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This is, essentially, a Kindle graphic novel - a comic book if you will - of 14 poems of love and beautiful women by Henry Livingston (1748-1828), the author of "Night Before Christmas," illustrated with 174 antique postcards. FREE for the remainder of today, 15 Oct 2017.

Ex-Failed, POTUS, Kenyan, Barack Hussein Obama, is slated to campaign in Virginia this week for Democrat candidate for Governor, Northham, an extreme, left-wing, progressive, "Hate America", useless Democrat Obama follows his useless Failed, VP, Joe Biden, who campaigned yesterday in Virginia, playing to a non-audience boring rally of about 50 people. VP, Pence and Republican Governor candidate, Gillespie also held a rally attended by, about 500-1,000 people in Western Virginia. It will be most interesting to see if Obama still has "his" magic touch, attracting hundreds of thousands of adoring fans & followers. We shall see in a few days....

There’s plenty to do at the Jelly Belly factory, located at 1 Jelly Belly Lane in Fairfield, California. After donning a mandatory paper hat, you can take a tour, peering over a guardrail at the factory floor as machines crank out endless flats of colorful jelly beans. Afterwards, line up for your free sample of one of their dozens of flavors—you can even try the weird ones, like earwax and vomit. Peckish? Don’t miss the cafe, where you can enjoy a bean-shaped pizza or burger. But whatever you do at the factory, you’ll be watched over by the presence of...

Duke William of Normandy (AKA William the Bastard) defeated the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.

VP, Mike Pence will campaign for Republican, Governor candidate, Ed Gillespie today in Virginia, who actually has a great shot at winning this Virginia Governor seat, now held by The Charlottesville, Virginia, riot promoter, creator/murderer, Democrat, Clinton low life, Terry McAuliffe. Go Trump, Pence Bannon & Gillespie. Next Friday, Obama will show up to support some no name low life Democrat progressive left-wing, communist. It will be quite interesting to see the Obama gig in action, as to whether hundreds of thousands of Democrats turnout to worship and adore the most useless & failed America Hating, POTUS in USA history....

In “A Sliver of Light,” the three American hikers seized as hostages in Iran in 2009 reveal for the first time their harrowing ordeal of endurance behind bars in Tehran. Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were waved into Iran by a duplicitous border guard. The men were imprisoned for more than two years.

October 13, 2017 marks the passage of 100 years to the day since Our Lady of Fatima worked the great Miracle of the Sun to confirm the truth of Her apparitions and Message.

Asteroid 2012 TC4 doesn't have a very memorable name, but it might leave quite an impression years from now. The house-sized asteroid that just passed by Earth, almost as close as many satellites in orbit, will be back -- and a future visit might lead to it taking up permanent residency here. On Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, Asteroid 2012 TC4 safely passed by our planet at an altitude of 27,300 miles (44,000 kilometers), just a few thousand miles above the level of satellites in geosychronous orbit. That's nearly twice as close as when it passed us almost exactly five years ago,...

width =55%> =================================================================================== con·tu·ma·cious ˌkänt(y)o͝oˈmāSHəs/ adjective Law archaic adjective: contumacious (especially of a defendant's behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority. Origin: late 16th century: from Latin contumax, contumac- (perhaps from con- ‘with’ + tumere ‘to swell’) + -ious adjective 1. unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child. 2. fixed or set in purpose or opinion; resolute: a stubborn opponent of foreign aid. 3. obstinately maintained, as a course of action: a stubborn resistance. 4. difficult to manage or suppress: a stubborn horse; a stubborn pain. 5. hard, tough, or stiff, as stone or wood; difficult to shape or...

Click here to drag and click and look around the cockpit. n the morning of October 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager made humankind’s first supersonic flight in the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 aircraft he nicknamed Glamorous Glennis, after his wife. That aircraft now hangs in the Boeing Milestones of Flight hall in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. This 360-degree VR view is part of a series of aircraft cockpits photographed for the Museum by Dennis Biela of LightSpeed Media. Click and drag anywhere inside the frame to “look around” inside the cockpit....

... I contacted the FBI this week to ask about the Minnesota mosque incident. It is unsolved after more than a month, and a $30,000 reward for information remains unclaimed. An agent based in Minneapolis acknowledged to me that “it’s always a possibility” that the crime may be a hoax. ...

“Moreover, the history of those who carried on the Marxist tradition on women’s oppression during the mid-twentieth century has frequently been rendered invisible—yet these activists and theorists provided an indispensible thread that continued between the victory of women’s suffrage in the 1920s (often referred to as US feminism’s “first wave” and the rise of the 1960s movements for women’s liberation (known as its “second wave”.

After years of debate, a U.S. government board has voted to rename Utah’s Negro Bill Canyon, overruling a recommendation by Utah officials to keep the name. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names decided Thursday to rename it Grandstaff Canyon to get rid of an offensive name, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. The vote was 12-0, with one member declining to vote. The decision comes 16 years after the board voted to keep the name. The new name honors black rancher and prospector William Grandstaff, whose cattle grazed there in the 1870s. “His name was Grandstaff; it was not Negro Bill,”...

Arizona State University researchers have analyzed minerals around the supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park and have come to a startling conclusion. It could blow much faster than previously expected, potentially wiping out life as we know it.

Dinesh outlines his new book, The Big Lie. This is beyond excellent and worth the time to watch and share. It's about 30 minutes.

The rebels are falling apart. Russia, Iran, Turkey and the Assads have used their “de-escalation” zones into slaughterhouses by resuming attacks on pro-rebel civilians and any rebels they can catch. ISIL is rapidly losing it personnel and territory because of constant attacks by just about everyone (Turks, Kurds, Assad and his Iranian and Russian allies as well as the Americans and sundry other minor players). As ISIL is being put down everyone is thinking about the next phase of the civil war. The winners want to get rewarded for their service. The Syrian Kurds want autonomy in the northeast (mainly...

As Americans, we see tragedy and attacks and ask the question, how do we prevent it from ever happening again? We seek solutions. We want to feel like we are doing something about it. It is a natural response by an industrious people. Asking questions after a tragedy and starting conversations about solutions can be productive, but allowing ourselves to be swept away by fear can have lasting negative consequences and very likely will yield few benefits. Historically in America, nearly every loss of liberty we once possessed was exchanged for a perceived gain in “safety.”  Said exchange is almost...

The Hillary Clinton tome, "What Happened?" is falling out of favor dropping to #11 on the Amazon BestSeller list this morning. Sad...her book is a flop, as expected. I hope Amazon keeps pushing it more and more with "unending" glowing reviews. Her personal performance at her "book signings & interviews is pathetic at best, sickening at worst. However, the "Clintonite" morons in the Democrat Party keep following and worship her with adoring reception and acceptance. I say keep at it...ladies. Every time she opens her pie hole she sinks the Democrat Party deeper into political oblivion. This, my friends, is...

On this date, in AD732, Charles Martel led the Franks against Muslim invaders near the city of Tours and turned back the tide of Islamic advance at the Battle of Tours (sometimes called the Battle of Poitiers).

Officials at a San Antonio school district have voted to rename a high school because of its ties to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, though one trustee says it doesn’t change much. North East Independent School District trustees voted Monday that Lee High School will be renamed Legacy of Educational Excellence High School. The acronym is LEE High School. Board President Shannon Grona says the name is a compromise that retains the school’s history and lessens the expensive process of renaming and rebranding the school with a completely different name. …