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LIVE AT FIVE: 08.11.14

Posted on | August 11, 2014 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
US Airstrikes Bring Early Gains In Iraq

Yazidi boys search for their families at a displaced persons camp in Kurdistan

Two towns retaken by peshmerga; Barzani asks for heavy weapons
Iraqi special forces loyal to PM Maliki seal off Green Zone in Baghdad
ISIS recruiting on the rise among Sunnis in Iraq
Maliki accuses President of breaching constitution

Israel, Hamas Agree To New Truce In Gaza
Netanyahu says no return to talks as long as Hamas keeps firing

Nigeria Struggles To Cope With Ebola Outbreak
Guinea closes borders with Sierra Leone, Liberia



POLITICS
Hawaii’s Incumbent Governor Abercrombie Beaten In Democratic Primary

Neil Abercrombie: incumbent endorsed by Obama, soon to be ex-governor

Incumbent senator Brian Schatz holds narrow 1600-vote lead over challenger Colleen Hayabusa

Former RNC Chair Michael Steele Mulls Another Run For Office


Iowa GOP Targets State Senate For Clean Sweep Of State Government

Hillary Clinton Criticizes Obama For Failure To Act In Syria

Texas Governor Perry Forms RickPAC

State Department Hires Company To Prep Officials For Congressional Grilling

Oracle Sues Oregon Over Healthcare Exchange



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Sinks After US Airstrikes In Iraq: WTI $98.03, Brent $104.68
Kinder Morgan To Consolidate Units Under One Roof In $70 Billion Deal
Asia Stocks Rise On Wall Street Surge, Dollar Steady After Rebound
Amazon Blocks Pre-Orders Of Disney DVDs Amid Pricing Spat
US Productivity Recovers After Steep Q1 Fall
Arthur Demoulas Accuses Relatives Of “Onerous” Terms
Apple Bringing Siri To The Mac?
Yahoo, Google Teaming Up For Secure E-Mail
Four Reasons Microsoft’s Surface Might Bite The Dust
John McAfee Speaks At DefCon: Laziness At The Expense Of Privacy And Freedom
FCC Orders Support For Text-To-911



SPORTS
Tony Stewart Accidentally Hits, Kills Kevin Ward Jr. In Dirt-Track Race

Stewart last week during a practice for yesterday’s NASCAR race

Confrontation on track after collision ends in death for Ward
No criminal charges pending


Keith Olbermann Being A Douche (Again), This Time About NASCAR


Phillies Rally In The Ninth, Edge Mets 7-6

Mesoraco Homers Twice As Reds Beat Fish 7-2

Cespedes Puts On Power Show, Carries BoSox Over Angels 3-1

Blue Jays Edge Tigers 6-5 In 19-Inning Marathon

Royals Speed Past Giants, Extend Streak To Seven

Cardinals Unleash 17-hit Attack, Beat O’s 8-3

Wood Outduels Gio, Braves Win 3-1



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
It’s Your Fault Kate Upton Hasn’t Posed Nude, Internet

And you know? I’m okay with that.

“For me, those photos are art…I don’t think my pictures would be received the way I’d want them to be received.”

Menachem Golan, Action Filmmaker, Dies At 85


Weekend Box Office: #1 Turtles Outperform With $65 Million/$97.3 Million Global, #2 Guardian, #3 Storm, #4 Journey

Unspeakable Armenian Set To Release Selfies Book In 2015

Veteran Soap Opera Actor Charles Keating Dead At 72

David Duchovny, Tea Leoni Quietly Divorce

War Machine’s Porn Star GF Can Barely Speak After He Beat Her

Christina Ricci – It’s A Boy!



