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Leader Of ISIS In Afghanistan Killed By US Forces 3 Months After Assuming Command
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Jane Sanders cries sexism over being investigated because reasons
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/17/2017 10:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah, the sex card. Some find it every bit as useful as the race card when they've got nothing else.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/17/2017 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  “I find it incredibly sexy that basically he’s going after my husband"
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2017 11:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Nah - just look at Jane Sanders; sex is the last thing on most people's minds.
Posted by: Raj || 07/17/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Democrats are never guilty, only oppressed.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/17/2017 18:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Report Details How Long-Running Russian Feud Spilled Over to Campaign Politics
New details in a report by the Wall Street Journal highlight how a meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. had more to do with a years-long feud between Russia and U.S.-born hedge fund manager William Browder than it did anything else.

The report, published Saturday, details the long-running feud and how the White House got sucked into it. It said:

The multiyear saga between Russia and Mr. Browder has featured accusations of murder and fraud, extensive lobbying efforts on both sides, high-level court proceedings and public statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin suggesting Mr. Browder is a criminal. And now, the drama has extended to the Trump White House, which is already facing probes into the campaign's relationship with Russia.

According to the report, Natalia Veselnitskaya, a private lawyer and former Russian prosecutor who was defending a client charged with violating the Magnitsky Act, told the paper that she sought a meeting last year with the Trump campaign to spread information about Browder, a champion of the Act.
Posted by: Titus Oppressor of the Lichtensteiners3701 || 07/17/2017 05:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CNN Report: Millions Of American Voters May Have Colluded To Elect Trump
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Let he without collusion cast the first stone.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 07/17/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#3  They're all stoned.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2017 11:02 Comments || Top||


Nancy Pelosi freezes, repeatedly flubs lines during attack on Trump
[American Mirror] She criticized the "actions of the Trump administration as relation-- related to the rule of the law."

"The Trump administration and the Trump family have pa-- eagerly ex-- uh, intended to collude with a hostile foreign policy," she said, likely intending to say "power" instead of "policy."

"Members of Congress take a sa-- sacred oath," Pelosi struggled to say moments later.

"What do the Russians have politically, financially, uh, uh, or-- and any-- personally on Donald Trump that he fawns over Putin, uh, questions sanctions, uh--" she said, then froze.

"Uh-- is-- reckless when it comes to Article V," Pelosi finally said.

Her statement condemning Jared Kushner lost its effect as she repeatedly herself.

"It’s absolutely ridiculous that he should have, have that, that clearance," she said.

"Today we are announcing a new coo-nated effort to force votes to get answers for the American people she said, struggling to say "coordinated."

"We will force Republicans to take votes on the record to continue, uh, from, from hiding the facts from the American people," Pelosi said, effectively stating Republicans are being transparent.

As the House Minority Leader introduced several of her colleagues who took swings at the Trump pinata, she fumbled, "House Republicans will have to ask for their actions and one of the questions they will have-- some of the questions they will have to answer will be posed by our colleagues..."

She went on to introduce her sidekick Maxine Waters, who called the Trump family a "criminal enterprise."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2017 02:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another Mayo Clinic cranioptomy needed ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2017 3:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm afraid this cranial rectal inversion is terminal.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/17/2017 5:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Oil up the wheels on the little cart they used to pull Bob Byrd around the Senate floor...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/17/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Next for the McCain eyebrow treatment.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2017 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Win10 didn't take. You need a better platform to run that resource sucker.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  She is still running on WinME, P2K
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/17/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#7  She's just another typical democrat.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 07/17/2017 10:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Cut down on the wine, Nancy.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/17/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#9  I like the way Maxine rolls her eyes.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/17/2017 11:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Thinking the HAL 9000 power down scene from 2001- 'Da---i---sy, Da--i----sy, giiive me yourrrrrr..."
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/17/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Nancy is in perfect condition, I hope she leads the House demorats for another ten years, Couldn't find a better, more focused and aware leader, she's perfect for them....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/17/2017 17:09 Comments || Top||

#12  These Westworld rejects really need to be refurbished and get rid of their Windows OS.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/17/2017 19:47 Comments || Top||

#13  When Kamela Harris offered her a mixed drink, she shouldn't a took it.
Gotta clear that logjam somehow...
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/17/2017 20:47 Comments || Top||

#14  I just remembered I still have the installation disks for Windows 1.00. I think .00 but I forget exactly. For a Tandy 2000 iirc.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/17/2017 23:38 Comments || Top||

#15  I could lend them to Nan.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/17/2017 23:39 Comments || Top||


Conservatives launch war on Southern Poverty Law Center, promotes 'terrorism'
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A coalition of conservative groups whose advocacy has been labeled "hate" by the leftist media-darling Southern Poverty Law Center are launching a counteroffensive Monday, accusing it of fueling hate, killing free speech and even encouraging terrorist-style attacks on those it doesn't agree with.

