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Hi all this is my first time posting a main thread so please excuse me if I do this wrong... My daughter is getting married and moving to Houston area for husbands job on West Alabama Street. We have never been to Texas and know nothing about it but we want to get help guiding her to good areas to live. You guys (gals) were the first place I thought of for help and wisdom. She is looking for a townhouse or small home to rent for right now and I would want her to be in a safe but...

1911- William H Taft is President. Both the income tax and Federal Reserve Bank are a couple years off. Motor cars are still mostly the odd play things of the rich. Most folks use coal to heat their home and gas to light it. Air conditioning does not exist. People apparently did know how to dress well. On the downside, life expectancy is 47. .

As reports emerge surrounding President Donald Trump’s alleged affairs, some are speculating that it’s only a matter of time before his wife, Melania Trump, files for divorce. But despite the allegations that Trump had affairs with adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, a new report claims that Melania won’t ever divorce the president. However, Melania’s refusal to split from Trump should not be interpreted as a sign of weakness or submissive acceptance of the president’s alleged affairs, say insiders cited by Yahoo. Even though Melania reportedly feels that Trump broke her one don’t-go-there rule for...

Russian air defenses may appear formidable as part of Moscow’s increasingly sophisticated anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capability, but areas protected by these systems are far from impenetrable bubbles or 'Iron Domes’ as some analysts have called them. While it is true that a layered and integrated air defense may effectively render large swaths of airspace too costly—in terms of men and materiel—to attack using conventional fourth generation warplanes such as the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet or Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon, these systems have an Achilles’ Heel. Russian air defenses will still struggle to effectively engage fifth-generation stealth aircraft such as...

Shortened title. Full title: TOM FITTON: FBI Notifies Judicial Watch It Needs At Least THREE YEARS To Turn Over Strzok-Page Communications On Monday, the FBI notified Judicial Watch that the bureau will need at least three years to hand over “releasable,” communications between anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

Design-bid-build may still be the No. 1 project delivery method for U.S. construction, but other processes are rising that could challenge DBB’s stake in how some projects are carried out.One such arrangement, public-private partnerships (P3), is gaining steam with talks from Washington, D.C., about employing the method for President Donald Trump’s $1.3 trillion infrastructure spend. While more states and local entities are successfully turning to P3s to tackle major infrastructure overhauls and new projects, the method still runs up against a perception problem. Some elected officials are hesitant to employ P3s because they don’t want to let a private firm...

It's time for Sacramento County to back down and allow success to happen with Sacramento's most vulnerable women through a proven program We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.—~Mother Teresa Today, American’s mental health institutions have become county jails. Especially in California, following the 2011 prison realignment which resulted in moving “non-violent” prisoners from state prisons down to county jails and letting the “non-violent” out of jails. And Propositions...

Desperate appeals made on Fumento’s behalf to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota by his friend Patrick D. Hahn of Baltimore have gone unanswered Never thought the day would come when I would find it a matter of life or death trying to get a message through to President Donald Trump. But that’s where I am today. Courageous Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Michael Fumento, who saw combat as an embedded reporter with United States troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in a Bogota,Colombia prison on trumped up charges where he has been held without bail since Easter Sunday. Worse yet,...

Homeless people brag about the 'tent mansion' they built right next to Seattle's Space Needle that is surrounded by multi-million dollar high-rise condos The structure is located on a patch of grass near Seattle's famous Space Needle It has quickly been dubbed the 'tent mansion' and is surrounded by multi-million dollar high-rise condos Tent structure has glass French doors and is made mostly of tents, wooden pallets, chairs, tarps and even umbrellas Group of homeless people built the camp after they were forced from a park It is in a heavy foot traffic area given the number of tourists walking...

A bus driver refuses to take a group of young asylum seekers to their destination. When they ask him why, he tells them they can walk, and that they don’t have any rights in Switzerland. "Go back to Africa," he says next. This is just one of the incidents described into a new report on racism in Switzerland. In another example, the manager of a public swimming pool turns off hot water at the facility so that “dark-skinned” people can’t shower. Internal guidelines at the baths “warn” that migrants only come to the pool to shower and cause problems. Both...

The recent wave of harsh attacks on the Justice Department and its law enforcement arm, the FBI, have been "painful," former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in an exclusive interview set to air Monday. Lynch, speaking with NBC News' Lester Holt, defended the tens of thousands of people who work for the Justice Department, saying it is "troubling when people question the motivations of dedicated, committed professionals."

