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And Ted Cruz is the hero of this story, for he may have saved America from totalitarian, one-party rule. The For the People Act automatically registers millions of illegal aliens and mandates that felons be allowed to vote – and in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Senate Democrats attempted to sneak it through right after the $3.5 trillion budget vote. Fortunately, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) blocked that effort. This was an important vote for Senator Cruz: to stop a federal government takeover of elections and a massive power grab by Democrats. Its Orwellian title, “For the people”, means precisely...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A man robbed in Richmond pulled out a gun and shot his assailants, Crime Insider sources told Jon Burkett. One of the men died as a result of the shooting, the other was taken to the hospital. The incident happened Friday afternoon along the 1100 block of Commerce Road in South Richmond. The wounded men drove away after the shooting. They were later found less than a mile away near East 18th Street and Fairfax Avenue.

Video of military helicopters evacuating US embassy in #Afghanistan today. https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1426861041481302018

Trillions set to be spent by Congress ... on science that isn't real. It feels like I am beating a dead horse but since the public is inundated every day with misinformation about humans, CO2 and fossil fuels causing global warming/climate change, some of us must persist in giving facts before our great country is intentionally destroyed from within. Currently, Democrats are working as fast as they can to pass a slush fund in their $1 trillion infrastructure bill and its Bernie Sanders-crafted $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, which has lots of kickbacks to their political supporters and a great focus...

On Wednesday, August 11, Ebrahim Raisi, the new president of Iran, introduced the names of his cabinet ministers to Iran's parliament. A brief look at the proposed ministers clearly shows that, as expected, with these ministers and their boss, Raisi, no serious changes will occur in the management or, better say, in the country's mismanagement. Most of Raisi's proposed ministers held ministerial positions in Ahmadinejad's cabinet, and there is almost no new face among them. Looking at the titles of each of these proposed ministers, it can be seen that a significant number of them carry the title "doctor…", Doctor...

More than two centuries later, by realizing that hope, are we coming close to destroying what they created? “We are soldiers so that our sons can be farmers and their sons can be poets” is a quote often attributed to John Adams. He likely never uttered those words, but he did write something similar in a letter to a friend. While the sentiments he expressed -- the hope that our children will have better lives than we -- is understandable and something we all share, it loses sight of how a civilization is created and, more importantly, how it is...

The Talk Shows August 15th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. Dr. Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health; former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Former FCC Chair Newton Minow. Panel of Wallass idiots: Never Trumper Doug Heye; Julie Pace, Associated Press; Whine Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. Panel: Kristen Soltis Anderson, SiriusXM; Peter Baker; Cornell Belcher; Anne Gearan—just another easily...

Afghanistan's president Ghani is relinquishing power. Interim "government" led by the Taliban to be formed. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1426842299913342978

A school nurse spoke out against masking students at a Prior Lake school board meeting and then quit her job. In a video of the school board meeting, shared by Representative Erik Mortenson, the nurse said that what happened over the last year “goes against my beliefs and morals and against my oath as a mother and a nurse.” The Prior Lake school nurse said that when she brought up her concerns during the 2020 school year, she had been told to “censor” her views on masking because of the “opinions” of others. “This offended me,” she shared, saying that...

The Left, in general, and a radicalized faction of the LGBTQ community, in particular, have been engaged in an all-out attempt to queer everything. That august journal of American history, Out Magazine, recently reported: “Colonial Williamsburg was a lot queerer than we were led to believe.” This bold assertion was made in an article titled, “Colonial Williamsburg Is Uncovering America’s Hidden Queer History.” It’s true. Sort of. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is endeavoring to reveal America’s supposedly long, if sadly hidden, LGBTQ history. Colonial Williamsburg Gender and Sexual Diversity Research Committee (CWGSDRC?) member Ren Tolson says that much has been...

Early in the fifth century, a masterpiece of literature was produced. Entitled The City of God, the now classic consolation was composed by a man destined to become the foremost scholar of the early Christian Church. Saint Augustine wrote his renowned work under terrible conditions though, for the age he lived through was one nothing short of utter chaos and upheaval. Only a few short years had passed since Visigoth armies had taken the city of Rome by force—ransacking the symbolic headquarters of the civilized world in an earthshattering feat that no barbarian tribe had dared undertake for some eight...

