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Breaking: Vegas Shooter Traveled to Middle East

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A new report indicates that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock traveled to the Middle East, leading to yet more speculation about the possible motives of the man behind America’s deadliest mass shooting.

CNN reported Friday that Paddock had taken more than 20 cruises. While that isn’t unusual for someone of Paddock’s means, some of his destinations have raised eyebrows.

“The cruises included stops at ports in Spain, Italy, Greece, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, according to information provided by a law enforcement source who asked not to be identified because the source was not authorized to share information about the investigation,” CNN reported.

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“Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, accompanied him on nine of the cruises.”

Trips to Jordan and the United Arab Emirates wouldn’t ordinarily raise eyebrows these days — both, after all, are somewhat common travel destinations, and only the most conspiratorially inclined would draw a direct line between visiting those countries and having a terrorist motive.

Two things, however, make the visits look more suspicious. First, there’s the lack of any perceptible motive for the shooting on Paddock’s part, putting every aspect of his life under intense scrutiny. Second, there’s the continued insistence by the Islamic State group that Paddock had been radicalized by the terrorist organization.

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The claim was made again in the group’s Arabic-language propaganda newspaper, according to the U.K. Independent. They said that Paddock was a “soldier of (the) caliphate” and that he had converted six months before the attack. They even referred to him by his supposed Muslim name — Abu Abdul Barr al-Amriki.

While the claim seems a bit farfetched, the fact that the Islamic State group seems to be doubling — in fact, tripling — down on it is odd, all things considered. It could be indicative of the desperation of the Islamic State group, particularly since the group has suffered a wave of crippling defeats.

While this latest puzzle piece pointing toward a definitive motive seems extremely unlikely, everything about the Las Vegas massacre seems extremely unlikely. Maybe in time we’ll know exactly what made Paddock kill dozens of innocent people, or at least have a reasonable idea of it.

For now, however, it becomes another strange addend in an equation that nobody can quite work out the solution to.

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Watch: History professor caught on camera blaming Trump for Las Vegas massacre

A 64-year-old man opened fire on a massive crowd in Las Vegas last Sunday killing nearly five dozen and injuring more than 500 others. Police believe the shooter was a “lone wolf,” and committed the crime on his own. However, just miles from where the crime took place, a history professor is pinning the crime on someone else: President Donald Trump.

What did the professor say?

University of Nevada-Las Vegas assistant professor Tess Winkelmann was caught on camera telling her History 407 students that Trump is partially responsible for the crime because he has only “encouraged violence” while in office. Campus Reform published the video.

She said: “When he got elected, I told my classes three semesters ago, some of us won’t be affected by this presidency, but others are going to die. Other people will die because of this. And we’ve seen this happen, right? I don’t know whether these events would have inevitably happened whether or not he got elected, but he has the same rhetorical powers every president has, to encourage or discourage, right? So far, all he has done is to encourage violence.”

Winkelmann also slammed Trump’s threats against North Korea, while alleging Trump has threatened nuclear war with the country, saying “words, especially coming from someone who is the president, have consequences.”

What did students think?

One UNLV student, who anonymously spoke to Campus Reform, told the publication of the professor’s comments:

We just experienced one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. It’s a mile away, and we don’t know what happened, we don’t know why it happened, and we’re pushing political agendas, and that’s what this is about, taking advantage of the situation for political belief, when we should be uniting, healing as a community.

At every chance the president got, he condemned this violence. The professor is taking away from the dialogue that should be happening to attack the president. Professors are in a position of trust, and they’re abusing it to promote their political ideology or agenda. I think it’s dangerous when you blame the president for a massacre, and basically shut down students who disagree.

A second student echoed that sentiment:

I think it is despicable that a professor at an institute of higher learning, one that is located in the same city in which this attack occurred, would use her platform to spew such hatred and divisive rhetoric.

However, the second student told Campus Reform that the “professor had previously made comments in opposition to Trump.”

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Trump Proclaims Monday as Columbus Day – Without Trashing America’s Founder Like Obama Did

President Donald Trump proclaimed Monday as Columbus Day on Friday.
And he did this without trashing America’s founder like Obama did.

Yahoo reported:

President Donald Trump is proclaiming Monday as Columbus Day — without any of his predecessor’s qualms.

The president’s proclamation Friday directs the U.S. to celebrate his discovery of the Americas, noting “the permanent arrival of Europeans … was a transformative event that undeniably and fundamentally changed the course of human history and set the stage for the development of our great Nation.”

Trump’s proclamation only praises Columbus, Spain and the explorer’s native Italy.

It contrasts with President Barack Obama’s document almost exactly a year earlier. Obama’s proclamation acknowledged Columbus’ spirit of exploration. But he said the nation should “also acknowledge the pain and suffering reflected in the stories of Native Americans who had long resided on this land prior to the arrival of European newcomers.”

Obama used every opportunity he had to trash America and rewrite history.

As Dinesh D’Souza reported in his movie “America, Imagine a World Without Her,” more Native American Indians killed Indians than the settlers killed Indians.

