When the Revolutionary War came to Norfolk

The Revolutionary War comes to Norfolk

Fall of 1775

Virginia is under the control of the Colonial Governor Lord Dunmore, who was using Norfolk as his land base of operations in the region. The population of Norfolk, once the largest borough in the province, has been greatly reduced. Patriots are leaving to join the militia and their families are scattering to nearby counties for safety.

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Norfolk’s printing press seized

September 1775 

John Holt, a printer and editor of a local newspaper, uses his publication to urge the remaining citizens of Norfolk to fight for their liberties and to put up a struggle against Lord Dunmore. In late September 1775, Dunmore sends his troops to Norfolk and seizes Holt’s printing press. In response to the citizens who protest the act, Dunmore states, “I could not have done the people a greater service than by depriving them of the means of having their minds poisoned and of exciting in them the spirit of rebellion and sedition.”

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British routed at battle of Great bridge

December 9, 1775

The British engage in battle against the patriots, attempting to gain control of the village of Great Bridge in Norfolk County. When they lose to the Americans, the Brits retreat to their ships anchored in the Norfolk harbor. Hundreds of Tory sympathizers from Norfolk and the adjoining areas also take shelter aboard the ships. The borough of Norfolk is now under the control of Virginia forces.

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Clinton's Son-in-Law Lost CalPERS Money Betting Greek Bonds

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to have sought inside information on a potential European Union bailout as her son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, speculated on defaulting Greek bonds in 2012 with CalPERS’ public pension cash as his hedge fund was getting wiped out.

Fox News reported late last week that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who served from January 21, 2009 and until stepping down on February 1, 2013 in advance of her run for president, sought “secret info on European Union bailout plans as [her] son-in-law’s doomed hedge fund gambled on Greece.”

A former Goldman Sachs broker, Mezvinsky formed the Eaglevale Partners hedge fund in October 2011 with two ex-Goldman Sachs partners. Eaglevale was incorporated in the secretive tax haven of the Cayman Islands in October 2011, then immediately named Goldman Sachs as its prime broker and banker.

Eaglevale would raise $325 million from CalPERS and others through a “special arrangement” with Goldman Sachs to engage in a “global macro” strategy to seek profit from opportunities in “politically volatile situations.”

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Colorado city to stop selling ice cream at pools, parks

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Boulder residents will no longer be able to cool off with an ice cream cone by the pool because the city has discontinued the sweet treat as a vending option at all Parks and Recreation facilities.

The city dropped ice cream cones, bars and sandwiches in an effort to cut down on sugary, unhealthy snacks, The Daily Camera reported (http://bit.ly/29c8YoD). City-run facilities can only sell treats that satisfy a series of nutritional standards, meaning chips and other junk food also left snack stands this year.

The change hasn’t been welcomed by everyone. Andrew Gafford, 8, said he has always spent his summers enjoying a Neapolitan ice cream sandwich at the pool.

“I’ll get over it, but then it brings back a lot of memories of me getting ice cream sandwiches,” Andrew said. “Like this one time, when I was eating one very slowly, so it melted all over me. It makes me feel sad to say.”

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Loretta Lynch falls under the Clintons’ corrupting influence

She can’t help herself. Even yesterday, with the political world fixated on her meeting with FBI agents, Hillary Clinton had her flack mislead the public.

A spokesman said she gave a “voluntary” interview, which is true only because she agreed to talk instead of waiting to be subpoenaed. The flack also said she was “pleased” to assist the gumshoes.

Who believes she was “pleased” to be interviewed by the FBI in a criminal investigation that could upend her life?

But that’s the way the Clintons roll.

Wherever they go, whatever they do, ethics are trashed and suspicions of criminal conduct follow them like night follows day.

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A Viewer Writes: Google

This is what you see when you go to www.google.com Will the liberals be crying racism since all the stars are white?

Proof the news is scripted

Mosby Under Pressure As Rice Trial Begins

Pre-trial motions for Baltimore City Police Lt. Brian Rice are scheduled for Tuesday morning, with Rice's trial scheduled to begin on Wednesday.

Rice faces manslaughter, assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office in the death of Freddie Gray.

Rice's trial begins two weeks after Judge Barry Williams acquitted Officer Caesar Goodson on charges related to Gray's death, and about two months after Williams acquitted Officer Edward Nero.

Rice was the bike patrol officer who spotted Gray and two other other officers in April of last year, and began chasing Gray, after Gray ran away.

Rice is one of five officers suing Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and Baltimore City Sheriff Major Sam Cogen for wrongful arrest and prosecution.

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Rush: We're Being Played by the Clintons

RUSH: Okay, folks, I'm gonna tell you what I think is actually going on here. I think we are being played in the standard, common, everyday way the Clinton team plays the American people. It has happened, I can't count the number of times, dating back to when Bill Clinton was in the White House.

Essentially what this is -- and the Lynch-Clinton meeting is the latest ingredient -- we're being set up for massive disappointment, depression, and dispiritedness. They're making it look like, and they have all along, very possible Hillary Clinton could be indicted. They are toying with us. They're dangling this carrot in front us. "This could be the time. This could be it when we finally get the Clintons once and for all."

They drag it out, and they do things like this meeting that apparently compromises the whole thing and jeopardizes the whole thing, release information on all the emails they're finding and Hillary's IT takes the Fifth 125 times. Ask yourself, how many times do people ask you, "Do you really think Hillary's gonna be indicted?" And they say it with anticipation and excitement. How many times do people ask you that? They ask me that all the time.

My answer, by the way, from the get-go has always been, "She's not gonna be indicted. There's no way it's gonna happen. You don't understand the Democrat Party and their use of power if you think their presidential nominee is gonna be indicted by an Obama DOJ. Ain't gonna happen."

But they got a lot of people thinking it will, and when she skates, they want you depressed, they want you down in the dumps, they want you giving up, they want you thinking there's no way you can win.

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Al Gore’s Daughter Arrested In Climate Change Protest

A daughter of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested on Wednesday, along with 22 other people, while protesting the construction of a natural gas pipeline in Massachusetts.

The arrests happened at Spectra Energy’s West Roxbury Lateral pipeline, near Boston.

Karenna Gore laid down inside a trench dug for the pipeline and refused to move. Firefighters eventually removed her and other protesters from the trenches.

Noted climate change activist Tim DeChristopher said at the protest site, “We can no longer pretend like what Spectra is doing here in West Roxbury is anything other than digging a mass grave.”

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Man Accused of Planning Terrorism Acts in Phoenix, Tucson

A Tucson man has been arrested by the FBI and the Arizona Attorney General's Office for threatening to commit acts of terrorism on Arizona government buildings.

The Attorney General's Office says 18-year-old Mahin Khan appeared before a Phoenix judge Saturday morning.

He was ordered held without bond in Maricopa County Jail.

Khan faces two counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism and terrorism.

Arizona Attorney General spokeswoman Mia Garcia says Khan is accused of conspiring to carry out terrorism acts on government buildings in Phoenix and Tucson.

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Sonnie Johnson on Blacks for Donald Trump: ‘We Want Greatness; We Do Not Want Free Sh*t’

Podcaster and blogger Sonnie Johnson was having a pretty good time with this year’s BET Awards until Jesse Williams took the stage, as she told SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.

“He gives this speech, a Black Lives Matter speech, and I wrote a responding article on Breitbart.com, entitled ‘OK, Do You Want to Talk About Freedom Now?’” Johnson said. (The current title of the article was expanded to include both Johnson and Williams’ names; it may be read here.)

As Johnson pointed out, Jesse Williams has “a white mother and a black father – and that is what the Left has spent their time talking about, while the Right is talking about how divisive he is. And lost in this process are black people.”

She said she wrote her article to “reach those people, telling them the honest truth about why we cannot get problems solved in the black community.”

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At WWII Memorial, a complicated question: To wade or not to wade?

