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Hey all, I hope you don't mind if I start this, and I do hope we get some useful information out of it. It would be great if Freepers can share some GOOD relief orgs that are doing great work NOW, for people and animals. We are donating the bulk of our tithing fund to these Flood Relief efforts. Right now the misery and worry our fellow Americans are sitting in is heartbreaking. I've found the NOLA Junior League is doing a stellar job of handing out diapers, necessities and gift cards in $20 increments. I know Samaritan's Purse will...

"Hillary Clinton is against the police." One of the things I love about Trump is that he’s not afraid to just lay it out. The price you pay, I suppose, is that Hillary’s servants in the news media will take anything they can and use it to create a narrative against him. I’m a little surprised they haven’t jumped all over his statement that “Hillary Clinton is against the police.” You’d think there would already be media “fact-checkers” presuming to “debunk” this statement. But Trump makes himself clear if you’re willing to pay attention. She’s against the police in the...

In 2008 and 2012 the firearms industry saw a surge in both gun and ammo sales thanks to the presidential election, and while this cycle is no different for gun sales — in fact, this maybe a record year — ammo is a different story. Mark DeYoung, chief executive officer of Vista Outdoor, a conglomerate of shooting and outdoor brands said consumers just aren’t buying up ammunition like they had in those years. “As you’ll recall, we were out of stock,” he said during a conference call with investors last week. He thinks consumers built up a vast inventory...

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Ahh, how to begin a story about “transgender accommodations” and the government? Well, one could simply look at the issue of “transgender accommodations” as a political economist, and see that the conflict over new rules and laws teaches us something incredibly important about the nature of politics. Let’s take two breaking news items as examples. First, on Aug. 15, Dominic Holden of BuzzFeed reported that the federal General Services Administration (GSA) will post new rules this week commanding 9,200 properties run by the federal government to open their bathrooms to folks according to their “gender identities.” GSA spokesperson Ashley Nash-Hahn told BuzzFeed: This includes all kinds...

Anyone with a smartphone can become a Colorado voter First the Left flipped Colorado from a solid Republican red state to solid Democrat blue. Now the Left is opening the floodgates in the Centennial State to massive voter fraud. On the advice of left-wing pressure groups, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne W. Williams, allegedly a Republican, has decided to let anyone with a smartphone become a Colorado voter. Just text a word to Williams’ office and you’ll be given an opportunity to register to vote. (These online documents disappear eventually so I made a PDF for posterity. Read it here.)

Faking regret... You’ll probably know CNN as that network you only watch when you’re trapped in an airport, there’s no wifi, your laptop’s battery is dead, you don’t want to spend money on outdated print media, and you need something to look at while you slurp up your third watered-down Bloody Mary. For you it’s background noise, nothing more. However, there are apparently still people out there who regard it as a source of actual news. We’re not sure who those poor, ill-informed, souls are, but we’ve been assured that, yes, they really do exist. Thanks to CNN’s deceptive editing,...

Realpolitik, sexual assault style The left is some piece of work. The most charitable thing you can say about our liberal friends is that their principles are always, er, flexible when it come to balancing notions of right and wrong against the need to serve the agenda. If pragmatism means I’ll look the other way to keep my teammate on the field, these guys would win the pragmatism World Series in a four-game sweep every year. Take, oh, say, rape. Especially when committed by a powerful white male against a woman who is subordinate to him. That would seem to...

Her doctors tell us there are no serious health concerns, but a rising tide of doubt and concern about Hillary Clinton’s health is threatening her campaign. One might think she would be doing something to counter these concerns, but instead, very quietly, she is taking the next three days off to rest up.

Donald Trump is a very successful businessman. He knows how to generate jobs and prosperity for those he employs. Clearly he is the person we want to guide our economy in the future. Trump has a record of success. Hillary Clinton has a record of economic failure and lies. Her tenure as a New York State United States Senator is dismal. In 2000 when Clinton was running for Senate she made a fake “listening tour” of upstate New York a depressed area that has seen more than its share of decay and decline over the past thirty years. During this...

