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The ballot for Jackson County legislature is set and the county’s Democratic Committee deserves a round of applause for protecting voters from getting duped by candidates who they said wanted to run as Democrats but serve as Republicans. The filing deadline to get on the ballot for the Aug. 2 primary was Tuesday evening. The Democratic Committee, in line with its bylaws, refused to accept the $100 fee from two candidates who filed to run for seats on the Jackson County legislature. “They had supported Republican candidates and causes” said Forrest Richardson, executive director of the county’s Democratic Committee, and...

Remaking a political party is difficult, but essential now as the entrenchment of a few liberal Republicans has become intolerable. Never before has anyone improved and remade a political party as Donald Trump is doing, and failure is not an option. An obstacle is the tradition of Republican primary voters reelecting incumbents. Of the 152 primary challenges to state Republican legislators so far this year, not a single one of the incumbents has lost. But none of those challengers had Trump’s endorsement. In the next few months, many primary challengers in battleground states will have Trump’s endorsement which gives them...

@CNNPolitics GOP lawmakers who are at their wits' end with Rep. Madison Cawthorn are considering endorsing one of his primary foes, sources say, amid growing concerns he is dragging down the entire party with his problematic behavior

If there ever was a moment in American history where all of the dangers were known, all of the evidence of treason revealed, I don’t know when it would be, other than right now. The admission of the NY Times that Hunter’s laptop was real exposed at least 50 former intelligence officials who lied directly to the people to throw an election. What more is there to discuss? Why is there no call for a new election? Isn’t that exactly what must take place? Fraud vitiates everything. The laptop also exposed Joe Biden’s treason, corruption and other illegalities. These facts...

What a Tangled WebConfusion over what it means to be human continues to dog public life in the West. Soon after Anneliese Dodds, the Labour party shadow secretary for women, revealed that she does not know what a woman is, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson deferred the same question to biologists. That move was odd: It was obviously an attempt to play to the progressive trans lobby, but it actually revealed Jackson’s lack of understanding of the current debates surrounding gender. Jackson implied that she sees the issue as one of biological essentialism. Contra de Beauvoir, it would...

Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are heard admitting they've eaten dog meat and raped young girls in horrifying intercepted audio. In tapped phone calls released by Kyiv secret service the SBU yesterday, Russian soldiers reveal their sick sexual 'conquests' and complain about the quality of years-old ration packs. An unidentified man presumed to be a family member asks in Russian: 'Are you eating okay at least?' A soldier replies: 'We had Alabay (dog) yesterday.' 'Who?', the family member asks. 'Alabay', he replies matter-of-factly. The stunned man says: 'Are you eating dogs or what?' Again the soldier replies stoically: 'We have....

- A statue to famed abolitionist David Livingstone was identified as 'problematic.' - The statue was among several monuments highlighted in a Glasgow report. - Glasgow City Council commissioned the report to help it take note of monuments in the Scottish city which has associations with the slave trade. A monument to a famous abolitionist could be removed due to an alleged connection to the slave trade. A statue to David Livingstone, the anti-slavery missionary and explorer, in Glasgow was identified in a 119-page report identifying a series of sites in Glasgow with links to slavery. The monument was...

ran’s Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, warned the governments of the region and the “Zionist movement” against any role in the Persian Gulf. This comes in the wake of the Negev Summit, where Bahrain and the UAE, which are in the Gulf, attended an unprecedented and important summit in Israel. The report of his comments took place in Iran’s Fars News and Tasnim News on Wednesday night. He was “referring to the security situation in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of ​​Oman and some movements of the presence of the Zionists...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s hiring boom of the past year has narrowed racial disparities in unemployment. Yet the Federal Reserve’s ongoing interest rate hikes — shaping up to be the steepest in 15 years — threaten to reverse that progress. Such rapid hikes typically slow borrowing and spending and can raise unemployment and even cause a recession. During such downturns, Black and Hispanic Americans commonly suffer higher jobless rates. “The reason why this matters in the Black community is because we are literally the last hired, and it’s only when you get to this point in a recovery where black...

There are difficult months ahead for Eurozone nations, with the head of Europe’s central bank warning that the ongoing Ukraine Crisis poses ‘significant’ dangers to the currency union. ‘Significant’ dangers to do with supply chain issues and the rising costs of food and energy are now facing the Eurozone, the head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, has warned. These impending dangers can all reportedly be traced back to the ongoing war in Ukraine, with Russia’s invasion of the country creating a number of significant economic pressures which appear to be threatening Eurozone nation-states. According to a report by...

