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While it’s bad enough the debunked dossier the FBI used to spy on the Trump campaign was paid for by the Clinton campaign and authored by a foreign FBI informant and his carousing researcher, the newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham strongly suggests a top Justice Department official and his wife had an early hand in shaping the political rumor sheet. According to the 306-page report, former Justice Department prosecutor Bruce Ohr’s wife Nellie Ohr first plowed the ground for the dossier with a series of a research reports she wrote for Fusion GPS, the D.C.-based opposition research...

[Catholic Caucus] Italian archbishop forbids Communion on tongue, holy water in fonts despite end of COVID pandemicArchbishop Bruno Forte of the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto continues to enforce bans after restrictions have ended.CHIETI, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — According to a report from the Italian blog Messainlatino, Archbishop Bruno Forte of the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto, Italy, has instructed his priests not to distribute Holy Communion on the tongue or place holy water in the fonts of churches.On May 11, Messainlatino reported that, “In a statement of April 20, 2023 signed by Mgr. Fabio Iarlori, Episcopal Vicar for Religious and Referent of the Priestly...

Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok appeared to take a victory lap Monday while reacting to the release of Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. Strzok, who was fired from the FBI in 2018 following the surfacing of anti-Trump texts he sent his then-lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, took to social media after the report’s release, listing multiple individuals who ultimately faced federal charges stemming from the Russia investigation. In his tweet, Strzok listed the names of nine individuals, including former Trump 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort and advisor Roger Stone, and noted that...

LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. — Governor Ron DeSantis signed four human trafficking bills on Tuesday to raise awareness of the signs and impacts of human trafficking and impose critical reforms to hold human traffickers accountable.

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Former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary field with a 43-point lead over his closest potential competitor, according to a Morning Consult poll.The poll, published on Tuesday, finds that 61 percent of potential Republican primary voter respondents support Trump for the nomination. Another 18 percent of participants back Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who has not declared a candidacy, placing him in second place. Trump’s 43-point lead is the largest he has had in the polling outfit’s running “2024 GOP Primary Tracker.” The margin between the two widened by two points since last week when Trump registered 60...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on his top financial backers to huddle with him in Miami next week, another signal that the popular two-term conservative governor is moving closer to launching a White House campaign and jumping into an increasingly crowded GOP nomination race. The meeting will take place May 24-25 and potentially extend another day, a source who received an invitation told Fox News on Monday. The source added that he was told by DeSantis officials to "block off" those dates "on your calendar." The DeSantis political team confirmed to Fox News that the gathering in Miami...

American higher education is undergoing several revolutions at the same time. The DEI revolution, ongoing for decades, has reached a tipping point. The professorial class and campus administrations are close to cementing it as the official ideology of American universities. However, a rearguard action, led by Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida, finds its state legislature aiming to eliminate the DEI offices that symbolize and spearhead this radicalization, pointing toward an education that emphasizes professional competence and reasonable patriotism. Soon, shrinking enrollments and a demographic cliff will strain many colleges and universities to the breaking point. Enrollments, 20.5 million in 2011,...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley received between $100,001 and $1 million for each of her dozen speaking engagements in 2022 and 2023, which means she made at least $1.2 million from speaking honorariums, her financial disclosure report shows. Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina governor, received payments for her speeches in Singapore, Australia and Canada, as well as for talks she gave across the U.S. in cities such as Chicago, New York and Dallas, according to her disclosure filed Monday. The speeches were for a variety of organizations such as the National Automobile...

Conservatives are spending endless hours battling the culture war, but they're missing the most significant issue facing the US, Biden's disastrous open border policies that will lead directly to America's decline. The massive influx of illegal immigrants at the border, now spurred on by Biden's plans to give literally everyone and their cousin asylum (leading to amnesty), will result in a Democrat majority. While migrants have traditionally gravitated toward the nation's population centers, now the administration is bussing them to every little corner of the domestic United States, upending towns in the Midwest, the South, the Rockies, and the deep...

Writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer says former President Trump’s comments bashing Carroll during his recent CNN town hall are “definitely actionable” after a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse against her. “So it’s definitely actionable. And here the cruelty will make him less wealthy. He is not going to get away with it another time,” attorney Roberta Kaplan said on MSNBC’s “The Interview,” appearing alongside Carroll. “It’s unprecedented for a person to have been held liable in defamation to keep doing the defamation, so there are not a lot of cases that we can look to for a playbook...

Two people were arrested in Austria for allegedly playing snippets of Adolf Hitler speeches over the loudspeaker of a train, which had at least one shaken Holocaust survivor onboard. Travelers on the train headed to Vienna heard audio of the Nazi dictator speaking along with recordings of supporters chanting “Heil Hitler!” during normal announcements Sunday. “We heard two episodes,” David Stoegmueller, a Green Party parliament member, told the BBC. “First, there was 30 seconds of a Hitler speech, and then I heard, ‘Sieg Heil!’ “ One of the passengers exposed to the Hitler diatribe was a concentration-camp survivor, he said.

Navarro said, “That is the thing about Donald Trump really, is he has this ability to hone in on people’s defects, and say things that stick, right? Little Marco, Lying Ted, Low Energy Jeb, we all remember these things. I think he’s hitting with Ron DeSantis, that he really does lack charisma, he does lack personality. Ron DeSantis better hope that winning and governing is not about entertainment because he’s certainly not entertaining.”

The #DeSantis2024 role play is over pic.twitter.com/SRGKJyatCZ— miguelifornia (@miguelifornia) May 16, 2023

President Donald Trump continues to receive strong support from women voters, despite a jury finding him liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.A Newsweek analysis noted that an Emerson College /Fox 56 Lexington poll found Trump in Kentucky is getting stronger.Not only is Trump pulling 70% majority support in the GOP primary race, but Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is at just 14%.The poll was conducted after a New York jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, Newsweek reported. And the survey found that 52.3% of female voters said they would support Trump in the next GOP primary in...

It's like the Do Re Mi song, what Maria said:"Do-re-mi-fa-so and so on are only the tools we use to build a song. Once you have them in your heads you can sing a million different tunes, by mixing them up. Like this: "(For some reason, the clip begins with Esther, known as the "Doe of the Dawn.")Puns: no rules, just riiight...Pun. In Hebrew it's the phrase "play on words" [מִשְׂחָק מִלִים] or lit. "tongue (language) falling upon tongue" [לָשׁוֹן נוֹפֵל עַל לָשׁוֹן ].However, pun (and also fun) is written (transliterated) as:פאן(An alef is used for a short u vowel.)Same...

Former President Donald Trump sounded off on Monday in response to the long-awaited report from Special Counsel John Durham showing that the FBI should have never launched its investigation into the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.In a series of posts on the former president’s Truth Social account Monday, Trump called the actions of certain FBI agents as being tantamount to “treason” and how a “great fraud” had been pushed on the American people.“After extensive research, Special Counsel John Durham concludes the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia Probe! In other words, the American Public was scammed, just as it is...

Members of several Texas groups representing people of color on Monday demanded that authorities quickly acknowledge whether they believe the neo-Nazi who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall over a week ago was racially motivated in choosing his victims. [Allen, TX, is 19% Asian]

Police in Treasure Island, Fla., attempted to wrangle a large alligator spotted on the beach, but soon discovered the reported reptile was a sand sculpture. Photo courtesy of the Treasure Island Police Department/Facebook May 16 (UPI) -- Police in Florida responded to a beach to round up what appeared to be a large alligator but was soon discovered to be a realistic sand sculpture. "Crikey! Look at the size of that gator one of our officers tried rounding up on Treasure Island Beach last night," the Treasure Island Police Department wrote in posting a photo of the faux gator to...

Short version: Carlson's ouster was part of the wink and nod agreement between Fox and Dominion. Video at link.