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In 1986 a farmer, Lenard Hill, took his own life on the morning his farm was to go to a courthouse auction, believing his life insurance would pay enough to save the cotton & soybean farm in his family over 100 years. A complete stranger in Queens N.Y. read about this story & paid off the remaining $77,000. A USMC Sergeant spent 7 months in a Mexican prison for accidentally crossing the border with a firearm. He was beaten & tortured in jail. Once he was released, the man from Queens sent him a check for $25,000 "To get you...

An Illinois State football coach abruptly quit the team Thursday, leaving a note on the door while exiting the facility. Kurt Beathard, who was the Redbirds’ offensive coordinator, told The Pantagraph he let a note that said “All Lives Matter to Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ” before he left. Officials told the newspaper Wednesday he was no longer a part of the team and declined to comment on why he abruptly left. His departure apparently followed an incident involving a “Black Lives Matter” poster in the locker room. Sources told The Pantagraph that the poster was taken down from...

College Pulse, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), and RealClearEducation have released the first-ever College Free Speech Rankings, a comprehensive comparison of the student experience of free speech on their campuses. These rankings are based on the voices of 20,000 currently enrolled students at 55 colleges and are designed to help parents and prospective students choose the right college.

Liberals hope Joe Biden will be another FDR. But that’s something to fear, as Mr. Biden’s tax proposals threaten to repeat Franklin D. Roosevelt’s big mistake, which many historians blame for plunging a recovering economy back into depression. Roosevelt proposed a wealth tax in 1935, expanded it in 1936, and gave it real teeth in 1937. The federal government needed to repel the attack on the foundations of society by “economic royalists,” he argued. John Nance Garner, his vice president, agreed. As a congressman Garner had been forthright. “We have got to confiscate wealth,” he declared in 1918. By 1936...

According to archaeologist John Hoopes, writing in the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology, "Pseudoarchaeology actively promotes myths that are routinely used in the service of white supremacy, racialized nationalism, colonialism, and the dispossession and oppression of indigenous peoples." [Emphasis added]

The federal government is raising legal and practical questions about a recent California executive order attempting to end sales of gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler wrote to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday, saying he believes California would need to request a waiver from his agency for the order to be implemented and implying that the state’s electricity infrastructure is insufficient for a shift toward electric vehicles. “While the [executive order] seems to be mostly aspirational and on its own would accomplish very little, any attempt by the California Air...

When all of life is reduced to racial struggle, adoptive families are a threat. When rumors suggested Friday that President Donald Trump was set to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, a particularly vile line of attack began to emerge from leftist activists and blue checkmarks on Twitter. While some of these tweets were later deleted or walked back, the left had tipped its hand: Barrett’s two young, adopted children are not considered out-of-bounds for witch hunts and smears. Nor was this line of questioning limited to Twitter, according to Diane Kunz of the Center for Adoption...

The U.S. Navy SEALs and the Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) recently changed their ethos and creed statements to reflect a gender-neutral presentation of the elite Navy outfits, doing away with gendered terms like “brotherhood.” One change to the SEAL ethos was to alter a sentence in the first paragraph of the ethos to say, “Common citizens with uncommon desire to succeed” instead of the original, “A common man with uncommon desire to succeed.” Naval Special Warfare spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Stroup confirmed the changes to the ethos and creed statements in an emailed statement to American Military News....

The New York Times’ contention that President Donald Trump’s tax returns “undercut his claims of financial acumen” does not hold water. Trump, however, is not doing himself any favors by not clearly explaining why he says his accountants figured he owed just $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017—and not explaining that he actually paid millions in taxes for those years. A headline in the Associated Press summary of the Times story declares: “TRUMP PAID JUST $750 IN TAXES IN BOTH 2016 and 2017.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) last week referred to President Donald Trump’s allies as “henchmen,” prompting a rebuke from CBS News anchor Gayle King. In the interview, Pelosi claimed Trump had “no fidelity” to the U.S. Constitution, The Daily Wire’s Eric Quintanar reported. Pelosi then called Trump’s allies “henchmen.” “[Trump] and his henchmen are a danger—with their comments—are a danger to our democracy. So I don’t want to give him—why bother? [He] doesn’t tell the truth, he isn’t committed to our Constitution,” Pelosi told King. For her part, King called out Pelosi’s remarks as “egregious” and no better than the...

