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If you thought Joe Biden’s attempt to jawbone gasoline station owners into lowering prices was stupid, make way for the king of dunces, California Governor Gavin Newsom. Californians pay the highest prices for gasoline in the country, well over $6 a gallon almost everywhere. Even Hawaii with no oil production, totally dependent on oil shipped in, now has cheaper gasoline than California. Governor Gavin Newsom is on the ballot for re-election and wants to be taken seriously as a 2024 residential contender, so he evidently feels the need to address his constituents’ highest-in-the-nation level of pain at the pump. But...

Ex-DC and Capitol cop Michael Fanone said Graham spoke to him in May 2021 Both men were in a meeting involving Republican support for an investigation into the January 6 insurrection Fanone told Graham that Capitol law enforcement officials have to abide by certain rules preventing them from using assault weapons in certain situations Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and the family of Brian Sicknick, who was a cop killed a day after last year's riots, were also present during the meeting The conversation occurred just four months after the Capitol was under attack Republican Senator Lindsey Graham once told...

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham once told an ex-Capitol police officer who was badly injured in the January 6 insurrection that he should have used his gun to shoot Trump supporters who were rioting in the head, a new memoir reveals.Michael Fanone, who used to work for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia from 2001 until 2021, said the South Carolina politician offered his two cents on the situation when they first met in May 2021 - four months after the attack.'You guys should have shot them all in the head,' recalled Fanone in his memoir 'Hold the...

Samsung statement: “ We can confirm that none of our employees at Samsung Ukraine has been hurt. Some of the office windows were damaged due to the impact from the blast that occurred 150 meters away. We remain committed to ensuring the safety of our employees and will continue to closely monitor the situation.” It is being reported that a Russian missile has landed right next to a large civilian building where Samsung’s R&D office is located in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is said that it is one of the company’s biggest R&D offices in Europe and the company’s regional headquarter....

Samsung statement: “ We can confirm that none of our employees at Samsung Ukraine has been hurt. Some of the office windows were damaged due to the impact from the blast that occurred 150 meters away. We remain committed to ensuring the safety of our employees and will continue to closely monitor the situation.” It is being reported that a Russian missile has landed right next to a large civilian building where Samsung’s R&D office is located in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is said that it is one of the company’s biggest R&D offices in Europe and the company’s regional headquarter....

If you were making a movie about the underdog politician campaigning on soaring crime rates, you couldn’t have scripted it better than the shooting right in front of Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home Sunday afternoon. Of course, it’s the last thing the Republican gubernatorial candidate and his wife, Diana, could ever have wanted. Their twin 16-year-old daughters, Mikayla and Arianna, were home alone studying in the rear kitchen of the modest two-story house in the town of Shirley when they heard gunshots and screams right outside their front door. The quick-thinking girls raced upstairs, locked themselves in a bathroom and...

DADU, Pakistan (AP) — Every part of Rajul Noor’s life has been wrecked by this summer’s massive monsoon-driven floods. The 12-year-old girl’s family home is destroyed, as is the school that she loved. The friends she used to walk to school and play with are scattered, finding refuge elsewhere. The destruction has intensified the debate over a question of climate justice: Whether rich countries whose emissions have been the main driver of climate change owe compensation for the damage that change is inflicting on poor countries like Pakistan. It’s an idea that developed nations have repeatedly rejected, but Pakistan and...

Transgender People US citizens or immigrants who are born male and changed their gender to female are still required to register. Individuals who are born female and changed their gender to male are not required to register. OPM notes that “transgender” refers to people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from the sex assigned to them at birth (e.g. the sex listed on an original birth certificate). The OPM Guidance further explains that the term “transgender woman” is typically used to refer to someone who was assigned the male sex at birth but who identifies as a female. Likewise,...

California's pricey and now-failed bullet train costs about $1.8 million a day, but without a light at the end of the tunnel on how it can be completed as designed, experts told The New York Times. The bullet train sought to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, but the only thing it has brought is red tape and a bulging bottom line: from $33 billion when planned in 2008 to be finished in 2020 to an estimated $105 billion in February to $113 billion now to be finished in 2030, the Times reported. "There is nothing but problems on the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy-year-old Cassandra Gentry is looking forward to a hefty cost-of-living increase in her Social Security benefits — not for herself but to pay for haircuts for her two grandchildren and put food on the table. The three live in a Washington apartment building that houses 50 “grandfamilies” — where grandparents take care of children who do not have parents present. Gentry, who took in her grandkids to keep them in a safe environment, says the boost in benefits will help her make ends meet. “I never thought about contributing to Social Security when I was working, but...

Germany has promised to transfer to Ukraine 100 Soviet-made tanks, which will be delivered from Greece and Slovakia in a “circular scheme”. This was stated by German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht, reports CNN. Head of the German Defense Ministry During a visit to the German military stationed in Lithuania, the German military announced additional deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, including the IRIS-T air defense system and 100 tanks from Greece and Slovakia. The website of the German government reports that queues for delivery to Ukraine: 4 IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile systems 2 MARS II multiple launch rocket systems with ammunition; 4...

Matt Walsh Investigates Nashville Gender Clinic Matt Walsh took the time to investigate into a local gender clinic here in Nashville, TN and here's what he found.

A new poll reveals that now a majority of Democrats think Joe "Biden possibly has mental health issues." "Let that sink in," said the analysis of the results from the new I&I/TIPP poll, after it revealed that 64% of all voters, nearly two-thirds, up from 59% in a similar poll just two months ago, believe Biden has mental issues. "Virtually all of October's gain came from Democrats, who went from just 39% expressing 'concern' over Biden's mental health in August, a high number in itself, to 52% in the latest poll."

Nearly 40% of Republicans are likely to blame voter fraud if the GOP doesn't win control of Congress in the midterms, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey. When asked "If your party does not win control of Congress, how likely are you to blame election fraud?" Republicans and Democrats offered very different responses in the Axios-Ipsos Two Americas Index Poll. A total of 39% of Republican respondents say they likely will blame voter fraud, 36% say they are unlikely, and 26% do not know.

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Fifty years ago, journalist Gary Allen set out to write a book to prove conservative anti-communists wrong. But while researching, he realized he had not seen the "hidden picture." There indeed was a conspiracy, shielded by a narrative advanced by liberal academia and the mainstream media, both actually in the service of an elite cabal that included Rockefeller, Ford, Morgan, Rothschild, Loeb, Kennedy, and Carnegie. No longer willing to dismiss "right-wing conspiracy theorists," he titled his book, published in 1971, None Dare Call It Conspiracy. It was a surprising bestseller: more than four million copies were sold during the 1972...

DCCC says Paris event aimed to 'help stop MAGA Republicans' Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was spotted on video sipping wine with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., and Democratic donors during a recent Paris event highlighted by Maloney’s opponent in the midterm elections. Schiff and Maloney embarked on a tour of Europe last week to fundraise from Democrats living abroad, Punchbowl News first reported. The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher tweeted a screenshot Sunday of one of the fundraising invites to a "cocktail reception and dinner benefiting the DCCC" in Paris on Oct. 1. Another...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will appeal to Western nations at an emergency G7 meeting on Tuesday. Ukraine and Germany called the meeting following a wave of devastating missile attacks on Kyiv, Liviv and more than a dozen other major cities. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the attacks are revenge for the bombing of the Kerch Bridge connecting Russia and Crimea this weekend. "They are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth. Completely. Destroy our people who are sleeping at home in Zaporizhzhia. Kill people on their way to work in Dnipro and Kyiv," Zelenskyy...

Forced Transition: The Dark Truth About Famous Trans Kids Today I'm reacting to HBO's new movie "Transhood" which feature several trans kids as young as age 4. Parts of the movie were GREAT, but others? Truly concerning.

Can God totally know himself? If God is infinite it would take an eternity for him to know himself. You can only know something completely if it is finite or bounded. How does space curve? I thought you go through space rather than with space. Is there a negative zero?