The Air Force Set a New Record When Its Secret Space Plane Flew for More Than Two Years Straight

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The U.S. Air Force has broken its own record after one of its specialized planes stayed in low Earth orbit for nearly two years. But this plane and the project it belongs to are still shrouded in mystery.

According to an Air Force press release revealing some information about the project, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is “an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the U.S. Air Force.” The mission has the dual objectives of developing “reusable spacecraft technologies for America’s future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth.”

But what the Air Force has been a lot less forthcoming about is why this unmanned plane has been flying for so long continuously and what it’s been doing during its flight. The Washington Post noted that the X-37B stuck to a low Earth orbit, which is the same orbit that holds military satellites and the International Space Station.

The “plane” looks like a mini space shuttle. It’s 29 feet long and 9 feet high, with a wingspan just shy of 15 feet. It was taken into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2017. According to Air & Space magazine, the X-37B moves by using “Hall thrusters” which use “an electric field to accelerate xenon propellant, producing a small but steady thrust that’s useful for many types of spacecraft, including military communications satellites already in orbit.” According to the Air Force, the aircraft is powered by “Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells with lithium-Ion batteries.”

Before this attempt, previous X-37B flights had lasted for 224 days, 469 days, and 674 days. This latest flight lasted for 719 days. For perspective, the longest commercial flight takes 19 hours to travel from New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport to Singapore. (For more from the author of “The Air Force Set a New Record When Its Secret Space Plane Flew for More Than Two Years Straight” please click HERE)

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DC Expanding Absurd Criminal Leniency to Murderers Under 25. Republicans Still on Board for Criminal Justice ‘Reform’

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What happens when Republicans stop being the party of law and order and instead help the Left promote the false narrative that America locks up too many criminals for too long? Well, there is then no check or balance on the behavior of the Left. Free from any fear that Republicans will ever run “soft on crime” ads against them, they are now pushing the most extreme pro-criminal laws throughout the country. Meanwhile, much as he does with amnesty legislation, Jared Kushner is trying to convince Republican donors that felons released from prison will actually vote Republican!

Far from pushing “reforms” for “non-violent, first-time, low-level” offenders – the typical canard used to propagate jailbreak legislation – the D.C. City Council is now considering a bill to let out even the worst murderers, rapists, and child sex offenders potentially after just 15 years in prison. Even the Washington Post sounded the alarm in a Sunday editorial, noting that given the lack of exceptions in the bill, “if the gunmen who massacred innocent people in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, this month had instead committed their crimes in the District — and had both survived — one would be eligible for release or reduced sentence at age 36, at a judge’s discretion; the other at age 39.”

“Residents of the District of Columbia deserve protection from the most violent criminals and to be confident those offenders receive prison sentences commensurate with the gravity of their crimes,” said the notoriously leftist paper.

D.C., like several other states, has recently enacted legislation allowing those convicted of murder as juveniles to obtain early release after 15 years, even when the judge sentences them to life without parole. Now, proponents want to expand the aggressive push for leniencies for juvenile offenders to those as old as 25. I guess they feel if you are still young enough to be on your parents’ medical insurance, you must still not be fully at fault for murder. This is yet another trend in the runaway “criminal justice reform” leniency train that is expanding its reach to the most violent criminals.

Yet I can’t find a single Republican speaking out against this or similar measures throughout the country.

Republicans could single-handedly realign American politics and win back suburban voters if they were to counter the Left’s gun control agenda with a criminal control agenda. They could force Democrats to answer tough questions on their radical views against incarcerations that don’t sell outside the halls of academia. In San Francisco, after passing a slew of pro-criminal laws, they are now changing the language to sanitize criminals with their verbiage. “Convicted felon” is now a “justice-involved person.” Rather than fighting crime, they want Americans to begin acquiescing to criminals.