FOREIGNERS
Erdogan Wins Turkey’s First Direct Vote For President
US Removes Some Staff From Embassy, Consulate In Iraq
Chicoms Reject Kerry’s Efforts On South China Sea Tensions
Chinese, Japanese Foreign Ministers Hold Unofficial Talks On Ties
Iranian Airliner Crashes After Takeoff, Killing 39
Afghanistan Suicide Bomber Targets NATO Convoy, Kills Four Civilians
Ukraine Steps Up Assault On Rebel-Held Donetsk
US Opens Defense Arsenal To India, Seven Offers On Table
Warsi: Failure To Win Over Minorities Will Cost Tories Victory
Osun Governor Aregbesola – Nigeria Is In Political Bondage



BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: Jihad Black Flag, Communist Hammer & Sickle At Hamas Anti-Israel Terror March In London
American Thinker: Transgenderism And Unemployment – What Really Matters
BLACKFIVE: Casting Off The Warriors
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: NYC Hamas Supporters Display Mexican Flag
Conservatives4Palin: Sally Kohn – Evil White Republicans Have Taken Over And Destroyed Detroit!
Don Surber: Political Scoreboard, August 8
Jammie Wearing Fools: Religion Of Peace – ISIS “Militants” Execute 500 Yazidis, Bury Others Alive, Take 300 Women As Slaves
Joe For America: I’m Spoiled And Lazy But Walmart Should Pay Me More Money Anyway!
JustOneMinute: Regrets, He Has A Few
Protein Wisdom: Oppose Common Core? This Teachers Union President Wants To Punch You In The Face
Shot In The Dark: Protest! With Bacon!
STUMP: Collision Of Public Employees And Obamacare – Collateral Damage
The Gateway Pundit: Hillary Clinton Blames Rise Of Islamic Militants On Obama Policies
The Jawa Report: Single Afghan Woman Fights Back
The Lonely Conservative: NBC On Obama’s Foreign Policy Doctrine – He Doesn’t Have One
This Ain’t Hell: So, What Does POTUS Really Think Of Vets?
Weasel Zippers: Obama Escorted By SWAT Team, Snipers On Dangerous Martha’s Vineyard Golf Course
Megan McArdle: Welcome To Walmart, The Doctor Will See You Now


Rule 5 Sunday will be appearing later today.


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‘Hi, We’re Lesbian Feminists and We’re Here to Talk to Your Daughter About Sex’

Posted on | August 10, 2014 | 141 Comments

Carmen Rios (@c_rios) is a “raging lesbian feminist” who is (a) communications coordinator for the Feminist Majority Foundation, and (b) a columnist for the lesbian blog Autostraddle.

On her Twitter account, Rios calls herself the “Tweeter-in-Chief” for the Feminist Majority Foundation’s account @Majority Speaks, which means Rios was responsible for this message:

That message linked a blog post at the Feminist Majority Foundation’s blog, which cites a study that claims: “Children should begin receiving formal education about sexual health as early as age 10” because “sexuality and gender identity begin emerging between the ages of 10 and 14.” It’s important to reach kids while they are “still malleable,” the researchers said:

“If programs, based on the healthy adolescent framework, rooted in human rights and gender equity, are implemented at a time when adolescents are still malleable and relatively free of sexual and reproductive health problems and gender role bias, very young adolescents can be guided safely through this life stage, supported by their parents, families and communities.”

Hmmm. They want to target these programs, based on “gender equity,” at kids who “are still malleable and relatively free of . . . gender role bias.” What do you think those terms “gender equity” and “gender role bias” mean? And why are Carmen Rios and the Feminist Majority Foundation so excited about this? If you were a suspicious type of person, you might wonder about such things.

People sometimes ask me, “Stacy, where do you find this crazy stuff?” In this case, I was looking for some information about university Women’s Studies programs and — thank you, Carmen Rios! — encountered a very interesting Autostraddle article:

Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite
Condensed) History of Women’s Studies

Among other things, Ms. Rios reported in that article:

Ms. magazine found that over 900 programs in the women’s studies field were functioning in the US in 2009. That meant 10,000 courses teaching over 90,000 students at 700 colleges and universities across the nation were fueling critical thought on gender, class, race and sexuality. That included 31 Master’s programs and 13 Ph.D. programs across the country and the world.

This was the information I was looking for — data on the number of Women’s Studies programs and their enrollment — and it is further helpful to know that (a) Ms. magazine is published by the Feminist Majority Foundation, and (b) this research about Women’s Studies was done “with generous support from the Ford Foundation.” However, Carmen Rios’ article at Autrostraddle did not merely chronicle the history and provide statistical data about Women’s Studies. She included this bit of colorful commentary:

In the early 2000s, academics across the discipline grappled with a title for their field. . . .
Is it Gender Studies? Women’s Studies? Women’s And Gender Studies? Sexuality Studies? Gender and Sexuality Studies? LGBT Studies? Queer Studies? Feminist Studies? . . .
Coursework in a women’s studies class today might cover issues of race, sexuality, gender expression and identity, sexualization and socialization of women, global women’s rights and various international diaspora, history, art or peace. Women’s Studies remains an interdisciplinary field, making its name all the more difficult to decide on. Is it Women’s History and Theory, or is the program really Lesbo Recruitment 101?

