“It's stupid and I've had countless arguments." Teen with anti-vax mum gets vaccinated at 18.

The son of a staunch anti-vaxxer in the US took his 18th birthday as a chance to catch up on the vaccinations he’d missed out on in his youth, defying his mother’s wishes and taking a stand against the anti-vax movement. Ethan Lindenberger from Ohio never received his vaccinations at school because his mother was convinced by online information that falsely claimed they were linked...

On President's Day, A Survey Of Political Science Scholars Ranks Trump As Dead Last Among America's 44 Presidents

There have been 44 U.S. presidents ( Trump is the 45th presidenCY ) with Grover Cleveland having been elected twice (non-consecutively) but counted, understandably, as only one person. Gee, I wonder where these scholars have ranked Mr. ("I am the greatest") Trump ? "Here are the greatest US presidents, ranked according to current and recent members of the American Political...

31 Actual National Emergencies

Everyone with five functioning gray cells knows that the aspiring fascist strongman Donald Trump’s Declaration of a National Emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border is absurd. There is no “national security crisis” of illegal immigration on the southern United States border. Illegal crossings are not at “emergency” levels; they are at a fifty-year low. Undocumented immigrants are not...

February 16 in Alaska honors Tlingit activist on "Elizabeth Peratrovich Day'' A Fighter in Velvet Gloves

Anchorage School District, “Elizabeth Peratrovich Day provides an opportunity to remind the public of the invaluable contribution of this Native Alaskan leader.” Nearly 20 years before the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, and ten years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich led the charge in passing the...

Man Accused Of Pulling Gun On Victim Wearing MAGA Hat

Via WBKO: A Tennessee man is in jail after being accused of pulling a gun on a Sam’s Club customer Saturday. According to the police report, officers were called to Sam’s Club due to a person with a gun. According to the alleged victim Terry Pierce, a man pulled a gun on him because he was wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat. “I have as much right to wear that hat and...

A real tube carrying dreams of 600-mph transit

Full screen 1/7 SLIDES © Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times The tube used for unmanned testing by Virgin Hyperloop One north of Las Vegas. The system aims to move people and cargo through tubes in wheel-less pods. MOAPA, Nev. — California just decided to sharply scale back its plans for a high-speed rail artery meant to...

YES OR NO

1. Do you ever listen to classical music ?  2. Have you ever broken anything that was really valuable? 3. Do you speak a language other than English or Spanish? 4. Have you ever been robbed? 5. Have you ever taken part in a dance contest? 6. Have you ever intentionally eaten a bug? 7. Have you ever been bleeding to the point where it got you concerned? 8....

American woman who joined ISIS begs to come back home

An American woman who fled her home in Alabama to join ISIS in Syria now admits she made “a big mistake” and wants to return to her family in the US. “We were basically in the time of ignorance…and then became jihadi, if you like to describe it that way,” 24-year-old Hoda Muthana told The Guardianin an interview, speaking from al-Hawl refugee camp in northeastern Syria. Muthana,...

Chris Wallace Rips Into Stephen Miller on Fox News

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday challenged right-wing White House aide Stephen Miller about the need for a wall on the southern U.S. border. He also confronted Miller about the lies he tells about immigration and drugs. In his interview on Fox News Sunday, Wallace told Miller that between 80 and 90 percent of illegal drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, are seized...

Woman who called Michelle Obama an 'ape' defrauded FEMA of $18K

The West Virginia woman who made national headlines in 2016 when she was placed on leave from a county development organization over a demeaning Facebook post about then-first lady Michelle Obama has now pleaded guilty to defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency out of thousands of dollars of disaster benefits. Pamela Taylor, 57, admitted on Tuesday that she falsely...

Florida Sixth-Grader Arrested After His Refusal to Recite Pledge of Allegiance Led to Confrontation

Florida sixth-grader charged with misdemeanor after refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance By Kristine Phillips, The Washington Post, February 17 2019 A Florida student is facing misdemeanor charges after a confrontation with his teacher that began with his refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and escalated into what officials described as disruptive behavior. The...

Hunters say it's not a 'zombie disease,' but they are worried about deer illness

By Phil McCausland Doug Duren lives on a 430-acre farm in Wisconsin that’s been in his family for 115 years, and he keeps more than 200 acres of it wild for deer hunting. It’s a vast plot of land to hunt on — boasting around 75 white-tail deer per square mile — and Duren, 60, keeps in mind a conservationist mantra when he manages it: “It’s not ours, it’s just our turn.” That...

