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No institution is exempt from the American public’s growing distrust of the federal government. Even the military, which has traditionally enjoyed broad support from Americans of all political stripes, is now seeing its otherwise pristine image take a hit. According to a survey the Ronald Reagan Institute recently published, trust in the military has plummeted precipitously. Perpetual wars and the ongoing “woke” experimentation taking place within the military have made the public significantly jaded about the military. Ironically, the mainstream Right has grown more hostile toward it. Fox News host Tucker Carlson has made it part of his routine to...

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany sat down Wednesday with investigators from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill. McEnany, who was subpoenaed in November, appeared before the committee virtually. CBS News was the first to report her meeting with the panel. McEnany was subpoenaed alongside former Trump aide Stephen Miller and other White House employees, with her summons largely focused on false statements she made promoting baseless claims of voter fraud.

MSNBC national security analyst Clint Watts said Wednesday on “Katy Tur Reports” that former President Donald Trump was a “galvanizing force” for a lot of extremist groups which are now domestic terror threats. Tur said, “The Justice Department is creating a unit to fight domestic terror. The threat of home-grown extremism has grown over the last year with the number of FBI investigations into domestic terror more than doubling since the spring of 2020.”

We are officially in the horror movie where the monster never dies, the virus never ends and our next election sees Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. Yes, the two most polarizing presidential nominees of modern times refuse to go away. Clinton and Trump are more alike than they realize. Namely, they each live in a reality of their own making.

The New Jersey state legislature gave final approval to a bill yesterday that will legalize killing babies in abortions up to birth. Governor Phil Murphy is expected to sign the measure into law this week even though he claims he’s a practicing Catholic. As LifeNews reported, the bill will legalize abortions up to birth and allowing non-doctors to kill babies in abortions. The legislation guarantees “the fundamental right of reproductive autonomy,” even though women already have reproductive autonomy and choice prior to the decision to end a baby’s life in an abortion as reproduction has already taken place.

Roger Marshall, R-Kan., is doubling down on a contentious tussle with Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday by once again requesting, this time in the form of a letter, the top White House medical adviser provide financial disclosure forms. [cut] "What a moron, Jesus Christ!" an exasperated Fauci could be heard saying. In the letter to Fauci, Marshall cites a New York Post article in which a Fauci spokesperson was unable to produce the disclosures that Fauci claimed were public and a Forbes article reporting that Fauci’s salary, stock and bond purchases, and royalty payments for this year and last year...

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) discussed President Joe Biden’s speech in Atlanta a day earlier promoting congressional Democrats voting legislation. In the speech, Biden suggested opponents were akin to former Democrat Alabama Gov. George Wallace, a self-declared segregationist at the height of his popularity.

At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) questioned Andre B. Mathis, nominee to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit. [6 min Video]

Authorities in Florida have released chilling footage of a missing woman swimming and wading in an alligator-infested river before she vanished. Paola Miranda-Rosa, 31, who authorities say is schizophrenic, was reported missing by her family three weeks ago after she was last seen at a relative’s Orlando apartment. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office revealed this week that hikers had since come forward to say they spotted the missing woman in Wekiva Springs State Park on Dec. 18 — a day after her family last saw her. The hikers gave investigators a video they took of the woman swimming solo in...

A study released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution suggests that long COVID could be keeping more than a million workers out of the workforce. Long COVID could account for over 15% of unfilled jobs in the U.S., Katie Bach, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote in the report released Tuesday. Long COVID is a term used to describe the prolonged effects of COVID-19 that may persist for weeks, months or even years beyond the initial infection, the report said.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Two women are facing a felony charge after police said they went to a man’s apartment in Clearwater and started throwing glitter at him during an argument. According to arrest affidavits from Pinellas County, 27-year-old Kaitlin O’Donovan and 29-year-old Sarah Franks went to the man’s apartment on Fairwood Avenue just before 3 a.m. on Monday and started arguing with him as he stood on his fenced balcony. Advertisement Both women threw a container of glitter at the victim during the argument, according to Clearwater police. The arrest affidavits stated that the man was hit in the...

The Vaxed Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost (AND SOME TO DIE)! Teachers at the Dr. Fauci school of "vaccination" researchSome "medical professionals" think all the negative data coming out about the jab is just one big conspiracy theory from a bunch of ignorant, mentally ill folks wearing tin hats. They seem to believe that the only doctors who are real medical professionals (besides themselves) are the ones they agree with ...like Dr. Fauci. No matter how impressive the credentials of other medical professionals, they are dismissed as quacks and cranks. That is the new DR. FAUCI SCIENCE. Don't...

A woman has revealed how she has managed to save more than $27,000 on bills and rent since moving into a narrowboat. Elizabeth Earle, 33, first bought her narrowboat, the Leviathan, for $5,200 in 2019 and has since spent an extra $16,500 on renovations and decor over the past two years. “My bills are extremely minimal, I’ve gone from paying $1,642 a month with rent, gas and electric to just $347 a month on the boat.” “The rent for my marina spot at Mancetter is $164 a month, but it allows me to use the facilities, so that’s been quite...

If Rogan and GETTR worked out, then Gab would be a viable alternative for those who aren't a fit for GETTR, but now understand there's other platforms beyond Twitter. Rogan's audience on GETTR would be "hey, this alt stuff isn't so bad after all! What else is out there?"

A new experimental nasal spray could prevent people from getting infected with COVID-19 for up to eight hours, according to a study. The promising treatment has shown it can block infection from the virus in lab studies with mice, according to researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

The White House scoffed at Congressional Republicans on Wednesday who criticized President Joe Biden’s speech slamming the Senate for blocking bills that would federalize state and local elections. “I know that there has been a lot of claim of the offensive nature of the speech yesterday, which is hilarious on many levels,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, pointing to Republican silence during former President Donald Trump’s presidency.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is widely being discussed as a potential 2024 candidate for Republicans -- and he's doing little to knock down that chatter. And, his state of the state speech on Tuesday gave us all a preview of how DeSantis would run if he runs. "Florida has become the escape hatch for those chafing under authoritarian, arbitrary and seemingly never-ending mandates and restrictions," DeSantis said, adding that Florida was now "the freest state in these United States." DeSantis repeatedly touted his willingness to buck so-called conventional wisdom during his first term -- particularly when it came to dealing...

USA Today was forced to delete a series of tweets after the paper was blasted for trying to 'normalize' pedophilia by saying it is 'misunderstood' and a condition 'determined in the womb' - yet has kept the article available online despite the outrage. On Monday, USA Today published an article by staff writer Alia E. Dastagir titled 'What the public keeps getting wrong about pedophilia,' where she cited researchers who study pedophilia and say it is a misunderstood term that describes an attraction to minors, not an action.