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August 29, 2019 at 4:17 AM CDT - Updated August 29 at 5:25 AM NEWBURGH, N.Y.- About an hour and a half after a group of children in New York decided to sell lemonade during rush hour, police showed up after receiving a call, possibly complaining about traffic caused by the stand. Mother Whitney Glover says she helped some kids in the Newburgh, N.Y., area put up a lemonade stand Monday. "We were probably out there about an hour and a half, when I noticed the cop car pull up,” Glover said. An unidentified person saw the group selling lemonade...

On 15 March 2019, a political terrorist attacked two mosques located in Christchurch, New Zealand. He killed 51 people and wounded many more. The far-left government of Jacinda Ardem immediately set on a course to ban semi-automatic firearms in New Zealand. Those opposed were shouted down. The government censor worked hard to keep the public from reading the manifesto published by the terrorist. That conveniently prevented people from knowing that gun confiscation was one of his goals. When academic John Lott pointed this out on Twitter, he was banned.Initial reports were few guns were being turned in, partly because...

A fine family built itself up over generations, but as all things go into decline before renewal, a late master of the castle came to hate his legacy. So he decided to destroy the mansion by undermining the foundation, in secret, so the lesser members of the family couldn't clearly tell what he was doing. But as he worked at night and in darkness trying to destroy the castle from the inside and from the bottom, to bring about grand, climactic destruction: he failed to realize that the founder of his line had indeed taken him exactly into account, and...

Over the years, my dad had many wise sayings. One that always stuck with me was that “all fences do is keep honest people honest.” This meant that an honorable person with good intentions will respect the fence and leave the property alone, while a dishonest person up to no good will simply ignore the fence, rendering it useless. I could not help but be reminded of this life lesson as Gov. Tony Evers and legislative Democrats turned the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, into a political opportunity to prey on the emotions of Wisconsinites...

CNN stands for the “Cable News Network.” There was a time that name was accurate – they are on cable, they delivered the news, and they’re a network. But that second “N” no longer applies, and it’s about time they drop it the way they’ve dropped any semblance of journalism. You can watch CNN for an hour, any hour, and come away dumber and less-informed than you were beforehand. That’s some kind of accomplishment, I guess, exactly what kind remains a mystery. Without news to fall back on, they have to fill 24 hours a day with something. The something...

MANOR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A Lancaster County man who made a “gun-like hand gesture” at his neighbor committed a crime, according to a Pennsylvania Superior Court ruling. Stephen Kirchner, 64, of Manor Township, was charged last year with summary disorderly conduct for the gesture, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office. The gesture prompted the neighbor to call 911. (Surveillance video of the hand gesture can be seen below.) “Kirchner argued on appeal that the gesture did not cause a hazardous or physically offensive condition, that he did not intend to cause public alarm, and that there essentially was...

Expelled from government office, Obama administration officials are still fundamentally transforming America. Barack Obama has changed his retirement plans. When the former president thought his successor would be fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, he joked with retired talk-show host David Letterman about playing dominoes. In 2015, he told a crowd of students that he planned to eventually return to the work of advancing his agenda in local communities. But after Donald Trump’s upset victory, Obama chose a different profession: the media. The former president is not the only one from his administration who is now in media. A surprising number of...

"Socialist! is no longer a McCarthyite slur. Rather, the fresh celebrity "Squad" of newly elected identity-politics congresswomen -- Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) -- often either claim to be socialists or embrace socialist ideas. A recent Harris poll showed that about half of so-called millennials would like to live in a socialist country. Five years ago, septuagenarian Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) was considered an irrelevant lone socialist in the U.S. Senate -- Vermont's trademark contribution to cranky quirkiness. But in 2016, Sanders' improbable Democratic primary run almost knocked off front-runner Hillary Clinton,...

Climate change could unleash a variety of diseases that the modern world is unprepared to deal with, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed on Tuesday. The freshman congresswoman -- and architect of the ambitious "Green New Deal" -- took to Instagram to express how worried she is about the specter of climate change. [Snip] "Scientists fear that there's a potential that a lot of diseases could escape these melted glaciers, things that were frozen for thousands of years, and that they’re going to get into our water," she said, "and that humans could contract them, and they are going to be...

