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All I have time for today is an update on the 2019 Key Lime Pie situation.The bad news: the bakery department at my local Costco confirmed they do not have them this year and they will not be getting them either. This is a real blow - they were absolutely the best key lime pie anywhere, ever. They were better than the ones you make yourself. They had the perfect crust (not dry and crummy) perfectly balanced filling: creamy, sweet-tart, fresh. And did I mention huge? You could cut them into at least 12 pieces and freeze them to...

In 1776, Great Britain’s American colonists revolted in response to George III’s corruption of the British constitution. The twenty-seven indictments of him in our Declaration detailed his assaults. Americans didn’t have an Article V or its equivalent to peacefully secure the rights enjoyed by Englishmen in England. Similarly, 21st century America is witness to a dying Constitution in which its open corruption is the subject of endless opinion columns and appeals. Article V opponents curiously admonish Article V supporters to “enforce the Constitution we have.” Through the election of better Representatives, Senators, and Presidents, they say, is the road to...

Tess Talley, an American trophy hunter who went viral in 2018 after posting a picture of a giraffe she’d killed, spoke out for the first time since the controversy in an interview with CBS aired this week. The image, which showed Talley posing next to a dead giraffe she’d bagged during a trip to South Africa in 2017, sparked widespread backlash. Talley spoke to “CBS This Morning” on Friday and revealed that the worldwide outcry hadn’t dulled her passion for hunting. “It’s a hobby, it’s something that I love to do,” she said and explained that the 2017 kill was...

Because President Donald Trump emerges as a clear winner from his week-long confrontation with Mexico over our neighbor’s lax enforcement of its southern border, reflexive Trump critics will scramble to find some way of containing what is a clear Trump triumph, which came with assists by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who conducted the key negotiations. Already we have heard about long-term damage to trust between the North American allies, about investor nervousness and Trump’s unpredictability. This sort of flailing about to deny the obvious says nothing about Trump and much about those critics who...

Businessman and 2020 presidential hopeful Andrew Yang broke with other Democrats when he admonished the party's focus on identity poliitcs leading up to the next election. "I understand the impulse, but identity politics are a great way to lose elections," he said on Saturday. "We need to bring people together." Many Democrats have decried the impacts of President Trump's policies on minorities and women during his first term in office. In addition, the "identity politics" debate has progressed as former Vice President Joe Biden announced this past week he no longer could support the Hyde Amendment of 1976, which restricts...

Imposing tariffs on Mexico would also have done nothing to stop the flow of immigrants. At least not directly. However, the threat did bring President Adrés Manuel López Obrador to the table. And Mexico will be providing assistance to the US in order to stem the imposition of tariffs.

While Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam and fellow anti-gunners in Virginia are getting lots of mileage out of the tragic mass shooting in Virginia Beach, the gun control crowd is mute in the wake of a self-defense shooting in Cincinnati early Thursday in which an armed mother of five used her legally-owned handgun to shoot an ex-boyfriend who was attempting to break into her home. According to WLWT and WTAE, a prosecutor’s spokesperson “said the woman would not face any charges.” Published reports say the unidentified mom had a protection order and a license to carry, but it was a remark from...

Attorney General William Barr is not the first AG to be held in contempt by Congress. Obama’s AG Eric Holder also shared this experience. Holder appeared on CNN this past week to explain how the two instances differ. “Back in the early years of the Obama Administration we had a program called ‘Fast and Furious’ in which we were trying to set up a ‘sting’ operation by smuggling guns to the Mexican cartels,” Holder recalled. “The idea was, we would have the identifying information—serial numbers and ballistics—by which we could tie specific weapons to specific crimes. Just because this plan...

Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono says that a new impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump would help Americans visualize the Mueller report’s findings. Or lack thereof, as we all know by now, the special counsel investigation — headed up by Robert Mueller — found zip, zilch, nada. No dice. With more petty calls for impeachment with zero supporting evidence, Hirono should be able to visualize herself working at a McDonald’s pretty soon. As The Washington Times noted, during an interview on CNN’s “New Day,” Hirno said, “We need to focus our entire country on what happened.” “This is why I think that we should open...

Some children in the inner city context grow up never knowing anything else. So when they’re exposed to a country setting, the mountains, the beach, it may be exciting, but it can also be uncomfortable and even scary for them. They’d rather retreat back to the confined, polluted and unsafe environment they’re used to. But we can all agree that they miss out. In the same way, most men have been conditioned to women being on contraceptives. They can hardly imagine the world without them and they need help (hello women!) being taken there for the first time and shown...