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For example, while the left singles out the settlers of the New World for “stealing” Native American territory, D’Souza reveals the same land transfers occurred in precisely the same manner among tribes who successively conquered one another. The charge of genocide is debunked when D’Souza explains that far more Indians died from disease than slaughter, and the same lack of natural defenses that made Native Americans vulnerable to European-borne maladies are the ones that made Europeans susceptible to the Asian-borne diseases that devastated Europe. Tellingly, no one refers to the European tragedy as genocide.

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Gay coffee shop owner kicks Christians out of cafe, goes on vulgar rant — it was all caught on video

A Seattle, Washington coffee shop owner kicked a group of Christians out of his shop last week because their presence was “offensive” to him.

What were they doing there?

The group had been handing out booklets to Seattle citizens which addressed sin, the Bible, and abortion.

According to The Liberator, the group decided to take a break and stop for coffee at nearby coffee shop, Bedlam Coffee.

The site reported that one of the baristas told the owner what the Christian group had been doing outside on the streets of Seattle, and he didn’t take it well.

What did he say?

The owner, in the video, approaches the Christian group and tells them they have to leave.

“I’m gay, you have to leave,” he said. “This is offensive to me. I own the place. I have the right to be offended.”

The group attempted to tell the owner that they hadn’t left any of their pamphlets in his shop, but the owner wasn’t hearing any of it.

Repeatedly telling them to “shut up,” the owner said, “There’s nothing you can say. This is you and I don’t want these people in this place.”

The Christians pressed the owner as to why he is so opposed to their presence in the shop, and that’s when things got extraordinarily vulgar.

“Can you tolerate my presence? Really?” the owner asked. “If I go get my boyfriend and f**k him in the a** right here you’re going to tolerate that? Are you going to tolerate it?”

Becoming increasingly agitated, the owner yelled, “Answer my f***ing question! No, you’re going to sit right here and f***ing watch it! Leave, all of you! Tell all your f**king friends don’t come here!”

As the group begins collecting their belongings to leave, one of the women in the group addresses the owner directly and tells him, “Just know that Christ can save you from that lifestyle.”

“Yeah, I like a**,” the owner spat. “I’m not going to be saved by anything. I’d f**k Christ in the a**. Okay? He’s hot.”

As the group left the shop, one of the women in the group told the owner that she would be praying for him.

The video, shared by Facebook account Abolish Human Abortion, has received over 400 views at the time of this writing.

(Content warning: rough language.)

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Bill Maher blasts Dems: ‘Democrats don’t want to help people,’ and ‘it makes people hate us’

Bill Maher went off on Democrats during Friday’s “Real Time,” accusing them of both overregulation and not being focused on the right things in order to actually help people.

What did he say?

During one of HBO’s “Real Time” segments, Maher began by addressing a bill introduced by Senate Democrats who want a process implemented by vehicle manufacturers to install motion sensors in cars to help remind Americans that their children are in the back seat.

The idea of the bill is to help prevent heat-related deaths in children who are accidentally left in hot cars.

“Really, it’s called the Hot Cars Act?” Maher incredulously asked. “Because ‘Turn Around Dips**t’ was too on-the-nose?”

Maher asked, “Should reminding you not to forget your baby really be Toyota’s problem?”

Maher continued by mocking the Democrats for overregulation, and referenced a new Honolulu, Hawaii law which makes it illegal for pedestrians to look at their phones while crossing the street.

“But wait,” he mocked. “What if I’m getting an important message like that I’ve left my baby in a hot car?!”

Maher went on to say that over-the-top regulation efforts of Democrats are only making them look bad when compared to Republicans.

“[Overregulation efforts] feed into the Republican message [that Democrats] don’t want to help people; they just want to micromanage their lives,” he said.

He explained, “It makes people hate us. It makes me hate us. That’s why I say to Democrats either ‘Go big or go home.’ No one is for leaving babies in hot cars. It’s just that common sense tells most people — this is an issue of personal responsibility, especially when the liberal solution to your human frailty is me paying more for s**t that can break in my car.”

Maher said that Democrats need to focus on regulations on larger issues like banks, carbon emissions, and weaponry.

“When Democrats get to regulating everything, the regulation itself gets a bad name and I don’t want to let the right-wing own freedom,” Maher explained.

“People want to drain the swamp, not ban Big Gulps,” he blasted. “Yes, I understand. You have a thousand good ideas for how I should live my life, check my privilege, and sort my recycling — and we’ll get to that, but first we need to get some Democrats elected, and that’s hard when the movement to childproof the world has made Republicans the party of freedom and Democrats the party of poopers.”

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UN Head Offers Misleading Data on Hurricanes and Climate Change


The United Nations is manipulating statistics to try and prove a causal relationship between the reported increase in carbon dioxide concentrations and the purported increase in extreme hurricane events over the last several decades, focusing in particular on the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.

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San Juan Mayor Just Proved She Only Cares About Politics With Latest Stunt

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Never let a good crisis go to waste. That’s apparently the motto of one of the most prominent figures in Puerto Rico — and she’s using a natural disaster to play petty politics against Trump.

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz has insisted up and down that her vocal criticism of President Trump has nothing to do with politics, but her actions say otherwise.

