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'When you enter the shop of a gunsmith, what the heck do you expect to see?' asks Kotanko family lawyer Hearing about Rodger being near guns wasn't unusual — he was a world-renowned gunsmith, known as one of the best in Canada and someone local police officers trusted to fix their firearms, according to people who knew him.... ...But hearing his brother was hurt had Jeffrey rushing to Rodger's home on Port Ryerse Road. By the time he arrived, Rodger was already dead — shot in his workshop next to his home, according to friends and family, and then taken...

After taking on Big Bird over his Covid-19 vaccination, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is going after the Library of Congress for abandoning the use of the term “illegal alien” as a subject heading for organizing materials. The Library of Congress confirmed Thursday that it will change the subject headings “aliens” to “noncitizens” and “illegal aliens” to “noncitizens” and “illegal immigration.” The headings are used to catalog materials at the library in Washington. Cruz protested the changes in a letter dated Wednesday and posted on his website. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., also signed the letter. The library had originally sought to...

And the worst part? It's already been tried. "Far too many can't afford to be banked & end up paying MORE in fees to check cashing places. So ... and I called upon the USPS to provide basic $ services, like cashing, wiring or an ATM w/o fees. The program also provides revenue for the USPS." —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez At first, I thought this was a joke — some recycled Elizabeth Warren humor injected into an otherwise boring and predictable news cycle a few months ago. But apparently, AOC and other notables like New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand are quite serious...

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Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the nation's reddest states, commuted on Thursday the death sentence of convicted murderer Julius Jones. Stitt's commutation of Jones, who was convicted for a first-degree carjacking murder in one of the most reliably pro-death penalty states, is but the latest troubling data pointing toward the possible ultimate abolition of the death penalty in America. In 2020, former President Donald Trump directed then-Attorney General William Barr to resume federal executions after a 17-year hiatus. From July 2020 through January 2021, the Trump-led Department of Justice oversaw 13...

After the Army came out with their disasterous "woke" Army recruit commercial of Emma has 2 moms... Still find it astounding the Army thought that was a good commerical. Anyhow, the Marines have put out their latest recruit commercial. This commercial is a lot better, and appeals to all in my view. See it below. https://youtu.be/IfVnhxZpv98

It is possible that the jury will return a verdict before the weekend; however, a hung jury is also a possibility, and the judge could also declare a mistrial — perhaps with prejudice, barring the charges from being brought again — after the prosecution was accused of violating Rittenhouse’s Fifth Amendment rights during cross-examination.

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report claims the 2019 relocation of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) headquarters out West undermined the agency. “BLM lacks reasonable assurance the agency will have the workforce necessary to achieve its goals in managing millions of acres of public lands,” their report concluded. Predictably, media outlets like the Washington Post suggested the Trump-era policy was rooted in racism. In September, Biden’s Interior Department announced it would transfer most operations back to the nation’s capital—despite opposition from Western governors and local stakeholders. Why was BLM HQ originally moved out West, and was the decision rooted...

On August 25, 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people who attacked him, during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, killing two, in claimed self-defense. There is no question he was attacked. It is all on video. As of this writing, the jury is in deliberations. We should know the results soon.One result was reached before the jury was given their final instructions. The weapons possession charge against Kyle Rittenhouse was dismissed by Judge Schroeder. This author has written the charge should never have been made. There were reasons to keep the charge. It served several political purposes.Dismissing the weapons charge is...

BREAKING: Further evidence of the #KyleRittenhouseTrial DA suborning perjury, adding to a plethora of prosecutorial misconduct. The Khindri brothers, BOTH Sal & Sam, were present at car source earlier in the day, with Kyle, Dominick, and Nick. The DA knew this footage existed. NEW: In addition to video, a second source confirmed this information as per the post below. It was posted 8/25/2020, & the prosecution put them on the stand knowing they were lying about speaking to #KyleRittenhouse earlier. The state knew they were lying and suborned perjury

No, I’m not going to talk about fiddling, tiddlywinks, or playing some other triviality while Rome burns. Rather, it’s time to have a very serious talk about what the Republican Party is. Or is not. And for that, I turn to Simon Sinek’s brilliant discussion of game theory and war. As the BLM riots and January 6 legal travesty have shown us, we are in a civil war. And there has been some shooting. Think about the murder of David Dorn in St. Louis and the Kyle Rittenhouse case in Kenosha. It may not take much for the smell of...

