San Antonio To Celebrate Hemingway's Birthday With Music And Daiquiris

Emily Bamforth at the San Antonio Express-News offers a piece on how the city of San Antonio, Texas will be celebrating the late great writer Ernest Hemingway's birthday this Saturday.

Hotel Havana and the San Antonio Public Library Foundation First Edition Society invites attendees to celebrate Ernest Hemingway’s birthday on Saturday the way the author would have enjoyed – with music and daiquiris.

Hemingway, who published seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works during his lifetime, was born on July 21, 1899. The event will take place the day before his birthday.

"This is our third year,” said Tracey Bennett, president of the S.A. Public Library Foundation. “Hemingway was an incredible writer and a very interesting character in the literary world.”   

You can read the rest of the story via the below link:

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/downtown/2013/07/library-event-to-celebrate-hemingways-birthday/

Answers Needed On Operation Fast And Furious

The San Antonio Express-News published an editiorial that calls for answers from the Obama Justice Department regarding Operation Fast and Furious.

In theory, Operation Fast and Furious was a sting operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to take down major gun traffickers supplying the drug cartels in Mexico. In practice, it was an operation out of control, with U.S. authorities allowing the illegal sale of 1,700 guns.

Two guns recovered from the scene of a murdered U.S. Border Patrol agent were sold to straw buyers under Operation Fast and Furious. The Mexican government alleges at least 150 Mexican citizens have been killed or injured by weapons that entered the country with the knowledge of federal agents.

You can read the rest of the editorial via the below link:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/article/Answers-needed-on-gun-program-1529227.php

You can also read my earlier post on Operation Fast and Furious via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2011/07/atf-chief-admits-mistakes-in-fast-and.html