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VIDEOAfter being booed off the stage at the Turning Point rally in Phoenix in a most humiliating manner, Arizona State Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita went on an unhinged Twitter rant in which she denounced the Maricopa County ballot audit as the "Trump audit." As you can see here, there are many clips of Ugenti-Rita strongly supporting the ballot audit...right up to the moment she was booed off the stage due to her killing a voter integrity bill. And now suddenly she has a "miraculous" revelation and now opposes what she calls the "Trump audit." Hissy fit rage does strange things to...

After months of slow news, former President Donald Trump is causing a ruckus in the Wyoming political world. According to a myriad of sources, the two GOP U. S. House candidates being invited for endorsement consideration are Cheyenne attorney Darin Smith and Casper legislator Chuck Gray. Although State Sen. Anthony Bouchard was the first to jump into the race against incumbent Liz Cheney, he was not invited by Trump. Trump has a big-time grudge against Cheney because she was one of 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach the former president. Cheney has become even more vocal since then...

The Cultural Revolution has claimed some very attractive new scalps. The Victoria’s Secret Angels and the brand’s signature “miracle bras” are history. As The New York Times recently noted, Victoria’s Secret’s parent company, L Brands, was unacceptably “out of step with the broader culture” but is now “trying to redefine what we consider sexy.” The move comes after 2019 revelations that Leslie H. Wexner, the founder and chairman of L Brands, helped the late child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein meet some of his victims, and presided over what the Grey Lady called “a misogynistic corporate culture that trafficked in sexism,...

A Brooklyn man has been seen pummeling a 68-year-old victim and stomping on his skull, before going through his pocket as he lay unconscious on the street in a shocking daylight, as the New York City crime wave continues.

A refugee from Turkey was today stabbed at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London. Hatun Tash, a regular speaker at London’s Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park was today stabbed in the middle of the Corner in broad daylight. On Sunday 25 July 2021, the Corner had been drenched in heavy rain for most of the day, the numbers present were therefore much lower than would normally be expected on a July Sunday afternoon. Whilst small groups huddled together trying to keep dry under the trees, at around 3:30pm an individual lunged at Hatun, punching and stabbing her with a knife....

When I first saw the letter reproduced here from something called “Dallas Justice Now,” calling on wealthy whites living in the affluent Highland Park neighborhood of Dallas not to have their kids apply to elite colleges so that there would be more room for minority applicants, I assumed that it was a satire or a hoax. But it turns out to be authentic. And there’s actually much to recommend this if you think about it for a moment: what Dallas Justice Now is doing is calling out the smug virtue-signaling of liberal “white allies” and demanding that they put their...

Prior research has demonstrated that gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) who have experienced adverse childhood events (ACEs) such as sexual abuse are significantly more likely to report HIV-related outcomes. ... Included in the study were 372 HIV-negative, MSM of color. Participants were asked to recall if any sexual violence experiences (SVEs), including their first experience of anal sex, were forced, coerced, non-consensual or for survival. Results from the study showed that nearly a third of the sample had experienced forced or pressured first sexual experiences. Nearly two-thirds reported a sexual experience prior to the...

LeBron James’s off-court earnings are actually higher than his earnings from the NBA

For the elite left, opposition to gun rights is in part a cultural statement of antipathy to red-state values. Yet a small but important part of the progressive coalition—criminal-defense lawyers—can’t afford to treat gun laws as one more culture-war bludgeon. Hence a remarkable amicus brief by a coalition of defense lawyers for the indigent, led by the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid, asking the Supreme Court to expand gun rights in the Second Amendment case it will decide next term... the brief from the criminal defense lawyers, which includes the Bronx Defenders and the Brooklyn Defender Services, argues against the...

It is much too soon to take a trip in the U.S. without a face mask. As the delta variant of the Covid-19 virus drives up case counts in every state, travelers — both vaccinated and unvaccinated — are encountering local mask mandates for indoor locations in Las Vegas, St. Louis and many other areas around the country. Mask mandates may soon return on the national level, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reportedly examining whether to reinstate mask guidance even for fully vaccinated people in public places. Yesterday, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN’s...

