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Libyan group says it has freed Gaddafi son Seif al-Islam
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
12 Staffers At Dem-Linked Group Charged With Voter Fraud
[DAILYCALLER] Local prosecutors in Marion County, Indiana, charged 12 employees of a Democratic-linked voter recruitment organization of submitting fraudulent voter registration applications prior to the 2016 election.

According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, prosecutors say that 11 temporary canvassers working for the Indiana Voter Registration Project made and sent in an unknown number of fake voter applications. The canvassers’ supervisor, Holiday Burke, was charged as well.

The organization, the AP reported, is managed by Patriot Majority USA a group with strong ties to Democratic Party, including former President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
and former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
, as well as labor unions.

The investigation by state authorities began last August when a clerk in Hendricks County marked around a dozen voter forms with suspicious information. The probe went into 56 counties where the organization collected 45,000 applications. Patriot Majority rejected the notion the group engaged in any illegal activity.

"We looked onto the Statewide Voter Registration System and noticed that there had been an unusually high number of date of birth and first name changes," the secretary of state’s office told CNN last October.

If the 12 defendants are found guilty on all charges that include acquiring or sending in voter registration applications known to be false as well as counterfeiting, each could face up to 2 ½ years in prison.

Public Integrity noted in 2013 of Patriot Majority, "Although it describes itself as a grassroots group, a single $6 million donation from an unnamed source made up one-fourth of Patriot Majority USA’s $23 million in 2012 revenue. More than half of its haul, $12 million, came from anonymous donors that gave more than $1 million each, its tax return indicates."
Posted by: Fred || 06/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Vote fraud is treason and an attempt to overthrow the government. It should be punished by death and any candidate benefiting from it should also suffer the same fate.

The Demonrat party would be exterminated in one election. I can live with that.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/11/2017 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  But, but, even when it's for the children, Silentbrick?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2017 4:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Jail em and fine em
Posted by: Frank G || 06/11/2017 7:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Was it really voter fraud? They signed up imaginary voters, which is fraud, but fraud against the organization paying them to sign up voters. Assuming those imaginary voters didn't actually vote.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/11/2017 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  "There's no such thing as voter fraud."

"If there is voter fraud, it's insignificant."

"This voter fraud investigation is a camouflaged voter suppression operation."

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/11/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Real voter suppression, debasing legitimate votes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/11/2017 8:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Assuming those imaginary voters didn't actually vote.

Why do you assume that, Glenmore, when some communities see more votes than residents?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/11/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||

#8  An unnamed source of funding? C'mon, AyPee. Follow the money.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/11/2017 11:18 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
The American Architects of The South-African Catastrophe
[Mercer writes for the Austrian Mises Institute] Yes, it has happened. A mere 23 years after the 1994 transition, in South Africa, to raw ripe democracy, six years following the publication of a wide-ranging analysis of that catastrophe, Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, a Beltway libertarian think tank has convened to address the problem that is South Africa.

The reference is to an upcoming CATO "Policy Forum," euphemized as "South Africa at a Crossroad." One of the individuals to headline the "Forum" is Princeton Lyman, described in a CATO email tease as having "served as the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa at the time of the transfer of power from white minority to black majority." At the "Forum," former ambassador Lyman will be discussing "America’s original hopes for a new South Africa and the extent to which America’s expectations have been left unfulfilled." (Italics added.)

The chutzpah!

The CATO Institute’s disappointment in the South Africa the United States helped bring about is nothing compared to the depredations suffered by South Africans, due to America’s insistence that their country pass into the hands of a voracious majority. Unwise South African leaders acquiesced. Federalism was discounted. Minority rights for the Afrikaner, Anglo and Zulu were dismissed.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/11/2017 08:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In truth, the United States did not act alone and SA was not the first country to feel the impacts of African regime change. The entire transition began even before the final shots of WWII were fired. Author Martin Meredith lays out the events and chronology pretty well in 'The Fate of Africa, a histor of the Continent Since Independence.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/11/2017 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  This was a total disaster. Color of skin test. The Chinese have it right marry local to have blood in the game. The destruction of a country and many peoples with all the good intentions. The dramatic unintended consequences laid bare for all to see. The elites there rule the day.Send money and they skim the most of it off the top. O sending the billions to Iran is a good example. Money went to the inner circle. Oh; its spent alright, for what and to what we will never know.
Posted by: Dale || 06/11/2017 15:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kamala Harris–Leftist Senator From California and Next Democratic Star
[Breitbart] Kamala Harris, California’s freshman senator and former state attorney general, has been quite the newsmaker in her short five months on Capitol Hill. She’s been dropping f-bombs, told to stop harassing witnesses at hearings, and staking her ground as the most anti-Trump lawmaker in Washington.

Her face has been plastered all over newspaper front pages and TV screens. While she has become the darling of the progressive left, Harris is now among the most loathsome figures for conservatives or anyone who supports President Trump’s agenda. There is now rampant speculation that she’s gearing up for a 2020 presidential run, even though for now she denies it.

But just exactly who is Kamala Harris?

