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What a difference a year makes — and two billion dollars in destroyed property by leftist rioters! Jury selection began this week in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin over the May 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A new USA Today/Ipsos Poll found that today only 36% believe George Floyd’s death was murder — that number is down from 60% last year. As Jack Posobiec reported the coroner’s report found George Floyd suffered no life threatening injuries. He was high on drugs at the time. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on George Floyd’s death. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/trial-next-week-will-jury-find-george-floyd-died-drug-overdose-not-approved-minneapolis-police-procedure/...

GOP lawmakers who have fallen out of favor with President Trump are feeling the effects as new polling shows Republican voters are shifting their support away from establishment figures. Among those receiving the electoral “cold shoulder” is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The 79-year-old Kentucky lawmaker, long known as the “Grim Reaper” for killing off numerous Democrat initiatives, ranked dead last among fellow Republicans in an Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters. Fifty-seven percent of Americans expressed an unfavorable view of McConnell, including 29 percent who had a “very” unfavorable view of the Senate Republican. That included 49 percent of Republicans...

They want us to be less white. Response from rural Tennessee. I thought this was hilarious.... https://youtu.be/hdG0AQbOKoU

Hiring more men to help with public sexual harassment issues seems like a very funny Band-Aid to the organization’s problems.I picked up my first pair of pompoms at seven years old. Cheerleading is my absolute favorite sport. Cheerleaders on every level do not get the respect they deserve. I know from experience. The Washington Football Team’s decision to nix its cheerleading squad is deeply wrong. At schools, cheerleaders run the pep rallies, decorate, and cheer alongside the band on game night. We put in just as many practices—if not more—than participants of other sports. We cheer, chant, throw things into...

“Did you explain that @potus is suffering from dementia and you will be taking over soon?” ============================================================ As half the country expressed concerns over the mental fitness of Joe Biden, it has emerged that Vice President Kamala Harris has yet again taken on duties that the President should be fulfilling, after speaking to another foreign leader this week. Reports detail how Harris spoke with the prime minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, while Biden wandered aimlessly around a hardware store barely registering where he was. “The Vice President thanked the Prime Minister for Norway’s close security partnership with the United States...

In a Facebook livestream Saturday, Black Lives Matter protesters in Louisville were seen harassing young cheerleaders who were headed to a competition at the Kentucky International Convention Center, according to WDRB-TV. One protester, Carmen M. Jones, continued to tell the cheerleaders to "do something black today with your white privilege besides cheer." Jones continued, "The reason why you get to be here in these pretty gorgeous little outfits with your gorgeous hair and your gorgeous bows is because of your white privilege. Breonna [Taylor] is dead. Black mothers are burying their babies while white mothers send their daughters to cheer...

To protect human rights and preserve the integrity of the games, the 2022 Olympics should be moved to a location outside of communist China.In less than a year, the 2022 Winter Olympics will begin in Beijing, China. As the world emerges from the global war against a virus and responses to it that cost lives, jobs, and livelihoods, the time is ripe for athletes to come together to celebrate human achievement, perseverance, and grit. The Olympic Charter outlines the Fundamental Principles of Olympism. The first principle clearly states the objective of the games: “Olympism seeks to create a way of...

BREAKING: A serving Met police officer has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the disappearance of Sarah Everard. Ms Everard, 33, was last seen a week ago in Clapham, south London, on her way home from a friend's house. The suspect, in his 40s, is an officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection unit, the Met said. He remains in custody along with a woman, in her 30s, who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. Officers are currently searching locations in London and Kent including a property in Deal and an area of woodland near Ashford.

US: Who is John Kerry, the man US Democrats will choose next week to run for the White House? Conor O'Clery has been exploring his background For most of his life, people assumed John Kerry was Irish-American because of his name and his religion. He knew he was not, that his father's family had come from a part of Europe that was then in Austria but is now in the Czech Republic. But it wasn't until January 2003 that he learned in a meeting with Boston Globe reporters who had done some genealogical research that his paternal grandfather, Frederick Kerry,...

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–'91) wrote and illustrated more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. By the time of his death, his books had sold more than 600 million copies and had been translated into more than 20 languages. Geisel was a graduate of Dartmouth with graduate studies at Oxford. His work received two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. For decades, Read Across America Day has celebrated his birthday while encouraging children to read. Like millions of others, I read Dr. Seuss’ books as a child and then read them to...