The leftist PAC NextGen America’s Managing Director, John Lee Brougher, is behind attacks on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s adopted children, roping several Democrat U.S. Senators and Senate candidates into the smears on her family. This weekend, as Breitbart News reported, before President Donald Trump even formally nominated Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left behind by the passing of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Brougher leveled vicious personal smears against her, questioning the legitimacy of the adoptions she and her husband made of two children from Haiti. “As an adoptee, I need to know more about the circumstances of...

VIDEO No need to wait for Joe Biden's debate with Donald Trump to happen later today. He can already be declared the winner no matter what happens...even if he does not show up at the debate. The mainstream media has already prepared their narrative of Biden as the winner of the debate. It's such a done deal for them that they don't even have to watch the debate to announce that JOE BIDEN NAILED IT!!!

Bad news: Mail-in ballots cast in North Carolina as of today: 147K/46K/81K (Dem/Rep/Una) Good news: Mail-in ballots cast by race: 201K/44K/29K (white/black/other). Translation: 4.3% of white registered voters have already cast a mail-in ballot, versus 2.94% of black registered voters. THIS IS A DISASTER FOR DEMOCRATS (see below).

Famous last words — ‘It’s not property’ Actions have consequences. It looks like Gilbert Police are getting involved. oiledsoul @_mfmf_3 · Sep 27, 2020 Warner and Lindsay in Gilbert AZ. Let’s make them famous. @POTUS Profile photo, opens profile page on Twitter in a new tab Todd Cefaratti @ToddJCefaratti I live in Gilbert, AZ about a mile from there. It is the CVS drug store parking lot on Lindsay and Warner. I have a friend that works for Gilbert PD. Just sent him the video. They are about to learn that actions have consequences. Something their parents never taught them....

Senators Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), James Lankford (R-OK), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) recently introduced a bill that will protect female athletes of all ages from being forced to complete against biological men. The issue has galvanized an unlikely coalition of women, from feminists to pro-family, pro-life advocates, who have teamed up with female athletes fighting against the transgender movement that believes “gender identity” and not biological sex should be the standard for competition in sports. The bill also is tied to Title IX, the federal statute that prevents discrimination against women in sports because of...

The Philadelphia Firefighters’ and Paramedics’ Union broke from the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and “proudly” endorsed President Trump for re-election, citing the overwhelming support for the president among members. “The Philadelphia Firefighters’ and Paramedics’ Union, Local 22 of the International Association of’ Fire Fighters proudly endorses President Trump for re-election,” the union announced on Tuesday, hours ahead of the first presidential debate. “The members of Local 22 respectfully break with the undemocratic IAFF endorsement of Joe Biden and pledge our full support to President Donald J. Trump,” President Mike Bresnan said in a statement, explaining that IAFF’s endorsement...

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is raking in Wall Street cash from all the big banks at five times the rate of President Trump, a CNN report admits. An analysis by CNN found that “all the big banks are backing Biden” against Trump, with the former vice president taking a larger margin of Wall Street donations than even failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did in 2016. CNN reports: The securities and investment industry donated just $10.5 million to Trump’s presidential campaign and outside groups aligned with it, according to a new tally by OpenSecrets. It has sent nearly five...

Over 3,100 people have been shot in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago thus far in 2020. The Chicago Tribune reports the exact number of shooting victims at 3,132, and that includes the fatally wounded as well as those who survived. The Tribune reports the number of homicides January 1, 2020, through September 28, 2020, at 576, CNN reported fewer than 500 for all of 2019.

Police made two dozen arrests late Monday night into early Tuesday morning following another violent demonstration in Portland, where protesters sprayed five officers with a chemical irritant and assaulted a Portland police sergeant. Authorities responded to an unpermitted march on Monday night, observing activists equipped with shields, body armor, and helmets. “The posture of the gathering suggested that it would become violent, as many such gatherings have been over the past 120-plus days,” the Portland Police Bureau reported.

I saw, online, a fun Biden Lies Bingo card.... so I whipped a pair up for Trump Lies! Play tonight, and see which one hits BINGO first!!!First, the Biden one:Then, the Trump one: