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A Washington State inmate was sentenced to an additional 24 years for murdering his cellmate - a convicted child rapist who had abused his minor sister. Shane Goldsby, 26, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges, and was sentenced last week for beating his cellmate Robert Munger, 70, to death in June 2020. Munger was serving a 43-year prison sentence at the Airway Heights Correctional facility on multiple child molestation and child pornography charges, when Goldsby was assigned to his cell. Goldsby said that he killed Munger after discovering his younger sister, who is still a minor, was one of Munger's...

The so-called bipartisan “infrastructure” bill, backed by Senate Democrats and 18 Senate Republicans, would reward blue states with federal money for driving up immigration levels to the United States. The bill, among other things, includes the Digital Equity Act that would help expand broadband to American communities that currently lack access to the internet. Slipped into the legislation are provisions allocating federal funding based on the number of newly arrived immigrants in a state or region — a design that rewards blue states who tend to have the largest foreign-born populations in the nation… … California, for example, would be...

KENOSHA, WISCONSIN: Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with shooting three people and killing two at a protest in Wisconsin last August, pleaded not guilty to his charges on Tuesday, January 5. In the hearing before Kenosha County Court Commissioner Loren Keating, the teen’s attorney Mark Richards waived his client’s right to hear his charges read, and quickly pleaded not guilty on Rittenhouse’s behalf to all the charges against him. Rittenhouse has been charged with five felonies in connection to the protest shooting, including first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless homicide, as well as a misdemeanor charge for possession of a...

Scores for first ten teams are below in Comment #1, based on Value of Each Medal Category (Gold=5 points, Silver=3 points, and Bronze = 1 point) x Number of Medals in Each Medal Category. But first a word about the Olympics. The Olympics is one of the few chances for nations to come together peacefully and, actually joyfully, to compete. National pride and sovereignty as well as individual skill and prowess is on display. The Olympics is for people like me who like sports, watching skill in action, the human drama of individuals striving for and reaching life-long goals, and...

The far-right media has become very interested in Wyoming politics, but only because it smells blood. Liz Cheney’s blood, to be precise. But I’d caution anyone who thinks it’s time to write Cheney’s political obituary that there’s much yet to unfold before the state’s GOP voters go to the polls a year from now. Can a three-term Wyoming congresswoman who has taken a principled stand against a disgraced former president to uphold American democracy return to the U.S. House? I don’t see why not. Cheney has money and the support of her party’s traditional establishment. It’s not the scenario faux-news...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ The Purple Heart Medal … 239 Years Old! Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. President Trump awarded a Purple Heart to Army Sgt. 1st Class Alvaro Barrientos on April 22 at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Barrientos was wounded last month in Afghanistan and lost part of his right leg. The Purple Heart is an American decoration-the oldest military decoration in the world in present use and the first American award made available to...

<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin removed a large boulder from its Madison campus on Friday at the request of minority students who view the rock as a symbol of racism.</p><p>Chamberlin Rock, on the top of Observatory Hill, is named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a geologist and former university president. Students of color on campus say the rock represents a history of discrimination. The boulder was referred to as a derogatory name for Black people in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 1925.</p>

See Video: It’s not in text. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is wrong to ban mask mandates in schools and businesses.

As the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games come to a close, here is a brief list of just some of the athletes who used the world stage as a platform to point to God. 1. Sydney McLaughlin Not only did U.S. Olympian Sydney McLaughlin win the gold medal for Team USA in the 400-meter hurdles, but the 21-year-old also set a world record with a time of 51.46.After McLaughlin’s win, she said that it was made possible by “just trusting the process and giving the glory to God.”The outspoken Christian posts about her faith often on her Instagram. “Let me start...

Have you been treated for hepatitis C virus (HCV) recently? If so, it may be time to get retested for the virus, according to a global meta-analysis presented at the 11th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2021). The analysis found that gay and bisexual men, also referred to as men who have sex with men (MSM), living with HIV had the highest rate of hepatitis C reinfection globally, regardless of injection drug use.

Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., on Sunday defended a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure proposal as crucial to heartland states, pushing back at criticism that the plan fails to address border security. In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Cramer argued the infrastructure addresses “the movement of goods.” “This compromise of the $1.2 trillion [bill]… over a third of it is not just infrastructure,” he maintained. “It's roads and bridges specifically. In addition to that, there's ports, waterways, railroads, airports, broadband, all of which are critical to the movement of goods and services around the country and around the world.”...