She said that, not me, although it is helpful to have — from the communications coordinator of the Feminist Majority Foundation, no less — such a frank admission of the not-so-hidden agenda in Women’s Studies as it is generally taught on American college campuses. And obviously, “the personal is the political” for Carmen Rios:

Women’s Studies Saved My Life, And
I Want It To Change Yours, Too

I think women’s studies saved my life, but I don’t know what that means. Maybe that I’m not good at anything else – that I failed at being normal, that I failed at falling into line, that I failed at being everyone else, that I’ll never talk to God. . . .

(This is another possible definition of “feminist” — a woman who has “failed at being normal.”)

When I was 17, I took my first women’s studies class. I was still in high school, but I had elected to take courses at the local community college. . . .

(Got to reach ’em early, you see.)

The woman at the helm of this experience was named Bonnie. “I try to remain impartial about most things,” she told us, “except for two: Ronald Reagan and Phyllis Schafly.”
That was when everything changed. . . .

(Not that there’s any political agenda involved, you see.)

I was raised a feminist — albeit one who, before this class, knew almost nothing of my foremothers or the movement I would come to call home. . . .
Then one day, I was 17, and Hillary Clinton was running for President, and every day I would eat yogurt with granola at the café in the student center and swing my legs while I read from our textbooks for my course. I started to realize how connected I was to something so much larger than myself, and how important it was for me to recognize that, to own it, to live it. . . . This one course had shifted my core. It had shattered my entire understanding of the world. . . .
For me, the rest is herstory: I graduated high school, became a women’s studies major and a raging lesbian feminist in college, and moved into the non-profit sector. I went into that movement and never came back out — and now, I do my best in my professional life to bring it to everyone else.

How many times do I have to repeat it? Feminism is a journey to lesbianism. Women’s Studies is a vehicle for that journey, as Carmen Rios is honest enough to admit. It’s interesting to see how prominent she was as a student at American University in 2011:

You’ve definitely heard her name around campus or at least seen her and her hard-to-miss hairdo crossing the quad on a mission. Frankly, if you haven’t, you don’t even go here. Carmen Rios, current director of Women’s Initiative (WI) is a staple on American University’s campus. She’s got wild hair and a feisty attitude to match. . . .
Carmen was a big part of Slut Walk DC back in the summer [of 2011] and even spoke at the event! Because she came to DC, she was able to nail awesome internships like Holla Back DC!, a grassroots organization aimed at ending sexual harassment and assault in DC. As well as the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which conducts research geared toward the needs of women to promote public dialog, and the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which promotes women’s equality and empowerment. . . .
Keep an eye out for some study breaks and big events this spring from Women’s Initiative! They’ll be hosting The Vagina Monologues, celebrating Women’s History Month in March, and, of course, Take Back the Night will take place in April again.

You can read the whole thing, but there are two words you won’t find in that feature profile: “gay” or “lesbian.” Why would this campus publication omit these terms from an article about the student director of American University’s Women’s Initiative, when she herself identified as a “raging lesbian”? Never mind. The more relevant point is her involvement with events like Slut Walk DC and “Take Back the Night,” both of which are about rape. Campus activism about rape provides a means of disseminating the core message of feminist ideology, i.e., that men are evil and dangerous and that male sexuality is inherently violent and oppressive to women. She won an award for this:

Carmen Rios, current Director of Women’s Initiative, was the co-recipient of the Feminist Research Award for her efforts to end sexual violence on college campuses. Rios says, “the topic of sexual violence is consistently relevant to college-aged women, since one out of every four undergraduate women will experience sexual assault.”

This “one out of every four” claim is a phony statistic lacking empirical support. But who needs facts when you’ve got an ideology?

