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First, let me apologize for the word I used in the title. Not “censored,” which is a perfectly good word, quite useful in situations like this. I mean the word it stands for. It’s not a word I normally like to say, because I think it makes the speaker sound coarse and ignorant, like some self-absorbed rapper or brainless Twitter bluecheck, or maybe a certain newly-elected schoolboard member in my local district.However, as a professional wordsmith and someone with no small amount of linguistics training, I believe every word in the English language has its purpose—a time and place when...

Naval mine washed ashore in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Pic at link

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, April 3. Of the thirty-four millions of dollars offered to the Government in the bids opened at the Treasury Department yesterday, only three millions ninety-nine thousand were accepted, all bids lower than ninety-four being rejected. The number of bids for this loan is unprecedented in the history of the Department. They ranged from eighty-five to par. Notwithstanding the number of bids and the pressure of business on the Department, which keeps Secretary CHASE and his Assistant Secretary occupied until a late hour every evening, the entire correspondence with all parties relative to this loan, was completed and mailed...

A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in the US state of Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve a centuries-old cold case. The villain in this tale: a murderous English pirate who became the world’s most-wanted criminal after plundering a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims home to India from Mecca, then eluded capture by posing as a slave trader. Jim Bailey, an amateur historian and metal detectorist, found the first intact 17th-century Arabian coin in a meadow in Middletown.

Whether you realize it, or not, we are at war (and I’m not referring to my initials). American institutions, corporations, sports leagues and even the Catholic Church are at war with the American people. But they’re about to learn a priceless lesson. The ignorant, politically-correct, woke dunces who run these institutions are all committing economic suicide. Why would any company, sports league, or religious institution get involved in politics? Why would they risk offending and losing 50% or more of their customer base? I’m a S.O.B. (son of a butcher). I learned everything about business from my grandfather the butcher....

On Monday, 22 March, in Chicago, 15 people were recorded as being shot. Three of them were killed. One of those shot is recorded as acting in self-defense, on the South Side of Chicago. From the Chicago Sun Times: An hour prior, a man was shot in South Deering on the South Side. They were sitting in a parked vehicle about 10 p.m. in the 2500 block of East 109th Street when two people walked up to them and fired shots, police said. A 25-year-old man was struck in the face and grazed in the neck area. He pulled out...

I'm writing this on Good Friday. I just spent a few minutes in prayer outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in lower Manhattan. A hazardous medical waste truck, familiar to some of us who regularly pray outside the clinic, was just getting loaded. Eleven boxes stacked up, just a little shorter than me. They perform abortions at Planned Parenthood, so you can imagine at least some of what was in those boxes. Margaret Sanger Square, at Bleecker and Mott streets, is a modern-day Calvary: a place of injustice where innocents die. If you've ever spent time outside an abortion clinic,...

Talk is cheap. Even Gov. Lamont’s excessive, and by definition nonmeritorious, success in hiring lots of women and minorities could be seen as a smokescreen for this suspected system. When it comes to race, one can never be progressive enough. Even a solidly Democrat base constituency, a union, noted: as “protests rage across the state and country... Lamont continues to support policies that oppress American minorities in the workplace.” And not just in the workplace -- in matters of life and death also, like COVID. No matter the area of society, the system is at work hurting minorities in some...

“The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble" (Proverbs 4:19).

Major American cities saw a 33% increase in homicides last year as a pandemic swept across the country, millions of people joined protests against racial injustice and police brutality, and the economy collapsed under the weight of the pandemic - a crime surge that has continued into the first quarter of this year. Sixty-three of the 66 largest police jurisdictions saw increases in at least one category of violent crimes in 2020, which include homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, according to a report produced by the Major Cities Chiefs Association. Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Raleigh, North Carolina, did...

One hundred days. That’s what President Biden asked for before he was inaugurated – 100 days of masking. That was the linchpin of his plan to end the coronavirus pandemic. It was in his executive order requiring people to wear masks when they are on U.S. Government property, including national parks and forests, even when there are no other people around for miles. Just give him that 100 days and everything will be fine. Well, April 30 is the 100th day. On May 1, we can take off our masks for good. Well, maybe. But probably not. In fact, Biden...