In one of the most aggressive efforts in the nation to curb soaring healthcare spending, a new California measure would put the state in charge of setting prices for hospital stays, doctor's visits and most other medical services covered by commercial insurers. The bill, backed by labor unions and consumer groups, is certain to rouse fierce opposition from physicians and hospitals, setting the stage for a brawl between some of the Capitol's top lobbying heavyweights. Proponents also face friction on the left from advocates of single-payer healthcare, who espouse an alternate vision of how to overhaul the state's healthcare. Despite...

Breitbart News, lays it out for all to see...sadly the end of late night TV viewership for Jimmy Kimmel who has shrunk to a lousy 2.7 million viewers, out of a base 330,000,000 TV viewers. He is being slaughtered with a massive loss of TV viewers after he opened up his pie hole, bad mouthing First Lady, Melania Trump. Everyone in his time slot is beating him. Me...I am sad that the Kimmel boycott is working. I wanted the idiot, moron, dumbo to be on TV forever, making a butt head out of himself. Shucks...I lost!!!

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch claims she and former President Bill Clinton spoke of only “innocuous things” during their controversial meeting on a tarmac in Arizona just days before the FBI decided it would not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information on her private email server in 2016. During an exclusive interview to air on NBC Monday evening, Lynch addressed her “chance encounter” with Clinton on her plane in July 2016 in Phoenix, telling NBC that the meeting was purely social. Lynch said she and Clinton only discussed “innocuous things” during their meeting, and...

A federal grand jury has indicted 10 reputed members of a San Francisco Mission District gang for their alleged roles in several murders dating back more than a decade. The indictment was unsealed on Friday a day after the arrest of six suspects according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Three more suspects are already in federal prison. The arrests involved a multi-agency operation of about 200 law enforcement officers which included the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and police from San Francisco, Richmond and Pacifica. According to the indictment, the 10 suspects belong to...

The International Criminal Court at The Hague may prosecute Israel over the deaths of Arab rioters who clashed with IDF forces on the Gaza-Israel frontier over the past week and a half, a top ICC official warned Sunday. Chief Prosecutor for the ICC Fatou Bensouda issued a statement Sunday demanding an end to the use of violence on the border between Israel and Gaza, and suggested that both Israel and the Hamas terror organization could be held responsible for the deaths of some 30 Arab rioters and terrorists killed since activists launched six weeks of violent protests on the frontier...

China has installed equipment on two of its fortified outposts in the Spratly Islands capable of jamming communications and radar systems, a significant step in its creeping militarization of the South China Sea, U.S. officials say. The move strengthens China’s ability to assert its extensive territorial claims and hinder U.S. military operations in a contested region that includes some of the world’s busiest shipping routes. The disclosure comes as the Chinese military is conducting what U.S. officials describe as its largest military exercise to date in the South China Sea, maneuvers that include China’s first aircraft carrier as well as...

Maxine Waters has to be one of the most unhinged politicians in Washington. She’s been one of the radicals leading the collusion charge and has basically said she thinks Trump should be impeached. For what? No one really knows. It’s hysterical. Recently, Maxine Waters went on television to float a theory about why Trump and California aren’t getting along. It was ridiculous. From Breitbart: During Saturday’s “AM Joy” on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said she thought President Donald Trump was being “vindictive” and “taking it out” on California with his policy because he did not win there. Host Joy...

Iranian leaders are threatening to restart the country's contested nuclear enrichment program in just a matter of days as the Trump administration and European allies scramble to address a range of flaws in the landmark nuclear accord ahead of a May deadline that could see the United States walk away from the accord, according to regional reports and administration insiders. The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization disclosed on Sunday that the Islamic Republic has maintained the ability to restart the full-scale enrichment of uranium—the key component in a nuclear weapon that was supposed to be removed from Iran as...

The GOP's signature tax law is projected to increase the national debt by $1.9 trillion between 2018 and 2028, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office. According to the report, the tax law would cost the government $2.3 trillion in revenues, but economic growth would offset that figure by about $461 billion. At 11 years, the report covers a slightly longer time period than the usual 10-year projections, but even accounting for just the first decade, the figure remains around $1.9 trillion. Some Republicans argued vociferously during the tax debate that tax cuts in the bill would...