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President Donald Trump elaborated on his invite to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to meet him at the demilitarized zone, telling reporters he "just thought of it this morning." "All I did is put out a feeler if he’d like to meet," Trump said in response to a question from ABC News' Karen Travers during a pool spray of a breakfast with Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. "He sent me a very beautiful card and I guess he got my return letter." "But I just thought of it this morning," Trump said, emphasizing the spontaneity of his invitation....

...For much of the last year, mainstream novelists were furious that Amazon was discouraging the sale of some titles in its confrontation with the publisher Hachette over e-books. Now self-published writers, who owe much of their audience to the retailer’s publishing platform, are unhappy. One problem is too much competition. But a new complaint is about Kindle Unlimited, a new Amazon subscription service that offers access to 700,000 books — both self-published and traditionally published — for $9.99 a month. It may bring in readers, but the writers say they earn less. And in interviews and online forums, they have...

A death sentence from France's Court of Cassation for quadriplegic patient Vincent Lambert late Friday afternoon..... An attempt by the federal government to compromise with environmentalists failed Friday morning as three groups that want an injunction to stop Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond from using federal land for grazing rejected it..... They are arguably the most demonized leaders in the world and on Friday US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were together with President Trump in a jovial mood..... President Trump tweeting about his next stop following the G 20, South Korea.... At Gallargues-le-Monteux in southern...

When liberal donor George Soros and several other liberal billionaires called for a wealth tax, the media swooned. Soros, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, heiress Abigail Disney and 15 others wrote an open letter calling on presidential candidates to adopt a wealth tax on the top 1/10 of 1 percent. Vanity Fair was thrilled on June 24, publishing a supportive, hyperbolic account of the “zillionaires’” letter declaring: “Conscience-Stricken Billionaires Beg 2020 Candidates: Take Our Money.” Nevermind criticism that a wealth tax is unconstitutional, the reaction from Vanity Fair, The New York Times and CNN stories avoided tough questions and criticism. Bloomberg...

Vanity, but still needed in lieu of the rapidly approaching 2020 elections: Ads need to be made of every Democrat raising their hand in supporting health care for all illegal immigrants, which is what they did on stage. Democrats have said they want illegal immigration decriminalized, they do not support deportations, and thus they axiomatically support open borders. Add to that their promise of free health care for all illegals in this country and you will soon see 100 million illegals in this country. Retort by Dems: by law they have to be treated in ER's! Answer: not if you...

Some great 90s industrial/nu-metal rock/rap for you. Enjoy

Greatest musical of all time. Enjoy.

THE SCIENCE FICTION OF PREGNANT MALES—AND JUST WHO THE HELL IS Julián (?) Castro? PICTURE i.dailymail.co.uk Author: Conservative Detective, JEFFREY A. FRIEDBERG OPINION: BY JEFFREY A. FRIEDBERG Impolite, and not chronicling the “news” politely…. PICTURES PREGNANT ‘MAN’” (oh, right this fooled me totally—I thought it was a MAN!) – “Hayden Cross was born a girl and was legally male when he paused transgender hormone treatment to conceive using a sperm donor he had met on Facebook.” Oh, that’s just too good: IT’S A “HE!” “…During Wednesday night’s first Democratic presidential debate, San Antonio mayor Julián Castro stated he supports taxpayer-funded...

Every day, parents that are citizens of the United States commit crimes of various sorts, are separated from their children, are taken to county jails or other locations, are booked, and the process rolls on from there. Why do Democrats place parents that are illegal aliens on a higher pedestal than they do parents that are citizens of the United States? Why do Democrats say that illegal aliens who are the parents of children should not be separated from their children? Third, the border patrol and other various law enforcement personnel often do not know if these "parents" are actully...

After speaking with Eric Trump, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday called for stricter discipline against the Aviary server who allegedly spit on the son of President Donald Trump. Lightfoot called Tuesday night’s incident at the posh Fulton Market bar “repugnant” and said “this isn’t about politics, this is about civility.” The server, only identified as a young woman, was placed on leave by Aviary’s parent company, the Alinea Group — the company known for acclaimed restaurants like Alinea and Next Restaurant. Law enforcement agents kept the server in custody for two hours on Tuesday night after she, as Eric...

I have a friend. More like a brother really. Larger than life, he was a true a friend, as fine a man and as thoroughly an American as any you will ever find. Hard working, hard drinking (sometimes), he loved his family, and his neighbors. We had a family business, and Rick worked for us. But he was more, much more than that. He got me out of scrapes at times, and he could rip me a new one, if it was warranted. Overall, he believed in doing an honest days work for an honest day's wages. He worked hard,...

AL mother "Marshae Jones" (27) Charged in feticide after being SHOT in stomach! ***video is 42 minutes long may want to bookmark for later but Just Jay explains it all out, and tells it like it is!***

This weekend’s box office wiped out two franchises, cemented the failure of two others, and mercy-killed one of those woke entries only pompous critics adore. We’ll start with Men in Black: International, which is doing even worse than those already-dire predictions of $30 million. Deadline reports this stinker will open to a pathetic $25 million, which is less than half of what all three of its predecessors opened to. Even the 22-year-old original launched with $51 million in 22-year-old dollars. As I mentioned in my review, MIB4 has no swagger, no sex appeal, and no laughs; just a confusing story,...

Chief Justice John Roberts just keeps on breaking conservatives’ hearts. On two consecutive days this week, Roberts sided with the court’s liberal wing to deliver 5-4 rulings that deeply disappointed right-leaning lawyers and pundits who had been counting on near-certain victory from a court now stocked with a pair of Trump-appointed justices handpicked by conservative legal activists.

  democrats have staked an interesting position. They are not officially the party of Mexico and Central America. They are the party of illegal aliens. They have no interest in the welfare of American citizens. Their platform is a unique and horrible nightmare and would end the country as we know it. 1.Open bordersOther than offering some vague nods to “border security,” Democrats never put forth any policy that would prevent the hundreds of thousands of unknown people streaming into the U.S. Yet if you point out that the party doesn't care about securing the border, a confounded news anchor...

Candidate debates expose democracy for what it is; fickle, unstable, misleading, and fraught with dangers. It’s about persuading rather than truth.

VIDEO Joe Scarborough declared that the HORRIBLE Democrat debate performance in Round Two guarantees their defeat in 2020. A fringe benefit of this video is watching the irritated looks on Mika's face next to Joe as she looks like she is doing an impression of Saturday Night Live doing an impression of her.

Super Happy Fun America, the guys who are going to hold the straight pride in Boston in August are accepting donations to pay off the permit to hold the parade. Seeing as how today is the last day for them to do so and they're only a quarter of the way to their goal, I just thought I'd throw this out there for anyone who would like to contribute.

We have all heard of never bring a knife to a gunfight. True, but depending on the situation knives do have the advantage over guns in short range fights. Knives do have their disadvantages as well, nothing is perfect. Having a knife as a backup to your pistol should be a part of your every day carry. Sometimes, getting to your pistol isn't always that easy when you’re caught in close quarter and have to do some hand-to-hand and getting the knife out was easier. f you decide to carry a knife with the intent of using it to defend...

he Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 ruling on Department of Commerce v. New York is being characterized as nothing more serious than a temporary setback regarding President Trump’s wish to reinstate a citizenship question in the 2020 U.S. Census; the administration is expected to whip up a new rationale that the high court won’t consider “contrived” and get the question in. Unfortunately it is far worse than that, and Chief Justice John Roberts is giving further sign that he is yet another unpleasant surprise in GOP appointments to the highest level of the Judicial Branch, following in the footsteps of David Souter...