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Western reports parroting Ukraine’s propaganda (are) belied by Kiev’s urgent call for better weapons as indications grow it is losing the war

As Gov. J.B. Pritzker was signing a sweeping gun ban and gun registry many law enforcement officers are refusing to enforce, the Pritzker family was opening a gun range as part of a museum under construction in Somers, Wis. The new facility will house the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, located at 104 S. Michigan Ave., in downtown Chicago. Pritzker’s cousin James Nicholas Pritzker, who in 2013 announced he is a transsexual now known as Jennifer N. Pritzker, is behind the push to move the collection north. According to Kenosha News, “the gun range and facility will be about 22,000...

So Donald Trump, who once was excoriated for saying Mexico is "not sending their best," on the illegal alien front, was right again after all.Here's the local talent coming in to New York from the migrant buses out of Texas, according to John Binder at Breitbart News:Four border crossers, bused from Texas to New York City, were arrested this month after allegedly stealing nearly $12,500 worth of merchandise from a Macy’s department store.On Monday, the Nassau County Police Department in Long Island, New York announced the arrests of 19-year-old Wrallan Cabezas Meza, 30-year-old Jose Garcia Escobar, 21-year-old Miguel Angel Rojas,...

More people need to know Brandon Tsay’s name. Just amazing. Keep in mind, alleged Monterey Park gunman Huu Can Tran was carrying a loaded weapon … and Tsay still fought with and disarmed him. At this point, we’re going to guess Tsay didn’t know about the 10 people Huu had already killed or the additional 10 people he had wounded. If he did, this is even more amazing. How many lives did Tsay save that night?

The entitled elites at the World Economic Forum, who disproportionately pollute our planet in their private jets, should worry less about environmental, social, and governance issues, and more about artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence does not rank very highly in the World Economic Forum’s list of the world’s greatest threats in 2023. They may want to rethink that because the very popular chatbot ChatGPT is now the hottest thing in technology and technological innovation, according to CNBC.ChatGPT is a bot that can be used on a computer. CNBC gives a description here:ChatGPT is essentially a variant of OpenAI’s popular GPT-3.5 language-generation software...

Russian lawmakers on Monday proposed placing restrictions on citizens attempting to leave the country. Yevgeny Moskvichev, the head of Russia's State Duma Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Development, put forward amendments to a transport law that would make it a requirement for Russian citizens, and others, to book a time and place in advance to cross the border. According to a copy of the legislative changes seen by Tass, Russia's state-run news agency, "Vehicles belonging to Russian transport companies, foreign transport companies, citizens of the Russian Federation, foreign citizens, stateless persons and other road users" must reserve a date and...

U.S. Southcom Commander General Laura Richardson speaking to Atlantic Council on January 19 VIDEO AT LINK......................... According to 4 Star General Laura Richardson, Biden has asked Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and six other Latin American nations to send their old Russian weapons to Ukraine in exchange for new U.S. military equipment.

A number of senior Ukrainian officials have resigned or been fired by President Volodymyr Zelensky amid a growing corruption scandal linked to the procurement of war-time supplies, in the biggest shakeup of the government since Russia’s invasion began.

The expression, “If some is good, more must be better” might apply to chocolate, vacations, and American Thinker articles, but not to everything in life. I speak of COVID vaccines, a hot topic in personal discussions and on social media. The corporate media and government, including most world health authorities follow a similar quote, attributed to May West, ““If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!” Is that so? Are an endless series of mRNA “vaccines” really in the best interests of virtually all Americans for whom they are recommended?...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In recognition of Biden's tremendous accomplishment of going one full day without more classified documents found at one of his residences, the White House has proudly hung a banner saying: "1 Day Without Classified Documents Being Discovered At President's House." "From day one, the President has been very clear that going even one day without illegal materials being found at his home is a feat worth celebrating," said gay black Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. "We are proud to celebrate with the entire Biden family as we recognize somehow making it through an entire 24-hour period without more...

(Last Updated On: January 20, 2023) NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER DAY National Peanut Butter Day on January 24th recognizes an American staple in our pantries. Whether creamy or chunky, with chocolate or with jelly, peanut butter gets the recognition it deserves each year on this day. #NationalPeanutButterDay The early peanut butter made by the Aztecs and Incas around 1000 BC was more of a paste and not nearly as creamy as the peanut butter we know now. Click play and enjoy a story about National Peanut Butter Day featuring our founder, Marlo Anderson. If you enjoy the 2-minute show, subscribe with...

