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Gates police have charged a Chili man with attempted murder in a road rage incident that turned into a fight, leaving a Gates man with serious stab wounds to the neck and leg. Officers said Levar Merritt, 42, is charged with second-degree attempted murder, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and first-degree assault. He was arraigned and sent to the Monroe County Jail on $45,000 cash bail or $80,000 bond. Police said the alleged incident ended in the parking lot of the Lyell Avenue Wegmans, but started on the road between him and the 39-year-old victim. "One gentleman pulled out...

There are a few things you just want to believe in. When the truth comes out, though, it can be heartbreaking.That was the case when Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam chose to sell out Virginians’ safety for political control to pass gun control laws that will not stop criminals. Northam rejected more than $660,000 in federal grants to reduce crime. At the same time, he’s welcoming the flood of millions of dollars into the Commonwealth to flip control of the state’s legislature to Democrat blue and finally pass his laundry list of gun control bills that the state legislature rejected...

Presidential hopeful Joe Biden said in an interview that he would not allow any of his children to work in the White House if elected president. The Democratic candidate told “60 Minutes” that it’s “improper” to have the president’s children sitting in on cabinet meetings. “I can just tell you this, that if I’m president, get elected president, my children are not gonna have offices in the White House,” Biden said. “My children are not gonna sit in on cabinet meetings.” Biden told the network that having family members as part of the administration is “just simply improper.” “You should...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren swooped into Chicago from that economic fantasy planet of the democratic socialists -- the strange world where math is all about feelings -- to tell the striking teachers union she stands with them. Because of the children. Economic conservatives, including conservative Republicans and that handful of moderate Democrats who are still breathing, just can't live on that planet. They can't breathe. The environment is too taxpayer toxic. But if you'd like to see what America would look like without Republicans, in a place under absolute Democratic control, where the left demands more and more from taxpayers, with...

Ohio High School Athletic Association officials said Thursday they were right to disqualify a cross country runner from a race because she wore a hijab, but the organization is considering changes to its rules to prevent the issue from happening again. Per OHSAA’s current rules, cross country runners are barred from wearing most head coverings, like hats and caps, unless they have a signed and approved exception waiver granting them special permission for religious restrictions or otherwise.

Tomorrow’s Cryptogram Tonight Today’s Cryptogram Courtesy The Arkansas Gazette CAV LVEJ CVBC XD QXJD EIN KI JKDV KB IXC BCEMKIQ XFC XD CAV LXFQA, PFC QVCCKIQ XFC EDCVL UV ELV KI. —BXFLRV XPBRFLV You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general...

In their masterful crafting of the First Amendment to the Constitution and its free exercise of religion clause, the Founders ensured that our faith could inform our politics but our government could never influence our faith.Yet in recent weeks, our president felt compelled to give a powerful address on the sanctity of religious freedom in America and around the globe and a presidential candidate called for the repeal of tax exemption status for churches that disagree with his policy preferences.A war on religious liberty is being aggressively waged against Americans of all faiths by coercive secular progressives tying their future...

It’s Friday so…“Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Fossil fuels have got to go!” Thus spake that old fossil and ho, Jane Fonda, who considers herself something of a Super Woman. She has declared global climate change an “existential threat” and I trust she would know.Accordingly she has announced what she likes to call “Fire Drill Friday” because while the “consensus of scientists” has officially changed the name of the “existential threat” to “climate change” we all know it’s really global warming. “It’ll be called ‘Fire Drill Friday.’ And we’re going to engage in civil disobedience and we’re going to get arrested...

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we have Chubby Wise fiddlin' Chubby's Hornpipe (1969). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

And just like that, stuff got real. – That squeaky noise you heard early Thursday evening was the sound of sphincters tightening in unison all over the DC Swamp. That was when news leaked that Attorney General William Barr has authorized U.S. Attorney John Durham to shift gears. What has to this point been an administrative inquiry into the origins of the Obama-era efforts by the coup cabal to spy on the Trump Campaign and Transition team will now become a full criminal inquiry. As the New York Times reluctantly reported, the move gives Durham and his team of prosecutors...