The Trump administration Opens a New Window. is set to launch the U.S. Space Command on Thursday, a key step as military Opens a New Window. officials work to establish a proposed sixth branch of the military known as the Space Force. U.S. Air Force Gen. John Raymond will serve as the first head of Space Command (SPACECOM). At launch, Raymond will lead 87 active units handling operations such as missile warning, satellite surveillance, space control and space support, Gen. Joseph Dunford said at a meeting of the National Space Council earlier this month. "The United States Space Force will...

You must have a heart of stone not to burst into uncontrollable, hysterical laughter at the agony of the failing New York Times and the rest of the media over how conservative activists are going to apply the same internet colonoscopy to lib journalistas as they apply to us. Monsters! Fascists! Meanies! Oh yeah, that’s the ticket. Drink in their pain. Drink it all in. Mmmmm, that’s some delicious pain. Yeah, conservatives are fighting back, and to the other side it’s an assault on the free press and further evidence that Trump is totally Hitler and probably Stalin too. But...

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Remain MPs, dubbed the “Rabble Alliance”, are now left with just four days next week to try to derail Brexit and pass a law to stop a No Deal on October 31. Senior sources told The Sun that No10’s extraordinary move was designed to prove to Brussels that Parliament will not be able to stop Britain from leaving in October. They wanted to “flush out” any opposition now in the hope of forcing EU leaders into concessions on the Irish backstop. One insider said: “The EU will never negotiate with us and consider changes to the backstop if they believe...

A young man in Las Vegas has lost more than 100 pounds since the beginning of the year, intent on gaining entry into the Army. Luis Enrique Pinto Jr., 18, lost 113 pounds over a seven-month period in order to meet the branch's weight requirement, dropping from 317 pounds to 204. "That's a human -- he lost the equivalent of a human in seven months," said his recruiter, Staff Sgt. Philip Long.

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) So, why aren’t the Democrat Party’s favorite “rising star” loooooosers running for the senate in 2020?– That is a question that is on a lot of people’s minds today, especially in Georgia and Texas. In case you missed it yesterday, Georgia Republican Senator Johnny Isakson announced he would resign his seat at the end of this year, meaning that Governor Brian Kemp will be able to appoint his successor. However, although Isakson would not have been up for re-election until 2022, Georgia law requires the holding of a special election in November,...

The prolonged trade fight between the United States and China is reordering the global supply chain and Vietnam could stand to be a winner for investors, according to a senior executive at U.S. investment firm General Atlantic. As American companies plan to move their manufacturing bases outside China, countries in Southeast Asia could be the biggest beneficiaries, Sandeep Naik, head of India and Southeast Asia at General Atlantic, told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Tuesday. (please see link for full article)

A leading gun rights advocate has warned upcoming legislation in Congress could threaten Second Amendment rights. One America’s John Hines has more from Washington. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXphgk6x9P0

Editor's Note: US President Donald Trump has ordered American enterprises to pull out of China, claiming that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act enables him to do so. Is it possible for US companies to withdraw from China? Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow: Washington ignoring US firms' interests The United States passed the IEEPA in 1977 to safeguard US hegemony and fight "enemies". The act gives the US president the power to bypass the Congress and the US judiciary to curb transactions between countries or enterprises, freeze assets of individuals...

Subtitle: July 24th. More blind alleys. A couple days ago, delegates passed the framework of what we’d recognize as the Electoral College. State legislatures appointed electors. The only remaining substantial question was “how many votes per state?” Well, that progress vanished today. To get an idea, here are my Cliff Notes to the day’s proceedings: • Divide the nation into three electoral districts to select three executives. • Fear an elected Monarch. • Electors equal in number to the State’s Congressional delegation was resoundingly defeated. • Return to Congressional appointment by 7-4 vote. • Executive must be independent of Congress...

Up to six protesters and one soldier have been killed in clashes across the restive West Papua and Papua provinces, although protesters and police dispute how many have died. A source at one protest in the Deiyai Regency told The Guardian on Thursday that police had fired lived rounds into a crowd of demonstrators outside the regency offices on Wednesday. Six people were killed and two seriously injured, the source, who requested anonymity fearing reprisals, said. “Shots were fired at the protesters, but people continued to sit in protest.” Al Jazeera also reported that six protesters had been killed.