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Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this ''green thing'' back in my earlier days." The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today – your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the ''green thing'' in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them...

What’s happening to Christians in the world's second most populous country and why? On the afternoon of June 20, 2018, five Christian women (aged 20 to 35) were beaten and abducted from their Christian school while they performed a street play in the Eastern India state of Jharkhand. A day after they were released (the attackers threatened to kill them if they went to the police), the women reported the assault to authorities. It was soon confirmed that all five women had been gang-raped. The attack was also allegedly filmed on cell phones. On January 20, 2018, the body of...

Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the Colonial period, the U.S. has been predominantly white. But the white share of the U.S. population has been dropping, from a little under 90% in 1950 to 60% in 2018. It will likely drop below 50% in another 25 years. White nationalists want America to be white again. But this will never happen. America is on its way to becoming predominantly nonwhite.

The most widely mocked presidential campaign of this cycle may not land Big Apple Mayor Bill de Blasio in the White House, but at least, in theory, it could put him on the unemployment line. This weekend the New York Post brought up the rather inconvenient fact that Hizzoner has effectively absconded from the city and is spending pretty much all of his time on the campaign trail. So how is he managing to run the most populous city in the nation while he’s out on the road? The answer is that he’s not, which means that he’s not doing...

“Literally, there were fireworks on our first date,” Chasten Buttigieg said last year. “It was kind of ridiculous, I know, but I was hooked" Pete Buttigieg, then the first-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was years away from declaring himself a Democratic candidate for president when he matched on the dating app Hinge with Chasten Glezman, then a master’s student in education living in Chicago. Three years later and they were married, an occasion marked by The New York Times. As Buttigieg, 37, recalls on the newest episode of the podcast LGBTQ&A, available on Tuesday on Luminary, he came across...

A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus on Sunday near the Giza Pyramids, wounding at least 17 people including tourists, Egyptian officials said. The officials said the bus was traveling on a road close to the under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum, which is located adjacent to the Giza Pyramids but is not yet open to tourists. The bus was carrying at least 25 people mostly from South Africa, officials added. Security forces cordoned off the site of the explosion and the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital, they said. They said the explosion damaged a windshield of another car. Footage...

Appearing Friday on The Hugh Hewitt Show, 2020 Democrat White House contender and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said events bearing President Thomas Jefferson’s name should be renamed, calling it the “right thing to do.” (VIDEO LINK) Buttigieg on Renaming Things Named After Thomas Jefferson: 'It's the Right Thing to Do' ....HUGH HEWITT: Let’s go to policy now. A very blunt question because you talk about going to every Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Indiana when you were running statewide. Should Jefferson-Jackson dinners be renamed everywhere because both were holders of slaves? MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG: Yeah, we’re doing that in Indiana. I...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a close ally of President Trump who has supported the president’s desire to pull U.S. troops out of the Middle East, says national security adviser John Bolton is a “malign influence.” Paul, who believes the U.S. should reduce its military presence in Syria and Afghanistan, says he is alarmed by the recent mobilization of U.S. combat troops to counter what some Trump officials see as a rising threat posed by Iran. Asked about Bolton’s role in the recent deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group and an Air Force bomber task force, Paul said, “I fear...

Catching up on watching Eps 4 & 5 -- dang, does this all have a rushed feeling or what.

House Democrats will hear from former CIA Director John Brennan about the situation in Iran, inviting him to speak next week amid heightened concerns over the Trump administration’s sudden moves in the region. Brennan, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, is scheduled to talk to House Democrats at a private weekly caucus meeting Tuesday, according to a Democratic aide and another person familiar with the private meeting. Both were granted anonymity to discuss the meeting. The invitation to Brennan and Wendy Sherman, a former State Department official and top negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal, offers counterprogramming to the...

