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Terror suspect to plead guilty to plotting attack on Guard base Chicago Sun-Times, by Jon Seidel    Original Article Posted By: brianod1- 12/9/2015 12:11:07 PM     Post Reply One of two Aurora men accused of plotting an attack on an Illinois National Guard base in Joliet is expected to plead guilty Wednesday. Jonas Edmonds is expected to admit his guilt in front of U.S. District Judge John Lee. His cousin, Hasan Edmonds, is expected to plead guilty Monday. Federal prosecutors said Jonas Edmonds hoped to kill as many as 120 U.S. soldiers in Illinois after his cousin left to join Islamic State fighters overseas. Hasan Edmonds served with the 634th Brigade Support Battalion in Joliet, Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul: Hillary Clinton ‘Responsible’ for Islamic State Breitbart Big Government, by Charlie Spiering    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/9/2015 12:09:58 PM     Post Reply Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) 63% blames President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the rise of the Islamic State. “I would say that she and the president are responsible for ISIS rearing its ugly head,” McCaul said, during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters in Washington D.C. this morning. He argued that any Republican nominee for president would have a huge advantage over Clinton in 2016 as it was clear that the issue of national security was paramount among voters. “I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect San Bernardino attackers talked ‘about jihad and martyrdom’ in 2013 Washington Post, by Adam Goldman and Mark Berman    Original Article Posted By: earlybird- 12/9/2015 12:03:11 PM     Post Reply The attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino last week were discussing jihad at least two years before they opened fire in California, the FBI director said Wednesday.(Snip)Syed Rizwan Farook, a 28-year-old county health inspector, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, had begun communicating online, Comey said. It was during these communications that they began discussing jihadist thoughts, long before Malik traveled to the United States and they got married. “And online, as early as the end as 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they become engaged and married and then lived together Students demand college rename ‘Lynch’ building because of racial overtones New York Post, by Joe Tacopino    Original Article Posted By: Ribicon- 12/9/2015 11:58:12 AM     Post Reply Protesters at a Pennsylvania college are demanding that the school rename a building called Lynch Memorial Hall because of the racial overtones of the word “lynch.” The group of students at Lebanon Valley College submitted a list of demands to the administrators, including nixing the name of the building devoted to the college’s former president, Clyde A. Lynch. “All of the hate at this school makes me want to cry,” one student, Lacey Eriksen, wrote on Twitter about the protest. Student organizers said the college needed to address “institutional injustices” on the campus. “It’s a rare moment here at Lebanon

The method behind Obama’s madness — and Trump’s New York Post, by John Podhoretz    Original Article Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/9/2015 11:16:13 AM     Post Reply Is America having a political nervous breakdown? On Sunday night, the president of the United States told a country reeling from attacks in Paris and California and a rampaging terrorist pseudo-state in Syria and Iraq that his strategy against ISIS was working. On Monday, reeling himself from a poll showing him on the path to defeat in Iowa, Donald Trump declared that all Muslims should be denied entry into the United States, including its own citizens who are outside the country on a trip. In the days following the San Bernardino attack, liberals focused not on the likelihood that Islamic radicals trained and John Kerry should recognize Christian genocide USA Today, by Kirsten Powers    Original Article Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/9/2015 11:12:57 AM     Post Reply In October, Islamic State militants in Syria demanded that two Christian women and six men convert to Islam. When they refused, the women were publicly raped and then beheaded along with the men. On the same day, militants cut off the fingertips of a 12-year-old boy in an attempt to force his Christian father to convert. When his father refused, they were brutalized and then crucified. This has become the plight of Christians in the Middle East at the hands of the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIL or ISIS. Beheadings, crucifixions and enslavement are visited on those who Merkel Becomes Fourth Woman Since 1927 to be Named Person of the Year Time, by Lily Rothman    Original Article Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/9/2015 11:11:16 AM     Post Reply The year that TIME first chose a woman to fill the Man of the Year slot, the woman in question was so controversial that the legendary feminist Carrie Chapman Catt stopped issuing her own annual “Women of the Year” list in order to avoid having to include her. That anecdote was all the more reason for TIME’s editors to give the title for 1936 to the woman in question: Wallis Warfield Simpson, the divorcée for whom King Edward VIII had given up the British throne. Queen Elizabeth II was the next individual woman to be given the title, and the third Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act New York Times, by Robert Pear    Original Article Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/9/2015 11:05:57 AM     Post Reply WASHINGTON — A little-noticed health care provision that Senator Marco Rubio of Florida slipped into a giant spending law last year has tangled up the Obama administration, sent tremors through health insurance markets and rattled confidence in the durability of President Obama’s signature health law. So for all the Republican talk about dismantling the Affordable Care Act, one Republican presidential hopeful has actually done something toward achieving that goal. Mr. Rubio’s efforts against the so-called risk corridor provision of the health law has hardly risen to the forefront of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his plan limiting how much Editorial: Time to Dump Trump Boston Herald, by Editorial    Original Article Posted By: Moritz55- 12/9/2015 10:43:24 AM     Post Reply Three days ago this newspaper ran a front-page story in which Muslim leaders called on their brothers and sisters in faith to condemn any radical extremism within their ranks. The Republican Party could really use its own “Not in our name!” campaign to marginalize Donald Trump. Trump isn’t a real Republican, of course. He isn’t even a real conservative. The lifelong showman is playing a role. And while his increasingly off-the-wall performance art doesn’t represent the majority view of Republicans, it is resonating with many angry and fearful voters, giving him greater standing than he deserves and damaging the GOP

