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Video at link. (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), now among the leading contenders for the Democrat presidential nomination, says President Trump's immigration raids are "a crime against humanity." She made the comment Thursday night during an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. Harris argued that President Trump is ordering the immigration raids to distract from his presidential failures: So the guy has now got to start distracting people from the fact that he made all these promises that I believe he had no intention of fulfilling. And he has failed to perform on every level by which we should measure...

An existing struggle over the nature of culture and politics has been reenergized in recent years, in part due to the election of Donald Trump. At least if recent curricular changes for Texas K-12 social studies programs are any indication, that shift has also come to the rarefied world of state education politics. For the 2019-2020 academic year, Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) officials voted in favor of a curriculum that gave pride of place to traditional Texan notions, including describing defenders of the Alamo as “heroes” and highlighting America’s “Judeo-Christian” background such as by voting to include the...

Trumps end goal with the Citizenship question is to reduce the number of Democrats in Congress by removing illegals from Congressional Apportionment. As things stand illegal aliens currently receive Congressional representation. They are included in the counts of total population that are used for Congressional Apportionment. So states with high numbers of illegal immigrants receive extra seats in Congress at the expense of states with lower numbers of illegal aliens. California alone has an extra 5-6 seats in Congress as a result of illegal immigration. That is the main reason that Democrats push illegal immigration and provide sanctuary cities/states. Illegals...

Moose, You Otter Have Beavers Nearby July 9, 2019 | David F. Coppedge Once again, scientists conclude that beavers do a lot of good for other animals and plants. Beavers engineer their ecosystems in a way that helps moose and otters (New Scientist). When naturalists re-introduced beavers into parts of Finland, they noticed “increased activity of several species, including moose, otters, and weasels.”

This is King Troll at his best. Good luck to House Dems in trying to figure out whom they should side with now that the most hated Republican in the country has joined Team Nancy.

Calling America “part of a global society,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended laws that allow illegal immigrants to seek asylum in the US — but added that she could back a change in policy that would have more migrants make the request from their own countries. “Asylum laws are what they are. It’s important for people to understand what they are. We’re part of a global society, and when someone comes to a country seeking asylum, they are not breaking the law coming into the country,” she told reporters during her weekly news conference at the Capitol. “And they have...

Treasury Sanctions Venezuela's Military Counterintelligence Agency Following the Death of a Venezuelan Navy Captain U.S. Department of the Treasury July 11, 2019 Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Government of Venezuela's General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence, or La Dirección General de Contrainteligencia Militar, most commonly known as the DGCIM. This action, taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13850, as amended, targets the DGCIM for operating in Venezuela's defense and security sector. "The politically motivated arrest and tragic death of Captain Rafael Acosta was unwarranted and unacceptable," said Treasury Secretary...

President Trump weighed in on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez feuding with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. "Well, I think Cortez, who kept Amazon out of New York and they don’t like her for that, thousands and thousands of jobs; I think Cortez is being very disrespectful to somebody that’s been there a long time. I deal with Nancy Pelosi a lot and we go back and forth and it’s fine. But I think that a group of people is being very disrespectful to her," Trump told reporters Friday. "I don’t think that Nancy can let that go on." "But Cortez should...

He (PDJT) did not take questions, which prompted some in the press corps, seated at the back because those attending the president’s social media summit were given prime seats at the front, to shout out questions per usual. Playboy’s Brian Karem was being especially vocal, prompting Dr. Sebastian Gorka, host of the radio show American First on Salem Radio Network and former Deputy Assistant to President Trump, to confront Karem calling him a “punk.” Everyone there captured the confrontation, which drew chants of “Gorka” from the social media summit attendees, with one person yelling that the former Trump official could...

Very interesting website.

What if our most lamentable actions, and our most glaring hypocrisies, were reflected back to us in a way impossible to un-see? Would we grow by that? Would we learn the error of our ways? Or is it possible to be so convinced of one's own virtue that his most loathsome trespasses become evidence of surpassing goodness in his mind — and in his tribe? This is the plight of the modern American progressive in maximum "RESIST" mode. (Mirror, mirror, on the wall — who's the most intolerant of all?) Ever since the abject defeat of the anointed one in...

If you ask my detractors, they would tell you that the reason I do not celebrate gay pride is that I’m a bigot. A hater. A homophobe. A transphobe. And I understand their perspective. After all, no matter how Christian I claim to be, if I tell a gay couple I do not believe they are truly married in God’s sight, that feels like hatred to them If I tell a woman who identifies as a man that I still believe she is a woman, that feels like hatred to her. From their perspective, I can understand how unchristian my...

The ground is constantly shaking in southern California right now, and this has many concerned that another large earthquake may be coming. I have been keeping my eye on Cal Tech’s recent earthquake map, and as I write this article it says that there have been 10,053 earthquakes in California and Nevada over the past 7 days. I have never seen that number so high, and southern California is being hit by yet another new earthquake every few moments. Most of the earthquakes are happening out in the Ridgecrest area where we witnessed the magnitude 6.4 earthquake that hit on...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 1 Kings 22 Ahaziah King of Israel. 51 Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. 52 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, because he followed the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. 53 He served and worshiped Baal and aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, just as his father had done. New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture...

Al-Qaeda Chief Tells Kashmiri Separatists to 'Bleed India Through Unrelenting Terror Attacks' Sputnik News 08:23 11.07.2019 New Delhi (Sputnik): India's investigation and intelligence agencies are likely to be in a greater state of high alert following al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri's latest video message to separatists in the northern Kashmir Valley to bleed the Indian economy through unrelenting terror attacks. The recorded video released through the media wing of al-Qaeda shows an old and frail Ayman al-Zawahiri addressing his intended audience in Arabic. "(I am) of the view that the mujahideen (freedom fighters) in Kashmir – at this stage at least...

The proportion of Brits who identify as Christian has reached its lowest point in over three decades of polling, as more than half of respondents said they no longer affiliate with a religion, a new study suggests. The National Centre for Social Research, which claims to be Britain’s largest independent social research agency, released its 36th annual British Social Attitudes report this week based on a survey of 3,879 people. The report confirmed the continued trend seen in the U.K. and the United States of people not affiliating with any religion as 52% of respondents to the survey said they...

President Trump's criminal justice reform law will release some 2,200 federal inmates next week, and reform supporters are finding broad interest among employers, including Alaska's seafood industry and retail giant Amazon. An effort to line up employment, guided by evidence it reduces recidivism, features job fairs and prison advertising ahead of a mass release July 19. Inmates gaining jobs could help provide political cover for Trump after some Republican senators and law enforcement groups said reforms would endanger public safety. A leading work option is emerging in Alaska, where thousands of people may be hooked up with seasonal work thanks...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Jimmy Stewart. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Brigadier General James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was one of Hollywood's Golden Age actors, but more important, he was an American patriot and hero who portrayed characters from the midwest who exuded both humility and masculinity. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in...

An evening palate cleanser to follow up on this post from earlier in the week. There will come a point when these deepfake mindfarks become routine and lose the frisson of wonder which they currently inspire, probably sooner than we think.But not yet. Not today.The deepfake maestro who’s putting these together clearly has found a muse in the Carrey-for-Nicholson swap. This vid’s both better and worse than the one I posted a few days ago. Worse in the sense that the face-mapping isn’t quite as seamless here as it was in the previous clip. There are moments in this...