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What is it about worn-out socialist "worker paradises" like the old Soviet Union and Cuba that bring out the romantic in American radical politicians? After Vermont senator Bernie Sanders announced his run for president, Britain’s Guardian newspaper pawed through old archives in his home town of Burlington, Vermont where he served as mayor in the 1980s. They discovered that Sanders really did practice the socialist solidarity he preached about rhetorically. During Bernie's mayoral tenure, Burlington formed an alliance with the Soviet city of Yaroslavl, 160 miles northeast of Moscow. When in 1988 he married his wife, Jane, the mayor decided...

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Cars are legal in all fifty states. A driver's license from one state is honored in all 50 states. If I let someone drive my car, I am not committing a crime in any state. It is legal for anyone of any age to own a car. I can operate my car however I want on my own property with no licensing. You take one course (usually as a teenager), and you can drive on public roads the rest of your life (If you keep your nose clean). If I'm licensed to drive a car in one state, I won't...

Donald J Trump= Donald John Trump

You know how we hear that Detroit isn’t so bad if you just get to know the city a bit? Also that our assessment of it being one giant crap hole where you might get raped, sliced and diced, shot to bits, or at least mugged (on a good day) is a total exaggeration? Well we decided to put our lives on the line by driving through Detroit, not just downtown, but real Detroit, to show just how awful a place it is. A place that has had entirely far left, Democratic mayors since 1961. Leftism crystalized. VIDEO AT LINK...

1778 By the United States in Congress assembled. A PROCLAMATION. It having pleased Almighty God, through the course of the present year, to bestow great and manifold mercies on the people of these United States; and it being the indispensable duty of all men gratefully to acknowledge their obligations to Him for benefits received: Resolved, That it be, and hereby is recommended to the legislative or executive authority of each of the said states, to appoint Wednesday, the 30th day of December next, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving and praise, that all the people may, with...

Having overwhelmingly lost the public debate about whether the Obama administration’s Syrian refugee screening policy should be enhanced, Democrats have retreated to more comfortable rhetorical ground: demanding more gun control. Their new secret weapon? A bill that would ban anyone whose name appears on a terror watch list from buying or possessing a firearm. The idea sounds reasonable enough until you dig into the details and realize that the proposed Democratic legislation is a shocking assault on the constitutional right to due process. What makes the proposal even worse is that the Democrats’ assault on due process isn’t necessary to...

Food hunger in America: More Hype than Reality. Why?He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. (Proverbs 12:17)We see often such claims in the media such as that "millions in people here in American could be staring at an empty plate," "49 million people [approx. 1 out of 6 in American]...face hunger," "millions of Americans go to bed hungry," "1 in 7 people struggles with hunger in the US," (Feeding America) or "1 in 6 people in America faces hunger every day," (https://www.dosomething.org) or "50 million Americans—including 1 out of every 4 children—do not know where...

There is SOME good news for gun owners. Conservative Kansas Governor Sam Brownback just signed new legislation bolstering the right to bear arms. When asked why he passed such a broad bill, Brownback offered great rationale: "Kansans soon can carry concealed weapons without permits or training under a bill signed by Gov. Sam Brownback on Thursday. The new law, which kicks in July 1, makes Kansas the sixth state to allow “constitutional carry.” It will allow Kansans 21 and older to carry concealed firearms regardless of whether they have obtained a permit. Training still will be required for anyone who...

I have read articles and posts, as well as listened to preppers discuss the use of Calcium Hypochlorite (Cal-Hypo) as a water sanitizer in The-End-Of-The-World-As-We-Know-It (TEOTWAWKI) situations. I owned a swimming pool business for over 20 years, and during that time I used Cal-Hypo, Sodium Dichloro-S-Trianzinetrione (Dichlor), and Sodium Trichloro-S-Trianzinetrione (Trichlor) extensively in both commercial and residential swimming pools. I also installed and maintained many salt-chlorine generator systems. Every time I read about someone planning to use Cal-Hypo for long-term storage to provide water sanitation in TEOTWAWKI, I cringe. Cal-Hypo has many serious shortcomings. The disadvantages are: Cal-Hypo degrades and...

