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King Salman of Saudi Arabia has pulled off in Mecca what many had thought unlikely -- getting 20 or so disparate Arab nations to unite in a common position against Iran. ... In middle-of-night, back-to-back summits at Islam's holiest of sites, the aging but still-attentive Saudi monarch got a double endorsement of his claims that Iran is destabilizing the Middle East and a backing of his call for "the international community to shoulder its responsibility. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and 21 Arab League nations present called for Iran to stop "interfering in the internal affairs" of its neighbors and...

Over a year ago I asked whether U.S. Atty. Peter Huber could impartially and fully investigate FISA court abuses and other matters in which his boss Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was up to his eyeballs, “Can Huber Investigate His Boss Rosenstein?”, in which I asked: While it is reassuring to note that A.G. Jeff Sessions has climbed down from the back side of the milk carton, where his missing visage had been hiding, long enough to appoint Utah U.S. attorney Peter Huber to independently investigate claims of FBI abuses in surveilling the Trump campaign and other matters, one question remains....

Today’s Cryptogram E RGIC TN HIAIS VTHTNBIY, GHFQ EKEHYGHIY. ---REJF AEFISQ Today’s CG is courtesy of the Arkansas Gazette. You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might give the group...

Syrian government forces have captured a village deep within the last rebel stronghold in the northwest province of Idlib, after intense clashes with militants. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said on Monday that the troops had reached the village of Qassaibyeh. The pro-government Syrian Central Military Media also confirmed that Syrian troops have captured the village. Human rights and war monitor groups say the government campaign to retake Idlib over the past month, supported by airstrikes, has killed dozens of civilians. The area is overcrowded with refugees and displaced persons from the war.

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Meanwhile, in news that actually matters to Americans… – While everyone else is focused on President Donald Trump’s first state visit to the future Islamic Republic of England, paying tribute to a monarchy that is doomed to fall within a generation, I thought I’d focus on something of actual substance. If you perused the Drudge Report this morning – which I still do despite his lurch off into leftist paranoia over the past year – you would find the following links at the right side of the landing page: PLANET TECH ROCKED:...

The Daily Beast recently doxed a black forklift driver and reported Trump supporter for the alleged high crime of creating a parody video of Democrat speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi. But there’s more to the story — it appears Facebook may have helped the left-wing journalists identify him. The Daily Beast identified the video creator as Shawn Brooks, whom they described as a forklift driver and Trump supporter from the Bronx. A Twitter account claiming to be Brooks disputed key details of the story, claiming he is not a Trump supporter, did not create the parody video, and does...

Calling the CBS News interview with AG Barr a bombshell doesn’t do it justice. The interview is chock-full of one explosive comment after another about special counsel Robert Mueller, the media and Barr’s own investigation of the investigators: <><>“So it was bogus, this whole idea that Trump was in cahoots with the Russians is bogus.” <><>“It’s hard to read some of the [FBI] texts and not feel that there was gross bias at work, and they’re appalling.” <><>“The use of foreign-intelligence capabilities and counterintelligence capabilities against an American political campaign to me is unprecedented and it’s a serious red line...

A series of small earthquakes has been rattling nerves in the Inland Empire in recent days, including two measuring 3.3 and 3.4 that struck Sunday afternoon. The latest quake was a 3.3 that hit at 4:36 p.m. in the Glen Avon-Fontana area of Riverside County, followed by a 2.6 and a 2.7 in the same area less than an hour later, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Earlier in the afternoon, a 3.4 magnitude quake was recorded just north of Nuevo, a community near Perris in Riverside County less than 30 miles away from Glen Avon. Both the Nuevo and...

IT'S simply not enough for billionaires to have everything they've ever wanted – they need eternity to enjoy it, too. At least a dozen of the world's richest men have ploughed millions into bizarre ways to live forever. Here are five of the weirdest. 1) Cure for ageing A number of billionaires are putting their cash to good use by trying to find a "cure" for ageing. They include Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, who has pumped money into Unity, a California company that hopes to stop the ageing process. It's already raised over $116 million in funding and...

