Ex-CNN Anchor Survives Wild Motel Shootout

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By Shawn Cohen. A road trip down old Route 66 led to a Wild West-style motel shootout for a pioneering CNN anchor and her former-soldier hubby.

Lynne Russell — the first woman to ever solo-anchor a primetime network news show — and Chuck de Caro, 65, had stopped at a Motel 6 for the night in Albuquerque when an intruder slipped into their room as Russell went to grab something from the car around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“I opened the door and he materialized out of nowhere; he was inside,” she told The Post. “And he pushed me into the room and onto the bed and closed the door.”

De Caro, who was in the shower, emerged completely naked and tried talking to the gunman, who was demanding the couple fork over their money and valuables.

“We tried to calm the man, ask him not to point the gun because we really couldn’t think what we could give him,” Russell said. “It felt to me he was used to doing this, that whatever happened wouldn’t bother him.” (Read more from “Ex-CNN Anchor Survives Wild Motel Shootout” HERE)

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Former CNNers Survive New Mexico Motel Gunfight

Here’s how CNN belatedly described the incident:

The gunman wanted money and other valuables, [the ex-CNN anchor] said.

She told the gunman she would look in her purse to see what they had. She reached down and put one of the two handguns the couple had in a side table into the purse. She gave the handbag to her husband.

Russell said the guns were legal, something police are still investigating.

The man’s behavior was increasingly erratic, Russell said. He told them to get a briefcase he saw.

The couple explained there was nothing of value in the bag, but the man lunged at them and “went around the bed and then opened fire on Chuck. There was a firefight inside the room.”

De Caro was shot once in the leg and twice in the abdomen.

He fired all the rounds in the first handgun then picked up the other and shot the man. The man, who police identified in a news release as the “offender in the altercation,” was found in the parking lot. He died at a hospital, CNN affiliate KOAT reported.

(Read more from this story HERE)

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Volcanic Activity, Earthquake Fears Increasing Worldwide

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Photo Credit: APBy The Japan Times. Authorities on Tuesday raised the volcano alert for Mount Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture, restricting access to the area after a small eruption at the popular tourist site.

The Meteorological Agency said it confirmed volcanic ash was emitted from the area, which has been venting unusual amounts of steam in recent months.

The agency said the ash deposits indicate that a small eruption occurred between Monday evening and Tuesday.

Mount Hakone, about 80 km south of Tokyo, last erupted between the late 12th century and 13th century, according to experts.

Volcanic activity in the area began intensifying in late April but recently showed signs of subsiding. (Read more from “Volcanic Activity, Earthquake Fears Increasing Worldwide” HERE)

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62: Indonesia Raises Alert as Mt Raung Volcano Erupts

By Channel News Asia. Indonesian authorities on Monday (Jun 29) raised the alert level after Mount Raung in East Java erupted, causing ash to land in surrounding villages.

The eruption at Mount Raung on Sunday evening was heard 20 kilometres away, and ash fall was seen in villages about 10 kilometres away from the summit. Aircraft pilots also reported seeing large amounts of ash at a height of 3,500 metres.

Authorities cordoned off a two-kilometre radius around the volcano, and raised the alert level to “Siaga”, the second highest level. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Fear of Volcano Eruption in Ukhrul, as Fire Gushes From the Ground

By Nagaland Post. A continuous flow of smoke and ashes from a swamp at a place near Old Wahong village of Manipur’s Ukhrul district has left villagers fearing of natural calamity in the form of volcanic eruption any time, a daily reported Tuesday.

Villagers said that smoke radius of about two feet along with ashes have been seen gushing out from the earth’s surface at Shitru area, since last two weeks.

Shitru is located a place border Manipur, Nagaland and Myanmar.

Villagers and onlookers feared volcanic eruption at the area in a short time. (Read more from this story HERE)
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Los Angeles Grows Even More Nervous About the ‘Big One’

By Yahoo News. When hi-tech movies are then replicated in life – we see it as a positive step forwards.

However, no-one wants to see disaster movies repeated in real-life, but it looks like LA may be on the verge of getting the ‘San Andreas’ treatment.

Geologists from UC Santa Barbara have found helium leaking from the Newport-Inglewood fault in central Los Angeles increasing the potential damage of an earthquake on the mega city.

This discovery comes after the US Geological Survey warned that the city is building up to a ‘big one’ in the next 30 years with chances of a magnitude 8 earthquake hitting the mega-city increasing from 4.7 to 7 per cent. (Read more from this story HERE)

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7-Foot Shark Pulls Man Under Water Ocracoke Island in NC, Victim Airlifted to Hospital

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Photo Credit: Stephen Lee A 68-year-old man was pulled under the water by a shark Wednesday in the Outer Banks — this time on Ocracoke Island.

