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A senior citizen brought home the prize of her life this week after a hunting trip with her son in Phillips, Wisconsin. Bill Teeters said his 104-year-old mom, Florence, told him last year she wanted to get a hunting license. This week, she got her wish and accompanied him during a hunt on their land in Price County, according to NBC 15. “I took mom out to the blind this year. I had a nice chair for her and it was nice and warm,” said Bill, who is the youngest of Florence’s five children. “A little after 4 p.m., a buck shows up about 30 yards away. I tapped her on the knee and I pointed. She nodded and smiled and was real quiet. Then she took the shot!” Florence is reportedly the oldest person to date to purchase a gun deer license and actually bag a deer, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Go Wild database. Bill said once his mom shot the buck, she could not stop screaming she was so excited. “I got a buck! I got a buck!” Florence exclaimed. “She wa...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said “the modern-day liberal” has proven to be a bigger “impediment” than those he was initially wary of — people like the “bigot in the pickup truck” or “Klansmen” — as part of remarks made in the upcoming documentary Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. The documentary, which features Thomas’s reflection on his contentious 1991 Supreme Court confirmation, reportedly features the Supreme Court justice explaining that the “modern-day liberal” has proven to be more of a problem than those he was initially wary of. “I felt as though in my life I had been looking at the wrong people as the people who would be problematic toward me. We were told that, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be the bigot in the pickup truck; it’s gonna be the Klansmen; it’s gonna be the rural sheriff,’” Thomas said, according to ABC News. “But it turned out that through all of that, ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern-day liberal,” he continued. “They were the ones ...

Usman Khan, a previously convicted terrorist, killed two people and injured three others in a knife attack Friday on London Bridge. As British authorities unraveled the story behind the attack, one main question emerged: Why was he even on the street? This week’s London knife attacker was convicted in 2012 of terrorism offenses and, although he was sentenced to 16 years in prison, he was released in December 2018 “on license,” which the Associated Press said “means he had to meet certain conditions or face recall to prison.” He was also reportedly wearing an ankle bracelet to monitor his whereabouts. He was arrested in 2010 for his role in an al Qaeda-inspired terror group that plotted to bomb the U.S. Embassy and the London Stock Exchange. They also planned to kill Boris Johnson, then the mayor of London but now Prime Minister. Khan, along with two co-conspirators, was at first given an indeterminate sentence that would have allowed for authorities to keep him behind bars indefini...

A two-month old girl is on life support and expected to die after her mother allegedly punched her in the face and slammed her against the floor. The mother, Nina Singleton of Chicago, allegedly beat the girl starting shortly after she was born because they girl reminded her of her ex-boyfriend. Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Christina Dracopoulos said Singleton told the police this is why she beat her baby girl. “Every time (Singleton) looked at the victim, (she) imagined the ex-boyfriend being there, and that’s why the defendant punched the victim,” Dracopoulos said, as  reported  by The Chicago Tribune. “Singleton admitted to police that she swung the girl over her head by the legs and slammed her onto the tile kitchen floor ‘face first,’ Dracopoulos said,” the Tribune reported. “Though Singleton claimed the incident occurred on Nov. 20, doctors believe it actually happened just hours before the baby was discovered by her father.” The Chicago Sun-Times  rep...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out against free speech this week, suggesting the government can and should regulate what people say to keep society free. Merkel, speaking at an event for the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Berlin, stumbled up the stairs before taking the podium and suggesting the government ban speech she considers “extreme” and decrying freedom of expression. “We have freedom of expression in our country,” Merkel said. “For all those who claim that they can no longer express their opinion, I say this to them: If you express a pronounced opinion, you must live with the fact that you will be contradicted. Expressing an opinion does not come at zero cost.” “But freedom of expression has its limits,” she continued. “Those limits begin where hatred is spread. They begin where the dignity of other people is violated. The house will and must oppose extreme speech. Otherwise our society will no longer be the free society that it was.” Of course, determin...

