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Policing Ourselves
During Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine claimed that stop-and-frisk “polarizes the relationship between police and communities.”
Fact check: FALSE.…
10:08am CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
History - still with us
An ancient Mayan document long thought to be a forgery was recently found to be genuine. The text, known as the Grolier Codex, was analyzed by researchers from Yale, Brown, and the University of California, Riverside, and, according to their results, is the real thing.
The codex—a ten page document consisting of Mayan deity/ritual paintings and a calendar that charts the movement of Venus—dates back to the first half of the 13th century, making it the oldest surviving document from the Americas.…
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Breitbart is Here
Jammie Wearing Fools: Shady Clinton Crime Family Foundation Quietly Refiles Three Years Of Taxes…
The Jawa Report: Boobies Are The Water Of Life…
This Ain’t Hell: Hey Timmie, You Really Showed Us Deplorables…
News and views headline links
11:21pm CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
Israel intercepts boat seeking to break Gaza blockade…
North Korea official who supplies medicine to Kim Jong-un defects…
Nato jets scrambled as Russian bombers fly south…
News headline links
11:18pm CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
The Guardian: António Guterres to be next UN secretary general…
Nearly half all children in sub-Saharan Africa in extreme poverty…
Twitter expected to field takeover offers this week…
News headline links
3:51pm CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
Louder With Crowder: White Alabama Teen Beaten For “Pro-Police” Views, Media Silent…
American Power: NPR Reporter Has No Idea What “Come And Take It” Means…
Lonely Conservative: So I’m Minding My Own Business When…
News and views headline links
10:42am CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives…
The danger of imaginary arrows…
MSNBC Asks Millennial Women If They Feel Connected To Clinton — Crowd Yells ‘No!’…
News, views, and info headline links
10:38am CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
Columbia University to host no-whites-allowed student leadership retreat…
People With Giant Carbon Footprints Warn There’s No More Time For People To Be Allowed To Have Opinions…
Parade float depicting Donald Trump executing Hillary Clinton in an electric chair sparks outrage in Indiana…
News summaries with links
10:10am CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
Able Slays Kaine…
She Probably Sounded Better in the Original German…
Consensus? I Got Your Consensus Right Here!…
JJ is learning the AoS art of obliquity in his news headline links
9:48am CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
…On this day one year ago (yeah a recent one) the news was this:
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton will propose new gun control measures, including a vow to employ executive action to expand background checks for firearms sellers at gun shows and online.
Vic's news links, and news in review, lest we forget.
9:25am CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW
US Election 2016
Fact Checks:
Tim Kaine Claims Background Checks ‘Make Us Safer’…
Trump Did Not Say Israel Must Pay ‘Big League’ or We Would Not Work with Them…
Tim Kaine Claims Terror Threat ‘Has Decreased’ During Obama Era…
Pence Did Not Say Vladimir Putin Was ‘Inarguably a Better Leader Than Barack Obama’…
No, the Clinton Foundation Did Not Rank Higher Than the American Red Cross…
Tim Kaine Was a Leader of the Boycott of Netanyahu…
Tim Kaine Is Wrong; Trump Vowed to Deport ‘Criminal Aliens’ on ‘Day One’…
Yes, the Obama-Clinton Recovery is the Slowest, Since the Great Depression…
10:20am CDT Wed 2016 Oct 5 :MW