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This year, one of America's great firearms manufacturers turns 100 years old. Founded in 1919, O.F. Mossberg & Sons grew a reputation for producing quality, innovative guns for the civilian market at reasonable prices. Their engineering creativity is in evidence in more than 100 design and utility patents they originated. Since 1961 the product most readily associated with the company was their excellent Model 500 pump shotgun. In 1970, twin action-bars replaced the single one and this shotgun remains a flagship product to this day with over 12 million sold. The popularity of the Model 500 tends to obscure the...

Watching the political process play out is more discouraging each election cycle. Even the freshest faces in the field eventually descend to the level that handlers and pollsters tell them they must in order to win: criticizing other candidates in the same party (many of whom they’ll have to work with later if they win); blaming the current administration or the opposing party for all of society’s ills; demonizing half the country; and promising the other half of everything for free. And the excuses. Oh, the excuses that we hear for why we have problems.The left’s favorite go-to excuse these days...

Only the rest of the Dem candidates could make Joe Biden look like the only adult in the room. And that’s saying something.It’s been said the biggest winner of the first two Dem debates was PDJT. Clearly last night’s biggest loser was Barack Obama. And if you don’t believe me, read your Twitters.  As Rush and I have feared for some time, the clown show may just result in everyone’s worst clown nightmare: candidate Michelle Obama to the rescue. Don’t take our word for it, no less luminary than Michael Moore agrees: “Who is the street fighter that can crush...

Obese people eat more food because it simply tastes better, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Iowa gave chocolate to a group of obese and non-obese women and found that as the obese group kept eating the food continued to taste almost as good to them as the first bite. The findings suggest that understanding taste perceptions may be crucial to preventing obesity when combined with targeting nutritional awareness. “If people with obesity have different taste perceptions than nonobese people, it could lead to better understanding of obesity,” lead investigator Linnea Polgreen noted, according to News...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) My goodness, feel free to shoot me if I ever do that again. – I’m afraid I made the horrific decision to actually watch the Wednesday night Democrat debate live, and I hardly got a minute of sleep as a result. What a horror show that party is. You put any one of these circus clowns in the White House and this country as we have known it is over. Over and done. Overall, this has to be the dumbest bunch ever to take a debate stage together. I never thought I’d...

At the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's annual convention in Detroit, delegates unanimously recommended that the House of Representatives impeach President Donald Trump. For what? Derrick Johnson, the NAACP's president, said: "The pattern of Trump's misconduct is unmistakable and has proven time and time again that he is unfit to serve as the president of this country. ... This president has led one of the most racist and xenophobic administrations since the Jim Crow era." Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who introduced an unsuccessful motion for impeachment, argues that the President's "racist comments" constitute sufficient grounds for...

Charles Barkley, a former NBA star and now an NBA analyst on TNT, said after the Democratic presidential candidate debate on July 30 that political parties have been neglecting economic opportunities for black Americans. He also added that most black people he knows who have always voted Democratic are “still poor.” In 2017, Barkley remarked that Democrats have “taken the black vote and the poor vote for granted for a long time,” and that “this is a wakeup call for Democrats to do better for black people and poor white people.” When Barkley was asked on July 30 whether he...

After taking LSD, Bill stood in his kitchen in Merseyside, England, staring at a large tree. When the tree started to speak to him, Bill only found it strange that the tree didn't formally introduce itself, he told VICE in 2017. During the rest of their 15 minute chat, the tree clued Bill in to the profound fact that all life on earth—plant, animal, and human—was intimately connected. "It was as if someone was inside my head judging my feelings, my thoughts, and my emotions," Bill said. "It was also a two-way street, though: I could feel how old he...

In January Proctor & Gamble and Gillette decided to run razor ads trashing men and “toxic” masculinity in a courageous ad campaign. The company decided the best way to promote their product was to attack their customer base. The new ad highlighted sexist and bullying white males in the United States. Of the 43 abusive males in the ad – 42 were white. 7 of the hero men out of 8 in the ad were black. The ad did not do so well. Many users promised to avoid the product. The ad had 642,000 down votes after its first two...

