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A whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance. They describe the activities of an “anti-disinformation” group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL, that officially began as the volunteer project of data scientists and defense and intelligence veterans but whose tactics over time appear to have been absorbed into multiple official projects, including those of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CTI League documents offer the missing link answers to key questions not addressed in the Twitter Files and Facebook Files....

Today's Mad Lib of the Day was a tough choice between Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, a representative from South Dakota and Stuart Smalley. The struggling Herseth-Sandlin brought a more liberal Smalley in to campaign for her in a mostly red state. And apparently Smalley has a problem breathing in the political atmosphere of a state that is ready to throw Herseth-Sandlin out of office. From South Dakota Politics: Al Franken: a vote for Herseth-Sandlin is a vote for Nancy Pelosi Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin brought Al Franken to Pine Ridge this weekend. Why you ask? Good question, says I. Franken is a very...

Al Franken has become the voice of the progressive left in the Senate. Yup, Stuart Smiley himself. Franken this week led the Democrat charge against the Obama Administration. Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod this week during a tense, closed-door session with Senate Democrats. Sources said Franken was the most outspoken senator in the meeting, which followed President Barack Obama’s question-and-answer session with Senate Democrats at the Newseum on Wednesday. But they also said the Minnesotan wasn’t the only angry Democrat in the room, although he certainly seems to be the leader.

As predicted by many, it appears the meltdown of the most emotionally unstable member of the United States Senate is finally underway.After being a good boy during the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, the newly fraudulently installed Sen. Al Franken (D-ACORN), couldn't resist letting T. Boone Pickens have it for funding those delightful Swift Boat ads that helped bury John Kerry's presidential prospects.The Politico reports According to a source, the wealthy oil and gas magnate and author of "The First Billion is the Hardest" stepped up to introduce himself to Franken in a room just off the Senate Floor after the...

Aspiring politicians are should be weighed on the sum of their life’s works. Try as he may, Lyndon LaRouche never shook his Marxist label. Strom Thurmond was pilloried by the left (after he became a Republican) for his KKK roots. Ted Kennedy will never make AllState commercials. And Robert Byrd never ascended to powerful positions in the Senate because of his role as Exalted Cyclops of the Klan. (OK, maybe Byrd did manage to gain a modest foothold in the party of tolerance). We’ve looked at debunked Bush National Guard records, Ted Stevens remodeling, Trig Palin DNA, and Larry Craig’s...

US SENATE - MINNESOTA Norm Coleman (R) 49% Al Franken (D) 42% Norm Coleman (R) 48% Mike Ciresi (D) 42% Norm Coleman (R) 49% Jim Cohen (D) 37%

September 10, 2006 -- AT one time, the notion of "Senator Al Franken" would have seemed as off-the-wall as "Secretary of Defense Stuart Smalley." But lately, the notion of the Harvard-educated humorist and best-selling author taking a seat in Congress has no one laughing. A new film opening Wednesday by acclaimed documentary filmmakers Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob, "Al Franken: God Spoke," follows the political exploits of the former "Saturday Night Live" performer and current Air America radio host.

Al Franken is best known for his role as self-help guru Stuart Smalley. Franken has a new character these days, talk radio host. But the role is no joke. As part of the South by Southwest Interactve Festival, Franken broadcast his show from Austin Monday. Franken wants people to know liberal radio is now in Austin. "There is a right-wing media, and a big part of that is right-wing radio so I decided this is what I should do," Franken said. So how much credibility can a comedian with a political agenda really have? Apparently in Austin, a lot. "I...

Al Franken announced on MSNBC that he is going to Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan next month, I think his presence there would be detrimental to the troops morale, I am sure they booked him as a comic not realizing how anti-war he is, I recommend we contact the USO and inform them that this is not a good idea.

Franken was impossible to work with. There was one scene in the pilot where the camera stays on Franken’s face for what seems like an hour. “What’s going on there?” I asked, when they showed me the pilot. “He made us stay on his face. I swear,” a producer told me. “He kept looking at himself and laughing and saying ‘Look how funny I am! Stay on me! Stay on me!’ We tried to stop him and he just screamed at us.”