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- Spectacular Christmas Show THE LETTERMEN LIVE!
- Diabetes Self-Management
- West Wing Reads
- Wicomico County Censes 2020
- BOOM! Ukrainian Whistleblower Blows Up Schiff’s Lies – Says Obama Admin Pressured Ukraine All of the Time!
- Jeffrey Epstein's Brother Says There Were "Unexplained" Injuries On Shoulder, Wrist
- Tulsi Gabbard hijacks The View segment to confront Joy Behar over 'useful idiot' comment
- No Words......Just Speechless
- Liberal Tucson votes overwhelmingly against becoming official sanctuary city
- BREAKING: Bloomberg taking steps to enter 2020 Democratic presidential race
- Democrats' 'Star Witness' Admits He Wasn't On Trump-Ukraine Call, Sole Source Was NY Times
- 'It must suck to be that dumb': Louisiana Sen. Kennedy savages Nancy Pelosi
- House Republicans will attempt to subpoena whistleblower for public testimony
- The Democratic plan for a 42% national sales tax
- “It’s Going to Be Devastating. It’s Going to Ruin Careers” – Joe diGenova: IG Report Delayed Due to Durham Grand Jury – Several Obama DOJ Officials Will Be Indicted
- ABC News Execs Have Identified Former Employee Who Leaked Hot-Mic Footage
- Bill Taylor Cites NYT as Sole Source for His Claim Trump Wanted Ukraine to Launch Probe
- The New Whistleblower is a PARTISAN HACK
- Gabbard Defends Fox Appearances: ‘I Am Here to Speak to Every Single American’
- Why a Coffee Power Nap Works
- The Party of Projection
- 1600 Daily
- Obama-appointed judge strikes down HHS rule protecting medical providers objecting to abortion
- Ukraine Unaware of U.S. Hold on Aid During July 25 Call, Quid Pro Quo Impossible
- Your DNA Profile is Private? A Florida Judge Says Otherwise
- Unwavering: Nothing sways Trump voters
- Whistleblower attorney tweeted of Trump 'coup,' rebellion
- The Globe Property Sold; Restaurant To Close At Month’s End
- Fox is only cable network to cover ABC News squashing Epstein story on-air
- Three Cheers for Refugee Reduction
- 'They will uphold our Constitution'
- Another Kavanaugh accuser admits to fabricating rape story
- Virginia Election Plagued with Ballot Irregularities, Some Voters Turned Away
- What's Really Wrong With American Public Schools?
- Conservatives Are Happier, More Generous Than Liberals
- Sheriff Who Frees Illegal Alien Convicted of Child Sex Crimes Says Enforcing Immigration Law Not Part of His Duties
- Political Memes
- Thursday Morning Funnies
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| Posted: 07 Nov 2019 07:00 PM PST As The Gateway Pundit first reported in December 2018, Andrii Telizhenko, an official at the Ukrainian Embassy, was approached by DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa in early 2016. Alexandra Chalupa wanted dirt on candidate Trump and his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC worked CLOSELY with the DNC operative Chalupa. Chalupa told Andrii she wanted Russian "dirt" on the Trump campaign. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Jeffrey Epstein's Brother Says There Were "Unexplained" Injuries On Shoulder, Wrist Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:30 PM PST The brother of dead disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein said he had unusual injuries on his wrists and shoulders. Mark Epstein, 65, said there were two contusions on both of Jeffrey's wrists, an injury to his left forearm, and muscle hemorrhaging of his left shoulder or deltoid. "Those are unexplained. Was he handcuffed and struggled? Was someone holding his wrists? The marks on his wrist are unexplained," he told Fox News.His comments about his brother's death in August—which the New York City Medical Examiner's Office said was due to suicide by hanging—come after famed pathologist Dr. Michael Baden said there were questions about Epstein's neck injury. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tulsi Gabbard hijacks The View segment to confront Joy Behar over 'useful idiot' comment Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:00 PM PST Rep. Tulsi Gabbard went on The View to talk about her 2020 presidential run and ended up spending her time on the show attacking host Joy Behar for calling her a "useful idiot." Host Whoopi Goldberg tried to ask the Hawaii Democrat about impeachment on the Wednesday show before she cut off the host and trained her fire on Behar. "Some of you have accused me of being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse, or a useful idiot," Gabbard, who was sitting next to Behar, said. Behar started to protest that she did not call her a "Russian asset" but admitted the congresswoman was a "useful" idiot for the Russians. "I am a patriot. I love our country. I am a strong and intelligent woman of color, and I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, the security, and the freedom of all Americans in this country," Gabbard said as the crowd applauded. More/Video  | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Liberal Tucson votes overwhelmingly against becoming official sanctuary city Posted: 07 Nov 2019 05:00 PM PST A ballot measure that would have made Tucson the first sanctuary city in Arizona was overwhelming rejected by voters in the heavily Democratic city. The measure to make the city an official sanctuary city was rejected by 71% of voters, according to unofficial election results released by the city late Tuesday. Democrats designated Tucson an "immigrant welcoming city" in 2012, and the police department limited when officers could ask people about their immigration status. The move came after Arizona passed a law that required local police to check the immigration status of people they believed to be in the United States illegally. "The city of Tucson, in all respects except being labeled as such, operates as a sanctuary city," Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, a Democrat, told the Associated Press. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| BREAKING: Bloomberg taking steps to enter 2020 Democratic presidential race Posted: 07 Nov 2019 04:30 PM PST Washington — Michael Bloomberg is taking steps to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, a person familiar with his plans tells CBS News. Bloomberg, 77, has dispatched aides to Alabama to file paperwork in the state to run as a Democrat. The Cotton State doesn't hold an early Democratic presidential primary, but has the earliest filing deadline for the presidential campaign. Taking steps to file paperwork is the most serious signal yet that the former New York mayor and billionaire is seriously planning for a White House run. The New York Times first reported Bloomberg's plans to file to run in Alabama. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Democrats' 'Star Witness' Admits He Wasn't On Trump-Ukraine Call, Sole Source Was NY Times Posted: 07 Nov 2019 04:00 PM PST House Democrats have released the latest in the series of heavily-redacted transcripts of the secret hearings they had undertaken in recent weeks - that of Bill Taylor - the top US diplomat in Ukraine - ahead of his public testimony next week. As The Hill notes, Taylor is viewed as a key witness who previously testified in meticulous detail about what he considered an effort by Trump and his allies to pressure Ukraine into opening investigations that would benefit Trump politically. In leaked copies of his 15-page opening statement, Taylor voiced concerns that the Trump administration had withheld nearly $400 million in aid as leverage to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open investigations into interference in the 2016 election and former Vice President Joe Biden, one of his leading 2020 political rivals. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| 'It must suck to be that dumb': Louisiana Sen. Kennedy savages Nancy Pelosi Posted: 07 Nov 2019 03:30 PM PST Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy bashed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during President Trump's rally in Louisiana on Wednesday night. Kennedy touted Trump's economy and criticized Pelosi's effort to impeach him. "In three short years, President Trump has doubled the growth in the greatest economy in all of human history. And do you know what our Democratic friends have done for him?" Kennedy asked. "Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to impeach him." While the crowd booed, Kennedy bashed the impeachment effort as "dumb." More/Video  | |||||||||||||||||||
| House Republicans will attempt to subpoena whistleblower for public testimony Posted: 07 Nov 2019 03:00 PM PST Republicans intend to subpoena the whistleblower at the center of the impeachment effort against President Trump. Rep. Jim Jordan said that Republicans will attempt to get the whistleblower to testify before Congress in a public hearing. It is unlikely that the whistleblower will testify as Democrats control the House and have veto power over subpoena requests for witness testimony. Several House Republicans have called on the whistleblower to testify as part of the investigations into Trump's relationship with Ukraine and his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The whistleblower complaint alleges that Trump may have improperly pressured Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter's ties to a Ukrainian energy company. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Democratic plan for a 42% national sales tax Posted: 07 Nov 2019 02:30 PM PST If you're a Democrat who supports "Medicare for All," pick your poison. You can ruin your political career and immolate your party by imposing a ruinous new sales tax, a gargantuan income tax hike or a surtax on corporate income that would wreck thousands of businesses. This is the cost of bold plans. Supporters of Medicare for All, the huge, single-payer government health plan backed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and several other Democratic presidential candidates, say it's time to think big and move to a health plan that covers everyone. Getting there is a bit tricky, however. A variety of analyses estimate that Medicare for All would require at least $3 trillion in new spending. That's about as much tax revenue as the government brings in now. So if paid for through new taxes, federal taxation would have to roughly double. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 07 Nov 2019 02:00 PM PST Attorneys and partners Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova joined Lou Dobbs on Wednesday night to discuss the latest delay to the release of the much anticipated Inspector General report on FISA abuse. Joe diGenova told Lou Dobbs that the report was delayed this time because of Prosecutor John Durham's Grand Jury. diGenova says we will see several indictments and lives ruined after the Horowitz report is released. More/Video  | |||||||||||||||||||