“8÷2(2+2).” Can you solve this math problem? The equation went viral online this week on Twitter causing major confusion over the right answer. Mathematicians and physicists went nuts about it. Mike Breen, the Public Awareness Officer for the American Mathematical Society, told popular Mechanics: “The way it’s written, it’s ambiguous. In math, a lot of times there are ambiguities. Mathematicians try to make rules as precise as possible.” Depending on where in the world you learned math, as Mashable reported, determines how you can solve the problem.

The suddenly simple answer to funding the Green New Deal, Medicare-for-all, free college, and two Teslas in every garage, making the rounds as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), is a joke. Only no one should be laughing. MMT is not only dangerous for reasons that no one’s bothering to bring up, but also it’s just plain stupid. Here’s why MMT is really a proposition, why it’s dangerous, and how stupid you must be to believe it’s legitimate… Take Your Share of This Cash Pool As stupid as MMT is, I’m going to tell you something else just as stupid before I...

Former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. In March 2018, Biden huffed, "They asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, 'If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him." Biden's tough-guy braggadocio was apparently no slip. A year later, he doubled down on his physical threats. "The idea that I'd be intimidated by Donald Trump? ... He's the bully that I've always stood up...

Another Republican member of the House has announced he will not run for reelection in 2020, becoming the fifth GOP lawmaker to announce their departure over the past two weeks. Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas confirmed reports about his retirement on Wednesday, citing his desire to spend more time with family as one reason for his decision. "It has been the absolute worst secret kept in America today but I am going to announce that I am not going to run for reelection in 2020," Conaway said at a press conference in Midland, Texas, with his wife Suzanne by his...

On Saturday, 20 July 2019, Derrick Fells was trapping minnows on his 17-acre property in Tuscola, County, Michigan. Fells was carrying a pistol. He heard a hissing sound and thought it might be from a possum. Instead of a possum, there was a six-foot alligator sunning itself next to the Sucker Creek canal on his property. The Alligator came toward him, and he shot it. He immediately called 911.  From nbc25news.com: Fells has about 17 and a half acres in Tuscola County's Dayton Township and on Saturday, ended up stumbling upon an alligator while catching minnows on his property....

Remember the fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes? It’s about an emperor who pays a lot of money for new magic clothes that can only be seen by wise people. The clothes do not exist, but the emperor does not admit he cannot see them, because he does not want to seem stupid. The story is often used to describe a situation where people are afraid to criticize something because everyone else seems to think it is good or important. Well, it’s time to shine a light on Congressman Elijah Cummings' emperor’s new clothes moment. Cummings has carried himself in...

What’s she hiding? Thus far, New York State Senator and Presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand has chosen to go with a fairly innocuous, “I never heard of that group” response whenever she’s been asked about the NXIVM sex cult. It was Frank Report that first broke the story about ties between NXIVM and Gillibrand. Our original reporting was motivated by Gillibrand’s claim that then-President Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. At that time, we simply summarized what we knew about the involvement of her father, Doug Rutnik, with NXIVM – and asked that she hold hearings “about...

Wandering through the produce section of my local grocery store last week, I kept seeing a couple of different words on the signs above the products. I noticed it on some of the meat and dairy items in the case, too. “Locally grown,” “locally sourced” and “derived from a sustainable source.” They are buzzwords young people care deeply about. Surveys suggest they are terms meaningful to many liberal voters specifically. Whole Foods is largely built on those words, assuming you can afford to shop there, which, wealthy elite liberals can. But what do those words really mean? Take “sustainability” first....

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THE WEEK THAT WAS THE GOOD, THE BAD THE UGLY GOOD ~ “Our Guy” fights Back! VERY GOOD ~Justice is Coming! (or so we're told) BAD ~ Nadler and Schiff and many more on left UGLY ~Russia; Impeach; Womanizer; Treason; Collusion; Liar; Racist; Nazi; (all DJT's “tags” from Libs) KAG RallyGreenville, NC GRAPHIC COVERAGE IN POST ONE Welcome all you Deplorables to this week's edition of the Dose! This is EVERYTHING TRUMP. Administration, family, frustrations, joys, winning! We welcome your research, your commentary, your personal OT sharing and your presence. Even if you do not share a lot, just...

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