It’s just the flu, bro. I prefer Flubro intuition over “expert” scientists. I have an example of Flubro insight and logic that I challenge Kozak or any fearbro to refute. For vaccines for respiratory infections like the Flu and Corona vaccines, you need periodic boosters to maintain your immunity. These boosters are not required, or are required less frequently, if vaccinated people are exposed to the virus due to unvaccinated people continuing to pass the Coronavirus to each other. So if having a large population of unvaccinated people actually helps vaccinated people maintain their immunity, why are vaccinated people asking...

Unlike many conservative commentators, I've long been a supporter of public schools. I enjoyed many positive experiences with them growing up, and my four children received an excellent public education here in Gwinnett County, Georgia, for which I am grateful. Plus I've always thought there's something uniquely egalitarian and therefore American about the idea of public education, providing opportunities for all children to better themselves. I know that some conservatives like to call them "government schools," and that is technically correct. But I've always preferred to think of them as community schools, passing on the values of the community. At...

The withdrawals are part of an attempt by the administration to further reduce the US's presence in the Middle East, according to the report. The US has removed at least three Patriot antimissile batteries from the Gulf region, despite recent waves of Houthi drone and missile strikes against targets in Saudi Arabia, as part of a move to shift military capabilities from the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. "I am -- am not going to get into specific capabilities that are in specific places, and for how long they will be. I -- I think I...

Arrests of top officials and royal family members are rare in Jordan. Former Jordanian Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein has been placed under house arrest amid reports that the kingdom’s security forces have foiled a coup against King Abdullah II. At least 20 Jordanians have been arrested in connection with the alleged coup. According to The Washington Post, Hamzah was placed under restriction at his Amman palace amid an alleged plot to unseat King Abdullah II. “The move followed the discovery of what palace officials described as a complex and far-reaching plot that included at least one other Jordanian royal,...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) - A group of demonstrators lit a small fire around the outside of the Portland Police Association building in North Portland Saturday night. The exterior was also tagged with anti-police sentiments. Portland Police and fire authorities later snuffed the fire. The “autonomous demonstration” began at Arbor Lodge Park and eventually migrated to outside the PPA building, according to Twitter posts. PPB officials said some people are blocking traffic on North Lombard Street near North Campbell Avenue.

A growing number of souls are finally seeing how far down the “slippery slope” we have come. My brother served in World War 2. In 2017 he “checked out of the grand hotel,” a phrase he coined for leaving this world, having left his “kid brother” (me) a wealth of good counsel, encouragement, and files enough to fill a basement. During my high school days he wrote a poem that hit hard and deep at the evil he sensed in his day. The sharpness of it stunned me, all the more since I was a tenderfoot in matters of such...

Until very recently, it would have been hard to imagine anything more iconic of American life than Coca Cola and baseball. Today both remind me of Benito Mussolini’s corporatist – aka, fascist -- game of merging of state and corporate power. The CEOs of these operations should hang their heads in shame and fire their public-relations teams. So should the CEOs of Delta and American Airlines, Black Rock, Cisco, American Express, and American Airlines, who have promoted President Biden’s false assertions that tightening election procedures to bring them back into line -- and in accord with those of civilized Western...

A Manhattan law firm that’s been hammering New York City restaurants and delis with wage-violation suits allegedly served up fudged work records to win money for its clients, court filings claim. In one case, Michael Faillace & Associates filed a complaint for deli grill man Luis Antonio Ortiz, alleging the worker had been stiffed on pay while logging 84 hours a week at the Prince Deli in Harlem in 2017 and 2018. But Ortiz also claimed he worked 84 hours per week during some of the same period at a Brooklyn deli, according to court papers, a claim that led...

Hunter Biden's "Book Of Fairy Tales" will be on the best seller list----for weeks and weeks----a runaway best-seller. The Bidens have hired several companies that travel state to state with a U-haul, buying up huge numbers of Hunter's books. These buy-up businesses know which book stores are used to tally the best seller list