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Yesterday, in the close aftermath of the Isis bombing in Pakistan, Donald Trump made one of the more incredibly grandiose claims of this incredibly bizarre campaign season: that only he could solve the war with Isis. “I alone,” he boasted. In this regard, he is so much like the Obama of 2008 that it is downright scary. Almost eight years ago to the date, at a San Francisco fundraiser, Obama said, “…foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain.” After belittling Mrs....

I read Donald Trump's position paper on the Second Amendment yesterday. If you haven't seen it yet, here is a LINK. The most salient point he makes is right up front, where it should be: The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.   Here is a suggestion for the Trump Campaign... (if you dare). Do a remake of the William Shatner/Denny Crane mugging scene with Trump in the lead role, and a Yeb Bush lookalike in the secondary role. Tell me this wouldn't...

Speaking to Iowa public radio last week, Mrs. Clinton sought to lay the responsibility for her own irresponsibility on someone else. “I was permitted to and used a personal email..."Which, to me, immediately begs the question, "Who permitted this?"Clinton history is replete with partial answers followed by questions, followed by more half-truths, accusations and prevarications, wiggle-wording their way around the rabbit hole. It is a favored Clinton strategy which is often conjoined with coordinated attacks upon the accusers. The objective being, to run out the clock.To what end, though, the Presidency? Is American electoral math so screwed, skewed and unbalanced that all Mrs. Clinton has to do to...

Protesters in South Carolina have begun burning Confederate flags and defacing monuments as the debate as to whether or not the flag should fly over the state's capital intensifies in the wake of Wednesday's brutal massacre that saw nine people murdered because they were black. Dylann Roof has been charged with nine counts of murder after attending a Bible study class at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and then opening fire on those in attendance. It has been reported that when asked to stop during the brutal killings, Roof said; 'No, you've raped our women, and you are...

Al-Arabia reported that the Iranian Navy has confiscated the American trade vessel with all its 34 crew. Other reports said the vessel has been seized for trespassing on Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. An Iranian warship is now taking the American vessel to Iran’s Southern port city of Bandar Abbas in the Persian Gulf. Iranian officials have not confirmed the development yet, but Reuters said Pentagon officials have confirmed the report.

It is hardly a new concept. The very same Democrat Party used these tactics over 50 years ago in my home state of Mississippi. The primary enforcers of Party doctrine in those days was the Ku Klux Klan. The victims were Black Americans who wanted nothing more than to exercise their First Amendment rights, and to participate in the political process and vote. In turn, they were subjected to harassment, intimidation, and much, much worse. It didn’t end with a kumbaya moment of clarity on the part of the Democrats-In-Charge. No, it ended with the exposure of the criminal activity,...

GERMAN REPORT —HE WAS RADICALIZED! GERMAN CO-PILOT WAS MUSLIM CONVERT– — STAYED AT Bremen Mosque Police have reportedly found an “item of significance” at the apartment of the co-pilot who crashed the Germanwing passenger plane into the Alps this week. The item was NOT a suicide note. Andreas Lubitz 28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz trained in the Phoenix, Arizona and is pictured here in San Francisco. A German news website claims Andreas Lubitz was a Muslim convert. Speisa.com reported:

For the past two years, a team of Iranian hackers has compromised computers and networks belonging to over 50 organizations from 16 countries, including airlines, defense contractors, universities, military installations, hospitals, airports, telecommunications firms, government agencies, and energy and gas companies. The attacks have collectively been dubbed Operation Cleaver after a string found in various malware tools used by the hacker group, which is believed to operate primarily out of Tehran. "We discovered over 50 victims in our investigation, distributed around the globe," said researchers from IT security firm Cylance in an extensive report released Tuesday. "Ten of these victims...

If you want it, Craigslist probably has it. I enjoy scanning the various items for sale, others’ trash becoming still others’ treasures. But, this morning, I ran across this ad, just blew me away … Anybody need a kidney? Healthy Kidney/Young White Male – $25000 (MS)

Remember 2009? The Obama regime promised a miracle economic recovery if only Congress would pass their mammoth economic stimulus bill. Shovel-ready jobs. Green, renewable energy. Smart Policies. Yada, yada, yada. This occurred to me as I saw some of the new Democrat ads blaming the GOP for Ebola. “Cuts Kill,” or something. Some $80 BILLION in the stimulus package was devoted to green energy, much of which was directed to campaign donors and other friends of the regime. In short order, many of those same companies began to fail. As Ashe Schow notes: So far, 34 companies that were offered...

