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Suspect tried to flood holding cell after arrest, police sayA Florida man who stole an alligator from a miniature-golf course, swung it around by its tail and threw it into the air claimed he was teaching the reptile “a lesson,” according to the Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety. Police said they were patrolling on South Atlantic Avenue around 3:20 a.m. Thursday when they saw a man later identified as William Hodge attempting to throw a live gator onto the roof of a building. Hodge, 32, grabbed the creature by its tail and hit it against a building awning,...

Could this be one of the ugliest truths South Africa will ever have to face during its democratic era? There is now mounting evidence that the riots, which have crippled operations in KZN and Gauteng, were forensically organised by a group of politically connected ‘Zuma loyalists’ seeking insurrection – and there are receipts to back these claims up. Leaked WhatsApp conversations have been made public online, showing a group of influential political figures plotting their path towards destabilisation. The screenshots paint a terrifying picture of the origins of these riots, and the investigative team over at the Daily Maverick has...

....MILLER: “Well, I would argue that the appropriate constitutional remedy is Article IV, Section 4, which says that the government clearly has the obligation to protect any state in this country against invasion and domestic violence. It does not say that that has to be in the form of a nation-state actor. In other words, the Constitution doesn’t say it has to be a state-led invasion. It’s any large-scale, unwelcome, uninvited entry into a country. That, or into a state. That would provide the constitutional predicate for exactly what you’re describing. I would also suggest it would provide the constitutional...

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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis has issued an ultimatum to employees: either take the China Virus vaccine or find another job. Television station WMC obtained a memorandum that was sent to all staffers at the nationally-known hospital — ordering workers to get the vaccine. “Those who fail to start the vaccination process will be terminated at the end of the two-week period,” read a letter written by St. Jude president James Downing....

Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) crews closed down a portion of I-16 in Treutlen County Thursday morning after a truck crashed into the SR 86 bridge. Officials say the impact from the large dump truck trailer shifted the bridge nearly 6 feet, something GDOT says many of its engineers have never seen before. No injuries were reported in the incident, which Gov. Brian Kemp “a miracle.” “I think obviously, this happening in the wee hours of the morning was a big part of that, but we’re lucky in that regard,” he added.

Doug Logan the CEO of Cyber Ninjas described how there were several ballot boxes with duplicated ballots! This was a powerful segment from Thursday’s hearing. Doug Logan then went on to display examples of several ballots on wrong paper stock. Jovan Pulitzer posted the image of the off-track ballots.

ack in January, RINO Georgia Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger blasted Trump’s claims that there was widespread fraud in Georgia. From ABC: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that the data President Donald Trump cited to him throughout an hour-long phone call Saturday to claim there was rampant voter fraud in the state’s presidential election “is just plain wrong.” “He did most of the talking. We did most of the listening but I did want to make my points that the data that he has is just plain wrong,” Raffensperger said of the extraordinary call during an exclusive...

The votes — 36-0 in the Senate and 64-0 in the Assembly — showed bipartisan support for an idea

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska outraised a primary opponent who’s been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, taking in $1.1 million, according to her latest filing with the Federal Election Commission. Murkowski got support from some billionaire GOP donors and corporate political action committees. Hedge fund manager Paul Singer and retired Walmart chairman Rob Walton each gave $5,800, the maximum for both the primary and general elections. Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump © Bloomberg Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, who in 2020 donated $3 million to a super PAC that supported Trump, contributed $2,900 to...

Just as store shelves are consistently stocked with toilet paper again, U.S. consumers could be facing another shortage this summer: suitcases. With pent-up travel demand manifesting in the form of surging bookings, vacationers in the market for new luggage could find themselves up against product scarcity and high prices as they prepare to pack for their next round of adventures. But it’s not just an increase in demand that has left shelves at many major retailers nearly bare. A combination of factors has led to a breakdown in the supply chain that keeps stores stocked with suitcases.