The Obamas Rise To The Christmas Tree Occasion Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm    Original Article Posted By: SurferLad- 12/9/2015 10:12:00 AM     Post Reply The Obamas make do this year with only 62 Christmas trees. Once again, the Obamas won´t be in the White House for Christmas this year. They´ll soon be making the nine-hour flight west with staff, family and friends to another rented island house for two weeks. But that doesn´t stop the first family from having a wintry storm of holiday decorations put up around their temporary public housing. As usual, an estimated 65,000 visitors with special tickets will see the indoor holiday sights. This year the people's house will have 62 Christmas trees, 54 fake snowmen and — to be PC — snowwomen. What Did Ted Cruz And Marco Rubio Learn From George W. Bush? The Federalist, by Ben Domenech    Original Article Posted By: Moritz55- 12/9/2015 9:57:42 AM     Post Reply An interesting and somewhat unexpected argument is beginning to take shape in the context of the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary between the two most prominent Tea Party Senators running for the nomination – Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. It is compelling because it demonstrates a real gap in terms of vision and priorities, but also because it speaks to very divergent views of the lessons of George W. Bush’s presidency, and how those lessons ought to be applied to the role of a future Commander in Chief. It was technically Marco Rubio who fired the first shot – responding to Ted Rick Santorum Wants to Know Whether Bill Clinton Started Abortion Rumors Washington Free Beacon, by Brent Scher    Original Article Posted By: Drive- 12/9/2015 9:36:33 AM     Post Reply Rick Santorum said he suspects rumors that he and his wife have been lying about the circumstances of their own child’s death may have originated with Bill Clinton’s White House. As the Santorums were grieving the loss of their son, Gabriel, an article appeared on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer that accused them of having a late-term abortion. “It was so painful to my family, specifically to my wife, I can’t even begin to explain,” Santorum told the Washington Free Beacon. “You lose a child and you go through the grief and depression from that, and then somebody Odd Man Out: What Happened to the Third Shooter? American Spectator, by Arnold Ahlert    Original Article Posted By: mc squared- 12/9/2015 9:36:03 AM     Post Reply This is one American who does not have high expectations for our mainstream media. Yet, is it too much to expect a moderate level of curiosity about a critical part of a major story… even if it is not in line with the progressive agenda? Apparently so, as two nagging questions about the terrorist attack in San Bernardino remain unanswered. Worse, they remain unasked! First, what ever happened to the third shooter? Using several search parameters, one can find a substantial number of media reports on the day of the shooting indicating that police were searching for three suspects. In Muslim Population Increasing Faster Than Entire World Population Washington Free Beacon, by Adam Kredo    Original Article Posted By: Toledo- 12/9/2015 9:34:09 AM     Post Reply The Muslim population is the fastest-growing religious group in the world with adherents of Islam set to eclipse the number of Christians by the end of the century, according to the Pew research firm. The disclosure of these statistics comes on the heels of a fierce national debate about Muslim immigration to the United States and the threat of potentially allowing terrorism-linked individuals to obtain citizenship. The United States is expected to grant at least 660,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim-majority nations within the next five years, according to statistics issued by the Department http://www.lucianne.com/?s=4965

