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Meghan McCain announces social
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media break in a tribute to her
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Meghan McCain is remembering her late father John McCain on the day before the anniversary of his death. The former United States senator died last year at age 81. The co-host of "The View" took to Twitter on Saturday to pay tribute to her "hero" in a series of tweets. "Last year tomorrow, August 25th was the worst day of my life. I lost my hero. I miss my father every single day, I will for the rest of my life. Grief is omnipresent and relentless" she wrote. "For every single person who has sent prayers, love & support to
Barack Obama has taken to Twitter to reveal the music he and wife Michelle have been listening to over the summer. The former President - who regularly touts his pop culture credentials by publishing lists of his favorite songs and books - unveiled the new playlist on Saturday morning, which was complete with tracks from a variety of different genres and time periods. Obama, 58, proved he was still hip and happening by including two of summer's biggest anthems among the 44 selected tracks. Both 'Senorita' by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello, as well 'Old Town Road' by Lil Nas X have
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Six people are recovering after a lightning strike at East Lake Golf Club in DeKalb County Saturday afternoon. The strike happened at the course near the 16th tee. The golf club is currently hosting the PGA TOUR Championship, the final of the FedEx Cup. Officials suspended play around 4:17 p.m. The strike occurred around 4:45 p.m. Authorities haven't released the conditions of the victims or if they were directly struck. However, NBC has received reports that of the people taken from the scene, none received life-threatening injuries. DeKalb County officials said the youngest victim is
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Dr Tim Ball appears to have won the long legal jihad launched against him by climate mullah Michael E Mann. Because his court follows "the English rule" as opposed to the stinkeroo "American rule", the loser (Mann) will have to pay costs - which is as it should be after a decade of entirely meritless litigation.
But what if there's a more effective way to silence your critics? Say, by proving scientifically that they should be expelled from polite society.
Nature, founded in 1869, is generally regarded (with Science) as one of the two most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the world. (Snip) its distinguished past lends an undeserved imprimatur to its
IDF fighter jets recently targeted a number of terror targets in Aqraba, Syria, southeast of Damascus.
The IDF has confirmed multiple strikes against Iranian targets outside Damascus following Intelligence that Iran was planning to launch armed drones at northern Israel.
The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last few days.
The thwarted attack included plans to launch a number of armed drones intended to be used to strike Israeli sites.
Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph” that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity has been burning fossil fuels and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. The graph was first published in 1998, prominently featured in the 2001 UN Climate Report, and formed part of Al Gore’s 2006 movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
Former Vice President Joe Biden had another 'gaffe' yet again on the campaign trail on Saturday. This time the 76-year-old told media how much he loved being in the state of Vermont...except, he was actually in New Hampshire. This is just the latest in a litany of verbal miscues he has had so far on the presidential campaign trail.
The GOP's Steve Guest picked up the Vermont mistake and shared a video of it on Twitter.
"I’ve been here a number of times...I love this place.
Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib asserted that President Trump is threatened by her and other ultra-liberal congresswomen often referred to as "the squad."Tlaib was speaking out after her trip to Israel was abruptly canceled earlier this month."It’s been very clear to me, especially this last week, that he’s scared of us,” Tlaib said. “He’s afraid of women of color … because we’re not afraid of him and we’re not afraid to speak up and say that we have a white supremacist in the White House who has a hate agenda. He’s afraid because we have a real agenda
Fueled by fear and rancor, civility has gone AWOL, which in turn has sparked a crusade toward direct democracy that elevates the wants of today over the needs of tomorrow.
In the epicenter of this movement is Florida, America’s melting pot, which may soon be turning to pot in a way that could realign politics for generations to come.
Legal in 11 states, decriminalized in 20, and potentially headed to ballot in a dozen more, fresh surveys show that making recreational marijuana legal – with strict restraints and regulations in play -- is already favored by two out of three Floridians. While this sea change would have seemed wholly unimaginable
It was a typical playground — if you ignored the barbed wire and bizarre signs:“PLEASE COOPERATE; SILENCE IS REQUESTED.”“NO PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED TO BE TAKEN OF THE CHILDREN.” The children in question were the internationally famous Dionne quintuplets, the first-ever five identical siblings to survive infancy. Four times a day the girls waddled into their private playground to shovel in a sandbox or wade through baby pools as thousands of onlookers gawked at the spectacle.
