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Marital problems are inevitable and couples everywhere have their own ways to settle any feud. But one man decided to call for backup - quite literally - when he couldn't handle his domestic issues with his own wife. Devbir Kalsi's parents flew all the way from India to Florida to help their 33-year-old son "counsel and discipline his wife for being disobedient", Fox News reported. Silky Gaind, 33, was found "battered and bruised" at her marital home with Kalsi in Florida last Saturday (Sept 2). The perpetrators, Jasbir Kalsi, 67, and his wife Bhupinder, 61, were arrested along with their...

Grozny, September 4, Interfax - More than one million people attended a rally in Grozny on Monday to protest against the "genocide of Muslims" in Myanmar, the organizers reported. "More than one million people have participated in the rally," the organizing committee told Interfax. "The public event passed without incident," the organizers said. The rally took place under a banner with the slogan "No to genocide of Muslims in Myanmar" on the stage in downtown Grozny. The leaders of the Chechen Republic took part in the rally. As reported earlier, rally participants adopted a decision to petition Russian President Vladimir...

If you go to a shelter for #Irma and you have a warrant, we'll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail If you go to a shelter for #Irma, be advised: sworn LEOs will be at every shelter, checking IDs. Sex offenders/predators will not be allowed

Big Bang Theory producer Bill Prady tweeted Tuesday that honor killings of women under Sharia law might actually be an acceptable practice. Maybe. Well, he's not sure. The slightly-more-than-disturbing admission happened while Prady – a man – was trying to school pro-life advocate Obianuju Ekeocha – a woman – on the issue of abortion. (Which was odd to me, as I thought only those with a uterus got a vote on the subject. But I digress.) During the lengthy Twitter back-and-forth, Prady attempted to trump Ekeocha’s pro-life argument by awkwardly tying in religion, arguing that a woman’s right to kill...

Federal Reserve vice chair Stanley Fischer is resigning from his post at the central bank effective in mid-October, the Fed announced Wednesday. Fischer cited “personal reasons” in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump. Fischer’s term as vice chair was slated to end on June 12, 2018. “It has been a great privilege to serve on the Federal Reserve Board and, most especially, to work alongside Chair [Janet] Yellen as well as many other dedicated and talented men and women throughout the Federal Reserve System,” Fischer wrote.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott Wednesday urged residents of his state to "be as aggressive as we are" in planning for the approach of monster storm Hurricane Irma. "We're going to have wind, rain, and storm surge," Scott told ABC's "Good Morning America" program. "We don't know where it will hit, likely Fort Myers and Naples, as is Miami. The Keys are already evacuating." The storm will bring wind, rain and storm surge, and "water could cover your house, so I want everybody to understand the importance of this. This is bigger than Andrew," he said, referring to the last Category...

Judge Roy Moore is the clear conservative frontrunner for the U.S. Senate GOP primary runoff on September 26, dwarfing the GOP establishment-backed Sen. Luther Strange by more than double digits in a new poll. Moore towers over Strange with a solid majority of the electorate and a 16-point lead. Moore’s 52 percent, per the new poll, dwarfs Strange’s 36 percent in the poll conducted by firm Southeast Research from August 29 to August 31 in Alabama. The poll surveyed 401 likely voters in the runoff and has a margin of error of five percent.

Just had the largest X-ray Flare in history while the biggest Hurricane in history is in the Atlantic. CME from previous X-5 Flare is going to hit Earth tonight around 5-6 PM EDT. The initial estimate of the arrival of the X-10 Flare is 6-7 AM EDT on 8 September 2017. This could be a repeat of the 1859 Carrington Event. We could be doing Irma without electronics or electricity.

Video @ link (3:19) Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued a stern warning about Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, saying the Category 5 monster could be even more dangerous than Hurricane Andrew a quarter-century ago. Scott, who has declared a statewide emergency, urged residents to heed mandatory evacuation orders that were declared locally throughout the Sunshine State. “I cannot stress this enough: Do not ignore evacuation orders,” Scott said during a morning news conference. “We can rebuild your home, but we cannot rebuild your life. Take what you need, but only what you need.” Monroe County — which encompasses the Keys —...

