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Over the last few years, many people have wondered if our country was headed for another Civil War. Maybe they started wondering back in 98 with the Clinton impeachment, or 2000 when the election didn’t have a clear winner. Maybe they started wondering on 911, or after the invasion of Iraq. No doubt many wondered after the FBI put their fingers on the scale of the 2016 election, or during the two partisan impeachments. The MSM and Democrats had no problem trying to convince the world that Jan 6 was an insurrection (albeit while conveniently forgetting the 3 days in...

I see that everybody is talking about the Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign, before announcing them. When you’re leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile Networks with angry, TRUMP & MAGA hating anchors asking the “questions,” why subject yourself to being libeled and abused? Also, the Second Debate is being held at the Reagan Library, the Chairman of which is, amazingly, Fred Ryan, Publisher of The Washington Post. NO!

– General Motors plans to stop production of its electric Chevrolet Bolt models by the end of this year, CEO Mary Barra told investors Tuesday when discussing the company’s first-quarter earnings. The Chevy Bolt EV and EUV, a larger version of the car, make up the vast majority of the company’s electric vehicle sales to date. However, the battery cells in the cars are an older design and chemistry than the automaker’s newer electric vehicles such as the GMC Hummer and Cadillac Lyriq, which utilize GM’s Ultium architecture.

The 13-year-old Utah boy hung out in the typical online spaces for someone his age: The chat app Discord. The gaming platform Roblox. And, of course, Twitter. But for more than two months last year, on those very platforms, the boy was being sexually groomed by an adult who was 13 years older and hundreds of miles away. It started in private messages then moved into public view on Twitter. It ended in a horror story. The boy’s father went to check on him one night and found him missing, his window open, the bedroom freezing. The boy was allegedly...

Americans have routinely been told to shut up and believe the government-sponsored narrative. From accepting trial vaccines to trusting the results of a disastrous 2020 election to believing the Rino and Democrat-led j6 narrative, Americans are constantly told how to think by politicians and the media. Much like obtaining the facts regarding the 2020 election that led to the protest, trying to cut through the J6 narrative to get to the truth has been strenuous. J6 protestors have been accused of crimes such as seditious conspiracy and obstruction of a government proceeding, all while Pelosi withheld hundreds of hours of...

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof posited the idea in a recent piece that people who are worried about people breaking into their homes should get bear spray for self-defense instead of a firearm.Kristof wrote about the idea after home shootings involving Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis.Elsewhere, brutes send their victims to the E.R.; in America, they send them to their graves. Foreigners admire our popular culture, our technology, our lifestyle, but are bewildered by our refusal to rein in guns. In the 1990s when I was Tokyo bureau chief of The Times, Japanese people regularly spoke to me about...

Gilad Erdan reads out names of fallen Israelis to council members, lights memorial candle in chamber, says UN rejected requests to move session to another day NEW YORK — Israel’s envoy to the United Nations walked out of the Security Council and read the names of Israelis killed in the past year to protest the body holding a session critical of Israel on Memorial Day. The periodic Security Council session on “the Palestinian question” was held at UN headquarters in New York and was led by Russia. “Today is one of the most sacred days of the year for the...

Doesn't "gender-affirming" care and surgery just sound so nice and pleasant? It sounds so nice and friendly when it's framed in that euphemistic way, doesn't it? Well, here's what "gender affirmation" looks like in REALITY: [Warning: Graphic discussion ahead and all throughout this article] Mengele would shudder. This took place in the Netherlands, one of the most gender-affirming and gender-neutral countries there is. The doctors went in to give a teenage boy a vaginoplasty, meaning a fake vagina. Normally, they would split the boy's penis in half and fashion it into a sort of fake female genitalia, but this boy...

Fox News “is dead,” and Tucker Carlson already has his first job offer. It came within hours of the shocking announcement that he and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation were “parting ways.” Who took the biggest hit? It looks like Fox News has. Though PJ Media suspected Carlson was in some hot water with the corporate suits and the board at Fox News over his January 6 coverage, which ended almost as soon as it started, the news that he was leaving hit with the force of an asteroid in cable news circles.I think that J-6 stuff did him in. You?...

Okay, this is kinda crazy. I remember back in the '90s when Compact Discs pushed vinyl records to near extinction. But now, look at this: Infographic: Vinyl Sales Surpass CDs for the First Time Since 1987 This chart shows CD and vinyl album sales in the United States since 1985. WWW.STATISTA.COM https://www.statista.com/chart/29781/cd-and-vinyl-album-sales-in-the-united-states/ The vinyl record has officially made its comeback! I swear almost every music junkie I know has a record player now. It's crazy. The sound is beautiful, I'll give it that. And the setup is pretty classy, too, sure. Plus, contrary to the modern big-hit single downloads, you...