PLANT CITY — They set the trap on Facebook, and one day in early June, a victim took the bait.
The man who showed up at the ranch-style home at 902 W Risk St. came to meet a dark-haired, dark-eyed woman named Carina who’d sent a Facebook message inviting him to hang out, court documents say. She was waiting in the driveway and invited the man inside.
Over the next several hours, the man would be beaten, burned with cigarettes and forced to hand over hundreds of dollars in cash, the documents say.
Plant City Police on Thursday announced the recent arrests of four suspects who investigators say are responsible
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden responded to concerns from voters about his age during a brief press gathering on Saturday in New Hampshire."I say if they're concerned, don't vote for me," Biden, 76, said to reporters. (Tweet) Biden has faced criticism for his age and stamina since the launch of his campaign in April. Recent polling released by CNN shows that Biden still leads the pack of Democratic candidates by double digits, but some have raised concerns about Biden's consistent speech gaffes.
Actor Alec Baldwin has suggested that President Donald Trump has been trying to destroy America but that he has become “scared” after realizing he is unable to do so.
The 61-year-old, who has spent the last couple years playing Trump on the iconic comedy show Saturday Night Live, argued that the combination of Trump’s mental state and general incompetence had proved “devastating” for the country.“Trump’s been in office for a while now. Incompetent is one thing. Nuts is another. Both in combination are devastating,” Baldwin said.
America is turning into such an intolerant, victim-centered, outrage-based, politically correct, that joke isn’t funny, how dare you hold an opposite opinion-centered culture, that a lot of people are afraid to tell you the truth anymore. It’s easier for people to sometimes just keep their heads down and hope that the outrage mob will pick another victim. But, unfortunately, when people become afraid to speak the truth, common sense can die in the darkness because everyone is caught up in saying what we’re “supposed to” believe instead. An America that encourages free speech, discourages censorship and believes in a free exchange of ideas will ALWAYS be superior
An Illinois State Police trooper died from wounds suffered early Friday while executing a search warrant in East St. Louis.Trooper Nicholas Hopkins, 33, of Waterloo, a 10-year veteran of the force, was wounded during an exchange of gunfire while serving the warrant at an East St. Louis home, said State Police Acting Director Brendan Kelly. He later died at a hospital.After the shooting, police surrounded the home and arrested three people. Police remained on the scene throughout the day,
3 ship commanders fired in
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The second-in-command of a Navy submarine was fired this week, making him the third senior leader of a ship to be dismissed in two days.
Lt. Cmdr. Jonathan Cebik was removed Monday from his position as executive officer of the USS Jimmy Carter over concerns regarding his personal judgment. Two other senior officers were removed for the same thing Tuesday. (Snip) The spate of firings comes as the Navy continues to implement reforms following two high-profile collisions involving the USS John McCain and USS Fitzgerald in 2017. Investigations into the accidents found that inadequate leadership and subpar training contributed, sparking a major internal review and 117 changes across the fleet.
Donald Trump is not a classic American diplomat — but he makes a classic U.S. entrance. He and first lady Melania Trump arrived at a Saturday evening dinner in Biarritz in a two-car motorcade, with teams of security guards in tow, after every other visiting leader and their partners had entered the first official event of this year's G7 summit. They were greeted on the spot by the French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, who sought to make them comfortable with affectionate back pats and intimate hand holding. Their quiet conversation wasn't picked up by microphones, but President Trump appeared
MOSCOW—A Russian space capsule carrying a humanoid robot has failed to dock as planned with the International Space Station.A statement from the Russian space agency Roscosmos said the failure on Saturday was because of problems in the docking system. It said the space station itself and the six-person crew are safe.Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter that a new docking attempt would be made on Tuesday.The capsule was launched Thursday as part of tests of a new rocket that is expected to replace the Soyuz-FG next year.It is carrying a robot called Fedor, which will perform two weeks of tests aboard the space station.
The last two years have been hard on America-hating Democrats.Open borders, lawlessness and socialism are not big selling points for the liberal party.There are less Democrats today than when Donald Trump was elected US President on November 8, 2016. According to Gallup. .On November 9-14 2016 30% of Americans considered themselves Democrat.Today, August 24, 2019 only 27% of Americans consider themselves a Democrat.
