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Facebook has reportedly pulled an ad for President Trump’s reelection campaign after it violated the platform’s advertising policies. Popular Info reported in its newsletter Monday that Facebook pulled the Trump ad because it violated a policy that prohibits ads targeting "personal attributes." The ad in question featured a crowd of women with the caption, “The Women for Trump Coalition needs the support of strong women like you!”Facebook’s ad policy prohibits “content that asserts or implies personal attributes,” including, among other things, "direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s ... gender identity." Facebook reportedly pulled the ad following an...

Stand up to Fox and you’re “Trashing” them: President Donald Trump is now “WOKE” and fully aware of the new leftward leaning Fox News. Fox News seems to have taken a page from the progressive left in countering the president’s slam: Attack the president and when he strikes back, blame it on him for starting the brouhaha in the first place. In other words, no room for self defense when your enemy is the bullying progressive left.

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact Several “blue” states are conspiring to circumvent the Electoral College by means of the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact” initiative. These states will award all their Electoral votes to the candidate who wins the majority of the so-called “popular vote”. The “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact” initiative is a very dangerous project. It attempts to bypass Constitutional protections against some forms of election fraud. In particular, it facilitates propagation of the ill effects of the election fraud in one or more states into other, fraud-free, states. If implemented, it can sink the ship America (figuratively...

A piece of paper signed by a brutal killer and protégé of al-Bashir will not achieve “the long-standing aspiration of the people of Sudan for democracy and peace” A statement attributable to the spokesperson for United Nations Secretary General António Guterres “warmly congratulates the Sudanese people on the occasion of the important signing ceremony of the documents on transitional civilian authority in Sudan.” The statement lauds the power-sharing agreement entered into between the military authorities running Sudan since dictator Omar al-Bashir was overthrown amidst mass protests against his rule and civilian coalition leaders. The deal was signed on August 17th...

This is a story we touched on a few weeks ago, but it’s back in the news over at National Review raising even more questions. It deals with the lawsuit involving G. R. Harris Funeral Homes, a company that was sued by a male employee who announced that he was going to begin living life (and dressing) as a woman, but was told he could not do so at work. That case has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where arguments will be heard in the upcoming term. John Bursch is an employee of Alliance Defending Freedom,...

According to Atlanta Police, the man exposed himself to a housekeeper Monday at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. APD said the housekeeper told security who went to confront the man about the incident. Police said the man ran from security and attempted to leap from one balcony to another to escape security. He missed his jump on the 11th floor and fell to his death.

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday, challenging a rule change that makes it easier to deny green cards and visas to immigrants seeking government financial assistance.

I’ve written more articles about the problems with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) here than I can count. What’s largely been lacking in this discussion is any sort of reasonable compromise that could be offered to supporters of this system other than a winner-take-all battle. Of course, the ethanol lobby has been so uncompromising in their demands, that most offers would be brushed off anyway. Still, there might be a path forward that could keep the ethanol companies in business while doing away with the RFS entirely. This is a subject that Forbes energy analyst Robert Rapier has been tackling...

Jeff Bezos must really be getting tired of these headlines coming up all the time. It seems that their facial recognition software (known as Rekognition) has been subjected to yet another test and come up a little short. Or a lot short, particularly if you happen to be one of the more than two dozen state lawmakers who showed up as hits matching them against a database of known criminals. But hey… when you’re making omelets you’ve got to crack a few eggs, right? (CBS San Francisco) A recent test of Amazon’s facial recognition technology reportedly ended with a major...

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Jorge Dupre Lachazo was contracted to deliver and help set up new appliances at the home of an elderly woman in Boca Raton, Florida, but police said he beat the 75-year-old woman with a mallet and poured a chemical on her before setting her on fire. Police found the woman unconscious on her laundry room floor Monday morning, WPTV reported. She had injuries to her head and burns to most of her body. Police said Lachazo had worked with another man to deliver the appliances. Once they were hooked up, the other man went outside to...

A student's parents are suing Texas school administrators for coloring in a hair design on the black student's head. The student, 13, went to Berry Miller Junior High in April with the letter "M" shaved on his head. Three administrators told the student his haircut violated the school's dress code policy. They told him he could call his mother, receive a disciplinary action or color the design in with a marker. A federal civil rights lawsuit filed Sunday said administrators laughed as they used a permanent marker to color the boy's scalp. The lawsuit noted that the boy was "immensely...

