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Daniel Boone's Quaker family had pioneered North Carolina's Yadkin River Valley. The Boone family lived four miles from Mordecai Lincoln, the great-great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. The sixth of eleven children, Daniel Boone was given his first rifle at age 12 and began to hunt and explore. Boone once exclaimed: "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." During the French and Indian War, 20-year-old Daniel Boone, and his cousin - future General Daniel Morgan, served as wagon drivers for the British in the Battle of Monongahela, July 9, 1755. Also in that...

Whether inherited, purchased or received as gifts you would think most guns are cool looking. The following guns classifies as "ugly", in these ugliness lies the DIY gunsmiths working within their lack of resources. Many early automatic weapons and pistols were designed without a complete understanding of what works, leading to strange and ugly guns that barely worked. Desperate times during World War II led to a need for cheap, easily made firearms, and there wasn't time to make them with clean lines and beauty. Sometimes, prevailing design fads take over, especially in communist countries, where principles in Soviet architecture...

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Thus began the first of the Ten Amendments, or Bill of Rights, which were approved SEPTEMBER 25, 1789. "The Father of the Bill of Rights" was George Mason of Virginia. George Mason was the richest man in Virginia, owning 15,000 acres. When George Washington was chosen to be the Commander of the Continental Army, George Mason was drafted by the citizens of Virginia to fill Washington's place in the Continental Congress. George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which Jefferson drew from to...

Retirement in Canada vs. America: An Overview American and Canadian governments provide many of the same types of services to those planning for retirement and those who have retired. Overall, however, Canadian retirees find life after work to be much less stressful, as fears of running out of money are not as prevalent as they are in the U.S.—fears that drive some American retirees to find ways to supplement their retirement incomes. Key Takeaways Canada and America both allow citizens to have tax-advantaged retirement accounts: the Canadian RRSP and TFSA, similar to the American Traditional IRA and Roth IRA,...

The report throws water on one “deep state” conspiracy theory of the Russia investigation, but validates complaints about “fake news" _________________________ The Guardian headline reads: “DOJ Internal watchdog report clears FBI of illegal surveillance of Trump adviser.” If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a “clearing” of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was. Like the much-ballyhooed report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Horowitz report is a Rorschach test, in which partisans will find what they want to find. Much of the press...

Buh-bye forever, Republicans! That's Joe Scarborough's prediction—or perhaps just his fondest wish. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough predicted: "We may look back at 2020 as a last competitive election against the Republican and the Democratic Party." Scarborough asserted that "chances are very good that by 2024, because of demographic changes, Texas goes blue." Scarborough adopts the patronizing view that people will vote their skin color instead of their interests; that voters of color will docilely remain on the Democrat plantation. If African American and Hispanic unemployment rates remain at historically low levels, as they have under President Trump, there's good...

Posted on December 11, 2019December 11, 2019 A Reminder in Advent: Christ Reigns, Rules, and Conquers Advent is a season of waiting, waiting for God to fulfill His promises. We know that most of His promises from the Old Testament were fulfilled magnificently by Jesus, but as St. Paul reminds, we have received but the first fruits of His work in our soul (cf Rom 8:23). The created world and our physical bodies still await the full implications of what He has done. We still await a new Heaven and a new earth where the justice of God will...

Full title: Chief Justice John Marshall, "The American population is entirely Christian, and with us, Christianity and Religion are identified." "The power to tax involves the power to destroy," wrote Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819. Perhaps no one had a greater impact on the development of Constitutional Law than John Marshall. He was born SEPTEMBER 24, 1755, and was home schooled as a youth. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, John Marshall served with the Culpeper Minutemen. Marshall joined the Continental Army and served as a captain in the Virginia Regiment under General George Washington, enduring...

Michael Kosanovich, 21, was eyeing a 2002 Lexus at 148th St. and Foch Blvd. in South Jamaica when the owner inadvertently started the car’s remote ignition about 9:45 p.m. Saturday. The car was not in park and when the remote was triggered it lurched forward, pinning Kosanovich between the luxury car and another parked Lexus, cops said.

