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Thousands of people are shot, stabbed, beaten, run over – assaulted and murdered – in America’s inner cities, every day. In ones and twos, in fives and tens. Drug crimes, gang wars, imagined insults, intentionally-taught hostility – a cult of violence. When the law-and-order minded conservatives – known as the Right – remind the public of the reasons behind this violence – the welfare state, the pop culture, the easy jail sentences, the early release of prisoners who should have been kept in jail – the Left often accuses us of disregarding all other inputs, and basing our policies on...

An all-time media blackout is in effect. We’re experiencing real-time Sovietization. It transpires that the infamous incident before the 2020 election in which 50 former intelligence officials signed an open letter declared a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden’s laptop to have the “classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was instigated at the behest of the Joe Biden campaign. This at least is the allegation in a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released by Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government. In that letter, which is not easy...

Ukraine is ramping up for its highly anticipated spring offensive, powered by a huge arsenal of tanks and other weapons being delivered by Western allies, along with newly organized brigades. “The frontline is priority number one. We are also actively preparing new brigades and units that will show themselves at the front,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address. “Everyone in Ukraine must understand that the main task of the state is the de-occupation of our territories, the return of our lands and our people from Russian captivity.”

The new NGO is reportedly teaming up with Welcome.US to raise money for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Ukraine and Nicaragua to be flown into communities across the country. American Express Global Business Travel and Welcome.US have reportedly teamed up with former Presidents Obama, Clinton and George W. Bush's nongovernmental organization (NGO) called Miles4Migrants to fly migrants to communities across the U.S. Welcome.US is an NGO that was initially launched to work with President Joe Biden's administration to facilitate some of the 85,000 Afghans who came into the U.S. in 2021 and 2022 after the debacle created when the U.S....

What is wrong with our cities? What is wrong with our government? What is wrong with our culture? What is wrong with our society? Who or what is poisoning the minds of our children?

A super PAC supporting a potential White House bid from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday it will financially support former President Donald Trump's move to California — just one day after the GOP 2024 front runner took aim at the Sunshine State's leadership and called it the "worst state." "Donald Trump has so deeply disparaged the state of Florida by calling it the ‘worst state,’ we at Never Back Down will help him leave by offering financial assistance to help him move to his beloved California, so he can be close to his good buddy Gavin Newsom, whom he...

The Biden administration is reportedly finalizing a proposal that would force fossil fuel-fired power plants to substantially curb emissions or utilize costly carbon capture technology. The proposal — which will soon be released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — is expected to require coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to cut or capture the vast majority of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing officials briefed on a draft of the plan. The regulation, if finalized, would represent the first-ever federal action curbing power plant emissions. "EPA cannot comment because the proposals...

Speaking at New England College in New Hampshire yesterday, Gov. Chris Christie attacked former President Donald Trump, calling him a “failure” as President, and “just a TV Star.” Christie is mulling a possible Presidential run himself, and says he will decide by mid-May whether to challenge Trump for the GOP Nomination. Christie has been touting himself as the one guy who could take Trump out under “the brightest of lights” – meaning the Debate stage. Christie is going to have a hard time convincing GOP Primary Voters that Trump was a failure as President. We remember all that Trump was...

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof used an April 22 op-ed to advise his readers to consider using bear spray against home intruders instead of firearms. Kristof’s suggestion was couched in an op-ed written to persuade readers that having a gun in their home actually makes them less safe. He claimed the idea that a gun in the home makes someone safer is actually a “delusion” and he linked to a study from 2017 to support his point.

2:52 West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) will launch his U.S. Senate campaign next week in the Mountain State, according to an invitation first seen by Politico. Justice’s long-awaited campaign will launch on Thursday at an event at The Greenbrier, his luxury resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, according to the invitation. A Republican strategist close to Justice confirmed the details to Politico.

As of March 2023, 30 states have restricted access to gender-affirming care or are currently considering laws that would do so. The bills carry severe penalties for health care providers, and sometimes families, who provide or seek out gender-affirming care for minors. This study estimates the number of transgender youth at risk of losing access to gender-affirming care under these bills

They were the focus of global attention as recently as last week, when videos of them “snubbing” US President Joe Biden during his visit to the Áras went viral and were reported on around the world.

"In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. "Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 36 And he that...

A new Biden administration rule that is set to go into effect will force homeowners with good credit to pay more on their mortgages in order to subsidize loans to high-risk borrowers.According to a new, insane Biden Admin rule, people with good credit will be assessed higher mortgage rates to subsidize riskier loans to people with lower credit. Homeowners will now be punished for being responsible.Biden's attack on success in the name of "equity" continues.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics are a kind of social credit system designed to coerce businesses—and, by extension, individuals and all of society—to transform their practices.Through a carrot-and-stick approach, investors and banks (and soon governments) use ESG to push businesses to change how they function, regardless of what the employees and customers of those businesses want. In many cases, however, corporate executives are all too willing to go along, because they want access to the cheap capital offered by investors and financial institutions.The widespread adoption of ESG metrics, which is also commonly called “stakeholder capitalism”—is meant to radically alter...

Shirley Temple's 95th birthday has started in Australia about six hours ago. She served as a diplomat for two years under President Ford, almost three years under the first President Bush and about one day under President Carter .......... She reported that she had met President Carter on his first day in the White House and told him that she was "interested in continuing in public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?" .............. Was that Carter's first mistake as President? .............. As a little boy in Australia in the 60's she was my favourite...

The pro-legal weed Hochul administration is quietly trying to fire up support for a complete ban on the sale of tobacco products in New York, The Post has learned. The state Health Department commissioned a new survey aimed at gauging support for an all-out prohibition — despite Gov. Hochul’s failure to secure support from state legislators to include a ban on menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products in the yet-to-be-approved state budget. “What is your opinion about a policy that would end the sale of all tobacco products in New York within 10 years?” were among the questions asked...

Yazz Giraldo, a mother of two who is of Middle Eastern and Latin descent, is “traumatized” by the incident and believes she was racially targeted because she and her husband, Ali Moghaddam, were speaking Farsi to their toddlers. The drama unfolded as the family was flying from Fort Lauderdale to New York in September for a Long Island wedding. Both kids urgently needed the restroom, recalled Giraldo, who tried to take the baby to the first-class bathroom closest to their seats at the front of the plane. “Everybody else was using it,” she said, but one flight attendant barred her...

President Donald Trump hosted a slate of America First representatives from the great state of Florida on Thursday evening at his home, Mar-a-Lago, in West Palm Beach.As reported by RSBN, this week, Florida Rep. Michael Waltz (R) became the 11th member of the Florida Republican Delegation to endorse Trump in his 2024 bid for the presidency, joining powerhouse Florida Republican representatives like Matt Gaetz, Anna Paulina Luna, Cory Mills, and Byron Donalds.Great dinner last night at Mar a Lago with President Trump and members of the Florida delegation. Honored to be a part of this great team. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/6Mus0KrdRI— Cory...

The left-wing Lincoln Project’s ability to pad its wallet with liberal cash while sustaining repeated defeats in attempting to oust conservatives has apparently spawned an imitator. The New York Times reported that a new political super PAC called Mission Democracy would raise money to toss conservative stars out of Congress...