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A former U.S. Air Force pilot famous for dropping candy to starving children during the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and 1949 has returned to the German capital as a guest of honor 70 years after the end of the crisis. Gail Halvorsen, 98, received a hero's welcome as he donned his military uniform, signed autographs, and posed for photos with city residents on Saturday. Halvorsen became known as the 'Candy Bomber' after inventing the idea to airdrop small bags of sweets to children in West Berlin, who were going hungry after the Soviet Union blocked railway, road and canal access...

With the unemployment rate at its lowest level in 50 years and wages growing at their fastest pace in a decade, even Democrats cannot deny that the economy is booming. But in an attempt to downplay President Trump's economic success, they are claiming that these economic gains are merely going to the rich.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last week that "the evidence shows that most of the economic gains continue to benefit those already well-off." House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer claimed, "wages aren’t growing fast enough to allow millions of workers to keep pace and feel that real economic security...

Fighting for the lives of the unborn and the empowerment of their mothers against a billion-dollar industry can be exhausting. Every day is literally a fight between life and death and while the pro-life movement has had some wins, over 3,000 abortions are still happening every day in this nation. It’s intense. It’s emotional. And some days it can be disheartening. Today is not one of those days. Liberal Hollywood actress and activist, Alyssa Milano, has come up with a brilliant idea to promote her agenda of women having complete control over their bodies and of course, abortion access for...

The Campaign Update Week in Review (Because The Campaign Never Ends) [The week just past as chronicled on the @GDBlackmon Twitter feed.] The week began with a perfect meme of fake conservative CNN commentator Anna Navarro sounding just like Joseph Goebbels. It only got better from there.

Dr Larch Maxey was left red faced after trying to superglue himself to the main doors of Bristol City Council to raise awareness about climate change, unaware they were automatic. Describe Dr Maxey’s direct action attempt in three words…@ExtinctionR | #ExtinctionRebellion #

I grew up on an Iowa farm surrounded by fields of black dirt. Every spring our crops burst forth from the ground full of life and opportunity. I was a boy working side-by side with his dad and grandpa too. It’s a story that in my lifetime has all but disappeared in Iowa. Small family farms have been replaced by corporate growers with thousands of acres. Family farm or corporate group, the rich soil of Iowa and the Midwest has been feeding the world for many years and with support from our nation it will continue do so.After centuries of...

“The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.” - Fourth Century quotation. We are now locked in a critical trade dispute with China. It could easily escalate into a full blown trade war. The coming days will determine which way the coin will flip. Almost all experts agree that we have allowed China to take advantage of us for far too long. Few dispute that they have been stealing our technology and intellectual property with impunity. Something has to change. Let us first stipulate that announcing new tariffs on Twitter is unconventional. Then again, Donald Trump is...

A Dozen People Were Shot in Buttigieg’s City While He Ran for Office He couldn’t run a city of a hundred thousand, let alone a nation of over three hundred million. May 10, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 50 FrontPage comments Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism In early April, South Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski had two concerns. His boss, Mayor Peter Buttigieg, was preparing to formally announce his presidential run. The blighted Rust Belt city, riddled with gangs and bodies, was Buttigieg's...

The Congressional Black Caucus may have found an answer to its Joe Biden dilemma: Vice President Kamala Harris. Some black lawmakers are agonizing over whether to back Biden or two members of the close-knit caucus — Sens. Harris and Cory Booker — who are also vying for the White House, according to interviews with a dozen CBC members. But with the former vice president jumping out to a huge, if early, lead in the polls, several CBC members are warming to the idea of a Biden-Harris ticket to take on President Donald Trump. “That would be a dream ticket for...

There was a time when people aspired to a world where race was an afterthought. It was always a tough slog, but we’d moved closer and closer over time. Then something funny happened – a political party realized they could benefit from division and that unity was bad for business. Unity would require a debate on issues and their merits, which was one they had been losing, so they opted for backsliding; divide to conquer. If you divide people into groups it is much easier to win. Groups of people are easier to manipulate than millions of individuals. It is easier...

Here it is, Mother’s Day again…already. I’m reposting last year’s tribute to moms because a) I like it, and b) I’m hitting the road early. My mom will have been gone 10 years already later this month. It doesn’t seem possible as sometimes it seems she was here just yesterday. Mom: ever a part of you, always with you, even when she’s not. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. It’s mother’s day, don’t forget to get mom some flowers. It doesn’t matter if you pick them, plant them or purchase them.Every mom loves flowers To celebrate mothers is to celebrate life....

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was the wedding of her schemes. A hairstylist to the stars claims his heiress “wife” faked their $1 million, celeb-studded desert nuptials as a p.r. “stunt” to bask in the glow of attention. William Jordan Blackmore, whose Three Squares Studios in Chelsea catered to clients like Marc Jacobs, Elizabeth Olsen and Selena Gomez, thought he had tied the knot with longtime love Andi Potamkin in 2015 during an over-the-top wedding at the 600-acre Amangiri resort in Utah, where guests were flown in by private jet and the spectacular scene was covered by magazines. So he was shocked to find three years...

The Talk Shows May 12th, 2019 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Seth Moulton, D(eranged)-Mass., 2020 (who will never be president or the dem party nominee) presidential candidate; National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow; Howard Buffett (Brother of Warren, democrat lover), philanthropist and author of “Our 50 State Border Crisis.” The panel will be Whine Williams of Fox News, GOP pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, Jonathan Swan of Axios, Millennial Coloring Book News and Josh Holmes, former chief of staff to Sen. Mitch McConnell.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Preempted by English League...

It is a crime to remain silent in the face of evil, it is said. Thus, I am speaking up and urging other good men and women to raise their resonant voices while they can before they are brutally silenced by the ever-creeping Islamofascism. -- Amil Imani While some people prefer to refer to the violent version of Islam as “political” or “militant” Islam, I refused to accept this characterization. Why? Because I believe it is not "fanatical," "radical," or "extreme" Islam that we are fighting, but normal, orthodox, canonical, typical, accepted, traditional Islam, straight from the mouth of Muhammad....

The South Bend, Ind., mayor also spoke of the need to overcome divisions during a swing stop at a gala for an LGBTQ civil rights group. He said that LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, people of color and with disabilities and workers are experiencing a “crisis of belonging in this country.” "What every gay person has in common with every excluded person of any kind is knowing what it's like to see a wall between you and the rest of the world and wonder what it's like on the other side," Buttigieg said during his keynote address for the Human Rights...

Intelligence showing that Iran is likely moving short-range ballistic missiles aboard boats in the Persian Gulf was one of the critical reasons the US decided to move an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers into the region, according to several US officials with direct knowledge of the situation.

“The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit” (Proverbs 12:5 KJV).

A Harvard professor has been dropped from his role as dean of a residential house after joining Harvey Weinstein's legal defense team. Ronald Sullivan Jr signed on to become of the Hollywood mogul's lawyers back in January, sparking backlash from many students at Winthrop House - the Harvard residential college where he has worked since 2009. Sullivan and his law school lecturer wife, Stephanie Robinson, became the first African-American faculty deans in Harvard history when they took their positions at Winthrop a decade ago. However, in a statement on Saturday, a university spokesperson said neither of their roles would be...

The amount of money Boeing might have to pay families of 737 Max crash victims could depend on one disturbing factor - How long the passengers spent knowing they were plunging to their deaths. The series of lawsuits that could exceed $1 billion shoot even higher if evidence shows Boeing knew about flaws in the planes before the tragedies happened. Two flights on the Boeing 737 Max planes crashed within six months of each other, killing all on board.