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Longtime Washington Post columnist George Will says the Constitution should be amended to bar senators from running for president, specifically pointing to Sen. Josh Hawley. “The 328 senators of the previous 50 years have illustrated the tyranny of the bell-shaped curve: a few of them dreadful, a few excellent, most mediocre,” Will wrote in the Post on Wednesday. “Although Josh Hawley, Missouri’s freshman Republican, might not be worse than all the other 327, he exemplifies the worst about would-be presidents incubated in the Senate.”

They started in colleges, but trans closets—rooms stocked with transgender clothes and accessories for students to change into after arriving to school and back out of before going home—are being discovered in public schoolswith some indication they are being kept a secret from parents.In a recent TikTok video, a California teacher implies that the trans closet he started at the high school where he works is meant to be kept from parents.“The goal of the transition closet is for our students to wear the clothes that their parents approve of, come to school and then swap out into the clothes...

After weeks of claims about Russia deliberately sabotaging Ukraine’s food production and export infrastructure, the Ukrainian state has published images claiming to be just such an attack on food and energy equipment in the embattled east of the nation. Images showing a burnt-out grain elevator and a shell-pocked steel warehouse were published by Kyiv state media Ukrinform on Wednesday, along with claims Russian forces had shelled both “a large grain elevator” and a power plant in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which borders Russian-occupied zones. A grain elevator is a key component of a silo, which carries the produce from ground...

(No search results) "I'm pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist," Obama told his audience and then spent the rest of the hour proving he is anything but. In fact, the Obama that emerges in this speech is one scary dude. The one sentence that most alarmed me began thusly, "The way I'm going to evaluate any proposal touching on social media and the internet is whether it strengthens or weakens the prospects for a healthy, inclusive democracy." "The way I'm going to evaluate?" Obama failed to explain in what capacity he gets to evaluate anything. Does he expect to...

Dave Halls, the assistant director who gave Alec Baldwin the gun, admitted that he did not check the gun before rehearsing the scene because he was convinced it contained dummy bullets. Baldwin's shock after hearing the news of Hutchins' accidental death "I could have killed myself if I thought I was responsible for Halyna Hutchins' death," Baldwin admitted. "I dream about the accident constantly. I wake up the moment the gun goes off." Footage of Alec Baldwin's statement has leaked A video from the day of the incident has now surfaced in which police investigating the death of the cinematographer...

Wednesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) reacted to heat-of-the-moment comments reportedly made by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that blamed him and his colleague Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), in part, for the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot. Gaetz warned if House Republicans accepted Democrats’ narratives and reacted as Democrats, it would be a win for Democrats even if the GOP takes power in Congress later this year.

I got a note from a court analyst I call Zen Master to protect his identity. He has YET to be wrong on any call. Ok, he is so specific he often will give me the week of confirmation of a justice, and was off 7 days on his date of Kavanaugh's confirmation when Christine Balless Edsel was dragged out at the last minute. Anyway, he always knows who will be selected and when they wiull be confirmed. He's been right on all the decisions, as well. He is looking at a case out today from the USSC, Cummings v...

On New Day, CNN political commentator and former adviser to President George W. Bush said it was "crazy rhetoric" for Marjorie Taylor Greene to have said that the Catholic Church is controlled by Satan in regard to its assistance to immigrants. Jennings says her statement would play well with her base, but not with the broader electorate. Video at linked tweet.

For years we’ve been hearing nonstop warnings about “misinformation” and “disinformation.” What’s the difference? According to Business Insider, “misinformation” is false or (important distinction) “out-of-context” information, presented as fact but without the intention to deceive others. “Disinformation,” on the other hand, is factually false and disseminated with the intention of misleading or deceiving others. Our political class and their like-minded allies in the major media and Big Tech love to pretend that they’re protecting us from misinformation and disinformation. What they’ve actually been doing is preventing the public from knowing the truth, while they are the ones spreading lies. This...

When pilots and flight attendants announced the end of the mask mandate in-flight, most passengers cheered. Everyone except the media which claimed the masked were the victims. Biden, in an unexpected moment of sanity, said, "it's up to them” whether people wear masks. But since Biden has as much impact on the policy of his administration as the shoeshine guy at Union Station, the DOJ and the CDC have triggered a legal challenge to the federal court ruling. Biden and the entire D.C. elite don’t like wearing masks. Most people don’t. Universal masking is mandated to accommodate a vocal minority,...