The man was swimming outside the first breaker about 25 feet offshore, directly in front of the lifeguard stand, when he encountered a gray shark about 7 feet long, Hyde County officials said. A lifeguard saw the shark pull the man under the water. He suffered several bites to his rib cage, hip, lower leg and both hands . . .

The victim was able to swim out of the water, where a doctor who happened to be in the area was able to stabilize him, said Justin Gibbs with Hyde County EMS. The man, who was visiting from Massachusetts, was then airlifted off the island to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, N.C. The man was stable and alert, officials said . . .

Wednesday’s attack marks the seventh incident on North Carolina beaches in June and July. Last year, there were only four reported in the state through the summer. George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, told FOX8 recently that there are several environmental factors that make North Carolina appear to be a “perfect storm” for shark activity this summer . . .

On Friday, a 47-year-old man was bitten by a shark in the leg and back while trying to get children and another adult out of the water near Avon. (Read more from “7-Foot Shark Pulls Man Under Water Ocracoke Island in NC, Victim Airlifted to Hospital” HERE)

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FBI Investigating 11 Attacks on San Francisco-Area Internet Lines [+video]

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The FBI is investigating at least 11 physical attacks on high-capacity Internet cables in California’s San Francisco Bay Area dating back a year, including one early Tuesday morning.

Agents confirm the latest attack disrupted Internet service for businesses and residential customers in and around Sacramento, the state’s capital.

FBI agents declined to specify how significantly the attack affected customers, citing the ongoing investigation. In Tuesday’s attack, someone broke into an underground vault and cut three fiber-optic cables belonging to Colorado-based service providers Level 3 and Zayo . . .

Fiber-optic cables are essentially bundles of slender glass fibers that use light waves to transmit data. They are the interstate highways of the information superhighway, carrying vast amounts of data between decentralized hubs. From there, Internet services are delivered to homes and businesses by lower-capacity cables, including DSL . . .

In April 2009, underground fiber-optic cables in California were cut at four sites, knocking out landlines, cell phones and Internet service for tens of thousands in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. (Read more from “FBI Investigating 11 Attacks on San Francisco-Area Internet Lines” HERE)

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Alabama Chief Justice Issues Massive Order in Defiance of U.S. Supreme Court

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Same-sex couples in Alabama will have to hold on and wait a few weeks before proceeding with their nuptials, thanks to an order issued by the Alabama Supreme Court.

The court issued an order on Monday that essentially prohibits probate judges in the state from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples for 25 days.

This has effectively stalled the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling in Alabama, while providing time for interested parties to file motions and petitions contesting the ruling.

“Basically it states that in the court’s judgment, it (the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday) is tabled effective until after the hearing (before the Alabama Supreme Court),” Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore said. “It’s not in effect until after this hearing in this 25 day period” . . .

“I am not real clear what it’s saying .. it’s very unclear,” said Jefferson County Probate Judge Sherri Friday, who is continuing to issue licenses to same-sex couples while attorney’s review the order from Alabama’s highest court. (Read more from “Alabama Chief Justice Issues Massive Order in Defiance of U.S. Supreme Court” HERE)

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World Unhinged: Pedophilia Is Natural and Normal for Males, According to This University

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“Paedophilic interest is natural and normal for human males,” said the presentation. “At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children … Normal males are aroused by children.”

Some yellowing tract from the Seventies or early Eighties, era of abusive celebrities and the infamous PIE, the Paedophile Information Exchange? No. Anonymous commenters on some underground website? No again.

The statement that pedophilia is natural and normal was made not three decades ago but last July. It was made not in private but as one of the central claims of an academic presentation delivered, at the invitation of the organizers, to many of the key experts in the field at a conference held by the University of Cambridge.

Other presentations included “Liberating the paedophile: a discursive analysis,” and “Danger and difference: the stakes of hebephilia” (the sexual preference for children in early puberty, typically 11 to 14-year-olds) . . .

Another attendee, and enthusiastic participant from the floor, was one Tom O’Carroll, a multiple child sex offender, long-time campaigner for the legalization of sex with children and former head of the Paedophile Information Exchange. “Wonderful!” he wrote on his blog afterwards. “It was a rare few days when I could feel relatively popular!” (Read more from “Pedophilia Is Natural and Normal for Males, According to This University” HERE)

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“Let’s Endorse the First 2016 Candidate to Make ‘Burn it Down’ Their Campaign Theme,” and Other Deep Conservative Thoughts

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I know it’s a little early, but the 2032 election between George P. Bush and Chelsea Clinton looks too close to call.

