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For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Leroy Petry Info from here. WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 12, 2011) -- "There was a little bit of a meat skirt, for lack of better words, hanging around the edges. It was oozing. I could see the radius and ulna bone sticking up maybe about half an inch." Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry, who had the Medal of Honor placed around his neck July...

As you’ve likely already heard, Facebook’s parent company Meta is laying off large numbers of people in an effort to remain financially viable. This stressful situation has been exacerbated by the absence of much of its management who are working remotely, some from other countries. How could things have possibly gone so far downhill so quickly? Do you suppose there might have been something less than ideal about their business practices and how they managed their workforce? Perhaps that idea will resonate a bit more after you hear from Madelyn Machado, who was a recruiter for Meta earning an eye-popping...

When you read about crime in NYC, sometimes you get that feeling that half the city’s residents are criminals and tens of thousands of people routinely break the law. In the case of shoplifting, however, a very small number of cheats are actually to blame for an amazing percentage of the crime—in fact, 327 individuals are responsible for over a third of such thefts and have been arrested an outrageous 6,000 times.The New York Times reports:Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Collectively, they were arrested and...

On Sunday, Sen, Bill Hagerty (R-TN) endorsed 45th President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.Hagerty is the eighth GOP Senator to endorse Trump for the presidency with other notable names including Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Ted Budd (R-NC).“It is my honor to give my whole-hearted endorsement to Donald J. Trump to be the next President of the United States,” the Tennessee Republican wrote on Twitter. “I was honored to previously serve in his Administration.”“President Trump stood up against Communist China, brought an end to Obama’s failed approach of ‘leading from behind,’ and revived our military and law...

President Donald Trump has been proven right yet again as new information has come to light that appears to strongly indicate that the U.S. is careening toward a major global conflict.In the wake of a leak of hundreds of highly classified U.S. documents on Discord Inc.’s online platform, new data has come to light that has indicated the Chinese Communist Party’s reported secret support for Russia as warfare in Eastern Europe has ramped up.“The way the U.S. is going, we will soon be in World War lll, with NO AMMUNITION!” President Trump stated this week, decrying the military equipment and...

A crowd of more than a hundred rowdy teenagers turned violent in Downtown Chicago on Saturday night as dozens torched and smashed cars while blaring music in a 'teen trend' that left two with gunshot wounds. Shocking footage showed some teenagers jumping on top of a bus while others started a massive brawl after descending on Millennium Park and attempting to breach barricades. Gunshots rang out with some rounds striking two teenage boys aged 16 and 17. The two youths were transported to a nearby hospital in fair condition. A total of 15 people, nine adults and six children were...

Big money investors pumped billions into buying up apartment buildings in the pandemic era. The deals were often based on the assumption that rents would continue to increase. But rents are flatlining and expenses are increasing, leaving landlords to face big losses. While offices have been going through a paradigmatic shift as more workers do their jobs remotely, apartment buildings have experienced robust demand from tenants. But fault lines have emerged for investors who paid top dollar for assets that depended on substantial rent increases and persistent low interest rates to achieve profitability. Those kinds of optimistic projections became increasingly...

President Donald Trump lowered the boom on Joe Biden’s regulatory nightmare in America with a new Agenda47 policy platform that would decrease federal overreach and stimulate the U.S. economy.In a new policy video, Trump explained that the success of his America First agenda during his first term in the White House was due in part to cutting regulations. As president again, he has promised to take aim at wasteful spending once again.🚨President Trump’s Plan to Liberate America from Biden’s Regulatory Onslaught ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/jDdnYcpK2X— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) April 14, 2023“As I work to quickly save America from...

The giant investment company's global influence on politics and economics is enormous. BlackRock is one of the most powerful organizations in the world, and its nefarious role in global economics and politics is becoming more apparent. The investment giant is pushing woke politics in the form of corporate social credit scores (ESG), which includes the dangerous “net zero” and LGBT agenda. BlackRock is also responsible for rigging the financial systems and has control over a significant portion of the world’s wealth. In order to fight back, we need to know what we are dealing with. In this article, we take...

