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What I Learned Passing a Kidney Stone—Old School Style!Passing a kidney stone is a learning experience? EVERYTHING is a learning experience! This is the third time for me—label me a slow learner. The first one I attribute to using a Vitamin C product in excess many years ago. The second one, frankly, I don’t remember the cause. And now this one. You’d think with the amount of pain these tiny (in my case) rocks cause, I’d be done. Hopefully I will be now! I’m going to tell you MY experience here, and MY choice. If you have a kidney stone,...

VIDEO Wow! What a surprise...NOT! Liberals were triggered by President Donald Trump's July 4 speech on the National Mall. Among those triggered liberals were the expected CNN panelists giving negative reviews to Trump's speech.

The brutal Antifa violence inflicted on journalist Andy Ngo in Portland is part of a growing wave of leftist violent confrontations across the country. The attack appears to have implicit support from local Democrat authorities, including Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. It’s increasingly clear that from Portland to Berkeley to Charlottesville, Virginia, hardcore leftist brown shirts, led by a growing cadre of Antifa thugs, are resorting to open violence. Intimidation on a regular basis is an acceptable method of political discourse.

This episode shines the spotlight on some individuals, companies and other organizations who have looked beyond the "bottom line."

A large panel of CNN contributors give reactions and takes blasting President Trump's Fourth of July "Salute to America" event and his speech talking about American and military history. Former Admiral John Kirby said he was "troubled about the militaristic tone of the whole thing" and mocked President Trump's speech as "essentially 8th-grade history that was fairly sepia-toned and saccharine in its depth and context." "I could have gotten this off of watching Schoolhouse Rock," Kirby added. (Remember to watch/read it all.)

When it comes to the liberal media and President Trump, it's damned if you do, damned if you don't. MSNBC gave a classic example of the phenomenon this morning. In the days leading up to the Salute to America parade, the liberal media had savaged it, and in particular the prospect of tanks rolling down the streets of DC. But when the event actually unfolded, and instead of tanks rolling down the streets, armored vehicles were parked rather inconspicuously on display, that was no good, either. To the contrary, in place of Morning Joe's first hour at 6 am Eastern,...

Whether you like it or not, if you own a semiautomatic rifle, whether it’s a rimfire or a classic such as the Remington 7400, Winchester Model 100 or Browning BAR, as of July 1 it falls within the state of Washington’s definition of a "semiautomatic assault rifle." That's only one of the dirty little surprises way too many gun owners didn’t understand when Initiative 1639 was on the ballot last November. From now on, unless a federal lawsuit challenging some provisions of the gun control measure is successful, even your Ruger 10/22 and Marlin Model 60, and similar popular .22-caliber...

The second and expected to be final day of Tommy Robinson's trial for live streaming video outside of a child sex abuse trial in May of 2018 in Leeds, England that involved Muslim defendants. Ezra Levant of "Rebel Media" in Canada in London at the Old Bailey courtroom tweeting live.... The trial resumed this morning with Tommy Robinson in the witness box under questioning from prosecuting lawyer Andrew Caldecott....

Many if not most professors and higher education leaders enjoy pontificating about their high-minded ideals in contrast with the grubby, self-interested world outside of academia. What few people have done is to turn the lens around and ask about the morals of those professors and leaders. Are they in fact paragons of virtue, or could it be that their own actions are suffused not with concern for students or society, but their own welfare? In their recent book Cracks in the Ivory Tower, authors Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness explore those questions and find higher education to be “a moral...

Lest there be any doubt in your mind as to how much our media knows (or cares to know) about our military allow me to submit exhibit A from last night’s “Salute To America” celebration on the Mall. It’s from Politico:In an article titled Trump's 'Salute to America' in pictures the photo was captioned “U.S. Army planes fly over the National Mall.”Um, “Army planes,” seriously? That is one seriously stupid and/or lazy staffer Politico has working for them. Even if you have no idea who does what in the U.S. military services anybody who was watching the speech would know...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) We celebrated America yesterday and loved every minute of it.: We started the day by driving in our big, gas-guzzling SUV over to the neighborhood where our daughter and her family live, which is populated mainly by young families who have moved to our smallish town to take advantage of the wonderful schools here. Rather than go over to Arlington or Fort Worth or other larger nearby cities to take in the long parades taking place there, the families in this neighborhood arrange a July 4 parade of their own each year....

