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Good Morning on this Tuesday September 11th, 2018, the 17th anniversary of the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the United States. In northern Syria 10-thousand or more Al-Qaeda fighters, thousands of Islamic State forces and other opponents of the regime of Syria's President Bashar Assad are under air and artillery attack ahead of a ground offensive. But the United States, United Kingdom and France are raising an alarm as the military action gets underway..... North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un wants another summit meeting with President Trump.... President Trump urging residents of the east coast to stay safe as Hurricane Florence...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia has "conclusive evidence" that militants in Syria are preparing chemical weapons incidents to blame on Syrian authorities. Putin spoke at a news conference after a summit meeting with Iranian and Turkish leaders... Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his concern about the humanitarian situation in the event of a Syrian government military offensive in the north..... The Civil War in Syria began in 2011 with street demonstrations that turned violent. In Iraq violent street demonstrations in the main southern city of Basra have led to a curfew... For the third Friday in a row,...

Israel supported opposition military forces in Syria. That story's been published by "Foreign Policy" magazine.... At a February news conference President Trump said that the only reason the United States was in Syria was because of Islamic State.... But the US envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey now says the United States is in Syria because of Islamic State and because of Iranian presence..... Russian Aerospace Forces (Air Force) launched at least seven airstikes in the northern region where the Syrian government offensive is expected..... A key meeting is underway today in Tehran, Iran. Its a summit between the leaders of...

A meeting at the UN Security Council today will discuss the nerve agent incidents in the Salisbury region of England earlier this year that killed one and sickened three others. The UN Security Council will discuss Syria on Friday..... The United States is chairing the Security Council this month and Nikki Haley has already chaired a meeting on the crackdown against opposition protesters by the government of Nicaragua.... "TREASON?" President Trump tweeted last evening in response to an anonymous op-ed piece in the "New York Times" said to be from a top Administration official.... In Sweden, the final poll from...

Russian and Syrian aircraft attacked opposition targets in northern Syria Tuesday with a ground offensive anticipated in the region in coming days. Behind the Syrian government lines in northern Syria there was an Israeli air attack with Syria saying five missiles were intercepted by air defenses.... The British have just rolled out pictures of two Russians they claim were involved in the nerve agent incident.... Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore on the Gulf Coast last night near the Alabama-Mississippi border with gusty winds and heavy rains..... A big hurricane is building up in the Atlantic Ocean... At least 10 are...

I just added items #1,367 through #1,375 to my list of Obama’s lies, lawbreaking, corruption, hypocrisy, etc. The complete list can be found at https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/Here are the new entries:1,367) Chicago community organizers accused Chicago community organizer Obama of not practicing what he preachesBefore Obama ran for political office, he was a community organizer in Chicago.Later, as an ex-President, he was planning to build his presidential library in Chicago.However, the city’s other community organizers accused Obama of not practicing what he preaches.In November 2017, the Washington Post reported:In what local pundits are calling the irony of ironies, Obama — who cut his...

If the biggest racism problem in the U.S. is whites being racist against blacks, then how come the rate of “whites killed by blacks” is more than 12 times the rate of “blacks killed by whites”? As I’ve pointed out many times before, the Black Lives Matter protestors don’t care about the 93% of black murder victims who are killed by other blacks.Here’s a webpage from the FBI that gives even more info.Someone took the info from that FBI link and created this chart. Please note that all of the numbers are per capita based on the murderer’s race. (I don’t...

Today's hearing for sentencing of Todd Engel after his conviction last year in a rigged trial, the first Bunkerville Standoff trial, resulted in a jail sentence. In the end Engel was given a 14-year sentence by US District Judge Gloria Navarro, even though his trial involved the rigged process of evidence proving his innocence being kept from judge and jury during his first trial. The courtroom was filled with government law enforcement and supporters of Todd Engel with federal law enforcement reported to be playing the role of "victims" of the 2014 Bunkerville Standoff. Link below to Andrea Parker video...

BY FAR THE greatest critique of the K98k is its rate of fire. As with any other bolt-action, soldiers could only fire as quickly as they could operate the bolt. Critics of the German’s bolt-action-armed infantry blame Hitler for losing WWII because he refused to arm his infantry with faster, semiautomatic rifles. When WWII began, the German infantry was not unlike other armies – armed with a mix of bolt-action rifles and some form of machine gun. Germany's strategy for implementing these weapons differed. They emphasized the machine gun, usually an MG-34 or an MG-42 (Maschinengewehr 34/42) as their primary...

Kimberley Johnson’s recent racist comment is more offensive than Roseanne Barr’s. Colion Noir’s response is awesome. Huffington Post writer Kimberley Johnson recently made the following tweet:“Out on the road the other day I saw an affluent black man driving a BMW with two bumper-stickers. One was pro-NRA and the other one was a Tea Party sticker that read, ‘Don’t tread on me.’ This left me very confused.” In my opinion, that’s a lot worse than what Roseanne Barr said six weeks ago. Barr was commenting on what she perceived to be a certain physical resemblance. Johnson’s comment is about what she...

