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...In Mississippi, it’s alligator season and this time of year typically brings an air of excitement to the area. Powell and his friends were among those who wanted to enjoy the season and they did when they landed a nearly 800-pound gator.... ...“We had one guy with a broke rod, me with a broke reel and one good rod on him,” Powell said. “We were just holding on and praying at that point.”...

Tens of thousands protested in Switzerland on Saturday for the legalization of same-sex marriage in the Alpine country. The protests came ahead of a national referendum on Sept. 26 on the legalization of gay marriage, which has already been introduced in many other European countries including Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands. Public broadcaster SRF reported that tens of thousands participated in the Zürich Pride parade, which had the slogan “You can do it. Marriage for everyone now.” …

DOVER, DE—While speculation has circled about President Biden checking his watch during the dignified transfer of fallen soldiers, sources in the administration have confirmed that in fact, he was only looking to see if he still had blood on his hands. Despite attempting to blame Trump, climate change, and the Afghani people themselves, at the end of the debacle Biden still found himself with blood on his hands, and his alone. Somehow, being the President of the United States—and being the final authority who selected Pentagon leaders for their intersectionality, ordered the total troop withdrawal, conceded to deadlines set by...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband announced that they are parents of two new-born children. The gay couple was photographed in a hospital bed sporting what appears to be hospital admission bracelets while cradling two infants. The black and white photograph gives the impression that they – um – well – never mind. “We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family,” Buttigieg, 39, said in a statement on social media, sharing a photograph of his daughter and son. So who were the birth mothers and why were their significant contributions not acknowledged? "Chasten...

Some Republicans have been clamoring for audits of the 2020 presidential election since the election took place, but other Republicans have stood firmly against them.Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is one of those Republicans standing in the way.The congresswoman was interviewed by John Hines on One America News Network to talk about the fight for an audit in Georgia that she said is being blocked by the state’s top Republicans.“I know obviously, you represent northwest Georgia. And I think that you’ve been following this issue what seems to be happening with...

Chinese regulators summoned Didi, Geely’s Caocao, and nine other ride-hailing firms on Sept. 1, and accused them of vicious competition, illegal operations, and disrupting the market order.This is the latest action of the Chinese Communist Party’s multi-pronged crackdown on its tech companies, and the second summons after the regulators ordered 10 ride-hailing firms to set up an organization CCP members will lead on May 14.In recent months, Chinese regulators have launched new rules on online video games, tech companies who seek to list on foreign stock exchanges, cloud computing businesses, e-commerce companies, online financing businesses, education, celebrity fan clubs, Bitcoin,...

It’s been a tough week for the fact-checkers. A beleaguered fact-check reporter at USA Today has been foundering for a few days as a result of a factually inaccurate entry. He was taking the role of the victim — after somewhat correcting the story — and now he is being defended by an editor from Snopes, who tells us that the USA Today fact-checker being incorrect is a sign that we should be impressed by his work. Yes, seriously.For a time, it seemed like one of the easier jobs in journalism was that of the fact-checker. The arrival of Joe...

President Joe Biden declared the Caldor Fire threatening communities at Lake Tahoe, California an emergency Wednesday night to dispatch federal resources to the relief effort.That blaze, only 25 percent contained as of this writing, has already burned more than 200,000 acres with roughly 32,300 structures in the path of destruction, according to a local California news outlet.Meanwhile, the Dixie Fire 120 miles north of the area scorched half of Lassen Volcanic National Park and remains only 52 percent contained. Billed as one of the largest in modern California history, the inferno has already engulfed 1,300 structures and continues to spread,...

A decade ago, as young marrieds with our first baby, my husband and I made plans to leave Washington DC for the American heartland. We had fun living in the city, but we didn’t want to raise our kids there. We’d grown up in flyover country and our childhoods had been greatly benefitted by living farther from the madding crowds.Moving was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. It has been good for us financially, spiritually, and relationally. Although in 2020, like all Americans we endured government and population oppression that suspended our constitutional rights, nobody has escaped those...

It's been quite a week. I've been in the media business for decades and I've never before witnessed such lies, exaggeration and outright fraud. All with the intent to force everyone to be vaccinated. The question is why?Let's start with the vaccine itself. The results in Israel prove what a sham, charade and fraud this all is. The U.S. government and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argue that the vaccine is our only chance to survive. And that people are hospitalized and dying with COVID-19 because they are unvaccinated.Both arguments are pure fraud.First, are you aware that anyone who...

