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Bruce Springsteen Falls on His Face During Concert in Amsterdam Anti-Trump rocker Bruce Springsteen suffered an embarrassing fall during a show in Amsterdam on Sunday night, giving Joe Biden a run for his money. During the set, Springsteen came down flat on his face as he tripped on a set of stairs on the stage. The fall reminded some observers of the fall Biden took a few years back when he repeatedly fell up a set of aircraft stairs while boarding Air Force One. Watch VIDEO AT LINK................... Springsteen appeared to suffer the fall after completing the execution of Ghosts,...

@RandPaul There’s nothing conservative about a debt deal that grants unlimited borrowing for two years that experts estimate will likely exceed $4 trillion. I will insist on an amendment vote to enact REAL spending caps that lead to a balanced budget in 5 years!

[Catholic Caucus] Basilica Denied: Catholics Become HuronsAt Pentecost, Wisconsin Catholics wanted to attend Mass in union with the Paris-Chartres pilgrims.But the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians in Erin turned them down, so they improvised a chapel. Shawn Tribe explains on Facebook (May 30) that the setting reminded him of the Indian mission chapels that can still be found in places like Midland, Ontario or Canada.Below is the mission chapel of Sainte Marie among the Hurons in Ontario.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) is condemning the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old Black boy by a convenience store clerk in Columbia, S.C. In a statement this week, Clyburn said he is praying for “swift justice” for Cyrus Carmack-Belton, who was shot in the back after a convenience store owner falsely accused him of shoplifting on Sunday night. “I’m horrified and deeply saddened by the senseless murder of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton in Columbia this weekend,” Clyburn said. “His family and loved ones should be celebrating his recent eighth grade graduation from Summit Parkway Middle School. Instead, they are mourning this unimaginable...

Has Ukraine finally given Russia some payback, given the air strikes now being rained down on Kiev? A first pass answer seems like it may well be. According to the New York Times:At least eight drones targeted Moscow early Tuesday, according to the Russian authorities, the first attack to hit civilian areas in the Russian capital and a potent sign that the war is increasingly reaching the heart of Russia.The assault came after yet another overnight bombardment by Russian forces of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, which has faced a barrage of attacks in recent weeks that have put the city...

There was a widespread expectation that the outrage over Bud Light’s pushing of transgender icon Dylan Mulvaney would fade over time, as often happens with boycotts. But not this time. Nielsen, which tracks sales scanner data released new data Tuesday showing the nightmare for Bud Light and its parent AB InBev is deepening. Josh Schafer writes at Yahoo Finance: Bud Light sales declines are accelerating, and shares of parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) are falling alongside them. New data from Nielsen revealed Bud Light sales declined 24.3% year-over-year in the week ending May 20 while Budweiser sales were down 20.4%...

At a recent conference, Disney parks chief Josh D’Amaro reportedly said the company is still looking to expand or enhance existing attractions at Disney World in Orlando to the tune of $17 billion. D’Amaro was speaking last week at the the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference in Boston, according to a CNBC report. He told audience members that the $17 billion investment “gives you a sense of how aggressive we’re being in Walt Disney World.”

Actor James Van Der Beek blasted the Democratic National Committee for planning on foregoing primary debates between President Joe Biden and other presidential contenders for 2024. "I mean, what the hell? How is this a democracy?" Van Der Beek said in a viral TikTok filmed on Memorial Day with over 49,500 likes. "I cannot get over the fact that the Democratic National Committee is saying there will not be a debate to decide the nominee for president. Are you f---ing kidding me? There’s no debate?" Van Der Beek said. "There’s no debate over an 80-year-old man who, if he lives,...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) faces the challenging task of having to help steer crucial legislation to raise the debt ceiling past Senate conservatives who are calling for amendments to the bill and threatening to delay it for days on end. The bill is expected to get more than 40 Senate Democratic votes, which means it would likely need at least 10-20 “yes” votes from Senate Republicans to get to President Biden’s desk before the June 5 deadline set by Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen. McConnell on Sunday came out strongly in favor of the deal negotiated between Biden...

Former FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday on CNN’s “CNN This Morning” that the notion the FBI is a “leftist cabal out to get the Republicans” was crazy. On Fox News, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said, “The Republican presidents have accepted the canard that the DOJ and FBI are, quote, ‘independent.’ They are not independent agencies. They are part of the executive branch. They answer to the elected president of the United States. So as president, you have a responsibility to be involved in holding those agencies accountable.”

