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There was plenty of rain in many parts of France today but the Yellow Vests protests continued. There are two different estimates with "The Yellow Number" issuing its final number Sunday at Noon. The government's number is 200 short of last week's estimate 18,800. Paris was not designated as a major center of protest and only 1200 marched, many with umbrellas. Ruptly video of today's Paris Yellow Vests procession.... In Nantes authorities announced in advance that 500 anarchist "black blocs" would be in the city and they imposed controls around the city. Here is a 13 minute video of the...

Oy. Ok – so before I start, let me make it clear that I understand that mother’s day can be difficult for children without moms. Here’s the thing – I think every day is difficult for children without moms. Or dads. It’s just reality. One day isn’t going to change their reality. But is this about children who have tragically lost their mothers? Or is this some PC bullcrap about how binary traditional families are offensive. Hmm. According to Daily Mail: A school has renamed a Mother’s Day stall to avoid upsetting any children without a mother. Brunswick East Primary...

FULL TITLE: Trey Gowdy: Comey, Clapper and Brennan ‘Are Validating’ Trump’s Concerns About Their Objectivity by Their Comments and Demeanor EXCERPT: GOWDY: "St. James Comey, pretty much the same as every other interview. He is always right. He gets to write the moral script. If you deviate from that, if you’re Rod Rosenstein, then you lack character. If you’re somebody else, your soul has been eaten. What I kept thinking back to, Jason, was when I asked Jim Comey how did the Russia investigation get started? Who started it? He didn’t know it was Peter Strzok, he never read the...

Pope Francis has told young economists and entrepreneurs that the world needs a different kind of economy, “one that cares for the environment and does not despoil it.” In a letter to young business people for an upcoming event titled “Economy of Francesco,” named for Saint Francis of Assisi, the pope declared that “the safeguarding of the environment cannot be divorced from ensuring justice for the poor and finding answers to the structural problems of the global economy. (emphasis mine)” “We need to correct models of growth incapable of guaranteeing respect for the environment,” he said.

Frustrated with the unsatisfactory results of the Mueller Report, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) wants to initiate Congressional trials for members of the Trump Administration “who defy our demands for documents and testimony.” Schiff characterized these prosecutions as “mini-trials that could be conducted without the presence of the accused. They would be tasked with a simple decision: has the accused complied with our demands or not. The House would render judgment and determine whether the accused would be jailed, fined, or both. With fines running up to $25,000 per day of continued disobedience, not to...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is finally getting a strong message from Queen Elizabeth II on his openly hostile views of President Trump. The Muslim mayor, who has been a vocal critic of the president, was noticeably left off of the invitation list for the banquet planned in honor of Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom next month. “The mayor has not been invited to the state banquet,” Khan’s spokesman, Jonathan Weisgard, told Newsweek. The Queen has apparently opted not to invite the London Mayor to Trump’s state banquet at Buckingham Palace as he makes a three-day state visit in...

8th Place: A High School Girl’s Life After Transgender Students Joined Her Sport A growing number of school administrators want to silence women and girls who dare speak out about the ways transgender policies are harming them—but these brave young women refuse to be bullied or made to believe their concerns are hateful. They don’t hate anyone. These girls were among the best high school athletes in their region —excited to earn scholarships and opportunities by working hard to perfect their talents on the track. All of that changed suddenly when they were forced to compete against transgender athletes. Learn...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Dobroye utro, druz’ya! – Please excuse me, I’m just brushing up on my Russian. Good morning, friends! – Every time I think the rhetoric from prominent Democrats in our beautiful motherland, er, United States of America cannot possibly become more absurdly demented than it already is, one of them goes right out and proves me wrong. Enter Georgia gubernatorial loser and Legend in Her Own Mind Stacey Abrams, who went full Russkie yesterday while speaking to an event called National Security Action Forum put on by some leftist organization that doesn’t actually...

Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried. The same is true of most socialist policies — except where, as in Western Europe, the U.S. has paid for defense. And yet socialism continues to seduce the young, and confound the old. This was the week in which Venezuelans were expected to throw off the yoke of Nicolas Maduro’s ruinous socialist regime, and when South African voters had a chance to dislodge the corrupt, inept African National Congress (ANC) after 25 years in power. Maduro may yet be ousted, and the ANC saw its majority decline. But socialism, and socialist ideas,...

