[FreeBeacon] White House plans for a radical shift in U.S. nuclear policy came under fire from the military leaders who voiced concerns to Congress on Thursday about adopting a so-called no-first-use weapons policy.
Strategic Command chief Adm. Cecil Haney warned that the policy shift could undermine global stability in deterring growing nuclear threats posed by Russia, China, and North Korea.
President Obama is considering adopting the no-first-use nuclear policy along with several other disarmament measures in his final months in office.
[Breitbart] RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Gov. Terry McAuliffe's action restoring the voting rights of more than 200,000 felons was unconstitutional, Virginia's highest court ruled Friday, siding with Republican lawmakers who said the governor overstepped his authority.
In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Virginia ordered the state to cancel the registration of the more than 11,000 felons who had signed up to vote so far under the governor's April executive order. Top Republicans called it "a major victory for the Constitution, the rule of law and the Commonwealth of Virginia."
"Our nation was founded on the principles of limited government and separation of powers. Those principles have once again withstood assault from the executive branch. This opinion is a sweeping rebuke of the governor’s unprecedented assertion of executive authority," House Speaker William Howell and Senate Majority Leader Thomas Norment said in a statement.
A spokesman for McAuliffe didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
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Let me guess... the court voted on party lines.
I'm all for some class of felons to get their rights back after a long period after prison where they show and prove they are rehabilitated and functioning members of society... but a governor simply can't declare it to be by fiat.
[Politico] Tim Kaine took advantage of the state's lax gift laws to receive an $18,000 Caribbean vacation, $5,500 in clothes and a trip to watch George Mason University play in the NCAA basketball Final Four during his years as lieutenant governor and governor, according to disclosures he filed.
Now a leading contender to be Hillary Clinton's running mate, Kaine reported more than $160,000 in gifts from 2001 to 2009, mostly for travel to and from political events and conferences, according to disclosures compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project. The givers included political supporters, a drug company that soon after bought a facility in Virginia, and Dominion, the state's biggest provider of electricity.
While legal under Virginia's unusually permissive ethics rules, the gifts could become attack-ad fodder after similar presents led to corruption charges for Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction the Supreme Court overturned Monday. Republicans could also use the records to portray Kaine as part of the self-dealing establishment in a cycle animated by hostility toward the political class.
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Carrier Air Conditioning manufacturer is as dangerous as ISIS? One thing Lurch and ISIS have in common. They both belong in the 6th century.
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Kerry said that most of the substances banned in the Montreal Protocol have increased the use of HFCs and claimed that the coolant was thousands of times more potent than CO2.
Unintended consequences? Wasn't it CFCs that were banned to protect the ozone? And the ban apparently did. And the HFCs that replaced the CFCs were much more costly. Now they are bad?
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Yeah, you just KNOW Lurch and Terayza just swelter and sweat in the name of climate change. What a pompous hypocritical fool
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The same logic they used to de-facto ban electronics manufacture in the US.
And now that I think about it, with this particular sliced and diced section of 'facts' the people in New England get to have their heat in the winter but the Southerners are just Class Enemies Destroying The Earth.
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And in commemmoration of the great climate change work and association with ISIS that Jawn Kerry has discovered, I present to Rantburgers Commander Cody's "Lost in the Ozone Again."
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Hillary Clinton named Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia to be her running mate Friday, selecting a battleground state politician with working-class roots and a fluency in Spanish, traits that she believes can bolster her chances to defeat Donald J. Trump in November.
Mrs. Clinton’s choice, which she announced via text message to supporters, came after her advisers spent months poring over potential vice-presidential candidates who could lift the Democratic ticket in an unpredictable race against Mr. Trump. In the end, Mrs. Clinton decided Mr. Kaine, 58, a former governor of Virginia who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and speaks fluent Spanish, had the qualifications and background and the personal chemistry with her to make the ticket a success. "Kaine and UnAbel"
~ Brit Hume
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Why always Mrs. Clinton? So we remember her experience includes living in the White House? Why not Ms. Clinton? Isn't that the 21st century imperative?
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Hildabeest
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Isn't he still wanted in China for killing the royal nephew?
[THEAMERICANMIRROR] There’s more evidence that the Democratic National Committee rigged the election against Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... and in favor of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Stettinius, Jr. ... WikiLeaks posted an email from Mark Paustenbach, the Democratic Party’s national press secretary & deputy communications director, to other staffers discussing how they could create an anti-Sanders narrative the described his campaign in disarray.
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The unspoken tragedy, an 'Anti-Bernie narrative' needed to be developed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Politico] Tim Kaine took advantage of the state's lax gift laws to receive an $18,000 Caribbean vacation, $5,500 in clothes and a trip to watch George Mason University play in the NCAA basketball Final Four during his years as lieutenant governor and governor, according to disclosures he filed.
[THEAMERICANMIRROR] There’s more evidence that the Democratic National Committee rigged the election against 
