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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said this week that the GOP nominee running to replace him is not “mentally stable.” “He’s not, in my opinion, mentally stable,” Hogan said of candidate Dan Cox while doing an interview on WGMD radio, according to The Washington Post.

It looks like my colleague Jazz Shaw first wrote about Dan Price back in August of 2015. Price is the Seattle CEO Gravity Payments who made a lot of news when he announced he’d be paying his employees a minimum of $70,000 each and cut his own salary from just over a million dollars a year to $70,000.Dan became a mini-celebrity for these efforts. Esquire called him a “folk hero for the age of inequality.” In a separate story published in 2016, Esquire reported that Price’s background and motive weren’t as pure as it may have appeared.In a TEDx Talk...

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The FBI has made a complete mess of that supposed kidnap plot, because it was their own.With the raid on Mar-A-Lago developing into a bigger and bigger PR problem for the DOJ and the FBI, there might in fact be a benefit to it as well. It could serve as a distraction away from another mess they have created. Recently, I was a guest host for the Pete Kaliner show and at one point I covered the Senate hearing taking place with FBI director Christopher Wray. One aspect I mentioned that day was how the head of the Detroit field...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell just said the quiet part out loud -- he's throwing Trump-endorsed Republican candidates under the campaign bus. “I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” he said last week in Kentucky. “Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we’re likely to have an extremely close Senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly.” I...

Archbishop Weakland dies at age 95Denver Newsroom, Aug 22, 2022 / 13:50 pmArchbishop Rembert Weakland, a Benedictine who served as archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002, died overnight on Monday.Weakland died after a long illness the night of Aug. 21–22 at Clement Manor in Greenfield, a Milwaukee suburb.The archbishop was a progressive who had advocated for the priestly ordination of women. His resignation as Milwaukee’s archbishop came after revelations that the archdiocese had paid $450,000 to silence Paul J. Marcoux, an adult male seminarian with whom he had a sexual relationship.Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee commented Aug. 22 that...

The 90-day mark is coming up since the Robb Elementary school shooting that happened on May 24. Uvalde parents, like Adam Martinez believe there has been little to no accountability, "somethings need to change and maybe it needs to start at the top, change the culture of everything." Attorney will file class action civil rights lawsuit against those involved with the Robb Elementary shooting. Martinez's son Zayon attends Robb Elementary and was at school when the shooting happened, "we're mad, I think a lot of people are mad and they have a right to be." Hoping to create accountability and...

Judge Bruce Reinhart said he is not inclined to accept the federal government’s argument to keep the affidavit that provided the Justice Department with probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago sealed. Still, he also said he would probably not release much to the public. Reinhart is the judge who signed off on the search warrant and has some shady ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a good pal of the Democratic Party. And yes, without even having to say anything, the judge is viciously anti-Trump. Leah added that some of the judge’s reasoning for keeping most of the affidavit...

Sending weak electrical current into the brain for 20 minutes a day for four days in a row reversed declines in working and long-term memory that come with aging, scientists reported Monday in Nature Neuroscience. The researchers found that the effects lingered even after the electricity was turned off. When they tested subjects a month later, many of the improvements from the brief sessions of brain stimulation remained. The findings provide some of the strongest support yet for a method called transcranial alternating current stimulation, or tACS, as a potential means for boosting mental functions essential to navigating the world...

Claims of biological and chemical terrorism on the part of the Kiev regime. "Several Russian soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine have been hospitalized with severe chemical poisoning, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday." Apparently the only kinds of millitary skills the ukronazis have really mastered aree terrorizing and hiding behind civilians and that isn't really working for them these days. Increasingly desperate, they now appear to be turning to more standard kinds of terrorism...

WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor — an extraordinary sum that could give Republicans and their causes a huge financial boost ahead of the midterms, and for years to come. The source of the money was Barre Seid, an electronics manufacturing mogul, and the donation is among the largest — if not the largest — single contributions ever made to a politically focused nonprofit. The beneficiary is a new political group controlled by Leonard A. Leo, an activist who has used his connections to Republican donors and politicians...

When ‘Tanto’s’ Battleline Tactical recently teamed up with Ammo Manufacturer Fort Scott Munitions, some serious Home Defense and Close-Quarter Battle training ensued. Why would any civilian pay their hard-earned money to go to a close-quarter battle class designed for the home? A class where you are simulating a family hostage rescue – who needs that? And what civilian really needs to be taught by a well-known former Army Ranger/CIA contractor? I can just hear the naysayers now. Since this awesome class that I am referring to was taught in Fort Scott, Kansas, home to Fort Scott Munitions, let’s start...

Korotchenko made the remarks during a recent appearance on Russian-state television, which has repeatedly been used by authorities to make threats against the West after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in late February. The U.K., like other Western countries, quickly condemned the invasion and has provided humanitarian and military support for Ukraine to defend itself. They have not, however, become directly involved with combat against Russia, which would likely lead to a massive escalation and expansion of the conflict. Still, members of Russian-state television, which has largely pushed Putin's pro-war propaganda, speculated about how Putin would...

The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), part of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), focuses on “dangerous pathogens” with the “potential to be used as weapons around the world.” This same GNL signed agreements with three Chinese labs, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), that gave China the power to destroy “secret files, materials and equipment, without any backups. “The agreements applied to “all cooperation and exchange documents, data, details and materials,” were renewable every five years, and the confidentiality terms remaining in force even after termination....

Americans know Fauci as a fraud who has done irreparable harm to our people and our nation. Will he be held accountable?National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director and face of the country’s pandemic response Anthony Fauci just revealed plans to retire this December. He is not waiting until January 2025 as he had previously announced — a sign he may be trying to “get out of town” before the bill comes due.For two years, narcissist Fauci has been standing on a shaky medical pulpit spouting falsehoods to justify his imposition of quasi-martial law and for taking away...

The former veep is still trying to sound reasonable by saying the GOP shouldn’t criticize the FBI — but the bureau is saturated with political bias that must be expunged.When it comes to the way the deep state regime is at war with Republicans, former Vice President Mike Pence’s No. 1 priority is showing that his main concern is to keep playing the “good cop” to the “bad cop” of former President Donald Trump. Speaking in New Hampshire last week, Pence characteristically tried to have it both ways over this unprecedented attack on norms that the incident represented. After vaguely...

I expected to be safest with the same people who protested, saying, “Black Lives Matter” and “Stop Killing Our Sons.” I thought the people who said my life matters would believe that my education also matters. Unfortunately, I didn’t find the community, accountability, collaboration and support that was talked about at those 8th grade recruitment meetings during my first semester in a school attended mostly by students of color and run mostly by educators of color. I found myself in a situation where some teachers were not motivated to teach and help their students succeed South High is a predominantly...

Tomorrow is primary election day in Florida. Dr. Drew Montez Clark is running for Congress in Florida’s 20th District. He is running unopposed and the election is tomorrow. His next election in November 8. Dr. Drew Montez Clark is an impressive, conservative, Constitution first candidate. Dr. Drew is the total package! So it makes sense then that Twitter would remove his account one day before the Florida primary election. Twitter took his account down earlier today. Twitter announced last week it would meddle in the 2022 elections. They weren’t kidding. And when Twitter says they will meddle that means Twitter...

A bizarre string of events is unfolding at the American Historical Association (AHA). Last week, AHA president James H. Sweet published a column in the organization’s magazine on the problem of “presentism” in academic historical writing. According to Sweet, an unsettling number of academic historians have allowed their political views in the present to shape and distort their interpretations of the past. Sweet offered a gentle criticism of the New York Times’s 1619 Project as evidence of this pattern. Many historians embraced the 1619 Project for its political messages despite substantive flaws of fact and interpretation in its content. Sweet...

CNN climbed up on its politically-correct soapbox on Monday's New Day with the subject being monkeypox thanks to this declaration from CNN national correspondent Dianne Gallagher that, in no uncertain terms, "monkeypox is NOT a sexually-transmitted infection."Showing just how woke she was, Gallagher even lectured the Biden administration as to how it must handle the outbreak: "If the Biden administration wants its outreach to be a success, celebrating [pride] while educating, without discriminating, is the only way to approach it." There's a problem, however, with Gallagher's self-righteous spiel. All the data indicates that the overwhelming number of cases occurs among...