As anti-rape strategies go, becoming a “raging lesbian feminist in college” could arguably be effective, which may be why lesbian feminists so frequently lament that their numbers are so few. According to a Huffington Post survey last year, only 18 percent of women identify themselves as feminists, and only 5 percent call themselves “strong” feminists. By a 32-29 margin, a larger percentage of women consider “feminist” a negative term than a positive term. And despite decades of gay activism, about 98 percent of women are heterosexual, according to government research.

Fanatical ideologues are not easily deterred, however. If decades of campus activism aimed at turning college girls into man-haters — Women’s Studies as “Lesbo Recruitment 101,” as Ms. Rios calls it — have so far failed to have the intended effect, then obviously they need to reach girls at an earlier age. There might be some parental resistance, of course, if these radicals were honest, showing up at your local elementary school and declaring: “Hi, we’re lesbian feminists and we’re here to talk to your daughter about sex.”

Instead, the American Association of University Women has started advocating to implement “gender studies” programs in public high schools, and the Feminist Majority Foundation is enthusiastic about the prospect of teaching 10-year-olds about “sexuality and gender identity” with a focus on “gender equity” while girls “are still malleable and relatively free of . . . gender role bias.” Now, if only they can do something to stop all those heteronormative Disney cartoons . . .





 

 

THE ‘SEX TROUBLE’ SERIES:

 

Shrew Culture Update

Posted on | August 9, 2014 | 26 Comments

This week, First Lady Michelle Obama said something weird:

“We can’t waste the spotlight. Time is short. Change is needed. And women are smarter than men,” Obama said during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit to a laughing audience, according to White House press pool reports.
She continued, “And the men can’t complain because they are outnumbered today.”
Obama and former first lady Laura Bush spoke on Wednesday at the summit’s “spousal program.” The daylong event took place at the Kennedy Center, where the first ladies addressed spouses of African leaders visiting the capital this week for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.

What was this about? What prompted the First Lady’s remark? Why did the audience laugh? Why was this funny? Nobody has been able to explain. However, feminist Jessica Valenti felt a need to interpret the “joke” (and reaction to it) as a critique of sexism:

Michelle Obama told a joke about men
they didn’t find funny. That’s hilarious

When I saw that Michelle Obama joked at the US-Africa Leaders Summit this week that “women are smarter than men”, I prepared myself for backlash. And — what do you know? — Politico wrote that the First Lady had “engaged in a battle of the sexes”, anti-feminist author and Fox News contributor Suzanne Venker called it a “sexist and elitist display”, and the headline at Business Standard read “Michelle Obama claims women are smarter than men”. As if it were a serious assertion rather than a joking aside!
This isn’t the very first time Michelle Obama has taken flak for, well, just about anything. Her tenure in the White House has been marked by nasty racist and sexist attacks (in fact, they started before President Obama took officeon her bodyher feminism — even her love of Beyoncé.
But when the First Lady made the quip — at an event with former first lady Laura Bush, while addressing the spouses of African leaders — it wasn’t a humorless dig at men. It was a light-hearted moment of girl-power on the outskirts of a conference for heads of state that is incredibly male-dominated.
Actually, I wish she’d said it with the intention of mocking men — with all that political, economic and social power they’ve cornered by marginalizing women, I think they can take a light ribbing. (I’d prefer a total overthrow of the patriarchy, but I’ve always had champagne tastes.)
Besides, laughter is the best medicine, especially when it’s a guffaw redirected right in the face of sexists.

So, according to Jessica Valenti, this was a “joking aside,” “a light-hearted moment of girl-power,” “a quip,” “a guffaw redirected right in the face of sexists.” Except it wasn’t. What the First Lady said was not a “quip.” This was not clever wordplay, a pithy aphorism worthy of Dorothy Parker. No, it was a non sequitur. And it was neither directed nor redirected in the face of sexists.

Rather than defend this nonsensical “joke,” however, Jessica Valenti goes on the offense, claiming that the reaction to Mrs. Obama’s opaque attempt at humor proves . . . well, something about how stupid men are: “Hahaha, men don’t get the joke!”

What Jessica Valenti is displaying here is an example of what Professor Glenn Reynolds has called “shrew culture,”  i.e., feminism as a perverse and sadistic desire to humiliate males. There is a sort of gender narcissism at work — a self-flattery in which feminists praise themselves merely for being women — as well as an exaggerated version of the typical insecure person’s attempt to build themselves up by tearing down others: “I’m awesome because I’m a woman and, hey, all men are stupid sexists. Praise me!”

