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OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Ottawa County is now a “constitutional county.” The new designation was approved Tuesday, May 23, by a 9-1 vote of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners. Commissioner Doug Zylstra was the sole no vote. Commissioner Roger Bergman was absent. The board heard a little more than five hours of public comment prior to the vote, with a majority of the 102 residents who spoke being opposed to the constitutional county resolution. The passage of the resolution, however, was met with resounding applause. While the resolution is largely symbolic, the board is now resolved to not to...

The internet is overflowing with pictures of food. Many food images are uploaded to sell specific foods. The idea is that the images will make us yearn for a McDonald's burger, for example. New research shows that images can actually have the opposite effect. At least if we see pictures of the same product repeatedly. A number of experiments reveal that we can get a sense of satiety if we see the same image more 30 times. Tjark Andersen, explains more. "In our experiments, we showed that when participants saw the same food picture 30 times, they felt more satiated...

A House-approved bill that the president supports would expand the draconian penalties he supposedly wants to abolish.When he ran for president in 2020, Joe Biden repudiated his long history of pushing harsh penalties for nonviolent drug offenses, calling for the abolition of mandatory minimum sentences. "Biden supports an end to mandatory minimums," his campaign said. "As president, he will work for the passage of legislation to repeal mandatory minimums at the federal level." But by endorsing a bill aimed at cracking down on fentanyl analogs, Biden is doing exactly the opposite. The HALT Fentanyl Act, which the Republican-controlled House of...

A very interesting situation is taking place. While I was in office, Bill Barr, as Attorney General, was very slow & unenthusiastic about going after Joe & Hunter Biden regarding their possible criminal activity. Much was being reported in the Media. It was hard getting him to move, but I always felt he believed you just don’t go after Presidents, V.P.’s, & Presidential Candidates very cavalierly. I understood that, & was sort of OK with it. Now Biden thugs want to indict me, for NOTHING!

A lawyer for the family speculates that jail officials balked at the medication's high price.Dexter Barry was arrested last November following a dispute with a neighbor. Five days later, he was dead, after jail officials refused to give him necessary medication for his heart transplant. According to The Tributary, a news outlet based in Jacksonville, Florida, Barry was arrested on November 18, after a neighbor reported him to the police for allegedly threatening to "beat him up" following an extended dispute over Wi-Fi. While the two never physically fought, Barry was nonetheless arrested on a simple assault charge. During his...

VIDEOYou know the guy with the megaphone was doing a great job of red pilling via mocking the official narrative because it enraged a liberal to the point that he went flat out BERSERK. And don't think this crazed liberal is an outlier because the schools, the media, and the government including the top ranks of the DOJ and the FBI are filled with others just like him.

"The taxpayer must render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, but no more," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.When local bureaucrats in Hennepin County, Minnesota, seized an elderly woman's home over a small tax debt, sold it, and kept the profit, they likely had no idea they would set in motion a series of events that would cripple the practice known as "home equity theft" across the country. Yet that's what happened. The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that the government violated the Constitution when it took possession of Geraldine Tyler's condo over an overdue property tax bill, auctioned the home,...

NYC Comptroller joined NYC Mayor and Department of Finance in freezing City of New York deposits at the two banks. The Comptroller also voted against designating three others that failed to submit required anti-discrimination plansTwenty-six banks were designated after first-ever Banking Commission public hearing, new procedures for certifying banks’ practices for non-discrimination, and stronger scrutiny for soundness in light of recent bank failures New York, NY – Following the first-ever public hearing held by the New York City Banking Commission today, all three members voted to freeze deposits at Capital One and KeyBank after the banks failed to submit required...

Due to some suggestions made yesterday I'm relaunching Trump Man issue 4 special edition now with voices! pic.twitter.com/S13phtmv01— Meme TV (@MagaMemeWizard) May 25, 2023

CNN will host a town hall with former Vice President Mike Pence in Iowa next month, as he continues to fuel speculation of a 2024 White House run, the network announced Thursday. The forum, which CNN described as a Republican presidential town hall, will air June 7 at 9 p.m. CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash will moderate the discussion, as the former vice president takes questions from audience members who have said they plan to participate in the Republican caucuses in Iowa

Earlier this year we learned that the FBI was targeting and infiltrating Catholic parishes to spy on the congregations. The FBI has also infiltrated protests and admitted to having dozens of federal assets who were working inside the January 6, 2021 protests in Washington DC. The Biden regime was also caught working with private companies to censor speech in America. Now this… The Biden regime is lumping Christians, conservatives and Republicans into the same category as Nazis in their new Department of Homeland Security terrorism program. This in unprecedented in American history. Not only is the regime targeting its political...

