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Watch Rand Paul silence Secretary Mayorkas in congress. Quotes from Senator Paul: "If you can't agree to that [what disinformation is--e.g. the Steele dossier], how are we ever going to come to an agreement on what [disinformation is] so that you can police it on social media?" "I think you've got no idea what disinformation is." "Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government." See video at link.

@jonathanvswan Straight after winning his primary JD Vance goes on a rampage against Karl Rove on Tucker. Clip ...

Nine times out of ten, if we’re listening to AC/DC, no one’s life should be in our hands. The Australian party rockers’ music is best suited for skulling coldies, laughing at d**kheads, and occasionally driving an ATV into a pool. But according to a new study, blasting AC/DC actually helps the speed and precision of surgeons on the job. As reported by Ultimate Guitar, a recent study at Heidelberg University in Germany showed that playing AC/DC’s music increased both speed and precision of cuts made by surgeons. Apparently, the amount of time needed to make a precision cut went from...

ABC’s legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that comedian Dave Chappelle getting attacked on stage during the “Netflix Is A Joke Fest” was in part due to former President Donald Trump unleashing “incivility.” Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “What do you think is happening? It’s happening on airplanes. It’s happening on street corners. People are just running up. I mean, the Hollywood Bowl. He just ran up on there.” Co-host Joy Behar said, “Things that can contribute to what’s going on. The pandemic, the opioid crisis, the fact that Trump was out there saying things like, ‘just...

The word “racism,” or a variation of the word, was used every single day in April by hosts and guests on MSNBC. “Racism,” “Racist,” “Structural Racism,” “Overt Racism,” “Open Racism,” and even “Environmental Racism” were constantly repeated on the network with zero pushback whatsoever. Hosts and guests would also combine “racism” with other ‘woke’ phrases such as “sexism,” “homophobia,” “xenophobia,” and “antisemitism.” The use of these highly charged words was generally directed toward Republican politicians and conservative voters but also toward the United States and its institutions as a whole. MSNBC figures that repeatedly invoked “racism” include Joy Reid, Ari...

On May 22-28, 2022, ultimate control over America’s healthcare system, and hence its national sovereignty, will be delivered for a vote to the World Health Organization’s governing legislative body, the World Health Assembly (WHA). This threat is contained in new amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations, proposed by the Biden administration, that are scheduled as “Provisional agenda item 16.2” at the upcoming conference on May 22-28, 2022.1 These amendments will empower WHO’s Director-General to declare health emergencies or crises in any nation and to do so unilaterally and against the opposition of the target nation. The Director-General will be able...

Special Counsel Durham Update - The court order granting immunity to Fusion GPS's Laura Seago has been unsealed. And here is the newly unsealed motion to compel Seago's testimony [in the Sussmann case], filed by Durham back in April 2022. Full doc: https://www.scribd.com/document/572850321/72-Motion-to-Compel-Seago-Testimony

A candy store employee is facing murder charges after allegedly attacking a woman outside the Tacoma store with a "samurai-like" sword. Abdelhakim Choubabi, 52, murdered the woman outside the Candy Market in the 700 block of Market Street around 7:50 p.m. on April 30, according to court records. Tacoma police say they were called to the scene by a resident nearby who saw what they described as a woman being hit multiple times with a pole of some kind. The woman was found dead from multiple stab wounds about 20 feet outside the store entrance. Choubabi, though, had left in...

Hungary warned today that it would not support the proposed EU ban on Russian oil in its current form as it would 'completely destroy' its energy supply security. The EU proposal - announced earlier on Wednesday - would ban Russian crude gradually over the next six months and refined fuels by the end of this year, in retaliation for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hungary and Slovakia - both highly depending on Moscow's oil exports - would get until the end of 2023 to phase out Russian supplies. However, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said this concession would not be enough to...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack that removing former President Trump through the 25th Amendment “takes too long,” according to the latest leaked recording of a call with top House GOP colleagues. McCarthy, who is aiming to be Speaker if Republicans win the House majority in November, also said that what Trump did was “atrocious and totally wrong” but expressed opposition to impeachment on the call.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will receive 20 to 25 years in prison after a judge accepted a plea deal he struck with prosecutors in December. In December, Chauvin pleaded guilty to charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights when he pinned his knee on Floyd’s neck, killing him. In exchange, Chauvin agreed a sentencing between 20 to 25 years in prison. Chauvin’s decision to enter a plea deal came after initially rejecting another plea offer in September.

GREER, S.C. (WSPA) – A naked man is accused of stealing an ambulance Wednesday and crashing it into a pole in Greer. According to the Greer Police Department, officers were called to a report of a suspicious man banging on the front door of a home on Tryon Street shortly before 11:30 a.m. Arriving officers found the naked man under the home who they said appeared to be under the influence of drugs. Greenville County EMS was called to the scene to provide medical care for the man. After officers left the scene, police said the man became combative, hitting...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan (D-OH) said he wouldn’t support any restrictions on abortion if he is elected to the Senate and “you’ve got to leave it up to the woman.” Host Bret Baier asked, [relevant remarks begin around 4:15] “As senator, would you have any limits on abortion?”

The law aims to 'affirm the right to menstrual dignity for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and two-spirit students.' Every public school in Oregon — including elementary institutions — will soon be required to provide tampons and other feminine products in boys' bathrooms with "instructions on how to use" them. The controversial requirement is in accordance with the state's new Menstrual Dignity Act, signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kate Brown last year, which mandates that menstrual products be made available in "every student bathroom." Following the bill's passage, the Oregon Department of Education developed and distributed a "Medical Dignity for Students"...

Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There are no provisions in the Koran and in the Sunnah that prohibit Muslims from sharing the evening meal of "breaking the fast" (Al-Fitr) with Christian friends, relatives or acquaintances during the Muslim month of fasting Ramadan. This is what is reported by Sheikh Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam, current Grand Mufti of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and finds space in the Egyptian media just as all the Islamic communities in the world are preparing to celebrate Eid al Fitr, the feast that concludes the holy month dedicated to fasting, prayer and almsgiving. Accepting food from...

<p>ATLANTA — Atlanta police said a man is dead after he was shot by a police officer inside a Buckhead restaurant.</p><p>Atlanta police were called out the scene along Lenox Road around 3 p.m.</p><p>Police and witnesses described the incident to Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray as an extended struggle over the police officer’s gun.</p>

Commentary Few matters are so important as the integrity of the information we receive and the recent degradation in its reliability. The recent leak of a Supreme Court draft related to the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case underscores how corrupted so many of our important institutions have become by those dedicated to shaping public opinion in a sometimes-dishonest way. Nearly every facet of our American institutions has been infiltrated by activists, corporate and political propagandists, and even criminals. Here are 10 key institutions that have been successfully infiltrated by information-shapers: 1. Corporations High-profile corporations increasingly do business, or withhold...

The state of Georgia made some news this week in the arena of election fraud, issuing a flurry of subpoenas in their statewide investigation of the 2020 elections. The mainstream press didn’t cover it; there was a baseball game. And in each of the 72 weeks before that, whenever there was important news about the abuse of our election system, there was always something equally important. The Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard defamation trial. Will Smith slapping a comic at the Oscars. A sixty-year-old model posing nude to combat “ageism” – whatever that is. As Roseanne Roseannadanna would say, “It’s...

Teachers at a Catholic school have gone on strike over the cancellation of a talk by a children's author whose books feature gay characters. Governors of the John Fisher School in Purley, Croydon, in south London, voted not to cancel Simon James Green's visit, contrary to the Archdiocese of Southwark's recommendation. Two governors subsequently resigned and the archdiocese sacked the rest, according to an Ofsted report. Staff shortages have closed the school. Southwark archdiocese revealed on Thursday it had written to Ofsted asking it to review the report which it says had "inaccuracies" and contained "evidence appearing to be drawn...

The St. Gianna Beretta Molla and Pietro Molla International Center for Family and Life will promote the holiness of the family and respect for the sanctity of life and include a shrine church of St. Gianna near the Diocese of Springfield’s new Evermode Institute.SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Diocese of Springfield in Illinois) – The daughter of one the most popular modern-day Catholic saints announced plans to establish an international pilgrimage site and center in Springfield to help spread knowledge of and devotion to her holy parents’ virtues and, thus, to promote the holiness of the family and respect for the sanctity of...