Earlier today candidate Donald Trump spoke to veterans and military service members at a retired American Warriors PAC event in Herndon, Virginia.   Candidate Donald Trump delivered some prepared remarks before a question-and-answer session:

[ Transcript ] It is a privilege to be here this morning with so many distinguished members of our armed services.
Before we get started with our Q & A, I’d like to address one of the most important aspects of America’s national security, and that’s cybersecurity.
To truly make America safe, we must make cybersecurity a major priority for both the government and the private sector. (more…)

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According to multiple media reports several ‘pipe bomb style devices’ were discovered after a garbage can exploded in New Jersey along the route of a Marine Benefit 5k race.
Fortunately, the start of the race was delayed by a longer than expected registration.  This perhaps saved numerous people from injury as one device exploded before the participants were in the vicinity.   The FBI is taking over the investigation and possibly considering a terrorist related angle…
SEASIDE PARK — An explosive device went off in a garbage pail Saturday morning along the route of a 5K run and walk to benefit military soldiers.
Multiple devices were also found “wired together” in the same garbage pail, but they did not detonate, according to Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
The explosion occurred along the route of the Seaside Semper Five Marine Corps Charity 5K at around 9:30 a.m. (more…)

Sometimes you just have to laugh.   However, it really sucks to be Gary Johnson right now.
Poll after poll is showing presidential candidate Gary Johnson in the race hurts Hillary Clinton more than Donald Trump.  And you know what that means?
Yup, time for the MSM to wage a thermonuclear media operation against the guy.

If only Gary Johnson was hurting Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton the media would have brushed the flub under the rug.   Alas…
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Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will appear tonight in New York aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid aircraft carrier for a “Commander-in-Chief Forum” sponsored by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and broadcast by NBC/MSNBC.
Having lost the coin toss, Hillary Clinton will appear first for a 30 minute Q&A, followed by Donald Trump for the final 30 minutes.

Who: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
What: IAVA “Commander-in-Chief Forum” moderated by Matt Lauer
Where: The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York City
When: Tonight, Sept 7th at 8 p.m. EDT
TV: Broadcast simultaneously on NBC and MSNBC

According to the latest NBC poll of retired or active military registered voters Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton by significant margins. – Data Link –

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has stated his organization believes they are in possession of emails which prove Hillary Clinton was aware of the transfer of weapons from Libya, through Turkey, into Syria.

If Assange is accurate, the prior congressional testimony of Clinton becomes another example of her deception and fraud. Rand Paul discusses at the end of this interview segment:

To understand the scope of the potential behind the WikiLeaks Assange information, it’s critical to understand the facts in/around Libya and Syria in 2011, 2012 through today.  The specifics are outlined in the updated Benghazi Brief.

The “Benghazi Brief” remains the most controversial research report we have ever produced. The brief contains over two years of research and hundreds of very specific factual citations supporting it.  Almost two years later, and not a single aspect outlined within the brief has ever been identified as inaccurate. (more…)

Because you’re worth it !

Yesterday the New York Times posted a story titled: “Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line”.

[…] Think tanks, which position themselves as “universities without students,” have power in government policy debates because they are seen as researchers independent of moneyed interests. But in the chase for funds, think tanks are pushing agendas important to corporate donors, at times blurring the line between researchers and lobbyists. And they are doing so while reaping the benefits of their tax-exempt status, sometimes without disclosing their connections to corporate interests.

Thousands of pages of internal memos and confidential correspondence between Brookings and other donors — like JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank; K.K.R., the global investment firm; Microsoft, the software giant; and Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate — show that financial support often came with assurances from Brookings that it would provide “donation benefits,” including setting up events featuring corporate executives with government officials, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. (link)

As a person who has floated though the disconcerting world of Think Tank politics, the Times article was a worthy notation not only because of the substance within it, but also -and perhaps more aptly- because in the world of intellectual property amalgamation such a news article (research proposition) doesn’t just happen organically as a matter of happenstance.

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The latest Islamic Jihad attack against Western values took place yesterday in Nice, France.  Eye witnesses have reported the driver of the truck specifically targeted families with children, steering into them for maximum Jihadist terror value.  At least 80 men, women and children have been slaughtered.

Two weeks before yesterday, the attack location was an Istanbul Turkey, airport.  Last month it was an Orlando, Florida, nightclub.  In the month prior it was Brussels, and before that San Bernardino, and before that Paris, and before that, well, you get the picture… (more…)

Two specialized military planes crashing in coincidental unrelated incidents, one in Colorado (Thunderbirds) and a second in Tennessee (Blue Angels).
In the Tennessee incident, a U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed just after takeoff for a practice flight in Smyrna.  The pilot was killed. (link)

In the second incident, a U.S. Air Force elite Thunderbird jet crashed during a flyover for the Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony near Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. The Air Force confirmed the crash of the F-16.
The pilot managed to eject safely before the crash, Air Combat Command confirmed. (link)

President Obama commemorates Memorial Day and honors our nation’s fallen patriots in remarks at Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 2016: