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FULLE TITLE: Breaking reports reveal why deputies were told not to enter Parkland high school, and it will infuriate you Deputies with the Broward Country Sheriff’s Office in Florida were ordered not to go into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while students were being slaughtered inside by crazed gunman Nikolas Cruz. Sources say the shocking reason for the decision to not help victims is that the deputies did not have body cameras on them.

ob·fus·cate ˈäbfəˌskāt/ verb verb: obfuscate; 3rd person present: obfuscates; past tense: obfuscated; past participle: obfuscated; gerund or present participle: obfuscating render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible. "the spelling changes will deform some familiar words and obfuscate their etymological origins" synonyms: obscure, confuse, make unclear, blur, muddle, complicate, overcomplicate, muddy, cloud, befog "mere rationalizations to obfuscate rather than clarify the real issue" antonyms: clarify bewilder (someone). "it is more likely to obfuscate people than enlighten them" synonyms: bewilder, mystify, puzzle, perplex, confuse, baffle, confound, bemuse, befuddle, nonplus; informalflummox "her work became more and more obfuscated by mathematics and jargon" Origin late Middle...

Why can't Democrats just be Democrats? It's because Democrats understand that their party's seminal liberalism - their ideology from which all else flows - is abhorrent to the majority of Americans. Democratic candidates routinely obscure their core values and proclivities, and presidential candidate John Kerry is no exception. He's a fraud, and he's cross-dressing as a centrist Republican. The word "liberal" has not become a pejorative in America for nothing. Frankly, most Americans are well aware that Democratic presidents invariably want to raise taxes (and not just on the top 2 percent), and fail to effectively utilize and appreciate the...

The classified reading room is on the 6th floor of the National Archives at College Park complex - the world's largest and most advanced archival facility in the world. The records vaults (each larger than most people's homes) for classified docs are also on that floor, as are the offices for the archivists and technicians who handle them. Employees can go up to that floor, but once there, everything is super-secured. You can't get out of the hall without the proper clearance and magnetic access badge that doubles as your ID badge. At the time, I had a Secret-level...

Meet Joe Dirt Stuart K. Hayashi In 2001, comedian David Spade came out with a movie titled "The Adventures of Joe Dirt." It now appears that the film was about Joe Conason, the author of "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth" and an editorialist for the liberal-biased Salon.com. In the person of Brad Pitt, you've already Met Joe Black. Now Meet the Real Joe Dirt. His book purports to expose how right-wingers harness the corporate media to brainwash society. Instead of demonstrating such, however, Joe is too busy flinging his Dirt around. In two...