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Never Back Down was briefly shut down. The leading pro-Ron DeSantis Super PAC’s account on X, formerly Twitter, was temporarily suspended Wednesday morning, hours before the first GOP debate, a rep for the organization confirmed. X surmised that its “automated systems incorrectly picked it up as ‘spam,'” strategic communications director Matt Wolking wrote on the platform. *** Wolking, who was part of Trump’s failed 2020 re-election campaign, speculated that the GOP frontrunner’s acolytes may have had something to do with the suspension. *** [Wolking said] “Given their celebration, we have asked @X @elonmusk to disclose whether these Trump-backed accounts and...

Socialist professor and presidential candidate Cornel West wants “massive investments” including “free college tuition” and “Medicare for All” as part of his presidential campaign. Just don’t expect him to chip in on the bill. According to the Daily Beast, and confirmed by West, the Union Theological Seminary professor owes over half a million dollars in taxes. The Green Party candidate has “more than $500,000 in outstanding federal tax liens lodged against him in two states” dating back to 2005, according to the liberal news outlet. He explained, when asked on Monday by commentator Charlamagne Tha God, that not paying taxes...

The Purpose Of The Trump Indictments Is To Demonstrate The Left’s PowerOnce again, this isn’t hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy. And it amounts to a threat: Imagine what we can do to you.The latest indictment of former President Donald Trump is even more outlandish than Jack Smith’s blatant attempt to criminalize free speech. The indictment Monday out of Fulton County, Georgia, criminalizes mundane activities like asking for a phone number, texting, encouraging people to watch a televised hearing, and reserving a room at the Georgia capitol. These activities, according to Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, run afoul of the state’s Racketeer Influenced and...

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?” Friedrich NietzscheIn the wake of the ‘murder’ of Jesus Christ, second Person of the Holy Trinity, an anarchy of narcissism and depravity has overtaken our godless woke society. Posing as legal, political, special rights, superior expert opinion, and...

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa spent 275 days in jail for not paying taxes. __ Former police officer given prison time for same crime as Hunter Biden Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss his 'extremely tough' experience behind bars and his take on what many see as a politically-motivated double standard. Clip

Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border WallThe New York City suburb of Scarsdale, located in Westchester County, New York, is one of the country’s wealthiest communities, and its residents are reliably liberal. In 2020, three-quarters of Scarsdale voters cast ballots for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. One can safely presume that few Scarsdale residents are ardent backers of Trump’s wall on the Mexican border. But many of them support a less visible kind of wall, erected by zoning regulations that ban multifamily housing and keep non-wealthy people, many of them people of color, out of their community....The huge inequalities between...

Trump prosecutor Jack Smith has been investigating the process of sending alternate electors for possible prosecution. This week, far-left Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged 16 of the 2020 Trump electors with eight felonies each. Many of the Michigan Trump electors are retirees in the 70s and 80s. The charges against the Michigan electors include: Forgery Election Law Forgery Utterance Conspiracy The media has engaged in systemic journalistic malpractice by endlessly referring to the alternate electors as ‘fake’ electors, in order to make them seem guilty of innocent conduct. Now Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom...

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tossed his hat into the 2024 presidential ring, his detractors have repeatedly pointed to one issue as evidence that he’s unfit to be president: his skepticism of the COVID-19 vaccines. The reality, however, is that the same media institutions depicting Kennedy as a wingnut spreading fringe conspiracy theories played a key role in popularizing vaccine resistance. The sheer volume of sudden reversals in public health policy makes it difficult to recall what anyone was claiming a few years ago, but there is a simple formula to understand why “the science” keeps changing: It’s often about...

New York City’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams recently backtracked on his vow to house migrants in Gracie Mansion, saying that the “symbolism” of his offer spoke volumes. Earlier this month, Adams stated that he’d welcome migrants into the governor’s mansion if city lawyers approved it but took back the offer in a June 15th press conference with reporters. “Leading the challenge of the migrant problem is both substantive and symbolic and as I always said, ‘Good generals lead from the front,'” Adams said, according to the New York Post. “They don’t send their troops into battle and ask, ‘How was...

