[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] Donald Trump may find it tough to get Republican leaders behind his campaign, but he's got some faraway fans trying to get the gods on his side.
Around a dozen members of a right-wing Indian Hindu group lit a ritual fire and chanted mantras Wednesday asking the Hindu gods to help Trump win the U.S. presidential election.
While Trump has dominated the Republican primary race to decide the party's candidate for the November election, his calls for temporarily banning Muslims from America and cracking down on bad boy groups abroad have earned him some fans in India.
"The whole world is screaming against Islamic terrorism, and even India is not safe from it," said Vishnu Gupta, founder of the Hindu Sena nationalist group. "Only Donald Trump can save humanity."
Members of the group gathered on a blanket spread out in a New Delhi protest park along with a collection of statues depicting gods including Shiva and Hanuman -- as well as photos of a smiling Trump.
Above them hung a banner declaring support for Trump "because he is hope for humanity against Islamic terror."
The group chanted Sanskrit prayers asking the gods to favor Trump in the election, and threw offerings such as seeds, grass and ghee -- or clarified butter -- into a small ritual fire.
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I assume they're praying to Agni, Kali or Shiva, not Vishnu...
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I think they'll be surprised by Trumps plans. I suspect he'll mostly tell the Russians and Chinese that they have a free pass to wallop Islamic minorities and defend their interests in Syria but will otherwise reduce American overseas commitments. Of course his positions are flexible so who knows.
[BALTIMORESUN] Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has banned government travel to North Carolina and Mississippi over the states' controversial transgender laws.
With her order Tuesday, Rawlings-Blake has chosen sides in the escalating showdown between the two Southern states and U.S. Department of Justice, which sued North Carolina to block the bathroom law. North Carolina's governor answered with a countersuit, asking a judge to rule that the law is not discriminatory.
"I am hopeful that our efforts, combined with those of so many other progressive governments and companies, will push North Carolina and Mississippi to make the changes necessary to respect all citizens," Rawlings-Blake wrote in a letter Tuesday to city officials.
Mayors of New York, Seattle and the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... have also banned their government workers from traveling to North Carolina on business.
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I can understand the whole transgender as a genetic issue. Its in their DNA. but this is an equipment issue. Until you have surgery deal with it. I certainly don't want my wife taking the granddaughter into the rest room and have some guy hanging his junk out because he has identity issues. IMO the people who complain loudest and longest about their rights often don't give a rats ass about yours or mine.
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Baltimore is off limits now to most people already. I spoke to a street policeman in Baltimore and Baltimore is off limits to his wife. You travel into minority areas now and you will not be welcome. In the old days in West Virginia it was considered polite to wave at out of town people. In the cities you get attacked. Blake is a poor example but that's how they do business.
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North Carolina and Mississippi should ban all travel from the City of Baltimore. I know who's getting the better of that deal
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btw - the 2nd Baltimore cop goes on trial with Judge, not Jury, deciding. No cherry-picking racialist jurors wanting to "send a message". Smart move
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Frank, what color is the judge? That's the important thing.
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Oh, my. Now Mrs. Uluque and I will have to cancel our vacation to Baltimore.
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From now on all riots will be home games -- Mayor Hyphen.
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You would think Baltimore would have a few more important things to worry about than weather a group of people, far away, should be able to protect themselves.
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I have no data, but I'm guessing the amount of official government travel from Baltimore to North Carolina was somewhere in the low nones. Virtue signaling, both cost-free and meaningless. But it does give Mayor Hyphen-Blake some nice media exposure. As long as no one brings up the murder rate.
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I used to agree to go to Baltimore on business (no one else would go) but only because of the Little Italy restaurants. The rest of Baltimore was deplorable. And that was in the 85-95 timeframe.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Perfect dem name.
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[INVESTORS] When Wyoming rancher Andy Johnson decided to create a stock pond for horses and cattle on his 8-acre property, he did what any conscientious landowner would do. He got permits from both the state and local government before moving any dirt.
What he didn’t count on was a power-mad Environmental Protection Agency, which in January 2014 said Johnson’s pond violated the Clean Water Act -- even though the CWA exempts stock ponds -- told him to get rid of it, and threatened him with a $37,500 fine for every day he delayed.
Rather than cave to federal thuggery, Johnson refused the order, and then sued the EPA with the help of the invaluable Pacific Legal Foundation. Environmental experts he commissioned said the pond was exempt, and served as a habitat for migratory birds, fish and wildlife.
More than two years later, Johnson won. In a settlement reached with the EPA, he gets to keep his pond, he won’t need to get a federal permit, the EPA fines have been removed, and all Johnson agreed to do was plant some willow trees and limit access to a portion of his pond for a while.
Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Jonathan Wood called the settlement "a win for the Johnson family, and a win for the environment."
But what kind of win is this? The federal government storms onto private property and threatens a family with massive fines, upends their lives for two years, and walks away only after being countersued.
A real win would be if the EPA were banned from engaging in such tactics. Instead, the EPA gets away with almost anything because it’s always in the name of the environment. And it is endlessly testing the limits of its power.
Indeed, while the EPA was harassing Johnson over his pond, it was finalizing a new rule that would vastly expand its jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act to cover, as Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., put it, "everything from prairie puddles to power plants."
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Well, DoJ claims authority over all the nation's water closets.
Please click all articles submitted after 2 pm ET for the next day, unless it reports a major terror attack in progress. This article does not have that kind of urgency.
