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NEW YORK, NY—After a long and fruitless search for a conservative host willing to subject herself to daily appearances on The View, producers have announced that in lieu of a conservative host, they will instead bring on an elephant piñata they can hit with sticks throughout the entire show. According to sources, the other hosts are elated at the change. "Republicans are Nazis!" said Joy Behar in the latest taping as she viciously struck the piñata with a long stick. "What do you think about that Mr. GOP Elephant? Oh, that's right—I forgot you can't talk. Because you're a dumb...

CBS 2's Eric Cox reports kids taking shots at hitting a piñata in the shape of an ICE agent was all fun and games at an East Side community event. But not everyone thought it was in good taste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tve1z-7MzY 

Georgetown police have arrested a man accused of stuffing a taco piñata in Walmart with stolen items, according to an arrest warrant... The couple had not paid for the piñata. A loss prevention associate reportedly found six packs of football cards, basketball cards, baseball cards and a grey T-shirt — all not paid for. The woman had items they had paid for, however. Upon talking to the couple, the associate says she noticed Irving wearing a black jacket he had not been wearing when he entered the store. According to the warrant, he took off the jacket and admitted it...

Happy Birthday, and many more to our wonderful host and great patriot—creator of Free Republic—Jim Robinson! Post your good wishes here!

Dramatic video shot by a passenger shows the final moments before an Aeroméxico plane crashed shortly after taking off from General Guadalupe Victoria International Airport in Durango, Mexico. The video captures the immediate aftermath of the crash as passengers scramble to escape the wreck. 103 people were on the flight but no one was killed.

Paging the PC police! On CNN this morning, when Republican congressman Chris Collins light-heartedly suggested that Dreamers should be free to pursue whatever career they like, including “CNN host,” Chris Cuomo responded: “That’s a low bar, Congressman. You should have higher hopes for people than to get into the media, be used as a piñata for guys like you all the time.” View the video here.

Left-wing Mexican senators celebrated the start of the Christmas season by beating a piñata of U.S. President-Elect Donald J. Trump while chanting “faggot” and other expletives. In this case, the assembled group echoed the chant, “chinga tu madre”, calling for the President-Elect’s mother to be violated sexually. Many senators whistled the insult in lieu of saying the exact words.

"Let's bring up some people and give them a f—ing stick," frontman Axl Rose said as stagehands helped concertgoers up. "Express yourselves however you feel." Guns N' Roses encouraged fans to destroy a piñata of President-elect Donald Trump during their concert Wednesday night at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes. Frontman Axl Rose and the stage crew invited fans onstage and armed them with sticks and basically let them go to town on the thing, as TMZ points out.

Mexico City (AFP) - Mexicans have smashed Donald Trump pinatas and torched the Republican White House hopeful's effigy. Now they hope he will crash and burn in Tuesday's US presidential election. The New York billionaire became Mexico's bogeyman ever since he called migrants "rapists" and drug dealers when he launched his campaign last year. "The guy is a clown, a blowhard," said Jafet Granados, an 18-year-old biotechnology student who was standing under Mexico City's Angel of Independence monument. "If he wins, he won't do half of what he has promised."

Democrats accused Republicans on Tuesday of taking their cues from Donald Trump after the Senate’s No. 2 Republican said President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court should expect to be treated like a “piñata.” Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Republicans were “acting like big, tough people threatening to destroy the reputation of a Supreme Court nominee they haven’t even met yet.” Reid and other Democrats denounced a comment by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, who told reporters late Monday that anyone nominated by Obama to the high court “will bear some resemblance to a piñata.” Reid...

Twas the day after Christmas And all through the house Lay the leftover pieces of the Hillary Clinton piñata my kids smashed to smithereens

A new food cart in Portland, Oregon, El Diablito, staged its grand opening celebration by featuring dancers and a Donald Trump pinata. A banner on the stage read “El Diablito” which means “the little devil.” Little kids and adults lined up to take turns battering the effigy, which they say they were destroying to “promote peace” and “fight hate.” One little kid screams out “I want to kill him!” when he takes his turn beating the Trump piñata. The food cart owner claimed this wasn’t about politics.