The summer sun is blazing down, and at the National World War II Memorial, shade is hard to come by. You stare at the inviting pool, the jets of cool water spurting from the memorial’s fountain beckon you forward. Do you dip your toes in or, better yet, wade in for relief from the heat?

You could, but you would be violating National Park Service rules — as signs at the memorial clearly state. And, in the minds of some, it is also tacky and disrespectful.

Washington is a city of memorials — somber places where we reflect on who we are and those who have perished fighting for the nation’s ideals. It is also a city full of tourists on Segways and hordes of school kids in matching uniforms. Every day, those two worlds collide. How, exactly, is one supposed to strike the delicate balance between relaxed vacationing and respectful, dignified reflection?

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Massive Coal Company Blames Obama For Massive Layoffs

One of the largest privately-held coal companies in the U.S. warned Friday that it may be forced to undergo the biggest layoff in the sector’s industry thanks to the Obama administration and stiff competition from natural gas producers.

Murray Energy Corp. notified employees it may have to slash as many as 4,400 jobs, or about 80 percent of its workforce, because of a combination of stiff regulations, low coal prices, and an increasingly crowded, competitive energy market. Company officials said it anticipates “massive workforce reductions in September.”

Murray’s owner, Robert Murray, is a stalwart supporter of Donald Trump and a fierce critic of President Barack Obama.

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Md. Health Officials Work To Tackle Growing Heroin Epidemic

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — There has been a surge in overdose deaths, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

A new report shows that overdose deaths have decreased in Baltimore City, but that the problem still persists statewide.

“You know people who are here today and gone tomorrow. It’s just that quick,” one woman said.

According to the health department, 383 overdose deaths were reported in the first three months of 2016 — nearly a 20 percent jump from the same period last year.

“It affects everybody, and that is it. It is hard to now know someone who hasn’t been affected in some way or another by this disease,” said Kathleen Rebbert-Franklin, Behavorial Health Administration.

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Kids don jail-issue jumpsuits, spend the night at Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Tent City

As the sun set over Tent City, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office buses rumbled around a corner and squealed to a halt at the entrance.

The door of one opened as the dust swirled. Feet hit the ground, followed by a trill of giggles and chatter.

A parade of children and teenagers emerged, each wearing a striped, awkwardly baggy jail-issue jumpsuit.

These kids, ages 9 to 18, are participants in a two-day program, Camp Summer Stars, hosted by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, with an overnight stay in Tent City.

The words “summer camp” and “Tent City” might not seem like a perfect match, but the Sheriff's Office pitches the program as a way to encourage Arizona youth to stay out of trouble as children and into their adult lives.

Participants stayed Thursday night in a designated area away from inmates. The goal: teaching them about life at the notorious Tent City and how to avoid ending up there down the road.

On Thursday, about 60 participants attended classes about drug and alcohol prevention and got a taste of jail food. The consensus, they said? It's gross

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Trump Hires Star Conservative Pollster Kellyanne Conway

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign announced new hires on Friday.

Kellyanne Conway, a veteran pollster, joined Trump’s campaign team to work alongside Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Conway has more than twenty years of polling and research experience for nonprofit, commercial, and political clients and has worked for Congressional candidates in the past. She recently served as president of the Keep the Promise I, a PAC that supported Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) presidential primary campaign.

According to the campaign press release, “She is widely regarded as an expert on female consumers and female voters.”

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Dems drop requirement to learn English for amnesty

In contrast to the traditional notion that immigrants should be required to learn the dominant language of a nation, the 2016 draft of the Democratic Party platform no longer recommends undocumented immigrants learn English as a condition of amnesty in the U.S.

In contrast, the 2012 version of the document included the need for comprehensive immigration reform, but specified undocumented immigrants should “get right with the law, learn English, and pay taxes in order to get on a path to earn citizenship.”

The 2008 Democratic Party platform was even more firm on requirements for citizenships, stating: “We support a system that requires undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, pay taxes, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.”

These recommendations are unpopular with Hispanics and immigrant-rights groups at a time when the Democratic Party needs the Hispanic vote, widely perceived as crucial for key swing states such as Colorado, Nevada and Florida.