Albany, GA - Judge Stephen Goss was found dead Saturday morning on the 600 block of Greenwood Drive.
Albany police were dispatched to the area around 8:11 a.m. where they found Goss, 60, in a wooded area behind the residence dead from a gunshot wound, according to police.
Judge Goss was appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to serve as a judge on the Court of Appeals of Georgia on August 1, 2018.
Foul play is not suspected at this time, according to police.
This is an active and ongoing investigation. This is a developing story and we will update as more information becomes available.
"A picture is worth a thousand words" is one of the dumbest aphorisms ever coined. Speaking as a former television producer, I'd say a picture takes a thousand words to explain. Take this much-circulated NASA satellite photo showing vast smoke plumes over the Amazon region:(Snip for photo)Combined with a report from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research that says the agency had detected 39,194 fires in the region, a 77 percent jump up from the same period in 2018, that picture has launched alarmed headlines around the world.
"Amazon rainforest is burning at an unprecedented rate," declares CNN.
An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the US amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington changed its listed destination to a port in Turkey early Saturday (local time) after Greece said it wouldn't risk its relations with America by aiding it.
The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its listed destination in its Automatic Identification System to Mersin, Turkey, a port city in the country's south and home to an oil terminal.
However, mariners can input any destination into the AIS, so Turkey may not be its true destination. Mersin is some 200 kilometres northwest of a refinery in Baniyas, Syria,
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Burien, Washington, a working-class city of 50,000 near Seattle, has adopted a new approach to homelessness. Like all cities in the Puget Sound region, Burien has struggled with chronic homelessness, addiction, and public camping in recent years. But this spring, after increasing public outcry over encampments and their trash and discarded needles, the city’s leadership embarked on an ambitious new program to enforce the law against such public sites.
The initiative began by chance. Last winter, local business owner Martin Barrett, brainstorming ways to improve the city’s business climate, hired an organizer to walk door-to-door asking small-business owners their concerns. The organizer spoke with more than 100 owners, representing
Piers Morgan is interviewed by Ben Shapiro and talks celebrity, the news media, Trump, liberals, gun control, and much more.
PIERS MORGAN: Populism is rising because liberals have become unbearable. In my core, I'm probably more liberal than not although fundamentally I see myself as a journalist and I like to see both sides and I can argue both sides of all these things, but liberals have become utterly, pathetically illiberal and it is a massive problem.
What's the point of calling yourself a liberal if you don't allow anyone else to have a different view? This snowflake
Asian affairs expert Gordon Chang praised President Trump's aggressive stance towards China, indicating that he likely won't make the same mistakes that previous administrations did in including the nation in negotiations with North Korea.
"There's a lot to criticize Trump on North Korea but the one thing he's done right is he's not played Beijing's game," Chang said during Thursday's "Hemmer Time" podcast.
Chang said that Trump departed from previous practice by pushing China "to the side" -- excluding them from the room during talks with the Hermit Kingdom.
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International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) treasurer José María Odriozola has weighed into the Caster Semenya row by reportedly describing the South African as “biologically a man”.
The Spaniard, professor of biochemistry, allegedly made the comments in an interview with Sport Magazine as he defended the world governing body regarding their controversial stance on the double Olympic 800 metres champion. Semenya lost a landmark case against the IAAF at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in May, which means she will have to take medication to reduce her testosterone levels if she wants to continue running on the world stage.
The 28-year-old middle-distance athlete was attempting to block new rules
(Video) - A NASA astronaut has been accused of committing the first crime in outer space after her estranged wife alleged she stole her identity and accessed her bank account without permission during a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Former Air Force intelligence officer Summer Worden, from Kansas, has been involved in a bitter divorce with astronaut Anne McClain since 2018 but the battle heated up after Worden filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and NASA’s Office of Inspector General accusing her wife of assuming her identity and gaining improper access to her private financial records while orbiting the earth, the New York Times reported.
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Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix under conditions he describes as a form of psychological house arrest. There are no visitors, and his few remaining friends rarely call. He feels unable to make new ones, because he fears the reaction of anyone who Googles him. He's 32, unemployed, and perhaps unemployable—"I'm radioactive," as he puts it. And he's still trying to find the right combination of psychotropic medication to quell the recurrent thought that ending his life may be the best way out.
President Trump arrived in France for the annual G7 Summit, with the flagging global economy and ongoing trade war with China framing his visit, and the meeting potentially further exposing deep rifts between the U.S. and other countries over trade and climate change. (Snip) Trump cited the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, writing, "For all of the Fake News Reporters that don't have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. Case closed!" (Tweet)
The gaff-prone Democratic candidate for president, former Vice President Joe Biden, is doing just fine where his brain is concerned, according to his surgeon. As you may recall, Biden had two – that’s right – two surgeries for brain aneurysms in the late 1980s. This, of course, has caused many to wonder if the rigors of the campaign trail have taxed the mental wherewithal of the 76-year-old Biden. Like the time he insisted he was still vice president during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February of 2018.He wasn’t. Or that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated in the 1970s. They weren’t.
President Trump tweeted in defense of his comment that he is 'the chosen one' during a Wednesday press conference while discussing the trade arrangements with China. He claimed that the comment was only in jest and that media outlets critical of the remark did not accurately reflect that he was joking. "When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said 'I am the chosen one,' at a press conference two days ago, referring to taking on Trade with China, little did I realize that the media would claim that I had a 'Messiah complex,'"
A volunteer at the GOP booth at the Minnesota State Fair was sexually assaulted Friday night.
According to a Minnesota State Fair police spokesperson, a 40-year-old woman filed a police report stating she was volunteering in the GOP booth when a woman approached her. She asked the volunteer, "how can you support a president who says 'grab them in the p****?" The female suspect then proceeded to grab the volunteer twice in her private area.
Antifaschistische Aktion, abbreviated as Antifa or anti-fascist, was an organization affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany that existed from 1932 to 1933. In the postwar era the historical organization inspired new groups and networks, known as the wider Antifa movement, many of which use the aesthetics of the historical Antifaschistische Aktion, especially a modified version of its logo. Wiki There is much confusion as to who Antifa is, and what they stand for. First, let’s define fascism that they say they are
Putting on its Victorian gentleman suit (pax Tom Wolfe), the Washington Post's editorial board tut-tuts a rich part of Washington, D.C. and its political patrons, for pulling out all stops to prevent construction of a child-migrant shelter in its fancy environs.
MANY AMERICANS are rightly outraged by the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant children, who have been separated from parents and ill-treated by authorities. Democrats have been understandably eager to distance themselves from such policies — a stance that can result in knee-jerk opposition even to sensible practices in effect during the Obama administration.
The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was what we call an “originalist” when it came to interpreting the U.S. Constitution. He believed the only way to read the Constitution was in the context of the times when its provisions were written which formed the intent of those who wrote and later amended it. We could only interpret what they meant by reading what they wrote through the filter of the events of their day, not our day.
Rather than admit that, despite its Orwellian name, Planned Parenthood’s main business is promoting and profiting from abortions, the poster child for the culture of death on Monday pulled the plug on its participation in the Title 10 federal family planning program. Wrapping its withdrawal in the mantle of free speech, the group withdrew rather than submit to a Trump administration rule saying that groups in the program and receiving federal funds could not make abortion referrals.
The U.S. Army is investigating an official memo distributed to Texas recruiters that included a reference to a Nazi death camp’s infamous slogan.
The investigation is being conducted by Army Recruiting Command which suspended the memo’s author, a Houston-area recruiting company commander, according to reports.
"Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Will Set You Free) NO CHANGE," says the memo, which sets forth incentives for signing up new enlistees. "1 Contract=No Saturday work days for the remainder of the PL [phase line]." Jews and others who were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz during World War II saw the infamous words on an iron gate above the concentration camp’s main entrance.
In an interview published Saturday, US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said President Donald Trump’s continued verbal assault on her and several of her Democratic colleagues in the so-called Squad was due to him being “scared of us.”
Tlaib told the Guardian she was referring specifically to women of color.
“It’s been very clear to me, especially this last week, that he’s scared of us,” she said. “He’s afraid of women of color… because we’re not afraid of him and we’re not afraid to speak up and say that we have a white supremacist in the White House who has a hate agenda.”
Downtown Minneapolis is growing. And with that growth city officials say a new Fire Station 1 is needed. Developer Sherman and Associates have constructed a deal to build a new fire station.
