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The results are in and it appears former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will not be going to Congress. Democrat Mary Peltola managed to win the special election to fill the state’s House seat for the rest of 2022. However, this could be a temporary victory.This particular election was notable in that it was the first time Alaska used a ranked-choice voting system. Also, this will be the first time a Democrat has held this particular seat in 49 years. RedState’s Cameron Arcand wrote up an explanation of how the system works here. The race was seen by many as an...

Former president Trump is likely to be charged with obstruction of justice and causing false statements to be made to investigators. [cut] Trump apologists would surely counter that a not-so-average person named Hillary Clinton was not indicted for recklessly mishandling classified information, actually destroying thousands of government records, and making misleading statements (such as the laughable claim that she did not understand classified markings) in her FBI interview. Of course, the Biden Justice Department would not be very sympathetic to that analogy, and Trump would not exactly be arguing from a position of strength if his best defense were that...

Eli Palfreyman, 20, collapsed in the Ayr Centennials dressing room during the first intermission of an Ayr Mutual Global Invitational tournament game and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. "On Tuesday August 30th, 2022, Waterloo Regional Police responded to a medical emergency at the North Dumfries Community Centre hockey arena located in the Township of North Dumfries," said Cherri Greeno of the Waterloo Regional Police Service. “Members of the community assisted the individual until emergency services attended. The individual was transported to Cambridge Memorial Hospital where he was, unfortunately, pronounced deceased.” Needless to say, the game was cancelled and all...

A group of RINOs connected to the Bushs and Mitt Romney filed a brief in Florida requesting the judge to deny President Trump’s request to look into the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago. FOX News reported this morning that a group of seven former prosecutors filed an amicus brief asking the Federal judge in Florida to deny President Trump’s request to look into the FBI’s illegal raid on Mar-a-Lago. Ahead of the Department of Justice’s filing Tuesday night that opposed President Trump’s call for a “special master” to review White House documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seven former...

Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano blasted President Joe Biden’s trip to his state, telling Newsmax on Wednesday that the chief executive has nothing to offer the residents of the key battleground other than calling his opponents names. "The economy is on its heels, inflation is through the roof, people can’t make ends meet, gas prices are still ridiculous… and Joe Biden wants to come out here and call the opposition names," Mastriano told Newsmax's "John Bachman Now." Mastriano added that "it seems like the only Republicans [Biden] likes are the ones who are his lapdogs … we remember back...

President Joe Biden delivered a speech at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Tuesday in which he insisted nine times that what he had just said was “not a joke” or that he was “not joking.” “I want to thank your outstanding governor, Tom Wolf. Tom and I have been friends a long time,” said Biden. “He’s truly one of the best governors in the United States of America. Not a joke. Not a joke.” “I mean, we expect you [police officers] to do everything,” Biden said. “I’m not joking. Everything.” “My dad used to love to hunt in the...

A “superbubble” appears dangerously near its “final act” after the recent rally in U.S. stocks lured some investors back into the market just ahead of potential “tragedy,” according to Jeremy Grantham, the legendary co-founder of Boston-based investment firm GMO. Grantham, who has repeatedly warned investors of a bubble in markets, said in a paper Wednesday that “superbubbles are events unlike any others” and share some common features. “One of those features is the bear-market rally after the initial derating stage of the decline but before the economy has clearly begun to deteriorate, as it always has when superbubbles burst,” said...

Gorbachev ended the Cold War like Louis XVI ended the French monarchy WaPo praises USSR's BidenI don't speak ill of the dead not because they cannot argue back but because they cannot hear me. Why waste my breath? Instead, let me take on David Hoffman's fact-challenged obituary of Mikhail Gorbachev, the 8th and final thug in charge of the Soviet Union, a communist dictatorship best known for killing about 50 million people and starving Ukraine into submission in the 1930s. Hoffman wrote, "Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who embarked on a path of radical reform...

There are few people that those on the woke left hate more than J.K Rowling. The Harry Potter author has become one of the left’s favorite punching bags due to her unwillingness to bend the knee to the transgender activist community. Rowling refuses to say that women and men are interchangeable and is a fierce advocate for protecting women from the socio-political forces that seek to replace them with confused men. Naturally, this has caused a firestorm of undeserved hatred to fly her way, including demands that anything to do with the wizarding world be shunned and boycotted. Hilariously, this...