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CNN reports no charges against Hillary

Sources say announcement comes in 2 weeks following FBI interview

In the wake of Hillary Clinton’s interview with the FBI at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Saturday, CNN reports from unnamed sources that “within the next two weeks or so, the expectation is there will be an announcement of no charges being brought against Clinton” so long as no evidence of wrongdoing emerges from her interview with the FBI.

“CNN has previously reported no charges were expected to be brought against Clinton,” noted CNN, “because the investigators had not found evidence to warrant charges, according to multiple law enforcement officials. A Democrat close to Clinton said Saturday the campaign believes the FBI will announce its decision before the conventions. … Sources familiar with the investigation had previously told CNN the Justice Department’s aim was to wrap up before the Republican and Democratic conventions later this month. The timing is crucial, because if Clinton were to be indicted before the convention, Democrats could perhaps nominate another candidate.”

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Audit finds flaws in Md. child care facility background checks

WASHINGTON – An audit of the Maryland State Department of Education uncovered flaws in how the agency carries out criminal background checks on people who work at child care facilities.

The audit, conducted by the state’s Department of Legislative Services, examines records from 2011 through 2014.

It claims the Education Department does not have an adequate process in place to ensure that background checks, required by state law, are obtained for all child care workers.

Out of nine employees examined in the audit, there was no record that a background check had been performed on two of them.

In another case, records showed an employee’s background check had been received and reviewed, but there was no documentation to substantiate that.

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Md. officials: 31 people in state have Zika

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland health officials say 31 people in the state have been infected with the Zika virus.

Health officials tell The Baltimore Sun (http://tinyurl.com/z8374lm) that all the cases were travel-related and no one has contracted Zika from being bitten by a mosquito in the state. However, if a mosquito bites an infected person and then bites someone else, the disease can spread.

Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Van Mitchell says in a statement that the department is trying to prevent such occurrences.

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When Government Controls All Wealth

Sliding Into Absurdity

Stock markets continued their rebound to almost erase all Brexit losses. London’s FTSE 100 Index is above Brexit levels but Europe’s equivalent of the Dow, the Euro Stoxx 50, remains lower.

Investors have realized Brexit isn’t the end of the world. First, because they think it won’t really happen. After all, elites can fix elections, buy politicians, and control public policy… surely, they can fix this!

A letter in the Financial Times reminds us that Swedish voters cast their ballots against nuclear power in 1980. The government just ignored them, doubling nuclear power generation over the next 36 years.

Second, because investors see the panic over Brexit leading to more spirited intervention by central banks! The EZ money floodgates – already wide open – are to be opened wider.

The U.S. has its QE program on hold, but Europe’s scheme is gushing like Niagara. Mario Draghi at the European Central Bank buys $90 billion a month in bonds. And he’s not only buying government bonds; he’s buying corporates, too.

Less Than Zero

In Japan, always a trendsetter, the Bank of Japan has bought so many bonds it has pushed Japanese government bond yields below zero – out to more than 45 years on the yield curve!

In other words, you can now lend to the bankrupt Japanese government until 2051 with no hope of making a single yen, nominally, on your investment. Now, with bonds stacking up in their vaults, the Japanese feds are diversifying. They’re buying exchange-traded funds (ETFs), too.

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Red White And Boom Cancelled For Tonight

After consultation with meteorologists, the National Weather Service, and Mother Nature, Red White and BOOM is officially postponed for the 4th of July.

Our rain date is Tuesday, July 5th. Please join us then. Everything will be exactly the same. Free community fireworks at Wicomico County Stadium, with fun for kids, and lots of food vendors and music. We'll see you then! Thanks for your patience and understanding.

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13 unusual things GSA is auctioning off

The General Services Administration celebrates its 67th anniversary on July 1, 2016. GSA not only manages the federal government’s properties, it has a lot of stuff it’s looking to unload. Here are some of the more unusual items GSA is auctioning off.

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 COSTELLO:  I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America  .