LNJ Foxwoods' Covfefe separated herself from her 3-year-old rivals in the $150,000 Adena Springs Miss Preakness Stakes (G3) May 17 at Pimlico Race Course, drawing clear by 8 1/2 lengths. She scorched the six furlongs in 1:07.70, taking more than a second off the track mark of 1:09 set by Northern Wolf in 1990.

The “Terminator” is going easy on the nut who took him down Saturday. Arnold Schwarzenegger tweeted Sunday that he isn’t going to sic the cops on the crazed man who drop-kicked him at a kids’ sporting event in South Africa. “A lot of you have asked, but I’m not pressing charges. I hope this was a wake-up call, and he gets his life on the right track. But I’m moving on and I’d rather focus on the thousands of great athletes I met at @ArnoldSports Africa,” the 71-year-old “Terminator” star wrote. The former California governor was blindsided Saturday by an...

BAGHDAD - A Katyusha rocket reportedly fell in central Baghdad's Green Zone on Sunday night, Iraq military personnel announced. "A Katyusha rocket fell in the middle of the Green Zone without causing any losses or causalties, further details will come later," the military said in a statement.

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) God save us from reliance on “experts”. – David Epstein has a fantastic piece in the June issue of the Atlantic, one which illustrates why we “normals” out here in Flyover Country should avoid listening to predictions made by “experts”. Regular readers will know that I make fun of “experts” and their persistent wrongness all the time, especially those in the fields of politics, “climate change” and economics. Epstein’s piece doesn’t directly address those specific fields in any detail, but he does illustrate major reasons why media-recognized “experts” are so consistently-wrong about...

Iowa farmer Tim Bardole survived years of low crop prices and rising costs by cutting back on fertilizer and herbicides and fixing broken-down equipment rather than buying new. When President Donald Trump’s trade war with China made a miserable situation worse, Bardole used up any equity his operation had and started investing in hogs in hopes they’ll do better than crops. A year later, the dispute is still raging and soybeans hit a 10-year-low. But Bardole says he supports his president more today than he did when he cast a ballot for Trump in 2016, skeptical he would follow through...

Billionaire Robert F. Smith, who received an honorary doctorate at Morehouse College’s Sunday morning graduation exercises, had already announced a $1.5 million gift to the school. But during his remarks in front of the nearly 400 graduating seniors, the billionaire technology investor and philanthropist surprised some by announcing that his family was providing a grant to eliminate the student debt of the entire Class of 2019. ... He doesn’t know who the keynote speaker will be at Colin’s graduation ceremony but is hoping for a return performance by Smith. “Maybe he’ll come back next year.”

ED-209 ARRESTED After Sending His Son To Elementary School With Bags Of CrackRock!

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy does not appear to be taking Rep. Justin Amash's recent tweets about President Trump very seriously, claiming that the Michigan Republican simply "wants to have attention," and questioning his GOP bona fides. Amash tweeted his take on the Muller report on Saturday, "This is exactly what he wants, he wants to have attention," McCarthy said on "Sunday Morning Futures." He went on to express doubt over Amash's Republican leanings in general. "You've got to understand Justin Amash. He's been in Congress quite some time. I think he's asked one question in all the committees that...

Around 30 percent of migrants tested at the US-Mexico border was found to be faking family relationships with children they were traveling with, according to rapid DNA testing by ICE.A pilot of new rapid DNA testing at the US Southern Border, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), discovered that almost a third of the adults tested were not biologically related to the children in their custody.The pilot was conducted by ICE for a few days earlier this month in El Paso and McAllen, Texas.

Poll finds overwhelmingly that Islam is unwelcome in Germany Despite over 95% of Germans polled saying Islam is unwelcome in Germany, Merkel will press on, bringing immigrants who will refuse to integrate and are unlikely to ever be any benefit, causing a huge crime surge, especially rape against their hosts and in fact are causing other minorities to leave. Notice how they roll out an Ahmadi (jihad water carrier) Imam to make the case for Islam, despite Ahmadi’s not being representative of these new unwelcome immigrants, it was asked on another post recently, why Ahmadis are just as dangerous, this...