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In a hypothetical 2024 U.S. Senate matchup in West Virginia, the latest ECU Poll shows Governor Jim Justice with a significant 22-point lead over incumbent Senator Joe Manchin, 54% to 32%, among registered voters in the state (with 13% undecided). The ECU Poll also finds Governor Justice with a job approval rating of 57% (with an overall net positive job approval rating of +28 percentage points; 57% approval compared to 29% disapproval). Senator Manchin, in contrast, holds a job approval rating of just 33% (with an overall net negative job approval rating of -26 percentage points; 33% approval compared to...

Horrific health details have been revealed regarding Jamie Foxx’s mysterious medical state.The Django Unchained star is said to be "partially paralyzed and blind," in addition to a series of other complications after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, Hollywood journalist A.J. Benza claimed after speaking to a source close to Foxx."Jamie had a blood clot in his brain after he got the shot. He did not want the shot, but the movie he was on, he was pressured to get it," confessed the podcaster — who formally worked as a columnist for the New York Daily News and as a host of...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a concrete company in Washington state seeking to revive a lawsuit against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters alleging that a strike damaged its product. The 8-1 decision written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett means the company, Glacier Northwest Inc., can pursue a lawsuit against the union in state court over an August 2017 strike in which drivers walked off the job, leaving wet concrete in their trucks. Barrett, one of the court's six conservatives, wrote that a state court was wrong to dismiss the claims at such an early...

A diverse 2024 desk calendar published by a woke Christian church is apparently not woke enough, since the image of a white, blonde-haired girl is displayed at the top of the cover. Now, the president of the United Church of Christ is issuing a formal apology for featuring the blonde child at the top of a circle of children of various races holding hands, with a Bible quote stating: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." "I write to apologize for the ways in which the most recent edition of the UCC desk calendar failed to live up to our...

Spokespeople for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) disputed four Democratic sources who told Axios the two leaders had cut a deal for Democrats to help advance the debt ceiling bill to a final vote.Why it matters: The 52 Democratic votes on a measure to bring the debt ceiling bill to the floor were necessary for the bill's survival after 29 Republicans had voted against moving it forward Wednesday afternoon. The bill eventually was approved on a 314-117 vote.What we’re hearing: Four Democratic lawmakers said they had been told of a deal, with two saying...

Brigham Young, born on June 1, 18o1, lead his people to find a safe place for themselves in the Salt Lake Vally and found Salt Lake City. He said: "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." "The biggest labor problem is tomorrow." "Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere." God Bless Brigham Young

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pressed his case for Ukraine to be part of the NATO military alliance as he joined European leaders on Thursday in Moldova ahead of an expected counter-offensive against Russia's invasion. Addressing leaders at the start of the gathering, Zelenskiy asked NATO members to take a clear decision on whether to admit Ukraine and also reiterated calls for Western fighter jets to protect Ukrainian skies after another deadly strike on Kyiv. He spoke as divisions between NATO members spilled out into the open over the speed of Ukraine's accession, with some fearing that a hasty move could bring...

President Trump shared an unreal video to Truth Social showing Ron DeSantis announcing his presidential campaign to a slew of globalists, including Satan himself.45th President Trump shared an AI-generated video on TruthSocial of Ron DeSantis announcing his presidential run to Elon Musk, Hitler, the Devil, the FBI, George Soros, Dick Cheney, and Klaus Schwab during the Florida Governor’s Twitter Space campaign announcement with Elon Musk. Between Trump and other accounts that shared it, the AI-generated video has more views than Ron DeSantis’ actual presidential announcement.The AI-generated video begins with Elon Musk welcoming everyone to Ron DeSantis’ big announcement. Following Musk’s...

President Joe Biden’s border deputies are doubling the inflow of illegals through the “CPB One” pathway, regardless of a multi-state lawsuit against the likely illegal process. The monthly inflow will rise to 38,750 each month, allowing 465,000 illegal migrants to be registered and released each to take U.S. housing, jobs, and government aid. Other channels created by Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, bring the planned inflow to almost one million illegals.

Latvia's Parliament on Wednesday elected former foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics as President, making him the first openly gay person to hold the position in any country."I am honoured and humbled to be elected as President of the Republic of Latvia, I will do my best to serve the people of Latvia well," Rinkevics tweeted following the vote.While not the first openly gay head of state, Rinkevics's election marks yet another milestone for LGBTQ+ politicians.Rinkevics came out in 2014, signaling on Twitter his support for a "legal framework for all types of partnerships."In coming out, Rinkevics became the first openly LGBTQ+...

