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46 killed, 100 injured in suicide attacks on 2 Yemen mosques
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Home Front: Politix
SEIU Hands Rahm a Dead Fish Endorsement
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/20/2015 11:01 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Bullet Ban Blowback - ATF Director to Resign

The man brought in to repair one of the nation's top law enforcement agencies after it was scarred by a gun-running scandal is stepping down, ABC News has learned.
remember: Eric Holder's Fast and Furious in which Americans and Mexicans were killed to promote gun control
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director B. Todd Jones has informed Attorney General Eric Holder he plans to resign, effective March 31. Jones has secured a new job in the private sector in New York City, and may be joining a professional sports league, ABC News was told.
the reason:
Last month, controversy simmered across the country again when the ATF proposed banning certain .223-caliber bullets, which the ATF warned can break through a supposedly bullet-proof vest. Nevertheless, the public outcry and pressure from lawmakers prompted ATF to abandon its plans.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/20/2015 14:03 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A resignation that will certainly get him hired at MSNBC or a book deal or whatever.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/20/2015 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe the play here would be to block any successor until Champ leaves office. Of course, that would take a Republican leadership with substantially more backbone than zero - which is what our current leadership has.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/20/2015 16:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director B. Todd Jones has informed Attorney General Eric Holder he plans to resign.

Abolish the lot! Turn the task over to the local and State Police.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/20/2015 16:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
Great name for a Texan shopping chain.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/20/2015 19:09 Comments || Top||

#5  El Cajon, CA (yep) has that covered at Hiram's Guns and Spirits.
Posted by: Anice Nim || 03/20/2015 20:36 Comments || Top||

#6  drive-thru
Posted by: Frank G || 03/20/2015 20:39 Comments || Top||


Government
Those farm subsidies? Yeah, a lot of the money went to billionaires
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/20/2015 12:33 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gotta payback the people that paid to put you in office after all.

Little wonder the Iowa GOP went to the mat to keep this going.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/20/2015 12:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Welfare state for landowners is as big as the one for the feckless.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/20/2015 12:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Subsidies tend to go to farm states who happen to be in an important position in the primaries. Its been dirty for a long time. We hear stories about poor family farmers when they are a small segment of the agroindustry.

I don't think there has ever been a subsidy that didn't become corrupt. The question is, how long does it take on average.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/20/2015 14:41 Comments || Top||

#4  rjs, it takes as long as the time to cash the first check.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/20/2015 16:08 Comments || Top||


Surprise! New Net Neutrality Regs Have Huge Loophole-ISP can throttle content
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/20/2015 12:30 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not surprising that the big business ISP got what they wanted from this administration.

Crony capitalism, aka fascism strikes again.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/20/2015 12:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Aha, Net "neutrality" was just there to help the rentier class loot even more.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/20/2015 13:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Neutrality has *never* been the goal - control has. Now they have it.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/20/2015 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  "We had to pass it to find out what's in it"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/20/2015 14:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Government - the only thing worse than the problems we create is our solutions!
Posted by: Iblis || 03/20/2015 15:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Thanks to all the hipsters for facilitating this piece of corporo-statist shit.

I hope you enjoy your mess of pottage on Pirate Bay. Idiots.
Posted by: charger || 03/20/2015 19:15 Comments || Top||

#7  ... And still answer as to how Mexico + Canada + Greenland will pay for OWG Globalist Amerika's way-of-life iff we pay for theirs ala NAU.

The more one asks or questions as per unilateral Federal intervention + condemnation, the more they risk seeing Hellfire-armed UAVS + Laser Beams close to home.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/20/2015 22:49 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2015-03-20
  46 killed, 100 injured in suicide attacks on 2 Yemen mosques
Thu 2015-03-19
  117 BIFF millitants, six soldiers killed so far
Wed 2015-03-18
  19 Killed in Attack at Tunisia Museum; 2 Gunmen Dead After Firefight
Tue 2015-03-17
  Baghdad seeks airstrikes to rid Tikrit of IS; Saddam tomb leveled
Mon 2015-03-16
  Iraqi forces poised for final Tikrit assault
Sun 2015-03-15
  Suicide bombers kill 14 people outside Pakistani churches
Sat 2015-03-14
  Iraqi offensive on Tikrit appears to stall
Fri 2015-03-13
  Clashes between Assad and Nusra forces kill 50
Thu 2015-03-12
  Iraqi army targets ISIS in Tikrit, regains major areas
Wed 2015-03-11
  Chad and Niger launch offensive against Boko Haram
Tue 2015-03-10
  Retreating ISIS blows up bridge in south Kirkuk
Mon 2015-03-09
  Yemen defense minister flees Sanaa to join president in Aden
Sun 2015-03-08
  Boko Haram leader pledges allegiance to IS
Sat 2015-03-07
  Advancing Iraq troops enter al-Dour
Fri 2015-03-06
  Blast hits Nusra Front in Syria, kills commander
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  Pakistani man found guilty in al-Qaeda plot to attack NYC subway


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