 

ABBOTT: Good Subject.  Terrible Times.  It's 5.6%.

 

COSTELLO:  That many people are out of work?

 

ABBOTT: No, that's 23%.

 

COSTELLO: You just said 5.6%.

 

ABBOTT:  5.6% Unemployed.

 

COSTELLO:  Right 5.6% out of work.

 

ABBOTT: No, that's 23%.

 

COSTELLO: Okay, so it's  23% unemployed.

 

ABBOTT: No, that's 5.6%.

 

COSTELLO:  WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 5.6% or 23%?

 

ABBOTT: 5.6% are unemployed.  23% are out of work.

 

COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.

 

ABBOTT:  No, Obama said you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed.  You have to look for work to be unemployed.

COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!

 

ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.

 

COSTELLO:  What point?

 

ABBOTT:  Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work.  It wouldn't be fair. 

COSTELLO: To whom?

 

ABBOTT: The unemployed. 

 

COSTELLO: But ALL of them are out of work.

 

ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. 
Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed. 

COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?

 

ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!

 

COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?

 

ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes  down. That's how it gets to 5.6%. Otherwise it would be 23%.

 

COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number? 

 

ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.

 

COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?

 

ABBOTT: Correct.

 

COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?

 

ABBOTT: Bingo.

 

COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have people stop looking for work.

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like a Democrat.

 

COSTELLO:  I don't even know what the hell I just said!

 

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like Hillary.

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Traffic Is Crazy Coming Into Ocean City This July 4th

If you are planning on coming to Ocean City tonight you better plan on a long wait. Update, the Bridge just went up too. Rt. 90 is at a dead stop right now from Rt. 589. 

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Salisbury City Council Work Session Agenda 7-5-16

FBI Raids Peninsula Internal Medicine In Salisbury

At 11:22 this morning I text law enforcement asking if they knew why this business was being raided, I never received a response. The next thing we knew, (out of nowhere) all the news crews were starting to arrive and even flying a helicopter, ("where drones can't go") overhead. 

Boxes were being removed, customers were being rejected entrance and the business was shut down. Why, we don't know. I guess we'll have to wait for a press release to get the details since law enforcement refuses to now work with us after the Cecil County States Attorney exposure the other day. Connect the dots...

A Viewer Writes: Public Safety Issue in Vienna Md.

Feeling a little upset that the small town I call home caved to a farmer who doesn't live IN town, but drives through it! We have had a serious issue with speeding on the busiest most traveled street with numerous children living, playing on and near this street! This town is like Mayberry, all the kids walk, ride bikes, skateboard around town! It may be the only town left where kids are allowed to play freely! 8 months later, after much pushing~ a speed bump went on this busy street! It solved the speeding problem!

At tonight's town meeting an angry well known farmer who lives OUT of town, came in and ran the show! His biggest concern was his family and his money! This speed bump hurt his wife's back, this speed bump could hurt a watermelon, this speed bump was bigger then any rut on his many hundreds of acre farm land, (I call bullshit) this speed bump could damage his farming equipment...are you f'ing kidding me!! 

He had the two council members in his pocket before he got there!! For one, the only restaurant in town is owned by one of the council members, and he made it clear he and his whole family spent a lot of money there! He spends his money at the town gas station and at the local car garage...he spends money on everything but the taxes that covers our roads in Vienna!! His opening line was his only concern was for his family and his money!! To hell with the fact Vienna widened the street so said farmers can come down it, to hell with the safety issue of our children and adults who will be no match for the speeding farm trucks that comes flying down that road!! To hell with anything that stands in his way of his need for control in a town he doesn't even live in!! Good job council members for looking out for the towns people that elected you!! Good job to the small minded people who allowed him to bully them!! So proud at this moment to call myself a resident to a town that puts the interest of some ones need to speed through our town and protect their watermelons over the well being of its real residence. Well done!! I hope you take this victory and feel real good about it!! 

Above is a photo of the HUGE speed bump that is being removed all to save watermelons....SERIOUSLY!!