A Burger King franchisee in Florida, was ordered to pay nearly $8 million to a customer who allegedly slipped and fell at the restaurant and needed surgery for his injuries. Richard Tulecki, 48, “suffered lower back injuries resulting in surgery” after he slipped on a “foreign substance” near the restroom of a Burger King location in Hollywood, Fla., according to court documents. The fall caused “serious injuries” which required surgery, and Tulecki suffered a postoperative perforated colon, according to his attorneys. The lawsuit, filed in January 2021, accused Burger King of negligence for “failing to ensure that the area and...

President Joe Biden has been seemingly unable to catch a break as he and the White House scramble to show competence and strength amid debt ceiling negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) who has outmaneuvered Democrats at what seems to be every turn. This week, amid contradictory and increasingly desperate White House press briefings, more bad news for Biden emerged in the form of a new poll showing more Americans would blame Biden for a default than they would McCarthy or congressional Republicans. The survey, conducted and released by Fox News with direction from Beacon Research and Shaw and...

The Rev. Franklin Graham gave a chilling warning during the keynote Monday night at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Orlando, Florida. He warned church members of “the coming storm” headed for churches and ministries. There’s a storm coming, and we’ve all got to be prepared.” Franklin Graham serves as president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and head of Samaritan’s Purse. Rev. Graham also said that “every demon from hell” has been “turned loose” in our culture today. “The world has deteriorated so quickly. We cannot be deceived, and we can’t be fooled. We need to get ready and...

For the past several years, Democrats have routinely slandered anyone with legitimate questions about the conduction of the 2020 election.During a House subcommittee hearing on “American Confidence in Elections,” Republicans demolished Democrats’ phony narratives regarding nonexistent “voter suppression.”“Our hearing today will highlight how voters across the country are demanding reforms to ensure that every eligible American voter can be confident that they will have access to the ballot box and that their ballot will be counted according to established law,” said Chair and Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla.For the past several years, Democrats have routinely slandered anyone with legitimate questions about...

During every Pride Month in June for the past decade, Target has sold merchandise for LGBTQ customers, employees and allies. But this year, Target faced an anti-LGBTQ campaign that went viral on social media. Fueled by far-right personalities and on social media platforms, the anti-trans campaign spread misleading information about the company’s Pride Month products and its business practices. Hurting brands’ sales and reputations was the stated goal of the campaign: “The goal is to make ‘pride’ toxic for brands,” said right-wing commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter. “If they decide to shove this garbage in our face, they should know...

Avoid common mistakes when buying over-the-counter hearing aids. Here's everything you need to know about OTC hearing aids, with help from an audiologist. You no longer need to wait on a hearing exam or prescription to obtain hearing aids. You now have the option to buy one over the counter to treat mild or moderate hearing loss. That means hearing aids are more accessible to the public, as well as less expensive in general. But there's a lot to consider before you hit purchase. Here's what's available and where you can buy your own over-the-counter hearing aid. What type of...

As I have closely documented elsewhere, historical relations between Islam and the West have been utterly distorted in order to present the aggressors as victims and the victims as aggressors.In this article, we look at a similar but even more urgent topic: how history in general has been intentionally distorted in a way that makes segments of the nonwhite population hate, despise, and even want to murder whites.This is no exaggeration. In a speech late last year, Brittney Cooper, a black associate professor at Rutgers University, spewed so much hate against “white people,” to the point of concluding that “we...

One of the left’s favorite canards when it comes to the LGBTQ (and sometimes Y) cult is to accuse anyone who doesn’t fall totally in line with the Pride revolution of being afraid of gays, lesbians, and transgender people. “Homophobic!” and “Transphobic!” are the epithets we hear all the time, even though there’s no credible evidence to believe that anyone who believes in the traditional gender ethic is scared of anybody. Even though we’re used to the melodrama of the left, the whole “phobia” thing is particularly egregious because a phobia is an irrational fear. Here’s how Psycom Pro explains...

Target has faced enormous criticism for its recent efforts to cater to the transgender community in recent weeks after the national retailer introduced a “Pride collection” across its stores, featuring merchandise, clothing, and books promoting transgender-friendly messages and leftist gender ideology. What made this particularly troubling was that the products were not just for adults but also for young children and babies. Target also ensured that these products were prominently displayed at the front of its stores, forcing everyone who entered to be exposed to its rainbow-colored propaganda. In response to the mounting backlash, Target held an emergency meeting and...