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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has parlayed popularity with Republicans for her hands-off approach to pandemic restrictions into national prominence. But that hasn’t insulated her from criticism — and a primary challenger — from the right in the reliably conservative state. Noem will look to show her strength with Republican voters in Tuesday’s primary against state Rep. Steve Haugaard, a former state House speaker who has accused Noem of using the governor’s office to mount a 2024 White House bid. Noem has used this election fundraising cycle to collect a record amount of money for...

MADISON – Leaders of the Republican-controlled state Legislature are facing primary challengers who launched campaigns on grievances over the 2020 election that they tie to the incumbent lawmakers. Challengers to Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Caucus Chairman Van Wanggaard are calling for the abolition of the state Elections Commission, or are questioning the outcome of the 2020 election. Some blame their Republican primary opponents for unresolved concerns over how the contest was administered.

Sweetwater County Democratic Party chief Meghan Jensen is a concrete contractor, a former school cook and a soccer mom who views both leading Republican candidates for Congress as “elitists” who are out of touch with working class Wyoming. Fremont County Native American activist Lynnette Grey Bull is seeking a second straight run as the Democratic Party nominee but encourages her supporters to “cross over” and vote for Republican Liz Cheney in the Aug. 16 primary. Casper attorney Steve Helling supports former president Donald Trump but is running for Congress as a Democrat. He thinks Trump’s chosen candidate Harriet Hageman is...

Disney to the rescue! President Joe Biden will finally break 120 days of self-imposed press silence Wednesday when he grants a sit down interview to Disney-owned ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel. Their exchange will air at 11:35 pm in what has been been promised will be a malarkey-free zone. Kimmel flagged the appearance Sunday during the broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live: NBA Finals Game Night” on ABC, Variety reported. He then took to social media to further promote the event, saying: “Our very elected President @JoeBiden visits @JimmyKimmelLive Wednesday night. No malarkey.”

Pete Buttigieg took questions on Sunday from George Stephanopoulos. This little man with the carefully tweezed eyebrows, sleazy 5:00 shadow, Alfred E. Neuman mien, and orator's voice hid behind fatuous, hackneyed political babble even as he discreetly revealed the hardcore totalitarianism that drives him and, indeed, drives the entire Biden administration. In many ways, Buttigieg is like a Stepford politician. There's something eerily unreal about the man as, no matter the question, he responds with administration talking points rather than substantive information. Stephanopoulos opened by speaking about Jamie Dimon's warning that America is facing an economic "hurricane" (a word Stephanopoulos...

Russia’s main battle tanks have been chewed up in the Ukraine war. Many of them have been destroyed and left clustered on roadways, some by modern weapons such as the US Javelin, some by Ukraine’s indigenously produced man-portable anti-tank weapons such as the Stugna-P and still others taken out by drones like Turkey’s Bayraktar. By any modern measure, Russian tanks deployed to the Ukrainian battlefield are old and obsolete. Russia’s armor operations have been criticized by many experts who have noted tank drivers often stay on roadways where they get stuck in traffic jams and are easily ambushed. They’ve also...

A sham congressional committee working with a corrupt Justice Department boosted by a dishonest national media can only be expected to create political propaganda. U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) promises the January 6 Select committee hearings “will tell a story that will blow the roof of the House.” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) insists the committee’s “job is to tell the truth.” Turncoat Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) claims her fellow committee members will be “focused on facts, not rhetoric, and we will present those facts without exaggeration, no matter what criticism we face.” After a year of unrestrained investigation led...

If an Inner Party chappie gets a free ride, and the Outer Party chappie gets leg irons, what is the fate of the Proles in Biden’s America? Last week we ordinary Americans took a couple of punches in the gut. First, lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted by a jury of lying to the FBI about who was employing him to dish dirt on Candidate Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Said the jury forewoman: “I don’t think it should have been prosecuted,” she said of the case. “There are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the FBI.”...

