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Texas’ Senate overwhelmingly passed a measure by a 20-to-11 margin that removes the cap on the number of school personnel that can carry firearms at schools. The bill heads to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk, and he is certain to sign it into law.

The chilling fact is that mass public killers are attracted to targets where people can’t defend themselves. The Virginia Beach attack is all too familiar. Ninety-eight percent of US mass public shootings since 1950 have occurred in places where people weren’t allowed to defend themselves.

PARKLAND, Fla. (WFLA) - The former Broward County deputy who was the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during last year's deadly mass shooting has been arrested on several counts of child neglect.

San Jose, California — Apple today unveiled several innovative technologies that make it dramatically easier and faster for developers to create powerful new apps. SwiftUI is a revolutionary development framework that makes building powerful user interfaces easier than ever before. ARKit 3, RealityKit and Reality Composer are advanced tools designed to make it even easier for developers to create compelling AR experiences for consumer and business apps. New tools and APIs greatly simplify the process of bringing iPad apps to Mac. And updates to Core ML and Create ML allow for more powerful and streamlined on-device machine learning apps.

The 75th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, is an especially appropriate time to stop for a moment of silence. Many young Americans volunteered for military service after the attack at Pearl Harbor. Millions went off to Europe to fight against Hitler and the Nazis. Far too many never made it home again.

In my MBA program, I was fortunate to have a practicing psychologist teach a course on management. He used a variety of teaching methods, but one in particular involved discussing and debating case studies. The case studies would present this or that management challenge and we would each present and discuss our solution. When we first started, we were surprised at how easy it was to solve these supposed management dilemmas. We’d confidently explain how we would address these issues and most of the class would agree. “I’ll just make them do this or that.” “I’ll just make them get...

The ‘Plague’ of Leftism is Evident in Our Filthy Cities By Mike Huckabee Published on June 4, 2019 • If you want to see the results of leftist policies, go to the cities that are run by the most elite, wealthy and “progressive” people, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, where homelessness, filth and disease are taking over. The scene is shocking and heartbreaking.In an appearance on Monday’s Hannity, I pointed out that this is the kind of thing that used to be seen only in Third World countries. For decades, we could be confident that we had eradicated...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) - Authorities say a suspect was shot and killed after multiple attempted carjackings at a Sun City Center Publix parking lot. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported carjacking at the Publix located at 4854 Sun City Boulevard and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. The man was taken to South Bay Hospital and pronounced dead. Investigators suspect the man had tried to carjack four vehicles before entering a business with a handgun. A manager of one of the businesses was confronted by the suspect when he went outside to check his...

The number of homeless people counted across Los Angeles County jumped 12% over the past year to nearly 59,000, with more young and old people and families on the streets, officials said Tuesday. The majority of the homeless people were found within the city of Los Angeles, which saw a 16% increase to 36,300, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority said while presenting January's annual count to the county Board of Supervisors. The previous tally found a slight decrease in the homeless population. Two years ago, voters passed a tax hike and housing bond to make massive investments to help...

Nice video of Japanese perspective on how 15 minutes changed the world.

A 17-year-old Dutch girl was legally allowed to kill herself using euthanasia after she was raped at age 14 and spent years battling depression, according to a report Tuesday.

Mueller should be disbarred; charged with prosecutorial misconduct and sedition. He PURPOSELY deceived the American people in and attempt to depose a president under false allegations. He KNOWS he, as a law enforcement investigator that he CANNOT “exonerate”, a judicial act. He can ONLY investigate and when he finds “insufficient evidence” ALL he can do is state so, which he did. But he also implied that he COULD have if Trump had been innocent, the implication being a LIE. EXAMPLE: Robert Mueller beats his wife and is a pedophile. An anonymous Russian source reports (via MI-6) that it was actually...

Former Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson has been charged with child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury in connection with the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/04/us/parkland-scot-peterson-charges/

Because OF COURSE, Chris Cuomo thought it was a good idea to interview Obama’s wingman, Eric Holder, about impeaching Donald Trump. This IS CNN

In "The Empire Strikes Back," Yoda is asked by Luke a question about the future, and he replies, "Always in motion is the future." Even the wise Yoda could not always foresee future events. Today, of course, we have "futurists" who, analyzing current demography, economic developments, political trends, and so on, predict future events. Perhaps the most famous of these was Herman Kahn, who in 1967 published "The Year 2000," in which he made a number of accurate predictions, including widespread use of lasers, the use of shape-charged explosives, more accurate long-term weather forecasting, and extensive expansion of agriculture. (Don't...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the FBI has access to about 640 million photographs — including from driver’s licenses, passports and mugshots — that can be searched using facial recognition technology. The figure reflects how the technology is becoming an increasingly powerful law enforcement tool, but is also stirring fears about the potential for authorities to intrude on the lives of Americans. It was reported by the Government Accountability Office at a congressional hearing in which both Democrats and Republicans raised questions about the use of the technology. The FBI maintains a database known as the Interstate Photo...

218 pages of disgraced former FBI officials Peter Strzok-Lisa Page emails received by Judicial Watch show then-FBI General Counsel James Baker instructed FBI officials to expedite the release of FBI investigative material to Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall in August 2016. Kendall and the FBI’s top lawyer discussed specifically quickly obtaining the “302” report of the FBI/DOJ interview of Mrs. Clinton. The emails also reveal that the FBI didn’t document at least four interviews of witnesses in the Clinton email investigation. The documents were obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to...

The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, including a ban on many forms of educational and recreational travel. The Treasury Department said in a statement that the U.S. will no longer allow the group educational and cultural trips known as “people to people” travel to the island. Those trips have been used by thousands of American citizens to visit the island even before the U.S. restored full diplomatic relations with the communist government in December 2014. Treasury said it would also deny permission for private and corporate aircraft and boats....

Washington, DC – -(AmmoLand.com)- Former and current Trump supporters will unite to protest against illegal immigration, DACA, Amnesty legislation (HR 6), and Presidential catch and release policies outside of the White House on Saturday, June 8, 2019 for a Stand Up America and Stop Illegal Immigration Rally. Racially inclusive peaceful groups, activists, congressional candidates, and angel families are invited to speak in the southwest corner of Lafayette Square, directly across from the White House, to increase pressure on the Trump administration to stop breaking numerous campaign promises on immigration issues. (View tracking list) President Trump’s administration has disappointed many supporters...

A major political crisis in Russia is “inevitable,” Valery Solovey says, not because of the economic crisis but because of “a qualitative change in the mass consciousness” of Russians who once again have come to believe that radical changes are no longer precluded and that if they are so inclined, they can achieve what they couldn’t before. The symptoms of this looming crisis, are five: "a qualitative change in mass consciousness,” “the destruction of propaganda” as an effective tool, “the crisis in the personal leadership of Putin,” “the crisis in administration at all levels and in all sectors,” and “the...