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I’d like to think I always felt pride in our nation. I’d like to think I always displayed respect for our flag and the men and women who serve in our military.  I thought I’d seen some great parades, fireworks, and pre-game ceremonies displaying true patriotism in the past. But I have to be honest.  I had to go to Europe to “get it.”Only one percent of us serve in our nation’s military today.  That’s not many who have an immediate family member serving.  Only they deeply know and internalize what being a part of that selfless fraternity is all about.American...

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California has morphed from paradise into a garbage state run by garbage people for their own garbage benefit and amusement. The “garbage” part is literal – once the Sierra Nevada mountains symbolized the state; now, towering heaps of trash and human waste do. Welcome to what the Democrats want for all of America. Just watch your step. Literally. If it were not for the climate, something the liberals in charge of my state have nothing to do with as much as they think they do, it would likely be a nearly empty desert once again. But the sun shines, the...

A giant public artwork costing £45,000 dubbed 'Britain's worst sculpture' is going to be demolished just months after it was installed. The four stone plinths were erected in The Cornhill in Ipswich, Suffolk, last December as part of a £3.6m regeneration project aimed at bringing a 'wow factor' to the area. But the structures - dubbed Cornhenge by locals - quickly prompted criticism that it was an 'ugly waste of money.'

President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that tariffs on China could be raised by another $300 billion if necessary. “Our talks with China, a lot of interesting things are happening. We’ll see what happens ... I could go up another at least $300 billion and I’ll do that at the right time,” Trump said Thursday, according to Reuters, without giving details on what goods could be targeted. “But I think China wants to make a deal and I think Mexico wants to make a deal badly,” he said at the Irish airport of Shannon on his way to France for...

Immigration policy is sure to be a top issue in North Carolina’s 2020 Republican primary for U.S. Senate. For Garland Tucker III, it is part of the reason why he is challenging incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis. When Tucker appeared on The Sean Hannity Show May 8 to announce his campaign for Tillis’ seat in 2020, he said he was most concerned with Tillis’ “weak” immigration policies. “He co-sponsored a bill that not only provided amnesty, but provided a clear path to citizenship for illegal immigrants,” Tucker said on the radio show. PolitiFact reached out to Tucker’s campaign to ask what...

House Democrats, who are probing President Trump's taxes and finances, also are working on an event that will bring a Yale psychiatrist to talk about the president's mental state. Lawmakers are planning to focus on Trump's mental faculties at a Capitol event that will feature Dr. Bandy Lee, a Yale psychiatrist who edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and who has raised public warnings about her diagnosis of the president's 'deteriorating' mental state. Lee has promoted concerns about Trump's mental capacity in TV appearances and through the book, which features articles by other academics and trained psychitrists.

WASHINGTON — President Trump has utterly remade the federal judiciary, filling vacancies that had been held open by congressional Republicans during President Barack Obama’s eight years in office. Just two years into his own term, Trump has successfully installed two Supreme Court justices — something it took Obama eight years to do — and appointed 40 circuit court judges, who handle the all-important task of fielding appeals. But in recent months, the battle over judges has moved to district court, the lowest of three major rungs of the federal judiciary and where most major cases — whether concerning guns or...

Students at Rowan University this fall will be able to reduce stress and homesickness by visiting with therapy dogs on campus. Businessman Gerald Schreiber, of J&J Snack Foods Corp. of Pennsauken, has donated $3 million to the university to establish The Schreiber Family Pet Therapy Program of Rowan University. The gift will establish a self-sustaining program to bring up to five certified therapy dogs to the Glassboro campus five days a week. The permanent program will expand upon “Paws for a Break,” a once-a-month venture that had become so popular among students that a line of more than 100 people...

Democratic presidential hopeful and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is rebuffing his repeated entreaties for a primary debate focused on climate change. "Today, my team received a call from the Democratic National Committee letting us know that they will not host a climate debate. Further, they explained that if we participated in anyone else's climate debate, we will not be invited to future debates," Inslee said in a statement. "This is deeply disappointing. The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the...

