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Senator Ted Cruz and the rest of his “defund” crew have consistently said that a vote for cloture on the House-passed spending bill is akin to a vote for Obamacare. But unfortunately for them, the much-anticipated votes are in and the news isn’t great. As it happens, the Senate voted, 79-19, to end debate on the spending bill all but guaranteeing that the provision explicitly defunding Obamacare will be stripped -- and the amended bill eventually kicked back to the House of Representatives. Twitchy breaks down what just happened in simplistic and easy-to-understand terms: There were many Republicans in the...

Muskogee's teen mayor 19-year-old ready for mayoral challenge, bipartisan politics and new gal The Associated Press updated 5:25 p.m. CT, Fri., May. 16, 2008 MUSKOGEE, Okla. - Nineteen-year-old John Tyler Hammons has a lot on his plate as he prepares to take over as mayor of this eastern Oklahoma city, but he's trying to keep his priorities straight. Juggling calls from people around the country Thursday, he took an important one from his mother. She wanted to know what time he would be home for dinner.

It turns out that anybody can tune in to the world's top spy agencies talking to operatives. All you need is a cheap shortwave-radio receiver, the kind available at any drugstore. Tune it to 6855 or 8010 kHz. On the hour, you might hear a girlish voice repeating strings of numbers monotonously in Spanish. "Nueve, uno, nueve, tres, cinco-cinco, cuatro, cinco, tres, dos . . .," went one seemingly harmless message heard last month on a Grundig radio. It was the Cuban Intelligence Directorate or Russian FSB broadcasting coded instructions from Havana to spies inside the United States. Turn the...

SAN DIEGO - A Chula Vista man suspected of leading a methamphetamine trafficking ring that used juveniles to sell or smuggle the drug was in federal custody Monday after being charged in a two-count indictment, authorities said. Jorge Arreola-Gomez was among 19 people named in the indictment unsealed Friday by the U.S. Attorney's Office alleging that the defendants used numerous couriers, many of them teenagers, to smuggle methamphetamine across the U.S.-Mexico border. An investigation led to the seizure of more than 140 pounds of methamphetamine, more than $25,000 in cash, a firearm and 20 pounds of pseudoephedrine, a nasal decongestant...

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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Minister Louis Farrakhan is considering organizing another national march next year – the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March – to encourage African Americans to keep a larger share of their $688 billion annual spending in the Black community. That disclosure was ignored last week after the Nation of Islam leader held a 2-hour speech/news conference at the National Press Club here that dealt primarily with the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the Middle East and foreign affairs. “I’m not so much interested in a march,” Farrakhan said, replying to a question. “I’m not too much interested...

You people are so scared of the Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan, til it's funny! Why are you so scared of the Minister? What is it, that when you report on the Minister, that you must insert in the report--> "Farrakhan who once called Hitler a great man-1984" That is a lie and you people know it, but you SPIN DOCTORS must do what ever you can to put a negative spin on anything positive that is attached to the Minister's name. Here is a another lie you love to insert in your news stories --->" Farrakhan, who once called Judaism...