"Bob Beckel should be dead"

Cal Thomas 

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. . "Bob Beckel has been branded with many labels. Most have nothing to do with the character of the man. I have known Bob for more than 20 years. I have traveled with him, shared meals with him, and listened to him share deeply personal things, which only happens when one is a trusted friend.

"The real Bob is the one who rescues drunks and gets them into treatment programs, who talks about and loves his children, who cares deeply for the poor and underprivileged, and who is able to see flaws in his own party, as well as in the other party.

"In other words, he is an honest “liberal,” in the classical sense of that word and not the way it is used today.

"In his remarkable book, Bob reveals some of his failings, challenges, and temptations, not to glorify them, but to give the reader a sense of the magnitude of the grace of God, who rescued him in his darkest hour. It is a thrilling story that will give you an entirely different sense of the man, beyond the silliness of the political world and media in which we both work and live."

UPDATED: Why is the LGBT Movement struggling to uphold a simple law in Houston?

Buzzfeed

. . . "But there’s a hitch: Many Houstonians simply don’t think the ordinance is about discrimination.

“ 'I haven’t heard it bans discrimination,” Cory Alters told BuzzFeed News as he waited for the bus on a blustery Friday afternoon. With four days remaining before the vote, Alters said he had only heard that the measure required letting men and transgender women into women’s bathrooms.

“ 'Bathrooms are the hot-ticket item — that’s what everybody is talking about,” he said. “I don’t want girls in my bathroom, and girls don’t want guys in their bathroom.”

"One block down Travis Street, 44-year old Donna L., who refused to give her full last name, said the same: “I heard people saying pedophiles would be going into restrooms. That is the main thing everybody is talking about. I hadn’t heard anything else.' ” . . .

UPDATE: Office of Civil Rights says disguised boy has right to shower with girls . . . "The boy should be given unfettered access to naked girls.  What's confusing about that?" . . .

Muslims do not seem to get along well with others

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Video of Russian Plane Being Shot Down By ISIS?  Lets all sing along while the men, women and children in the plane fall to their deaths.

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Four-Year-Old Child Stoned In Germany For Kicking Migrant’s Football

"A four-year-old boy has been hospitalised after having a stone thrown at him by a resident of a troubled German migrant centre which has seen riots and Islamist violence."

The Slow-Motion Implosion of ObamaCare

Wall Street Journal

. . . "But the question isn’t where Americans are getting health insurance. It is whether ObamaCare will provide more Americans with affordable insurance for decades to come.

"Supporters credit ObamaCare with helping nine million uninsured Americans find coverage in 2014. But a new paper from the Heritage Foundation, however, suggests that nearly all of the increase came from adding nearly nine million people to the Medicaid rolls."

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"How have things changed under ObamaCare? Wealthy Americans continue to have health insurance, albeit at a higher price. But they can afford it. Many middle-class Americans are paying higher premiums they can hardly afford. And then millions more low-income Americans have heavily subsidized insurance or Medicaid coverage.

"However, millions of other Americans who enjoyed good individual insurance before ObamaCare have found themselves forced out of affordable plans, with their new premiums rising rapidly. Other middle- and working-class Americans who were uninsured are still uninsured and paying the penalty or claiming an exemption. That isn’t affordable care. In many cases, it isn’t care at all."
Mr. Puzder is the chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants

Remember when liberal Obamacare supporter Kirsten Powers of the Daily Beast lost her insurance because of the ACA?

Putin and politics behind Obama's decision to send troops to Syria; "Corrupt and Immoral"

How must our troops feel being in harm's way when their own commander-in-chief does not believe in what he has sent them to do?

Foreign Policy

"Vladimir Putin ordered U.S. troops into combat in Syria on Friday. That’s not what White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said when explaining the decision to send as many as 50 special operations forces into a training, assistance, and advisory role in that country, but that’s the reality. If the Russian president hadn’t made his move into Syria, the United States would not have felt compelled to finally, belatedly, shore up support for anti-Islamic State and anti-Assad allies in that embattled, long-suffering country.

"How do we know that? The past three years are how we know that. Those years have been a period during which the president’s own top national security advisors were unable to get him to take more decisive action to stop the decay in Syria — which gave way to the upheaval that now fuels not only the rise of the world’s most dangerous extremists but also the overflow of refugees into Europe and neighboring countries in the Middle East. But Putin, apparently, has more sway in the Oval Office than Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates, Leon Panetta, David Petraeus, and a host of others whose counsel went unheeded ever did." . . .

Obama's Corrupt and Immoral Abuse of the Military
. . . "This is not a comment on his circumvention of Congress, which is something that most modern American presidents have done at one time or another with respect to military engagements abroad.  Rather, in Obama's case – uniquely in American history – we have a president who puts Americans in harm's way for no evident reason other than personal political calculations." . . .

Would Putin nuke ISIS over downed passenger plane?

ISIS Downs Russian Jet, Putin Gets BRUTAL Revenge That Obama Never Would

. . . "According to the latest claims, it seems that Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to enact quite the devastating revenge, and it’s been a long time coming. “Citing its right to protect its people and interests in Russia and abroad, Intelligence officials have anonymously reported that Russia is moving its tactical nuclear units closer to its international boundaries and its frontier with other hotspots within Russia, such as the northern Caucasus region,” Live Leak reports. Yes, you read that right – Putin is set to nuke ISIS."

