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"Brown highlighted what he feels are low pensions for older retired players. For those who retired before 1993, the rate is about $2,500 a month for a player who spent seven years in the league. Brown called it “shockingly, immorally, low.”

Neo-Con Republican strategist and Never Trumper Rick Wilson has suggested that anti-vaxxers should be put in re-education camps and have their children taken away.Yes, really.Wilson was responding to an NBC News story about how people who question the safety of vaccines are now taking their fight “offline” due to mass censorship by the likes of Facebook and are “harassing doctors and private citizens.”  “Anti-vaxxers are a scourge and a strong argument for re-education camps, the immediate seizure of their property, and putting their children into protective custody,” responded Wilson.https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1202978781000065025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1202978781000065025&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswars.com%2Fnever-trumper-rick-wilson-suggests-putting-anti-vaxxers-in-re-education-camps%2F 

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — The Saudi gunman who killed three people at the Pensacola naval base had apparently gone on Twitter shortly before the shooting to blast U.S. support of Israel and accuse America of being anti-Muslim, a U.S. official said Sunday as the FBI confirmed it is operating on the assumption the attack was an act of terrorism. Investigators are also trying to establish whether the killer, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani, 21, of the Royal Saudi Air Force, acted alone or was part of a larger plot. Alshamrani, who was killed by a sheriff’s deputy during the rampage at...

The Justice Department inspector general’s report into the Russia collusion investigation lays out incontrovertible evidence that the FBI misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court through false information and omissions, according to sources familiar with its findings. The evidence that the judges were misled is so sweeping that it could provide grounds, if Attorney General William Barr chooses, to withdraw the FBI’s application for the surveillance warrants that began in October 2016 to target ex-Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, the sources added. Such a move, while mostly legally symbolic since the probe is long since closed, would still amount to a...

The Abell 85 galaxy cluster, which is home to a black hole of 40 billion solar masses Mathias Kluge/USM/MPE ===================================================================== Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and at the University Observatory Munich have found the largest known black hole in our galactic neighborhood using direct mass measurements. Located 700 million light-years from Earth in the Abell 85 cluster of galaxies in the constellation of Cetus, it has a mass 40 billion times that of the Sun. Ever since the existence of the first black hole was confirmed in 1971, they have gone from being a mathematical curiosity...

Who knew that when it came to impeachment, its biggest benefactor would be President Donald Trump? Everyone. Everyone knew that…except the Democrats apparently. According to Firehouse Strategies, the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin all consistently showed that Trump was losing to Joe Biden in a match-up, but recently, polling from Firehouse shows that he’s now falling short of beating Trump by six points, and it’s all thanks to impeachment: As the race currently stands, President Trump is in the lead in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in hypothetical match-ups against former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator...

Provocative analysis of sea-floor cores suggests that quakes on the Cascadia fault off California can trigger tremors on the San Andreas. Two of North America’s most fearsome earthquake zones could be linked. A controversial study argues that at least eight times in the past 3,000 years, quakes made a one–two punch off the west coast of the United States. A quake hit the Cascadia fault off the coast of northern California, triggering a second quake on the San Andreas fault just to the south. In some cases, the delay between the quakes may have been decades long. The study suggests...

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Amazon.com Inc. said President Trump exerted “improper pressure” on the Pentagon to keep a lucrative cloud-computing deal from going to his perceived political enemy, company founder Jeffrey Bezos. In a complaint filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, Amazon said the president “launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks” on the contract and the company to steer the contract away from Amazon. Mr. Trump’s aim was “to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos,” according to the complaint, which was made public Monday. Amazon was long considered the favorite to win the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI,...

We've long suspected that Joe Scarborough's rhetorical jihad on President Trump was fueled by Trump's tweet in which he wrote that Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough's wife-to-be, was "bleeding badly from a facelift." And now we have confirmation. This morning, Scarborough virtually admitted that the insult does indeed lie at the heart of his anti-Trump vendetta. Much of the opening segment of today's Morning Joe was devoted to tearing into Ted Cruz for defending President Trump, despite Trump, during the 2016 campaign, having said unflattering things about Cruz, his wife, and father. [snip] Donny Deutsch: How would you handle it as a...

