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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have something in common…. “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.” ~Machiavelli For Elon Musk it is the organization of Twitter with 7,500 employees dedicated to ensuring he would never succeed in his takeover effort. From the board of directors to the data engineers who build the...

WASHINGTON, DC (WDTV) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin announced Monday morning that he tested positive for COVID-19. Manchin released the following statement following the diagnosis: “This morning I tested positive for COVID-19. I am fully vaccinated and boosted and am experiencing mild symptoms. I will isolate and follow CDC guidelines as I continue to work remotely to serve West Virginians,” Senator Manchin said.

I'm angry. I want to write that American life is increasingly full of something, but I can't write that word here. You'll figure out what I mean. Dr. Jill Biden is full of it because she thinks she can make Hispanic people think she cares about them. At a Latinx IncluXion luncheon in San Antonio, she began by mispronouncing bodega as “bogida” (don't check the altered White House transcript, because transcripts now are full of it; better to see the video) and then compared members of the Hispanic community to breakfast tacos. Speaking of bodegas, in New York City, a...

The White House has just redefined the word “recession” because, well, of course they did. A new GDP report is expected Thursday, which many experts anticipate will show growth declines for a second straight quarter. Since the White House has just put out an updated definition, the Biden administration can plan on evading the r-word entirely. Or so it thinks. “While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the White House wrote. “Instead, both official determinations of...

Dozens of incoming University of Michigan Medical School students walked out of a pro-life keynote speaker’s address, after a previous petition to get the speaker removed failed. Shortly after Dr. Kristin Collier, a pro-life assistant professor of medicine at UMMS, took to the stage Sunday to address the new students at their White Coat Ceremony, several dozen people got up from their seats and headed for the auditorium doors, video of the ceremony showed. Collier’s speech was not expected to focus on abortion, but some students petitioned the school weeks prior to remove her as the keynote speaker over her...

Gun owners allowed to carry handguns without permits or training. Parents of transgender children facing investigation by state officials. Women forced to drive hours out-of-state to access abortion. This is Texas now: While the Lone Star State has long been a bastion of Republican politics, new laws and policies have taken Texas further to the right in recent years than it has been in decades. Elected officials and political observers in the state say a major factor in the transformation can be traced back to West Texas. Two billionaire oil and fracking magnates from the region, Tim Dunn and Farris...

Washington should assist in promoting a Russian-Ukrainian dialogue for peace instead of working towards including Russia in its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Monday. "The US should create favorable conditions to advance Russian-Ukrainian peace talks. Washington should take steps to facilitate a political settlement to the crisis in Ukraine," he said at a briefing replying to a question by TASS as to how officials in Beijing view the US government’s intention of labeling Russia as a sponsor of terrorism.The Chinese diplomat said Beijing sees a peace deal as the only effective...

OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. GEN. HALLECK GONE TO FORTRESS MONROE. Gen. HALLECK and Staff, accompanied by Gen. BURNSIDE, left this evening for Fortress Monroe. Gen. HALLECK will return on Saturday. He has been busily engaged during the day. It is understood that the President gives him entire control of all military affairs. There is no doubt that the war will be prosecuted hereafter with vigor and determination. Let the men be forthcoming without delay, and all will be well. Gen. HALLECK will have a personal consultation with Gen. MCCLELLAN. The important question brought up by the proclamation of Gov. CURTIN...

Not many can say that they’re literal godchildren of Les Paul himself. Steve Miller—who uses the hell out of Les’ guitars—has that bragging right, as well as the stories of performing and hanging out with the legend in general. Despite getting to witness a man who will celebrate his 80th birthday in 2023 shred the axe like he’s in his 20s Time keeps on slippin’, but luckily, Miller’s oomph-filled chops remain. If only Les could see him now.

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The RNC is about to award their 2024 Convention to the City of Milwaukee (MKE). It will create around $200 million in economic impact and brings in tens of thousands of visitors. GP reported extensively about MKE election corruption. The WI Office of Special Counsel (OSC) 2nd Interim Report documents many of those issues. Why then would the RNC even consider rewarding this city? The Mayor, City Council, Election Commission, IT Dept, and the City Clerk’s Office were all involved in swinging that election to Democrats. The RNC has been cordially working with the same city leaders, even trips to...