Somehow, to the Jessica Valentis of the world, this is actually supposed to be funny. And if you don’t laugh at such “quips,” that just proves what a stupid sexist you are. Q.E.D. But the humor-impaired Valenti, having failed to make an argument or to say anything funny herself, continues onward to a conclusion of ideological rigidity:

In all fairness, joking about men’s (supposed) inferiority doesn’t change the systemic power system through which they benefit. But so long as it irritates the misogynists in our midst – and gives women some much-needed moments of levity – I’ll keep encouraging women to laugh at ridiculous men who just want them to stop already. Signaling that women will do whatever they damn please regardless of what men think is a winning strategy.

Notice how she repeats dogmatic assertions. Men have monopolized “political, economic and social power . . . by marginalizing women” through a “systemic power system.” (Do you think Valenti could explain what a non-systemic power system looks like?) The repetition of ideological dogma is not funny. People are not laughing with you, Jessica Valenti. They’re laughing at you.

 

FMJRA 2.0: My TV And You

Posted on | August 9, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday

The Pro-Hamas Mob in L.A.

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.05.14

Kentucky Democrat Race-Baits McConnell’s Wife; Deletes ‘Asian’ Tweets

How to Become a Lesbian, Step One: Watch Cable TV While Depressed

FMJRA 2.0: Disappointed

Sex Trouble: #DearFeministMen Illustrates a Fundamental Problem

Neal Rauhauser’s ‘Lubed Up’ Criminal Pervert Buddy, Thomas Retzlaff

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.04.14

Can Mitch McConnell Survive?

Brett Kimberlin Gets Spanked

TRUTH ON TRIAL

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.06.14

Hey, Moms: Feminists Think They Know What’s Wrong With Your Children

Pageant Judge Was Lesbian Predator; Sexually Assaulted Pre-Teen Girl

‘They Found a Rape Kit in His Car’

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.07.14

Brain Candy, Coyote, a Dragon and Zombies

#ObamaCare River of Lies Rolls On

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.08.14

Jay Cost, At Least, Agrees With Me

Top linkers this week:

  1. Batshit Crazy News (16)
  2. That Mr. G Guy (15)
  3. EBL (13)
  4. Regular Right Guy (7)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next week’s FMJRA will be noon on Saturday, August 16.


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Alabama Teacher, 39, Gets Five-Year Sentence for Sex With Boy, 14

Posted on | August 9, 2014 | 27 Comments

Summer is the slow season for teacher sex scandals. For obvious reasons, there are fewer teachers arrested for having sex with students during vacation months when kids aren’t in school. Yet the courts are still in session, and the trials and hearings continue:

A former Alabama high school teacher and cheerleading coach accused of having an affair with a teenage boy was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.
In May, Jennifer McNeill, 39, pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree rape and one count of second-degree sodomy.
McNeill said in court that she was sorry for what she had done, adding, ’I’ve lost so much… I’ve learned my lesson.’ . . .
Judge John Bush, who handed down the sentence this morning, called the defendant’s actions ‘absolutely abhorrent,’ adding that as a figure of authority she had betrayed the trust of the community, Al.com reported.
The victim’s mother also spoke in court, saying that not a day goes by that her son does not pay for what happened between him and McNeill — a long-time family friend and a Sunday school teacher. . . .
McNeill, a married sixth-grade teacher from Thorsby, was arrested last year and originally charged with six counts of rape and two counts of sodomy of a juvenile male — some of the alleged encounters took place on school grounds.
McNeill’s illicit romance with her friend’s son lasted from April 2012 to June 2013, during which time the lovers had sexual intercourse at least six times and on two occasions engaged in oral sex.

Let’s ask a few questions. In recent years, we have read case after case like this, in which female teachers are accused of illegal sex with underage students. At the same time, however, feminists have spent decades promoting theories in which male sexuality is condemned as inherently oppressive to women, where even heterosexual relationships between consenting adults are impugned as oppressive because of “male domination” and “male supremacy” within a partiarchal society. But where are the feminists addressing these sex crimes involving female predators like Jennifer McNeill?

