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The passing of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of it into law have escalated into a tense war between the increasingly solid red state and The Walt Disney Corporation, which continues to double down on its heavily pro-LGBT stance. Disney has vowed to fight for the repeal of the law despite the fact that it reflects the values of parents throughout the state — as well as many of the company’s cast members (which is what Disney calls its employees). But, just as we’ve expected from Florida’s governor, DeSantis isn’t simply rolling over —...

An emotional Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 years after pleading guilty to nine federal charges stemming from his failure to report millions of dollars in income making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump. One of the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to included a separate charge, stemming from Robert Mueller's probe into Tump's potential collusion with Russia, that he lied to Congress about his dealings with a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow.

Several weeks ago, Julian Assange stated that ‘Hillary Clinton is a demon who will put a noose around our necks if elected.’ Assange is quite correct. Hillary Clinton is a demon. She’s a walking, talking supporting character from the Amityville Horror’s red room of terror. She’s a lying criminal who is simply incapable of expressing or feeling empathy for anyone. She would have found a home at a death factory like Auschwitz, where SS personnel exhibited similar sociopathic traits as Mrs. Clinton. She is a ranting, violent individual who has and will destroy anyone in her path without the slightest...

      The Marco Rubio campaign is livid Thursday after the Ted Cruz campaign released a website that includes a photoshopped image of their candidate shaking hands with President Barack Obama. Cruz’s website “The Real Rubio Record” ironically features a very unreal image of Rubio smiling ecstatically while shaking Obama’s hand. “The Rubio-Obama Trade Pact” the text ominously reads, a reference to Rubio’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The Cruz website also features a photoshopped image of Rubio smiling while leaning on a business sign reading “Closed.” Among the red flags that the image is fake… who shakes with their left hand? Certainly not the...

The drummer of hard rock group AC/DC, Phil Rudd, has had a charge of attempted to arrange a murder dropped in New Zealand. Mr. Rudd’s lawyer said the charge was dropped because of lack of evidence. Australian Mr. Rudd will still face charges—announced on Thursday—of possessing drugs and of making threats to kill. […] Mr. Rudd’s lawyer, Paul Mabey, said the “charge alleging an attempt to procure murder should never have been laid”. […] He described the drug charges as “minor” offenses and said the musician would defend the charge of making threats to kill, which carries a maximum sentence...

Phil Rudd, the drummer for legendary hard rock band AC/DC, has been charged with attempting to have two men killed. The 60-year-old appeared in a New Zealand court Thursday afternoon facing a count of attempting to procure the murder of two men, said Bay of Plenty Police District representative Kim Perks.

In the second season of the BBC's hit show "Sherlock," shadowy snipers threaten the eponymous detective's friends by skulking around stairwells with high-powered rifles or infiltrating their homes and workplaces. In real life, targets of assassination in Britain are more likely to be killed while walking their dogs or going shopping, new research finds. The study of contract killings spanning from 1974 to 2013, published in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, finds that assassinations are often rather mundane. "Hit men are familiar figures in films and video games, carrying out 'hits' in underworld bars or from the rooftops with...

Ex-IRS agent sentenced to prison in murder-for-hire plot A former IRS agent who opened a tax preparation business was sentenced Friday to nearly 24 years in prison for defrauding clients out of more than $11 million and then attempting to hire a hit man to kill four of them. Steven Martinez, 51, of Ramona was sentenced in San Diego federal court to 286 months in prison and five years of supervised release. He was also ordered by District Court Judge William Hayes to forfeit all the property, including a home in Mexico, and other possessions that he purchased with clients'...

Here we go again. Obama is taking down the leadership of Americas military.(my words) According to a senior U.S. defense official, the FBI has uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of “potentially inappropriate” emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old Tampa woman whose close friendship with Petraeus ultimately led to his downfall. Allen, a Marine, succeeded Petraeus as the top allied commander in Afghanistan in July 2011.

xxxx, Our Deeds-Wagner-Shannon ticket will continue a 4-day, 20-stop "All in for Virginia" tour on Sunday in Norfolk. During the tour, the 2009 Democratic ticket will criss-cross Virginia, joined by Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Mark Warner, and members of the Democratic Congressional delegation. Please come out and join them to help Keep Virginia Blue. All events are open to the public. Please RSVP by clicking the links below. Sunday, November 1, 2009 1:15 PM Norfolk GOTV Lunch No Frill Bar and Grill 806 Spotswood Avenue Norfolk, VA 2:00 PM Norfolk GOTV Canvass Kickoff Norfolk Coordinated Campaign Office...

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Dear Obamaphile-- Having President Obama's support in my campaign for governor of Virginia is an honor. The only thing to match it is having the support of you and the movement that made President Obama's victory possible. Thanks to you, Virginia's future is stronger and its politics will never be the same. But what you did in 2008 was only the beginning, and I want to make sure that what you started never stops. We're currently facing the effects of the failed national policies of the past -- unemployment, struggling small businesses, and too many home foreclosures. We can't...

xxxx -- Virginia, it's time to get fired up. I've just announced that I'll be visiting next Tuesday to rally you and your neighbors in support of Creigh Deeds and our movement for change. Creigh Deeds has offered real solutions to address Virginia's challenges in transportation and the economy, and it's up to us now to build the support that will make those solutions a reality. We made history here in Virginia last year. Together with your neighbors, you built a movement in order to move this commonwealth and our country forward. But from day one, we knew we were...

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In advance of President Obama campaigning for Creigh Deeds next week in Virginia's upcoming gubernatorial contest, Team Deeds has just announced that Bill Clinton -- along with Terry McAuliffe, whom Deeds defeated in the Dem primary -- will stump for Deeds tomorrow in Northern Virginia. Democrats are trying to do everything they can to narrow a race that Republican Bob McDonnell is comfortably leading, according to the polls.

Today’s Washington Post endorsement of Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the Virginia gubernatorial race is no surprise, given the Post’s determined and months-long effort to “macaca” Deeds’ opponent, Republican Bob McDonnell. But the editorial endorsement is a self-parody of liberal hyperbole and inconsistency. The Post again raises the strawman of McDonnell’s 1989 graduate dissertation, apparently cribbing from Ted Kennedy’s infamous denunciation of Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court. On July 1, 1987, within an hour of Bork’s nomination, Kennedy delivered a fiery speech saying, “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: OCTOBER 15, 2009 JON BLAIR, 804-643-4816 Equality Virginia PAC Endorses Deeds for Governor RICHMOND - Equality Virginia PAC announced today its support for Creigh Deeds for Governor. “There is no question that for the GLBT community and Virginians who believe in equality for all, there is only one sensible choice for Governor, and that choice is Creigh Deeds,” stated Jon Blair, Equality Virginia PAC’s CEO. “While no candidate is perfect, including Senator Deeds, Virginians must support the one candidate who truly understands that discrimination hurts our economy and our families.” Blair drew the following contrasts in...

xxxx -- With less than three weeks left until the Virginia governor's election, two things are certain: First, the more voters know about the very different records of the two candidates, the more they support Creigh Deeds. Second, the best way to spread the facts is the same way we won last year's election -- face-to-face conversations between voters and volunteers. That's why Creigh Deeds' campaign is launching an ambitious plan to reach out to Virginia voters and spread the word. They've done the math, and to reach a critical mass of voters they need 5,000 volunteer hours between now...