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Political waves come unexpectedly. That is especially the case when it comes to the House of Representatives. In 1994, nobody expected the House to flip to the Republicans for the first time in 40 years. The Contract with America was seen as a curiosity, Rep. Newt Gingrich’s (R-Ga.) vanity project. The media roundly lampooned it. And then November rolled around and history was made. In September 2006, George Bush wasn’t that popular, the Iraq War wasn’t going that well, but most pundits and most Republicans thought the House would hold. Then the Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) scandal consumed Washington, and...

Protests in 140 cities across America in the wake of the death of George Floyd devolved into violent looting and riots that have destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. At least 26 Americans have died in the riots, most of them black. The first two weeks of these deadly riots were officially the most destructive riots in U.S. history when it comes to insurance claims. The looting, vandalism, and arson that took place between May 26 and June 8, 2020, will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion in paid insurance claims, Axios reported on Wednesday....

Because he was deaf when he wrote them, Beethoven never heard his “late quartets”. This is a remarkable anecdote; an inhuman feat of human creativity. I was reminded of a resonant anecdote while reading in the Spectator US of a meeting between British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his wife and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle—bear with me. The article described that the Laborite couple later sent the laborious couple a book of poems by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century Mexican nun and poet. The Spectator describes her as “a poet known for her proto-feminism and...

All of my life, I have said that the left’s moral compass is broken. And all of my life, I was wrong. Why I was wrong explains both the left and the moral crisis we are in better than almost any other explanation. I was wrong because in order to have a broken moral compass, you need to have a moral compass to begin with. But the left doesn’t have one. This is not meant as an attack. It is a description of reality. The left regularly acknowledges that it doesn’t think in terms of good and evil. Most of...

Writing at UncoverDC.com, historian Larry Schweikart has a terrific analysis arguing that the Democrat Party has made a huge miscalculation in its exploitation of the China Virus crisis, a blunder that likely has already cost the Biden/Harris ticket – or is it Harris/Biden? – the election. Schweikart further argues that the blunder will result in Democrat losses up and down the ballot. Arguing that the Dems overplayed their hands on the China Virus and really rolled out their Soros-funded riot strategy too early in the summer, Schweikart says those mistakes have allowed President Trump to own the “law and order”...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Nearly two-thirds of United States residents under the age of 40 don’t know that 6 million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust, a new survey found. In one of the most comprehensive studies of American understanding of the Holocaust, some of the most important details of the genocide were lost among young adults in the United States.

TWO teenage friends plunged 100ft to their deaths just moments after posting a snap from the top waterfall. Bruna Vellasquez, 18, and Monique Medeiros, 19, died after one of them slipped and the other tried to help. The pair, described by friends as "inseparable", had gone for a walk with friends to the beauty spot in Brazil. Police said one of the women slipped near the top of the waterfall and the other lost her balance when she went to help. Tragically, both young women were killed after falling together in Salto Caveiras, Lages. Bruna Vellasquez, 18, was pronounced dead...

A BALLERINA from the world famous Bolshoi Theatre was dismembered and dissolved in sulphuric acid after a blackmailer threatened to reveal nude photos, cops believe. Russian detectives are reported to be following a new lead in a long-running probe into the disappearance of dancer Olga Demina, 25, six years ago. Olga is believed to have been killed after she was the victim of a sting operation by a man possessing "sexually compromising" pictures of her. Malkhaz Dzhavoev, 40, variously described as the dancer’s “manager” and “lover”, has been named as the prime suspect. He was detained in Moscow in 2017...

Biden’s Counterfeit Catholicism The prospect of an anti-Catholic Catholic presidency Journalist George Neumayr's new book, The Biden Deception: Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats' Crypto-Socialist?, debunks the myth that Joe Biden is a moderate candidate, detailing how Biden's policies have only become more radical over the years.  The following excerpt is focused on how Biden's platform stands against the teachings of the Church: Neumayr calls Joe Biden's Catholicism "counterfeit," based in part on Biden's radical stance on abortion, particularly with his reversal on the Hyde Amendment.Perhaps more priests should follow Church law and ban Joe Biden from Communion.Biden's faith and voting record...

A "GIANT" rat "big enough for a Sunday roast" has sparked horror on social media after it was found in London. The rat was spotted in an alley in Camden, north London, at the weekend and a picture of the creature was posted on Facebook by LJ Bowen. She wrote that the rat looked like a capybara, the largest living rodent in the world - which can grow to 4ft-long, 2ft-high and weigh up to 10 stone - and is native to South America. More than 100 people commented on the snap after it was shared to Facebook. One person...

