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I for one am shocked that Tucker Carlson is still alive. I cannot believe that Tucker Carlson has not "committed suicide" with three bullets to the back of the head. I'm stunned that a drunk hit-and-run driver (who was never found) did not kill Tucker Carlson in a car crash near Carlson's home. And I'm a little startled that child porn wasn't "just found" on Carlson's laptop. In other words, I am very, very surprised that the Deep State has not taken Tucker Carlson out. Maybe the angels are busy protecting him. Maybe it's through God's grace because Tucker is...

Homeschooling numbers have increased over 300% in the last two years, according to federal government Census data. This spike does not include Americans engaged in virtual learning through a public or private school program due to COVID protocols. These are full-time homeschoolers. The United States Census Bureau has been tasked with collecting data through nationwide surveys for over 80 years. The data are intended for use by other government agencies and elected officials for policy decisions. This is the first time the Census Bureau has sought to identify the total number of homeschoolers in America. Previous surveys only marked children...

Some prominent French figures, including President Emmanuel Macron, are rejecting "woke" ideology that has been imported from the United States amid a breakdown in relations between the two nations. A cover story by Le Spectacle Du Monde, one of France's leading magazines, recently ran a piece titled "The Suicide of America" in which it blames the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan on a "woke dictatorship" and questioned whether the American "empire was collapsing," Zenger News reported. Macron, who has been criticized by French progressives, told Elle Magazine this past summer that woke culture was "racializing" French society, Zenger reported. "I see...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEcclesiastes 1Everything Is Meaningless 1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” 3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7 All streams flow...

The Obama-Biden administration stockpiled an arsenal of high-powered weapons in the Executive Branch based on the vision of a civilian national security force. The stockpile can outfit an army. The Biden regime controls the trigger to the arsenal. "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama said on July 2, 2008. Non-profit OpentheBooks released a comprehensive oversight report earlier this year titled "The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies" (here)....

Let's take a look at both the rules and the applications of the consequences for those who break them. Since August this year, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller had earned both fame and notoriety when he posted a series of videos questioning the military's leadership following the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the devastating suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, which killed 182 people, including 13 U.S. service members, and injured more than a hundred. I have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders: I demand accountability....

BRIAN Laundrie's "concerned" family have revealed they think he is still in Florida and hope he'll be found alive, their lawyer said on Friday. The statement could have a huge impact on search efforts for the missing person of interest in Gabby Petito's death two weeks after he vanished. "They are concerned, but hopeful that he is found alive," the Laundries' family attorney Steve Bertolino said. Bertolino's statement to People is the first Laundrie's family has made since his disappearance, and after much attention has been brought to their home. Bertolino also confirmed that Cassie saw him with their family...

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Vladimir Putin of Russia, battered and diminished by the Trump years, is now in the catbird seat. Joe Biden is the reason why. In the midst of his incompetence, bad judgment, and quite possibly corrupt tradeoffs, he's enacted a string of bad decisions to empower the Russian autocrat. Quite unlike President Trump, who was accused by a mendacious and maddened left of being 'Putin's puppet,' Joe Biden is the real thing. Which is pretty ironic, really: For a man who wrote the gushing book blurb to the most negative portrayal of Putin I've ever read, Fiona Hill's "Mr. Putin," which...

New Forced Control: NYU Langone and other Hospitals in New York and Long Island are Forcing that if the Parent is not VAXXED they will not release Babies From NICU to Parents or after birth as per CDC Guidelines. You Need to Show VAX-Passport to see your own New Born Baby. https://twitter.com/DRAFZALNIAZ2/status/1443896839569346563 @DRAFZALNIAZ2 Link to this doctor's resume: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Afzal-Niaz

California voters had a chance to get rid of Governor Gavin Newsom, their COVID tyrant. They chose not to do so. Since his victory, Newsom has come for the children. First, he signed (rather than vetoed) laws ensuring that parents cannot know whether their children are having abortions or messing with their gender. And on Friday, he issued a mandate declaring that all California children 12 and over, whether attending either public or private school, must have a COVID vaccine (with the mandate extending to kids five and up as soon as possible). If parents had any doubt, it’s now...

