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Iran is hosting a meeting of... the foreign ministers of Iran, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Russia holding talks in the Iranian capital Tehran on Afghanistan's political future and the formation of a new government...Iran's population is majority Shiite but Sunni minorities live predominantly in the areas near the border with Afghanistan. The Sunnis have long complained about discrimination by Iranian authorities.Due to dilapidated infrastructure and a lack of health and educational facilities, the areas near the Afghan border are the poorest and least developed in Iran...But Fatemeh Aman, an Iran expert at the Washington-based Middle East Institute (MEI),...

Democrat Ed Gainey became the first Black mayor of Pittsburgh on Tuesday. “Look at the image we are showing our children,” Gainey said to the crowd at the downtown Benedum Center for the Performing Arts. “I want our children to see a city for all of them,” The Associated Press reported. He had consistently made his campaign about equality for Black and poor residents, and accused Peduto of failing to ensure equity in policing, housing and other areas. At one point, he called Pittsburgh “a tale of two cities,” according to The Associated Press.

Look where the votes are still out at this link. We might actually win it!

“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding" (Proverbs 3:13).

Somewhere looking down from Heaven, our lovable fuzzball Rush Hudson Limbaugh has to be smiling tonight. CNN is in disarray. The Punk is out. MSNBC is near tears. A sweep in Virginia and possibly so in NJ. Keep on smiling, Brother Limbaugh. We got this one for you!

A slate of conservative challengers fell just shy of securing a majority on the Wichita school board on Tuesday Three of the four challengers edged out incumbents after a partisan race that focused on mask mandates, critical race theory and other national issues. In District 1, Diane Albert finished ahead of incumbent Ben Blankley with 56% of the vote, according to unofficial results. In District 5, challenger Kathy Bond edged Mia Turner with 53% of the vote. Hazel Stabler won the District 6 seat with 44% of the vote, topping incumbent Ron Rosales’ 30% and Holly Terrill’s 25%. Incumbent Julie...

Incumbent Mead School Board member Carmen Green was in a tight race to keep her seat Tuesday night. Green’s challenger, BrieAnne Gray, a nurse practitioner, was leading the race with about 51%. The race brought in more contributions than any race in the Mead School District in recent history. Gray raised more than $42,000 as of Tuesday, more than double Green, who raised about $19,000. Prior to 2019 when one candidate raised $10,500, no Mead School Board candidate raised more than $5,000. Despite the results, Green said she was “super hopeful” with the amount of ballots still left to count......

The GOP has swept the PA Statewide Court races.

Republican Glenn Youngkin has won the race for Virginia governor, NBC News projects, defeating Terry McAuliffe in a race that’s been watched around the nation as a bellwether for the 2022 midterm elections. More than 1.1 million votes were cast early in Virginia in the 2021 race, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. In Fairfax County, there were still about 20,000 votes to be added to a batch of early vote totals as of about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. Thumb drives that record the votes malfunctioned in voting machines used at four early voting sites — the county government center,...

Yes!!!!

Rush Limbaugh regularly called Terry McCauliffe "The Punk" for years. Did he ever say why?

WATCH: Booing for VP turns graphic at Carnegie Hall Americans in large numbers recognize – and even approve of – the recently appearing chant criticizing Joe Biden that goes "Let's go Brandon." It's a euphemism for the very graphic "F--- Joe Biden" that first appeared, and it came about more or less because a reporter at a NASCAR event, hearing the original chant while interviewing a driver named Brandon, noted on-air that the crowd was encouraging the driver with "Let's go Brandon."

Glenn Youngkin has clinched the governor's race in Virginia. In fact, the GOP dominated the Old Dominion, sweeping all three major statewide races. Republicans won the lieutenant governor and attorney general races. They're poised to flip the House of Delegates. It's over in Virginia—but up the road on I-95, we have another close race in New Jersey. Yes, you read that right. The state has been a graveyard for Republicans, except for Chris Christie, Tom Kean, and Christine Todd Whitman. No one thought Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy was in danger. No one thought this was going to be a competitive...

