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Congress is currently working on a bipartisan plan to boost defense spending for the next fiscal year. Good news indeed for The Pentagon, but it is more essential than ever that these funds are spent cautiously, on things that we actually need, will actually work, and yes, made in America would be nice as well. Moderate Democrats are moving the opposite way from a progressive’s push to defund or greatly cut the Pentagon budget and in a rare glimpse of sanity from Capitol Hill, it appears they have the upper hand. The Military Times reported on October 18, “Senate appropriators...

Despite the happy face that the legacy media are putting on first day of President Biden’s European trip, his customary level of hypocrisy and incompetence is showing through the PR gloss. Start with the spectacle of a leader intent on demonstrating “leadership” on climate issues (as in throwing away billions of taxpayer dollars on useless, expensive, and harmful measures to curtail emissions of CO2) parading into Rome with an 85 car slow-moving motorcade, after 4 giant jets carried the party to Fiumicino Airport completed transatlantic flights. China’s President Xi Jinping, in contrast, will be attending the G-20 Summit in Rome...

Wisconsin State Representative Timothy Ramthun (R-Campbellsport) released a statement on Thursday calling for the “decertification” of Wisconsin’s 10 electoral ballots, regarding the 2020 general election. He issued a statement following the October release of the bi-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau report and the press release from the Racine County Sheriff’s Department on Thursday. State Representative Timothy Ramthun released the following statement: I have continued to pursue truth and integrity of our 2020 general election. Recent developments have made it abundantly clear that the legislature should not have certified Wisconsin’s 10 electoral ballots on December 14, 2020. The release of the bi-partisan...

Any ideological vision based on the language of lies disrupts and ultimately destroys by fostering chaos and destruction. In his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn pictures Stalin ruminating over the concept of “language as an instrument of production.” A new way of speaking would establish the reality of the communist order and the communist man and woman. The Man of Steel had thought about refuting “the reactionary theory of relativity or wave mechanics;” but was “too busy with affairs of state” to tackle those ideas. Trofim Lysenko, who was in charge of Soviet science, was already conforming the science...

VIDEOIs Kamala Harris taking special supplements to enhance her performances? One has to ask after watching Kamala perform her over the top routines on the road. One critic who is definitely NOT amused is Jill Biden.

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There is nothing covert about the message, nothing sublime, nothing cryptic. Quite the contrary, the message is clear and in your face. If you have a problem with a little boy wearing a princess dress and believe that people who dress like witches with spiked collars look weird, you will be blown away – meaning, literally blown away. As in swept away by a gust of wind produced by a dark, angry witch. And this is a Twix commercial for Halloween? The ad itself is slow moving and hardly compelling, not the kind of commercial that would make you want...

EUGENE, Ore. -- A man who shot and killed someone who was breaking into his home will not face charges, police say. The shooting happened at South Crest Apartments on Donald Street early Monday morning and it left Skyler Weisberg, 28, dead. Leading up to the incident, police said Weisberg left his home in Tillamook County sometime after 10 p.m. on Sunday. Authorities pulled him over in Polk County after he made an alleged minor traffic violation, and he told the deputy he was headed to Eugene to look for his wife. Just after 3:30 a.m., Weisberg arrived to the...

On multiple fronts, prestigious institutions are driving wedges between parents and their own children. What if instead of mandated vaccines, masks, and critical race theory indoctrination, the social engineers were more concerned with avoiding jail? The more uncertain the times, the more is at stake. This is why power grabs and resistance to them are growing to a fever pitch. Now, even children aren’t off-limits for those wielding institutional dominance. The Tony Faucis and Merrick Garlands of society, the social engineers, join forces with central economic planners, the Janet Yellens and Jerome Powells, to trap children’s minds, bodies, and financial...

ransomnote: Yet another way the CDC is betraying the public.After lying to us about the virus, telling us we had no immunity because it was 'novel', and spending a year locking down, denying treatment, and creating a fake panic, the CDC was still thoroughly unprepared to handle the vaccine rollout, and make vaccine adverse event data available to the public (HINT: They have been intentionally lying and hiding the truth every way they can). The CDC doesn't care that the vaccines are not safe and are hurting, killing people.SO this Rumble user, NotABarbie, searched for, and found, many recent uploads...