A video posted online that shows a former union leader in South Carolina smashing a piñata effigy of Gov. Nikki Haley has riled the national office of the AFL-CIO, which wants it taken down. “Do you think we can get this video pulled,” asked a national AFL-CIO official in an email to Palmetto State union sources. The author of the email also worried the video might get “picked up by tea partiers, maybe even Haley herself, to attack labor again.” The video in question features former AFL-CIO of South Carolina president Donna DeWitt smacking a Haley piñata with a baseball...

Donna, TX -- Parents are angry about their kids being exposed to some X-rated party favors at a busy intersection. They say the topless piñatas at a shop on the corner of Val Verde and Business 83 are inappropriately exposing their children to pornography. The adult party favors are being sold in plain view next to children themed pinatas, such as Batman and Elmo. The topless pinatas sell for around $45 compared to $15 for the cartoon character designs. A worker at the store says the pinatas are big sellers for bachelor parties.

"…The more terrifying the occasion for defense, the closer will become the organization and the more coercive the influence upon each member of the herd. War sends the current of purpose and activity flowing down to the lowest level of the herd, and to its most remote branches. All the activities of society are linked together as fast as possible to this central purpose of making a military offensive or a military defense, and the State becomes what in peacetimes it has vainly struggled to become—the inexorable arbiter and determinant of men’s business and attitudes and opinions…" -Randolph Bourne Dear...

It has been said by a president that america would only be defeated from within but I cant remember his name. The Bible I read says let GOD be true and every man a liar sometimes we as human, homosapien, or what ever you call yourself, because some people say they come from pluto when you ask them about GOD or when you invite them to come to church. Im gonna tell you a little about myself I go to church a lot im not religious im a spiritual man. The bible tells us GOD is a spirit and where...

Shanghai, China—As the Fourth of July approaches, Shanghai Multi Fortune International Trading Company, LTD, has designed, and will begin to sell its new innovation—a Rush Limbaugh Piñata. With the mainstream media beating Limbaugh to a pulp over the Sonia Sotomayor comments, the designer of the piñata—Chin Kuuk—designed this stroke of brilliance for families to enjoy during the holiday season. At the low cost of $99.99, Americans can own the life-size replica of Rush Limbaugh standing behind the “Golden EIB Microphone.” The piñata, filled with candies of all kinds, also emits the words—“Sotomayor and Obama are racists”—when Limbaugh is hit in...

Large corporations prefer to use H-1B visas to hire foreign engineers and computer technicians. H-1B workers increased threefold during the Clinton administration, and CEOs are constantly demanding that the number be raised or even unlimited. Large corporations prefer H-1B foreigners because they work for lower wages with fewer rights. A recent study by researchers at top business schools reported that H-1B visas depress wages for software engineers and programmers by as much as 6 percent. The cumulative effect, as described by another study, depresses wages even more. Many U.S. engineers even lost their jobs just after they were required to...

Why are we being bombarded with all of this Cathholic Hog Wash? This is supposed to be a forum for new news and political discussion. Now we are flooded with all of this Religious what ever. If I wanted to read or be exposed to all of that I would join their Church.

I experienced a moment of clarity: The Republican coalition can not stand the dominance of the neocons. 1) Communism possessed a powerful military force with numerous nuclear weapons. Radical Islam does not threaten us in the same way. 2) Businessmen do not feel as threatened by Islam. 3) Some in the Republican coalition will worry that Israel is using us. 4) Converting Moslems into our friends is made harder by our Middle Eastern conquests. The Communists were easier to convert by conquest, they rarely held any real love for Communism. Neoconservatives can be a part of the coalition, but they...