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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Sheriff (Ret.) David Clarke. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Sheriff David Clarke was a no-nonsense, moral and effective sheriff in Milwaukee for many years, and though registered as a Democrat, exemplified conservative values throughout his life. 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 the top half (letter columns) of...

At the end of the second Democratic debate, Joe Biden directed his audience to join his presidential bid, sending viewers to a non-existent website. “Go to Joe 30330 and help me in this fight,” Predictably, the domains Joe3030.com and Joe30330.com were purchased and interested parties were redirected to the campaign of South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Miss Saigon in 2019 is not the Miss Saigon I remember from 1997. With music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil, Miss Saigon is inspired by the opera Madame Butterfly and revered as a theater classic since it made its London debut in 1989. It later premiered on Broadway in 1991 to wild success, with Lea Salonga winning a Tony and Olivier Award and putting her on the map as one of the most talented stage actresses. It was a big score for Asian representation as Salonga, of Filipino descent, went on to become...

Talk to almost any Californians (that is, to any who’ve been in the state since before the ’90s) and they’ll tell a simple story of conservative decline. A crucial 1994 ballot initiative that attempted to enact stricter restrictions on illegal immigrants, Proposition 187, was pushed by a radicalizing GOP in a diversifying California. This initiative was a draconian effort to lash out against minorities’ political gains, and it especially enraged and energized Latinos, long a sleeping giant in California politics. In short, overreach tinged with racism caused Republicans to go the way of the grizzly on the state flag: extinct....

The year 2019 has put Hong Kong into unknown territory, with a collapse of government decision-making, extrajudicial terror attacks on civilians, and radical police-baiters negatively impacting the economy. No less a figure than Paul Chan Mo-po, the financial secretary, has admitted that it is difficult to be optimistic in the city’s short-term economic growth because of the impact of the protests. Bravo to him for being one of the few top government figures to come out of the bunker in recent weeks. Economic growth has slid from 4.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2018 to 0.6 per cent...

Director and liberal activist Michael Moore said that the only person who could 'crush' President Trump in the upcoming election is Michelle Obama. Moore was on MSNBC following Wednesday night's presidential debate. He said that four candidates — former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — could beat Trump but still end up losing the electoral college. "The only way to remove Trump, is to crush Trump," he stated. "Who is the street fighter that can crush Trump? And frankly, I think there’s a person that...

Today we feature some early Sonny James: Shortcut (1952). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod affirms creation in six days by Lita Cosner Published: 1 August 2019 (GMT+10) Often, news coming out of various denominations can be grim. It seems every month there is a new announcement about a traditionally conservative group accepting gay marriage or other liberal ideologies. However, recently there was very good news coming from the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). The Christian Post reports, “At the 67th Regular Convention of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod on Tuesday [23 July 2019], the theologically conservative denomination adopted Resolution 5-09A, titled ‘To Confess the Biblical Six-Day Creation.’”1 The official LCMS newspaper...

My close friend, Hyman, told me a story about a Jewish boy and a Catholic boy who were the best of friends.  One day while the Jewish boy was hard at play, he felt a small hand slap him across the back of the head. Rubbing his head, he quickly turned around. It was his friend – huffing, puffing and ready to throw another blow.“What’d-ja do that for?” he asked.“Because the Jews killed Christ.”“But that was over two thousand years ago!”“Yeah, but my Mommy only told me yesterday.”The point?  Hatreds never die when we keep passing them on to the...

The Democratic presidential primary debates set for this September will be decidedly more difficult for candidates to qualify for than the first round of debates. The number of donors candidates must receive is doubled to a minimum of 130,000, with at least 400 donors coming from 20 different states or US territories. The candidates will also have to obtain at least 2% in four separate polls approved by the Democratic National Committee. And unlike the first two sets of debates in June and July, candidates will have to meet both the polling and donor minimums, instead of hitting just one...

A body positivity campaigner appeared on This Morning in her bikini to talk about her initiative to end 'swimsuit shaming', but was criticised for being 'unhealthy'. Sophie Brady, from Everton, who is content with her size 18 to 20 figure, joined Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes on the This Morning sofa, to explain how she used to cover up on the beach, until her husband convinced her that she looks beautiful. 'Where health is concerned, I've been dancing since I was three and I'm very active,' she added.

