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From Our Own Correspondent. BALTIMORE, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1860. The political condition of Maryland is now invested with more than ordinary interest. A few candid unbiased remarks, therefore, regarding the matter, may not prove unwelcome. Until recently, all parties and factions, as if by common consent, conceded the electoral vote of Maryland to BELL and EVERETT. A change, however, has taken place in public sentiment, or rather among politicians, and now, to say the least of it, doubts are expressed. The old American Party, since its defeat in Baltimore by the Reformers, has ceased to exist under that name and...

This is an appropriate reminder considering the state of the Union. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas Jefferson “When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise the original rights of self defense – to fight the government.” – Alexander Hamilton “The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.”...

The Supreme Court has cleared a path for the Trump administration to exclude undocumented immigrants from representation, potentially altering the balance of power in Congress for the next 10 years. The court Tuesday cut short the census count by two weeks, which census experts and civil rights advocates say risks producing a less accurate count. Then on Friday, the court said it would review President Trump’s efforts to omit unauthorized immigrants when apportioning congressional seats. That decision overturned a lower court’s order that had blocked the Commerce Department and Census Bureau from including information about the undocumented when they deliver...

Nancy Pelosi has and presently is using her power as the Speaker of the House to protect her son and herself. Specifically, she orchestrated the impeachment and coup of President Donald J. Trump to distract from her family's involvement in Burisma. To this day, she will not allow House investigations into the matter, because the Pelosi Crime Family is knee deep in the worst political scandal and crimes in American history.Here's the Original FR Post by Hojczyk on October 4, 2019 Full Title Nancy Pelosi’s Son Also Board Member of Energy Company, Traveled to Ukraine and Nancy Featured Prominently in...

The USS Stout and its crew lived up to its name after spending a record-breaking 215 consecutive days at sea after the coronavirus pandemic made it unsafe to pull into ports around the world. The destroyer left Virginia's Naval Station Norfolk in mid-January and finally ended its grueling nine-month deployment when it returned home on October 11, the US Navy said. Along the way, the USS Stout traveled more than 60,000 nautical miles, completing multiple strait and choke point transits as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean while operating in the US 2nd, 5th and 6th fleets carrying out various missions...

**SNIP** Given my experience, I find Cunningham’s conduct offensive in four dimensions. One is legal - he violated Article 133 of the UCMJ by sending sexual text messages to a woman who is not his wife. If he had sex with the woman, he possibly violated Article 134’s prohibition against adultery. Two, his misconduct set a poor example for juniors. Officers are held to a higher standard than enlisted members and are expected to lead enlisted and officer subordinates by example. Officership is so important the UCMJ has one article, Article 133, that applies only to officers: conduct unbecoming an...

Her starring roles include classics such as the 1948 musical fantasy, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," alongside Bing Crosby, and the 1957 Western, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."Rhonda Fleming, star of the 1940s and '50s who was dubbed the "Queen of Technicolor" and appeared in "Out of the Past" and "Spellbound," died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., according to her secretary Carla Sapon. She was 97. Fleming appeared in more than 40 films and worked with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock on "Spellbound," Jacques Tourneur on "Out of the Past" and Robert Siodmak on "The Spiral Staircase." Later...

POTUS, Donald J. Trump will host a "massive" Protest Political Rally on Sunday, 10/18/2020 at the Carson City Airport, Carson City, Nevada, commencing at 4:00PM (PDT) Be there with tens of thousands of loyal Trump supporters to honor, support & cheer on our great USA, POTUS, Donald J. Trump!!! For more Information & free ticket requests, contact: www.donaldjtrump.com Go, Trump, Go, Pence, Go GOP!!!

I'm looking for recommendations for magazine publications "Year in Review" type for 2014, 2016, 2018 (years of my Grandsons' births). Grandma was a bit "not thinking"!

