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Donald Trump seems to get indicted on a weekly basis. Yet he is utterly dominating his Republican rivals in the polls, and he is tied with Joe Biden in the general election surveys. Trump’s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time in 2020. What’s going on here? Why is this guy still politically viable, after all he’s done? We anti-Trumpers often tell a story to explain that. It was encapsulated in a quote the University of North Carolina political scientist Marc Hetherington gave to my colleague Thomas B. Edsall recently: “Republicans see a world changing around...

In an interview with Vanity Fair today, Rian Johnson, who directed the popular movie "Knives Out," shared an interesting tidbit about iPhone product placement deals for films. Apple, he says, allows iPhones to be used in movies, but bad guys aren't allowed to have iPhones on camera. The relevant passage starts at 2:50 into the video Also another funny thing, I don't know if I should say this or not... Not cause it's like lascivious or something, but because it's going to screw me on the next mystery movie that I write, but forget it, I'll say it. It's very...

Gun control advocates have speculated about the gunman in Philadelphia who wounded six police officers on Wednesday. They were quick to assume that somehow America's so-called "lax" gun laws were to blame for the man having access to a firearm. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the gunman is 36-year-old, Maurice Hill, who has a long criminal history of gun convictions, resisting arrest and drug dealing. Hill was reportedly identified when an anonymous source told the Inquirer Hill's lawyer, Shaka Mzee Johnson, received a phone call asking him to come to the apartment building he was barricaded in.

A report published on Jan. 9 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) found that in 2016, criminals who carried firearms while they committed crimes most frequently obtained the guns either off the street or underground, rather than through legal purchases. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported that an estimated 287,400 prisoners possessed a gun in 2016 while they committed the crimes for which they were imprisoned. Of these, “more than half (56%) had either stolen it (6%), found it at the scene of the crime (7%), or obtained it off the street or from the underground market (43%). Most...

Hurricane Matthew provided cover for thieves to steal 229 firearms from a South Carolina retailer. The weapons haven’t yet been recovered.

When the boys in blue have to catch a handfull of bad apples, why take the time to climb a fence when you could just bust through it? In this video we see two cops taking the “straightforward method” of getting to the perp, busting through a helpless fence like the Kool-Aid Man with a schedule to keep. While you might be able to find fault with their destruction of presumably private property –and the construction of the fence– you can’t find any with their effectiveness! Shout out to the perp who jumps the fence twice to get away from...

Police: Man shot by Chicago cop answering call of someone threatening suicide Megan Crepeau Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune A Chicago police officer shot a man in the leg in Calumet Heights on the South Side early Sunday after getting a call from someone threatening suicide, authorities said. Just before 1:10 a.m., a person called 911 saying he was in a second-floor apartment in the 1800 block of East 87th Street and was going to kill himself, a source said. The caller said he had a 9mm handgun, according to the source. About 1:15 a.m., police arrived to assist with the...

On August 28 "a man trying to rob" an Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dairy Queen was shot and killed by an armed employee. According to the Albuquerque Journal, a Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) spokesman said the would-be robber "went to the Dairy Queen window with a gun and demanded money." A store employee handed money to the suspect, after which the suspect continued pointing the gun and "asked for more money." That is when a different employee – one who was armed – stepped up shot the suspect.

Please Excuse me for Apologizing Laurent Murawiec, Metula News Agency info # 012104/9 EV, 22 April 2009, Translated from the French by Llewellyn Brown Washington -- I spent 2008 harping on the prediction that Obama would be a complete disaster for the United States and the world. Good Lord! I never dreamt to what extent. We cannot all be Cassandras. Obama is apologizing for America’s deeds, its past, its present and the rest; he is apologizing for everything. For deteriorating relations with Russia, lack of respect for Islam, bad relations with Iran, squabbles with Europe, lack of adulation for Fidel...

Fed up with petty crime? Join the crowd. You can just sit around and belly ache about it, or you can do the double chicken wing. Meet Garett Majoue. "I don't call 911," he says. "Some people say I'm a hero. Others say I'm a dummy." You decide for yourself. (Spoiler alert: Both answers are correct. Don't try this at home.)Majoue was captain of the wrestling team at Brother Martin in the early '90s. That sets up the rest of the story. It begins in 1999 with a simple errand to Delchamps in Metairie for some ice cream. For most...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's attorney general said the arrest a group of corrupt cops along the border with California is imminent. Daniel Cabeza de Vaca told a Mexico City news conference today the cops protected a Tijuana cartel, the Arellano Felix gang, which smuggled tons of pot, cocaine and meth into the United States. Two were already arrested Saturday and charged with taking bribes to protect the gang. The attorney general said they worked at the Rosarito police department just over the border from San Diego border. The two are accused of decapitating three of their fellow officers. The news...

