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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win…”
— Muhammad Ali
“If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”
— Muhammad Ali
“I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”
— Muhammad Ali
“How tall are you? So I can know in advance how far to step back when you fall down!”
— Muhammad Ali Continue reading “Crazy, I’m havin’ tears – R.I.P. Ali”
COLUMBIA, SC Oil companies that want to lay pipelines through South Carolina will have to do so without seizing people’s land, according to legislation approved this week by state lawmakers.
Responding to concerns that surfaced over a pipeline project last year, the state House of Representatives voted 89-3 Wednesday night for the legislation that supporters say will protect property rights. The Senate, which already had voted for a version of the measure, signed off on the legislation Thursday and sent the bill to Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk. Continue reading “Oil companies banned from seizing property for pipelines in South Carolina”
A federal judge has ordered the Obama administration to release new emails connected to Hillary Clinton before Democratic National Convention in July.
In an order late on Wednesday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson told the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to hand over to the Republican National Committee (RNC) whatever records it could as part of an RNC’s open-records lawsuit on July 11. Continue reading “Judge orders Obama administration to release new Clinton emails”
FORT HOOD, Texas — At least five soldiers were killed Thursday at Fort Hood in Texas when their truck overturned in a creek, according to the Army.
Three soldiers’ bodies were recovered Thursday afternoon. Two more were found Thursday night. Four soldiers remained unaccounted for. Three other soldiers were rescued and taken to a local hospital where they were reported in stable condition. Continue reading “5 Fort Hood soldiers dead, 4 missing after Army truck overturns in flooding”
Shocking scenes are occuring on the streets of San Jose as anti-Trump supporters are chased, punched, kicked, and, as ABC News’ Tom Llamas reports “terrorized” as the local police “appears to have lost control.” Mobs of protestors, many carrying mexican flags, took over the streets ahead of a Trump rally branding tire irons and burning American flags. Continue reading “Trump Supporters “Terrorized” In Massive San Jose Street Brawl As Police “Lose Control””
Washington Examiner – by Paul Beddard
Illegal immigration has exploded 57 percent in less than two years, with at least 550,000 new undocumented aliens pouring into America in a trend that is set to continue growing, according to new Census data.
In an analysis of the numbers, the Center for Immigration Studies found illegal and legal immigration have reached over 1.5 million a year, a new 15 year high, and a 39 percent increase over 2013. Continue reading “Census: Illegal immigration up 57% to 550,000, one new Albuquerque A YEAR”
A campus shooting at UCLA Wednesday morning left two men dead in a murder-suicide that sent thousands of students running for safety and barricading themselves in classrooms, authorities said.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck confirmed that the shooter was one of the two men killed in a small office in a building in the campus’ engineering complex.
”The campus is now safe,” Beck told reporters in a news conference shortly after noon. Continue reading “Two dead in murder-suicide at UCLA; LAPD says ‘campus is now safe’”
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A Jewish man (Mort) and his wife go to their rabbi.
“Rabbi, I think my wife is trying to poison me!”
Continue reading “A Jew, a Rabbi and a Wife”
USA Today – by Elizabeth Weise
SAN FRANCISCO — In a rare recall of baking and cooking flour, General Mills on Tuesday issued a recall of 10 million pounds of flour because of a possible link to an outbreak of E. coli that has sickened 38 people in 20 states since December.
The recall covers some bags of Gold Medal bleached and unbleached flour, bleached and unbleached Signature Kitchen flour, Gold Medal self-rising flour and Gold Medal Wondra quick-mixing flour. A full list of the recalled flours is listed below and on the General Mills website. Continue reading “General Mills recalls 10 million pounds of flour”
The Justice Department moved Tuesday to fight a federal judge’s order that its lawyers undergo mandatory ethics training, digging in after the DOJ was accused of misleading the courts over President Obama’s immigration executive actions.
In filings Tuesday, the department said the order would “far exceed the bounds of appropriate remedies” and would cost the department millions. Continue reading “DOJ fights federal judge’s order for lawyers to attend ethics training”
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An outbreak of measles that began with an inmate at a federal detention center for immigrants in central Arizona has now grown to 11 confirmed cases.
Seven of those infected are inmates at the Eloy Detention Center, and four are workers at the facility, Pinal County Health Services spokesman Joe Pyritz said. Continue reading “Measles Outbreak Traced Back to Inmate at Arizona Immigrant Detention Facility as Confirmed Cases Continue to Grow”
The director of the zoo where a 4-year-old boy fell into a moat that housed a silverback gorilla Saturday said he stands by the decision to kill the 400-pound animal.
“We stand by our decision, and we’d make the same call today,” Thane Maynard, director of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, said at a press conference Monday. He added that people who second-guess the decision “engage in Monday-morning quarterbacking and do not understand primate biology.” Continue reading “Zoo that killed 400-pound silverback Harambe to protect boy ‘stands by decision’”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A writer for The Huffington Post is still waiting for an explanation as to why editors deleted his piece reporting that the FBI will pursue an indictment against Hillary Clinton.
Huffington Post freelance contributor Frank Huguenard, a scientist and public speaker, wrote a report for the liberal site Sunday entitled “Hillary Clinton to be Indicted On Federal Racketeering Charges.” But the piece was not up for long before the Huffington Post pulled it down and replaced it with a “404” Error screen. Continue reading “Huffington Post Writer: Editors Deleted My Article on Hillary’s Imminent Indictment, Disabled Me from Writing”
Immigrants fleeing gang violence in Central America are again surging across the U.S.-Mexico border, approaching the numbers that created an immigration crisis in the summer of 2014. While the flow of immigrants slowed for much of last year, nothing the U.S. government does seems to deter the current wave of travelers. Continue reading “U.S.-Mexico Border Sees Resurgence Of Central Americans Seeking Asylum”
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On May 19, the House of Reprehensibles passed a proposal that would essentially ban the display of Confederate flags from national cemeteries. The amendment was added to a Veteran Affairs spending bill. Continue reading “Long Live the Flags of Dixie!”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Memorials to veterans in a Los Angeles neighborhood and a town in Kentucky, as well as a Civil War veterans cemetery in Virginia, were damaged as the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, officials said.
A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti. The vandalism occurred sometime during the past week, KCAL/KCBS-TV (http://cbsloc.al/1RAa3mg) reported. The homespun memorial painted on a block-long wall on Pacific Avenue lists the names of American service members missing in action or otherwise unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. Continue reading “Veterans sites in California, Kentucky, Virginia damaged”
Louisiana’s hate-crime protections now cover law enforcement and first responders. Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the legislation on Thursday after it had passed easily in the Republican-controlled Legislature, NPR’s Debbie Elliott reports.
People convicted of intentionally targeting police officers, firefighters or emergency medical crews will now face stricter penalties — as one would for targeting someone for race or gender, The Two-Way has reported. Other protected classes in the state are age, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national origin and ancestry. Continue reading “In Louisiana, It’s Now A Hate Crime To Target Police Officers”