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A recent poll found that Hispanic conservatives would favor Republican control of Congress over Democrat control by 56 points, giving the Republicans a 65-point swing in the past decade. Conservative Hispanics have shifted from lean-Democrat voters to Republican-base voters. As NBC News reported: In the merged NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls of 2012, 49% of self-described conservative Latinos said they preferred Democratic control of Congress, versus 40% who wanted Republicans in charge — a 9-point edge for Democrats. But in our Sept. 2022 NBC News/Telemundo poll, a whopping 73% of conservative Latinos say they prefer Republicans in control of Congress,...

On September 29, 2022, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule requiring millions of private companies to report their ownership to the United States government beginning January 1, 2024. Most privately held corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships and other entities created or doing business in the United States will be subject to the new rule unless an exemption applies. As summarized in a previous alert, ownership reporting was mandated under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) enacted on January 1, 2021. The CTA was intended to make it more difficult for criminals, organized...

In 1921, Chatto & Windus published Aldous Huxley’s first novel, titled Crome Yellow. Meant to be satire, it was a far-cry from his most well-known dystopian work, Brave New World — but it includes a portentous passage, one that unambiguously encompasses the scope and character of the American left and the Democrat party: The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’...

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The Army fell approximately 15,000 (25%) people short of meeting its recruiting goals this year, and some Pentagon officials focused on the tight job market as the culprit. Though access to civilian jobs and higher pay is a factor, the truth is broader and ignored at our peril. Rather than confront the reality of what is occurring in the military and the consequences of these actions, these same officials have decided to make blaming anything but the truth an Olympic-level sport and our nation’s readiness to defeat our adversaries is running in last place. I served in the military for...

A growing list of failings and defeats in Ukraine have spawned angry outbursts from Russia's elite, who still support the "military operation" but have gone as far as to suggest army chiefs should face the firing squad. Before September saw a series of battlefield reversals, public criticism of the army was rare. The offensive had been presented as a sacred, patriotic mission and speaking ill of the armed forces could lead to a long stay in prison. Today, nobody among the elite is calling into question the merits of Moscow's viewpoint or the operation against a neighbouring nation. But the...

Racing down a road with his men in pursuit of retreating Russian soldiers, a battalion commander came across an abandoned Russian armored vehicle, its engine still running. Inside there was a sniper rifle, rocket propelled grenades, helmets and belongings. The men were gone. “They dropped everything: personal care, helmets,” said the commander, who uses the code name Swat. “I think it was a special unit, but they were panicking. It was raining very hard, the road was bad and they drop everything and move.” After months of static fighting and holding the line under withering Russian artillery barrages, Ukrainian soldiers...

The Ukrainians’ bodies lay side-by-side on the grass, the earth beside them splayed open by a crater. Dragged to the spot by Russian mercenaries, the victims’ arms pointed to where they had died. “Let’s plant a grenade on them,” a voice says in husky Russian, in what appears to be a plan to booby-trap the bodies. “There is no need for a grenade, we will just bash them in,” another says of the Ukrainian soldiers who will come to collect the bodies. The mercenaries then realize they have run out of ammunition. (snip) Wagner’s struggles in Ukraine have set in...

"The truth is on our side and truth is strength!" Vladimir Putin boomed into a microphone on Red Square last week, after a grand ceremony at which he proclaimed four large chunks of Ukrainian territory to be part of Russia. "Victory will be ours!" But in the real world, things look very different. Even as Russia's president signed his illegal annexation treaties in the Kremlin, Ukrainian forces were advancing inside the areas he had just seized. Hundreds of thousands of men have been fleeing Russia rather than be drafted to fight in an expanding war. And things are going so...

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On October 5, Russian President Putin instructed to transfer Zaporizhia NPP to federal ownership. This is stated on the Kremlin's website. Earlier it was reported that Russian relevant departments will take control of the operation of the occupied Zaporizhia NPP, which until recently worked under the leadership of Ukrainian personnel as part of the United energy system of Ukraine. In particular, the government of the Russian Federation was instructed to: - ensure that nuclear power facilities of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and other property necessary for its activities are accepted into federal ownership; - determine for the period up...

Russian relevant departments will take control of the operation of the occupied Zaporizhia NPP (ZAES), which until recently worked under the leadership of Ukrainian personnel as part of the United energy system of Ukraine. This was stated at a briefing by Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Vershinin, writes the Russian "Kommersant". However, he did not name a specific department. The Russian official noted that the operation of the station will be discussed with IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi during his visit to Moscow, announced yesterday, October 4. Earlier, Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of Rosenergoatom...

President Joe Biden said on Thursday evening that Vladimir Putin was not joking about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine - and said the risk of of Armageddon is the highest it has been since the Cuban missile crisis. He delivered his doomsday warning at a fundraising event for Democrats at the New York home of James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert. It comes amid growing fears that Putin is backed into a corner and could use tactical nuclear weapons to push back advancing Ukrainian forces.

Two D.C. high schools will remodel their curriculum with the intention to better prepare students for college and careers. Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and the Francis L. Cardozo Education Campus will be the first cohort of the DC+XQ, a partnership between D.C. Public Schools and the XQ Institute to “rethink and redesign all DCPS high schools,” a schools and XQ Institute news release said. The XQ Institute is an organization that develops programs aimed at improving high school education in the U.S. Dunbar and Cardozo will spend the current school year “prototyping and piloting elements of their school models,...

During the two months of operation of the grain corridor, 6.2 million tons of agricultural products were already sent from Ukraine, which is 48% of total exports. This was announced by First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky during a webinar. "Before the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 80-90% of all agricultural exports were carried out through seaports. Due to their blocking, we had to redistribute export flows to railways, cars, ferry and river ports. Today, thanks to the corridor, more than 270 ships with 6.2 million tons of cargo have already been able...

CNN's New Day aired a segment this morning reporting on the impact of laws in various states restricting abortions. CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen's report viewed the laws strictly from the pro-abortion perspective, bemoaning the absence of abortion clinics in 14 states, and the many abortions that could no longer occur there. Said Cohen: "In these 14 states, the Guttmacher Institute says there are no abortion providers—none [said as if that's a tragedy.] Look at it another way, in 2020, in those 14 states, more than 125,000 women got abortions. So that's the number, per year, more than 125,000...

The Washington Post reported stunning news on Thursday - federal investigators believe they have a chargeable case against Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. Even more interestingly, they have felt that the case is sufficient to go to court for the past several months, according to the Post. **SNIP** What about those other accusations from the GOP? The scope of the Post’s report does not even begin to touch on all the various crimes GOP politicians, including most notably Donald Trump, have laid at the feet of Hunter Biden for years. Republicans have long alleged that a so-called “laptop...

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During the pandemic, gun and ammunition sales spiked dramatically in the United States — particularly among Black women, who have become the fastest growing group of gun owners in the country. “In 2021, we were just coming outta COVID and violence was at an all-time high, riots were at an all-time high and human trafficking is at an all-time high,” licensed gun instructor Robin Evans tells Yahoo Life as a way to explain the rise. “So at that moment, I feel like there was a huge shift in Black people, in general, just wanting to learn how to defend themselves.”...

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