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<p>Ooooh, investigative journalism! The National Enquirer is on the case.</p>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Judging by White House wannabe Ben Carson’s track record as a neurosurgeon, his presidential campaign should be declared dead on arrival!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">In a <strong>bombshell investigation</strong> into his medical career, The National ENQUIRER has exclusively learned the now retired doc allegedly butchered one patient’s brain — and EVEN left a sponge in another’s skull!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">According to at least six malpractice lawsuits against Carson obtained by The ENQUIRER, the Republican candidate allegedly rushed patients into surgery, and brandished a scalpel like a meat cleaver!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">“He’s totally untrustworthy!†one former patient, Karly Bailey, told The ENQUIRER. The Florida woman claimed Carson spent “maybe 14 minutes†with her and her parents before performing a delicate brain tumor operation that ruined her life at age 9.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">“My parents told him they weren’t authorizing him to remove the whole tumor because of the risk,†said Karly, now 27.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">“But he did what he goddamned pleased! He tried to remove all of the tumor, and injured my nerves and brain stem.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">“I was paralyzed on my right side. I’ve never fully recovered. I have chronic fatigue, and my eyes dance around. It’s like having permanent vertigo. My face droops and people are really cruel.â€</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Karly’s family slapped Carson — then director of pediatric neurosurgery at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital — with a lawsuit.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">But in a 2011 affidavit, Carson shockingly called Karly’s post-op problems “unavoidable.â€</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">The conservative candidate, 64, built his medical reputation on being the first surgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">But The ENQUIRER uncovered complaints about the married father of three dating back to 1986 — a year before his success with the twins.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">One alleged bungled operation involved a patient identified as John P. Sparco. In court papers, he claimed Carson and three other surgeons operated on him to remove what they claimed was a deadly tumor.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">The tiny tumor turned out to be benign and non–life-threatening. But during the procedure, he suffered “irreversible†injuries, including deafness in one ear, dizziness and slurred speech.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">His lawyer said: “To strangers he appears to be drunk.â€</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Carson was slammed for another alleged botched surgery in 1999. After he operated on a girl from Michigan, X-rays taken later at another hospital found the patient’s severe post-op pain was the result of a shunt that was put in “upside down.â€</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">In another horrifying case, a 69-year-old Florida woman claimed her eardrums were perforated during a 2008 operation for facial pain performed by Carson’s team.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">When the pain recurred, Carson told the patient, Darlene King, that she might have a tumor. But surgery revealed the lump was actually “a sponge he had left in (her) brainâ€!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Yet another Florida woman, Merryl Reynolds, accused Carson of negligence during 2010 spinal surgery on her 15-year-old son, Austin. He “is now paralyzed from the waist down,†she claimed.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Maryland patient Mary Perna, 58, consulted Carson in 1994 for side effects of multiple sclerosis. According to Mary, he said the cure was brain surgery.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">When the surgery did nothing to help, she claimed Carson came into her hospital room “in a highly agitated state,†and admitted he hadn’t reviewed pre-op MRIs. He allegedly said that if he had, “We never would have done the (surgery).â€</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">In March 2013, Carson announced he was retiring as a surgeon, saying: </span></strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">“I’d much rather quit when I’m at the top of my game.â€</span></strong></span></div>
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<div><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/bungling-surgeon-ben-carson-left-sponge-patients-brain'>http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/bungling-surgeon-ben-carson-left-sponge-patients-brain</a></div> -
<p>A couple of good pieces in the <em>Spectator </em>this week.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/sorry-america-but-it-looks-like-joe-biden-is-your-next-president/'>http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/sorry-america-but-it-looks-like-joe-biden-is-your-next-president/</a></p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/why-carly-fiorina-probably-cant-save-the-republicans/'>http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/why-carly-fiorina-probably-cant-save-the-republicans/</a></p> -
