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Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey announced this week that officers in county schools will carry long guns and will be prepared to “meet violence with violence” and win the day. Florida Today quoted Ivey saying, “You are not coming into my schools and killing our children.” He noted, “I firmly believe that if you do not meet violence with violence, you will be violently killed.” Ivey posted a video to Facebook in which he announced that officers will have long guns on their persons, in order to save time that would have been wasted running to a squad car to...

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating. Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means...

“The gun used in the fatal shooting on the Rust movie set could not have been fired without pulling the trigger, ” far-left ABC News reported, summarizing an FBI forensic report. This is in direct conflict with actor Alec Baldwin’s claim he did not pull the trigger on the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last year during a camera rehearsal. “No, no, no, no, I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never,” Baldwin told George Stephanopolous in December. “The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” he added. The FBI says...

The straight skinny on the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act (FOPA) the law that saved gun rights Nearly a quarter century ago, the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act was signed into law.Looking back, it seems like an impossible victory.by Dave HardyWhen the struggle started in 1979, Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Rep. Peter Rodino of New Jersey controlled the two judiciary committees that would have to approve the bill. And when the long haul was ending some seven years later, the measure had passed through the Senate, but Rodino still chaired the House Judiciary...

By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than prosecution after her encounter with Emmett Till led to the lynching of the Black teenager in the summer of 1955. Instead of arresting Donham on a warrant that accused her of kidnapping days after Till’s abduction, an officer passed along word that relatives would take her and her two young sons away from home amid a rising furor over the case, Donham said in a 2008 memoir made public last month. The sheriff would later claim Donham, 21 at the time, could not be located...

When it finally dawned on Donald Trump in the twilight of his presidency that he wouldn’t be living in the White House for another four years, he had a problem: he had barely packed and had to move out quickly. West Wing aides and government movers frantically tossed documents and other items into banker boxes that were shipped to a storage room at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida along with other, previously packed records set aside by Trump, sometimes erratically so, according to two sources with knowledge of Trump’s move and records issues.

Perreault, 63, was struck by the umbrella while at Beach Access 14, according to a Horry County Emergency Management incident report. According to the report, witnesses said an umbrella from the Sea Watch Hotel had been blown from the ground into the air. The umbrella tumbled "end over end down the beach until it struck the victim on the left side of the upper torso," the report said. Perreault was transferred to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Tucked into the tax and spending bill that passed the Senate this weekend was a $15 million provision to study allowing the IRS to prepare taxes. The provision comes after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Democrats have pushed legislation for adding tax filing to the agency's purview. The Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the House Friday after clearing the Senate — the vote was 50-50 with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie — appropriates almost $80 billion to the tax agency. That would enable the IRS to hire its desired 87,000 agents over the next decade to increase...

Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to Ciudad Juarez Friday while violence sparked in the border town near Texas may be linked to a series of incidents in Tijuana and the surrounding area. The situation began in Ciudad Juarez with a prison face-off between members of two rival cartels, which caused a riot and shootouts that left 11 people dead, most of them civilians, authorities said. The violence then apparently moved west. The U.S. Consulate in Tijuana warned American citizens late Friday to avoid the area, while acknowledging that officials are “aware of reports of multiple vehicle fires, roadblocks, and...

I just spoke with Sheriff Cross and other residents in Dade County about Gov. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star bussing of illegals through our Georgia county to Democrat cities like Washington DC and New York. While I will do everything in my power, in Congress to stop the daily border invasion, we do not want illegals bussed and dumped in Georgia. No state, city, or small town should be unnecessarily forced to provide the money and resources to care for migrants who most have been trained to abuse the asylum system.[...]

If you really want to understand the crazy and desperate actions of the Biden/Obama Administration, you have to know the real numbers. Not the numbers of the latest poll that shows President Biden with a 40% approval rating. The real numbers that the public never gets to see, because it’s secret behind the scenes research, is Bidens true approval rating. Biden’s true approval numbers are somewhere between 11% and 12%, according to my confidential source and Martin Armstrong’s “Socrates” data mining computer. If Biden’s real approval rating is not more than 12%, you can see why the Democrat party is...

