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Tensions in Europe have been on the rise for many years and the situation with migrants on the EU eastern border is just a part of the big picture, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, said on Telegram in response to comments by Lukasz Jasina, the Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman, who said that Russia is allegedly taking advantage of the crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border and is lying and twisting the facts, which heightens tensions in Europe."Let’s not pretend it started yesterday. The situation at the EU eastern border is just a part of the big picture. A failure to...

The Build Back Better Act, or the Democrats’ social and environmental spending bill, includes financial incentives for state and local entities to change zoning laws, specifically those that would replace single-family homes with multi-unit properties to provide more “affordable housing.” Those financial incentives would come in the form of tax-payer-funded grants and tax credits. On page 815 of the 2,468-page, $1.75 trillion bill, it reads: The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall establish a competitive grant program for— (1) planning grants to develop and evaluate housing policy plans and substantially improve housing strategies; (2) streamlining regulatory requirements and shorten...

Its private employer vaccine mandate on hold, the Biden administration wants the multiple challenges to its workplace rule consolidated in a single federal court and has asked for a decision by early next week. The U.S. Department of Justice said in court filings Monday that one of the federal circuit courts should be chosen at random on Nov. 16 to hear the cases. At least 27 states plus several businesses and associations filed a dozen legal challenges in at least six federal appeals courts after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration released its rules last week. All the states have...

When it decides on NYSRPA v. Bruen—scheduled for oral arguments today—the Supreme Court will have a chance to stop governments from restricting the right to "bear arms." The part of the Constitution guaranteeing that right has long been ignored by many state and local governments, despite previous Supreme Court rulings that there is an "individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation" in the home. The situation is worst in New York, California and six other "may-issue" states, where officials can turn down requests for a carry permit for any reason, or for no reason at all.

"EdEquityVA" is one of many educator resources on the Virginia Department of Education website, awash with links that include language often associated with critical race theory. For example, the site says it will enact “culturally responsible teaching” to make the commonwealth’s schools “equitable.” It also directs educators to numerous external resources that discuss concepts such as “systems of oppression” and “taking action on racial equity and justice.” The website further promotes “anti-racism in education ” and insists that “schools ... create and enforce racial meanings.”

... 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.

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