| ABC News Execs Have Identified Former Employee Who Leaked Hot-Mic Footage Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:30 PM PST ABC News executives believe they know the identity of the former employee who accessed footage of anchor Amy Robach expressing frustration that her story about convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had been shelved. Two sources with knowledge of the situation tell me that ABC News executives know who the former employee is but don't know if that person leaked the footage to Project Veritas, the right-wing activist group, or if they shared it with others who leaked the footage. In a statement, a spokesperson for ABC News told me, "We take violations of company policy very seriously, and we're pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak." More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bill Taylor Cites NYT as Sole Source for His Claim Trump Wanted Ukraine to Launch Probe Posted: 07 Nov 2019 12:30 PM PST U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor, during his deposition last month, identified the New York Times as the sole source of his claim that President Donald Trump wanted Ukraine to help him get dirt on Joe Biden, transcripts released Wednesday show. Taylor suggested that Trump wanted Ukraine to launch investigations into corruption allegations against the former vice president and his son Hunter and potential U.S. election interference only to get information on his political rival Joe Biden. The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Taylor, revealed that the Times was the only source for his reasoning. Besides a New York Times article, "I have no other information from what the [U.S.] president was thinking," he declared under questioning by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) during his October 22 deposition, given behind closed doors. The transcripts of his testimony described the Zeldin-Taylor exchange as follows:  | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Gabbard Defends Fox Appearances: ‘I Am Here to Speak to Every Single American’ Posted: 07 Nov 2019 11:30 AM PST On Wednesday's broadcast of ABC's "The View," 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) defended her Fox News appearances. Co-host Joy Behar said, "You're on state TV all the time. Why do you go on the Fox channel? It's a propaganda network — 16 times with Tucker Carlson. I never see you with Chris Wallace or that other guy. What's his name? Bret Baier. They are middle of the road. Why do you go on with Tucker, who is a liar and a propagandist?" More here  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 07 Nov 2019 11:00 AM PST You're tired, but you don't have time to really sleep. Rather than taking a power nap or grabbing a cup of coffee, try taking a coffee power nap. Here's what a coffee power nap is and why it actually leaves you feeling more refreshed and awake than either a power nap or a cup of coffee or even a nap followed by coffee. What Is a Coffee Power Nap? You know what coffee is, but it might be helpful to review the power nap concept. A power nap is a short nap (15-20 minutes) that takes you into stage 2 sleep. It's just long enough to stave off some of the worst effects of sleep deprivation or exhaustion, but not so long that it drags you into slow wave sleep (SLS) or deep sleep, which would leave you feeling groggy if you ended it too soon (sleep inertia). Research has shown that even a 6-10 minute nap helps improve concentration, alertness, motor performance, and learning, while a 30 minute nap confers the benefits of a full sleep cycle, markedly reducing fatigue and reversing much of the physiological damage of sleep deprivation. A coffee power nap or caffeine power nap is when you drink coffee or a caffeinated beverage right before settling down for your nap. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Posted: 07 Nov 2019 10:00 AM PST  JUST CONFIRMED: 158 judges and counting ⚖✓As of this afternoon, President Donald J. Trump has appointed—and gotten confirmed—158 life-tenured federal judges who will defend our Constitution, personal freedoms, and the rule of law. A few of the highlights:
 President Trump: More than 150 federal judges—and counting!Once elected, this President wasted no time fulfilling his pledge to nominate judges who put impartiality and independence above activism from the bench. On day one, the Trump Administration went to work with the Senate to fill crucial vacancies. Fast forward to now, and the result is nothing less than a historic transformation of the judiciary. The American Founding was built on the idea of separation of powers, President Trump said today. "This system was designed to protect citizens against the unjust concentration of governmental power . . . [but] when judges assume the role of a legislature, the rights of all citizens are threatened." What that means today: "The impartial and objective judge, who is a faithful servant of the law, is essential to the survival of American liberty." In just three years, President Trump has nominated and had confirmed two Supreme Court justices, 44 Circuit Court judges, and 112 District Court judges. Today, that historic pace is only accelerating: The President is set to have more judges confirmed this year alone than in all of 2017 and 2018 combined. The average age of these new circuit judges is less than 50 years old—a full 10 years younger than the average age of former President Obama's circuit nominees. That fact is important. President Trump understands that appointing good, fair judges is one of the most important legacies a President can leave. And thanks to the extraordinary number of young, talented judges he's selected, that legacy is likely to last for decades to come. Even more important than how long judges serve, of course, is what they do once they get on the bench. President Trump has always nominated judges who have a proven track record of standing up for the rule of law as written, not as imagined. This quote from President Trump's speech today may be the most important:
His promise: "I will do everything in my power to halt judicial activism, and to ensure the law is upheld equally, fairly, and without political prejudice for all of our citizens." Ted Cruz: "Trump has achieved historic impact with THIS action." Watch and share: The left imposes with judges what it can't at the ballot box.  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Obama-appointed judge strikes down HHS rule protecting medical providers objecting to abortion Posted: 07 Nov 2019 09:45 AM PST A federal judge Wednesday blocked the Trump administration's rule allowing healthcare workers to refuse to provide abortions — and other procedures — that violate their religious beliefs. The administration's rule was set to take effect this July but the Health and Human Services Department delayed the effective date to Nov. 22 after the "conscience" rule, which is aimed at protecting religious or moral objections to various medical procedures, was challenged in court by more than a dozen states. More here  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ukraine Unaware of U.S. Hold on Aid During July 25 Call, Quid Pro Quo Impossible Posted: 07 Nov 2019 09:30 AM PST U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor told impeachment investigators last month that Ukraine did not know the U.S. had temporarily frozen aid at the time of the July 25 phone call, making quid pro quo impossible, transcripts released Wednesday revealed. Taylor's October 22 depostion behind closed doors suggests Trump did not threaten to withhold aid during the infamous July 25 call between him and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that ultimately triggered the impeachment inquiry. "July 25th is a week after the hold was put on the security assistance. And [on] July 25th, they had a conversation between the two presidents, where it was not discussed," Taylor declared under questioning from Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX). More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Your DNA Profile is Private? A Florida Judge Says Otherwise Posted: 07 Nov 2019 09:15 AM PST For police officers around the country, the genetic profiles that 20 million people have uploaded to consumer DNA sites represent a tantalizing resource that could be used to solve cases both new and cold. But for years, the vast majority of the data have been off limits to investigators. The two largest sites, Ancestry.com and 23andMe, have long pledged to keep their users' genetic information private, and a smaller one, GEDmatch, severely restricted police access to its records this year. Last week, however, a Florida detective announced at a police convention that he had obtained a warrant to penetrate GEDmatch and search its full database of nearly one million users. Legal experts said that this appeared to be the first time a judge had approved such a warrant, and that the development could have profound implications for genetic privacy. "That's a huge game-changer," said Erin Murphy, a law professor at New York University. "The company made a decision to keep law enforcement out, and that's been overridden by a court. It's a signal that no genetic information can be safe." DNA policy experts said the development was likely to encourage other agencies to request similar search warrants from 23andMe, which has 10 million users, and Ancestry.com, which has 15 million. If that comes to pass, the Florida judge's decision will affect not only the users of these sites but huge swaths of the population, including those who have never taken a DNA test. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Unwavering: Nothing sways Trump voters Posted: 07 Nov 2019 09:00 AM PST A surprise demographic emerged in the 2016 election, and that was the 65 million people who marched to the polls and voted for President Trump, to the surprise of many flabbergasted analysts and pollsters. Like flyover country, this demographic had been overlooked and underestimated at the time. But more importantly, they have not gone way, and neither has their enthusiasm. "Trump supporters won't be swayed — by anything," declares a fact-based story by New York Post analyst Bob Fredericks. "Sixty-two percent of people who approve of the job President Trump is doing say that there would be nothing the commander in chief could do to shake their support, according to a Monmouth University poll out Tuesday," writes Mr. Fredericks. More here  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Whistleblower attorney tweeted of Trump 'coup,' rebellion Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:30 AM PST The attorney representing the Ukraine whistleblower tweeted about starting a "coup" against President Trump that would end with his impeachment almost as soon as he took the oath of office. Mark S. Zaid wrote on his certified Twitter account on Jan. 30, 2017, Mr. Trump's 11th day in power, that "#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow ultimately. #lawyers." According to a report on Fox News, Mr. Zaid also repeatedly crowed about how "we" and the media will force Mr. Trump from office. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Globe Property Sold; Restaurant To Close At Month’s End Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:00 AM PST BERLIN – After 13 years in Berlin, The Globe will close its doors at the end of the month. The Globe owner Jennifer Dawicki told employees Tuesday that the business would be closing its doors Nov. 30. Dawicki's announcement came just as Burley Oak Brewery Company owner Bryan Brushmiller purchased the property from C&E Patton Family LLC. "I have served the community, my staff, the public for 13 years," Dawicki said. "It's been mostly joyous and somewhat challenging but it's time for me to transition." Though rumors regarding the future of the building and the business have been circulating through town in recent weeks, Brushmiller's purchase of the property wasn't official until Tuesday. He said he was approached earlier this fall by the property owner. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fox is only cable network to cover ABC News squashing Epstein story on-air Posted: 07 Nov 2019 07:30 AM PST Fox News has been the only cable news outlet to cover the recent revelation that ABC News squashed an interview that anchor Amy Robach conducted with one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers years ago. Project Veritas released a video Tuesday of Robach discussing the information she received years earlier from Virginia Roberts Giuffre on a hot mic. She voiced her frustration about the network's refusal to run her story and claimed that Buckingham Palace had threatened ABC News after finding out that Prince Andrew was implicated in her reporting. She also expressed her belief that Epstein was murdered because of what he knew about "powerful men," despite his death having been ruled a suicide. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Three Cheers for Refugee Reduction Posted: 07 Nov 2019 07:00 AM PST Over the weekend, President Donald Trump approved a new annual refugee cap of 18,000, the lowest since the U.S. program began in 1980. The reduction follows news that America took a pause last month and refused to admit any new refugees. On economic, public safety and national security grounds, this is a very good thing for the 325 million people already in our country. But you wouldn't know it from the grim headlines and hysterical condemnations by globalist zealots and media sympathizers. CNN International led the open borders funeral procession last week, with a report decrying, "No refugees will be resettled in the US in October, leaving hundreds in limbo around the world." U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., hyperventilated that "Donald Trump is trying to destroy the very heart of this nation. I won't let him." Social justice group CARE bemoaned this "dark moment in our nation's history." Human Rights First complained that Trump's proposal is "crippling the United States' status as a global leader in refugee resettlement." Heaven forbid citizens in a sovereign nation have an effective say in who comes here, from where and how many. Is one refugee-less month in America such a catastrophe? Calm down, Chicken Littles. Get some perspective. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| 'They will uphold our Constitution' Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:45 AM PST President Trump said Wednesday he will appoint more than 180 judges by the end of the year, celebrating the historic milestone at a White House event attended by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and fellow Republicans recognized for remaking the federal bench. He's currently confirmed more than 157 judicial nominees and has dozens currently awaiting confirmation for district and circuit court vacancies, saying his nominees "will uphold our Constitution as written." Mr. Trump said the number of judicial confirmations is "a big moment" in the nation's history, mostly crediting Mr. McConnell for processes federal judges at an unprecedented speed to fill out the federal judiciary. "Generations from now, Americans will know Mitch McConnell helped save the Constitutional rule of law in America," Mr. Trump said. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Another Kavanaugh accuser admits to fabricating rape story Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:30 AM PST One of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's accusers admitted this week that she made up her lurid tale of a backseat car rape, saying it "was a tactic" to try to derail the judge's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee revealed the fraud in a letter to the FBI and Justice Department Friday, asking them to prosecute Judy Munro-Leighton for lying to and obstructing Congress. Mr. Grassley said Ms. Munro-Leighton is a left-wing activist who hijacked another "Jane Doe" anonymous report about a backseat rape and claimed it as her own story, calling it a "vicious assault." "I am Jane Doe from Oceanside CA — Kavanaugh raped me," Ms. Munro-Leighton wrote in an Oct. 3 email claiming to have been a victim of the judge. Mr. Grassley's investigators tried to reach her for a month but were unsuccessful until this week, when they spoke to her by phone and she confessed that she was not the original Jane Doe, and "did that as a way to grab attention." "I was angry, and I sent it out," she told investigators. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Virginia Election Plagued with Ballot Irregularities, Some Voters Turned Away Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:15 AM PST Election Day on Tuesday in the Commonwealth of Virginia was filled with ballot problems and some voters were told they could not vote, according to media reports in the state. Local radio station WTOP reported on some of the problems: In Prince William County, several hundreds ballots were misprinted and contained only one side, election officials confirmed to WTOP. Earlier in the day, another problem emerged in Stafford County, where for the second straight Virginia House of Delegates election, some voters there cast ballots in the wrong races Tuesday, state elections officials said. Prince William County confirmed ballot issues at three voting locations Tuesday morning. After getting calls from two listeners who said they had trouble voting in the morning, WTOP got in touch with registrar Michelle White, who confirmed the problem. WTOP talked to one man, the caretaker for a disabled Virginia voter, who said that she and others were turned away. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| What's Really Wrong With American Public Schools? Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:00 AM PST There is no good way to measure the success of a public school unless you measure what dictates the success of any public school. For example, if I worked on the line for a car manufacturer and every fifth car that came off the line had a dent in it, I would be compelled to find out what's going on. I would not check the cars; I would check the system that is producing dents in the cars. In other words, I would stop the line and measure where and when the malfunction occurred. The malfunction in the public school does not begin with the "dent" on the students' report card or state-mandated tests. It begins with the "dent" in the students' home. If you listen to the experts bellow about the reasons high-school students drop out they say it's due to three things: poverty, low attendance, and negative peer influence. On surface, these three things are the perfect scapegoats for poor performance. However, those are only the "dents" that have occurred. Poverty has a name. Low attendance has a name. Negative peer influence even has a name. Poverty's name is laziness. Low attendance's name is indifference. Negative peer influence's name is anger. The umbrella that all three of these names fall under is called fatherlessness. While walking the halls of a local public high school, I spoke with an athlete dragging his feet to class. I exclaimed, "Move like you have somewhere to be!" He looked back grinning and said, "I'm quick! Check my stats on the football field." I said, "Ok, so what's your GPA?" He responded, "I don't know that." I told him, "Those are the stats I'm talking about! If you don't know those stats, what you do on the field don't mean nothin'! He turned and looked at me and I asked him the silver bullet question. "Where's your daddy?" He looked me in my eyes with resentment and said, "I ain't got no Pops." I told him, "I can tell by the way you conduct yourself. You are wandering the hallway aimlessly not realizing you must be two-dimensional (great on and off the field). If you are so quick, then you should have been in class five minutes ago ready to learn." More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Conservatives Are Happier, More Generous Than Liberals Posted: 07 Nov 2019 05:00 AM PST Where are the happiest, most generous people in America to be found? The answer might surprise you! Lefty author and radio personality Garrison Keillor captured the popular view (at least according to Hollywood and the media) of the differences between liberals and conservatives, claiming, "Liberalism is the politics of kindness," standing for "tolerance, magnanimity, community spirit, [and] the defense of the weak against the powerful." Conservatives, Keillor claims on the other hand, are people who "stand for tax cuts, and further tax cuts, annual tax cuts," and then they "use their refund to buy a gun and an attack dog" to keep people away who are not like them. Or, as Obama put it, these are the people who are "bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them." More  | |||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 07 Nov 2019 04:00 AM PST In what appears to be a growing national trend, another elected law enforcement official released an illegal immigrant with a serious criminal conviction—in this case child sex offenses—rather than turn him over to federal authorities for removal. Sanctuary policies ban local law enforcement from honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers placed on illegal aliens who have been arrested on local criminal charges. If the detainer is honored ICE takes custody and deports the criminal rather than release him or her back into the community. When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and free serious criminal offenders, it undermines the federal government's duty to protect public safety. This latest case comes out of Buncombe County, North Carolina where the recently elected sheriff, a Democrat, issued a policy earlier this year refusing to cooperate with ICE when it comes to inmates at his 608-bed jail who are in the country illegally. At the time the sheriff, Quentin Miller, proclaimed that enforcing immigration laws is not part of his agency's duties. Miller also said that "it is vital that members of our immigrant community can call the sheriff's office without fear when they are in need of assistance from law enforcement." Hiding behind that popular open borders rhetoric, the sheriff recently discharged a child sex offender to keep with his county's sanctuary policy of protecting illegal aliens, even those with atrocious criminal records. The illegal immigrant from El Salvador, Marvin Ramirez Torres, has been on ICE's radar since 2017 when he got arrested and charged with four felony counts of statutory sex offense with a child. At the time Torres was 23 and his victim was an 11-year-old girl, according to a local newspaper report that also states Torres must register a sex offender for 30 years. The illegal alien was convicted in North Carolina Superior Court for Buncombe County and was sentenced to less than two years in prison. Last week he was freed into the community because the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office refused to honor the federal detainer. More  | |||||||||||||||||||
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