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Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – The new Morning Consult Poll is out, and guess what? It now has the Republicans leading the Democrats in the generic congressional ballot for the first time in more than a year. The Ds led the Rs by 10 as recently as December 18. Meanwhile, President Trump’s job approval rating shot up in this poll, to 47% approve vs. 47% disapprove. Hey, remember all those breathless predictions in the fake news media of a Democrat tidal wave election coming in the November mid-terms? Yeah, we’re...

Prominent Psychiatrist, Doctor Daniel Amen offers advice to parents on how to talk to their children in the aftermath of today’s high school shooting in Parkland Florida. Turn off the TV and like most people don't watch the traumas of other people over and over, recommends Daniel Amen, MD in an advice, published below. “It’s very important to talk to your kids about the reports of today’s school shooting they may be seeing on the news, especially if they express concern or fear. For older kids, parents should feel free to answer any questions they may have and listen to...

Many analysts dismissed “the Kremlin list” the Trump Administration released two weeks ago as a bad joke or worse and thus failed to recognize the extent to which its contents in fact have made Moscow far more afraid of the US president than they were before, according to Liliya Shevtsova. First of all, “by publishing practically the entire list of members of the Russian government and Presidential Administration, the White House shifted from the traditional Western effort of trying to divide the Russian elite into pro-Western and anti-Western factions..." Instead, it properly treated the entire kleptocratic elite as being linked...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy stood behind his pre-election campaign promises on Tuesday at a roundtable discussion with gun control advocates and fellow Democrat, Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald. (Photo: New Jersey Governor’s office)Democrat Phil Murphy, New Jersey’s new governor, made it clear this week he is onboard with turning a number of gun control proposals into the Garden State’s newest gun control laws. Murphy, elected on a platform that included “getting tough” on guns, gathered with like-minded advocates at the Betty and Milton Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill to talk about “combatting gun violence” through a series...

She’s the senator who’ll take the political world from HildaBeast to GilliBeast proving that in the entitled-to-govern Democrat world, the more life changes the more it stays the same. Whenever Senator Kirsten Gillibrand looks at herself in the mirror, as she is often wont to do, she sees her “greatest role model in politics” Hillary Clinton, only a younger, hotter button version. Like Hillary, Gillibrand sees her gender first, second and last. That’s because in today’s political climate, being gender conscious is all but guaranteed to take you to the top. For those who drove Hillary Clinton down to a...

On the 7th of February, 2018, three young men approached a home in Catawba County at about 6 p.m. One of the young men, a 17-year-old, shot at the intended victim.  The intended victim, also 17, was armed and fired back, hitting the attacker several times, killing him. Shane Cauthen, Masked 17-Year-Old Shot and Killed in Self Defense Gunfight The other two masked men have been arrested, and the incident investigated. The two remaining suspects are 22 and 16 years old.  The investigators met with the District Attorney on Thursday morning. A determination was made the shooting was in...

"We are not accorded the luxury of choosing the women we fall in love with. Do you think Sirella is anything like the woman I thought that I'd marry? She is a prideful, arrogant, mercurial woman, who shares my bed far too infrequently for my taste. And yet... I love her, deeply. We Klingons often tout our prowess in battle, our desire for glory and honor above all else. But how hollow is the sound of victory without someone to share it with. Honor gives little comfort to a man alone in his home... and in his heart." General Martok...

By Jon Danielsson, Director of the ESRC funded Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics. Originally published at VoxEUCryptocurrencies are supposedly a new and superior form of money and investments – the way of the future. The author of this column, however, does not see the point of cryptocurrencies, finding them no better than existing fiat money or good investments.I have been trying to understand what the point of cryptocurrencies is, without success. They may not be an immediate financial stability concern (den Haan et al. 2017), but I just don’t get them.As far as I can tell, they...

The artist who painted former President Obama’s portrait for the Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has an interesting past. While reviewing previous works by artist Kehinde Wiley, it was discovered that he has a great fondness for painting black women beheading white women. Both beheading pieces are titled “Judith beheading Holofernes”, referencing a story in the Book of Judith, which involves a beautiful woman who seduces an invading general before he is able to destroy their land, gets him drunk, and then decapitates him.