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ISIS Pilots Training in Libya FrontPage Magazine, by Kenneth R. Timmerman    Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/9/2015 1:29:14 PM     Post Reply ISIS is now training pilots for future terrorist missions on an imported flight simulator in Libya, according to Arabic media reports citing Libyan and Egyptian military officials. (Snip) But far more unsettling is the thought that ISIS might train pilots on commercial jetliners, just as al Qaeda did before the 9/11 attacks. Although it is not well known, the Iranian regime imported a Boeing 757/767/777 simulator and used it to train some of the 9/11 pilots for their final mission. This is one of many little reported facts that emerged from the Iran-9/11 case in New York that ultimately convinced a Obama Scolds America on 150th Anniversary of End of Slavery – “Original Sin” Still With Us (Video) Gateway Pundit, by Jim Hoft    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/9/2015 1:25:25 PM     Post Reply He just can’t help it. The United States was one of the first countries to liberate slaves and end the practice of slavery. (Photo) Hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives in Civil War so that that men and women they would never meet would one day walk free. Many Muslim countries still buy and sell slaves. Today Barack Obama marked the 150th anniversary of the abolishment of slavery and involuntary servitude, a law passed by Republicans and signed by Republican President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. by lecturing America for its “original sin.” Obama scolded America for its “original Ted Cruz Is a ´Toned-Down´ Donald Trump, Say the Senator´s Backers Bloomberg, by Kevin Cirilli    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/9/2015 1:14:46 PM     Post Reply (Video) To hear Ted Cruz´s backers tell it, the firebrand U.S. senator from Texas is Donald Trump with a pinch of reason and electability. The Cruz presidential campaign has the most to gain from Trump´s roundly condemned pitch to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S., several Cruz Iowa backers said in separate phone interviews Tuesday. Their reasoning: By contrast, Cruz´s positions come off as more politically mainstream. “This makes Senator Cruz seem much more sane,” Iowa state Senator Dennis Guth told Bloomberg Politics. “Cruz is like Trump, but at a toned-down level,” echoed state Senator Jake Chapman. “He´s not

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Israel it is! Donald Trump will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an Israel visit later this month - but he won´t be stopping in largely-Muslim Jordan Associated Press*, by Staff    Original Article Posted By: Drive- 12/9/2015 1:09:53 PM     Post Reply Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will visit Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 28, even as he faces fierce criticism, including in the Jewish state, over anti-Muslim comments. An Israeli government official, who confirmed the meeting on condition of anonymity to AFP, said the trip had been scheduled two weeks ago, before the controversy over Trump´s call to bar Muslims from entering the United States. Trump was also reportedly set to head to Jordan during this trip to the Middle East, a report he knocked down yesterday on Twitter. ´Trump´s not wrong – we can´t wear uniform in our OWN cars´: Five police officers claim Donald Trump is RIGHT about parts of London being so ´radicalised´ they are no-go areas Daily Mail (UK), by Martin Robinson    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/9/2015 1:06:42 PM     Post Reply Serving police officers today backed Donald Trump´s claim that some Muslim communities in the UK are no-go areas because of extremism. Several Met officers have said the ´Islamification´ of some parts of the capital requires ´extra vigilance´ and they can´t wear uniforms for safety reasons - despite Scotland Yard claiming the tycoon ´couldn´t be more wrong´. Yesterday the US presidential contender caused worldwide consternation after a string of incendiary remarks about Muslims, including in Britain, and said: ´We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that police are afraid for their own lives.´ But one serving Former Kansas GOP Sen. Bob Dole criticizes Trump, Cruz Kansas City Star (KS), by Curtis Tate    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/9/2015 12:51:05 PM     Post Reply WASHINGTON -Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole said the current leading presidential candidates for 2016 are “over the top” and “extreme” and he might “oversleep” if Texas Sen. Ted Cruz became the party’s nominee. Dole, the party’s 1996 Republican presidential nominee, said in an interview with MSNBC that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who’s been polling consistently in the single digits, is the “most qualified” to be president. But he said that even Ronald Reagan would have trouble getting the nomination today. “I thought this was going to be the year of the governor,” said Dole, 92, who lost the 1996 Cruz Skips ISIS Hearing for Fox News Appearance, NY Fundraiser National Review Online, by Elaina Plott    Original Article Posted By: MissMolly- 12/9/2015 12:37:12 PM     Post Reply Texas senator Ted Cruz skipped Wednesday’s Armed Services Committee hearing on the American strategy to counter the Islamic State. Instead, he was making an appearance on Fox News and then set to attend a fundraiser in New York City. Cruz was the only committee Republican not to attend, the committee’s office confirmed. Cruz watched a portion of the hearing from a split screen while appearing on America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer in Manhattan. He told Hemmer he was “working to lead on defending this nation against ISIS, on standing up [to] radical Islamic terrorism.” His next event today, a fundraising