Actor John Leguizamo ripped Latinos who support President Trump on Friday, saying that “Latin people for Republicans are like roaches for Raid.” “I just feel like there’s a level of self-hate, or just lack of care for the rest of your Latin brothers and sisters who are in cages, who are being demonized by this president,” Leguizamo, 56, said in an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Maher had asked the Colombia-born, New York-raised entertainer about news reporting that Trump has made some inroads with young Latino men. Leguizamo, who showed up on the show via live stream wearing...

World War II hero Jim Feezel from Alabama, who drove a tank through the front gate of Dachau in Nazi Germany to liberate prisoners at the infamous concentration camp, has died. James Martin Feezel died on Thursday, Oct. 15, according to Roselawn Funeral Home in Decatur. He was 95. In a video interview project by Gary Cosby Jr. with The Decatur Daily in 2015, on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Feezel recalled the moment his commanding officer told him to break through the gate at Dachau on April 29, 1945. “We were facing the front gate at Dachau...

This is the story of Sgt. Timothy Gramins Hear him tell his story:

Lets take Florida to start with.There are likely hundreds of major apartment,condo,retail centers,resorts that may have started going up in 2018/2019. Maybe 1/2 way there. And the same for the at least the booming states. Odds are that right now, we may have a few thousand construction projects that are either 30/40/50% built. And we see them. Now can you imagine what will happen if Biden wins? Right! half ass built condo buildings,shells of retail centers.Major resorts that had to stop construction because either banks or investors stopped funding the projects.Take a look at what is going on in Port...

John Reed wrote the most famous account of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution before he died young and disillusioned in Moscow 100 years ago.

A letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer, dated at Grand Cape Mount Roads, Liberia, gives some interesting particulars of the voyage of the ship Castilian, which carried back to Africa 400 of the negroes who had been taken to key West from captured slavers. The writer says: "From the differences in words given to express the same thing, we have learned that there are portions of three tribes in our lot. These variations are not so marked as to prevent intercommunication. These Africans are smaller in frame, loss muscular, and have more delicate hands and feel than the black race in...

I wonder what the NYT is going to print tomorrow, 18 October 2020....4 years to the day? Any guesses for tomorrow's polls, folks? POLLS! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....!! New York Times Poll - 18 Oct 2016 BTW, Trump took all four of the states the NYT article mentions! --------------------------------- TRUMP/Pence - 2020 ---------------------------------

The Question of the Day: Will Ex-POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama actively undertake non-stop campaigning in support of, Democrat Party, POTUS, Candidate, Joe Biden? I believe Ex-POTUS, Obama will not actively campaign for Democrat, POTUS, Candidate, Joe Biden, simply because the corrupt and criminal charges made against Joe Biden and his 100% corrupt son, Hunter Biden will kill what little positive Obama legacy that Obama has left. Your thoughts, please?

A peculiar, 220-million-year-old species of burrowing reptiles that evaded scientists has been found, fossilized. A team of National Park Service interns are credited with its discovery. Hidden in a once-vibrant part of Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park, the burgeoning paleontologists unearthed fossils of the Skybalonyx skapter, an "anteater-like reptile" that probably predates dinosaurs, according to findings published this month in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. It's a new species of a reptile previously thought to only live in trees. The unusual Skybalonyx skapter belongs to the group Drepanosaur, often considered the ugly duckling of reptiles (perhaps partly because they bore...

What is the point of the Second Amendment if, according to the SCOTUS, citizens have no inherent, personal or private right to bear arms outside of service in a state-approved militia? Aren’t militia only needed when the state doesn’t approve them? From The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment: Understanding the Court's Landmark Decisions on Ammo.com: The next major Supreme Court case about the Second Amendment came a decade after United States v. Cruikshank, and supported its conclusion that states had the power to restrict the right to keep and bear arms. It started in Illinois, where Herman Presser gathered...

The lead writer of The New York Times’ anti-American “1619 Project” suffered a meltdown last week when a colleague at her paper offered fair criticism of its revisionist and inaccurate account of history.On Oct. 9, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens published a more than 3,000-word essay outlining the project’s blunders that have led the academics with the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to revoke its award to the project’s chief essayist, Nikole Hannah-Jones.“Journalists are, most often, in the business of writing the first rough draft of history, not trying to have...