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... Court martial and administrative discharge board failed to remove Master Sgt. Jeremy Zier following touching allegation. New Air Force undersecretary wants him gone anyway. ==================================================================== An Air Force combat photographer will lose his retirement benefits at month's end due to a disputed touching incident in a hot tub six years earlier, unless the Congressional Justice for Warriors Caucus can convince the military otherwise. A court martial and administrative discharge proceeding failed to remove Master Sgt. Jeremy Zier, according to documents reviewed by Just the News, sparking a social media campaign to remove him that included the now-No. 2 at...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama seemed confused about his location Monday when he addressed the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and hailed his presence in the “the Emerald Isles.” The Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, resident made the gaffe leading many to conclude he’d mixed up Scotland with Ireland – the latter of which is often called the Emerald Isle. The term British Isles refers to the island formation that includes Ireland and the UK. English playwright William Shakespeare was also referenced as “the Bard” in passing which was something of a shock to many Scots who tuned in or made...

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Now to put the wild hyperbole candle on top of the anti-Aaron Rodgers media cake, former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is now accusing Rodgers of “damaging professional sports” forever. On his SubStack page, Abdul-Jabbar was jabbering about how Rodgers has destroyed sports because of his unpopular ideas about the coronavirus vaccination in a post entitled, “Aaron Rodgers Didn’t Just Lie.” “His lies, his illogical defense, and his hubris damage all professional athletes,” Abdul-Jabbar exclaimed. “What’s especially bothersome is that Aaron Rodgers didn’t just lie and threaten the health of those around him, he also damaged professional sports,”Jabbar railed. “I can’t...

​President Biden tried to downplay his tanking poll numbers and poor performances by Democrats in last week’s elections Monday — though he acknowledged that “people are worried.” “Well, look, the poll I saw just before I walked in, on another station, was my polling number is down, but it’s 48​ percent to 52​ percent,” the president said in an interview with ​WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. ​”But look, the point is, I didn’t run because of the polls​.” Biden spoke hours after the release of a USA Today/Suffolk University poll that found his approval rating had sunk to 37.8 percent, while his...

Poland is moving military vehicles with heavy weapons to the Belarusian border, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei told the Belarusian news agency BelTA in connection with the crisis following attempts by crowds of migrants to storm the Polish border from Belarus. Makei said that more than 2,000 deprived people, including women and children, were on the Belarusian border with Poland at the moment. "Objectively, all of them are from problem countries that have experienced Western intervention. They say outright that they do not regard the territory of Belarus as their final destination. They wish to apply to the EU for...

Don Lemon accuser Dustin Hice made an appearance on Megyn Kelly’s SiriusXM radio show on Monday to detail the alleged sexual assault he experienced at the hands of the CNN anchor in 2019, which is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. Hice also disclosed that Lemon has made three settlement offers through his legal team, which were rejected because “money is not what I’m after.” After noting that CNN had labeled him as an “extortionist,” Hice declared: “Money is not what I’m after here. I just want to not live the rest of my life in regret, and to have...

FEAST OF THE DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA JOHN 2:13-22 Friends, when reading today’s Gospel passage, we shouldn’t be surprised that Jesus, at the climax of his life, came into the temple and made a ruckus. He was not just being a rabble-rouser. He was rectifying the temple so as to rectify the people Israel. When pressed for a sign, he said that he would tear the temple down and rebuild it in three days. He was talking, as John tells us, of the temple of his body. He was saying that this old temple, which had served its purpose...

Former President Donald Trump on Monday slammed rival-turned-ally-turned-potential-rival-again Chris Christie for calling on Republicans to stop “wasting time” talking about the 2020 election. The ex-New Jersey governor, who like Trump is weighing another run for president in 2024, issued the warning at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, Texas over the weekend. “We can no longer talk about the past and the past elections, no matter where you stand on that issue — no matter where you stand — it is over. And every minute that we spend talking about 2020,” Christie said, was “wasting time.”

