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LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) – A revealing recording has caused some of the Texas House Speaker’s colleagues to call for him to step aside, including Republican Rep. Trent Ashby of Lufkin.

According to the Texas Tribune, a conversation that was recorded in Austin in June revealed that Republican House Speaker Dennis Bonnen urged hardline conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan to target members of their own party in the 2020 primaries. Bonnen was heard speaking disparagingly about a number of Democrats, calling one house member “vile” and suggesting that another’s wife “was gonna be really pissed when she learns he’s gay.” Continue reading “Rep. Ashby calls for Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen to step aside in wake of ‘offensive’ secret recording”

The Eagle

Last fall, employees in a Texas A&M University System office space were alerted that three parakeets had been placed in the building’s light-filled atrium, and that more were on the way.

They were to be greeted warmly: “The first word we would like to teach them is ‘HOWDY!’” an employee for Chancellor John Sharp wrote in an October 2018 email. “Please help them learn by addressing them this way when you see them.”

Continue reading “Texas A&M System employees were asked to teach office pet birds to say “howdy.” It didn’t go well.”

AOL

BEIJING (AP) — China said Thursday it detained two U.S. citizens on suspicion of organizing others to illegally cross the border, amid sharpening tensions between the sides over trade, technology and other sensitive issues.

Police in the eastern province of Jiangsu arrested Alyssa Petersen and Jacob Harlan on Sept. 27 and Sept. 29, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said.  Continue reading “China detains 2 U.S. citizens who ran teaching program”

Yahoo News

The G7 at Doral might be the only thing President Trump can look forward to right now.

After announcing that the Group of Seven summit would be held at Trump’s Miami resort next year, acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney took Trump’s impeachment inquiry to a place he certainly didn’t want it to go. Mulvaney essentially admitted to a quid pro quo agreement with Ukraine over security funding, and House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) says it has made things “much, much worse” for Trump and company. Continue reading “Mulvaney’s quid pro quo admission took things from ‘very, very bad to much, much worse,’ Schiff says”

NPR – by Jeff Brady

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry plans to leave his position at the end of the year, President Trump confirmed to reporters Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas. Trump praised Perry and said he already has a replacement in mind.

“Rick has done a fantastic job,” Trump said. ” But it was time.”  Continue reading “Energy Secretary Rick Perry To Resign”

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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (KABC) — An Orange County sheriff’s investigator has been placed on administrative leave after he allegedly pulled a gun on a group of teenagers at a San Clemente skate park over the weekend.

Video shows a confrontation between the teenagers and the sheriff’s investigator, who was off-duty at the time.  Continue reading “OC sheriff’s investigator allegedly pulls gun on teens at San Clemente skate park”

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Archive: TWFTT 10-17-19

Another Day in the Empire – by Kurt Nimmo

According to the New York Post, two of the supposedly late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators in the rape of minor girls—Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean-Luc Brunel—are hiding out in the Brazilian Rivera of Santa Catarina. 

A former cop traced the pair through their phones to the posh resort, according to the New York newspaper.   Continue reading “Israel’s Mistress of Sex Entrapment Escapes Justice”

Legal Insurrection – by Mike LaChance

Over the last several years, we have seen the migration of progressive culture from the halls of college campuses to the mainstream. The creation and recognition of ‘International Pronouns Day’ is a perfect example.

If you haven’t heard of International Pronouns Day, you’re not alone. It’s new, having been first recognized just last year. It occurred again yesterday and is already being treated by many as completely mainstream.  Continue reading “Pronouns Gone Wild: Obsession Moves From Campus To Politics”

Bloomberg Editorial

The combination of guns and alcohol is especially dangerous, and far too little has been done to address it. Federal law doesn’t restrict access to guns by people with a history of alcohol abuse, and fewer than half of U.S. states impose prohibitions of this kind. The risks to public safety are increasingly clear, and the issue demands more careful attention than lawmakers have allowed up to now.  Continue reading “Drivers With DUIs Shouldn’t Be Armed”

Axios

Vice President Mike Pence announced from Ankara on Thursday that Turkey has agreed to cease its military operation in northern Syria for 120 hours so that Kurdish forces can withdraw from the area.

The big picture: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan previously said that he would “never” agree to a ceasefire, after the U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria paved the way for Turkey to begin a military assault on U.S-allied Kurdish forces that they view as terrorists. The breakthrough came after five hours of negotiations between Pence and Erdogan and followed the authorization of sanctions against Turkish officials earlier this week by President Trump.

Continue reading “Pence announces Turkey has agreed to temporary ceasefire in Syria”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

President Trump’s top immigration spokesman on Wednesday said that there are potentially 22 million illegal immigrants inside the United States, nearly twice the estimate regularly cited.

Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which handles the legal immigration process, said the number comes from a study done by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That study put the number at 22.1 million. Continue reading “Surge: Ken Cuccinelli cites 22 million illegal immigrants, nearly twice previous tally”

Chuck Baldwin

Well, it happened again. No sooner had one Texas police officer been convicted of murdering an innocent citizen in his own home than it happened again. The police officer just convicted was a Dallas policewoman; this latest police officer, who is now charged with murdering an innocent citizen—once again, in her own home—was a Fort Worth policeman. Why are so many big-city cops murdering American citizens?  Continue reading “Why Are So Many Big-City Cops Murdering American Citizens?”

Middle East Monitor

Israel has called on the United States to maintain a military base in south-eastern Syria for strategic and geopolitical reasons, Israeli TV channel Kan reported yesterday.

Al-Tanf base, set up and controlled by the US military in 2016 during the ongoing Syrian conflict, lies in a strategically important area near Syria’s borders with Jordan and Iraq. It serves as a base for a group known as the Revolutionary Commando Army which opposes both the Syrian regime and Daesh and has received training from the US in Jordan. Continue reading “Israel demands that US should maintain strategic base in Syria”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

West Palm Beach, FL — A disturbing video was submitted to the Free Thought Project this week showing a deputy with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office pull a gun on three innocent men who were doing nothing wrong. The incident has since sparked an investigation by the West Palm Beach Police Department.  Continue reading “Raging, and Apparently Drunk Deputy, Pulls Gun on Innocent Men, Threatens to Shoot”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

During an October 16, 2019, CNN interview, Democrat presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke suggested that mass shooters will hand over their AR-15s under his forced buyback plan.

O’Rourke went through his normal claims that he believes Americans will comply with the buybacks by handing over their AR-15s and similar commonly owned semiautomatic rifles.  Continue reading “Beto O’Rourke Suggests Mass Shooters Will Hand over Their AR-15s”

RT

A major US base in northern Syria was destroyed by an air strike after the troops pulled out, likely to prevent more embarrassing videos of the abandoned facility once it is reclaimed by Syrian government troops.

The Lafarge cement factory near Kobani was the site of a joint US-French base, which was abandoned on Wednesday as part of a general withdrawal ordered by US President Donald Trump. Local sources reported the facility at Kharab’Ashaq was bombed shortly thereafter.  Continue reading “Covering the tracks? US jets BOMB own base in Syria as troops retreat”

On October 7, 2019, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of American troops from northeast Syria, where the contingent alongside Kurdish militias controlled the vast territories. Trump clarified that the decision is connected with the intention of Turkey to attack the Kurdish units, posing a threat to Ankara.  Continue reading “Could Turkish aggression boost peace in Syria?”