--trailing wife for the moderators at 9:50!pm ET
The highlights:
* 'Screw the next generation' and 'Harry Reid's a pompous a**': Democratic congressman writes Anonymous tell-all book slamming 'nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep' as he admits he never reads bills he votes on
* 'My main job is to keep my job, to get reelected. It takes precedence over everything,' an anonymous member of Congress writes in a new book
* 'Voters are incredibly ignorant and know little about our form of government and how it works,' he writes
* 'It's far easier than you think to manipulate a nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification'
* The author is a Democrat in Congress who laid out his complaints to a long-time friend and former Capitol Hill staffer who edited them into a book
* 'The Confessions of Congressman X' will be released May 24 by a small Minnesota-based 'vanity press' publisher
h/t Instapundit
A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary's claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.
[HotAir] Senator Harry Reid was a guest at a Congressional Progressive Caucus meeting Wednesday. Rep. Alan Grayson disrupted the meeting to confront Reid about his support for an ongoing ethics investigation into Grayson's alleged misdeeds in office.
The Hill reports Grayson turned on Sen. Reid saying, "Shame on you. It's not true." Reid, never one to back down from a fight, replied, "It is true and I want you to lose."
Rep. Ellison, who was running the CPC meeting reportedly called out Grayson for the disruption. An unidentified source told the Hill all the Democrats were "appalled" at Grayson's behavior adding, "It was embarrassing for him and embarrassing for us that he behaved that way."
Later, Sen. Reid's office released a brief statement about the encounter. It reads in part:
Senator Reid took the opportunity to express his low opinion of Congressman Grayson to his face and remind him that reason Senator Reid has said that Grayson is under ethics investigation and appears to be running a Cayman Islands hedge fund from his Congressional office in order to line his own pockets is because these things are true, as established by seventy-four pages’ worth of evidence from the Congressional Ethics Committee.
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Grayson should have smacked Reid in the face with some large rubber bands.
[CBSNEWS] Sixteen black West Point cadets who posed with raised fists for a pre-graduation picture won't be punished for the gesture.
The U.S. Military Academy said Tuesday it concluded the group photo didn't violate any Department of Defense rules limiting political activity. West Point says in a statement an internal inquiry found the picture of the 16 female cadets captured a spur-of-the-moment gesture intended to demonstrate unity and pride.
The decision comes with the seniors poised to graduate May 21.
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That was quick.
Now lets have a bunch of White Men try it.
Ohh never mind.
The stupid race thing is overplayed and If i hear it in the ranks again, I fire all of you imbeciles.
THERE IS BUT ONE COLOR IN THE ARMY AND THAT IS GREEN.
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Well, hopefully, there are still a few majors and colonels on active duty that, when assigned these POSs, will have them supervising the shipping of pallets of obsolete horse collars to Ft. Polk.
The old quote "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" comes to mind. Unfortunately, the question answers itself.
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Sadly, many of these entitled jerks will get passed along just like Major Hassan, by commander and senior rated officers on the back nine of their career. It's tempting to do, but painful if you take them on, I know from personal experience when I had an investigative interview after an anonymous 1-800-revenge IG hotline call following the second counseling session.
[NATIONALREVIEW] For much of the last week, the very small world of pundits and policy wonks has been buzzing about the New York Times’s extended profile by David Samuels of Obama foreign-policy guru Ben Rhodes, the “aspiring novelist” (as the headline put it) with a master’s in fine arts who sneers with contempt at the president’s foes and has helped helm American foreign policy in the age of ISIS.
The story is rich with detail that should scandalize anyone who is concerned with either truth or humility in American policymaking. Rhodes apparently lied to sell the Iran deal to the American public, counting on ignorant, sympathetic leftist journalists and activists to peddle the administration’s foreign-policy line and dominate the public debate.
The Obama administration has become inured to tragedy, Rhodes confessed, adding, “There’s a numbing element to Syria in particular,” where 450,000 lives have been lost.
And, of course, when it comes to failures and disappointments, the buck stops with the traditional foreign-policy and military “establishment” that Obama (and Rhodes) despise. For men like Rhodes, his “entire job” (according to former speechwriter Jon Favreau) was assisting in a “larger restructuring of the American narrative.” In other words, Obama and Rhodes and Jarrett had a new story to tell about our nation and the world; all facts and circumstances were shaped to fit that story.
And so — to use one illustration from the piece — Iran’s capture and humiliation of American sailors wasn’t really a story of American weakness but in reality a story of American strength.
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The Obama administration has become inured to tragedy
The only tragedy that impinges on these vermin is one that is a threat to their power.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] Donald Trump may find it tough to get Republican leaders behind his campaign, but he's got some faraway fans trying to get the gods on his side.
[HotAir] Senator Harry Reid was a guest at a Congressional Progressive Caucus meeting Wednesday. Rep. Alan Grayson disrupted the meeting to confront Reid about his support for an ongoing ethics investigation into Grayson's alleged misdeeds in office.
[NATIONALREVIEW] For much of the last week, the very small world of pundits and policy wonks has been buzzing about the New York Times’s extended profile by David Samuels of Obama foreign-policy guru Ben Rhodes, the “aspiring novelist” (as the headline put it) with a master’s in fine arts who sneers with contempt at the president’s foes and has helped helm American foreign policy in the age of ISIS. 