Ann Carlson's 'attacks on American energy reek of hypocrisy' in light of fossil fuel investment, said Sen. Ted Cruz ... Biden's pick for a top Department of Transportation (DOT) post quietly disclosed a significant stake in an oil and gas development firm despite her past climate activism. Ann Carlson — an environmental law expert whom Biden nominated in February to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) — owns a financial stake ... Carlson, who was first appointed in early 2021 to oversee climate standards for cars and trucks at NHTSA as the agency's chief counsel, has for years...

Why do so many liberal climate-activist grandees fly on private jets? Or why do those who profited from Black Lives Matter have a propensity for estate living? Or why do the community-activist Obamas prefer to live in not one, but three mansions? The answer is that calls for radical equity, “power for the people,” and mandated equality are usually mostly sloganeering for those who enjoy power and the lucre it brings, and their wish is to augment both for themselves. The result is that the issue du jour of mandated equality often becomes secondary if not irrelevant. There is neither...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – On Monday, the NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory for Florida, claiming Governor DeSantis is attempting to erase Black history in the state. “The travel advisory comes in direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis’ aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools,” said a statement released by the NAACP.

We’ve seen the left losing their minds over Justice Clarence Thomas going on free trips with a friend he’s knowFn for many years. Not only is there nothing improper about this, there isn’t any indication that it had to do with court decisions or that the friend tried to influence Thomas in any way.Why were the Democrats trying to throw things like this up against the wall on Thomas now? Because they want to do all they can to try to invalidate the Supreme Court, specifically by getting rid of Thomas. As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) explained, this had nothing...

Somehow, Warren Buffett believes that the federal government should cover all depositors, no matter how rich they are, even though the FDIC specifically states that it covers only $250,000, and that is what it charges insurance premiums on. Underwriting risks seems to be a foreign concept to Buffett. Warren Buffett said Saturday that it would have been "catastrophic" to let any Silicon Valley Bank depositors lose their money when regulators seized the troubled California lender.The fall of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10 triggered panic across the financial system. In a bid to restore calm, US officials made the controversial...

“How dare those awful bigots question this brave woman of color’s identity? Truly sad.” A viewer

Far-left YouTube pundit Ana Kasparian went into an expletive-filled meltdown over the cost of liberal policies to combat climate change. Kasparian made the comments on a member video feed for the progressive "Young Turks" YouTube channel with co-host Cenk Uygur. The progressives were discussing California's plans to phase out gas-powered cars and gas stoves when Kasparian launched into a rant about the cost to build charging stations at the housing association where she lives. "They just ban the sale of any new gas-powered cars or gas stoves," she said. "And so the technology that you have at your home, the...

In perhaps the least surprising twist of the past seven years, they finally got him: Former President Donald Trump was formally arraigned Tuesday while hundreds of Resistance members camped gleefully outside with their cameras and press passes. We knew they’d eventually get this day, and he knew they would too; it’s one of the many reasons he moved his operation from hostile New York City to friendly Florida in 2019. Some version of this was always going to happen. Trump left office four years after now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened that American intelligence agencies would get “back” at him....

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) telling his state “what you can and can’t do” in their education system “sounds like big government and authoritarian.” In a press conference, DeSantis said, “Go read books like ‘Genderqueer’ and see what’s in there. It’s inappropriate. So we’ve armed parents to object to that and having sure they’re having education and not indoctrination.”

Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who is considering a run for president, said Sunday that elected officials dictating school curricula reeks of big government. During an appearance on NBC News’s “Meet The Press,” Hogan illustrated a stark contrast between himself and another Republican who may enter the 2024 ring, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on governing what is taught in schools. DeSantis, notably, took stances on keeping woke topics out of schools and not teaching young children about sexual orientation. “I think that some of this rhetoric is … demanding that things be done a certain way — that you can’t...