In North Carolina, the liberal-dominated supreme court recently let out a child porn offender on a technicality and created a new constitutional right for serial sexual offenders to avoid GPS monitoring. In fact, many child sex offenders are barely serving any time. One illegal alien child sex offender we reported on a few weeks ago was not only let out by Boulder County against an ICE detainer, he served zero prison time.

Many violent criminals and sex offenders are either being let out early or are serving probation. Then when they violate their probation, they are seldom locked up again, but often go on to commit other violent crimes. As KIRO radio host Dori Monson reported earlier this month, despite Washington state’s three strikes law, Gov. Jay Inslee, who was briefly a token presidential candidate, has been granting them clemency. Under the law, those convicted of three violent crimes are supposed to serve time for life, but Inslee gave clemency to one convict who then violated the terms of his clemency. Inslee apparently granted him another clemency, and he has now disappeared.

This entire notion of replacing incarceration with open-ended parole has become a joke and a public safety hazard. As Chicago Tribune editorial board member, John Kass, recently noted, the Chicago probation and monitoring system has been so overrun by politicians seeking to reduce prison populations at all costs that “there are only 100 deputies monitoring the system to watch over more than 2,000 alleged criminals, many of them violent.”

Kass observes that among them, “233 were charged with aggravated battery; 198 with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon; 108 with being an armed habitual criminal; 109 with sexual assault or abuse; 21 with kidnapping; and 109 with murder or attempted murder.” He wrote about one case of a gun felon caught with a 30-round capacity magazine who manipulated the GPS monitoring system designed to track him. He got let out on bail after paying just $9,000.

Remember, the very same people who want to push gun control and bans on extended magazines refuse to lock up those convicted of violent crimes who are caught illegally with those magazines! It’s the perfect rebuttal Republicans can use to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Left, except they have bought into this agenda too.

According to Axios, Jared Kushner recently told a group of Republican donors at a Wyoming retreat that felons are registering to vote Republican. It’s hard to tell which promise is more absurd – that convicted felons will vote Republicans or that “Dreamers” will reward Republicans for joining Democrats in giving them amnesty. Why would they vote for an echo of the Soros agenda when they can vote for the real thing? And what about all those Americans who aren’t convicted felons but must suffer from Kushner’s jailbreak agenda helping fuel Soros’ life goals?

It’s time the public finally became aware of the fact that this “criminal justice reform” movement is built on a lie and has nothing to do with low-level offenders. As the Washington Post noted in the Sunday editorial, “If they want to slash sentences for violent offenders — many or most of whom are in their 20s — let them make that case clearly and honestly.” But this entire movement is built upon deceit and working in the shadows. (For more from the author of “DC Expanding Absurd Criminal Leniency to Murderers Under 25. Republicans Still on Board for Criminal Justice ‘Reform’” please click HERE)

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Bernie Tries to Praise Communist China, Accidentally Praises Capitalism

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Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is one of the leading Democratic presidential candidates, attempted to praise communist China on Tuesday during an interview with The Hill and accidentally ended up promoting capitalism.

“China is a country that is moving unfortunately in a more authoritarian way in a number of directions,” Sanders told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball. “But what we have to say about China in fairness to China and it’s leadership is if I’m not mistaken they have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization, so they’ve done a lot of things for their people.”

What Sanders did not acknowledge was that free-market principles are what allowed China to lift millions of its citizens out of poverty. Forbes reports:

…never before in history have so many people escaped poverty in such a short time as in the past decades in China. According to official World Bank figures, the percentage of extremely poor people in China in 1981 stood at 88.3%. By 2015 only 0.7% of the Chinese population was living in extreme poverty. In this period, the number of poor people in China fell from 878 million to less than ten million…

…China’s success provides clear evidence of the power of capitalism. Under Mao, the state had an omnipotent grip over China’s economy. What has happened over the past few decades can be summed up in a few sentences: China has progressively embraced the tenets of free-market economics, introduced private ownership, and gradually reduced the influence of the once all-powerful state over the Chinese economy. That the state still plays a major role today is simply because China is in the midst of a transformation process that began with complete state dominance of the economy.

