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John McCain’s Latest Op-Ed More Brain Damaging Than Huffing Glue

John McCain’s Latest Op-Ed More Brain Damaging Than Huffing Glue Reading John McCain’s latest word jumble in The Washington Post could kill an unspeakable number of your brain cells, according to medical professionals on Russia Insider’s payroll. Proceed with extreme caution. John McCain is best known for crashing his dumb and probably very expensive airplane during America’s First Napalm War with Vietnam. But he’s also fairly well known for calling his poor wife a c-u-n-you-know-the-rest. On a slightly related note, Mr. McCain is a prehistoric United States Senator who dreams every night about screaming Iranian children fleeing from American cruise missiles. From time to time… View Article

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Serious pushback over same-sex marriage

Serious pushback over same-sex marriage Clerks quit, judges drop licensing, senator says just ignore ruling by Bob Unruh The negative reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s creation of a right to same-sex “marriage” is surging, with clerks quitting, judges dropping their license procedures and even one U.S. senator telling people it should be ignored. By a 5-4 majority, including two justices who publicly had advocated for same-sex marriage and possibly violated ethics standards by participating in the case, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered that states could not refuse to grant same-sex duos marriage licenses or recognize such licenses from… View Article

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Australian PM challenged over law gagging immigration center workers

‘Not ethically justifiable’: Australian PM challenged over law gagging immigration center workers Australian health workers have spoken out against a law that makes it illegal for employees to disclose information about immigration detention centers. The group challenged the government to prosecute them for speaking out, citing human rights issues. Under the Australian Border Force Act, which came into effect on Wednesday, center workers could face up to two years in jail if they disclose information about the facilities. Under the heading “secrecy and disclosure provisions,” the act says releasing information is only permitted by the secretary of the department responsible… View Article

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Worker’s response to vet is unacceptable

Worker’s response to vet is unacceptable By Patricia Kime, Staff writer Iraq war veteran Chris Dorsey figured that no one would believe he had been turned away from a VA clinic when he sought an appointment for post-traumatic stress disorder. So when he went on Tuesday to another facility, the VA Oakwood, Georgia, Community Based Outpatient Clinic, he flipped on his smartphone camera. On the video, Dorsey is heard waiting patiently in line for more than 5 minutes. When he reaches the check-in counter, he informs the desk he needs a transfer from the Athens, Georgia, VA system and an… View Article

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TV Land Pulls ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Episodes Amid Confederate Flag Uproar

TV Land Pulls ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Episodes Amid Confederate Flag Uproar by Kate Stanhope The Duke Boys are being put on the bench. TV Land has pulled reruns of Dukes of Hazzard in light of the recent uproar over the Confederate flag, which is emblazoned on the roof of the show’s iconic General Lee 1969 Dodge Charger, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The show has faced criticism over the depiction of the controversial flag in the wake of the June 17 shooting in Charleston that left nine dead, and what many viewed as South Carolina’s delayed decision to take the… View Article

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Multinational Corporations in Mexico Shutting Down Due to Drug War Violence

Multinational Corporations in Mexico Shutting Down Due to Drug War Violence by Sylvia Longmire There aren’t many smiles to go with a Coke in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, these days. FEMSA, the largest franchise Coca-Cola bottling company the world, shut down its distribution centers in Iguala—site of the kidnapping and likely massacre of 43 students nine months ago—and Arcelia while maintaining facilities in other parts of the state. According to the PanAm Post, FEMSA has not publicly commented on the reasons for its decision to move from Iguala. But its 2014 annual report warned that rising drug-cartel violence could… View Article

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‘Danish UKIP’ Tightens Border Controls Within Weeks of Winning National Election

‘Danish UKIP’ Tightens Border Controls Within Weeks of Winning National Election by Oliver Lane After forming a government with the support of ‘Denmark’s UKIP’, the new centre-right bloc’s foreign minister Kristian Jensen has travelled to Germany to meet his counterpart and discuss the new border arrangements. Although the Eurosceptic, anti-mass-immigration Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkpartei, DF) has declined to join the government coalition because of irreconcilable differences with the now ruling centre-right Venestre party, they are supporting the government by voting for their bills on the condition they tighten up the borders. Denmark’s only land border is with Germany, a… View Article

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Trump Takes Second Place in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nationwide

Trump Takes Second Place in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nationwide by Alex Swoyer GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to climb the polls — this time in Iowa. The numbers come from a new Quinnipiac University poll. Trump barely trails former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in New Hampshire, and he is trailing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Iowa. “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continues to lead the Republican field in the Hawkeye state with 18 percent, while Ben Carson tied with Trump for second. Walker has yet to announce he is running for president, but is expected to launch his campaign this month,”… View Article

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Trump Cuts Ties with Macy’s after NBC and Univision

Trump Cuts Ties with Macy’s after NBC and Univision by Alex Swoyer GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is cutting ties with Macy’s, which has sold his ties and shirts. According to CNN, Macy’s wanted to sever business relations with Trump after his statements on illegal immigration during his presidential announcement. His statements caused both NBC and Univision to  discontinue broadcasting the Miss USA pageant. Trump is now suing Univision for breaking the contract. Trump said in a released statement: I have decided to terminate my relationship with Macy’s because of the pressure being put on them by outside sources. While selling Trump… View Article

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Obama Millennials Want to Leave the America They Created

Obama Millennials Want to Leave the America They Created by Ben Shapiro A new poll from TransferWise shows that 35 percent of those born in the United States would consider ditching their home country to live elsewhere; that number skyrockets among those aged 18-34, the so-called millennials, 55 percent of whom said they would think of taking off if given the chance. Most of those millennials cite economics as a chief factor in their desire to leave: 43 percent of men and 38 percent of women said they’d leave if they could get paid more in another country. The rationales… View Article

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