GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde was fined $15,000 for twice bypassing the metal detectors installed at the behest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion.
It was seen as a victory for Pelosi and for the new rule that implemented $5,000 fines for a first offense and $10,000 for a second offense.
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Via Jacob Long Hi Brock, I just wanted to check-in with you to see how 2021 is going so far. I can see you've been busy, I was just reading your post "I Listen" about southern writers and it reminded me of this quote by William Faulkner:"If a story is in you, it has to come out."
We're still working hard to keep a little bit of ammunition on the shelves at the warehouse, hopefully, you are stocked up. For those asking, we are getting in new shipments weekly, so if you're looking for anything specific, let me know and I'll keep an eye out. I'm staying optimistic that things in the industry will get back to normal sooner, rather than later.
Anyway, we've been having some fun recently at the gun range. We've all seen a movie, or TV show, where the bad guy shoots a padlock off to make his escape. We were curious ourselves, so we set out to prove or bust the myth that shooting a padlock will cause the lock to fail. I added the link below if you, or your audience is curious to see if we busted this myth, or just ruined a bunch of padlocks.
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This rare glimpse of Vietnam military combat by First Lieutenant George M. Papa, Infantry Platoon Leader, Third Platoon, Alpha Company, 1/46th Battalion, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, from March 1970 to March 1971 is only possible because he was there and he wrote it.
Go now with him and his platoon on several real “search and destroy” missions through the triple canopy jungle west of Da Nang. Brace now, because whatever your perception may have been of the ground pounding grunts, the upper brass, the Washington bureaucrats and even the enemy will soon change.
When Lt Papa first arrived at Battalion Headquarters at I2 Professional he heard a vague remark that several men had been killed in the very trench he was standing in. It seemed preposterous at the -time, so he dismissed it as just another war story.
Forty-two years later, Mr. Papa googled ‘LZ Professional’ to see if there was any truth to that remark. There he found many details and photographs of that event including the following account by Spc 4 Rick Olson, Delta Company, that described the events of Alpha Company in May, 1969, some ten months before Lt Papa joined that company.
The above photo was taken on the lower chopper pad. The young man on the right smoking a cigarette with his helmet tilted back is the RTO (radio telephone operator) for Captain Dunagan, who received the CMOH (Congressional Medal of Honor) just off of Professional. The RTO’s name is Tom Martiniano. The rest of the men in this photo didn’t make it out alive. Tom won the Silver Star for his actions during this time. The picture is by Larry Bourbonnais and the dialogue is by Rick Olson.
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Confederate Brigadier-General Edward A. Perry, born on a farm near Richmond, Massachusetts in 1831, was descended from old New England stock which migrated to America in the 1630’s. He attended Yale for two years before moving to Alabama where he taught school and studied law. In the postwar he rebuilt his life and turned to politics in the 1880s, and became governor in 1885. His primary platform issue was replacing the odious carpetbag constitution forced upon Floridians in 1868.
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While rules will vary based on your country of origin, these are some countries that are allowing entry for vaccinated travelers.
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Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the House Judiciary Committee ranking member, recounted some of the aspects of a hearing and Big Tech, where he questioned how the First Amendment applied in certain circumstances.
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“Cancel Culture” is a road to nowhere and nothingn...
Wokeness is parasitic. It only destroys. Show me where wokeness created anything like the beauty of a Masters Painting, Cathedral, or any technology.
They are anti-God, anti-Liberty; anti-Truth, anti-Beauty.
They are like Smaug the Dragon, stealing and coveting the works of others. It will take brave men to attack their weakness, hole in the armor, and remove them from power before they destroy everything.
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Question: A final question. Xi has said that he wants all tariffs lifted to repair the relations with the US. What would you advise the US do?
Chang: I would increase those additional tariffs, which are at 10% or 25% percent, to 1000% or 5000%. I would prevent China from selling stuff to us. Even if you put aside all the things we talked about, just if you look at this as a trade matter, those Section 301 tariffs were put in place to stop China's theft of US intellectual property.
Amendments to China's National Defense Law, effective the beginning of this year, take away sweepingpowers from the State Council, which leads China's civilian government, and give it to the Communist Party's Central Military Commission. These powers include the power to mobilize all of society for war.
Everything they do, whether it is seemingly innocuous, such as measuring a mountain or putting a rover on Mars, is a means of claiming sovereignty, of enlarging the People's Republic. Now, of course, there are, in addition to these incursions, China's militant, hostile, belligerent acts.... The question is, what are we going to do about it?
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