Bob Friddle is with the City of Minneapolis. (snip) There will be private sleeping rooms and it'll be ADA accessible and gender-neutral facilities.
"Once that's built, they can knock down the old Fire Station 1 and replace that with affordable housing,"
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Every Easter bunny rabbits get placed into the spotlight. Now, one Minnesota teenager is giving attention to a bunch of bunnies all year long.
Fifteen-year-old Caleb Smith is using the animals to help others and give cottontails a beautiful summer home.
Smith started a nonprofit to train bunnies as comfort animals.
"It's a little bit different to see rabbits, but it kind of makes sense, they're just really calm social animals," Smith said.
Last summer, Smith leased an island on the Mississippi River..
A man wanted in a Manhattan ‘hate crime’ spree against white pedestrians has been taken into custody, police sources said. Todd Lyons, 33, was picked up late Friday night at his West 36th Street home by detectives with the Hate Crimes Task Force. The suspected hate crime spree began at 9:10 p.m. on Aug. 9, on Fifth Avenue near 14th Street, police said. The suspect ran up behind a 56-year-old man and shoved him to the ground, authorities said. The latest attacks include a woman getting hit in the back of the head with a brick and a man who was
Two terror fangirls from Queens who went gaga for al Qaeda and ISIS — including one who carried around Osama bin Laden’s photo — copped to bomb-building charges Friday that could land them in prison for up to 20 years. Noelle Velentzas, 31, and Asia Siddiqui, 35, could wind up in prison for 20 years after pleading guilty in Brooklyn federal court to attempting to build a weapon of mass destruction.
Back in April, some activists from a group called SAPP (Students Against Private Police), full of virtue and wanting to inflict it on mankind, occupied the main administration building at Johns Hopkins University. Located in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins has been trying to create a private, armed campus police force to deal with crimes on and around campus. Activists chained themselves to railings and fixtures. They chained the building’s doors. There could be no armed campus police, they insisted, given the awful death in 2013 of noble savage Tyrone West.
But six years is a long time in what Gore Vidal called the United States of Amnesia,
A local news report revealed that the state of New Jersey awarded $3.8 million in financial aid to illegal immigrants during the 2018-2019 school year. According to a report from NJ.com, the state of New Jersey gave $3.8 million in financial aid to 749 illegal immigrant students in the last academic year. More than a quarter of the funding went to 328 illegal immigrants that attend Rutgers University.New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a law last year that allowed illegal immigrants to apply for financial aid. Prior to the signing, illegal immigrants were permitted to apply to pay in-state tuition at public universities but
Gary Sinise, the actor famous for portraying Lieutenant Dan in the movie "Forrest Gump," is celebrating 25 years advocating for the non-profit organization Disabled American Veterans (DAV) this week.Sinise began advocating on behalf of veterans after receiving an award from DAV commending him for his performance as Lieutenant Dan, a wheelchair bound veteran who struggles with alcoholism and mental illness after coming home from Vietnam, according to a press release by the Gary Sinise Foundation.
There is no other way to say it: It was a political assassination. (snip) Last week, not so much an enemy but a man whose existence had become inconvenient, not exactly to the state but certainly to a cabal of powerful men, including a former president as well as the sitting one, joined bin Laden in the kingdom of the dead. The official narrative of billionaire accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's death shifted faster than a New York subway rider when a homeless guy plops down next to them on a hot day. First, they said Epstein had been on suicide watch, and then that he hadn't. Prisons are Source corrected.