Capt. Kirk (John Belushi), Spock (Chevy Chase) and Dr. McCoy (Dan Aykroyd) encounter network executives (Elliott Gould, Garrett Morris) who announce Star Trek is cancelled. Aired 05/29/76

So, last night there was a so-called "mass shooting" event in Dadeville, Alabama. Once again, it was a black celebratory event that got shot up. The Liberals will blame guns. Meanwhile, per the 2018 Alabama Vital Statistics publication, page 14 - the black illegitimate birthrate is 90% for Tallapoosa County. So, I report, and you decide what the problem is - guns or culture.

China is expanding the populations it targets for the draft, even as a leaked U.S. military assessment says its current Air Force can achieve superiority over Taiwan. China said that if war comes, veterans and college-educated individuals will be a priority to be called into the military, Fox News reported. Although no specific goal was announced, in the past, U.S. officials have said they believe war could break out by 2027. Heino Klinck, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for east Asia and military attaché to China, told Fox News that the step is designed to offset the 2 million-strong...

That incident at Stanford has really brought attention to this issue. It’s great to see people responding. The Washington Free Beacon reports: "The state of Texas is updating its bar application to include questions about whether applicants have engaged in “incivility and violations of school policies,” according to a letter from the Texas Supreme Court obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The change is a direct response to an incident at Stanford Law School last month in which students shouted down a federal judge. Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) wrote to the bar in March suggesting the change, arguing that...

Evette Pennypacker, a Superior Court of California judge in Santa Clara County, rejected arguments that $1.2 million in fines levied by the county violated the religious rights of the members of the Calvary Chapel in San Jose "because the infringements of the free exercise of religion and the peaceable assembly of parishioners were not enacted by Congress, but imposed by county officials for the protection of public health during the pandemic." The judge also rejected scientific evidence for the ineffectiveness of the mask mandate the county sought to impose, saying that "county officials did not know at that time that...

On Sunday, a British Antifa group, Transgender Action Block, held a protest outside the National Health Service building in London to demand quicker access to sex change surgeries such as metoidioplasty and phalloplasty, as well as reparations and other demands. Those are surgeries that create cosmetic penises, the first using existing genital flesh, and the second using flesh from other parts of the body...

Yuengling — America’s oldest brewery — ain’t sitting idly by as Bud Light sinks like a brick. In fact, it appears the iconic beer wants a little of that $5 billion action that Anheuser-Busch lost this week. In perfect passive aggressive fashion for 2023, Yuengling’s official twitter account was ready to pounce like a pack of wild wolves Friday afternoon. Shortly after AB released an official statement in the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney fallout, Yuengling fired off its first tweet in a week with a simple message: we make good beer! Yuengling vs. Bud Light. Who ya got? Could...

The DSS official denied being an accomplice in the fraud. He insisted that he led a team to arrest the electoral commissioner. An officer of Nigeria’s secret police, Department of State Services (DSS) has revealed that the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Adamawa state, Hudu Yunusa, was paid N2 billion to declare Aishatu Dahiru Binani as the winner of the governorship election in the state. In a viral video, Isa explained that the REC collected N2 billion to declare the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate as the winner. The DSS official denied being...

Roger Waters says he's heading to Frankfurt, Germany, despite the local authority’s attempt to ban his concert. The Pink Floyd legend's Frankfurt tour stop, planned for May 23, was canceled by the city council amid accusations that Waters is antisemitic. He’d called the move “unjustifiable” and last month said he’d instructed his lawyers to fight the cancellation, along with another in Munich on May 21. After noting that the deadline for the city to respond to his interim injunction had passed, Waters' new message continued: “Not that it matters much! We’re coming anyway! Because human rights matter! Because free speech...

Penguin Random House has altered what it termed the “unacceptable prose” of author P.G. Wodehouse in new editions of his classic Jeeves and Wooster series. The publisher also warned readers of “outdated” terms in the revamped works, the Sunday Telegraph reports.

Since 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, here are examples of rappers from Diddy to Lil Wayne embracing Ol' Blue Eyes.Over the years, rappers have proudly embraced Frank Sinatra for his style, smooth catalogue, complicated life and gangsta ties. From his defiant 1938 mug shot, Sinatra embraced his Italian-American heritage as he ran around Hollywood with a pre-Rat Pack group known as the Varsity. Interestingly enough, Sinatra was also an activist during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He gave financial support to Martin Luther King Jr. and refused to play in segregated clubs or...