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Election race tightens in Israel as polls show Netanyahu’s party trailing
JERUSALEM — With less than a week remaining before Israel's elections, the race appears tighter than it has at any time since the start of the campaign, throwing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the defensive. Three public opinion polls published Tuesday and Wednesday show Netanyau's conservative Likud party lagging by margins of three to four parliamentary… … [Read more...] about Election race tightens in Israel as polls show Netanyahu’s party trailing
AP Files Suit Over Clinton Email, Media Fact Checks Clinton, and Al Gore Goes To Iowa
[icopyright one button toolbar] As I discussed previously, one of the more serious aspects of Hillary Clinton violating rules regarding government records is that she used her private server to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests, including requests from the Associated Press. AP is now filing suit: The Associated Press on Wednesday sued the State Department to force … [Read more...] about AP Files Suit Over Clinton Email, Media Fact Checks Clinton, and Al Gore Goes To Iowa
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Review
[icopyright one button toolbar] It's good to be back at TMV -- and I want to thank Joe for inviting me back after such a long absence. I'm still deciding how I want to ease back into this community. So far now, I'll do something a little different for me -- a TV review of Netflix's new series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The most amazing thing about Unbreakable Kimmy … [Read more...] about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Review
Cartoon: What Hillary Worry?
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Two Officers Shot Outside Ferguson Police Department
Two Officers Shot Outside Ferguson Police Department Two police officers were shot outside Ferguson police headquarters early Thursday morning amid protests, St. Louis county police chief Jon Belmar announced at a press conference at Barnes Hospital around 2 a.m. Both men are expected to survive. Protesters began to gather outside the police department around 5:30 p.m. after … [Read more...] about Two Officers Shot Outside Ferguson Police Department
The Dalai Lama And A Gaggle Of Chinese Communist Officials Walk Into A Bar . . .
[icopyright one button toolbar] Do you remember that uproarious Monty Python sketch where the Dalai Lama, played by John Cleese, sits cross-legged in saffron robes in a mountaintop cave and declares that he won't have an afterlife, throwing into an uproar the exhausted Chinese Communist Party functionaries who have hiked to the cave? The officials, played by the … [Read more...] about The Dalai Lama And A Gaggle Of Chinese Communist Officials Walk Into A Bar . . .
Kathleen Parker on GOP Letter
[icopyright one button toolbar] Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker offers a sensible take on the GOP Senate letter to Iran in The Washington Post. It must be relatively simple, as one clips along the marble halls of the Russell Senate Office Building, speaking only to those of like mind, to decide that undermining the president is a public service. Hating the … [Read more...] about Kathleen Parker on GOP Letter
America’s Real Traitors
[icopyright one button toolbar] by Walter Brasch The Tea Party wing of the Republican party thinks House speaker John Boehner is a rhino. Not the thick-skinned horned mammal that lives in Africa. This rhino is an R-I-N-O . . . Republican in Name Only. The Tea Party thinks Boehner, by sometimes listening to both sides and occasionally, but rarely, agreeing with … [Read more...] about America’s Real Traitors
The 47 Republican Senators and the Letter to Iran: Knuckleheads, dum-dums, or traitors?
[icopyright one button toolbar] Knuckleheads, dum-dums, or traitors? And anyway, do we know treason when we see it? Call me old-fashioned, but when the advise-and-consent role of the Senate was exchanged for a casual, treacherous intrusion into the rights and duties of the executive branch, the senators involved deserved a chilly overnight in the stocks for their … [Read more...] about The 47 Republican Senators and the Letter to Iran: Knuckleheads, dum-dums, or traitors?
Cartoon: Republican Senators Write An Open Letter to the American People
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Hillary Clinton Stonewalls On Email Scandal
[icopyright one button toolbar] Hillary Clinton held a press conference to discuss the email controversy but wound up stonewalling and creating even more questions. The news conference was basically an expanded version of her tweet, just as misleading and reveling little actual information. Considering the Nixonian feel to this scandal, I was waiting for someone to ask if, … [Read more...] about Hillary Clinton Stonewalls On Email Scandal
Open Letters: First Iran, Now the World (Updates)
[icopyright one button toolbar] Update III (No satire) Testifying today before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Secretary of State John Kerry did not mince words when commenting on the infamous “letter of 47.” He called it an "irresponsible" gambit that breaks with more than two centuries of U.S. foreign policy history, according to a report at the … [Read more...] about Open Letters: First Iran, Now the World (Updates)
The 47 – And The Art of Stepping in Doggie Poo
Rick Wilson, national Republican message and media strategist, had the germ of a good idea for his fellow GOPers in the wake of revelations about Hillary Clinton’s use of personal email to conduct government business. Appearing in Politico Magazine, Wilson authored a piece titled A Message to My Fellow Republicans, and subtitled “Let’s stay out of the way of Hillary Clinton’s … [Read more...] about The 47 – And The Art of Stepping in Doggie Poo
Gallup: Americans’ Views of Netanyahu Less Positive After Congress Speech — with Big Loss Among Democrats
[icopyright one button toolbar] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress that was set up by Republican Speaker of the House without running it by the White House in advance, and slated afterward despite strong White House objections did the Israeli P.M. no favors in his polling numbers among Americans: a new Gallup Poll found American's now view him … [Read more...] about Gallup: Americans’ Views of Netanyahu Less Positive After Congress Speech — with Big Loss Among Democrats
OU Fraternity Students Apologize For Racist Song
OU Students Apologize For Racist Song Two students from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity, who had been expelled from the University of Oklahoma for singing a racist song, have issued statements of apology for the act. The families of the expelled students -- Levi Pettit and Parker Rice -- issued the statements on their behalf late Tuesday. The statement was released… … [Read more...] about OU Fraternity Students Apologize For Racist Song
Should Lifetime Appointments to the Federal Courts Be Abolished?
[icopyright one button toolbar] The courts are necessary appendages of government that circumvent democratic ideals in the way they are structured and how they function. In most nations, judges are appointed rather than elected, as is true for American federal justices. (Many states and municipalities in the U.S, have their judges elected in political campaigns.) Even … [Read more...] about Should Lifetime Appointments to the Federal Courts Be Abolished?
Partisan rift widens over Iran
Partisan rift widens over Iran by Donald Harrison Editor, San Diego Jewish World SAN DIEGO(SDONA) — The partisan divide in Washington D.C. over Iran’s nuclear aspirations has been growing wider, and more bitter, as President Barack Obama, a Democrat, argues with the Republican-controlled Congress over whether any agreement between Iran and the Permanent Five members of the … [Read more...] about Partisan rift widens over Iran
Cartoon: Hillary has a primary opponent
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ISIS Child Soldier Allegedly Executes Israeli Hostage
The Islamic State group on Tuesday released a video purporting to the show the execution of an Israeli citizen it claimed was a member of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Mohamed Said Ismail Musallam, 19, was captured by the ISIS militants after they allegedly discovered he was a spy. Unlike previous videos of hostage executions released… … [Read more...] about ISIS Child Soldier Allegedly Executes Israeli Hostage