After weeks of being talked up and fawned over by public health officials, the new COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is finally starting to make an appearance in California. In most quarters, this has been a cause for celebration. Hundreds of thousands of doses that don’t have to be stored in freezers and can be administered in one shot instead of the two required for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines? No wonder I’ve heard several politicians call it a “game changer,” especially after so many months of supply shortages.

In the PDF file (download here) for the 1776 Commission, a refutation of the 1619 Project, it says the following: (page 12) Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina famously rejected the Declaration’s principle of equality as “the most dangerous of all political error” and a “self-evident lie.” He never doubted that the founders meant what they said. To this rejection, Calhoun added a new theory in which rights inhere not in every individual by “the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God” but in groups or races according to historical evolution.This isn't usually what is said about leaders from...

After signing a letter expressing disappointment with the new administration, a pro-life evangelical scholar who voted for President Joe Biden said that while he would vote for Biden again if the 2020 presidential election were held today, he would not make his support public. Richard Mouw, president emeritus of Fuller Seminary in California and a member of Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden, spoke to The Christian Post Tuesday, days after his group issued a statement in response to the president's support for a coronavirus relief package that did not include a longstanding provision that prevents the use of taxpayer dollars to...

A new report from CBS News exposes just how bad the border crisis is under Joe Biden — and it is worse than most people may have thought. During a segment on CBS News, host Norah O’Donnell revealed that the number of unaccompanied migrant children in Customs and Border Protection’s custody has nearly tripled in the last two weeks. “CBS News has learned that the number of unaccompanied migrant children in @CBP custody has nearly tripled in the last 2 weeks,” journalist Norah O’Donnell tweeted Monday. “The current number of children in CBP custody is the highest in the agency’s...

Let’s begin with the understanding that there is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. That has been settled law since the Founders first signed the Constitution of the United States in 1787. Yet, on college campuses all across the United States, the First Amendment rights of commencement speakers have been repeatedly violated by those who think they have a First Amendment right to forcefully silence any speech they don’t like.To demonstrate the absurdity of this response, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel cites her five-year-old daughter’s definition of the First Amendment: “Free speech is that you can say...

U.S. prosecutors on Monday revealed they have new evidence allegedly proving the far-right Oath Keepers militia had planned to use 'force and violence' when Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 leaving five people dead. The evidence includes text messages linking the group's leader Stewart Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale-educated lawyer, to the plot. The Justice Department in a filing late on Monday said it would disclose evidence to defense lawyers this week showing that Oath Keepers members and associates were 'actively' planning violence during the Capitol riots that forced members of Congress and their...

My go-to supermarket (Randall's) had previously said they would not mandate masks. I was so looking forward to maskless shopping, but decided to call the store to confirm. Seems they reversed their policy, and now "mandate" masks. Further discussion with the manager revealed that they will offer a mask, but no throw you out if you refuse. Just PC semantics BS. I'm off for some free-breathing grocery shopping!

An unprecedented flood of migrants heading for the United States from the Mexican border has created a dangerous crisis that has the Biden administration scrambling to react.And when CNN is the one reporting it, you know it must be very bad.US authorities arrested and encountered more than 100,000 migrants on the US-Mexico border over the past four weeks ending on March 3, according to data obtained by CNN, marking the highest levels for the same time frame in five years.The number of migrants arrested on the southern border has been increasing in recent weeks, causing alarm among officials as they...

Biden 'has replaced in-person meetings with video calls. He allows only a limited number of people in the building...He doesn’t leave the White House often…. He isn’t planning any foreign or domestic trips.'78-year-old President Joe Biden is nowhere to be seen, aside from sporadic television appearances through a black mask the size of a Rawlings baseball mitt, or appearing to be on the verge of collapse from dehydration in social media videos. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced Biden’s name will not appear on the $1,400 COVID-19 stimulus direct payments being sent out to millions of Americans...

Several District Attorneys, who took campaign donations from left-wing billionaire George Soros, are helping criminal illegal aliens avoid being deported from the US, according to a new bombshell investigation. The probe found the following DAs include: