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Tucker Carlson predicted the Nashville shooting last week.Not the where. Not the day. But he rightly pointed out that the constant rhetoric about a non-existent trans-genocide was ginning up panic and a growing violent “resistance” in the trans community. Beege wrote about the rage in the trans community right now, and as usual, she hit the nail on the head.It is pretty stunning how prescient he was.Last week, Tucker warned us about exactly what happened today: pic.twitter.com/yDetBzANYH— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 28, 2023It is striking how extreme the rhetoric has become, and how non-trans people on the Left have been...

As congressional Republicans increasingly clamor for a ban on the popular video-sharing app TikTok, at least one is speaking out against the idea: Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. In an op-ed for the Louisville Courier Journal, Paul argued that seeking a ban on TikTok was not just bad policy, but bad politics. "Congressional Republicans have come up with a national strategy to permanently lose elections for a generation," he wrote. According to TikTok, the app now has 150 million active monthly users in the United States.

The Associated Press periodically conducts a poll in conjunction with the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research gauging the public’s views on federal spending. Given the ongoing fight in Washington between House Republicans and the White House over the next budget, these are significant numbers to keep an eye on. The latest edition of the poll was released last night and the results are a mixed bag. The good news for fiscal conservatives is that for the first time in quite a while, a solid majority (60%) of Americans agree that the federal government spends too much money and they...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is departing tomorrow for a tour of the Americas. She will begin her trip with a stop in New York City, after which she will visit two Central and South American nations. On her way home, she plans to stop in Los Angeles where she is expected to hold a meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That last item on her agenda has China up in arms (as usual) and they are threatening unspecified “resolute countermeasures” in response. Hopefully, that response will be little more than a sternly-worded letter, but given the current state of American...

The war on parents’ rights continues unabated in California. The latest shocking episode involves new legislation currently making its way through the state legislature. If passed, it would allow children as young as 12 to “check themselves in” to group homes without parental consent. The legislation would apply to mental health professionals evaluating the safety of children. The bill’s authors claim that the measure is being considered in response to an increase in suicides among minority children, but it’s pretty obvious what this is really about. And this would amount to what can only be described as state-sanctioned kidnapping. (Free...

A Las Vegas man is calling for squatters rights to be updated after several squatters moved into his mother’s California home. Flash Shelton, founder of the United Handyman Association, said he was staked outside of his mother's home waiting to see when the squatters would leave before taking action. Shelton explained that as soon as he saw the squatters pull out of the driveway, he entered the residence and began installing security cameras. He told the two women who returned to get their stuff out of the home or he would take it out himself.

This story made the local news when it happened last August. A homeless man named Dwayne A. Simpson attacked a woman named Sonya Gonzalez with a 35lb rock as she waited for her son to pick her up after work. Gonzalez fell, hitting her head on a concrete wall and passing out. She awoke moments later covered in her own blood and sought help.Officers responding to the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Northeast Portland on Tuesday saw the woman — identified later as 55-year-old Sonya Gonzales — with “significant amounts of blood” dripping off her, according to a probable...

A Florida man who broke into a home Sunday hid in a pile of construction insulation before he was arrested by responding officers. Bruce Davis allegedly broke into a home in North Fort Myers in an attempted residential robbery and was still inside the property when deputies arrived on the scene, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff joked that Davis, 44, got himself “stuck in an itchy situation” in a press release about the encounter. The would-be burglar climbed into the house’s attic and buried himself under the itchy insulation while officers searched the home. The sheriff’s office...

Brenton Smith ([email protected]) is a policy advisor with The Heartland Institute.Social Security reform has been largely dormant for 40 years as politicians from both parties have talked diligently about the program’s long-term outlook while assiduously avoiding taking any action to deal with it.The sad truth is the longer we wait, the harder it gets. Given the passage of time, a person turning 76 years old today expects, on average, to outlive the system’s ability to pay scheduled benefits. It only gets harder from here. That statistic should draw the attention of our elected officials, but it has done little...

One Tory council has already lodged a legal challenge to stop the Home Office Read more: The former travel agent making millions from the UK's migrant crisis By DAVID BARRETT and ISABELLE STANLEY and ANDREW LEVY PUBLISHED: 17:53 EDT,| UPDATED: 20:06 EDT, 29 March 2023 e-mail 32 shares 166 View comments Plans to house nearly 5,000 asylum seekers in new accommodation centres across Britain are set to be bitterly contested by local authorities. Opponents warned the Government it had a ‘fight on its hands’, amid concern from Tory frontbenchers and senior MPs. One Tory council has already lodged a legal...

Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale’s pre-killing spree manifesto is set to be released to the public after the FBI and its’ highly skilled team of criminal profilers analyze its contents, a Nashville Council Member revealed to The Post. The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit is working “in tandem with” the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) to complete “a very in-depth analysis of certain aspects of the shooter’s life,” Robert Swope said Wednesday. “The manifesto is going to be released. It’s just a matter of when. There are some incredibly brilliant psychological minds and psychological analysts combing through her entire life,” added...

.One of four top executives dismissed by Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson last week is disputing Hutson's claim that a shake-up was already in the works and said he may go to court to file for whistleblower status. Hutson said at a press conference Tuesday that the dismissals were part of a "reorganization" as she approaches her one-year anniversary on the job. But an attorney for David Trautenberg, the sheriff’s former chief financial officer, claims that his client “was fired shortly after launching an internal, financial investigation into the use of hotel rooms paid for by OPSO over the Mardi...

A 37-year-old dad was stabbed to death in front of his 3-year-old daughter and fiancée outside a Starbucks in Canada after he asked the attacker not to vape in front of his child, his family said. Paul Stanley Schmidt and his daughter Erica were outside the Vancouver coffee shop about 5:30 p.m. Sunday while his fiancée, Ashley Umali, was getting drinks, his mother, Kathy Schmidt, told the Vancouver Sun. Horrifying video posted on social media captured the moment a man suddenly stabbed Schmidt, who was seen clutching his stomach as he staggered and fell to the ground in a pool...

Washington, DC, got off to a violent start at the beginning of 2023, with crime rates rattling the city as Democrat leaders failed to push consequences. U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves declined to prosecute 67 percent of criminals arrested by police officers in 2022. In an interview with Left-wing Washington Post, Graves defended his leniency on the criminals, giving excuses such as unaccredited crime labs and police body-camera footage leading to severe scrutiny. Most cases not prosecuted involve gun and possession and burglary charges, which have increased by 22 percent. "The bottom line is that it creates the impression that this...

When will a group of Republican US Senators insist on meeting John Fetterman? To wish him well, give him some flowers, whatever. Just to see what the response is and to watch the Dems circle wagons and the media show outrage. If they wait until August to reveal that he is in a vegetative state and incapable of executing his duties as a U.S. Senator, then the Democrat governor of PA gets to pick Fetterman’s replacement for the balance of his six year term. If this is disclosed before August there has to be an election, which a Democrat would...

Palmer Report @PalmerReport BREAKING: Allen Weisselberg is no longer being represented by Trump's attorneys, per NBC. This points to the possibility that Weisselberg has cut a deal with the Manhattan DA and is cooperating against Trump. Which would explain everything we're seeing in Manhattan right now. 8:31 PM · Mar 29, 2023

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) got into a heated exchange over the ban of the China-owned app TikTok in the U.S. Paul hit the brakes on Hawley’s proposed bill to ban the platform, arguing it would limit free speech and emulate censorship from the Chinese government. In a speech on the Senate floor, Hawley requested unanimous consent on the No TikTok on United States Devices Act, legislation he introduced in January, warning that American data is being collected on the social media app by the platform’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance. “We acted just a few months...

If you have spent any time on Twitter or anti-DeSantis conspiracy websites, you will hear how Ron DeSantis is Jeb Bush reincarnated and is a puppet for the Bushes! and Karl Rove! (and the globalists, don’t forget the globalists)(and the three-fingered pudding eaters, don’t forget the pudding eaters). Paul Ryan – who Trump publicly adored – pulls DeSantis’ strings, some say. So great to have the endorsement and support of Paul Ryan. We will both be working very hard to Make America Great Again! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 2, 2016 I’m so old that I remember (a couple...

People in the Matsu islands of Taiwan have recently been cut off from the outside world after two submarines controlled by China snipped internet cables last month. Consequently, credit cards could not be used, bank transfers failed, and online videos were not successfully uploading. However, the event is more serious than not being able to load YouTube videos to the internet. The recent development has exposed an important information vulnerability, one that has revealed Taiwan is incapable of protecting its own communications should the small country go to war with China ... Lin Shengyue, 80, said of the outages: “Calls...

The Senate passed a resolution, 68-23, on March 29 to end the COVID-19 national emergency sooner than scheduled. The measure, which was introduced by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and passed the House on Feb. 1, now heads to President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told Democrats, according to media reports. The White House planned to end both the COVID national emergency—which then-President Donald Trump enacted on March 13, 2020—on May 11. However, this bill will terminate the national emergency a month earlier than scheduled. The administration is also set to end...