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Darren Bailey for Illinois Governor - So God Made A FarmerExcellent campaign ad by Darren Bailey campaign. Funds are limited against those of billionaire Gov. Pritzker. Please share with all Illinoisians you know!It is interesting to note, when I searched the web for campaign pictures of Bailey and running mate Stephanie Trussell, all have been scrubbed but two. For those electing to sit on the sidelines because your candidate did not win the Illinois Primary THINK AGAIN! What would 4 more years of Gov. Pritzker do for Illinois? Go out and get the vote for this worthy candidate! Our families...

New York City officials are going to fly out migrants to Florida after claiming many of them did not want to come to the Big Apple.

Wofford at Virginia Tech 11:00am ACCN Cincinnati vs. Miami (Ohio) (in Cincinnati, OH) 12:00pm ESPNU UConn at 4 Michigan 12:00pm ABC Youngstown State at 9 Kentucky 12:00pm SECN WKU at Indiana 12:00pm BTN Texas State at 17 Baylor 12:00pm FS1 Southern Illinois at Northwestern 12:00pm BTN Purdue at Syracuse 12:00pm ESPN2 6 Oklahoma at Nebraska 12:00pm FOX Richmond at Lehigh 12:00pm ESPN+ Sacred Heart at Morgan State 12:00pm ESPN+ LIU at Kent State 12:00pm ESPN3 Villanova at Army 12:00pm CBSSN 1 Georgia at South Carolina 12:00pm ESPN Abilene Christian at Missouri 12:00pm SECN+/ESPN+ Bryant at Brown 12:30pm ESPN+ Montana at...

A migrant sports Martha's Vineyard gear during an interview. — Rich Saltzberg Media from all over, like Telemundo, were on the scene to interview migrants Friday morning. — Rich Saltzberg The migrants are packing up and getting ready to leave St. Andrews Church. — Rich Saltzberg Refugees and volunteers take a group photo before leaving the Island. — Rich Saltzberg Edgartown police guide the migrants to the buses. — Rich Saltzberg A child goes on the bus with her guardian's support. — Rich Saltzberg A child gets ready to leave St. Andrews Church. — Rich Saltzberg Despite difficulties, some...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher quipped that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) sent the message to migrants “if you come here, you will get a free plane ride to a wealthy island.” And that the trip the migrants took sounds like the cruise he got his parents. Maher also jabbed President Joe Biden for accusing Republicans of using people as props by stating that when Biden said that, “all the Marines lined up behind him agreed.”

Mike Adams: Interview with Gonzalo Lyra in two partsSame thing I'm seeing from all intelligent sources: Ukies have rolled and walked into a gigantic Russian trap and suffered huge losses for it while taking over a couple of militarily worthless villages and inflicting very light if any damage on Russians. Meanwhile, Europe is being devastated by the boomerang effect of anti-Russian sanctions which are not harming Russia at all.

Ron DeSantis’ Immigration Moves Not Limited to Martha’s Vineyard: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been trying to establish himself as a conservative leader on a number of issues. The latest is immigration. Like other Republican governors, DeSantis is trying to contrast himself with the policies of President Joe Biden. Before inflation, there was no greater flashpoint than immigration.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday challenged Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to a debate after months of hurling attacks at Gov. DeSantis. Newsom’s proposal for a debate is the latest move in a brewing feud between him and DeSantis.

While China is aggressively expanding its military, a new report from the National Defense University has exposed areas of possible concern for the People’s Liberation Army. Using the biographies of more than 300 senior Chinese military officers from 2015-2021, the researcher, Joel Wuthnow, found that they were largely homogeneous in age, education, gender, and ethnicity and that there was limited cross-training between military branches, both of which could pose long-term problems.

NBC News compared the illegal immigrants who landed in Martha’s Vineyard this week to “trash” in a since-deleted tweet. The corporate media outlet posted an article about how the migrants, who are primarily Venezuelan, are dividing the Venezuelan-American community.

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Reid Out” that his Republican opponent J.D. Vance was a dangerous “weirdo” who could not be trusted. When asked about Vance’s abortion position, Ryan said, “It’s absolutely incredible to think that this guy wants to be in the United States Senate. I mean, generally speaking, you’d say, ‘This is a pretty weird guy, you know. This is a weirdo. That’s the problem that we run into today. This guy is not sitting on some bar stool somewhere. This guy is actually running for the United States Senate....

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the administration has taken “unprecedented action” to secure the border–even as we face an ongoing border crisis. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the Biden administration’s record on immigration at a press conference, answering a reporter who asked about the border crisis by remarking, “We understand that we have work to do, we understand that, and we have been doing the work to do that.”

Over in Europe, and particularly in those countries in the vanguard of the green energy transition, the enormous costs of this folly have begun to hit home. In the UK, average annual consumer energy bills were scheduled to rise as of October 1 to £3549/year, from only £1138/year just a year ago. (The figure may now get reduced somewhat by means of massive government subsidies, which only conceal, but do not obviate, the disastrous cost increases.) Germany’s regulated consumer gas bills are scheduled for an average annual increase on October 1 of about 480 euros, about 13%, from an already...

Longtime Martha’s Vineyard residents hailed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ move to relocate migrants to the vacation island as a way of highlighting Biden’s border crisis — with one suggesting that Barack Obama’s $12 million estate should have been used as a processing center. The idyllic enclave off the coast of Massachusetts was plunged into chaos and the local tourist board declared a “humanitarian crisis’’ after just 50 Venezuelan migrants landed there. ... Bostrom added, “I don’t blame DeSantis one bit.” “He’s trying to draw attention to the problem America has currently,” . “It’s not an anti-immigration move. It’s bringing the...

Jones and Smith have delivered the definitive short guide to the development of wokeism, inclusive of Maoism. Wokeism is conventionally traced back through progressivism and Marxism to the fake liberalism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The histories of wokeism have failed to focus on Maoism, even though some observers noticed the similarity between Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution of the late 1960s and the West’s cultural revolution of the late 2010s. In 1966, China’s students rallied for “rebellion,” against “reactionary” teachers and courses, and against Mao’s “four olds” (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits). Then came the witch hunts, show trials,...

"Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia; Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida," then-Sen. Kamala Harris said. ... Immediately below are 10 representative examples of election denial by leading Democrats, followed by a link to a more extensive list: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has at least questioned, if not outright denied, the outcomes of the 2000, 2004, and 2016 presidential elections, as well as the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. She said that the Supreme Court "took away a presidency," following the 2000 presidential election, in its ruling in Bush v. Gore. Clinton also...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

Ancona (Italy) (AFP) – From parched rivers to a glacier collapse and this week's deadly storms, Italy has suffered numerous climate events this year -- but many politicians pay the subject little more than lip service. Desperate to see some firm commitments ahead of September 25 elections, climate activists staged a sit-in at the Rome offices of frontrunner Giorgia Meloni earlier this month. They demanded a public meeting with the far-right leader, but police carted them off the premises. Concern over the spiralling cost of living has drowned out the debate over how to tackle the devastation caused by global...

New Orleans overtook St. Louis as the US murder capital in the first half of this year, as the city struggles with its lowest police staffing level in modern history amid a crisis of officer morale. In the first six months of 2022, New Orleans recorded 41 murders per 100,000 population, a higher homicide rate than any other US city, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association. By comparison, the first-half murder rate per 100,000 was 11.5 in Chicago, 4.8 in Los Angeles and 2.4 in New York City.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 3 John the Baptist Prepares the Way 3 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”[a] 4 John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. 5 People went out to him...