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He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, the sitting Vice-President Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel JULY 11, 1804. Alexander Hamilton was born in the British West Indies on the Island of Nevis, either in the year 1755 or 1757, and grew up on the Island of St. Croix. Just a few years earlier, in 1751, 19-year-old George Washington had accompanied his older half-brother Lawrence on a trip to the not too distant Island of Barbados. Since Alexander Hamilton's parents were not legally married, he was not permitted to attend...

Icebreaker Xuelong 2 joins service on China national maritime day Global Times By Deng Xiaoci Source:Global Times Published: 2019/7/11 16:35:32 China's first domestically built polar research vessel and icebreaker, Xuelong 2, was delivered to the China polar research institute in Shanghai on Thursday afternoon, China National Maritime Day, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. The delivery in Shanghai on Thursday afternoon further enhances the country's polar research capability. Xuelong 2, with a displacement of 13,996 tons, is 122.5 meters long and 22.32 meters wide. Finnish engineering company Aker Artic and the 708th Research Institute of the China State Shipbuilding...

Not long after a 14-year-old girl reported Jeffery Epstein to authorities in 2005, she says she received a warning from someone who claimed to be in contact with the well-connected financier. The girl would be paid cash if she agreed not to cooperate with law enforcement, the person told the accuser, adding that "those who help him will be compensated and those who hurt him will be dealt with," according to a Palm Beach, Florida, police report reflecting the accuser's statement. The threat was one of many intimidation and bare-knuckle tactics that accusers and witnesses told police they faced after...

July 12, 2019 MEMRI Daily Brief No.191 The Doha Agreement – Paving The Way For The Taliban's Takeover Of Afghanistan And Enforcement Of Shari'a-Based Governance By: Tufail Ahmad* The July 7-8 talks between the Taliban and Afghan delegates in Doha. Introduction At the July 7-8 talks in Doha, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization), backed by Qatar and the U.S., emerged victorious, extracting major advantages from Afghan delegates and the international community. A key Taliban advantage was that they held on to the Islamic Emirate's long-standing position of not recognizing the elected government of Afghanistan as a legitimate...

After feedback from the field, Hornady took another stab at its DGX and gave it a bonded core, creating a bullet that ‘is both sound and stout, and represents a great value for any hunter.’ Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have noticed the number of Hornady bullets that have been released over the last decade or so. The ELD-X, the ELD Match, the pair of the DGS (Dangerous Game Solid) and DGX (Dangerous Game eXpanding), and the all-new A-Tip match bullet are just a few. Regarding cartridge development and revitalization, Hornady has been been instrumental in...

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we are pleased to bring you High Level Hornpipe by Howdy Forrester (1962). Here is a little history on the tune: "One of the most popular hornpipes in the Scottish Repertoire, it was fashioned by 19th century fiddler James Hill (c. 1815–c. 1860), a noted composer of hornpipes who lived in Gateshead, Northumberland, England (near Newcastle), though born in Dundee, Scotland. Little is known about his life, although he seems to have been a sometime publican, and was a popular tavern fiddler and sports enthusiast. The "High Level Hornpipe" was apparently first published in Britain...

Nominee for Top US General: Afghan Withdrawal Would Be 'Strategic Mistake' July 11, 2019 President Donald Trump's nominee for the top military officer of the United States says leaving Afghanistan prematurely would be a "strategic mistake," as the U.S. and the Taliban are negotiating a potential peace settlement to end nearly two decades of war. "I think it is slow, it's painful, it's hard. I spent a lot of my life in Afghanistan, but I also think it's necessary," Army Gen. Mark Milley, the current Army Chief of Staff and nominee for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told...

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s testimony before Congress could be delayed until July 24, a week later than originally scheduled, to accommodate questioning from more members, multiple media outlets reported Friday. Mueller and House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler have been negotiating the framework of the hearing for weeks and announced yesterday that the special counsel’s testimony, initially scheduled for next Wednesday, July 17, would last no more than two hours. The hearing set for July 24 has been lengthened to three hours.

Social Security is our nation's most successful social program -- but it's also in some pretty big trouble. According to the April-released Social Security Board of Trustees report, the program won't bring in enough revenue over the long term (the next 75 years) to cover outlays to beneficiaries, inclusive of cost-of-living adjustments. The silver lining for seniors who are dependent on Social Security as a major source of income is that the program is in no danger of disappearing or going bankrupt. Recurring sources of revenue, such as the payroll tax and the taxation of benefits, ensure that there will...