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Former Army chief of staff: Of course you need ground troops to destroy ISIS Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey    Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 12/9/2015 12:34:39 PM     Post Reply Don’t tell Ray Odierno that Barack Obama doesn’t want to put boots on the ground. As he tells Joe Scarborough and the Morning Joe panel in this segment, the US already has boots on the ground — we just don’t have enough of them. A few dozen commandos won’t suffice, Odierno warns. Until we put a significant number of troops in the theater, our allies in the region won’t risk it either. And make no mistake, Odierno says, that’s what it will take to “destroy” ISIS. As the former Army chief of staff says, air power alone has never dislodged Why I Caved on Guns When I Ran for Governor of Texas Politico, by Wendy Davis    Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 12/9/2015 12:30:35 PM     Post Reply I am a lifelong Democrat. I proudly boast an “F” rating from the NRA. And, yet during my 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Texas, I supported the open carry of handguns in my state. It is a position that haunts me. Every few months, on the heels of a shooting that devastates a different corner of America, we find ourselves arriving at exactly the same place: Republicans offer their prayers; some offer up the idea of focusing our attention on mental health; almost none of them mention guns. Democrats talk background checks, magazine limits, closing the gun-show loophole and, ultimately, get exasperated. In Nets Tout Trump Could ‘Gift Wrap the White House’ for Hillary Newsbusters, by Kyle Drennen    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/9/2015 12:15:57 PM     Post Reply On Wednesday, all three network morning shows eagerly seized on the latest Donald Trump controversy to boost Hillary Clinton’s 2016 chances. On NBC’s Today, correspondent Peter Alexander proclaimed: “For the Grand Old Party, an urgent dilemma, fail to stand up to Trump and risk long-term damage to the party or confront Trump and risk his running as an independent....A Trump third-party bid would likely gift wrap the White House for Hillary Clinton.” At the top of the 8 a.m. ET hour, Alexander reiterated: “Republicans are really in a tight spot here, with real concerns that Trump could just leave the Lost property: Malaysia seeks owners of three Boeing 747s abandoned at airport Guardian [UK], by Oliver Holmes    Original Article Posted By: Ribicon- 12/9/2015 12:14:54 PM     Post Reply Bangkok—Malaysia’s airport operator is seeking the “untraceable” owner of three unclaimed double-decker passenger jets that have been parked and left at Kuala Lumpur international airport for more than a year. The operator, Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd, placed a notice this week in the English-language daily newspaper the Star, saying that if the Boeing 747-200F planes were not collected within two weeks, “we reserve the right to sell or otherwise dispose of the aircraft”. (Snip) “We have been in communication with the so-called owner, but they have not been responding to take away the aircraft. That’s why we go http://www.lucianne.com/?s=4965

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San Bernardino was Garland Without Guns Breitbart Big Government, by Pamela Geller    Original Article Posted By: happywarrior- 12/10/2015 9:28:54 AM     Post Reply The similarities between the jihad attack on our American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) free speech event last May in Garland, Texas and the San Bernardino jihad slaughter are both striking and unnerving. Both events – our Muhammad Cartoon Contest and the San Bernardino Christmas party — offended Muslims. Both events violated the sharia: one was an art exhibit with depictions of Muhammad in art and literature over the past 1400 years, and the other celebrated a Christian holiday. Both deeply offensive to Muslims. The jihadis in both attacks trained at shooting ranges. The jihadis in both attacks were also “radicalized” Ted Cruz to pick up key Iowa endorsement, boosting his shot for the GOP presidential nomination New York Daily News, by Cameron Joseph    Original Article Posted By: shalimar- 12/10/2015 9:27:41 AM     Post Reply WASHINGTON — While Donald Trump is making all the noise, Ted Cruz is quietly assembling a coalition that could win him Iowa and boost him toward the nomination, a prospect that scares party elders almost as much as seeing Trump as the nominee. On Thursday, Cruz will be endorsed by Bob Vander Plaats, the most influential leader in Iowa´s powerful religious conservative movement. Cruz already has the backing of the state´s most popular conservative politician, Rep. Steve King, and the most-listened to right-wing radio host, Steve Deace. The Growing Threat Of "Dark Matter" Regulations Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff    Original Article Posted By: RockyTCB- 12/10/2015 9:26:15 AM     Post Reply Big Government: Civics books say the U.S. is a representative democracy. But the truth is that it´s increasingly becoming a regulatory dictatorship, a trend made clear in a disturbing new report on the scale of federal rules. In his seven years in office, President Obama has signed 895 bills into law. Over the same period, federal regulators issued 24,478 rules. If you want an example of how unaccountable the federal government has become, it doesn´t get much better than that. The regulatory state is so massive that the government doesn´t even know how many regulatory agencies there are. Counts range from a Is Marco Rubio the GOP’s Bill Clinton? Daily Beast, by Eleanor Clift    Original Article Posted By: jackson- 12/10/2015 9:13:53 AM     Post Reply In more ordinary political times, Marco Rubio’s position on abortion, opposing any exceptions, not even for rape and incest, would be a career-ender on a national ticket. But in an election cycle where more rules have been broken than kept, Rubio has found a way to wiggle out of the most extreme interpretation of what he said in the GOP’s first presidential debate, and it goes like this: My preference is the position of my church. I have supported in the past and would support in the future bills with exceptions. I want to save as many lives as possible.

