Politics

Last Week’s Senate bill that supposedly made it easier for 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia, turns out to have been a cruel hoax perpetrated by comedian Amy Schumer’s cousin, Senator Charles Schumer.  Schumer secretly stuffed an amendment into the final draft that allows the attorney general and secretary of state to veto any litigation from 9/11 families against the Saudis. Nypost.com reports: Yes, JASTA would remove the statutory restrictions that have prevented 9/11 families from taking the Saudi kingdom to court.

Via KeepTalkingGreece.com,

Weird things are happening in the Mediterranean Sea. Almost simultaneously three countries in the Mediterranean have closed their airspace and territories for aircraft departing from Libya. The exceptions are very few and involve the transport of military and evacuees. At the same time, three NATO exercises are taking place but the airspace closure and directly little to do with that.

It’s been two generations since “your number is up” meant anything but relief at the DMV or a one-way ticket to the pearly gates.

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Today's long awaited blockbuster report released by the State Department Inspector General, which found that Hillary Clinton broke government rules by using a private email server without approval, and that among many other things Clinton would not have been allowed to use the server in her home had she asked the department officials in charge of information security, made the day of all of Hillary's critics as it confirmed most of their accusations, while at the same time justified Hillary's worst fears: apparently epic sloppiness "did make a difference after all" especially since