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Stan Cass will live on … in gold. Cass, who died in Greeley two years ago, was greatly honored at West Point this week in a Ring Melt Ceremony. As an influential member of Greeley and Weld County, Cass was a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, a graduate of West Point, a Vietnam War veteran and was the founder of the Honor Flight Northern Colorado, a group that flies veterans to Washington, D.C., every six months to see the war memorials. And it is because of his achievements that his family was at West Point this week for the...

From 2010. A study in China “The discovery of SARS-like coronavirus in bats suggests that bats could be the natural reservoir of SARS-CoV. “ State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00705-010-0729-6

“I went to the election. I chose not to vote for president. I signed the everybody sucks campaign,” she deadpans. But in the years that followed, Goetz, 40, has gradually moved from “never Trump” to “probably Trump” . . . One day after the rally, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted out data gathered from people who registered for the Milwaukee event: Of the 20,395 registered, 15,738 said they were voters from Wisconsin, 57.9 percent said they were not Republican and 4,313 said they didn’t vote in 2016. Some of those 4,313 nonvoters will be people just like Goetz, who...

A "Happy Brexit Day" poster telling residents of a block of flats "we do not tolerate" people speaking other languages has been reported to the police. Copies of the sign were reportedly found stuck to fire doors on all 15 floors of Winchester Tower in Norwich on Friday morning. The discovery came hours before the UK officially left the European Union at 11pm on Friday. A photo of the poster, which was shared on social media, shows that it reads: "As we finally have our great country back we feel there is one that needs to be made clear to...

Donny Eberhid was embracing his freedom. ‘I’m liberated,’ he told me, proudly flourishing his Union flag over Parliament Square. His friend Tracey Chandler concurred. ‘Nothing was getting done. I was so angry. Then Boris came in and sorted it out.’ Britannia – not her real name – had been on a different journey. ‘I voted Remain,’ she explained, ‘but I’m here as a patriot. I believe in democracy.’ Her costume wasn’t quite as elaborate as it seemed. ‘It’s basically just a bed sheet. Though the shield took a bit of work.’

The BBC has provoked outrage by screening an 'anti-British' children's programme on Brexit Day. Hosted by Left-wing comedian Nish Kumar, Horrible Histories Brexit suggested Britain had historically failed to produce anything of note, relying instead on imports. Amid a chorus of protest, even one of the BBC's broadcasters launched a stinging attack on the show. Leading political commentator Andrew Neil last night called it 'anti-British drivel of a high order' and asked: 'Was any of the licence fee used to produce something purely designed to demean us?' Kumar begins by introducing a series of CBBC 'comedy' clips. In one sequence,...

The Democrats have a big problem -- yuge, as President Donald Trump might say. Right now the Democratic presidential front-runner is Sen. Bernie Sanders. His views are stark-raving crazy. The things he believes in turn off and frighten average Americans. You know, the ones who aren't communists and didn't choose to honeymoon in the Soviet Union. Elizabeth Warren is trying to outdo Sanders. Recently, she claimed that transgender illegal aliens are the most important issue on the border. I kid you not. She was panicking over transgender people being stuck on the other side of the border because "mean Trump"...

The Talk Shows February 2nd, 2020 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. NOPE*; Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Donald Trump's legal team. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg; NOPE*; Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Buttigieg; White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien; Rep. Adam Schitt, D-Calif.; Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDanielTHIS WEEK (ABC): Democratic presidential candidates Buttigieg and Andrew Yang, two NOPEs*.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Buttigieg; Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.; Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa. SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): NFL...

The Trump administration’s new homelessness czar is proposing a wholesale shift in the country’s philosophy for aiding the unhoused, potentially upending existing approaches as big cities and states struggle with the deepening problem. Robert Marbut, the head of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the top federal body on the issue, blames the rise in homelessness in large part on a policy called “Housing First,” which was conceived in the 1990s in New York City and soon became best practice but whose definition has since become contested. It aims to get people a reliable home before focusing on services such...