Second Suspicious Cellphone Purchase at Mid-Missouri Walmart Gateway Pundit, by Jim Hoft    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/10/2015 8:35:03 AM     Post Reply Early Saturday morning two “foreign speaking” men set off alarms after they entered the local Walmart store in Lebanon, Missouri and purchased 60 cellphones. The purchase was made around 4 AM in the morning. Police were called but released the men saying they didn’t have a legal reason to detain them. Now this… The Macon County Sheriff’s office is investigating a second suspicious purchase of dozens of cellphones at the Columbia Walmart on Conley Road. ABC 17 reported: ABC 17 News learned Wednesday night that the Macon County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a suspicious purchase of multiple cell phones at the Macon Tripwire Alert – GOPe Signals Intent To Use “Mississippi Strategy” Against Trump After Trump’s Primary Victory…. Conservative Treehouse, by Sundance    Original Article Posted By: earlybird- 12/10/2015 8:26:46 AM     Post Reply Remember Mississippi ? The professional apparatus of the Republican Party are signaling their intent to do exactly what we predicted they would do. Trump will win the primary, and the GOPe will split the party to run an additional candidate in the general election. It’s not Trump going third party – It’s the establishment GOP (GOPe) intending to go third party. They are planning a modified version of the Mississippi Strategy from 2014.In order to pull off the “Mississippi Plan” nationally, and specifically because of the ideological severity which will be obvious within their approach, the GOPe need to begin planting the Trump ´postpones´ Israel trip after Netanyahu criticism CNN, by Tom LoBianco    Original Article Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/10/2015 8:18:13 AM     Post Reply Washington- Donald Trump said Thursday that he is postponing his trip to Israel, just a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned his proposal to ban U.S. travel for all Muslims. "I have decided to postpone my trip to Israel and to schedule my meeting with @Netanyahu at a later date after I become President of the U.S.," Trump tweeted. Trump had planned to meet with Netanyahu December 28 in Israel, according to an Israeli government official, but shortly after the meeting was reported, Netanyahu´s office condemned Trump´s comments about Muslims. Former Guantanamo detainee appears in latest Al Qaeda in Yemen video Fox News, by Staff    Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/10/2015 8:15:26 AM     Post Reply A former Guantanamo detainee has appeared in the latest video released this week by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Among the senior Al Qaeda leaders featured in the video is Ibrahim al-Qosi, who was transferred to his native Sudan in July 2012 after being held for 10 years at the U.S. base in Cuba. According to the Foundation For Defense of Democracies´ Long War Journal blog, al-Qosi joined AQAP last year and has since become one of its leaders. The video, entitled "Guardians of Sharia" shows al-Qosi and other AQAP commanders discussing the terror group´s policy of encouraging

Where Justice Scalia got the idea that African Americans might be better off at ‘slower-track’ universities Washington Post, by Yanan Wang    Original Article Posted By: Honeybadger- 12/10/2015 8:14:43 AM     Post Reply Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, no stranger to controversy, drew fire Wednesday after suggesting that African American students might be better off attending “slower-track” universities. During a hearing of oral arguments for the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, to decide whether race-conscious admissions should be upheld at Texas’s flagship university, Scalia cited “those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school — a slower-track school where they do well.” He went on to Why did American satisfaction plunge so sharply? Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm    Original Article Posted By: SurferLad- 12/10/2015 8:13:19 AM     Post Reply Quite frankly, it´s not looking good for Barack Obama´s prospects to win a third presidential term. Of course, another 1,461 days in the White House is not constitutionally possible for him. But if it was, a new Gallup Poll on the national mood of Americans finds the incumbent would have a difficult time convincing voters this time. Oh, wait! That means the job of selling four more years of liberal Democrat rule will fall to Hillary Clinton, barring an unlikely surge by former Maryland Gov. Martin O´Malley. Initially, the expectation was Trump gets South Carolina bump after releasing Muslim policy Washington Examiner [DC], by Curt Mills    Original Article Posted By: Honeybadger- 12/10/2015 8:11:51 AM     Post Reply Businessman Donald Trump received a bump in South Carolina after unvieling a policy to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., according to a Fox News poll. The survey has Trump leading with 35 percent among South Carolina Republican primary voters, Ben Carson with 15 percent and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio at 14 percent each. More tellingly, Fox released a further breakdown of the poll, suggesting Trump gained momentum after he released his policy on barring Muslim immigration, which drew widespread comdemnation among Democrats and Republicans alike. "The poll, released Wednesday, was conducted Saturday through Tuesday evenings," Fox News noted. Here Are The Most Glaring Examples Of Favoritism Revealed In Hillary’s Emails So Far Daily Caller, by Chuck Ross    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/10/2015 7:56:07 AM     Post Reply Perhaps the clearest examples of favoritism revealed in Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails are those she received from her longtime friend, Sidney Blumenthal. The records show that the journalist-turned-political hatchetman frequently emailed Clinton political gossip, intelligence reports, and news clippings he believed she’d find interesting. He also often emailed her advice on how to handle geopolitical issues. And in many cases, Clinton appeared to go along with his suggestions — decisions from which Blumenthal stood to gain due to his undisclosed consulting gigs with interested parties. But the Clinton emails — which have been released in seven batches so far Trump vindicated: London police do fear for their lives entering Muslim enclaves American Thinker, by Carol Brown    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/10/2015 7:53:07 AM     Post Reply Historically, dhimmitude has been second-class citizen status imposed on non-believers by Muslims. But now we are witnessing an unprecedented phenomenon whereby Westerners willingly embrace dhimmitude. Muslims don’t have to force it on them. Westerners willingly sign up. Go figure. There are countless examples of voluntary dhimmitude around the world. This blog is about places in the UK where policing has become dysfunctional, if it exists at all, as sharia law is allowed to take hold. The blog also touches upon the UK’s potential ban of Donald Trump. Breitbart reports on the current state of policing in and around London, where one