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<div><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-on-report-he-left-sponge-in-patients-brain-just-a-bad-reaction/'>Ben Carson Responds to Report That He Left Sponge In Patient’s Brain</a></span></span></strong></div>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><span style="font-size:14px;">According to <span style="font-size:24px;">at least six</span> malpractice lawsuits against Carson obtained by The ENQUIRER...</span>
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<p>In a litigious country like the US, 6 is probably a very low number, particularly when you consider the nature of his work.</p>
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<p>In a litigious country like the US, 6 is probably a very low number, particularly when you consider the nature of his work.</p>
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<p>Seems like Biden is killing everyone in the polls at the moment. Now THAT is disturbing.</p>
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I was wondering about whether or not most doctors have the occasional suit against them as a matter of course. You should read the spectator link Tim posted ,Biden has some appeal apparently.</p></blockquote>
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<p>This is true. I hear stories that when you go to the hospital the doctors will order a wave of tests, not always because they feel you need them but because they don't want to be in the gun in the event that you actually have some other medical problem which will give you some foothold to litigate</p> -
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<p>Yep, I can confirm that one too CF. when I got a second opinion from a US doc last year, he suggested a ridiculous amount of tests. When I asked why, he explained the same reason. That's a real problem, because insurance.</p>
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<p>And they released that?!</p>
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<p>Or someone said it & pretended it was true? Or someone who very much is <em><strong>not</strong></em> Hilary's people ran the poll & released it?</p>
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<p>I mean it wouldn't surprise me, I just cant see any situation where "Hilary's people" would admit that.</p>
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<p>She plays people against each other, jerked donors around and burned bridges. It would hardly be surprising that a former-staffer or current-staffer anonymously leaked insider-y internal polling results to a reporter. It wouldn't surprise me that many from Team Obama's campaign jumped to Team Hillary because they wanted to retain a Democrat in the White House, yet the closer to Hillary's inner-circle they got might have become privy to the knives Hillary is thrusting into O's back. That can be a deal-breaker.</p> -
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<p>Or someone said it & pretended it was true? Or someone who very much is <em><strong>not</strong></em> Hilary's people ran the poll & released it?</p>
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<p>I mean it wouldn't surprise me, I just cant see any situation where "Hilary's people" would admit that.</p>
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<p>I can totally see her rivals saying it... because its believable & bad & prompts TV to report it & run their own polls, none of which will be good. </p>
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<p>My mistake I thought someone had leaked it from her side, I misread the article and it was talking about deliberate leaks from inside Bidens camp about how he decided to run because his son told him to before he died.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Hillary Clinton took a new tack this week when answering questions about her use of a private email account as secretary of state: She took responsibility and admitted she was at fault.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">“It clearly wasn’t the best choice,†Clinton said flatly on Wednesday, as she campaigned in Iowa.</p>
<p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Story Continued Below</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">On Thursday, the reason for the change in tone came into sharper focus with a stunning new poll illustrating the extent to which voters don’t trust Clinton to tell the truth.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">While Republicans have been test-driving attacks against Clinton for a year and a half, no other line of attack has broken through to this degree. The numbers in a new <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2274'>Quinnipiac University poll</a> are striking: More than 3-in-5 voters, 61 percent, think Clinton isn’t honest and trustworthy. Overall, Clinton’s favorability ratings slipped to 39 percent — her lowest rating since Quinnipiac began polling on Clinton after she and her husband left the White House.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">When voters were asked the first word that came to their mind about Clinton, the top three replies were indictments of her trustworthiness. The No. 1 response was “liar,†followed by “dishonest†and “untrustworthy.†Overall, more than a third of poll respondents said their first thought about Clinton was some version of: She’s a liar.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">In an era of declining confidence in government, it’s not unusual that voters would find a politician less than honest. But the striking reality is that, for Clinton, a lack of trust is the first thing many think of.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">“Anyone running for president — that is a pretty fundamental quality you need,†said Democratic pollster Fred Yang, who is also part of the bipartisan team that produces polls for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'proxima-nova', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Read more: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/hillary-clinton-liar-factor-2016-213100#ixzz3o5wOUZBG'>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/hillary-clinton-liar-factor-2016-213100#ixzz3o5wOUZBG</a></span></p> -
