Posts on Thursday, November 28, 2019
Hilary Watson, the wife of eight-time major champion Tom Watson, has died after battling pancreatic cancer. She was 63.
Tom Watson’s agent, Barry Hyde, confirmed that Hilary Watson died Wednesday night. Hilary Watson was diagnosed in 2017 and received chemotherapy and radiation treatments. She also underwent surgery to remove a tumor, according to The Kansas City Star. Tom Watson, a five-time British Open champion, played in his final Senior British Open in July at Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s. “I’ve run across so many fine people who have helped me and supported me," he said at the time. "First of
CONCORD — A federal judge has denied a motion to stop a new residency law from being implemented before the New Hampshire primary. The law, known as HB 1264, was passed in 2018. It slightly changed the definition of “residency” in one section of New Hampshire law to eliminate the requirement that a person plan to live in New Hampshire “for the indefinite future” to be considered a resident. (Snip). The ACLU argued the law was unconstitutional because it will make voting more burdensome for students and new residents.
Waterstones has announced teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as its Author of the Year 2019 for her book, No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference.
The Swedish 16-year-old has become a household name in 2019 thanks to her impassioned speeches at the UN and her cross-Atlantic voyage to reduce her carbon footprint.
Booksellers in Waterstones across the UK voted for the titles they loved this year. Along with Thunberg’s win, Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been announced as Waterstones’ Book of the Year 2019.
MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch called 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) "unlikable" on Wednesday's edition of "Morning Joe" before being accused of being "problematic" by fellow panelist Karine Jean-Pierre for only applying such a characterization to female candidates. "You can’t tell 160 million people you’re going to take something away that they already have," Deutsch, a marketing and branding expert and MSNBC contributor, said when discussing Warren's "Medicare for All" health care plan. "And I also think the electability thing. I’ve said this all along. I've taken some heat. I do not think she is electable." "I think she
Terrorists who planned to blow up Melbourne's Federation Square in a Christmas Day massacre have been jailed.
Ahmed Mohamed, Abdullah Chaarani and Hamza Abbas were found guilty of terror charges for plotting attacks through the central city in 2016.
They were planning to detonate bombs and behead people.
The trio were seen smirking as they made their way into the Supreme Court of Victoria for sentencing on Friday. Mohamed and Chaarani were sentenced to 28 years behind bars, while Abbas must serve 16 years.
Justice Christopher Beale said the plot was an 'assault on the fundamental values of our society'.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott clapped back at a bullying tweet from a hater who said 'God put you in a wheelchair, Greg.'
The 62-year-old Republican was paralyzed from the waist down in a 1984 accident where an oak tree fell on him as he was out jogging in Houston, leaving him in a wheelchair ever since.
On Sunday Abbott hit back at the Twitter troll saying: 'God didn’t cause the accident that left me paralyzed, but He did help me persevere over that enormous challenge.'
He added that he was able to go from a young man with a back broken in half to the Governor of Texas.
Iran, Russia and China are set to hold their first-ever joint military drills in a show of power to the West. Admiral Hussein Khanzadi revealed yesterday that the three navies would hold military exercises in the northern Indian Ocean in the 'near future'. Design and planning for the drills took place last month and troops are already preparing for the exercise, he said. The joint operation will 'send a message to the world', Khanzadi was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency. Iran's co-operation with Russia and China would ensure 'collective security' in the sea, Khanzadi said, after a summer of maritime tensions in the Middle East.
It’s no mean feat sneaking the most famous man in the world out of Florida and into a war zone some 8,000 miles away.
But the White House went to great lengths to keep President Trump’s first trip to Afghanistan under wraps, even confiscating cellphones and other transmitting devices from pool reporters.
While Trump was at Mar-a-Lago Wednesday night, a small group of Washington reporters were told to meet atop a parking garage and then driven in black vans to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Around the same time, Trump was quietly flying back from Florida, where members of the media had been told he’d be celebrating Thanksgiving at his Mar-a-Lago home.
A Washington Post food critic was heralded by a woman who claimed one of his restaurant reviews exposed her husband’s affair.
During his weekly online Q&A Wednesday, Tom Sietsema shared a response from an unnamed woman who said a photo in one of his reviews showed her husband with another woman.
