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Ginger Rogers was born on this date 112 years ago in Independence, Missouri. She captivated the world dancing with Fred Astaire. She said: "My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months." and "Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time." God Bless Ginger.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the state's Hunter and Upper Hunter regions will be placed into lockdown from 5:00 pm today. The affected local government areas are Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Dungog, Singleton and Muswellbrook. Ms. Berejiklian said the lockdown was expected to continue until midnight on August 12...

China's military "drove away" a US warship that illegally entered Chinese waters near the Paracel Islands on Monday, the country's armed forces said. "We urge the United States to immediately stop such provocative actions," the People's Liberation Army Southern Theatre Command said in a statement.

Biden’s calls to overturn the PLCAA would be a way to sue firearms makers into bankruptcy. “He wants to drive us out of business,” Mark Oliva, the director of public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry trade group, told NBC News. “So it’s a very scary proposition, and we take it very seriously.”

A restaurant in California, that refused to allow one of its employees to wear a Black Lives Matter mask during working hours, is now receiving death threats. The Girl and the Fig in Sonoma, California, was forced to close after receiving a barrage of death threats after a former waitress, Kimi Stout, complained about being refused a request to wear a BLM mask.

Decision to hold 'old-style .22 match' leads to an adventure in restoring legendary Stevens single-shot. Among the guys I shoot with, there is an increasing interest in old or old-style .22 rifles. The guns we like the most are the old single-shots, such as those made by Stevens, Remington and several other makers. One friend of mine said he thought that the popularity of shooting .22s would rise in the near future, and our feelings and interests certainly follow what that friend had predicted. The reason .22s are being focused on in this black powder column is simple: most .22...

Story Is Developing | Whoopi Goldberg confronted on The View just a few minutes ago. Laura Loomer protégé Harry Cherry questioned Whoopi Goldberg today live. Whoopi Goldberg was Loomered on set during a live taping by Conservative journalist Harry Cherry. He asked her why she is still in the United States after she promised to move overseas if Donald Trump became president. (Video at Link)

The entire British cabinet of the Conservative Party government meets the Prime Minister's country home Checkers Friday to find a common approach to Brexit negotiations with the European Union. British Prime Minister Theresa May flew to Berlin Thursday to get the blessing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her 'third way' plan to handle goods at customs in the UK after Brexit is supposed to occur in March of next year. The Brexit Minister in her cabinet has written a letter saying the customs plan is unworkable and Brexit supporters see it as a betrayal of the voters who approved...

As the media seeks to keep a story alive, with the help of Republican establishment figures, and the likes of Mark Levin, the odds of a “Brokered Convention” are evaporating as more analysts show Trump is on track to get 1310 delegates, making him the nominee, regardless of who is on the second ballot. Even if Trump fails to hit 1237, his team and John Kasichs are now blocking Ted Cruz, and other groups are destroying any chance of a brokered convention. Ohio Gov. John Kasich got fewer votes than Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the state’s presidential primary last...

We've long lived with revisionist history. Progressives have made the founders into racists, many of them into atheists, but there has to be a way to track this down, right? It actually comes from Germany. Once again, we see how the roots of progressivism comes from "Germanic ideals" or "Prussianism".(some of the ways it used to be phrased in the early 20th century - see my archives for previous discussion on this) And revisionist history is yet another tendril of this tree root. Marxists.org has the actual article where it first entered into the English language, but I can't blame...

How many terror attacks or attempted terror attacks have occurred on U.S. soil since 9/11? Five? Six? Ten? According to our government each and every one of these attacks, whether failed or not, have had one thing in common: "they are not part of a conspiracy." Clearly, however, our officials are lying to us on this count. Just to name a few of these incidents, in no certain order we've had Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber; Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber; Richard Reid, the shoe bomber; Michael Finton (calling himself Talib Islam), the creep in Illinois that wanted...

More and more as we get closer to the end, people want to see a time line of coming events. Questions about the order in which events will take place, the span of time between them and the likelihood of there being enough time for everything to happen in the time we have left are becoming more numerous with each passing week. As you know the Bible doesn’t provide this level of specificity. But neither are we left to make unfounded predictions. There are a number of clues scattered throughout the New Testament that take much of the guess work...

A couple of weeks back, when the hottest topic of discussion on most forums was the "birther" movement, I ran across a nifty little article on The Wall Street Journal Online. It used the topic of so-called "birthers" to introduce the left-leaning interest of "anti-birthers". Not in relation to the eligibility of Barack Obama to serve as President, but in relation to overpopulation. It was quoting an article from a couple of statistics professors at Oregon State University, pontificating from their lofty self-annointed perch, about the dangers to the environment from population growth. Just like the 1960's and early 1970's,...