Rapper Snoop Dogg trolled Jussie Smollett this week with a meme posted to his Instagram account over Smollett’s ongoing scandal in which he is accused of staging a hate crime hoax on himself. The drama surrounding Smollett stems from a January 29 incident in which he claims that he was attacked in downtown Chicago late at night by two white men who recognized him from his TV show “Empire.” Smollett claimed that the two men called him racial and homophobic slurs, attacked him, put a noose around his neck, and poured bleach on him. The police investigation into Smollett took a turn after the two suspects, Nigerian brothers, agreed to cooperate with investigators, telling them that Smollett orchestrated the fake hate crime. Snoop Dogg posted a meme to his Instagram account this week mocking Smollett.   View this post on Instagram A post shared by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on Nov 26, 2019 at 9:18am PST   Smollett was charged on Feb...

Rapper Snoop Dogg trolled Jussie Smollett this week with a meme posted to his Instagram account over Smollett’s ongoing scandal in which he is accused of staging a hate crime hoax on himself. The drama surrounding Smollett stems from a January 29 incident in which he claims that he was attacked in downtown Chicago late at night by two white men who recognized him from his TV show “Empire.” Smollett claimed that the two men called him racial and homophobic slurs, attacked him, put a noose around his neck, and poured bleach on him. The police investigation into Smollett took a turn after the two suspects, Nigerian brothers, agreed to cooperate with investigators, telling them that Smollett orchestrated the fake hate crime. Snoop Dogg posted a meme to his Instagram account this week mocking Smollett. Smollett was charged on February 20 with felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report, which carries a maximum of up to three years in prison. On March 7, a grand jury retur...

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, is reportedly moving to seal all financial records in an ongoing child support lawsuit he is facing in Arkansas that he claims would cause him “embarrassment” as he is allegedly in “significant” debt. “DNA testing has established, ‘with scientific certainty,’ that Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas baby, according to a motion filed Wednesday in Independence County on behalf of the child’s mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts,” The Arkansas Democrat Gazette  reported  last week. “Hunter Biden, who initially denied having sexual relations with Roberts, eventually agreed to take a DNA test, according to documents filed by Roberts’ attorney, Clint Lancaster.” The Daily Mail  reported  late on Friday that Biden, 49, “filed the motion for a Protective Order of his financial records in the Arkansas Circuit Court of Independence on Wednesday, citing fears that such information would be used ‘maliciously’ by the media...

;On November 16, two CNN reporters wrote about a student protest at Syracuse University over a series of alleged racist incidents on campus. Competent readers will note that every instance of alleged racism on college campuses has turned out to be a hoax, yet media outlets still jump at every accusation. The latest allegation claims that a swastika was found painted on a wall, an unknown student was shouting racial epithets, more racist graffiti was found, and a racist manifesto was sent to several students’ cellphones. Syracuse University is, of course, a liberal college campus located in one of the most liberal states in America, yet its students maintain it is a hotbed of racism. Students naturally took the allegations as fact and started protesting the university and demanding Chancellor Kent Syverud resign. But just a few days after CNN and other media outlets spread news of the alleged racism at Syracuse, the manifesto story was debunked. CBS News reported last week that Syver...

Jeremy Clarkson, the former host of the super popular show “Top Gear,” is blasting climate activist Greta Thunberg for killing the car show. “Everyone I know under 25 isn’t the slightest bit interested in cars — Greta Thunberg has killed the car show,” Clarkson told  The Sun . “They’re taught at school, before they say ‘Mummy and Daddy,’ that cars are evil, and it’s in their heads.” Longterm sidekick Richard Hammond, 49, agreed, saying: “I hate to say it, but I think Jeremy is right.” “Young people don’t care about cars. How many kids now are growing up with posters of cars on their bedroom wall?” Hammond said. Clarkson, Hammond, and co-host James May starred on the long-running BBC show “Top Gear,” which featured the three getting into hilarious situations and talking about cars. The popular Clarkson was fired in 2015 after BBC executives concluded that he had verbally attacked a member of the car show’s production staff. The three now host a popular Amazon Prime show ca...