“Well Tom your latest review is accompanied by a picture of my husband dining with a woman who isn’t me!” the woman wrote.
“Once confronted with photographic evidence, he confessed to having an ongoing affair. Just thought you’d be amused to hear of your part in the drama,” she added. “This Thanksgiving I’m grateful to you for exposing a cheat!”
North Korea fired two projectiles on Thursday, using the start of the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States to telegraph its frustration over Washington's refusal to grant sanctions relief.
The short-range projectiles were launched from Ryonpo on the North's east coast around 5pm local time, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. They added that the projectiles, presumed to have been fired from a super-large multiple rocket launcher, travelled a distance of about 235 miles and reached an altitude of 60 miles. (Snip) The launch continues a more aggressive posture by North Korea over recent months as talks with Washington hit a stalemate.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owes the good people of America a huge public apology. It was the Drama Queen, known as AOC, who openly accused President Donald Trump of “caging” immigrant children—when it was her hero ex-President Barack Obama who caged the kids all the while. AOC not only fell hook line and sinker for the progressive propaganda that the Trump administration held the record for caging immigrant children at the US border, but used it for her own self aggrandizement. Shedding crocodile tears when she showed up at the southern border, the New York congressional freshman has referred to ICE detention facilities as “concentration camps”.
President Trump on Thursday took a surprise trip to Afghanistan to visit U.S. military troops stationed at Bagram Air Field on Thanksgiving.
The trip was kept a secret for security purposes. (Snip) "There's nowhere I'd rather spend Thanksgiving than with the toughest, fiercest warriors," Trump said. "I'm here to say Happy Thanksgiving and thank you very much. As president of the United States, I have no higher honor than serving as commander-in-chief."
He added: "We will continue to work tirelessly for the day when all of you can go home to your families, and that day is coming very soon."
A Texas educator once lauded as her district’s “Teacher of the Year” allegedly performed oral sex on a student in a classroom, authorities said. Randi Chaverria, a 36-year-old family and consumer science teacher at Round Rock High School, was arrested Tuesday after a student told police she had performed oral on him twice in October, according to an affidavit obtained by KVUE. Text messages sent between the student and Chaverria–who was named the Secondary Teacher of the Year by the school district in May–appear to be consistent with the teen’s accusations, investigators said. Parents were notified
In this partisan environment, people were quick to judge President Donald J. Trump’s reinstatement of anchors to my brother, Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher.
Out of the woodwork came former military attorneys, indignant Pentagon officials and your typical Washington establishment types.
Their views were mainly the same. The president’s actions were a moral hazard! What message will it send our troops? What of good order and discipline?
I have one question for these people: Where in the hell were you the past year and a half?
Eddie’s case and court-martial trial revealed a massive cancer within the military justice system, doing irreparable damage to troop morale that may last decades.
Two national Democratic groups have filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, protesting Minnesota ballot designs that will list DFL candidates in the 2020 election below their major-party rivals, including candidates from two pro-legal marijuana groups. (snip) But two new political affiliations— the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party and Legal Marijuana Now Party— won 5% of the vote in statewide races in 2018 and secured "major party" status.
Bloomberg: Taxing the Poor is Good
Because They'll Have Less Money
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Because They'll Have Less Money
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Now that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced his candidacy for president, he is -- of course -- fair game. And yes, that's great for us with a working memory. After all, there have been many times when Bloomberg proved himself to be an extremely arrogant member of the Know-It-All elite. Case in point? Just watch this video in which Bloomberg basically explains that it's a great idea to tax the poor because higher taxes mean they have less money to hurt themselves. Or something. "[Some] say, well, 'taxes are regressive.' But in this case, yes they are, that's the good thing about them," Bloomberg said
"God's used imperfect people all through history. King David wasn't perfect. Saul wasn't perfect. Solomon wasn't perfect," outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in an interview on "Fox & Friends" before going on to claim that he had given the president "a little one-pager on those Old Testament kings about a month ago. (Snip) Perry's statement--especially that "chosen one" bit--would be more surprising in a different administration. At this point, though, it could almost disappear into the background chatter of the administration and its allies. Presidential adviser Paula White, for example, uses the description of a demonic struggle
There is no evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to plant a spy inside President Trump’s campaign in the run-up to the 2016 election, an upcoming Department of Justice report will claim.
