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Deep State and its bogus investigation is dead but won’t lay down Why did Special Counsel Snake Robert Mueller III choose May 29, 2019 to slither off into retirement? Other than to add enough fuel to keep Democrat Impeachment plans going straight up to Election Day, it’s because the 2020 Election Campaign is well underway. All the Deep State Coup ever had on President Donald Trump was the largely debunked, dirty, pornographic Christopher Steele dossier—featuring the outlandish Golden Shower Conspiracy, paid for by Hillary Clinton and a just as desperate DNC.

For all the time spent and attention monopolized in our national discussion of global warming and climate change, attention which to date has produced practically nothing in terms of concrete and substantial solutions to a demonstrable and present threat, there are two foreseeable, or more to the point practically inevitable, environmental events which directly threaten American life as we know it. Neither has a thing to do with global warming. The more dire, and more unavoidable, of the two is the eventual volcanic eruption of the massive caldera at Yellowstone National Park, which will ultimately threaten the survival of civilization....

Once upon a time in America, baseball was not only the National Pastime but also the national obsession, an idyl of summer. Every town and city had a team. Abbott and Costello made their bones with their classic routine "Who's on First?" Baseball was the great equalizer on sandlot and ballpark. Everybody knew the words to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," and everybody shared in the enthusiasm for the home team. Baseball was the great equalizer for Jews in the common excitement of the sports culture, as it eventually would be for blacks and Hispanics. But Detroit fans...

Go fix your own country and then maybe we can have a chat about what you don't like about the U.S. Until then, MYOB Self-avowed “Feminist” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn’t decked out with “My Body, My Choice” signage when he met with American Vice-President Mike Pence on Parliament Hill yesterday, he was only looking for another pre-election selfie. Nor did the State Visit prevent über-Liberal Trudeau from trying to lecture Pence about New Pro-Life Laws cropping up, state by state in the U.S.A.

This has been a spring of angry weather across the U.S. as heat, flooding, and hail pummel the eastern half of the country. But along with the garden variety suffering, devastating tornadoes have also spread across the U.S. from Texas to Pennsylvania. Twisters have ripped through communities across the U.S., killing at least three in Missouri last week, injuring nearly 100 on Monday in Ohio, and upending thousands of people’s lives. On Thursday, nearly 78 million Americans still faced increased odds of tornadoes touching down, according to the Storm Prediction Center, including major metro areas like New York, Washington, D.C.,...

New evidence has emerged suggesting that disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok was actively keeping information hidden on the investigation into two of Donald Trump's campaign aides, according to reports.Anti-Trump special agent Strzok allegedly withheld information from Trump's team that Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos were under investigation during an FBI briefing for the campaign in August 2016.The purpose of the briefing was supposed to warn the campaign of “national security threats”Strzok launched the probe into the two aides in July 2016 but failed to inform the Trump campaign during the August meeting about the case against them.

Former Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly said President Trump called him Wednesday night to allege special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was a "personal thing." In a Thursday morning radio appearance on the show "Bernie and Sid in the Morning", O'Reilly said Trump called him at 11 p.m. the night before to discuss Mueller's findings, alleging that Mueller had to "signal to the swamp" that he "still believes that Donald Trump did something illegal." "Trump says Mueller doesn't like him because he turned him down to be the head of the FBI after...

Climate isn't the same as weather -- unless, of course, weather happens to be politically useful. In that case, weather portends climate apocalypse. So warns Elizabeth Warren as she surveyed Iowan rainstorms, which she claims, like tornadoes and floods, are more frequent and severe. "Different parts of the country deal with different climate issues," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-Malthusia, cautioned as she too warned of extreme tornadoes. "But ALL of these threats will be increasing in intensity as climate crisis grows and we fail to act appropriately." Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., recently sent a fundraising email warning Democrats that climate change was...

Native Americans' use of fire to manage vegetation in what is now the Eastern United States was more profound than previously believed, according to a Penn State researcher who determined that forest composition change in the region was caused more by land use than climate change... Over the last 2,000 years at least, according to Abrams -- who for three decades has been studying past and present qualities of eastern U.S. forests -- frequent and widespread human-caused fire resulted in the predominance of fire-adapted tree species. And in the time since burning has been curtailed, forests are changing, with species...

