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I've been told I need to give a "barf alert" if I have pics of AOC. "Here are some “re-captioned” pics from the last few weeks that I’m pretty didn’t get uploaded. Share with your friends, use to emphasize a point online, or in email. If you want on or off my irregular ping list, please FRmail me.

(snip) Reality testing is essential to good judgment and effectiveness in life. It means dealing with the world as it is, not as you want it to be, nor as you fear it to be. No socialism, no global warming, no free lunch. Good judgment requires facing things as they are. Democrats lack it almost entirely. President Trump has it in excess. Reality testing is a rare gift. It is called common sense, but it is not common. This is why President Trump has managed to accomplish so much that was deemed impossible in the two difficult areas of the...

If they’re trying to look silly then they’re killing it. CNN refuses to acknowledge any of the great work President Trump has done for the country simply because they don’t like him as a person. It’s abhorrent. Check out their latest attempt at getting Republicans to “admit” that President Trump is a stone-cold racist.

I came across an old photo while digging into the history of the Apollo 11 astronauts, which oddly enough dates back to 1916. Lt. James Lawton Collins served as an aide to Gen. John J. Pershing during the Philippine-American War and the Punitive Expedition into Mexico just before World War I. Lt. Collins would go on to serve in both World Wars, ultimately becoming a major general. Collins served in the 8th Cavalry Regiment, and this was back when troopers still rode into battle on horses. Apart from when they began carrying firearms in the 18th Century, cavalry hasn’t changed...

Funny, but cafeteria Catholic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t invoke her Christian conscience when she supports her caucus’ abortion-until-birth infanticide policy, the ultimate separation of mother from child. There is no worse brutality than what an unborn child feels at the hands of a surgeon’s scalpel. A detention center on the border or the deportation of those who have had their due process and have a deportation order lawfully issued by a judge doesn’t even come close. Yet here is Speaker Pelosi daring to ask the faith and evangelical communities to put pressure on President Trump to do the Christian...

"Keean Bexte of TheRebel.media reports: I was back in Washington, DC today, and figured I’d try once again to get Democratic Congresswoman to answer my questions. .................. If you have not seen this short (3 min) video do it now. Amazing and powerful. To the point and x-ray revealing. At Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwL-TCkA5n4

With ‘Woke’ Identity Politics Is there anything they won’t spoil? s there literally anything left that they won’t try to ruin by injecting ‘woke’ identity politics into it? The 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to set foot on the Moon is this weekend. Instead of using the celebration of the Apollo Moon landing to bring Americans together in a time of intense partisan bickering, the New York Times and the Washington Post are exploiting it to divide Americans even further. “The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. If we do not acknowledge the gender...

VIDEO An amazingly quick transformation. You can see in the July 13 video of Beto O'Rourke and his campaign team traveling in New Hampshire that his hair is now gray. This video also compares his current gray hair to the brown hair he had as recently as just two months ago in May during his barbershop live stream in El Paso.

Well, this didn’t go like CNN planned! CNN got a panel of women together in Dallas and asked them leading questions about President Trump’s recent tweets telling Democrats who despise America to go live somewhere else. CNN reporter Randi Kaye used the word “racist” repeatedly in her questions. However, not a single one of the women thinks the tweets were racist!........

... Nevertheless, in a time when academic resources are stretched thin and many traditional academic departments are facing retrenchment, it is reasonable to ask whether the continued expansion of [grievance studies] departments is justified. Is there something beyond their inherent academic value that is driving the growth of cultural studies programs at the expense of other departments and, perhaps, the overall health of the university? The answer is yes. It is the contemporary university’s quest for a diverse faculty. Almost all elite universities make it a top priority to increase the number of minorities and women on their faculty. Yale...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said they would be willing to meet face to face with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to work out differences in an interview with 'CBS This Morning' host Gayle King.... "She has every right to sit down with her in any moment, in any time, with any of us. She is speaker of the House. She can ask for a meeting to sit down with us for clarification," she (Rashida Tlaib) said. "Acknowledge the fact that we are women of color, so when you do single us out, be aware...

From Plinking for the Pot to tending the Trapline to Protecting against Cabin Raiders – Four & Two Footed Alike – Here’s the Arsenal One Man Recommends This article is for those who live in the bush. Those who go on a guided hunt may find other guns satisfactory for their purposes, but a bush dweller's life may depend on his guns being called on to meet every contingency, not just those of a guided hunt. Most bush dwellers have only a few guns and since these must both provide food and protection, this is no place to scrimp on...

Good morning, Free Republic. Today I'm giving you all a nice little guide on how to really annoy the governm- I mean, exercise your 2A right to build an unregistered Glock handgun at home, using basic hand tools. States like Washington have recently banned certain homemade firearms and gun-making kits like the 80% Glock frame, and 3D-printed firearms. We discussed the bill a few weeks ago, but to recap: Bill SHB 1739 effectively bans "undetectable" firearms: "Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, own, buy, sell, loan, furnish, transport, or have in...

...Mitch McConnell held a brief press conference Tuesday afternoon and addressed President Trump's controversial tweets telling progressive Congresswomen to "go home." McConnell opened the media availability with a statement and then took questions, including one about his immigrant wife and current Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao from CNN's Manu Raju. "The president is not a racist, and I think the tone of all of this is not good for the country, but it's coming from all different ideological points of view," McConnell told reporters. "We've seen the far-left throw accusations of racism at everyone, anyone who disagrees with them on...

Did you catch any of the chaos in the House chambers yesterday as the Dems moved to condemn President Trump’s tweets? Pelosi was banned from speaking for the day for breaking House rules, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver dropped the gavel.He issued the following statement, which reads in part: “I want to thank Leader Hoyer for assuming the chair and reading the parliamentarian’s ruling following my abdication. Like the vast majority of Americans, I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with the childish rancor of our public discourse. Our inability to conduct ourselves in a civil and respectable fashion has paralyzed the most powerful government...

The United States imposing sanctions on four top generals from the country of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Those generals and their families banned from entering the USA because of the conflict in the predominately Buddhist country with the Rohingya Muslims. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blaming the generals for what are considered harsh policies against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country. The Myanmar government views the conflict a a fight with Islamic terrorism. A "partial preliminary injunction" from a federal judge against ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond in Oregon Tuesday.... The US House voting 240-187 to condemn President Trump for...

The Trump campaign has unveiled its 2020 campaign strategy of airing unedited footage of speeches and press conferences by far-left Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and that other one.

on Meacham is, as Wikipedia writes, “a well-respected, Pulitzer Prize-winning, and New York Times bestselling presidential historian and journalist.” So he should know about the triumphs and disasters of American presidents through history, right? Well, you’d think so. But then he came out with this comment about President Trump: Historian Jon Meacham on Pres. Trump's tweets regarding congresswomen of color: "He has joined Andrew Johnson as the most racist President in American history." https:// on.msnbc.com/2jJoWQl

We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!" the President said during a Twitter thread. "It is your choice, and your choice alone. This is about love for America. Certain people HATE our Country." "They are anti-Israel, pro Al-Qaeda, and comment on the 9/11 attack, “some people did something.” Radical Left Democrats want Open Borders, which means drugs, crime, human trafficking, and much more," he continued.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to a key appellate court could be in jeopardy over Republican concerns about his judicial record and potential issues with his FBI background check. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing Wednesday for Halil Suleyman “Sul” Ozerden, a close friend of White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. But his ability to get through the Senate is already in question. Republican senators are receiving individual briefings from judiciary staff about his FBI background investigation, which typically occurs when there's a potential problem with the nominee, according to...