Male reproductive health has been in decline since the 1960’s. Once considered a global problem by the 1992 study “Evidence for decreasing quality of semen during past 50 years,”[i] it has been shown that the decline in semen quality is largely limited to Western countries.[ii] Specific studies, largely carried out in the 90′s, showed falling sperm counts: - in Belgium— where the “percentage of candidate donors with sperm characteristics below the 5th percentile cut-off value of a normal fertile population increased from 13 to 54% during the [19 year] observation period.”[iii] - in Canada — where overall sperm quality showed...

VIDEO You can see the shadow of the crow going EXACTLY over the egg-laying turtle at the beginning and again at the 9:45 mark of this video. Also that scene can be seen again at the end of the video. A great juxtaposition of the Crow Shadow of Death just as the turtle attempts to bring new life into the world. Later you can see two crows hovering nearby. This is an example of a good thing happening from what was originally thought to be a bad situation. In this case the situation of me lacking a zoom telephoto lens...

Influence like the Frankfurt School, a German communist think tank that found a home within the American university system “The Eyes of the World Are Upon You.”—General Dwight Eisenhower to his troops - June 6, 1944 Our parents and grandparents, and for some, great grandparents, were very different people. They knew sacrifice, They knew pain and suffering. They knew hard work, being shaped by a great depression. They knew total war. For many of them two world wars. They also knew personal responsibility, duty, honor, country, and faith. They recognized God as the author of their freedom and honored the...

By Judi McLeod Biden Says His Infanticide U-Turn Republicans’ FaultIt’s official, the main Democrat platform going into the 2020 election is Infanticide. According to the Washington Post: ‘Joe Biden asked for a pen. Then he reversed a position he’d held for four decades’. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s U-Turn on the Hyde Amendment on Thursday makes the coast clear: All 24 main contenders in the DNC primary race are, down to the last one, solidly pro-abortion.

“When God observes a self-reliant, determined attitude toward finding a solution to a problem, He makes sure this happens: We find it ourselves.” While attending the funeral service for a friend who committed suicide, I sat beside his daughter. “Read this page in his diary,” she said. “My father always kept one of these diary notebooks in his pocket and penned daily entries.” In the entry dated the day before his death, he wrote, “On any given day at any given moment, any given 1,000,000 people, of whom I might be one, are pleading for God’s mercy and help, and...

Food and Drug Administration ignored untold numbers of adverse events, including deaths, regulators finally announced in February 2019 that they will increase oversight of the dietary supplements industry Dietary supplements are big business. Three out of four Americans take one or more on a regular basis, and for older Americans the fraction is four out of five. One in three children also takes supplements. The estimated number of supplement products increased form 4,000 in 1994 to 50,000-80,000 today. Out of pocket expenditures for herbal and complementary nutritional products are about $50 billion, reports Henry Miller. 1 One of the greatest...

Being branded "The Illegality Party" will certainly not help the Democrats in the 2020 elections President Trump has effectively branded the Democrats as the Illegality Party after he secured Mexico’s pledge to halt the flow of illegal entrants into the USA. The Democrats had embraced illegality over the rule of law as they refused to cooperate with President Trump in trying to stop this long time problem through America’s Southwest Border with Mexico.

Relativism, Multiculturalism, Infanticide, Carbon Dioxide, Art, Fascism Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. —George Santayana “The Life of Reason” Modern lefties refuse to listen to this central message of religion, that we fix the world by fixing ourselves, rather than fixing ourselves by remaking the world in our own broken image.—Daniel Greenfield “A Movement of Conspiracy Theories” The “progressives” (a misnomer if there ever was one)—I mean regressives—they want to regress society back to a feudal-like lifestyle, if not pre-Christian paganism, are masters of pointing fingers...

When you hear barking and yapping as the Caravan of Crazies comes to a city or town near you, it won’t be one of the neighbor’s dog, it will be Utah’s Mitt Romney, the politician that jealousy drove barking mad Mitt Romney has positioned himself as the Dog on the Roof of the Caravan of Crazies, including Wobbly Woofer Joe Biden, running for DNC nomination in the 2020 Election Campaign. “Mitt Romney proved once again this weekend that the only reason he ran for US Senate was to trash President Trump for the next six years. (Gateway Pundit, June 8,...

just weeks before jihad slaughter With all this carnage in the cause of Islam, the UK is weighing legislation to institutionalize the definition of Islamophobia in racial rather than religious term. No jokes: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” Soeren Kern explains: …..t would effectively shield Islam from scrutiny and valid criticism. “We have here a clash between two very different ways of viewing a society: broadly individualism and collectivism…. In a collectivist society the aim is for the rulers to determine how individuals should behave …...