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This scourge is not new. Or secret. But it is, remarkably, unremarked upon Too often, when my daughters were little, we had to run a gauntlet of haters to enter the JCC in downtown Toronto. For a weekend swim. Family fun. Several blocks away, on one of the busiest streets in central Toronto – home to a community of approximately 200,000 Jews – is the office of the Israeli Consulate. Every Friday afternoon, a diehard gaggle of anti-Israel protesters assembles at the building entrance, often wearing black, in symbolic mourning, handing out leaflets rife with historical lies to passersby, and,...

July 28 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that it will begin to wind down the myRA program after a thorough review by Treasury that found it not to be cost effective. This review was undertaken as part of the Administration’s effort to assess existing programs and promote a more effective government. Demand for and investment in the myRA program has been extremely low. American taxpayers have paid nearly $70 million to manage the program since 2014. “The myRA program was created to help low to middle income earners start saving for retirement. Unfortunately, there has been...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Joe Flacco’s health. The salary cap. And of course, potential negative fan reaction. The Baltimore Raves are weighing all these factors — and then some — as they continue to wrestle with the decision whether to sign free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick. It’s been a week since Ravens coach John Harbaugh floated the idea of adding Kaepernick, a veteran with Super Bowl experience and the baggage that comes from his decision last year to literally sit out the national anthem on game day. The topic of Kaepernick came up on the first day of training...

The leaders of the two countries have been holding regular secret meetings in a bit to improve relations and work together. One political expert said the two countries were putting the European Union (EU) on the spot by working towards their own power hub - with Brussels unable to “do much about it”. Hungarian-Polish political scientist Dominik Hejj said: “The relations are very strong, and almost every week a Polish minister visits Hungary and vice versa.”

A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics to defeat President Trump’s nationalist agenda. His dismissal marks the latest victory by National-Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in the ongoing war within Trump’s White House between those who believe the president is under threat from dark forces plotting to undermine him, and those like McMaster who dismiss this as conspiratorial thinking.

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- President Trump promised to protect the Second Amendment and to push for national reciprocity for concealed carry permits.The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) has created a petition urging President Donald Trump to push Congress to pass H.R. 38 and to send it to him for signature. H.R.38 creates national reciprocity for concealed carry. The bill amends the federal criminal code to allow qualified people to carry concealed handguns in any state if they are qualified to do so in their state of residence.  Here is the summation from congress.gov: This bill amends the federal criminal code to...

Researchers spoke face-to-face with 1,200 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and held telephone conversations with 900 Israelis, including settlers and Israeli-Arab citizens. Israelis and Palestinians by a small margin still support a two-state solution but most do not think it can happen in the next five years, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday. Some 53% of Israelis and 52% of Palestinians support a two-state solution. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. That is a drop from the 71% of Israelis and 57% of the Palestinians who supported the idea in 2010. A...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People who buy drinks in Cook County may pay more Wednesday. A sweetened beverage tax went into effect at midnight. A last-minute appeal was filed Tuesday afternoon to try and stop the controversial tax, once again, from going into effect. Originally slated to begin on July 1, the tax was postponed for a month while a judge reviewed a lawsuit questioning its constitutionality. The so-called "soda tax" applies to more than just pop. It adds a penny-per-ounce tax to any fountain or bottled drink that has sugar or artificial sweeteners added to it. Those drinks can include...

WINNETKA, Ill. (WLS) -- A group of Chicago Public School parents and students protested outside Gov. Bruce Rauner's Winnetka home on Wednesday, angered by his veto of a public education funding bill this week. Students from Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood chanted "Fund our futures, fund our schools, withholding funds is not cool." "For you Rauner to decide to withhold funding from our schools is incompetent as a governor. Our schools are worth saving, our communities are worth investing in, our lives matter," said Veronica Rodriguez, a senior at Back of Yards High School.

Here are seven questions that I asked wikipedia moderators right before I got permanently banned. They never answered any of my questions. The following is one of wikipedia’s most important rules:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_viewWikipedia:Neutral point of viewAll encyclopedic content on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic.NPOV is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia and of other Wikimedia projects. It is also one of Wikipedia’s three core content policies; the other two are...

