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A group of financial firms and investors is planning to launch a Texas-based private market stock exchange and offer traders an alternative to the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The group, which includes BlackRock, Citadel Securities and about two dozen investors, raised approximately $120 million of capital to create the Texas Stock Exchange, which would be headquartered in Dallas. They are now seeking registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to operate as a national securities exchange later this year. “Texas and the other states in the southeast quadrant have become economic powerhouses. Combined with the demand we...

Government spending has consequences. The US national debt has surpassed $34.6 trillion at the time of this writing and continues to grow every minute. America has never been in a deeper deficit. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has reported that America was forced to pay $514 billion in the first seven months of FY2024 on interest costs alone. This means that America paid more in servicing its debt than on any other program besides Social Security ($837 billion), which is a separate problem entirely. To put it into perspective, the US shelled out $498 billion on national...

A 102-year-old American World War II veteran who witnessed the raising of the US flag at Iwo Jima tragically died while he was en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Robert Persichitti, of Fairport, NY, suffered a medical emergency and died in a hospital in Germany last Friday, a veterans organization said. The Navy vet, who had flown oversees with a group tied to the National World War II Museum, was on a ship sailing down the coast to Normandy ahead of Thursday’s D-Day events when he suddenly fell ill and had to be...

Until a few days ago, I had not heard of Damon Imani. Then I found and watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr99SPITqTs and I thought: Wow! Someone who's not afraid to call out the Liberals! (That is worth watching!) Alas, yesterday I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u33DbjC8c2A Tell me someone's not holding some kind of threat over his head. I cannot find a recent video of him anywhere. Does anyone know what happened to him?

[OFFICIAL.] WASHINGTON, Sunday, June 5 -- 1 P.M. A dispatch from Gen. GRANT'S headquarters, dated 8:30 o'clock last night has been received. It states that about 7 P.M. yesterday, (Friday, 3d of June.) the enemy suddenly attacked SMITH'S brigade, GIBBONS' division. The battle lasted with great fury for half an hour. The attack was unwaveringly repulsed. SMITH'S losses were inconsiderable. To Major-Gen. Dix: At 6 P.M., WILSON, with his cavalry, fell upon the rear of a brigade of HETH's division, which LEE had thrown around to his left, apparently with the intention of enveloping BURNSIDE. After a sharp but short...

Man on Amer. Air flight from JFK to Athens told to change Trump mugshot shirt as it was offensive

Former President Trump told Fox News on Wednesday that critics claiming he'd seek retribution against political opponents are "wrong," but he would have "every right" to go after his adversaries if he is re-elected in November. "Number one, they're wrong," Trump replied. "It has to stop, because otherwise, we're not going to have a country. Look, when this election is over, based on what they've done, I would have every right to go after them, and it's easy, because it's Joe Biden and you see all the criminality, all of the money that's going into the family and him, all...

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VIDEO Joe Scarborough has become a used car salesman. And when he sells, he sell HARD. As you can see he goes to extreme lengths to try to sell us an old broken down used car. Sure the car no longer works but time has smoothed over its rough edges and this version of the old broken down used car is the BEST version ever!

Like the German church in the 1930s, the American church in the 2020s is culpable for the pending devastation of human life and the collapse of a great nation. Comparisons could not be more compelling as proffered in “Letter to the American Church” by New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas. “Letter to the American Church” is a culmination of Mr. Metaxas’ in-depth understanding of the decline and fall of Germany under the Third Reich, especially as seen through the life and activity of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Mr. Metaxas draws on his research from his previous bestselling biographies on Bonhoeffer, William...

Did the founders create America as “one nation under God” or did they want Christian expression banned from the public square? A recent film seems to promote the latter idea. Dr. Ted Baehr’s MOVIEGUIDE writes: “’Bad Faith’ is a propaganda documentary from the Religious Left, written and directed by a small-time movie producer who happens to be a film and television professor at a Catholic college in Los Angeles.

