Pipe bomb explodes on the route of US Marines charity run in New Jersey, second device is found

UK Independent   "Runners would have been at the spot if start of race hadn't been delayed"

. . . "Officials said a second device had been found near to the one that exploded, according to the local news site, NJ.com, quoting Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the prosecutor. There was no immediate confirmation on whether it had been detonated. But a bomb team was already on site to “make safe” that device, officials noted.

"The apparent terror attempt immediately evoked the Boston Marathon bombing three years ago when Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted bombs in pressure cookers near the finish of the world famous race, killing three people and injuring more than 260." . .   .

Report: Clinton Foundation Donors Got Prime Seats At White House State Dinners

Western Journalism  "Guess who kept coming to dinner at White House State dinners arranged by a State Department office staffed with Clinton loyalists?

"According to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation, that would be 205 Clinton Foundation donors who collectively gave the Clintons $216 million since 2009.

"The dinners were arranged through the State Department’s Office of Protocol, not the White House. Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state from 2009-2013."

How many White House State Dinners can $216M donated to the Clinton Foundation buy?

Clinton’s super-donors poured millions into the State Department. Why was the government so reluctant to release the names of these high-rollers and socialites?

Clinton Foundation Donors Flooded Visitor Logs at State Dept. During Hillary Clinton’s Tenure  "More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president."

$216 Million From Clinton Foundation Donors Bought 205 Invitations to White House State Dinner

DNC Emails: Big Donors Get Big Jobs in Govt

More A.F. Branco Cartoons at Net Right Daily.

Reports on what Obama calls "my military"

And people chant "Four more years!" for this president!

All Navy Sailors Must Undergo Transgender Education By July 2017
. . . "“This training will emphasize policies and expectations of personal behavior,” the message states, Military.com reports." . . .

(Video, featuring at least one openly gay actor by the way, added by TD)

"It’s unclear what exactly the training sessions will entail. The Navy will soon send out a message to servicemembers with more details, states Jessica Anderson, spokeswoman for Naval Personnel Command. In the meantime, leadership is developing a commander’s tool kit to steer the process.

“ 'Service members are expected to maintain standards of conduct and treat each other with dignity and respect,” Anderson said. “Training for sailors will be conducted by command triads via mobile training teams or DVD with a facilitation guide if the unit is in a remote area and unable to receive face-to-face training. There will also be webinars for COs to ask questions prior to delivering training to their commands.”

"The Navy will begin accepting transgender recruits July 1, 2017.

"The plan for integration is to mandate that transgenders use the bathroom facilities of their chosen gender.

"If there is any harassment towards these individuals, Anderson said leadership will be sure to crack down." . . .

Harvey Milk

Navy Secretary Defends Naming Ship After Gay Predator  "Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has taken heat for naming a ship after Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official who had a penchant for young men with substance abuse problems.Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has taken heat for naming a ship after Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official who had a penchant for young men with substance abuse problems.

"Mabus strenuously defended Milk and other Obama administration-favored figures as American heroes, mostly because, during his very brief time in office, Milk forwarded an ordinance banning discrimination against people based on their sexual identity.

. . . "In 1964, Milk preyed on Jack Galen McKinley, an unstable 16-year-old suffering from serious mental issues. McKinley would often threaten to commit suicide, and one time Harvey, who at the time was in his mid-30s, coldly told the teen “not to make a mess.”

"Randy Shilts, Milk’s biographer, notes in “The Mayor of Castro Street” that Milk was extremely attracted to “young waifs with substance abuse problems” and “men in their late teens.' ”

Better hope these people do not become POWs of ISIS

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Krauthammer: Hillary Slides Down Slippery Slope

Charles Krauthammer

"If you are the status quo candidate in a change election in which the national mood is sour and two-thirds of the electorate think the country is on the wrong track, what do you do? Attack. Relentlessly. Paint your opponent as extremist, volatile, clueless, unfit, dangerous. Indeed, Hillary Clinton's latest national ad, featuring major Republican politicians echoing that indictment of Donald Trump, ends thus: "Unfit. Dangerous. Even for Republicans."

"That was the theme of Clinton's famous "alt-right" speech and of much of her $100 million worth of ads.
Problem is, it's not working.

"Over the last month, Trump's new team, led by Kellyanne Conway, has worked single-mindedly to blunt that line of attack on the theory that if he can just cross the threshold of acceptability, he wins. In an act of brazen rebranding, they set out to endow him with stature and empathy.