We all knew this was going to happen. The majority of the House Democratic caucus now supports impeachment proceedings against President Trump because he won the 2016 election. This was the plan all along. Of course, the Democrats couldn’t admit this after they retook the House in 2018. They had to look like they were going to push a legislative agenda, not engage in a crusade against the Trump White House until the next election cycle. It’s the tantrum of all tantrums. And while this is annoying—the impeachment circus—it’s also highly entertaining;
1995—The citizen-suit provision of the Endangered Species Act authorizes “any person” to sue for violations of the ESA. Demonstrating why liberal judicial activists should be an endangered species, Ninth Circuit judge Stephen Reinhardt, joined by two other Jimmy Carter appointees (Harry Pregerson and William C. Canby, Jr.), rules in Bennett v. Plenert that the so-called “zone of interests test” that courts have developed (beyond Article III’s constitutional requirements) as a prudential limitation on standing overrides the broad language of the citizen-suit provision. Therefore, the court concludes, “plaintiffs who assert no interest in preserving endangered species”—in this case, ranch operators and irrigation districts who
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump travel overnight Friday from the U.S. to France to attend the G7 summit in Biarritz. The first couple will be touching down at 6:00am EST / 12pm Local. Biarritz, France is 6 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Timezone. The U.K, Canada, Italy, Japan, France, Germany and the United States make up the “Group of Seven” or G7 nations. However, two leaders from the EU also attend (EU Council President and EU Commission President) the summit.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper
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Vetoes Bill Requiring Local Authorities
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Governor Roy Cooper (D-N.C.) vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would require local law enforcement to work more closely with federal authorities to detain illegal aliens, according to Fox News. The move generated swift condemnation from the state’s Republicans, who control both houses of the legislature, with some vowing to hold a subsequent vote to override his veto. “Governor Cooper…prefers to pander to his far-left supporters,” said State Senator Chuck Edwards. “We will protect North Carolinians and plan to override his irresponsible veto.” Cooper defended his veto by claiming that the bill was “simply about scoring partisan points and using fear to divide North Carolina.”
A college professor in Iowa is under fire after admitting to being involved in the violent Antifa movement and for posting inflammatory comments on social media posts, including an apparent desire to “clock” President Trump with a bat.
Antifa has turned many college campuses into war zones, with every attempt to hold a right-of-center event descending into violent chaos.
Antifa activist Jeff Klinzman has been an adjunct English professor at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids since January 2010, according to KCRG. His violent social media posts have attracted some unwanted attention. On the Facebook page for “Iowa Antifa”, one can find a litany of far-left statements and conversations.
ong ago when I was young, the fundamental building blocks of education were “the three Rs”: reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Today, for the less-than-edifying Left, the basic brickbats of their 2020 campaign against President Trump also comprise three “Rs”: Russia, racism, and recession.
Tragically, among those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, the most important “R” is missing. That would be reality. Consequently, the cudgels of their “three Rs” campaign likely won’t prevent another four years of the presidency that has been the bane of their existence. If anything, that campaign is likely to boost his reelection chances next year.
LARGO — A jury found Michael Drejka guilty of manslaughter late Friday in the 2018 shooting death of Markeis McGlockton in a convenience store parking lot.
The conviction came after 6½ hours of deliberations by the jury of five men and one woman.
It was read aloud at 10:41 p.m. Drejka stared straight ahead, standing beside his lawyers. He could face up to 30 years in prison.
In the front row of the gallery, McGlockton’s girlfriend, Britany Jacobs threw up her hands and clapped. A woman broke into sobs. McGlockton’s father pressed his elbows into his knees as supporters squeezed his shoulder.
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” FNC host Chris Wallace stated that if Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has to leave the court, the fight over her replacement would make the Kavanaugh hearings “look like a tea party.”
Wallace said, [relevant remarks begin around 11:15] “[W]e all wish her a long, happy, healthy life. I will say this though, and again, there’s no reason not to think that she won’t be on the court the first Monday in October, but if she were forced to step down, this would make the Kavanaugh hearing, the Gorsuch hearing, Clarence Thomas
The Trump administration is planning to open a US consulate in Greenland for the first time in decades, amid increased strategic and economic interest in the Danish territory.The state department said in a letter to Congress that re-establishing a consulate in Nuuk is part of a broader plan to increase the US presence in the arctic. A copy of the letter was obtained by the Associated Press.
The US has a “strategic interest in enhancing political, economic, and commercial relationships across the Arctic region”, said the letter to the Senate foreign relations committee.
Eight chicken sandwich makers entered, four clucked away with a victory and spot in the second round of USA TODAY's Chicken Sandwich Bracket.
In honor of the fierce competition online between fast food chains over who boasts the best chicken sandwich, we created the bracket so readers could vote on Twitter for who should rule the roost.
In round one, the top seed Chick-fil-A easily took down Burger King in its matchup over best chicken sandwich, capturing 91% of the vote. Popeyes, whose latest chicken sandwich first ruffled all our feathers, has reason to cluck after taking 86% of the vote over McDonald's.