With Democrats controlling the Senate, it comes as no surprise that President Biden has successfully nominated dozens of federal judges, but nearly all of those picks enjoyed the support of a high-profile Republican: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Graham, who until January was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted in favor of all but three of Biden’s picks who have gone before the full Senate for votes. In two of those cases he did not vote at all, and he voted no in just one.

For far too long in our country serving in federal office has been nothing more than the top rung of the ladder for most of our elected officials' chosen career. Some young city councilman joins the legislature, biding their time till a house seat opens up, so they can get enough name ID to jump in a Senate race. These campaigns always ran the same lines, “I can compromise”, “it’s time to work across the aisle” and “let me be your voice and break up the partisan gridlock.”. Despite sounding cute, and making us feel good, most of these campaigns...

Not long ago, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted that inflation was “transitory.” For instance, in May, Yellen said, “My judgment right now is that the recent inflation that we have seen will be temporary. It’s not something that’s endemic.” In June, she doubled-down, saying, “We have in recent months seen some inflation … But I personally believe that this represents transitory factors.” Then, in July, Yellen stated, “I think over the medium term, we’ll see inflation decline back to a normal level.” That was then, this is now. On October 24, while appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Yellen...

....Biden gave Pope Francis a coin in memory of his deceased son Beau and a handwoven garment from a historic Washington church during his first visit to the Vatican since taking office. Biden, the second Roman Catholic American president, said the coin was inscribed with his home state of Delaware and the 261st Signal Brigade that his son Beau Biden served in. Beau died of brain cancer in 2015...

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Ross Douthat has a powerful new book about his battle with chronic Lyme disease. In "The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery," he writes beautifully, with honesty and gratitude. I was overcome with emotion when I got to the part about our mutual friend Andrew Walther, who died a year ago. Douthat describes Andrew as "a Knight of Columbus and energetic global diplomat who was saving Middle Eastern Christians from the Islamic State while I was wandering around our rural property and dosing myself with tetracycline and tweeting against Trump. He and his wife had their fourth child...

“'My Cuban Missile Crisis tryst with JFK': When the United States stood on the brink of nuclear Armageddon during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F Kennedy sent his wife and children away to stay at the family's summer farm in Virginia. But he pulled his 19-year-old mistress (Mimi Alford) close, summoning her from her college while he stared down the Soviet Union.” But don’t take this appalling datum from me. After all, I’m an “embittered right-wing-Cuban exile with an axe to grind.” Fine. Take it from JFK’s mistress-of- the-minute herself. Details here. Presidential mistress (while a teenager) Mimi...

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Human rights usually feature prominently in America's political rhetoric but fade insignificance when it comes to concrete action. That trend can take a historic turn when it comes to Iran, where a genocidal madman has taken the presidency. That the presidency of Ebrahim Raisi in Iran hasn't galvanized governments in the West and in the U.S. in particular to pursue his prosecution is still a mystery. Human rights groups, UN experts, Nobel laureates, scores of elected officials, lawmakers, and journalists have already expressed outrage over Raisi's rise to power. And justifiably so. In 1988, Raisi was one of the members...

A threat of a possible ISIS attack on US soil has put put police on high alert after a law enforcement alert warned that the international terrorist group could strike malls and shopping centers in Northern Virginia. On Thursday 'we received information concerning potential public safety impacts to malls and shopping centers across the region,' Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said at a press conference Friday afternoon. Davis did not mention what type of warning they received from ISIS beyond calling it 'information that we have that we're simply acting on'. However, CBS News reported the threat originated with...