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Michelle Doyle, 52, died on January 16 after she had a seizure during dinner, causing a fatal stroke.A woman died suddenly whilst watching TV at home with her family. Michelle Doyle, 52, died on January 16 after she had a seizure during dinner, causing a fatal stroke. Her daughter, Toni Branks and the rest of her family have been left heartbroken by her passing. Toni, 27, revealed that Michelle's death was such a shock to her loved ones, as the day she died felt like it was just any normal day, reports Glasgow Live. Toni, from Shettleston, said: "That...

A House Resolution condemning socialism that was introduced by Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla) passed with unanimous GOP support. Democrats, though were split on the issue with about half voting for it and half not. Salazar argued that the resolution was "intended as a message to our youth. Right now 40% of generation z and millennials see Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto as a better guide for government than the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness cited in our Declaration of Independence." "As history has shown, Marx's ideas have led to tyranny and murder carried out by communist regimes," Salazar pointed out....

Police and ambulance were called out to Patterdale Road, at 7am. The man, who has not been named, was pronounced dead at the scene, on the Ridge Estate. The death is not being treated as suspicious. Lancaster Area Police said: “The family have been informed and our thoughts are with them at this sad time.”

A George Soros-funded group targeted Twitter owner Elon Musk for daring to interact with “right-wing accounts” following acquisition of the platform. The leftist Institute for Strategic Dialogue spewed nonsensical agitprop in a Jan. 31 blog. ISD railed against Musk’s exchanges with “right-wing Twitter users” and claimed that his interactions with these accounts increased a so-called “staggering 1,690 percent after October 27, from 1.1 percent of his total interactions to nearly 20 percent after October 27, from 1.1 percent of his total interactions to nearly 20 percent.” The “right-wing” accounts that ISD blacklisted included satire site The Babylon Bee, Psychologist Jordan...

Senate Republicans have joined their House colleagues in seeking to block a new Biden administration rule that targets arm-bracing devices used for firearms — although they stop short of wanting to abolish the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Last week, Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott joined Sen. Roger Marshall and several other GOP senators to introduce the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today, or SHORT, Act. As The Free Press reported last month, the ATF released a 291-page rule that would reclassify pistol-stabilizing braces into the same category as short-barreled rifles. The National Firearms Act requires gun...

… But the painful reality for Harris is that in private conversations over the past few months, dozens of Democrats in the White House, on Capitol Hill and around the nation — including some who helped put her on the party’s 2020 ticket — said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country. Even some Democrats whom her own advisers referred reporters to for supportive quotes confided privately that they had lost hope in her. Through much of the fall, a quiet panic set in among key...

Since its low energy announcement a few months ago, the 2024 Donald Trump presidential campaign has been a non-stop clusterfark of dinner dates with neo-Nazis, cavorting with the Conservative, Inc., likes of Lindsey Graham, disappointing fundraising, relitigating the 2020 election, and generating lame nicknames for a rival who is right on his Gucci’s heels. For his fans, it has been a festival of cognitive dissonance, as the OnlyTrumpers shriek that RON DESANTIS LOVES PAUL RYAN! and then excuse the photos of Trump literally endorsing Paul Ryan as some sort of 4-D chess or a cunning ploy to “keep his enemies...

CNN is undergoing a revamp with all its operations, supposedly in a move to make the network more geared toward unbiased journalism—think Bernard Shaw days. Some insufferable clowns have already been fired, but this will be a long-term project if it’s genuine. In the meantime, all doesn’t appear well on CNN’s This Morning set, where Don Lemon reportedly got into a shouting match with co-host Kaitlin Collins during a commercial break. That blow-up occurred on December 8, allegedly ruining late-night plans with the cohosts before a White House Christmas party. Poppy Harlow, another co-host, seems trapped in the middle. The...

Mark 6:53-56 Friends, today’s Gospel reports Jesus healing many people at Gennesaret. We hear that people brought the sick from all over the region and all of them were cured. “Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.”An awful lot of contemporary theologians and Bible commentators have tried to explain away the miracles of Jesus as spiritual symbols. Perhaps most notoriously, many preachers tried to explain the multiplication of the loaves and...

