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Years ago a professor of film studies told me that "Breaking Away" was one of the best "coming of age" films he'd ever seen because it didn't involve sex, but rather a boy being disillusioned with his cycling childhood heroes. "Richard Jewell" is in many respects a coming of age movie. Most people know the story: Atlanta Olympic Games security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), who had been fired from a police department and from a college for excessive enthusiasm, finds a bomb in a backpack left at the Atlanta Centennial venue. He calls the police, assists in moving...

Is a trap being set for Trump in the Senate trial?

It apparently doesn't take much to trigger CNN as far as President Donald Trump is concerned. In their latest iteration of perpetual outrage, CNN is irked over a funny meme which portrays Trump as the Marvel cartoon character of Thanos who with a snap of his finger, turns the House impeachment crew to dust. That meme was tweeted by the Trump War Room on Tuesday. What added the humor of the tweet was the reaction from CNN starting with Don Lemon going full Margaret Dumont over it that evening.

Starbucks has issued an apology after two uniformed county deputies in California were reportedly denied service Thursday night. The incident happened at a store location in Riverside, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed in a tweet Friday night.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) rejected arguments that we should allow the upcoming 2020 election to decide who will be president. “Elections are unreliable,” Nadler said. “We all saw what happened in 2016. Despite the heroic efforts by the FBI described in the Horowitz report, Donald Trump, with the aid of the Russians, managed to dupe enough strategically positioned voters to snatch victory away from the majority’s preferred candidate: Hillary Clinton. We cannot sit idly by and allow this to happen again.” “We need to find our way to a better method of selecting who shall govern,” Nadler...

“There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by another.”– Jerry Nadler. “Impeachment is a very serious matter. If it happens it has to be a bipartisan initiative.” – Nancy Pelosi “In the absence of very graphic evidence, it would be difficult to get the support in the Senate needed to make an impeachment successful. Again, my feeling is let’s see what Bob Mueller produces. But the evidence would have to be pretty overwhelming.”– Adam Schiff If you ever needed proof that democrats were lying hypocritical dogs,...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) wants President Donald Trump to declassify the applications to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. “The Inspector General report showed the FBI was willing to do anything in order to spy on Carter Page, including making 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions. The American public deserves to know everything the FBI did,” Kennedy said ... “I’m asking President Trump to declassify the entire record so that Attorney General Barr and FBI Director Wray can release it to the American people. If the FBI wants to continue the employment of rogue, politically-motivated agents, then let the public...

Environmental groups are criticizing new draft agreements presented at a United Nations (UN) climate summit, saying they won't do enough to combat the threats of climate change as participating countries fail to come to a consensus. Vanessa Perez-Cirera, the head of the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) delegation to the conference, which is being held in Madrid, on Saturday called the latest draft "weak" and "shocking." “The extremely weak draft decision text made available this morning is shocking, especially in regards to climate ambition. We are in a climate crisis - references to enhancing climate pledges.... in 2020 are desperately needed...

The Georgia creep who admittedly slapped a TV news reporter on the behind while she was on-air covering a community foot race was arrested Friday for misdemeanor sexual battery. Sexual battery is punishable by up to one year in jail in Georgia.

Thousands of volunteers descended on Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia for the annual Wreaths Across America Day to help honor fallen service members. Parking lots at the burial ground were quickly filled as the volunteers swarmed to pick up wreaths to lay at the cemetery’s tombstones. The event is part of a nationwide effort that takes place at roughly 1,600 cemeteries across the country to honor veterans. “We understand we have Veterans Day in the fall and Memorial Day in the spring, but our service members sacrifice their time and safety every single day of the year to preserve...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Claire Wolfe. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Claire Wolfe is a libertarian author and columnist, who writes frequently about prepping and the dystopia-heading direction of the Deep State within the western world. 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 half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the...

It Has To Be Historically Accurate While most would want their cabin to be modern enough to at least have power and a functioning bathroom, Richard wasn’t having it. He stressed that he would keep the cabin as historically accurate as possible. That meant that there would be neither plumbing nor electricity. historical cabin A Log Cabin in the Woods/Facebook As Richard explained it, not installing appliances saved him a lot of money, and the cabin wouldn’t be a place for someone who didn’t feel like roughing it out in rural Missouri. And yet even though the cabin’s wood was...

The country has been discussing reparations in one way or another since slavery officially ended in 1865. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slave, launching the violence afflicted on black people to prop up the Southern economy. University of Buffalo senior Jeffrey Clinton said he thinks campuses should acknowledge historical ties to slavery but that the federal government should take the lead on an issue that reaches well beyond higher education. “It doesn’t have to be trillions of dollars ... but at least address the inequities and attack the racial wealth gap between African...

Three-quarters of Californians who are eligible for a subsidy to defray the cost of health insurance either don’t know they qualify or don’t know just how much they could get, and if you haven’t checked, Covered California leader Peter V. Lee wants you to stop what you’re doing and go to the agency’s website by Sunday.

Yesterday in a packed committee meeting room, Senate President Steve Sweeney demonstrated once again that he doesn't answer to YOU the voters and residents. They were there to have a preliminary vote on S2177/A3818. These bills are designed to eliminate any choice parents have in determining the health and safety of their own children when it comes to vaccines. This would take away the religious exemption for opting out of the overwhelming amount of vaccinations our kids are required to receive to be allowed into public schools. We've talked and written about how many children have been vaccine injured in...

At the time of the American founding, the press had been both a target of monarchical tyranny and a catalyst for revolutionary sentiment. James Madison rightly hailed it as “one of the great bulwarks of liberty.” The framers of the First Amendment, not content to protect free speech, jealously guarded the freedom of the press from the new Congress. But today the free press is under threat not primarily from government overreach but from a dangerous lack of integrity in the media itself. Nothing illustrates this new threat to the freedom of the press like the media’s concerted effort to...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — It’s not clear if Betty Carnes was killed by asphyxiation or by the eight blows to her head that Delmar Partin delivered with a metal pipe. The coroner couldn’t tell which killed the mother of three first, but it was very clear that her head was then chopped off and placed on her lap in a 55-gallon barrel that was destined for a toxic waste site. On Monday, departing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned and commuted the sentence of Partin, who was convicted of killing her at the factory where they both worked in Barbourville in 1994....

The SAFE Alliance is asking for help replenishing hygiene items for babies at the SAFE Donation Warehouse. Hygiene items that the SAFE Alliance requests for their In-Kind Donations include: Baby shampoo/conditioner, lotion, and body wash Size 4, 5, 6 diapers Pull-ups Baby wipes Brushes and hair accessories All donations directly benefit SAFE clients in need. There is no charge for SAFE clients to utilize the donated items.

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider President Trump’s legal efforts to block congressional and criminal subpoenas for his financial records, scheduling March arguments for a trio of blockbuster cases that could have lasting implications for the presidency. The high court is the president’s last hope to stop House investigators and New York state prosecutors from probing his financial dealings dating back nearly a decade, and potentially longer. Lower courts upheld the subpoenas, which were served not on Mr. Trump himself but an accounting firm and two banks that hold the records. Had the court refused to hear the cases,...

Trey Gowdy just made a good point. “You have a win, take it.” Investigate the Bidens and the Schiff whistleblower collusion separately if you want to, but take the win first, don’t mess it up. Let the house present their case. Vote to Acquit on the “Abuse of Power” Vote to Acquit on the “Obstruction of Congress” But don’t stop there… oh no no no… Vote to rebuke the House for holding unfair hearing processes that defied precedents, denied minority rights, refused minority witnesses, refused minority questions, held witness auditions in secret and denied whitehouse counsel. Vote to rebuke the...