4:35 p.m. Former FBI Director James Comey has declined an invitation to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week. That’s according to an aide to the committee’s chairman, GOP [Read More]

Miami (AFP) – The number of hepatitis C infections have nearly tripled in the United States in the last five years, particularly among people in their 20s, researchers said Thursday. [Read More]

SF Chronicle: Here’s another story to add to the negative avocado coverage: Beyond the skyrocketing costs and exorbitant avocado toast prices, avocados are also a ruiner of hands (for a [Read More]

h/t Doc. via Bamboo Bob

Nice work by The Plantain. I’m sure there are leftist chitpickles out there that fully expect this Trump appointment. ht/ wiscodave

Copenhagen (AFP) – Denmark’s Jewish community has filed a complaint over an imam accused of calling for the murder of Jews in a case sparking political opprobrium, it emerged Thursday. [Read More]

Breitbart: Tennessee became one of the first states on Tuesday to pass legislation designed to stem the assault on free speech at its public universities. The eight page Campus Free Speech [Read More]

Yahoo: SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church, the biggest sponsor of Boy Scout troops in the United States, announced Thursday it is pulling as many as 185,000 older youths [Read More]

Breitbart: Federal immigration officials arrested nearly 1,400 gang members in a nationwide 6-week operation, including illegal immigrants gang members who had protected status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [Read More]

Ray Kelly, the former and longest-serving New York City police commissioner Mike Rogers, former House Intelligence Committee chairman and former FBI agent Former Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher Rep. Trey [Read More]

DownTrend: President Donald Trump just escalated his conflict with former FBI Director James Comey which has now broken out into open warfare. The deeply-embedded Obama loyalists within the Deep State, [Read More]

A liberal studies professor at Cal Poly wrote and published a paper that states the Eastern Fox Squirrel is the victim of speciesism because of media bias, and she hasn’t [Read More]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t call me Caitlyn. A year after Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and gender, the popularity of the name Caitlyn plummeted more than any other baby [Read More]

Breitbart: A pair of gang members — one of whom was reportedly out on the streets because of Jerry Brown’s sentencing reform to allow “non-violent” offenders to be released early [Read More]