The conclusion was reached by DOJ’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, who is leading an internal review of the origins of the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, according to The New York Times.
The Times quoted a source who has seen a draft copy of Horowitz’s report, which is scheduled to be released on December 9.
Secretary of State William Seward wrote it and Abraham Lincoln issued it, but much of the credit for the Thanksgiving Proclamation should probably go to a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale.
A prominent writer and editor, Hale had written the children’s poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” originally known as “Mary’s Lamb,” in 1830 and helped found the American Ladies Magazine, which she used a platform to promote women’s issues.
The New York Times is operating in a pure propaganda mode, attempting to minimize the impact of the forthcoming (Dec. 9) report of the Department of Justice Inspector General, Michael Horowitz. Sundance, of The Conservative Treehouse, calls his article on leaks from the report, “highly structured obfuscation,” doing justice to the careful and artful misleading of readers. Keep in mind in understanding these leaks that principals named in an IG report are afforded an opportunity to comment on sections of the report that mention them prior to publication of the report. They don’t see the entire report, only those sections directly involving them.
Fired Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer is not going away.
In a swiftly executed Washington Post op-ed less than a week after President Trump's defense secretary had him fired, he's now telling everyone how much smarter he is than President Trump and making it clear he never liked the guy anyway.
The case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was charged with multiple war crimes before being convicted of a single lesser charge earlier this year, was troubling enough before things became even more troubling over the past few weeks. The trail of events
The state of New York is likely to free at least 125,000 accused criminals from prison next year and provide many with taxpayer-funded housing and job training services thanks to criminal justice reform laws. As Breitbart News has reported, the state’s series of bail reforms will ensure that suspects accused of crimes deemed “non-violent” are not jailed before their trial dates and do not have to post bail. The list of crimes for which suspects will be freed from prison before trial includes: Second-degree manslaughter Aggravated vehicular assault, Third-degree assault, Promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child....
Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor of the influential Godey’s Lady’s Book magazine, launched a multiyear campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. Her correspondence with Abraham Lincoln is decently well known. But this editorial from her is not available in full elsewhere online, so far as we can tell, outside the original magazine facsimile on Google Books.
So here it is, for your Thanksgiving reading. For more about Hale, read this Federalist article.
Perhaps few of our readers know how old is the celebration of our National Thanksgiving. Washington, in the first year of his administration, in 1789, inaugurated as a day of praise and rejoicing for our whole people the last
President Donald Trump recalled the spirit of unity and gratitude in his Thanksgiving proclamation for 2019.Trump noted the pilgrims spent their first Thanksgiving seated in unity with the Wampanoag Tribe after they helped them survive in the New World.“That first Thanksgiving provided an enduring symbol of gratitude that is uniquely sewn into the fabric of our American spirit,” Trump wrote.The president also recalled America’s first president, George Washington declared a National Day of Thanksgiving after the Revolutionary War and the new Constitution and President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving after the battle of Gettysburg.
Update: Dan Bongino further accused Matt Drudge of abandoning his readers in a tweet linking to this article Wednesday. (Tweet) “Drudge has abandoned you. I NEVER will,” he wrote.Original story: Conservative commentator and Fox News contributor Dan Bongino teased an apparent competitor to the famous Drudge Report in a Twitter post Wednesday.“Tired of Drudge? Get ready, the Bongino Report is almost ready for launch. Coming soon, stay tuned,” he wrote.
A super PAC formed to support Cory Booker’s Democratic presidential campaign is shutting down. The group’s founder, San Francisco lawyer Steve Phillips, indicated in a news release Wednesday that Dream United had struggled to raise money. Booker, a New Jersey senator, has publicly disavowed support from super PACs, which aren't required to disclose their donors publicly. Phillips, a former college classmate of Booker’s, said that it became clear while trying to fundraise for Dream United "that the donor community is strictly adhering to Senator Booker’s publicly articulated wishes that he does not welcome independent support." The group raised a little
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has pulled in a massive fundraising haul in the third quarter of the year, raking in more than both Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Nancy Pelosi — despite their campaigning for funds off the impeachment efforts. The progressive left darling brought in $1.42 million, with $1.1 million of that coming from small donations of $200 or less.Pelosi brought in $1.145 million and Schiff banked $1.26 million. All three of these top fundraisers are running for re-election in 2020
Families will argue this Thanksgiving.Such arguments have a long tradition.The Pilgrims had clashing ideas about how to organize their settlement in the New World. The resolution of that debate made the first Thanksgiving possible.The Pilgrims were religious, united by faith and a powerful desire to start anew, away from religious persecution in the Old World. Each member of the community professed a desire to labor together, on behalf of the whole settlement.In other words: socialism.But when they tried that, the Pilgrims almost starved.
