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It looks like tennis, but the court is half the size. The rackets aren't rackets, but more like giant ping-pong paddles. The ball isn't made of yellow-fuzzed rubber but a wiffly plastic, just like you used when you were a kid. What is it? Pickleball. The sport, which is offered at the John P. Thayer YMCA on 14th St. two days a week, is a combination of tennis, ping-pong and badminton. It's played with oversize paddles, a plastic ball and a low net. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads The court is small, about 44 feet by 20 feet compared to...

So the deranged street media thinks it is 'cute' to ridicule Mrs. Trump for wearing high heels to a flood-ravaged area. Did it never occur to these 'journalists' that she wasn't wearing the TO a disaster area, but FROM the People's House? She holds her temporary home in such high regard and reverence that she would never think about wearing casual shoes while entering or leaving its historical rooms while publicly representing her position of First Lady. AND SHE'S NOT EVEN A NATIVE AMERICAN. I realize that for the previous half generation or so, Americans had witnessed a first lady...

The idea that violence is contagious doesn’t appear in the Obama administration’s gun control plan, nor in the National Rifle Association’s arguments. But some scientists believe that understanding the literally infectious nature of violence is essential to preventing it.

Google's fascist witch-burning of an honest engineer for refusing to bow down at the altar of politically correct lies was the final straw, an unequivocal warning to conservatives that there's a new set of rules, and that we need to play by them. First they came for the tech geeks; we’re next. That means Republicans at both the federal and the state level need to rein in the skinny-jeaned fascist social justice warriors who control Silicon Valley – and, to a growing extent, our society – through the kind of crushing regulation of these private business that we conservatives used...