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The cake appears baked on the privileged resolution of disapproval about President Donald Trump's use of a national emergency declaration to secure the money he wants to build a border wall on the southern border. After the House majority approved the resolution with 245 votes -- including 13 Republicans -- the Senate is now set to vote on it in the coming days. And the question is not if the resolution will pass, but how many Republicans will break from Trump and support it.

A huntswoman who repeatedly whipped a man with her riding crop after he grabbed the reins of her horse will not be charged by police. Jane Miller, 56, was filmed having a furious clash with anti-hunt activists while out riding in Herstmonceux, East Sussex in November. Footage captured her striking a man around the head and face 17 times with her whip, while screaming 'get off my horse'. However, Ms Miller has avoided punishment after Sussex Police said they would not be proceeding with the investigation. The hunstwoman is the wife of Richard Goring, whose family founded the five-star Goring...

Well, having a double laminectomy/ Discectomy tomorrow. I don't really want to do it, but the doctor says the longer I wait the less likely function will return. I have 50% weakness in the left leg and a foot drop. It turns out I have direct impingement on the nerves which is blocking the nerve impulses. I've done excersize/therapy in the past. This time 0% improvement after 5 weeks of therapy. If this doesn't give me some improvement I'm looking at medical retirement (law enforcement). I don't really want to retire now, but God is good, I guess we'll let...

The ”Jewish Conspiracy” theme is becoming more popular in the Occupy Wall Street protests. YouTube video: Almost all judges are Jewish. The ”Jewish Conspiracy” theme is becoming more popular in the Occupy Wall Street protests. YouTube video: Almost all judges are Jewish. “The people who run Wall Street are guilty of crimes against humanity,” stated a black American protester. “A small ethnic group consists of…almost all bankers on Wall Street are Jewish. “There is a conspiracy in this country, and Jews control the media, the finances…. The Jews represent two percent of the population…and have pooled their money together to...

The Blaze has been reporting on the numerous incidents of anti-Semitism taking place during the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests and similar demonstrations throughout the country. Now, it appears the movement has been given the nod of approval from the American Nazi Party itself. In a message posted Thursday on its official website, organization head Rocky Suhayda said members of the “pro-white” movement should join and support the Occupy demonstrators because they share a common enemy: The “judeo-capitalist banksters.” Suhayda said though many “racialists” are concerned about the demonstrations because the “many protesters are non-white and/or ‘communists,’” that shouldn’t matter...

I suppose that building up a tolerance to this type of attack could help a bit but I would opt for a martial art that taught blocking instead. Video here

Tecumseh Resident Remains Critical After Four Snake Bites OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) _ A Tecumseh man remains hospitalized in critical condition after being bitten four times by two different snakes. James Cave's wife Gloria says Cave was working at a garage near his home Sunday when he felt a pain in his foot and reached down and was bitten in the hand and foot by a pygmy rattlesnake. Gloria Cave says Cave then fell backward over a barrel and onto a copperhead that bit him in the foot and groin. Cave's son and a neighbor drove him to a nearby hospital where...

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

DEA agent shoots self during gun safety class for Orlando kids Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. - A federal drug agent shot himself in the leg during a gun safety presentation to children and his bosses are investigating. The Drug Enforcement Administration agent, whose name was not released, was giving a gun safety presentation to about 50 adults and students organized by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association, witnesses and police said. He drew his .40-caliber duty weapon and removed the magazine, according to the police report. Then he pulled back the slide and asked someone in the audience to look...

Israel will use diplomatic means to try to free two Arabs from East Jerusalem said to have been kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq, Minister Gideon Ezra said Thursday. Speaking to Channel Two television, Ezra said Israel would try through diplomacy to get them "out of the clutches of evil." Iranian television station Al-Alam said Thursday that the two men - identified as Ahmed Yassin Tikati, 33, and Nabil George Yaakob Razuq, 30 - were kidnapped by the Ansar a-Din group and showed footage of the abductees, who Israeli media said were Christians from East Jerusalem. In the broadcast, both men...

<p>Two inmates were voluntarily nailed to crosses Wednesday by their fellow prisoners as part of a protest for better conditions and shorter sentences that was broadcast on Bolivian television.</p> <p>The two men at the Palmasola prison in this city southeast of La Paz screamed in pain as their hands were nailed to the makeshift crosses.</p>

A Romanian prisoner cut off both his little toes and ate them after he heard his girlfriend had married another man. Neculai Berariu is serving a seven-year sentence at Timisoara prison in Timis county for stealing cars. The 27-year-old said: "I wanted to shock everybody. I cut my toes with a knife and ate them raw. "I also took a piece of flesh from my thigh, I fried it on some burned papers and ate it too." The National newspaper says his ex-girlfriend has emigrated to Germany with her new husband. He says he'll never mutilate his body again.