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Death and taxes are said to be the only things in life that are certain. However, I’ll add another: Democrats never accept political defeat even when that includes election losses. With that in mind, the Democrat strategy going into the 2020 election is simple. They will play the race and gender card like it is some kind of sport. They’ll drudge up reparations for slavery while claiming voter suppression continues as if we are still in the post-Civil War Reconstruction period in America in the South where black voters continued to be disenfranchised by Democrats until the passage of the...

I know someone, now in the twilight of her life, who has lived on the same London street for the past 45 years. Many of her local friends have died or moved away. Where the street once buzzed with English, spoken in a variety of accents, now you can go through an entire day without hearing English. From her small terraced house, she hears Pashto over one garden fence, Romanian over the other. In the nearby row of shops, the English-speaking Indian-owned mini-supermarkets have given way to Polish shops outside which young men gather every evening, speaking Polish. The cockney...

Julián Castro on Monday released a plan that the Democratic White House hopeful said would reform the U.S. policing system and heal the relationship between police and their communities. With the "People First Policing Plan," Castro wants to set new national standards on police conduct, increase transparency and accountability in police departments, seek to end over-policing and address violence and harassment against minority citizens. “From Stephon Clark, to Pamela Turner, to Tamir Rice, far too many lives have been tragically cut short at the hands of a broken police system,” the former Housing and Urban Development Secretary said in a...

I just tried to buy some health insurance and gee whiz, I am not allowed! How about that? It seems in New York you can only buy it in November due to the Obamacare enrollment mandate. I just got off the phone with a broker who told me. What kind of insanity is this? So if I get some disease or severely injured from now till November I'm basically screwed. Isn't government intervention wonderful?

"Crossfire Hurricane” — the melodramatic code name for the FBI/CIA spy operation on candidate Trump and his early presidency — was run for the FBI by then-FBI Director James Comey, his deputy Andrew McCabe, Special Agent Peter Strzok, and others. Then-CIA director John Brennan ran it for the CIA. Brennan had to have help, but who was it? A lot of evidence points to the CIA’s then-chief of station in London in 2016-2017, and now the Director of Central Intelligence, Gina Haspel. President Trump claimed that the FBI and CIA’s spying on his campaign and early presidency was treason. Attorney...

This week, we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history. It was the crucial turning point in the war with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, one that began the liberation of German-occupied France and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. The D-Day landings: There were at least 10,000 Allied casualties, with 4,414 confirmed dead +8 The D-Day landings: There were at least 10,000 Allied casualties, with 4,414 confirmed dead It was also the moment that most perfectly exemplified and cemented the special relationship between Britain and America, the...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan made a video with lifestyle brand Elle UK criticizing President Trump for values he said were contrary to London’s values. The video posted Monday starts with Kahn holding a sign with the words “Dear Trump … Elle” in a building overlooking part of the city. “President Trump, if you’re watching this your values and what you stand for are the complete opposite of London’s values and the values in this country,” Khan said in a video posted to the lifestyle company’s Twitter account. “We think diversity is not a weakness, diversity is a strength, we respect...

If you are bewildered by the weird antipathy with which Democrats and the media regard Attorney General William Barr, consider a passage from the Nobel Prize acceptance speech delivered by Polish dissident Czesław Miłosz in 1980: “In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.” Our government hasn’t yet devolved into the kind of totalitarian regime under which Poland groaned at that time, but there is a conspiracy of silence surrounding the skullduggery that led to the Russia collusion fraud, and Barr fired that metaphorical pistol on April 10,...

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Researcher Evette Alexander told Hill.TV this week that there is a gender divide on college campuses when it comes to prioritizing free speech versus inclusion. "Men and women felt quite differently on what they considered the greater priority," Alexander, who is director of learning and impact at the Knight Foundation, told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton in a "Rising" interview that aired Friday. "It was a predictor of whether they would favor free speech over inclusion or inclusion over free speech." "We found that a substantial majority of college men, 71 percent, said that promoting free speech was the...

