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ictory is near for the candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump in Staten Island's Republican primary for bureau president. The third round of unofficial ranked-choice results from the June 22 contest released Tuesday evening, the first including absentee votes, showed Vito Fossella holding a narrow lead with 9,306 votes (50.8%). That was enough for his closest rival, Steven Matteo, to concede the race after getting 9,016 votes (49.2%).

When the First Amendment is being abridged in a small Rocky Mountain town, you have evidence that it's being abridged for all of us. As the country spirals out of control with a pretend president whose election is as illegitimate as he is unhinged, retreat into the idyllic American Rockies in the hopes of escaping the tyranny threatening the rest of the country has provided little satisfaction. Even as La Plata County, Colorado, home to Durango in the southwest, succumbed to the partisan dictates of a health industry dominated by Big Pharma and the overreach of a heavy-handed health director,...

The Democrats have a talent for avoiding responsibility for their contemptible actions by blaming them on the other side. A recent manifestation of this talent is President Biden's attempt to deflect attention away from abhorrent behavior by scores of Democrat politicians. Throughout 2020, they shirked their duty to uphold the law in the face of civil disturbances. Biden wants you to pretend that never happened in order to rail against what he calls a "white nationalist insurrection." Pants on fire! Biden should be ashamed to embrace this nonsense. In his first joint address to the U.S. Congress on April 28,...

The Democratic Party's No. 1 priority is to pass a voting "reform" bill that would federalize elections under rules favorable to Democratic candidates. It's more important than infrastructure, or massive new social spending, or anything else, which is why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer gave their election bill the designation H.R. 1 in the House and S.1 in the Senate. The House passed H.R. 1 in a nearly straight party-line vote on March 3. Every single Republican voted against it, and every Democrat, with one exception (Rep. Bennie Thompson), voted for it. The problem for...

What happens when drugs can no longer keep Joe semi-coherent? The mental decline of Joe Biden accelerates. How long can he function as even a puppet president? The bigger question is: what happens when drugs can no longer keep Joe semi-coherent? Let's pick a time, say, late November 2021, and fantasize. At the end of November, the Democrat high command verges on a nervous breakdown. The President has not been seen in person or photographed for six weeks. Rumors abound that he no longer recognizes even his wife and that he wears Depends. His wife assures everyone that Joe is...

In America, those who fight for liberty, because they’re fortunate enough not to face imminent death, can be called “Off-White Roses.” Across the United States, people of all ages are organizing patriotic rallies, forming MAGA organizations, and creating conservative newsletters to keep the “America First” Trump base connected with those who share our conservative views about faith, family, and country. Most are not paid for their efforts and yet they devote hours each week to getting the word out about pending state and national legislation, woke companies’ insane actions, elected officials to contact regarding specific topics, and upcoming local issues...

The reason so many “radical” Muslims target innocent “infidels” is often based on projection. The recent execution of a Christian man by Muslim terrorists in Sinai showcased a little-known but interesting fact: the reason so many “radical” Muslims target innocent “infidels” is often based on projection, a word defined as “the attribution of one’s own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people.” One academic article/book chapter elaborates: “Projection allows the killer to project his (unacceptable) desire to kill (torture, rape, steal, dominate, etc.) onto some target group or person. This demonizes his target, making it even more acceptable to kill.”...

Democrats are taking to a whole new level Rahm Emanuel’s seminal advice to “never let a crisis go to waste.” Ideally, they simply refuse to admit that a crisis exists -- as with Joe Biden’s dementia. Otherwise, they acknowledge the crisis, but refuse to be identified with it -- as in the case of our out-of-control southern border. If desperate, they will pretend to “address” the crisis through policies that sound noble but won’t work, such as holding guns responsible for violence. Sleepy Joe Biden has spent a half-century supping at the public trough, during which time his views on...

A group of unidentified individuals attacked the private resident of Haitian PresidentJovenel Moise overnight and shot him dead, Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in a statement released Wednesday.

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We just don't know. We just don't know what comes next. It is all a calculated guess. The US Constitution is silent. Even if, if, if, it is so very clear through professional forensic election audit results, that the presidential election of 2020 was stolen and President Trump actually won, there appears to be no obvious remedy stated in the US Constitution to right this wrong. We just don't know. The Founding Fathers did not write up a "what if" in the Constitution to make things right. The Founding Fathers wrote up nothing in the Constitution in case mail in...

"I never said that I hated the country,” said Gwen Berry, the world’s most famous hammer thrower -- male, female or non-binary. “All I said was I respect my people enough to not stand or acknowledge something that disrespects them. I love my people point blank, period." Berry, who finished third in the female hammer throw at the U.S. track and field Olympic Trials, was attempting to explain why she turned her back on the National Anthem. If her subversive pout appalled half of America, it surprised no one. In the year 2021, sports fans have come to expect athletes,...

Former host of the TV show “To Catch a Predator” Chris Hansen responded Friday after turning himself into the police, USA Today reported. Hansen had a warrant out for his arrest in Shiawassee County, Michigan, for failing to appear at court. He was scheduled to present video evidence as part of a sex-trafficking case in which he was involved, according to the report. The former host of the “Dateline” show turned himself in Friday calling the incident a “miscommunication.” “The court matter in Shiawassee Co, Mi today resulted from a predator investigation there. Defense lawyers for accused predator Michael Lott...

Politicians say they pass laws to "protect Americans from big business." People like hearing that. Many don't like big business. Unfortunately, most people don't realize that those laws often help big business while hurting consumers. "Big business and big government are not enemies like a lot of people think they are," says American Enterprise Institute fellow Tim Carney in my new video. "When government gets bigger, whether it's through spending or taxes or regulation, the big guys, big business benefits." Consider the $15 minimum wage. People think of that law as pro-worker. But big companies like Walmart, Costco and Amazon...

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West Virginians choosing not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine are entering a “death lottery,” the state’s governor said, as the portion of residents fully inoculated against the virus hovers around 46.4%.

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“He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down...

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan could be an "existential threat" to Japan that would lead to a collective defense of the democratic island with the United States, Japan's deputy prime minister said. Taro Aso, who also serves as finance minister, made the remarks at a fundraising event in Tokyo on Monday, according to a report by Japan's Jiji Press. "If a major incident occurs in Taiwan, it's not at all unusual to consider it an existential threat [to Japan]," the senior official was quoted as saying. "In such a case, Japan and the United States will have to work together...

Progress in Energy Generation Research using Nano-Metal with Hydrogen/Deuterium Gas #Y. Iwamura1 , T. Itoh1,2 , J. Kasagi1 , T. Takahashi2 , M. Saito2 , Y. Shibasaki2 and S. Murakami2 1Research Centre for Electron Photon Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 982-0826, Japan 2 Clean Planet Inc., Tokyo, 105-0022, Japan E-mail: iwamura@lns.tohoku.ac.jp , The field of condensed matter nuclear science originated in 1989 with Fleischmann and Pons' electrolysis of Pd with heavy water. Electrochemistry is an excellent method for packing deuterium into Pd metal at high density. However, from the perspective of using the excess heat generated for practical purposes, temperature increase...