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More than a few people have connected Donald Trump's decision to tear apart families seeking asylum at our southern border to the history of American slave-owners separating parents and children for whatever reason they saw fit. It's not the most perfect analogy -- at least not in this state. Because slave-holding Louisiana, believe it or not, had a law against separating enslaved mothers and their young children. "And be it further enacted," Section 9 of Louisiana's 1806 Code Noir (Black Code) reads, "That every person is expressly prohibited from selling separately from their mothers, the children who shall not have...

Kim Jong-un due to arrive in Singapore on Sunday afternoon as city state ramps up security Official programme may include meeting with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, sources say, ahead of landmark summit with Donald Trump North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is due to arrive in Singapore around late afternoon on Sunday and will have his own official programme on Monday that could include a meeting with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, sources told the South China Morning Post. If confirmed, this would mean that both Kim and US President Donald Trump would be in Singapore for their historic summit...

Now that colleges and universities across the nation are disgorging their graduating classes for the year, you might wonder what kind of employment opportunities are available to those students who majored in subjects such as Diversity Studies, Feminist Studies, Victimology and other esoteric knowledge. Well, I think I’ve found the answer: They get hired by the University of Michigan. Yes, U of M, that bastion of free speech and free expression, now has 93 – let me spell that out, ninety-three – diversity staff on their employment roll. I suspect U of M is not alone in the size of...

The Passing of Things as Seen on Television Msgr. Charles Pope • June 8, 2018 • Below is a link to a commercial that must have taken weeks to film. Regardless of its intent (selling home insurance), there is something of an admonition in both the visuals and the music, that life and the things of life slip away.While the music sets forth the theme, “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow; don’t stop, it’ll soon be here,” the objects in the house start to get up and leave the house and its owners. The owners themselves begin to be swept...

President Trump seems to be convincing some of his harshest critics, even a former “Never Trumper” like Mitt Romney In the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney had victory in his sights after a strong first debate performance against the incumbent, Barack Obama. Instead of continuing to campaign on the offensive, Romney decided to play defense, tamp down his criticism of Obama and finish the race on a positive note. This lamebrain strategy failed miserably as Romney lost the final two debates, in which he refused to vigorously condemn Obama and his horrible policies. Not surprisingly, Obama won the...

“Ocean’s 8” is on its way to a solid opening weekend of about $41 million from 4,145 North American locations. Warner Bros.’ women-led heist film, the fourth in the rebooted Ocean’s series, earned $15.8 million Friday, including $4 million from Thursday night previews. Earlier forecasts had placed the film in the $30 million to $44 million range. Sandra Bullock stars as Danny Ocean’s sister Debbie, along with Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson, and Anne Hathaway. Ocean unites the women to pull off a diamond heist at the Met Gala. Gary Ross directs from a...

KEY EVIDENCE GOES MISSING: Server Belonging to Wasserman Schultz IT Worker Imran Awan Is Physically Stolen from Congress. and, Inspector General Michael Horowitz informed lawmakers weeks ago on Capitol Hill his much-anticipated 400 page report on the FBI’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s email investigation entered the final stages. Lawyers for the subjects included in the report were given a draft copy to prepare rebuttals for their clients which is what partially led to delays in releasing the report to the public. DiGenova says the other reason for the delay is that Rod Rosenstein is scrubbing and redacting in order to...

PHOENIX — As primaries roll by and the midterms approach, it’s worth remembering that for Republicans 2016 represented an opportunity more than a victory. It was a chance for them to help the country break the 30-year-spell the Clintons and the Bushes cast, President Barack Obama notwithstanding. It was also a chance for rank-and-file Republicans to replace an insulated, often feckless, party leadership that had elevated its own interests over everyone else’s. With their fixation on the person of President Trump, most Democrats don’t understand that for Republicans, taking the party back is part of a larger intellectual and political...

Alice Marie Johnson's life changed on Wednesday -- and she has US President Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian West to thank. And thank them she did as soon as she left an Alabama prison after 21 years behind bars. "I feel like my life is starting over again," an emotional Johnson told reporters outside the prison in Aliceville. Trump commuted the first-time nonviolent drug offender's life sentence on Wednesday, one week after Kardashian pleaded her case in an Oval Office meeting with the President. "I am going to make you proud that you gave me this second chance in life....

