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VIDEOPerhaps the best campaign commercial for "Yes On Recall" in California was made by Governor Gavin Newsom. He provided a list of excellent reasons to recall him and even some reasons you might not have considered such as the ability to appoint people to fill to vacant county boards of supervisors seats around the state.The good news for the Yes On Recall campaign is that they don't have to spend money to produce an effective campaign commercial. Gavin Newsom has already done the heavy lifting for them on that score in this video.

America is in shock over the Taliban’s swift and complete takeover in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden incoherently attempted to justify this failure after trillions of American dollars have been spent to avoid it. While we grieve the loss of human life associated with the Taliban’s victory, we cannot help but note the clear contrast this situation provides to the morally upright values our nation was founded upon. It is time that our woke politicians, corporate leaders and religious figures acknowledge this difference. We must end the disgraceful defamation of America as an oppressive nation. The Taliban is a brutal regime...

The Biden administration is at odds with Israel over the best way to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett intends to present US President Joe Biden with a plan to halt a nuclear Iran when the two hold their first meeting together in the White House later this week. “We will present an orderly plan that we have formulated in the past two months to curb the Iranians, both in the nuclear sphere and vis-à-vis regional aggression,” Bennett told the government at its weekly meeting on Sunday. -----Snip “We inherited a not-so-simple situation. Iran is...

The government's decades-long mission to terrify the public from owning firearms is the most dangerous delusion forced on the American people. SNIP At the end of July, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives sent a letter to Rare Breed Trigger notifying the Florida company that the ATF had classified its FRT-15 trigger, a drop-in trigger for an AR-15 rifle that speeds up the rate of fire, as a machine gun under the National Firearms Act and demanding that the company cease all sales. Rare Breed is fighting the ATF's action, but that hasn't reduced the federal agency's power...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Aug. 22. The steamer Yankee arrived last evening. She comes for repairs, and will leave to-morrow. Her officers report eleven steamers and four cutters at Aquia Creek. Everything there is quiet. The report that the rebels had erected batteries on the Maryland side, below Aquia Creek, is untrue. The Columbia arrived with Government stores to-day, bringing with her a sloop called the Eagle, seized below. Col. ABRAHAM DURYEE is here from Baltimore. Gen. SCOTT favors his appointment as a Brigadier-General. He has been acting as such for some time, and with great efficiency. Trustworthy intelligence from Northwestern Virginia...

The Supreme Court on Monday released the schedule for the justices’ November argument session, which begins on Nov. 1 and runs through Nov. 10. The justices will hear oral arguments in nine cases over six days, including the argument in one of the highest-profile cases of the term so far, the challenge to a New York law that requires anyone who wants to carry a gun in the state to show a good reason for doing so. That case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, will be argued on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The court did not indicate...

Portland, Oregon descended into violence on Sunday, as intense clashes broke out between Antifa and Proud Boys. One man was arrested for firing a gun at demonstrators, a car was broken into, and an ambulance truck was flipped. Luckily, no injuries have been reported. Portland has become a magnet for Antifa rioters given the city’s liberal stance. Portland police arrested a man, later identified as 65-year-old Dennis G. Anderson, on Sunday afternoon after he allegedly opened fire with a handgun. Footage filmed close to Southwest 3rd Avenue and Southwest Alder Street, where Anderson was arrested, showed a man firing a...

WATCH: President Biden laughs when told new CBS/YouGov poll shows a majority of Americans don't believe he is "competent, focused, or effective in the job." pic.twitter.com/rDAW3CEgKl— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 22, 2021

After more than seven months of the worst presidency in American history, Joe Biden must leave the White House. He has been a complete and total disaster. Almost every Trump voter understood that Biden would be an unmitigated failure as president. His 50-year career as a politician clearly showed that he was an admitted plagiarist and a serial liar who was wrong on almost every foreign and domestic issue. He limped into the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination due to the worry that his major opponent, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). was too much of a socialist. Ironically, Biden is now...

The science behind the danger of experimental vaccination. After being promised that mRNA vaccines were game-changers that would safely and effectively end the pandemic, a new wave of uncertainty has descended upon the world with the rise of the Delta variant. Vaccinated people are falling ill with breakthrough infections of Delta. We first started hearing about the Delta variant of Covid-19 in March 2021. At that time, breakthrough infections among the fully vaccinated were rare. Five months later, large numbers of vaccinated people are coming down with breakthrough infections. Provincetown, Massachusetts, had an outbreak after the Fourth of July where...