Law and Order Returns Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Henninger    Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 12/10/2015 7:50:15 AM     Post Reply With the terrorist massacre Dec. 2 in San Bernardino, the law-and-order issue returns to presidential politics. From 1968 into the 1980s, law and order was a domestic issue that damaged the Democrats and defeated their presidential candidates. One phrase will revive the memory: “Soft on crime.” This time it’s different. Today the law-and-order problem stretches from San Bernardino to Chicago to Syria. Same question, though: Will the Democrats protect us? Barack Obama gave that speech Sunday because the White House realized that leading from behind on terrorism means you are . . . behind. The problem is, once you fall behind the curve Photos of missing Afghans withheld Valdosta Daily Times, by Jim Zachary    Original Article Posted By: Hermoine- 12/10/2015 6:52:51 AM     Post Reply MOODY AIR FORCE BASE — Moody Air Force Base officials are not releasing the names or photographs of two missing Afghan trainees. Capt. Korey Fratini said Wednesday the decision to not release the names is a U.S. Air Force decision and not one that has been made by the base commander. “It is a matter of policy,” Fratini told The Valdosta Daily Times. The Air Force has maintained a policy of not releasing the names or images of any Afghan personnel in the interest of their personal safety and the safety of their families back in Afghanistan, the captain said. Fratini said the Supreme Court Justices’ Comments Don’t Bode Well for Affirmative Action New York Times, by Adam Liptak    Original Article Posted By: Lalo- 12/10/2015 6:43:16 AM     Post Reply WASHINGTON — An affirmative action plan at the University of Texas seemed to be in trouble at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. By the end of an unusually long and tense argument, a majority of the justices appeared unpersuaded that the plan was constitutional. A ruling against the university could imperil affirmative action at colleges and universities around the nation. In a remark that drew muted gasps in the courtroom, Justice Antonin Scalia said that minority students with inferior academic credentials may be better off at “a less advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.” “I don’t think Why Does Obama Call ISIS ´ISIL´? American Thinker, by Amil Imani    Original Article Posted By: magnante- 12/10/2015 6:42:08 AM     Post Reply Many who closely follow the dueling Islamic terror narratives emanating from the White House are mystified by Mr. Obama´s inability (or deliberate unwillingness) to utter the phrase "Islamic terrorists." Many are curious, too, about why he refuses to call ISIS "ISIS," steadfastly insisting instead that everybody in his administration call the terror group "ISIL." What´s the difference, and why is it important? The agendas behind each diverge widely. In fact, the variance between the two is elephantine in scale. (snip) His use of ISIL could be a strong indication that he supports re-establishing Muslim rule and sharia law throughout the Terrorists, pal got cold feet prior to 2012 plot New York Post, by Laura Italiano and Yaron Steinbuch    Original Article Posted By: Lalo- 12/10/2015 6:27:46 AM     Post Reply Years before he met his rifle-slinging Pakistani bride, San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan ­Farook plotted jihad with his boyhood next-door neighbor in 2012, it was revealed Wednesday. Farook’s pal, Islam-convert ­Enrique Marquez, had by then purchased the firepower to pull off an attack: the very same two AR-15s that Farook and wife Tashfeen ­Malik would use last week in slaughtering 14 people at the Inland Regional Center. A specific target was weighed, CNN reported, citing two US officials, though they did not identify it. But Marquez, who is cooperating with the FBI, has told investigators that he

