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On this date in 1703, Japan’s most renowned epic of bushido vengeance reached its endgame with the condemned ronin who had avenged their executed master forced to commit seppuku. So compelling an allegory of conflicting loyalties could hardly have been so skillfully constructed as outright fiction. The 47 Ronin owed personal fealty to a daimyo who drew his blade when provoked by the insolence of a shogunate official, and was condemned to death for the offense. For the shogun, it was a just assertion of a central state’s prerogatives. For the samurai made ronin by the death of their lord,...

Some types of human food might be easier for your dog to digest than dry pellets of dog kibble, according to a new study. Whether or not that more natural ancestral diet results in a healthier dog is another matter, but at the very least, it could get your pet to poop much less (up to two-thirds less, in fact). The idea that human food is bad for dogs is relatively new, and is historically grounded in marketing, not science. For thousands of years, humans have been feeding their scraps to canine pets who have slowly evolved to digest them....

A Newsmax anchor who stormed off during an interview with Mike Lindell made a grovelling apology to the MyPillow boss last night. Bob Sellers expressed profuse regret at how Tuesday night's interview with Lindell had descended into a shouting match over voter fraud. The anchor had desperately asked his producers to cut Lindell off as the CEO barked about having '100 percent proof' of manipulation by the Dominion Voting machines. Exasperated and red-faced Sellers got out of his chair and walked off set, leaving his co-host Heather Childers to carry on without him. 'Mike is a friend of this network,...

The lure of making large sums of money by posting pictures online has turned the job of being a full-time social media influencer into one of the most aspirational career choices for young people around the world. Influencers on Instagram who have over a million followers can make more than $250,000 per post from brands, while someone like Kylie Jenner can make around $1 million for a single sponsored Instagram post. Now HBO’s new documentary “Fake Famous,” which premieres on Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET., aims to show just how easy it can be to game the social media economy...

The attorney for Palm Beach said in a memo this week that former President Donald Trump can live full time at his Mar-a-Lago resort. John Randolph said in the document that Trump can be considered a bona fide employee of the resort. Employees are defined in the town’s code as including business owners and partners. “If he is a bona fide employee of the club, absent a specific restriction prohibiting former President Trump from residing at the club, it appears the Zoning Code permits him to reside at the club,” Randolph wrote. The memo was obtained by news outlets and...

As the coronavirus death toll continues to rise, President Joe Biden's administration is reportedly considering sending face masks to every American household. Although a decision memo hasn't gone through the policy process and a proposal hasn’t reached the presiden'’s desk, a White House official told NBC News the idea has been raised in several meetings among Biden's top health experts and the Covid-19 Response Team is evaluating the logistics of mailing out millions of face coverings. At this time, details of the possible proposal remain unclear, including when the face coverings would be sent, how many would be delivered to...

ST. PAUL, MI –A heroic 11-year-old who was shot multiple times was able to tell officers before he died that his mother’s boyfriend shot him and killed his mother and sister, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. Tekeith Jones, 26, was charged with three counts of second-degree intentional murder for the shooting deaths of 33-year-old D’Zondria Wallace, 30, her 14-year-old daughter La’Porsha and her 11-year-old son Ja’Corbie at their home in St. Paul on Saturday.

If you are interested at all in the murderous zoo that we call “Chicago,” you are definitely going to want to check out this new website. It has a funny name. It is HeyJackass.com. It tracks all sorts of statistics for Chicago down to the current week. You can go back and search by month or by ear across various crimes such as shootings and murders. Here are some statistics you would find today (and this is just a select few): January Totals: Current Week Totals: Year to Date Totals: They have a homicide map: And this one…

Antifa is the muscle, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other non-profits help pick the targets, and anyone who points out their totalitarian intolerance is called a fascist, promptly canceled, or burned in effigy. That’s the crazy Leftist triangulation playing out these days on the streets of Portland and in many other riot-prone American cities. Journalist Andy Ngo knows this all too well. The angry red communist comrades of antifa and BLM have tried to cancel the Portland-based journalist but Ngo told PJ Media that it obviously hasn’t worked out too well for them. Antifa “protesters” beat him senseless and...

