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CARLISLE, Pennsylvania -- It was called the political storm of the century. It would end with the largest single turnover of power in American history -- and one for the ages. It was fall of 1894. People were still feeling the effects of the Panic of 1893, which had shut down most of the economy and plunged the nation into a catastrophic recession, with every segment of the country in a world of pain. Farmers were disgusted with the cost of wheat; laborers were desperate for jobs and higher pay. The biggest punch of all, the Pullman Strike, had caused...

Go vote! Strike a blow for Liberty! Trump endorsed Charles Herbster in Nebraska and Alex Mooney in West Virginia.

Kathy Barnette has been outspent 358-to-1 on TV in Pennsylvania’s GOP primary for the Senate. She hasn’t run for statewide office before. She doesn’t have former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. But the ultra-MAGA commentator is surging in the polls anyway in the final weeks of one of the most expensive and closely watched races in the country. Barnette’s unlikely — and, to some, unbelievable — rise has turned heads in political circles across the state because it defies political logic. Just two years ago, she lost a House bid in the Philadelphia suburbs by a wide margin. This time around,...

Before I had kids, I never wanted kids. It wasn’t something I would even entertain, it was just a fact. A lot of single men had the same attitude, at least the ones I hung out with – we wanted nothing to do with kids. Children were seen as the end of something, not the beginning. No more going out drinking with your friends, no more fun. I don’t know about you, but when I was young and dumb I really leaned into the dumb part. Now that I have 2 kids, ages 3 and 4, I can’t imagine life...

Winning the Kentucky Derby as an 80-1 underdog is fantastic. On Saturday, Rich Strike showed he knows how to do that. Now, winning with grace, that’s something he needs to learn. Moments after completing one of the most improbable wins in the history of horse racing or sports in general, Rich Strike immediately tried to bite another horse.

In his smash-hit move, 2000 Mules, Dinesh D’Souza carefully, and entertainingly, demonstrated how True The Vote, a voter integrity organization, was able to prove incontrovertibly that leftwing non-profits used mules to stuff ballots, bringing in, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of Biden votes in swing states. The movie, however, describes the data without releasing it and does not identify the non-profits. Now, though, True the Vote is planning to publish everything. That’s an information bomb that should blow apart any claims that Biden’s victory wasn’t the result of massive fraud. The genius of True the Vote was that it...

n a recent interview, CNN’s Brian Stelter asked former CBS “abortion access” reporter Kate Smith — who recently announced that she’s joining the staff of Planned Parenthood — about my previous criticism of her work. In April 2020, I surveyed Smith’s supposed “reporting,” criticized her kid-glove treatment of abortion groups and her parroting of pro-abortion talking points, and described her as “Planned Parenthood’s ambassador to CBS News.” Now, a mere two years later, Smith is joining Planned Parenthood as the group’s first-ever “senior director of news content.” My evaluation, it seems, was almost too on the nose. But Smith told...

Thank goodness the U.S. Supreme Court seems to be ready to reverse Roe v. Wade. Because now, for the first time since January 6, 2021, it’s okay to protest again. And it’s okay to dox the home addresses of Supreme Court justices. And it’s okay to cry to the heavens that the world is coming to an end if the states get to set their own abortion laws. It must be really cool to be the ruling class and set the agenda: who is a racist and who is a victim; who is a protester and who is an armed...

ASHWAUBENON (WLUK) -- Amid the violence in Madison, organized abortion protesters in the Green Bay area continue their picket of Planned Parenthood along Oneida Street in Ashwaubenon. Both those with signs and the Planned Parenthood office have been catching more attention since the leaked draft opinion. During the 32 hours per week, the Ashwaubenon Planned Parenthood office is open, 40 Days for Life anti-abortion walkers are there. 40 Days for Life organizer, Kathy Cain says they want to show people that there's help available outside of abortion. “We have care resource cards where we have listed all of the resources...

Standing before a wall-sized American flag at an American Legion hall here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, David McCormick talked up his background in the Army, called himself a “happy warrior,” and ticked through the reasons he wants to be Pennsylvania’s next senator: Inflation, the border, the “humiliation” of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. “What about election integrity?” a woman interrupted from the back. “And CRT!” a man yelled, referring to “critical race theory,” a GOP culture-war hobgoblin. Suddenly off balance, the cheery McCormick, stocky and with thick, wavy hair, said he’d support voter ID laws and is concerned “parents aren’t involved”...

