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When it comes to who is the better shooter and why, men or women, the iconic Irving Berlin duet from Annie Get Your Gun immediately springs to mind. “Anything you can do I can do better! I can do anything better than you” is sung while Annie Oakley and Frank Butler prepare for the climactic sharpshooting contest in the classic Broadway musical. For an object as functionally gender-neutral as a gun, why is it that each of the sexes assumes they are better adept at mastering it? Any quality instructor will tell you the real weapon is not the gun....

Stacey Abrams has weighed in on the "defund the police" movement with a remark seemingly crafted to score brownie points for Joe Biden's running mate pick.The Democrat was asked on CNN about her thoughts on defunding the police.

Leftist publication The Nation doesn’t shy away from advocating for a violent idea that sounds like it would come straight from the revolutionary insanity of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.

Some, me included, regard the current BLM/Antifa protesting as nearly 100% mindless. It was only a matter of time before the animals would come for the founding fathers. Confirmed: Thomas Jefferson statue at Jefferson High School in Portland torn down. You can see the words “Slave Owner” painted where it once stood. #statue #LiveOnK2 #portlandprotest pic.twitter.com/bt5zdBgkQO— Genevieve Reaume (@GenevieveReaume) June 15, 2020 And something like this was expected. Gandhi has to goActivists in Britain are demanding the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the city of Leicester. A petition to remove the Indian independence leader, which calls him...

Conservatives should stop helping ultraconservative Democrats lie by agreeing with the Democrats' false claim that Democrats are liberals instead of ultraconservatives. Conservatives should also stop calling outdated Democratic ideas "progressive". Conservatives, like many Americans, falsely believe there are only two political "attitudes" in the United States. One attitude is called "liberal". The other is called "conservative". There is a third attitude called "ultraconservative" which has at times adversely affected American society. Real liberals are open-minded and sometimes overly optimistic about the positive impact of change. Democrats are closed-minded True Believers who tend to believe they are Right about everything and...

The Founding Fathers wisely added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to explicitly prohibit Government from doing things it isn't authorized to do. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the most important provisions: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The Constitution doesn't authorize using a pandemic to prohibit the free exercise of religion or to...

There is no evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a master at the board game called "chess", but he is a grand master at a real life version of the game. In 2016. he began an operation to discredit the American system of elections. He took advantage of the basic stupidity of many American politicians and journalists to create the delusion that he had colluded with Donald Trump to affect the presidential election. Putin was a Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB, the highly effective Soviet Secret Police. If the Russians had been trying to elect Trump, any Russian contact...

Rev.Franklin Graham and more than 300 other religious leaders want "assurance they won't be sued if a congregant contracts the coronavirus" during a religious service . Christians should eliminate any reason for the courts to become involved by establishing an insurance program to assist church goers who believe they have contracted the coronavirus during a religious service Jesus would have healed anyone who caught a virus while He was preaching. Although preachers cannot heal the way Jesus did, they can raise money charge pay doctors who can heal. . During the current pandemic, religious organizations could combine their resources to...

Lockdown without compensation violates the spirit if not the letter of the Fifth Amendment provision: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." The lockdown may not involve government permanently taking possession of property as is usually the case, but the action deprives the owner of the right to use the property to generate income which in effect is the. same situation. States have been compensating owners of property commandeered for use to treat COVID-19 patients. States should be compensating owners of lockdown property. Firefighters may construct a firebreak to stop a major wildfire. They will...

The following is a repost of a discussion about what the Russian hackers were really doing in 2016. Robert Mueller and his staff may be covering up the biggest act of espionage in the United States since the acquisition of atomic secrets by the Russians at the start of the Cold War. Mueller is supposed to be investigating what the Russian hackers called "Fancy Bear" did during the 2016 election. However, he continues to ignore an Associated Press expose indicating Fancy Bear focused on non-partisan email users including defense industry employees and those in the intelligence community. According to the...

[Is the Bill of Rights a Bad Joke? pt. 2] . Attorney General William Barr should send a letter to the Supreme Court stating that the 2016 election investigation violated the Constitution because it was based in part on an unverified dossier provided by a British MI6 agent who conceded that it might only be 70% to 90% accurate. Most people don't understand that the Bill of Rights provisions regulating law enforcement weren't added to the Constitution to protect killers and thieves. The provisions were added to the Constitution to prevent corrupt law enforcement agencies from misusing the criminal justice...

The George Floyd rioters may identify with Floyd because they feel that state or local government is kneeling on their necks. The claim that Floyd died of strangulation ignores the fact he was able to say "I can't breathe!" The fact Floyd could speak means he could exhale air through his throat. Thus the statement "I can't breathe!" probably indicates he could not expand his lungs so he could draw in air. He would have had trouble expanding his lungs lying face down with a man on his back. If the men involved in Floyd's death are typical of those...

Media are perpetuating racism by falsely claiming color divides us into different races. Jesse Washington has reported that many dark skinned Americans recognize that they are not "African" Americans in spite of what some racists say. The term "African-American" perpetuates the principle tenet of Southern racism: "part black, all black" under the "one drop rule". Those who use the term are in effect segregating Americans with dark complexions from the rest of the population they may be related to. Those who use the term believe that those with dark complexions should only be able to claim their African ancestors and...

Members of Black Lives Matter [ BLM] and others who talk about defunding the police seem to have forgotten that in February two white men chased and killed a black man in Georgia. Similar vigilantes would probably volunteer to maintain their version of "law and order" in policeless cities. When a football team is making mistakes, they don't disband the football team. They fire the coach. If leaders in Minneapolis or other cities can't figure out how to run a police department they should resign so voters can elect leaders who can figure out how to run a police department....

A dissident Chinese economist filed a White House petition, nearly a third of the way to the 100,000 signatures required to merit the President’s attention, to investigate Twitter for appointing to its board of directors a controversial Artificial Intelligence expert, lifelong deepstater, already fired from Google in disgrace, for her ties to the Chinese military. Highlights: Mad scientist "Cat Mengele", NWO technocracy, corporate subversion, Twitter hijinks, China's co-option of Google, China has run out of money, Soros co-option of this brain from the get-go.

In a country where corporate liberal pandering to violent mobs is the new trend in business, one CEO decided to stand on principle and go against the tide.

Democrat Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones announced he would be introducing a new bill that would make it a “hate crime” to assault someone based on their actual or perceived political party, and that includes Trump supporters.Rep. Jones tweeted that he's seen “countless” examples of attacks on the president's supporters.

Floating armadas assembled across the country in a massive show of support for President Trump on his 74th birthday. From California, to Michigan, on down to Florida, miles of boats of all sizes — from paddle boards to super yachts — moved in formation through lakes and intercostal waterways, as thousands of supporters lined the shores.