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Only a separate, soft-Brexit status for Northern Ireland can resolve the backstop conundrum Johnson got no joy in Berlin or Paris. Merkel’s meaningless 30-day “talks” period was greeted with ecstasy by his Tory press claque. But Macron merely pointed out that nothing had changed. The steeples were still there, telling London what not to do. in NI no deal promises the ultimate horror, of a return to policing the 1921 partitioning of Ireland, this time with some ramshackle arrangement of border posts, customs checks and massive evasion.... The partition was meant to be temporary. It has long been an agony...

Diplomatic Rift Between Japan, South Korea Makes U.S. Intel Gathering Harder By: Ben Werner August 22, 2019 5:30 PM The South Korean government’s intent to end an intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan is more than a slight toward its neighbor, but a blow to U.S. efforts at monitoring North Korean activities and countering Chinese influence, experts say. South Korea announced Thursday it doesn’t plan to renew the General Security of Military Information Agree (GSOMIA) with Japan and the U.S., the latest escalation in a brewing diplomatic spat between Seoul and Tokyo. The announcement from South Korea’s Moon Jae-in administration follows moves...

SECNAV Spencer Expanding JAG Review to Include Marine Legal Community By: Sam LaGrone August 22, 2019 6:35 PM THE PENTAGON – A review of the Department of the Navy’s legal system has expanded to include the Marine legal community, according to a memo from Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer obtained by USNI News. “Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, in full coordination with the commandant of the Marine Corps, has directed an expansion of the U.S. Navy’s comprehensive review of the Judge Advocate General Corps to include U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocates,” read a Thursday Navy statement...

Full Title: Ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne says he got 'fishy' orders from Peter Strzok; former acting AG unsure of claims Overstock founder and CEO Patrick Byrne, who resigned Thursday amid ties to a government probe related to the 2016 election, claimed he received "fishy" orders from former FBI official Peter Strzok. Byrne said Thursday on "The Story" he'd helped the federal government with investigations twice in the past, including to "help them take down people on Wall Street." Several years after Byrne's last contact with the government, he said FBI officials reached out to him in 2016.

REMEMBER ‘COMMON CORE’ that was forced on American public schools by Barack Hussein Obama and funded by the nation of Qatar? AUGUST 23, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM Well, these are the chilling results: FOIA Uncovers Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Propaganda forced on teachers, ‘Islam Glorified, Christianity Disparaged and America Bashed’. and these are the chilling consequences. Gateway Pundit The Thomas More Law Center, a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, uncovered a massive Islamic propaganda campaign which is being forced onto teachers in public school systems in Michigan and many other states. TMLC was concerned after hearing about...

Some reporters are complaining that President Trump’s recent "gaggles" on the White House lawn -- as Marine One’s helicopter rotors blare in the background -- make it more difficult for them to hold the president accountable and paints them in an unprofessional light, according to a report.

Once upon a time, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Syria and met with the strongman President Bashar Assad. She considered her willingness to engage all sides of the country’s bloody civil war to be an important step toward peace. For this bold action, she was widely pilloried at the time and considered by some an authoritarian apologist or outright traitor. The claim was repeated again recently by the ever-so-mainstream California Sen. Kamala Harris, a fellow Democratic presidential hopeful. The attacks on Gabbard’s Syria record have been quite regular among Washington insiders, who considered the congresswoman foolish. But was she?...

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anaesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. 'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me... 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If...

Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores says he supports the NFL player protest movement and receiver Kenny Stills’ involvement, but wants him to play better. “Everything these guys protest, I’ve lived it, I’ve experienced it,” said an impassioned Flores, who is the son of immigrants from Honduras. “They’re bringing attention to my story. I’m a son of immigrants. I’m black. I grew up poor. I’ve been stopped because I fit the description.”

In a corner of a cemetery in Surrey stands a century-old “kibla” stone engraved with burial instructions. Graves, it reads, should be “dug so as to allow the body to lie with its face towards Mecca”. Shaded by pine trees, this small plot at Brookwood cemetery, 30 miles from London, is the oldest recorded Muslim space in the country, acquired in 1884 for the burial of visiting Indian students attending a nearby oriental institute and the Shah Jahan mosque, which was Britain’s first purpose-built mosque, in Woking. It’s also at the heart of a Muslim heritage trail being opened today...

FULL TITLE: “Sacrificial Virgins” – A Must-See Film About Young Girls Being Severely Damaged By HPV Gardasil Vaccines “I would never give my daughter, or my son the shot… This is a massive PR event by the company that makes Gardasil, and the same is the truth for the company that makes Cervarix… I think one needs to do a lot of research, and I think parents are in the best position to do that.” – Dr. Christopher Shaw – University of British Columbia This is a great point, and one that was further emphasized by Dr. Peter Gotzsche, co-founder...

Johnson wants to drop the backstop - an insurance policy to keep the border between British-run Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland open under all circumstances after Brexit - from the stalled deal. ..The rest of the EU, including Ireland, say the backstop is crucial to maintaining peace on the island... Below are the main points in the Alternative Arrangements Commission report Johnson praised ahead of meetings and the response it received in Ireland and Northern Ireland. ..The Commission’s interim report proposed what it described as a multi-layered approach of various measures that would harness “existing technologies and customs best...

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You know what to buy her. Wish Jill St. John, who played smart, sassy smuggler Tiffany Case in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971) a very Happy Birthday. (8/19/19) She’s a woman with purpose. Happy Birthday to Carole Bouquet who played courageous, crossbow wielding marine archaeologist Melina Havelock in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981). (8/18/19)

The long-awaited title of the next Bond film has finally been revealed. The 25th official James Bond movie will be called No Time To Die - the news was revealed by producers on Twitter.

MORE than 1,000 children were caught carrying knives in schools last year - with the youngest aged just four, figures show. Weapons seized by police included machetes, hunting knives, a samurai sword and even a highlighter pen which had its nib changed to a blade. ... In Manchester, an 11-year-old, who had replaced a highlighter nib with a blade, told another pupil: "Listen to me or else I'll stab you." Former teacher David Simmons, who set up the Changing Lives charity, said he was confronted by a six-year-old brandishing a knife while working in a north London school. "He was...

In a time when gun control is such a hotly debated topic, why are so many of those who are in favor of destroying the 2nd Amendment so completely uninformed when it comes to guns & weapons? This is my all-time favorite "DUMB" things that have been said by social justice warriors and politicians over the years. It is quite clear to me that these people have no idea what they are talking about and want the citizens of the United States to go along with their law proposals and policy suggestions. There is no doubt that there are good...

We don't even know how to describe J.D. Davis' value to the New York Mets at this point. The man seems to deliver in virtually every clutch at-bats for the club: just last night, the 28-year-old completed the Amazins' 10th-inning comeback against the Indians with a walk-off single. Flash forward less than 24 hours later, the outfielder was doing his best Willie Mays impersonation on a remarkable no-look basket catch against the Indians on Thursday night. What more is there to say about this guy? He's flat-out electric and it's about time he gets the recognition he deserves as one...

What is this attention whoring but making a mockery of American governance and elected office? She did this in front of her son and daughter, teaching them the same contempt for America. These know-nothings haven’t the vaguest idea of the singular greatness of America and what it was our founding fathers achieved. NEWLY ELECTED MISSOURI COUNCIL MEMBER SWORN IN ON DR. SEUSS BOOK INSTEAD OF BIBLE By Daniel Avery, Newsweek, August 21, 2019: A newly elected member of the St. Louis County Council chose to be sworn in with a Dr. Seuss book rather than a Bible. Earlier this month,...