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A police officer was shot and killed behind the police station in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the chief described it as an execution that occurred as the officer waited in a parking lot for his partner. He said that the suspect appeared to have no motive. The shooting, which took place as a Christmas lights event unfolded nearby in Fayetteville Square, sparked widespread panic.

Extreme Concentration of Ownership in the United States The Oligarch Take over of Healthcare and Big Pharma A close-knit oligarchy controls all major corporations. Institutional investors like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and JP Morgan, now own 80% of all stock in S&P 500 listed companies. The Big Three investors – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – alone constitute the largest shareholder in 88% of S&P 500 firms, which roughly correspond to America’s 500 largest corporations. (*3). (source “Extreme”) Blackrock and Vanguard would then alone own more than one-third of all US publicly listed shares. The consolidation of ownership of...

The week ended with the President trumping a low pair -- congressmen Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler -- when White House Counsel Pat Cipollone responded to Congressman Nadler’s demand that the Judiciary Committee be informed if the White House intended to participate in the second act of the impeachment clown show. The letter in sum says, "go right to impeachment so we can have a real trial in the Senate": In effect, he was telling the 31 congressmen who won in 2016 in districts carried by Trump, along with others on shaky ground, that they can vote for this only...

“‘Hear then the parable of the sower . . .’” (Matthew 13:18). The Bible is God’s written Word, but His Son is the Living Word who gives Scripture life. Christ told the Jewish leaders, “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me” (John 5:39). This parable centers on proclaiming the gospel and, perhaps more important, concerns the “heart soils” on which that truth, in seed form, falls as the sower preaches. Our Lord goes on to describe four such soils, representing four different hearts that hear the...

[Note: The following comment was submitted to a post on Saturday by Gregg W. Updike, a Navy veteran who served from 1983 to 1987. Gregg was on the USS America CV-66 when Ronald Reagan bombed Libya. This posting is a day late, given that Pearl Harbor Day was yesterday, but Gregg shared many thoughts that Americans should ponder these 78 years later.] Don’t forget to “Remember Pearl Harbor” 78 years ago today; which resulted in our last formerly declared war a day later. The results of that attack was paid back in less than four years with the total defeat...

The 68th Miss Universe Pageant will be broadcast tonight (Sunday, 12/8) live from Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, GA on the Fox Network. The pageant starts at 7PM ET and lasts three hours. It’s hosted by Steve Harvey for the 5th consecutive year and broadcast simultaneously on Telemundo in Spanish. The Pre-Shows start at 3PM ET on Telemundo. 90+ contestants from all over the world will be participating. My high school friend’s daughter is representing Puerto Rico (Madison Anderson) so we’ll be watching this evening and hoping that she brings the sixth Miss Universe crown to the island.

The Talk Shows December 8th, 2019 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I.; Defense Secretary Mark Esper; Keith Melton of the Spy Museum. The panel includes Michele Flournoy, co-founder of WestExec Advisers and former Obama admin under secretary of defense for policy; former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., founder and co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative; Karl Rove, former Bush White House senior adviser; and Jennifer Griffin of Fox News.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Jabba the Nadler, D-N.Y.; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Rep. Denny Heck, D-Wash. The panel will...

Be careful what you write on the internet: it turns out it’s not just Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google that is judging you.If your offenses are within an acceptable range you will get an Oxford English Language Dictionary .  But if you’ve  offended beyond that level you get the special Ikea dictionary. Ikea dictionary: some assembly required But hey, according to the IMT (infinite monkey theory) all you need do is select letters at random and pretty soon you’ll have a great post without any grammar errors or misspelled words.  Good luck. Posted from: MOTUS A.D. 

Nigel Farage says there is more he wants to do after Brexit - and he has registered the name "The Reform Party".

Birmingham, Alabama has 53 times the National Average of Justifiable Homicides – Image courtesy Dean Weingarten In 2019, Birmingham, Alabama has reported a justifiable homicide rate 53 times the national average, as reported in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports.From bhamwiki.com: 11 of the reported homicides were ruled justifiable as self-defense by investigators or prosecutors and 3 resulted from reckless driving. The suspect in another murder was shot to death on the scene and another killed himself. One death resulted from a violent act committed the previous year. One other homicide took place at the Jefferson County Jail outside the city's...

Warren Admits She Shouldn’t Have Claimed To Be Native American: ‘I Shouldn’t Have Done It, I’m Not A Person Of Color’ Oh. Can you give back your Harvard job now? https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1203050517238296576?s=20 Warren gets a question in NH town hall from a voter asking what she shud tell relatives about the past claims of Native American ancestry. “I shouldn’t have done it. I am not a person of color, I am not a citizen of a tribe. And I have apologized for confusion I have caused”  

Massachusetts recently became the first state to ban the sale of flavored tobacco and vaping products, including menthol cigarettes. Given the rise in teen vaping and the increasing number of lung disease cases we are seeing around the nation, including 10 confirmed cases in Massachusetts alone, it is understandable why Governor Baker and state legislators would feel the need to take action.  However, a total flavored nicotine ban will not be effective at solving the problem it was introduced to fix. Of the 10 patients that have been verified to have the acute lung disease in Massachusetts, five of the...

It was bad enough for House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) to subpoena the phone records of businessman Lev Parnas and President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani and other political opponents, but when he released them in his impeachment report it was a stunning abuse of power. In the view of columnist Kimberly Strassel, Schiff’s move “trampled law and responsibility…it was a disgraceful breach of ethical and legal propriety.” Not surprisingly, Trump-hating members of the news media trumpeted the release of the call records as a major step toward the President’s impeachment. Their desire to destroy the President is so...

Investigators have been trying to determine what motivated a gunman who opened fire in a classroom building on Friday at the Naval Air Station Pensacola. He used a handgun and was killed after two deputies exchanged gunfire with him. The shooter was identified by the FBI as Mohammed Alshamrani -- a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the Saudi Arabian air force. He was a student naval flight officer, according to an FBI spokesperson. The shooter does not appear to have ties to terrorist groups, two sources told CNN. Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan told CNN's Erin Burnett that the FBI had...

Law professor Noah Feldman’s cryptic warnings this week about the afterlife – in the context of the House impeachment hearings – qualify as the most bizarre, um, “argument” yet against those who oppose moving forward with efforts to remove President Trump from office. During questioning with the House Judiciary Committee, the Harvard faculty member (a Democrat operative who has on four previous occasions publicly voiced desire for Trump to be impeached) defended his advocacy for the impeachment (and ultimately, removal) of the president by urging all present to think about meeting “Madison and Hamilton” in the afterlife, “ . ....

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Ann-Marie Campbell and her family immigrated to the United States shortly after she completed high school. After losing her father at a young age, she was primarily raised by her entrepreneurial grandmother, who taught her about retail from an early age. In 1985, in order to pay for college, she took a job as a part-time cashier at a Home Depot in North Miami Beach, Florida. Today, Ann-Marie is the executive vice president of over 2,000 Home Depots operating within the United States, with a combined total of nearly 400,000 employees. How did Ann-Marie move from...

Language is wildly important. That words have meanings, and those meanings are understood by everyone, are the key to communication. That’s why it’s becoming increasingly difficult to communicate with progressive leftists – they will not be bound by those definitions, they change them whenever it suits their needs. It’s to the point that it’s not even worth trying. On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi announced her call for articles of impeachment against President Trump, and what the Speaker of the House wants, the Speaker of the House gets (in the House). The only thing missing from her announcement was any charge she...

In this case, it is the usage of something magicians know well, MISDIRECTION. The magician has you looking at the hand that he himself is looking at which draws the audience to watch THAT hand, while the other hand is doing what nobody sees in order to make the trick, or deception, work. While it appears that this public rebellion is against a president who is not doing his job, the real target is…us…the 63 million people who voted in President Trump. And why against us? Fasten your seat belts. It is because they know that we the people, will...

There is a large and growing strain of anti-Americanism in the Democratic Party. It is rife with incredibly bad ideas-- economic, social and otherwise. It now makes no bones about appealing to erstwhile fringe elements. It courts and embraces Antifa members, anarchists, America-haters, gender deniers, extreme hedonists, aspiring Marxist-Leninists, and assorted other radicals. Yet, on the other hand, it similarly appeals to those who would elevate Sharia Law over constitutional rights. The only things it doesn’t tolerate are traditional mores and America’s founding values of limited government of, by, and for the people and their attendant natural rights of life,...

Lane Kiffin is back in the SEC, taking over at Ole Miss. Kiffin and the Rebels made the announcement Saturday after Florida Atlantic defeated UAB in the Conference USA championship game, the Owls' second league title in his three seasons. It had been college football's worst-kept secret since Friday, and the schools ended all doubt Saturday afternoon by conceding that the deal has been made. ''I am truly honored and humbled to join the Ole Miss family, and recognize this as a special opportunity to lead Rebel Football into the future,'' said Kiffin, who will be introduced in Oxford, Mississippi...