How is it that popular feminist columnists like Jessica Valenti and Amanda Marcotte, who have been often willing to claim that there is “rape culture” which implicates all men in sexual violence against women, have nothing to say about predatory sex crimes when the perpetrators are women? Why aren’t the Women’s Studies professors and academic proponents of “gender theory” publishing journal articles and books that explain female sexual predators from the perspective of feminist ideology?

Isn’t it a reasonable suspicion that the reason feminists have noting to say about deviant sex crimes committed by women is that these crimes contradict everything feminism teaches about men, women and sex? Isn’t this collective silence from feminists really a guilty expression of shameful embarrassment, a tacit admission that feminism’s ideology of sex — i.e., anti-male theories that theorize women as victims whose oppression is rooted in collective inequalities of power — does not comport with reality?

There are facts which cannot be explained by feminist theory. When forced to choose between facts and theory, feminists will ignore the facts. They aren’t merely anti-male. They’re anti-truth.

 

What To Think Of Kevin Drum

Posted on | August 9, 2014 | 42 Comments

by Smitty

He ends his Mother Jones piece on abortion with:

So don’t tell me that all the conservative Christians in DesJarlais’ district believe that abortion is murder. They may say they believe it. They may even sincerely think they believe it. But they don’t.

I wouldn’t want to get all arrogant and presume to know what people in Tennessee think. Nor would I care to sound so certain about Drum himself: this is the internet, and people make all kinds of strong assertions due to sincere belief, to stir the pot, to vent, to laugh, to drive traffic.

For me, abortion is murder because there is no logically consistent point (as opposed to legally consistent) after a human’s DNA is complete at which to declare them “life”. The motives for allowing some legal fiction to creep in seem kinda fishy.

via HotAir headlines

Jay Cost, At Least, Agrees With Me

Posted on | August 8, 2014 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Emphasis mine:

What, then, is the best response for the GOP? It is simply this: The party must wrap itself unabashedly in the garb of reform. If Hillary Clinton offers herself as the wise and learned hand who will rely upon her decades of experience to guide the ship of state, Republicans have to argue that her experience is exactly what the country doesn’t need at this moment. They need to convince the public that, by being in Washington for the last quarter-century, she is too committed to a broken status quo that is in desperate need of change. The party then needs to lay out a credible and salable agenda for that change.

This should sound familiar, for it is how Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in 2008. A message of reform resonated six years ago, and it could very well resonate again (so long as it is carried by somebody other than Obama!). Now as then, the country is tired and frustrated with the status quo. The people appear to want a change in course.

The GOP will have two years to preview that reform agenda. The Republicans should saturate the media with news of Benghazi, the IRS, and ObamaCare between Labor Day and Election Day.

Make the election a pre-impeachment vote. Tell the voters: “Look, if you want to throw #OccupyResoluteDesk under the bus, you know how to vote.” If there isn’t a sizable GOP wave election, then such an undertaking is a dead letter.

Irrespective of that question, the GOP should be (a) confessing that Progressivism has run its course, (b) articulating how it intends to rebuild public confidence in our soiled institutions, and (c) charting the domestic/foreign aspects of what a new course would look like.

tl;dr: we’re baked. There is no way under the sun that the party of ancient warhorses like Roberts, Cochran, and J.S. McCain is going to re-orient their collective iron lung in any new direction. My hope is in the Convention of States.

via HotAir headlines.

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.08.14

Posted on | August 8, 2014 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Jihadis Rout Kurds, Take Mosul Dam

Iraqi security forces and Shiite volunteers face Islamic State jihadis north of Baghdad

Intrigue continues in Baghdad as acting PM Maliki refuses to step aside
Obama authorizes “possible” airstrikes in Iraq
UN says Islamic State persecution of Yazidis is genocide
Iraqi Christians flee as Islamic State takes Karakosh

Liberia, Sierra Leone Take Drastic Steps Against Ebola
Soldiers deployed to seal off affected areas

Hamas Says No Deal With Israel On Extending Truce
Rockets fired from Gaza hours before expiration of cease-fire