Vaccine MalpracticeGovernment pharmacists, physicians, and nurses have violated their oaths and obligations to protect patient safety. Adverse cardiovascular, thrombotic, and neurologic events related to the Covid vaccine have occurred around the world. As I and others have noted before, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) own vaccine adverse event tracking system (the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS) shows substantial and serious risks from the vaccine, even though the FDA only collects an estimated 10 percent of all adverse events.Still, federal agencies and manufacturers aren’t officially warning American public about these risks, despite having known this information for almost...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is commemorating Transgender Day of Visibility by celebrating prominent transgender Americans and advocating against what his administration terms “dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks” that have passed in statehouses across the country. Biden on Thursday is announcing new measures aimed at making the federal government more inclusive for transgender people, including a new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications beginning on April 11 and new Transportation Security Administration scanners that are gender-neutral. The Democratic president’s administration is working to expand the availability of the “X” gender marker to airlines and federal travel programs and will...

hristopher Rufo, the conservative activist who shined a spotlight on Critical Race Theory in schools, resulting in multiple states banning the toxic curricula, has set his sights on the Walt Disney Company after Disney publicly opposed the Parental Rights in Education bill, which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed into law. The sensible anti-grooming law prohibits Florida educators from teaching or discussing sexual orientation and gender identity issues to school children in kindergarten through third grade. In response to the legislation, Disney said in a statement: “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the...

There was a time not long ago when even the most based conservative was willing to live and let live with all manner of divergent and bizarre people, but live and let live has become “I live and you submit” and that’s just not going to work out in the long run. The tolerant have been rewarded for their tolerance with intolerance, and if you look, you can already see the backlash brewing. The breaking point may have been when the man who won the women’s swimming championship and all the smart, moral people of our garbage elite demanded we...

Expensive Medical Cost Concept High prices, low value — Two new composite scores from West Health and Gallup illustrate America’s healthcare cost crisis. An estimated 112 million (44%) American adults are struggling to pay for healthcare, and more than double that number (93%) feel that what they do pay is not worth the cost. The findings come from two new composite scores developed by the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization West Health and Gallup, the global analytics and advice firm, to assess the healthcare cost crisis. The West Health-Gallup Healthcare Affordability Index and Healthcare Value Index are drawn from the opinions of...

In a day and age where freedoms and liberties teeter on the brink of obscurity, one has to wonder how tyranny regained a foothold in the nation that birthed the American Revolution. The very Declaration that announced independence reads this: But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.The signers rightly assessed that when a government is tyrannical, it is not only the right...

"There is immense pressure to toe the company line," Castillo told Fox News Digital. "However, the reality is that those drawing attention to this issue are in the minority. The Disney cast members who support the parental rights defended by HB 1557 far outnumber those who are protesting against it." Despite critics branding it a "Don't Say Gay" bill, H.B. 1557 does not ban the word "gay" in school settings. Neither does it ban casual discussions of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom. It does not require schools to notify parents if their child identifies...

Composite image of solar prominence on 31 August 2012. (NASA/SDO/GSFC) The dazzling northern lights could light up the skies as far south as the northern United States after the detection of 17 solar eruptions blasting from a single sunspot, two of which are headed straight to Earth. The two Earth-directed eruptions have merged into a "cannibal coronal mass ejection" and are barreling toward us at 1,881,263 miles per hour (3,027,599 kilometers per hour). When it crashes into the Earth's magnetic field on the night of March 30, the result will be a powerful G3 geomagnetic storm, according to The National...

31 March 2022Thursday of the 4th week of Lent Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Transfiguration, Lviv Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingExodus 32:7-14 ©Moses pleads with the Lord his God to spare IsraelThe Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshipped it and offered it sacrifice. “Here is your God, Israel,” they have cried “who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”’ the Lord...

Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn said President Joe Biden's polls are 'dire' Says the president needs to 'pivot' to focusing on issues Americans care about to improve Democrats' standing before the 2022 midterms Penn co-founded a polling firm whose clients included President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and British Prime Minister Tony Blair Penn was also a chief strategist and pollster on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign An average polling from FiveThirtyEight shows Biden at 41.5% approval NBC poll released Sunday shows only 33% approve of Biden's performance on the economy and 38% blame him for rising inflation