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The story is at first aggravating to hear but the more we learn about it the better the outlook for this country becomes. A pair of high school football players in Morrow, Ohio, ran out on the field before a game holding a Blue Lives Matter and Red Lives Matter flag. They were later suspended over the display, for introducing a political message to the game. It was a sign of pregame social signaling, and as we have come to learn there is a glaring set of double standards on such issues.  For years we have been lectured that Colin...

South Park is going to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in a big way. Comedy Central announced Tuesday a one-hour special episode of the iconic animated series devoted to the coronavirus crisis. A trailer for the episode shows Randy Marsh announcing some sort of "pandemic special" attempting to cash in on the crisis, Cartman worrying about authorities trying to make him return to school, Kyle fretting about social distancing and a scene with the kids in a classroom encased in protective cubicles with a police detective as their new teacher. The official description: "Randy comes to terms with his role in...

Michael O'Leary, 55, from Nantgaredig in Carmarthenshire, failed to return home from work on January 27 and is alleged to have been murdered by Andrew Jones from CarmarthenA husband who discovered his wife was having an affair allegedly shot her lover dead then moved his body using a forklift, a murder trial heard. Andrew Jones is charged with the murder of missing Carmarthenshire 55-year-old Michael O’Leary. Prosecutors say the defendant lured Mr O'Leary to a farm before shooting him dead and then concealing his body. Mr O'Leary was reported missing on the evening of January 27 after he failed to...

by Ron Kersten As we reported this morning, two Ohio high school football players were suspended from the team after they ran onto the field on 9-11 with thin blue line and thin red line flags in support of the anniversary, and the heroes lost that day at the WTC. The thin blue line flag represents support for police officers and the thin red line flag represents support for fire fighters. The boys were honoring 9-11 victims and their fathers who work as a police officer and a fire fighter. What thanks did they get for this awesome show...

Joe Biden arrived in Tampa, Florida Tuesday afternoon for his first visit to the Sunshine State in more than 6 months. 77-year-old Biden confused Iran and Iraq as he read from his notes during a veterans roundtable event.

AUSTIN, Texas — Chick-fil-A said Monday that it no longer plans to open a restaurant in the San Antonio airport, even though the Texas city relented after more than a year of legal wrangling that began when some city leaders opposed the fast-food chain getting a spot, citing donations made by company owners to anti-LGBTQ causes. “We are always evaluating potential new locations in the hopes of serving existing and new customers great food with remarkable service.” Chick-fil-A said in a statement. “While we are not pursuing a location in the San Antonio airport at this time, we are grateful...

The mystery of the unidentified flying object spotted whizzing through the air above the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship in Torquay last week has been solved. Chief investigator for World UFO Photos, John Mooner, who witnessed the UFO said: ''The object flew down towards the ship and then stopped and hovered there for a couple of second before it just seemed to disappear into thin air. “I was really stumped by this as it was far too large to be a drone and there was no sound at all. “What the hell did I witness? And where did it go?”...

The Oasis star moaned that "there’s too many ***** liberties being taken away from us now".Noel Gallagher is refusing to wear a mask during the Covid-19 pandemic because it is a violation of his liberty, he has told a popular podcast. The Oasis guitarist told the Matt Morgan podcast for Radio X that masks are “pointless” and that he chooses not to wear one. He said: “It’s not a law. There’s too many ** liberties being taken away from us now… I choose not to wear one. If I get the virus it’s on me, it’s not on anyone else…...

Just another day in San Francisco, with mentally challenged drug addicts being among the few using the streets and parks of the Paris of the Pacific. Jaded city residents have become so accustomed to strange human sights they hardly shrug, but it's become so bad that the mostly liberal inhabitants are starting to turn on their progressive leaders. @SFGotham, an independent researcher who exposes the city's crime, corruption and policy failures on Twitter, saw something this week that made the crusader look twice. "Junkie on a skateboard carrying a mattress while smoking meth? Just another day in SF!" he mused...

