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2 hours ago DC Draino on DeSantis: "How is he gonna jump up to the big leagues? Or lead us through WW3?" Bannon: Talk to me about your assessment of Ron DeSantis. He had the whole weekend to work on this. What is your assessment on how he pulled it off today? DC: I think it's a tough day when you get outflanked to the right by Kevin McCarthy, which was very suprising. I haven't said a bad thing about DeSantis despite being an open Trump supporter, endorsing him for 2024. But today was the first day that I let...

A New York federal judge on Monday ruled that the U.S. Virgin Islands and women who accuse the late investor Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse can proceed with lawsuits claiming that JPMorgan Chase knowingly benefited from participating in Epstein's sex-trafficking scheme. In addition, the judge allowed parts of a separate, similar lawsuit by Epstein's accusers against Deutsche Bank, including the claim that that bank also knowingly benefited. The four-page ruling by Manhattan District Judge Jed Rakoff came in response to motions from JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank to dismiss the three lawsuits.

In the video, Mulvaney lip syncs along with audio that says “I am Eloise. I am six. I’m a city child, I live at the Plaza Hotel, which is huge, and wonderful, and tres elegante, especially at Christmas time!” The line comes from a fictional book called “Eloise” about a young girl who lives in the hotel that her mother owns. Mulvaney, a man who identifies as a woman, is wearing a bow in his hair, as well as high-knee socks and a skirt. The pro-trans activist previously met with President Joe Biden, where the two spoke out against legislation...

Here is yet another news article about a mother who is struggling to provide for her children, where the article makes absolutely zero mention of the children’s father, and the article puts 100% of the blame on the lack of sufficient government programs.This woman has six young children, including a baby that was born just a few months ago.I am completely disgusted that the writer of the article makes no mention whatsoever of the children’s father, and blames the entire situation on a lack of sufficient government programs.Here’s part of the article:“I’m hard-pressed to believe a woman with six kids...

The Sacramento City Unified School District on Monday raised a transgender pride flag outside the district office to show support for transgender staff and students. The school board passed a resolution to recognize the week leading up to the International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31.

The common Russian people, not just elites, are organizing against corrupt Western values.The conservative, pro-family, and pro-Orthodox movement “Sorok Sorokov” is founding a pro-family political party called simply, “Za Cemyu” or, For the Family. The first party congress is meant to be held on the 25th of March in Moscow in the conference hall of the Pokrovskaya Hotel of the Holy Intercession Monastery. The party, whose platform in Russian can be found here and its Telegram channel here, advocates for a revived Russia where traditional culture will be supported and instilled by the State. Abortion would be banned outright, and...

There's been a trend this NHL season that has nothing to do with the sport's on-ice product. Several teams have announced plans to hold Pride Nights, during which players wear jerseys celebrating the LGBTQ+ community either during warmups or games -- or both. But many of those plans have been scraped by teams after being made public. The most recent example came on March 7, when Minnesota Wild players chose to not wear special Pride Night jerseys that had been designed. Below is a deeper dive into why this is happening among NHL teams.

Assistant Professor Katelyn Bolhofner (left) and Assistant Teaching Professor Adriana Sartorio (right) of Arizona State University were recently awarded a grant from the Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center to support their project “They Are Our Parents.” Credit: New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences For decades, hundreds of families across South America have lived in the shadow of Operation Condor, a 1970s-era campaign of political repression that led to the disappearance and murder of an estimated 60,000 individuals in South America. As of 2019, 37 bodies out of around 400 of the murdered individuals were recovered in Paraguay. Only...

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered, at the High-Level Special Event marking the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, in New York, today:I thank Pakistan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for focusing attention — and calling for action — to stamp out the poison of Islamophobia. The world’s nearly 2 billion Muslims reflect humanity in all its magnificent diversity. They hail from all corners of the world. They are Arabs, Africans, Europeans, Americans and Asians. But they often face bigotry and prejudice for no other reason than their faith. This anti-Muslim hatred takes many forms. There is...

In Urso v. Mohammad, (D CT, March 10, 2023), a Catholic priest sued a town's health director over COVID orders that cancelled religious gatherings and congregational prayers. The court concluded that the health Directive violated plaintiff's free exercise rights, but left for trial the question of whether plaintiff suffered an injury, saying in part: [N]ot all secular businesses in the Town of Orange were closed, and the Directive itself is unquestionably stricter than the Governor’s Executive Orders, which imposed capacity limits on religious institutions in line with those imposed on other secular businesses, and never cancelled all religious services completely.......