Gilles Desaulniers moved to San Francisco 40 years ago, settling in the ‘friendly, quaint and affordable’ city after running out of cash while driving from Canada down the West Coast of America. Today he runs a grocery store filled with fresh fruit, vegan snacks and organic wines typical of this famously liberal Californian city. But Gilles has shut one outlet and would sell up entirely if anyone wanted this one, his remaining shop. Each day, up to 30 people stroll in and openly steal goods, costing him hundreds of dollars.

Comedian Bill Maher seemed baffled by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Friday, suggesting that she was "crazy" in the way she wanted to vet her Secretary of Education. His comments came after Warren pledged to allow an unidentified "young trans person" to veto her pick for leading the Education Department. "Now, [former President Barack] Obama said people just don't want crazy stuff," Maher said during Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher." "Is this not crazy stuff?" he said, while also jokingly asking if Warren was running to serve as "President of Berkeley."

Did you know todays date is the same backwards and forwards? 02/02/2020 reverse it and it is the same, first time in over 900 years.

Let's talk about nuisance abatement laws. These are laws cities can use to shut down businesses that appear to draw more than their fair share of the criminal element. If you're a fan of asset forfeiture, you'll love nuisance laws. By abdicating their law enforcement responsibilities, cities can have their lower cost cake and eat your property too. It's win-win for cities, who love to use laws like this to effectively seize property from citizens who have the misfortune to operate legitimate businesses in high crime areas. Here's how it works in Dallas, Texas. The city says business owners must...

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Dem Rep. Ilhan Omar Describes Disappointment of Moving to America, Seeing Homelessness ROUGH Transcript: When I first came to the United States, I remember one of the first things that I saw was homeless people sleeping on the sides of Manhattan when we arrived in New York. And I remember turning to my father and saying, “This does not look like the America you promised.” And my father said, “Hush, child, we are going to get to our America.” Because the America we were shown in the orientation states when we were coming here from the refugee camps in Kenya...

As the media remember Kobe Bryant’s legacy, some of them are acknowledging his faith. Americans mourned the death of the basketball legend after the media confirmed that both he and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, perished in a helicopter crash. Seven others also died in the Jan. 26 crash in California. While the tragedy made waves in the news, a more hopeful undercurrent focused on Bryant’s relationship with God. Outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, Fox News, and the New York Post mentioned the 41-year old’s faith. Bryant retired in 2016 after playing with the Los Angeles Lakers for 20 seasons –...

Will Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of impeachment? The plump Groundhog's wacky weather prediction always falls on February 2. In the Northern Hemisphere, this date traditionally marks the midpoint between the winter solstice in December and the spring equinox in March. Today February 2, the people of our nation (at least a few of us) will watch with bated breath as Punxsutawney Phil emerges from his burrow. It’s said that if Phil encounters his shadow, we’ll be in for six more weeks of winter weather, but if he doesn’t, then spring is just around the corner. So which will...

Democrats find themselves in an unenviable position for the 2020 election: they have to convince the American public that they don’t know how bad they have it at a time when we have it pretty good. Their task is like me trying to convince my 2-year-old daughter that she doesn’t really like chocolate ice cream – an impossibility. But when the alternative is to run a campaign extolling the virtues of socialism and the need for government to take life decision-making powers away from individuals, talking people out of believing reality seems like an easier task. The economy is churning...

Red Sovine has our gospel tune today: I Got Religion The Old Time Way (1956). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Ever since Carter established the Department of Education in 1979, presidents have at least pretended to select their DOE head by looking at that person’s theories and expertise about educational opportunities for all students. Elizabeth Warren, however, has decided that all potential Education secretaries must pass muster with a single demographic: “A young trans person.” And no, this is not a story from the Babylon Bee. It’s a genuine story of Elizabeth Warren pandering on the campaign trail. At a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Elizabeth Warren was giving a speech to a young audience when she began to...