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A day after a career criminal was arrested in the fatal shooting of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant at the lavish Beverly Hills home she shared with her husband Clarence, a 90-year-old music producer inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, her family issued a statement that read in part, “Now, let justice be served.” But in Los Angeles, where left-wing lawmakers and activists have pushed a litany of progressive reforms that help violent criminals spend less-time behind bars, justice is not only fleeting — it’s twisted, critics say.

My generation is familiar with the expression, “I grew up dirt poor.” I remember when we could see hogs and dogs under the house through cracks in the floor, when we wore hand-me-down clothes or my mother made them, when we had no heat in the bedrooms, when we got electricity for the first time, when we got our first telephone, when we didn’t have running water, when we had to use an outdoor toilet, when we got our first TV set, our first vehicle, our first tractor, etc. I remember when we didn’t have locks on the doors of...

I’m guessing now that this is happening all over the country and the elite media has just refused to report it. If your hospital or provider has suspended its mandate, please let me know.

As we are all painfully aware, The Federal Reserve went on a 2nd money printing spree to allegedly stave-off the economic impacts of the COVID outbreak in March 2020. The first money printing spree took place in late 2008 as The Fed tried to stave-off the economic impacts of the housing bubble burst of 2008 and the ensuing financial crisis. But for now, we have this horrifying chart showing the exploding margin accounts at security brokers and dealers (not, not the Walter White-type dealers, but Wall Street dealers). Notice the 400% surge in M1 Money stock after COVID struck. Of...

A bomb attack on the home of a Catholic shopkeeper in southern Iraq has been condemned by the head of the country’s largest Church, who has said that such attacks have driven an exodus of Christians. According to police, a motorcyclist threw a homemade explosive at the Chaldean Catholic shopkeeper’s house in Amarah, capital of Maysan Governorate, on Sunday (28th November). In his statement on the fire-bombing, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the Baghdad-based Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, said: “Fortunately, no one was killed or wounded, but the act ‘sparked terror in the family and the Christian community’ because...

Darrell Brooks, the man charged with killing 6 people when he drove through a Christmas Parade in Waukesha, WI is in the spotlight for why he was out on the street in the first place. Darrell Brooks is a repeat offender and should never have been released from jail in the first place. In this episode, Larry Elder examines Darrell Brooks's upbringing and prior criminal history to show this attack was on purpose based on his criminal record.

For all the outrage directed at Big Tech over the past decade, regulators have shied away from the nuclear option of actually breaking up a major platform. Until this week, that is. By ordering Facebook to part with Giphy, a GIF creation platform it acquired in 2020, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority broke a global taboo and ushered in a brave new world of tech enforcement.

A Let's Go Brandon store has opened in North Attleborough. The North Washington Street store sells "Let's Go Brandon" merchandise like hats, shirts, and signs. The phrase "Let's go Brandon" started at an Oct. 2 NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, according to the Associated Press.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the Biden administration “feels very badly” about the impact caused by the travel restrictions imposed on South Africa and other nearby countries to limit the spread of the Omicron variant and is reevaluating the ban. “We all feel very badly about the hardship that might have put upon not only South Africa, but the other African countries. And for that reason, in real-time, literally, on a daily basis…. we’re reevaluating that policy,” Fauci told anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of Union.”

Baluchis in Pakistan are rebelling against colonization by Chinese. Starts around 8:00.

Haaretz's war on program who exposed B'Tselem's Ezra Nawi passing on names of those selling land to Hews, knowing, racist "Palestinian" Authority will murder them THE EXPOSURE OF B'TSELEM / TA'AYUSH EZRA NAWI PASSING ON NAMES OF ARABS, SELLING LAND TO JEWS, OVER TO PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY ADMITTEDLY KNOWING THE RACIST ARAB-"PALESTINE" LEADERSHIP WILL ASSASSINATE.The Subject, Ovda. N12, Jan 10, 2016. Musa's cold sweat could not be shown in the television investigation. His real pressure, which I saw with my own eyes, had no place in the article. There is such a man, he is real and he is now standing...

On the third day of the Six Day War, Chief Military Rabbi Shlomo Goren crossed the Via Dolorza trail in an amok run, holding a Torah scroll in one hand and a shofar in the other. Rabbi Goren managed to reach the narrow alley in front of the Western Wall and with the sound of victory he blew the shofar. Meanwhile, an exciting procession opens on the Temple Mount with soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces, moved to tears. The Temple Mount became a symbol of Israel's victory in a war that changed the face of the entire Middle...

Feel free to keep those holiday plans. US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on Sunday said that vaccinated Americans can still gather for the holidays with “low” risk amid the spread of the concerning, new Omicron variant as long as they follow health precautions. “The concern and the challenge we have right now in the country, Margaret, is that we have millions of people who are still unvaccinated, which poses a risk to their lives, but also poses an increased risk of transmission,” Murthy told anchor Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” “But if you do as many families, you...

ATLANTA — Georgia’s governor’s race just got a little bit more crowded. Channel 2′s Richard Elliot has confirmed that former Republican Senator David Perdue will run for Georgia governor, pitting himself against current Republicans Gov. Brian Kemp. The news comes after Stacey Abrams announced on Dec. 1 that she run for governor again after falling short in 2018 matchup against Kemp. Vernon Jones has already announced that he will also run against Kemp for governor in the Republican primary.

A home in a neighborhood near Chattanooga stands out -- it has hundreds of Amazon packages spread across its lawn. A neighbor said new boxes arrive daily, and many are half-full or empty. People who live in the area have contacted the police and city and written notes to the people who live in the home. "When it started out there were maybe 20 packages out there, and then 100 and then thousands," said Andrea Ellison, a neighbor. Neighbors say the pile of boxes in the front yard has been growing for months, and it's been worse than it is...

Last week, I dusted off my Chinese-flu soapbox and said a word or two about (cue the scary music) the Omicron variant. It sounds like the title of a Robert Ludlum novel, doesn’t it? A friend told me about a parlor game that the journalist Christopher Hitchens and his pals used to play in which the object was to contrive names for Shakespeare’s plays that sounded like the title of a Ludlum novel. Hamlet was “The Elsinore Conundrum.” I am sorry that Hitch is not still with us to try his hand at the Omicron variant. So far, I have...

President Biden honored the life and legacy of former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas) on Sunday, calling him “among the greatest of the Greatest Generation.” Dole died in his sleep early Sunday morning at the age of 98, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation announced in a statement on Twitter. The former senator disclosed in February that he had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and would be undergoing treatment.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A festive event meant to spread holiday cheer on Chicago's South Side took an unfortunate turn after a group of volunteers were robbed. It happened during an event called "Be Part of the Light" put on by My Block, My Hood, My City. A group of four women helping to decorate with the organization were finishing up their hours-long efforts on 48th Street and King Drive.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) on Sunday predicted that his state will be able to avoid another surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, pointing to the high rate of vaccination that has been achieved so far. Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation" Lamont said the omicron case that was detected in Connecticut is mild and that the infected individual does not require hospitalization. Host Margaret Brennan asked Lamont how concerned he was about a wider infection in his state.

A Miami Beach man whose repeated romantic advances to a restaurant co-worker were rejected killed her outside her apartment, according to reports. Agustin Lucas Mariani, 20, faces second-degree murder charges for the fatal stabbing of Delfina Pan, a 28-year-old from Argentina who had refused to date him, the Miami Herald reported Friday.