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What the hell is wrong with these people? Right in front of her kid too

Every country should pay its sovereign debt. Default, we are told, is not an option. But has anyone told China? The United States pays interest on approximately $850 billion in debt held by the People’s Republic of China. China, however, is currently in default on its sovereign debt held by American bondholders. Successive U.S. administrations have chosen to sidestep this fact, allowing business and trade with China to proceed as normal. Now that the relationship with China has soured and the People’s Republic of China has become the greatest adversarial threat to the U.S. and Western security, policymakers should revisit...

Michelle Obama joked Saturday night about the public relations hits she took during the 2008 campaign, telling an audience in New Orleans of her path to the White House, “I don’t remember how many punches we took to get there.” “For a minute there, I was an angry black woman who was emasculating her husband,” Obama said, laughing during an interview with “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King at the Essence Festival. “As I got more popular, that’s when people of all sides — Democrats and Republicans — tried to take me out by the knees,” she said. “And the...

HEPHZIBAH, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- A woman is in custody after a school principal says she walked into the school and made threats of violence against one of the staff. The incident happened on March 20th at Spirit Middle School, in Hephzibah. The principal there says 44-year-old Vontrice Lashawn Walker walked into the building and approached a sixth-grade teacher. "That's why parents come up here and give ya'll something to be worried about," Walker, a mother at the school, said to the teacher. Walker went on to say "that's why teachers get shot messing with people children." Another parent a the...

The National Abortion Federation (NAF) holds itself up as the gold standard of providers of so-called “safe, legal, and accessible abortion care.” But when the notorious Kermit Gosnell—currently on trial for murder in Philadelphia, in case you haven’t heard—unsuccessfully applied to become an NAF member in late 2009, the evaluator who visited his facility said it was the worst one she had ever seen, yet she never reported the horrific conditions in Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” to authorities. It’s also worth noting that Gosnell worked one day a week at Delaware Atlantic Women’s Medical Services, which was an NAF-certified clinic...