The chickens of intolerance and communist social justice have come home to roost on the American campus. Decades of Marxist indoctrination by the vaunted communist academia are finally paying off—our cultural heritage is replaced by cultural Marxism and primitive cultures that are deemed superior to ours and worshipped. Academia has been blotting out the past and revising history for a while but with increased vengeance since Jimmy Carter founded the U.S. Department of Education on October 17, 1979. Our children’s education has depreciated considerably as evidenced by test scores and the quality of mis-educated youth in our country who can...

It's bad enough we are 19 Trillion in debt with a more realistic 30-40 per-cent unemployment crisis. So if we take in a few thousand refugees with no work skills, what are they going to do? Just live in a 600 sq ft government owned apartment? Why not give them jobs, like "Gas Station Convenience Store Clerk" or Exxon/Mobil Gas Transporter. Or how about working at your local "Nuclear Power Plant"? Let's hear some of your suggestions.

Gun control is a powder keg of an issue anyway, but selecting an individual as spokesman that reasonable people agree should never be allowed to own a gun, only makes the effort more prone to misfire. And that’s exactly what happened in Virginia. Democrats are convinced the next election is always going to be the one where “gun control” pays off. Except it doesn’t: Election after election after election this favorite issue is a dud at the ballot box. Bitter clingers always manage to out-vote eager grabbers. The problem is particularly acute in off–year, nonpresidential elections. Making gun control’s appearance...

Participants stand in a straight line in the middle of an empty room. Tell participants that some statements might be of a sensitive nature for some individuals, and that they do not have to respond to any statement that is uncomfortable. Read the statements below. If your ancestors came to the United States by force, take one step back. If there were more than 50 books in your house growing up, take one step forward. If you ever felt unsafe because of your sexual orientation, take one step back. If you believe that you were denied employment because of your...

We can't slam the door on illegal Syrian Men? Now who's slammed the door on Average, Middle Class Americans since 2009?, Another Obama/Pelosi Hypocrisy? Ever since Obama took office, we have been told to shut up, get out and had the door slammed on us when we needed help! "Obama-Care"? A perfect example of the middle class having the door slammed shut on then. You could make quite a list of things liberals have done to the middle class that would be in the category of having a door slammed in their faces.

This week, on Louder With Crowder, we welcome Senator Ted Cruz in an exclusive, full-length, unedited interview. Some transcript highlights below, but the video is worth a watch. This is Ted Cruz unbuttoned, uncensored, and like you’ve never seen him VIDEO AT LINK On his direct challenge to Obama’s attacks on him regarding Syrian refugees. "Yesterday he attacked me, said I was ‘un-American’, today he attacked me and said I was ‘offensive’. All because I’m saying what millions of Americans are saying across this country” "I think it is lunacy when this administration can’t vet them, has no idea who...

The German Government’s Strategy After Paris: Target the Right After Islamic Terror in Paris: Federal Government to Intensify the “Fight against the Right” Federal Minister Thomas de Maizière, after a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other responsible ministers, spoke on the consequences of the terrorist attack on Paris: Germany, too, is still strongly in the crosshairs of international terrorism … the Islamic threats to public safety will be monitored, but we will also monitor the right-wing extremists who might react to it. [The author, Alster, links to the German news portal, web.de, for his source (14 November 2015)] Since...

A new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet shows that the 'grammar' of the human genetic code is more complex than that of even the most intricately constructed spoken languages in the world. The findings, published in the journal Nature, explain why the human genome is so difficult to decipher -- and contribute to the further understanding of how genetic differences affect the risk of developing diseases on an individual level....The sequencing of the human genome in the year 2000 revealed how the 3 billion letters of A, C, G and T, that the human genome consists of, are ordered. However,...

Islam: A Permanent World WarOn the evening of Friday November 13th 2015, Paris was shaken by a coordinated series of extremely brutal Islamic terror attacks that left at least 129 people dead and hundreds wounded. It is strongly suspected that the Jihadist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was behind these bloody attacks against multiple targets in the French capital.[1] This happened after the city had barely recovered from the Islamic massacre on the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo some months earlier. image[Jihad attack in Paris, November 13 2015 On October...

Governor Sarah Palin appeared with 'Good Morning America' host Robin Roberts this morning to discuss her new book, 'Sweet Freedom'. 11-17-15 Sarah Palin - Robin Roberts - Good Morning America Before delving into the book, Roberts had another question for the Governor: "You made some news over the weekend. You said you would be willing to run again. What would it take to get you back into politics, and do you have an eye on any particular office?" "No particular office" Palin answered, "but what it would take is knowing that the American public would be ready for again, someone...