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Why Do All The Women On FoxNews Look And Dress Alike? Republicans Prefer Blondes By Hadley Freeman Monday 20 February 2017 Why do so many rightwing American women have bottle-blond hair, often worn girlishly long? I’m thinking of Kellyanne Conway, Ann Coulter and almost any woman on Fox News. Jonathan, London N16 Excellent question, Jonathan! I was pondering something similar myself recently while looking through Ivanka Trump’s fashion collection on ivankatrump.com, which seems to be one of the only places it is stocked these days. The grimly bland suede pumps, the simpering floral shifts, the just-flirtatious-enough body-skimming little black dresses...

Trump rally and oil platforms photographed in northern Colorado today. Love it.

One of the worst epidemics in human history, a sixteenth-century pestilence that devastated Mexico’s native population, may have been caused by a deadly form of salmonella from Europe, a pair of studies suggest. In one study, researchers say they have recovered DNA of the stomach bacterium from burials in Mexico linked to a 1540s epidemic that killed up to 80% of the country's native inhabitants. The team reports its findings in a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server on 8 February1.

I know, in the President Trump era a two week old story is what now qualifies as "old news" given how many subsequent meltdowns we've had from the press, but something about this story had been bugging me, and then it hit me. First off, let's get out of the way the basic arguments - the pause was legal and a smart idea, as Dr. John laid out a few weeks ago.But let's face it, the way it was done was a bit rushed and clumsy, and made it easier for the Radical Left to fight against. That said, I'm...

A stark look at the reality your children and grandchildren face is rarely discusses. Politicians may extol the virtues of mass-immigration and couch it in terms of GDP and economic boom, but the over-populated future the next generation will have to deal with is not bright. First, let’s check out some figures: World population 2016: 7.3 billion World population 2050 (projected): 9.6 billion (UN estimates) U.S population 2016: 325 million U.S population 2050 (projected): 438 million

It was an excellent week-long trip my husband Keith and I took to Arizona to take the 250 Pistol Class from Gunsite Academy. The week ended, and it was time for us to fly back home this past Saturday, February 18th. While I have gone through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regional airport checkpoints since its spawning after 9-11, I had not yet gone through a TSA checkpoint at a major airport. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is a major airport, and on Saturday, I was immersed there in one of those TSA "horror stories" about which I had previously only...

America has a debt problem. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. For as long as I can remember, we’ve had a debt problem. Americans have been endlessly told that debt is good. It builds good credit, and a little debt spending can help light a fire under the economy. According to the U.S. Debt Clock, the U.S. national debt has soared to $19.98 trillion, and it’s still climbing at a frightening pace. Approximately $20 trillion is more than a little debt spending, and the current administration is ready to whip out the White House credit card and spend at a...

Friday, February 17, 2017 The Elites are Revolting Posted by Daniel Greenfield The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox. It will be brought to you by BMW. The German luxury automaker is a key advertiser at GQ. And GQ is the headquarters of the Resistance. That's a vlog by Keith Olbermann who returned from his exile at an ESPN Elba to denounce Trump. "I am Keith Olbermann," Keith Olbermann barks to the peasants and workers of GQ who are taking a break from reading an article on '$100 Cologne that Smells Like Nothing', "This is the Resistance."...

Happened to be at my non-usual place for a manicure; they were blasting CNN and some CBS talk show with a bunch of clams on it called "The Talk" or some such tripe.

 youtube.com/watch?v=bVKVB0MImOg After an Intro, Ferde Grofe's 'Grand Canyon Suite', Donkey Theme, starts with a picturesque depiction of pack mules on the trail for the first 8 measures. The second 8 measures of a descending, frenetic theme, don't make programmatic sense, unless there is an explicit visual depiction of a donkey tumbling off the trail. In the third 8 measure section, the donkey's plaintive hee-haw is heard.

Early last month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott delivered the keynote address to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. My heart skipped a beat when I read the title to his press release, Governor Abbott Unveils Texas Plan, Offers Constitutional Amendments to Restore the Rule of Law. Take a moment to click the link and scan the highlights. Now, when the governor of the second largest state in the Union, “gets it,” all of us in the COS movement should applaud. Few can match the combined political and professional resume’ of Greg Abbot. He was a Texas trial judge, an adjunct professor...