Mall-based retailers reported dismal earnings last week, reminding investors of the sector’s fundamental problems Retailers’ earnings season has gone from bad to worse. The bleeding intensified last week, with shares of Abercrombie & Fitch plummeting 26% on Wednesday, the biggest percentage decline since the company went public. PVH Corp., owner of brands including Van Heusen, Tommy Hilfilger, and Calvin Klein, dropped 10% that day, too. On Thursday, women’s wear chain J.Jill was down a jaw-dropping 53% and on Friday, Gap Inc. slid 9%. It is hard to miss what all of these retailers have in common: They are mall-based. While...

Buddhist monk has been on hunger strike calling for their heads, following allegations linking them to Easter terror suspects Two Muslim Governors in Sri Lanka stepped down on Monday, days after a Buddhist monk began a hunger strike demanding that they resign, following allegations linking them to Easter terror suspects. “President Maithripala Sirisena accepted the resignation letters of Governors Azath Salley and M.L.A. M. Hizbullah just a while ago,” the Presidential Media Division said in a tweet Monday afternoon. Mr. Salley and Mr. Hisbullah were Governors of the Western and Eastern Provinces, respectively. The monk, Athuraliye Rathana Thero, is a...

I find this totally fascinating, though not completely unexpected. When a random sample of American adults were asked the question “Just a rough guess, what percent profit on each dollar of sales do you think the average company makes after taxes?” for the Reason-Rupe poll in May 2013, the average response was 36%! That response was very close to historical results from the polling organization ORC’s polls for a slightly different, but related question: What percent profit on each dollar of sales do you think the average manufacturer makes after taxes? Responses to that question in 9 different polls between...

Pres Trump bashed London Mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him a “stone cold loser” saying Khan’s been “foolishly nasty” to him. Trump ramped up the vitriol before landing for his three-day state visit. “@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly ‘nasty’ to the visiting US President, by far the most important ally of the UK,” Trump tweeted. “He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.” Trump took another dig at presidential longshot Mayor de Blasio. “Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb...

Socialist Hucksters (To the tune of “Officer Krupke”) Trump: Dear kindly Special Counsel You gotta understand It's just a phony dossier That got this out of hand The FBI were flunkies The Democrats are skunks Golly Moses, that’s why I got punked Gee, Counselor Mueller, I’m very upset I never got the rights that those accused are supposed to get I ain’t no colluder, And I’ve understood The Deep State has been up to no good They’re no good They’re no good, they’re no good They’re no earthly good We all know the Deep State is no good Mueller: (Spoken)...

As a former long-time journalist, I like to sometimes write a straight news story based on the actual news and not leftist agitprop. If straightforward, honest, non-pack journalists were covering last week’s surprise press conference by Robert Mueller, this is how a news story might read. Surprise Mueller Statement Questions Universal Presumption Of Innocence (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III broke from long-standing judicial tradition in the United States Wednesday when he laid out two tiers of jurisprudence when it comes to a basic presumption of innocence. In a hastily called press conference announced just 90 minutes before...

A Fox News town hall with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) went south on Sunday when the presidential hopeful started attacking the network over its abortion coverage.Her rant against Fox began after a former pediatric nurse asked about her position on late-term abortions. Instead of offering a response to the question, Gillibrand blamed Fox for talking about the “red herring” of infanticide, devoting more than six hours to covering the abortion debate."What we have created, unfortunately, is a false choice and a false narrative," she said. "And Chris, I want to talk about the role that Fox News plays in this because...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) took aim at the National Rifle Association on Sunday during her town hall on Fox News. She set herself up to be this strong proponent of gun control laws and legislation. In fact, she criticized the NRA and made a number of false statements about the pro-gun group. She also seemed to forget that before she ran for the Senate, she wrote a letter to the NRA, praising the group for their work to protect the Second Amendment. In that letter, she said she wanted to work with the pro-Second Amendment organization. Suddenly she's doing a...