First, Yulín Cruz attacked Trump for what she deemed a slow response to Hurricane Maria, despite the fact that other emergency managers on the Spanish-speaking island defended the president and thanked the U.S. for its help.

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Then, the mayor of Puerto Rico’s largest city was spotted on TV wearing a custom-printed shirt that seemed to mock the Trump administration, even as countless relief supplies and U.S. Navy ships arrived at the island.

Now Yulín Cruz is at it again. While speaking to Al Punto Univision, the mayor wore a black shirt with one word in giant, bold letters: “NASTY.”

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Where does she get these custom-printed T-shirts on an island that has been devastated by a hurricane?

The shirt was again a clear jab at Trump, who had accused the mayor of caving to Democrats in order to act nasty toward him.

“The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump,” he wrote on Twitter several days ago.

On Wednesday, Yulín Cruz declared in Spanish, “What is really nasty is that anyone would turn their back on the Puerto Rican people.”

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Apparently “turning their back” means sending FEMA, the Navy, the Coast Guard, ships, helicopters, and truckloads of supplies.

The San Juan mayor has been playing a political game since day one, and her oh-so-cute T-shirts prove it. If she truly wanted to focus on helping the people of her island instead of getting into sparring matches with the president, why print messages on her chest that do nothing but rile up drama and cause distractions?

In reality, Puerto Rico is a leftist failure. Even Trump critics admit that the island has deep infrastructure and corruption problems. Instead of preparing for inevitable hurricanes — a wise choice for a Caribbean island — Democrat bureaucrats like Yulín Cruz have spent all their time playing blame games.

Say what you want about Trump’s often controversial social media posts, but there is no doubt that Carmen Yulín Cruz is lying when she says that she doesn’t want to drag politics into the relief efforts.

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Rep. Marsha Blackburn Announces Candidacy for GOP Senate Nomination in Tennessee

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by retiring Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) on Thursday.

Blackburn explained why she is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate in this three minute video posted on her campaign website:

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“The United States Senate . . . it’s totally dysfunctional, and it’s enough to drive you nuts, and that’s why I’ve decided to do something about it,” Blackburn says at the beginning of the video.

Blackburn continues:

I’m Marsha Blackburn. I’m a hard core, card carrying Tennessee conservative. I’m politically incorrect, and proud of it.

So, let me just say it like it is: The fact that our Republican majority in the U.S. Senate can’t overturn Obamacare, or will not overturn Obamacare. It’s a disgrace.

Too many Senate Republicans act like Democrats. Or worse. And that’s what we have to change.

Here in Tennessee, I fought my own party to stop a massive, job killing, state income tax. And we stopped it. We won.

Blackburn, a former Chairman of the Williamson County Republican Party, was elected to the Tennessee State Senate in 1998. It was there that she led the successful efforts to stop Republican Gov. Don Sundquist’s proposal to impose a state income tax in the Volunteer State.

In 2002, she broke through a crowded field of a half a dozen men running for the GOP nomination to represent Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives using the campaign theme “Marsha’s our Man.”

She has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2002, and has never had a close election since.

While in the House, she has regularly been among the most conservative members of the Tennessee delegation, according to Heritage Action Scorecard voting record ratings.

In the current session of Congress, Blackburn’s 88 percent rating by Heritage Action Scorecard makes her the second most conservative member of the Tennessee delegation, and significantly more conservative than the average Republican member of Congress, who receives a 65 percent rating.

Blackburn has been one of the most visible supporters of President Trump in Congress, a position that is very popular among Tennessee Republican primary voters, who give the president high approval ratings. In 2016, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the state by a 61 percent to 35 percent margin, winning 92 of the state’s 95 counties.

Williamson County Republican Party Chairman Debbie Deavers issued the following statement about Blackburn’s announcement:

Congressman Marsha Blackburn has represented the residents of our county with distinction for the last 14 years. As a longtime member of the Williamson County Republican Party’s Chairman’s Circle and former Chairman herself, she is well-known and well-liked in our county. We wish Congressman Blackburn all the best and look forward to seeing her on the campaign trail across Tennessee.

Blackburn’s announcement comes at the end of a whirlwind 16 days that have seen the Tennessee Republican establishment’s hold on power in the state shaken to the core.

On September 26, Senator Corker announced his sudden retirement from the U.S. Senate, one day after Breitbart News reported on his $3 million sweetheart deal in a Mobile, Alabama retail center, McGowin Park, in which he receives sales tax incentive rebates from Alabama taxpayers.

Earlier on Thursday, Corker’s friend and ally, Gov. Bill Haslam, announced that he would not be a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The announcement came after a series of articles published at Breitbart News that pointed out the political vulnerabilities Haslam would have in such a run.

Blackburn is now the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in the 2018 primary in Tennessee.

So far, Andy Ogles, former head of the Tennessee chapter of Americans for Prosperity, is the only other Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate nomination.

That is likely to change, however, as the Tennessee Republican establishment, which still holds a grudge against Blackburn for her role in stopping the state income tax in 2000, is unlikely to allow Blackburn an uncontested path to the United States Senate.

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