Millions of school children have been taught the revisionist history that the first Thanksgiving was about the Pilgrims giving thanks to their Indian neighbors for saving them from starvation. Around this time each year, a historically accurate account of the first Thanksgiving is told on national radio. A few years ago, I compiled a lightly-edited transcript of that account, which appears below. Please enjoy and share The True Story of the First Thanksgiving, as narrated each November by conservative radio host, Rush Limbaugh, owner and operator of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Following the IG report draft review by the principals within the DOJ/FBI small group under investigation more leaks are submitted to the New York Times in an effort to get out ahead of the scheduled publication of the final report on December 9th.(Snip)
Each principal can provide feedback for inclusion in the report; however, all feedback added to the report generates an IG rebuttal. (Snip) these leaks are the “feedback” and the leakers have no idea what the IG “rebuttal” will be. The more the principals’ obfuscate and justify conduct to the IG in their feedback, the stronger the rebuttal to that feedback will be in the final report.
Gratitude in Dark Times
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For the past few years, the ideological American Left has used the Thanksgiving holiday as an opportunity to lash out and give us the same old and boring rant about how bad America is. An American leftist is generally characterized as someone who cannot help but bring ideology into every aspect of his life.
I hesitate to say that everything is politicized when in fact, what is happening is that everything is ideologized.
There is a great difference between the two things: human life is political by definition and politics can be good and bad, but ideology seeks to disorient and destroy that which is deeply human
Trump and Thanksgiving
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Along with expressing gratitude for personal blessings this Thanksgiving, we should be thankful for the extraordinary faithfulness of President Trump. Despite unprecedented efforts to stop him, Trump has kept his vow to put the best interests of the American people first.
Immediately after Trump was elected, a coup was launched to remove him from office by President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, Obama's weaponized CIA and FBI, along with leftover Obama staffers Trump should have fired. Not only did Obama's weaponized agencies conspire to destroy the president, they jailed and destroyed innocent people for being associated or supportive of him.
In a non-partisan speech to middle school and high school students seeking to protect them from drug use, first lady Melania Trump was booed by the kids, signaling just how bad the leftist school system is in instituting manners.
According to the all-but-drooling New York Times, which blamed the bad behavior on President Trump's past remarks:
WASHINGTON — Melania Trump was booed by a roomful of students in Baltimore on Tuesday when she took the stage to give a speech about youth opioid use, one of the pillars of her “Be Best” initiative.
A vocal crowd of middle school and high school students erupted in a mix of loud boos and
In January 2018 the Oxford English Dictionary added to its normal definition of what has traditionally been a flake of snow, a feathery ice crystal. Now the OED snowflake is an overly sensitive or easily offended person or persons who believe they are entitled to special treatment on account of their supposedly unique characteristics. Life for them comes, or should come, with trigger warnings and safe spaces. Trigger warnings are needed to alert people that a text or image may be disturbing or upsetting. These were proposed at Cambridge University concerning Shakespeare, because of the sexual violence in some of his plays. Those safe
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said House Democrats could impeach President Donald Trump again.
John Berman asked, “Given the fact each day it seems we learn more about what the president knew and when he knew it, are you concerned that this impeachment process is being rushed through before all the facts are known, more stuff may still come out?”
Cohen said, “Well, I think things will come out. Things will come out for as long as he’s president and after he’s president. We will continue to pursue those issues, and we can still have hearings in Intel in Judiciary on actions he
Jamie Lee Curtis’ Thanksgiving Message:
Vote for Women to Transform
Our ‘Misogynist Society’ replies
Vote for Women to Transform
Our ‘Misogynist Society’ replies
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is using the Thanksgiving holiday to remind voters to choose female candidates as way to transform America’s “misogynist society.”
