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It’s been just over seven months since radio legend Rush Limbaugh died - and eight since signing off for his final show on February 2, 2021. Radio personalities come and go, sometimes quietly and even mysteriously. At times, station managers invoke soviet-era tactics, surreptitiously making talent changes overnight. It’s the nature of the business, not wanting to promote another station or call attention to a departing personality. One day a host is advertising a local car dealership, the next day they’re gone. Explanations are rarely given – they’re into the ether and out of our lives. But not Rush. A...

This year hasn’t been easy. As the pandemic has dragged on, Americans have continued to face adversity in almost every aspect of their lives. People continue to suffer from COVID-19; many of us have lost loved ones. And now our country is facing sky-high inflation and a supply chain disaster, both of which threaten to make the holidays more expensive and more frustrating than ever before. That all makes Thanksgiving a little bit more difficult than usual. Every year, Americans get together with family and friends to celebrate and give thanks. But do many of us really feel gratitude for...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) brushed off speculation that former President Trump could become the next Speaker of the House if Republicans take back control of the lower chamber next year. "I just don't think that'll ultimately happen," Christie told Julie Mason on Sirius XM's "Julie Mason Mornings" when asked about speculation Trump would come back to Washington to be Speaker, an idea floated recently by Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows. "I think that's one of the things that the media likes to write about," Christie continued. "It's like a brokered convention. Every four years the...

The Waukesha District Attorney whose office let out parade killer Darrell Brooks on a $1,000 bond three weeks ago previously admitted he knew his laxed bail reform would lead to killers being set free and murdering others, saying flippantly in a 2007 interview: 'You bet, it's guaranteed to happen.' John Chisolm was elected as Milwaukee County District Attorney in 2007 and he immediately started advocating for lower cash bonds for criminals, like Brooks - a felon with a history of domestic violence charges who was most recently locked up for running over the mother of his children. In 2007, Chisolm...

Former Donald Trump ally Chris Christie says will be first in line to support Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election if the former commander-in-chief runs. While speaking to Fox News host Laura Ingraham, he said that the line of Trump supporters starts behind him. This statement comes despite Christie previously criticizing Trump over comments saying the election was stolen. Speaking on The Axe Files podcast, released on Monday, he said the red line for him was election night.

The 39-year-old man accused of driving an SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday was charged earlier this month with trying to run over a woman. Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said Monday that Darrell Brooks Jr. will face five charges of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the horrific incident, in which at least five people were killed and more than 40 injured, according to USA Today. On Sunday, as the parade was taking place, an SUV plowed through barricades and marchers, many of them children. Brooks, who was out on bail at the time, was...

Failed Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke was met with jeers and demands that he "get the hell out" during a recent campaign stop in Houston, Texas.

Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has cleared out the encampment at his border crossing into Poland, where thousands of Middle Eastern migrants had been living in squalor. Last week, that border crossing was the site of clashes between asylum-seekers trying to push through the razor wire and Polish troops resisting with water cannons. While the crisis between Warsaw and Minsk has not ended, it appears to have been temporarily eased. Behind the clash was the recent election in Belarus that the European Union saw as fraudulent and Lukashenko's interception of a commercial airliner to kidnap and imprison a critical journalist. Lukashenko...

Toxic masculinity, like a viral disease, is everywhere. If you’re a man, shame on you. Do better. But it’s not enough to just point out toxic masculinity’s ubiquitous spread in our decaying society. We at the Babylon Bee have curated a list of things you can do to fight the evils of patriarchy and fatherhood—after you have begun taking estrogen supplements: 1) Wear your wife's clothes: This will give you a much cuter, less threatening appearance. 2) Shrug and grunt apathetically when your kids ask for help: They need to learn they have autonomy and don't need a male savior!...

JUST IN - Police to increase presence at retail stores amid mob looting crimewave in San Francisco, California Gov. Newsom announces.

Archaeologists excavating a warrior’s grave have discovered Scythian treasures in the Ostrogozhsky District of Voronezh region, Russia.The Scythians were an ancient nomadic people living primarily in the region known as Scythia, which today comprises the Eurasian steppes of Kazakhstan, the Russian steppes of the Siberian, Ural, Volga and Southern regions, and eastern Ukraine.Excavations were conducted by the Don Expedition from the Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Science, where the researchers have been excavating the Devitsa V necropolis that consists of 19 burial mounds.A study of mound 7 in the centre of the cemetery revealed a wooden tomb...