President Trump planned to join other world leaders in Europe on Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, a monumental event that was largely responsible for shaping the outcome of World War II. The ceremony was to take place on the edge of Omaha Beach in Normandy where thousands of American and Allied soldiers lost their lives. Trump, continuing the tradition of his predecessors, will stand alongside leaders from Britain, Canada, France, and even Germany to pay homage to the troops who stormed the fortified Normandy to help turn the tide of the war.

Designated terrorist group CAIR demands House censure Rep. Duncan Hunter, a U.S. Marine veteran, for saying he probably killed civilians during his 3 combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan JUNE 5, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM CAIR’s perpetual Muslim troublemakers also have their panties in a wad over Hunter admitting during a town hall in San Diego to privately taking pictures and posing next to dead Muslim enemy combatants. CAIR In an interview for Barstool Sports’ Zero Blog Thirty podcast, Hunter said that during the shelling of the Iraqi city of Fallujah: “I was an artillery officer and we fired hundreds of...

Pope Francis has changed the Lord's Prayer after criticising the English translation for implying that God - not Satan - leads people into temptation. Francis approved an alteration the line 'lead us not into temptation' which now reads 'do not let us fall into temptation', which is closer to the French translation. Speaking about the change back in 2017, Francis said: 'It's Satan who leads us into temptation, that's his department.' ... Francis also approved changes to The Gloria from 'Peace on earth to people of good will' to 'Peace on Earth to people beloved by God.' During the General...

President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a commemoration ceremony for the 75th anniversary of D-Day in the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy on June 6. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

A VILE protester who yelled "Nazi scum" at a milkshake-drenched Trump supporter has today been revealed as a company boss who sells private services to the NHS. Siobhan Prigent was filmed hurling abuse in the face of a fan of the President in London as Donald Trump and The Queen attended 75th anniversary commemorations for the D-Day landings. And the 35-year-old protester was today unmasked as the owner of a company VLEK Ltd that provides clinical trial coordination at University College London Hospital. Siobhan sparked an outcry after she was caught on camera laughing as the Trump supporter was attacked...

PORTSMOUTH, England – President Donald Trump read from a prayer delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he joined other world leaders and veterans Wednesday in marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Roosevelt went on national radio on June 6, 1944, to address the U.S. for the first time about the Normandy invasion. Trump, with images of an American flag and Roosevelt projected behind him, read to the crowd: "Almighty God, our sons, pride of our nation, this day, have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion and our civilization and to set free...

...why is its outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery surface? University of Michigan researchers believe they have the answer, and hope to prove it with help from NASA's Parker Solar Probe. In roughly two years, the probe will be the first manmade craft to enter the zone surrounding the sun where heating looks fundamentally different than what has previously been seen in space. This will allow them to test their theory that the heating is due to small magnetic waves travelling back and forth within the zone... Such high temperatures cause the solar atmosphere to swell to many times the...

Amid the question of whether Democrats will enact impeachment proceedings, a majority of Americans say they expect President Donald Trump to win re-election in 2020, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The CNN/SSRS poll found that 54% of Americans said Trump will likely win the 2020 election, including those who disapprove of his job performance. Only 41% said they think he will lose. The number represents a significant shift from December when 51% said they thought Trump would lose in 2020. The change in numbers comes largely from those who disapprove of the president. Seven months ago, 81% of...

Here’s what’s been happening in New York City over the past year: Jews who are visibly Jewish have been getting assaulted in record numbers. We’ve seen numerous videos of these assaults, in which a bearded man in a yarmulke is smashed in the head or knocked down or otherwise physically set upon by one or two African-American men. We’ve also seen videos like the one in which Rabbi Uriel Vigler took care to photograph the menacing conduct of a man who followed him along an Upper East Side street, taunting him and then calling him the “devil” as he fled...

After years of smearing good people with false charges of bigotry, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has finally been held to account. A former Islamic radical named Maajid Nawaz sued the center for including him in its bogus “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” and this week the SPLC agreed to pay him a $3.375 million settlement and issued a public apology. The SPLC is a once-storied organization that did important work filing civil rights lawsuits against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. But it has become a caricature of itself, labeling virtually anyone who does not fall in...