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Musk needs to make big changes at Twitter and make them fast if he wants re-orient the platform towards free speech.Well, he did it lads, Elon Musk pulled off the impossible and now owns Twitter. He overcame the nefarious plans of the Twitter board, with its poison pills, and after much struggle now has total ownership of the so-called public town square. But now that everyone’s favorite billionaire is in control, freedom lovers must ask: how is he going to make good on his offer to make 'Make Twitter Free Again?' With an ever-present media establishment and a left engaged...

Russian tanks with their tops blown off are just the latest sign that Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't going to plan. Hundreds of Russian tanks are thought to have been destroyed since Moscow launched its offensive, with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace on Monday estimating it had lost as many as 580. But Moscow's problems go beyond the sheer number of tanks it has lost. Experts say battlefield images show Russian tanks are suffering from a defect that Western militaries have known about for decades and refer to as the "jack-in-the-box effect." Moscow, they say, should have seen the problem...

en. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) that he would switch his party to Independent and caucus with the Republican Party if Thune were made the leader of the Senate GOP, according to reporting in a new book from a pair of New York Times reporters. Early in 2021, shortly after the election of President Biden and after Democrats had taken control of the House and Senate, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Thune tried to convince Manchin to switch parties, according to reporting in the book by journalists Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns. Manchin had...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for an additional $33 billion to help Ukraine fend off Russia's invasion, a signal that the U.S. is prepared to mount a robust, long-term campaign to bolster Kyiv and weaken Moscow as the bloody war enters its third month with no sign of abating. Biden’s latest proposal — which the White House said was expected to support Ukraine's needs for five months — has more than $20 billion in military assistance for Kyiv and for shoring up defenses in nearby countries. There is also $8.5 billion in economic aid to...

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...