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Raid hit Raqqa, an Islamic State stronghold.

Does this show Syria really wants to destroy ISIS or is it a dog and pony show?

ISIS or ISOL is the evil incarnate of a 1990s vision to create a Sunni state in northern Iraq. Satanic beheadings, crucifixions, live burials, mass executions, mass starvation, rapes, medieval torture, the whole ruthless nine yards of alleged Sha'ariah justice sanctioned and committed by Islamic terrorists and terror-aspirants in the name of the Koran whose only exposure to Islam is reading a copy of "Islam for Dummies."

How can this exist?

Abu Dhabi (AFP) - The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday that OPEC will no longer move to shore up crude prices, arguing that rising North American shale oil output needs to be curbed.

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World prices have been falling since June but the pace of the slide accelerated in November when the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided to maintain its production unchanged at 30 million barrels per day.

Analysts say that richer cartel members like the UAE have been ready to accept the price fall in the hope that it will force higher-cost shale producers out of the market.

"We cannot continue to be protecting a certain price," UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said.

Where I don't think a beheading has ever been less than instant.

Also, do you believe in the death penalty?

are willing and eager to send more weapons to the Syrian rebels.

That burned us the last time. Why don't they oppose military spending like women's clinics?

Louie Gohmert is saying the USA dropped the ball in Libya

But he hasn't said what he would have done. The man is a meat puppet.

The Citizens United Bill? The Wall St crashes caused by lack of oversight? There are so many more such as Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991, the U.S. had refrained from marching on Baghdad precisely to avoid kicking over the sectarian hornet's nest that was subsequently unleashed by the Bush/Cheney attack on Iraq in 2003. I'd still like to know where that $900 Billion went to.

But it wasn't just the War in Iraq itself that set the stage for the subsequent 12 years of renewed, high-intensity sectarian strife between Sunni's and Shiites in the Middle East. It was also what came after.

Bush's "de-Baathification program" eliminated all vestiges of Sunni power in Iraqi society and set the stage for the Sunni insurrection against American occupation and the new Shiite-led government. Bush disbanded the entire Sunni-dominated Iraqi Army and bureaucracy. He didn't change it. He didn't make it more inclusive of Shiites and Kurds. He just disbanded it. It is no accident that two of the top commanders of today's ISIL are former commanders in the Saddam-era Iraqi military. And now we want to send $500 Billion to the Syrian rebels. When does it stop? I say the Arabs alone have the money to fund this and a big enough military. France is the first to send jets to Iraq, (besides us) thank you France. Now if we could get some Iraqi forces to defend their own country. I'm willing to give Hillary a chance, although I really like Bernie Sanders. Your thoughts about what we should do?

If they don't like Obama they just ignore his commands.

Who are these politicians that take time off at critical times and nearly forced the country into bankruptcy?

And to fix their F ups they steal money from Medicaid and Social Security.

And worse yet who are the people that put these vermin into office?

Gov. Perry's booking will be public Associated Press Perry Moves Ahead With ’16 Courtship Despite Case CBS Dallas Fort Worth (RSS) Texas' Perry indicted for coercion for veto threats.

Politically motivated Reuters Leading conservatives around the country have mostly lined up to support the longest-serving governor in Texas history, and Perry's aides said the case won't derail his busy travel schedule, which includes visits to several key presidential battleground states as he continues to eye a second run for the White House in 2016.

"This is nothing more than banana republic politics," Tony Buzbee a Houston-based defense attorney defending Perry, said at a news conference. "The charges lobbed against the governor are a really nasty attack not only on the rule of law but on the Constitution of the United States, the state of Texas and also the fundamental constitutional protections that we all enjoy.

And whenever one goes to court for stealing in office or abuse of power they call it a Banana Republic and un-Constitutional. Someone should locate a dictionary for these people. What can I say, I LOVE THIS, and I hope he crashes and burns.

We can eliminate all the T peer''s and then get back to normal candidates in 2016?

Greed, corruption, and lives lost are the only way the Republicans know how to govern.

The last two elections were circuses, thanks to the 1950 antics of the cons.

Do they really think a constant bombarment of lies will get them into the Whitehouse again. I really hope not for if so we have reached new levels of sheepdom.

I think the internet has had negative effects on campaigns. You have giveen the microphone to any idiot mad enough to use it.

I did make a stink about giving corporations the power of people. They already had too much. But nobody seemed to care. I knew what it would do.

Clue, anytime a Republican backs a bill it is not for the good of the people.

We must repeal citizens united.

And when have our courts been so party controlled before. If we are going to have Supreme Courts there should be equal numbers representing each party.

Better yet, they should do their jobs as intended.

This partisan bickering and blaming does not help anything.

For the sake of the nation can't we be more civilized towards one another?

I guess we need to teach more of that in our schools.

Not to mention NAFTA, TWO Wars and a Congress that wants him dead I'd say he is doing alright and I don't believe any Republican hero would do any better and probably would do worse. Paul Ryan is still trying to pass his bill that would essentially strip seniors of there Medicare and Social Security. Did you know before SS 50% of the elderly were destitute? Whatever they tell you the key to a successful Democracy is moderate pay difference between the middle class and the upper 10%. I'm not saying I deserve Mark Zuckerberg pay check or Jeff Bezos' either but a difference in pay nearing 1000% isn't right either.

Geneva (AFP) - Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a UN official said Thursday.

The UN's second most senior official in Iraq, Jacqueline Badcock, said, "It is a fatwa (or religious edict) from ISIS, we learnt about it this morning. We have no precise numbers."

The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), took over large swathes of the country last month and has begun imposing its extreme Salafist interpretation of Islam.

Badcock said that if you took UN population figures as a guide, around "four million girls and women could be affected".

Female genital mutilation is unusual in Iraq and is only practised in "certain isolated pockets of the country", she added.

She said only 20 families from the ancient Christian minority now remain in Mosul, the northern Iraq city which ISIS has taken as the capital of its Islamic state. Most have reportedly fled north into Kurdish-controlled territory.

Badcock said some Christians have converted to Islam, while others have opted to stay and pay the jiyza, the tax on non-Muslim's ISIS has imposed

, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is once again fighting in Washington to unite his caucus behind a single plan on immigration.

Congress just came back from a two week vacation and will take another one in a few days.

These are the wretched parasites that are ruining the nation. Why aren't we suing them?

So I hope they are comfy sipping margarita's around their pools while kids are scared and baking in the sun. It seems that whenever they get a chance they delay working and enjoy watching the poor suffer. How can anyone vote Republican is beyond me.