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It’s not just the United States where brutal criminals are coddled.Add Scotland to the list of places where barbarism is embraced by the criminal justice system. England too, if you are a South Asian.A brutal rapist walked out of the courtroom without any prison time. Since he only raped a girl he isn’t considered much of a danger to the community.Girls don’t count for much in Scotland anyway. Unless they are transgender. Then the state will go all out for you. One must have priorities, you know.Back in 2018 Sean Hogg brutally raped a 13-year-old girl as she played in...

The collapse of freedom in the Western world proceeds apace.Misinformation boards. Government backdoors into social media companies. Bogus “fact checks” that promote outright falsehoods.And now an arrest for being mean to Emmanuel Macron on Facebook. An actual arrest for calling him “filth.”You are likely aware of the raging protests in France over pension reforms. As much as I hate to admit it, I am with Macron on this issue. Raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 is hardly draconian given the increase in lifespans and the fiscal crises all pension programs face.The protests have been “fiery but mostly peaceful,”...

Cold activates a cellular cleansing mechanism that breaks down harmful protein aggregations responsible for various diseases associated with aging. A research team has now unlocked one responsible mechanism. Professor Dr. David Vilchez used a non-vertebrate model organism, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and cultivated human cells. Both carried the genes for two neurodegenerative diseases that typically occur in old age: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Huntington's disease. Both diseases are characterized by accumulations of harmful and damaging protein deposits—so-called pathological protein aggregations. In both model organisms, cold actively removed the protein clumps, thus preventing the protein aggregation that is pathological in...

REPORTER: "The indictment does not specifically say what those crimes were. [...] What laws were broken?"DA BRAGG: "The indictment doesn't specify because the law does not so require..."Video of the exchange in the link below.https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1643380738165710848

I honestly did not know that things were this bad. Severe drought is crippling winter wheat production in the middle of the country, agricultural production in many areas of California is being hit extremely hard by unprecedented flooding, and orange production in Florida is down more than 60 percent from last season due to a combination of factors. Of course this comes at a time when the entire world is dealing with a major food crisis. As I discussed in a previous article, even CNN is admitting that we are currently in the midst of “the worst food crisis in...

RedState’s Nick Arama has had Alvin Bragg’s number for quite some time, predicting that the 34-count indictment would amount to charge stacking and that there could be nothing a serious lawyer would put their name to in it (and she’s written a new analysis now that we have the actual indictment, here).I wrote earlier that once we saw the indictment we knew why Alvin Bragg wanted it to be sealed as long as possible, and that according to one reporter who was in the courtroom Trump’s attorneys laughed when they read it. Trump’s attorney Joseph Tacopino seemed to confirm this...

Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court election carries bigger policy stakes than any other race in the country this year. It will decide whether conservatives (like Justice Kelly) or liberals (like Judge Protasiewicz) control the otherwise evenly divided court, which will determine the fate of abortion rights, gerrymandered political maps and a range of voting rights issues in the battleground state. Full results from the primary election ›

JANET PROTASIEWICZ: 548,650 votes (57.9%) DANIEL KELLY: 399,014 votes (42.1%) PERCENTAGE OF VOTES IN: 56%

Andrew McCarthy notes the same thing everyone else is noticing, the absence of a violation of a criminal statute. {Direct Rumble Link}For the first time in United States history a former president has been accused of a crime and indicted, yet the person making the accusation and bringing the charge doesn’t say what crime has been committed. What criminal statute has been violated? Even the leftist media are apoplectic at the weakness of the indictment. WATCH:.

At the rate things are going, we’d better start preparing for life under perpetual Democrat or Uniparty governance. Hare are just a few points to ponder about what that life might be like. Feel free to share with Woke family and friends. Do you like the dark, i.e. living in the dark and carrying flashlights and candles after the sun goes down? You’d better because there will be lots of opportunity once Uniparty-induced brownouts and blackouts take hold because of our power grid’s inability to supply dependable power as the war on fossil fuels takes hold. Exaggerated? Read about California...

The aligned interests of the geopolitical world are always visible, even when the corporatist media ignore them.Hungary, a nation proud of its heritage, has been under assault from the U.S. State Department, the EU collective and the western NATO alliance for their refusal to acquiesce to the World Economic Forum and western globalist ideology. {background here} Today Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban sends his official message of support for President Donald Trump.(SOURCE)

I wrote a piece on Monday that the 34 charges against former President Donald Trump may not be what they seem, that they might be trying to run up the counts to make it look worse, but the counts mainly revolve around the same transaction.The indictment has now been unsealed, and my colleague Jennifer Van Laar has also written a good piece on the matter.I wanted to further break down some of the legal questions raised.According to the statement of facts, the counts are in connection with a hush payment that Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, made to adult film...

Recently, National Public Radio (NPR) in the US published a story titled ‘Live free and die? The sad state of US life expectancy’ that explored the great divide between the United States and peer countries on life expectancy. While most countries experienced a dip during the Covid-19 pandemic and rebounded after vaccines and other treatments were rolled out, American life expectancy has essentially fallen off a cliff and never came back. The graph published by NPR is shocking. It shows that US life expectancy is lower than in Cuba or Lebanon. The number has been known since just before Christmas...

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg seriously embarrassed himself with the indictment that was unsealed on Tuesday.As I noted previously, it confirms the case is the turkey we thought and is a “charge-stacking” effort. It has more holes than Swiss cheese, and it gives the Trump attorneys ample room to run a truck through the case and get it tossed. Expect a motion coming to dismiss the matter shortly, as they already indicated.Bragg held a brief presser to try to justify himself. What he said was pretty laughable."We can not, and will not normalize serious criminal conduct."– District Attorney Alvin BraggSame guy...

U.S. intelligence officials are watching for any influence campaigns from Russia or China that are aimed at amplifying existing political divisions or stoking unrest among Americans over the indictment of former President Donald Trump, according to two U.S. officials.Officials have been on alert since the indictment was confirmed last week and so far have not seen significant signs of Russian or Chinese interference in the country’s political discourse beyond the efforts that have become standard, the U.S. officials said.But after Trump’s arraignment Tuesday, one of the officials said the intelligence community is watching “very closely” for any signs of such...

The indictment is a case of massive overcharging and the alleged facts leave a lot to be desired. The Trump circus came to New York today, and we have a little more information than before. I’m not a criminal defense attorney, but I can offer some opinions about what’s taken place, not just today, but in the years leading up to today. [Note: I didn't mention any statute of limitations issues because I have no idea what the statute of limitations is on this cause of action. If it's passed, the case should be dead in the water.] The media...

BREAKING: The daughter of the Manhattan judge presiding over the Trump criminal case is a Democratic political strategist who worked on the congressional campaign of Democrat Rep. ADAM SCHIFF, who led the first impeachment of Trump 1:50 PM · Apr 4, 2023 · 868.1K Views

Elway spent his entire career with the Broncos, where he won two Super Bowls throughout his Hall of Fame career before he retired in 1999. Elway returned to the franchise in 2011, and spent the next decade as the Broncos’ general manager. He helped lead them two a pair of Super Bowls, including the one they won with Peyton Manning in 2015.

In 2015, following a home football game, Washington State Bremerton High School assistant football coach, Joe Kennedy, went to the 50-yard line to kneel and pray with fans and students as he had done many times before. An employee of a different school witnessed the event and complained; Kennedy was suspended, and his coaching contract with the school district was not renewed because he refused to stop kneeling and praying. Coach Kennedy believed his freedom of religion was being violated; he sued the school district, and his case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court twice (they refused...

St. Louis, Mo., Apr 3, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Madison clarified late last week that the Church does not endorse nor oppose specific political candidates after a Wisconsin pastor urged parishioners in his weekly parish bulletin message to vote against state Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz, who is openly pro-abortion. “The Catholic Church’s involvement in public life doesn’t extend to endorsing candidates for election to public office nor calling for their defeat and thus refrains from partisan political activities. The Church does encourage voter registration and encourages Catholics, as citizens, to vote and to be civically...