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Ted Cruz is once again talking about government shutdown. This time it is about funding for Planned Parenthood. And once again it is not going over well with some in his party. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called a strategy to withhold funding for the federal government unless taxpayer funds are pulled from Planned Parenthood an "exercise in futility." The fiscal year for the federal budget ends Sept. 30. Without a continuing resolution authorizing ongoing funding, the government shuts down. Ted Cruz wants to hold that continuing resolution hostage to stop Planned Parenthood funding. McConnell calls this an "exercise...

Mabus: No Exemptions to Keep Women Out of Infantry, SEALS Secretary of the Navy Ray MabusSecretary of the Navy Ray Mabus SAN DIEGO Sep 16, 2015 | by Gretel C. Kovach The Marine Corps infantry, Navy SEALs, and all other combat jobs in the Navy Department will open to women by the end of this year, and no exemptions to the new gender-neutral employment policy in the Defense Department will be granted despite results of a Marine Corps study on women in combat, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus reiterated during a speech Monday in Cleveland. Mabus expanded on his...

There is an embedded terror in the U.S., and it is not the boogie man or ISIS. It’s racism. Racism is often expressed through stereotypes, unsubstantiated judgments, discrimination and violence. Lately, racism has been portrayed by the very individuals sworn to protect the communities in this country, regardless of race, culture, sexual orientation or creed.

UN and Oxfam caught bribing media to write crusading climate stories By Ian Wishart News journalists are being bribed by the United Nations and the Oxfam charity to write scare stories about climate change ahead of the global climate treaty negotiations in Paris later this year. Details of the bribes – which take the form of ego-boosting “awards”, global travel in CO2 generating airliners and financial payments – are contained in a news release just published by the UNDP today, an organisation headed by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. Journalists’ codes of ethics prohibit being induced to give...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush huddled in secret with a handful of reporters as he’s slipping in the polls ahead of the next debate here on Wednesday evening, Breitbart News has learned. Bush met in private for an off-the-record meeting on Tuesday with RealClearPolitics’ Rebecca Berg, the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, Fox News’ John Roberts and CNN’s S.E. Cupp. A Republican political insider told Breitbart News: Two reporters complained to me today that their editors and producers forced them to attend an off the record pre-debate meeting with Jeb Bush, who is in single digits in all national and state...

The wheels haven't come off Hillary Rodham Clinton's bus quite yet, but they're getting wobblier. Hence the Joe Biden boomlet. As a columnist, never mind as a conservative, I think it's a fantastic idea. (A Biden vs. Trump debate would cause a national popcorn shortage.) But is Biden really the answer to the Democrats' problem? That depends. As with any malady, the right treatment hinges on the correct diagnosis. You don't recommend better diet and exercise for a shark bite. Biden is a treatment for one symptom, not the whole disease. The latest ABC/Washington Post poll numbers underscore the continuing...

Despite protests from Mesa County leaders, the Bureau of Land Management is rejecting calls to keep hundreds of trails on public lands from being closed off to use. BLM officials in Washington D.C. rejected all protests against the Grand Junction area Resource Management Plan in early August, but Mesa County commissioners said they didn’t receive a notice of refusal from the federal agency until last week. In the rejection letter, federal officials said the county's complaints were without merit, and the B.L.M workers tasked with researching and writing the updated rule book for the public lands usage have done their...

September 16, 2015 Yeb Bush’s New Video Takes Trump Out of Context in the Most “Progressive” Way by Big Fur Hat What a douche Bush is. He pulls a maneuver that the left loves to employ, the “half-sentence.”In his latest campaign video, titled “Bright” he has a clip of Trump saying, “The American dream is dead,” painting him as a dark, sinister pessimist.But in Trump’s announcement speech he said, “the American dream is dead, but I will bring it back.” The polar opposite of pessimistic.videoAlso, Bush uses file footage from England to describe his “American” dream. Not so “bright.”

A former Star Trek: Voyager actress has been arrested after allegedly exposing herself to two children. Jennifer Lien, 41, who played Kes in the first three seasons of the spin off show, was arrested at her home in Harriman, Tennessee, on September 3.

They may be man's best friend, but dogs have little to thank humans for it seems. Research suggests the domesticated pets can't solve problems as well as their wild cousins because living with us has made them 'incapable of thinking for themselves.' In tests, experts presented a 'puzzle box' containing food to a group of dogs, and a group of wolves and while the wolves were capable of breaking inside, the dogs looked to humans for help.

