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Internet data mining expert Clif High says the “naked data” on the Internet shows Trump winning the 2016 Presidential election by a “landslide.” High explains, “You can do a search on YouTube that brings back a list of primary speeches by both candidates. I am not talking about Fred Smith’s copy of a video he made of Trump. I am talking about a speech took officially of Trump, and they released it officially. If you take just those, you can see you’ve got Hillary Clinton on one side with 2,165 views, and Trump on the other side with 775,653 views....

Anthony Weiner has officially checked into rehab, according to reports on Nov. 2. The disgraced politician is now receiving treatment for cybersex addiction during his ongoing investigation after getting caught allegedly sexting a minor. Here’s the scoop! This sounds like a good idea to us. Anthony Weiner, 52, is being investigated for sexting a teenager, and he’s allegedly decided that now is a good time to check himself into rehab to address his cybersex addiction, according to the NYPost. The treatment center forbids the use of electronic devices, which will hopefully stop him from getting involved in any more scandals,...

Hillary Downgrades Huma Abedin From "Trusted Aide" To "Staffer" Tony Katz Explains How & Why Hillary Clinton Threw Huma Abedin Under the Bus For Her Direct Involvement in Reopened FBI Investigation Tony Katz and The Morning News Nov. 01, 2016 Hillary Clinton is in a fight for her life. The polling is tightening up, at least one key Democratic pollster is reassessing his support, and the FBI has reopened their investigation into her email server after discovering 650,000 "potentially relevant" emails on the computer of Anthony Weiner, husband of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin. On Monday, Clinton appeared to demote...

I'll bet you're growing tired of the ongoing cancer that is the Hillary Clinton campaign of corruption, cover-ups and criminality. Fear not. I've got something you may not have heard before. I hadn't heard of it until an hour or so ago. It's a technical acronym, related to Internet email, that most lay people wouldn't quite grok. The inimitable Karl Denninger offers us the single, critical tidbit of data that makes all the difference. It relates to a statement that tech billionaire Mark Cuban made on CNBC: This "newly discovered" laptop is very likely to be literal nuclear waste for...

Regular readers of this blog, our parent publication and pretty much any other outlet covering the advertising industry could be forgiven for thinking that it doubles as a left-of-center political advocacy group. No, really: How many agencies have either directly or indirectly run some kind of anti-Trump ad or stunt over the past year-plus? A whole hell of a lot of them. 180LA and Saatchi & Saatchi referenced The Donald in ads for 360fly and Tecate, respectively, while everyone from GS&P to a group of young, anonymous creatives has registered their disapproval of the Republican nominee via some kind of...

The FBI, NSA, CIA or any others paid to protect America’s national security never had to go far to find Mata Hari Huma The inquisitive keep asking: “What’s wrong with Hillary Clinton’s face?” It’s not the latest mysterious gash on her cheek, or her signature smarmy smile that should be sending chills down the spine of the Western World. It’s that Hillary’s face is above all else, at least since her days as First Lady, the chosen front for Saudi Arabia, via their plant Huma Abedin. It’s not that the face of Huma Abedin is the one that appeared in...

The bookies' odds now give Trump a better chance than the polls and an analysis of the electoral college would suggest he has despite his improving numbers Donald Trump’s odds of winning the US Presidential election have halved - but he still remains a long shot to walk into the Oval Office. The revelation that the FBI has reopened its investigation into his Democratic opponent Hilary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while Secretary of State is the latest scandal to impact upon the race. Share     While Trump had been trading at around 5-1 when...

Working for the weekend. Things are moving quickly, and that includes working over the weekend in the newly re-opened probe of Hillary’s schlock, homebrew e-mail server. The FBI told NBC on Sunday evening that while the rest of us were watching football, it was getting a search warrant to do another deep dive into you-know-what: The warrant came two days after FBI director James Comey revealed the existence of the emails, which law-enforcement sources said were linked to Weiner’s estranged wife, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Target of international and internal blackmail in the White House When people have secrets, they can be manipulated. Intimidated. Extorted. Blackmailed. The more we learn about Hillary Clinton, her emails, and the Clinton Foundation, the more we realize she is hiding a lot. With the recent Anthony Weiner revelation that has encouraged the FBI to reexamine the Clinton email scandal, we must realize that the very fact that Hillary Clinton has so much to hide makes her a national security risk should she attain a new position of power. . . especially if she becomes President of the United States....

In a last-ditch effort, the FBI will now comb through 650,000 emails found on Anthony Weiner’s computer during a sexting probe to look for a batch that might be linked to Hillary Clinton’s private email server. And in a head-scratching twist, reports Sunday said FBI agents learned of the emails on a computer belonging to Weiner — the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin — in early October but did not brief FBI Director James Comey until late last week. That chronology raises questions about his role in potentially upending the already chaotic presidential race. The 11th-hour reopening...

In March of last year, Hillary Clinton ally Brent Budowsky expressed concerns about foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and other matters. His alleged email to Clinton campaign chief John Podesta was entitled, “Warning to Hillary.” Budowsky blogs for The Hill, the LA Progressive, and The Huffington Post: “It was not uplifting to learn in recent hours that problems with foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation continue, Hillary Clinton was still making paid speeches for hire this week, and Tony Rodham is hustling gold mining deals in Haiti. From the minute the email story broke I have been out there...

FBI Director James Comey had no choice. Again. Only this time, direction came from the American people, a very nervous and talkative Anthony Weiner, and the irresponsible actions of his number two, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. My law enforcement experience tells me one thing above all else. For the FBI to reopen a case of this magnitude 11 days before Election Day, and influence what might be the most polarizing and vitriolic campaign in American history, the weight of this new evidence has to be crushing for Hillary Clinton and her staff. Sadly, Americans have come to expect nepotism...

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FBI Director James Comey's decision to notify Congressional leaders of the reopening of the Hillary Clinton email investigation is a huge story and could prove to be the October surprise folks have been wondering about. Of course, it might turn out to be something that fizzles out or it could even be overshadowed by another Donald Trump outrage. But for now, the substance and the timing could not possibly be worse for the person who has been deemed the "inevitable next President". This story is a very big deal for several reasons. First, it changes the conversation with a little...

This week FBI Director James Comey announced it might have to revisit the criminal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails. "In the course of our investigation on another case we came across a device that held emails pertinent to our earlier probe of Secretary Clinton," Comey said in his letter to Congress. Coming on the heels of recent Wikileaks revelations of stunning examples of corruption and obstruction of justice in emails hacked from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta's computer, as well as Project Veritas' videos implication the Clinton campaign in dirty tricks and election fraud, the...

"Conflicted." That's the word political scientist Helmut Norpoth used to describe his current lot in life, one that finds his professional credibility intertwined with a politician who appears to have less and less of it: Donald J. Trump. With mind-boggling confidence, Norpoth's "Primary Model," his heretofore successful election forecast system, projects Trump to win the presidential election in less than two weeks. The model puts the odds of this above 87 percent. And despite a blizzard of public polls to the contrary, Norpoth isn't hedging his bet. Instead, with invocations of "Dewey Beats Truman," he's calling into question the consensus...

Donald Trump is viewed by many as a figure of fun, a racist, and a misogynist. His polls are way down, and at this point it looks like he has no chance of winning the election. Two weeks ago, Microsoft’s Bing gave Hillary Clinton an 87 percent chance of winning (although this has since dropped to 82 percent). However, an AI system is predicting a completely different result -- that Trump will prevail, and become the next president of the United States. What makes its forecast even more interesting is it has correctly identified the outcome of the last three...

Wisconsin reached over 300,000 active concealed carry weapon permits in 2016.  The number of permits issued reached 300,000 by the end of March, but the number of active permits is a bit behind the number of permits issued.  People die.  People move. People forget to renew their permit. I obtained information on the number of active permits from the Wisconsin Department of Justice.  As of 1 January, 2016, there were 276,011 active permits. Three months later, as of 1 July, 2016, the number of active permits was at 305,463. 92.5% of all applications received in the first six months...