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A series of disasters face art colleges and the art departments of American universities. Their campuses are closing, their freshmen numbers are dwindling, and their graduates are struggling. Getting more students into an art program is a hard sell. To restore their appeal, art schools would do well to de-politicize their programs and focus on turning students into masters of their field who can then harness creativity for their art and their audience. Art colleges struggle with the toxic perception that their graduates are qualified for nothing and have been bankrupted by their education. They take on tens of thousands...

When you get a gun, that firearm is meant for you and only you, and no one should be able to come into your house and take it. If it is stolen in a burglary, not only is this lost property but it can be used for an awful crime and you are in danger of being framed. Even worse, if your gun is taken during a home invasion before you have the chance to get it, then the tool you bought to protect you and your family is suddenly being used to hurt you. Whatever the scenario, having your...

I heard about this a week or two ago. I've watched the movie countless times, but for some strange reason that I can't remember I never saw it on the big screen. That's going to change on June 2, bought my tickets yesterday. Really looking forward to it, even though the wife is dreading it.....she hates blood and guts war movies.

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The Creepy Porn Lawyer is in the news again, and boy, is it rich. – This time, Michael Avenatti, is in trouble for stealing $300,000 from – guess who? – his former client, Porn star Stormy Daniels. I swear I don’t make this stuff up. Who could? Before we go any further, it’s important to remember how the fake news media – mainly CNN and MSNBC, but also many others – turned this very despicable man into a national celebrity, even to the point of treating him seriously as someone who could...

Pearls of wisdom for the speechmakers of graduation season, 2019… Congratulations, Commencement Speakers! Today is your day! After a lifetime of devotion to your respective careers – as journalists, entrepreneurs, inventors, CEOs, ward heelers, or rent seekers – you have finally reached that pinnacle of achievement reserved for only 4600 people each year: you have been selected to give a commencement speech at one of America’s institutions of higher learning. You have finally made it. As you feverishly scribble your notes over the days to come, preparing for that moment of success, that twenty or thirty, or Heaven forbid, forty-minute...

The nation of Canada has been giving us a chilling vision of what it looks like when a western nation completely succumbs to the dangerous ideology of multiculturalism, the cultural Marxism that always inevitably restricts the rights of some to pave the way for the rights of others. There is no equality in multiculturalism. Christians have faced increasing adversity in Canada as of late, but new proposed legislation that would make it a crime to publicly express one’s faith is a chilling new low. In the proposed legislation, it would become illegal for Christians to make any public displays which...

TOKYO − Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be taking U.S. President Donald Trump to a traditional Japanese charcoal grill restaurant in Tokyo for an intimate and informal dinner during his visit to Japan from the weekend, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Abe and Trump will be joined by their wives, Akie and Melania, at the Sunday dinner in the Roppongi district in a quiet setting to taste a "robatayaki" cuisine of meat, fish and vegetables grilled over a charcoal fire. Small casual dinners have been a go-to formula for Japanese prime ministers when entertaining U.S leaders to foster...

It does seem that men are wearing neckties less and less. Taking the train to Manhattan, I only see a few men wearing ties these days. I'm thinking maybe they keep their ties at the office and put them on there? After all, not only do I keep a stash of ties in my office but I have my dress shoes there as well so I don't have to wear them back and forth on the train. Instead, I come into the city wearing slip-ons like Mr. Rogers used to put on when he came into his house on that...

Lidl is hosting a hiring event for their Alamance County Distribution Center on Thursday May 23 and will be hiring up to 100 new employees! The new logistics associates will be working at the state-of-the-art Lidl Alamance County regional headquarters and distribution center at 3815 Senator Ralph Scott Parkway, Mebane, NC. The hiring event takes place Thursday, May 23, from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m at the Distribution Center. Select candidates will actually be given on-the-spot conditional job offers. According to the Lidl release, "salaries for logistics associates start at $15.50 per hour, plus benefits, which can include health, dental...

What Is It & How Does It Work? As the name states, a sand 3D printer uses a working medium of sand-like materials, including actual silica sand, ceramics, or even metal particles. The technology is binder jetting, which uses a binder polymer to bind the particles together into a physical 3D model. This can be used to produce finished products or molds for an alternative material to be poured into. The history of sand 3D printing begins in the late 1990s with a German company, Generis, and with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the United States. Generis focused on...