POLITICS
Sen. John Walsh (D-MT) Drops Out Of Race After Plagiarism Scandal

File photo showing the senator and his son Michael

Montana Democrats to hold nominating convention, select new candidate

Lamar Alexander Fends Off Tea Party Challenger In TN Senate Primary


President Signs VA Health Care Overhaul

Records Show Obama Met Exactly Once With Secretary Shinseki During VA Scandal

Ringleader Of Crew Who Slew Border Patrol Officer Had Prior Immigration Violations

Key Obamacare Official Likely Deleted E-Mails Now Sought By House Investigators



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Jumps After Obama Authorizes Airstrikes In Iraq: WTI $98.45, Brent $106.63
Red China July Exports Jump; Domestic Economy Still Problematic
Stocks Flop – Dow Hits Lowest Level Since May 20
CBS Profit Tops Estimates On Buybacks; Dividend Boosted
Fed Survey: One In Four Households “Just Getting By”
Market Basket Cuts Hours For Hundreds Of Part-Timers
Zynga Cuts 2014 Forecast, Delays Various Gaming Titles
Google Using Its Clout To Widen Use Of Encryption
Microsoft May Open First Store In NYC
For Sprint And T-Mobile, Separate Equals Better
IBM Unveils “Brain-Like” Chip



SPORTS
Howard’s Slam Caps Phillies’ Sweep Of Astros

Howard gets the star treatment from teammates after his game-winning, eighth-inning grand slam

Astros fall 6-5

NCAA’s New Rules Give More Autonomy To Big 5

ESPN Suspends Dan LeBatard For Billboard Stunt

MLB Whines About Dodgers’ Dugout Bubble Machine

Timbermutts Trade Kevin Love To Cleveland

Polanco, Volquez Lead Pirates Over Fish, 7-2

Guthrie Goes The Distance As Royals Crush Snakes 6-2 For The Sweep

O’s Edge Jays 2-1, Hold Five-Game Lead In AL East

Kevin Durant Pulls Out Of Team USA

Harper’s Sayonara Homer In 13th Quashes Talk Of Minors As Nats Beat Mets 5-3



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kristen Stewart Isn’t Smiling For The Paparazzi

September’s cover girl for Elle looking hot amidst the produce

Poses for glam fashion shots inside Fields Market

San Fran Man Busted For Insider Trading In Disney/Marvel Deal

Melanie Griffith’s Daughter Refuses To Let Her Watch “Fifty Shades Of Grey”

Everyone, Chrissy. Chrissy, Everyone. Have Fun.

“Real Housewives Of NYC” Star Ramona Singer Divorcing Husband Mario

Larry David Making Broadway Debut In “Fish In The Dark”

Lindsay Lohan Ignoring Texts From Sober Friends

Robert Downey Jr.’s Son Indio Busted For Felony Drug Possession

Jamie Pressly Opens Up About Mastectomy On “The Talk”

Two More “Lego” Movies Get Release Dates



FOREIGNERS
Will Russia’s Western Sanctions Hit Shoppers?
Kerry Visits Kabul To Push For Fast Recount In Disputed Presidential Election
Prince William To Fly Again, This Time For UK Air Ambulance Service
Snowden Gets Three-Year Residence Permit From Russia
SecDef Hagel In India; Focus On Technology Transfer
Colombia President Starts New Term With Warning To Marxist FARC Rebels
Islamic State Occupies Churches, Sends Christians “Fleeing With Nothing But Their Clothes”
Chicoms Release Rights Activist Gao Zhisheng
In Wake Of Gaza Incursion, Anti-Semitic Attacks On The Rise In Europe
Chicom Police Investigate American Running Non-Profit Near Nork Border



BLOGS & STUFF
The Camp of the Saints: On Vigilance And Means Of Redress
Doug Powers: FLOTUS Gives Up Self-Awareness For The Greater Good
Twitchy: James Woods Retweets Liberal Followers – “An Unending Stream Of Mindless Bile”
American Power: Almost 90% Of Uninsured Won’t Pay Penalty As White House Obamacare Waivers Surge
American Thinker: More Bad News For The Middle Class And Their Health Care
BLACKFIVE: White House Press Brief – Mr. Hanson In Charge
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Who’s Being Naive, Kay?
Conservatives4Palin: Why Did Our “Genius” President Screw Up So Many Things So Badly?
Don Surber: Political Scoreboard, August 7
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