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the 79-year old comic channels the satirist Jonathan Swift and offers a dozen “modest proposals” for the manifesto of the socialist organization “In our Socialist America, everyone will be so fulfilled spiritually and financially that the police department will be dramatically reduced to where an officer’s only job will be to adjudicate domestic disputes.” “Toward that end, stands will be set up at local farmers markets, where they will work to resolve marital issues in a folksy, farm-to-table manner,” he writes. He rapidly progresses to more outlandish ideas, including national paid leave for the death of pets, mandating that employers...

People often ask what they can do to support President Trump’s anti-globalist, pro-American agenda. The most immediate answer is obvious: Vote in the coming midterms and make sure that a dozen of your friends do, as well. It’s so easy to let victories slip away due to apathy. Midterm elections tend to favor political parties out of power because their voters are more desperate for success. But that does not have to be the case this year. Although propaganda news networks continue to pretend that the Democrat Party will win every contest in a few weeks, polling data show Republican...

The number of firearm sales, as reflected in the National Shooting Sport Foundation (NSSF) adjusted numbers for the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) for September of 2026, has dropped by 2.3% compared to September of 2025. The raw number of all checks in the NICS for September dropped by .8%. As stated by NSSF:The September 2026 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,152,077 is a decrease of 2.3 percent compared to the September 2025 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,179,424. For comparison, the unadjusted September 2026 FBI NICS figure of 1,843,700 reflects a 0.8 percent decrease...

Newly-revealed Hamas document details plans to plant explosives near displaced civilians, triggering panic and allowing terrorists to escape advancing IDF forces. The IDF has revealed an internal document belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization detailing plans to plant explosive devices in areas of displaced persons camps in the Gaza Strip. "This was part of Hamas’ preparations to protect its leadership and operatives and evacuate them from areas where the IDF was expected to operate, while endangering and exploiting the civilian population in the area, fully aware that these actions were likely to cause direct harm to civilians," the IDF emphasized....

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

Starlink slowed down for a couple days in Ukraine so a bunch of Europeans and a bunch of Democrats have declared that Elon Musk is the most evil person to ever live. "Elon is the worst human being ever." "As soon as our technology catches up to Elon's, we will boycott his products!" "SpaceX and Starlink are dead!" Look at you fools go. All because Elon allegedly didn't do everything in his power to help Ukraine. Wait until you dumb f*cks hear about your hero, Barack Obama. After Putin annexed Crimea and moved 30,000 troops to the Ukrainian border, Obama...

Anthony Albanese says Independent MP Helen Haines was attacked outside her electoral office. A major police investigation is underway and a suspect is in custody, the Prime Minister told reporters at a press conference in Sydney on Monday night. This afternoon Helen Haines was attacked outside her electoral office in Wangaratta,” Mr Albanese said. “Our thoughts remain with Helen Haines at this very difficult time.” Mr Albanese confirmed the Australian Federal Police, Victorian Police, and ASIO were working together on the case. He also confirmed authorities would check the history of the 43-year-old man being treated as a suspect in...

After riots erupted this weekend in cities across France, its centrist government blamed the main far-left party, accusing its politicians of inciting the violence. That party blamed the government, accusing it of stirring public anger through years of bad governance and heavy-handed policing. What did the main far-right party do? It blamed both, and launched into campaign mode. “We are paying for decades of being soft on crime, of weak authority, of the moral, psychological, and material disarmament of our internal security forces,” Jordan Bardella, the president of the far-right National Rally party, said after emerging from a police station...

Labor unions are all about two things: money and control. The problem is that they go about achieving their aims through coercive means, often political, sometimes violence. In New York, for example, the union bigwigs have contrived to get their allies in the legislature to enact a bill designed to keep workers from learning about their right to opt out of paying dues to public-sector unions under the Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus v. AFSCME decision. I discussed that bit of skullduggery here. In Vermont, the same political alliance has placed on the ballot a proposed amendment to the state constitution,...

On the University of Texas campus, students, staff and visitors will see the same sight at noon, Monday through Thursday: faculty members silently marching through campus for 15 minutes, wearing black and holding signs. "There's a part of it that really is just a place to put our grief, so there's a piece of this that really is ritualistic in that way," said Karma Chávez, UT chapter president of the American Association of University Professors and professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. Since Sept. 21, Chávez and other faculty members have protested changes at UT Austin that include department...

Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping ‌to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine conflict that would ‌favour Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the discussions.The proposed summit ​comes amid warming ties between Trump and Putin especially after the US President announced a deal to buy Russian diesel and signed an order on Friday waiving key sanctions on Moscow.Citing a former Russian intelligence officer briefed on the matter, the ‌paper said that Putin's suggestion ⁠came in...

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First off, for those of you who do not watch the NFL, do not watch television, cut their cable, and so on - we get it. We hear from you guys every time there is something sports related posted. If you can help yourselves, please refrain from telling all of us you do not watch the NFL or television anymore. We know. We've heard it before. Now for anyone watching tonight's game, did you catch the two political ads for Ken Paxton? At first, I thought why am I seeing this in Tennessee. Than I realized that this game being...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday threatened severe retaliation against Israel if Iranian energy infrastructure comes under attack, warning that such an operation would have devastating consequences. IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohabbi issued the threat in a post on X, which was subsequently removed for violating the platform's rules. “Any attack on Iran’s energy infrastructure, although it will immediately be repaired by our young scientists, will turn the occupied territories into scorched earth forever and drive its usurpers into the Sinai Desert," Mohabbi wrote. “The world will see what happens," he added. .....

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, MartyrsSomeone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” Luke 12:13–15Imagine if you were exceptionally rich. Would great wealth change your life? For many people, it would. In today’s Gospel, Jesus addresses material wealth directly, identifying greed...

Border czar Tom Homan said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., could be denaturalized and deported if investigators find that she committed immigration fraud, repeating his assertion that no one is above the law after her home was raided and cellphone seized. “Of course, if you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody. We’ve done it before… And certainly, if the evidence points that way, that could happen,” Homan told “The Big Weekend Show” on Saturday. Omar will “be held to the same standards you and I are held [to]. If she violated the law, then she’ll...

The billionaires’ attack on the wealth tax initiative shows why it’s needed.As is the case with most election cycles, the claims and counterclaims about the ballot measures being voted on in California this time around are largely based on caricatures of the measures themselves. That’s especially true of the highest-profile measure, Proposition 40 — the California billionaire tax.What’s indisputable is that this is a “wealth tax.” It’s a one-time 5% levy on assets owned by Californians with more than $1 billion in net worth. That’s a departure from conventional state personal tax, which is levied on income such as wages...

New data released this week by the Episcopal Church shows both a modest decline in attendance and a large loss in membership alongside leading indicators including baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and receptions conducted within the mainline Protestant denomination. Parochial report data for the reporting year 2025 shows attendance declined between 2024 and 2025 by 6,033 persons (1.5%) from 413,034 to 407,001, the first decline following a multi-year post-COVID rebound. Access the data on the Episcopal General Convention website here. Membership across both U.S. and overseas dioceses, which was not reported for the 2024 year, now stands at 1,425,065, a decline of...

Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·Oct 17To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:Do not blame the French people for this.We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.Here are the numbers your media won't show you.70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.79% want a tougher immigration policy.77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration...