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Texas Democratic state lawmakers blocked a Constitutional amendment requiring citizenship to vote in elections from making it out of the legislature and onto the November ballot. A group of over 50 Texas Democratic House lawmakers voted “present” in late May to prevent Texas Senate Joint Resolution 35 from making it out of the chamber. A handful of Democrats joined more than 80 Republicans who supported the legislation after it passed the Texas Senate with near unanimous support. “The Democrats say they do not support non-citizens voting but then given a chance to vote to clearly set that policy in the...

Real/actual wonder weapons....Ukraine needs to surrender....

Last month, U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor spoke to the Serbian American Voters Alliance at the New Gračanica Monastery in Third Lake, Illinois. I attended the event on behalf of the Thinker and heard Macgregor discuss his experiences in the U.S. Army, America’s fiscal and cultural decay, and his analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Macgregor was heavily involved in the 1990–91 Gulf War and in the conflict between Albanian separatists and Yugolasavia over Kosovo. Under former President Donald Trump, Macgregor served as the senior advisor to the acting secretary of defense. America’s Fading Moral Compass Discussing American national leadership, Macgregor...

President Joe Biden is going to need to replicate his 2020 success with several key voting blocs in order to be elected to a second term. However, he may struggle to do so. Young, Hispanic, and working-class voters are important for the president's reelection chances but also could be his undoing if the lack of enthusiasm among these voting blocs continues. In recent elections, young voters have overwhelmingly supported Democrats, acting as a boost to their candidates. A CNN exit poll from the 2020 election showed Biden won voters ages 18-29 by a 60%-36% margin over then-President Donald Trump, which...

Ukrainian forces mounted attacks at several points along the front line in a sign that Kyiv was stepping up a long-awaited counter offensive.Ukraine did not directly comment on the reports, but the general in command of its ground forces said they “continue to move forward”.The reported assaults follow weeks of probing attacks, including raids and drone strikes on Russia itself, designed to stretch Moscow’s defences ahead of the offensive.But Western officials told The Economist that the attacks “mark the start of the offensive”, adding that Russia’s defensive lines “could be more fragile than thought”.Russian sources also reported seeing Western-supplied Leopard...

A Texas sheriff’s department has recommended that the district attorney in Bexar County bring criminal charges after completing its investigation into the first iteration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called migrant relocation program. Those flights sent 49 asylum seekers, most of them Venezuelans, from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, last September. According to a statement provided to the Miami Herald, the Bexar County Sheriff completed its criminal investigation into the on-the-ground operation that allegedly lured migrants onto the flights with false promises of jobs and opportunities on the other end. “The case filed includes both felony and misdemeanor charges...

Robert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died at the age of 79, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday. Hanssen had been in custody at Colorado’s USP Florence ADMAX since July 17, 2002. In 2001, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy in exchange for the government not seeking the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison...

The James Beard awards are considered the Oscars of the foodie world, and given that they are judged by journalists instead of other chefs, that has opened the door to political correctness taking precedence over how the food tastes. (snip) According to the New York Times: The chef Sam Fore received an ominous voice mail message this month from an unknown number. The caller identified himself as a private investigator working for the James Beard Foundation. Later that day, Ms. Fore found herself on a Zoom call, answering questions from him and another man. “They said to me, ‘We have...

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Last Thursday the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to express its concern over Hungary’s scheduled presidency of the EU Council. The deplorable state of Hungarian democracy is by now widely known. Since 2010, prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party have systematically undermined the principles and institutions that underpin democratic governance. They have worked to curtail EU values such as academic freedom, gender equality and LGBTI+ rights, most recently in their copy-paste Russian law, which bans the visibility of the LGBTI+ community in public spaces. A core principle of any democracy is free and fair elections. Under Orbán’s leadership, this...

KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, then quietly deleted, three seemingly innocuous photographs from their social media feeds: a soldier standing in a group, another resting in a trench and an emergency worker posing in front of a truck.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a presidential candidate who proudly touts a hardline immigration stance, is uncharacteristically mum as California officials say they are investigating the circumstances by which dozens of South American migrants were flown to California, purportedly by the state of Florida. DeSantis has not confirmed or denied the state’s involvement with the flights, the first of which arrived in Sacramento on Friday. California officials said the 16 migrants who came off the plane were carrying documents that indicated they were transported through a program run by Florida’s state government. A second flight carrying about 20 migrants landed in...

TULSA, Okla. — If you have a pit bull or pit bull mix and haven’t had them spayed or neutered, now is the chance to get it done free of charge. The program, “Operation Pit Stop,” is an effort to try and control the massive number of “bully breed” dogs dominating shelters across Oklahoma and the nation. When pet owner Lisa Fowler heard of the program through social media, she jumped at the chance to get her dog, Freya, spayed. “I think it’s great,” Fowler said. “She got fixed, she got microchipped, she got her shots updated. If you have...

Under HB 125, sufficiently trained physicians could bypass the residency requirement by proving that they have “previously completed medical school and postgraduate training that” is “ substantially similar to the requirements for licensure” in NC.

The widely available drug fentanyl, already the number one killer of Americans under 50, could be weaponized and used for terroristic mass poisoning, according to health experts at Rutgers and other institutions. “Before fentanyl, the only viable mass poisons were rare and difficult-to-access agents such as cyanide or nerve agents,” said Lewis Nelson, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and senior author of the new Frontiers in Public Health paper. “Fentanyl can be just as deadly if properly disseminated, and it’s ubiquitous. A motivated person could readily obtain enough to potentially poison hundreds...

The paper's editorial board is happy to endorse the centralization of decision making when it supports their liberal policy preferences.The New York Times editorial board is furious that Republicans in state capitols are undermining democracy. This time they're doing it by passing laws that preempt policies approved by Democratic-controlled city halls. The Texas Legislature, it notes, approved a bill this session that would preempt localities from adopting regulations in areas already governed by the state codes for agriculture, natural resources, labor, finance, insurance, and occupations. If Gov. Greg Abbot signs the bill into law, localities could only regulate in those...

Ukraine’s vain attempts to launch an offensive ostensibly to oust Russia from “conquered” lands in the Donbass reminds me of the Japanese Kamikaze bombers trying to impede the inevitable U.S. victory in the Pacific. It is needless deaths sacrificed in the name of national honor but, when it is over, is totally meaningless. Before delving into the futility of Ukrainian efforts, I need to introduce you to a crazy person in the U.K. masquerading as a former military officer. This man is bonkers. Thank God that Lt. Col. Stuart Crawford is a “former” U.K. Army officer. His opinion piece is...

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. "And God shall wipe away all tears from...

FLINT, Michigan (AP) — General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two Flint, Michigan, manufacturing plants for the production of the next-generation internal combustion engine heavy-duty trucks. Gerald Johnson, executive vice president, Global Manufacturing and Sustainability, said Monday that the company will build internal combustion vehicles throughout this decade, in addition to making electric vehicles. GM has a goal of building only electric passenger vehicles in the United States by 2035.

"I can tell you that the US government is putting our full weight behind supporting India's defence modernisation. I look forward to continuing to work with Minister Singh going forward," Austin said. In his comments to the media, the US defence secretary spoke about various dimensions of the growing defence and strategic cooperation between India and the US and its significance in the current geo-political scenario. "This all matters because we all face a rapidly changing world. We see bullying and coercion from the People's Republic of China and Russian aggression against Ukraine that seeks to redraw borders by force...