Watching all these Republicans that Christian conservatives like me helped put into office all these years now run away from the marriage issue makes me unable to stand these feckless hacks.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton takes his oath of office seriously. Expect the Marxists on the Left, to hit him with a sham indictment or hit-piece in the New York Times any day now. Fascists never tolerate dissent.

Pro tip: don’t refer to lawlessness as “the rule of law” otherwise you’ve defined yourself as lawless for opposing it.

I think I will endorse the first 2016 candidate to make “burn it down” their campaign theme.

The loudest cheering when Chief Justice John Roberts again saved Obamacare via King v. Burwell came from Republican leaders on Capitol

Hill, who were scared to death they might actually have to do their jobs if the verdict had gone the other way.

The next time someone tries to convince you to vote for a GOP progressive over a Democrat progressive “to get good judges,” kindly respond by kicking him in the shin with a steel-toed boot. Spitting on him is also an option.

Does anyone know how many of the 400 homicides that occurred in Obama’s native Chicago last year were caused by the Confederate Flag?

I think they should announce a sequel to the Bill Murray classic Groundhog Day, but then just re-release the original.

Never forget that electing bad Republicans now always leads to electing even worse Democrats later.

Remember all those slippery slope arguments against redefining marriage they promised us would never happen? The same people who lied then are arguing for polygamy now.

Everybody is looking for the “next Reagan.” But I’m looking for the next Bush and the next Bush after that. Because, big tent.

Huh? Karl Rove is a liar? Is nothing sacred anymore?

I never understood why John Elway grew his hair out and sang that annoying “Cherry Pie” song.

I think the Republicans should let Mitt Romney play kingmaker in their 2016 primary. Right after the Democrats let Michael Dukakis play kingmaker in theirs.

Nothing says “love wins” like telling people “your Savior is a fraud” and “you’re a hateful bigot who doesn’t deserve free speech.”

I think my favorite liars in politics are the Leftists who claim America wasn’t founded on Judeo-Christian principles, while they fight so hard to rid us of the Judeo-Christian principles we were founded on. After all, if we weren’t founded on Judeo-Christian principles, but as a secular utopia as you claim, how did the Judeo-Christian principles get there in the first place?

Cornel West was on CNN ranting about “white supremacy” the other day. If “white supremacy” indeed exists, why didn’t it stop a raving idiot like West from getting degrees from not one, but two Ivy League universities?

I think we’ve learned the only people the “liberal media” still have power over happen to be running the Republican Party.

Remember when George Lucas had talent? Good times.

I want to be the first to congratulate the first transgendered presidential candidate. Call him Lindsey.

People ask me if I’m ready to form a third party yet, but I’d kind of like to see what a second party looks like first.

Before considering D.C. statehood, I suggest changing its area code to 666.

If the Jehovah’s Witnesses believe only 144,000 go to heaven, yet there are currently over 7 million of them, why do they keep knocking on my door and bugging me every Saturday? Isn’t it already too late for me?

I’ve decided I’m no longer voting for RINOs, Republicrats, “lesser of two evils,” etc. under any circumstances. See, the GOP has finally convinced me that whatever unelected judges decree — no matter how heinous — is the new “law of the land.” Therefore, there’s no need for me to plug my nose to vote for their charlatans anymore, nor sweat out the outcome of elections between a lying progressive and a real progressive. After all, the progressive judges they both appoint and confirm will just tell us what today’s new and exciting laws are regardless, so what’s the point? Why waste all that time, talent, and treasure on an utterly fruitless exercise, when they’re coming out with some really cool stuff for the PS4 and football season is just around the corner? Not to mention another season of Sister Wives is on its way, and I hear that new gal is a real firecracker! (“Deep Conservative Thoughts” originally posted HERE)

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Out-of-Control Supreme Court Kills Efforts to Require Illegals to Show ID When Registering to Vote [+video]

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The case, Kobach, et al. v. Election Assistance Commission, et al., was about whether Arizona and Kansas could require voters to prove their citizenship when registering to vote with the so-called federal form. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach led the suit against the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which was an appeal of a lower court decision.

Both Kansas and Arizona have state laws that require applicants to prove their citizenship when applying to vote with state forms (for state or federal elections). But the U.S. EAC denied the states’ requests to have their citizenship laws applied when would-be voters use the standardized federal form.

The Supreme Court had already ruled in 2013 that state proof-of-citizenship laws couldn’t be applied when people try to register with the federal form. The states’ direct request to the EAC was a last-ditch effort to get around that.

