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Media Covers Fake Mike Flynn Story, Ignores Bombshell on Secret Obama/Iran Meetings. The Flynn story is bogus.

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Judge Slams Obama DOJ’s ‘Unethical Conduct’ in Amnesty Case

Valerie Jarrett’s daughter will cover Justice Department for CNN

What constitutes humane work? The issue has been the focus of a dispute between Bolivia and the international community since the country lowered its minimum working age to 10.

Saddam Hussein Seriously Feared a U.S. Nuclear Strike During the Gulf War

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Nothing for today

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The one of the problems with all the movies David Belle stars in is that it just does not seem credible that the thugs can stay with him for as long as they do.

https://youtu.be/hThaVpNpOmw

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A Professor Claimed Video Games Make People Better Shooters — Then His Study Got Retracted. The only reason this study got the press that it did is that few people in the chattering classes play games and shoot guns.

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Consternation as Trump Starts Delivering on Campaign Promises While Making More Crazy Attacks on Critics

Was Snowden a Russian Agent? In the conservative press the answer is assumed to be yes. This article presents a different view. I think you have to be naive to think that he has not told them what they wanted to know now. But I doubt he was controlled all along. I don’t think the Russians would have wanted the drama from an agent they controlled.

Italy’s Growing Refugee Problem Main take away: Despite a warning from former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, other EU countries have shown little willingness to cooperate. Shortly before his resignation, he said his country “would not get through another year like this.”

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Chicken Feet And China: Back to the Future

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Not bad for and old man even granting all the movie tricks they had to pull

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Nothing for Today.

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Tesla cleared in Autopilot crash

GMO grass that ‘escaped’ defies eradication, divides grass seed industry

The Second Act of the Great British Spy

Majority of 230 protesters arrested on Inauguration Day will face 10 years in prison and $25k fine as US attorney says they will be charged with felony rioting. They made the mistake of rioting in a place where important people were.

IT’S JUST CALLED FASCISM

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Speechless in 2017

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The British Artillery and light horsemen helped and this was not quite as decisive as shown. But a bunch of Australian mounted infantry using bayonets as swords really did make one of the last successful mass mounted charges.

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Why NYT Hid The Numbers For The ‘Hottest Year On Record’

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Skittles Scattered Across Highway Were Destined For Cattle Feed: Mars Investigating

Geology Helps Shale Boom Anew in Texas Basin

With midnight regulation, Obama Energy Department just outlawed your three-way bulb

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Days of Rage. The history recap in this post is valuable but any fool can do the speculation that follows it.

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I had forgotten just how non-seriously Arnold took his role in the first total recall. For those who watched the remake, compare this to the similar scene in the remake.

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Pravda on the Checkout Line. I always think that I have reached the point where I can’t be surprised by educated fools attempts to explain Trump’s win, but then they go and surprised me again.

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Newt Gingrich on Trump White House ‘If They Decide To Become Reasonable, They Will Have Failed’

Court Says Tossing A Flashbang Grenade Into A Room With A Toddler Is ‘Unreasonable’ Police Behavior. If the “Black Lives Matter” crowd had started with cases like this, they would have got a lot farther then they have.

Meet The Mexicans Who Think Mexico Will Pay For ‘The Wall’

Questionable “Young Blood” Transfusions Offered in U.S. as Anti-Aging Remedy

Casinos refused to give professional gambler Phil Ivey what he had won. Instead of paying him, they sued him.

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Chicken Tax Makes Trucks Expensive and Unavailable. Okay, so the title overstates it case a little. It still brought to my attention a law I had never heard of before.

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Jerry Miculek is like the Michale Jordan of the shooting sports world. He takes all sorts of first place prizes in all sorts of shooting competitions (though most of his verified world records were set with a revolver). But I think this video below is more a feat of strength then it is of accuracy. I felt my hand hurting just watching it.

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Nothing for today.

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The Origin of the Oreo Cookie

Band of Brothers: Sex crimes and cover-up in the 101st Airborne Division. The author of this piece must be really confident of what he wrote. By putting the main culprit’s picture in the article he is on the hook for a lawsuit if he did not tell the correct tale.

White Guilt In A Box. There is a part of me that admires the people who are trying to sell these boxes.

Searching For Half-Life 3

‘Annoying’ anti-cowbell campaigner denied Swiss passport

Inside the Desperate Battle against Sports Doping

Tolerant Left strikes again! Andrea Bocelli backs out of Trump inauguration because of death threats

Colombian Rebels Are Breaking Apart — And Half Are Keeping Their Guns

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That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into the Constitutional Trial of the Century

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Question of why women go through menopause solved by Exeter experts studying killer whales. This story made the front page of Google news and showed up other places as well.

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What 17 Intelligence Agencies?

A superbug resistant to every available antibiotic has killed a woman in the US

When ‘there is serious reason to doubt’ rumors and allegations, is it libelous to publish them?

Bone-Chilling Winter From Berlin to Davos Causes Energy Scramble

Georgia Tech’s Model Expands

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Why Are There So Many People in Jail in Scranton, PA?

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My favorite classical (as opposed to “realistic”) martial arts fight is the one below. Posting two version of it. The first is the high quality one and one with sub-titles and a little bit more of the context.

https://youtu.be/UXZJs8sPxqs

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Is it just me or has someone decided to go after Trump ? . Another take on a story that just will not die. I can’t stand to link to any of the stories that take this completely seriously.

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German court calls synagogue torching an act to ‘criticize Israel’. The real problem is not that courts said this was not “antisemitism.” The real problem is that it makes a difference in terms of how the criminals are punished.

Rebel. Drug Fugitive. Hero? Haiti Erupts Over an Arrest

These Brazilian vampire bats have started feeding on humans for the first time

When Gadget Fixers Turn FBI Informants. I already posted this but this time it is from a better source.

Parents View New Peanut Guidelines With Guilt and Skepticism

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Techdirt’s First Amendment Fight For Its Life

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Finally!!!!.