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Disturbing Family Patterns
What liberals would eliminate completely, they label as offensive. Per Bill O’Sullivan, Senior Managing Editor of the Washingtonian, that now includes the term “start a family”…
2:55pm CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
Know the Enemy
Facebook… new community page promoting the “health benefits” of Islamic female genital mutilation…
2:53pm CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
End of the World As We Know It
President Barack Obama delivered…
…drinks to Bill Clinton? Who cares what this stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure said?
2:50pm CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
…Rosie O’Donnell was onstage at the Beacon Theatre in New York City ahead of a Boy George concert when she opened up her short remarks by…
…saying something about someone, but who cares?
2:48pm CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
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Wild Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY - In an opinion written on Friday of last week, Attorney General Scott Pruitt reaffirmed the state's law on concealed carry gun licenses, saying it is clear when it reads, Oklahomans don’t need an Oklahoma license to carry; any license from any state will do.…
…“We can't do any kind of background check on those people and that's completely legal at this point,” Jessica Brown from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. “These people have not been vetted through what we believe is a proper and good system. Also they do not know the laws pertaining to how they can carry that weapon and use that weapon legally.”
Brown added the law takes money away from the state. Application and registration fees by the hundreds…
Fees! Aye, there's the rub.
2:01am CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
Science Marches Onnnnnn
A laboratory experiment in Hungary has spotted an anomaly in radioactive decay that could be the signature of a previously unknown fifth fundamental force of nature, physicists say – if the finding holds up.…
Not that I have a clue what they're saying they've discovered!
11:37am CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
History - still with us
…Archeologists have unearthed some 82,000 artifacts dating back to the 17th century at the Museum of the American Revolution construction site on 3rd and Chestnut streets… mid-18th century pottery from a tavern on Chestnut Street to granite foundations of the city’s first skyscraper, a patent medicine business.… [and] fragments of a English delftware punch bowl…
11:33am CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
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Breitbart is Here
G7 vows growth efforts as Japan's Abe warns of global crisis…
North Korea threatens retaliation after South Korean warning shots…
Al Qaeda still reaping oil profits in Yemen despite battlefield reverses…
News headline links
3:15pm CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
Holiday weekend begins today
Sorry, There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast…
President Obama Is Visiting Hiroshima. Why Not Pearl Harbor?…
Clinton Plans to Dissolve U.S. Border Within 100 Days of Taking Presidency…
News and views links
3:10pm CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
Two Libyan migrants in Malta were arrested and charged with attempted murder for attacking three bouncers with samurai swords last weekend. The two suspects deny committing any crimes. Both of them are said to be wanted in Libya on unspecified charges.
In possibly unrelated news, the Maltese police will receive €550,000 in aid from the European Union to help them purchase bullet-proof vests and communications equipment.…
"Possibly unrelated" - heh. News headline links and summaries
2:36pm CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
Gridlock…
The balls on this woman…
NYC going soft…
You've got to click these news headline links to know what's in them!
10:27am CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW
…On this day in 1199 John was crowned King of England. This is the "John" loosely portrayed in the Russell Crowe version of Robin Hood and roundly excoriated in all of the previous versions. The last version has the distinction of being the most accurate with respect to history. …
Vic's Early Report, late in the Overnight thread
9:57am CDT Fri 2016 May 27 :MW