A report from Politico on Wednesday revealed that Republican pollster and communications specialist Frank Luntz had, in an unofficial capacity, been advising the Biden White House on how to convince people to take the COVID vaccine. Luntz may be best known by Republicans for focus groups he has done on the Fox News Channel for elections and presidential candidates. Luntz also sat in on several briefing calls between the White House and various TV networks where one of the main topics was which terms to use on air that would better convince conservatives to take the jab. This comes from...

....The protests are among the most dramatic proof ever offered of the failure of a tropical dictatorship that has driven 20 percent of its people into exile. Innumerable promises for a brighter future have been made during this time by the military junta that has ruled Cuba since the days when cars had tailfins and the top songs in the US charts were Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock” and Domenico Modugno’s “Volare.” Well, surprise, surprise, the future is here, and the youngsters can clearly see that all of those promises have turned out to be lies. Now, those who were supposed...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday the Biden administration is identifying “problematic” posts for Facebook to censor because they contain “misinformation” about COVID-19. Psaki disclosed the government role in policing social media during her daily press briefing after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on companies to purge more pandemic posts. The demand for censorship — and Psaki’s admission of government involvement — follows a series of flip-flops from health officials who contradicted themselves throughout the pandemic on issues such as mask efficacy, as well as censorship of claims that later gained credibility, such as the theory that COVID-19...

As Discovery’s Shark Week swims on, Monday’s special called Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek, featured Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, trying to conquer his fear of sharks by boldly going and jumping into the water with them. “I am deathly afraid of sharks,” Shatner told the show’s host, Josh Gates. “I really am.” So to ease the Star Trek actor into things, Gates started by taking Shatner through a couple of relatively safe visits with hammerhead and reef sharks, neither of which are known to eat or attack humans. But those were just the appetizer courses, the main course was swimming...

As Texas Democrats live out the words of a Willie Nelson song, the country music legend is among those chipping in so that Democratic legislators who fled the state do not have to return to Texas, where a vote on election integrity awaits. Nelson’s “On the Road Again” could serve as the soundtrack for the flight of Democrats, with these lyrics: We’re the best of friends Insisting that the world keep turning our way And our way Is on the road again. Democrats who are determined to avoid having to sit in the legislative chamber while Republicans pass election reforms...

The largest new revenue source and the most dramatic change would be establishing a tax of 8.1 cents a mile for each mile a vehicle is driven. That move — which wouldn’t begin until the third phase and would require legislative approval and a pilot period to test a collection method — is projected to generate $8.9 billion a year. A fee of $1 for every package delivered by major companies like Amazon, FedEx and UPS, as well as local groceries and restaurants, could generate $785 million in the first phase and grow to $844.2 million by the third phase....

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed the Democrats’ recently introduced massive $3.5 trillion spending bill. McConnell called the bill “wildly inappropriate for the country,” describing it as “a left-wing dream of Bernie Sanders fulfilled.” “With regard to this deal they announced yesterday it is a wild spending, taxing spree completely inappropriate for the country, which is already suffering from dramatic inflation right in line with what it was 40 years ago based on what they’ve already done on a single party-line vote earlier this year,” McConnell advised. “This is wildly inappropriate for the...

A Rose by Any Other NameThe Democratic Socialists of America have thoroughly captured the Democrats.When a friend slipped me the latest draft of the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2021 platform, I couldn’t help but laugh. According to the document, the problems facing the American working class are deeply intertwined with the real issues of Samoan self-determination, queer-affirming healthcare, and reparations to Cambodia. But the laughter was short-lived. This is, after all, not a joke: the DSA is completely serious and its obsessions provide the ideological energy for today’s Democratic party. This is an organization that boasts sitting congresswomen, city aldermen...

Nearly five years after Californians voted to create a legal marijuana industry through Proposition 64, the illegal weed market is as big as or even bigger than it was before the ballot measure passed.The end of prohibition at the state level was supposed to be the beginning of a highly regulated marijuana market served by legitimate, taxpaying companies (even though marijuana remains illegal under federal law). Legalization was billed as a way to tame the Wild West-style marijuana industry, which often flouted environmental and health strictures and was a bastion for organized crime.It hasn’t worked out that way for a...