President Biden’s approval rating rose to 44 percent in a new Emerson College survey released on Tuesday. The 5-point improvement in Biden’s approval rating — up from 39 percent in Emerson College’s November poll — comes as the president is reportedly preparing to launch his reelection campaign in the coming weeks. ADMINISTRATION Biden approval rating ticks up to 44 percent in new survey BY JULIA SHAPERO - 01/24/23 10:08 AM ET SHARE TWEET AP-Carolyn Kaster President Joe Biden meets with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. (AP...

Cops release photo of fourth suspect in subway beatdown of Fox News’ Adam Klotz Police released a photo of a fourth suspect in the wild subway beatdown of Fox News meteorologist Adam Klotz — who revealed in a new interview how the violent crew egged each other on to “put him to sleep.” The surveillance image, released by the NYPD Monday night, shows a young-looking man in a black jacket and light sweater. The suspect is still on the loose and believed to be connected to the brutal early Saturday attack on Klotz, 37, on a southbound No. 1 train...

The man accused of brutally killing a 74-year-old Upper West Side woman during a burglary is the former super of her building who once did 20 years in prison for gutting a man, prosecutors said Sunday. Ex-con Lashawn Mackey, 47, of Brooklyn was ordered held without bail Sunday evening on charges of murder, attempted murder and burglary in the slaying of elderly Maria Hernandez, who was found bound and gagged face-down under a pile of clothes inside her apartment Wednesday night. “This is a particularly brutal homicide,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal said at Mackey’s arraignment. “She had extensive...

Mattress-rating website Sleep Junkie is seeking five people to get paid $1,000 to participate in a study requiring them to snack on cheese before bed. Photo by Daria-Yakovleva/Pixabay.com Mattress-rating website Sleep Junkie is seeking five people to get paid $1,000 to participate in a study requiring them to snack on cheese before bed. Photo by Daria-Yakovleva/Pixabay.com Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A mattress-reviewing website is seeking study participants willing to get paid $1,000 to eat cheese snacks before going to sleep. Sleep Junkie announced it is seeking five "dairy dreamers" for a study that seeks to address the commonly held belief...

Pope Benedict: ‘Gay Clubs’ Run in SeminariesGay “clubs” operate openly in Catholic seminaries, the institutions that prepare men for the priesthood, the late Pope Benedict XVI has claimed in a posthumously published book scathing of Pope Francis’s progressive agenda.In a blistering attack on the state of the Catholic Church under his successor’s papacy, Benedict, who died on Dec 31 at the age of 95, said that the vocational training of the next generation of priests is on the verge of “collapse”.He claimed that some bishops allow trainee priests to watch pornographic films as an outlet for their sexual urges.Benedict gave...

House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark's non-binary child, who was arrested in an anti-cop protest over the weekend, was the one the Massachusetts congresswoman previously said had nightmares about "climate change." Clark’s middle child, Riley Dowell, was arrested Saturday evening for allegedly tagging a monument with anti-police slogans in spray paint and assaulting a law enforcement officer during the protest. The House Democratic whip in December recalled Dowell "waking up with nightmares" over climate change.

Chris Wallace’s career has fallen apart since leaving Fox News. He is now on CNN pressing Idina Menzel on if her song from Frozen was truly empowering to women. Wallace said of the song Let It Go, “I didn’t get it when I saw the movie, I didn’t get it when every one of my grandchildren were singing the darn song.” Although Idina Menzel said she had thought about what Wallace said she was clearly confused by Wallace’s stance on the song.

A Texas man released on a $2 bail for allegedly choking and kidnapping his former girlfriend was rearrested within days for continuing to threaten her... Aubrey Taylor was arrested after allegedly holding his former girlfriend hostage, choking and terrorizing her on Dec. 27 in Harris County, Texas. He was offered a $2 bond — $1 for each count — during his court date on Jan. 13 and was rearrested on Jan. 18 for violating court orders and allegedly threatening the victim.. “Repeat offender accused of beating woman gets $1 bond. Horrific,” said Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbot on Twitter. “Texans...

Deliveries would be part of deal to enable provision of German-built Leopards The Biden administration is leaning toward sending a significant number of Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine and an announcement of the deliveries could come this week, U.S. officials said. The announcement would be part of a broader diplomatic understanding with Germany in which Berlin would agree to send a smaller number of its own Leopard 2 tanks and would also approve the delivery of more of the German-made tanks by Poland and other nations. It would settle a trans-Atlantic disagreement over the tanks that had threatened to open...