The United States’ strategic oil reserves fell to a 37-year low as President Joe Biden continues to release millions of barrels of oil and put them up for sale, with most going overseas. According to the latest report from the Department of Energy, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) fell to 453.1 million barrels as of Aug. 19. This is the lowest level the SPR has been since Jan. 1985. Stockpiles have fallen by more than 180 million barrels this year as the Biden administration ordered the release of record amounts of crude oil, supposedly to cool sky-high inflation and...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sparked controversy due to a program designed to bus asylum-seekers to northern "sanctuary cities," and on Wednesday he said one of those transports arrived in the city of Chicago. Abbott’s office announced that the asylum-seekers were dropped off at Chicago’s Union Station, saying that Chicago will join Washington, D.C. and New York as a location for his administration’s “drop off policy.” “President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans – and Americans – at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said in a statement. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says...

A commercial fire burned a poultry business in Montebello Sunday afternoon. QC Poultry at 1111 W. Olympic Blvd. sustained building damage, and several commercial vehicles may also have been burned, a spokesperson for the city of Montebello said. Footage from the scene shows burn damage near the building’s windows and doors, as well as at least one unit from the Monterey Park Fire Department present to assist.

PM says the government will probe the claims and expects intelligence agencies to follow the rules Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood behind the country's top civilian intelligence agency Wednesday in response to an allegation that one of its contractors helped traffic three British teenage girls to Islamic State extremists seven years ago. A new book by U.K. based writer Richrd Kerbaj--"The Secret History of the Five Eyes"--is set to be published on Thursday. It claims that an informant for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Servicw (CSIS) smuggled Shamima Begum, 15 at the time, and her school friends Kadiza Sultana and...

GENEVA — China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a long-awaited report Wednesday, which cited “serious” rights violations and patterns of torture in recent years. The report seeks “urgent attention” from the U.N. and the world community to rights violations in Beijing’s campaign to root out terrorism. U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, facing pressure on both sides, brushed aside multiple Chinese calls for her office to withhold the report, which follows her own, much-criticized trip to Xinjiang...

Greg Gutfeld told his co-hosts Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five” that President Joe Biden was “waging war on people” in America by calling MAGA Republicans semi-fascist. Co-host Jeanine Pirro asked, “One of the things Biden is talking about is you want to fight against the government. You need F-15s. You need something more than a gun.”

A federal district court judge in Michigan on Thursday denied Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit against her office for failing to remove deceased registrants from the state’s voter rolls. In November, the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed the suit, claiming their analysis determined 25,975 dead Michiganders were registered to vote as of August 2021. Of those, 23,663 had been dead for five or more years, while 17,479 had been dead for more than a decade and 3,596 had been dead for at least 20 years.

Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway said Wednesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that former President Donald Trump and his attorneys could go to jail. Guest anchor Pamela Brown asked, “Did the DOJ go above and beyond to reject Trump’s claims?” Conway said, “I think they did a very good job. I think that the response that the Justice Department gave was perfectly appropriate. I think that just the Trump people just basically asked to be punched in the face, and they were punched in the face by the response. I mean, the fact of the matter is they just don’t have...

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7 KJV).

President Joe Biden again warned “right-wing Americans” who support the Second Amendment on Tuesday, asserting they would “need an F-15” to take on the government. Biden then appeared to accuse the same Americans of “shooting at” police. “And for those brave right-wing Americans who say [the Second Amendment] is all about keeping America independent and safe, if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something more than a gun,” Biden said, mocking Second Amendment advocates while speaking to a crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. “I’m not joking. Think about this. Think about the rationale we...

The word tonight is that Mary Peltola the Democrat candidate in the Special Election in Alaska is declared the winner over two Republican candidates Governor Sarah Palin and Democrat turned Republican Nick Begich. The election held back on August 16th but votes received up until today were allowed to be added to the count. The Ranked Choice Voting system came into play with the final sorting of the vote putting Peltola just slightly ahead of Palin. The US Food and Drug Administration approving the new COVID shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech... Seven unvaccinated cadets disenrolled and removed from the campus...