Over the past year, I have discussed at some length the self-professed “legal resistance,” which has coordinated legal strategies to resist President Trump in the courts. This front is part of the broader #Resistance movement against President Trump in the political sphere. These actions are completely rational, and unsurprising from the party that (unexpectedly) lost the election. What has garnered the most opposition to my work in this context, is the concept of the “judicial resistance.” Dahlia Lithwick and Professor Steve Vladeck, for example, faulted my writings in an October 2017 op-ed titled The Dangerous Myth of the Judicial Resistance....

In the early morning hours of Friday, 9 February, 2018, a man attempted an armed robbery of a Sunoco gas station in Tampa, Florida. The clerk had a firearm of his own and fired several shots, hitting the suspect in the leg. The suspect fled across the street, and the clerk followed him and then held him for police. Police came, took custody of the suspect, and determined that the suspect's gun was a pellet gun. The police lieutenant at the scene educated the reporter on the validity of defense from a perceived deadly threat. Link to video From...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said barring dozens of Russians from the games was “part of this unfair competition, because the Americans apparently can no longer beat us in a fair fight. They believe that taking back and preserving uncontested leadership in global sports requires sidelining the competition.” The assertion came in an interview the minister gave to Rossia-1 news channel, aired on Sunday.

Congratulations Schaper and Deplorables for giving us a LOL, louder and funnier than anything Baby Kimmel could ever come up with It was never supposed to happen. Nor will the mainstream media ever let it go viral: The day that Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Arthur Schaper and California conservative friends Robin Hvidston, Channell Temple, Wes Parker, Lori Masinas and Celeste Grieg left comedian Jimmy Kimmel waving his baby rattle in a rage on his own television set. When things don’t go off the way Jimmy Kimmel, Schaper-described as “the late-night talk show host with a terminal case of Trump...

antifa protestors attack Proud Boys, at University of Washington February 10, 2018.

ROUND 5 OF THE '70S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS COMMENCES! Votes due: Sunday, Feb 18 @ 6:00 pm Eastern. The Great 8! It's getting easier! Just 4 pairs of songs! Vote for your favorite of each pair shown. No reply, no vote. (You may abstain from any pairs, but please be clear about that.) Any ties will be broken with a run-off which will end (hopefully) the following Monday.

Messages meant as private texts from Strzok and Page are inspired by sheer hate. The message of the March of Life: Save Unborn Babies From Abortion. Living proof from the age-old adage that “the devil makes use of idol hands” comes from the texts of foul-mouthed FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page when condemning pro-lifers for continuing to go out on the march. “F*cking marchers making traffic problems,” is how Strzok described Right to Life marchers in one of his texts to Page.

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Hey, NBC even does #Fakenews at the Olympics now! – The morons at NBC were forced to issue an on-air apology Saturday for embarrassingly stupid comments made by one of their reporters during Friday’s opening ceremonies. As the Japanese delegation paraded into the olympic stadium, reporter Joshua Cooper noted that Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, was also in attendance, “representing Japan, a country which occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945 but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural, technological and economic example that has been so important to their...

A Timeline of Sedition “I bought all the presidents men. Figure i needed to brush up on watergate.” —Text message from Lisa Page to her lover, FBI Director of Counter Intelligence, Peter Strozk. With all the memos and hot hair flying around these days in Washington DC, one word that has been noticeably absent is the word SEDITION. According to our laws, Seditious conspiracy occurs when two or more persons conspire to overthrow, put down or to destroy by force the government of the United States and those found guilty shall be fined and/or imprisoned up to 20 years. As...

Politico and Sac Bee Confuse 'Misconduct' and 'Harassment' With Latest Allegations Against Asm. Cristina Garcia Thursday it was revealed that the #MeToo Movement may be compromised by one of its leaders, Democrat Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, after new sexual harassment allegations against her surfaced.

Mr. and Mrs. Menotti celebrated Valentine’s Day 70 times Pietro Menotti stood on a ship’s deck among throngs of weary, penniless immigrants like himself. Staring into the haze of a hot summer day, he saw the first of two women who would determine the course of his life. She was the mighty lady with a torch whose message to foreign lands had attracted millions: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”