Most people are aware of the nauseating fact that in American politics today, money talks far louder than actual policy. Nevertheless, it is always valuable to hear from an insider’s perspective the level of depravity our Democracy is willing to sink for a few extra millions. Congressman Alan Grayson may have failed to win Florida’s […]
Speaking at an international forum last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Israel”s anti-terror efforts, suggesting the United States could learn much from the Jewish state. In an address to the Valdai International Discussion Club, the Russian leader offered a critique of American foreign policy, particularly with regards to the Middle East and the spread
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International, Middle East, USAThe State Department on Wednesday issued a scathing condemnation of Israel after it issued building permits for 181 new homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, located in the southern part of the city. Jerusalem spokeswoman Brachie Sprung said plans in Gilo were first approved in 2012 and that Wednesday’s approvals were for “technical details
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Middle East, USADonald Trump would ask the Justice Department to investigate the intimidation of pro-Israel and Jewish students on American college campuses if elected president, according to a report by the Algemeiner news site. “Colleges are generally being far too lenient in allowing the pro-Palestinian community to deprive those in the pro-Israel camp of their First Amendment
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Middle East, USAMIAMI — When Donald Trump believes he’s winning, he stays on script. Looks like feels good about Florida. The Trump who marshaled his political army in downtown Miami on Wednesday rattled off a list of touchstone issues in Florida politics: the Herbert Hoover Dike in Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, Homestead Air Reserve Base. He talked
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USAA longtime Clinton ally and donor has a theory about black Republicans: They’re like the Jewish guards in concentration camps who tried to save their own skins by helping the Nazis kill Jews. In a hidden-camera video released Wednesday by Project Veritas Action, author and academic Benjamin R. Barber compared black Republicans to the “Sonderkommandos”
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USAOfficials have captured an Iowa man who is suspected of ambushing and killing two Des Moines-area police officers in separate shootings early Wednesday morning. Officials have not given a possible motive for the attack. Scott Michael Greene, 46, was detained without incident on a rural road after flagging down a state Department of Natural Resources
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There should be a special place in hell for officials who reach high office, then act in a manner that brings ridicule on their institutions. There are two candidates for that special place. One is the Director of the FBI, who has mucked up the presidential campaign at close to
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Ira Sharkansky, USAHILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Republicans rejoiced Wednesday morning after reopening the Orange County Republican Party headquarters, less than a month after someone firebombed the building. North Carolina GOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse said the reopening of the building has taken a “monumental effort” with the support of both Republicans and Democrats. “We don’t believe this represents
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USAIn June 2016 a woman who identified herself as “Jane Doe” filed a federal lawsuit against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. On Wednesday Jane Doe was set to speak to reporters with her attorney Lisa Bloom by her side and identify herself. Instead of a press conference with Jane Doe reporters were met by her
At the end of Thelma & Louise, the 1991 film for which Susan Sarandon is probably most famous, the two titular characters drive off a cliff instead of surrendering to law enforcement. The decision is lethal, but principled. The film’s final frame shows their blue Ford Thunderbird flying with slow, deadly grace into the Grand
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAA New Hampshire geometry teacher has been removed from the classroom after she was seen in a video dancing to the song, “F— Donald Trump,” while dressed as the Republican presidential nominee. The video, which was posted on some parents’ Facebook pages Monday, showed Portsmouth High School teacher Kara Kelley bouncing and waving her arms
Republican state legislator Sid Miller of Texas, a campaign surrogate for Republican nominee Donald Trump, referred to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as a “cunt” Tuesday on Twitter. Miller, who is the GOP nominee for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, has since deleted the Tweet. He first defended himself on Twitter by claiming his account was hacked.
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USAWith about a week to go until Election Day, Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee Bill Weld said he’s “vouching for” Hillary Clinton amid a renewed FBI probe and that he fears for the country if Donald Trump is elected. “I’m here vouching for Mrs. Clinton, and I think it’s high time somebody did,” Mr. Weld
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