Police in Ukraine said on Friday they had detained a foreigner wanted in the United States on suspicion of hacking into computer systems and stealing $6 million from American financial institutions. The 32-year-old man, whose name and nationality was not given, was detained in a hotel in Kiev where he was living temporarily."The man is suspected of illegally interfering in the operation of computer systems, fraud, theft and money laundering in especially large amounts," the police said in a statement. U.S. law enforcement bodies have been investigating the hacker's activities since 2010 and asked for Ukraine's assistance this year, the...

The Oxford University student council is lobbying the prestigious British university to end applause, arguing that it could trigger anxiety and was unfair to disabled students. The Oxford Student reported Wednesday that the council had passed a motion to "mandate the Sabbatical Officers to encourage the use of British Sign Language (BSL) clapping, otherwise known as ‘silent jazz hands' at Student Council meetings and other official SU events," and to "lobby the University" to make similar changes. "Loud noises, including whooping and traditional applause, are argued to present an access issue for some disabled students who have anxiety disorders, sensory...

The House Republicans go to the Dem bunker in the basement of the Capitol. GREAT speeches. BEST showing so far of the House Republicans. This is more than just Jim Jordan but his name is in the title of the video.

“These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out” (Proverbs 25:1).

In a lengthy court filing surrounding the issues of Brady discovery material, Mike Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, drops some serious evidentiary bombshells on the court. Ms. Powell brings Lady Justice to the courtroom, and her revelations are stunning.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) will campaign for the co-sponsor of Virginia's controversial abortion bill this weekend. The Harris campaign announced on Thursday that the senator will attend events in northern Virginia. Harris will be on hand to launch voter canvassing operations for state delegate Kathy Tran, who co-sponsored and presented a radical abortion bill that would have permitted unrestricted abortion through the third trimester of pregnancy. Harris's national press secretary Ian Sams tweeted the news and mentioned Tran's Twitter account alongside Dan Helmer's, who is running in Virginia's 40th district. Ian Sams @KamalaHarris to campaign for Virginia...

The service has pledged to spend $750,000 to examine futuristic materials and technologies collected or studied by a group run by Blink-182's frontman. UFO truthers don’t typically hold a lot of credibility within the research community, but today the Defense Department is acknowledging at least one such group could have some serious contributions to make. The Army Combat Capabilities Development Command recently partnered with the To The Stars Academy to study a wide variety of different technologies and materials, most of which sound like they were pulled straight from a sci-fi movie. The cooperative research and development agreement is set...

Harrison Ford is one of Hollywood’s most famous climate crusaders. He owns multiple extravagant homes, plus a reported 12 private planes, nine motorcycles and six gasoline-powered automobiles. His private plane collection includes two gas-guzzling corporate jets. Even though his opulent lifestyle depends upon copious amounts of fossil fuel energy, he speaks forcefully about his commitment to fight climate change. ... His multiple real-estate holdings include a 14,000 sq. ft. megamansion in the heart of one of the most exclusive areas of Los Angeles. He also owns a magnificent Jackson Hole, Wyoming estate, the plans for which he sketched out in...

New Zealand Gun Control New Zealand –-(Ammoland.com)- New Zealand has had relatively moderate firearms restrictions for most of its existence. As an extremely peaceful nation that evolved from the conflict between a collection of warring, cannibalistic tribes and the British Empire, it is a very successful nation. From 200 years ago to the 1990s, it was dominated by farmers and hunters.  New Zealand has a proud tradition of military prowess on both the Maori and British sides of its ancestry. The English pioneered the concept of individual rights in the modern era. Those rights were transferred to settlers in the English...

Men who dress as women love Halloween, and not just for the costuming opportunities. They are often keenly attuned to the dark spirits of the season and willing to do those spirits’ bizarre, depraved bidding.