Mike Elk. He is the comedy gift that keeps on giving even after all these years. The former lethargic Politico labor reporter (whom they probably wish they never heard of) first came to our attention back in 2015 when the then 28 year old Elk was complaining about an incredible work load he had to endure: “I can’t work the kind of hours I did when I was 24.”

Retired Air Force Sgt. Charise Harper knew in high school that she wanted a career in the military. She sought the structure and career training that she knew the military would provide, and she thrived for 14 years until taking medical retirement. As easy as it was for Harper to make the decision to live the military life, the decisions involved with civilian life were more difficult. "I always wanted to live in New Orleans, and it was the place I chose when I was able to choose where I would live for the first time in my adult life,"...

Judicial Watch Uncovers Hidden Strzok Emails in Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Documents Court Hearing Ordered for Our Suit Seeking DOJ Fusion GPS Records China Syndrome: Rise & Fall of a Clinton Conspirator Judicial Watch Uncovers Hidden Strzok Emails in Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Documents This is just too rich. We now have emails from notorious anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton FBI officials who seem to confirm that James Comey and Loretta Lynch decided to let Hillary Clinton ride on her email abuses before she was even interviewed by the FBI. The disclosure is found in 16 pages of FBI documents related to the infamous June...

More than two centuries ago, on June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of our new Republic. Through the many triumphs and trials of our Nation, our flag has reflected our heritage of liberty and embodied the American virtues of bravery, justice, and loyalty. Each year, we celebrate Flag Day and National Flag Week to honor our timeless national emblem. Our flag symbolizes our solemn pride and eternal gratitude to our service members, who willingly raise their hand in front of our Nation’s colors and take an oath to support...

As artificial intelligence is rapidly gaining ground, MIT researchers have created what they call "the world's first psychopath AI," giving it darker views on things by feeding it gruesome content from Reddit. Aptly named "Norman," like the character from Alfred Hitchcock's famous Psycho, the psychopath AI went on a diet of gruesome and violent content from a Reddit page known for its dark posts. As a result, Norman got a whole different view of everything compared to a regular AI that learned from other sources. The researchers note that Norman is a case study aiming to see how AI could...

A narrator in the ad says: "John James is no conservative" and "James is a phony conservative". ... LANSING, Mich. (WZZM) - Recent polling done by a consultant favoring Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sandy Pensler still shows more than a third of all Republican primary voters are undecided who they want to go on to face Democrat Sen. Debbie Stabenow in the November election. Pensler, a businessman from Grosse Pointe, and John James, a former Army captain and West Point graduate who lives in Farmington Hills are the only two candidates on the August 7, 2018 ballot. ... In recent...

Eight months after his communist social media postings and conduct caused a conservative media firestorm, 2nd Lieutenant Spenser Rapone (better known as "the commie cadet") is reportedly being processed out of the Army with the most severe type of military administrative discharge -- an "other than honorable discharge." Rapone, you may recall, is the avowed Marxist and Antifa supporter who posted pictures of himself on social media promoting pro-communist messages and expressing an intention to infiltrate the U.S. military.

A Honduran immigrant reportedly took his own life while in custody after his wife and child were separated from him at the U.S.-Mexico border. Marco Antonio Muñoz, 29, killed himself in the cell of a Texas jail last month, according to the Starr County sheriff’s department incident report obtained by The Washington Post. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not publicly disclose the death, according to The Post. The Hill has reached out to DHS for comment. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Starr County authorities did not respond to The Washington Post’s requests for comment. Muñoz’s death occurred...

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Process uses copper, iron, and ceramic pastes Since 2012, Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany has actively researched additive manufacturing for electric motors. By layering and then sintering the materials, researchers have successfully manufactured all required motor components in a lab through a proprietary 3D-printing process that utilizes copper, iron, and ceramic pastes. Stators of the first 3D-printed electric machine. Photo: TU Chemnitz/Jacob Müller. These include “copper electrical conductors, which create magnetic fields in combination with iron or iron alloys, and ceramic electrical insulation, which insulates the conductors from each other and from the iron components,” said the researchers. Doctor...

Such a great press briefing, such a smart leader. Real free trade that is what he wants. And yes world peace. audio gets louder about 10 minutes in.