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What a Shock ! I know you will find this hard to believe, but . . . from a total of 46 US Presidents, Biden is rated as the 6th best. The Texas A&M's Public Relations Office released this statement: "After just 7 months in office, Americans have rated President Biden the 6th best President ever." These are the Details on the Ratings, according to Texas A&M: 1. Reagan, Lincoln, and Trump tied for first, 2. Twenty-three presidents tied for second, 3. Seventeen other presidents tied for third, 4. Jimmy Carter came in fourth, 5. Barack Hussein Obama came in...

No one can be surprised that when Democrats lose elections (and almost lose elections that "weren't supposed to be close"), the liberals blame an infernal "right-wing media machine." That's what Brian Stelter did in his "Reliable Sources" podcast on Nov. 4. Stelter turned to professor Brian Rosenwald, author of "Talk Radio's America: How An Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States." What listeners heard was a lot of lame theorizing and very few specifics. To process Democrats losing the governor's race in Virginia, Stelter quoted from leftist Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent that while Republican...

A Nebraska woman will spend the rest of her life behind bars for the horrific abduction, torture, murder, and dismemberment of a female store clerk whom she met on Tinder. A three judge panel on Monday handed down a life sentence to Bailey Boswell, 26, after she was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2017 slaying of Sydney Loofe, prosecutors said.

Alleged Victim Gaige Grosskreutz Implodes, Admits Had Glock Pointed At Kyle When Shot, Lied to Police About ItIf there’s a smoking gun in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder case, it’s going to be the one fired by the prosecutor.At hit his foot, apparently Defense: “When you were standing three to five feet from him with your arms up in the air, he never fired, right?”Grosskreutz: “Correct.”Defense: “It wasn’t until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him, with your gun — now your hands down — pointed at him, that he fired at you, right?Grosskreutz: “Correct.”There is no government misconduct...

frustrated because what you signed up for was for students to learn. And it just ended up being a conversation about points all the time.” These days, the Alhambra High School English teacher has done away with points entirely. He no longer gives students homework and gives them multiple opportunities to improve essays and classwork. The goal is to base grades on what students are learning, and remove behavior, deadlines and how much work they do from the equation. The changes Moreno embraced are part of a growing trend in which educators are moving away from traditional point-driven grading systems,...

It seems that no American institution is immune to the phenomenon. You have some organization out there that for all you know is just a regular and sensible group of professionals. You don’t pay much attention to what they are up to because, after all, you have your own life to lead. Then one day, for whatever reason, you have occasion to take a look at their latest utterances. And immediately it hits you — Holy Shit!, the Body Snatchers have gotten them too. The people involved seem by their physical appearance to be nearly unchanged, but they have developed...

Republican Governor @BillLeeTN is refusing to sign a bill, which: - Bans COVID-19 vaccine mandates - Clampdown on vaccine passports - Provides doctors with the right to prescribe what is best - Protects workers from vaccine discrimination @seanmdav The Tennessee legislature passed a sweeping bill banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates and protecting individuals from discrimination by government and corporate entities. That was over a week ago. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has thus far refused to sign it.

You must understand how badly corrupted our criminal justice system has become, making it sensible for an innocent man publicly to declare his guilt. My son asked why some of the January 6th protesters are pleading guilty to crimes that they didn’t commit. That made me realize that there are probably many people out there who don’t know how America’s criminal justice system really works today. If you think that you’re innocent until proven guilty, then you’ve been misinformed. That was the old way. Today, in the United States of America, you’re guilty until you can afford to be proven...

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Becky Sullivan of NPR makes a startling claim of fact, which is not in evidence from the trial or the criminal complaint.It is especially relevant because it is a claim about a crucial moment in the sequence of events where the apparent first aggressor, Joseph Rosenbaum, attacked Kyle Rittenhouse. Mr. Rosenbaum attempted to grab the barrel of the rifle Rittenhouse had pointed toward the ground between him and Rosenbaum. The relevant testimony is at 2:34:40 in the video of the trial.The rifle is pointed at the ground between Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum is first running, then lunging at...

I worry about Iran’s mullahs pursuing their murderous exploits with an arsenal of nuclear weapons, a venture that Barack Obama did everything in his power to facilitate. Obama himself purports to worry about “climate change,” f/k/a “global warming.” Obama traveled to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow to give one of his seemingly endless speeches yesterday. Obama called out the villains of the “climate change” story including China, Russia, the Trump administration, and the Republican Party. “One of our two major parties has decided not only to sit on the sidelines, but express active hostility toward...