That is to say, Ill be spending some time in Tennessee soon. The TN tourism page is near useless other than trying to get me to go to the civil rights museum and doesnt tell me how to truly do Tennessee like a native. What is the thing I must do when I visit? Where do you go and what do you like to do? Ill possibly be all over and everywhere so the whole state is open. Dont do professional sports but Im open to just about anything else. Favorite hike? Best food/hotel for the money? Whitewater rafting or...

Kim Hyok Chol was the North's counterpart of US special representative Stephen Biegun in the run-up to the Hanoi summit in February.

It hasn’t been China that has been the source of sudden escalation; nor Iran; nor North Korea; nor Turkey, who admittedly gave it a good go in announcing they may install Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles in the area of the Mediterranean they are looking for energy in despite protests from the EU’s Cyprus it’s their naval territory; nor even Italy, where Deputy PM Salvini is threatening new elections that would very likely strengthen his hand further has he prepares for battle with Brussels. No, it was Mexico. (Or rather US President Trump, which is less of a surprise.) Don’t get...

AccuWeather is predicting a significant shortfall in United States corn production for 2019 as a result of continued flooding, wet weather and the upcoming forecast throughout key parts of the U.S. Corn Belt. AccuWeather predicts corn yield will be a significant 9% lower than an earlier U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimate. The USDA predicted 14.96 billion bushels – last year’s corn yield was 14.3 billion bushels -- but a just-released AccuWeather analysis estimates this year’s total at 13.6 billion bushels.

(CARACAS, Venezuela) — The Univision television network said Thursday that it has recovered the video of a contentious interview with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that was confiscated after he cut it short, angered by critical questions from journalist Jorge Ramos. Ramos said the recovery of the video was “a real triumph against censorship” and that it was returned by “confidential sources” who cannot be named out of concern for their safety. On its website, Spanish-language Univision showed an excerpt of the 17-minute interview in late February in the presidential palace in Caracas. Ramos said the video will be broadcast in...

The irony was that Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn was charged with and plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI. By his own standards Robert Mueller was guilty of making “false statements” in his parting gift to Democrat impeachment seekers. He was not, however, under legal oath which is maybe why Democrats did not want him to be questioned by Congress in a hearing beforehand. Mueller has had to walk back his lie about Office of Legal Counsel policy kept him from indicting a sitting president. In his alleged “farewell” address, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller managed to channel...

May. 31, 2019 - 6:10 - 'The Clinton folks' and Democrats in Congress perpetuated the Russia collusion hoax and need to be held accountable by the press, says California Congressman Devin Nunes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.

Since the release of the Mueller report in April, Attorney General Bill Barr has been attacked by the deranged left for refusing to fall in line with their Russian collusion narrative. They panicked when he used the term "spying" to describe the action taken against the Trump campaign in 2016. He's been accused of "protecting the president" and the salty language in Washington D.C. significantly ramped up after he announced an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe. Lamenting his actions, Democrats and their allies in the media have been feigning concern by asking, "But what about Barr's reputation?...

Forget the First Amendment: 41% of college students believe hate speech SHOULD NOT be protected by the constitution as more universities cancel controversial campus speakers Less than half (41%) of college students say hate speech shouldn't be protected under the First Amendment, according to a new surveyJust 58% of college students said that hate speech should be protected under the amendment, which guarantees American's a right to freedom of speech Experts say those attitudes are problematic and illustrate a lack of education and understanding of the Constitution - and why free speech protections exist Some 41 percent of college students say...

Reservists on Duty Fight for Israel on College Campuses “UC-Irvine is the most dangerous place for Jews today.” May 31, 2019 Daniel Greenfield AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to Facebook 304Share to TwitterShare to More43Share to Print 31 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 Israel Apartheid Week and the Israeli veterans and student activists of Reservists on Duty are reporting to campuses across America. Their mission is fighting back against the lies and the hate. The annual anti-Israel campus events have become...

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