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Israel News Pussy Panties Take Shot at Trump From Tel Aviv Lingerie Shop
A discount lingerie shop in Tel Aviv’s gritty bus station has made an unexpected political statement about the American elections with a sale on pussy panties — women’s underwear printed with a photograph of cat’s face and neck in the crotch area. I first spotted the panties last week and they seemed to me the…
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News Sheldon Adelson Is Back in the Mega-Donor Game with $25M Anti-Clinton Donation
Sheldon Adelson just dropped a money bomb on the presidential race, Fox News reported Monday night. Adelson committed $25 million to a Super PAC that is running anti-Hillary Clinton ads in swing states. And Fox says he’s looking to spend up to $25 million more before Election Day. The reported donations came days after Donald…
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Fast Forward Democrats Get Meaner on (Anthony) Weiner After Email Revelations
Democrats had long observed a code of omertà around Anthony Weiner, hoping to spare his estranged wife and top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin from the glare of the press. But now that his sexting habit threatens to derail Clinton’s presidential ambitions, party leaders aren’t holding back their anger toward the disgraced former congressman. “Well,…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Chelsea Handler Tells Ivanka To ‘Dump Trump’
For all the criticism leveled at Donald Trump, many pundits have praised his kids. But comedian Chelsea Handler isn’t having it. She has a message for the Republican nominee’s daughter Ivanka Trump: get on the right side of history and the wrong side of your family. “If she were to come forward now, after everything…
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Fast Forward Holocaust-Denying Academic Organized List of Trump Endorsers
In an effort to counter claims that his list of supporter is short on intellectuals, Donald Trump, scholars supporting his run for presidency are collecting signatures on a statement endorsing the Republican candidate. According to a Daily Caller report from Friday, more than 50 scholars have joined the statement, saying that, “supporters of the Trump…
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News Mormons Love Jews. They Don’t Know Vice Presidential Candidate Mindy Finn is One.
A Mormon and a Jew walk into a bar. What sounds like the beginning of a joke is an important political reality in 2016 — at least in Utah. Last month, independent candidate Evan McMullin chose Mindy Finn as his running mate. Finn is a veteran GOP strategist who runs a feminist non-profit. The Texan…
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Fast Forward Wikileaks Reveals Hillary Clinton’s Plan To Roll Out Opposition to BDS
Hillary Clinton and her staff know the Jewish community all too well. In fact, the team is so immersed in the ins and outs of inside Jewish baseball, that even a straightforward statement opposing efforts to boycott Israel early in the campaign was an issue of intense deliberation and scrutiny. As a recent Wikileaks email…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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