The presser before the town hall:

The Town Hall Meeting: (more…)

Johnny, did you clean your room?  Yes, mom.
Well, you need to go inspect it and tell me if it really is clean?  OK, mom.
{{30 seconds later}}  Yep, checked it, it’s spotless.
Thanks!
VIENNA (AP) — Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press.

The revelation on Wednesday newly riled Republican lawmakers in the U.S. who have been severely critical of a broader agreement to limit Iran’s future nuclear programs, signed by the Obama administration, Iran and five world powers in July. Those critics have complained that the wider deal is unwisely built on trust of the Iranians, while the administration has insisted it depends on reliable inspections.

A skeptical House Speaker John Boehner said, “President Obama boasts his deal includes ‘unprecedented verification.’ He claims it’s not built on trust. But the administration’s briefings on these side deals have been totally insufficient – and it still isn’t clear whether anyone at the White House has seen the final documents.” (more…)

...”Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of national law a citizen of the united states. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers, credited to the Government of the United States; but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to which persons are, or are not, citizens of the United States. This has long been a great issue in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country”…
~ Senator Jacob Howard (Author of the 14th Amendment citizenship clause)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Steyn discusses the insufferable nonsense of Republicans claiming that Donald Trump’s border security and immigration proposal is “not workable”. Gives examples to deconstruct the nonsense. Video prompted to @1:15 (Good Watch)
https://youtu.be/mfhtcxtAAZI?t=1m15s

32 million users of the cheating website now potentially exposed.  Contract and business lawyers (morality clauses), divorce lawyers, corporate lawyers etc. will have a field day…. And the potential for blackmail is exponential.

(Via Wired) Hackers who stole sensitive customer information from the cheating site AshleyMadison.com appear to have made good on their threat to post the data online.
A data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size, was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser. The files appear to include account details and log-ins for some 32 million users of the social networking site, touted as the premier site for married individuals seeking partners for affairs.
Seven years worth of credit card and other payment transaction details are also part of the dump, going back to 2007. The data, which amounts to millions of payment transactions, includes names, street address, email address and amount paid. AshleyMadison.com claimed to have nearly 40 million users at the time of the breach about a month ago, all apparently in the market for clandestine hookups. (more…)

3 Sources say an effort was made to wipe Clinton's hard drive. FBI is optimistic it can recover some data. -@REspositoNBC @PeteWilliamsNBC

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) August 18, 2015

As unbelievable as this seems apparently Hillary Clinton was not prepared for the most transparently obvious question that would be asked?

(Via NBC) The FBI may be able to recover at least some data from Hillary Clinton’s private email server even though there was an attempt to wipe it, two sources with direct knowledge of the process told NBC News on Tuesday. (more…)

There’s a video at the bottom of the outline.  This discussion thread is posted without comment or opinion; choosing instead to share reports as they appear in alternate media venues. Feel free to share your opinion in the comments….
“George Zimmerman is teaming up with Florida Gun Supply to offer signed and numbered prints of his Confederate Flag painting. This painting was painted in honor of Andy Hallinan for being a true patriot and leading the country into a better, safer America. Zimmerman’s last painting sold on Ebay for over $100,000.” (link)
[…]  George started painting an American Flag on this canvas, but heard about Andy getting sued by CAIR (the Counsel for American/Islamic Relations) while he was working on the painting. George decided to scrap the original American Flag painting and repaint it with a Confederate (Battle) Flag. (more…)

In as much as the latest CNN-ORC Poll reflects the same overall national trend of support, Trump the biggest winner, it also reflects a profoundly changing landscape for Jeb Bush as the biggest loser.  Jeb Bush sinks to 35/57 favorable rating among registered voters in the poll.

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Donald Trump has proposed an ambitious plan to protect the Southern U.S. border, and deal with the illegal alien crisis. One of the attack approaches of the plan’s detractors is to state there’s no visible payment mechanism. Let’s look at one aspect.

On Page #3 the plan outlines:

Triple the number of ICE officers.
As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in Congressional testimony: “Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission…Compare that to the Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately 5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size.” This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.  (link)

Putting aside the IG tax credit payment funding mechanism for a moment; a recent study by the Border Patrol (DHS) Inspector General, the issue of wasted money on the Border Drone program was highlighted. (more…)