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just buy new crayons? A woman named Emily Skopov started a non-profit organization called No Crayon Left Behind.The charity collects used crayons from restaurants and other organizations and gives them to people who can’t afford them.When the collected crayons are misshapen, Skopov melts them down on her own stove and molds them into new crayons.Skopov said she spends spends approximately 45 hours a week volunteering for No Crayon Left Behind.In addition, she hired a consultant and has a paid staff as well.She also rents an office.Skopov said of her endeavor:“I purposely haven’t kept track of how...

Monsignor Raffaele Nogaro, bishop emeritus of Caserta, says he is ready to “turn all the churches into mosques if it were useful to the cause and if it allowed us to save the lives of men and women.” And so the Catholic Church continues on its path of aiding and abetting Europe’s civilizational and cultural suicide — not unwittingly, but with its eyes open. As I show in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, the Catholic Church was once one of the foremost bulwarks of defense in the jihad against Europe. But those days are long...

Could Danny Cevallos’ days at MSNBC be numbered? The question arises because he has–twice by my count–had the temerity to confound liberal thinking on Joy Reid’s show. Back in February, we noted Cevallos gently explaining to Reid that her suggestion that payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal could be “bribes” was wrong. If that was a gutsy thing for Cevallos to do, he took things a giant step further today. For many liberals, abortion is the ultimate issue, and Roe v. Wade the sacred cow. But Cevallos had the audacity to flatly assert: “Anyone–people on both sides would agree...

Xanax for patient Karem—stat! Make it a double. . . Brian Karem, then a Playboy reporter, made his liberal-media bones by haranguing Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the White House press room last year. CNN rewarded Karem for his outburst my naming him an “analyst.” This morning, Karem put on the kind of performance that CNN is paying him for, waxing apocalyptic about the future of the environment and the EPA under Scott Pruitt and his successor, Andrew Wheeler. Excerpts from Karem’s wery, wery scared statement: “[Pruitt] destroyed the EPA . . . People I’ve known in the EPA for 20...

Punctuated by a massive ground barrage and numerous air strikes late Wednesday (July 4th) the Assad regime forces of the Syrian Arab Army and supporting militias relaunched their offensive in the Deraa region. Today (July 5th) pro-government sources say the town of Saida was taken back from opposition forces enabling the government troops to move southwards towards the Jordanian border including the Nassib crossing on the M5 highway. But intense fighting continues to the northwest of Deraa city at Tafas, where an ISIS affiliated force is resisting the government offensive. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that there must...

High Court Judge Brian Leveson has cancelled the hearing of Tommy Robinson's appeal that was set for next Tuesday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Government lawyers say they are not ready and the judge has agreed. There was already controversy because Judge Leveson had told a media interview he objected to the kind of live stream video reporting Robinson did and thought it was wrong. Robinson remains in solitary at HMP Onley by his own choosing for safety with a mat to sleep on confined 23 and a half hours a day.

Opposition forces in the town of Bosra al-Sham, southeast of Deraa city, laid down their arms over the weekend and Russian military moved in as part of a 'reconciliation' agreement. The Syrian government media says that at least 10 other villages, mostly southeast of Deraa city, were close to signing agreements with the government with jihadist opposition forces set to lay down their arms. The number of refugees said to have been displaced by the Syrian government offensive continues to increase. A UN official (Mohammed Hawari) in Jordan says there are now 270-thousand refugees, last week the number was said...

(LATE WORD FROM THE DARAA REGION TONIGHT IS THAT A TRUCE BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT LOCAL TIME, 5PM EASTERN USA, THIS IS BEING CALLED 'FOR RECONCILIATION'. AFTER THAT THE OFFENSIVE RESUMES) There have been 20 or more air strikes by Syrian and Russian aircraft this morning in the Daraa region as the offensive continues. Meanwhile, the Syrian government has opened up three corridors for civilians to leave areas while military operations are underway with aid and ambulances available. Syrian Army units have opened up attacks on the western side of the Daraa region west of the M5 highway supported by the...

In Iowa, criminals who use imitation guns are not treated as harshly under the law as are criminals who use real guns. It seems an obvious policy decision. When criminals use imitation guns, the vast majority of the risk is on the criminal. They are more likely to be shot. They are not able to shoot back. They are relying on the power of bluff and image to coerce people who they are attempting to victimize. It seems like a win-win for law and order.In a recent AP article, a county attorney and a police chief want to change...

For my sins, I was looking online at the Opinion page of the New York Times this morning. Here’s a sampling of column headlines going back to February, reflecting the paper’s obsessive Trump-hatred: The Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Is a Genius The True Damage of Trump’s ‘Fake News’ The Art of the Flail Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late? Trump’s Approach to Syria Is No Way to Run a War Trump, Driven by Fear Trump’s Irrational Border Plan How to Serve a Deranged Tyrant, Stoically Will Trump Crash the Farm Economy? The Trump Administration Sabotages the Census...