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Shannon Bream just now on Fox: Arizona law upheld. Sounds like good news!

On this date in 1766, a 20-year-old French chevalier’s freethinking proclivities got him beheaded and burned for impiety in one of Bourbon France’s most notorious episodes of religious chauvanism. Check that date again. This is 69 years after the British Isles’ last execution for blasphemy; Voltaire was alive, and already in his dotage — and the fact that young Chevalier de la Barre was reading him was proclaimed as evidence. Such a benighted proceeding with the French Revolution on the horizon calls Dickens to mind: it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the...

Fox News cut off its live coverage of former President Donald Trump’s remarks at the nation’s southern border on Wednesday after he began discussing his allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. Despite heavy promotion of the event, the network abruptly returned to studio coverage after Trump claimed he had won the 2020 presidential election. “We had an election where we did much better than we did the first time and amazingly we lost,” the former president said during his remarks. “I just want to thank the people of Texas because we won in a landslide. It wasn’t even close,”...

Red-faced city election officials held an apparently illegal, secret meeting Wednesday to discuss the botched vote count that threw the Democratic mayoral primary into chaos, The Post has learned. Board of Elections President Fred Umane said the board was briefed by staffers about the colossal screw-up that led to 135,000 fake ballots from a test run of the BOE’s computer system mistakenly being included in preliminary results released Tuesday afternoon. Umane, a Manhattan Republican, said that the test ballots came from one borough but that “the error was made in the general office.” “We’re still trying to do the investigation....

Conservatives claim that schools are indoctrinating students in “critical race theory.” Liberals argue that conservatives don’t even know what critical race theory is — and that if they did, they’d realize teachers aren’t actually exposing kids to it.But a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll suggests that the roiling culture war over so-called CRT isn’t about whether today’s schoolchildren are suddenly probing the complexities of an academic approach to race that originated among legal scholars in the mid-1970s.Rather, the clash over CRT — aside from whatever the term now connotes in the public imagination — appears to be a supercharged spinoff of...

When Gwen Berry stood on the podium to be recognized for her third-place finish in the hammer throw at the U.S. track and field Olympic Trials on June 26, she said she was shocked to hear The Star-Spangled Banner played. In response to the national anthem, Berry turned away from the American flag and placed her t-shirt, which read “Activist Athlete”, over her head. She later said she felt “set up,” because the athletes had previously been told that the anthem would be played either before or after their medal ceremony. The protest drew backlash from conservatives like Rep. Dan...

-The U.S. National Security Agency on Tuesday denied allegations by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the agency is spying on him in an attempt to force him off the air. "This allegation is untrue. Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air," the NSA said in a statement posted on Twitter. Carlson, a conservative talk show commentator and strident critic of the Joe Biden administration, said on his show on Monday night that he "heard from a whistleblower within...

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the United States, it’s iced green tea. In South Korea, it’s fries.At least nine fast-food chains and restaurant companies surveyed by Reuters said some of their locations have been grappling with changing lists of brief shortages of key ingredients and products, as supply bottlenecks plague eateries.The list of hard-to-find items has included summertime staples such as wieners and chicken wings, and non-food items like plastic packing material and paper bags.On June 14 the web site of South Korea’s No. 1 fast-food chain, Lotteria, alerted customers that its eateries would substitute cheese sticks for its...

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VIDEOAs we all know, thanks to YouTube guidance, the integrity of elections CANNOT be questioned. That includes the New York City mayoral primary election which as we all know, according to Holy Social Media Scripture, was absolutely perfect in all aspects and any skepticism about it will be severely punished.Oh, and don't forget to award me bonus points on my Social Media Credit Score for getting my mind right on this subject.

Explosive new details are emerging from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop that indicate President Biden met with his son’s billionaire business partners over a “flippin gigantic” business deal. According to the Daily Mail, in 2014, the then-vice president entertained Hunter Biden’s business associates in the vice president’s office at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco were both present at the meeting. Joe Biden also flew Hunter Biden and his then-business partner Jeff Cooper to Mexico City on Air Force 2 in 2016. They met with Aleman’s son regarding a “flippin gigantic” business deal....

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These days, our news outlets are flooded with stories about citizen interactions with the police. Most of the ones that make it to print or on the television screen are detailing negative experiences with police officers. For any chance encounters, while we may be law-abiding citizens, it important for the police to know that we carry as a law-abiding citizen. We all know carrying a concealed firearm in public doesn’t automatically make us criminals, but for a cop that is always on alert and prepared to deal with some of the most violent people on the earth, seeing a...

In the last twenty years, we have seen as a people the near-complete erosion and extinction of conservative policies and programs in US politics. The United States is EXPONENTIALLY becoming a secular socialist state while rapidly abandoning and despising our representative republic. Our Judeo-Christian heritage, morality, and values do not dominate our culture and society as they once did which has led to our ruin. Another reality is that many have never known any other kind of society than what presently exists. Accountability, responsibility, and virtue are “hisses and by-words” in Hollywood, the Media Establishment, social media, College/University Campuses, and...

Vernon Jones addressed a CNN reporter who was trying to harass President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani in Georgia. This was total destruction. Jones said to the CNN reporter: Jones: I’ll ask you, was the drop off boxes used in 2020 elections? Was it? Was it used in the 2020 election? Now be as bold as you were bold asking Giuliani a question. I’m asking you now – did – were the drop off boxes used? Let’s put the camera on him. Let’s put the camera on him. (puts his arm around reporter) Now was the drop off boxes used? (silence)...

Meghan McCain is bidding farewell to “The View,” according to a new report. The conservative co-host is set to announce her resignation on Thursday morning’s show, ending her four-season run at the end of July, according to the Daily Mail. “We have tried to keep her, but she is adamant that now is the right time for her to leave,” a Disney source told the Daily Mail. The 36-year-old still had two years left in her contract, according to the report.

Just five weeks after last month’s massacre at a San Jose light-rail yard that left nine people dead, the city has taken unprecedented gun-control action. In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, San Jose’s city council approved a national first that will see gun owners being forced to compensate taxpayers for the spiraling costs of gun violence. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, gun owners in California’s third-largest city will be required to take out liability insurance for their firearms, and pay an annual tax that will help fund emergency responses to gun-related calls. In a news release ahead of Tuesday...

There are around 10 million unemployed Americans and over 9 million open positions. But most people aren't urgently seeking out those jobs. The big picture: For the first time in decades, workers have the power to be choosy. By the numbers: Only about 10% of job seekers say they're actively and urgently looking for work, according to a new survey from the jobs site Indeed. Around 45% are passively looking for jobs, and another 30% plan to get a job in the near future but aren't looking at all right now.

Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 (“1/6”) with one simple, relentless question: what is the FBI and Army Counterintelligence’s relationship with Stewart Rhodes?

XI JINPING has warned foreign nations will "get their heads bashed" if they attempt to interfere with China.The Chinese premier made the comment during a speech on Thursday to mark the centenary of the ruling Communist Party (CCP). Addressing a crowd of people at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Mr Xi condemned foreign powers that are trying to “bully” his country.“Only socialism can save China, and only socialism with Chinese characteristics can develop China,” he said. “We will never allow anyone to bully, oppress or subjugate China. “Anyone who dares try to do that will have their heads bashed bloody against the...