The decisive trial of British nationalist activist and citizen journalist Tommy Robinson will be in its final day Friday.... The killing of Vincent Lambert continues in France.... Iran has summoned the British ambassador after British marines seized an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar.... The United Nations estimates 53 killed and 130 wounded in the air attack on a migrant detention center near the Libyan capital of Tripoli Tuesday. From Yemen's civil war the Houthi side attacked southern Saudi Arabia late Thursday... The United Nations reporting that Venezuela uses death squads and instills fear in its population through...

The Declaration of Independence was written to be many things: a summary of our grievances with the King, an explanation of why we were taking up arms, an inspiration to our own citizenry, an introduction to foreign nations, a philosophical statement of what we Americans believe to be the proper relationship between a people and their government, a commitment to the Glorious Cause of liberty. And it closed with a powerful commitment – not only on behalf of the nation as a whole, but a firm commitment by the individual signers themselves. The final clause, right before the delegates’ signatures,...

And you have all been missing it because the MSM does not want you to know it. There has been great live entertainment. Fireworks begin soon. Here is the only place I can find it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03K5VZj0NNk Back up latter to see all that you missed after the live show is over.

The United States was a mere 28 years old by the time Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery were working their way up the Missouri River. In 1804, the men were nearing present-day Doniphan, Kansas. They spotted a stream on the Kansas side of the river, and as Clark writes: “as this Creek has no name, and this day is the 4th of July, we name this Independence us. [U.S.] Creek.” That night, they camped at a spot which Clark called “one of the most butifull [beautiful] Plains, I ever Saw.” They would dub the area “Joe...

OPINION: BY JEFFREY A. FRIEDBERG THE 2020 CROP OF “MODERN, DEMOCRAT, SOCIALIST ‘HOPEFULS,’” SEEMS TO BE OFFERING AS MUCH FREE STUFF AS THEY CAN THINK UP. It’s bribes. Inducements. Attractants. It’s to rope in the inattentively committed. The “socialists,” liberals, progressives, and other social warriors. It’s to buy votes. The height of this apparent insanity is that ALL of them even propose “free healthcare” for all illegals. I mean—WHO is their Target Audience? WHO do they hope to win over? To achieve free healthcare, alone, they will have to: 1.) take away private healthcare from those already insured and give...

The 50 yr-old rabid anti-Israel Irish lawyer/activist who was jailed for 6 months after a drunken, racist incident onboard an Air India flight to London has been found dead on an English beach. A disgraced anti-Israel activist from Britain who was jailed for staging a rowdy and racist scene aboard an airplane was found dead in what police are treating as a suicide. The lifeless body of Simone Burns, 50, also known as Simone O’Broin, was found last month on a beach, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday. Sussex Police confirmed her death “is not being treated as suspicious” and next of kin have been...

MAGA: America's greatness begins spiritually with her surrender and reliance on Divine Providence and the gospel of the grace of Christ. America has that light of the gospel of the grace of Christ and God wants to use her to send that light around the world in these last days. America's greatness is perpetuated politically, legally, and socially by her inspired Free Constitutional Republic. Freedom: Freedom and liberty is seldom talked about these days. "Equality" and "fairness" is more the mode-o-day. But as Milton Friedman said, "A society that puts 'fairness' and 'equity' ahead of freedom will have neither. A...

One month after Donald Trump took his oath of office, Rep. Justin Amash (R–Mich.) pinned at the top of his very active Twitter feed George Washington's famous farewell address warning against "the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally." This morning, not seven weeks after breaking ranks with this party in calling for impeachment proceedings against the president, Amash announced in a Washington Post op-ed that he's leaving the GOP and declaring himself an independent. "Today, I am declaring my independence and leaving the Republican Party," the five-term congressman wrote. "No matter your circumstance, I'm asking you to join...

'in my opinion everyone should know the faces of those charged with rape, especially if they're in the community as cab drivers, running chicken shops etc. Men have been able to go on (raping) for years even after they're arrested" Tommy Robinson Testifies At His Trial In London July 4, 2019 The first day of what is expected to be a decisive two day trial began in London today (July 4th) for Tommy Robinson accused of contempt for live streaming outside a child sex abuse gang trial involving Muslim defendants. The case being brought by Prime Minister Theresa May's Attorney...