The New York Post hit new lows when they went after Donald Trump’s wife, Melania. The Post sank to a level far below the tabloids they claim to despise by publishing Melania’s nude modeling photos. At least we expect it from the tabloids; from a major newspaper it’s both disappointing and terrifying. The Post’s front page spread is significant beyond the attempted smear. It’s a snapshot in time, the moment when a major newspaper proudly waved the banner of biased coverage and shameful tactics to damage their opponent and elect their candidate; the moment when the press ripped off the...

Dear Trump campaign, here's a freebie. You're welcome Sometimes, you come across a statement so utterly baffling, that you genuinely don’t know what to say about it. Today, such a nugget comes to us via Hillary Clinton. She doesn’t want to hear any excuses from people, because - as she claims - she’s “a no excuse” kind of person. Where to begin? Should I assemble a list of the excuses she’s offered for her failures, ethics violations, and criminal behavior over the course of her 30+ year career? Nope. That would, literally, take days.

Good leaders recognize when changing circumstances call for action I always find it amusing when the political media try to analyze why changes are made to a candidate’s campaign structure. The storylines are always predictable: It’s a “shakeup” in response to “bad poll numbers” or “internal strife” or something along those lines, helpfully explained by people who have never had leadership positions in their lives. So when Donald Trump made changes to his campaign’s leadership structure this past week, you could easily guess that it would be reported in that exact manner.

“How much more productive can these new wells get?” I asked my host who had kindly invited me on a field trip to some of western Canada’s most prolific oil fields. Looking down the aisle of bobbing pump jacks, seven in a row on one side of the immaculate gravel pad, the veteran oil executive replied, “We can get up to 1,000 barrels a day out of some of the new ones, but that’s not a limit; we’re improving the economics and productivity with each new well.” Impressive I thought, subconsciously nodding my head in sync with the leading pump...

If there is any doubt that this Democrat-controlled Legislature is on a spending rampage, take a look at the legislation below currently blowing through the Assembly and Senate All Democrat-authored bills AB 1770 (Asm. Luis Alejo) makes non-citizens who are in the U.S. legally eligible for the California Food Assistance Program. AB 1770 is on suspense. AB 1809 (Asm. Patty Lopez) eliminates the consideration of an individual’s assets as a condition of eligibility for CalWORKS. AB 1809 is currently being held in a committee. SB 1010 (Sen. Ed Hernández) requires health plans and insurers to report information about prescription drug...

Those who want a better future for themselves and their families will heed his message. Those who choose not to, he doesn’t need. Polls can be useless Donald Trump’s recent speech regarding the atrocious state of urban, majority-black communities was a stellar achievement. As with much of the good he proposes for the nation, someone, somewhere will always impugn his efforts and this occasion was no different. Whatever can be done to hack away at his steely resolve will be done by those who are headed for irrelevance if this man becomes the next President of the United States. The...

In truth, It is not Vladimir Putin who is hacking America, it is ‘Hacktivist’ Hillary Clinton With the breaking of the ‘Russia’s hacking the Clinton Foundation’ story, the Clinton campaign is going all out to seek your sympathy vote. Poor, poor Hillary is being chased down by the big bad Russian bear even as her declining health requires propping up by pillows, Joe Biden and the mysterious now-you-see-him-now-you-don’t Secret Service Agent/‘personal handler who comes equipped with Diazepam. Special: VET Reveals How to Stop Your Cat Peeing Outside the Litter Box Ever since Arkansas, Hillary Clinton has given new meaning to...

Where on earth is HilLIARy today? It is like finding Waldo. She is no where to be found, and the media is not looking. She has no scheduled appearance until Sunday. The media is so busy bashing Trump they failed to notice hilLIARy is not campaigning. I guess they know the Dick Morris rule: The more hilLIARy is seen, the more her poll numbers go down.

In March, after years of emergency management, the city of Pontiac got its finances in order, and management was returned from a state-appointed emergency manager to the elected mayor and city council. Total spending by the city was cut from $55.2 million in 2008 to $28.2 million in 2015, according to the city’s historical finance information. Over an eight-year period, Pontiac’s annual general government expenditures were reduced from $6.2 million to $3.1 million. Spending dubbed “unclassified expenditures” was slashed from $1.3 million in 2008 down to zero, while “other functions” were cut from $13.2 million down to $2.3 million. Public...