The famous Swilcan Bridge located on the 18th hole at St. Andrews’s Old Course seems to have been altered, and golf fans are not very happy about the changes. On Saturday morning, Twitter user @ukgolfguy shared a photo of the unmistakable landmark. In the picture, it appears that a circular stone pathway has been built on either side of the bridge—a structure which has been crossed by legends of the game throughout its history. The site is perhaps the most well-known golf course feature in the world. For golfers and visitors of the Old Course, it is criminal to pass...

Ann Arbor, Mich., was ranked the best place to live in the United States, according to a new review of cities most frequently cited on national lists. The city, located to the southwest of Detroit, is home to around 121,000 residents and the public University of Michigan. The region’s low crime rates, diverse job market, and growing technology industry helped push Ann Arbor to the top of the list. The Michigan city was followed by Raleigh, N.C.; Huntsville, Ala.; Fayetteville, Ark.; and Colorado Springs, Colo., respectively. Researchers based the list on 10 different rankings compiled by Business Insider, Travel +...

Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee The Grammy’s featured Sam Smith’s demonic performance and was sponsored by Pfizer. And the Satanic Church now has an abortion clinic in NM that requires its patients to perform a satanic ritual before services. American Christians need to get to work.

Ward gives the details behind the F-22 shootdown of the Chinese Spy Balloon that occurred on February 4, 2023, the first kill by a Raptor in the history of that stealth fighter.

There’s no greater joy for dog owners than to see their canines happy with wagging tails. When the Dogs Of Instagram account launched a "Happiest Dogs on Earth" photo contest in January this year and asked dog owners to submit photos or videos of their pups living their best life, the results were extremely uplifting.

.....West’s presidential campaign did not receive any money in 2022, and that his political action committee, Kanye 2020, spent $142,000 from October to December 2022 but raised zero in donations during that period, the Daily Beast reported.....

The U.S. military has started a recovery mission for debris from the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet on Feb. 4, according to the Pentagon.Several U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels established a security perimeter where the balloon hit the water, about six nautical miles off the coast of South Carolina, and were searching for debris, a senior defense official and a senior military official said on Feb. 4.“The nature of the debris is still being assessed. But recovery options will seek to recover all debris and any material of intelligence value,” the defense...

The greenies’ dream of “clean” (except for millions of dead birds) energy from wind farms is dying in the face of the poor economics (even with tax subsidies) and unreliable technology. The big players in constructing wind turbines are facing massive losses and write-downs and cancelling big offshore wind projects. Brace yourself for demands for even more subsides to the failing industry.The green energy subsidiary of German electrical equipment giant Siemens just reported Thursday that it lost nearly a billion dollars in the last quarter. Via Fox News (Hat tip: Beege Welborn, Hot Air):Global green energy company Siemens Gamesa reported...

Donald Trump called one-time ally Chris Christie “sloppy” after the former New Jersey governor predicted the ex-president wouldn’t win in 2024 and needled him for losing his re-election bid in 2020 — saying “that loss to Joe still stings.” The war of words erupted Sunday after Christie posted on Twitter that Trump, 76, was the only candidate to “lose to Biden outside of Delaware.” The 45th president shot back that Christie’s 2016 campaign “went down in flames.” Trump who announced his third straight White House run Nov. 15, took to his Truth Social platform to lambaste Christie after his appearance...

For a few days last week, Americans focused their attention on the sky as a Chinese spy balloon floated across most parts of the continental U.S. The Biden administration waited until last Saturday to finally shoot the balloon down. The whole incident and the responses from both Beijing and Washington exposed serious policy miscalculations on both sides. Most people want to know why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent a spy balloon to the U.S. a week before the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing. There are several probable explanations. One is that CCP might want to...

Axios is positioning this announcement as FTX asking for political donations to be returned. However, the request is realistically from the FTX debtors. (Via Axios) – Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is sending notices to former donor recipients asking for the donated funds to be returned, the company said in a press release Sunday. Why it matters: Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Digital Markets Co-CEO Ryan Salame were two of the largest political donors during the last election cycle. Now the company’s debtors want the money back.