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The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon by Rudyard Kipling (1917)It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate.They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the Saxon began to hate.It was not preached to the crowd. It was not taught by the state. No man spoke it aloud When the...

The Informed Consent Action Network was suspended by Twitter on Thursday after they announced that they will soon be publishing more emails from Anthony Fauci. ICAN, an organisation dedicated to increasing informed consent regarding vaccinations, tweeted on Thursday that following the release of thousands of pages from emails from Anthony Fauci that had been revealed through Freedom of Information Act requests from the Washington Post and Buzzfeed, that they would be “dropping 3000 new pages of FOIA’d Fauci emails” that evening, “providing further insight into Anthony Fauci’s actions on Covid, Vaccine Safety, and more.” However, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin later...

Smith (if it was Smith) was the target of an arrest operation that went down in the heart of Minneapolis yesterday afternoon. John wrote about the shooting last night here. I offer these notes based on preliminary reports subject to correction assuming Smith was the target of the arrest operation. • A joint law enforcement task force conducted the arrest operation. • The arrest operation was led by the United States Marshals Service. The Marshals Service is a federal law enforcement agency. • The arrest operation included other local Twin Cities law enforcement agencies including the Hennepin County Sheriffs office....

For several decades now, American society has operated under a false assumption that banning prayer in public schools is irrevocable settled science.Two recent bills before state legislatures have shone a new light on a half-century of controversy. In Alabama, a 30-year ban on the teaching of yoga has been dropped, and in Florida state officials are seeking to make two minutes of silence for prayer or reflection a mandatory part of school days.Both of these developments are positive steps to fill a hole in the education of our children. Put simply, they open the door to a restoration of prayer...

Angry protesters lit fires, looted stores and taunted cops in Minneapolis Thursday after officers shot and killed a man — who was a fugitive who whipped out a handgun when authorities closed in on him. Members of a US Marshals task force were attempting to arrest the felon around 2 p.m. on a state warrant for being a criminal in possession of a firearm, authorities said.

Scottish researchers at the University of Edinburgh have tested a “Trojan Horse” drug that can kill cancer cells and bacterial cells without damaging nearby tissues. Because cancer cells need to consume high amounts of food for energy to continue to reproduce, these researchers decided to target their eating habits, with very encouraging results:Scientists at the University of Edinburgh combined the tiny cancer-killing molecule SeNBD with a chemical food compound to trick malignant cells into ingesting it.The peer-reviewed experimental study was carried out on zebrafish and human cells, but researchers say more studies are needed to confirm if it is a...

When the Soviets put the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit, it rattled America right to our foundations — and our response to the Soviet challenge was as devastating over the long run as it was swift.We face a similar challenge from Communist China today, and our response has been less than “Meh.”Before we get to today, a little perspective.I wasn’t around in the late ‘50s or early ‘60s, but my Right Angle boss and cohost (and fellow space enthusiast) Bill Whittle was.“Everything became about space,” is how he’s described that time to me on more than one occasion.As it...

Ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is accusing the National Institutes of Health of trying to suppress the Trump State Department's probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and says there were even some people in his former department itself that wouldn't work to support the efforts into an investigation. He also told Fox News' Laura Ingraham Thursday night that comments made by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci sound almost like he is parroting Chinese Communist Party propaganda. "It should come as no surprise to anyone that there were folks at the State Department...

VIDEOIt took weeks of rehearsal to create absolutely the WORST song of all time. The many hours of hard work that went into creating this was necessary since I had stiff competition in producing the worst, most cringeworthy song ever.

Conservative firebrand Candace Owens has slammed socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for sharing photos of her grandmother's squalid living conditions in a failed attempt to attack President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez triggered a backlash when she shared pictures of her grandma's hurricane-damaged home in Puerto Rico.

Sign our petition to the Loudoun County Public School board For the second time in as many months, the Loudoun County Public School board has come under fire. This time, teachers and parents are speaking out against the district's policy of requiring staff to recognize and sanction transgenderism by using pronouns that don't fit the biological make-up of students. Last week, AFA asked you to support Fight for Schools, a group of parents pushing to recall six of nine LCPS board members for implementing the very dangerous and Marxist Critical Race Theory.

