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Impeach Obama
…As for the possibility that President Obama might simply ignore the defense bill and close Guantánamo Bay through executive order, Reuters describes Republicans as “furious” at such suggestions…
As Vic says, "Republicans talk the talk on GITMO closure and prisoner transfer but will they walk the walk? I say not if the past is any clue."
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Cosmology
…Known as GJ 1132b, it is the closest rocky exoplanet to have ever been found… Drake Deming, an astronomer at the University of Maryland, was so excited about the findings, published this week in Nature, that he described the new world as "arguably the most important planet ever found outside the solar system"… not likely to host life as we know it.…
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Defending Ourselves
LADSON, SC (WCSC) - Authorities say one burglary suspect is dead and another arrested after a 13-year-old boy opened fire at a home in Ladson on Tuesday. … boy said one of the two suspects attempted to get into the home, at which time the teen said he feared for his safety, got his mother's gun and began firing …
Breitbart is Here
…On this day in 1927 Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union. …
Return of the Newsmeister Vic, with his world report.
7:42am CST Thu 2015 Nov 12 :MW