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New Jersey‘s Republican gubernatorial nominee is using a novel approach to appeal to the state's Democrat-leaning electorate without angering the GOP base — and he’s letting the base in on it. “I'm never gonna disrespect the base, but you guys got to give me a little wiggle room” Jack Ciattarelli told a conservative crowd at a gun range in historically Republican Hunterdon County late last month, according to video footage obtained by POLITICO. “Give me a little wiggle room to spend time going to places Republicans typically don't go. And give me a little wiggle room on how to talk...

Democratic mayors in 20 of the nation’s 25 biggest cities slashed police department budgets and positions even as they spent millions of tax dollars on their own security details, according to data obtained by a government watchdog. [Snip] In San Francisco, for example, the costs of the security detail protecting Mayor London Breed and other city officials spiraled from $1.7 million in 2015 to $2.6 million in 2020. Breed has proposed shifting $120 million from the city’s police department to mental health and workforce training programs. City officials declined to say how many officers are assigned to the security details,...

(Breitbart) – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci during a hearing on the Chinese coronavirus Tuesday over his prior claim that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has never funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Paul’s presentation triggered President Biden’s chief medical adviser, who refused to retract his May 11 statement and instead snapped at the Kentucky senator, brazenly telling Paul, “you do not know what you are talking about.” “Dr. Fauci, as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress,” Paul began during the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor &...

Republican U.S. Sen. James Lankford would seem to have all the conservative credentials he'd need to coast to re-election in deep-red Oklahoma. A devout Baptist, Lankford was the director of the nation’s largest Christian youth camp for more than a decade. He speaks out regularly against abortion and what he describes as excessive government spending. And his voting record in the Senate aligned with former President Donald Trump’s position nearly 90% of the time. But like several other seemingly safe GOP incumbents, Lankford, who didn't even draw a primary opponent in 2016, finds himself under fierce attack by a challenger...

The men who are accused of attempting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) are saying the FBI set them up, according to court filings, evidence and dozen of interviews seen by BuzzFeed News. There were at least 12 FBI informants involved in the investigation into the group for months while they were allegedly planning to kidnap the governor. The FBI's involvement was much bigger than previously known, as the agency was involved when the plot began and had informants allegedly encouraging the group to further its plans, BuzzFeed News reported. An Iraq War veteran informant rose to second in...

“George Washington was an evil man! He’s not a hero. You need to take that picture down,” my 13-year-old daughter admonished my brother, while standing in his home. “He slaughtered Native Americans and owned slaves. My social studies teacher taught me all about him.” “And you are sending your kids to that school?” my brother asked. I shook my head and vowed to investigate while gazing at his copy of “The Prayer at Valley Forge” by Arnold Friberg. It has always been one of my favorite works of art, and in our family, the portrait is symbolic of the power...

Angela Stanton-King of https://www.angelastantonepk.com/ joins The Alex Jones Show in-studio to expose the authoritarian establishment's election theft in 2020 and how leftist legislation has destroyed American communities. Video..

On July 16, Lori Aratani wrote a lengthy article for the Washington Post detailing the NTSB's decision to destroy the remains of TWA Flight 800, "the Paris-bound jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport 25 years ago Saturday killing all 230 people onboard." This much Aratani got right, but that is about all. On Monday, July 19, I started skimming the article with the expectation that Aratani was simply going to recirculate the party line of twenty or so years' standing. She did not disappoint. "The crash made headlines for years, the tragedy...

North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn calls Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases a punk who only wants to further his career - Via Newsmax's 'American Agenda. Video...

Have you noticed how our language is changing? At a congressional hearing on "Birthing While Black," nearly every politician used the words "birthing people" instead of "women" or "mothers." Asked why, Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden's budget director, said, "Our language needs to be more inclusive." Activists have also changed "equality" to "equity" and "affirmative action" to "diversity." The Associated Press no longer uses "mistress." It tells reporters to use "companion, friend or lover." Worse, certain speech is now labeled "violence." Calling a transgender woman a man is "an act of violence," says transgender actress Laverne Cox. Last week, the...

Miami’s power couple Gloria and Emilio Estefan were among the Cuban-American leaders who participated in a virtual listening session Monday evening with White House officials, Cedric Richmond and Juan Gonzalez, about the U.S. response to the SOS Cuba protests. ....The Estefans have been using their celebrity power to magnify the voices of the protesters on the island.