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ch: Michelle Obama Rapping In The White House Breitbart Big Government, by Charlie Spiering    Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/10/2015 10:23:36 AM     Post Reply First Lady Michelle Obama is featured in a new rap video about the importance of going to college, even lending her voice to part of the track. “Southside Chicago, we all know, we had to do overtime every night to make it tomorrow,” she raps, highlighting her biography. ”And everyone could really make their dream true. Hey, kid listenin’ in Michigan that could be you!” The video, produced by College Humor, features SNL comedian Jay Pharaoh and the First Lady in a number of scenes at the White House including one where she is recording in a makeshift studio inside the Jewell: No ´criminal activity´ in mine spill Associated Press, by Matthew Brown    Original Article Posted By: cjjeepercreeper- 12/10/2015 9:48:49 AM     Post Reply BILLINGS, Mont. — Republicans alleged a “whitewash” of a Colorado mining accident that unleashed 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater and requested a nonpartisan investigation after Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Wednesday she’d seen no evidence of criminal negligence in the case. The spill was triggered by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cleanup crew doing excavation work in August at the inactive Gold King mine near Silverton, Colorado. It fouled rivers in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico with contaminants including arsenic and lead, temporarily shutting down drinking water supplies and raising concerns about long-term impacts to agriculture. The accident prompted harsh criticism See How NPR Hacks Up Testy Interview with Ted Cruz Newsbusters, by Tim Graham    Original Article Posted By: JoniTx- 12/10/2015 9:46:15 AM     Post Reply NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is a big fan of President Obama, and when he interviews him, he helpfully sets him up. In a recent interview on race relations, Inskeep added little prompts instead of questions. That’s not what Ted Cruz received on Wednesday’s show. Inskeep was blunt when discussing the new Trump idea of banning Muslims from entering America: STEVE INSKEEP: All this led to a bottom-line question when Senator Cruz visited our studios. [To Cruz] Which Muslims do you want to keep out of the United States? TED CRUZ: Well, I´m not sure that´s the way I

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ObamaCare Mandate Penalties Spike In 2016, But Will Anyone Care? Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline    Original Article Posted By: RockyTCB- 12/10/2015 9:40:53 AM     Post Reply A central feature of ObamaCare is the requirement that everyone buy insurance or face a tax penalty. But no one seems to know how effective this penalty, which is set to more than double next year, will be. "A key area of uncertainty for 2016 is how much the increased penalties will encourage uninsured people to obtain coverage," notes a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. But there are hints that it won´t be nearly as effective as ObamaCare architects believed. First, the administration recently downgraded enrollment expectations for next year, despite the fact that the mandate penalty for being uninsured will more Iowa gov predicts Trump loss in Hawkeye State CNN, by Tom LoBianco    Original Article Posted By: Toledo- 12/10/2015 9:40:44 AM     Post Reply Washington- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad predicted Thursday that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump would lose his state´s caucuses, despite the billionaire developer´s continued perch atop the polls there. "I think it will change between now and February 1. I have a lot of confidence in the Iowa voters in making that decision," Branstad told CNN´s Chris Cuomo on "New Day." Trump trailed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the most recent Monmouth University survey of Iowa Republicans 24%-19%, but a CNN/ORC poll released the same day found Trump still dominating the field with 33% support. Branstad, a powerful figure in Iowa Republican politics who A Simple Question on Benghazi, and Clinton’s Answer National Review Online, by Ramesh Ponnuru    Original Article Posted By: Toledo- 12/10/2015 9:29:36 AM     Post Reply Guy Benson: She was asked a direct question: Did she, or did she not, tell those family members that the Internet film was responsible for their loved ones’ deaths? She says she did not. This is a direct contradiction of very explicit memories shared on the record by multiple people who have far less incentive to lie than, say, a truth-challenged politician seeking power. . . . Here we have the presumptive Democratic nominee essentially arguing that Benghazi victims’ relatives are either forgetful simpletons, or liars. How mysterious that they all “forgot” in exactly the same way, and that their Trump´s lesson for the GOP American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson    Original Article Posted By: magnante- 12/10/2015 9:29:13 AM     Post Reply Finally, some Trump opponents are starting to get a clue. Ace of Spades HQ has an excellent analysis of Trump’s rise in support, and why it will continue unless others in the GOP take a clue from him. Ace is no supporter of Trump, but he understands the essential role he is playing in countering the default of the GOP establishment in challenging the leftist hegemony over the boundaries of political discussion. (snip) By controlling the media and academy, the Left has controlled the terms of acceptable discourse. It is no longer permitted to question same sex marriage, for instance, whereas http://www.lucianne.com/?s=4965