By not hearing the case, the Supreme Court effectively upheld the decision of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled against Arizona and Kansas in November 2014, saying the EAC did not have to modify its form to meet state laws. Under the federal form, would-be voters need only swear under penalty of perjury that they are citizens.

“This is a very big deal,” University of California Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen wrote on his election law blog Monday. “Kobach had the potential to shift more power away from the federal government in administering elections toward the states,” he added. (Read more from “Out-of-Control Supreme Court Kills Efforts to Require Illegals to Show ID When Registering to Vote” HERE)

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ISIS Says Allah Will Reward Ten Times as Much to Jihadists Who Die During Ramadan

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By Stoyan Zaimov. Terror group ISIS has marked one year since the establishment of its self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate in the territory of Iraq and Syria. The militants marked the occasion by calling for more jihadist attacks during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, claiming that allah will reward jihadists who die with “10 times as much” during the period.

“ISIS’ Ramadan message specifically preaches that jihad is 10 times more obligatory during Ramadan and that those who die in jihad will be rewarded by allah 10 times as much as during the rest of the year,” said Ryan Mauro, national security analyst and adjunct professor of Homeland Security for the Clarion Project, according to Fox News.

“There will be ISIS supporters who have waited to strike until now in order to get the maximum award and those who were considering an attack and will now feel more pressure to actually do it.”

June 29, 2014, marked the official formation of the Islamic State, as the group is also known, when it also named its leader “Caliph Ibrahim,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The U.S. and a broad team of international allies have been hitting ISIS targets across Iraq and Syria with airstrikes, and have armed and trained local forces on the ground fighting the militants. The terror group has continued attacking and capturing new cities throughout the year, however, and has been expanding its attacks in a host of other countries. (Read more from “ISIS Says Allah Will Reward Ten Times as Much to Jihadists Who Die During Ramadan” HERE)

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Jihadists Vow to Attack Christians During Ramadan

By Stoyan Zaimov. The al-Shabaab terror group, which back in April murdered 152 people, mostly Christian students, have vowed to attack “non-believers” throughout the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a pledge echoing ISIS’ threats.

News 24 reported that at least 15 people were killed on Monday in clashes between al-Shabaab and Somali and African Union troops near the southern port of Kismayo, though eight Islamic militants were also killed in the battle.

AFP noted that another 80 soldiers were killed on Friday in a separate attack on the Leego base in southern Somalia, with the jihadists claiming to have brought back 60 of the bodies.

“Al-Shabaab has consistently shown its ability to strike in urban areas and regroup in rural bases. It will take much longer to defeat the group and require Somalia’s security services to be significantly improved,” Ahmed Soliman, Horn of Africa analyst at the London-based Chatham House, told the Bloomberg news.

The total death toll could still be higher, with reports that some captured troop members have been beheaded. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Three Obama Quotes About ‘God’ and Traditional Marriage That Bill O’Reilly Just Used to Make a Point About the White House’s Rainbow Light Display

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By Billy Hallowell. Fox News host Bill O’Reilly was less than impressed with President Barack Obama’s decision to light the White House up with rainbow colors on Friday evening following the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling, calling it an “in your face” move that alienated conservatives . . .

The commentator, who said that he was “a bit surprised” by the president’s “victory lap,” went on to share three Obama quotes illustrating the president’s past opposition to same-sex unions to show that, not long ago, Obama took a very different view on the matter.

“What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman,” Obama said in 2004.

In 2008, he invoked God, proclaiming in an interview with Pastor Rick Warren, “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. For me, as a Christian, it’s also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”

Flash forward to 2010 and Obama was still opposed to gay marriage, saying, “My baseline is a strong civil union that provides them the protections and the legal rights that married couples have.” (Read more from “Three Obama Quotes About ‘God’ and Traditional Marriage That Bill O’Reilly Just Used to Make a Point About the White House’s Rainbow Light Display” HERE)


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We’re Not About to Crawl in a Hole and Die

By Michael Brown. Over and over again we are told that we have lost the culture wars and that it’s time for us to throw in the towel and capitulate, especially as the Supreme Court’s decision on redefining marriage is soon to be announced.

I’m here to announce that no matter what the Supreme Court says, no matter what the president says, no matter what society says, we are not bowing down to anyone other than the Lord Himself. And with God’s help, there’s not a shred of a possibility that we will compromise our convictions when it comes to the meaning of marriage.

Those who fear man more than God will compromise.

Those who have a misguided conception of compassion will compromise . . .

But those who love the Lord, who honor His Word, who truly care about what is best for society in the long term and who have already denied themselves and taken up their cross to follow Jesus—they will never compromise. (Read more from this story HERE)

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