On Thursday morning, The Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing dropped a bombshell claim about how Twitter is currently doing business. In a series of tweets on the social media site, Boering laid out how a deal to screen Matt Walsh’s What Is a Woman documentary was canceled due to alleged instances of “misgendering” that occur in the film.As RedState reported, What Is a Woman chronicled the nonsensical and militarist approach being taken by the transgender movement and its targeting of children. It has become one of The Daily Wire’s most successful projects, and the plan was to promote and screen...

VIDEOOn the day after the Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea was blown up, former Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski (husband of American writer Anne Applebaum) tweeted his THANK YOU to the USA. Soon afterwards, when he found out the new taboo against the blaming the OBVIOUS culprit, he quickly deleted that tweet.

Section 102 of the debt limit bill will discourage Congress from considering spending bills through an open process involving committee markups and amendments.Did you enjoy the massive, more than 4,000-page omnibus spending legislation that lawmakers passed days before Christmas last year without having time to read — and which the people who wrote it apparently didn’t have time to read either?If so, you’ll love the debt limit deal House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., negotiated with the Biden administration. Lawmakers’ claims to the contrary, provisions in the legislation practically guarantee another train wreck omnibus this coming December.Flawed Reason to Vote for...

Maybe a pride flag on camera equipment shouldn’t discount the work ‘The Chosen’ is doing. The show’s unwillingness to do anything but endorse the flag on set, however, does.Popular Christian TV show “The Chosen” came under fire this week after a viewer spotted an LGBT pride flag on the set of the Bible-based series, in a video “The Chosen” posted to its YouTube account. It’s unclear who placed the flag on the camera equipment or why it was allowed to stay there during shoots. What is perfectly clear is that “The Chosen” isn’t bothered by its presence. “Just like with...

Former President Donald Trump posted a Memorial Day message on Monday, thanking those who gave the “ultimate sacrifice” for the country they love while warning that the fight continues as the country remains in great peril.“HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, BUT ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WHO GAVE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR THE COUNTRY THEY LOVE,” Trump began in the all-caps message on Truth Social.He also thanked those in line of what he described as:VERY DIFFERENT, BUT EQUALLY DANGEROUS FIRE, STOPPING THE THREATS OF THE TERRORISTS, MISFITS AND LUNATIC THUGS WHO ARE WORKING FEVERISHLY FROM WITHIN TO OVERTURN AND DESTROY OUR ONCE...

[Catholic Caucus] Abp. Cordileone praises priests for ‘clandestinely’ offering Mass during COVID lockdowns‘I know that many of you … found ways to celebrate Mass for your people, even clandestinely,’ Archbishop Cordileone said. ‘I am grateful to you for that, and proud of you for doing so.’INCOLN, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) — San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on Friday expressed his gratitude and appreciation for priests who found creative ways to circumvent COVID-19 lockdown orders in order to offer Mass and provide the Holy Eucharist to Catholics during the height of the pandemic response.Cordileone made the remarks during a May 26 ceremony of...

Hit the road, Jack, and don’t you come back to China no more. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a murderous, dictatorial, oppressive, and anti-American regime. It abuses its own people and works hard to undermine other nations. It’s time that U.S. companies pulled out of China for good. U.S. companies with branches or manufacturing in China include Apple, Tesla, Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson, Disney, McDonald’s, Yum! Brands (think Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC), Dell, Nike, Walmart, Trader Joe’s, Kellogg’s, Tyson, and Home Depot. These companies get cheaper labor and higher profits while helping an economy completely controlled by the...

Another day under Biden/Yellen. Last night, “Republicans” joined Democrats to allow unlimited Federal spending and debt for the next two years. Way to go “Benedict McCarthy”! But today, we saw that ISM Manufacturing printed at 46.9 for May, the 7th consecutive month of contraction. Meanwhile, the Biden family twists the night away while Americans are ravished by inflation caused by bad energy policies and runaway Federal spending. The new flag of the National Republican Party!

BALTIMORE – Some parents fear sending their children to school as Charm City faces a surge in youth homicides and shootings. "The school-to-prison pipeline — or really the school-to-grave pipeline — is really real in Baltimore City," Jovani Patterson, who has two young children, told Fox News. Baltimore City Public Schools held a ceremony last week remembering the 19 students shot and killed within the past year. The youngest victim was 8 years old. The previous year, gunfire claimed the lives of 12 students.