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Update Iraq: ISIS strips Mosul but leaves troops in place. Pentagon adopts...
Truck loads of critical gear and medicines were evacuated out of Mosul last week. Eye witness accounts from Mosul backed up by Kurdish eye-on-the-ground sources had them leaving the town headed up...
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John Birch Society (R): America's Third Major Political Party Holds a...
The Birchers need to win only another 50 seats to reach majority status in the House of Representatives. They hold 168 seats now. That's 50 more seats to reach majority status without support from...
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Where Is Financial Corruption Prosecuted ??? A Vice President Gets 5 Years?...
It can take a while. Years if the President of the country blocks investigation during his term. But once charges are filed and an investigation commences, there is no statute of limitations. And so,...
View ArticleWhat could go wrong? A crowded staircase and slogans, plus W.J. Clinton's...
I like Gerald Ashley. He tweeted this one: Please, when using the stairsStay to the right when going up stay to the left when going down.This will keep people from running into each other. What could...
View ArticleNRA's fake quotes come to DKOS. Hamilton, Washington, and Admiral Yamamoto...
No surprise, the gun-nuts make up quotes:-- “The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” ~Alexander Hamilton -- “Firearms are second only to the...
View Article"Jupiter Ascending": Capitalism gets a 2 hour, 7 minute review
O.K., it's another movie in the Space Opera genre. The high-level plot is based on Family. And damn, the FX knocks your socks off."Ho-hum" ??? Well, not. Mila Kunis is the lead. Tatum Channing rocks as...
View Article"Jupiter Ascending" 3D IMAX. Enter a loud, gorgeous universe where cruelty...
Combine elements of Puccini, Shakespeare, a plausible Cheney-Medici commercial dynasty, art work to die for and a staggering musical score from Michael Giacchino. Run the action through three major...
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Israel kills more anti-Islamists in Syria. Boehner: "Thanks, Bibi. Come by...
This is crazy stuff. The United States and Israel are on opposite sides in the ISIS War.Same time Jordan sends its Air Force in to pummel the Islamists, Israel under Bibi Netanyahu kills more of the...
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Michael Morrell (CIA, CBS) goes on Charlie Rose with severe anti-semitism...
"The Supreme Leader, Ali Khameini, recently called Israelis 'animals.'"This is presented as an official statement.Is this real? Or not?The actual quote relates to loss of life among civilians during...
View Article"Islamic" versus "Islamist." Republicans and Israel's Likudniks do their...
"Extremist Islamic Terrorists"An oxymoron."Islamic" is the generic term for all things Muslim. Used properly it applies to practicing Muslims regardless of country, sect, race, or sex.The murderer,...
View Article"Islamic terrorism" oxymoron runs up 819,000 usages on Da Google
There's more involved here than words."Islamist terrorism" is what you want to say when you talk about ISIS and al-Qaeda. They are properly "Islamist" because "Islamism" and "Salafism" are the names in...
View ArticleSusan Rice went on the Charlie Rose show for an hour
I'd have thought I was listening to Charlie interview somebody out of the Bush Administration.Everything Rice said about Iraq and Syria appeared to be either a political sham or the products of...
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R.I.P. Florence Cioffi -- Wall Street's Most Infamous Killing ::UPDATE
January 25th was the seventh anniversary of the slaughter of a Manhattan office worker, Florence Cioffi. She was 59 years old, a few days short of turning sixty. The criminal responsible was Enterprise...
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Text of the Netanyahu speech. There is one substantive, testable reference
I count 43 interruptions for applause.I count one substantive. That is Prime Minister Netanyahu's assertion that the twitter account of Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei was used to post statements calling for...
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Alrighty, then. What is happening at Tikrit ???
Back in September we had a telephone conversation with two men in Tikrit related to observance of Eid al-Adha. This holiday involves obtaining a meat animal, sacrifice/butchering, and distribution of...
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Nusrah Front's top general Abu Hammam al-Shami killed in Syria
Nusrah Front/al-Qaeda in Syria lost its military commander and another dozen of its regional leaders. Coalition air power was able to act on detailed intelligence reports to hit the right buildings at...
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Bad Week for the Black Flags in Syria and Iraq
All in all this looks to have been the worst week for the Islamists since May of 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed and his files and computers were seized in the same raid. For every Saudi/GCC proxy...
View ArticleAnd you think the Hillary email zingers are bad ? "She Left Me For Dead !!"
Might as well get this out of the way.The way Republicans hate Hillary is pretty close to the way they hate women generally. The way they hate taxes. The way they used to hate The Commies before they...
View ArticleReplay: Hillary-hatred, distrust-the-bxtch parody "She Left Me For Dead"...
Hating Hillary can get weird. Way weird.It's rooted in hate-the-bxtch whining. A concentrated analog of Limbaugh's blame-the-Libruls whining schtick. Far as I can tell, this is not because of her...
View ArticleNOT BREAKING: Media omit GOP47 ignorance of U.N. Security Council and 1968...
First the obvious:Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology,...
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