Third-seeded Wendy's captured nearly three-fourths of the vote in defeating
America has the upper hand in the ongoing trade negotiations with China, and the temporary reprieve that President Trump recently gave the Chinese regime is only further proof that our strong economy grants us a degree of flexibility that Beijing can’t hope to match.
There are a lot of misconceptions about the president’s announcement that he is postponing certain tariff increases on China.
It’s true that this temporary delay addresses the one area where short-term access to cheap consumer goods has the potential to noticeably impact U.S. consumers: Christmas gifts. Overall, consumer goods are not rapidly inflating in price, and the postponement will ensure that nothing of the sort takes
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Donald Trump’s left-field idea to buy Greenland has been mocked by everyone from cable pundits to Danish pols — but it’s also given an internal boost to a small network of advocates in and outside the administration who have struggled to get traction for their ideas for boosting America’s ties to the frozen island territory.
Yet just when they have the president’s ear, the odds of success for even their more limited agenda of closer partnership have suddenly plunged as Trump fulminates against the prime minister of Denmark and doubles down on a proposal that is as impractical as it
Social media platforms have come to define the modern digital world -- and the real world it’s meant to represent. We turn to these platforms for news, to interact with elected officials, to catch up with friends and to converse with the greater world beyond our own. Yet these platforms are not neutral forums. They actively intervene to remove speech with which they disagree. Increasingly, they also turn to a small number of fact-checking websites to arbitrate what constitutes “truth,” placing a small number of people in charge of, essentially, defining reality.
To vet the news stories shared by its more than 2 billion users, Facebook
As we close out the film industry’s biggest earning season, it looks like the summer was a mixed bag for Hollywood. If you’re Disney, you have everything to rave about; if you’re another studio, it wasn’t so easy.
Last weekend, Universal became only the second studio to earn a $1 billion this year, well behind The House of Mouse. Combined, Universal and Warner Brothers have released 20 titles this year, and still lag behind Disney’s seven releases by about $800 million.
The homogenized market only continued throughout the summer. For 16 weeks in a row the top film was based upon an existing property.
Billionaire David Koch was half of the 1980 Libertarian Party presidential ticket along with Ed Clark, the first to crack 1 percent of the vote. He was also half of the "Koch brothers" along with his sibling Charles, a dynamic duo in both business and politics, bankrolling conservative and libertarian causes. Dead at age 79 after a long battle with prostate cancer, David Koch was a singular force for liberty.
The Koch brothers are widely reviled as the poster children for the nefarious influence of money in politics. A pair of extremely wealthy industrialists — Forbes estimated that David was the 11th
Most likely voters in America think Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of the Democrat Party’s leading contenders for the White House, lied about her Native American heritage, according to a new poll from Rasmussen Reports.
But the rest of the survey says this: “Most also say it’s not a critical issue when it comes to how they will vote,” Rasmussen wrote.
That’s the problem with American voters — with America’s whole political system right now. Voters will claim ‘til the cows come home they want a more moral government, free of lies and deceits and deceptions.
But when it comes to putting some real teeth into that talk?
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As we know, President Trump often governs by tweet – he literally can’t help himself – but from time to time he also loves to have a secret plan. During the 2016 campaign, there was a secret ‘absolutely foolproof’ plan to defeat Isis. Much to his surprise, he ended up in the Oval Office and was pressed to say what was in this secret plan. He revealed that it was a plan to come up with a plan. He gave the US military 30 days to provide a ‘comprehensive strategy’ against the so-called Islamic State. This turned out to be to ‘bomb the s*it out of Isis…
Let’s take a deeper dive than I did yesterday into the evil of Project 1619. Let’s take a look at the work of two academics who figure prominently in it, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond and Cornell historian Edward Baptist. Are they pushing scholarship or race hustling?
(Snip)There is nothing fair or benign about any of this. To falsely stir up racial tensions in this country, the cause of so much pain, suffering and loss of life, is pure evil. Let’s drill down on just one example, the 1619 Project’s neo-Marxist assault on capitalism and the modern wealth of this nation.
Remember that time when former President Barack Obama was addressing Wall Street reform and said, “I do think, at some point, you’ve made enough money.”? Well, what better way to celebrate his own good fortune than buying a fabulous 29-acre estate on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, right? Unless, of course, people paying attention say, “Hey, wait a minute. What about your carbon footprint, Mr. Obama?” The Obamas rented the place for the summer and loved it so much they offered to buy it. The owner, Boston Celtics owner, Wyc Grousbeck, took them up on it. The Obamas are said to be paying less than the listed price.