"Stature was acquired in Mexico whose president inexplicably gave Trump the opportunity to stand on the world stage with a national leader and more than hold his own. It's the same stature booster Sen. Barack Obama pulled off when he stood with the French president at a news conference in Paris in 2008.

"That was part one: Trump the statesman. Part two: the kinder gentler Trump." . . .

. . .  Trump's methods, which Dr. Krauthammer discusses at more length in this article:

"Trump never goes on the defensive. He merely creates new Trumps. Hence:

1) The African-American blitz." . . .

2) The immigration wobble.  . . .

3) The blockbuster childcare proposal.  . . .

The 'Deplorables' Are Teaching Trump How to Be President

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Roger L. Simon "It's been evident the last few weeks that Donald Trump seems to be hitting his stride as a presidential candidate, his speeches and off-the-cuff remarks sharp and on point without wandering into that hold-your-breath gaffeland that characterized his appearances for months.

"His new maturity is paying off in the polls, leaving the MSM and the NeverTrumpers holding their breaths as the gaffes are coming from the other side now, most notably Mrs. Clinton's characterization of millions of Americans as "deplorables," a statement she will never be able fully to take back, because it is so obviously what she believes." . . .

. . . "Although Trump last February in one of his dopier loose moments bragged that his supporters would continue to back him even if he committed murder, he never quite grasped who those supporters were. He thought of them as his most slavishly devoted reality-show fans, certain to be with him for the next season or three. But in reality they were the people of the lost American heartland, physically and emotionally, yearning to heal their country and willing to overlook what they knew to be Donald's imperfections for a better good." . . . 

More than a bit despicable

Release The Chakra! Hillary Campaign In Talks To Bring Al Gore To Campaign Trail…

Weasel Zippers  "They must be desperate if they think Al “Human Ambien” Gore will help."
Via NY Times:

Can Mr.Gore help prevent a third party?

2010: Al Gore Pleaded With Masseuse to "Release His Second Chakra"   . . . "Gore said he was tired from travel and described in detail the massage he wanted. It included work on the adductor muscles, which are on the inside of the thighs. “I mentally noted that a request for adductor work is a bit unusual,” the masseuse told police, because it can be “a precursor to inappropriate behavior by a male client.”

"Gore also requested work on his abdomen. When that began, “He became somewhat vocal with muffled moans, etc.,” the masseuse recounted. Gore then “demand[ed] that I go lower.” When she remained focused on a “safe, nonsexual” area, Gore grew “angry, becoming verbally sharp and loud.”

The masseuse asked Gore what he wanted. “He grabbed my right hand, shoved it down under the sheet to his pubic hair area, my fingers brushing against his penis,” she recalled, “and said to me, ‘There!’ in a very sharp, loud, angry-sounding tone.” When she pulled back, Gore “angrily raged” and “bellowed” at her.

Then, abruptly, the former vice president changed tone. It was “as though he had very suddenly switched personalities,” she recalled, “and began in a pleading tone, pleading for release of his second chakra there.”

And Mr. Gore can indeed bellow as we see below:

"President Bush played on our fears"

The label says "Obama played on our fears", but that is mislabeled; Gore is speaking of President Bush and the war in Iraq. 

Perhaps we can assume if Obama or Gore were president at the time instead of George Bush the 9-11 terrorists would have suffered no consequences. Sure, Obama would have shouted that those who committed this crime would hear from us all very soon, but I cannot see anything else coming after that. 
I can see Mr. Obama fitting in very well with the "what did we do wrong to make them hate us?" crowd.  The Tunnel Dweller.

What if Hillary should drop out? Who else is out there?

"Before this is over, Dems will put Hillary in a wheelchair and call her the 2nd coming of FDR."  "Old, tired, ill, and a congenital liar not a prescription for success."

Drudge: Which Democrat Should Replace Hillary?  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 48% of Likely Democratic Voters believe Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s primary rival, should be their party’s nominee if health issues forced her out of the race. Twenty-two percent (22%) say Vice President Joe Biden should be the nominee, while only 14% opt for Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, the current Democratic vice presidential candidate. 

How Bernie Sanders Die-Hards Echo Clinton Conspiracy Theories
"It’s not just conservatives pushing the idea that the Democratic nominee is sicker than she admits."

Even the Libertarians aren’t serious about fiscal reform.  "Weld, for his part, pours well-deserved scorn on Donald Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton for their flat refusal to take seriously the need for entitlement reform. But even the doughty Libertarians — who, let’s face it, do not actually have anything to lose, politically speaking — are knee-deep in wishful thinking when it comes to fiscal reform."

