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Organizers of an annual conference that brings together people who believe that the Earth is flat are planning a cruise to the purported edge of the planet. They're looking for the ice wall that holds back the oceans. The journey will take place in 2020, the Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) recently announced on its website. The goal? To test so-called flat-Earthers' assertion that Earth is a flattened disk surrounded at its edge by a towering wall of ice. Believers in a flat Earth argue that images showing a curved horizon are fake and that photos of a round Earth...

The reality is that ICE has long offered transgender illegal immigrants special services under an Obama-era policy that the Trump administration can easily reverse but has chosen not to. ICE officials and frontline personnel are outraged that the Trump administration continues the policies, which some in the agency refer to as dangerous, expensive and foolish. Rank and file are at their wits end, according to ICE officials interviewed by Judicial Watch this week. “Two and a half years of the Trump administration and we still have Obama detention standards,” said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, which represents...

Showdown: Is Dino Soft Tissue Just Bacteria? June 18, 2019 | David F. Coppedge By dismissing dinosaur soft tissue as bacteria, Field Museum scientists may have given creationists a selling point. Scientists at Chicago’s prestigious Field Museum of Paleontology have made a frontal assault on claims of original dinosaur proteins in dinosaur bones. The claims, made primarily by Mary Schweitzer at North Carolina State University, and by others, have invigorated young-earth creationists with alleged proof that the bones are only thousands of years old, not tens of millions. Are they wrong? Were they looking at bacterial biofilms masquerading as dinosaur...

Gordon Cole (played by David Lynch), is a Regional Bureau Chief in the FBI and Agent Cooper's immediate superior. He is very hard of hearing and thus speaks very loudly. He often misunderstands what is said to him and replies with comically inappropriate responses. While in Twin Peaks, Cooper and Cole go to the Double R Diner where he is smitten by waitress Shelly Johnson, whom he claims he can hear perfectly well...Gordon Cole and Shelly Johnson - scene at the Double R Diner ("Twin Peaks", 1990)

n “ideal world” would include no handguns, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro told The New York Times during an interview project. The NYT asked 21 Democratic presidential hopefuls 18 questions for the project released Wednesday. Former Vice President Joe Biden was the only person to reject repeated requests to participate, The NYT reported. One question asked the Democrats: “In an ideal world, would anyone own handguns?” “In an ideal world, people wouldn’t own handguns,” Castro replied on video. “And there are a number of countries around the world where people do not own handguns, where they’re...

Acting chief says goal is to 'send a message' to would-be migrantsActing chief says goal is to 'send a message' to would-be migrants It’s not the “millions” President Trump promised, but ICE’s chief said Wednesday that his agency will put a renewed effort into trying to find and deport illegal immigrant families who’ve already had their day in court, have been ordered removed, and yet are defying those orders. Mark Morgan, acting director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said he’ll shift some resources to put more behind interior enforcement in the community, hoping to “send a message” that showing...

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools [...] 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: [...] 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of...

Police identified the pregnant mother as Sierra Wilson Cahoon, 30, and her son as 2-year-old Nolan. They were the wife and son of Matt Cahoon, an assistant athletic trainer at Carson-Newman University, a Christian school that sits less than a quarter-mile from where the crash occurred. Investigators believe Phillips hopped behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Impala and drove west down East Main Street around 3:30 p.m. Monday, twice swerving onto the sidewalk to intentionally hit pedestrians, according to Jefferson City Police Department Capt. Darrell Turley. Phillips first hit Tillman Gunter, 61, who was taken to a local hospital with...

Jeff Foxworthy: If plastic water bottles are okay, but plastic bags are banned, — you might live in a nation (state) that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might...

Two very active seniors (Jacob, age 92, and Mary, age 89), living in The Villages, are all excited about their decision to get married. They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding, and on the way they pass a drugstore. Jacob suggests they go in. Jacob addresses the man behind the counter, "Are you the owner?" The pharmacist answers, "Yes." Jacob says, "We're about to get married. Do you sell heart medication?" The Pharmacist: "Of course we do." Jacob: "How about medicine for circulation?" Pharmacist: "All kinds." Jacob: "Medicine for rheumatism?" Pharmacist: "Definitely." Jacob: "How about suppositories and medicine...