A man, who calls himself the "vaccine police," entered a Walmart in Springfield, Missouri to put staff "on public notice," telling pharmacists they could be "executed" if they carry out COVID-19 vaccine shots, according to reports. The man identified as Christopher Key, an anti-vaxxer from Alabama, live-streamed the confrontation on Facebook last week, on August 16, according to the Springfield News-Leader. The video shows Key and a handful of supporters praying in the parking lot of the supercenter before entering. During the prayer, a person could be heard saying: "Thank you, Lord Jesus, for waking up Springfield" and "help us...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that more than 500 tonnes of medical supplies due for delivery in Afghanistan are stuck outside of the country due to chaos at Kabul airport. Aid officials say the supplies, including surgical equipment and malnutrition kits, are needed to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by recent violence. Thousands of people have left the country in recent days, but commercial flights have ceased. "While the eyes of the world now are on the people being evacuated and the planes leaving, we need to get supplies in to help those who are left...

For decades, American foreign policy has been committed to a failed political and military philosophy. In Afghanistan, America is experiencing its own Dunkirk, but without rescue boats or a Churchill on the horizon. While pundits, pooh-bahs, and political prophets presently are in finger-pointing mode over the debacle, one lesson is apparent. For decades, American foreign policy has been committed to a failed political and military philosophy. Afghanistan is the symbolic and real indicator of the total collapse of the liberal/left Weltanschauung. During America's twenty years' war and occupation of Afghanistan and well before that enterprise, somewhere along the way, the...

Ivermectin, a potentially dangerous and unproven medication to help COVID-19 patients, is being widely dispensed despite warnings, as the nation is in the grips of the delta variant surge. Internal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed by ABC News, estimates a 19-fold increase of the anti-parasite medicine being distributed during the first week of August. That distribution is despite multiple warnings from public health departments given the lack of evidence ivermectin works to treat COVID and the substantial risk of seizures or coma if used incorrectly. Ivermectin is not authorized by the Food and Drug Administration...

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top national security officials assembled at the Pentagon early on April 24 for a secret meeting to plan the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. It was two weeks after President Joe Biden had announced the exit over the objection of his generals, but now they were carrying out his orders. The plan was a good one, the group concluded. Four months later, the plan is in shambles as Biden struggles to explain how a withdrawal most Americans supported went so badly wrong in its execution. On Friday, as scenes of continuing chaos and suffering...

One of the most insane and frustrating inconsistencies of the CDC’s maddening desire to vaccinate every man, woman, child in America with a vaccine that has a clearly waning efficacy has been the lack of an acknowledgment of natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2. The failure to address this has not only been tone-deaf, but Orwellian in its method and scope. It’s like the experience of at least a third of America with this virus - and the long-lasting, protective immunity conferred - means absolutely nothing to the powers-that-be, who still insist that those with natural immunity vaccinate, wear masks, and live...

CHICAGO -- At least 44 people were shot, seven fatally, acorss Chicago over the weekend, police said. A One person was killed and two were wounded outside a gas station Saturday morning in Austin on the West Side. About 2:55 a.m., a man, 52, and two women, 62 and 24, were outside a gas station with about 20 other people in the 5100-block of West Madison Street when someone in a black Dodge Charger opened fire, according to Chicago Police. The man suffered gunshot wounds to the head and leg, the 62-year-old to the head, abdomen and lower backside; and...

In a recently released propaganda photo, a Taliban unit reportedly called Badri 313 hoisted the Taliban flag in a re-creation of the iconic flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi by U.S. servicemen in World War II. The Taliban have adapted to the 21st-century battlefield using social media as part of a public relations campaign that emboldens our enemies and continues to humiliate the United States, even more so because they are wearing modern uniforms, equipment, body armor, and weapons, weapons that look eerily familiar to me. Tactically we are the most effective fighting force on the face of the earth. Operationally, we...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 143 A psalm of David. 1 Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief. 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you. 3 The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead. 4 So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed. 5 I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what...

Californians wanting to attend events with more than 1,000 people will have to prove they have received a COVID-19 vaccine. The California Department of Public Health announced attending indoor events with 1,000 or more guests will require either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within the last 72 hours. The requirement previously was triggered at events with 5,000 or more attendees. “The Delta variant has proven to be highly transmissible, making it easier to spread in large crowds where people are near each other for long periods of time,” CDPH Director Dr. Tomás J. Aragón said. “By requiring...