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The U.S.S. Harvey Milk is just one of six new ships to be named after U.S. “civil rights leaders.” Who knows what ships of the future U.S. fleet will be named as it gets ever woker? The USNS Harvey Milk was launched in San Diego recently in a ceremony attended by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro and Milk's nephew Stuart. The ship takes its name from the first openly gay elected official in California history. Milk, who was murdered in 1978, served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The U.S.S. Harvey Milk is just one of six new ships...

The prosecution's handling is a law-school perfect example of how not to conduct a trial (although the mainstream media hid that embarrassing reality). On Tuesday, the Kyle Rittenhouse prosecution rested its case after its witnesses once again strongly supported Kyle’s assertion that he only acted in self-defense. In a righteous world, the judge would, on his own initiative, order a directed verdict in Kyle’s favor. Instead, it emerged that there’s a plan to terrorize the jurors (and, by implication, the judge). Also the mainstream media, of course, pretended that the prosecution had actually proved its case. Once again, I’ve turned...

As first reported by veteran researcher Douglas Dean Johnson, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) proposed legislation would fundamentally transform the government’s approach to the UFO phenomenon. Indeed, the Gillibrand amendment would shift decades of official, Cold War-induced deflection and obfuscation towards increasingly transparent, objective scientific analysis. *snip* Beyond granting a new, UFO-focused unit robust bureaucratic authorities and access to an array of critical government resources, Gillibrand’s amendment would empower the office’s leadership to initiate and supervise rapid field investigations of UFO encounters. Moreover, the Gillibrand proposal requires that all elements of the Department of Defense and the U.S. intelligence community share...

The Wisconsin judge overseeing the intentional homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday afternoon dismissed the seventh count against the teen. That charge alleged that Rittenhouse failed to comply with an emergency management order of a state or local government by failing to heed a curfew on Aug. 25, 2020, when he shot three people and killed two of them. Lead defense attorney Mark Richards moved to dismiss the count after the jury broke for lunch. “I want to put on the record now that the state intends to rest,” said lead prosecutor Thomas Binger. Judge Bruce Schroeder used the...

Asian honey bees scream as they are being attacked by giant hornets, scientists have discovered. By recording acoustic signals from bees defending their nests from hornets, researchers were able to pinpoint an alarm signal akin to screams of fear.... ...Heather Mattila, from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, studies the organization of animal societies and insect communication. In December last year, she published a study showing that honey bees will use animal poop to defend their nests .. Mattila and colleagues have looked closer at what happens before and during an attack. They said hornets and honey bees appear locked in an "evolutionary...

By now everyone has heard that Camilla Parker Bowles, the duchess of Cornwall and wife of Prince Charles, learned the hard way from which orifice our puppet president (P.P.) speaks. Dementia Joe arrived in Scotland to demand clean air and settled for crop-dusting those in attendance instead. Royal gossipers quote Camilla as saying the American president's flatulence was "long and loud and impossible to ignore." This diplomatic airing of grievances comes at the rear of a disputed report from Rome last week that "the most popularly elected president in American history" was so happy to see the pope that he...

VIDEOIt was one of the most dramatic moments in the history of criminal trials when Gaige Grosskreutz ADMITTED that he pointed his gun at Kyle Rittenhouse BEFORE the latter fired his rifle thus providing a slam dunk case for self-defense. However, that moment was either buried or avoided by much of the mainstream media. Such was the case with NBC News which downplayed that moment as almost an afterthought towards the end of its report or completely avoided by NBC News which hyped the whole situation as a "racial justice protest."

In the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's highest-profile promise was to build the wall -- that is, to construct a barrier along about 1,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. Once elected, Trump's best chance to win money from Congress for a wall came in 2018, when Republican Speaker Paul Ryan controlled the House and Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell controlled the Senate. It didn't happen. Now, one of Trump's strongest supporters on Capitol Hill, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, is out with a new memoir, "Do What You Said You Would Do," on Nov. 23 that describes those months when GOP...

As Virginia's gubernatorial election drew to a close last week, Democrat Terry McAuliffe brought in teachers union president Randi Weingarten. He thought that would help? I suppose he, like many progressives, believes everyone thinks the way he does. "I'm not going to let parents come into schools and ... make their own decisions," he'd said. "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." That's the political attitude: Government runs things. We, the experts, know what's best. Parents as "customers" who make choices? Nonsense. I hope his defeat means Americans are figuring out that such politicians are...