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The Colorado Republican Party gathered in Colorado Springs at the World Arena over the past weekend to conduct official party business. The Multi-County District Assemblies were held Friday, April 8 at the Double Tree in Colorado Springs, CO. The first order of business was the State Central Committee Meeting followed by Congressional District assemblies. The early morning of Friday April 8th began with delegates arriving to obtain credentials so that they may cast a vote for the candidates of their choosing in the Congressional District assemblies. The highly controversial but ‘apple of the grassroot conservatives’ eye, Lauren Boebert, swept CD3....

If this isn't viewpoint discrimination by a public school, then what is? Imagine if a school in a conservative rural American town displayed a "MAGA" flag while banning all Nike products because of Nike's political affiliation with the America-hating ideology of Black Lives Matter (BLM). Now imagine the exact opposite, and you'll find the reality of a school in Randolph, Vermont that displays the BLM flag boldly but canceled a high school baseball team fundraiser for using Chick-fil-A products. In an email to the community on April 11, school superintendent Layne Millington stated: Chick-Fil-A as a company has stirred significant...

If there was ever proof that Israel is not an apartheid state actively discriminating against its Arab minority, all one needs to do is look at the recent statement of Israeli Arab Knesset member Ayman Odeh. Not only does this reflect the reality that Israeli Arabs are equal parts of Israel’s democracy, that he can make statements that go against the interest and security of the state shows what a hyper-democracy Israel in fact is. As all this has unfolded, the thought I cannot shake is how much Israel’s Arabs deserve better. Odeh used the occasion of a recent Ramadan...

In a small gray trailer plopped in a parking lot alongside I-91 in Hartford, Samuel Wright and Bonnie Allen waited for COVID-19 vaccine-seekers to arrive. It was late Tuesday afternoon, not long before the Hartford HealthCare vaccine clinic Wright and Allen run was set to close, and the site had seen about 30 patients — an increase from previous days but nothing like the crush of patients vaccinators grew used to in earlier stages of the pandemic. “People are coming in,” said Allen, a registered nurse. “Not like that first booster, of course, when we had huge amounts of people,...

"Through confidential sources, undercover agents, and clandestine recordings," the Justice Department announced in October 2020, "law enforcement learned particular individuals were planning to kidnap" Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and "acting in furtherance of that plan." But it turned out those individuals included the government's "confidential sources," who pushed the half-baked scheme and orchestrated acts "in furtherance of that plan" even when the defendants resisted it. The appearance of entrapment, coupled with the difficulty of distinguishing between fantasy and criminal conspiracy, explains the embarrassing outcome of a federal trial that ended last week, when jurors acquitted two alleged conspirators and failed...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia’s initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching, potentially decisive, battle for Ukraine’s contested Donbas region. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express. The U.S. numbers alone are mounting: more than 12,000 weapons designed to defeat armored vehicles, some 1,400 shoulder-fired Stinger missiles to shoot down aircraft and more than 50 million rounds of ammunition, among many other things. Dozens of other nations are adding to the totals. The Biden administration is preparing yet...

Former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace has reportedly been breaking down in front of his crew over the “miserable failure” of the new streaming platform CNN+.The launch of CNN+ has been anything but stellar, according to the latest statistics, with the platform drawing in close to less than 10,000 daily viewers and even fewer subscribers. Per CNBC:Fewer than 10,000 people are using CNN+ on a daily basis two weeks into its existence, according to people familiar with the matter.CNN+ launched on March 29. The subscription news streaming service, which charges $5.99 a month or $59.99 annually, only became available on...

Source: Townhall Media/Julio RosasMillions of Americans are paying taxes this week. What worsens the pain is to see resident Joe Biden spending our tax money on hotel stays, debit cards and cellphones for migrants illegally crossing the southern border. Biden is rolling out the welcome mat. Illegal border crossers will no longer be treated like criminals but more like customers. The president's fiscal budget, presented March 28, cuts funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement by 8% despite an expected surge in migrants and reduces detention beds. Meanwhile, Biden's increasing funding for a speedier service for migrants entering the country illegally,...

The relatively brief but bloody war in Ukraine is entering its fourth phase. In the first, Russia tried to depose Volodymyr Zelensky’s government and sweep the country into its embrace in a three-day campaign; in the second, it attempted to conquer Ukraine—or at least its eastern half, including the capital, Kyiv—with armored assaults; in the third, defeated in the north, Russia withdrew its battered forces, massing instead in the southeastern and southern areas for the conquest of those parts of Ukraine. For those of us born after World War II, this is the most consequential war of our lifetime. Upon...

