Can you hear the deep hollow echo of the drumbeat ? 
(NYDN) — The Wisconsin workers who have staged a week-long protest against their union-busting governor are getting some Big Apple reinforcements. Teamsters Local 237, which represents various city workers, intends to “bus a couple hundred” members to Madison — possibly this week, Deputy Director Pete Gutierrez told The Daily News. (more…)
Good Morning TreeHousers. Hope everyone is doing well today. We have some new stuff going on to share: There is a link in the right column to a TreeHouse Chapel discussion group. Also, Stella has begun a post/list of “Conservative Heros'” contact information, a list of people and their contact information for us to be able to thank them for their efforts. Who should we have on the list? Once we compile all the information we will post and have a permanent resource link available to contact/thank them. What’s on your mind today?
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*UPDATE* Can’t say I ever remember another situation like this where an American President is begged to denounce a Terroristic Regime from within the Regime itself. (Politico) — Now here’s a situation pretty much without precedent: The Libyan Ambassador to the U.S. just called on the Untied States to denounce his country’s leaders — and his employers — more forcefully. “I want the U.S. to tell the world and to work with the countries who love peace . . . they have to stop this,” Ambassador Ali Ojli said, suggesting that he had resigned his post, in an interview with Al Jazeera English. (more…)
Unfortunately I don’t think this is going to help him one bit. 
(WSJ) — U.S. officials Monday acknowledged for the first time that former Special Forces soldier Raymond Davis, held in detention in Pakistan for killing two armed men, works for the Central Intelligence Agency, but said he was not directly involved in spying operations. U.S.officials say Mr. Davis, who has been held in the eastern city of Lahore since late January, was on a short-term contract as a protective officer, responsible for providing security to officials with the CIA and other agencies in the country. (more…)
There has literally been weeks of bad news coming from the Mid-East. But I wanted to interrupt those negative stories for a minute and focus your consideration on one of God’s great creatures from the region. Perhaps you already know this stuff, I sure didn’t, and I find this stuff fascinating. Plus it is a welcome distraction. Meet the Very Technical, Highly Engineered Dromedary Camel. (more…)
h/t JenniferH (PajamasMedia) – It is becoming clear that the Wisconsin battle was a strategic political blunder for President Obama and the Democratic Party. The decision by the Democratic Party and its allies to draw a line in the sand in Wisconsin was the wrong strategy, in the wrong state, at the wrong time, on the wrong issue, and executed in the wrong way. (more…)
Glass houses, stones, etc. (Vail Daily) — First lady Michelle Obama enjoyed locally grown fare at a Vail restaurant Saturday night before hitting the slopes of Vail Mountain early Sunday. Obama and her two daughters, 9-year-old Sasha and 12-year-old Malia — together with some family friends — are spending the Presidents Day holiday weekend in Vail. President Obama did not make the trip. (more…)
*Update #3 (from Daily Mail)
Protesters appear to have taken control of second city Benghazi