[WASHINGTONTIMES] Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is calling on Donald Trump to bow out of the 2016 GOP presidential race, after the New York real estate mogul ridiculed Sen. John McCain’s military service.
Mr. Perry and Mr. Trump have been engaged in a back-and-forth that escalated Saturday when Mr. Trump dismissed the idea that Mr. McCain is a war hero for getting shot down over Vietnam and being imprisoned for nearly six years.
Mr. Perry called on Mr. Trump to apologize and end his bid for the White House, and the Republican National Committee said that there is “no place in our party” for Mr. Trump’s comments.
“As a veteran and an American, I respect Sen. McCain because he volunteered to serve his country. I cannot say the same of Mr. Trump. His comments have reached a new low in American politics,” Mr. Perry said. “His attack on veterans make him unfit to be Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, and he should immediately withdraw from the race for President.” I'm not fond of either Trump or McCain. I respect McCain for his conduct in Vietnam, but being a war hero in 1967 doesn't make him a good senator.
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McCain pounds the airways with his prisoner of war experience trying to make people believe that makes him the best representative out of the field. Its a crafty way of putting something out there that if anyone attacks brings him sympathy from the electorate. I think using that is dirty politics. Period. Has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with government and everything to do with staying in power via the sympathy card.
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Just remember Mr. Benedict Arnold had a distinguished military record too. In particular it was his aggressiveness on the field of battle (against orders) that resulted in the critical American victory at Saratoga. Till that time he choose to join the other side. Sort of like, desperately running for reelection and espousing the necessity of securing the border, then dropping the whole thing when you get back with your buddies in the club in the Beltway. Both were blood betrayals to Americans.
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So once again Trump does NOT apologize. Good for him. Thinks about what he says before he says it and doesn't back away from the heat. Let's see if he can get through the debates without a brain freeze.
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Trump can say whatever he wants to say. It's still a free country. You or I don't have to agree with it, but that's ok. Let him alone, let him rant on and stir the bastids up while he's at it.
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Trump can say whatever he wants because he is not beholden to monied interests like pretty much every other candidate. He will definitely keep the bastiges stirred up. Think of it a recon by fire.
[Daily Caller] Former Maryland Gov. and Democratic Party presidential candidate Martin O'Malley, along with fellow candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, were shouted off stage at the Netroots Nation conference in Phoenix, Ariz., Saturday. O'Malley's offense was saying, "Black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter."
O'Malley has now apologized for including "white lives matter, all lives matter" in his statement.
The Black Lives Matter movement on the extreme progressive left does not tolerate inclusion of all lives, or any other lives when it comes to mattering.
Appearing on the Internet based "This Week In Blackness," or TWiB Nation, host L. Joy Williams excoriated O'Malley for his insensitivity for including "white lives" and "all lives" in his statement. The former governor did not repeat the phrases, he referred to them as "those other two phrases."
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So, if I lived in Maryland, my life would not matter to the governor, because I am white?
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Former governor. The governorship went Republican last election. It was the "rain tax" that pushed the state over the edge.
Ever notice how blacks (12 or 13 percent of the population) refer to "blacks and hispanics (17 percent)" when they want something? But saying "all lives matter" dilutes the statement.
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Seeing blatant, shameless pandering rejected warms the cockles my old heart.
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Some snowflakes indulge in mad chatter;
Some flatter themselves that they matter,
But all, by their nature,
Are stuck in the glacier,
Unmindful that soon it must shatter.
[Standard Digital (Kenya)] Street families in Nairobi were on Friday night rounded up by Nairobi County askaris and National Youth Service (NYS) officers ahead of the visit by US President Barack Obama I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something... Those nabbed in the operation were taken to Joseph Kangethe Primary School before being transferred to Ruai where a rehabilitation center has been set up. More swoops are expected in the coming days ahead of Obama's visit on Friday.
The rehabilitation programme is being undertaken by the Ministry of Devolutionand the Nairobi City County government. Already the county government has received Sh40 million for the operation.
Plans include mopping up the 3,000 people from the streets of Nairobi and its environs. Half of those targetted are children under 18. "The rehabilitation programme will include provision of food, clothing and shelter. They will be provided with better comfort than they experience on the streets," Governor Evans Kidero said.
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[NYPOST] No wonder he doesn't think there's a problem.
The police have been laboring to keep Mayor de Blasio in a bum-free bubble -- clearing nuisance-causing vagrants from his view at Gracie Mansion and as he travels in the city.
On Wednesday, two hours before de Blasio was due to walk through Washington Square Park, cops arrived en masse to clear out the quality-of-life-ruining bums who drink from paper bags, sprawl on benches and pee in public.
"They had to clear all the homeless out before he got there," for a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at the NYU Islamic Center, said one law-enforcement source.
"They didn't want him to see the homeless people lying around, to see how the park usually is. They wanted it spotless for him," the source added.
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Remove these homeless peasants at once! The mayor will insist on a pleasant, happy view, possibly Der Ring des Nibelungen playing softly in the background.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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