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With the 2021 election in the home stretch, tens of millions of Americans will soon head to the ballot box or vote by mail for candidates on their November 2nd ballot. Depending on the state, voters can expect to elect a governor, state legislators, school board members, and other municipal officials, but there may be other items on the ballot they weren’t expecting: tax increases, and a lot of them. That’s right, voters across the country can expect to see many ballot measures that would impact their wallets. While these measures often get overshadowed, it would be a mistake to...

Fox News contributor and former Speaker Newt Gingrich raised the prospect of election fraud on the eve of the Virginia gubernatorial election. Right now the race between Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin and Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe is very close, and Youngkin’s chances of winning have increased. Sean Hannity asked Gingrich Monday night, “Does Youngkin need to win for this to have the maximum impact? What if it’s really tight?” “If it’s really tight, they’ll steal it,” Gingrich responded. “So you can’t afford to have a really tight election. You have to win by a big enough margin they can’t steal...

Joe Biden and other world leaders gathered in Scotland this week to lecture us peasants that something must be done NOW or climate change will be irreversible. Joe Biden can barely put words together to form a sentence, but he read a cue card prepared by his handlers that said, "we don't have any more time." At the COP26 summit, Biden said, "None of us can escape the worst that’s yet to come if we fail to seize this moment.” UK PM Boris Johnson spouted an even more apocalyptic-sounding message, "It's one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock, and...

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WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. 1. The country will not be surprised to learn that Gen. SCOTT has resigned, and that Gen. MCCLELLAN is now in absolute command of the army. Gen. SCOTT leaves Washington for New-York to-morrow morning, on a special train, via Harrisburgh. He will be accompanied by Gen. CAMERON. Public opinion here is about equally divided as to the probability of an advance of the grand army. On the one side it is alleged that the troops are being prepared for Winter quarters, and that the military leaders are not prepared for battle. Others allege that there is a...

Pharisees Question Jesus, by J. Tissot (1886-94) Hillel the Elder, sometimes referred to as Rabbi Hillel, was a Jewish religious leader who lived shortly before Jesus’ time. There is a famous story told of him in which he was challenged by a potential convert to teach him the entire Torah while “standing on one foot.” In other words, can you distill the essence and present it succinctly?That same theme may be behind the question that is raised today by the scholar of law, who asks, “Which is the first of all the commandments?”In answering while “standing on foot,” Jesus recites...

"Colossal Stakes as Leaders Meet to Talk Climate," ran the headline. "The Last Best Hope," ran the subhead, which turned out to be a quote from resident Joe Biden's climate czar John Kerry. But these alarmist headings were not atop an editorial. They topped the lead news story in Sunday's New York Times, the opening line of which set the tone for Glasgow: "The future is on the line." Somini Sengupta, climate reporter, then laid out the "colossal stakes" of the summit. "As presidents and prime ministers arrive in Glasgow this week for a pivotal climate summit, the outcome will...

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Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, is reputed to have said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." Whether Lenin said this or not, the message is prophetic. For the sake of cheap labor, some large corporations in America are selling the United States down the river, and they have the cooperation of President Joe Biden's administration in doing so. This is the 2021 version of "The Devil and Daniel Webster," except, this time, "Old Scratch" is not Satan; it's the People's Republic of China. For years, the PRC has been...

The Bible says, “Thou shall not steal.” Yet stealing – in the sense of robbing Peter to give to Paul – is what every government in the world does, on a daily basis. They have been doing it for a very long time. H. L. Mencken once said that elections are an advance auction on the sale of stolen goods. Watching the tax-and-spend circus on Capitol Hill right now brings Mencken to mind. Have you ever seen a good argument for stealing? I don’t mean taking property that isn’t yours to save a life in an emergency. I’m talking about...

HONG KONG (AP) — Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it plans to pull out of China, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment.” The company said in a statement that its services will no longer be accessible from mainland China as of Nov. 1. “Yahoo remains committed to the rights of our users and a free and open internet. We thank our users for their support,” the statement read.

A good friend who owns a major auto dealership in the Dallas area recently told me he typically has about 500 to 1,000 cars and trucks on his lot. Now, he has 15. That's how severe the supply chain problem has become. He said people are buying cars over the sticker price. You usually haggle down the price for a new car. Now, you haggle up the price! Welcome to Bidenflation. But now, the Commerce Department has reported that the high-flying U.S. economy with a 6.5% growth rate for the first half of this year has crash-landed in the third...

NEW YORK, NY—In his new six-episode limited series on Netflix, Colin Kaepernick proudly proclaimed that no NFL slave owner will ever enslave him no matter how many times he tries out to be a slave. After being emancipated from his former owner the San Francisco 49ers in 2016, Kaepernick has worked tirelessly to become a slave again. "I try out for NFL slavery every year, and they keep rejecting me. The NFL is oppressive, and it's also oppressive that they refuse to oppress me," he said. In May 2017, he visited the brutal Seattle Seahawks Plantation hoping to become a...

On Jan. 29, 2019, the world got a first-hand glimpse into just how devastating the effects of cancel culture can be and its glaring hypocrisy for Black, queer people. On this day, Jussie Smollett, award-winning actor and former star of Empire reported his assault to the Chicago police, citing racist and homophobic slurs being hurled at him while being physically beaten. Prior to this incident, Smollett, an openly queer and Black man, would captivate audiences week after week in his role as fictional musical legend Jamal Lyon on Empire. Slowly making his rounds to becoming a legend in his own...

Add train thefts to the long list of serious problems in crime-ridden, Democrat-controlled Los Angeles. Journalist Adam Housley, who previously worked for Fox News, alerted America to this issue (which also could perhaps add to supply chain woes) by tweeting out a dystopian-like image of what appears to be the remnants of ransacked materials left on train tracks. “Meantime…this is modern day train robbery. Modern day LA not far from Union Station…a few days ago. Unfortunately it is happening every day. As soon as the train stops, thieves start opening containers. It is quite well organized. This is the main...

Given the level of resistance within the Air Force to the vaccine mandate, there's reason to believe that it could affect national security. The Pentagon has issued a vaccine mandate for the military, and members of the Air Force have responded. Up to 12,000 service members have flatly stated they will refuse to be vaccinated against COVID. Air Force brass is threatening the service members with punishment up to and including dismissal from the service. The sheer number refusing the mandate brings up the problem of how to maintain readiness. More than 90% of Air Force personnel are already partially...

To most readers of this column, the question is absurd. The reason is not because the question is, in fact, absurd; it is because most readers of this column are conservative, and many are religious. Am I implying that most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong? Yes, I am. As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong. Since I always draw a distinction between those on the Left and liberals, let me add that I suspect most liberals think stealing is wrong. But...