After hours of consideration, prayer, and discussion, you decided, “Yes. I’m going to do it. I’m going to homeschool my children.” If this is you, you’re not alone. American homeschooling households have more than doubled since 2020 . Why? For many parents, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to evaluate what America’s public schools have been teaching their children — and it’s terrifying.Radical sex education, LGBT ideologies, and critical race theory are some of the progressive ideas being pressed upon schoolchildren. After realizing what public schools are including in their curricula, many parents are refusing to sit back and let...

Something strange is going on.On one hand stocks are trading at all-time highs, levitating every day without an apparent care in the world, with traders seemingly complacent that any air pocket in the market will simply mean more accommodation by the Fed which may not taper and which, according to some, may even to more QE. On the other, traditional bear-market signals such as the CNN fear and greed indicator, are deep in neutral territory, having dipped in "fear" territory as recently as one month ago...... while the SKEW index which many view as an indicator of crash preparation, is...

Thinking of taking an entry level scribe job as even with my certificate in medical coding there is no place that hires with zero experience. However a term of the employment is to have adequate titers even if you have a full vaccination history. I would be required to get a measles and a hep-b vaccine despite again working from home.

The government’s pricey system to verify that employees are authorized to work legally in the U.S. is somewhat of a joke that has approved thousands of illegal immigrants and hundreds of thousands of foreigners without using its own photo-matching process to confirm identities. Additionally, the system, which is operated by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), deemed around 4,000 foreign-born applicants as “employment authorized” based on employer-sponsored visas without verifying that candidates were actually hired by the employers that sponsored them.The famously inefficient program is known as E-Verify, a costly database that screens new...

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday said that “Christian extremists” are “passing forced birth laws” to make it more difficult for a woman to abort her child, days after Texas’s pro-life law went into effect. “Christian extremists are passing forced birth laws to intimidate & cut off abortion services – including for victims of rape, incest, & child abuse,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “While we fight back, know you still have options. Pills can be mailed to your home discreetly,” she continued:

I've been thinking about the laws around the U.S. where: 1.) She can tell the man she will have the baby and he can't stop her and she will come after him for child support. (BTW, I am never in support of abortion and believe men should be responsible). 2.) She can tell the man she won't be having the baby and he can't stop her. 3.) I discovered there are (or at least were) govt-funded brick-and-mortar buildings to enforce child support for women (and sometimes men) but not to enforce visitation rights. 4.) I discovered women legally can flee...

Wildes and teachers across the country face a vexing and evolving challenge as the new school year begins and students return to the classroom following a roughly 18-month hiatus from normal in-person learning. Since the last time full classrooms congregated, a whole industry of misinformation has exploded online, spreading conspiracy theories on everything from the alleged steal of the presidential election, which Joe Biden won,

Many everyday Americans probably believe that the COVID vaccines will keep them from getting COVID. That’s not true and never has been true.The vaccines do not prevent you from being infected with the COVID virus. They do not keep you from spreading the COVID virus.There have been many cases of so-called “breakthrough” infections where double-vaxxed citizens get COVID anyway. That’s not uncommon.There’s even new evidence that double-vaxxed individuals who get COVID will build up huge viral loads in their noses and sinuses, causing them to become super-spreaders and infect others.Do the vaccines do anything?Yes, they are effective at reducing severe...

The proposed carbon fee would serve as one of several proposed sources of funding for the Biden administration’s plan to spend $US4.7 trillion ($6.3 trillion) on infrastructure and social welfare via two separate bills. However, there is already fierce debate within the Democratic party about how big the spending should be and how to pay for it, with key Senators such as Joe Manchin vehemently opposed to the scale of the welfare bill. Congressman Joe Courtney, who last week controversially went against Mr Biden by backing a $24 billion increase to the US defence budget, said it was unlikely a...

Buyer’s remorse is that sinking feeling people get when they’ve made an impulse decision or purchase, and reality hits. It can bring on cold sweats from the possible trouble coming, and worse. And that’s what one-fifth of the likely voters now have about their decision to support Joe Biden for president, according to a new poll from Zogby Analytics. “On the surface it doesn’t seem like much, especially if you look at the three quarters of likely voters who did not regret their vote; 4% were not sure how they felt,” the polling company reported. “Why does this matter? If...