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Legal pot shops in New York are one step closer to becoming a reality.On Monday, Nov. 21, the state’s Cannabis Control Board approved the first recreational marijuana licenses for 28 business owners and eight nonprofit organizations.After the Office of Cannabis Management received over 900 applications for Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licenses, the state board will make up to 150 licenses available to individual businesses and another 25 will be reserved for nonprofits, the board said.Most of the retail licenses announced Monday went to business owners who have been most impacted by the war on drugs, as part of the...

Elon Musk is having a heck of a good time with his new toy, Twitter. How he has the time to come up with genius tweets while running multiple businesses is beyond me, but somehow he finds it. He was at it again Friday, brutally mocking seven Democrat senators who wrote a letter to the FTC demanding an investigation into Twitter’s practices since Elon took over.Musk fired back:Elon Musk@elonmusk · Follow

Update… NOW FOUR Arizona Counties will hold off on certifying the highly suspect 2022 midterm elections in the state. Seth Keshel posted this on Truth Social. Yavapai Mohave, Gila, Conchise, and Yavapai counties have refused to certify the suspect election! There are only 15 counties in the state.

The lawless Biden regime is destroying the country very purposefully, one day at a time. There is currently a crisis ignored by the fake news mainstream media that is killing the country. A record number of illegal aliens are crossing into the United States on a monthly basis. The number of illegals crossing into the US is likely the largest regime-approved migrant invasion in world history. In September a record 227,347 illegal aliens were captured at the US border walking into the country across the open border. So far, in 2022, there have been 2,378,944 apprehensions of illegal aliens at...

“That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee” (Proverbs 22:19).

Hakeem Jeffries' claims range from stolen election to voter suppression. Will news media treat him same as Republicans? Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat poised to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as his party's leader in the House, has repeatedly denied the legitimacy of Donald Trump's 2016 election. But his claims of a stolen election and voter suppression have hardly gotten the same treatment as Trump and other Republicans who have raised ballot integrity issues and been endlessly branded as "election deniers." Jeffries, currently the House Democratic Conference chairman, has tweeted that Trump cheated in the 2016 election and...

Oral arguments in what’s being deemed a potential “free speech blockbuster” case won’t begin until next month, but survivors of People of Praise are already pushing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from 303 Creative v. Elenis—a case that will have a bearing not just on the future of free speech, but gay rights. The dubious faith group, in which Barrett is said to maintain membership, is known for expelling members who “engage in gay sex” and credible accusations of child sex abuse. Per a new report from the Guardian, former members of the Indiana-based group have...

A new video of the North Carolina woman who suffered a broken neck after being brutally beaten at a Mexican resort shows her laughing with her friends just hours before she died.In the video shared by the Neighborhood Talk, Shanquella Robinson, 25, can be heard joking about her friends taking too long to get ready inside their Fundadores Beach Club villa. 'It don't take that long to get naked. Where y'all at?' Robinson jokes in a video of her walking around the San Jose del Cabo resort. The woman, who later sustained a broken neck and severed spine, walks around...

Policymakers across the world banned choral singing during the COVID-19 pandemic after taking wrongful interpretations of a high-profile outbreak as facts, a new study suggests. The study, set to be published in Public Health, a British journal, revisits what was widely reported as a “super-spreader event” in March 2020 at Skagit County in northwest Washington State. Among 61 Skagit Valley Chorale members who attended the March 10 rehearsal at a local church, 53 were diagnosed with COVID-19 within a few weeks, including two who died. In a report that had since been used by governments across the world to justify...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show “Deadline” that “Republican movements” were trying to suppress the teaching of tolerance while advocating “easy access to guns” while discussing the alleged shooter at Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO. MSNBC national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi said, “We need to see accountability and consequences. So first, a real quick hate crime charge here on top of the homicide charges. I applaud that. That tells me prosecutors and police, they found quickly what they needed. That means they know this was a bias crime.”

Former Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News that GOP candidates focused on the future and solving the problems voters face today “did quite well” in the midterm election. He also said he and his family will give “prayerful consideration” over the holidays to whether he intends to run for president in 2024. Pence, who is promoting his new book So Help Me God, started by congratulating Republicans on retaking the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

My father found these in a small pile in front of our recliner chair. Any idea what they are? [See Link]

Massachusetts taxpayers are being asked to foot a $139 million bill that would “expand emergency shelter capacity” for border crossers and illegal aliens arriving in the state. Just as Massachusetts residents are starting to see housing prices cool off, Gov. Charlie Baker (R) is asking for $139 million to hugely increase shelter space for border crossers and illegal aliens increasingly arriving in the state with little-to-no means.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently obtained an email addressed to former IRS official Lois Lerner sent from Election Crimes Branch Director Richard Pilger at the Justice Department. The email addressed to Lerner stated that, “I have been asked to run something by you.” During the Committee’s investigation, Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith told investigators that officials at the Justice Department discussed targeting conservative nonprofit groups with Lerner as early as October 2010. The Committee reasons that, “[w]hile we knew that the Justice Department engaged with the IRS in May 2013 to consider prosecution of political active...

If you knowingly sit down at a fixed poker game and lose your entire stash, would you also complain that some of the other players also cheated? If it was a friend who brought you into the game, would you then go to another one with him? And having lost all your money when you bet the farm, would you re-mortgage it and bet it all again on the chance that this time things would be different? If you're a Republican, the answer is: of course you would, because you just did and you're about to do it again. If...

Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake released a new statement today promising to “continue fighting until we restore confidence and faith in our elections.” The November 8 Election was an uncertifiable mess, and voters’ ballots were stolen, not counted, or they were prevented from voting altogether. Before the election, Kari Lake held a 10-point lead in several recent polls, including an 11-point lead in the recent FOX 10 poll from Arizona. A new election must be held immediately, and Patriots in Arizona are rallying to hold a new election on December 6. The Gateway Pundit reported on the serious issues in Maricopa County’s...

A 2021 report by Open the Books revealed that the federal government paid over $548 million to informants in recent years. That’s over half a billion taxpayer dollars. And the FBI paid out $42 million a year to its confidential human sources. We know a few of the more famous FBI operatives. Stephan Halper, a crack cocaine addict, was paid over $1.05 million to spy on Trump associates and help set up the Trump-Russia hoax. The FBI used at least 12 informants out of 15 individuals to plot, plan, pay for, and execute the Whitmer kidnap hoax. And one FBI...

Update… NOW FOUR Arizona Counties will hold off on certifying the highly suspect 2022 midterm elections in the state. Seth Keshel posted this on Truth Social. Mohave, Gila, Conchise, and Yavapai counties have refused to certify the suspect election! There are only 15 counties in the state.

Friday afternoon around 2:00 p.m., deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Offices responded to reports of a bomb threat on Rubicon Drive in the Lorson Ranch neighborhood, just south of the Colorado Springs Airport. The suspect, 21-year old Anderson Lee Aldrich, refused to comply with deputies’ orders to surrender. It was reported to the Sherrif’s Office that he had a homemade bomb, multiple weapons, and ammunition. A Tactical Support Unit, which includes the Regional Explosives Unit was called in. Around 10 homes were evacuated in the surrounding area, while an emergency text notification was sent out to homes within...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Richard M. Fierro was at a table in Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends on Saturday, watching a drag show, when the sudden flash of gunfire ripped across the nightclub and instincts forged during four combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan instantly kicked in. Fight back, he told himself, protect your people. In an interview at his house on Monday, where his wife and daughter were still recovering from injuries, Mr. Fierro, 45, who spent 15 years as an Army officer and left as a major in 2013, according to military records, described charging through...