Establishment Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Thursday admitted she may lose her primary bid to Donald Trump-endorsed candidate Kelly Tshibaka. “I may not be re-elected,” Murkowski told the New York Times about the possible end of her 20-year Senate career. “It may be that Alaskans say, ‘Nope, we want to go with an absolute, down-the-line, always, always, 100-percent, never-question, rubber-stamp Republican,’ she said about Tshibaka who is leading in the polls. “And if they say that that’s the way that Alaska has gone — kind of the same direction that so many other parts of the country have gone...

HomeMovies Report: Disney And Pixar’s Lightyear Film’s Same-Sex Couple “Pretty Front And Center” At CinemaCon John F. Trent April 27, 2022 Movies Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)More A new report claims that Pixar and Disney’s upcoming Lightyear film that is expected to feature a same-sex couple was promoted “pretty front and center” at a preview at CinemaCon. HERO’S BEST FRIEND — Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” is an all-new, original feature film that presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans)—the hero who...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will decide whether it will further pursue a hybrid version of the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle in fiscal 2023, according to budget justification documents. The service has been working to develop a hybrid Bradley for several years and will wrap up the process through a series of tests in FY22. The funding for hybrid Bradley prototyping is not broken out of a combat vehicle prototyping line item of $164 million in FY22, according to the documents. The funding includes other efforts to examine advanced combat vehicle concepts, next-generation fire control technologies, XM913 chain gun development...

TONACATEPEQUE, El Salvador — It has been four weeks since the shoemaker vanished from his hometown, hauled away in handcuffs by Salvadoran police.The family of the man, Heber Peña, 29, has gathered business receipts and signatures from clients to prove he makes his money honestly. They fear he is now stuck in an overcrowded prison, accused of being a gang member. Even so, the cobbler’s family still sees the benefits of the police crackdown that led to his arrest — and admires the leader behind it. “Apart from this,” said Caleb Peña, Heber’s brother, “everything the president has done is...

"Though we expect our NATO allies and EU partners will be making even larger collective contributions than the United States, there is no doubt that continuing to support Ukraine in this war against Russian aggression will require a substantial additional investment on our part," the president wrote.

Oklahoma U.S. Senate candidate T.W. Shannon called Planned Parenthood "the true face of White supremacy in America" in a new campaign ad that debuts on Thursday. "The truth is, there is nobody, no organization, more racist than Planned Parenthood," Shannon told Fox News Digital, saying he wants to enlighten the American people about the organization’s history. The ad, which features Shannon outside a Planned Parenthood facility, begins by calling founder Margaret Sanger a "vile racist" because of her support for eugenics that often targeted people of color. "400,000 Black babies killed every year since Roe v. Wade," Shannon says as...

For the second half of my public school education I lived in a small rural county which had just one high school -- a high school which graduated significantly less than 200 students/year. In other words, the local school board had exactly one high school to supervise, and a rather small one at that. Given that the county had significantly less than 10,000 residents in it, school board members were accountable. Any naughtiness in order to appease wacky academic trends could be countered by disgruntled parents in short order. When I was in junior high, they had a Bible reading...

One of the Bay Area's tech giants is closing its San Francisco office, multiple media outlets reported this week. PayPal has a location at 425 Market St., between First and Fremont streets, and it will remain open for employees to use on a voluntary basis until early June. The San Francisco office houses staff who work for the company's Xoom service that allows customers to send money to family and friends around the world and pay international bills. The digital payment firm’s headquarters will continue to operate in San Jose. PayPal would not comment specifically on the closure, but said...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) said in a new interview it is possible she loses her reelection bid to a “rubber-stamp Republican.” “I may be the last man standing. I may not be re-elected,” the senator told The New York Times. “It may be that Alaskans say, ‘Nope, we want to go with an absolute, down-the-line, always, always, 100-percent, never-question, rubber-stamp Republican.’ “And if they say that that’s the way that Alaska has gone — kind of the same direction that so many other parts of the country have gone —I have to accept that,” she added. “But I’m going to...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.