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Seniors and other people who rely on Social Security benefits could next year see their biggest cost-of-living adjustment since 1981, with an advocacy group for older Americans forecasting an 8.6% hike. The typical monthly Social Security check is about $1,658, which means beneficiaries could see an increase of $142.60 per month in early 2023, bringing the average check to about $1,800, according to a new forecast from the Senior Citizens League.

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, accused the West of trying to set up hierarchs of various branches of Christianity against Russia. "For Western countries, the 'protection of religious freedom' has long been a routine political instrument of pressure on Russia. It’s particularly appalling, given that in today's Europe, as in the whole of the Anglo-Saxon world, traditional Christian values have gone through catastrophic devaluation. A look into the latest family legislation of these countries would be enough to see what I mean. Therefore, it is Russia that in recent years has been viewed by many as...

Nancy Pelosi also claimed that 'once Republicans have dispensed with precedent and privacy in overturning Roe, they will take aim at additional basic human rights.'WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Monday extolled the “righteous anger” of pro-abortion activists protesting a potential Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade despite the fact that those protests include descending on the private homes of sitting justices. Last week, Politico published a leaked draft of a majority opinion by conservative Justice Samuel Alito for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. The draft...

An undercover journalist with Channel 4 taking part in a documentary infiltrating the “far-right” in Britain ended up getting attacked by masked far-left extremists after just 10 minutes of leafleting while undercover in Rotherham. The scene was hilariously included in the show “The Enemy Within: The Far Right: Dispatches,” which focuses on the Patriotic Alternative party in Britain. Patriotic Alternative describes themselves as “a community building and activism group” which aims to “raise awareness of issues such as the demographic decline of native Britons in the United Kingdom, the environmental impact of mass immigration and the indoctrination and political bias...

Broadway star Patti LuPone went on a profanity-laden rant the other day when a member of the audience at a Broadway event was spotted with their mask not properly affixed to their face.... Put your mask over your nose while you're in the theater! That is the rule! If you don't wanna follow the rule get the f*** out!And the audience applauds for this deranged bat.First off, as we all know now, this girl having her nose uncovered is not endangering anyone.The masks don't work, unless everyone is wearing a N95 or something, which is obviously not the case.Also, and...

In the closing monologue from a recent episode of his HBO talk show, Bill Maher cataloged a series of social conditions that he suggested were hampering stand-up comedy and imperiling free speech: cancel culture, a perceived increase of sensitivity on college campuses, and Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. Near the end of his remarks, Maher invoked the comedian George Carlin, a personal hero whose iconoclastic spirit, he seemed to believe, could never thrive in such a thin-skinned and overly entitled era. “Oh, George,” he said, “it’s a good thing you’re dead.” Carlin, the cantankerous, longhaired sage who...

<p>The soldier, who was stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, was participating in a training exercise in Eagle River, Anchorage, with a small group of other soldiers, according to a news release. Officials at the base did not say if any other trainees had sustained injuries.</p>

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Influential Republicans in Washington and among the nationwide party elite are having a belated "oh s--t" moment over the previously unimaginable prospect that Kathy Barnette could win their party's nomination for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Why it matters: In Barnette, who's been soaring in the polls ahead of Tuesday's primary, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would be dealing with a general election candidate who'd be an opposition researcher's dream — potentially endangering the GOP effort to take back the Senate.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) argued that President Joe Biden and the Biden administration “needed to do more earlier” to combat inflation. She added, “I think, on inflation, the president and the administration needed to do more earlier. That’s why I’ve been pushing for things like suspending the gas tax, making sure that they’re releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves. We need to work to lower prescription drug costs and work on things like childcare costs. And I believe the president understands what’s at stake with the Alito draft opinion. And...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Delivering The Winner’s Cup! Soldiers of the 223rd Military Police Company escort the Winner’s Cup at the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, KY, May 8, 2022. The Kentucky National Guard escorts and protects the Winner’s Cup in addition to performing a rope detail to guide media and augmenting local law enforcement every year at the Derby. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Brett Hornback)Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have...

Joe Biden on Wednesday traveled to Illinois to deliver remarks on inflation and food supply shortages. Biden addressed the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 40th annual conference at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago after visiting a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois. Joe Biden began shouting out of blue (dementia) about food shortages caused by Democrat lockdowns during the Covid pandemic. Apparently Biden forgot there is also a food shortage happening under his administration. “Remember those long lines you’d see on the television – people lining up in all kinds of vehicles just to get a box of food in...

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New surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Russian soldiers shooting two civilians in the back, providing a stark example of a potential war crime by Russian forces.

President Biden on Wednesday predicted Democrats can pick up three Senate seats in in the upcoming midterm elections, as the country reckons with the Supreme Court looking set to overturn Roe v. Wade. “I think we can pick up three Senate seats” and increase the Democratic majority in the House, Biden said at a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser in Chicago. He argued that the Supreme Court’s leaked opinion on abortion rights, if held, could generate enthusiasm on the Democratic side in November, due to the on-the-ground consequences of such a decision.

Senate Democrats wanted to manufacture a political optic using the hot button issue of abortion. The senate pushed a bill for a massive expansion of abortion, far beyond Roe -v- Wade, to the floor. However, the bill needed 60 votes to pass cloture, end debate.Embarrassingly, and in a pure political stunt, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer summoned Kamala Harris to the upper chamber in the event she was needed for a “tie-breaking” vote. However, cloture requires 60 votes, not 50, so the optics of Harris only highlighted the insufferable politics.The cloture vote failed 49-51, far short of the 60 votes...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) said that “By strong majorities, Americans think we should be focusing on inflation and the economy right now.” But “what the Republicans have been focusing on is taking away a fundamental right” to abortion.

Officials with the Orange County Fire Authority are currently fighting an approximately three acre brush fire in the Laguna Hills area. Sky2's Desmond Shaw was overhead as the fire burned multiple homes burning. Acreage of the fire has likely grown larger than the last report. Both OC Fire Authority crews and and Laguna Beach Fire Department are on the scene.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a 27-point lead in the Texas Attorney General Republican primary runoff election, according to a recent poll. Paxton is polling at 58 percent, compared to Texas land commissioner George P. Bush’s 31 percent.

A particularly annoying intellectual tic of certain leftist academics, area experts, and journalists, with regard to nations that fell to communism or have increasingly come under the baleful influence of communist states, is the proclivity of such individuals to indignantly proclaim that such nations were not and could not have been "lost" because they were "not ours to lose." This leftist objection to the use of the term "lost" (as in the "loss" of China) is a deceptive rhetorical device which falsely and maliciously implies that those using the term believed that the "lost" nation in question somehow "belonged" to...