For all the noise she’s making now in Washington, Harris, 52, actually has a relatively low profile in much of her own state. Her political rise has been groomed by the state’s Democratic machine, which is now akin to a monarchical procession in one-party rule California.

Born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris’ upbringing was that of a typical leftist. She was raised in Berkeley and grew up in academic circles of her mother after her parents’ divorce. She attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. and earned her law degree from Hastings in San Francisco, though she failed her bar exam on the first try.

Harris’ big break in her political career came after dating Willie Brown, a powerful former California Assembly speaker and mayor of San Francisco. She became the District Attorney of San Francisco before running and narrowly winning the race for state attorney general in 2010 in an election that was possibly tainted by voter fraud and wasn’t decided until nearly three weeks later.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/11/2017 07:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's not smart
Posted by: Frank G || 06/11/2017 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris’ upbringing was that of a typical leftist. She was raised in Berkeley and grew up in academic circles of her mother after her parents’ divorce. She attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. and earned her law degree from Hastings in San Francisco, though she failed her bar exam on the first try.

It's not simply the last sentence, this entire paragraph bespeaks failure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/11/2017 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Democratic Presidential nominee in 2020?
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/11/2017 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Camel-a
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/11/2017 8:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Harris’ big break in her political career came after dating Willie Brown

Camel-a Harris: b. Oct. 20, 1964

Willie Brown: b. Mar. 20, 1934
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/11/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Willie made early contributions to her political career. Nightly, even
Posted by: Frank G || 06/11/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Willie made early contributions to her political career. Nightly, even

In politics, that's called "mentoring..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/11/2017 8:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Anointed by Nature an heiress
Was Pamela Kamala Harris:
No maidservant faster
To hump her old master,
Nor ever so hard to embarrass!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/11/2017 11:38 Comments || Top||

#9  though she failed her bar exam on the first try.

Should have tried public universities - I passed my professional exam first shot.
Posted by: Raj || 06/11/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#10  A box of hammers qualify a a democrat leader.

Posted by: newc || 06/11/2017 14:11 Comments || Top||

#11  though she failed her bar exam on the first try.

That's when she decided to go into politics?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/11/2017 14:28 Comments || Top||

#12  though she failed her bar exam on the first try

That's a Kennedy thing, I think...
Posted by: Thumper Clunk7864 || 06/11/2017 19:32 Comments || Top||

#13  If this nincompoop is the best they have on the bench for national office other than the usual suspects, then they are very very bad off.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 06/11/2017 22:14 Comments || Top||


Bill O'Reilly on the Comey memo and leaks to the NYT (Video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As I commented yesterday, James Comey's testimony at this point is essentially publicly documented evidence in the overall Russian interference and Trump collusion investigation.

Because of the legally questionable actions and motives of James Comey, it becomes hard to fathom how special counsel Robert Mueller could refuse to investigate James Comey without losing all credibility himself.

Because of their closely interwoven working relationship at both the DOJ and other state and federal judicial positions (not to mention their close personal relationship), it is hard to justify Robert Mueller's position as special counsel going forward at this point.


This brings into bright highlight the intense confrontation between Calif. Senator Kamala Harris and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during Wednesday's Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing.

Senator Haris was demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein sign a letter giving special counsel Mueller full independence from the DOJ. This would give special counsel Mueller full independence from Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's ability, statutorily and legally, to fire him.

Rosenstein refused.

Rosenstein appointed Mueller as Special Counsel on May 17th and retains the authority to override Mueller’s decisions and to order his dismissal. In the hearing, Rosenstein refused to commit in writing to grant Mueller full independence from any officer at the Department of Justice (for now).


Watch the Confrontation Here


Posted by: junkiron || 06/11/2017 4:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Senator Haris was demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein sign a letter giving special counsel Mueller full independence from the DOJ.

Little question where this was headed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/11/2017 7:30 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2017-06-11
  Libyan group says it has freed Gaddafi son Seif al-Islam
Sat 2017-06-10
  Islamic State claims it killed two Chinese in Pakistan
Fri 2017-06-09
  Nearly 70 dead in Al-Shabaab attack on Puntland military base
Thu 2017-06-08
  Syrian government, rebel forces fighting in Aleppo
Wed 2017-06-07
  Iran's parliament and Khomeini mausoleum attacked by gunmen
Tue 2017-06-06
  Shaboobs go into that good night softly after attempt to raid KDF camp
Mon 2017-06-05
  Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE sever ties to Qatar over 'terrorism'
Sun 2017-06-04
  20 die in funeral attack in Kabul
Sat 2017-06-03
  BREAKING: Terror attacks reported at, around London Bridge
Fri 2017-06-02
  ISIS-loving Air Force vet gets 35 years at weepy sentencing
Thu 2017-06-01
  Philippines hotel on lockdown after suspected ISIS attack
Wed 2017-05-31
  Kabul Blast in Diplomatic Area Kills 80
Tue 2017-05-30
  Puntland sentences Five militants members to death
Mon 2017-05-29
  52 LNA soldiers die in Tripoli fighting
Sun 2017-05-28
  Russian airstrikes smoke 120 ISIS Bad Guys in Raqqa


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