Obamacare sticker shock: premiums to spike 20%

Forecast counters feds' 'misleading' predictions

"Obamacare premium costs are going to surge by 20.3 percent on average in 2016, a massive hike that counters the much more modest 7.5 percent increase predicted by feds."

"As the Daily Caller reported: “The discrepancy is because the government excluded price data for three of the four Obamacare health insurance plans when the officials issued their recent forecast claiming enrollees would face only a 7.5 percent average rate increase in 2016. When data for all four plans are included, premium costs will actually rise on average 20.3 percent next year.”

"For comparison purposes, Obamacare costs in 2015 rose only two percent.

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicare Services, the entity that oversees Obamacare, miscalculated the degree of price hikes because officials failed to include data for the Bronze, Gold and Platinum plans. They only based estimates using data for the Silver plan, which is what the IRS uses as a “benchmark” program for tax purposes, the Daily Caller reported.e 20 percent increase was discovered during an analysis by the Daily Caller News Foundation. And it comes as open enrollment for Obamacare has just kicked off.

Attention warmist alarmists: ice in Antarctica is increasing. You are surprised there are skeptics?

Inquisitr  "A new Antarctic ice sheet study from NASA yielded surprising data results, and the findings contradict the conclusion of a previous report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As reported by Tech Times, the study shows that increased accumulation of snow in Antarctica, which began 10,000 years ago, is continuing to increase the amount of ice on the continent, and compensates for the loss of glaciers. The research is significant because it challenges the findings of a number of studies, including those cited by the IPCC. The IPCC report from 2013 says that the Antarctic land ice is declining.

"According to satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet shows a clear increase of 112 billion tons of ice annually from 1992 to 2001, while the total loss between 2003 and 2008 was only 82 billion tons. Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, issued the following statement regarding the study." . . .Read more at the link

Drudge: Hillary too big to jail

MSNBC

As Benghazi inquiry fades, Clinton still faces legal questions about emails

"Hillary Clinton appears to have overcome an investigation of her role in the 2012 deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, but she still faces a months-long FBI inquiry into the handling of sensitive information while she was secretary of state.

"The FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, which opened its review this summer after classified information was found in emails transmitted over Clinton’s private email server, is under pressure to act quickly, as Clinton is in the midst of running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article41972739.html#storylink=cpy

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. . . "They disagree about whether there’s enough evidence to prosecute her or her aides for sending and receiving government messages over the personal email system. routed through a private computer server in the basement of her New York home.

"But most who spoke to McClatchy say it’s unlikely the former first lady, senator and Cabinet secretary will face charges because of her high profile and the hurdle to prove she knew the emails contained classified information when she sent them to others." . .  .

Larest emails damage Hillary's excuse about security concerns

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2015/10/26/hillary-benghazi-cover/

Latest emails put the lie to Hillary's excuse for ignoring pleas for Benghazi security
"One of the more nauseating aspects (and there is a lot of competition) of the scandalous behavior of Hillary Clinton in the wake of the Benghazi attack was the manner in which she affected a close relationship with “Chris” Stevens, the ambassador sent to do her bidding who was brutally tortured and murdered because she didn’t have any interest in his pleas for extra security.  She maintained in her testimony to the Gowdy Committee that such matters don’t reach her desk.

"Yet the latest batch of emails released in a Friday-afternoon document dump reveals that that is not true.  Nick Gass, Josh Gerstein, and Rachel Bade write in Politico:
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When Republicans tried to buttonhole Clinton because State declined numerous requests for additional security at the Benghazi compound that was later over-run, Clinton largely waved them off. Those requests for more protection, she argued several times that day, went to people who deal with security — not her, personally.
One email from April 23, 2009, however, shows top State aide Huma Abedin updating Clinton on a few embassy security issues. In a series of bullet points sent to “H2” at 8:34 a.m., Abedin listed steps State was taking to secure Afghanistan and Pakistan embassies, including “increasing the number of hooches, and doubling up staff in lodging.”

Why Liberals Identify With Criminals

American Thinker 
"Liberals hate cops, honest citizens with guns, and hard sentencing laws because liberals identify with criminals.
When visiting a Federal prison Obama summarized the view of liberals when he said:

“These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made."

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"But worst of all, a person who views the police as the bad guys will buy into the lie of the Black Lives Matter movement that cops are killing people for no good reason. That in turn leads to lack of interest on their part concerning the safety of police.

"In the end, liberal identification with criminals leads to the police knowing that the politicians don’t have their backs and to a reduction in effective crime control. It’s not an accident that liberals disagree with Giuliani’s “Broken Window” policing philosophy, since liberals don’t seem to care about the victims of “petty” crimes.

"We need to tell the American people, our friends and neighbors, the truth that liberals aren’t like honest folk instead liberals identify with criminals and therefore support laws that favor criminals over victims and society.

"It’s time to realize that liberals are rooting for the wrong side in the war on crime."

National Police Union Calls for Total Tarantino Boycott

The Wrap via Drudge

"The police boycott of Quentin Tarantino‘s “The Hateful Eight” has received the endorsement of the National Association of Police Organizations — a group representing 1,000 police units and associations and over 241,000 sworn law enforcement officers.

"Not only does the organization support the protesting unions — which has spread to including cops in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, New Jersey, Chicago and Philadelphia — it is discouraging police officers from engaging in promotional efforts and any future productions that routinely need the assistance of law enforcement, even for off-duty work.

“ 'We ask officers to stop working special assignments or off-duty jobs, such as providing security, traffic control or technical advice for any of Tarantino’s projects,” a statement on NAPO’s website said." . . .