A couple of weeks ago, in a lengthy piece at the Weekly Dish, Andrew Sullivan lamented about the “radicalization of the American elite against liberalism.” While this appears so to Sullivan’s eyes, this radicalization doesn’t much involve conversions. It’s not as if card-carrying liberals suddenly became card-carrying leftists of varying stripes. Fellow travelers and quislings there are, but that’s always the case with movements. Sullivan does point out that conservatives haven’t radicalized; they’ve pretty much been anchored to the same center-right beliefs and values for a generation or more. An astonished Sullivan penned this: Take a big step back. Observe...

July 21 , 2021memorial of St. John of Edessa Chaldean Catholic church Al Hasakah, SyriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingExodus 16:1-5,9-15 ©The Lord sends quails and manna from heavenFrom Elim they set out, and the whole community of the sons of Israel reached the wilderness of Sin – between Elim and Sinai – on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt. And the whole community of the sons of Israel began to complain against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and said to them, ‘Why did we not die at the Lord’s hand in...

Victoria’s Secret is getting back into the fashion show business after backlash over its one-size-fits-all definition of sexy killed off the annual extravaganza two years ago. “Our intention is to get back into the fashion show business in a culturally relevant way,” chief executive Martin Waters told investors in a conference call on Monday. “You should anticipate that the fashion show will be part of our business. We will redefine it,” Waters said. Victoria’s Secret canceled the popular catwalk event featuring its famous “Angels” donning massive wings with their skimpy lingerie in 2019, after 24 years. The event was scrapped...

Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected the country’s newly unveiled "Checkmate" warplane on Tuesday. The prototype of the Sukhoi fifth-generation stealth fighter was revealed at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon, Reuters reported. The show opened Tuesday in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow. Fifth-generation refers to the jet’s stealth characteristics, a capability to cruise at supersonic speed as well as artificial intelligence to assist the pilots, among other advanced features. "What we saw in Zhukovsky today demonstrates that the Russian aviation has a big potential for development and our aircraft making industries continue to create new competitive aircraft designs," Putin said in...

North Carolina Representative Ted Budd’s fundraising numbers for his Senate campaign gave him a last-minute cash boost in the Republican primary, after former President Donald Trump endorsed him last month. EQV Analytics, a Democratic research firm, found that Mr Budd began [outraising] his opponents after Trump endorsed him at a state party convention in June, praising him as someone who would “fight like hell." According to his most recent Federal Election Commission filing, nearly 70 percent of the $950,000 raised by Mr. [Budd] came [after] the former president endorsed [Budd], who was first elected to Congress in 2016. *** Bill...

The MP for Calais today rubbished Priti Patel's latest £54million ($73 million) payment to France, claiming that the deal is pointless because migrants will 'just find somewhere else to cross' - as 20 more arrived today after the number of Channel crossings in 2021 hits a record annual high of 8,452. Pierre-Henri Dumont told the BBC this morning that the length of France's coastline and the large number of places where migrants could hide before crossing the English Channel meant that people-smugglers would always find a way to evade the authorities. His extraordinary remarks are a blow to the Home...

Virginia Dem takes $2.2 million from top unions after pledging to sign repeal of popular labor law Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe raked in millions of dollars from Big Labor after he vowed to sign a bill repealing the state's popular right-to-work law, a policy he once said should "never change." Nearly 30 percent of McAuliffe's June fundraising haul—roughly $2.2 million—came from a slew of the nation's largest labor unions, the Democrat's most recent campaign finance report shows. The contributions began rolling in just weeks after McAuliffe pledged to sign a bill reversing Virginia's right-to-work law, which prohibits companies...

Let the Games begin! After a year of waiting, the U.S. Women’s National Team will launch its Olympic campaign on July 21, taking on Sweden in its first match at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Kickoff is at 5:30 p.m. local/4:30 a.m. ET at Tokyo Stadium in Tokyo and the match will be broadcast in the United States on the USA Network and Telemundo, with streaming coverage also provided at NBCOlympics.com and through the Telemundo Deportes App. The match will also be replayed later that day on NBCSN at 8:30 a.m. ET and 6 p.m. ET. The USA enters the...

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