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October 6, 2017
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Here comes da judge
Chuck Baldwin

October 5, 2017
NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the landmark international deal to curb Iran's nuclear program, a senior administration official said on Thursday, in a step that potentially could cause the 2015 accord to unravel.... (more)


October 5, 2017
NEWSMAX — Even as investigators continue to search for a motive for the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, The Wall Street Journal cautioned more gun laws won't stop mass shootings by a determined killer. "Stephen Paddock's motives for his murderous rampage in Las Vegas on Sunday still aren't known, and neither are all the details of his plans and methods," the newspaper said in an editorial.... (more)


October 5, 2017
LEO HOHMANN — Another day, another bombshell dropped by the Clark County Sheriff. At a news briefing Thursday, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said he does not believe Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock acted alone. And he hinted that there's a lot more to the story than has been released to date -- that a lone gunman acted alone to pull off the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.... (more)


October 5, 2017


October 5, 2017
BUSINESS INSIDER — The Islamic State continues to take credit for last week's deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, reportedly offering on Thursday a more specific claim that the gunman had converted to Islam before his rampage.... (more)


October 5, 2017
THE DAILY BEAST — Jesus Campos had no firearm when he found Stephen Paddock and approached his room on the 32rd floor of Mandalay Bay on Sunday night. Paddock, who had rigged cameras in the hallway and on the peephole of the door, saw Campos coming and fired through the door, hitting him in the leg, said Dave Hickey, president of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America. The union represents Campos and hundreds of security guards at Mandalay Bay.... (more)


October 5, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES — In her first public statement since the Las Vegas massacre, the gunman's girlfriend said Wednesday that he had sent her on a trip to the Philippines and wired her money there, but that she did not know he was planning to harm anyone.... (more)


October 5, 2017
EXPRESS — Stephen Paddock could have spent more than 20 years plotting his devastating attack on innocent people in Las Vegas, police have revealed. Officials also believe Paddock may not have acted alone. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said: "At face value he had to have some help at some point and we want to ensure that that's the answer "Maybe he was a superhuman who figured this out all on his own but it would be hard for me to believe that."... (more)


October 5, 2017
DAILY WIRE — On Tuesday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo revealed that Marilou Danley, the live-in girlfriend of Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock, was a "person of interest" in the investigation and was being brought back to the United States from the Philippines, where she had traveled two weeks before her boyfriend committed the most deadly mass shooting in the history of the country. On Wednesday, Danley, 62, arrived in Los Angeles, having reportedly traveled back voluntarily to "clear her name."... (more)


October 5, 2017
REVIEW JOURNAL — Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock used his Mandalay Bay hotel room to fire bullets at jet fuel tanks Sunday night, a knowledgeable source told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The bullets left two holes in one of two circular white tanks. One of the bullets penetrated the tank, but did not cause a fire or explosion near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, another knowledgeable source said late Wednesday.... (more)


October 5, 2017
DAILY WIRE — A now-eerie video, posted to YouTube in 2016, shows the inside of suite 32-135 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas -- the room Stephen Paddock used to shoot more than 550 people across the street at the Las Vegas Village during the Route 91 music festival Sunday night.... (more)


October 5, 2017
DAILY WIRE — On Tuesday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro absolutely tore apart Jimmy Kimmel's emotion-laden monologue on Monday night in which a tearful Kimmel ripped the GOP for not enacting harsher gun control laws as well as those who responded to the Las Vegas massacre by praying rather than pressing for harsher gun control laws.... (more)


October 5, 2017
WASHINGTON TIMES — One of Mike Rowe's nearly 5 million Facebook followers took a chance by asking the celebrity for words of comfort after Sunday's mass shooting in Nevada, and he responded in short order. A Las Vegas resident named Molly Carr turned to America's "everyman" for advice following the Vegas strip rampage by Stephen Paddock, which killed at least 58 people and wounded over 500 others. Mr. Rowe, whose common-sense approach to problems gained him fame on Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" and CNN's "Somebody's Gotta Do It," replied Tuesday in a post that attracted nearly 4 million views.... (more)


October 5, 2017
ALICIA POWE — The Department of Justice is demanding the U.S. Attorney's Office for Washington, D.C., release records relating to the murder of Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich. On Sept. 1, Texas attorney Ty Clevenger submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request with the DOJ and FBI requesting all records and correspondence pertaining to Rich.... (more)


October 5, 2017
ANDREW MCCARTHY — The question is not whether President Trump should decertify President Obama's farcical Iran nuclear deal. Of course he should. Indeed, he must: Even if we set common sense to the side, federal law requires it. Instead, there are two questions.... (more)


October 4, 2017
LEO HOHMANN — More than 48 hours after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, police still don't have a motive for the horrific crime. But a more complete profile of the killer is beginning to emerge. Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter who killed 59 people at a country music festival Sunday night, worked over a 10-year period as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, an IRS agent and a defense auditor.... (more)


October 4, 2017
WASHINGTON TIMES — Drexel University is distancing itself from comments made online by Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher after he blamed "Trumpism" and the "narrative of white victimization" for Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas. "Yesterday was a morbid symptom of what happens when those who believe they deserve to own the world also think it is being stolen from them," George Ciccariello-Maher wrote in a series of tweets Monday morning.... (more)


October 4, 2017
WASHINGTON TIMES — "President Trump is the least regulatory president since Ronald Reagan. His administration has only proposed 1,241 rules, 13 percent less than Barack Obama's first year, 42 percent lower than George W. Bush's, and 72 percent lower than Bill Clinton's," reports a new analysis by Wayne Crews, vice president of policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.... (more)


October 4, 2017
BOB UNRUH — It's no secret that the Internal Revenue Service was used as a political weapon by the Obama administration -- just talk to any of the thousands of people affected by the agency's obstruction of conservative, Christian and tea party organizations at the time Obama was seeking re-election.... (more)


October 4, 2017
NEWSMAX — A person dressed up as "Monopoly Man" Rich Uncle Pennybags from Hasbro's Monopoly board game attended Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Senate hearing on Wednesday and promptly went viral after showing up in video of the proceedings.... (more)


October 2, 2017
ALAN KEYES — These days, it seems that there is no aspect of American life uninfected by the virus of inordinate ambition. Was it ever thus? Not necessarily. However, since the first years of the constitutional republic, such ambition has certainly been in play. As Hamilton wrote:... (more)


October 2, 2017
AOL.COM — A retiree armed with multiple assault rifles strafed an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas from a high-rise hotel window on Sunday, slaughtering at least 59 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history before killing himself.... (more)


October 2, 2017
WORLDNETDAILY — The far-left group known as "antifa" has dramatically increased its presence in the American political scene since the inauguration of Donald Trump. It's violent tactics have been labeled "terrorism" by experts. But is the group now attempting to make the jump to revolution?... (more)


October 2, 2017
JEFF SESSIONS — Freedom of thought and speech on the American campus are under attack. The American university was once the center of academic freedom -- a place of robust debate, a forum for the competition of ideas. But it is transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and homogenous thought, a shelter for fragile egos.... (more)


October 2, 2017
THE MORMON POLITICO — I love America. I believe that my country is a land of opportunity and freedom, a place with one of the freest presses in the world, where aristocracy is decried, not celebrated, and where anyone, regardless of background, religion, or ethnicity, can become a fully accepted member of our national community.... (more)

 
 
 
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