U.S. News

NYPost | An undercover TSA inspector with an improvised explosive device stuffed in his pants got past two security screenings at Newark Airport.

Dave Bohon | The Arkansas legislature has overridden Gov. Mike Beebe’s veto of legislation banning most abortions.

Reuters | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday warned state and local health officials about potential infections from a deadly virus previously unseen in humans.

Washington Free Beacon | One of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s top gun-control lobbyists in Colorado appears to enjoy firing the very guns he is working to restrict.

whitehousedossier.com | Obama last night bought dinner for a dozen Republican Senators.

Daily Caller | “Holy Howard Roark’s ghost — it looks like we got us a good old fashion actual talkie filibuster”.

New American | A leaked e-mail from the Agriculture Department has added substance to claims that President Obama’s political strategy is to make the sequestration as painful as possible in order to win public opinion against the Republicans.

Lew Rockwell Blog | Rand Paul’s filibuster today is good for at least two reasons.

wsbtv.com | Every homeowner in a local town could soon have to own a gun or break the law. It’s a controversial new plan for the city of Nelson.

Daily Caller | ICE planned to release 1,000 detainees a week.

Prison Planet.com | Is the right to firearms really essential? Doctor and Congressman Ron Paul reminds us that freedom to defend yourself is natural and proper.

The Hill | The centerpiece of President Obama’s gun violence agenda is in peril.

New York Post | The pilot of a commercial jetliner spotted a drone aircraft hovering near his plane as he landed at JFK Airport yesterday, according to sources.

New American | Richard Fitzpatrick, founder of Magpul Industries, said he would move his company from Erie, Colorado, to another state.

London Telegraph | Airports have denied a claim by Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, that the sequester is already causing long delays for travelers at security screening checkpoints.

New American | At home and abroad, the scope of the drone war is expanding and liberty is contracting.

CNS News | The Obama Justice Department is arguing in the United States Supreme Court that children do not need mothers.

New American | Republican governors once so ferocious in their fight against ObamaCare now seem content to roll over and play dead.

Zero Hedge | Americans renouncing citizenship has tripled in the last few years.

New American | Republican governors once so ferocious in their fight against ObamaCare now seem content to roll over and play dead.

AFP | US lawmakers have accused the White House of rebuffing their inquiries into CIA drone bombing raids abroad and vowed to assert more congressional oversight over the secretive drone war.

Prison Planet.com | Guest host Mike Adams breaks down top news stories of the day and how you can fight back against the system.

New American | After 10 hours of intense debate, the Maryland Senate passed Governor Martin O’Malley’s gun control measure handily late Thursday afternoon, 28-19, with all 12 Republicans and a handful of Democrats voting against the bill.

Prison Planet.com | “I can’t have Secret Service block the doorway, right?”

Bloomberg | At midnight tonight, a bevy of steep spending cuts will hit the federal government unless Congress and the White House agree to an alternative deficit-cutting proposal.

CNS News | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday that the news media have an “obligation” to report that the Republicans are “unwilling to do what the American people want done”.

New American | In a contentious effort to bypass the Republican-led House of Representatives, President Obama has embarked on a unilateral campaign to curb the impact of so-called climate change.

CNS News | House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said Tuesday that the Obama administration’s decision to release from detention centers hundreds of illegal aliens is “abhorrent”.

Fox News | An Illinois father wants a school district to reconsider its dress code after his son was asked to remove a U.S. Marines T-shirt or be suspended, FoxNews.com has learned.

New American | Veterans around the country are receiving letters from the federal government informing them that because of alleged physical or mental disability their financial decisions will be made by a government-appointed “fiduciary”.

Washington’s Blog | Giant Food Corporations Work Hand-In-Glove With Corrupt Government Agencies To Dish Up Cheap, Unhealthy Food.

Mediaite | “He is doing the opposite of what he has taken an oath to do.”

The Hill | A Texas Republican on Monday said President Obama’s gun control campaign is a fraud based on fake messages over Twitter.

CNS News | President Barack Obama won’t have to worry about his paycheck if the spending sequestration included in the Budget Control Act that he signed into law in 2011 begins taking effect this Friday.

TCRN | According to one student, they were instructed to discuss “how Egypt was a good country until democracy took over, and that things were finally corrected when the Muslim brotherhood came into power.”

Natural News | A video showing some bizarre “cultural sensitivity training” paid for with taxpayer dollars and put on by the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been released.

Reuters | ”Zero Dark Thirty,” about the decade-long US hunt for Osama bin Laden, has received more attention in the US Congress than it did at the Oscars on Sunday.

Prison Planet.com | Alex takes a look at the concerted efforts to demonize returning veterans as right-wing extremists.

Daily Caller | A recently introduced bill in the Illinois state Senate would require anonymous website comment posters to reveal their identities if they want to keep their comments online.

YouTube | ‘Zeb Colter’ and ‘Jack Swagger’ invited Glenn Beck to appear on the Monday Night Raw TV show. Beck has declined, calling them “stupid wrestling people.”

Natural News | Oh, but gun control measures are constitutional?

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. | Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tried a third time to get Brennan to answer key constitutional questions regarding the legality of the deadly drone strikes that play a major role in the president’s foreign policy.

London Independent | Guests at hotel, notorious for having hosted serial killers, are likely to have bathed, drank and brushed their teeth using water from the rooftop tank.

Politico | President Barack Obama held an off-the-record meeting with top White House reporters on Thursday afternoon, POLITICO has learned.

Paul Craig Roberts | “What If?” histories are a good read.

PrisonPlanet.com | In the spirit of protest and in efforts to retain the Second Amendment a nationwide “Day of Resistance” has been organized for Saturday, February 23,

Dave Bohon | Planned Parenthood is being forced to close four of its clinics in Wisconsin after the state enacted legislation to defund businesses that perform or refer for abortions.

RT | California officials are now looking into claims that someone has been trying to sell gruesome pictures of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner’s charred corpse to the media.

The Washington Times | Comcast Spotlight, the advertising and sales division for Comcast Cable, has halted all ads having to do with guns on its nationwide network.

National Review | Melowese Richardson is the Ohio poll worker who admitted to casting two votes in November for President Obama.