November 22 2021 Brunswick, Georgia – Armed Protesters from the New Black Panthers and affiliates groups including the original Black Panthers, marched outside of the Glynn County Courthouse where the trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery is ongoing.

I know the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and the days following the 2021 elections sort of overtook the news cycle, the former story especially, but we still have this mess with the COVID vaccine mandate brewing. Yes, Democrats were licking their wounds after Election Day 2021, while also blaming white supremacy for their overall abysmal showing—but Biden's mandate is still an ongoing battle. Yes, the courts put a stop to its implementation and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is no longer working on its enforcement protocols for the mandate, but the Biden White House is once again telling companies to...

"Drain the swamp!" Those three words were more than a mantra for the Trump administration. They were shorthand for reducing the number of nameless, faceless bureaucrats who control the lives of Americans by enforcing a plethora of government regulations without ever standing for election. Now, with resident Joe Biden in the White House, the swamp is again overflowing. OpentheBooks.com recently published the latest appalling figures on the federal government's "internal" spending. One example: The Biden White House is the most costly in our nation's history, even though the president has been in office less than a year. His White House...

A Milwaukee Black Lives Matter activist said the Christmas parade attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin, appears to signal "the revolution" may have begun. "I don’t know. Now we’ll have to wait and see because they do have somebody in custody. We may have to wait and see what they say about why this happened," Vaun Mayes said on Facebook Live on Monday. "But it sounds possible that the revolution has started in Wisconsin. It started with this Christmas parade." Mayes is a well-known activist in Milwaukee. He describes himself as a "Battle rapper, Community activist, Songwriter, Tattoo artist, Militant," in his...

Liberal policies are destroying San Francisco. Maybe it’s time San Franciscans started voting differently? Hey, just a suggestion. Sounds like San Franciscan Michelle Tandler is ‘this close’ to seeing the light … take a look: One of my best friends in SF was burglarized and robbed last week while sleeping. Two days later she saw three men peering into her backyard. She called SFPD sobbing. They did not come. "I've never lived someplace where the government just doesn't care about you" she said.

The White House announced Tuesday morning President Joe Biden plans to tap the strategic oil reserve as gas prices across the country continue to surge. "Today, the President is announcing that the Department of Energy will make available releases of 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower prices for Americans and address the mismatch between demand exiting the pandemic and supply," the White House released in a statement. "The U.S. Department of Energy will make available releases of 50 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in two ways: 32 million barrels will be an...

A 3,250-year-old seal belonging to a Hittite prince and an ancient cuneiform tablet dating back 3,400 years were discovered in Turkey's southern Hatay province... in Accana Hoyuk of the Reyhanli district...Murat Akar, the head of the excavation team and Mustafa Kemal University's Protohistory and Near East Archeology Department chair, said... "The tablet, around 3,400 years old, and the accompanying cylinder seals give us information about the administration and administrative practices of the region, especially during a period when the region was under the rule of the Mitanni Empire."He said they had found a 3,250-year-old seal during the latest excavation, adding...

Devon Dontray Dunham has been found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of unarmed former volunteer fire chief Ernest Martin Stevens, 77, despite his confession and 19 witnesses taking the stand against him. The shooting took place near Stevens’ home in Hardeeville, South Carolina on Aug 10, 2017. According to Dunham’s lawyer, an armed Dunham “wanted a ride” from Stevens and approached him while he was sitting in his Ford F-150 in a parking lot “but felt threatened” by him and saw him “reach for something” so he decided to unload all 8 rounds of his 9 mm...

Dear Student: Our response to the pandemic continues to evolve based on science, data, and the advice of public health experts. Some restrictions and practices were lifted when the science and public health data no longer supported them. Other, new policies and facility improvements were added--so that we could continue to keep you healthy and confident in your safety on our campus as you return to physical classrooms, labs and studios. Our goal has never been to eliminate all risk but rather to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19 on our campus. Our goal has never been to take away student choices...