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Source: Fox/Screenshot The Fox network aired a tribute to the United States of America and its flag before Super Bowl LIV kicked off on Sunday. The ad featured Medal of Honor recipient Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and had Johnny Cash's "Ragged Old Flag" as its soundtrack. The ad also features owners of various NFL team owners telling how Cash wrote the song and praised America's military men and women. Carpenter received the nation's highest medal for military service while he was with Company F, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 1,...

Two people are dead and a third person is injured in a shooting at a residence hall at Texas A&M University-Commerce on Monday, authorities said. The surviving victim was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, the university police department said. The shooting took place at the Pride Rock residence hall, which houses freshmen, according to the school website. University police said it has stationed officers across the campus.

A lawmaker in Olympia has a proposal on the table that would act as an entryway into universal basic income in Washington state. Democratic Rep. Joe Nguyen’s bill would provide $500 a month for two years to qualifying people already using state welfare programs. During a pilot period, it would be limited to 500 randomly selected people from that pool of eligible applicants. The goal: Provide a testing ground for universal basic income.“For two years, [let’s] study how this would impact individuals in Washington state who already rely on services that they qualify for, and then see if through this...

For people of a certain advanced age, the first openly Republican or conservative fictional character they can remember is Alex P. Keaton from the NBC sitcom “Family Ties.” The role launched Michael J. Fox’s career, but it did something else, too: in many ways, Alex Keaton predicted the conservative movement that we see emerging today. Energetic and aggressive, Keaton was an unapologetic conservative character at a time conservatism was in many ways an apologetic underdog. It is important to note that Alex P. Keaton was born in 1965, the very first year of Generation X. The comic tension he provided...

Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign accused President Trump of spreading false information about the former New York City mayor wanting to stand on a box at the Democratic debate to make him appear taller. Bloomberg campaign spokeswoman Julie Wood mocked Trump’s appearance in a fiery statement Sunday while denying the claim. “The president is lying. He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan,” she told CNN.

VIDEO Is it funny but also sad or is it sad but also funny? These are the the scenes of Joe Biden in his final days on the campaign trail in Iowa. Will it be his close to last hurrah? We might find out on the night of the Iowa caucuses.

A Harvard study's findings show how not to fight the restrictionist disinformation campaign.A recent Harvard study found that people in Western countries, including America, have succumbed to many restrictionist myths. The right-wing campaign against immigration has worked. But that doesn't mean that immigration advocates should despair. The study's findings suggest that to the extent that they can make the case that immigrants don't need handouts to succeed, they have a shot at turning public opinion around. The study, conducted by economists Alberto Alesina, Armando Miano, and Stefanie Stantcheva, administered online questionnaires to 24,000 respondents in six countries: U.S., U.K.,...

In order to exist, progressive politicians need someone to hate. It’s the fuel that keeps them running The entire Democrat agenda to remove President Donald Trump from office is based on a ruse. The ruse is the Democrat media lie that everyone hates Donald Trump—a lie deliberately advanced even before the November 8, 2016 Election the Democrats thought would be a cake walk for the presidency-entitled Hillary Clinton. Although hatred of Trump played a big part during the presidential election campaign, it didn’t really peak until the day after inauguration Day, on Jan. 21, 2009 when millions of women took...

Guest Piece by Gregg Updike The fundamental problem with the Democratic Party is that for decades they have been actively recruiting every disparate minority group they can find or create – most of whom have an axe to grind – and have tried to cobble together a majority of minorities as a means to win elections against America’s white majority. There was an article in a major newspaper, circa 2011, during the “One’s” ramp up for reelection in 2012 reflecting this strategy. The DNC, Obama, and the MSM, after successfully guilting white America into voting for a “historic” (half) Black...

Evan Stevens Hall was essentially blackmailed by a would-be therapist. The media has hardly forgiven him.The popular indie band Pinegrove is in the midst of a comeback tour pegged to their new album, Marigold. Why a comeback tour? The band took a year off following sexual misconduct allegations made against lead singer Evan Stephens Hall. In November 2017, Hall publicly acknowledged the "sexual coercion" accusation; following this, the band ceased activities until late 2018. Recent press coverage of Pinegrove explicitly mentions the controversy. A New York Times review of Marigold claimed that the album feels like it's reckoning with Hall's...

The final Emerson College/7 News Iowa poll finds Senator Bernie Sanders with a solid lead going into Monday’s caucus with 28% support. Former Vice President Joe Biden follows with 21%, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is at 15%, Senator Elizabeth Warren is at 14%, and Senator Amy Klobuchar is the only other candidate in double digits with 11%. Data was collected from January 30 - February 2, 2020, mixed-mode, n=853, margin of error of +/- 3.3%.

Let's not give Nancy Pelosi and her obviously filled-with-hate, malicious and malevolent band of America-and-constitution-hating thugs the last word Two principles in law nullify, make voidable, and void, a defective and unconstitutional impeachment. As if it never happened! * Ab Initio - ” translates as “from the beginning.” (Initio is a form of the noun initium, meaning “beginning,” which gave rise to such English words as initial, initiate, and initiative.) Ab initio...is also used as an adjective meaning “starting from or based on first principles”...

Last spring, during my first week as a janitor at a Dave & Buster’s, I struck up a conversation with a co-worker who served 17 years in prison. Swapping life stories, I sheepishly divulged that I used to work for The Washington Post, that I had a book published by HarperCollins, and that I had been the editor of a popular website. SNIP For the life of me, I couldn’t begin to explain how I went from having a life and career I felt proud of, to being publicly shamed by my peers and punished for things I didn’t do....

DONEGAL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A man who appeared in an episode of the TV show “American Pickers” was charged with burglary. Police said Ronald Heist, 69, of Summit Township, broke into a Donegal Township, Butler County barn in 2017. It had been turned into a studio. Investigators said Heist, also known as “the Mole Man” according to court papers, stole $650,000 worth of items.

"I'll probably vote for Bernie," Joe Rogan told listeners. "He's been insanely consistent his entire life. He's basically been saying the same thing, been the same thing his whole life." The podcaster was repeating a popular myth about Bernie Sanders.[snip]Over those nearly 50 years, he’s said a lot of insanely inconsistent things. In 1971, he argued that it was a disgrace that there were so many millionaires in the Senate. "Nobody should earn more than a million dollars," he said in 1974. When he first ran for the Senate, he called for a 100% tax on wealth of over $1...

A precedent has been established by the Democrat leaders in Congress; so, a president needs to establish an absolute precedent for such a thing to never happen again When the Senate acquits President Donald J. Trump of the bogus crimes fabricated by the Democrat leadership and fanned to a frenzy by the national mainstream media, one has to wonder whether such a blatant attempt to “kill the king” should be ignored. Where’s the “Justice” Democrats to demand justice that the Trump smear campaign was unjust? Where is the Southern Poverty Law Center when blatant hate has been exhibited in such...

Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi are preparing to impeach the Kansas City Chiefs.

Voting to convict the President in such a clearly partisan trial would undermine the rule of law. Voting to acquit the President would restore faith in the supremacy of the rule of law The Democrat Senators have the opportunity to restore public confidence in the rule of law by voting to acquit President Trump against claims by the House that he committed high crimes and misdemeanors involving two charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Those claims had their origins in a phone conversation that had taken place between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky on 25 July...

...Virus genetic material was discovered in patient stool and rectal swabs, Xinhua said on Sunday (Feb 2). That means the pathogen might be transmitted along the faecal-oral route, not just from coming into contact with virus-laden droplets emitted from a sick person's cough......A virus-laden aerosol plume emanating from a Sars patient with diarrhoea was implicated in possibly hundreds of cases at Hong Kong's Amoy Gardens housing complex in 2003.

[snip] The DNC’s rules backfired spectacularly In late 2018, DNC Chairman Tom Perez unveiled the revamped rules for the upcoming Democratic primary debates. Perez pledged that the DNC’s debate rules would “give the grassroots a bigger voice than ever before” and “put our nominee in the strongest position possible to defeat Donald Trump.” ... But a year later, what’s beyond a doubt is that they did not empower the grassroots and they replaced old gatekeepers with new ones. Because of these new rules, the most powerful people in the primary up to this point have arguably been the pollsters. ......