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In the latest revealing turn of events, upstart Jackson Lahmeyer, the MAGA-friendly challenger to Oklahoma GOP Senator James Lankford, was endorsed this week by the state’s party chairman, John Bennett. Lankford, a moderate who offered only the most tepid support for Trump, was stunned, telling Tulsa World it is “highly unusual for a state party chair in any state in America to come out and say, ‘I’m not going to at least be neutral.’” While this may seem a minor development, it speaks volumes about the unambiguous preferences of the party base. And major media, far from minimizing this defining...

Ed Buck, a megadonor to the Democratic Party's most powerful figures, injected his unconscious victims with drugs, causing them to die, prosecutors are alleging. Buck is about to stand trial in the drugging deaths of two men. According to federal prosecutors in the case, Buck lured a stream of young male prostitutes to his West Hollywood apartment where they were injected with methamphetamine and played sexual fetish games.

In 1864, Robert Dale Owen (A congressman from Indiana) published the book "The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States", which traces the beginning of slavery from its roots in the British Empire(with in-depth statistics) up through the colonies and the days just prior to the Civil War. The audio can be downloaded from here.(text here) This audio is free and open source in the public domain. I have a lot to say about this book, and I want to warn everybody that this book is not what it...

An Indiana police officer was gunned down in an ambush outside an FBI office on Wednesday, authorities said. Greg Ferency, a detective with the Terre Haute Police Department, was shot around 2:15 p.m. outside a federal office behind the Vigo County Courthouse, the Tribune-Star said. A federal agent opened fire and hit the alleged shooter, the publication said, citing an FBI statement released Wednesday night.

Austrian police have arrested two Afghan immigrants who allegedly boasted about having sex with a 13-year-old local girl, who was drugged and raped before her body was dumped on the side of the road. Schoolgirl Leonie, 13, from the city of Wiener Neustadt near Austria's capital Vienna, was reported missing by her parents three days before she was found dead on a road verge with her body leaned up against a tree on June 26. Investigations showed the girl had been raped, physically molested and rolled up in a carpet before she was left at the site. Local police arrested...

About a year ago, Tucker Carlson, the Daily Caller’s top editor, joined famed conspiratorialist Alex Jones for a discussion about American society and politics. In an exchange that attracted some attention on the Internet, Jones spun one of his classic theories about how the country is changing: The Democrats went from being the Ku Klux Klan party of race, with Sen. Byrd and all them, to literally going, ‘OK, we’re going to go race-politic with the minorities, make them the majority.’ And so basically they went from financing…La Raza, all the Ford Foundation. And that’s why you have this new...

In Kurt Schlichter’s column today he wonders Who the Hell Is in Charge? That day is now, and it’s no laughing matterHe concludes only that it isn’t the withered old fossil currently residing in the White House with Dr. Jill.Behold the old man that 80 million Americans were theoretically foolish enough to vote forLast week President * went out for ice cream again, and the media was on it, quizzing him on what flavor he selected, the kind of cone, whether it was yummy. It seemed to be yummy, according to the flashcards that he uses to help him survive...

On this date in 1938, Anthony Chebatoris was hanged at the federal prison in Milan, Michigan, becoming the only person executed in Michigan since it gained statehood in 1837. Chebatoris and an accomplice, Jack Gracy, rolled into Midland, Michigan on September 29, 1937, with the intention to rob the Chemical State Bank. They never did get their hands on the cash, and only one of them would leave the town alive, though with a proverbial noose dangling from his neck. The two men, armed with a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun, entered the bank and approached the bank manager, Clarence...

As biological males who identify as transgender women or nonbinary are being transferred upon request to female prisons in California, biologically female inmates have been assaulted by these new transfers, says Lauren Adams, Legal Counsel for the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF). Following a California law that went into effect on Jan. 1 allowing inmates to use their claimed gender identity to determine whether they are incarcerated in men's or women's facilities, there have been 261 prison transfer applications. All but six were to be transferred to women's prisons, Fox News reported. At least 26 men have been transferred, but it...