Dear Friend, Join our Power of 2 (Webb2) Campaign! Deliver 2 more Webb voters other than yourself to the polls. Tomorrow, Democrats from across Virginia will go to the polls to choose their candidate for the U.S. Senate. I believe they have the chance to change the course of politics in the Commonwealth and across the nation, and indeed to begin to make history. With your support, I want to lead that historic charge and am confident that with your help I will win. The need for this change is the common theme I have heard from concerned voters over...

3/2/2006 - LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- When U.S. forces get to Iraq and Afghanistan, they’re finding dry, featureless terrain with no real landmarks or points of reference to use when they travel across these wide-open and often dangerous landscapes. In the past, maps and a compass were the decisive tools used by servicemembers to track down the enemy and find their exact location in theater. That’s no longer the case. Warfighters are now turning to a 12-channel device known as the Defense Advanced Global Positioning System Receiver, or DAGR, to get vital information. A screen about...

Asian Quake May Be Serious Blow To Islamic Groups Hostile to U.S. By ZAHID HUSSAIN in Islamabad and PETER WONACOTT in New Delhi Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 12, 2005; Page A15 The massive earthquake that tore through the Kashmir region of Pakistan and India appears to have been especially costly for battle-hardened Islamist extremists hostile to the U.S. Radical groups are beginning to acknowledge heavy casualties from the 7.6-magnitude temblor. Meanwhile, U.S. aid arriving in a mountainous corner of Pakistan has marked the start of what U.S. officials hope is a significant role in the area's...

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Police stormed a convenience store Thursday, freeing a woman held hostage for 20 hours and killing the suspect in an exchange of gunfire, authorities said. Police managed to pull the woman away from the store at about 6:30 a.m. even as the gunman was shooting from inside the building, state police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said. "They were able to grab the hostage and pull her to safety as gunfire continued and officers returned fire, ultimately resulting the death of the suspect," Bursten said. Negotiators had made arrangements for the woman to come to the door...

Hey genealogy lovers: The far left foreign loonies with a bad translator have hacked a non-political site, CYNDISLIST.COM...a genealogy site. What is this world coming to when a site for genealogy lovers needs to be defaced?

METAIRIE, La. (AP) - A man sheriff's deputies had shot twice with a stun gun died Saturday, a day after he was pulled over for driving erratically, officials said. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman John Fortunato said Patrick Fleming died at a hospital. Officers had used a Taser stun gun on him twice when he fought with them - once after the traffic stop and then later at the jail. Fortunato said Fleming, 35, was hospitalized after officers zapped him a second time and his breathing became labored. Fortunato said the office would have no further comment Saturday. There was...

Islamic terrorists executed 59 year-old Margaret Hassan who had lived in Iraq for thirty years, married an Iraqi and become a citizen herself, and who had devoted her entire life to helping the Iraqi people. For weeks the terrorists tormented this woman physically and psychologically before putting a bullet through her blindfolded head.

You decide: who is REALLY scary? The MonsterJenjis John Kerry One is an acromegalic ghoul that lumbers around, muttering incoherently, burning down villages and mindlessly massacring terrorized civilians in a manner reminiscent of Lurch. The other at least had the intelligence to finally realize "We Belong Dead." Phantom of the Opera Wacko Jacko Chirac One is a heartless, hideous monster who haunts the Paris Opera House — a corruption of a man — so obsessed with the crystal chandeliers and fine wine that he is blind both to the fact that his actions are resulting in the deaths of innocents and...

WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida may attempt to attack Veterans Affairs hospitals as an alternative to more heavily guarded U.S. military installations, the FBI and Homeland Security Department warn in a new nationwide terrorism bulletin. Although U.S. authorities say there is no credible intelligence regarding a specific threat against such hospitals, the bulletin said there have been persistent reports of "suspicious activity" at medical facilities throughout the United States. That includes "possible reconnaissance activities" this year at unspecified military medical facilities in Bethesda, Md., and Aurora, Colo., the bulletin said. Even though later investigation of these two incidents uncovered no links to...