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Sen. Mitt Romney says he supports college athletes being able to capitalize on their name, image and likeness. But he doesn’t want to see the most prominent athletes at each school making considerably more money than everyone else. Romney (R-Utah), was on ESPN’s Outside the Lines on Wednesday where he said college athletes deserved to make money because of the revenue that they bring to their schools. But he said athletes getting paid “could lead to some very unusual circumstances that need to be avoided.”

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Abraham Lincoln. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. There have been many meritorious arguments both for and against Abraham Lincoln's decisions that forever solidified the direction away from anti-federalism principles. Many people still consider the Civil War as the Act of Northern Aggression, and whether a secession should have been allowed. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent...

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Former national security adviser John Bolton will not appear voluntarily to testify in connection with the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. Bolton’s attorney Chuck Cooper told The Hill in an email late Wednesday that Bolton would not appear voluntarily and would need to be subpoenaed. House Democrats have issued subpoenas to several witnesses in order to compel their testimony amid efforts by the White House to prevent their appearance. The White House has refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, describing it as illegitimate and an attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election....

Imagine, for a moment, that you are a journalist for left-leaning media outlet ProPublica. You come across data showing that in the wake of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s (TCJA) caps on deductions that artificially inflated home values, home prices across the country have fallen, particularly in high-income, upper-class areas. How do you respond?If you guessed “spin this news into a narrative about how the TCJA hurt middle-class homeowners,” you’re a winner! That’s exactly what ProPublica editor Allan Sloan did.Sloan used data showing that home values nationally are 4% lower than they otherwise would have been, extrapolating this into a...

For a town that leaks like a sieve, Washington has done an astonishingly effective job keeping from the American public the name of the anonymous “whistleblower" who triggered impeachment proceedings against President Trump — even though his identity is an open secret inside the Beltway. More than two months after the official filed his complaint, pretty much all that’s known publicly about him is that he is a CIA analyst who at one point was detailed to the White House and is now back working at the CIA. But the name of a government official fitting that description — Eric...

A cold like never before seen in October is hitting Utah on Tuesday and Wednesday as a record-breaking Arctic cold front brings freezing air straight from Canada. Parts of the state had highs only in the 20s, which FOX 13 Chief Meteorologist Kristen Van Dyke said has never happened before on an October day. On Wednesday, temperatures in Salt Lake City are expected to break all-time records. The coldest recorded October temperature in the city was in 1971 with 16-degree low and 35-degree high. Wednesday is expected to see a low of 11 degrees and a high of 31. Strong...

Christian apologist William Craig has offered a response to atheist intellectual Richard Dawkins who called him "a deplorable apologist for genocide" in his column last week.In a speech at the Sheldonian Theater at Oxford University on Tuesday, Craig responded to Dawkins' allegations during the question and answer session.“There was no racial war here, no command to kill them all,” he said, alluding to extermination of the Canaanites in the Old Testament, “the command was to drive them out.”He then said: “I would say that God has the right to give and take life as He sees fit. Children die all...

October is National Energy Awareness Month, and the topic of energy production and its role in driving climate change — very rightfully — is as important a topic as ever. While the United States is leading the way in developing energy in significantly cleaner ways than countries like Russia, Venezuela and China, Democrats continue to promote a policy agenda that would cripple our economy and cause energy prices to skyrocket for American families. This month, Democrats on the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing on their latest virtue-signaling messaging effort: Net-Zero Emissions. Their goal,...

Establishment academic Walter Russell Mead, writing about the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the Wall Street Journal Monday, declared: “Movements like ISIS don’t spring from nowhere. It took centuries of decline, serial humiliations at the hands of arrogant European imperial powers, and decades of failed postcolonial governance to produce the toxic mixture of bigotry.”Really? ISIS (and presumably other Islamic jihad terror groups) arise from “serial humiliations at the hands of arrogant European imperial powers, and decades of failed postcolonial governance”? No chance that “movements like ISIS’ might have sprung from Islamic texts such as these? “And kill them...

Today we have Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan and his 1954 recording Look-A Here, Baby. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Embattled Rep. Katie Hill is set to give her last speech in Congress on Thursday before she resigns. The California Democrat announced that her final floor speech will come Thursday afternoon after the vote on the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. “I will join my colleagues to vote to affirm the impeachment inquiry and then deliver my final floor speech,” Hill wrote on Twitter.

Is the 2020 election a new beginning for the United States or is it more of the same divisiveness and violence? Through President Trump’s administration, we have increased hysterical protests, twitter fights, and mass shootings based off hate rhetoric. The fiery rhetoric of the president has popularized racism, militarized Immigration Customs Enforcement, and led to the implementation of xenophobic policies restricting and further criminalizing migration.

Well, in one poll. Not in the polling average, which is a better indicator of the true state of the race.But it’s noteworthy that Gabbard would lead her in any poll at any stage of the race given widespread predictions that Harris would contend seriously for the nomination and that Tulsi would be a nonfactor. Those predictions were half right — Gabbard is essentially a nonfactor. Just … not as much as Harris is, at least according to USA Today/Suffolk. It’s the first time since the campaign began that Harris has trailed Gabbard in a national survey.Which brings us...

The acrid smell of charred wood still permeates the air as Sasha Berleman, a fire ecologist, and I walk along a dirt path up through the middle of a canyon in the Bouverie nature preserve in Sonoma Valley. On the left side, the earth is black as tar, and scorch marks as tall as a person scar the trunks of the mature oak trees scattered throughout the field. But on the right side, the ground is tan and brown, and you have to look hard at the still-green oaks to see any evidence of the fire that raged through here...

First Lady Melania Trump and Second Lady Karen Pence are meeting with troops and students in South Carolina. The pair began their trip on Wednesday by touring military equipment with emergency response teams at Joint Base Charleston. The first lady praised troops for their sacrifice to the country, especially during natural disasters. Hurricane Dorian slammed the South Carolina coast earlier this year and caused billions of dollars of damage. “Our joint military teams…(demonstrate) every day how our communities can lean on each other and find the strength to step forward when called upon in times of need,” stated Melania Trump....

Greta Thunberg, the teenage guru of the environmental alarmist crowd, has been awarded the 2019 Nordic Council Environment Prize. Her response to this recognition is less than gracious. She is saying thanks, but no thanks, to the council.The Nordic countries, in her opinion (or the opinion of her adult handlers), are not stepping up as they should. She scolded the Nordic Council member countries in an Instagram post explaining why she will not be accepting the prize. Her message is that Nordic countries are all talk and not enough action on environmental issues. “The Nordic countries have a great...

The network coverage of the testimony of National Security Council staffer Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman as a “bombshell” and “damning” was laughable and dishonest, implying that his service to his country wearing its uniform made him credible and unbiased witness without a political agenda. Particularly egregious were the comments of NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who equated wartime courage with peacetime candor. As Newsbusters noted: After a report on the California wildfires, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt told viewers “[t]here was dramatic testimony in the House impeachment investigation by a decorated war hero who works on the National Security...

On Tuesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about Trump’s use of canine imagery in Sunday’s press conference, in which he announced the killing of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Video and partial transcript below: Three reasons why this picture of the soldier is so terrific: [it] doesn’t put soldiers in harm’s way, it gives us some details on the raid and satisfies that desire we have to know about it — to kind of picture the justice that’s being exacted. The third reason is the strategic reason, which is that the dog serves special significance here, carries...