A friend of mine, a photographer took this photo on a recent road trip. She doesn't know much about it, she just liked the look of it. It was on the side of a hwy at a place that sells old stuff, junk and antiques. Guy there, told her it was used in Vietnam. When I asked her about that, she doesn't know if he meant this particular plane was used in Nam, or if this type of plane was used in Nam, or if that was in reference to it being used during Vietnam war. I did quite a...

Michael Avenatti's legal troubles escalated on Wednesday as federal prosecutors announced new criminal charges accusing the lawyer and prominent critic of U.S. President Donald Trump of stealing from porn star Stormy Daniels and extorting Nike Inc. Prosecutors accused Avenatti, 48, of stealing about $300,000 from Daniels, about half of which has not been repaid, after helping his former client secure a book contract. They also said he has been indicted on previously announced charges that he tried to blackmail Nike out of more than $20 million by threatening to expose what he called the athletic wear company's improper payments to...

Immigrants in the United States and their families are forgoing essential welfare benefits like public housing, food stamps and Medicare over fear of persecution, a new study has found. One in seven immigrants avoided public benefit programs in 2018 out of concern they would risk their future green card status, the Urban Institute found in a report out Wednesday morning. Last week, President Donald Trump proposed changing the nation’s legal immigration system to limit green cards given to migrants who rely on welfare benefits or who are not financially independent. Instead, the president said he would prioritize well-off citizen-seekers with...

Trumps records are sealed by Obama's executive order https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/presidential-records https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2009-01-26/pdf/E9-1712.pdf

Catholics are the sole remaining group that it is politically correct to slander and denigrate and that was made clear by the recent cable rant of social commentator Bill Maher against the Catholicism of Attorney General William Barr and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: HBO host Bill Maher went on a long diatribe in which he appeared to air his grievances with his childhood faith of Catholicism, suggesting that public officials like Attorney General William Barr and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sought power so they could regulate people's sex lives. Barr's faith, Maher said, was the reason an apparently...

Colorado's Gov. Jared Polis (D) is miffed that New Mexico's Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) has been busing unwanted illegal immigrants into his state. "She's the one who left the border open for the swarms of immigrants and asylum seekers that have caused her state so many problems," Polis said. "Now she trying to smuggle them into Colorado. It's a sneaky underhanded trick." Grisham defended her actions saying that "it is only fair that the burdens be shared among the states. Gov. Polis is a supporter of open borders. Why shouldn't his state welcome the arrival of people all we...

Democrats give public housing to illegal aliens instead of to U.S. citizens I just found out that Democrats are giving public housing to illegal aliens instead of to U.S. citizens.HUD Secretary Ben Carson said of this:“There is an affordable-housing crisis in this country, and we need to make certain our scarce public ­resources help those who are ­legally entitled to it.”President Trump has ordered illegal aliens to get out of public housing within 18 months.Democrats don’t like that one bit.New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio said of Trump’s order:“This is what cruelty looks like.”Apparently, de Blasio doesn’t think it’s...

Sometimes a pre-cursor to a Gunfight involves Hand-to-Hand Jitsu just to get to Glock-Fu. Are we training correctly in preparation for that Gunfight? Unfortunately, there are many assaults that takes place every day. Bad guys don’t discriminate man or woman. In the following video, the footage highlights a female protecting herself from an attack by a would be mugger. At this point, the motive is unknown, but what does stand out is that the female successfully fends off the attack and stopping the attacker with her pistol. Yes, we can go on stating that having the right to bear arms...

Chick-fil-A is vilified by the American left — and particularly the LGBTQ+ community — like few other American companies. The reason is clear: They are honest, biblical Christians in their beliefs and statements, including on marriage being between one man and one woman — because that is what the Bible explicitly says and what all of Christianity and the rest of the world believed through all of history until, literally just a few years ago. But that adherence to biblical norms in today’s America means they must be crushed by the activist LGBTQ+ left that seeks to destroy anyone who...

VIDEO Following his Philadelphia "kickoff" campaign rally and a Florida fundraising tour, Joe Biden has gone into a state of deep hibernation. His campaign Facebook page shows NO future events scheduled for him. In addition, his OFFICIAL (not parody) website reveals only TWO Biden campaign events scheduled, neither of which includes Biden himself. One is for a group of folks to stand on some street corner in Manchester, NH to hold up Biden signs and the other is for some neighbors to gather for drinks in Media, PA and tell each other how enthusiastic they are for the sleeping Joe...