The link is a download of the McCarthy/Biden bill. Read it. We got the shaft again. The devil is in the details. We got nothing and the dems got everything. The cuts to spending are too low and places no limits on borrowing. After factoring in a small cut to discretionary spending over the next 2 yrs, we are still talking about $6T more or less in spending because of large increases in spending elsewhere. The bill doesn’t actually set a debt limit. Rather it suspends the debt limit until Jan. 2, 2025, and there is no actual amount capping...

Sweet Home Chicago! After the unexpected resurgence in April, Chicago PMI plunged in May from 48.6 to 40.4 (against expectations of 47.3). That is the ninth straight month below 50 (in contraction)… Source: Bloomberg That is the longest streak of prints in ‘contraction’ since the Great Financial Crisis. Under the hood, none of the underlying drivers were higher MoM… Prices paid rose at a slower pace; signaling expansion New orders fell at a faster pace; signaling contraction Employment fell and the direction reversed; signaling contraction Inventories fell at a faster pace; signaling contraction Supplier deliveries rose at a slower pace;...

Rick Warren, the founder of Saddleback Church, said in part one of a video series posted online ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention that he has felt compelled to reject both the complementarian and egalitarian views of a woman’s role in the Church and in ministry after a three-year journey that led him to realize both beliefs “have unbiblical weaknesses.”In the video released as part of his four-part series titled “SBC at the Crossroads,” Warren weighed in on complementarianism, the theological framework that says women have distinct roles in the family and church and are forbidden from holding certain offices...

President Trump is up big against Ron DeSantis in a post-announcement Twitter poll - the same platform where DeSantis announced his campaign on a Space with Elon Musk.GOP Primary Polling conducted after Ron DeSantis’ presidential announcement shows Trump leading DeSantis by 40 plus points. Team DeSantis claimed that the Florida Governor’s polling numbers would improve once he entered the race, however, instant polling from Wednesday night proves this is not the case.The Twitter account Catturd, whose polls have been shared by Donald Trump in the past, released the results of their Twitter Poll that showed Donald Trump beating Ron DeSantis...

In a story pulled straight from the history books of Australia, humanity is once again losing a battle with bird-kind. According to a write-up in Futurism, feral chickens with supercharged survival instincts have taken over the island of Kauai. The Hawaiian chickens have long made the island famous for their free-roaming status on the local beaches, even acting as a tourist attraction for visitors, though locals of Hawaii have warned that the chickens in question can be quite vicious and may attack on sight. While complaints about these avian adversaries vary from one local to another, some Hawaiians feel that...

Pennsylvania election officials will not be able to count mail-in or absentee ballots that lack accurate, handwritten dates on their return envelopes, the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday. The court did, however, direct county boards of elections to “segregate and preserve” those ballots. As a result, it is still possible for undated or improperly filled out mail-in ballots to be counted in Pennsylvania.The justices split 3-3 on whether making the envelope dates mandatory under state law would violate provisions of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars election officials from discarding votes cast with immaterial errors or...

It’s a well-established fact that the Biden administration thinks that electric vehicles are the solution to everything. (Ring around the collar? Buy an EV. Troubles in the bedroom? Buy an EV. Thinning hair? You get the picture.) So it shouldn’t surprise any of us that the administration has decided that what the trucking industry needs most is a great big transition to electric trucks. Last month, we reported about how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to follow California’s lead in declaring war on diesel vehicles. At the time, many in the trucking industry expressed their dismay at the...

Conservatives have long been suspicious of U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). He is rightly viewed as a deal maker with little backbone who often sacrifices principles for expediency. This is why it took fifteen ballots for him to finally get elected as House Speaker. He was able to secure the position due to support from conservative stalwarts such as U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and President Donald Trump.

DeSantis is taking money from a legion of globalist donors.Globalist Billionaire Ken Griffin attended Bilderberg 2023 this past weekend. Griffin has called Donald Trump a three-time loser and pledged to back Ron DeSantis for president.Ken Griffin joined other global elites at the shadowy Bilderberg Conference in Europe this past weekend. The topics discussed at the meeting were reportedly AI, Banking, China, Energy Transition, Europe, Fiscal Challenges, India, Industrial Policy and Trade, NATO, Russia, Transnational Threats, Ukraine, and United States Leadership.Speculation is building that Griffin is aiming to be Ron DeSantis’ Treasury Secretary if the Governor of Florida is elected president....

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is struggling to gain any appreciable support in West Virginia.2024 West Virginia GOP primary polling from ECU shows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis polling at 9%. DeSantis has attempted to brand himself as a champion of the working class. However, West Virginia polling results show working class voters are not buying what DeSantis is trying to sell. Generally, West Virginia polling has a good read on America’s Rust Belt region that stretches into Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, signaling DeSantis could be in significant trouble.ECU polling from West Virginia shows Trump — 54% (+45), DeSantis — 9%, Pence...