[Catholic Caucus] Dominican Nuns in Tuscany vs. the Vatican, with Help from the Locals Late in June, we received a warning from a village on the edge of Tuscany that yet another religious house with the wrong sort of mindset was facing the now dreaded prospect of a Vatican “visitator.” The contemplative Dominican monastery of Marradi, the spiritual heart of the little mountain town for over four centuries, is threatened with forced closure by the Vatican, ostensibly because their numbers recently dropped below the Vatican’s prescribed minimum for “alive and vital autonomy.”Local people, however, believe that this is a pretext,...

For Joe Scarborough, it's not enough to attack President Trump in every imaginable way. Now, Scarborough is providing political cover for outrageous remarks made by Dem presidential candidates. Last week, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren tweeted out accusations that the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri five years ago was a "murder" at the hands of a white policeman. It is particularly wrong and outrageous for Harris, a former prosecutor, and Warren, a former law professor, to make such unsubstantiated allegations. So how did Scarborough describe those false and defamatory accusations? On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough covered them up,...

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.) on Tuesday questioned a renewed push for gun control after two mass shootings earlier this month put a focus back on the nation's gun laws. "All I can tell you is what I hear in Wisconsin. The debate really hasn't changed much at all," Johnson told CNN. "People still ask the same questions. OK, if you propose some kind of gun legislation, first of all, how would that have prevented these tragedies in the past? How would they prevent them in the future?" he added. Pressure on lawmakers to pass gun legislation has increased following...

The Democrats are pretty desperate to beat President Donald J. Trump in 2020. He just packed a stadium in New Hampshire last week. His crowd attendance broke the previous record set by the world-famous singer, Elton John. With stats like that, leftists are going to try just about anything to convince the American voters that the president is unfit for the job. Their latest strategy? Claiming "The Donald" is addicted to Twitter.The Daily Beast reports that the Center for American Progress has been telling candidates the best way to beat Trump is to frame him as ineffective. The group says the...

Joe Biden has been out on the primary campaign trail working hard. Maybe a little too hard. “We got to let them know who we are,” he recently told a crowd of supporters at the Iowa State Fair. Perhaps the most accurate of the qualities he used to describe himself and his fellow travelers was “We choose truth over facts!” That much we know, Joe. And while Biden’s statement may sound like an amusing gaffe, the truth that matters to many in the anti-gun movement isn’t the truth but their truth. Case in point, Biden also recently lent his name...

ST. CROIX — Six of the ten contestants who participated in Sunday evening’s Miss Universe U.S. Virgin Islands were women from outside the USVI, most with no known ties to the territory and some of whom had participated in other pageants just months prior. The competition, held in a banquet room at the Divi Carina Bay Casino, was the qualifying event whose winner will represent the U.S. Virgin Islands on the world’s biggest and most prominent pageantry stage: Miss Universe. But what was a relatively engaged audience turned somewhat raucous when not one of the four local young women who...

Appearing Monday on CNN’s New Day, fired Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci says he wants to recruit former Trump Cabinet members to speak out against President Donald Trump........

Aug. 20 (UPI) -- An Iowa family's 5-year-old bovine has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's shortest bull, standing at only 26.6 inches high. Heikens Ark Jupiter, aka Humphrey, was purchased by the Gardner family of Kelona in May 2017, and it was only after buying him that they discovered he wasn't a calf, he was a fully-grown 3-year-old miniature zebu bull. "It's hard for people to believe there are animals so small who are full-sized," owner Shelly Gardner said. "Most people, when they think of a bull, think of a large animal and he is...

Two weeks ago, the New Hampshire Academy of Family Physicians sent Gov. Chris Sununu a letter that implored him to sign three gun violence prevention bills, House Bills 514, 109, and 564. Instead, the governor vetoed all three. At this point, we urge the House and Senate to overturn his veto and pass these critical bills into law. After the governor’s veto of these bills, we feel the need to write this piece to illuminate why we think these measures are so important to our state and nation. As family physicians, we see the consequences of gun violence every day...