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I feel a sense of deja vu. A little more than a month ago I wrote The signs were there. They’re almost always there. No one was paying attention.Now it happens again. The Highland Park shooting suspect has been apprehended. Once again, there is a mass shooting by a young male who checked ALL of the boxes. LonerObviously mentally illStoner"He posted sinister music videos on YouTube that glamorized classroom shootings"A friend said “He always seemed a little off"Left a trail of cluesKNOWN TO THE POLICEWeapon legally obtainedAnd of course, "Uncle of Bobby Crimo said nephew showed no signs of violence",...

We all know that Barack Obama is having his third presidential term in the form of the senile presidency of Joe Biden. Just ask Valerie Jarrett. The transformation of America and its circling-the-bowl descent to Venezuela is proceeding apace. But what is the left to do when its sock puppet president can no longer walk or talk or when his family's criminal dealings become too large for even the corrupt media to conceal? How do you continue a shadow presidency then? Enter Michelle Obama. It is true that her hatred for the America of the Founding Fathers or even the...

FOURTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 9:32–38 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus directs his disciples to “ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest,” to pray for evangelists to rescue the lost. But what precisely does it mean to evangelize? Euangelion (glad tidings) was a familiar word in the culture of the New Testament authors. When the emperor or one of his generals won a battle, he would send evangelists ahead to announce the glad tidings. The first Christians were being edgy when they adapted the word to their purposes. They were saying that the...

In America, Pete Buttigieg is proving to be the most incompetent secretary of transportation in American history. Confronted with thousands of canceled flights, he offers tips about how to value cash refunds compared to refunds in the form of miles. That's bad. What's worse is that a writer for a trend site claims to have talked with European insiders and learned that the problem with flights is not limited to America; it's worldwide and deliberate.You can read here about Buttigieg's tin-eared response at the start of the July 4 weekend when it came to canceled flights. For travelers, the weekend...

It’s easy to see why, according to a new Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans said they do not want Joe Biden to run for re-election. As Americans face record gas prices and the highest inflation in 40 years, President Biden admits he could not care less. His Administration is committed to fight a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine and Americans just need to suck it up. Last week a New York Times reporter asked Biden how long he expects Americans to pay record gasoline prices over his Administration’s Ukraine policy. “As long as it takes,” replied the president...

While Democrat activists have been busy trying to figure out a way to tie up tickets for the Trump Save America rally on July 9 at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center, it’s not working. On Twitter, Trump detractors have been sharing ideas for how to reserve tickets they don’t plan to use. The effort has fallen flat, because the free tickets to the Trump rally do not actually reserve a seat — they are first-come, first-served. The line for the July 9 rally opens at 6 am. The free ticket signup is mainly to help organizers of...

Dr. Warren Farrell is a political scientist, activist, speaker, and author of The Boy Crisis. He has been interviewed by Oprah, Barbara Walters, Tucker Carlson, Peter Jennings, and many others. Dr. Farrell conducts communication workshops, and his writings have been frequently featured in The New York Times. In this episode, Dr. Farrell and I discuss issues that lead to mass homicides committed by young men. We also talk about child-rearing and boundary enforcement, discriminating between male competence and male power compulsion, and the importance of recognizing and rewarding a father’s contributions to their children’s development. Dr. Farrell and I also...

The last time America was put through the wringer on inflation was during the Carter administration, when inflation soared to double digits, reaching 14% in 1980. And the men who were advising Carter on what to do about prices are now warning Joe Biden that everything he’s suggested doing about high prices is wrong. Carter’s Treasury secretary, W. Michael Blumenthal, now 96, remembers vividly the helplessness the advisors felt when everything they tried to bring prices down failed. He doesn’t think Biden has grasped what he has to do. “The basic problem that this president faces is really not too...

The corporate media have asked the White House to end press restrictions on who is and is not allowed to attend big events and ask questions. These fake journalists are so sleazy and transparent that you have to laugh. [cut] Gee, what changed? What in the world — after 18 freaken months — suddenly turned these left-wing propagandists into propagandists who are now pretending to be “journalists?” This is not rocket science, y’all… If you want an answer, you must remember who these people are: a mob of left-wing extremists and activists who produce propaganda… Therefore, the only thing these...

