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Leftwing pundits have long predicted the demise of the Republican Party owing to demographic changes. They are quite sure they know what the weather will be in 50 years, so why not claim the same about politics? Unfortunately, panicky types on the right sometimes take the bait, predicting doom and gloom unless their fellow conservatives adopt some less-than-conservative policy position.This is the sales pitch made to conservatives for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV), which would have states give away their electoral votes based on the national popular vote result. The NPV campaign is run and funded by the...

<p>A NEW York City investor jumped to his death from a skyscraper near Trump Tower in an apparent suicide just days after his assets firm once worth $20 billion was liquidated.</p><p>Charles de Vaulx, 59, allegedly took his own life on Monday after leaping from the tenth floor of International Value Advisers' office in midtown Manhattan, where he worked as chairman and chief investment officer.</p>

Calling FReeper historians. Please chime-in with your thoughts.I have studying some history lately relating to the Spanish-American war, particularly in regards to Cuba, and to a lesser degree to Puerto Rico and the Philippines; Guam not so much. One line of thought that I have been pursuing is with Cuba. The military success of the Spanish-American War is unquestionable. This is not unlike all wars the US has engaged. My curiosity comes from from the standpoint of success in the freedom of the Cuban people and to a lesser degree in success of US foreign policy. I contend that Cubanos...

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Republicans have better prospects for gains than they had in the 1994 midterm elections following the 1992 presidential election of Bill Clinton. In 1994, Republicans took control of both the House and Senate for the first time in decades, which was accomplished under Newt Gingrich’s leadership

Justin Bieber is accused of cultural appropriation with the new hairstyle he is sporting that looks a lot like dreadlocks. Insider reports “dreads” or “locs,” which the “Peaches” singer previously wore in 2016, are “inextricably associated with Black culture and therefore considered insensitive for white people to wear.” Syreeta McFadden wrote in The Guardian that the Canadian-born star “could use an education on the hairstyle that has roots in Hinduism, Rastafarianism and black resistance.” Some point out it’s just a bad look for Bieber, regardless. 👉🏿👉🏾👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽 justin bieber 👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽 having dreads 👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽 is cultural 👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿...

Nate Silver often draws sighs from conservatives with his usually liberal takes, but a broken clock is right twice a day. And sometimes it’s on issues louder than others. The FiveThirtyEight founder has recently doled out some observations and data analyses that probably have infuriated his liberal audience because—well, they’re not really attacking Republicans so much as it is ripping Democrats and the media for peddling fake narratives on COVID. He ripped Anthony Fauci for gaslighting us on vaccines when the former said that the vaccinated still have to remain in their homes. He’s thrown cold water on the panic...

While it may seem obvious that the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" extends beyond the home, federal courts have been debating that question for years. This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could finally settle the issue, which the petitioners call "perhaps the single most important unresolved Second Amendment question." The case involves a New York law that requires applicants for handgun carry licenses to show "proper cause," which according to state courts means more than a "generalized desire" to "protect one's person and property." Applicants must "demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable...

President Joe Biden expressed concern he would “be in trouble” for going off script and taking too many questions from reporters on Tuesday. Biden spoke at an event on the updated mask guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and the progress made getting Americans vaccinated for the coronavirus.

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A former trans-identified woman who has de-transitioned is stressing the importance of treating those struggling with gender dysphoria “the same way we would treat any other young person who's struggling with mental health issues” instead of allowing them to alter their bodies permanently. Helena Kerschner, a 22-year-old de-transitioned woman who once identified as a transgender man, shared her story last Friday at the Q 2021 Culture Summit with the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender President Preston Sprinkle. As a child, Kerschner said there was “no indication” she would struggle with gender dysphoria. And then, at the age of 15,...

So many videos of animals discovered hungry and alone. The cameras are high quality, perfect camera angles zoomed on animal and also the human who discovers them for the first time. Yeah, what luck just happened to have this great camera running with my buddy the expert camera man in perfect position. These videos get huge numbers of views, nice mood music and editing, perhaps some organizations fund raise off them as well. I could be wrong, but most of them scream "staged" to me. I could see it happening on occasion but there are just so many of these...

One of the more insane developments from the tragic shooting death of knife wielding Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, has been the emergence of a desperate fantasy from the political left: The "Let the kids have their knife fights" coalition that must think "West Side Story" is real life. Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama administration adviser, offered her idiotic notion, echoed by many others. "A Black teenage girl named Ma'Khia Byrant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight," Jarrett tweeted. "Demand accountability. Fight for justice. #BlackLivesMatter."...

Border Patrol Chief Rodney S. Scott is resisting Joe Biden's new order to use "non-legal immigration terms." Scott sent a memo to Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner Troy A. Miller to inform him that he can't comply with the Biden administration’s softening of legal terms to refer to illegal aliens. The Biden administration sent memos to immigration officials last week regarding their new far-left immigration policies, which included telling officials to no longer use terms like "illegal alien." The memo orders immigration officials to make changes in rhetoric such as substituting “noncitizen or migrant” for “alien,” “undocumented”...

The information from the census is beginning to trickle out and we’re learning the winners and losers in the congressional sweepstakes. It’s official: California is a loser while Texas and Florida are winners.On Monday, news about the congressional fallout from the census numbers began trickling out.For the first time in 170 years, California has lost congressional representation because of a diminishing population.There are only 435 seats in Congress and the Census Bureau rearranges those chairs every ten years. California is among the states that lost in the every-ten-years game of musical chairs.#BREAKING: Census Apportionment Data:HOUSE SEAT LOSES:CA: -1IL: -1 MI:...

AU.S. Coast Guard cutter has entered the Black Sea for the first time in 12 years, underscoring a resurgence in the significance of the service's presence around the world in recent years. The Legend class National Security Cutter USCGC Hamilton arrived in that important body of water less than a week after Russia claimed it had started to reverse course on a worrisome military buildup along its border with Ukraine. The flood of Russian forces into the region, starting in March, had prompted fears that a new crisis was imminent. Hamilton transited from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea,...

<p>The parents of a seventh grade student at Issaquah Middle School in Washington state were shocked after learning the reason behind why their child failed to complete a Language Arts assignment and posted about the volatile incident to a Facebook group on Tuesday.</p>

The Brooklyn Republicans tweeted out a video on Monday that got a lot of attention. In the video, what looks like an NYPD officer is standing in front of a busted store window writing a report when a man comes up behind him with what looks like sticks and smacks him on the ear with one before running (sort-of). But what got everyone’s attention was how staged it looked, from the camera being set up before the event and capturing it in its entirety to other criticisms.The comments on the video are somewhat hilarious. No one believes this is real.Did...

Plans for 3D-printed, self-assembled "ghost guns" can be posted online without U.S. State Department approval, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a Trump administration order that permitted removal of the guns from the State Department's Munitions List. Listed weapons need State Department approval for export.

It's said that commercial advertising is the most accurate barometer of social attitude trends. So the next time you're waiting for 'The View' to resume, play along in an exercise to read that barometer in the context of eliminating white males from mainstream culture.

The core meritocratic idea -- that tasks should be assigned to those most qualified to accomplish them -- is, and has been for some time, under attack. That attack, predictably in the current identity politics-obsessed climate, has been based on race and sex. Just recently, for example, the CEO of United Airlines proudly announced that United’s new goal for its stable of pilots and co-pilots is that it reflect the demography of United’s passengers. So if a certain percentage passengers are women, and a certain percentage are black, then the occupants of United’s cockpits should reflect those percentages. The CEO...