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The 20th of this month marks a significant anniversary in Britain. For it is the 50th anniversary of what is probably the most famous — and certainly the most notorious — speech by any mainstream politician since the war. On April 20, 1968, Enoch Powell gave a speech to the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham on the subject of Commonwealth migration, integration, and possible re-emigration. It was a carefully chosen moment, and a carefully chosen intervention from a man who was then the shadow defense minister in the Conservative opposition of Edward Heath. Powell knew what he was about to...

A Daytona Beach Flea Market vendor was arrested after she pepper-sprayed a competing vendor and threatened to kill him while pointing a BB gun at him, Volusia deputies said. Deputies’ investigation revealed that Lynda Woodruff, 68, and Salomon Tivoli, 70, have similar competing businesses identified in reports as “smoke shops” at the flea market located at 1425 Tomoka Farms Road, officials said. Woodruff was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a person over 65 years old or older. Court records show she is free on $7,500 bail. (snip) On Saturday, deputies were called to the...

The Republican establishment is weighing a plan with Democrats whereby millions of illegal aliens who are eligible and enrolled in the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are given amnesty in exchange for a small amount of border security funding, Reuters reports. Trump’s earlier compromise plan — that both the Republican establishment and Democrats rejected — would have only allowed the nearly 800,000 DACA-enrolled illegal aliens to remain in exchange for a major reduction in legal immigration levels to boost Americans’ wages. For example, Trump’s original plan would have ended the process known as “chain migration,” whereby...

Americans waste nearly 150,000 tons of food per day, amounting to about one pound (422 grams) per person, and fruits and vegetables are mostly what gets tossed, said a study Wednesday. The amount of land used annually to grow food that ends up in the garbage in the United States is 30 million acres, or seven percent of total US cropland. Some 4.2 trillion gallons of irrigation water gets wasted, too, said the report in the journal PLOS ONE. Fruits and vegetables made up 39 percent of total food waste, followed by dairy (17 percent), meat (14 percent) and grains...

William Shakespeare knew well enough the frustrations of bringing up teenage children. “I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty,” he wrote in The Winter’s Tale. “For there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.” Now parents have united online in annoyance at adolescents “wronging the ancientry”, posting pictures of their offspring ignoring their beautiful surroundings in favour of their mobile phone screens. It started with a tweet by the comedian David Baddiel, who shared a picture of his son, Ezra, 13, studying his phone while perched on a...

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Ohio) said Thursday that “it’s way too early” to discuss supporting President Trump in 2020. “Chris, you know it’s way too early to be talking about the 2020 - ” Johnson told CNN’s “New Day” when asked if he will support Trump in a 2020 re-election bid. “No, it isn’t not to say that you support the guy who’s president, who’s the head of your party,” CNN anchor Chris Cuomo pushed back. Johnson argued that 2020 could be a different landscape and pointed to the November’s upcoming midterm elections. “It could be a completely different world...

This is your brain. This is your brain on race. We can all easily imagine circumstances in which a manager of a coffee shop or restaurant might properly call the police to ask them to remove loiterers. These are places of business. There’s nothing wrong in principle with calling the cops on non-customers who are taking up space. And there’s nothing wrong with police asking people to leave private property where they aren’t welcome, given that trespassing is a crime. When such people refuse, that’s unfortunate, but what can the police do but arrest them? On the other hand, calling...

(snips) -- Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare, wrote at length Wednesday about the backstory of Comey's new tell-all memoir ........ ..............said the consideration of other decision-makers, "particularly Lynch," paint a full picture for those people who believe the probe was a "train wreck" that cost Clinton the 2016 presidential election. Noting the "selective outrage" against Comey for announcing the case was reopened less than two weeks before the election, Wittes said, "Lynch was a compromised figure with respect to the emails 'matter.'" The mention of a "matter" is a reference to Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee...

Trump’s Art of the Deal in North Korea, Israel and Syria Understanding Trump’s America First foreign policy. April 19, 2018 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. It’s really not that complicated. But President Trump’s Syria strikes have reopened the debate over what defines his foreign policy. Is he an interventionist or an isolationist? Foreign policy experts claim that he’s making it up as he goes along. But they’re not paying attention. President Trump’s foreign policy has two consistent elements. From...