Trump’s goal with the census question was the same as with his 4th of July celebration announcement. Get Democrats to strongly oppose a popular and common sense idea. With the issue of whether or not to include a question about citizenship on the census survey now seemingly tabled, it’s a good time to look once again at how Trump trolled Democrats into publicly opposing something that most people find to be simple common sense. But first, let’s go back a few days to the July 4th holiday because Trump used almost the same technique to great effect. Before the July...

SOUTHCOM CO: China’s Influence Growing in Western Hemisphere By: John Grady July 10, 2019 1:21 PM Adm. Craig Faller, the commander of U.S. Southern Command, arrives to Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras on June 20, 2019. US Marine Corps Photo China’s soft power moves in the Western Hemisphere – from building ports to sharing information on space and offering wireless 5G technologies – “have hard aims” with military implications that are drawing increased attention in Washington, the admiral in charge of U.S. Southern Command told a Senate panel on Tuesday. Referring to a military-run facility Beijing has built in Argentina,...

In a stunning press conference today U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains why she she has taken no action to curb the illegal immigration influx into the U.S. While explaining why she will not allow congress to debate, change or modify U.S. immigration laws, Pelosi outlines how the United States is part of a global society, without borders and without any sovereign right to impede the “human society” from entering our nation. Therefore, according to her outlook and worldview, U.S. politicians have no right to stop any migration movement. Keep this in mind as we approach the 2020 election. The...

M 4.6 - 0km SSW of Three Lakes, Washington 2019-07-12 09:51:38 (UTC)47.871°N 122.000°W24.3 km depth Did You Feel It?  

The smartest man in the world once explained a metaphor apropos to this moment in time when Robert Mueller will testify before congress.  It goes like this:In front of you sits an ear of corn. You are trying to prove it’s an ear of corn to a room of corn cob deniers. Instead of trying to prove the true nature of what it is, focus your laser inquiry on one specific kernel and hit that single kernel with laser intensity. When that single kernel pops, you will have proved it’s an ear of corn.In a rare moment CTH agrees with...

Joe Biden might as well be nominating President Trump to be the president at next year's Republican National Convention. Via Washington Free Beacon, get a load: CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO "I respect no borders." A perfect sound bite for Trump, and one can almost hear the video clips getting their snips and edits for the upcoming television ads. You'd think he'd be smarter than that, but well, this is Joe Biden. No borders? None at all? Every al-Qaida and cartel kingpin who wants to be here gets to come here and any legal action should maybe be taken only...

The upcoming Meuller fiasco is going to be interesting. Trump and his lawyers have pointed out the "Conflicts of interest" with Meuller taking the SC job. Media isn't interested. This seems to be a huge and serious problem. Now Dershowitz is involved with Epstein. He has represented JE in the past. He was listed as a lawyers for the victims in the previous case(ongoing). Now he is getting free air time to spin his story and block for BJC. When will someone tackle these problems? Making tons of money which is not accounted for, also!

Nightmare in Toontown: Family fight in Disneyland ends in horror Fatima Texiwala (ftexiwala@postmedia.com) Published: Jul 09 at 7:28 p.m. What should have been the happiest place on Earth turned into a nightmare when a family brawl broke out in front of other Disneyland California parkgoers. The horrifying fight centred around a man in a red shirt rampaging the streets of Disney’s Toontown on Saturday. A viral video shows him throwing punches left and right, first at a male then at a female when she gets into the brawl. The two men continue fighting until another person intervenes. The red-shirted man...

The jokes about laying a supply of popcorn are everywhere on the right, as the most powerful elected Democrat and the most-publicized purported symbol of the party’s future tear into each other. It’s been brewing a long time, starting with an Ocasio-Cortez-led sit-in outside Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol office a week after the bartender from the Bronx was elected to Congress, two months before she assumed office. Elle Magazine recaps the development of the squabble ever since that bad start. Along with fellow female freshmen Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Presley, and Ilhan Omar – a group that Pelosi has dubbed “the...

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló — whose administration has been roiled by a corruption probe – has apologized for calling former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito a “whore” and telling a federal board overseeing the island’s finances to “go f— yourself.” Rosselló made the comments in leaked text messages published by local newspaper Primera Hora after the FBI arrested former top officials in his government on corruption charges. In one private chat, he used the Spanish word for “whore” to describe Mark-Viverito – and in another told the Fiscal Oversight Board established by Congress to oversee the territory’s finances to...

There is simply nothing anymore that does not draw forth the social justice warriors to do battle. Sean Davis writes in The Federalist: Amazon is refusing to publish many reviews and ratings of the No. 1 best-selling “Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court,” according to multiple reports from readers who purchased the book directly from Amazon. The behind-the-scenes dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which was written by Carrie Severino and The Federalist’s Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway, debuted at No. 1 on Amazon’s list of best-selling books. The Federalist...