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Comedian Jackie Mason on the Iran nuclear deal, Donald Trump and the 2016 presidential race.

On his MSNBC show this morning, host Jonathan Capehart managed—with help from one of the fleeing Texas Democrat state reps—to smear law Texas state troopers, "rural cops," and Republicans at large, as potentially violent vigilantes. Capehart teed up Jarvis D. Johnson—one of the Texas Democrat state representatives who have fled to DC in an attempt to derail adoption of voting laws—to say that he has told his son not to drive because he fears "retaliation" by state troopers, "rural cops" or some "fanatic of the Republican Party" taking the law "into their own hands. This in response to Gov. Greg...

Arizona state senator Kelly Townsend defended Gateway Pundit reporter Jordan Conradson after RINO state senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita had him removed from Trump’s rally and arrested. ..... Snip..... Conradson asked her why she killed Senator Kelly Townsend’s chain of custody and election integrity bills. A few minutes later Conradson was detained by event officials and escorted from the building for “harassing” Ugenti Rita. After walking away, he called AZ State Senator Kelly Townsend, who encouraged him to come back peacefully and fight this. On Sunday, Ugenti-Rita lashed out at Townsend and said she “encouraged” Jordan Conradson to “break the law.” “A...

TOKYO (AP) — Nobody was watching Ahmed Hafnaoui in lane eight of the Olympic pool. All eyes were on the Tunisian teenager at the finish. Hafnaoui was the stunning winner of the 400-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Games on Sunday, beating a field of faster and older swimmers. The 18-year-old finished in 3 minutes, 43.26 seconds, punctuating his victory with loud yelling that echoed in the mostly empty 15,000-seat arena.

India will be keen to buy a newly unveiled Russian stealth fighter to help counter China’s forces along their disputed border, according to military analysts. Earlier this week the Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi unveiled a prototype of its new “Checkmate” jet at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon outside Moscow. The maker highlighted its stealth abilities and relatively low cost, which is expected to be a major selling point internationally. Sukhoi said the fifth-generation fighter had a top speed of Mach 2 and an operational range of 3,000km (1,865 miles) and a payload of 7.4 tonnes. It is expected...

Two Asians in America (one a defector from Communist North Korea) discuss the "attack on merit" and how Asian-Americans are crucial to preserving meritocracy in the U.S. They discuss "critical race ideology" and how Asian-Americans are being discriminated against in favor of Blacks and Hispanics who are being given preferential treatment because of race, not merit. The preference for "equity" over "equality" has spilled over from academia and is now infecting corporations and other areas (even such things as music), where Asians are being made to feel "ashamed of their race" and "merit" in general. Kenny Xu also brings up...

Three guys attempt to steal a catalytic converter. Unfortunately for them, a modern-day Berserker with a baseball bat shows up.

Corporate America sacrificed national interests in service of greed, and so did the U.S. government. As we all know, the source of Corporate America’s unprecedented explosion in profits in the 21st century is the offshoring of manufacturing to China. If you doubt this, please study the chart below of corporate profits. Apologists claim many excuses in an attempt to evade the central role of offshoring production to China, but they all ring hollow: no, it wasn’t increasing productivity or automation or Federal Reserve magic, it was shipping production to China and other low-labor-cost nations. Whether we like to admit it...

The BSA’s leftist agenda results in a membership drop from 1.97 million to 762,000. *** The BSA announced last week its $850 million settlement with thousands of abuse claimants, the vast majority being from many decades ago. *** In January of 2013, in a “Letter to an Eagle Scout,” I responded to the dismay over a proposal by the BSA National Board to remove the membership restriction regarding sexual orientation. In May of that year, the BSA’s national board, under the “leadership” of wealthy corporate types who were completely out of touch with grassroots Scouting values, promoted and implemented a...

‘ Pence Aides still getting Government Paychecks and Pence got a big time book deal and bought a Mansion on a lake in Indiana. Behind a Paywall

Last week, a bipartisan group of hundreds of business owners and employers in Colorado got together to send a letter to Governor Jared Polis. They were asking that he put an end to the $300 per week federal enhancements to unemployment benefits, as the governors of other states have already done. Their underlying message was, ‘we need our workforce back.’ There are help-wanted signs all over the state, but not enough workers to fill nearly all of the positions. They didn’t have to wait long to get their response. The Governor said that while he wishes he could help, this...

