US Air Force refuelling jet disappears off radar over English Channel

Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker left Amiens in northern France at 0.05am Last reported on flight tracking website south of Dover 15 minutes later It’s unclear why QID72 plane declared an emergency early this morning

  Mark Duell The Daily Mail [UK] 28 April 2015

A US Air Force refuelling aircraft disappeared off the radar over […]

‘Testy’ like a fox: What’s behind Rand Paul’s argument with the media?

T. Becket Adams The Washington Examiner 4/10/2015

…This last point — that Paul’s aggressive style with reporters won’t hurt him for the simple reason that voters already dislike media – may be the key to understanding the senator’s combative interview behavior.

Right-leaning voters have long maintained that newsrooms are steeped in anti-conservative bias and that […]

Even the USCIRF finds anti-Semitism growing

  Paul Shannon Fight for Votes 4/6/2015

Three members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom wrote an op-ed for US News and World Report. They show where anti-Semitism is growing, especially in Europe. The only bright side is that there is no one leader in which those that persecute and attack Jews […]

Churchill: The Last Lion Who Saved Western Civilization

Victor Davis Hanson Investors.com 1/21/2015

Fifty years ago this Saturday, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill died at age 90.

Churchill is remembered for his multiple nonstop careers as a statesman, Cabinet minister, politician, journalist, Nobel laureate historian and combat veteran. He began his career serving the British military as a Victorian-era mounted lancer and […]

UK veteran who slipped away from a nursing home to attend D-Day services dies

This is a June 7, 2014 file photo of Bernard Jordan, the war veteran found in Normandy after being reported missing from his care home. A British nursing home said an ex-naval officer who gained attention after vanishing from his care facility and taking an impromptu bus ride to France to attend D-Day […]

Offshore wind farms drawing electricity from grid to keep turning in icy conditions

Energy firm confirms wind turbines need to draw electricity from grid at times, but point out that all power stations use electricity as well as generating it

Gordon Rayner The Telegraph [UK] 31 Dec 2014

Offshore wind farms are drawing power from the National Grid to keep turning and prevent them icing up in subzero […]

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