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The dispute is over a brief submitted to the justices by several Democratic senators. The case involves a New York gun law that was challenged and eventually withdrawn by the city. The court case still is pending and some fear the court could establish a nationwide precedent they may not like. Already, Harvard professor Laurence Tribe has scolded the senators for threatening the justices. The senators' brief said the court is not well, and unless it heals itself they may have to resort to stacking the court with more justices who are amenable to the Democrats' ideology.

Stanford University is pushing a separate physics course for minorities in hopes that it will result in more diversity among physics majors. A 2016 survey revealed Stanford’s physics department to be one of the “least diverse” departments within the institution, and the university has since embarked on a mission to resolve that supposed concern, according to a university news release. “Creation of special curricula and support services for ethnic minority groups and women...textbook examples of unequal treatment” Tweet This One step Stanford has taken is promoting a modified version of the standard Mechanics course, a requirement for physics majors, boasting...

The Amazon has made headlines this month as fires rip across the region. While this is the dry season for the area, during which fires are common, fires have nonetheless reached unprecedented highs this season — up 80 percent compared to last year. As the Amazon burns, the world has lit up with despair and outrage, with hashtags such as #PrayForTheAmazon going viral. As the fires and emotional uproar continue, one naturally wonders "who is to blame?" Of course, the obvious cause is "human ignition," as these fires are mostly due to farmers and ranchers using flames to clear forests...

It's no secret that President Donald J. Trump's ex-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci now hates the president...or at least says he does so that CNN will show him some love with TV screentime. But, if he doesn't support President Trump in 2020, then who will he vote for? According to the Washington Examiner, he's been checking out former Vice President Joe Biden. "The Mooch" appeared at one of Biden's swanky campaign stops in the Hamptons.Kerry Picket reports that Scaramucci told the Washington Examiner, "I'm a registered Republican. I haven't switched my support to Vice President Biden, but I will...

One of the great debates of the 2020 campaign will be whether the key date in defining America is 1619 or 1776. The left will assert that America is a terrible country and that its defining moment was the introduction of slavery. Most Americans will see that as a racist definition of history in its own right and will continue to believe in the exceptionalism created in 1776 by the Declaration of Independence and implemented in 1787 by the Constitution. This debate is being created by The New York Times’ determination to replace its failed crusade about President Trump and...

SABATON bassist Pär Sundström recently spoke with France's United Rock Nations. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow... On SABATON's lyrics: Pär: "War is not really black-and-white. War always has a very gray color, because war is conceived by different sides for whatever [reasons] they have. In all conflicts, there are a lot of losers and a lot of people who have their different inputs and think that, 'We are the good guys. They are the bad.' For SABATON, it's not about taking a stand. We write the songs from different kinds of angles all the...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Carly Fiorina. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Carly Fiorina was chief executive of Hewlett Packard and former presidential and vice-presidential candidate for the Republican 2016 primary election process. 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 the puzzle into the white squares on the...

The White House on Sunday said the only regret President Trump has about the escalating trade war with China is not jacking up tariffs even higher, clarifying comments the president made earlier during a meeting with world leaders in France. ?”This morning in the bilat with the UK, the President was asked if he had ‘any second thought on escalating the trade war with China?.’ His answer has been greatly misinterpreted. President Trump responded in the affirmative – because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher?,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said ? ?in a statement. ? ?Trump in...

This is an analysis of the body language during an interview of Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne at Fox. I found it to be very interesting. There is no transcript.

United States President Donald J. Trump alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Sunday the framework for a massive trade deal between the two countries. While nothing has been signed yet, the potential agreement could bolster both economies by billions."We’ve been working on a deal with Japan for a long time. And we’ve agreed in principle," President Trump told the press at the G7 Summit."We successfully reached consensus with regard to the core elements related to agricultural and industrial trade," Abe told the media via a translator. "We still have some remaining work that has to be done at...

The uninsured rate is rising for the first time since ObamaCare passed, two recent studies show, alarming advocates who fear the problem could get worse. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released in July show there were 2.1 million more uninsured people between 2016 and 2018. And a study from the Urban Institute this month, using Census Bureau data, found 700,000 more uninsured people just between 2016 and 2017. The increase is especially noteworthy given the strong economy, signaling the uninsured rate will rise even higher if the economy worsens and people start losing the coverage they...

VIDEO I am seeking breeding advice for Teddy the male Golden Retriever whom you can see in this video at my sister-in-law's house where he lives. If you have any advice please post them in the comments. One big question I have is WHEN Teddy will be ready for breeding. He was born last November and now appears to be full grown or at least close to it. Hopefully, Teddy's future breeding sessions will calm him down because as you can see he is now extremely hyperactive.

Full Title: Report: Charlotte Police canceling all vacations in fear of major violence during GOP convention next August Respected journalist Paul Sperry took to Twitter with a report that I see nowhere else, about the sort of violence that police in Charlotte, NC expect when the GOP holds its convention there exactly one year from now (CMPD stands for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department that serves the entire county of which Charlotte is the country seat):... I am so old – far older than most of those planning to disrupt the convention – that I remember vividly the riots that took place...

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Former Congressman Joe Walsh officially announced his candidacy for the 2020 Republican nomination today, vowing to defeat incumbent President Donald J. Trump."Friends, I'm in. We can't take four more years of Donald Trump. And that's why I'm running for President. It won't be easy, but bravery is never easy," Walsh tweeted. "But together, we can do it.""We have someone in the White House who we all know is unfit. Someone who lies virtually every time he opens his mouth," he stated in his campaign video. "We cannot afford four more years."Since exiting Congress, Walsh has been in the news for...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib has courted controversy with remarks suggesting the 'Israeli occupation' was to blame for the bombing death of an Israeli teenager in the West Bank. Tlaib's remarks on Friday came in response to the death of Rina Shnerb, 17, who was killed in a bomb blast while hiking with her family near the Dolev settlement, northwest of Jerusalem. The Israeli military said it was being treated as a terrorist attack. It was not immediately clear if the device had been planted in advance or thrown. Tlaib was recently at the center of an international row after she was...

Like the Cargo Cult in the Pacific, which builds model planes in the hope that, they will bring in cargo planes full of spam and other goodies as they did in WWII, the Democrats keep hoping for airships full of votes that will never come in. All who can read discard the Russian collusion claims. What remains of them is the long-delayed Horowitz report and anticipated prosecutions for the coup plotters. For those still wanting to be deluded there’s CNN, which has hired a major plotter, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, as a contributor to continue the Let’s Pretend...

Incandescent light bulbs may be fading away, killed off slowly by fluorescents and LEDs, but there's one old-fashioned bulb that refuses to go out. In fact, it's been going for more than a century. The world's longest-burning light bulb has been shining since 1901, when it was first turned on in Livermore, Calif.

President Donald Trump is attending the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France this weekend. The liberal mainstream media was pretty certain this would be a complete disaster and that the countries were at odds. This is what they reported for several days before the summit began. Then President Trump dropped this wonderful news on Sunday.

Cardinal Blase Cupich and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul held a rare face-to-face meeting within the last month, according to the Attorney General's office. The meeting took place at Raoul’s Chicago office, and was requested by Cardinal Cupich, according to officials. The meeting comes after the Attorney General’s office began investigating all six Illinois dioceses last year after a shocking Pennsylvania grand jury report on abuse within the Catholic Church. Before former Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s term expired earlier this year, she announced that there were allegations against at least 500 priests and clergymen in Illinois that had never been...