Prosecutors said a man in Pennsylvania shot and killed a couple in a murder-suicide over a snow removal dispute on Monday, the same day a major winter storm dumped more than 30 inches of snow in parts of the Northeast. Jeffrey Spaide fatally shot his neighbors, James Goy and his wife, Lisa Goy, before killing himself on Monday morning when officers were called to West Bergh Street in Plains Township, about 15 miles southwest of Scranton, according to the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office.

The Vice President of North Carolina’s largest teachers’ association is a self-avowed Marxist activist linked to Liberation Road – a “revolutionary socialist” group that follows the teachings of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong. The “revolutionary” – Bryan Proffitt – leads the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), which boasts over 43,000 members and revenues of over $8,000,000. Socialism for Your Kids. Proffitt previously served as President of the Durham Association of Educators and as a teacher from 2004 to 2015, also earning a spot as a finalist for the Teacher of the Year award among Durham Public Schools. Outside the...

(Reuters) - CNN President Jeff Zucker will leave the cable news network at the end of 2021, CNN said on Thursday. “The truth is, back in November and December, I had basically decided that it was time to move on now,” Zucker told employees on a morning call on Thursday. “But since then, I’ve had a change of heart. And I want to stay. Not forever, but for another year.” Zucker, who joined CNN in 2013, has a storied reputation in the TV business marked by early success. He was the executive producer of NBC’s “Today” show in his 20s,...

A Republican leader has decided to take on Big Tech. It’s high time. While other Republican legislators complain and pontificate about Twitter, Facebook and Google’s interference in our elections and censoring of conservative voices, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared war on the tech giants. DeSantis is proposing legislation that asks the Florida state legislature to impose stiff fines – up to $100,000 per day – on tech companies that “deplatform” political candidates running for office in his state. Candidates like, for instance, Donald Trump.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi abruptly shut down a reporter Thursday after being asked about GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s threat to call in FBI agents to testify about who planned the Capitol riot last month if Democrats call witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. “Your question is a waste of time,” Pelosi told the reporter during her weekly news briefing on Capitol Hill.

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Yes, being kind to animals is white supremacy. Treating dogs humanely is racist, according to a leftist professor. She has written a book claiming that it’s “white supremacy” to blame non-white minorities for abusing animals. Video @ link.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who along with President Joe Biden has promised to make “racial justice” a top priority is getting flack for wearing Dolce & Gabbana because the brand has been accused of racism. “Harris was photographed wearing a polo-necked wool jumper from the Italian fashion house, with a grey checked blazer and trouser suit at swearing-in of Janet Yellen as treasury secretary,” CNN News 18 reported. “She was seen wearing the brand’s straight-leg houndstooth trousers during her second shot of covid vaccine

Millions have watched AOC telling her “near death” experience at the Capitol on January 6, the direct threat to her very being. How Ted Cruz had sent people to kill her. Those rioters in the U.S. Capitol building inspired by Trump had her in the cross hairs. That colleagues who don’t do her bidding now are akin to those who tell sex abuse survivors to “move on.” That they “continue to be a danger.”Just like Jussie Smollett, AOC claimed to be in direct danger from Trump types. Just like Smollett, she made it up. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was not in the...

Former President Donald Trump's net worth has been hovering around $2.5 billion since last year, according to Forbes' estimate, down from an estimated $4.5 billion when he announced his candidacy in 2015. ... Forbes also found that Trump's net worth declined in 2020 after hitting $3.1 billion in 2019, as the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic recession wreaked havoc on the industries in which he holds his biggest assets. Several entities cut ties with the Trump Organization in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Trump's financial disclosure form filed shortly before he left office showed that his Florida...

In total there were more than 21 million background checks conducted last year, compared to just over 13 million in 2019, and while there has been a steady increase yearly of around 8 percent, 2020 saw that significant jump. According to data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), while December saw a 24 percent increase in year-over-year sales, just after the election in November sales jumped by 49 percent from the prior year.