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MADISON, Wis. — A captain in the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Department who was included in a press release of law enforcement officials endorsing Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes says he made no such endorsement. Capt. John Siegel, who is also running as a Democrat for La Crosse County Sheriff, said he found out Friday that his name was among the list of endorsers. “I called immediately — whoever I could get a hold of, and finally got a hold of somebody operating their campaign and said, ‘Hey, I didn’t ever agree to put my name on anything or...

Ron DeSantis has furiously slapped down a Texas sheriff who launched a criminal investigation into his flying 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard. The Florida governor pointed out the hypocrisy of Democratic Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar for probing him when it was in his jurisdiction where 50 migrants died in a trailer-tractor over the summer. He challenged fellow politicians and voters to find similar levels of outrage at that shocking incident - as well as huge numbers of migrants drowning in the Rio Grande - as what he has been facing for his stunt.

Left wingers are going to be furious at him for this, but this is also interesting because less than a month ago he justified canceling a trillion dollars in student loans by citing his covid emergency powers," OutKick founder Clay Travis tweeted late Sunday. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., offered a similar critique, writing, "If ‘the pandemic is over’ as Biden says, then all of the President's emergency powers predicated on a pandemic, all COVID vax mandates, the emergency powers of every governor, Emergency Use Authorizations, and the PREP act should all be voided tomorrow." Dr. Lucky Tran, a science communicator...

Democrats are pumping an unprecedented amount of money into advertising related to abortion rights, underscoring how central the message is to the party in the final weeks before the November midterm elections. With the most intense period of campaigning only just beginning, Democrats have already invested more than an estimated $124 million this year in television advertising referencing abortion. That’s more than twice as much money as the Democrats’ next top issue this year, “character,” and almost 20 times more than Democrats spent on abortion-related ads in the 2018 midterms. The estimated spending figures, based on an Associated Press analysis...

Wyoming-raised country singer and songwriter Luke Bell died of an accidental fentanyl poisoning, according to a Tucson, Arizona, forensic pathologist. Bell, 32, died last month after going missing in the Tucson area. He went missing Aug. 20 and his body was found six days later. Bell was found in Tucson by passersby, unresponsive in a shaded parking structure, according to an autopsy report from the Pima County Medical Examiner’s office. There were attempts to resuscitate him, the report says, citing markings on Bell’s body from defibrillators, endotracheal tubes and chest compressions. Other than those markings, Bell showed no signs of...

During the September 18 airing of CBS News’s 60 Minutes, President Joe Biden described the continued sale of semiautomatic weapons as “bizarre.” Scott Pelley conducted a wide-ranging interview with Biden, but when it turned to guns and gun policy, Biden pledged once again to ban “assault weapons.” Biden suggested that “there is no rationale” for owning firearms like AR-15s, AK-47s, etc. He talked of visiting Uvalde, Texas, after the May 24, 2022, school shooting, saying he not only visited there but “every one of those places.” Biden observed, “The NRA continuing to push the sale of assault and semiautomatic weapons...

conservative Republican senator who is convinced that the Arizona Department of Child Safety is facilitating the global sex trafficking of children removed from negligent parents called the police on one of his GOP colleagues, alleging that she threatened his life. Sen. David Farnsworth, a Republican from Mesa, filed a report with the Arizona Department of Public Safety this week accusing Sen. Kate Brophy McGee, R-Phoenix, of threatening him if he didn’t stop investigating the outrageous claim. The news was first reported by Yellow Sheet Report, a high-priced insider newsletter aimed at lobbyists and government officials. Farnsworth told Yellow Sheet that...

If you walk past the Wyoming Republican Party’s tent these days, beware. You may have to dodge members being thrown out of the three-ring circus. On Saturday, the party’s overachieving central committee censured Sen. Cale Case of Lander, denied support to Republicans running as independents in November and condemned the actions of a legislative committee and 10 GOP lawmakers. The state party told Case, a Republican lawmaker for the past 30 years, to join a different party or run as an independent. Karl Allred of Uinta County bluntly delivered a similar message to Republicans who plan to challenge GOP primary...

On July 16, 2021, Dr. William English submitted a draft report on his extensive National Firearms Survey of 2021. On July 18, 2021, Dr. William English submitted a draft report on “The Right to Carry Has Not Increased Crime: Improving an Old Debate Through Better Data on Permit Growth Over Time”. This paper will be covered more completely in another article.In 2021, Dr. William English submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court on the NYSRPA v. Bruen case, which was decided on June 22, 2022. Bruen clarified many contentious points about how Second Amendment cases should be treated...