The United States Department of Homeland Security made a quiet and alarming announcement yesterday, creating the official position of the United States Government under the Joe Biden regime. [SEE DHS STATEMENT HERE] According to the statement, if you question the orthodoxy, mandates, or COVID-19 response from the U.S. government, you are now considered a “terrorist”, specifically a “Domestic Violent Extremist” (DVE). This is quite a remarkable development and seems to underpin the tenuous, unstable and fragile disposition of the current regime. The Department of Homeland Security seems rather paranoid in their need to label anyone who would question the COVID-19...

Thanks for joining our Bible study. I wrote “our” to acknowledge and thank the many loyal and passionate readers who enhance this study with their thoughtful and scholarly comments about the Word of God. All Townhall readers learn from you, including me. Today’s lesson was prompted by a call from my esteemed colleague Russ Breault. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts about the Shroud of Turin and a Bible scholar. Russ suggested I write a follow-up to last week’s study about manna from Heaven found in Exodus Chapter 16 that included gospel quotes from Jesus proclaiming...

This is madness. Forced vaccination with an experimental "for emergency use only" shot has precipitated death or injury for over 500,000 Americans. Is this really happening? Are you sure this isn't 1938 Nazi Germany, or a communist country that provides no civil or human rights to its citizens? Because this can't be America.That figure of over 500,000 total deaths, serious injuries and adverse effects linked to the COVID-19 vaccines is not from me ... it's not from some wild, unreliable internet rumor ... it comes from the vaccine adverse event reporting system called VAERS that's connected to the U.S. government...

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How much can lack of election integrity cost you? It’s $4 trillion and rising, and it’s all that stands between you and the socialist takeover of America. Unsecure elections are the gateway to socialism. Setting aside controversies over the presidential race, post-election audits in Georgia show that at minimum Republican David Purdue should not have lost his Senate race, with ultra-left Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) ultimately won by a fraction of a point. Perdue won in November, but with 49.73 percent in a three-way race. But in Georgia, a candidate must break 50 percent to win outright. Otherwise it goes...

They sure talk a good game, don’t they? Be thankful Democrats don’t sell used cars, lest you have a yard full of lemons. No, they sell something worse than junk, they sell lies, and they do it really, really well. But don’t think for a second that they don’t know exactly what they’re doing, and never believe, not even for a moment, that they actually give a damn about what they claim to care deeply about. They love children. How do I know this? They won’t shut up about them. Not their own kids, yours. Joe Biden doesn’t talk that...

NEW YORK - The Georges Bergès Gallery has sat on a chic stretch of SoHo for six years now, a relatively little-known newcomer in a New York art world that has long been dominated by name-brand power brokers like Pace Gallery and Gagosian. This summer, however, it has unexpectedly become one of the most talked-about galleries in the nation, thanks to its plans to sell works by another relative newcomer to the art world: a fledgling artist who happens to be the son of the president of the United States. The gallery is planning to sell 15 works by Hunter...

Republican Elder spoke at a church that was fined more than $1 million for defying restrictions on indoor gatherings California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder told a mostly maskless crowd inside a San Jose church this week that he would repeal coronavirus mask and vaccine mandates imposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom – if Newsom loses next month’s recall election and Elder collects enough votes to replace him. “This man that I’m going to defeat on September 14, he shut down the state in the most severe way than any of the other 49 governors have,” Elder told the audience, according to...

President Joe Biden released a statement Saturday from the White House blaming his decision to surge U.S. troops to Afghanistan to combat the Taliban's surging land acquisition on the policies of former President Donald Trump. Biden said in the statement that he would send an additional 1,000 troops to Afghanistan to complement the 1,000 troops already in the country and the 3,000-troop surge he announced last week, a defense official told the Washington Examiner. The president said the move was necessary after he inherited a tenuous situation from the previous administration, claiming that Trump had cut a deal with the...