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Videos released under court order provide a chilling new look at the chaos at the US Capitol on January 6. Federal judges ordered the release of the videos after media organizations, including The Associated Press, went to court to request that the Department of Justice provide access. The videos are being presented as evidence in prosecutors’ cases against three men charged with assaulting police. Here’s the latest video: Twtter LinkIsn’t it amazing these clips never show what happened beforehand…like how a magnetically locked door opened from the inside with cops right there? Now, many people online alleged that this “attack”...

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Someone shot a video on Wednesday afternoon that showed two brothers getting arrested during a struggle with police officers at a Rock Hill gas station. About 100 people took to the streets in protest blocking the intersection of Dave Lyle Blvd and Black Street for several hours. They walked to the police department and at about 11 p.m. lit a fire surrounding a tree in front of the station. A police officer and the fire department arrived after the fire was lit. Our crews could see objects being thrown at the police officer. Police in riot...

Democrat Joe Biden has issued a direct threat to American citizens, warning that law-abiding gun owners will need fighter jets and "nuclear weapons" if they want to challenge his government. During a Wednesday press conference, Biden mocked the God-given constitutional right to own firearms to defend against a tyrannical government.

On Wednesday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson spoke with Jon Tigges, a parent who was arrested in Loudoun County on Tuesday night after refusing to leave a school board meeting where he spoke out in defense of children. During the interview, Carlson recapped the latest events from the Loudoun County School Board meetings, where more and more parents have been getting involved in pushing back on the school district’s far-left proposals. When asked why he was arrested, Tigges said, “As best I understand it, I was in a place that, where free speech has to happen.” “If you...

VIDEOShortly before John McAfee supposedly committed "suicide" he left this voice message from jail. Also we see him talk about the Deep State in July 2020 and his views on President Donald Trump.

Sarah Brunner opened the irrigation spigots on her farm in March, three months early. The rain should have still been falling in California. Now that summer is taking hold, she and her husband are considering shifting their meager water supplies into pastures so their animals will have enough to eat. Brunner’s worries don’t stop at the barnyard. The family’s fields of shallots, garlic and goats are surrounded by thick Northern California forests, dried out and primed to burn. An early season wildfire near her home recently prompted Brunner to document her possessions and reevaluate her fire insurance. “I don’t feel...

With COVID-19 cases falling in many parts of the world and vaccination programs ramping up at warp speed, international travel no longer seems like a distant dream.The Henley Passport Index, which has been regularly monitoring the world’s most travel-friendly passports since 2006, has released its latest rankings and analysis.Visual Capitalist's Anshool Deshmukh details below that the most recent data provides insight into what travel freedom will look like in a post-pandemic world as countries selectively begin to open their borders to international visitors.Prominent Countries Still Holding StrongThe rankings are based on the visa-free score of a particular country. A visa-free...

I'm somewhat familiar with the leftist environment in the Pacific Northwest large cities, but wanted a perspective from the ground. Some good friends of mine who owned and operated a restaurant near me for the past decade are relocating from Texas to the Seattle area for his job. They are great, conservative, Christian emigrants from Africa (here most of their lives from childhood) who do not subscribe in the least to the racist rhetoric of the left. I think they could weather the political climate themselves, due to some solid founding in biblical values, but my concern is for their...

Social distancing measures costing some businesses over 40 per cent of their normal turnover.. England is set to drop all face mask rules on July 19th after it was revealed that keeping such restrictions in place is costing the economy billions and will force many businesses to close. “The requirement to wear facemasks on public transport and in shops will be replaced with guidance advising people to wear masks in certain circumstances, rather than compelling them,” reports the Times. The decision follows the findings of an internal economic impact assessment produced by the government’s Events Research Programme which detailed the...

Tsukumo No. 24. (Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Kyoto University) ================================================================================== The risk of death from an encounter with a shark may be grossly exaggerated in popular culture, but that's likely small consolation to a man who lived and died 3,000 years ago. His remains now represent the oldest known shark victim ever found. According to an analysis of his bones, the man had a particularly nasty meeting with one of the marine predators, in the Seto Inland Sea of the Japanese archipelago. Nearly 800 wounds scored his skeleton, none of which showed any signs of healing - suggesting, strongly, that...