On Monday's Morning Joe, the BBC's Katty Kay was vexed and perplexed, kvetching that the US hasn't banned guns, unlike the UK, which has done so. "This is making it very hard for allies of America, friends of America, people who love this country as I do, who've lived here for very long, to defend the country at the moment, when every single morning, we wake up and there is another mass shooting. "And we keep getting asked, what is going on in that country? Why can't they fix this? In the UK, you know this, Joe, they fixed it....

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This is the fight for freedom we Americans never dreamed we would have to fight. Imagine a land where the government has the power to lock you up because the unelected bureaucrats in the Health Department think that you might, possibly have a communicable disease. They don’t have to prove you are sick. They don’t have to prove you are a health threat to others. They just need to think that, maybe, you were possibly exposed to a disease. And when I say “lock people up,” I mean lock you in your home or force you from your home into...

Click here to listen to our podcast on this topic. The Ohio Legislature has made it crystal clear that it wants ONE set of consistent firearm laws across the state, and it has specifically forbidden municipalities from regulating guns in any manner. However, even though the state's "preemption" law, spelled out in Ohio Revised Code 9.68, has been in force since March 2007 and was further strengthened in 2019, and even though the law has withstood court challenges, the City of Columbus continues to look for ways to regulate guns locally. On February 15, 2022, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther declared...

SYDNEY—As opinions on gun control have filled the news following violent shootings caused by guns and nothing else, the non-authoritarian democracy of Australia has shone like a beacon of hope for proponents of strict gun control. "We gave up our guns and it turned out fine for us," said one Australian man who couldn't leave his house for two years. "I mean, look how safe we are under the protection of the kind government." "The government would never shoot up a school," said an Aussie grandmother who was beaten by a horde of policemen and women for venturing outside of...

Diners at a fish and chip shop in South Sheilds were stunned to discover they were eating alongside Hillary Clinton. The former US secretary of state and first lady visited Colmans fish and chip shop after delivering the annual South Shields Lecture with ex-local MP David Miliband on Friday. Ms Clinton, who ran unsuccessfully against Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, stayed at the chippy for around two hours. Richard Colman Ord, 29, the owner of the chippy, said it was “surreal” to welcome the renowned politician to his 100-year-old seafront family-run shop. He said he knew that she...

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In yet another harsh crackdown over Tiananmen Square massacre, China seems to have silenced a popular blogger. The personality had just livestreamed footage of a cake, which was shaped like a tank. The incident happened just before the anniversary of the massacre on June 4. The issue has sparked debate among tens of millions of young fans. But even discussion about the 1989 crackdown is forbidden on the mainland. In the massacre, China had set troops and tanks on peaceful protesters at Tiananmen Square. This blogger is Li Jiaqi, who is now a household name in China. Li was born...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has pushed colleagues on the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 to support ditching the Electoral College, Axios’ Jonathan Swan and Hans Nichols reported Sunday. According to the report, Raskin has argued in multiple conversations with committee members that the panel should recommend abolishing the Electoral College to “protect future presidential elections against the subversion that [President Donald Trump] and his allies tried to pull off in 2020,” Swan and Nichols write. In January, Raskin stated in an interview on ABC’s This Week that he opposes the Electoral College — personally preferring a national popular vote...

Interview with Rossiya TV The President answered questions from Pavel Zarubin of Rossyia 1 TV channel. June 3, 202220:00Sochi Pavel Zarubin: Mr President, we have just followed your meeting with the head of Senegal who is also the current leader of the African Union. He expressed, and actually in the past week many countries have expressed concern not so much about the food crisis, but they are afraid of large-scale famine because world food prices are climbing and so are oil and gas prices, These issues are interrelated. Naturally, the West blames Russia for this, too. What is the real...

An investigation into the mysterious death of former President Bill Clinton’s adviser Mark Middleton has been reopened, but the details of his death have been muzzled by a lawsuit brought forward by his family. 59-year-old Middleton, a longtime special adviser for Clinton while he was president, was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast to the chest in early May at the Heifer Ranch outside Perryville, Arkansas. “I don’t know the man, and I don’t why he picked our county or picked that location to commit suicide. To our knowledge, he had never been there before, and we...

“Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed” (Proverbs 7:18-20 KJV).