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it stopped housing evacuated Afghans at one of the military sites that has accommodated them since the summer, citing the increased pace of their resettlement within the U.S. The last group of Afghan families housed at Fort Lee, Virginia, left the U.S. Army post on Wednesday to be resettled in communities across the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. More than 25,000 Afghans relocated to the U.S. following the Taliban's conquest of their homeland have departed domestic military installations to start new lives in America... ...As of Wednesday, 45,000 evacuees from Afghanistan...

Barely a year into his term, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. is suffering a precipitous drop in all polling categories. The recent mid-midterm elections signaled strong rejection of his policies and his allies. Rather than a historical pendulum-swing, the nation is awakening to a severe and legitimate case of buyer's remorse. Voters' forbearance of plagiarism evolved to excuses about his lying; their indulgence of "gaffes" gave way to "Good Old Joe"; concern for his public confusion has become alarm over numerous signs of senility. With no obvious "czar" pulling Biden's strings, the nation rapidly is seized by the realization of a...

Ten years ago this coming February, George Zimmermann shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a rainy night in Sanford, Florida. Without intending, Zimmerman triggered a dark new phase in the history of progressive America. Beginning with the Sacco and Vanzetti case in the 1920s, the left lied to conceal the guilt of the guilty. Yes, Virginia, those two bad boys were guilty. Upton Sinclair, who “proved” their innocence in his epic novel Boston, knew they were guilty. "My wife is absolutely certain that if I tell what I believe,” Sinclair confided to a friend, “I will be called a...

Red eyes, ringing ears, sensitivity to light, trouble hearing: although a loss of taste and smell have become well-known sensory symptoms of COVID, accumulating research suggests that vision and hearing are also frequent targets of SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes the disease... ...A person who has COVID can shed the virus through their tears, sometimes long after they have recovered from the illness.. ..Hearing and balance changes can also be signs of SARS-CoV-2 infection, says Zahra Jafari, an audiologist and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. ... ... two types of inner ear cells have the genes...

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Chinese coast guard ships used water cannons to shoot a powerful stream of water at two Philippine boats carrying supplies to a highly disputed shoal in the South China Sea, prompting Philippine officials to warn the Chinese about their mutual defense treaty with the United States. Second Thomas Shoal, near the Philippine province of Palawan, is a strategic waterway that many countries have tried to claim. The Associated Press reported that China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan all have overlapping claims. Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. told AP no one was hurt in the incident Tuesday... ......

Iranian hackers are accused of posing as extremist Proud Boys group members, targeting Trump campaign, GOP members of Congress and Democrat voters. 0:52 / 0:55 By John Solomon Updated: November 18, 2021 - 5:59pm Article Dig In Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Thursday in New York accusing two Iranian hackers of successfully hacking into a state computer election system, stealing voter registration data and using it to carry out a cyber-intimidation campaign that targeted GOP members of Congress, Trump campaign officials and Democrat voters in the November 2020 election. The indictment charged Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi, 24, and Sajjad...

Belarus has said the hastily constructed migrant camps on its border with Poland have been cleared of people in a sign that Minsk is keen to defuse the deadly crisis that its leader, Alexander Lukashenko, helped to create. On Thursday, that crisis claimed its 13th victim after an NGO reported that a one-year-old child had died after his family attempted the perilous journey through Belarus into the EU. According to the Polish Centre for International Aid, the child’s family was from Syria and had been trapped outside in the forest for six weeks. The cause of death was not given,...

DEVELOPING STORY: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) delayed quick passage of the Democrat’s Build Back Broke spending plan late Thursday night by holding the floor for more than three hours in a filibuster-style speech. Democrats repeatedly interrupted McCarthy’s speech with jeers and yells to “vote!” Every page of the Democrats' Socialist Spending Scam will be paid for by or borrowed from you: America’s hardworking taxpayers. Watch the speech live below This is the single most reckless and irresponsible spending bill in our nation’s history. https://t.co/OCJJ0XaXzU — Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) November 19, 2021