The dam has broken regarding COVID. Suddenly, theories that this deadly virus originated in a Wuhan lab and that Fauci was deliberately misleading people about it have gone from being castigated as racist conspiracy theories to accepted doctrine. On Thursday, Vanity Fair, a leftist, hysterically anti-Trump magazine published an extraordinary article revealing that the American and British scientific communities deliberately hid China’s role in the virus’s creation.Vanity Fair’s article is entitled “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins: Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push...

To begin to fix immigration, we must agree the American identity is worth preserving and then work to build an immigration system that nourishes it.Can Washington discuss immigration without devolving into a debate about racism? If we lay down our Twitter weapons, perhaps we could discuss what kind of immigration we need. Should we allow anyone, from anywhere, to come here at any time? Amid the political establishment’s promotion of all immigration as virtuous and their relentless attacks on all things traditional or patriotic, we can demand something better: An immigration system that is good for America and requires that...

The idiotic and expensive plans to force electric vehicles down the throats of drivers has run into an obstacle created by an law that environmentalists demanded. You can’t have electric vehicles without lithium ion batteries, and you can’t build all those car batteries without a supply of lithium, which some warn will be inadequate soon.AP reports:An extremely rare wildflower that grows only in Nevada’s high desert where an Australian mining company wants to dig for lithium should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday.The agency outlined its intention to propose listing Tiehm’s...

Sen. Ted Cruz used a clip from a 1975 Monty Python movie on Wednesday to mock Vice President Kamala Harris’ leadership on the border crisis, amid a record-breaking surge in illegal immigrants showing up at the southern crossing. The GIF snippet from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” shows knights dropping their shields as they flee. “Run away! Run away!” words on the video say. Cruz wrote next to the clip, “On the border crisis, Kamala invokes an old leadership style…” and linked to a report from CNN about how the vice president’s staff have been pushing back on criticism...

Sundance of The Last Refuge[i] looks into something that also puzzled me: why were multiple FOIA requests for the emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci all released at the same time, and why now? Using his time-tested technique of constructing timelines and comparing the current FOIA release with another key FOIA release, he constructs a thought-provoking theory. As so often in the past, he sees a tacit plot behind the events that capture so much attention.He constructs this sequence of recent events:A once beloved Bill Gates, the primary advocate for COVID vaccines, suddenly became a target by the political left. It...

Forging a vaccination card or providing fraudulent proof of immunity could soon be a felony in New York based on a measure approved Thursday by the Democratic-led Assembly. The measure, yet to pass in the state Senate, would tighten forgery laws and penalties in New York. The bill would lead to felony charges for forging immunization records or possessing forged proof of an immunization with the intent to defraud. The bill was approved as vaccination cards showing proof of a COVID-19 shot cycle could be gateways to returning to normal life, such as attending a sporting event or concert

23 years ago today, after lurking weeks, maybe months, yours truly, finally pulled the trigger and signed-on to what became my go to website for unfiltered information from like minds.Thanks to JimRob, and his brother John, I've remained 'in the game' politically knowledge wise, and been able to maintain some level of sanity given the idiocy and bias of the mainstream media and their armada of sycophants wasting the airwaves.23 years and counting, and yes, I am counting.Thanks to those who proceeded me to the forum, and a very special thanks to both Jim & John's ability to keep the...

Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Allen West, has submitted his irrevocable resignation to the officials’ meeting as of 8am CT today. He will remain at the helm of the Texas GOP until a new Chairman can be selected on July 11th at an undetermined location as of now. Chairman West expressed his humble gratitude and stated that “it has been my distinct honor to serve as Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. I pray Godspeed for this governing body.” His tenure has been marked by a remarkable commitment to our grassroots organizers as well...

When the insurrectionists invaded the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Jan. 6 as he was hustled out into a “secure location,” they could not help but notice a large visage of Ronald Reagan displayed prominently in McCarthy’s inner sanctum. Like many Republicans, McCarthy deeply admires Reagan who cast a spell on the Republican party that lingers to this day. Decades after Reagan won the presidency in 1980 and died in 2004, Republicans often asked themselves the question, “What would Reagan do?