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A bizarre scene of a group of wild turkeys walking in a circle around a dead cat was caught on video by a Massachusetts man who perhaps best described it: an attempt to give the feline its 10th life.

Nobody knows much about the Mexican border wall -- but 300 companies have already said they'd like to help build it. Businesses will be asked to submit their proposals to design and build prototype wall structures near the United States border with Mexico starting next week, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection agency. Hundreds of companies have already indicated their interest in the project to the agency, which expects to award the initial contracts in April. They range from large construction firms to small fence companies and security firms. Dozens of the interested companies say...

Interesting quiz. What are your moral valuses and principles?

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to discern that the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy is an unhinged, untethered time bomb that needs to take a very long sabbatical on a very large and very soft shrink’s couch. President Trump’s speech on Tuesday night was nothing less than spectacular. It was a Cubs late inning grand slam, a Payton Manning touchdown throw, a Bill Murray, ‘Mirac’ all in one. Even Van Jones, seated on the CNN Trump kangaroo prosecution court said it best, “Trump became the President with that speech.” The Democrats didn’t think...

Carson earned much-deserved admiration when he famously spoke truth to power to expose the evils of Obamacare Former presidential contender and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was sworn in today as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development after being confirmed 58 to 41 earlier in the day by the United States Senate. Also today, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was confirmed as energy secretary 62 to 37 and sworn in.

Defeating Islamic State is a shared interest of Trump and Putin. Co-operation in the United Nations Security Council will materially advance that objective. President Trump made his intention to destroy Islamic State crystal clear in his stirring address to the Congress on 28 February: “As promised, I directed the Department of Defense to develop a plan to demolish and destroy ISIS—a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered Muslims and Christians, and men, women, and children of all faiths and beliefs. We will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the Muslim world, to extinguish this vile...

But there is still not a scintilla of proof of improper conduct Despite the oceans of media hype, there is still no publicly available trustworthy evidence whatsoever that the Trump campaign somehow colluded with the Russian government. Not a scintilla of proof of improper conduct. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero.

We must not allow Hollywood, wealthy athletes, and CEOs to bully us into submission to their leftist political view of the world Joe McCarthy, a WWII hero, belittled and vilified by Hollywood and the MSM alike, has been vindicated not just by the release of the Venona papers but, most recently, by the appalling and constant anti-American rhetoric and behavior of Hollywood. There were communists in Hollywood. Today actors and actresses are no longer shy about their communist views and affiliations, and want to make sure that Americans buy into their communist social engineering and perversions while they enjoy the...

Sign my petition: Senators Charles Schumer and Elizabeth Warren should immediately resign from the U.S. Senate for failing to uphold Article 3, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which they both swore to uphold, by trying to convict Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the court of public opinion rather than a court of law, for presuming his guilt before standing trial and for extreme prejudice.

As controversy rises around deportations underway across the U.S., a new report says Palantir, the secretive Palo Alto security firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has built “the engine for Donald Trump’s deportation machine.” Trump has brought in new policies directing authorities to ramp up arrests and deportation of people in the U.S. illegally. And Palantir, valued at $20 billion, is key to that effort, according to a report published March 2. The company did not respond immediately to a request for comment. In 2014, Palantir won a $41 million contract to build and maintain an intelligence system called Investigative Case...

Bringing cheer to an NYC children’s hospital for the 1st time, Melania Trump made the cutest appearance as she read Dr. Seuss to sick kids while encouraging them to read. And appearing in good spirits, the FLOTUS totally seemed to light up the room as she broke open ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Go!’ How sweet is that? Melania Trump, 46, totally got into the spirit of World Book Day on Mar. 2 by showing up at New York Presbyterian hospital to read Dr. Seuss books to sick children. Even better? She did so on the author’s birthday, which is SO...

After then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch confirmed she met with former President Bill Clinton on a plane last June, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) dismissed calls for an independent prosecutor to take over the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Today, however, Schumer called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign and demanded a special prosecutor because of a report Sessions had met with the Russian Ambassador in 2016, something he did not disclose during his confirmation hearings. Sessions denies the report and says he “never met with any Russian officials to discuss the issues of the (Trump presidential) campaign.” […] “She’s an honorable...

When an 8-year-old from Alabama was asked to dress up as her favorite First Lady of the United States for a school project, she immediately chose the accomplished Melania Trump and didn't just pull it off, she managed to capture the precise image of the First Lady during her husband's historic inauguration. The result was a "mini-Melania" look that is sure to earn this young student a high grade for her class project, as long as her teacher holds back any negative political opinions they have and judges on merit alone. As a call back to the days of Jackie...

Once again Democrats have again publicly demonstrated how they make up alternative facts, still rewrite history, display humorless partisanship, their reflex to label all Republicans racists, and say what they really think about the correct position of women in the workplace.

Has anyone seen the Declined Detainer Outcome Report that Trump promised? That is the weekly report from DHS showing the number of crimes committed by illegals across the country. It was signed on January 25th and stated. “To better inform the public regarding the public safety threats associated with sanctuary jurisdictions, the Secretary shall utilize the Declined Detainer Outcome Report or its equivalent and, on a weekly basis, make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction that ignored or otherwise failed to honor any detainers with respect to such aliens.” I have searched but...

Mediaite was able to confirm — through the receipt of a rather fabulous photo — the identity of the drag queen pictured in a photo that has been making the rounds on Twitter since last night. The shot shows the queen in full glam, sitting next to a woman wearing a black niqab, a type of clothing worn by some Muslim women. Gilda Wabbit, the queen in question, said that the attention “this simple picture” is getting has been “interesting.” That the photo is garnering attention is true enough: After it was tweeted by a far-right account alongside the caption...

Filmmaker Michael Moore, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, has published what he calls a "10-point action plan to stop Trump" on his personal website. Moore, who has called on the president to resign over his alleged ties to Russia, hopes his plan will "succeed in halting the dark force that is Trump." "We can tie him up in knots at every turn, and eventually, we can bring him down," Moore writes. The first point urges Trump's opponents to call their members of Congress every day. "I know from firsthand experience the impact it has," Moore writes. "These politicians...

An engineer turned historian, Carroll Quigley, who knew a thing about how things really work, observed that the technical guarantor of early American Democratic-Republican Democracy, was the people's ability to remain sovereign in their own self defense. Quigley postulated that the ability of backwoods colonial gunsmiths to independently craft their own smoothbore rifles, was what really kept at bay, King George and his counselors. This golden age of frontier democracy was ended with the rise of gun barrels "rifled" with a gently rotating grooves to cause the bullet to spin, greatly increasing long range accuracy. This technique was beyond the...

The fact of the matter is that Americans talk to Russia all the time. Now, every time a Trump-supporting American is founds to have talked to a Russian . . . scandal! Resign! You woke up to a lot of this if you didn’t see it late last night: Sessions met with Russian official! Didn’t disclose it when asked in confirmation hearings!

Well...that's embarrassing.... Oh, THAT, Ambassador! Dan already did a fine job of explaining why the whole “Sessions/Russia” flap is a big nothingburger, so I won’t rehash that here. What I will do is point out that the left seems to think this is chum in the political water. They’ve whipped themselves up in to a frenzy, fueled by anti-Trump hysteria and the hope that maybe - just maybe - they can finally get one of their conspiracy theories to stick.