DEERFIELD, N.Y. -- Gun rights advocates are standing behind a Central New York homeowner who shot and killed two people who were attempting to burglarize his home earlier this week. More than $6,000 has been raised in a GoFundMe campaign to help Ronald Stolarczyk with his legal fees. Stolarczyk, 64, of Deerfield, was charged with having an unregistered handgun after he shot the people who were burglarizing his home, police said. He was charged with criminal possession of a firearm, a felony, and remains in jail. The handgun was unregistered. Stolarczyk told authorities the gun was his father’s, and when...

Pope Francis is noted for his ambiguous statements, but I find the indeterminate meaning contained in the Abu Dhabi statement the most egregious. Here is why. Given the pluralism of world religions, many contemporary academics and pundits argue that Christianity can no longer claim itself to be the one true religion. Not only do those who profess other religious beliefs question Christianity’s uniqueness, but Christians, lay and ecclesial, do so as well. The ultimate question is: Is Jesus singular or is he merely one of many founders of various world religions? This issue assumed new prominence and urgency when in...

BALTIMORE - Baltimore’s mayor believes he has a solution to solving some of the violence in the city: Public boxing matches. After eight shootings and 11 stabbing incidents in the city over the weekend, Mayor Jack Young said he is trying to find ways to ease tensions in the city. "If they want to really settle them, we can have them down at the civic center, put a boxing ring up and let them go and box it out,” Young told WBAL. “Those kinds of things, you know, and the best man wins and the beef should be over. Those...

House Democrats are proposing a 3.1 percent pay hike for federal workers in 2020. The raise was included in the draft appropriations bill covering financial services and general government, which is expected to advance through a subcommittee hearing on Monday and advance to the House floor later in the month. President Trump blocked a scheduled 2.1 percent increase in pay to federal workers last year, in an order that froze federal pay. He later agreed to a 1.9 percent increase in federal pay that was included in a spending package passed by Congress. The draft bill with the pay hike...

Thousands of academics are gathering in Vancouver for the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences from June 1-7. They will present papers on everything from child marriage in Canada to why dodgeball is problematic. In its Oh, The Humanities! series, the National Post showcases some of the most interesting research. The games children play in schoolyards are famously horrible, if you stop and think about them. Tag, for example, singles out one poor participant, often the slowest child, as the dehumanized “It,” who runs vainly in pursuit of the quicker ones. Capture the Flag is nakedly militaristic. British...

As Amazon Synod approaches, Vatican’s claims about environment deserve scrutiny Editor’s Note: Steve Mosher has written a two-part series on the upcoming Amazonian Synod. Part I, below, addresses certain scientific claims about the Amazon made by the synod organizers, chiefly Cardinal Barreto. Part II will address the cardinal’s new proposals — purportedly based on lessons learned from the indigenous peoples of the Amazon — on how the Church can achieve gender equality, alleviate the priest shortage, and use environmentally appropriate matter in the celebration of the Eucharist. May 30, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Preparations are in full swing for the Special...

A heroic dad repeatedly punched a shark that almost killed his daughter in a terrifying attack in North Carolina, according to his family. Paige Winter, 17, lost a leg and some fingers after getting mauled in the water at Fort Macon beach on Sunday. She was airlifted 80 miles to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville where a rep told NewsChannel 12 that her “heroic father … saved her life.” “Thank God our son was with her,” Paige’s grandmother Janet Winter said of Charlie Winter, a former US Marine who is also a local firefighter. “He said he punched the shark...

Attorney Joe DiGenova discusses recent events in Russia investigation with WMAL-Baltimore's Morning on the Mall team Monday, June 3, 2019.Click on source link to access podcast. Approx. 8 minutes

So I finally started watching some of the summer shows. I'm not into psychics but I thought I'd give the show, The InBetween, a view. Its a cop show where this one cop (the star) has a psychic on the side helping him figure out cases. As I found it mildly entertaining I started watching close keeping up with the plot. Then about 20-30 minutes in, the cop goes to this house and nearly runs over and plants a quick smooch on his other. His other being another fellow taller than him. It took me about 5 seconds to hit...

Hello Folks. Little help needed here. Got my first iPhone, the XS Max and when I log in to FR the font size is terribly small. Cannot figure out how to make it larger.