By Max Diamond, RealClearInvestigations After Jessica Lynn Kanya attempted to sexually abuse a 14-year-old child, she was sentenced to 36 months in prison last March. But Lynn served none of that time behind bars when District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Hiram E. Puig-Lago decided to suspend her sentence. Such leniency is common in Washington, …
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Musician and creator Mari Lesteberg has invented a new art form – using MIDI sequencing to play music AND illustrate a story. According to Mari’s description of the video the MIDI drawing is a story about “a little girl who lives in the woods, and what she finds when she enters a dark cave.” Mari …
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Obama seemed a little indignant, to something his staff shields him from—a News reporter asking the hard questions. In a Denver 9News Report, Obama was asked direct questions about the “stand down” orders and why requests for help were denied during the ongoing attacks in Benghazi. Obama, talking “around” the direct questions responded: “Well, we …
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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan, Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford and Defense Department Comptroller David L. Norquist went to Capitol Hill to make the case for the Defense Department’s request for fiscal year 2020 funding. The department is seeking $718.3 billion as its part of President Donald J. Trump’s topline request of $750 billion …
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by Tim Pearce The Supreme Court of Gibraltar awarded the oil company Chevron $38 million Friday for damages related to charges alleging the company contaminated the Amazon region of Ecuador. An Ecuador court issued an $18 billion judgment against Chevron in February 2011 for environmental and social harm the company allegedly caused to the Amazon. The …
Last night, Coldplay completed their massive, sold out “A Head Full Of Dreams Tour” in Buenos Aires, Argentina, making it the most successful worldwide outing of their career. Produced by Live Nation, it topped out as the third highest grossing global tour of all time with $523,033,675 in ticket sales. Since its highly anticipated kickoff in March 2016, following …
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President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump made a surprise visit to U.S. service members at Al Asad Air Base outside Baghdad. They stayed about three hours, mingling with troops and posing for pictures. The president also addressed the troops before visiting their dining facility. Watch his remarks here:
As usual, the mainstream media is not paying attention to the actual substance of a story, opting for focusing on the style in which it was delivered. When Benjamin Netanyahu said that the world needs to draw a red line between two levels of nuclear material development in Iran, it was deadly serious business. In …
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The cast of HBO’s hit series, Game of Thrones, discusses Daenerys’ and Jon’s connection in the season finale that aired on August 27th.
Thousands have climbed Mount Everest, and a handful of people have walked on the moon. But reaching the deepest part of the ocean? Only three people have ever done that, and one was a U.S. Navy submariner. In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench. At 35,814 feet below …