Claims by Democrats that mentioning political donations by George Soros as anti-Semitic while ignoring problems in their own party is both wrongheaded and hypocritical. It’s never a good sign when George Soros’s name is back in the headlines. The Hungarian-born hedge-fund billionaire has become a touchstone of controversy. Both Republicans and Democrats in Virginian are taking his name in vain this week as the off-year election for governor, as well as various other state and local positions, has become a battleground in an unexpectedly tight race. Each side in the tribal culture war that characterizes contemporary American political discourse views...

Virginia Republicans win big based on promises to replace leftist brainwashing with pro-America education. With massive same day voting advantages, Republicans will be Virginia’s next governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general in a rebuke of Democrats, and specifically, their radically anti-American and racist education policies. Republican Glenn Youngkin sailed to victory by more than 10 percentage points when the race was called, beating McAuliffe by 55.1% to the loser Democrat’s 44.3% of the vote. Fringe candidate Princess Blanding received 0.7% of the vote. Youngkin largely sailed to victory based on Republican frustration with Critical Race Theory, LGBTQ pornographic materials, and...

Toxoplasma gondii, a microscopic parasite that gets inside our cells, is present in about 10 percent of the population in the U.K. But in tests on lung cancer patients, all were found to be infected with the parasite. "It's a remarkable result which we don't fully understand yet," states Geoff Hide, Professor of Parasitology at the University of Salford. "It is possible that the presence of the parasite in these patients is exacerbating their symptoms of cancer or interfering with their therapy." Working with Professor Dave Singh, clinical consultant at the Medicines Evaluation Unit at Manchester University, they tested 72...

Left-wing pop star Cher posted an unhinged, all-caps tweet on Tuesday night warning that if Republicans “take power” “IT’LL:bee: “’TOTAL POWER”.ITS ‘WHITE’S’ ONLY CLUB, & BLM, LGBT, JEWS, ASIANS, MINORITIES, R IN:de:STYLE PERIL.” “HELD MY TONGUE,LONG ENOUGH,BUT FK IT:bangbang:DO DEMS NEED A:house:2 FALL ON THER SISTERS,:bee:4 THEY C WHATS COMING,” Cher said, just as Glenn Youngkin was being declared winner over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor election. More than an hour later (and with the caps lock still on) Cher bemoaned the Democrats failing to pass Joe Biden’s legislative agenda and called Republicans “Nazi’s.” “JOE WORKS TIRELESSLY 2...

Hundreds of conspiracy theorists gathered at the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas to await the arrival of former President Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Jr., whom they expected to announce an unlikely campaign for the White House around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday... Kennedy’s absence was likely due to the 1999 plane crash in which he died. ... The event had been promoted through the QAnon conspiracy collective. Members of the online forum — whose support Trump has embraced — believed Kennedy would introduce the 45th president as the reinstated leader of the U.S., according to the Dallas Morning News. Newsweek...

There is an article floating around from The Expose that makes an explosive claim: There is a wildly statistically-significant skew in the death rate from Covid-19 vaccines by lot number.What originally got my attention was the tinfoil hat crowd screaming about lots being intentionally distributed to certain people to kill them — in other words certain Covid-19 vaccine lots were for all intents and purposes poisoned. That was wildly unlikely so I set out to disprove it and apply some broom handles to the tinfoil hatters heads. What I found, however, was both interesting and deeply disturbing.By Karl DenningerLots are...

With less than one hundred days to go for the Beijing Winter Olympics, China is maximising its efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, with new locally-transmitted cases at a six-week high. The Chinese mainland reported 78 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, with 59 locally transmitted. China has so far reported 97,080 total infections and 4,626 deaths from COVID-19. As part of its zero-COVID policy, China has shut down multiple cities, stopped trains and quarantined all of its passengers after finding out that only a single one can been in contact with a COVID-19 patient, and restricted public transport...