In an editorial for NBC News, the Knives Out star described the United States as a fundamentally sexist country characterized by a pervasive hatred of women.
“Unfortunately, right now, we live in a misogynist society and a lot of men hate women,” Jamie Lee Curtis said. “They just do. I think that seeing a strong woman articulate her points, argue for her position, and even get angry about the disparities she faces — whatever they are — will cause some men to have a problem, even if women won’t
A US ambassador nominated by President Donald Trump who provided key testimony in his impeachment hearings was accused Wednesday of sexual misconduct by three women.
Gordon Sondland, the US envoy to the European Union, denied the allegations, with his lawyer alleging that the accusers were trying to taint his credibility in the inquiry.
The Portland Monthly published named accounts by three women who said that Sondland, a wealthy hotel owner from Seattle, retaliated against them professionally after they rejected him sexually.
One of the women, Jana Solis, said she met Sondland in 2008 when she was seeking work in her position as a safety expert for hotels.
This Thanksgiving will see some 55 million Americans traveling more than 50 miles over the holiday weekend, a 2.9 percent increase from last year and the second highest number of holiday travelers since AAA Travel started tracking in 2000, with the largest number recorded in 2005.
AAA Travel also reported on data from INRIX, a global transportation analytics company, which said the worst time to travel by car is Wednesday afternoon, with trips taking as much as four times longer than normal.
Paula Twidale, vice president of AAA Travel, said in a press release about holiday travel:
Millions of thankful Americans are starting the holiday season off right with a
Before you sit down for your Thanksgiving feast or unwrap this year’s gifts tucked under the Christmas tree, environmentalists want you to know that your holiday traditions are contributing to climate change and hurting the planet.
Media reports on this bad news are popping up everywhere online as Turkey Day arrives, including on the Earth Day Network website under the holiday-themed headline: “Don’t let consumerism consume your holiday” and the subhead “It’s (not) a wonderful life:”
One study published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology showed that individual household consumption — not businesses, government or industries — accounts for more than 60 percent of global
CNN’s pre-Thanksgiving civility lesson:
Trump defenders ‘Should Be
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Trump defenders ‘Should Be
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When you consider the vast number of people forced to watch CNN as they waited at their gates for delayed airline flights on the busiest travel day of the year, one marked by weather delays in most of the country, this call for harsh derision could affect a lot of Thanksgiving dinners today. Ridicule and scorn do not fit well with the theme of giving thanks for the blessings we receive as Americans, but then again, CNN, in the ratings tank and discredited for its repeated fake news incidents, has less to be thankful for than most Americans, enjoying higher incomes and lower taxes.
Everybody remembers The Alamo. The 1960 John Wayne epic left a lasting legacy on our state (especially in Brackettville). And who could forget the 2004 Disney version, which cost over a hundred million dollars to make and absolutely tanked at the box office? Of course, these aren’t cinema’s only interpretations of the most notorious story in Texas history. And John Wayne and Billy Bob Thornton are not the only Davy Crocketts to have fought to their deaths upon the silver screen. You see, “Hollywood” has been making movies about the Alamo long before moviemakers even set up shop in Hollywood, California.
Way back in the spring of 1911, around the time
Trump restored references to God in
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From George Washington’s first in 1789 to President Trump’s in 2018, Thanksgiving proclamations have been declared by U.S. presidents 164 times. They’ve been proclaimed during times of want as well as times of plenty, during financial crisis as well as economic prosperity, and in times of both war, peace, malaise, and hope. Yet by 2017, this tradition was at risk of disregarding its original purpose — until reclaimed by President Trump.
Presidential Thanksgiving proclamations have always kept God at the center. A change occurred, however, with the first Thanksgiving proclamation from Barack Obama in 2009 — “God” was only mentioned once while quoting Washington.
The big gubernatorial victories in Kentucky and Louisiana have unleashed optimism in the Democratic Party. They underscored the story we’ve seen again and again in the Trump era: Democratic gains in the suburbs and among college-educated whites are helping Democrats assemble a potent anti-Trump coalition, even in some of the reddest parts of the country.
But behind the numbers, there is another reality lurking: It remains unclear how much this will matter in 2020 against President Trump — because of the peculiar nature of the advantage that Trump may hold in the electoral college.