CHICAGO -- Sixty-five people were shot, five fatally, in shootings across Chicago over the weekend, police said. A 16-year-old boy was near a parking lot in the 5900-block of South Indiana Avenue in the Washington Park neighborhood when he was shot in the abdomen around 6 p.m., Chicago police said. The teen was rushed to Comer Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. Earlier in the day, a few blocks away, a man and a 25-year-old woman were arguing in the 5400-block of South Winchester Avenue around 3:30 a.m. when a 37-year-old man tried to intervene. The other...

Thanks to the horrific drought which is absolutely devastating ranching in the Southwest, ranchers are now in “panic mode” and are selling off their cattle at an unprecedented rate. In fact, some are choosing to sell off their entire herds because they feel like they don’t have any other options. In recent days, seemingly endless lines of trailers waiting to drop off cattle for auction have gone viral all over social media. Everybody is talking about how they have never seen anything like this before, and if the drought in the Southwest persists the lines could soon get even longer....

But first: Now that Maryland’s primaries are over — NBC News on Friday projected Wes Moore the winner in the Democratic race for governor — we now turn to the three big primary days left on the 2022 calendar. On Aug. 2, we’ll see primaries in: Arizona (featuring Trump-backed Kari Lake vs. Karrin Taylor Robson in Arizona Governor, plus the Trump-backed Blake Masters vs. Jim Lamon and Mark Brnovich in Arizona Senate). Michigan (the GOP race to take on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, as well as the Democratic member-vs.-member race in Michigan-11, and the Trump-backed primary against GOP Rep. Peter Meijer...

Ukraine is pressing ahead with its plan to resume grain exports across the Black Sea, a government official said on Monday, in the face of a Russian missile attack on the port of Odesa that raised doubts about the viability of an international agreement aimed at easing a global food shortage. Millions of tons of grain in Ukraine’s ports have been held hostage by the war, but a deal struck on Friday in Istanbul that involved Turkey and the United Nations appeared to offer hope, especially for the countries in Africa and the Middle East most reliant on the country’s...

Joe Biden considered declaring climate change an “emergency.” Pressured by his party’s leftist flank, which can’t enact climate-change legislation and wants a work-around ... officials continue to abusively extend their powers. Gov. Kathy Hochul has been extending her “emergency” powers monthly since she declared a state of emergency in November ... The order suspended competitive bidding ... This is a big deal. The state spends our money recklessly at the best of times — but with this “emergency” in place, it doesn’t have to answer to us or even pretend to give expensive contracts to anyone but friends. The family...

Thomas Malthus predicted that famine was the inevitable byproduct of agriculturally successful populations: A well-fed population would breed faster than the agricultural sector could grow. For him, that was an unavoidable tragedy. Modern leftist governments, though, have a new approach to this: They are forcing Malthusian famines by mandating fertilizer reductions and seizing farmers’ lands. It’s all part of the Great Reset that the New World Order of Klaus Schwab et al have planned for us: You’ll have nothing, including no food, while they live in their castles on the hill, insulated from the Hobbesian terrors they’ve created.

"The war in Ukraine is in its sixth month, and there’s no end in sight. Here’s what we know… Almost everything you heard about the war in Ukraine from U.S. media over the course of March, April and May was a lie. **** It’s not that I’m pro-Russian — I’m not. I’m pro-truth. And I don’t defend the Russian invasion in any way (although I do understand it). Even Bloomberg and The New York Times are now starting to admit that the war is a lost cause for Ukraine and the U.S. economy is suffering from sanctions aimed at Russia....

A Lehigh County PA man was charged Friday in the Jan. 6 insurrectionist riot in Washington after making statements to the FBI that he entered the Capitol. Samuel Fontanez Rodriguez, 33, of Emmaus, PA faces a charge of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. Fontanez Rodriguez allegedly told the FBI he entered the Capital “for a short period of time” and “was exposed to tear gas and smoke bombs” during the siege that occurred as Congress and Mike Pence were working to certify the 2020 vote for president. The riot, now the focus...

Monday 25 July 2022 Saint James, Apostle Feast St. James' Church Noblejas, Spain Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(II).First reading2 Corinthians 4:7-15 ©Such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from usWe are only the earthenware jars that hold this treasure, to make it clear that such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from us. We are in difficulties on all sides, but never cornered; we see no answer to our problems, but never despair; we have been persecuted, but never deserted; knocked down, but never killed; always, wherever we may be, we carry with us...