The day after Kentucky lawmakers rapidly changed and passed a bill to include measures banning gender-affirming care for minors, the state’s top education official decried the “sweeping and harmful” legislation. Kentucky Education Commissioner Jason Glass said the latest version of Senate Bill 150 “contains provisions that will put our young people at risk, have the government interfere with decisions between doctors, patients and families and puts Kentucky at the front of a series of similar hateful, ignorant and shameful efforts around the country.” In the fall, the Kentucky Department of Education will host a “summit in support of LGBTQIA+ people...

SPUC executive director Michael Robinson said that the suspension is a message there 'there is no place for pro-life Catholics or pro-lifers of any sort on their campus.'STIRLING, Scotland (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) — Stirling University Students’ Union has suspended the Catholic Society after the group shared a post promoting pro-life vigils in Scotland. The university’s Catholic Society was placed under investigation over a social media post encouraging members to attend a pro-life vigil outside of a hospital in Glasgow, which the union’s vice president for communities, Jess Reid, said “goes against our values and policy as...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Medical Education and Training Campus, TexasThe Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) is a United States Department of Defense integrated campus under a single university-style administration, with nearly 50 programs of study available to U.S. military enlisted students. METC is located at Joint Base San Antonio on Fort Sam Houston, Texas with a field training site located at Camp Bullis.METC is the result of the 2005 BRAC legislation that required the bulk of enlisted technical medical training in the Army, Air Force, and Navy to be collocated to Fort Sam Houston, Texas with...

Kryuchkov: all drones shot down over Dzhankoy were aimed at civilian targets MOSCOW, March 21-RIA Novosti. All drones shot down over Dzhankoy aimed at civilian objects and were stuffed with shrapnel, Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of Crimea, said on his Telegram channel. "All drones were aimed at civilian objects. One was shot down over the Dzhankoy technical school and fell between the educational building and the hostel. There are no military objects nearby. The rest were shot down over residential areas. In addition to explosives, each contained shrapnel"...

Over the weekend, two Twitter threads regarding car break-ins in San Francisco went viral. The first came from CNN reporter Kyung Lah, who said her rental car was broken into outside City Hall even with hired security monitoring the vehicle. The second came from someone sharing a story from a visiting friend, who purportedly lost $10,000 in valuables and is now "scarred forever."

If you’ve ever taken part in the weekly VIP Gold live chat with HotAir’s Ed Morrissey and myself, you’ve probably heard me utter the phrase “everything is stupid and it’s only getting worse.” I’m sure there are exceptions to that rule, but when it comes to the arguments of anti-gunners, that phrase definitely applies. The latest example? The anti-gun left’s full-throttled freakout over a Second Amendment-themed hoodie that apparently led to some sort of disciplinary action against a Utah high school student; a situation highlighted by Sen. Rand Paul over the weekend in a tweet that appears to have now...

[Catholic Caucus] Hell, No! Here he goes again. It’s Lent. Time for Bergoglio to scandalize the Church and the world once again.The Vatican’s New Age Freelancer in Chief chooses Lent and his 10th papal anniversary (10 years of our own Bergoglian hell) to announce to the world that Hell is not a place but a “state of the heart and a “posture in life.” What in the hell!In another full throated effort to destroy the teachings of the Catholic Church, Bergoglio, the humble and merciful one, boasts that “Hell is not a place— If one goes to attend the Last...

An influential US medical panel is warning about the dangers of a rapidly spreading deadly fungus — just a week after the hit zombie show The Last of Us wrapped up. The American College of Physicians (ACAP) said the rise and spread of antibiotic-resistant cases of Candida auris, also known as C auris, is 'particularly concerning'. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) already described the fungus, which kills up to 60 percent of people it infects, as an 'urgent threat' in 2019. A person is infected after coming into direct contact with a contaminated object. It spreads from...

Former President Donald Trump went scorched earth on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after he weighed in on his potential indictment in the Stormy Daniels case brought by prosecutors in New York. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, raised questions about DeSantis’s sexuality and once again peddled his groomer smear against the Florida Republican who is seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2024. “Ron DeSanctimonious will probably find out about FALSE ACCUSATIONS & FAKE STORIES sometime in the future, as he gets older, wiser, and better known, when he’s unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman, even classmates that...

Gee made sure to bring up the arrest of Michael Cohen, an attorney for Trump for more than a decade, in 2018. Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison and was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for tax evasion. “But one of the things he was guilty of was campaign finance violations, which stemmed from what happened with Stormy Daniels,” Gee continued. “So if you have sex with a porn star, that’s really nobody’s business. However, if you pay that porn star to keep quiet about it so that you can win an election, and reimburse yourself...