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Mark and Patricia McCloskey agreed to give up the guns used in the 28 June confrontation in St Louis, Missouri. Mr McCloskey, 63, pleaded guilty to misdemeanour fourth-degree assault and was fined $750 (£538). His wife, 61, pleaded guilty to misdemeanour harassment and was fined $2,000. Because the charges are misdemeanours, the personal injury lawyers can keep their law licences and continue to own firearms. Judge David Mason accepted their guilty pleas, but rejected their request to donate Mr McCloskey's rifle in a fundraiser, US media said. A grand jury had indicted the couple on felony charges, which would have...

By a vote of 415-14 in the House, with unanimous support in the Senate, Juneteenth, June 19, which commemorates the day in 1865 when news of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, has been declared a federal holiday. It is to be called Juneteenth Independence Day. Prediction: This will become yet another source of societal division as many Black folks celebrate their special Independence Day, and the rest of America continues to celebrate July 4 as Independence Day two weeks later. Why the pessimism? Consider. Days before Congress acted, the Randolph, New Jersey, board of education voted to change Columbus...

The View went off the rails Thursday morning when co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Meghan McCain got into a verbal spat about President Biden lashing out at a CNN reporter the day before. McCain called Biden out for his bad behavior for snapping that Kaitlan Collins was 'in the wrong business' after she asked him if he could work with Russian President Vladimir Putin after their sit down. Biden later apologized but complained journalists never ask him a 'positive question.' 'Part of my problem,' McCain said, 'is that just because Trump was so bad, it doesn't absolve Biden's bad behavior. What...

Joe Biden's performance at the meeting with foreign leaders in Britain last week was a disgrace. Biden cut deals with Britain that sold out America's interests, and for doing so, he won the worshipful accolades of the Europeans, the Brits, and the Canadians... It's amazing how popular you are at a party when you pay everyone's bills. Except Biden isn't spending his own money, of course. He's spending ours! It would be an understatement to say that the Euroland leaders weren't big fans of Donald Trump. Trump went to the G-7 meetings and told his international peers that there was...

There are few, if any, political issues that now generate the breadth and intensity of bipartisan backlash as does the rise of Big Tech. During Donald Trump's presidency, the major parties largely diverged on their specific grievances against the woke Silicon Valley monopolists who serve as gatekeepers for America's 21st-century public square. Republicans, by and large, focused on censorship of conservative online speech. Democrats, by contrast, tended to focus on economic concentration; the five American corporations with the largest market caps, for example, are tech behemoths Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google Alphabet and Facebook. This divergence has stymied efforts to rein...

On January 5th, the night before the infamous January 6th Capitol Event, this man was caught on camera encouraging the crowd to raid the Capitol on the next day. The crowd yells NO! We can't do that, and he insists everyone raids the Capitol. (Video)

A segment of Democrats have been pushing for President Biden to have the ability to expand the roster of the Supreme Court and pack it with liberal justices, but Thursday's 9-0 ruling in favor of a religious foster care agency that would not work with LGBT couples is leaving some on the left disappointed with the entire court. The court's 6-3 majority of Republican-appointed justices that came to be after former President Trump got to appoint three within four years has led left-wing political figures and activists to promote court packing as a way to negate a perceived conservative advantage....

I know a guy who knows a guy who used to be a vacation time share salesman. I say "salesman" with apologies to honest salespeople everywhere: he was a hustler. To give you a sense of his era, he drove a Lincoln Continental. The rules of employment required that he own a four-door vehicle and an umbrella and prohibited "excessive alcohol or drugs on the job." No doubt you're getting the picture already. Guys like him were slick. They could drive a prospect around the yet-unfinished "resort" with a binder full of drawings showing what it soon would become: the...

Few movie stars have been more exalted than Tom Hanks. You'd never expect a guy with his nice-guy branding to get a strong slap in the face in the political arena. But Hanks penned a "guest essay" for The New York Times lecturing on racism, which opened him up for a shaming from the left. On June 4, Hanks boasted about how he bores people at parties with his historical knowledge but lamented growing up in the schools of Oakland and never hearing a word about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. It was "systematically ignored, perhaps because it was...