In an interview published Tuesday, Papa John’s founder John Schnatter told WDRB that he has been wrongly smeared as a racist, which untimely led to his ouster at the company in July 2018. A fiery Schnatter warned those who’ve supposedly wronged him that “a day of reckoning” is on the way, and that the truth will soon be made clear. The Papa John’s founder was accused of using the N-word during a conference call concerning public relations strategies in combatting racial controversies. According to a report from Forbes, Schnatter said, “Colonel Sanders called blacks n*****s” and explained that Sanders did not receive similar backlash from the public. The businessman claimed he used the word to illustrate the racism of a third party (apparently KFC), which marketing agency Laundry Service suggested the company partner with. Laundry Service, Schnatter said, attempted to blackmail the founder for $6 million weeks later over the recorded conference call. Soon after he told the company he ...

Americans are increasingly struggling with a new form of anxiety disorder related to climate change, according to a report from Phys.org, and it’s throwing psychologists for a loop. The anxity, it seems, stems from climate activists’ latest claims — that the world as we know it will likely end in just over a decade unless a massive, international effort is undertaken to halt the effects of carbon emissions. But as with many activist claims, the timelines vary, as do the proposed solutions, but that hasn’t stopped environmental groups across the board from ramping up their rhetoric. “Fears about climate change are prompting worldwide action, but one knock-on effect in the United States is mounting anxiety about everything from plastics to class-based environmental disparities,” Phsy.org reported. Some climate activists say we have under a decade to make major changes in our lifestyles, including abandoning domestic air travel, ditching single-use plastic items like straws, and regres...

Failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick trashed the United States on “Unthanksgiving Day,” accusing the United States of having “stolen” billions of acres of land from “Indigenous people.” In a tweet that featured a video, Kaepernick wrote, “Spent the morning at the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Ceremony on the 50 year anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz. The US government has stolen over 1.5 billion acres of land from Indigenous people. Thank you to my Indigenous family, I’m with you today and always.” Mother Jones reports: Native Americans in northern California gather annually for a sunrise ceremony, called “Unthanksgiving Day,” on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. This year’s gathering, though, was special: It marked 50 years since Bay Area Natives, having left reservations and flocked to cities, staked a claim to Alcatraz (where the infamous federal prison was decommissioned in 1963). On November 20, 1969, Indigenous activists began their 19-month occupation of the ...

On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order that would create a task force designed to investigate the ongoing problem of missing Native-American women. “The task force will be overseen by Attorney General William Barr and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt,” reports the Associated Press. “It is tasked with developing protocols to apply to new and unsolved cases and creating a multi-jurisdictional team to review cold cases.” During the press conference, President Trump referred to the epidemic as “sobering and heartbreaking,” arguing that the task force should have been created long ago. “It has been going on a long time,” the president said. “We’re going to address it very strongly. The statistics are sobering and heartbreaking. Recently, more than 5,000 Native American women and girls were reported missing in a single year while a majority returned home or were found, too many are still missing and their whereabouts are unknown.” “The victims and their families deserve ...

Millennials aren’t interested in participating in the office “Secret Santa,” according to a new study by the British job-hunting website, Jobsite, because the practice is “stressful” and anxiety-inducing. “Secret Santa” is, of course, a regular practice among work colleagues during the holidays. It’s often preferred to other practices because organizers can limit the budget spent on gifts, and it doesn’t align with any specific religious holiday, so it doesn’t leave anyone out of the loop (though, of course, jolly ol’ St. Nick is identified with Christmas). But Millennials – facing the blame for killing everything from home ownership to landline telephones to sit-down Pizza Hut – are tired of participating in mandatory holiday activities at work and would rather corporate America keep the gift-giving private. Jobsite’s study focused on the “negative effects” of Secret Santa and “it found that some millennials – Yes, of course, it’s millennials – have been suffering from anxiety as a...