The loss to France snapped a 25-game Olympic winning streak for Team USA, but this was not an aberration. Australia, which beat the U.S. in an exhibition game last week and clobbered Nigeria in its opener in Tokyo, is better. Spain, which is deep with players who have been part of the last few Olympic cycles, could be better. Slovenia (hello, Luka Doncic) and Argentina might be better.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to launch a communist China-style social credit score app that will reward families based on government-approved choices at the grocery store. The supposedly Conservative government will launch an app by the end of the year to monitor the supermarket spending habits of families in the UK. Those who choose “healthier” options such as fruits and vegetables or engage in exercise will be rewarded with “loyalty points” in the app, which will translate into discounts and other incentives.

The End of MeritOur schools, even without CRT, are failing to prepare students for a skills-based job market.The near hysteria, though justifiable, among conservatives concerning the imposition of racialist Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools fails to address how this theology both reflects and contributes to the “systemic” decline of education itself.Over time, our educational deficit with other countries, notably China, particularly in the acquisition of practical skills in mathematics, engineering medical technology, and management, has grown, threatening our economic and political pre-eminence. Our competitors, whatever their shortcomings, are focused on economic competition and technological supremacy. In math, the OECD’s...

Last Wednesday my wife was complaining of a sore throat and headache. I'd been having trouble sleeping due to my ongoing sinus issues and hadn't really paid much attention to my own headache, but I did notice that my joints were aching, along with some other uncharacteristic pains (gonad, among them). The next day, I noticed my left tonsil (only) was sore, the opposite side of my sinus issues (not related to post nasal drip). Hearing her complaints, the sore throat/headache continued through Friday in me as well. Saturday morning, I awoke with a partially plugged right ear after an...

“Frank Marshall Davis, 81, of Honolulu, died Sunday in Honolulu,” read the obituary in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Davis, who passed away on July 26, 1987, “was a renowned black poet and former newspaperman.” The Kansas State graduate, recipient of a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in poetry, authored “Black Man’s Verse,” and two other widely anthologized volumes of poetry “reprinted in public schools and college textbooks for general use throughout the United States.” Frank Marshall Davis was managing editor of the Atlanta Daily World, executive editor of the Associated Negro Press, and “taught the history of jazz music at the Abraham...

Unlike other religions, declared the nineteenth-century French scholar Ernest Renan, Islam “was born in the full light of history.” Renan’s point, of course, was that whereas, for example, Jesus was unknown during his lifetime to the great world beyond Galilee and Judea, and the story of his life was set down, in various versions, only decades after his crucifixion, Muhammed was in his own lifetime a public figure of unparalleled eminence - the prophet of a new religion, the commander of an army that conquered much of the Arabian peninsula in the name of that religion, and the founder of...

One of the most idiotic of the Left’s assumptions is that sports team nicknames are intended to insult and demean. Many, many years ago, long before any of you who are reading this were born, and long, long before Major League Baseball went woke, pulled the All-Star Game out of Atlanta for not toeing the Left’s line, and made race-baiting Communist agitprop a permanent feature of its website, I learned about a man named Louis Sockalexis. Sockalexis, a great baseball name if there ever was one (later announcers would have loved to report about how he “socked” one into the...

“Liturgy is not a toy of popes; it is the heritage of the Church” — Very strong statement on Traditionis Custodes by Bp. Rob MutsaertsPope Francis promotes synodality: everyone should be able to talk, everyone should be heard. This was hardly the case with his recently published motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, an ukase [imperial edict] that must put an immediate termination on the traditional Latin Mass. In so doing, Francis puts a big bold line through Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict’s motu proprio that gave ample scope to the old Mass.The fact that Francis here uses the word of power without...

PARIS — France's parliament approved a law early Monday requiring special virus passes for all restaurants and domestic travel and mandating vaccinations for all health workers. Both measures have prompted protests and political tensions. President Emmanuel Macron and his government say they are needed to protect vulnerable populations and hospitals as infections rebound and to avoid new lockdowns. The law requires all workers in the health care sector to start getting vaccinated by Sept. 15, or risk suspension. It also requires a "health pass" to enter all restaurants, trains, planes and some other public venues. It initially applies to all...

[H/T Travis McGee]Documents Prove Fauci Knew in 2012 That Vaccines Targeting the Spike Protein Were a Slow Death Sentence Deadly Blood Clots Develop In 62% of People Receiving COVID Vaccine (freeworldnews.tv)Respected international organizations of doctors, physicians, scientists, epidemiologists, virologists, you name it, have formed in the last year and a half all over the world, and they have been reviewing studies going back decades, and current studies, where it was conclusively known in the literature at prestigious FACILITIES like the University of Texas Level 4 Lab in Galveston Texas, by 2012, that if you try to create a vaccine...