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Dissident commanders meet to choose rival Afghan Taliban leader
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Ninety-seven percent of Obamacare's "newly insured" are from Medicaid expansion
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2015 11:51 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This Administration can claim that their domestic policies are a success, but the only thing they’re really successful in doing is trapping millions more Americans in government dependence.

As by design
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2015 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  As by design

And here I thought that Obama admin tries to revive the American spirit of individualism and self reliance
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2015 13:26 Comments || Top||

#3  That type of thought leads people to vote for small government types of politicians and that must be discouraged.

After all, they want that public money to buy new yachts.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2015 13:37 Comments || Top||

#4  "And here I thought that Obama admin tries to revive the American spirit of individualism and self reliance"

*snork*

I want some of what you've been smoking, grom. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara || 10/21/2015 14:06 Comments || Top||

#5  I want some of what you've been smoking, grom
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2015 15:20 Comments || Top||

#6  "And here I thought that Obama admin tries to revive the American spirit of individualism and self reliance"

Duh! That's why the Department of Individualism and Self-Reliance was created.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/21/2015 16:29 Comments || Top||


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Joe Biden says he will not run for president in 2016
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2015 12:54 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So no Rugs vs Plugs.

Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2015 12:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I would like to know how much cash was in that suitcase Hillary gave him.

I'd also like to see what was on those incriminating DVD's.
Posted by: frozen al || 10/21/2015 13:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Creepy Uncle Joe not running?

Well there goes the entertainment value of the election...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/21/2015 13:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Hillary's FBI indictment must be right around the corner, then...
Posted by: Raj || 10/21/2015 13:31 Comments || Top||

#5  At least that's what he says today.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2015 14:00 Comments || Top||

#6  I think this signals she won't be indicted. Slap on the wrist but nothing that could stop her campaign.

I think she'll be easier to beat with all her baggage. Biden might be an old white man who says stupid things from time to time but he has gravitas that Hillary could never fake.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/21/2015 14:56 Comments || Top||

#7  The reversal was so abrupt, something changed. Something very powerful changed in his calculus, something someone told him, something he was offered, something he feared. Because it was so close to an obvious announcement, it was overwhelmingly powerful....who had, knew, or offered that and for whose benefit other than Hilda's? Since I can think of no one else, something that camp did seems most likely...
This is Game of Thrones level intrigue it seems.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/21/2015 16:26 Comments || Top||

#8  I think this signals she won't be indicted. Slap on the wrist but nothing that could stop her campaign. rjschwarz

Yep, she's 'too big to fail.' My sense is she's just the tip of the iceberg. If she 'goes down' she'll take the entire shadow government along with her.

I don't think for a minute that she single-handedly orchestrated the Libyan gun running operations. I've got a post which will come out tomorrow on the Dolarian Company of Fresno, CA and their Bulgarian arms supply network. It's rather lengthy, but interesting.

Obama has said "she made a mistake" regarding the emails. She's holding her 'get out of jail free card' tightly in her wrinkly old hand.

Joe was waved off.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2015 16:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Agree 100%.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/21/2015 17:01 Comments || Top||

#10  SPOTUS etc.
Posted by: KBK || 10/21/2015 20:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Kerry? Gore???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/21/2015 23:57 Comments || Top||

#12  OOOOPPPSSS, my bad, forgot about MICHAEL DUKAKIS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/21/2015 23:58 Comments || Top||


Cash-strapped schools in Tennessee close due to Obamacare
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2015 08:58 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I see a rise in home schooling and charter schools in Tennessee.

Wait... don't the libtards hate these as they don't follow the same indoctrination schooling as a public school?
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2015 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, Darth, they'll just pass a law defining home schooling as child abuse.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2015 9:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Could this be a foretelling? The eventual demise of so called 'public education' and the cult of teacher's unions ?

I can see a GP Large tent with flaps rolled up, folding chairs, and parent volunteers, a baseball field, and sack lunches. Happy, healthy young country kids, safely walking to and from classes. Perhaps I am a silly old man dreaming.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2015 11:43 Comments || Top||

#4  There are a lot of very rural counties in Tennessee with no industrial base and not much agriculture. Not much air able land. When health insurance plans and increased medicare coverage are mandated from Washington in a "one size fits all" mentality the money has to come from somewhere.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/21/2015 12:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps Obama will invite in the U.N. to teach class?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/21/2015 13:13 Comments || Top||

#6  That district is legally required to provide 180 days of "education" to all eligible. The article neglects to say where the money might come from. I remember reading the history "The Worst Hard Time" about the Dust Bowl era. A Texas schoolmarm worked without pay for several years in the 1930's just to keep the system going. People like her are rare indeed.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/21/2015 13:31 Comments || Top||

#7  ...have the College of Education in each of the state funded universities send their 'instructors and professors' to do 90 day stints in those rural areas. Maybe they'll grasp what its like in the trenches and find out maybe what the levels of 'white privilege' look a lot different at ground level than from their offices on the campus.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/21/2015 14:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Online education is cheap... for those with access to computers and the internet. Perhaps Microsoft and/or Apple can make a few equipment donations to public libraries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2015 15:34 Comments || Top||

#9  In the county where I live there is a rise home-schooling, but not because of the quality of education. People are just too lazy to get there children up to meet the bus. I have personal knowledge of more than one "Mother" whose reason is, "I just can't get up in time for them to get on the bus". Does anyone think those children are getting an education?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/21/2015 18:12 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm kinda liking what P2K sez. And make it mandatory.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 10/21/2015 18:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Make it a requirement for tenure. You must spend 90 days out of each and every year teaching *in* a public school - in a under-funded school district.

On and for minimum wage.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/21/2015 18:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Schedule conflicts when my daughter switched from one HS to another left her with no English class one year. I thought taking a 'year off' would be unwise, so I home-schooled her in English that year. No lesson plans or coordination with schools, just "Here, read this book this month and write a short report addressing these questions." She did it, and it really benefited her the next year. At some later time one of her friends asked her if she should home-school - her answer was "Oh, no! My Dad would be way too hard."
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/21/2015 21:35 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2015-10-21
  Dissident commanders meet to choose rival Afghan Taliban leader
Tue 2015-10-20
  ISIL child training camp discovered in Istanbul
Mon 2015-10-19
  Yemen govt agrees to talks with Houthis, Saleh
Sun 2015-10-18
  Senior al-Nusra commander killed in Syria airstrike
Sat 2015-10-17
  Saudi forces kill gunman after Shiite site attack
Fri 2015-10-16
  Taliban Shadow District Governor Killed In Takhar
Thu 2015-10-15
  Champ to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016, officials say
Wed 2015-10-14
  ISIS confirms killing of number two in U.S. air strike
Tue 2015-10-13
  Four terrorist attacks rock Jerusalem over 12 hours
Mon 2015-10-12
  22 'militants' killed in N. Waziristan air strikes
Sun 2015-10-11
  ISIS leader al-Baghdadi's convoy hit by air strike in Iraq
Sat 2015-10-10
  Stabbing attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, 3 policemen wounded
Fri 2015-10-09
  Military Begins House-To-House Searches in Kunduz
Thu 2015-10-08
  Russia Fires Cruise Missiles in Syria as Assad Begins a Ground Attack
Wed 2015-10-07
  Five arrested in western Sydney over terrorist attack outside police HQ


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