His name is Ali Khamenei, and he has a lot to say about Jews. With the return of Iran to the world scene, he will emerge as the symbol of hate like never before. At the height of negotiations with the Iranian regime over its nuclear program, Western advocates of a deal found themselves rationalizing the Islamic Republic’s uncompromising belligerence towards Israel. They did so as part of their bid to persuade a skeptical public that the mullahs would honor their agreements. Thus was born the “domestic consumption” theory of Iran’s internal politics, advanced by, among others, U.S. Secretary of...

The tests used by the military on the latest breed of stealth jet, which was declared to be 'ready for combat' this spring, have been called into question by the Pentagon. The F-35, which is one of the most highly anticipated advancements in military history has had more than its fair share of problems. Now according to a report seen by the Washington Post, a top weapons tester at the Pentagon has declared the testing exercise to be 'so flawed that it 'was not an operational test … in either a formal or informal sense of the term.' The report...

-snip- He (Zuckerberg ) also shared that it's been in the development stages for some time. The company previously decided against building the button -- despite complaints from users -- because it didn't want to evoke negative reactions. -snip-

New York's top cop has said the only reason a police officer told a Times Square desnuda to cover up her two-year-old daughter was because it was cold rather than any law she may have been breaking. NYPD Chief Bill Bratton told reporters that he was frustrated with the current situation at the Crossroads of the World that allows women to parade around topless in exchange for tips. “That’s the craziness of this issue of ‘artistic freedom’ when it goes to the extent of [the mother] — if in fact that was the mother — exploiting that young child for...

The Senate’s No. 2 Republican wants Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Clinton email controversy, as GOP lawmakers become increasingly skeptical that Obama administration appointees running the Justice Department will pursue the matter fairly. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general and Texas supreme court justice, asked Lynch in a Tuesday morning letter to appoint a special counsel. It could be a conflict of interest, Cornyn’s reasoning goes, for Clinton's former administration colleagues to escalate any investigation into her private email server. “The Attorney General has a special duty to pursue...

We now recognize the late Yasujiro Ozu as one of Japan’s finest film directors, but his early works are lost to history, victims of a time when cinema was seen as disposable entertainment and not an art form worth saving. Joseph Redon doesn’t want the same thing to happen to video games. “You wouldn’t classify opera as ‘old music.’ It’s classical music. Video games are the same. These titles are classics and should be valued as such. Even a lousy game hints at how the medium evolved so we must preserve everything, not just the best sellers.” A network engineer...

The Colorado Department of Corrections has notified the Colorado Springs Police Department of two sexually violent predators. Michael Anthony Trujillo also known as Michelle Trujillo and Jerrell Jamil Evans will be on supervised release and parole in Colorado Springs. ... Trujillo’s criminal history reveals that she was convicted in 2003 of Sexual Assault on a Child-Position of Trust-Attempted in El Paso County. Trujillo has also been convicted of Escape-2001, Attempted Escape-2006, 3rd Degree Assault-2009, Possession of Schedule II Controlled Substance-2009.

Western European vs. Eastern European Responses to Mass, Unvetted, Muslim Immigration Compassion vs. Intolerance? Don't believe the propaganda. September 15, 2015 Danusha V. Goska    Eastern Europeans are responding very differently to the mass migration of Muslims into Europe than are Western Europeans. Westerners who encourage mass, unvetted Muslim immigration insist that they are compassionate, tolerant, and ethical. They insist that Eastern Europeans and anyone else who resists immigration are bigots, xenophobes, without compassion and unethical, if not outright Neo-Nazis. Westerners are stereotyping Eastern Europeans as bigoted thugs whose opinions must be demonized, whose choices must be overruled, whose...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Character Studies From The Bible Esther 1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,[a] the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush[b]: 2 At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, 3 and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present. 4 For a full 180 days he displayed the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor...

Yellen May Surprise You Futures see 25% chance of ‘liftoff’ on Thursday;2-yr. yield hits 4-yr. high What if they threw an interest-rate hike and no one cooperated? The Federal Reserve has been edging tentatively toward the final step of monetary policy "normalization" for years. But events have conspired against it. In 2013, the mere mention that the Fed might slow additional bond buys sparked a worldwide market "taper tantrum." Ever since, despite broad consensus that the U.S. economy is on firm footing, one "one-time" event after another has cropped up to test that belief: the worst winter in decades, oil...