If not for a quick-thinking and armed off-duty corrections officer in New York, there would potentially have been a mass-shooting incident in Queens on Sunday evening. Correction Officer David Donegan was at a memorial event Sunday night when two men pulled out guns and pointed them at the crowd. "Yesterday evening, as a crowd of people were observing an event remembering the passing of a friend, two individuals pulled out weapons and pointed them, firing at the crowd including our Correction Officer, David Donegan. Thankfully, Officer Donegan, who was off duty at the time, immediately pulled out his weapon and...

As Ukraine continues to lose ground in the east, its leaders are inexplicably demanding three-quarters of a trillion dollars to "reconstruct" areas controlled by Russia. Once widely considered the most corrupt country in Europe, Western leaders have already dumped in billions with zero oversight. Will they keep writing checks? Podcast ...

The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks” The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”, which includes a new type of tetraquark. The findings, presented today at a CERN seminar, add three new exotic members to the growing list of new hadrons found at the LHC. They will help physicists better understand how quarks bind together into these composite particles. Quarks are elementary particles and come in six flavours: up, down, charm, strange, top...

For the final 6 months of 2022, the standard mileage rate for business travel will be 62.5 cents per mile, up 4 cents from the rate effective at the start of the year. The new rate for deductible medical or moving expenses (available for active-duty members of the military) will be 22 cents for the remainder of 2022, up 4 cents from the rate effective at the start of 2022. These new rates become effective July 1, 2022. In recognition of recent gasoline price increases, the IRS made this special adjustment for the final months of 2022. The IRS normally...

Amid the nationwide crime crisis that has arisen out of woke Democrat policies and the so-called "progressive prosecutor" movement, Philadelphia has been especially hard-hit — and its mayor is apparently tired of leading and looking forward to being out of office after overseeing the city's record-setting crime spike. On Independence Day, two law enforcement officers were hit with gunfire at Philly's July Fourth festivities from an unknown suspect or suspects — authorities are still trying to identify those responsible and determine their motive. Thankfully, both officers were discharged after being treated for their wounds. Video of the chaos that followed...

Japan is facing an energy crisis that can severely hurt the world's third-largest economy as it is forced to tackle a combination of a weak local currency, the fallout from the Ukraine war, and a heatwave. Japan already had a significant energy import bill as it depends on foreign oil and gas for 90 percent of its needs. But as the yen fell to the lowest in 20 years, Japan's bill became even bigger, with the price rise in crude oil, which has been some 40 percent in dollar terms since the start of 2022, reaching a whopping 70 percent...

According to a source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol agents apprehended just under 192,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry in June. The source told Breitbart Texas that Border Patrol agents are exhausted and overwhelmed while attempting to keep up with the volume of illegal crossings. As agents are tied up with processing these migrants in shelters that are beyond capacity, smugglers are free to move other migrants into the U.S. interior. The tactics used had many tragic results in June. National media attention did not focus on the...

Jump out of a perfectly good airplane, charge a machine gun nest, be stationed at Ft. Irwin – these are just three of the myriad miseries American patriots are willing to endure to defend our country. But today's military is asking too much of our young people, as evidenced by the crashing recruitment rates that threaten to deplete a military already running short of soldiers. Have our young people suddenly turned from heroes to zeros, ne'er-do-well heirs of the brave warriors who confronted the forces of tyrannical gun control at Lexington and Concord? No. The kids are alright. The problems...

Yesterday across the United States we saw evidence of a coordinated attack on our nation, our history, and innocent people. In Highland Park, Illinois a black-clad, skinny jeans-wearing, Kool-Aid haired Marxist opened fire on a crowd of 4th of July revelers in what can only be described as an act of Antifa terrorism. In Washington DC, Portland, Atlantic City, Sacramento, St. Louis, and etc. Antifa and BLM (often the same people) insurgents orchestrated highway blockades to disrupt holiday travelers. That these terrorists were Antifa is clear as they had all the hallmarks of Antifa: umbrellas to block cameras and tear...

Klansmen learn the new rules. Can these racists get with the times and discover all the new ways to be racist? Watch all three episodes here and find out! They end up carrying off old-time liberal to be piloried with the blessing of CRT activists.

Rep. Mullin Strong Favorite in Oklahoma Senate Runoff In the Republican primary that is tantamount to election to the seat of Oklahoma's retiring GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe, the top two vote-getters Tuesday were Rep. Markwayne Mullin and former state House Speaker T.W. Shannon — both stalwart conservatives and strong supporters of former President Donald Trump. But with Mullin drawing 44% of the vote in a 13-candidate race, he remains the strong favorite over Shannon (18%) in the runoff Aug. 23.