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A Michigan judge ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West must appear on the state’s ballot. In a ruling on Saturday shared by the watchdog group Fair Election Fund, Judge James Robert Redford ruled that state officials were “ordered to qualify” West and his running mate, Melina Abdullah, as independent candidates on the Michigan ballot. Redford wrote in his ruling: The state defendants are ordered to qualify West and Abdullah as independent candidates for the ballot, on the condition that the Board of State Canvassers does not determine they are disqualified after a review of the signatures on the qualifying...

Streamed live on Aug 23, 2024 Israel / Gaza Border News | The Watchman with Erick Stakelbeck As the world continues to anticipate a direct Iranian-Israeli clash, IDF airstrikes hammer Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Syria. In these Israeli attacks, several Hezbollah terror operatives were eliminated. Meanwhile, what’s the latest breaking news coming out of the global diplomatic storm attempting to end the war in Gaza? Will barbaric Hamas survive to fight another day? Watch now.

A leading Democratic strategist has warned his party that Donald Trump's polling numbers could be misleading and they should not take them for granted. James Carville, who rose to prominence for helping Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992, said that Trump traditionally under polls, which should worry his party. Speaking on Bill Maher's Real Time, Carville said: 'I tell Democrats, some caution here. First of all most quants [quantitative analysts] say we have to win by three in the popular vote.

Late night host Bill Maher tore into CNN's Kaitlan Collins about the left-wing network's 'gushing' over Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention. Maher, the host of Real Time with Bill Maher, sat down with the CNN anchor on his show Friday to ask about the network's journalistic integrity, as she insisted the cable news network was objective. He mentioned the awkward moment last week when Stephen Colbert's audience laughed after he referred to the network as 'objective.'

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers has studied the effects of climate change on hunter-gatherers living in Europe between 47,000 and 7,000 years ago by analyzing their teeth with a machine learning algorithm called Pheno-ABC. "This has allowed us to collect an unprecedented dataset [including some 450 prehistoric humans from all over Europe] that is significantly larger than previous skeletal and genetic datasets," said Hannes Rathmann of the University of Tübingen. The researchers focused on inheritable features of teeth, such as their shape, the ridge and groove patterns on the chewing...

Last night in Birmingham, UK, a father's throat was slit by an immigrant while his baby and partner was with him. Four people have been arrested. Father is critical and hospitalized

Air Force fighter jets attacked terrorist targets in Lebanon tonight (between Saturday and Sunday), after Hezbollah's preparations to launch rockets and missiles at the State of Israel were detected. Defense Minister Galant signed a special situation on the home front for 48 hours , the IDF spokesman told the public: "The defense is not airtight, continue to act responsibly." Notable updates: -Political source: Hezbollah also intended to fire at strategic installations in the center of the country. -Hezbollah in an official statement: We have completed the first phase of the response, we have launched 320 rockets -The Home Front Command...

At a recent town hall meeting in Jackson, Wyoming, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., offered a simple proposal. If Boulder, Colorado, truly believes that fossil fuels are so destructive, why not prove that life is better without them by giving them up? Anti-fossil fuel crusaders and renewable energy proponents have been unsuccessful in producing a demonstration project in which a small town powers its electricity grid entirely on wind, solar and batteries for at least one year. The idea of such a project was first proposed by Francis Menton, who publishes the “Manhattan Contrarian.” If we’re investing trillions of dollars on...

Here I am your host sometimes I've been called Superman And more than a few people in these parts where I live have taken to calling me Buddha... EGO comes out as: Edging God Out... Have the "Communists" the "Marxist-Leninists" take over the Democrats?... And the biggest trick of Marxist Moles is to portray themselves as "Moderate" and "Sensible" like Kamala Harris had done in recent weeks not to the mention the image given to new British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer before he took office... Let's get the Fifth Dimension out here it's time for a "Condom Update"... We...

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called for increased immigration, insisting "we need more people, especially with AI coming." "We're going to let a lot of people come in, because we need more people, especially with AI coming and all the different things," Trump said. "And the farmers need, everybody needs but we're going to make sure they're not murderers and drug dealers."

Afederal appeals court on Friday upheld Maryland’s handgun licensing requirements, rejecting an argument from gun-rights activists the law violated the Second Amendment by making it too difficult for people to obtain guns. A majority of judges from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, affirmed a district court judge’s ruling in favor of the state of Maryland. The majority rejected the plaintiffs’ argument the state’s handgun qualification statute tramples on applicants’ Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. The law requires most Maryland residents to obtain a handgun qualification license before purchasing a handgun. Senior Judge...

BREAKING: Statement from Hezbollah: In the name of God, the destroyer of tyrants. We will surely take revenge on the criminals. At dawn on this Sunday, August 25, 2024, and within the framework of the initial response to the brutal Zionist aggression on the southern suburb of Beirut, which led to the martyrdom of the great jihadist leader, Sayyed Fouad Shukr, may God have mercy on him, and a number of our honorable people, women and children, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance began an air attack with a large number of marches towards the Zionists The Islamic Resistance in...

Vatican II and the Deformation of Catholic Consciences“It is impossible to speak with veracity of liberty, of conscience, of the dignity of the human person except by reference to divine law.” (Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, from his September 1965 intervention read at the Second Vatican Council) In the eyes of those who want to impose their wicked agendas on society, the problem posed by Catholicism has always been about how to overcome properly formed consciences. If a Catholic has a properly formed conscience, and a firm determination to follow it, he or she would rather die than accept evils forbidden by...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

Arab 'anti-Semitism.' We knew quite well, that the official leaders of the Arabs of the country and their journalists hate "Zion" and the Jewish settlement in Israel in general. The causes and reasons are known. They are not in any case showing hostility towards the Zionists and the Jews in Israel, they would repeat and emphasize that they are free from hatred of the Jewish-people, from anti-Semitism. On the contrary, they would boast at every opportunity of their rights, related to the love of the Jewish-people in the past, and as if their hatred in the present did not apply...

Several Dozen Interceptions by the Iron Dome in the last hour over Northwestern Israel.

The Watchman with Erick Stakelbeck The Iranian-backed terror army in Lebanon Hezbollah just brazenly released a new propaganda video showcasing their extensive underground tunnel city for hiding missiles aimed at Israel. How will the IDF respond to this massive subterranean threat from the north? Also, don’t miss our exclusive clip with former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus, as we go into one of these very terror tunnels. Watch now.

ISRAEL ATTACKS LEBANON! Breaking War News With The Enforcer (913)

The IDF says it has detected preparations by Hezbollah to launch rockets and missiles and is preemptively striking in Lebanon “to remove the threat.” Fighter jets are striking Hezbollah targets that “posed an imminent threat to the citizens of the State of Israel,” the army says, adding that “life-saving instructions” will be sent out in some parts of the country. Alarms are meanwhile sounding in several northern communities.

FIRST ON FOX: A dozen Republican White House lawyers who served in the administrations of then-Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush are endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in her race against GOP nominee former President Donald Trump. "We endorse Kamala Harris and support her election as President because we believe that returning former President Trump to office would threaten American democracy and undermine the rule of law in our country," the lawyers wrote in a letter that the signatories shared first with Fox News Digital. The letter was released on Friday, the day after Harris delivered...