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Disorder in Shariah courts

Washington Times, by Cal Thomas    Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 12/12/2015 4:35:11 AM     Post Reply

LONDON — Set aside for a moment the violent incidents associated with people claiming to act under the authority of their Islamic faith and consider instead what passes for normalcy. Some in Britain would like to elevate to the level of wide-scale acceptance Shariah law, an Islamic legal system predicated on the religious tenets of Islam. “A number of Shariah councils operate in the [United Kingdom] to offer resolution to disputes,” writes The Express, but currently “they have no jurisdiction in criminal matters.” Not yet, anyway. There is a campaign underway to make a United Kingdom suburb Britain’s Shariah-law zone. “Former Archbishop

Holiday disaster looms as UPS, FedEx overloaded after online shopping soars

Business Insider, by Hayley Peterson    Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/12/2015 4:31:39 AM     Post Reply

An unexpected surge in online purchases is putting pressure on UPS and FedEx to get packages out on time this holiday season, and that could result in extra costs for retailers. Retailers like Target broke online-sales records on Thanksgiving Day and the following Monday this year after luring shoppers with discounts. Broadly, online sales from the long weekend totaled $11 billion this year, according to Adobe Digital Index. But the rush is translating to delays in shipping that could mean packages don´t make it to consumers on time and retailers have to refund orders or offer other compensation like they did in

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The Biggest Threat To Obamacare Is Already Written Into Law: No Insurance Industry Bailouts Forbes, by John C. Goodman    Original Article Posted By: MissMolly- 12/12/2015 4:49:40 AM     Post Reply When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008 and when he was selling Obamacare to the public in 2010, he made insurance companies the villains. In fact, on the eve of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, every Democratic spokesperson who appeared on TV to support the health reform legislation had one and only one argument to make: We needed Obamacare to protect ordinary people from ruthless, profit mongering insurance companies. They said almost nothing about insuring the uninsured or controlling costs or making health care delivery more efficient. Instead, every advocate produced at least one example of

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Dean Skelos, Ex-New York Senate Leader, and His Son Are Convicted of Corruption

New York Times, by William K. Rashbaum & Susanne Craig    Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/12/2015 4:13:20 AM     Post Reply

Dean G. Skelos, the former majority leader of the New York Senate, and his son were found guilty of federal corruption charges on Friday, a quick and devastating follow-up punch to the State Capitol, which has seen two entrenched leaders convicted and removed from office in less than two weeks. The jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan took roughly eight hours over two days to reach its verdict against Senator Skelos, 67, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, 33, finding them guilty of all eight bribery, extortion and conspiracy counts. The Skeloses were undone by the perversion of a simple fatherly

Scourging Scalia: The Left’s Latest Hissy Fit

PJ Media, by Hans von Spakovsky & Elizabeth Slattery    Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/12/2015 4:10:24 AM     Post Reply

The Left was at it again this week, launching outrageous attacks on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. All the usual suspects, from Mother Jones to Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.), piled on the conservative justice. There was no legitimate beef. But the Left was bound and determined to mislead the public and divert their attention from the biggest failing of racially discriminatory college admissions programs: the damage they do to the lives and careers of the supposed beneficiaries of those programs. It started with Wednesday’s oral argument in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, when Justice Scalia posed a question about academic

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Three Global Warming Stories The Media Don´t Want You To See

Investor’s Business Daily, by Editorial    Original Article

Posted By: Emerson- 12/26/2015 9:14:02 AM     Post Reply

Climate: Want to know the latest global warming news? Don´t bother looking in U.S. media. They can´t be bothered with stories that contradict the man-made climate change narrative. But the truth is out there. Let´s start with a new paper from NASA — a distinctly American organization — that was covered by the British Express. The newspaper tells us that our space program has "found the Earth has cooled in areas of heavy industrialization where more trees have been lost and more fossil fuel burning takes place.” This is, of course, the opposite of what we´ve been told for decades. The Express reports

Donald Trump Scraps the Usual Campaign Playbook, Including TV Ads

New York Times, by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin    Original Article

Posted By: Emerson- 12/26/2015 9:07:16 AM     Post Reply

Donald J. Trump, the poll leader for the last five months in the Republican presidential race, is about to find out whether he has permanently changed the rules of politics, or if some of those old standards still linger. His long-promised “next phase” defined by new spending, such as a wave of television commercials, has so far failed to materialize, week after week. His advisers have not revealed the existence of any pollsters on their staff or any advertising team. He has no real research operation to examine his own vulnerabilities or those of his opponents and, based on Federal