At a speech yesterday I believe, Joe Biden not only was extremely late to walk on stage but he then started playing a hip hop song called despacito for Hispanic Heritage Month. Upon further investigation, I found out that the english meaning of Depsacito is "Slowly" so maybe our old buddy Slow Joe is trying to send us a message. Go check it out and let me know what you think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ev5ah7M4sM&t=4s

When humanity finally detected the collision between two neutron stars in 2017, we confirmed a long-held theory - in the energetic fires of these incredible explosions, elements heavier than iron are forged. And so, we thought we had an answer to the question of how these elements - including gold - propagated throughout the Universe. But a new analysis has revealed a problem. According to new galactic chemical evolution models, neutron star collisions don't even come close to producing the abundances of heavy elements found in the Milky Way galaxy today. "Neutron star mergers did not produce enough heavy elements...

Chris Rock wasn’t hurt by Jimmy Fallon’s use of blackface while impersonating him on “Saturday Night Live” 20 years ago. “Hey, man, I’m friends with Jimmy. Jimmy’s a great guy. And he didn’t mean anything,” Rock, 55, recently told the New York Times. The “Everybody Hates Chris” star added that he believes Fallon’s performance — which went viral after resurfacing online over the summer — wasn’t meant to be malicious. “A lot of people want to say intention doesn’t matter, but it does,” Rock said, adding, “And I don’t think Jimmy Fallon intended to hurt me. And he didn’t.”

The Harris-Biden Administration This election season is proving apocalyptic in the true sense of the word. An “apocalypse” (from the Greek apokaluptein, meaning “to reveal”) is simply a “revelation”—hence the biblical book by that name. When the apocalypse comes, the lights go on backstage and you see what was really happening all along.You can tell we’re in a political apocalypse right now because of how our ruling classes—the pundits, stuffed shirts, and establishment political operatives on both sides—are behaving. Up until recently, they routinely obtained their status and livelihoods from putting on the increasingly burlesque show which has been American...

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains...

On Monday, Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono instructed Japanese military personnel on what to do if they spot unidentified aerial objects that could potentially pose a threat to national security. According to Japanese news agencies, Kono instructed the Japanese Self Defence Forces to record and report any sightings of unknown objects in Japan’s airspace. The move comes just weeks after Kono spoke with U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in a conversation that apparently touched on UFOs. Taking a lead from the United States, Kono also tasked the SDF to assess any data collected and investigate any credible sightings. In...

by Joe Callen Joe Biden is hemorrhaging Latino votes to a surging Trump campaign in Florida, and his panicked "news" media allies are pulling out all the stops to help him. Faced with almost non-existent crowds for Biden appearances, CBS News' Norah O'Donnell lied to her "Evening News" viewers by using a photo from a Latinos for Trump in event in Phoenix and tagged it as Biden’s Latino event in Florida. Emblazoned on CBS’s chyron: “Biden pitches crucial Latino voters during Florida campaign stop” — with a photo from Trump’s Phoenix rally...Seriously? A Latina in the photo was literally wearing...

3) Round Up Antifa Criminals, Jail and Prosecute Them. As badass as your “LAW & ORDER” tweets have been, they don’t seem to have done the job. You can’t keep warning voters about widespread lawlessness if Biden is elected president when there’s already widespread lawlessness and you’re the president. Right now. That’s you. (And congratulations on that again, your excellency.) 4) Open the Country, Close the Border. Remember how there was going to be a two-week shutdown to “flatten the curve”? Guess what? We’ve flattened it! It’s been almost six months of everyone staying home, socially distancing and wearing masks....

Biden’s Thought Police The ruling class is desperate to keep the truth under wraps this November. The American mind is disorientated. It is in the midst of a regime crisis and the most contentious election in living memory. Which means precisely now is the time when the republican form of government, if it is to survive, requires free political speech directed at the most controversial issues threatening to tear our country apart. But the elites in charge of our largest corporations providing us the platforms we use to communicate are doubling down on politically motivated censorship. They clearly seek to...

WASHINGTON — President Trump fielded 867 more questions from reporters than Joe Biden over the last two months. That number is five times the amount of queries that Biden answered between July 19 and Sept. 15, a review of the candidates’ interviews and briefings shows. Trump answered a total of 1,141 questions from a Washington press corps that he maintains is openly hostile to his administration, while Biden responded to just 274 questions from local networks and liberal cable news channels like CNN and MSNBC. During the week of Aug. 9, the president took 196 questions from journalists while Biden...