Columbus, OH – When Ohio’s pro-life Governor Mike DeWine appointed Dr. Amy Acton to serve as Executive Director of the Ohio Department of Health, he may not have realized that, as a registered Democrat, Acton and her whole family worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, and later managed non-profit fundraising grants for Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and the NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Foundation. It was Acton that issued a license to “Women’s Med Dayton” – the alter-ego for Women’s Med Center of Dayton, an abortion facility owned by the notorious late-term abortionist Martin Haskell. Acton revoked the license for...

The White House and House Democrats are on the verge of a new North American trade deal in what would give President Trump a signature legislative victory. The Washington Post reported Monday that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the two sides had come to a deal and that the labor union was reviewing it. The White House and AFL-CIO did not immediately respond to requests for comment. But a senior Democratic aide pushed back on the report, saying that nothing had yet been finalized. "We’re still studying the proposal," the aide said. Trump announced the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) more than...

2019 has been an incredible college football season so far for CBS. The network announced Sunday that they’d posted the best viewership numbers for their season-long coverage (to date; they still have Army-Navy next week, which will undoubtedly bring in plenty of further viewers) in 29 years, and that Saturday’s SEC championship game (which saw then-No. 2 LSU beat then-No.4 Georgia 37-10) averaged 13.703 million viewers. That’s the second-highest viewership total for any NCAA game this year, behind only Nov. 10’s LSU-Alabama game (which also aired on CBS, and which drew 16.64 million viewers on average).

The Supreme Court has upheld a Kentucky law slowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn baby before having an abortion. Ultrasounds are generally done before abortionist to determine the age of the baby prior to the abortion, but abortion clinics normally don’t let women see their baby because they may change their mind after seeing their child. The nation’s highest court declined to take up a challenge to the law from abortion activists. The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Kentucky’s only abortion clinic, EMW Women’s Surgical Center, had asked the courts to strike it down....

The Southeastern Conference is sending nine teams to the postseason this bowl season, and wouldn’t you know it, nearly each and every one of them is currently favored to win their matchups. The lone underdog from the SEC this bowl season is Kentucky, which is facing off against Virginia Tech in the final Belk Bowl. Tennessee’s game against Indiana is currently listed as a Pick ‘Em but all other SEC programs are listed as the favorites this postseason.

Media elites and other leftists will never stop contorting themselves in attempts to tag President Trump as a dictator. Law professor Pamela Karlan’s testimony during “impeachment” proceedings before the House Judiciary Committee even invoked the name of Trump’s 13-year-old son Barron to imply Trump views himself as a monarch. The list of such contortions is endless. It includes this past summer’s attempt by some self-appointed psychiatrists to declare Trump unfit. But the recent meme that there is a “Cult of Trump” trumps them all.

This week Jonathan Maren interviewed Dr. Matthew Harrison, who along with Dr. George Delgado, pioneered the (abortion pill reversal) technique... Explains that while a direct study would not be ethical, more than 400 women have successfully reversed the RU486 chemical abortion in progress, for a 67% success rate.

Seventh Day Adventists Founder: William Miller Overview In 1782 William Miller was born on the east coast of the United States.  As a young man he was a farmer and during the war of 1812, he served as a captain in the American armed forces.  In 1833 he was licensed to preach by a Baptist church but was never ordained.  After having studied the Bible for two years, in 1818 Miller announced to the world that in 25 years (March 1844) Jesus Christ would return to the earth.  At the height of his ministry, Miller had gathered some 50,000 followers,...

At least five people are dead after an eruption on a volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand on Monday, local officials have confirmed. New Zealand police say a number of people were injured and have been taken to an area hospital, but it remains too dangerous for emergency services to access the island and search for those missing. Authorities believe fewer than 50 New Zealanders and international tourists were on or near White Island – about 30 miles off the coast of New Zealand's North Island – but the exact number of people unaccounted for is unclear. "We...

Dayton, OH – Operation Rescue is seeking help from pro-life supporters in a public campaign to force the resignation or removal of the current Ohio Department of Health Director, Amy Acton, who has prevented a very dangerous late-term abortion facility from losing its facility license through the use of a duplicitous paperwork loophole. Acton, who was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine in February, licensed the Women’s Med Center of Dayton, a late-term abortion facility, under an assumed name to keep it open despite four years of litigation by the state to terminate its abortion license for dishonesty and failure to...