CBS might have a partial interest in the Drudge Report. I don’t know this for a fact but perhaps CBS can let us know.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) September 14, 2020

Raleigh, N.C. — The state Court of Appeals has overturned a trial-court ruling voiding amendments to North Carolina's constitution that voters approved two years ago, calling for people to present photo identification at the polls and lowering the cap on the state income tax rate.

Shooting Not Believed To Be Politically Motivated MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The 17-year-old boy killed and another man hurt Monday in a north Minneapolis shooting were members of a Republican congressional candidate’s campaign. The Lacy Johnson campaign says the two victims were members of the outreach team and were not performing campaign duties when the shooting occurred Monday afternoon at the intersection of North Fremont and Dowling avenues. According to the Lacy Johnson campaign and Minneapolis police, the shooting is not believed to be a politically motivated attack. Minneapolis police say a group of people were standing outside of a Super...

Photos have emerged on Chinese social media showing the assembly of two massive warships at the Jiangnan Shipyard outside Shanghai, where the PLAN’s next two aircraft carriers are being built. Anonymous, independent sources told the South China Morning Post (SCMP) they are indeed the first two Type 002 carriers, the first of which will be completed next year.

Lebanon County authorities arrested a man who they said went on an “overnight crime spree of vandalism and theft” when he stole yard signs supporting police and Donald Trump, and spray-painted personal property. District Attorney Pier Hess Graf said 13 home or business owners called police Monday to report vandalism or missing items including American flags, political or “we support our police” signs, Graf said. Graf said Richland resident Jon G. Shanfelder, 24, spray-painted “racist” on the side of a truck, and “ACAB” — “all cops are bastards” — on someone’s home. The inside and outside of two pieces of...

<p>DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has estimated that 550,000 acres of Iowa corn will not be harvested this fall due to damage caused by the Aug. 10 wind storm that swept across the state.</p> <p>That estimate in a report released Friday places the value of the lost corn crop based on the yield and price anticipated before the storm at around $344 million. Corn prices have gone up due to the crop losses so farmers will likely get more money for the corn they do harvest. Most farmers also have crop insurance to cover some of the loss and other federal programs may help.</p>

McCloskey Case | Rare look at prosecutor’s emails reveal improper urgency to charge For the first time, News 4 is getting a rare look at what went on behind closed doors in the days leading up to charges being filed. Through an anonymous source, News 4 received a series of emails, text messages and a voicemail exchanged in the days and weeks leading up to Mark and Patricia McCloskey being charged for what happened at their home in the Central West End. VIDEO AT LINK.................. 740+ comments at youtube…

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony starts with an anguished opening theme — dun dun dun DUNNNN — and ends with a glorious, major-key melody. Since its 1808 premiere, audiences have interpreted that progression from struggle to victory as a metaphor for Beethoven’s personal resilience in the face of his oncoming deafness. Or rather, that’s long been the popular read among wealthy white men who embraced Beethoven and turned his symphony into a symbol of their superiority and importance. For others — women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color — Beethoven’s symphony is predominantly a reminder of classical music’s history of exclusion and elitism....

Kamala Harris’s husband’s firm, DLA Piper, consults on behalf of a bevy of Chinese Communist Party-owned companies and employs former Chinese Communist Party officials. DLA Piper, a multinational law firm, boasts nearly 30 years of experience in China and over 140 lawyers dedicated to its “China Investment Services” branch. Harris’s links to the company are found with her husband, Douglas Emhoff, who has served as a Partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice and its Media, Sport, and Entertainment sector since 2017.

This is a link to the new biden (zzzzzz) tv spot. Not to his campaign but to youtube posting.

The official U.S. poverty rate fell in 2019 for the fifth consecutive year, according to a report from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released Tuesday. The U.S. poverty rate fell to 10.5 percent last year, according to the 2020 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement, dropping 1.3 percentage points from 2018’s poverty rate of 11.8 percent. The 2019 poverty rate is the lowest recorded since government estimates began in 1959. The number of Americans in poverty also fell by 4.2 million in 2019 to a total of 34 million, according to the survey, and...