Yes. A freaking tiger. Photo courtesy of Twitter user Dispatch Demon. What the . . . ? I've driven through Atlanta at rush hour. It was bad. If I'd seen this, I'd probably have assumed I'd fallen asleep behind the wheel and was dreaming. But it was no dream:

Paul Blumenthal at the Huffington Post declares a “major policy win” for Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, and the nationalist-populist movement that put Donald Trump into office as Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday that the administration would rescind former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA) executive action. This article was promoted as HuffPost’s lead story, with the splash headline: “BANNON STRIKES BACK.” From the Huffington Post: WASHINGTON ― Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is still notching policy wins after his return to the right-wing website Breitbart. President Donald Trump’s decision to end Obama-era protections for undocumented...

Video @ link. (4:33) Full title ~~~ Chris Farrell on “Lou Dobbs Tonight”: House Judiciary chair calls for second special counsel to probe Democrats Judicial Watch Director of Investigations and Research Chris Farrell appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network to discuss the various developments in the Russia probe, and Comey’s conflicts that have emerged related to his draft of a Clinton exoneration before the investigation was concluded.

Hillary Clinton takes responsibility for her loss in the 2016 presidential election – up to a point – in a bombshell new memoir out next week. But she saves plenty of fire for her Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders, former FBI director James Comey and even vice-president Joe Biden. She also, of course, excoriates the man who beat her, Donald Trump, and forcefully defends the man who cheated on her with an affair that disgraced his presidency, Bill Clinton. And she mildly scolds Barack Obama. What Happened> reportedly gets as close as anything yet to the real Hillary Clinton beneath the...

President Donald Trump argued Tuesday that his predecessor’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program “is unlawful and unconstitutional and cannot be successfully defended in court.” But California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has vowed to lead the so-called “Resistance” to Trump, argued the opposite, claiming that the president’s decision to rescind DACA Tuesday was unconstitutional — though he did not explain why. “We believe the Trump administration has violated the Constitution, federal law, and certainly we believe wholeheartedly the Trump administration has ignored the American people,” Becerra said, according to the Fresno Bee. He threatened to sue the administration...

BILLIONAIRE Richard Branson has refused to leave his private Necker Island in the British Virgin Island despite Hurricane Irma threatening to strike. Virgin boss Mr Branson said he would not leave the island he owns to escape the Hurricane Irma storm, which is becoming one of the largest on record, bringing with it 185mph winds. The National Hurricane Centre has warned the rainfall could cause life-threatening flash floods, torrential rain, fierce winds and mudslides. Earlier today the hurricane was upgraded to a Category 5 storm. Writing on his blog, Mr Branson said: “The devastation that hurricanes can cause cannot be...

Millions of Christians in the Middle East were murdered, displaced from their homes, forcibly converted to Islam, made to pay the jizya, enslaved, brutalized…did the Vatican ever discuss their plight at the state level with any government? Maybe it did, but I am unaware of any such discussion. I do know that Pope Francis ran interference for the persecutors, making the flatly false statement that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” He also said that “Muslim terrorism does not exist.” So while a Vatican representative meets with the foreign minister...

An excerpt from the new book 'Politics and Society,' in which the Holy Father sat down for an unprecedented 20 candid interviewsHere is another selection of excerpts from Politics and Society, a new book-length interview with Pope Francis, in which the pope deals with some of the hot-button issues of our day.Pope Francis sat down for 20 conversations with French journalist Dominique Wolton for a book-length interview that will be released in French on Wednesday. The 432-page volume is titled Politique et société: un dialogue inédit, or Politics and Society: Conversations with Dominique Wolton. Wolton conducted the interview sessions over...

A U.S. Representative from Maryland recently announced that he is planning to introduce legislation to police “hate speech” on college campuses. According to The Diamondback, Representative Anthony Brown (D) announced plans at the University of Maryland to introduce the bill to fight hate speech and hate crimes, explaining that it would require public colleges and universities to have programs and initiatives that define for students "what is acceptable speech and what is not acceptable speech."

Congressional Republicans are a mystery. P.J. O'Rourke said it best: The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. Barack Obama single handedly dismantled the democrat party, losing more than 1,000 seats during his tenure. The GOP now controls the House, Senate and the White House but you'd never know it. They act like beaten dogs. They cower before democrats. They are afraid of their own shadows. And good golly are they...

Given the normalization of hysteria in America, it was predictable that hyperbole would govern much of the discussion—if we can call it that—over the so-called Dreamers, the almost 800,000 young people who were brought to the United States illegally, mostly from Latin America. It’s time to see through the Dreamers maze. This is one problem where culpability escapes neither Party: with some important exceptions, both the Republicans and the Democrats have shown little or no interest in grappling with the macro issue of immigration, and the micro issue of the Dreamers. They would prefer that the executive branch, or the...