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November 30, 2017

Geraldo Rivera Comments On Matt Lauer "News is a flirty business"

And The Internet Reminds Him Of A Previous Drugging And Groping Allegation Made Against Him By Bette Midler

https://twitter.com/TnBopinions/status/936000136924356609

November 29, 2017

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship to run for U.S. Senate

Eyewitness News has learned that former Massey Energy chief executive officer Don Blankenship plans to run for U.S. Senate.
Blankenship filed his federal election official papers Tuesday. He will be running as a Republican.

He is one of the most well-known figures in West Virginia and has continued to push for a full investigation of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in 2010. Blankenship contends the Mine Safety and Health Administration caused the blast after it reduced the ventilation air flow through the mine.

Blankenship has been a long-time critic of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.

Manchin, a Democrat, is seeking re-election. In the Republican primary, Blankenship will square of against U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

In February, Blankenship’s petition for a rehearing of his appeal of his conviction was denied by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In January, the court already had ruled that U.S. District Court in Charleston committed no reversible errors and denied Blankenship’s battle to get his conviction overturned.

Blankenship served a one-year sentence at a California prison for conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards.

http://wchstv.com/news/local/former-massey-energy-ceo-don-blankenship-to-run-for-us-senate

November 27, 2017

Can you prove Elizabeth Warren is lying about her Native American heritage?

Please tell us how you and Sarah Huckabee know she's lying?

November 27, 2017

Always believe the victims

always...



For six decades, she has been the silent woman linked to one of the most notorious crimes in the nation’s history, the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, keeping her thoughts and memories to herself as millions of strangers idealized or vilified her.

But all these years later, a historian says that the woman has broken her silence, and acknowledged that the most incendiary parts of the story she and others told about Emmett — claims that seem tame today but were more than enough to get a black person killed in Jim Crow-era Mississippi — were false.

The woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, spoke to Timothy B. Tyson, a Duke University professor — possibly the only interview she has given to a historian or journalist since shortly after the episode — who has written a book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” to be published next week.

In it, he wrote that she said of her long-ago allegations that Emmett grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her, “that part is not true.”

The revelations were first reported on Friday by Vanity Fair.

As a matter of narrow justice, it makes little difference; true or not, her claims did not justify any serious penalty, much less death.

The two white men who were accused of murdering Emmett in 1955 — and later admitted it in a Look Magazine interview — were acquitted that year by an all-white, all-male jury, and so could not be retried.

They and others suspected of involvement in the killing died long ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/emmett-till-lynching-carolyn-bryant-donham.html

November 27, 2017

Man accidentally shoots himself in road rage incident, OCSO deputies say

A man involved in a road rage incident shot himself accidentally, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities said two people stopped near Adela Avenue and Science Drive in Orlando, got out of their vehicles and began to argue Sunday.

Deputies said one of the men pulled out a gun because he felt threatened and accidentally shot himself in the leg.

The man's injuries are not life-threatening.

http://www.wesh.com/article/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-in-road-rage-incident-ocso-deputies-say/13930544

November 27, 2017

Garland man accidentally fatally shot in head while teaching son to shoot

A father remains in the hospital after he was shot in the head by his 12-year-old son Friday afternoon.

The Comal County Sheriff's Office says the 53-year-old man was teaching his son how to shoot on a more than 10 acre private property in Bulverde when it happened. Deputies say it was an accident.

Many in the community are saddened by the news, but local gun expert Jaime Correa says it's not unusual for kids to learn how to handle a gun at such an early age.

"The rules of gun safety are no different at the public range, at the private range and your own backyard," Correa said.

UPDATE:
The CCSO says the man has succumbed to his injuries. He's been identified as 53-year-old Daniel Boor from Garland.


http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/father-hospitalized-after-being-accidentally-shot-in-head-by-12-year-old-son

November 27, 2017

Breitbart senior editor defends Judge Roy Moore citing Ringo Starr cover song

Breitbart senior editor defends Judge Roy Moore citing Ringo Starr's hit cover of the song "You're Sixteen You're Beautiful (And You're Mine)"

https://twitter.com/JosiahRyan/status/935155775181348864


November 24, 2017

Clinton Accuser Juanita Broaddrick Not Sure She Believes Women About Trump, Though

Juanita Broaddrick, the former Arkansas nursing home operator who accused Bill Clinton of rape, is not so sure she believes the sixteen women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.

“I don’t think it’s ever too late to say you believe me,” Broaddrick tells Newsweek. “But the coming days and months will tell us if they’re sincere.”

Broaddrick has “no idea” whether they are lying or not. “I felt sorry for them,” she says. “I felt like they had a right to be heard. But I also felt at the same time that they should bear investigation, scrutiny and vetting. I think it’s only fair for all parties involved.”

Of course, Broaddrick has told two completely different stories about her alleged encounter with Mr. Clinton. In a sworn 1997 deposition, Broaddrick said that her two-decade old rape allegation was false.

“These allegations are untrue and there is no truth to these rumors,” Broaddrick testified at the time.

A year later, when President Clinton faced impeachment, Broaddrick told special prosecutor Ken Starr “that her Jones testimony was false, but that she had been under absolutely no pressure from the president or the White House to file a false affidavit,” according to the contemporary record.

http://deepstatenation.com/clinton-accuser-juanita-broaddrick-not-sure-she-believes-women-about-trump-though

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