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I'd like to call everyone's attention to the special election that is scheduled July 18 in Wisconsin's 24th Assembly District for the seat recently vacated by Dan Knodl's election to Wisconsin's State Senate. Paul Melotic, currently Vice Chairman of the Ozaukee County Supervisors, is the Republican candidate and he deserves our support, votes, and money. I've known Paul for more than 20 years. He is conservative, motivated, and all around a good guy. He favors smaller government, less regulation, and a robust private sector. He's up against a voracious Democratic machine that is determined to turn this "red" seat (and...

CHICAGO (CBS) –Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke Friday in favor of a basic income guarantee program at a conference held in Chicago. "We are ushering in a more dynamic, prosperous economy by giving people a guarantee that their lives have meaning," Johnson said. About 3,200 families are receiving direct payments in the first-ever Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income pilot program for low-earning households.

Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela must be envious of Joe Biden. I don’t think even Maduro has the stones to have his politiical opponent charged with espionage in the run-up to a Presidential election. Particularly when the US President has been bribed by China and Ukraine and has similiar sensitive document hoarding issues (at least Trump didn’t leave boxes of sensitive documents in a garage like Biden did when he keeps his Chevy Corvette). So where do we sit today after Biden has signed the debt ceiling increase and massive spending splurge? First, look at the crashing bank deposit problem. Well,...

Having already honed its narrative that the Covid shots were completely safe and effective prior to taking power, Team Biden in its first week in office moved to censor anyone going against that narrative, information obtained in a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general for Missouri and Louisiana reveals. In a series of tweets on Jan. 6, newly sworn-in Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey detailed how Team Biden moved to suppress social media content posted by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Tucker Carlson and others. Bailey cited documents and emails between social media employees and White House officials obtained in a...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said at the Western Conservative Summit on Friday that the left wants to remove faith from the public square and replace it with the “state religion of wokeism.” Speaking at the Summit, hosted by the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, Hawley said: Have we ever in the history of this country had an adminsitration that would use the FBI on parents and treat parents as terrorists because they wanted to have a say in their kids’ education? That is wrong, that is unprecedented, and that has to stop. And we have to take a stand...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

10 June 2023Saturday of week 9 in Ordinary TimeL'Aquila, Cathedral of St Maximus. Main altarReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingTobit 12:1,5-15,20 ©'I am one of the seven angels who stand ever ready to enter the presence of the glory of the Lord'When the feasting was over, Tobit called his son Tobias and said, ‘My son, you ought to think about paying the amount due to your fellow traveller; give him more than the figure agreed on.’ So Tobias called his companion and said, ‘Take half of what you brought back, in payment for all you have done, and...

On the menu today: No, the news isn’t in reruns; Donald Trump has been indicted again, this time over the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Interestingly, federal prosecutors are pursuing the case in south Florida, which is likely to be much friendlier territory for the former president than Manhattan or Washington, D.C. Are federal prosecutors way too overconfident about their ability to persuade a south Florida jury? Or do they have so much evidence and such a slam-dunk case that they’re confident they can win a conviction, even in the jurisdiction most likely to be sympathetic to Trump? [cut] The most...

The End Endless Wars Act was introduced by Senator Rand Paul on Thursday. He was joined by fellow Republican Senators Mike Lee, J.D. Vance, and Mike Braun. I have continuously led the fight to reassess our foreign policy, to end our “forever wars” and bring our fighting forces home. That’s why I’m introducing the End Endless Wars Act today! pic.twitter.com/3F0J8lEIFX — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) June 8, 2023 Presidents from both Republican and Democrat parties have reportedly used the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) as justification to launch unilateral military operations abroad against targets unrelated to the 9/11...

From Our Own Correspondent. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Monday, June 8, 1863. The reports about the proposed great raid of the enemy have taken some positive shape. Information has been received, within the last three days, which fixes the character and designs of this body of the enemy quite accurately. For several weeks, since the battle of Chancellorsville, JEB. STUART has been massing, and drilling, and supplying a large force of cavalry at or near Brandy Station, five miles north of Culpepper. This force is the largest body of cavalry that the enemy has ever got together. It consists,...

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” author, National Review Contributing Editor, Fox News Contributor, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy stated that while former President Donald Trump does have ample reason to say he’s been singled out, the indictment against him is “a devastating document. If they can prove half of it, he’s toast.” And he believes more than half of what’s in the indictment can be proven. McCarthy stated, [relevant remarks begin around 35:35] “It’s a devastating document. If they can prove half of it, he’s toast. And I sense that they can probably...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Mark 12:41–42As soon as Jesus saw this widow contribute her “few cents” worth of coins, Jesus was moved with love. He immediately used this as an opportunity to teach a lesson to His disciples. He called them over and explained that this poor widow had contributed more than anyone because “she, from her poverty, has contributed all she...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

Extreme supporters of Donald Trump have met news of his federal indictment with visions of violence and retribution. At The Donald, a forum for ultra-MAGA Trump supporters, users demanded public executions and other forms of lynching to avenge the federal prosecution of Trump, for the alleged mishandling of state secrets at Mar a Lago after he was no longer president. The calls for violence appeared in comment threads, responding to posts on the front page of the forum Thursday night, after news broke of Trump’s latest legal troubles. The most extreme comments were written in response to a fanciful post...

Longtime Biden aide and gatekeeper Kathy S. Chung, who has been interviewed by federal prosecutors and congressional investigators in the Biden case, was part of a team sanctioned for withholding and even destroying key documents in the federal case that sought sensitive records from a central figure in the so-called Chinagate fundraising investigation of the late 1990s, RealClearInvestigations has learned exclusively. Noting that Chung came into Biden’s orbit through working with the president’s son, Hunter, during the 1990s, congressional investigators want to know if the Biden family dealings in China have anything to do with the stockpiling of classified documents....

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For decades we’ve wondered what causes the Democrats and progressives to ignore facts, flog blatantly false narratives, take irrational policy positions, engage in megaphone politics, censor, bully and project their corruption and bad faith onto their opponents. Could they really be as unbalanced as they appear to be? Turns out they are. At least that’s what the science says. And we know how much the left loves its science. A research paper published in March tells an interesting story. “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism” explores “relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment.” In an interview last month with...

None offered..music video of a Democrat lamenting he has to vote for Biden . Sorry if you don’t get Twitter, haven’t found it anywhere else.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 12 Not Peace but Division 49 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against...

Historical ignorance isn’t bliss; it’s suicide. A forgetful society lives on the precipice of history’s abyss. Lloyd Billingsley reminded us of this when he warned, “as ever, the struggle against genocide is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Billingsley was referencing the Communist Khmer Rouge’s democidal frenzy of 1975-1979 that killed over 2,000,000 people, specifically “Cambodian children were clubbed to death and babies smashed against trees.” He provided a link to an historical, contemporaneous 1977 account of the communist regime and its bloodthirsty Angka Loeu (“organization on high”) leadership’s initial crimes against the Cambodian people and humanity: Murder of a...