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In a police department with a history of brutality, Captain Javier Ortiz holds a special distinction as Miami’s least-fireable man with a badge, a gun and a staggering history of citizen complaints for beatings, false arrests and bullying. Over his 17 years on the job — including eight as the union president of the Fraternal Order of Police in South Florida — 49 people have complained about him to Internal Affairs as he amassed 19 official use-of-force incidents, $600,000 in lawsuit settlements and a book’s worth of terrible headlines related to his record and his racially inflammatory social media posts,...

I can retire but I'm still too young to retire. Still 8 years away from FRA on Social Security, still months away from being able to tap into my 401k without penalty. But all my retirement planning has centered around retiring in my mid 60s - not the young age of 59! So still got 5-10 years in the tank so far as my career is concerned. I'm at the top of my game and at my top earning potential. So I'd hate to give up over a million dollars in future earnings all because of some silly government mandate...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – West-side massage parlor, New Style Health Spa Massage, also known as New Health Spa Massage, was shut down Thursday by a temporary restraining order from the El Paso County Attorney’s Office for alleged “habitual illegal activity. “ The case was initiated by the Nuisance Abatement Team of the El Paso County Attorney’s Office after law enforcement agencies conducted surveillance and undercover operations at the massage parlor located at 6330 North Mesa., Ste. G. The lawsuit alleges that “New Health Spa Massage,” the owner Mingjuan Zhang, and operator, Lingfang Sun, habitually violate sections of the Texas...

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. The two discussed the continued assaults on America by Democrats and the Biden regime. In Chicago over 3,000 police officers may lose their job for not being vaccinated for the coronavirus even if they have natural immunity to the virus. DeSantis told Bartiromo he is proposing a plan to give abused police officers from liberal cities a $5,000 bonus if they move to Florida.

A video shared on social media purports to show a meltdown by an alleged pizza delivery driver over the display of a Trump flag on another vehicle. Pro-Trump congressional candidate J.R. Majewski tweeted out the footage of the encounter. “A good friend of mine, one of the nicest guys you’ll meet, was almost driven off the road, and then threatened by a @PapaJohns driver near Cleveland Ohio. Because he has a Trump Flag on his truck,” the U.S. Air Force veteran claimed on Twitter. The video (*warning for profanity) shows the man wearing a red Papa John’s “Pizza Super Power”...

The prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set had been used by crew members offsite for fun, a new report claims. The gun, which was fired by Alec Baldwin on the set of the movie “Rust,” may have even been loaded with live rounds when it was used for what was essentially target practice, TMZ reported. Multiple sources connected to the production of the film told TMZ that the gun was fired at off-the-clock gatherings – which could explain how a live round found its way into the gun’s chamber. Another source who was...

Next week, November 1 – 5, is National Get Your Kids Out of the Government Schools Week. How do I know about this obscure holiday? Because I just invented it. Hey, I have as much right as anybody to issue such a proclamation. The salient question is, will it emerge from obscurity? Will it catch on? I hope so. The government schools are irreparably broken. It’s high time conservative, Christian parents from Florida to Washington State started pulling their kids out, if they haven’t already. Consider: School systems across the country continue their pointless, unscientific, abusive masking of children. The...

Beijing tightened entry restrictions into the city and Gansu province suspended all tourism as authorities across northern China took sweeping measures to stem a rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak linked to travel groups. Beijing authorities moved on Sunday to restrict travellers from places with confirmed cases, requiring a negative Covid-19 test and 14 days of health monitoring for any person wanting to enter the capital. By Sunday afternoon, one Beijing district had recorded 10 cases in the space of two days, after more than two months without a case of community transmission in the capital. The moves came as China announced...

U.S. employers reported significant increases in prices and wages even as economic growth decelerated to a “modest to moderate” pace in September and early October, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday in its latest compendium of reports about the economy. “Outlooks for near-term economic activity remained positive, overall, but some Districts noted increased uncertainty and more cautious optimism than in previous months,” according to the summary of information from the Fed’s 12 regional districts, prepared as part of a broad range of briefings ahead of policymakers’ Nov. 2–3 meeting. Employment increased, though labor growth was dampened by a low supply...