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Among the millions of recent eviction cases researchers have begun to compile across the country, there are a startling number of modest sums. There are dozens of families in Texas evicted with money judgments — unpaid rent, late fees, court costs — totaling $516. There are multiple families in Cumberland County, N.C., who owed all of $301. There is a household in Providence, R.I., whose 2016 court record shows a debt of just $127. Such relatively small sums suggest that, for all of the intractable problems of poverty and affordable housing driving the nation’s eviction crisis, a little intervention could...

Khorramshahr is one of the southern cities of the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, neighboring the Persian Gulf and Iraq. Its huge oil reserves and access to the Persian Gulf gives particular strategic, economic, and political importance to this city. Resistance and courage of the people of Khorramshahr have a special place in the history of Iran. Centuries ago, the people of Khorramshahr fought with the Ottoman Empire and are now rebelling against mullah’s regime, one that has cost them many human lives and financial losses. Below is the narrative of one who has witnessed a series of events in the...

Just one day after two Black Hebrew Israelites targeted a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, killing one police officer and three private citizens, President Trump signed an executive order designed to address growing antisemitism on college campuses. The Order permits the federal government to deny funding to universities that don’t properly address the rising epidemic of Jew-hatred on their campuses. Of course, the left is melting down Twitter with embarrassing hot takes.

In December 2017, angry Iranian citizens began publicly denouncing two blatantly linked injustices: their nation's acute economic deterioration and the clerical dictatorship's hideous corruption. That's right. Two years ago, insistent and widespread protests in Iran's major cities shook the ayatollah regime. Shutting down the internet didn't stop the worldwide circulation of cellphone videos that documented the protests and the social media dissemination of grievances. Regime propagandists described the demonstrations as a wave. But was December 2017 a wave or a rising tide? Since spring 2018, public demonstrations staged by angry Iranians have waxed and waned but always returned. Here's a...

President Donald Trump declared a “big deal” with China to be close in a comment that sent stocks higher on Thursday ahead of a looming deadline for new tariffs. ‘BIG DEAL’As he was reportedly set to meet with his top trade advisers, Trump tweeted: “Getting VERY close to a BIG DEAL with China. They want it, and so do we!” On Sunday, tariffs on $160 billion on Chinese goods are set to kick in. There has been question if Trump will delay or cancel those tariffs if a deal isn’t reached by then. U.S. stocks jumped after Trump’s tweet, with...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) underwent heart surgery following reports of chest pains, his chief of staff confirmed on Wednesday. The California lawmaker and member of the House Judiciary Committee went to George Washington University Hospital on Monday after experiencing chest pain and was admitted thereafter. While there were no signs that he experienced a heart attack, he underwent heart surgery on Tuesday after doctors discovered a partial blockage in one of his arteries. The stent surgery was successful. His chief of staff, Marc Cevasco, said Lieu should be returning to work next week. “An electrocardiogram, ultrasound and two blood tests...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Napoleon Bonaparte. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Napoleon Bonaparte was the most prominent statesman and military leader to result from the French Revolution. He built an empire from these ashes, and his campaigns are still studied by military schools worldwide. 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...

The US Air Force's frequent activities over the South China Sea might not attract the same attention as the US Navy's, but they still played an important role in negotiations with China, according to American air force officers. Gen. Charles Brown, commander of US Pacific Air Forces, said US warplanes — including bombers, U-2 reconnaissance aircraft and RQ-4 Global Hawk drones — regularly conducted "freedom of navigation" operations over the disputed waters despite China's deployment of air defence facilities on artificial islands and reefs in the area. "We've been flying in and around the South China Sea for really about...

A household debt crisis may be brewing in China as the government tries to boost sluggish consumption amid a domestic economic slowdown and trade war with the United States. China’s household debt had ballooned to 60.4 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of 2018, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said in its annual financial stability report last week. And for the first time, the household debt to income ratio hit 99.9 per cent, meaning that total debt is now roughly equal to total household income among the average Chinese household. “[Household debt growth] is...

Khorramshahr is one of the southern cities of the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, neighboring the Persian Gulf and Iraq. Its huge oil reserves and access to the Persian Gulf gives particular strategic, economic, and political importance to this city. Resistance and courage of the people of Khorramshahr have a special place in the history of Iran. Centuries ago, the people of Khorramshahr fought with the Ottoman Empire and are now rebelling against mullah’s regime, one that has cost them many human lives and financial losses. Below is the narrative of one who has witnessed a series of events in the...