country-photo&email_referrer=not-that-anyone-is-paying-particular-attention-but-president-obama-just-set-foot-in-a-once-forbidden-country-photo&email_subject=not-that-anyone-is-paying-particular-attention-but-president-obama-just-set-foot-in-a-once-forbidden-country-photo&link_id=9

Voting for Bernie. Ready for Hillary.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/20/1502765/-Voting-for-Bernie-Ready-for-Hillary?detail=email&&can_id=1a9e433eecdfbcb08ba0bc8b0fc752a4&source=email-mitt-romneys-announcement-today-shows-just-how-desperate-republicans-have-become-to-stop-trump-2&email_referrer=mitt-romneys-announcement-today-shows-just-how-desperate-republicans-have-become-to-stop-trump-2&email_subject=mitt-romneys-announcement-today-shows-just-how-desperate-republicans-have-become-to-stop-trump&link_id=8

Full interview: Bernie Sanders, March 20

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/full-interview-bernie-sanders-march-20/

What the media doesn't get about Trump's America
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/More-ignoreland.html

We’ve All Been Stiffed: It’s Time to Shift from Complaining About the Plutocratic Corruption of Our Country to Stopping It. Anti-Big Money sentiment has fueled both Sanders' and Trump's run. The moment is ripe to rally a People's rebellion.

http://www.alternet.org/local-peace-economy/weve-all-been-stiffed-its-time-shift-complaining-about-plutocratic-corruption

The Establishment Birthed Trump

http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2015/09/15/the-establishment-birthed-trump-n2052148/page/full

Joe Sestak Talks with KDKA about Health Care, the Trust Deficit and Pat Toomey's Obstructionism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M81Z532JU0

National Security Press Conference and Statement by Former Admiral and Congressman Joe Sestak

http://joesestak.com/national-security-press-conference-and-statement-by-former-admiral-and-congressman-joe-sestak/#more-2693

Joe's Got Your Six

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2s8lm3StTs

Just the facts, please

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/27/1504009/-Just-the-facts-please

Final 2015-16 Republican Budget for PA