There is no question, that, taken as a whole, our society is getting dumber. Recent IQ measurements support that assertion. It is a remarkably damning indictment of our public school system and current culture that the more years of schooling one has and the more information we have access to, the less actual knowledge and wisdom one tends to possess. To paraphrase something Mark Steyn once observed, eighth grade Americans built the most successful country the world has ever known, and eighteenth grade Americans may well destroy it. The Founders were worried about “The tyranny of the majority.” Yet today...

I learned the other day on one of the mainstream media sites (CNN) of a former ICU nurse, a young woman named Allie Rae, who quit her nursing job because she discovered she could make much, much more money by becoming a "content creator." This is the term she and the media site use to describe what she does to make all that money. Content creator. I admit that I am solidly on the benighted side when it comes to social media–related terminology, so I wondered what that curiously vague term means. Perhaps she gives instruction in some craft? Exercise,...

There was a lot of evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite what the mainstream media has been telling you. One glaring example occurred in Georgia: Newly discovered security footage from Georgia’s State Farm Arena showed dozens of ballot counters, media, and Republican observers leaving en masse at the same time from the ballot-counting area for Fulton County. After they left, a small remnant of about four workers began pulling trunks containing thousands of ballots from underneath a table with a long tablecloth and running them through machines. The footage supported claims from Republicans that they were told...

They're not pretty, but they sure are descriptive. Not "E Pluribus Unum" or even "Black Lives Matter" — these little phrases explain a lot that's going on. They are guiding lights of the Progressive movement. We define everything A colossal blunder that costs American lives and credibility is a "success," a desertion of materiel and citizens is "mission accomplished"... Ignoring the natural immunity of COVID survivors in further mandates is "following the science." In fact, we define science: no longer a fact-based inductive pursuit of the truth wherever it leads, science is now a dog wagged by the tail of...

Progressives are by their very nature contemptuous of the natural order of things. Everything can be improved by their superior intellects. By virtue of the purity of their motives and the advanced understanding we have these days, they can impose policies that violate human nature, and, they think, prevail. The Marxists are explicit in their promise that communism will create a “new man” (now updated to read “new person”). Self-interest would no longer operate in the communist utopia that would follow the supposedly transitory period of “dictatorship of the proletariat.” “From each according to his abilities, to each according to...

It is high time we recover the true value of limited government and stand against the vigilantes who behave as though their superior virtue entitles them to wield the state as a weapon of group revenge. SNIP This earlier Enlightenment fostered a secular political culture that disavowed the enforcement of religious uniformity as an object of political endeavor. Under the guidance of the Enlighteners the fanatics were disempowered and the West abandoned theocracy as a governing ideal. Western societies grew to accommodate religious variety without sacrificing social harmony. We are heirs to this tradition, and we would do well to...

Unlike many Congressional hearings, the Senate and House Armed Services committee sessions on Afghanistan this week actually produced two important pieces of news, both of which were devastating for President Biden and his senior team.The revelations on Capitol Hill by Secretary Lloyd Austin and Generals Mark Milley and Kenneth McKenzie only added to the intense scrutiny and bipartisan calls for accountability over Biden’s chaotic and poorly planned exit from that country recently. First, both generals acknowledged that they recommended to Biden that we keep at least 2,500 troops in Afghanistan to ensure an orderly exit of American citizens and Afghan...

SEATTLE - King County Elections certified the recall petition against Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant Thursday, but it will not make the ballot in time for the November general election. Instead, the nearly 75,000 voters registered in Seattle's third council district will receive separate ballots more than two weeks later, which will be due back by Dec. 7. According to elections officials, the campaign to recall Sawant submitted more than 16,000 signatures for verification in early September of the 10,687 needed to place the petition on the ballot. **SNIP** State law requires recall elections take place within 45 to 90...

Editor's noteThis column was co-authored by Alexis Baden-Mayer.Dangerous gain-of-function experiments that supercharge viruses to make them deadlier and more contagious to humans are at the center of investigations into the COVID’s origins. Many experts in the scientific and intelligence communities—and a majority of Americans—believe that U.S. taxpayer-funded gain-of-function experimentscaused the pandemic through an accidental lab leak. Fortunately, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are uniting to crack down on this risky research. Congressmen Buddy Carter (R-GA), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), and Mike Gallagher (R-WI) have just introduced the Pausing Enhanced Pandemic Pathogen Research Act to halt taxpayer funding for gain-of-function...