A grieving Bronx family is stunned that the teen accused of sucker-punching their father and husband is being charged with a misdemeanor that could result in the suspect doing less than a year in jail. Ildefonso Romero Jr. died days after a teenage boy allegedly sucker-punched him outside his home on Thieriot Avenue in Soundview on June 21. Witnesses said Romero had been protecting a girl from local teens who were apparently causing trouble in the street, and one of the teens punched Romero. Romero fell and hit his head on the curb, and his son found him unconscious on...

The LA Times is reporting that Eric Holder has formed a new task force to “combat an “escalating danger” from “homegrown” terrorists within the United States.” “Horrific terror incidents like the tragic shootings at Fort Hood and last year’s Boston Marathon bombing demonstrate the danger we face from these homegrown threats,” Holder’s task force, according to the Times, “is aimed at U.S. citizens or visitors radicalized via the Internet.” —- I’m sure the families of Ft Hood will be happy to know their loved ones were lost as an act of terror, and not “workplace violence.” Irony aside, this announcement...

The other shoe just dropped when it comes to how the federal government illegally spies on Americans. Last summer, the details of the NSA's "backdoor searches" were revealed. This involved big collections of content and metadata (so, no, not "just metadata" as meaningless as that phrase is) that were collected under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). This is part of the program that the infamous PRISM effort operates under, and which allows the NSA to collect all sorts of content, including communications to, from or about a "target" -- where a "target" can be incredibly loosely defined...

A Guest Post by Rodney Lee ConoverIt’s sickening to hear people – some I really respect – sounding so wrong about “the death” of the Tea Party and how badly they’re doing in the 2014 elections. Sure, the trolls keep repeating it, but even in Republican circles I’m still hearing how the Tea Party has completely lost all influence in American politics and people are buying into it. To that I can only ask: What are you, new? When someone talks about the Tea Party being dead, or that “the brand” is damaged, or however the libs have managed to...

Perhaps it was an echo of Obama's 2009 declaration to the GOP, "I won," or Stalin's observation that, "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." Tonight's runoff between Chris McDaniel and has left me a little discouraged, but more than just a little bit angry. I read a tweet from the NYT that history was made tonight when an elderly white Republican in Mississippi was bailed out by crossover votes from Black Democrats. Indeed, that is exactly what happenned. Cochran won by roughly 7,000 vote. Hinds county, which includes the capital city...

When I discovered how many ILLEGAL immigrants were flooding our border with Mexico and that they were primarily from Central American countries, I thought to myself..."now, wait a minute." My pause was directly attributed to my cynicism and my suspicions of the current criminal enterprise known as the Obama administration. I just knew this entire fiasco was a classic example of the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Of course I couldn't prove it, but one thing I learned from spending time on a farm was you didn't need to see the dead rat in a barn to know there was a dead rat...

In a recently completed study from Texas A&M University, President Barack Obama has been rated as the 5th best in history. “After only 5 years in office, Americans have rated President Obama the 5th best in history.”Here are the Results: 1) Reagan and Lincoln tied for first 2) Seventeen presidents tied for second 3)Twenty-three other presidents tied for third 4) Jimmy Carty came in 4th 5) Obama was fifth Heh. gig'em!

In 1921, advertising executive Fred R. Barnard originated the phrase, “One Look Is Worth a Thousand Words”, which has evolved over the years to become “A picture is Worth a thousand words.” Perfectly illustrated here, don’t you think? (click to enlarge) I’ve been tinkering around with new nick-names for the gun-grabbing crowd, and narrowed it down to 2: 1) Deniers - turning their own Gore-bull warming tactics on them. and, 2) Infringers – as in, “What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ don’t you get? I like ‘em both. what do y’all think?

JACKSON, Miss. —Doctors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center said they have cured a baby suffering from HIV and the breakthrough is reverberating worldwide. Related Woman says ex kidnapped her 18-wheeler overturns off of I-20 3 arrested in Jackson drug bust Grenade launcher found during drug bust Fire hydrant testing begins in West... "There is excitement around this," said Dr. Deborah Persaud of John's Hopkins Children's Center. Doctors across the country are heralding the medical breakthrough in Jackson. "We have, perhaps inadvertently, but in fact, cured the child," said Dr. Hannah Gay, associate professor of pediatrics. "We don't know...