A new analysis from David Wasserman for NBC News
Even before Gordon Sondland’s work in Ukraine set off alarm bells, senior U.S. officials were raising concerns about his communications with officials from Romania—including his efforts to get White House access for a politician with a history of pushing back against anti-corruption reforms.
That’s according to two individuals with knowledge of the situation who say that Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union who is now a major figure in the House impeachment inquiry, often hosted meetings with Romanian officials without consulting the National Security Council (NSC).
A federal appeals court on Wednesday evening stayed a lower-court ruling that former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena after the administration appealed, arguing the battle poses great consequences for the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted an administrative stay while it considers a longer-term order, and fast-tracked oral arguments in the case for a hearing Jan. 3.
Contrary to popular belief, the former White House counsel has been ordered to show up, not to testify — and even that is being appealed.
You might assume that the girth of the nearly 120-page opinion Judge Ketjani Brown Jackson issued Monday means that an issue of great consequence to the House impeachment inquiry has been decided. But you’d be wrong. And you’d be further misled if you put much stock in the headlines breathlessly announcing that the federal district court in Washington, D.C., has ordered that former White House counsel Don McGahn “must testify to Congress.”
"Our first contribution is one of omission. The time-honored stories of exploration and the biographies of heroes are left out."Charles A. and Mary Beard, The History of the United State (1921)
I am a historian by trade. One of the most important moments I experienced in my graduate training was when a professor explained that her doctorate was in the “philosophy of history,” not history itself. It is an important distinction because people equate history with mastering historical trivia. The possibility that there is a philosophy of or a way to think about history
Actually, there are several different philosophies of history—often at odds with each other—
Mayor Pete’s Rainbow Army
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A friend informs me of a young lady from his hometown and home church. Valedictorian of her classical Christian high school, she was a solid evangelical raised in an evangelical home, an evangelical church, and by evangelical parents.
“Guess what she did for break?,” my friend asks me. “She headed to Iowa to volunteer for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign.”
Why anyone would think that Pete Buttigieg is qualified to be president is a mystery. An even greater mystery would be why a conservative evangelical girl would spend her college break knocking on doors for a cultural radical to be president of the United States.
Actually, it’s no mystery.
Stolen Valor in Philadelphia
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While this is an extremely distasteful subject for most of us, it needs to be called out when it surfaces, unfortunately. And it happens far too often. A resident of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, has been exposed and indicted in a long series of incidents of stolen valor. Richard Meleski had spent years falsely claiming to have been a Navy SEAL, a prisoner of war and the recipient of high military honors. He had somehow received significant benefits from the VA owing to his “service.” But none of it was true. (CBS Philadelphia)
Donations skyrocket for family
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Duke, the No. 1 college basketball team in the country, was stunned Tuesday by Stephen F. Austin, losing in dramatic fashion in overtime. But the biggest shocker has been the spike in funds raised for the family of the player who hit the game-winning layup.
A two-month-old GoFundMe page set up to help Nathan Bain’s family in the Bahamas rebuild from Hurricane Dorian damage had raised more than $97,000 and counting just before 10 p.m. ET Wednesday, a huge spike from the roughly $2,000 it had raised over several weeks before Tuesday night’s game, The Associated Press reported. The fundraiser generated more
Hong Kongers just had their best day in a long time. In the process, they offered the bad boys of Beijing an off-ramp from the chaotic protests that have blackened China’s global reputation since March.
Normally, Hong Kong district council elections are about as interesting as a new Coldplay album. But Monday’s turnout broke all records. That’s because they weren’t seen as just normal, local political contests. Rather, the people of Hong Kong saw them as a chance to show the world how they felt about the larger contest going on between China and the island’s pro-democracy activists.
And show the world, they did.
President Trump, ignoring warnings from China, signed into law Wednesday two bills targeting Hong Kong authorities and supporting pro-democracy protesters there.
The law amends the 1992 U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act to require annual reviews by the State Department of Hong Kong’s autonomy from mainland China, on which will now turn Hong Kong getting to keep its favorable trade status with the U.S. or having it be suspended. The bill also allows for sanctions on people who undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy from China.
A second bill signed into law prohibits the export of U.S. crowd-control munitions to Hong Kong police.