The subject of “inequality” is very much in the news at the moment. For a great many professors, researchers, editorial writers and talking heads on mainstream and social media, this is the topic of the day. By contrast, it is of almost no interest to everyone else. For the chattering class, a new book by Thomas Piketty is grist for the mill. Even if they don’t understand Piketty’s complicated economics, they will have no trouble discovering his bottom line: inequality of income and wealth is unquestionably bad. Ordinary people do not think about inequality. They don’t talk about it. They...

Santa Monica police arrested the man suspected of assaulting or harassing three letter carriers in a three-month period - but he is back on the street because authorities say his crimes aren't enough to keep him behind bars. Residents of the 1300 block of 14th Street haven't gotten their mail for half a week because of three attacks by Davon Ray Morgan, 38, on postal workers since January, according to the United States Postal Service. 'Delivery is temp suspended; this is an unusual, but a necessary step to protect our employees,' USPS spokeswoman Natasha Garvin tweeted on Monday. **SNIP** Jim...

The crises of recent years tend to erase from memory those that preceded them. One, as you may recall, was the financial collapse of 2008 -- a collapse deemed by many as the worst since the Great Depression. That collapse swept into power a government like the one we have now -- the White House and both houses of Congress controlled by Democrats. Newly elected President Barack Obama appointed then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, who made popular the saying, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste." Indeed, the new Democrat administration followed this advice and used...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemRevelation 5The Scroll and the Lamb 5 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” 3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. 4 I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll...

Three members of a Ukrainian family were charged with hate crimes after allegedly brutally beating a gay man and leaving him blind. Inna Makarenko, 44, Yevhen Makarenko, 43, and Oleh Makarenko, 21, were each charged with attempted first-degree murder, battery during the burglary of a dwelling and kidnapping, according to the Broward State Attorney's Office. All of their charges were filed under a hate crime and they face possible life sentences on each count. The couple's other son, Vladylav Makarenko, 25, was arrested in Alabama and extradited to the Broward County Jail on Monday, prosecutors said. He also has been...

Abortions are violent acts ending in death. The badly named "mainstream media" loves them. The Washington Post, which claims to hate things "dying in darkness," boasted Sunday of a new pro-abortion law passed in Maryland over the veto of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Reporters Erin Cox and Ovetta Wiggins gushed, "The new law puts Maryland at the vanguard of abortion rights nationwide, expanding access and requiring most insurance policies to cover the entire cost of the procedure." The Post described this as "abortion protections." Their Orwellian terminology betrays their love of abortion. These laws "protect" the murder of unborn children,...

The survivors of Tuesday morning's subway attack in Brooklyn have described how they sat next to the gunman as he pulled an ax and gun from his duffel bag before he threw a smoke grenade and fired 33 shots, leaving 10 people injured with bullet wounds. A witness said the suspect said 'Oops, my bad', as he opened one of his gas tanks and filled the subway car with smoke when it was between stations, before he pulled out his weapons and opened fire. A multi-state manhunt is now underway for Frank James, 62, who is a 'person of interest'...

Bookstores now sell only certain kinds of children's books. "Go into Barnes & Noble," says Bethany Mandel in my new video, "and you will be met with a wall of biographies. Probably 27 different books about former Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Great. A ton about Kamala Harris. Great." But where are the biographies on conservatives? There weren't any. She found lots on people like Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Carson, but not one on conservatives like Margaret Thatcher or Amy Coney Barrett. "It's time to bring those books to the market because Lord knows the...

The U.S. Senate confirmed nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on April 7, 2022. When Justice Stephen Breyer finally retires, she will be the 116th justice on the Supreme Court. Republicans took the high road and did not attack Judge Jackson as the Democrats have done during hearings for Republican nominees. There were no accusers coming out of the woodwork to smear the judge nor highlight what was in her high school yearbook. That was good. Republicans did try to get answers to substantive questions, but to little avail. Judge Jackson stayed silent, mostly, about the Constitution, much as she stayed silent...

Amy Wax, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said Black people harbored "resentment" over Western achievements in a viral interview with Fox Nation host Tucker Carlson. The controversial lecturer said on Tucker Carlson Today on Friday: "I think there is just a tremendous amount of resentment and shame of non-Western peoples against Western peoples for Western peoples' outsized achievements and contributions. I mean, it's really unbearable. "Leaving aside American Blacks, who I think do feel that resentment and shame and envy. I mean it is this unholy brew of sentiments." In 2019, a Pew Research Center study found...

It seems that no one can ever do quite enough to satisfy the demands of professional complainers. Not even Elon Musk, world-famous promoter of electric vehicles. He was met rudely by protesters at the grand opening of his Tesla assembly plant, just outside Berlin, during recent ceremonies: "...it [the plant] has faced opposition and some environmental activists blocked the factory’s entrance while displaying banners flagging its high water use…” All said and done, it should become clear to various parties that the newer generation of electric vehicles is no better, environmentally speaking, than late-model automobiles powered by the much-maligned internal...