Public Policy Polling released another poll today (full pdf below) reflecting the status of the IOWA GOP primary race.  According to the poll Donald Trump retains the lead with 24%, while Ben Carson carries 17% and Carly Fiorina holding 13%.

Given the call by Scott Walker for his low-polling colleagues to exit the race, it becomes an interesting exercise to see where their supporters would go in Iowa if this was to happen. (more…)

The article conjures up images of Kerry and Obama playing the roles of Herve Villechaize and Ricardo Montalban waiting for the planes to arrive on Fantasy Island…. “Da Plane, Da plane”!

(Via NBC) The U.S. is offering new details about its plan to ease the Syrian refugee crisis by significantly increasing the number of worldwide refugees it will take in over the next two years.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. will accept 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up from 70,000, and the number will rise to 100,000 in 2017. (more…)

NPR has received some preliminary examples of the type of analyst intelligence that was skewed to create a more favorable opinion of President Obama’s foreign policy approach toward ISIS.
In one example the following is noted:

[…]  A military source described the evolution of one report that came out of CENTCOM’s intelligence shop. It was a dispatch on an ISIS attack in Iraq near the Syrian border. The initial CENTCOM report read, “Iraqi forces retreated.” It was sent back for reworking, the source said. Eventually that report came to read that the Iraqi forces had not retreated, but instead had reinforced another Iraqi position. The final draft suggested a strategic decision had been made. But that was not what happened, the source said — the Iraqi forces ran. A second source confirmed the account of the change in wording to put the Iraqi forces in a more positive light. (read more)

In what appears to be a profound sense of professional obfuscation, the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Lloyd Austin, told congress that despite the revisions and/or manipulations currently being investigated by the inspector general, the intelligence did not go directly to President Obama. (more…)

OAN/GRAVIS have published an exclusive poll based entirely on the results from last night’s CNN debate (full pdf below).  The poll shows the majority of those questioned viewed Carly Fiorina won the debate and reflects a predictable surge:

According to this result, both Fiorina and Rubio gained status and favorable opinion amid those Republicans polled. (more…)

Several people have dropped links to a recent article highlighting comments by “conservative pundit” Bill Kristol who essentially said if Trump wins the GOP nomination, then a Republican “Third Party” would be necessary – READ HERE –

If you doubt the severity, or the intent, of Kristol’s words – you shouldn’t.  His expressions are exactly what the RNC/GOPe believe – don’t doubt them.
Further, if you really want to know what the GOPe will do if Trump defeats their plans, you only need to look back to 2010 and what the RNC/GOPe did when their guy, Mike Castle, was defeated in the Delaware Senate primary by Christine O’Donnell and the Tea Party.
These people will do exactly the same thing to candidate Donald Trump and the vulgarians. (more…)

Within three weeks following the Fox News debate, and amid the reality of a surging Donald Trump, an email arrives from the RNC looking for a $3 donation.  The hook was promising entry into a contest to win tickets to the Colorado Debate.
I’m sure that 99% of the targeted recipients viewed this solicitation as innocuous, just another gimmicky political stunt.  However, for those -like us- watching carefully this email request held additional meaning.

♦ The first flag was the “sender”, it wasn’t a traditional participant in the RNC apparatus, it was actually signed by Karl Rove; when did Karl Rove become an official member inside the RNC apparatus?
♦ Secondly, Karl Rove was in Colorado two days earlier (fox news satellite appearance on Sean Hannity Fox Broadcast from Colorado).  ♦ Third, within 72 hours of the email, Colorado announced cancellation of their primary caucus:

Colorado will not vote for a Republican candidate for president at its 2016 caucus after party leaders approved a little-noticed shift that may diminish the state’s clout in the most open nomination contest in the modern era.
The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state’s delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote. (link)

Perhaps merely a coincidence – however, given the GOPe prior activity underpinning the now fully evidenced GOPe road map, there’s not much “coincidental” amid these interests.
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According to MediaIte Glenn Beck is promising to bring Mid-East refugees into the US illegally.   Citing a Daily Caller interview with Beck -who was overwhelmed with emotion, and began crying- Beck is asking his followers to send him $10 million.  With the money Beck is promising to smuggle the refugees into the U.S…..

[*Note To Self* David Barton heads Ted Cruz Super-Pac, and Beck’s Mercury One Charity… nudge, nudge…]
(Via MediaIte) […]  Beck said that he had asked his audience to raise $10 million before Christmas to help take in Christian Syrian refugees. “Stop asking for permission!” he said. “Stop thinking we need permission… We will vet them ourselves. I have former CIA people that are going over and they’re vetting everybody right now. We can save more people by Christmas than Oscar Schindler saved, okay?”
Beck said if the State Department refused them entry he’d find them a way in the country, even if he was thrown in jail. “I know some bridges over a river in Texas that doesn’t seem to matter… I will so gladly grace a jail for a justice cause of saving people’s lives.” (more…)

Colbert is beyond a rabid liberal, this doesn’t sound like a good idea to me…

(Via Truth Revolt) On September 22, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump will be appearing on Stephen Colbert’s new Late Show, where he has already been compared to the KKK. Now, that takes some bravado.

Trump’s appearance will be part of what looks like a major political month for Colbert. Following Trump that Tuesday night, Dr. Ernest Moniz – the Obama administration’s energy secretary – will be making an appearance. (more…)

I originally thought we had posted a story back in July about the initial incident, but I cannot locate it. The general short version was a man being arrested after a concert. As paramedics responded to an emergency call, there’s video of him being placed face down on a gurney, as he yelled he couldn’t breathe. He was hog-tied with his hands and legs behind him. His wife witnessed him being loaded into an ambulance. She was told upon arrival at the hospital he was dead. 
The entire story was sketchy from the outset.  Now the autopsy…
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (FOX13) – After attending a concert on July 18, Troy Goode was arrested. He was hogtied by Southaven police and later died at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
His family has been hoping an autopsy report would shed some light as to why Troy died that night. But after receiving that document, questions remain unanswered.
“What really stands out to us is that there is not really a cause of death on there.” Kevin McCormack, the Goode family attorney, told FOX13. “There’s no finding of any toxicology. There’s not any findings of any abnormal heart condition, which makes sense because we know that Troy was a healthy 30-year-old man.” (more…)

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The Brief has also been challenged and with extensive vetting factually withstood all scrutiny. The report, while exhaustive in detail, remains the strongest summary of events surrounding the two years leading up to the Benghazi Libya attack on 9/11/12.
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