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LATEST SOCIAL NEWS – From the New York Post:  "If she gets the boot, she might not get the keys.
France’s First Lady, Valerie Trierweiler, fears she could wind up homeless if her cheating partner, President Francoise Hollande, dumps her for the younger actress he’s rumored to be seeing, according to a published report.  Trierweiler, 48, has left the Paris hospital she checked into for a week after reports of Hollande’s alleged fling with 41-year-old Julie Gayet. She is resting at La Lanterne, a hunting lodge and presidential retreat in Versailles.  An article on the website of Paris Match – the trendy magazine where Trierweiler works – said 'Valerie oscillates between depression and rage' and has told colleagues she worries she’ll have no home to return to because the First Couple’s Paris apartment is in his name."  Don't worry, Valerie.  Under Obamacare you'll be able to take your health insurance with you, no matter where you live...as long as you can get onto the website.

SOCHI UPDATE – From the New York Daily News:  "Russian authorities are looking for as many four women who could be used in terrorist attacks during the Winter Olympic games — including one suspect who may have already slipped through the ring of security in Sochi.  Ruzanna (Salima) Ibragimova, 22 — the widow of an Islamic militant killed during a gun battle with police last year — has been missing from her Dagestan home since last month, ABC News reported.  Wanted posters with Ibragimova’s picture littered area hotels and even a nearby airport last weekend, the news station reported, after authorities launched a massive search for the woman.  The posters describe Ibragimova as having a 10-centimeter scar across her left cheek and a stiff left arm, because she can’t bend her elbow.   Investigators believe she may have entered the city about 10 days ago, according to the report.  Ibragimova is one of as many as four 'black widows' — the term given to the wives of dead terrorists — who being sought by security officials, NBC News reported."

TEXAS STORY – Wendy Davis shot to fame in Texas because of her pro-abortion stand in the state legislature and her touching life story.  Now she is running for governor.  But the Dallas Morning News, doing what a newspaper should do, has checked her story, and it ain't what she said it was.  From the Washington Post:  "Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who is running for governor of Texas, has admitted that some of the public details about her personal history are incomplete or inaccurate, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News.  Davis, a rising Democratic star, has touted herself as a Texas success story. She has said she was a divorced teenage mother who went from living in a mobile home, juggling low-wage jobs and going to community college to graduating from Harvard Law School.  The up-from-nowhere narrative, which emerged during an 11-hour filibuster she staged in June to oppose abortion restrictions, has been a central part of her candidacy and appeal, helping to boost her national profile and fundraising efforts.  But the Dallas Morning News reveals a more complicated narrative."  Yeah, the excuses will now start flying.  The liberal press will largely ignore the story, but it's out there, and Davis admits she hasn't been entirely honest.   We'll watch the polls.

NEW IRAN WARNING – From WND:  "If Iran breaks its deal with the West tomorrow, the country would be only two to three weeks away from producing enough highly enriched uranium to assemble a nuclear weapon, according to Olli Heinonen, former deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency.  Heinonen directed the safeguards division of the United Nations body charged with enforcing the Non-Proliferation Treaty."  We are being completely outmaneuvered by the Iranians, who are also increasing their influence at the UN, which doesn't care if a country is a brutal dictatorship.  Not a problem at all. 

January 20, 2014