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How Extreme Are Democrats on Abortion? Watch This Chilling Response From Beto.

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At a campaign event on Monday night, presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke said that he believes women should have the right to kill their unborn babies up to the moment of birth.

O’Rourke was confronted by a young man in the College of Charleston audience about his radical pro-abortion position, which is on-par with the field of Democratic presidential candidates. “My question is this: I was born September 8th, 1989, and I want to know if you think on September 7th, 1989, my life had no value,” he asked the Democrat.

“Of course I don’t think that. And of course I’m glad that you’re here,” O’Rourke responded. “But you referenced my answer in Ohio, and it remains the same. This is a decision that neither you, nor I, nor the United States government should be making. That’s a decision for the woman to make.”

After a momentary pause due to an applauding audience, O’Rourke said that he wants pregnant women “to have the best possible access to care and to medical providers,” later adding that “only” a pregnant woman “knows what she knows, and I trust her with that.”

The 49-year-old also claimed that the state of Texas, where O’Rourke made an unsuccessful run for a Senate seat, is “losing lives of women” due to pro-life legislation.

In March, O’Rourke unapologetically spoke out for abortion-till-birth in Cleveland, Ohio. “Are you for third-trimester abortions? Are you going to protect the lives of third-trimester babies?” a female audience member asked the media darling, as previously reported by The Daily Wire. “Because, you know, there’s really not a medical necessity for (late-term) abortion — it’s not a medical emergency procedure — because typically third-trimester abortions take up to three days to have. So, in that sense, if there was an emergency, the doctors would just do a [caesarian]-section, and you don’t have to kill the baby in that essence. So, are you for or against third-trimester abortions?”

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Report Claims Ilhan Omar Had Affair With Married Man, Funneled Him Campaign Money

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By Daily Wire. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was accused of having an affair with a married man, whom she allegedly funneled large sums of money to through her campaign, in divorce documents filed this week.

“Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative and that he even made a ‘shocking declaration of love’ for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched her, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday,” The New York Post reported.

Court documents reviewed by the Post said that Tim Mynett, 38, and Jordan Mynett, 55, “physically separated on or about April 7, 2019, when Defendant told Plaintiff that he was romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar.”

The Post added: “The 37-year-old congresswoman and mom of three paid Tim Mynett and his E. Street Group approximately $230,000 through her campaign since 2018 for fundraising consulting, digital communications, Internet advertising and travel expenses.” . . .

Investigative reporter David Steinberg, who has extensively reported on the marriage fraud allegations against Omar, noted that Omar allegedly entering the couple’s home while the wife was away was a damning indictment on her moral judgment. (Read more from “Report Claims Ilhan Omar Had Affair With Married Man, Funneled Him Campaign Money” HERE)

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Ilhan Omar Should Be Probed Over Payments to ‘Lover’: Watchdog Group

By The New York Post. A conservative watchdog group said Tuesday that it plans to file a complaint against US Rep. Ilhan Omar with the Federal Election Commission — after The Post revealed allegations that she’s dating one of her paid consultants.

“This arrangement where Ilhan is paying her lover consulting fees could be illegal if he’s not doing the work,” said National Legal and Policy Center Chairman Peter Flaherty.

“And we’ll be asking the FEC for an investigation to determine the nature and level of his work product.”

Earlier Tuesday, The Post reported that Beth Mynett, a DC-based doctor, filed for separation from her husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, alleging he told her April 7 that he was having an affair with Omar. (Read more from “Ilhan Omar Should Be Probed Over Payments to ‘Lover’: Watchdog Group” HERE)

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NASA, Scientists Crush Climate Change Hysteria Around Amazon Fires — Here’s the Truth

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While climate change alarmists spread fear over wildfires in the Amazon rainforest, data from NASA shows there is no reason for concern — or there should have been concern in past years.

