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Karen Mallard is running against incumbent Republican Congressman Scott Taylor in Virginia's Second Congressional District. In the wake of the tragic school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she decided to destroy her husband's AR-15 rifle. In a video posted to Facebook, she said she wanted this rifle out of the house and her husband agreed. Our friends at Twitchy noted her blog post on the matter: You may have seen Emma Gonzalez's amazing speech where she called out Trump and other politicians for taking NRA money and refusing to take any action on reforming America's...

They may not have the gravitas of bald eagles or the mysterious allure of condors, but North America's ducks -- a classic harbinger every year of the changing seasons -- have done something remarkable. Scientists say the number of mallards, teals, canvasbacks and other ducks this year has reached the highest level ever recorded, with a total estimate of 48.6 million breeding ducks in Canada and the United States. The number is 7 percent higher than last year, according to a survey released this week from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and 43 percent higher than the historic average...

The Mallards are in the mood for romance, Spring is coming!

December in Florida.

These came a long way, they were hungry.

Over 1,000 mallard ducks die in Idaho By JESSE HARLAN ALDERMAN, Associated Press Writer Wed Dec 13, 7:37 PM ET BOISE, Idaho - More than 1,000 mallard ducks have died along a single creek in southern Idaho, and officials on Wednesday tested tissue samples to find out why. ADVERTISEMENT The symptoms — lesions in the lungs and hemorrhaging in the heart wall — likely point to a bacterial infection, not avian flu, said Dave Parrish, regional supervisor for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. State wildlife biologists and U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigators were not ruling out any...

Sudenly, there is an explosion of media about the dark side of liberalism, exposing their down-the-nose, arrogant elitism and worse. The American Conservative magazine today exposes the elitism of liberals: "Babbittry is the idea that the average Joe lives within the passionless routine of marriage, the tyranny of consumerism, and the regimentation of small-town civic life. Babbittry judges Joe to live in a benighted, blinkered spiritual state, a gay-bashing, beer-drinking redneck whose Taliban tendencies want to ban dancing, rock-and-roll, and R-rated movies. People who don’t live in New York, Hollywood, or divide their time between Virginia, Hyannis Port, or Nantucket...

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard1.asp

not eligible for parole for 30.

<p>FORT WORTH, Texas — The son of a homeless man who died after becoming lodged in a windshield when he was hit by a car testified Wednesday that his father was "very, very loving."</p> <p>"He was very hardworking and was very friendly, although he didn't have many friends," said Brandon Biggs, 20.</p>

Hearing halted in body dumping By Melody Mcdonald Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH - A bond reduction hearing for a man accused of helping dump the body of a pedestrian lodged in a windshield was abruptly adjourned Tuesday when a prosecution witness contradicted her grand jury testimony. Attorneys were less than an hour into the hearing for Clete Denel Jackson, who has been in the Tarrant County Jail since June with bail set at $105,555, when Magistrate Judge Gene Grant recessed the hearing. He ordered the witness, Raini Dae Ellingson, the defendant's girlfriend and the mother of one of his...