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Wars and Rumors
In the war against terrorism, the French police and intelligence services are targeting about 15,000 individuals who may pose a threat.…
The war is ongoing
3:05pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
Know the Enemy
Vice President Joe Biden slammed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday, accusing him of “sexual assault” for comments Trump made over a decade ago…
Perverts gotta perv
3:08pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
Saturday in an interview with Jerry Springer on “AM Joy,” MSNBC’s Joy Reid said never in her life did she think groping and forced kissing would be included in the same sentence as potential president of the United States…
Strangely, she was not referring to the rapist-rape-enabler couple, the Clintons.
3:07pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
Republicans across the country have condemned Donald Trump's comments about women… a look at some of the many prominent Republicans speaking out… Ohio Sen. Rob Portman… Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger… Arizona Sen. John McCain… Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan… Ohio Gov. John Kasich… Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski… Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner… South Dakota Sen. John Thune… South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard… Maine Sen. Susan Collins… Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis… Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo… Businesswoman Carly Fiorina… New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte… Utah Sen. Mike Lee… Utah Gov. Gary Herbert… Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman… Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz… Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk… Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake… Utah Rep. Mia Love…
Et many cetera. Arnold as Terminator murdered hundreds. McCain told joke about woman raped by gorilla. What a list of losers, cowards, and traitors. Including USA Today.
3:04pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
Former secretary of state Condoleeza Rice, who served in the Bush administration, said Donald Trump should withdraw from the race for president.…
Who cares?
2:57pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
Nevada Republican Rep. Joe Heck disavowed Donald Trump Saturday as he fights in a neck-in-neck race for Harry Reid’s Senate seat.
Heck’s disavowal was met with boos and jeers from Trump supporters in the crowd.…
2:55pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
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Oh! The Irony!
WAGONER, Okla. – A man is behind bars after allegedly dressing up like a clown and standing outside an Oklahoma fast-food restaurant.… Witnesses claim Hooten was “singing scary songs”…
3:18pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
Animal Culture
Claudia collects more cutie-pie critter pics
3:15pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
Only Natural
…On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.…
In Greenland. Video: 4:41
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Breitbart is Here
The IMF official responsible for European affairs says that his fund will probably not help Greece out yet another time. Other European financial institutions are currently meeting to try to arrange an emergency fund that Greece can tap into in order to weather its latest fiscal crisis.
In other news, two suicide bombers blew themselves up near Ankara when they were approached by policemen.…
News summaries with links
12:31pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
US Election 2016
…one former Republican presidential nominee is not shying away from Donald Trump amid the controversy. Bob Dole, the 1996 nominee, told the Wall Street Journal he was not reversing his endorsement of Trump.…
3:17pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
As Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and other top elected officials remained silent on Saturday regarding Donald Trump's lewd remarks about women, the chairman of the state Republican Party affirmed support for the nominee.
Pam Pollard, the GOP chair, said, “I think the comments of Donald Trump were repugnant. Even though this was 10 years ago there is still no excuse for his behavior. He has asked the nation for forgiveness and said he is a different man than he was that many years ago.…
3:13pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
The Israel director of Republicans Overseas said on Sunday that he and other Republicans in the Jewish state would still vote for Donald Trump… Marc Zell said that he and his five daughters will be voting for Trump, and maintained that the majority of the 200,000 registered U.S. voters in Israel – half of whom are women –would still support Trump… …“he said he’s not perfect, he apologized.”…
3:11pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
Republican voters are very aware of the released video of Donald Trump making lewd comments about women, but a majority of them are willing to stand by their Republican nominee, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll.…
3:09pm CDT Sun 2016 Oct 9 :MW
…Even though they are officially “ineligible,” thousands of illegal immigrants are fully registered to vote in the state of Virginia, thanks to their Moter Voter program. … bombshell study from the Public Interest Legal Foundation shows that in 9 counties alone, 1,046 non-alien citizens were registered to vote thanks to the program and the National Voter Registration Act of 1983. … Clearly, this is just the tip of the iceberg…
Guess which party benefits from votes by non-citizens… and the dead!
…In late 2008, when Kaine was governor of Virginia, six state police chaplains resigned in protest against a strict "non-sectarian" prayer policy at all public gatherings that forbade any mention of the name Jesus.…