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Hillary: glasses with prisms for double vision

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new eyeglasses aren’t just a new look -- they have a special lens that’s used to treat double vision.

She was recently treated for a blood clot near her brain after a fall and wore Fresnel lens to aid her left eye during the Benghazi hearing.

“She’ll be wearing these glasses instead of her contacts for a period of time because of lingering issues stemming from her concussion. With them on she sees just fine,” State Department spokesman Philippe Reines said Friday morning, after the Post wrote about Clinton’s new specs.

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No contact lenses here either as Hillary poses for a camera while a student at Wellesley College.

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No backseat driving with skeleton for passenger

A medical student in Stavropol, Russia has a less-than-lively passenger in his car.

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Angel of the North

A man walks on fresh snow near the base of the Angel of the North sculpture, overlooking Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, in northeast England.

The coldest permanently inhabited village on earth is in northern Siberia

In case you want to live where they still have outdoor toilets and the temperature can get down to -70 degrees, the village of Oymyakon is the place to go.

Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia is the coldest permanently inhabited village on earth. The settlement has about 600 inhabitants.

The cold is so intense it is not uncommon for birds to freeze in mid-air on the coldest days.

Minifigs operate a Lego computer printer - revisited

This has been around awhile but is fun to watch again.

Decree allowing women in combat

Rosie the riveter in wartime factories

Rosie the warrior in wartime battlefields

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The good hearted Scotsman...

They walked past a very expensive restaurant.

“Did you smell that food” she asked “isn’t it wonderful?”

Being a thrifty but kind hearted Scotsman he thought he may as well treat her.

So he walked her past the restaurant again.

America could be oil-independent by 2020

American success in oil and natural gas development has caught the attention of the world as other countries seek to emulate American success.

Producing shale gas using hydraulic fracturing is commonly known as fracking.

Fracking uses water, sand and chemicals to break underground shale formations and release fuel. The technique has been key to economic revivals in localities across the U.S. and has helped domestic oil and gas production skyrocket.

From the report at the first link below:

The International Energy Agency recently reported that American oil production will surpass Saudi Arabia’s to become the globe’s single biggest producer of oil and natural gas as soon as 2020, putting North America on track to becoming energy-independent.

Imagine that -- an America no longer held hostage by the greedy oil barons of the middle east!

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A new anti-fracking movie starring Matt Damon erroneously presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that the film is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.

Incidentally, the anti-fracking film “Promised Land” has flopped at the box office as reported in the second link below.

Look for an attempt by President Obama to ban fracking. Vermont has already banned fracking - which is ridiculous because Vermont is not an oil-gas state.

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The Obama administration has been against fracking for the same reason the administration is against the Keystone pipeline. Blocking the pipeline serves two purposes for the president. He wants to placate the radical environmentalists who support him and also keep us more oil-dependant on his friends in the mid east.

America becoming oil-independent is not good news to the Obama administration. A prosperous economy does not create fertile ground for his ‘crisis to crisis’ style of ruling.

Will the nation that invented fracking soon be the only nation to ban the practice?

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Court rules Obama recess appointees were unconstitutional

A federal appeals court panel has ruled that Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said that Obama did not have the power to make three recess appointments last year to the National Labor Relations Board.

The unanimous decision is an embarrassing setback for the president, who made the appointments after Senate Republicans spent months blocking his choices for an agency they contended was biased in favor of unions.

The ruling also throws into question another of Obama's recess appointments as reported in an article at the link below.

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Black civil rights group sued for $99,597 unpaid hotel bill

Houston's Four Seasons Hotel is suing the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), claiming the association owes the hotel almost $100,000, apparently for a summer banquet.

The suit alleges that the payment was due on Nov. 27 and remains unpaid after a second request for payment in December of last year.

An invoice submitted as evidence shows banquet charges of $34,401 and $39,909 in room charges, among other items on the list. The hotel claims the entire bill was not paid.

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