Boy, the MSM has been uncharacteristically quiet about the most recent school shooting haven’t they? I suppose it may have something to do with how the perps obtained the guns – stolen from parents who had purchased them legally. More likely it has more to do with the fact that at least one of the two villain shooters is a member of the newest protected fringe identity group: Girls-to-Men. Or is that boys-to-Womyn? It’s so hard to tell which way the kids are going these days. In any event I’m willing to bet the shooters cover at least 2 letters...

VIDEO Almost as amazing as this Seminole Hard Rock Guitar Hotel & Casino Hollywood is the fact that I never even knew about it until yesterday. In any event I hope to be there when it first opens probably sometime in November.

The United States is moving a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East due to an Iranian threat..... Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visiting Russia Monday and Tuesday..... In what she says is an act inconsistent with the tradition of free nations like Canada, Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak has been suspended..... A French military operation in the African nation of Burkina Faso has freed four hostages including an American citizen, a South Korean and two Frenchmen. The operation staged overnight Thursday with two French soldiers killed.... In northern Syria Friday a counterattack by jihadist forces beaten back by the Syrian...

This Saturday May 11th will mark the 26th straight week of Yellow Vests protests in France coming within weeks of the European Parliament elections set for Sunday May 26th. President Emmanuel Macron's policies are the impetus for the protests with Macron hoping to improve his political position with a win in the upcoming vote.....

“Apocali Now!” is a cheeky lampoon of the political left’s many predictions of environmental doom—and the serial failures of those predictions. The book is funny, on-target, and effectively turns the tables by using Saul Alinsky’s 5th rule (“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon“) against the left. But “Apocali Now!” does not mock environmentalism—it mocks the left’s particular brand of frenzied, eschatological environmentalism."

Washington attorney Joe diGenova claimed in an interview last night that the Department of Justice inspector general has determined that "the final three FISA extensions were illegally obtained," and the first one is still being investigated. For the past year, DOJ IG Michael Horowitz has been investigating the FBI's 2016 surveillance activities and his report is expected later this month or in early June. Washington power couple Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing appeared on Lou Dobbs' Fox Business Network show Thursday night to talk about the latest turns in the "SpyGate" saga. "The only question now is whether or not...

In a "town hall" on CNN, fired former FBI Director James Comey contended that the "operation" to surveil a presidential candidate is a "totally normal activity for the FBI to undertake. After all, intelligence gathering is an essential tool we use to defend the United States against all enemies—both foreign and domestic. Trump isn't the only candidate who has been a focus of this sort of investigation. He is merely the first to have survived such an effort." Comey explained that "inserting covert agents into the Trump campaign was standard procedure. Sending our guys—Mifsud and Halper—to tell Papadopoulos that the...

Indoctrination is being disguised as education in our school system. Young Americans are no longer being taught facts by objective institutions. They are learning beliefs from progressive think-tanks that are funded by tax dollars. Muslim indoctrination is being attempted by groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). They use holidays like Ramadan to encourage the spread of Islam throughout our children. In Washington, CAIR urged teachers to bless students for the holiday with Islamic sayings. Another school in Texas created a special “prayer room” to accommodate Muslim students. Texas A&M professors also blamed Antisemitism on Christians, with zero reprimand...

Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to make false claims about President Donald Trump’s massive tax cut, saying Thursday it had not helped average Americans. “The God awful tax cut has not helped anybody who’s real, anybody out there breaking their neck trying to figure out how to make the next meal,” Biden said at a fundraiser. Since announcing his presidential campaign, Biden has continually attacked Trump’s tax cut. “There’s a $2 trillion tax cut last year. Did you feel it? Did you get anything from it? Of course not. Of course not,” he said during his April campaign launch...

Meanwhile the big problem is that the devil has managed to make the Democrat Party his private headquarters,and no one seems able to root him out The devil (playing Hooky from Hell) has a tendency of throwing spittle-flecked hissy fits whenever confronted with religious symbols. Ditto for Democrat Pennsylvania state rep. Brian Sims, who went ballistic all for spotting an elderly lady quietly praying The Rosary in front of a Planned Parenthood facility. Satan, and his demons, “who roam throughout this world seeking the ruin of souls”, is an evil fixture in the reality of life in the Valley of...

Virginia, Fairfax County, Education, and Trailers Virginia is an interesting educational and political study in how to destroy a formerly well-off state with tolerance and multi-culturalism dictated by politicians from Richmond and Washington, D.C. It is a microcosm of the civilization suicide that is taking place in Europe. Virginia is not very far behind the Seattle School District that sent a letter recently to teachers asking them to bless Muslim students in Arabic during Ramadan. Virginia obsesses over accommodating those who will not give an inch in their quest to be a specially protected class.