The effort, which includes a video and planned Monday tweetstorm, takes aim at SPLC's so-called "hate map" which identifies groups it says promotes hate and extremism. It includes groups like the Ku Klux Klan, but also conservative nonprofits that promote traditional marriage, enforcement of immigration laws, and other policies it doesn't agree with.

The campaign, revealed to Secrets, is being led by the Washington-based Family Research Council, the social conservative policy giant whose entrance guard was shot in 2012 by a man inspired by SPLC's hate map that listed FRC as an anti-gay "hate" group.

"Despite SPLC's baggage -- which also includes connections to two liberal gunnies ‐ they continue to be cited as a credible source by mainstream media and others. With SPLC in the spotlight, we must expose this organization for what it really is ‐ a left wing smear group who has become exactly what they set out to fight, spreading hate and putting targets on people's backs," said a note to supporters from FRC, which also noted the support for the SPLC of the gunman who shot up a GOP congressional baseball practice, seriously injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
Posted by: Fred || 07/17/2017 00:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You need to kill it by getting their 501(c) status revoked.
Posted by: Raj || 07/17/2017 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  A few lawsuits for libel and slander could show them for who they are.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/17/2017 7:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I prefer the old school approach.

Lay siege to their complex, storm the place, burn it to the ground, plow it under and sow the furrows with salt.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/17/2017 14:41 Comments || Top||

#4  So conservatives have a new target other than Trump.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2017 19:11 Comments || Top||


Trump's Hungarian-American Attack Bulldog: Sebastian Lukacs Gorka
[Breitbart] "They cannot believe that the American people chose Donald J. Trump to be president," Gorka said. "As a result, they’re in this bubble. They’re in this psychological crisis. They’re tanking, so they spin, they spin. They want to make more money on ratings, so their corporate owners are happy. The only way to be successful in the short term and the long term is to do what you do Sean: It’s about truth. You say that you’re a conservative, but you’re interested in the truth whether it’s about Benghazi, the IRS scandal, Fast and Furious. They don’t care about the truth. Think about their professionalism or their lack of it. Could you imagine a Walter Cronkite or an Edward R. Murrow having a guest on their show and then after the interview ends in the next panel they insult the guest when he can’t defend himself? That’s what Anderson Cooper did this week. That’s just unprofessional."

Ironically, Gorka himself has been‐as Hannity noted‐the target of blatantly inaccurate fake news. Many in the media demonstrably inaccurately reported previously that Gorka was in trouble in the White House and potentially going to lose his position. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Breitbart News has reported.

From Wikipedia.org:

Gorka worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Defense during the prime ministership of József Antall.

Following the September 11 attacks, Gorka became a public figure in Hungary as a television counterterrorism expert. This led to his being asked in 2002 to serve as an official expert on the parliamentary investigatory committee created to uncover the Communist background of the new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy. Medgyessy had been an undercover officer in the Secret Police, the organization which had maintained the previous dictatorship and helped crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Gorka rejected Medgyessy's claims of having not spied on people when he was a secret policeman. Gorka failed to obtain the necessary security clearance from the Constitution Protection Office to serve on the committee, apparently because he was widely regarded as a spy working for British counterintelligence. Gorka defended himself against the charge by saying his service in the British army was merely as a uniformed member of its counterterrorist unit, tasked with assessing threats from groups such as the IRA.

In 2004, Gorka became an adjunct to the faculty of the new US initiative for the Program for Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS), a Defense Department-funded program based in the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. At the same time Gorka became an adjunct to USSOCOM's Joint Special Operations University, MacDill Air Force Base. He and his family relocated to the United States in 2008. He was hired as administrative dean at the National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington D.C. Two years later, he began to lecture part-time for the ASD(SOLIC)-funded Masters Program in Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism as part of the Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program but remained in a largely administrative role. In 2014 Gorka assumed the privately endowed Major General Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University Foundation. In August 2016, he joined The Institute of World Politics, a private institution, on a full-time basis as Professor of Strategy and Irregular Warfare and Vice President for National Security Support. He is on the advisory board of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA).

Between 2009 and 2011 Gorka wrote for the Hudson Institute of New York (now Gatestone Institute). Between 2011 and 2013, Gorka was an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. From 2014 to 2016, Gorka was an editor for national security affairs for the Breitbart News Network, where he worked for Stephen K. Bannon.
Posted by: Elmatch Elmoluns5932 || 07/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Knew him in Hungary when I was a diplomate there. He's a solid guy whose position on terrorism then is as is now- No mealymouthed BS.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 07/17/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 Yes, a very solid fellow. Glad he is on the winning side. Reminds me a bit of Nigel Farage.
Posted by: Dale || 07/17/2017 18:23 Comments || Top||



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  Leader Of ISIS In Afghanistan Killed By US Forces 3 Months After Assuming Command
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  40 ISIS troops die in battle with Iraqi forces in Salahuddin
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  Haftar's forces declare victory in battle for Benghazi
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