In the volume void that follows the resumption of futures trading, and which saw US futures trade modestly lower, a sudden burst of selling in the gold futures contract sent Gold futures plunged as low as $1,677.0 or almost $100 lower from the Friday close of $1,761.50. Together with Friday’s post-payroll plunge, this has been the biggest 2-day drop in gold (in dollar terms) since the March 2020 crash.

Fresh off of her comments to CBSN about needing private security as she calls for the defunding of police to leave her constituents unprotected from violent offenders, Squad member and Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) was welcomed like a conquering hero Sunday morning on CNN's State of the Union as co-host Dana Bush bought into Bush's savior shtick.Teasing the segment, Bash said that with her recent sit-in on the Capitol steps, Bush had thrown "millions of struggling Americans a potential lifeline." And Bash praised Bush for "forcing action." The CNN host was effusive in her praise as she began her questioning...

David Chipman, Joe Biden’s choice to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is in danger of not being confirmed in the Senate thanks to his work with an anti-Second Amendment group and his withholding of vital information during confirmation hearing. Several moderate Democratic senators, including Angus King of Maine and Jon Tester of Montana, don’t believe that Chipman can work with the gun industry. Other Democrats like Senators Joe Manchin question his veracity after Chipman withheld the fact that he made an appearance on Chinese state-run propaganda outlet that was used by the Communists to explain away...

Sometimes the guy who calls the fire department is the one who started the fire. This is certainly the case for Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who recently has fashioned himself into a loud and proud crusader for election integrity. The problem for Mastriano, R-Franklin, is that he voted for Act 77, the notorious 2019 legislation that caused most of the 2020 election dysfunction in Pennsylvania and tilted the playing field against President Donald Trump in the Commonwealth.

Convicted killer Scott Peterson is expected to be called to the witness stand at a pre-trial hearing in California — involving the 25-year-old disappearance of co-ed Kristin Smart. Peterson knew Smart when she was a student at California Polytechnic State University before her 1996 disappearance. Peterson knew Smart when she was a student at California Polytechnic State University before her 1996 disappearance. FBI via AP, File) Peterson, who was found guilty in 2005 of killing his 27-year-old pregnant wife Laci, knew Smart when she was a student at California Polytechnic State University — and defense lawyers for the suspects in...

Terrible Ted is a rare exception in many ways. He has kept all of his money from his musical career. I am not surprised he didn’t donate to the NRA. He had a ringside seat. The Second Amendment foundation, GOA and the Firearms Coalition are far better at supporting gun owners. The NRA was set up to train.

Joe Rogan discussed COVID vaccines on a recent podcast. It is not surprising that he is not a fan of mandates or passports. But one segment of his podcast is causing the vax-at-all-costs crowd to lose their minds. The public health bureaucracy has everyone so worked up about virus mutation that they do not want to hear that the very therapeutic being pushed and even mandated can perpetuate mutations.On mandates, Rogan noted that prominent commentators such as Don Lemon publicly say that the unvaccinated should be barred from shopping and working. He went into a rant, laced with a few...

The U.S. has lost the trade war with China, according to the whole of corporate America. I write at Asia Times: NEW YORK – Never before in US political history has the whole of the American business community—more than thirty major business organizations—spoke with one voice as it did in an August 5 appeal to the Biden administration to eliminate tariffs on imports from China. No entities in American politics are timider than business lobbies, most of whose work involves quiet lobbying for administrative relief and legislative tweaks. Such a high-profile intervention suggests that the business organizations believe that a...

GALVESTON, Texas — Carnival is implementing a new fleetwide mask policy early on Carnival Vista after several positive cases of COVID were detected on board, according to a statement from the cruise line. According to Cruisemapper.com, the Carnival Vista is currently docked in Cozumel, Mexico. The cruise ship will be returning to Galveston once it completes its seven-day trip to the western Caribbean. The cruise line said the mask policy was issued out of an abundance of caution. The cruise line released this full statement below: “We have implemented our new fleetwide mask policy early on Carnival Vista, given that...