....the heavily-favored Ilhan Omar almost lost her primary race. The repugnant representative prevailed by fewer than 2,500 votes over a retired septuagenarian named Don Samuels. ..... Maybe Omar’s anti-Semitism no longer plays well in the most Jewish district in Minnesota, or maybe her anti-police bigotry no longer appeals to a high crime district that voted last year not to defund the police. Amid low voter turnout and disdain toward her noxious beliefs, Omar amassed only 50.3% of the overall vote and also barely totaled half of her vote total from two years ago. This was the closest a Democrat U.S....

'Tommy's Podcast' on rumble interview with investigative journalist George Webb who's uncovered, through Peter Navarro, a connection to remdesivir research in Ukraine labs and the raid. Thanks to freepers who answered my request for info on George Webb. I was able to find this interview and discovered he has a page on substack as well, if anyone is interested. And he's on Twitter. George must be uncovering all the right rat holes by the amount of anti George Webb accounts out there on social media.

2001? A wrinkle in time? I, Robot? What are the best science for books in your opinion?

@FoxNews No more Eric Shawn! He’s no journalist, just a biased pawn for the DNC! An activist promoting hate for Trump & Trump supporters!🤬🤬🤬 pic.twitter.com/37WaFZxXgf— Charlotte 🍊🇺🇸 @ Charzdesigns on Truth Social (@Charsky1207) August 13, 2022@FoxNews Eric Shawn has accused Trump of lying and is taking the anti-Trump attitude of the leftists & progressive vindictiveness, get these leftist elements out of your ranks, will stop watching your declining shows.— Eagle1 (@macervantes1) August 13, 2022@FoxNews Eric Shawn's getting rather defensive with the formal Federal prosecutor. Trump's had this stuff for a 1.5 years since he left office, now after classified documents?...

Sean Hannity @seanhannity WARNING IF YOU SEE THIS ON TWITTER IT IS EDITED FAKE NEWS. This never happened!! They spliced in comments the Governor made years ago. Twitter needs to step in and remove this immediately!!Ron DeSantis went on Hannity and things got SPICY

Metallica's frontman James Hetfield has reportedly filed for divorce with his wife of more than two decades. James, 59, filed documents in Colorado to divorce long-term partner Francesca Hetfield, according to TMZ. The two are said to still be in touch as they co-parent their daughters Cali, 20, and Marcella, 16, and son Castor, 18.

It's official. President Trump will be the 45th and the 47th president of the United States. The country changed dramatically when FBI agents raided President Trump’s home. The raid at Mar-a-Lago will be recorded in the history books as a turning point when Americans awakened. America is outraged and even the leftist political experts on corporate media are saying that President Trump is more powerful than ever. It's time to stop calling President Trump the "former president." That implies he is off the political scene. President Trump is active in EVERY SINGLE primary race happening now. Every Tuesday he is...

Nivedita Bhasin became the world’s youngest commercial airline captain in 1989, but the Indian pilot still recalls her early years when other crew would urge her to rush into the cockpit so passengers wouldn’t get nervous at the sight of a woman flying their plane. Three decades after Bhasin’s career began, female pilots are no longer a rarity in India, making the country a success story when it comes to diversity in the airline industry. India has the highest percentage of female pilots globally, the International Society of Women Airline Pilots estimates, with about 12.4% of all pilots women, compared...

The FBI raid of former President Trump's home was not well-received by most people. According to a Trafalgar poll, 77% of Republicans, 54% of Independents, and even 12% of Democrat voters agreed that Trump's political enemies were behind the raid. Eighty-three percent of Republican voters and 72% of Independent voters said the raid increased their motivation to vote in the 2022 election, but only 55% of Democrats said they were more motivated to vote. Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY) says these poll results don't concern him because "our people have control of voter...