It is easy to remember why the United States invaded Afghanistan. Our country had just been attacked by terrorists based there. The nation was united in a desire to protect itself from further attacks and bring the parties responsible to justice. It's not so easy to remember whether the justification for the invasion was based on a broader policy, whether there was discussion at the time of what would constitute victory, or whether the invasion was an actual war in the traditional sense. More to the point, it's unclear whether those questions have answers today, even as we exit Afghanistan....

Alison Anderson and her husband, a Border Patrol agent, moved from a remote ranch near Big Bend, Texas, after one too many armed encounters with illegal aliens on their property... “Having three little girls and having convicted sexual predators in and or around your property is terrifying,” she said. Her girls are aged 5, 3, and 1.

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With zero media attention and an 80-0 vote, the California Assembly has approved a plan to facilitate a reduction in federal income taxes for a constituency consisting mostly of wealthy Californians. Only Californians with income from non-employee business activities operating through partnerships, LLCs and subchapter S corporations will benefit from Assembly Bill 150. Individuals who earn their livings as employees will garner no benefit from AB 150. Individuals who operate their businesses through sole proprietorships or as single member LLCs will also be excluded from any benefit. While California cannot seem to grapple successfully with homelessness, COVID, water, power etc.,...

I voted for Donald Trump twice, but that has nothing to do with my hesitancy to get the vaccine. I'm a Christian, and that has nothing to do with it, either. Even the fact that I had COVID and should be immune doesn't matter to me. My reason is based on science and science alone. It's still an experimental vaccine; it doesn't have FDA approval; and although mRNA vaccines have been studied for years, they were not used before. My biggest fear of the vaccine is that I can't get any information about why mRNA vaccines were not used before...

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, declared Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that former President Donald Trump was “dangerous.” Schiff argued it was because Trump is perfectly fine with endangering the life of the Capitol Police officer who allegedly shot Ashli Babbit on January 6. Burnett said, “So I just played a moment ago. I don’t know if you heard it as you were hooking up, congressman, but what the former president said today about Ashli Babbitt. Obviously, what he says about the guns is incorrect, but this is not new. He keeps talking about this even...

Thanks to a series of leaks from the hard drive of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop computer, we know there is more than enough evidence to appoint a special counsel, or at least convene a grand jury to investigate bribery, tax fraud, and probably several other categories of crime involving the Biden Crime Family. Three recent articles by highly respected reporters Miranda Devine (who has a book on the subject about to come out and whose work informs the other two writers), Byron York, and Emily Jashinsky present evidence typed in Hunter’s own hand of the schemes whereby Hunter acted as...

Surely you have already heard the siren call of the ice cream truck as it makes its rounds this summer. Over and over it plays its slightly out-of-tune glockenspiel (?) song, calling children and adults out of their overheating apartments to purchase a treat that will spark their imagination, remind them of the fleeting nature of pleasure, and imbue them with a caloric and spiritual strength that they do not deserve but so desperately need. Its song is a Pavlovian haunting, a call to frivolous vice, a reminder of a childhood to which we can never return. Will you resist...

The nation’s largest teachers’ union has quietly taken down a series of adopted and proposed resolutions from its website, including one that calls for the organization to defend the teaching of Marxism-rooted critical race theory (CRT) in public schools. The National Education Association (NEA), which represents more than 3 million employees in public education, previously showed on its website resolutions proposed during its 100th Representative Assembly. As of the morning of July 6, three days after the online convention concluded, visitors could use the website to track the status of those proposals, including whether they were approved, denied, or referred...

A bloody Fourth of July weekend that left a dozen people dead across Los Angeles accelerated an already troubling increase in homicides and shootings in 2021, with some of the city’s poorest communities suffering the heaviest toll.

AN eagle-eyed space-watcher has spotted at least ten small black objects hovering right below the International Space Station. The conspiracy theorist believes the NASA live feed captured the UFOs forming up in a circle above the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Footage grabbed from the Nasa live stream from the International Space Station shows the orb-like objects moving past the camera. UFO hunter "Mr MBB333" shared a screenshot taken by the space watcher captured on Saturday, July 3. He posted the shocking discovery on YouTube, saying: "This is a screen grab from the International Space Station above the South Atlantic, at around...