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Please advise. How all of a sudden this became a big issue again? I mean, this issue literally came out of nowhere. In fact, I didn't hear anything about it until Trump's press conference today. Was it another Clinton distraction, that ended up failing miserably?

The Indians themselves are hamstrung by higher energy costs. And it is energy that powers economic growth, not mounds of governmental regulations Blocking the nation’s best interest by manipulating minority populations is a progressive tactic. LGBT, BlackLivesMatter and, unfortunately, tribal members are finding themselves at the center of media storms engineered by the media. Political correctness (i.e. cowardice) has fueled the mob takeover of free enterprise, essentially shutting it down in favor of poverty and government dependence, otherwise known as bondage.

Since 'safe spaces' have been up and running, some critics have deemed them to be a convenient excuse for the extension of political correctness They live in a country whose Liberal Government only last week made calling ISIS Daesh official, but some students at Mount Royal University in Calgary are afraid of a baseball cap bearing the words “Make America Great Again”. Just wearing the cap somehow threatens “safe spaces” so a female student claiming that the cap’s message stands for “hate language” loudly insisted in a sustained confrontation with a male cap-wearing student that he “must” take it off.

Doctor Strangelove, meet Hillary I quit ten years ago, and don’t want to do it anymore, but I used to optimize and promote websites. It fell upon me eventually to use my skills on porn sites—websites offering various kinds of pornography. This included work for such luminaries as Mistress Agony, Captain Wanky, The All Thai Girly Boy Blews Band, and many colorful others. I had also worked on Plus Size lingerie and costumes sites, for beautiful, larger women.

Media is panicking because they're well aware that their queen has a political glass jaw Dan’s already done a fine job of explaining why the media is suddenly so obsessed with Donald Trump’s “birther” status. I won’t rehash that here. All I’ll do is point out the fact that, like most of their efforts to prop up their failing queen, the birther angle is going to blow up in their collective face. That’s because “Birtherism” can be traced directly to Hillary Clinton’s own 2008 campaign.

HOLIDAY, Fla. — Donald Trump’s prospects for winning the White House will probably rise or fall among the strip malls and 1,000-square-foot ranch homes of southwest Pasco County. In this working-class suburb of Tampa Bay, finding people enthusiastically supporting Hillary Clinton is tough. Finding people enthusiastically supporting Trump is less difficult. Finding people fed up with the status quo is a piece of cake. “It’s not that I like Trump that much, it’s that I dislike Hillary so much. I don’t think [Barack] Obama did anything for us, and I see it continuing with Hillary. At least with Trump, there’s...

In a show of joint defiance, the major television networks collectively voted to pull a camera and erase video of Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of the campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour. According to members of the traveling press pool, after it was made clear that only still photographers and video cameras would be allowed on the pool, the Washington bureau chiefs of the various television networks convened an emergency conference call and agreed to pull the network camera and erase the footage of the tour. "The pool rules state any event...

A pro-immigration enforcement group is calling on Congress to block President Barack Obama's latest effort to bring more Islamic refugees into the United States. Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, says Obama's own security people have admitted there is no way to vet the refugees for affiliation to radical Islamic groups such as ISIS. Yet the administration has announced it's raising the number of refugees that will be permitted into the U.S. to 110,000 during the coming fiscal year, which begins October 1. That's a 30-percent increase from the 85,000 permitted during the current year.

A freeper on freerepublic, publius911, suggested this image.  I needed to learn a bit about Gimp (the open source image processer), so I created it for practice. Have fun, Publius911!

Hillary, the inevitable liar.

Apache’s recent oil find highlights what could be a new phase in fracking. To date, fracking in the U.S. had really been all about taking explored basins and drilling new wells to get at previously untapped resources. That strategy worked well when oil prices were more than $80 a barrel. At today’s prices though, drilling the old style rigs in mostly depleted fields to get at residual layers of black gold is a money losing strategy. Apache’s find shows that money can be made by taking risks and looking for major new finds in areas that had been passed over...

In an interview with Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton admits that she is against gay marriage in New York, and explains why she supported the war in Iraq. What DOES she actually stand for?

The Constitution of the United States - Broken down into its sentences and proofread. Several years ago, I posted the Declaration of Independence broken down into its sentences and proofread. (Jefferson, for all his praises and faults, was a great writer, and little proofreading was needed.) Earlier this year, I posted George WashingtonÂ’s Rules of Civility broken down into its sentences and proofread. Washington copied these from a book written earlier by someone else, and it required a lot of proofreading. Grammar of 270 years ago had capital letters in words in different parts of a sentence, at random it...

So It wasn't actually Hillary in 2008 that started the birther controversy, but Obama himself in 1991 that started it all. this was published by his literary agent in 1991, but why would someone born in America even try to claim that he was born in Africa? Three Words: " Coming to America " The film released in 1989 started the "Cultural Meme" of the "Exotic African coming to America and doing great things". Obama simply lied about himself and his origins for his own personal selfish reasons. Why just claim to be a run of the mill American who...

For a while there, the polls were all wrong because they said Donald Trump was losing. But now the polls are saying that Trump and Clinton are fleshy, wrinkled neck and fleshy, wrinkled neck. Now we can all start trusting the polls again. Whew! I don’t want to say Hillary is panicking, because who knows if she’s even conscious right now. But it sounds like her campaign is trying to regain the lead by bringing in some star power. Somebody the American people cherish. Somebody like President of the Environment Al Gore.

Ockham’s razor is a problem solving formula the holds, “Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” This simple principle is very often pushed aside by self-important, “deep thinkers” who make a living making things seem complicated and therefore insoluble except for those with “expert” knowledge. The famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen showed us the value of Ockham’s razor in his short story; “The Emperor's New Clothes." In this tale two weavers promise their emperor “a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent.” When...

Where and How to Hunt for Bucks as Seasons Get Cranking in September With several deer hunting seasons in full swing in California, options are many for hunters, assuming one will fit our personal needs. Not many of us own or have access to a 20,000-acre ranch in the B Zone (most of the North Coast from the border to the Bay Area) that is crawling with deer, hogs, coyotes, cats, game birds and snakes. Option two is to join an established annual dues hunting club that offers access to hunts behind locked gates (reservations for all hunts required). You...

Nine years ago, a driver lost control of his pickup truck and crashed into the Confederate monument on the front lawn of the Franklin County Courthouse, decapitating the marble soldier. Some locals who found the monument offensive said they were glad to see it go, but there was never much doubt that once the money was raised, the soldier would be back. The rededication ceremony in 2010 drew a crowd of about 500 people—women wore hoop skirts and men donned the gray uniforms of Confederate soldiers. “We’re very proud of it,” says Linda Stanley, managing director of the Franklin County...

I’m reading David McCullough’s biography of Truman. After firing MacArthur the shit hits the fan in Washington. To boost spirits at the White House someone pens a mock schedule for welcoming the General back to Washington. 12:30 Wades ashore from Snorkel submarine12:31 Navy band plays “Sparrow in the Treetop” and “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You”12:40 Parade to the Capitol with General MacArthur riding an elephant12:47 Be-heading of General Vaughan at the rotunda1:00 General MacArthur addresses Members of Congress1:30-1:49 Applause for General MacArthur1:50 Burning of the Constitution1:55 Lynching of Secretary Acheson2:00 21-atomic bomb salute2:30 300 nude D.A.R.s...

“Mrs. Obama’s steps into the campaign spotlight underscore her transformation from a once-reluctant political spouse into a confident public figure… But this week, Mrs. Obama will wade into the campaign fray on behalf of Hillary Clinton, putting her broad popularityand reputation for authenticityto work for a candidate who has suffered from a lack of both.”  NYT “Obama has created a valuable brand for herself since she moved into the White House, nurtured all these years by being very judicious in her choice of public events and interviews.” - Chicago Sun Times Here’s Lady M’s most recent, judicious choice of public...