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Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday. Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case. So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock. In the meantime, Ahmed’s been suspended, his father is...

September 15, 2015 U.S. training helped mold top Islamic State military commander “More than anything else, Batirashvili has legitimized ISIS in the Caucasus by the power of his exploits, which is amplified by slick ISIS propaganda,” said Michael Cecire, an analyst of extremism for the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. ...snip Those seeking an explanation for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insistence on sending military supplies and manpower to Syria to bolster the government of President Bashar Assad would do well to consider Batirashvili. Putin not only personally oversaw the Russian push into Georgia, but he has twice waged war against...

Carly Fiorina promised on Wednesday that she is aiming at Donald Trump in the second GOP presidential debate. “Well, I think Mr. Trump’s going to be hearing quite a lot from me,” she said in an interview with CNBC from Concord, N.H. “Donald Trump and I are in totally different businesses,” Fiorina said. “He’s in the entertainment business and he’s also in a privately held business.” “If you file for bankruptcy four times, I think it suggests either a lack of judgment or a lack of discipline,” she added of Trump, the front-runner in the 2016 GOP presidential race....

Stanford Graduate School of Business Dean Garth Saloner, shown in a 2010 file photo in China, announced his resignation on Monday. The dean of the top-ranked business school in the country resigned Monday amid allegations he had an affair with a professor and got her husband fired. Stanford University Graduate School of Business Dean Garth Saloner will step down at the end of the current school year, school officials said.

It is about a Prayer Room. Powerful. If we trust the Lord we will receive many blessings. I recommend it. http://warroomthemovie.com/

When Donald Trump steps onto the debate stage Wednesday, he'll face his rivals for the first time without one of his most valuable assets: a crowd. The raucous 4,500-strong audience of rank-and-file Republicans that packed into a Cleveland sports arena last month for the first GOP debate fueled the bombastic billionaire, who has copped to making many of his sensational comments as an "entertainer" rather than as a presidential candidate currently smoking the rest of the GOP field in the polls. But Wednesday night's debate will have a different feel in the more somber confines of the Reagan Presidential Library...

; In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". (peculate) \ˈpe-kyə-ˌlāt\hear it pronounced verb to embezzle, to appropriate someone else's money or property entrusted to one's care, From LATIN peculatus literally to make public property private. Entomologically related to peculiar, from LATIN pecularis(as one's own) as in belonging exclusively to. When a person peculates he makes someone else's property peculiar, so to speak, to himself (temporarily, we hope, until to cops catch up with him) Rules: Everyone must leave a post using...

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In 2008, during the American presidential election campaign, US Senator Hillary Clinton's handlers began to get clumsy and she was seen in two different places at once on a number of separate occasions. And not just in Iowa and New Hampshire. Someone sees Hillary Clinton at a function across town at, say, 1.30pm. And then, when they compare notes with a Democratic Party co-worker later that day, they learn that Hillary was also seen back at the hotel at 1.30pm, three miles away. And her clothes were different, or her hair was different, or her makeup was different, and...

California has adopted a series of laws in recent years to help people in the country illegally, and polls show broad support for a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 2 million such immigrants living in the state. But it's a different story when it comes to providing them healthcare benefits. .

So as we all start another day in Paradise, and as we lick our wounds from yet another defeat by our House and Senate Republican majority, over the dastardly Iran deal, who is worse, John Boehner, or the House Republicans that keep him on as Speaker? A poster on a great thread about “The Donald Trump Show” is revealing some pathetic details about the tan man and where his fealty really lies. “In June, 1995, Boehner distributed campaign contributions from tobacco industry lobbyists ON THE HOUSE FLOOR (emp. added) as House members were weighing how to vote on tobacco subsidies....

Losers. Murders. Rapists. Stupid. See how fast you can call ‘Bingo!’ during tonight's debate...

Talk in Kennedy circles is that Caroline Kennedy is furious over the revelation that a longtime confidant of Hillary Clinton’s secretly sabotaged her bid to become a US senator — and Kennedy may seek her revenge by backing veep Joe Biden if he runs for president. In June, leaked emails revealed that Hillary henchman Sidney Blumenthal had orchestrated news stories undermining Caroline while she was vying to be appointed to Hillary’s Senate seat in 2008.

Embattled Kentucky clerk Kim Davis "has not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success" in her legal bid to exempt her office from licensing same-sex marriages, a federal appeals court reiterated Tuesday. One day after Davis returned to work following a stint in jail for defying a federal judge, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals shot down another of her requests to delay issuing the licenses. After four couples sued Davis for refusing them licenses, she filed a counter lawsuit against Gov. Steve Beshear, alleging that he improperly instructed clerks to abide by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in June...

A Portland artist is sending one bold message to Donald Trump and she's using her own blood to do it. Sarah Levy painted a portrait of the Republican presidential candidate using her menstrual blood. Levy tells FOX 12 it’s all in response to a controversial comment trump made about FOX debate moderator Megyn Kelly. Following the Republican presidential debate on Fox News, Trump said of moderator Kelly: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever." Levy says if trump thinks he can bring up a woman's period to insult their intelligence,...

Bush’s top fundraisers fear another lousy debate performance will precipitate an exodus of the big money. Nobody is more nervous about this week's debate than Jeb Bush’s top fundraisers -- and no audience will have more to say about his future viability as a candidate. New York Jets owner Woody Johnson knew it. He recognized the group assembled at his Rockefeller Center office in Manhattan last Wednesday was in need of some reassurance after Bush’s unimpressive performance in last month’s GOP debate, so Bush’s national finance chairman, recalled one attendee, gave a personal pledge: Jeb would be “well prepared” for...

LONDON — British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has a message for U.K. defense firms: If you want to boost profits, make sure you can sell your products overseas. n return, Fallon vowed that the Defence Ministry would champion U.K. companies to allies and will “lead on key, strategic export campaigns” around the world. “As a government, boosting our export successes in what is an increasingly competitive marketplace has to now be the priority,” Fallon said Tuesday at the Defence Security International Exposition, or DSEI, a massive arms show here. The defense secretary named the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet and “complex...

“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” - Proverbs 27:17 No two people are exactly alike, which means that no two friends will have the same way of relating to us. Some we can trust to help us with certain tasks that our other friends will not assist us in completing. We have some close friends who will never say a critical word about anything we have done or are thinking. If we are truly fortunate, we will have at least one friend who will be honest with us and offer needed criticism that will help us improve ourselves...

WASHINGTON -- While Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone will be honored with a Purple Heart on Thursday for injuries he sustained struggling with a Paris train shooter three weeks ago, the families of the five military members killed in Chattanooga, Tenn., in July still have no word on whether their fallen will be similarly honored. ......... Reagan's revision added "international acts of terrorism" as eligible criteria for the award. In late August, French prosecutors charged Moroccan national Ayoub El-Khazzan with "attempted murder of a terrorist nature" for his intended attack on the Paris-bound train that Stone helped prevent. In the...

The increasingly public rift between Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and others in her party’s leadership over the number of presidential debates is threatening to become more than just embarrassing to the DNC. It’s spelling trouble for Hillary Clinton, the faltering front-runner who can’t afford to look like she’s being protected by party insiders, say Democrats aligned with both the DNC and 2016 campaigns.