I don’t care who the Republicans nominate, I’m voting for them. Everyone in the field, now or in the future, will have my vote over any Democrat on the planet. That does not begin to capture how gleefully I will vote against Joe Biden or whatever other Democrat they put up there should the left-wing industrial complex be unable to “Weekend at Bernie’s” him to their nomination, but really nothing can capture that enthusiasm. It probably can’t capture your either. But does not mean the 2024 election is a formality, far from it. As I always say, never spike the...

An Indiana bill heading to the desk of the state’s Republican governor would require schools to alert parents if their child requests a name or pronoun change. The GOP-controlled House voted on Monday 63-28 mostly along party lines to send the controversial proposal to Gov. Eric Holcomb, two weeks after it was endorsed by the state Senate. LGBTQ advocates have voiced concerns that the move could out transgender kids to their unsupportive families. House Bill 1608, which has been likened to Florida’s notorious “Don’t Say Gay” law, also bans teaching “human sexuality” to students in pre-kindergarten to third grade —...

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver is exiting ABC News as The Walt Disney Company ramps up layoffs, Variety has confirmed. ABC News will hold onto the FiveThirtyEight brand with plans to streamline the statistics-driven news and analysis site. The network plans to create a more efficient structure for FiveThirtyEight leading into the 2024 presidential election and beyond. Silver sent a message to his team in a company Slack channel warning that the Disney layoffs would impact FiveThirtyEight, and that Silver is not planning to return after his contract ends. Silver said in a tweet, “Disney layoffs have substantially impacted FiveThirtyEight. I...

“What happened next literally took our breath away.”So writes M. Scott Peck, famous New York psychiatrist and author of the wildly popular book The Road Less Traveled. Peck had been asked to evaluate a woman thought to have a variety of mental illnesses, whose treatment he describes as initially proceeding down the typical path of other patients.But during a session where he called into question her intelligence and then exclaimed she was faking her psychosis, “Jersey” changed instantly and manifested an icy, evil facial derisiveness that chilled him to the bone — something Peck describes as the most “haughty” look...

Walmart’s website opens with photos of mothers and children shopping, weekly specials on daily necessities, and — for those who click on the “Our Company” link and dig a little deeper — an unabashed admission Walmart has been videoing every gun sale in its stores. The “Our Company” tab shifts the website to Walmart’s corporate page, from whence one can peruse various pages, one of which sets forth Walmart’s policy for “Responsible Firearm Sales.” On the “Responsible Firearm Sales” page, Walmart says, in part: In 2018, we made the decision to raise the minimum age to purchase firearms and ammunition...

From a triumphant sales rise during March Madness to a loss of over a third of sales volume following the debut of the Mulvaney promotion. AB-InBev, the corporate parent of Bud Light, is silent on the subject, but according to outside industry researchers, Bud Light’s sales collapse is “staggering” in the wake of protest over its engagement of Dylan Mulvaney as an “internet influencer.” Lisa Fickenscher writes in the New York Post: Bud Light has suffered a “staggering” sales hit following the beer brand’s controversial marketing tie-up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney — with the latest data showing an alarming...

The latest "Rich States, Poor States" report from the American Legislative Exchange Council shows that Republican-led red states are in better economic condition than Democrat-led blue states. Co-author Steven Moore called the data "powerful evidence that the low tax, light regulation states are outperforming the high tax, heavy regulation states. It should surprise no one that folks are migrating out of the blue states and into the red states." Presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn't dispute the statistics, but called the trend "unfair and dis-unifying. The President is appalled that some states prey upon the population of other states by...

Americans continue to deal with rising prices even as the economy deteriorates. But the US isn’t the only country with an inflation problem. As Peter Schiff explained in a recent podcast, every country has let the inflation horses out of the barn. When you couple that with the de-dollarization trend, it’s bullish for gold.More and more economic indicators signal a looming recession. The Leading Economic Index is now lower than in the early stages of the 2008 recession. In a recent interview, Peter said we’d be lucky to escape with just a recession.Now, we don’t just have a weak economy,...

In 1985 Ronald Reagan awarded Count Basie the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ............ "I think the band can really swing," Basie had said, " when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter." "If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." ............ God Bless Count Basie

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò: The traditional Benedictine nuns are the victims of Pope Francis’The religious life of the Nuns of Pienza has been seriously compromised by a grotesque series of aggressions, threats and intimidation that have involved the press and have damaged not only their reputation, but also their inner peace and their psychophysical well-being.The following is the full text of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s third intervention on the situation of the Monastery of Maria Tempio dello Spirito Santo in Pienza, Italy, after it was “subjected to harassment and serious abuses by the Holy See in an attempt to remove...