Hugo Millan, a 14-year-old motorbike racer, has died after a crash at the MotorLand Aragon Circuit in Alcaniz, Spain. The Spaniard was hit by another rider after going down in the middle of the track on the second lap of the European Talent Cup race on Sunday. Millan was attended to by doctors for several minutes before being taken to the track’s hospital in an ambulance. He was later transported to another hospital in a helicopter but died of his injuries. “Millan was involved in a multi-rider incident at Turn 5, with the session immediately red flagged,” organisers FIM CEV...

People across the globe are standing up and fighting against China flu lockdowns and vaccine mandates a mere 477 days since being told we need only “15 days to flatten the curve.” We’re Not Gonna Take It Anti-riot cops clashed with protestors in central Paris, using tear gas to break up angry mobs that are tired of useless lockdowns, immunity passports, and a possible forced vaccination plan for healthcare workers. Over 100,000 people took to the streets to show their disdain for the COVID restrictions, including “COVID-Free” letters allowing them to enter restaurants and theaters.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the beleaguered public face of the United States government’s response to the coronavirus, has defended America’s funding of research into coronaviruses at a laboratory in Wuhan, China. “It was a … proposal that was peer-reviewed... The United States reportedly gave $600,000 to a non-profit institution in Wuhan which had links to the city’s Institute of Virology, where researchers were investigating whether bat coronaviruses could be transmitted from animals to humans. “[The proposal was] to be able to go and do a survey of what was going on among the bat population because everyone in the world was...

crowd of drugged-up youths surrounded and attacked an off-duty firefighter who was out walking his dog in Cuomo’s dystopia of New York City. And of course no arrests have been made despite the fact that the incident was captured on tape. Thanks to an ambulance arriving, the man was able to flee with his life. According to stories in the New York Post and Guardian, there were several shocked witnesses in the area, so one must presume that one of them walked to the ambulance and requested assistance.

Remember when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was amazed by a garbage disposal and the idea that you can grow food in the ground? Many of us tittered and guffawed. As it turns out, she is not an anomaly. According to a poll from SWNS digital, 81% of college grads wish they had been taught more life skills before graduation. Instead, they learned the importance of pronouns and social justice activism. It seems that many students leave a college clueless about budgeting and what to do when you can’t afford DoorDash. The learned helplessness churned out from our universities seems intentional....

The House Bill 6 corruption scandal already was going to be a campaign issue for Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. But new details in the deal FirstEnergy Corp. signed with federal prosecutors last week put the scandal an additional step closer to the governor’s office, posing new complications as DeWine heads into what could be a challenging re-election year. DeWine has faced heat for his closeness with FirstEnergy, which admitted last week to funding a $61 million bribery scheme to pass HB6, a nuclear bailout bill. A close campaign adviser, Josh Rubin, is a former FirstEnergy lobbyist, DeWine’s former Chief of...

Flashback music of Vietnam, the bullwark of the ground pounding grunt in the day.

Former President Donald Trump says “woke politics” contributed to the US Women’s soccer team’s dismal opening performance in the Tokyo Olympics. “The US Women’s Soccer team is a very good example of what’s going on,” Trump told a crowd during a campaign-style rally in Arkansas on Saturday night. “Woke politics takes the life and joy out of everything. Woke-ism makes you lose, ruins your mind and ruins you as a person. You become warped. You become demented​,” he said during the speech to the Turning Point Action​ political action committee in Phoenix.​​ “Earlier this week, [the women’s team] unexpectedly lost...

Maria Piacesi, the niece of Montana Senator Steve Daines, has revealed that Joe Biden squeezed her nipple in front of the world’s media when she was just eight years old. In 2015, then-Vice President Joe Biden was photographed fondling the right nipple of Piacesi, the daughter of Montana Senator Steve Daines’ sister Christine and her husband Rob Piacesi, during a senatorial swearing-in ceremony. C-SPAN.org used to have the original footage, but it was pulled down after Democrats and major media sites warned viewers not to believe their own eyes. Maria now confirms Creepy Joe pinched her, but she’s afraid to...