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Posted at 8:00 pm on July 11, 2017 by streiff On July 9, the History Channel aired a bizarre and dishonest program called Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence. I posted on this bit of stupidity from the Nazis and Alien Channel last week. In brief, there are three popular theories that surround the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in July of 1937.

Posted at 10:15 pm on July 11, 2017 by Jim Jamitis Trump Jr. has gotten himself a lot of publicity this week as the latest member of the Trump campaign to have had no contact with Russians until it was discovered the he had contact with Russians. Brit Hume sat down with Fox News’ Bret Baier  to discuss it. Hume invokes the “Keystone Kops” to suggest there’s probably more bumbling incompetence here than criminality. The Right Scoop reports:

Posted at 9:35 pm on July 11, 2017 by streiff Two of my colleagues, Brad Slager and Sarah Lee, have posted on David Brooks’s recent column in which he revealed himself to be something of a smug, elitist twit. If you’ve read Brooks over the years you’ll know this is not a major discovery, in and of itself.

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President Trump personally signed off on a statement released Saturday by his eldest son, MORE. The New York Times reported Tuesday that Trump signed off on the statement, which was drafted aboard Air Force One by Trump's advisers. In the statement, Trump Jr. said: “It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by.

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Christopher Wray to succeed James Comey as director of the FBI.   President Trump has admitted that he fired Comey because of his handling of the investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. He has repeatedly disparaged the investigation on social media, calling it a witch hunt.

The “Consumer Freedom Amendment” Sen. MORE (R-Texas) has offered to the Senate healthcare bill would make access to healthcare more secure for patients who develop expensive conditions. Critics of the amendment fail to understand how health insurance markets work. The Cruz amendment would allow individuals to opt out of ObamaCare’s costly health-insurance regulations — but only if insurers simultaneously offered ObamaCare-compliant plans to all comers, including patients with preexisting conditions. Sen.

Autopsies of a 2-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother who died in the Bronx early Monday revealed that they were beaten to death, and the police said they were investigating the case as a homicide. The simultaneous deaths of the Bronx siblings — Olivia and Micah Gee — raised immediate suspicions among investigators, who were skeptical that they had died of natural causes after seeing bruising on their bodies, law enforcement officials said. The children’s mother, Jade Spencer, 31, called 911

Takata has added an additional 2.7 million airbags to the nation’s largest automobile industry recall after a new hazard was detected in testing. The company told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday that a subset of its airbag inflaters — ones that rely on calcium sulfate to keep them dry — can, like other versions, rupture while deploying the bags, hurling metal shards into vehicles. Ford, Mazda and Nissan installed these inflaters in vehicles manufactured for the United States market from 2005