As if we all needed another reason to hate the Department of Motor Vehicles. A new report from Vice’s Motherboard shows that the most despised of all government agencies has been selling our personal information in order to raise revenue. The California DMV, specifically, raises $50 million a year selling this information. From Motherboard: In a public record acts request, Motherboard asked the California DMV for the total dollar amounts paid by commercial requesters of data for the past six years. The responsive document shows the total revenue in financial year 2013/14 as $41,562,735, before steadily climbing to $52,048,236 in the financial year 2017/18. The document doesn’t name the commercial requesters, but some specific companies appeared frequently in Motherboard’s earlier investigation that looked at DMVs across the country. They included data broker LexisNexis and consumer credit reporting agency Experian. Motherboard also found DMVs sold information to private investigator...

Colin Kaepernick celebrated “Unthanksgiving Day” by ripping the “US government” for having “stolen” over a “billion acres” from indigenous people, during an annual ceremony held in San Francisco, California, Thursday. “The US government has stolen over 1.5 billion acres of land from Indigenous people. Thank you to my Indigenous family, I’m with you today and always,” the former 49ers quarterback wrote in a tweet Thursday afternoon: Spent the morning at the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Ceremony on the 50 year anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz. The US government has stolen over 1.5 billion acres of land from Indigenous people. Thank you to my Indigenous family, I’m with you today and always. pic.twitter.com/6cTuktUlQN — Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) November 28, 2019 “It’s been 50 years since the occupation,” he said during remarks given at the event, “And that struggle has continued for that 50 years.” Kaepernick continued: Before that 50 years, it will continue from...

Billionaire founder of BET (Black Entertainment Television) and lifelong Democrat Robert Johnson had some unwelcome comments for his fellow Democrats in a recent interview with CNBC. The current group of Democratic presidential contenders, said Johnson, is incapable of taking down Donald Trump in 2020. “If you take a snapshot today, I don’t think that group is capable of beating Donald Trump, despite what the polls say,” Johnson told CNBC this week, in comments reported by The Washington Post on Friday. “I think the president has always been in a position where it’s his to lose,” said Johnson, who the Post notes is “America’s first black billionaire.” Part of the problem, Johnson suggested, is that the current crop of candidates have gravitated too far left, particularly for most African Americans. “I do not see anybody in the Democratic primary race today that is enough in the center where I believe most are the voters are, and particularly where most African Americans are,” he sa...

On Thanksgiving evening, a college football game lost a one-point game after their kicker missed an extra point after touchdown that would have tied the game, but a 15-yard penalty assessed against the kicking team after the touchdown aided the failure, and the reason for the penalty was this: the receiver who scored the touchdown celebrated by pretending to urinate like a dog. Ole Miss receiver Elijah Moore performed his stunt after he scored in the the final seconds of the Egg Bowl between the University of Mississippi and arch-rival Mississippi State. As The Daily Mailnoted, “After crossing the goal line, Moore was seen crawling along on all fours, before lifting his right leg high into the air as if to mark his territory.” The 15-yard penalty caused the extra point to be kicked from 35 yards out. This Egg Bowl ending was INSANE Ole Miss scored with 4 seconds left and had a chance to tie the game with the PAT. After a flag for the excessive celebration moved the PAT back, the k...

Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro visited the campus of Stanford University on Nov. 7 to deliver a speech in which he exposed the “dangerous game” being played by the racist Alt-Right movement and their counterparts on the radical left. Despite taking aim for most of the speech at the far-right, Shapiro was protested by left-wing student activists before and during the speech. His appearance on the campus was also referenced disparagingly a few days later in a letter from Stanford’s provost announcing new actions taken by the university to clamp down on “misgendering” people. Shapiro has consistently pushed back against the policing of speech, ardently defending the First Amendment right to free speech against the left’s disingenuous attacks on it via declarations of subjectively defined “hate speech.” Shapiro has also argued against the unconstitutional notion of forcing people to refer to others with their preferred gender pronouns. In a letter to the Stanford community sent o...