Understudies warming up backstage:  Sanders And Warren To Campaign For Hillary In Ohio This Weekend…

Democrats Have No Choice But to Continue With Hillary

. . . "Cass Sunstein once observed that Democratic presidents could count on being "lucky" -- being elected in times of prosperity following someone else's administration. Hillary will not have that advantage thanks to Barack Obama.  She comes at a moment when the world is aflame and the nation is divided. If, to paraphrase Lefty Gomez, you have to be lucky when you aren't good, then this time America had better be lucky, because it has no reasonable expectation of good." . . .

There is little mention of Jill Stein out there, perhaps because of stories like this.

Deplorable's anthem. The Dixie Chicks were not available to do this.

Via American Thinker

We Deplorables may have an anthem  "A theme repeated every day here and all across the conservative web is that we ordinary Americans, the folks whom Hillary Clinton characterizes as irredeemables and deplorables, are fed up with her and everything she represents – the constant lying and misrepresentation that pervades every aspect of her, her husband, and the criminally dishonest political party they head.  Over and over we find ourselves saying we are sick and tired of the Clintons themselves as well as their usual corrupt way of doing business and that we need to stand up and say so, which is exactly what all those deplorable Americans are trying to do at those Trump rallies. 

"What we, and those folks at those rallies, need is a political anthem that captures that fed-up, sick and tired feeling as well as a defiant refusal to put up with it anymore."  Sooooo...

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What happened to Lebanon and what Islamist's wish for Israel

How can Western academia and Code Pink-types not be concerned at this?

Via James G. Needham 

Beware the "right of return" Muslims want in Israel, with the support of leftists in the West.

At the U.N., Only Israel Is an ‘Occupying Power’

EUGENE KONTOROVICH and PENNY GRUNSEID  

"What about Russia in Crimea, Armenia in parts of Azerbaijan, or what Vietnam did in Cambodia?"

For starters, Russia and Vietnam are the darlings of the left.

"The United Nations began its annual session this week, and Israel will be prominent on the agenda. Many fear the Security Council may consider a resolution setting definite territorial parameters, and a deadline, for the creation of a Palestinian state.

"President Obama has hinted that in the final months of his term, he may reverse the traditional U.S. policy of vetoing such resolutions. The General Assembly, meanwhile, is likely to act as the chorus in this drama, reciting its yearly litany of resolutions criticizing Israel.

"If Mr. Obama is seeking to leave his mark on the Israeli-Arab conflict—and outside the negotiated peace process that began in Oslo—there is no worse place to do it than the U.N. New research we have conducted shows that the U.N.’s focus on Israel not only undermines the organization’s legitimacy regarding the Jewish state. It also has apparently made the U.N. blind to the world’s many situations of occupation and settlements." . . .

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The Volokh Conspiracy:   Why the U.N.’s Israel obsession should worry even people who don’t care about Israel  "Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by me and Penny Grunseid, “At the U.N., Only Israel is an Occupying Power.” The piece was the result of a research project in which we use content analysis software to compare the language of U.N. resolutions about Israel with the language of other resolutions. Here, we focused on comparing the legal language and general tone of U.N. resolutions dealing with Israel to the legal language and tone of resolutions dealing with the eight recent or ongoing situations of belligerent occupation that have involved substantial levels of settlement activity, which I identified in my newresearch paper, “Unsettled: A Global Study of Settlements in Occupied Territories.' ”

Was it a trap? Flint pastor promised to ‘educate’ Donald Trump

Joe Newby  "Rev. Faith Green Timmons made news when she interrupted GOP nominee Donald Trump during a speech he gave at the Bethel United Methodist Church in Flint, Michigan.  But Fox News’ Todd Starnes said that “something doesn’t pass the smell test.”
Watch the incident here.

"It seems the good pastor posted a note on Facebook promising to “educate” the nominee.  The post was deleted, but not before being captured by several people:" . . .

. . ." Starnes added:

Well, I guess the Rev. Timmons showed Mr. Trump — ambushing him in a House of Worship. I will give her credit for hushing up a protester who kept interrupting his remarks.

By the way, the Rev. Timmons has since deleted that Facebook posting. Hmm.

Mr. Trump showed great restraint and class as he complied with her request. And he deserves credit for at least trying to start a dialogue.

I wonder if Rev. Timmons “educated” President Obama like she did Mr. Trump?

"Say what?  It would certainly appear that she’s a staunch Obama supporter:" . . .

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