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<p style="font-size:28px;color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">At the request of many, and even though I expect it to be a very boring two hours, I will be covering the Democrat Debate live on twitter!</p>
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<p>Defending her support from Wall Street and her reluctance to break up the banks, Hillary started bashing AIG during the Dem debate a minute ago.</p>
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<div><span style="font-size:24px;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://gawker.com/jim-webb-s-crazy-debate-answer-about-killing-a-guy-has-1736401666'>Jim Webb’s Crazy Debate Answer About Killing a Guy Has an Even Crazier Backstory</a></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">During the first Democratic debate of the 2016 presidential cycle, the candidates were asked by moderator Anderson Cooper to reveal which enemy they were most proud of having made. They all gave rather predictable responses—the coal industry, the NRA, Republicans—until the question moved to Jim Webb, who sorta creepily talked about killing a guy, in the process glossing over what was actually a rather remarkable event in war.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-left:80px;"><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">I’d have to say the enemy soldier that threw the grenade that wounded me, but he’s not around right now to talk to...</span></strong></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">His tone made it clear he was playing the second clause of that sentence as a laugh line, except there was only sparse uncomfortable chuckling as Webb flashed a weird self-satisfied grin and Anderson Cooper hurriedly moved onto the next question.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">But Webb’s story is actually far more interesting than that glib answer makes it seem. From the citation accompanying the Navy Cross that was awarded to Webb after Vietnam:</span></div>
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<div style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">On 10 July 1969, while participating in a company-sized search and destroy operation deep in hostile territory, First Lieutenant Webb’s platoon discovered a well-camouflaged bunker complex which appeared to be unoccupied. Deploying his men into defensive positions, First Lieutenant Webb was advancing to the first bunker when three enemy soldiers armed with hand grenades jumped out. Reacting instantly, he grabbed the closest man and, brandishing his .45 caliber pistol at the others, apprehended all three of the soldiers. Accompanied by one of his men, he then approached the second bunker and called for the enemy to surrender. When the hostile soldiers failed to answer him and threw a grenade which detonated dangerously close to him, First Lieutenant Webb detonated a claymore mine in the bunker aperture, accounting for two enemy casualties and disclosing the entrance to a tunnel. Despite the smoke and debris from the explosion and the possibility of enemy soldiers hiding in the tunnel, he then conducted a thorough search which yielded several items of equipment and numerous documents containing valuable intelligence data. Continuing the assault, he approached a third bunker and was preparing to fire into it when the enemy threw another grenade. Observing the grenade land dangerously close to his companion, First Lieutenant Webb simultaneously fired his weapon at the enemy, pushed the Marine away from the grenade, and shielded him from the explosion with his own body. Although sustaining painful fragmentation wounds from the explosion, he managed to throw a grenade into the aperture and completely destroy the remaining bunker.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">This all ends up making sense considering <strong>Webb debated like someone who has seen some serious shit in a doomed war.</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Interestingly enough, although Sanders supports the 2nd Amendment (with a "D-" rating from NRA), Webb was the only Dem candidate with an "A"-rating from the NRA who fully supports an American's right to fully protect himself with a handgun and said as much on stage. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Webb said some bellicose things about China and dumb things about Iran, but he looks presidential, was a war-hero and best-selling author, he opposed the Iraq War, was formerly Secretary of Navy under Reagan, and could have some serious crossover appeal to many GOP voters who'll think he looks authentic and sounds tougher than their own candidates with his Vietnam-NRA-Reagan pedigree.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">I won't be surprised to see his numbers go up after the debate, he's been flying completely under the radar. Most Americans had no idea he was a candidate and were only getting introduced to him for the first time in this debate.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Webb gave a strong answer when he was contrasted to Bernie Sanders, who sat out the Vietnam War as a "conscientious objector," being asked if this was wrong thing to do while he was in the jungle with the grunts, telling Anderson Cooper it was mandatory conscription, called it a dumb war, said he doesn't blame Sanders for following his convictions, then praised Sanders for his work on bills supporting returning veterans. </span></div>
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