Editor’s Note: The group quota regime advances and guards its power through lawfare—the weaponization of our legal system against political enemies. John Eastman has been relentlessly targeted by the regime’s lawfare campaigns for the supposed crime of advising Donald Trump on the legal issues of the 2020 election. Yet even Eastman’s mistreatment pales in comparison to the regime’s hounding of President Trump himself.In this analysis, Dr. Eastman brings a lawyer’s perspective to the political prosecutions of the former president, contrasting Trump’s treatment to that of Hillary Clinton, the regime’s favored candidate—whom Trump defeated even despite egregious malfeasance by the Clinton...

Rashida Tlaib (D-Khan Younis) was one of only 10 House members who refused to join the rest in condemning the atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7. Instead, apparently unmoved by those reports of child killings, mass rape, torture, mutilation, and murder, Tlaib has continued to associate with Hamas-linked supporters, including six of her main fundraisers who have close ties to Hamas. Tlaib is also part of a hidden Facebook group — the Palestinian-American Congress — that has praised the jihadists who kidnapped and killed hundreds of civilians, including at least 33 Americans, on October 7. The founder of...

Nearly eight years after a Muslim terrorist committed the largest massacre of gay people in American history, LGBTQ Islamic terror supporters blocked the Philadelphia gay pride parade.“Long live the Intifada,” members of Queers4Palestine chanted, referring to the Islamic terrorist campaign against the Jewish State, chanting that the gay pride parade was just like the KKK and the Israeli army. “From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!”Protesting a gay pride parade in support of Hamas was a fitting prelude to the anniversary of the Islamic massacre at a gay nightclub which had its own Hamas connection.On June 12th,...

United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres laid into fossil fuel companies Wednesday, calling for a ban on their ads and increased taxes on energy firms. “Climate change is the mother of all stealth taxes paid by everyday people and vulnerable countries and communities,” Guterres said in a special address on climate action delivered in New York City. “Meanwhile, the godfathers of climate chaos — the fossil fuel industry — rake in record profits and feast off trillions in taxpayer-funded subsidies.” The Portuguese socialist amped up his already heated rhetoric, insisting that the world is on a “highway to climate hell” and...

A homeless man wearing women's clothes intentionally rammed his car into the side of a county jail in Florida Monday night, before reportedly embarking on a rant about Donald Trump. Joseph Leedy, 40, stands accused of four counts of aggravated assault on an officer and one count of criminal mischief resulting in damage of more than $1,000 as a result - as a series of photos show the damage he caused. Surveillance footage show the suspect driving from the Martin County Jail parking lot, up the walkway, and through it glass lobby doors. He was stopped by a set of...

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The Russian president engaged in discussions with leaders of major international news agencies on Wednesday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).Washington will compel Ukraine's leadership to lower the draft age to 18, then sack Volodymyr Zelensky, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I think that the US administration will compel the leadership of Ukraine to make these decisions - to lower the draft age to 18, and then get rid of Zelensky... To accomplish all of this, I believe it will take a year," Putin stated. Speaking about monthly losses in the conflict, Putin said that Ukraine's losses amount...

A 39-year-old man was arrested Monday morning for allegedly firing randomly at passing cars in Riverside County, killing a husband and father of four, authorities said. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department responded at 7:05 a.m. to the area of West Seventh Street and South San Jacinto Avenue to a report of a man shooting at passing vehicles, according to a sheriff’s department news release. Two people were found shot and multiple cars had been hit by gunfire; both victims were hospitalized and one died from his injuries, according to authorities. Julio Cesar Rodarte, a 39-year-old San Jacinto resident,...

Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) is pushing to implement a curfew on unaccompanied minors downtown following an attack last week on a couple by a group of teenagers. The couple were on a date Friday night when they were surrounded by a group of teens who began beating them about 9 p.m. near Grand Avenue and McClurg Court in Streeterville, Chicago police said. Police say the man, 40, was hit several times in the head by a 14-year-old boy, and the woman had her hair pulled out by a 17-year-old girl. ...