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A Florida man trying to take his dad on a flight for Father’s Day hit a wake in the water that soaked the flight plan. On Sunday at 11:05 a.m. the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office and Nassau County Fire Rescue responded to reports of a…
Read More Florida Man’s Plane Hits A Wake In The Water Dampening Father’s Day Flight
As the Biden administration demands tougher gun control in the wake of multiple mass shootings recently, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz on Saturday noted something curious about its firearms policy. One department seems to be hoarding ammunition, and not who you might think. It’s the IRS.…
Read More Rep. Gaetz: Why Has Biden’s IRS Purchased More Than $700K Of Ammo
Trump Derangement Syndrome remains a very real thing, even 17 months after the 45th president left office. An apparently TDS-afflicted Massachusetts driver crashed his car into a store that sold merchandise promoting former President Donald Trump. According to Deputy Chief Keith Boone of the Easton,…
Read More Trump-Hating Driver Crashes His Car Into Front Of Store Selling Trump Merchandise
TAMPA, Fla. – Denver may be the Mile High City, but the Avalanche were playing downhill in Game 2 seemingly since the pregame warmup. Alas, all the Lightning can do now is flush it and look forward to coming home for Games 3 and 4.…
Read More The Lightning’s Resilience Needs To Surface In Game 3 Against Avalanche
U.S. Coast Guard and partner agencies rescued ten people and recovered two bodies after their vessels collided, Friday, near Key Biscayne. Coast Guard Station Miami Beach small boat crews and a Coast Guard Air Station Miami MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew rescued 10 people and recovered one…
Read More U.S. Coast Guard Rescues 10 People, Recover Two Bodies After Boats Collide In Florida
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – Police in Florida are seeking to identify a couple that has been writing bad checks for cart loads of goods. On April 24, 2022, a check from a New Port Richey, Pasco County, business was fraudulently written at a Home…
Read More Reward: Police In Florida Work To Find Duo Writing Bad Checks For Apparently Bad Stomach Issues
Thomas Catenacci The White House hasn’t considered boosting domestic oil production as it scrambles to think up solutions to address record gasoline prices, The Washington Post reported Friday. Senior administration officials have mulled issuing millions of fuel rebate cards and invoking Cold War powers to…
Read More White House Ignores Oil Production In Quest For Gas Price Fix
Op-Ed By Kevin Roberts It’s been said that America can always be counted on to do the right thing, once we have exhausted all the other alternatives. As of Father’s Day 2022, America has spent about 60 years exhausting the alternatives to fatherhood — and…
Read More Op-Ed: Sorry Libs, You Can’t Replace Dads With Government
A Florida woman has been arrested with the man who held her at gunpoint during an armed robbery at a Circle K gas station. The modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. On Friday, Deputies responded to the Circle K located at 10685 U.S. Highway 98 in Walton…
Read More Florida Woman Arrested With Man Who Held Her At Gunpoint During Armed Robbery
President Joe Biden fell off his bike when he came to a stop at the end of a ride Saturday at Cape Henlopen State Park. This area is close to his beach home in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware. “I’m good,” he told reporters after U.S. Secret…
Read More Biden’s Foot Gets Caught In Bikes Toe Cage And Takes A Tumble After Beach Ride