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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Work begins on prototypes for Trump's Mexico wall

President Donald Trump says the wall should be transparent to stop people from "catapulting" and "throwing" drugs into the US.

Government contractors have started to build prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico.

Bidding documents say four of the eight prototypes are to be solid concrete and four are to be made of "other materials".

Mr Trump said on Friday that the wall should be see-through, repeating earlier claims that it should be transparent to curb the flow of drugs into the country.

"They take drugs, literally, and they throw it - 100lbs of drugs - they throw it over the wall," he said at a rally in Alabama.

"They have catapults. They throw it over the wall and it lands, and it hits somebody on the head and you don't even know they are there.

"Believe it or not, this is the kind of stuff that happens. So you need to have a great wall but it has to be see-through."

A green tarpaulin hanging on a chain-link fence blocked views of the work, in a remote area of San Diego, and is expected to last 30 days.

Roy Villarreal, acting chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector, told reporters another contractor will evaluate each model, which will be up to 30ft (nine metres) high and 30ft long.

"It may not result in a singular winner. It may be a combination of...

Mike Tomlin, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, is a staunch Democrat who hosted a lavish fundraiser at his mansion for failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Tomlin raised eyebrows after getting upset that offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva— a decorated Army veteran — stood for the national anthem while the rest of his team hid like hood rats in the locker room.

Villanueva earned widespread praise for his patriotism, but then apologized (under duress) the next day. He said he was sorry he made his unpatriotic teammates and coach look bad. Well, now we know why he apologized: Villanueva’s obnoxious coach is a flaming liberal bully.

Record show that Tomlin has donated tens of thousands of dollars over the years to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns. In June 2016, Tomlin even hosted a posh fundraiser for Hillary at his Pittsburgh mansion. Tickets to the event cost $10,000 to $33,400. The most expensive ticket included a private meeting with...

Challenger Roy Moore soundly defeated incumbent Luther Strange in Tuesday’s runoff to choose the Republican nominee in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race.

With all precincts reporting after 11 p.m., Moore had 54.6 percent or 262,204 votes and Strange had 45.4 percent or 218,066 votes. The Associated Press called the race when results from about half the 2,286 precincts were in.

“Republican voters know who a person of principle is,” Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, told The Daily Signal in a pre-election interview predicting a victory for Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.

Moore will face Democrat Doug Jones in the Dec. 12 special election for the Senate seat vacated by Republican Jeff Sessions when he became attorney general in the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump had endorsed Strange, whom he considered loyal to his priorities.

Trump tweeted congratulations to Moore late Tuesday night:

“From the beginning of this campaign, my priority has been serving the people of Alabama,” Strange, the state’s former attorney general, said in a written concession statement. “Tomorrow, I will go back to work with President Trump and...