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WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will pay a visit to Warsaw this week that will include talks with political leaders and a meeting with regular Ukrainians and Poles, Polish officials announced on Monday. Zelenskyy will be accompanied by his wife, Olena Zelenska, for the visit, scheduled for Wednesday. It will begin with an official meeting at the Royal Castle between Zelenskyy and his host, Polish President Andrzej Duda. Their talks will include security issues, regional politics, economic cooperation, historical matters lingering between the two neighbors as well as the transit of Ukraine’s grain and other farm produce...

@RepThomasMassie Trump endorsed swamp creature Paul Ryan for Speaker, which turned out to be a huge mistake. No Wall, No Obamacare repeal, No pro-2A. I was the only member of the GOP to vote against Paul Ryan, but there was no chance to defeat him once Trump endorsed him.

LED light bulbs 'currently cost more than incandescent bulbs and are inferior,' consumer groups said in letter to U.S. Department of Energy The Biden administration is preparing to implement a sweeping nationwide ban on commonly used light bulbs as part of its energy efficiency and climate agenda. The regulations, which prohibit retailers from selling incandescent light bulbs, were finalized by the Department of Energy (DOE) in April 2022 and are slated to go into effect on Aug. 1, 2023. The DOE will begin full enforcement of the ban on that date, but it has already urged retailers to begin transitioning...

Orban's post on Twitter featured a photograph of the two men smiling and shaking hands during a meeting at Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey, estate last August. The far-right Hungarian leader had traveled to the United States to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Texas. “Keep on fighting, Mr. President! We are with you,” Orban wrote in the tweet on Monday.

Egyptian activist Rana Abdel Hamid celebrated her win by claiming that she and other Muslims were the actual victims of the September 11, 2001 Islamic terrorist attacks and that they should “unapologetically” Islamize the city. An Egyptian-American won a United States city approval for the Islamic call to prayer (Adhan) to be blasted from loudspeakers five times a day at three mosques in her New York neighborhood during Ramadan. Muslim community organizer and politician Rana Abdel Hamid posted on several media platforms that she received approval Monday from the Astoria neighborhood, known as “Little Egypt.” The neighborhood is situated west...

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A Pennsylvania school district will keep parents in the dark when it invites children to declare a “gender” that is different from their sex. Greater Johnstown School District in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, created a “gender transition plan” and a “gender support plan” for students. Neither plan requires consent or involvement from parents. The gender transition plan features a section called “Parent/Guardian Involvement.” It asks, “Are guardian(s) of this student aware and supportive of their child’s gender transition?” It goes on to inquire, “If not, what considerations must be accounted for by implementing this plan?” The district also has a “Gender Expansive...

The measure was introduced by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis, both Democrats, and only has one public comment attached to it. The proposal outlines that it would “Declare the State of mental health services and overcrowding in the Los Angeles County jails a humanitarian crisis, requiring the County to move with all deliberate speed on meaningful solutions; and prioritize decreasing the number of individuals entering the Los Angeles County Jails.” If passed, the local sheriff would be instructed to review its bail thresholds and to cite and release “individuals with aggregate bail amounts set at $50,000 or below.” The...

Twitter owner Elon Musk identified what many Americans know to be true about the leftist New York Times: Its incessant propaganda isn’t even good enough to line a birdcage. Musk tweeted April 2 that the “real tragedy” for The Times is that their “propaganda isn’t even interesting.” In addition, Musk said in a follow-up tweet, “their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It’s unreadable.” Musk is right and it doesn’t take much digging into the NewsBusters archives to see the kind of brain-melting nonsense that The Times spits out on a regular basis.

That's the mantra I keep hearing on TV and reading on Twitter. It's not true.Alvin Bragg, the champion of NYC criminals, did it again. Bragg has a thing for charging those who dare engage in self-defense. He charged a victim with 2nd degree murder. Again. A Manhattan parking garage attendant who was shot twice while confronting an alleged thief at his business was charged with murder after wrestling away the weapon and using it to fire at the suspect. Bragg has done the same stupid thing before. Alvin Bragg is an incompetent moron. Today on Fox News Sunday Former...