A woman accused of hitting a state police horse with a flagpole during a counter-protest to a March Against Sharia rally in Harrisburg last June won't go to prison for the attack. Instead, Dauphin County President Judge Richard A. Lewis sentenced Lisa Simon, 24, to 2 years of probation after the Philadelphia woman pleaded guilty in the case Tuesday. Lewis also slapped Simon with $1,000 in fines and ordered her to perform 300 hours of community service. Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Sprow said mounted troopers intervened when the 30 or so counter-protesters rushed out of their designated area in...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of an abortion protester who was warned several times by police to stop shouting outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland. The petition for a hearing before the nation’s highest court challenged a ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and was the final step in a legal drama that has unfolded since 2015. Last year, a panel of federal judges reversed a lower federal court’s decision in the suit that protester Andrew March had filed against several Portland police, the city and Maine Attorney General Janet...

New York State plans to restore voting rights to about 35,000 New York felons on parole who previously were barred from casting a ballot until they completed their parole, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Who Can Count the Dust of Jacob Posted by Daniel Greenfield "Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the seed of Israel." Numbers 23:10 The sun sets above the hills. The siren cries out and on the busy highways that wend among the hills, the traffic stops, the people stop, and a moment of silence comes to a noisy country. Flags fly at half mast, the torch of remembrance is lit, memorial candles are held in shaking hands and the country's own version of the Flanders Field poppy, the Red Everlasting daisy, dubbed Blood of the...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- The woman accused of slashing a man's neck during a dispute on a GoDurham Bus last month has been arrested. Police arrested 21-year-old Naisha Moena Bowser on Wednesday. She was taken into custody near Raynor Street and North Miami Boulevard. Police said the incident happened about 5:30 p.m. March 15 when Bowser became angry and threw a soda bottle through a windshield, according to witnesses. Witnesses said she started to argue with the bus driver and a male passenger attempted to intervene. That's when she slashed the male passenger's neck with a box cutter, according to...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Florida Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis, along with 10 other GOP members of the House, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday, detailing formal criminal referrals against James Comey, Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch and Andrew McCabe. While Sean Hannity and other conservative radio and TV talk show hosts played the letter up as if it is a momentous event, the truth is that it makes referrals that are already being acted upon by the Attorney General. Sessions has already and repeatedly made it clear that...

Exposing Muslim attempts to rewrite history. Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Although the conflict between Islam and the West is not an aberration but a continuation of history, the strategy of those who seek to whitewash and thus empower Islam is to fixate on peaceful aberrations while suppressing the continuum of hostility. Thus, in “Italy must remember its pluralist past,” Akbar Ahmed, Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, Washington, DC, highlights uncharacteristic episodes from Italy’s past with Muslims in an attempt to convince Italians to be even more accepting of Muslim migrants. ...

The border that is supposed to separate the United States from Mexico must be made secure. There is no shortage of compelling reasons why this must happen, and the sooner the better, but today, given the lunacy of Sanctuary Cities and Sanctuary States and the globalist goals of politicians from both political parties, particularly the Democratic Party leadership, rational and reasonable thought processes have been supplanted by greed, corruption and cowardice- fear of upsetting party leaders or fear of alienating deep-pocketed campaign contributors. Indeed, it is irrational for any leader in the United States to refuse to take whatever...

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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has expressed its desire for “complete denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula and is not seeking conditions such as U.S. troops withdrawing from the South first, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday. Moon said big-picture agreements about normalization of relations between the two Koreas and the United States should not be difficult to reach through planned summits between North and South, and between the North and the United States, in a bid to rein in the North’s nuclear and missile programs. “North Korea is expressing a will for a complete denuclearization,” Moon told reporters.

Only six states do not have some sort of right to keep and bear arms amendment or clause in their state Constitution. They are California, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and  New York. California, Maryland, New Jersey and New York show the lack of a state constitutional protection with their highly restrictive firearms laws.Two outliers on that list are Iowa and Minnesota. State constitutional protections of the right to bear arms provide protection when the federal Constitution fails to do so. The U.S. Supreme Court has been reluctant to protect Second Amendment rights for a decade. Getting to the U.S....