Fox News

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was the favorite to be secretary of state in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, a senior Trump transition official said Monday.

The official told the Associated Press there was no real competition for the job and that it was Giuliani’s if he wanted it. However, a second official cautioned that John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, remained in contention for the job.   Continue reading “Giuliani favorite for Trump’s secretary of state, says ‘I won’t be attorney general’”

Yahoo News

Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, radio talk show host, and provocateur founder of the popular Infowars website, says President-elect Donald Trump called him last week to thank him and his audience for their grassroots support of his unlikely candidacy.

“On my way here, Donald Trump gave me a call,” Jones said in a YouTube video shot atop Mount Bonnell in Austin, Texas, and published Friday. “And I told him, ‘Mr. President-elect, you’re too busy, we don’t need to talk.’ But we still spent over five minutes [on the phone], and he said, ‘Listen, Alex. I just talked to the kings and queens of the world, world leaders, you name it.’ But he said, ‘It doesn’t matter. I want to talk to you to thank you and your audience. And I’ll be on in the next few weeks to thank them.’”   Continue reading “DOUCHE BAG ALERT! Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says Donald Trump called to thank him”

Yahoo.com

GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney recently caused a stir over an email to employees expressing his opinions on the 2016 US presidential election.

As Matt Weinberger previously reported for Business Insider, Maloney wrote: “While demeaning, insulting and ridiculing minorities, immigrants and the physically/mentally disabled worked for Mr. Trump, I want to be clear that this behavior — and these views, have no place at GrubHub. Had he worked here, many of his comments would have resulted in his immediate termination.”   Continue reading “Yes, you can be fired for expressing your political views at work”

Washington Post – by Katie Zezima, September 18, 2015

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump — who said he has a concealed carry permit — called for the expansion of gun rights Friday, including making those permits applicable nationwide.

In a position paper published on his website Friday afternoon, Trump called for the elimination of gun and magazine bans, labeling them a “total failure.”   Continue reading “Flashback: Trump plan calls for nationwide concealed carry and an end to gun bans”

Daisy Luther

Angela Merkel and nearly every other national leader in Europe are in a panic because of Trump’s unexpected win in the Presidential election.

Why?

Because, money, of course. The US money that props up NATO may be coming to an end.

During his election campaign, President-Elect Trump described NATO as obsolete.   Continue reading “EU Convenes Panic Meeting Because Trump Might Stop Funding 73% of NATO”

Daisy Luther

In case you wondered about the mindset of the people protesting, let me help you out.

They are filled with rage and contempt.

They aren’t just disappointed in the outcome. The tolerant left outright hates anyone who feels differently about the results of the election. Caveat: Obviously, not every single person who is outraged at Hillary Clinton’s defeat is seething with hatred, but if you go to Twitter, you can see the harsh words of some very vocal dissenters.   Continue reading “This is How Some of the Anti-Trump Protesters Feel About the Rest of America”

The Sun – by Jon Lockett

CALIFORNIANS are dreaming of ditching the US and joining CANADA as backing grows for some American states to pull off  ‘their own Brexit’.

Momentum is building for a proposal which would see California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington state ditch a USA run by Donald Trump.   Continue reading “Renegade states plan to pull off their own Brexit and ditch the US for Canada”

Reuters

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Monday that Islamic State militants driven out of Syria and Iraq could set up in his country, and if that happened he would forego human rights obligations to keep his people safe.

Duterte said the southern Philippine province of Mindanao was already a hotbed of rebellion and banditry and he was worried about “looming terrorism” and an influx of extremists who could exploit the insecurity.   Continue reading “Duterte says if Islamic State comes to Philippines, forget human rights”

Yahoo News

London (AFP) – Prosecutors were questioning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadoran embassy in London on Monday, the latest twist in the long-running legal battle over a rape allegation against him.

Swedish prosecutor Ingrid Isgren, due to be present while Assange faced a grilling by an Ecuadoran prosecutor, entered the embassy behind the famous Harrods department store shortly before 1000 GMT, an AFP photographer said.   Continue reading “WikiLeaks’ Assange questioned by prosecutors”

An-Nahar

BEIRUT: Turkish warplanes on Monday struck Islamic State positions in and near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab while Ankara-backed Syrian opposition fighters inched closer to the town, one of the extremist group’s largest remaining strongholds in the country, Turkish state media and Syrian activists said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group that tracks Syria’s civil war, now in its sixth year, said the airstrikes and the shelling killed three people and wounded 30 others.   Continue reading “Turkish warplanes attack IS stronghold in northern Syria”

Orlando Sentinel

Companies that make kits which allow buyers to assemble military-style, semi-automatic rifles at home have sprung up in recent years in at least one Central Florida county, alarming some in law enforcement.

These so-called “ghost gun” kits have become popular with firearms rights activists because the parts have no serial number or other markings, making them untraceable.   Continue reading “‘Ghost gun’ kit makers on the rise in Central Florida”

Fox News

A Russian fighter jet crashed in the Mediterranean Sea shortly after launching from its aircraft carrier near the coast of Syria Sunday, two U.S. officials told Fox News.

Three Russian MiG-29 fighter jets took off from their Soviet-era aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, and flew in the direction of Syria. Once airborne, one of the Russian jets appeared to have mechanical difficulties and turned around in the direction of the aircraft carrier.   Continue reading “Russian fighter jet crashes near its aircraft carrier in Mediterranean, US officials say”

RT

An Israeli ministerial committee has approved a draft bill to allow settlers in the occupied West Bank to remain in homes built on private Palestinian land. The country’s attorney-general said the bill is legally flawed.

The bill was okayed unanimously on Sunday, and states that the Israeli government could confiscate land in exchange for compensation.

The vote is believed to be aimed at avoiding the evacuation of the Amona settlement in the West Bank by December 25 ordered by the country’s Supreme Court.   Continue reading “Israeli ministers okay draft bill to legalize Jewish settlements on private Palestinian land”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

While Donald Trump was winning the day nationally on November 8, voters in Kansas and Indiana were enshrining that hunting and fishing are constitutional rights.

The Wichita Eagle reports that an overwhelming majority of voters supported amending the Kansas constitution to include a right to hunt and fish. The push to do so arose after lawmakers watched anti-hunting activists in other states use lawsuits to diminish hunting or do away with certain hunts altogether.   Continue reading “Hunting, Fishing Recognized as Constitutional Rights in Kansas, Indiana”