Here's what Congress and the president's administration can't seem to understand: government does not make investments. In explaining the difference between an asset and an expense, my intermediate accounting professor used the following example. He asked, when you go into a grocery store and buy beer, what is the beer you receive? An asset or an expense? They answer, it's an asset. After you drink it, it is an expense. So what does this example have to do with the Biden administration's plan to invest in the nation's infrastructure? Plenty. With a little further information, it is the basis for...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said on Tuesday that the administration of President Joe Biden has sent a very clear message the Mexico-U.S. border is not open, when speaking about irregular migration to the United States. Mayorkas, on a visit in Mexico City, said he spoke with Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard about migration, trade, public health at the border and economic challenges. The Homeland Security secretary's visit to Mexico City comes amid months of high migration that has become an early policy challenge for the Biden administration, as hundreds of thousands of people flee...

There are three types of “science” -- good science, bad science, and political science. Perhaps some of the recent confusion and conflict occurs when rational, ethical, and honest people assume others use good science when, instead, dishonest and nefarious people often use bad science or political science. During the recent COVID outbreak we have repeatedly been told to follow their “science” and trust the experts even though their science changes at a rapid pace. COVID came from bat soup. COVID may have leaked from a lab. “Classified report with early support for lab leak theory.” Wear masks. Masks are not...

The US Supreme Court has ruled food giants Nestlé USA and Cargill can't be sued for child slavery on African farms from where they buy their cocoa.Six African men alleged that they were trafficked from Mali and forced to work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast.The group say both companies perpetuated that slave trade to keep cocoa prices low.The court ruled 8-1 that the group had no standing because the abuse happened outside the US.But it stopped short of a definitive ruling on whether the Alien Tort Act - an 18th century law - could be used to hold US...

Well, this interview is certainly going to be controversial. But, I wanted to share it because this is the first time I have read anything espousing this theory that injections using nanoparticles are part of a plan to transform humans with AI. Usually, you see hypotheses about bio-warfare; not misguided, but well intentioned plans to reimagine humans...:-) I have no opinion about this theory; but did find it very interesting. https://www.bitchute.com/video/nlaU9zmoDc48/

I recently caught up with Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR), the current House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member. If Republicans retake the House in 2022, he’s expected to take the gavel from current chair Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). Naturally, the avid angler phoned in from the 2021 Bassmaster Classic in Houston, TX, and said the event was a nice change of pace from D.C. “When I was a kid, I thought that was what my calling in life was: I was going to be a professional bass fisherman,” the lone registered forester in Congress recounted in an interview for Townhall.com. During...

The election of 2020 is going to lay bare the dereliction of the Supreme Court for all to see. The COVD-19 pandemic gave numerous state election officials an excuse to implement far-reaching changes to our election processes. Those changes obviously made our systems vulnerable to fraud. States implemented massive mail-in balloting at the same time they relaxed ballot security and voter identification. They even extended the voting periods -- to give the criminals more time to commit their fraud. All these changes were unconstitutional. The Constitution clearly gives the various state legislatures the authority to define how their elections will...

Colorado baker Jack Phillips is a perpetual offender. He simply will not do. His offense? Unswervingly honoring his deeply held, and constitutionally protected, religious beliefs. We've all heard of Phillips and his travails. Leftist bullies have been tormenting him for years, beginning in 2012, when the Colorado Civil Rights Commission targeted him for refusing to make a custom-designed cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding. After several setbacks in various tribunals, Phillips was finally vindicated in a 7-to-2 U.S. Supreme Court ruling holding that the state of Colorado had shown "clear and impermissible hostility" toward Phillips' religious convictions in violation of...

Conservative political pundit Candace Owens said she won't be celebrating the new federal holiday of Juneteenth, suggesting that the move to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S. is just the Democrats trying to "repackage segregation." In a series of tweets posted after President Joe Biden signed the bill officially making June 19 a national holiday, Owens said she will only be celebrating Independence Day on July 4 instead of the date on which the last slaves were told they were free in 1865. Owens also suggested the holiday will train Black people to see themselves as "being separate...

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The Israeli government “led the world” with the roll out of its Pfizer vaccine to “protect them” from a bug that is not life threatening to the vast majority. It should now alert the world as to the consequences because it presently leads the world in the resultant slaughter of its own citizens. No vax in history comes close to the scale of deaths and adverse reactions associated with the experimental Covid jabs and many in the past have been pulled for far less. This should at least prompt caution and a suspension of the program until the matter is...