MADISON, Wis. - A Madison teen was arrested after calling 911 early Sunday morning and asking police for a ride home. According to the incident report, police were dispatched to S. Segoe Road at 12:05 a.m. after the 17-year-old male kept calling 911 to ask for a ride. Authorities said police arrived to the address and made contact with the teen to see if they could help him, but he was uncooperative and refused to provide any personal information. An officer told the teen the Madison Police Department was not a taxi service and that 911 should only be called...

In a new poll of college students, a plurality voted former President Barack Obama the “best U.S. President in history.” The poll, conducted by College Pulse, collected 8,111 responses from college students from around the country and asked, “Who is the best U.S. President in history?” Of the total respondents, Obama received 22 percent (1,744) of the votes, an 8 percent margin of victory over second-place finisher Franklin D. Roosevelt, who garnered 14 percent (1,140) of the votes. Abraham Lincoln trailed shortly behind, also with about 14 percent (1,121).

Bottlenose dolphins are doting mothers, nursing, protecting, and playing with their youngsters for up to six years. Now, new research has revealed the first known case of a wild bottlenose mom adopting a calf of another species. In 2014, researchers spotted a bottlenose mother caring for an unusual-looking male calf, along with what was presumed to be her biological calf, in coastal waters off French Polynesia.

Yesterday we reported that conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced it obtained 6 pages of records from the FBI showing that one month after FBI Director James Comey was fired by Trump, FBI agents visited Comey’s home to retrieve four ‘Trump memos’ as “evidence.” Today we find out that of course, someone in the Deep State FBI is lying again! Yesterday it was reported that agents showed up to Comey’s home to collect the evidence in June and one of his memos was written on June 6, nearly a full month after he was fired on May 9. The memos...

In 1678, a Chaldean priest from Baghdad reached the Imperial Villa of Potosí, the world’s richest silver-mining camp and at the time the world’s highest city at more than 4,000 metres (13,100 feet) above sea level. A regional capital in the heart of the Bolivian Andes, Potosí remains – more than three and a half centuries later – a mining city today. Its baroque church towers stand watch as ore trucks rumble into town, hauling zinc and lead ores for export to Asia. Elias al-Mûsili – or Don Elias of Mosul, as he was known – arrived in 17th-century Potosí...

Preamble/disclaimer: FR is an oasis of strong, sovereign women who often have a better grip on principles and facts and history than the males do. There are many of them and I'm grateful for their presence/contributions and the example they set. And then there are the sensible female media figures, politicians and (all too rare) prominent figures in business and entertainment. That said... Feminist dogma states that women are intelligent, rational beings unswayed by emotional appeals. In fact, feminist dogma has largely been converted wholesale into law and corporate policy. Anyone suggesting that women are too easily swayed by emotional...

DETROIT (CBS NEWS) — Prosecutors have dismissed charges against a 10-year-old Michigan boy accused of assaulting another student by throwing a ball at his head during a schoolyard dodgeball game. While the boy no longer faces criminal charges, “the mother of the alleged victim had every right to go to the authorities and the authorities had an obligation to investigate,” Maria Miller, assistant prosecuting attorney at the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office, said in a press release. Miller’s press release also points out, “When this case was reviewed by my office, no one paid attention the race of either party.” In...

Iran had claimed that they had limited their stock of enriched uranium to 300 kilograms (about 600 pounds) as required by the JCPOA. Iran has enriched 24 tons of uranium since signing the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal, said the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, on Sunday, according to Radio Farda. Tehran claimed that it had limited its stock of enriched uranium to 300 kg. as required by the JCPOA.

One of the key assumptions promulgated by the Mueller report was basically ignored during the July 24 congressional hearings with the former special counsel. Amid all the back and forth, and the often-hapless hemming and hawing by Robert Mueller, no one questioned the report’s contention that the Russians interfered in our election in large part to get Donald Trump elected. Turn your phone into a beacon of freedom and independent news. Download The Epoch Times app. If they could elect Trump, the theory goes, the Russians would have covert control of the White House by blackmailing Trump over his planned...