Joe Biden's presidential campaign is accusing President Trump's campaign of poaching online donors. In a fundraising email sent to supporters Thursday, the Biden campaign pointed out that if someone types "donate Joe Biden" into a Google search, the first link to appear is one that directs them to donate to Donald J. Trump for President.
(Snip for graphic) "Trump's campaign is paying money to run ads online so that their donation link is the first thing you see when you search 'donate Joe Biden,'" the email read. "But, listen, here's the thing: We can't stop them because we're out of money to run online ads for the rest of the month."
HONG KONG — Hand-in-hand, protesters formed a 28-mile human chain across 39 train stations in Hong Kong on Friday.
The demonstrators sang songs as they held small signs that said, "Thank you for supporting freedom and democracy." The latest demonstration in the 11-week movement that stemmed from outrage over a proposed extradition bill was inspired by 1989 protests across Baltic states. On Aug. 23, 1989, the so-called Baltic Way involved 2 million Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians protesting Soviet domination of the region.
"I joined the Hong Kong Way because it’s peaceful," protester Peter Cheung, 27, told Reuters, referring to the campaign's name. "This is the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way.
President Donald Trump flies across the Atlantic Ocean on Friday night to the ritzy coastal city of Biarritz, France, for the G-7 summit, an annual gathering that could be likened to a dysfunctional family reunion. As world leaders from the Group of Seven countries, consisting of Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States descend on the peaceful resort town to discuss the global economy and other pressing issues, they, too, arrive with their own domestic political baggage.
Filmmaker Michael Moore sounded the alarm for his fellow liberals Friday after news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had completed three weeks of treatment for a malignant tumor this summer.
“First thought:” Moore tweeted. “She was seen at the Yiddish version of 'Fiddler on the Roof' in NYC last week. She’s gonna be fine.”
Then he wrote, “Second thought: HOLYMOTHEROFRBG!!EVERYBODY, RIGHT THIS SECOND, JOIN A MOVEMENT, CAMPAIGN, GRASS ROOTS GROUP -WHATEVER - AND WORK NONSTOP BTWN RIGHT NOW & NOV 2020!”
Has there been a president in living memory who relishes a fight more than Trump? I don’t think so. That is a major reason why he remains popular with conservatives and has seen his favorability ratings rise.
Sure, I like President Trump’s actions on job-killing regulations, tax relief, border security, energy independence, military funding, judicial appointments, and so on. But what really invigorates me and millions of other EverTrumpers is that he is fearless -- impervious to attacks by his adversaries and merciless in responding to them. Trump is an oddity: a Republican president who stands up to the Left’s defamations and brickbats and returns fire.
What could better illustrate the floundering chaos of the Democratic Party than a new national poll showing Joe Biden as the clear front-runner? The party's got nothing else besides this fumbling faux pas factory.
You know the base doesn't want Biden, yet he's leading the party's polls.
Sen. Kamala Harris decided to challenge Biden in the first round of Democratic presidential primary debates in June, and for a second it appeared to work, as her poll numbers surged, largely at Biden's expense. But the latest CNN survey shows Harris dropping by 12 points to just 5 percent support and Biden up seven points to 29 percent, comfortably ahead of the pack.
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden added to his recent pile of gaffes on Friday when he claimed that over 40 students were shot during a 1970 Vietnam War protest at Kent State.The former vice president was making a point about when he first became politically aware in the 1960s and 1970s, comparing the hypothetical assassination of former President Barack Obama to the very real murders of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr."My senior semester they were both shot and killed. Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been
A former police officer has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein's 'madam' Ghislaine Maxwell made several secret visits to Buckingham Palace to visit Prince Andrew. Paul Page, who served in the Royal Protection Command from 1998 until 2004, alleged that Maxwell and several other women made trips to the palace to meet with the Duke of York. He said that the female guests wouldn't sign the Palace's gate book and royal protection officers would even drive them home, or face an angry Andrew who'd become 'abusive' if challenged.(Snip) It comes as he faces further lurid allegations of having had more than 1,000 lovers,