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Folds of Honor

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Updated:  As America prepares to celebrate our greatest day of the year for freedom, let us not forget why it’s so important.

We are each blessed to live in the greatest nation on earth. Yet it is not without sacrifice: the price incurred by the one percent in upholding and defending the freedoms of the 99 percent, so that we all may share in the liberty, justice and prosperity that America makes possible. Join us as we celebrate this great day, our great nation and the heroes who defend it.  Please post to your social site(s) this video tribute as a special July 4th reminder.

More information on Folds of Honor can be found by clicking here for FoldsOfHonor.org and http://www.foldsofhonor.org. 

Major Dan Rooney and Folds of Honor scholarship recipient Sarah White will be on FOX & Friends, July 4, at 7:30 am ET. They will talk about how military families are benefitting from educational scholarships awarded by Folds of Honor and Budweiser’s $2.5 million commitment to the mission.

Andy Griffith passes

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Updated: Andy Griffith, an icon of TV, has died … this according to Andy’s close friend, former UNC President Bill Friday.

Griffith, who became famous for "The Andy Griffith Show," passed away at his home in Manteo, North Carolina today.

This morning’s news first broke when Friday spoke to WITN News in North Carolina.

In addition to starring in his show and the subsequent "Mayberry R.F.D.," Griffith was a Grammy award-winning southern gospel singer.  Of course, Griffith also starred in the long-running series, "Matlock" and often made guest appearances in other shows, including "Dawson’s Creek."

Click here for more information and photos from TMZ.com. 

As tributes continue to post, The Blaze has assembled the top ten video moments from "Mayberry" click here to view.

“The Andy Griffith Show” was a loving portrait of the town where few grew up but many wished they did — a place where all foibles are forgiven and friendships are forever. Villains came through town and moved on, usually changed by their stay in Mayberry. That was all a credit to Griffith, Craig Fincannon, who met Griffith in 1974, said.

 

Southwest Airlines to serve Branson

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Southwest Airlines and its wholly owned subsidiary AirTran Airways confirmed today that Southwest Airlines will be officially arriving in Branson, Missouri in 2013.

Branson Airport and Southwest Airlines officials have amended their original agreement with AirTran Airways and signed a multi-year agreement with Southwest Airlines.  Most likely in the first half of 2013, Branson Airport passengers will see the transition of AirTran Airways to Southwest Airlines. The airline’s fares and flights will be announced at a later date.

“We are thrilled with the news that we will have Southwest Airlines’ red-bellied aircraft touching down in Branson,” said Jeff Bourk, Executive Director of the Branson Airport. “Southwest Airlines presence in this region will do enormous things for the economic development of the entire Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas area.”
 
“We’re looking forward to extending the Southwest Airlines route map to Branson next year,” said Pete Houghton, Southwest Airlines Senior Director of Airport Affairs. “We look forward to announcing further details soon.”
 
The Branson Airport currently has 8 nonstop destinations and one stop connecting service to more than 100 major cities in the United States. Nonstop destinations include: Atlanta, Baltimore/Washington, Chicago, Houston and Orlando on AirTran Airways; Denver on Frontier Airlines; and Austin and Nashville on Branson AirExpress. For a complete list of destinations available at the Branson Airport, visit www.FlyBranson.com. 
 
Known for the unique airport experience and unparallel customer service, Branson Airport LLC is the first privately developed and operated commercial service airport in the United States. Branson Airport is currently serviced by AirTran Airways, Frontier Airlines, and Branson AirExpress allowing passengers the ability to access over 100 destinations all on low cost carriers. Located in the heart of the Ozarks and centrally located in the Midwest, the airport also boasts a state of the art FBO, Branson JetCenter and a full service travel agency, FlyBranson Travel. For more information call toll free 1-888-FLY-BKG1 (1-888-359-2541). 

Jackson: EPA never blamed for job loss

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If there is one indisputable and troubling fact to be gleaned from the Obama administration, it is that their idea of reasonable regulation extends far beyond what most consider even sensible. 

The administration has been accused, with some justice, of trying to price oil, coal and now natural gas out of existence, a stance that has cost them inordinate amounts of support in energy producing states such as West Virginia and Oklahoma, and which has cost thousands of blue collar workers their jobs. In fact, even high ranking officials within the EPA admit that driving entire industries out of business in those very states is their goal to begin with.
 
But perhaps most infuriatingly of all, even in the face of all this evidence, the Obama administration has retained an absurdly oblivious stance on its behavior. “What do you mean, we’re hurting people,” their response usually goes, “don’t you want us to have clean air and water? Think of the children!”
 
And today, this condescending refusal to acknowledge that their agenda could hurt people has reached its peak. In an interview with Roland Martin on TV One’s “Washington Watch,” the head of the EPA herself, Lisa Jackson, made the jaw-dropping claim that the EPA has never been blamed for a loss of jobs. Video and transcript, courtesy of the Washington Free Beacon by way of The Blaze is available for your consideration by clicking here.

The Blaze summarizes:  Solar power might still be an overpriced pipe dream, but sunlight is still the best disinfectant.  

Jackson: EPA never blamed for job loss

Staff Report

If there is one indisputable and troubling fact to be gleaned from the Obama administration, it is that their idea of reasonable regulation extends far beyond what most consider even sensible. 

The administration has been accused, with some justice, of trying to
price oil, coal and now natural gas out of existence, a stance that has
cost them inordinate amounts of support in energy producing states such
as West Virginia and Oklahoma, and which has cost thousands of blue
collar workers their jobs. In fact, even high ranking officials within
the EPA admit that driving entire industries out of business in those very states is their goal to begin with. 

But perhaps most infuriatingly of all, even in the face of all this evidence, the Obama administration has retained an absurdly oblivious stance on its behavior. “What do you mean, we’re hurting people,” their response usually goes, “don’t you want us to have clean air and water? Think of the children!”
 
And today, this condescending refusal to acknowledge that their agenda could hurt people has reached its peak. In an interview with Roland Martin on TV One’s “Washington Watch,” the head of the EPA herself, Lisa Jackson, made the jaw-dropping claim that the EPA has never been blamed for a loss of jobs. Video and transcript, courtesy of the Washington Free Beacon by way of The Blaze is available for your consideration by clicking here.

The Blaze summarizes:  Solar power might still be an overpriced pipe dream, but sunlight is still the best disinfectant.