Last Year (Winds of Winter)  —  The last post from the Lost Post, and the one you've all been waiting for.  —  Back when this was one long long long post, before Live Journal sent it to the cornfield, I mentioned opening with Dickens' line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

Militia takes over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters  —  The Bundy family of Nevada joined with hard-core militiamen Saturday to take over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, vowing to occupy the remote federal outpost 50 miles southeast of Burns for years.

The Middle East Couldn't Possibly Get Worse.  Could It?  —  The Sunni-Shia schism goes back more than a millenium and has been a more or less constant feature of geopolitics in the Middle East for a long time.  The closest the balance has come to being upset within recent memory was the Iran-Iraq war …

For Donald Trump, Lessons From a Brother's Suffering  —  One evening in the 1960s, Donald J. Trump, still in college but eager to make it big, met his older brother, Freddy, for dinner in a Queens apartment complex built by their father.  —  Things went bad fast.

Elevator hero wished woman ‘Happy New Year’ before being crushed to death  —  A 25-year-old man wished “Happy New Year” to a woman just before he saved her life by shoving her from a faulty elevator that suddenly took a plunge — but the brave act cost him his own life, witnesses said.

Coroner leaves scene where missing Allentown boy's tablet may have been found  —  The search continues Saturday morning in East Allentown for Jayliel Vega Batista, a missing 5-year-old autistic boy who wandered off from a New Year's Eve party on Thursday night.  —  Of The Morning Call

Meet the man behind the “Trump is disgusting” skywriting  —  PASADENA — A millionaire real estate developer — who also happens to be a donor to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign - is behind the aerial messages at the Rose Bowl calling GOP front-runner Donald Trump “disgusting” and he says that there's more to come.

Texans Celebrate Open Carry with ‘Uncovering’ of Handguns at Capitol  —  AUSTIN, Texas - Nearly two hundred open carry advocates gathered on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol to celebrate “uncovering day” for gun owners who are licensed to carry.  —  The rally, sponsored …

Obama Ready to Act Alone on Gun Control  —  The president, who has bypassed Congress on issues ranging from immigration to climate change, is preparing to take executive action on gun control, including expanding background checks on buyers  —  HONOLULU—President Barack Obama …