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James Buchanan, Jr.; April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States (1857–61) Democratic Party, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives and later the Senate, then served as Minister to Russia under President Andrew Jackson. He was named Secretary of State under President James K. Polk, and as of 2016 is the last former Secretary of State to serve as President of the United States. Buchanan was followed by Republican President Abraham Lincoln who had to deal with the chaos Buchanan failed...

What was Clinton drawing? A stick figure? Of Trump with hangman's noose or her version of a Voodoo doll?

Twitter was abuzz last night over startling new revelations that… a fly landed right on Hillary Clinton’s face during the debate!

I'm seeing a lot of funny post-debate images. Post those or any humorous things you've seen about the debate. (Ken Stone is trending on Twitter.)

"If I win, I am going to instruct my Attorney General to look into your situation. Because there's never been so many lies, so much deception" "It's awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country " "Because you'd be in Jail!"

The NFL said “a confluence of events” is affecting ratings, including the election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton diverting viewers to cable news outlets. ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” game on Sept. 26 between the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons aired at the same time as the first presidential debate, which drew a record-breaking 84 million viewers to the football game’s roughly 8 million. The next debate on Sunday night will go head to head with the game between the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers, and the league is expecting weak ratings.

October 1st, 2016 WHAT DONALD TRUMP COULD LEARN FROM BASEBALL Baseball can teach you an awful lot about life. The old adage is that the game isn't over till the last man is out and the fat lady sings. This reflected perfectly to me the Catholic belief; you haven't lost the game until you draw your last breath and refuse to accept the Salvation won for you by Christ. My teen years were filled with the excitement of watching the Detroit Tigers. Tension grew whenever the hated Cleveland Indians came to town. Jimmy Piersall started it. He hated Detroit and...

If so, it was a genius of an idea.... Hillary feinting SHOCK at Trumps conversation, after all the perversion, sexual assaults, sexual harassment and philandering her husband has partaken in throughout his life and during their laughable marriage. And coming one day before the debate it will be impossible for the moderator not to mention it and leave Hillary gapping open mouthed as Donald slaps her down and calls her and the Liberal press on their hypocrisy of ignoring Bill's sexual perversion since 1992... Genius I tell you, it's genius at work. The Donald knows how to manipulate the press...

The batch of emails released by Wikileaks on October 7 includes one in which Hillary Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon explained that Clinton “would support…closing the gun show loophole by executive order.” Fallon also highlighted Clinton’s support of universal background checks–which have already failed in California, Colorado, Washington state, and Paris–and her support for a scenario wherein victims of crime would be able to sue gun manufacturers. In the email, dated October 4, 2015, Fallon mentions that Today had made clear they were going to ask Clinton about guns. At that time she was still locked in a tougher stance...

Joe Biden Tells Ambivalent Pennsylvania Democrats: ‘Remember Al Gore’ By Tim Hanrahan Oct 7, 2016 3:33 pm ET 1 COMMENTS Vice President Joe Biden told Pennsylvania voters to keep Al Gore’s narrow loss to George W. Bush in mind when Election Day comes around, even if they aren’t fired up about casting a ballot for Hillary Clinton. “I know some of you, and some of the people you are trying to convince, are not crazy about Hillary. I know that, OK,” he said, acknowledging some Democrats’ ambivalence about their presidential nominee. “I think she has gotten an unfair deal. But...

The "Mike Pence is Race Bannon!" meme is storming the intertubes tonight... Meanwhile, the Twitterverse is comparing Kaine to an Evil Batman Movie character, or "Kreepy, The Pedo Klown". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIAx85XI2ik

Current link to all known VP debate polls. I've noticed that the state run media has learned their lessons and not posted nearly the number of polls.

Winnie Omodt says her first and only encounter with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took place on an airplane runway in New York 45 years ago. But her memories of the meeting, she says, remain as fresh as yesterday. Today, Omodt lives in Lake Oswego, where she's retired. But on that day, in 1971, she was into her second year as a Pan Am stewardess, preparing for takeoff to London by collecting entrée orders from 60 or so passengers in first class. Passenger after passenger requested the plane's limited supply of prime rib. Except for one business traveler, who didn't...

Timeless Premiere: Will Your Future Self Tune in for More of the NBC Drama? By Vlada Gelman / October 3 2016, 8:00 PM PDT Monday night’s premiere of Timeless, the time-hopping NBC drama from creators Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), was grand and clearly expensive. (How about that Hindenburg?) But was it enough to make you want to revisit the past again? Grade the Timeless premiere via the poll below, then hit the comments to back up your pick!

The most popular flavor of ice cream in America is vanilla. (Most surveys suggest it clocks in at 29 percent.) But I doubt many people choose to eat it plain. I know I'd rather eat the chocolate chip cookie dough — a pint of it, actually, while watching Netflix. Vanilla is our choice to serve as a complement, often mellowing a too-rich dessert. That's how I view the VP candidates this time around. A La Mode.

Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told U.S. President Barack Obama to "go to hell" and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers. In his latest salvo, Duterte said he had lost respect for the United States and railed at its concerns about his bloody war on drugs, calling his critics "fools" who could not stop him carrying out a campaign that has killed more than 3,400 people in just over three months. In a tangential, at times profane speech in Manila,...

Tuesday, October 4, 2016: Live stream coverage of the Donald J. Trump for President rally in Prescott Valley, AZ at Prescott Valley Event Center. Live coverage begins at 2:00 PM MST. Watch the LIVE stream of the event below: Prescott Valley Event Center

(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Iraqi media outlets reported on Wednesday that a malfunction caused an explosive belt to explode and kill 16 members of the Islamic State (ISIS), including senior leaders, during their meeting in Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk. Alsumaria stated, “Today, an explosion took place amid a meeting of ISIS members in al-Mahawes village in Hawija district (55 km southwest of Kirkuk),” adding that, “The explosion resulted in the killing of 16 members of the Islamic State group, including senior leaders, as well as wounding of 16 others.” “A number of the ISIS members were wearing explosive belts during the...

Remember who she is supporting! Hint - she is not supporting Trump.

SNIP The entire series is a deft comic skewering of far-left politics from the 1960s until now, which may explain why leftist reviewers are practically frothing with hostility toward it, albeit without much acknowledgment of the severe case of betrayal they must be feeling toward a fellow lefty for demolishing their radical pieties. (Of the first three reviews I checked, one tut-tutted Allen for making hurtful jokes about the quality of television, another said he wasn’t entitled to make even a passing reference to adoption, and a third complained that the production design of the show, which was evidently made...