As Michael Brown wrote here last week, Washington florist Barronelle Stutzman faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and court costs that could wipe out not just her livelihood but her retirement fund and leave her homeless — all for the “crime” of not taking part in a same-sex wedding that violated her religious beliefs. And my reaction is: “Get on with it, already! Show the courage of your convictions and just ban Christianity outright.”I’m getting really sick of this death by a thousand cuts. The elites who dominate our society and run the U.S. government via the...

A Whittier police officer was killed and another officer and a gunman were wounded in a gun battle Monday morning, officials said. Two male officers were responding about 8 a.m. to a crash in the area of Colima Road and Mar Vista in Whittier, where allegedly a driver of a stolen car had struck two other cars at a stop light. When the officers arrived they were confronted by that driver, who was armed with a semiautomatic handgun, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. Source: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Whittier-Police-Shooting-414262083.html#ixzz4ZG0vf7G4 Follow us: @NBCLA on Twitter | NBCLA on Facebook

It sure sounds like CBS is getting defensive over Donald Trump’s attack on “fake news.” A new ad for CBS This Morning on Monday featured a blazing graphic declaring the show “REAL NEWS.” Yet, the network has a history of fawning over Barack Obama and hammering Trump. On February 2, CBS This Morning reporter Omar Villafranca lamented the “dream denied” for illegals after the “somber” 2016 election. Last week, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley responded to Trump’s attack on the “fake news media” by lecturing that “the common denominator of Mr. Trump’s woes is the Constitution.”

Evidence of political corruption should be.It has been obvious since the early Republican primaries that most media coverage of a Trump presidency would be adverse and presented out of context. Perhaps a recent editorial at The Week Magazine explains why, albeit inadvertently. Or maybe this cartoon better explains the media view: Trump and Putin as seen by the lamebrain media[/caption] According to The Week Magazine, all leaks are equal. However, we approve of those which fit our politics and disapprove of those which don't. Live by the leak, die by the leak. When WikiLeaks was releasing a steady stream of embarrassing emails hacked...

In making the case for limited government, free-market proponents often mention the concept of the civil society, an idea from ancient Greece that the ideal state is one in which people dedicate themselves to the common good. There are many examples of people coming together with no push or help from the government to address a public problem. Sometimes a solution just evolves, as it did for Khali Sweeney of Detroit when he started teaching his teenage son how to box. “We didn’t have any recreation centers in my immediate area. We didn’t have places for kids to go. And...

Bed made, lie in it If you’re a political observer, you know that one of the great post-election joys has been watching the left-wing press. Normally, outlets like the LA Times, broadcast nets, MSNBC, and CNN remain in deep denial. Evil, bad, racist, misogynist America defied them, and they’ve decided you must be punished via whatever means available. So, they’ve doubled-down on their hysteria as they fire up a newly expanded outrage-machine.

Turning things around Both Obama and Hillary made no secret of their disdain for the coal industry, and of their intention to do as much damage to it as they could. In fact, one of the reasons Donald Trump is now president is Hillary’s declaration that she was going to destroy a lot of coal industry jobs, which didn’t sit too well in formerly blue Pennsylvania. It’s only the start of what needs to be done, but Trump is acting quickly where he can to reverse Obama’s regulatory assault on the coal industry, and that includes a bill he signed...

The rank of the United States on the Heritage Foundation's latest annual Index of Economic Freedom fell from 6th to 17th over the duration of the Obama Presidency. In 17th place, the US is behind Lithuania, Luxembourg, Georgia, Taiwan, Chile, and the United Arab Emirates, among others. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) said the decline "is embarrassing. We like to think of America as the land of the free, but when we see that we've dropped out of the top ten and are actually doing worse than some countries not normally considered havens for freedom, it's...

<p>Woody Allen, when asked for his opinion about death, replied, “I don’t worry about dying, I just don’t want to be there when it happens!” Unfortunately, Allen will be there and so will the rest of us. This week, why I have a personal interest in the end of life. And what can we all do to provide the best of care to loved ones near death?</p>