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Journey into the heart of darkness in the next Atlanta X-Men Homicide novel coming Spring 2017! The tentative title...THE PROFILER.

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Journey into the heart of darkness in the next Atlanta X-Men Homicide novel coming Spring 2017! The tentative title...THE PROFILER.

Outsourcing Security Is Dumb and Deadly

Michelle Malkin|Posted: Jun 29, 2016 12:01 AM It is not a theory that delegating the protection of our embassy and military personnel to other countries risks lives. It is a reality bathed in American blood.

The latest reports on Benghazi released this week underscore the persistent dangers of outsourcing security.

By all accounts, the security conditions at the State Department's consular facility in Libya were "deplorable," as the House Benghazi committee's final summary report described it...

Rep. Dina Titus critical of congressional effort to push Yucca Mountain project forward

By SEAN WHALEY
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

*Here's another background story on America's issue with nuclear waste fromThe Waste Lands Report.*

CARSON CITY — It is a riddle for the ages: What is dead but never dies? The answer in Nevada is the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.

As a state legislative panel overseeing the moribund Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository gets ready to meet later this week, Rep. Dina Titus has criticized a new effort in Congress to move the projec...

Reid’s exit will make fighting Yucca Mountain project tougher, ex-governor says

By SEAN WHALEY
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

*Here's another background story on America's issue with nuclear waste fromThe Waste Lands Report.*

CARSON CITY — Former Nevada Gov. Richard Bryan told a legislative panel on Friday that although the state’s case against Yucca Mountain is strong, keeping the high-level nuclear waste repository at bay will be a challenge with U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s departure.

Bryan, chairman of the Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects, said Reid, D-Nev., has succeeded in ke...

Nevada panel, tribe call out NRC on Yucca groundwater contamination concerns

PostedMay 10, 2016 - 6:08pmUpdatedMay 10, 2016 - 6:35pm

By KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL *Here's another background story on America's issue with nuclear waste fromThe Waste Lands Report.*

Federal plans to saddle Nevada with burying the nation’s most potent radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain were bemoaned Tuesday by the state Commission on Nuclear Projects and American Indians who would be most affected.

Questions about the potential for groundwater contamination were raised by Nev...

Authors Should Guest Blog to Reach Their Ideal Audience

April 12, 2016Written by Judy Cullins

Guest blog posts help expand your author name and book recognition, reputation, and message – IF you have a strategy.

Marketing a book can be daunting for an authorand is the essential chore we writers like to avoid more than our in-laws. Fortunately, guest blogging provides a tactic that mostly requires the one thing we love to do – write! You need to rub a few elbows along the way too, but it will be with fellow writers (bloggers) and you will be reading...

7 Surprising Things I Learned Self-Publishing a Book

By:This guest post is byLinda Formichelli.April 26, 2016

You want to self-publish a book. After all, it’s so much easier than sending proposals to agents and publishers, you get to control the process, and you’ll keep more of your earnings. And all you have to do is churn out 50,000 words or so, slap on a cover you created in Canva, and upload it to Amazon!
If only.

I’m in the process of self-publishing my newest book,How to Do It All: The Revolutionary Plan to Create a Full, Meaningful L...

Ten (Practically) Cringe-less Self-Promotion Ideas for Authors

May 2, 2016
By Kimberly Dana

Here are things even the most introverted authors can do to promote their work.

Confession: no word gives me more angst than the boastful, hyphenated noun self-promotion. The thought of soliciting book sales from my middle school crush on Facebook is downright creepy. Moreover, prowling around on social media websites in search of new friends and followers is a complete time suck. “Self-promotion isn’t for me,” I confided to an author friend the night of my first bo...

Nuclear Jihad: The Threats Are Inside Our Tent

By Michelle Malkin•March 29, 2016 10:55 PM
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2016

*Here's the follow-up article I alluded to in last week's article, "Where is the San Onofre nuclear waste going?"*


It’s not over. It’s never over. After last week’s deadly airport and subway bombings in Brussels, the Belgian government remains onhigh alertfor jihad attacks and espionage at itsnuclear facilities.

One Belgian nuke plant security guard wasmurderedrecently and his ID is missing. Two of the Brussels bombers r...