President Trump last night clearly signaled that his re-election campaign is going to be built on not just his track record of accomplishments – standard stuff for any re-election campaign – but something quite unusual – an attack on the conspiracy against his presidency that generated the Russia Hoax. Politicians (the Hillary campaign, and probably President Obama), conspired with unelected bureaucrats from the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies and members of the media (Comey’s leak to CNN of his White House conversation with Trump over the Steele Dossier) to perpetrate the hoax intended at removing an elected president from...

VIDEO Notice how the CNN commentators such as Allisyn Camerota and John Berman today all seem to be fed the same laughable spin to recite about President Donald Trump's yuuuuge rally in Orlando, Florida. This "nothing new" spin comes after CNN's initial panic over the incredible enthusiasm of the crowd for Trump.

The gun will be auctioned in France on Wednesday (June 19), where it's expected to sell for more than $50,000. For years, most Van Gogh experts have accepted the explanation that he shot himself in the chest with a pistol in a suicide in July 1890 Van Gogh lived on for 30 hours before dying from the wound. His last words, according to his brother Theo, were "the sadness will last forever." But in 2011, biographers Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh argued that Van Gogh didn't shoot himself, but was shot accidentally by 16-year-old René Secrétan, who was spending...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday shrugged off the notion of censuring President Trump, dismissing that strategy as insufficient to the task of holding the president accountable for allegations of misconduct in office. "I think censure is just a way out," Pelosi said during a breakfast with reporters in Washington hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "If you're going to go, you've got to go. If the goods are there, you must impeach. And censure is nice, but it is not commensurate with the violations of the Constitution — should we decide that's the way to go," she added. "That's...

President Donald Trump kicked off his formal reelection campaign Tuesday night with a rally in Orlando. His 76-minute speech featured more than 15 false statements, many of them ones that he's repeated frequently in the past. Here's a fact check: ENERGY Trump boasted about his administration's energy policies. "And we've ended the last administration's cruel and heartless law on American energy. What they were doing to our energy should never be forgotten. The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world." "We are, by the way, the number-one producer of energy in...

President Trump has cut into former Vice President Joe Biden's lead in Wisconsin and the two are in a statistical dead heat in Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to a new poll of the 2020 race. But the latest survey from Firehouse-Optimus also finds Trump’s approval rating is underwater in all three battleground states, which are the linchpins of his reelection strategy. If the 2016 map stays the same but Democrats are able to win back Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, they will win the Electoral College and take the White House back from Trump. The polls come as Trump is set...

We tracked down the 2020 Democrats and asked them the same set of questions. The Questions: 1. In an ideal world, would anyone own handguns? 2. Would your focus be improving the Affordable Care Act or replacing it with single payer? 3. Do you think it’s possible for the next president to stop climate change? 4. Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights? 5. Who is your hero, and why? 6. Would there be American troops in Afghanistan at the end of your first term? 7. How many hours of sleep do you get a night? 8....

He apologized to those who watched the president’s address, noting they might have felt “discombobulated” and immediately took aim at Trump for failing to mention what Sanders considers one of the most pressing issues of the modern era: Climate change. The scientific community overwhelmingly says climate change is a “crisis,” Sanders claimed, adding it is “real” and “caused by man-made activities.” “Maybe I missed it, ” he said. “I did not hear Donald Trump mention one word about the planetary crisis of climate change.” Trump, Sanders said, lives in a “parallel universe” and proceeded to describe him as a “racist,”...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's purported "top climate change expert" and the agency's highest paid employee, John C. Beale, was arrested and convicted of fraud. Turns out that while at EPA, Beale pretended to also work for the CIA and for years had wasted his official employment time while loafing around his house in his underwear. Taxpayers are mad about Beale's theft of their money, and "climate change" advocates are humiliated, because Beale's purported knowledge and expertise about this made-up subject was also similarly made up. Beale was an expert at lying; that is it. I am...

Hours after he formally kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign, a new national poll offers some encouraging numbers for President Trump. The release Wednesday of a Suffolk University survey for USA Today comes a day after another poll in the crucial presidential battleground state of Florida showed the president trailing -- and as several other polls have similarly shown high-profile Democratic candidates ahead. But the USA Today/Suffolk University survey showed 49 percent of Americans approving of the job Trump’s doing as president, with 48 percent giving him a thumbs down. That’s a more positive showing for Trump compared with other...