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SEATTLE - June 5, 2014, 27-year-old Aaron Ybarra of Mountlake Terrace opened fire at Seattle Pacific University, killing one person. As Ybarra attempted to reload his gun he was pepper sprayed by a student security guard named Jon Meis. Police Departments should take a look at this as a training video, or at least to give them shame.

So much for the Left’s ‘Night of Rage’. Oh, there were plenty of protesters out and about screaming and yelling about their vaginas and uteruses (uterusi?), and some a-holes vandalized a church and a pregnancy center but all things considered, their Night of Rage was more of a Night of Whining and Complaining. We’ve seen what their rage looks like. Remember the ‘Summer of Love?’ Yeah. This thread goes through the night in greater detail … we especially laughed at the part where the cops were so concerned they ordered Chinese food. OMG NOT A PLASTIC COAT HANGER. EVERYONE RUUUUUUUUUN!...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, once an advocate for Defund the Police, has a secret group of cops protecting her alongside her bodyguard, it's been revealed The unit of 65 officers, five sergeants and a lieutenant are providing protection for the city’s mayor together with her bodyguard detail of about 20 officers The revelation comes after Lightfoot proposed slashing $80 million from the Chicago Police Department budget in 2020 during Defund the Police protests The proposal was later scaled back and $59 million of the budget was cut She has since denounced the movement and pleaded with the AG to send...

Analyzing Trump's presidency, a fascism expert argues he tried to use the office to make money. The historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat described Trump to Insider as a "dedicated" and talented "grifter." When looking back on President Donald Trump's time in office, Ruth Ben-Ghiat sees someone who pursued a unique goal among his predecessors, one requiring extreme discipline and dedication from the unlikely leader. "Trump's aims as president were totally different from any other president, Republican or Democrat," Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University who is an expert on fascism, told Insider. "His aims were autocratic in that he wanted to...

Member states of both NATO and the European Union, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have repeatedly called on NATO to provide a substantial increase in the number of foreign troops stationed in the region following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. The Baltic countries have also pushed for an urgent update to the alliance’s so-called “tripwire” approach. That’s because, under NATO’s existing strategy, Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has warned that the former Soviet state and its historic capital city of Tallinn would be “wiped off the map” in the event of a Russian attack, according to The Financial Times....

The co-owner of a major gaming organization lost his marbles following the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn the notorious 49-year-old pro-abortion Roe v. Wade ruling. 100 Thieves co-owner and YouTube streamer Jack ‘CouRage’ Dunlop cried on Twitter after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization court decision released Friday found that “[t]he Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” Dunlop responded by smearing his U.S. citizenship: “I’m currently not proud to be an American. Women no longer have body autonomy.” Dunlop currently enjoys social media stardom, replete with over 1.9 million Twitter followers and 3.7 million YouTube subscribers....

Daniil Bezsonov, First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Information of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), gave his assessment to the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the special operation. According to Bezsonov, Ukraine has lost at least 50,000 military men. See more at https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/152608-ukraine_losses/

The Treachery of VP Mike Pence Explained Who fired General Flynn and started the Russia Hoax in the first place? /\ \/ https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda7418c5-6916-403b-a034-766ac02585c7_537x503.png “How come the Democrats and … Republicans, like Wacky Susan Collins, are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not allow the vice-president to change the results of the election? “Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power. He could have overturned the election!” It’s time for Republican voters to admit that they...

VIDEOIt was supposed to be Alec Baldwin shooting questions at Woody Allen but as you can see in this sneak preview of the interview, it turned out that it was Woody Allen who turned the tables on Baldwin and shot a very uncomfortable question at him.