The end of slavery with the passage of the 13th Amendment should be heralded as the most important anti-racism day in American history. It was the biggest step towards the equality of opportunity we have in America today, a step that was absolutely necessary for any other race advancements in America’s history to take place.Despite this, Democrats have taken “Juneteenth” to be the day they celebrate the fight against racism. This makes absolutely zero sense until we take a look at the politics behind the history. Dinesh D’Souza did just that in a Tweet on the new national holiday.“Democrats prefer...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn't just cause enduring damage to the lungs and the heart. A large number of patients who contract COVID-19 also report long-lasting neurological issues, including brain fog, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, hallucinations, headaches, and loss of smell or taste. More than a year into the pandemic, scientists are still trying to figure out why. While some initial autopsies have found small signs of the virus within our brains, other autopsies have turned up nothing of significance. Even if the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn't directly infiltrate our noggins, or does so rarely, some scientists think its presence in the...

Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and Republican Utah Senator Mitt Romney have announced that a bipartisan group of senators has reportedly reached a "framework" deal for Democratic President Joe Biden's infrastructure spending bill. The group is expected to discuss the deal with Biden on Thursday. "We came to an agreement on a plan that we have and we're just going to try to wrap it up tomorrow," Manchin told reporters. While full details of the proposal have not yet been released, the $1.2 trillion plan was created by a bipartisan group of 21 senators known as the "G-21." The...

Texas has joined another multistate coalition defending Second Amendment rights, this time asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down California’s assault weapons ban in the case of Miller v. Bonta. California is appealing a recent decision by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who ruled that the state’s 1989 ban violates the Second Amendment. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the ruling was “a direct threat to public safety and innocent Californians.” But in his 94-page ruling, Benitez wrote that the California law “bans an entire class of very popular hardware – firearms that are lawful under federal law and...

Firebrands FirstThe political necessity of fighting spirit In Tales of the Hasidim, a collection of vignettes and folktales collected in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century, the great Jewish theologian Martin Buber tells a story of a 18th century Hasidic rabbi: A Hasid complained to Rabbi Wolf that certain persons were turning night into day playing cards. “That is good,” said the Zaddik [holy man]. “Like all people they want to serve God and don’t know how. But they are learning to stay awake and persist in doing something. When they have become perfect at this all they need...

Something strange is afoot in the party of Jefferson. With the Democrats still spinning after the collapse of their election bill — and progressives furious with the White House’s seeming lack of commitment to that effort — the president has already pivoted, announcing a plan to tackle the violent crime wave besetting American cities.And the vice president? She’s on her way to the border, 91 days, two countries, and countless laughs after it was first assigned by the boss.Some might notice that cracking down on rampant crime and tackling a crisis at the border were not topics of discussion when...

Don’t expect Texas to have a single style of barbecue. That would be like French winemakers hawking a single grape varietal. Like Champagne, Central Texas brisket might be our most recognized brand and most popular export, but we’ve got plenty more to offer. Barbecue changes pretty significantly across the state. It is 857 miles from Orange to El Paso, after all. . For your Lone Star barbecue tour, bring along cash, just in case. There are still plenty of rural joints that don’t take kindly to plastic, and no decent barbecue hound would pull out a credit card for a...

The death of Apple Daily marks the end of Hong Kong's free press, and the west must ask: is it wise to continue empowering the CCP's destruction of values we cherish?The Chinese Communist Party and pro-Beijing Hong Kong authorities forced Apple Daily, the last pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong, to cease operation this week. The death of Apple Daily marks the end of a free press in Hong Kong, once one of the freest places on the planet.Founded By a Refugee of CommunismThe newspaper was founded 26 years ago by outspoken Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai. Born in mainland China,...

A report to Congress from the Pentagon and various intelligence agencies about sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by military personnel is scheduled to be made public shortly. The report reportedly concludes that some of the UFOs are likely real objects whose nature cannot be assessed with any confidence. [snip] The possibility that the Pentagon UFOs are human-made can potentially be excluded by identifying behavior that cannot be reproduced by our most advanced equipment. We know our technological limits because any advance that goes well beyond them would have introduced major commercial or military benefits and would have been represented...

The ‘Party of Science’ Can’t Do Math The Maricopa County election audit is necessary and there’s no legitimate logical reason for anyone to oppose it. The Democrats can pretend to be the “party of science” but one thing is for sure: they are definitely not the party of math.The 2020 election has been and likely will continue to be a point of great contention among Americans in all 50 states. Even as a young American born during the Clinton Administration, I’ve noticed a skyrocketing spike in partisan strife between ordinary Americans. In the past few years alone, we’ve watched the...