Liberty Counsel petitions SCOTUS over counseling lawsuits

A religious liberty law firm is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a free speech case now that the court has referenced it by name. Liberty Counsel is petitioning the high court to review the New Jersey lawsuit King v. Christie, a case that upheld a ban on change counsel and which Liberty Counsel says the court abrogated last year by name. Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver...

HAMAS CLAIMS ISRAEL SENT BUGGED SHOES TO SPY ON THE TERRORIST GROUP

HAMAS CLAIMS ISRAEL SENT BUGGED SHOES TO SPY ON THE TERRORIST GROUP The shipment of suspicious shoes that came through the Kerem Shalom Crossing were sent to Hamas to examine. By Jerusalem Post Staff, February 17 2019 Caterpillar boots [Illustration]. (photo credit: OSVALDO GAGO/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS) A shipment of military boots equipped with “secret electronic tracking chips,”...

'Rebels without a clause': 10 times Dem. senators questioned Trump nominees' religious beliefs

One of the nation’s leading Christian conservative advocacy organizations has called out 12 senators who have employed “unconstitutional religious tests” on Trump nominees in the past two years. Since the Trump administration came into power in 2017, a noticeable trend has occurred in which Democrat senators have questioned Trump judicial and political nominees about their religious...

A scholar of ancient history explains how right-wing ‘intellectuals’ hijack academic respectability to bolster MAGA talking points

Last week during a rally in the border city of El Paso, Texas, before thousands of his most adoring fans, Donald Trump showed America and the world–again–who he really is. Trump worked his audience up into a fever pitch as he lambasted and threatened the news media and free press. For Trump and his movement, they are the “enemy of the people.” This is a fundamental principle of...

'Downfall' Actor Bruno Ganz Dies at 77

Swiss actor Bruno Ganz died at his home in Zurich on Friday at age 77, according to Variety. Ganz, who won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Adolph Hitler in "Downfall," reportedly died from colon cancer. Ganz also notably played an angel who opts out of immortality in order to experience earthly pleasures in "Wings of Desire." His other top performances were in films such as...

What happens next? - Mueller Report likely nowhere near finished as more Trumpian scandals blossom

February 17, 2019 | Waco Tribune-Herald (TX) ....we are ready to predict what's next with what may be the defining rubric of the Trump presidency: the ongoing investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.1. It's not ending soon. Mueller in January got a six-month extension on his grand jury and recently asked a court to waive speedy trial requirements as to Roger Stone. A...

Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II

Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs. MEGAN GARBER JUL 15, 2013 TASS / GETTYIt was the spring of 1943, at the height of World War II. Two pilots, members of the Soviet Air Force, were flying their planes—Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, built mainly of plywood and canvas—over a Soviet railway junction....

HIDE YOUR KIDS, CARLOS DANGER HAS BEEN RELEASED.

Now would be a good time to talk to your children about creepy pedophile predators on the internet. My guess is that Anthony Weiner will be forgiven by Huma and be right back online looking for victims. By the time Hillary announces her 2020 run for president Carlos Danger will be caught again.

Senate panel to investigate meetings between Russians, Obama officials

The Senate Finance Committee is probing meetings reportedly held in 2015 between two of former President Barack Obama’s top economic officials and Maria Butina, a Russian national who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to covertly influence U.S. foreign policy, the panel said Friday. Committee leadership published letters sent to the current heads of the U.S. Treasury Department...

Trump Broods: How Can SNL Air ‘Total Republican Hit Jobs’ Without ‘Retribution

President Donald Trump on Sunday morning seethed about the “total Republican hit jobs” that aired on Saturday Night Live a few hours prior, wondering aloud about how the show could broadcast that material “without retribution.”

Trump's Rose Garden Fiasco Was a Commercial for the 25th Amendment

give thanks to our president*, who declared a National Emergency so imminent and profound that it required his immediate presence in a sand trap at his golf club in Florida. esquire.com Trump's Rose Garden Fiasco Was a Commercial for the 25th Amendment   This is the headline at the website of the New York Times atop its story about El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago's...

9/11 fund running out of money for those with illnesses

By Associated Press NEW YORK — The compensation fund for victims of 9/11 is running out of money and will cut future payments by 50 to 70 percent, officials announced Friday. September 11th Victim Compensation Fund special master Rupa Bhattacharyya said she was "painfully aware of the inequity of the situation" but stressed that awarding some funds for every valid claim would be...

American exceptionalism vs. socialism

Ask your neighbors and coworkers whether it’s a privilege to be an American and nearly all of them will answer with a resounding “yes.”  But the rising new leaders of today’s Democratic Party see American privilege as a mass delusion standing in the way of their political ambitions.  This was painfully evident last week during President Trump’s State of the Union address (SOTU)....