From media outlets to politicians, the wildfires have sparked a wave of misinformation and hysteria. The wildfires are so frightening because the Amazon produces 20 percent of the world’s oxygen, they claim. Others alleged the fires could speed up climate change.

And even though fires are common, NASA analysis shows that current fire activity is at or below average.

As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.)

Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data.

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WATCH: Dan Crenshaw Corrects Democrat Pastor for Supporting Socialism

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Matt covered the insanity brought on by climate change protesters at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting this week. But, it isn’t just the party crashers who are saying truly outlandish things, it’s also the invited speakers. Progressive Pastor Rev. William Barber challenged Republicans on whether or not socialism is moral. He even invited the debate, saying Jesus would support the economic system. Luckily, we have Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw to explain to the preacher just how wrong he is.

“When we embrace moral language, we must ask does our policy care for the least of these? Does it lift up those who are most marginalized and dejected in our society? Does it establish justice? That is the moral question,” Rev. William Barber said to applause.

“If someone calls it socialism, then we must compel them to acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free health care to everyone, and he never charged a leper a co-pay,” he added. . .

“Deliberate misreading of Biblical principles by DNC to promote socialism,” the freshman congressman tweeted. “The Bible teaches charity with one’s own time and money. Socialism teaches charity with other people’s time and money. So….not the same thing.”

Perhaps Rev. Barber, since he is interested in a moral debate, should be reminded of what Roman Catholic Pope John Paul II had to say on the subject. Socialism, the now-Catholic saint argued, disregards the sanctity of individual life. That’s why it’s truly evil and always leads to poverty, famine, and death. (Read more from “Dan Crenshaw Corrects Democrat Pastor for Supporting Socialism” HERE)

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Census Could Reveal Electoral Extinction of the Republicans

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The recent battle over a citizenship question on the 2020 census perked up ears and attention on both sides of the political aisle. Part of why there was the sharp division over this question comes from obvious partisan concerns. Governors of states with high numbers of illegal immigrants such as California and Texas realize that including the question would result in a loss of representation in Congress and the Electoral College, along with prospective federal funding changes. President Trump and his administration had wanted to return the historical question to the tally.

But there is also a fight over what the 2020 numbers tell us in terms of demographics and election results. The 2018 Texas Senate race and the stark transition of California into a Democratic stronghold intimates that changing immigration numbers could transform electoral politics for generations to come. Major alterations to immigration law since the 1960s have deprioritized migration from Europe and increased illegal entry at the border with Mexico. The Democrats are awaiting a majority minority nation, which could indeed become a reality over the next two decades.

Whites tend to vote Republican, while nonwhites tend to vote Democrat. This proved true in the 2016 election, when Trump carried white voters by 20 percent, while Hillary Clinton won 74 percent of nonwhite voters. With the number of Latinos living in the United States nearly doubling since 2000, it is not difficult to see why Texas could soon follow California, Colorado, and Nevada into the Democratic camp in the next 20 years.

Using the 2000 census and the 2010 census along with 2018 data, the electoral reality becomes more clear. The population of those under 18 will be majority nonwhite next year. Each of the major ethnic groups is expanding at different rates. By averaging the rate of annual population change between 2010 and 2018, we get an estimate of 2020 demographic figures. The number of Latinos will likely increase to nearly 63 million in 2020, an astounding 24 percent higher than in 2010. Latinos will comprise 19 percent of the overall population by 2020, up 50 percent from 2000. Finally, the proportion of whites as a percentage of the overall population will likely decline from 69 percent in 2000 down to 59 percent in 2020.

Should the demographic trends continue down the same path in future elections, there is a potential bloodbath for the Republican Party on the horizon. Due to the fact that the children of most recent immigrants are often under 18, modern elections actually underestimate the future voting potential of Latinos and other immigrant groups. In 2016, 29 percent of the electorate was nonwhite, but almost 40 percent of the country was nonwhite. Over the next decade, young nonwhites will reach the age of the majority of the electorate and begin their political participation. (Read more from “Census Could Reveal Electoral Extinction of the Republicans” HERE)

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Revealed ‘Inexplicable Negligence,’ Former Federal Prosecutor Says; Could French Prosecutors Be Targeting Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc-Brunel With Epstein Probe?