Guns, violence and political extremism are on the rise. And America risks disaster — sooner than later. That’s the view of a longtime University of California firearms researcher whose hard-hitting report was published recently in the journal Injury Epidemiology. “Upward trends in firearm purchasing, violence and political extremism are converging to put the USA at risk for disaster in the months ahead,” Garen Wintemute warned in introducing the report. “We have no time to waste if we are to prevent the loss of thousands of lives and emerge with our democracy intact.

As quickly as Democrats deploy Communist tactics of diversion and suppression, the American Right takes the bait. If the Left is skilled at anything, it is controlling the national conversation. Monday’s Conservative press largely fell prey to this diversion and suppression tactic. Many missed the main goals of the diversion: take all the oxygen in the room away from the story the country has waited over 4 years to hear: Durham’s weighty indictment in the 2016 Russia Hoax. What should have been the hottest topic of the day’s national conversation was the damning indictment of Igor Danchenko and his direct...

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Former President Trump leads President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 presidential matchup, an Emerson College survey released Friday found. The survey, taken November 3-4, 2021, among 1,000 registered voters, asked respondents, “If the 2024 Presidential Election were held today, and the candidates were Donald Trump and Joe Biden, who would you vote for at this time?”

We’ve reached the point in America where leftist network MSNBC actually tried to hoodwink people into believing that the huge price spikes caused by inflation are a good thing. MSNBC had the audacity to tweet out a nutty op-ed celebrating COVID-19 and downplaying the threat of inflation with the caption: “Why the inflation we’re seeing now is a good thing.” Yikes. The op-ed, headlined, “How Covid became the unlikely hero of our inflation crisis,” was written by MSNBC opinion columnist James Surowiecki. After significant backlash on Twitter, MSNBC deleted the tweet.

@RedEaglePatriot 5 years ago today, an outsider businessman took the world by storm, and shocked the political elite as he rode a wave of angry anti-globalization sentiment to improbable victory. It gave us all a glimmer of hope, that we one day may actually be able to take our country back.

It turns out that all of the “doom and gloomers” that were warning that we would eventually experience nightmarish inflation were right after all. In particular, vehicle prices have become exceedingly painful in recent months. Due to a crippling global shortage of computer chips, production of new vehicles is way down, and a lot of that demand has shifted into the used vehicle market. Over the past year, used vehicle prices have escalated at a pace that we have never seen before in our entire history, and things reached a crescendo during the month of October. If you can believe...

Days after Democrats conceded control of the Virginia House of Delegates to Republicans, they walked back that concession as two key races in which the GOP holds razor-thin leads appeared headed for recounts. As of Tuesday, vote counts show Republicans with 50 seats and holding slight leads in two additional seats that have still not been called by The Associated Press. Democrats have 47 seats and are leading in one other district that has not been called. In both districts where Republicans are leading, the margins are under 0.5%, which allows candidates to request state-funded recounts. In District 91, Democrat...

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Phillip Swagel said Tuesday that the office will start releasing estimates of portions of House Democrats' social-spending bill this week, and that a cost estimate of the full bill will come out "as soon as practicable." "The analysis of the bill’s many provisions is complicated, and CBO will provide a cost estimate for the entire bill as soon as practicable," Swagel said in a blog post on CBO's website. The comments come as a small group of moderate House Democrats has sought information about the cost of the bill from CBO prior to voting on...

Of all the intrusions on Americans’ civil liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic, mandates forcing those who have already had the virus to vaccinate anyway are the hardest to understand. By now, what has been known for centuries – that survival confers immunity on the survivor – has been borne out in numerous well-regarded studies on COVID-19 recovery. Yet government officials continue to disregard them, insisting COVID-19 survivors get the shot like everyone else. In September, the Biden Administration announced a mandatory vaccine policy that fails to recognize natural immunity. Notwithstanding his early assurances that vaccines would not be mandatory, President...

Former President Donald Trump took credit Monday night for Glenn Youngkin’s come-from-behind win in the Virginia gubernatorial race and told congressional Republicans that the path to victory is through his army of “MAGA” supporters. Trump spoke to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s re-election outfit, and told his audience that the party will not win back the White House in 2024 without appealing to his voters, according to the New York Times. The 45th president said Youngkin would not have been able to pull off last week’s shocking win over Democrat Terry McAuliffe without Trump supporters coming out...