A Democratic political activist committee (PAC) recently released the results of a new poll showing that white working-class voters prefer Republican policies by a wide margin. The Super PAC connected to House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House Majority PAC – which was created to restore a Democratic majority in the United States House of Representatives via the 2018 midterm elections – was delivered a warning by the results its own poll, as Democratic House leadership must now rethink its ultra-Left policies concerning the economy. Numbers don’t lie In the House Majority “White Working Class Voters Snapshot,” pollsters...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempted to bully tiny Bangladesh to force it to end a corruption investigation of Mohammad Yunus, a long-time Clinton family friend and Clinton Foundation donor, according to documents The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group obtained. The information comes from two Bangladeshi government documents generated as part of a request from the U.S. Congress. They shed new, disturbing light on Clinton’s use of hard-ball tactics against the poorest country in South Asia in order to help her millionaire friend and foundation donor. The documents show Clinton deployed an array of high-powered Department of State,...

Pope Francis, Intrinsically Evil Acts, Haring and the Collapse of Catholic & Western Civilization Fr. Edmundus Waldstein, O. Cist., at sancrucensis.wordpress.com, reported why Pope Francis praised dissenter Fr. Bernard Haring who promoted allowing intrinsically evil acts: "In a discussion with the General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, the Holy Father praised Fr. Bernard Haring for having helped overcome a decadent scholastic moral theology that had been fixated on negative commandments, and opened up a way for moral theology to flourish. Now, Haring’s moral theology is a great example of what it might mean to begin processes as opposed to occupying spaces." (Dubia and Initiating Processes,...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz will be in East Texas on Friday, touring local businesses and taking part in a roundtable discussion at Tyler Junior College. “East Texas is home to many hardworking Texans and job creators that contribute significantly to the engine of Texas’ economy,” Phil Novack, a spokesman for the senator, said. “Sen. Cruz looks forward to visiting with folks in Kilgore and Tyler, listening to their concerns and discussing solutions that will help create jobs and spur economic growth for the region.” At 10 a.m., Cruz will tour the Skeeter Boats manufacturing facility in Kilgore. At 11:30 a.m.,...

When I was younger, a lot more energetic, and made many of the Christmas gifts I gave, I was finished with almost everything that could be done ahead for the holidays by the end of September or October. I’m not sure that will ever happen again, but I like to make some plans ahead and lately I’ve been thinking about Thanksgiving. I never really like to make big changes for that holiday menu – people seem to want it to stay the same. But I think it’s good to introduce at least one new thing, each year. I usually make...

MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. – ULA, Dynetics, and Wolverine Tube are all planning to invest at least $139 million combined in Morgan County, which would create 265 new jobs. The companies presented their proposed investment plans to the Decatur Industrial Development Board on Wednesday, where they received approval for tax abatement to support the plans. Wolverine Tube outlined their plans to build and operate a $16 million dollar aluminum manufacturing facility starting this month. The plant is projected to create 250 jobs within three years. United Launch Alliance’s proposed project requires capital investments for new tech and infrastructure for the new...

President Trump will give a speech at the White House on Friday, and will sign a memo directing his trade representative to go after Chinese theft of intellectual property and the way U.S. companies are forced to share technology with Chinese firms, as Axios scooped yesterday. Administration officials say Trump is doing this because of complaints he's heard from Silicon Valley executives saying Chinese IP theft is one of their biggest challenges (Peter Thiel was involved in crafting this new step). What happens next: About a week after Trump's announcement, the U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, is expected to announce...

Maybe it is Free Republic policy questions and answers. For poeple not allowed to donate cash, can we donate something for sale, or aution? I have lots of daylilies and iris. Look how much some people pay for daylilies... https://www.daylily.com/cgi-bin/auction.cgi?cultivarsaintros Some turmeric have really stunning blooms. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=turmericbloom&&view=detail&mid=AEF794F2366922C70FAAAEF794F2366922C70FAA&&FORM=VDRVRV I could send 3 turmeric roots, or an 8 - 10" plant. Would something like that be possible. I'll be leaving work soon, and then it will hard for me to post, and reply - I'll have to switch to my phone....

Sen. John McCain pronounced President Trump's objections to the sweeping sanctions measure he signed Thursday "misplaced" and said it was "critical" that Mr. Trump comply with and implement the act, as signed. "The concerns expressed in the President's signing statement are hardly surprising, though misplaced," McCain said in a statement soon after the president signed a bill which limits his ability to unilaterally alter sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. The Arizona senator also took the opportunity to take a stand for the powers of Congress, which rival the president's. "The Framers of our Constitution made the Congress and...

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