US Senate candidate retired Airforce General Mick McGuire tore Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich to shreds on Thursday night while participating in a US Senate candidate forum hosted by Freedom Works in Phoenix, ArizonaRepublican Senate Primary candidates took questions about their agendas if elected from Arizona Senate Communications Director, Kim Quintero.FreedomWorks was excited to host a US Senate candidate forum on June 23rd in Phoenix, AZ. Doors opened at 6 PM and the forum kicked-off at 7 o’clock. With control of the U.S. Senate split 50-50, every seat is needed if Republicans are going to win back their majority. This...

‘That’s what I tried to do — use one standard equally for both sides,’ the former U.S. attorney general told The Federalist Saturday. If Americans believe the U.S. Department of Justice is creating a two-tier justice system in the United States, “the proper remedy is to vote people out of office, including the president,” said former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr to The Federalist Saturday. Asked what he did as U.S. attorney general to remedy the politicized use of the U.S. Department of Justice, Barr responded he had pressure from both the left and right to weaponize that department for...

A new course at Brown University has sparked controversy after it was offered solely to minority students. The teacher training class in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) was recently made available only to students who identify as Black, Indigenous or Latino. Anyone who identifies as BIPOC, regardless .. if they are a student at Brown ... The exclusion of white and Asian students raised the ire of one anonymous Brown student, who was turned away from the MBSR program because they don’t identify as BIPOC. In a May 13 complaint filed with the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR), a “civil...

The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with a delay. Our GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one used by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. GDPNow is not an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed. Rather, it is best viewed as a running estimate of real GDP growth based on available economic data for the current measured quarter. There are no subjective adjustments made to GDPNow—the...

Max Boot who is calling for direct US military involvement to defeat Russia and driven them out of Ukraine, is now setting up the argument for a totally different form of US Government. Basically, he's losing his mind over the recent Supreme Court decisions and is tired of small states having equal representation in the US Senate and wants something done about it.

“‘Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it’” (Matthew 7:13–14). Two gates lead to two different ways. The wide gate leads to a way that is broad; the narrow gate leads to a way that is narrow. The narrow way is the way of the godly, and the broad way is the way of the ungodly—the only two ways people...

Jesus left the earth in the first chapter of Acts. He told his disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the promised Holy Spirit, and they did. Jesus had discipled them, but after three years of living with them, setting an example for them, they fled on the night that he was betrayed and arrested. One denied him three times; one betrayed him; one doubted to the very end, and they all fled. He warned them, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41, ESV). It wasn’t until the Holy Spirit came that things turned around. That’s...

One Army veteran running for Congress says the freedoms she fought for in Iraq are being “ripped away” by the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade. Ashley Ehasz, a West Point grad and former Apache helicopter pilot who is seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania, said the decision is “a matter of national security” because of the impact it will have on the more than two million women serving in uniform. "Let's be clear: women who are active-duty service members do not get to choose what state they live in, which means they...

For the liberal media elite, carrying a weapon is reserved for important reasons. You know: like for protecting politicians. It's not for ordinary folks wanting to be able to defend themselves. That was the clueless and condescending opinion expressed by Jonathan Capehart on his MSNBC show Sunday. Capehart was commenting on the Supreme Court's recent decision in the Bruen case, in which the Court found that the State of New York's requirements for obtaining a concealed carry permit were unconstitutionally restrictive. Under New York's regulations, applicants had to demonstrate "proper cause"—and wishing to protect themselves or their property was deemed...

he Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a Washington school district violated the First Amendment rights of a high school football coach when he lost his job for praying on the field after games.

New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman made another damning admission this past week about his sordid record analyzing economics as inflation continues to bite chunks out of Americans’ wallets. Krugman conceded in a June 23 op-ed that “[i]n 2021, U.S. policymakers, like many economists, myself included, badly underestimated inflation risks.” But Krugman attempted to shield his loss by wokescolding analysts who predicted economic calamity arising from President Joe Biden’s leftist stimulus policies. “Sado-monetarism is having a moment,” Krugman wrote. “[S]uch people have just had a good year: the inflation they’ve always warned about finally materialized.” Krugman defined his arbitrary...