A 29-year-old man accused of trying to strangle an 11-year-old girl in a Manhattan park was arraigned and released on $7,500 bail on Saturday night.Nathaniel Direnzo, of Saint Marks Place, was arrested on Saturday morning for a bizarre, broad-daylight attack on the young girl and another minor on Wednesday afternoon.

New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression. Specifically, the scientists found pronounced effects of the oil on the hypothalamus, where a number of critical processes take place. “The hypothalamus regulates body weight via your metabolism, maintains body temperature, is critical for reproduction and physical growth as well as your response to stress,” “The dogma is that saturated fat is bad and unsaturated fat is good. Soybean oil is a polyunsaturated fat, but the idea that it’s good for you is...

Hellisheiðarvirkjun, Iceland (CNN)The windswept valleys surrounding the Hengill volcano in southwestern Iceland are dotted with hot springs and steam vents. Hikers from all over the world come here to witness its breath-taking scenery. Even the sheep are photogenic in the soft Nordic light. Right in the middle of all that natural beauty sits a towering metal structure resembling four giant Lego bricks, with two rows of six whirring fans running across each one. It's a contraption that looks truly futuristic, like something straight out of a sci-fi film. Humans have emitted so much carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere that...

The Buckeye State became the cockeyed state after botching the design of the iconic Wright Brothers plane while rolling out its new license plates. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was left red-faced as the birthplace of aviation unveiled the new Sunshine In Ohio license plate on October 21, the fourth new plate in the last 20 years. DeWine wanted the plate to reflect the 'heart and soul' of the Buckeye State as well as the 'beauty' of the seal Ohio, all the diverse cities and the aviation heritage. However, the plate created by the DMV flipped the orientation on the famed...

At times we need no interpretation, or hermeneutically derived extrapolation to predict something from the prophetic word of the Bible. Most of the time the bible says what it means—and means what it says. Since time is measured both by the passing of events, and the ticking of the clock, it takes little discernment to uncover the time we are in and when the next major event will transpire. Want the simple version? While the exact time of an event may not be in the Bible, the estimated time of that event can and does come from the scripture, based...

Remember when they deplatformed Parler, accused American grandmas of insurrection, and digitally silenced the president of the United States? Remember how they did all of this after Black Lives Matter and antifa rioted for months and radical mayors and prosecutors refused to lock them up? Remember how academia, corporate America, and even the military suddenly stepped out of the shadows and pushed the exact same racist theory, all pushing the lie that America is racist at the same time radicals across the country were attacking statues of our founders and even President Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant? It all felt...

The public school system weighs on parents. It burdens them not simply with poor teaching and discipline, but with political bias, hostility toward religion, and now even sexual and racial indoctrination. Schools often seek openly to shape the very identity of children. What can parents do? “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia, said in a Sept. 28 debate. The National School Boards Association seems to agree: In a Sept. 29 letter to President Biden, its leaders asked for federal intervention to stop “domestic terrorism.. edit......

Wife has been blacklisted from sub teaching over Covid remark.

Bill Maher details Trumps' super scary plan to steal the election in 2024 and how this plan began with "The Eastman Memo". "Be afraid. Be very afraid". New Rule: The Slow-Moving Coup - Real Time with Bill Maher (9 mins)The Eastman Memo

DENVER – New projections of Colorado River system inflows into Lake Powell and Lake Mead released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation show both reservoirs could reach critical, and lower, levels in the next two years with another drier La Niña weather pattern setting up for the basin this winter. The latest iteration of the Bureau of Reclamation’s two-year study and two- and five-year projections for levels at the two major western reservoirs within the Colorado River system incorporates the new U.S. Climate Normals released earlier this year, which includes data from 1991-2020 and eliminates the wetter conditions...

Two Apostles encouraged members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Tuesday, Oct. 19, to better understand the similarities and differences they have with the globe’s 1.8 billion followers of Islam. “The two faiths are different in many of our core doctrines, but many of our values and the ways in which we practice our respective faith are similar and reflect our love of God and of our fellow man,” said Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Elder Gerrit W. Gong also of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said this should...