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By Yahoo News. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Elie Honig believes that Jeffrey Epstein’s death “does pretty clearly look like a suicide,” but the circumstances surrounding the accused sex trafficker and billionaire financier’s passing also highlight the “inexplicable negligence” of staffers at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where he was being held.

“There needs to be some serious accountability,” Honig said in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” “How could this have happened? How could they have lost Jeffrey Epstein? How could they have lost the top-priority, highest-profile, most sensitive single inmate that they had at that time? There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.” . . .

Honig said there should have been an “extra red flag” in Epstein’s case, especially since he had tried to kill himself only three weeks earlier.

“How do they not keep an eye on that guy?” he wondered. “It’s not like this came out of nowhere.”

Hours after Epstein’s death, Attorney General William Barr announced that the Department of Justice, which oversees the Bureau of Prisons, would launch a thorough investigation. On Thursday, CNN reported that federal investigators had issued as many as 20 grand jury subpoenas to MCC corrections officers. (Read more from “Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Revealed ‘Inexplicable Negligence,’ Former Federal Prosecutor Says” HERE)

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Could French Prosecutors Be Targeting Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc-Brunel With Epstein Probe?

By Law and Crime. French prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged rape of minors at his Paris apartment.

Chief Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said in a statement that this investigation has been opened up due to “exchanges with American authorities, competent in the so-called Epstein affair.” The investigation has reportedly been opened to investigate Epstein’s illicit activities in France and the alleged abuse he committed against French citizens.

No details have been provided as to what specifically prosecutors are investigating, but Epstein is known to have several connections in France. His friend and suspected accomplice, Jean Luc-Brunel, allegedly gifted Epstein three French 12-year-old girls for his birthday one year. Brunel, a model scout who founded MC2 Model Management, appeared in both Epstein’s flight logs and his little black book of elite contacts.

“He went on to tell me how Brunel bought them in Paris from their parents, offering them the usual sums of money, visas, and modeling career prospects,” said Virginia Giuffre in a 2015 statement. “Jeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim.” . . .

Aside from Epstein’s apartment in Paris and his relationship with Brunel, Epstein’s long-time friend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, has long-standing ties in the South of France, where she was born. Several members of Maxwell’s family also have homes there, including her older sister, Christine Malina-Maxwell, who is married to the son of rocket scientist Frank Malina, one of the U.S.’s top scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab. When asked if he knew anyone with the last name of Malina or Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Malina-Maxwell’s neighbors laughed and told a reporter: “Maybe they’re all there.” (Read more from “Could French Prosecutors Be Targeting Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc-Brunel With Epstein Probe?” HERE)

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Federal Prosecutors Reportedly Considering Charges Against Newest CNN Hire, Andrew McCabe

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Federal prosecutors are considering filing charges against newly hired CNN contributor and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, according to a Monday report in the New York Times.

McCabe, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, was fired by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on March 16, 2018, the day before he would have retired. This move delayed his retirement benefits for seven years. . .

McCabe is also currently suing the Department of Justice, claiming that he was unfairly targeted by President Donald Trump and that his firing was politically motivated. McCabe wants the department to reinstate him so that he can collect his benefits, which included a pension and health care coverage. . .

According to the report from the Times, which was based on “interviews with people familiar with recent developments in the investigation,” McCabe is in danger of being charged with “lying to federal agents.”

McCabe’s lawyers reportedly met twice last week with Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. The Times suggested that this could be an indication that McCabe’s lawyers were trying to convince the Department of Justice not to go through with the prosecution. (Read more from “Federal Prosecutors Reportedly Considering Charges Against Newest CNN Hire, Andrew McCabe” HERE)

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