On August 20, 2020 Joe Biden accepted the Democrat party’s nomination for president by fatuously declaring, “Character and decency are on the ballot.” Thus, directly proclaiming himself and the Democrat party as the paragons of character and decency as compared to the “vile” Donald Trump and the “racialist” Make America Great Again movement. A claim which is an unfathomable stretch of the imagination, considering Joe Biden’s long and well-known history of corruption and his uncontrollable penchant for being a serial fabulist and compulsive liar. To run on this platform required not only unbridled audacity but also lockstep conformity in the...

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin railed against American “exceptionalism” and “moral degradation” on Monday during the country’s annual “Victory Day” parade, celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany that Moscow claims for itself. The Putin regime has for years denied any significant American contributions to ending World War II – going as far as to declare the legendary D-Day landing of American troops at Normandy “not a game-changer” – instead giving all the credit for the fall of Adolf Hitler to the communist Soviet Union under mass murderer Joseph Stalin. Russia marks its contributions to World War II on May 9 with...

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has sent abortion pills and emergency contraception to Ukraine in response to reports of rape during Russia’s invasion. "Access to timely sexual and reproductive healthcare, including safe abortion care is critical for women and girls both inside Ukraine and fleeing the country as well as for anyone who has experienced sexual violence, including rape," Caroline Hickson, the regional director of the IPPF European Network told Fox News Digital "IPPF is working with our member association, Women’s Health and Family Planning Ukraine, to distribute essential medicines, including emergency contraception, contraception, medical abortion pills, antibiotics for...

President Biden’s new White House press secretary has previously claimed the 2016 presidential election was "stolen" from Hillary Clinton and that Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp "stole" the 2018 gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams.

Which brings me to this exchange between Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday: Todd: You’ve just said that you believe life begins at conception. If there is legislation brought to you to ban contraception, would you sign it? Reeves: Well, I don’t think that’s going to happen in Mississippi. I’m sure they’ll have those conversations in other states. Todd: But you’re not answering the question. Reeves: As is always the case with things – well, that’s always the case. There’s so many things that we can talk about. Um, that doesn’t sound terribly clear? Todd...

Pro-abortion radicals are protesting outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in Northern Virginia on Monday evening. Leftwing activist group Shut Down DC organized the event and will have both speakers and a candlelight vigil “at the foot of his driveway.” The protest is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Alito was reportedly moved to an undisclosed location this weekend as a precaution for his safety.

No sooner did it seem Tesla got back up and running in Shanghai than its plant is apparently halting production yet again, according to an exclusive from Reuters late Monday night. The halt is due to “issues with supplies,” according to the report. It comes just three weeks after the plant resumed production after shutting down due to Covid lockdowns. The plant was closed for a total of 22 days, Reuters noted. Shanghai is in its sixth week of lockdowns, the report notes, and as of now it is “unclear when the supply issues can be resolved and when Tesla...

Comrades, the Ministry of Citizen Privacy cares about your on-line freedoms, accesses and privacy. Dear Leader cares about your ability to connect efficiently to the government monitoring, surveillance and geolocation tracking services. There is nothing nefarious about the U.S. surveillance state wanting to make surveillance more efficient. Nothing nefarious at all {GO DEEP}. Do not be discouraged by those extremist voices outlining the benefits to government that are provided by a wider, more inclusive, national broadband internet system; that connects to a more efficient 5G internet system; that permits you to experience a new world of telecommunications benefits tailored to...

Smithsonian Acquires First U.S. Rape Kit Designed by Martha Goddard May 09, 2022 Share Email 585910.jpg Photo credit: National Museum of American History The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum mark the ending of Sexual Assault Awareness Month this April by announcing the joint acquisition for the Smithsonian’s permanent collections of the “Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination,” the innovation that helped accelerate successful investigation and prosecution of sexual assault in the United States and whose influence continues to this day. Martha “Marty” Goddard (1941–2015) generated the idea for the kit between...

The Yale University Art Gallery has finalized plans to return a sculpture of a Buddhist goddess to Nepal, the university said Friday. The return is the latest in a series of museum repatriations of Nepali artifacts. Yale acquired the artifact in 2015, though the donor has never been disclosed. The decision to bring the work back home to Nepal was a “collaborative one” done in tandem with the country’s government last year, the museum’s director, Stephanie Wiles, said. Bishnu Prasad Gautam, acting consul general for Nepal, said in a statement that the return “will help Nepal preserve its history and...