Russian officials plan to outline “the contours of a new world order” over the next month as Russia and China intensify their efforts to gain influence at the United Nations. “Our idea is to hold a comprehensive, forward-looking strategic discussion about the contours of a new world order that is coming to replace the unipolar one,” Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia, the top Russian envoy at the U.N., told state media. “This conversation is long overdue.” Nebenzia will play a prominent role in stage-managing that effort, as Russia’s upcoming turn as rotating president of the U.N. Security Council will allow Moscow to...

Important Editor’s Note: Our company DOES NOT and WILL NOT subject our cattle to mRNA vaccines or “methane suppressants.” The “fact-checkers” claim there are no mRNA vaccines for cows and other livestock. These “fact-checkers” also claimed the Covid-19 vaccines were 100% safe and effective. Now, many states are moving to allow mRNA injections into cattle for various reasons. One does not have to be an “anti-vaxxer” to appreciate the risks inherent with introducing experimental drugs into the food supply. And despite protestations from the “fact-checkers,” the new mRNA jabs for cattle may be introduced into some herds this month (though...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 21 people have been shot, four fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said. A would-be robber was shot while trying to hold up an O'Reilly Auto Parts store Saturday. Police say a man walked into the store near 91st and Stony Island, showed a gun and demanded cash. The store manager, who police say is a valid FOID card holder, then shot the suspect. The suspect was transported to U of C Hospital in critical condition. He was later pronounced dead. Area Two detectives are currently investigating. Hours earlier, a man was found...

The United States has 70 prosecutors in office linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros after 12 left office last year. A map from the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund shows the prosecutors scattered across the country. Over the past year, 12 were defeated in elections, resigned, departed, or were removed, such as in the case of Andrew Warren, who was directly removed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). DONALD TRUMP INDICTED: BRAGG TELLS HOUSE GOP TO CEASE 'UNLAWFUL POLITICAL INTERFERENCE' IN CASE A report from the group found that Soros-linked prosecutors oversee 20% of the U.S. population, including half of the...

Ukraine: A Right to Exist Something to be aware of, something to reckon with: “How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians.” That is an extensive report from the Associated Press. And here is an extensive report from the New York Times: “Russia Signals It Will Take More Ukrainian Children, a Crime in Progress.” My view is: People do not have to read such reports, word for word. They are, of course, tough to bear. But we should be aware of the reality — simply the general reality. And those who want details, of course, can have them... Symbolic...

Russian investigators have detained a woman in the hunt for the killers of pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in a blast at a St Petersburg cafe. In video released by authorities - most likely recorded under duress - Darya Trepova is heard admitting she handed over a statuette that later blew up. A video circulating on social media showed a young woman in a brown coat apparently entering the cafe with a cardboard box. Images showed the box being placed on a table in the cafe before the woman sat down. Another video showed a statue being handed to Tatarsky. Russia's...

Country singer Kelsea Ballerini opened the CMT Music Awards with a tribute to victims of a school shooting while sharing in that community’s grief, then danced alongside drag artists as states across the country consider legally limiting drag show performances.

One of the three suspects sought in the drugging deaths of two robbery victims after they left gay clubs in Hell’s Kitchen has surrendered to cops, law-enforcement sources said Sunday. Jacob Barroso, 30, of Harlem gave up and was charged for his role specifically in the death of Julio Ramirez, 25, who along with John Umberger, 33, died last spring after ingesting a lethal chemical cocktail while separately partying in Manhattan, sources said. Two other suspects in the men’s deaths — Jayqwan Hamilton, 35, and Robert Demaio, 34, both of Brooklyn — also were indicted last week for the crimes...

Apparently, foreign Central Banks have lost faith in Biden and The Federal Reserve. Foreign Central Banks are selling US Treasuries. Other than The Fed, Japan and China are the two largest holders of US Treasuries. And they are bailing. Wake Biden up before all the Central Banks go-go.

Every day last week, after three children and three adults were murdered by a transgender shooter at a Christian school in Nashville on Monday, Joe Biden waxed lyrical about the “joy, strength, and absolute courage [of] transgender and nonbinary Americans.” Hard though it is to believe at a moment when discretion and sensitivity were needed, the president issued statements from the White House claiming “Transgender Americans shape our Nation’s soul.” On Friday, four days after the massacre at the Covenant Christian school, he issued a proclamation declaring March 31 as “Transgender Day of Visibility” and railed against “MAGA extremists [who]...