European Union, Excess mortality hits +16%, highest 2022 value so far UK latest excess death data, updated 16th September https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati... https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati... WE 2nd September 350 deaths involving COVID-19 (505 deaths registered, previous week) Total number of deaths registered in the UK 10,198, which was 7.4% above the five-year average 706 excess deaths in the week (Deaths involving COVID-19 accounted for 3.4% of all deaths) Excess mortality hits +16%, highest 2022 value so far https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/pro... Update, 16th September Data for July Climbed to +16% in July 2022 Highest so far in 2022 June, +7% May. +7% July, additional deaths The increase...

The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) is the world’s largest silver exchange. For the last nine consecutive months, the quantity of silver held in LBMA vaults have declined. The August 2022 report states that the vaults now hold only 916.5 million ounces of silver, the lowest total since July 2016. In November 2021, the LBMA vaults held 1.170.6 billion ounces of silver. Since then, inventories have fallen 21.7 percent. As dramatic a drop as that is, it becomes even more extreme when you consider only the LBMA inventories not owned by 13 silver exchange traded funds (ETFs) and the private...

For first time since the end of the Second World War, continental Europe is facing shortages: of food and, crucially, of energy. During the war, as the tide inexorably turned against National Socialist Germany after the disastrous battle of Stalingrad in 1943, the Third Reich was ground to powder by the Stalinist U.S.S.R. and the Western allies, principally the United States, with some help from a reeling Great Britain. The brutal winter of 1944-45 saw the Germans reduced to salvaging firewood from the wreckage of their principal cities and eating the animals in the zoos in order to survive. Germany...

“The Jews then said to Him, ‘What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?’ But He was speaking of the temple of His body. So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken” (John 2:18–22). The Jewish authorities completely missed the...

A new ad that seeks to raise awareness about myocarditis in children is proving to be extremely unpopular with viewers. New York-Presbyterian Hospital uploaded the video titled, “Pediatric Patient Story–Suri,” to its YouTube channel on September 6. “Suri had a bad stomach ache that turned out to be myocarditis, a serious inflammation of the heart,” the video’s description reads. “Our multidisciplinary pediatric critical care team worked to regulate her heartbeat–and got her back to feeling like herself.” Critics online are blasting the ad, calling it an attempt to “normalize” myocarditis in children. The video as of Monday afternoon had 130...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 4 Jesus Begins to Preach 12 When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali— 14 to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah: 15 “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles— 16 the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a...

Less than 325,000 of America's youngest children are fully vaccinated as hesitancy continues to dog the pandemic response. Why it matters: Health officials are sounding the alarm over the potential of low child vaccination rates fueling transmission and carrying the risk of severe illness for some of the youngest Americans. "What's at stake really with this is that we're going to be setting up a bunch of kids for risk of severe disease in the future," Daniel Blatt, a pediatric infectious disease physician at the University of Louisville and Norton Children's Hospital, told Axios. "We don't really know what the...

On Sunday, Joe Biden asserted during an interview that American troops would be prepared to defend the island nation of Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, leading to White House officials again walking back his comments shortly thereafter. As reported by the New York Post, Biden was asked during a “60 Minutes” interview by CBS’ Scott Pelley if the United States would take action to “defend the island” in the event that China decided to invade. A possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan has already been frequently compared to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia, with the Biden Administration’s response to...

“I will be pushing for at least $12 billion in aid for Ukraine in the budget so they can continue to win the war effort,” he added.Ukraine is expected to dominate discussion at the United Nations General Assembly starting Monday in Manhattan — perfect timing, Schumer said, to reaffirm to the U.S. commitment to beating back Russia.

It’s all just another campaign of deceit—with reliable assistance from the national news media—to get Trump. With one sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon spoke for the majority of Americans who no longer have faith in the nation’s top law enforcement agency. “It is also true, of course, that even-handed procedure does not demand unquestioning trust in the determinations of the Department of Justice,” she wrote in her September 15 order denying the government’s request to prevent a third-party review of allegedly “classified” documents seized by the FBI during the raid of Mar-a-Lago last month. At issue is the...

The headline numbers are looking good for Joe Biden lately. He’s recently won a big legislative victory, and his approvals are ticking higher, which means maybe the manifold failures of his presidency are a thing of the past. Yes, that is what the White House wants you to believe. But the spin oozing about the Biden-renaissance narrative obscures, at least for now, some really nasty bits of economic reality that the president’s feckless policies have created. If you don’t believe me, listen to some of the comments recently made by Larry Fink, the CEO of money manager BlackRock. No one...