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Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has been killed, the country’s president Guillermo Lasso has said, vowing the “crime will not go unpunished”. Local media had earlier reported Villavicencio, a former lawmaker who had been polling at 7.5%, had been shot at a campaign event in Quito.

So all the phones now have the precursor to COVID19 contact tracing. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3352270954783570&set=a.342104039133625

LD22 PC Karen Thomas has updated her Judges 2016 report. I'll add that I have been impressed with the fairness of Paul McMurdie on family court issues. We previously published Karen's recommendations in 2014 here.

I have been thinking about the election and some of my experiences which have helped me make the correct selection. As most of my friends that were in the AF will recall, we were public servants and as such we had Integrity First, Service before self, and Excellence in all we do. I think those are still core values to this day. About those and the candidates. Integrity - HRC has not demonstrated this value to me at all. DT is kinda an unknown, but by all accounts cannot be worse. If you wanna call it a tie, be my...

The Arizona Border Recon - made up of veterans former private security officers - guard the US-Mexico border They stop illegal immigrants, drug smuggling and human trafficking while providing intelligence to border agents Photographs were captured by Johnny Milano, who followed the men as they patrolled near the town of Nogales

WASHINGTON — A rare gap in the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf this fall could hinder military capabilities in the war against the Islamic State, the Obama administration’s nominee to lead the Navy told the Senate Thursday. Adm. John Richardson conceded the effects of a two-month gap in carrier presence — the first since 2007 — under intense questioning from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as the Senate Armed Services Committee weighs whether approve the admiral’s nomination as chief of naval operations. “Without that carrier, that will be a detriment to our capability, yes, sir,” Richardson...

Change of venue for the Trump visit tomorrow in PH. You must register for free tickets at site listed above.

The King’s Peach Let me be clear, the notion that I am not is unfounded. Some may say that you folks are not American. We will appeal it. It is a problem that I inherited and the change won’t be easy. But I won and so there will be setbacks and false starts. Vacations and Golfing. Make no mistake, it won’t happen overnight. Until we can correct the situation, I have issued an Executive Order allowing me to apologize for my country. Oops. My bad.

Buckeye is more than 2,000 miles from Washington, D.C., but this week, Arizonans will have the opportunity to visit a war memorial from our nation's capital a little bit closer to home. ...The wall opens at noon to the public and there will be an evening ceremony with guest speaker Sarah Palin at 6 p.m....

This amazing video shows a council member leaving the meeting because of an armed citizen. Draws praise from the sitting coucil chair. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKpLhNiC8zg

I have recently been intrigued by the controversy over Obama's SSS registation. While there are a lot of questions, it is the only real document that we have to work with that has been released. I think a lot of the questions could be resolved (or more created) if we could actually compare his released document with some others. For the life of me I cannot find any others on the internet from the same period. I recently wrote the source of Debbies article (link in my comment) with the following; Stephen; I recently explored your article shared on Debbie...

I have recently been intrigued by the controversy over Obama's SSS registation. While there are a lot of questions, it is the only real document that we have to work with that has been released. I think a lot of the questions could be resolved (or more created) if we could actually compare his released document with some others. For the life of me I cannot find any others on the internet from the same period. I recently wrote the source of Debbies article (link in my comment) with the following; Stephen; I recently explored your article shared on Debbie...

Despite last week’s media blitz promoting tougher ethics enforcement, a group of freshmen Congressmen failed their first practical test Tuesday night, when they refused to reprimand one of their colleagues for an apparent ethics violation. In fact, those freshmen wouldn't even allow a debate to occur on the House floor, killing a privileged resolution before it could be considered by the full House. On May 16, Democrat lawmakers held a news conference in Washington, DC, where more than two dozen freshmen announced a push for stronger ethics enforcement. The members followed up that event with local media, garnering widespread attention...

... The stripping away of meaning from ordinary words is crucial to the triumph of political correctness -- and counteracting this tactic crucial to its defeat. Thus, I want to begin today with what will be a continuing project: publishing the Dictionary of Political Correctness, so that when readers see or hear a fishy phrase, they'll be clued in to what's actually going on. Here are the first few entries in the Dictionary: Diversity - Diversity is an outcome that (1) can't be defended on its own merit and (2) therefore has to be glommed together with a bunch of...

Last Wednesday, President Bush gave his address to the country about “the new way forward” for Iraq, and lots of journalists—including me, of course—were in Washington to cover it. But before the Big Speech, there was the little-known Big Meeting.

January 11, 2007 Report: Nuclear Explosion in Iran A major explosion is being reported in the Iranian desert. It said to be a nuclear explosion. In the general area of one of Iran's nuclear testing sitees. The alternative theory is that a UFO crashed. That is what one Iranian blogger is reporting, anyway. Anti-Mullah: Reports emanating from Iran on Wednesday indicate a huge explosion - reportedly NUCLEAR - from the Kerman area at the edge of the Kavir Lut (major desert). I waited to get confirmation of the event that was felt a 100 kilometers away but apart from on...

Florida Republican Mark Foley's sexually explicit emails to a Congressional page certainly warranted his resignation from the House, and they may well merit prosecution. But this being five weeks from an election, the GOP House leadership is also being assailed for not having come down more strongly on a gay Congressman for showing a more than friendly interest in underage boys. That's a different issue altogether.

Simple Bush hatred? Certainly it is an element. An East Coast, effete liberalism that considers legal governmental oversight as dangerous, and maybe more so than al Qaeda? Absolutely. Latent, reflexive anti-Americanism? Yes. But at root, it is a hubris that somehow, the job of the press to report information is on an equal footing with the obligation of government to protect us from our enemies. Which brings me to a telling installment of the great PBS series, Ethics in America, as recounted by Jack Dunphy: Nowhere was this mindset more vividly displayed than in a 1987 installment of the series...

Perhaps this will finally put this sad chapter to bed once and for all. I, through some old connections, have managed to come up with the unaltered DD214 of Jesse MacBeth. This isn't a joke or some funny little photoshop gig. It is the actual, real DD214 of one Jesse Adam Macbeth.

Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims. "This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis." Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear...