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As we all know, the 2020 presidential election was the most honest, above-board exercise of popular suffrage in the recorded history of mankind, and anyone who suggests otherwise is a racist, bigoted redneck yahoo who wants to install Donald Trump as dictator-for-life of this once-proud republic. That said, however, there has been a steady trickle of revelations suggesting that the 2020 election was not actually the pristine civics lesson that we have been forced to affirm it to have been (on pain of vilification and deplatforming). The latest is the belated release this week of the 2021 Halderman Report, which...

A Colorado-based legal group filed a civil rights complaint against the University of California Berkeley (Berkeley) over holding a segregated graduation ceremony in May.The Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) filed an administrative complaint with the Department of Education Monday, alleging the university violated the Civil Rights Act.In May, Berkeley continued its decades-long tradition of holding a separate “Black Graduation” ceremony for African Americans. In a statement to a local Fox affiliate, the university defended the ceremony as part of the institution’s commitment to “diversity, equity, and inclusion and belonging among all members of our community.”“As such, Berkeley’s Black Graduation serves...

The deputy commander killed was said to be from the Storm Ossetia battalion, and was named Tekhov Aivengo. He was allegedly surrounded along with his battalion, and about 300 Russian soldiers were killed. The propagandists write that this unit had allegedly "decided to stand to the end." Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Malyar confirmed that the Ukrainian military had liberated the village of Pyatykhatky in Zaporizhzhya Oblast. In total, during the two weeks of the offensive in the Berdyansk and Melitopol sectors of the front, the Tavria grouping units have de-occupied eight settlements ...

We live in a society where we have been trained not to ask the hard questions.Instead, we are just supposed to relax and let others do our thinking for us. If you do insist on asking pesky questions, you are likely to be labeled a “conspiracy theorist” or something even worse. And even those labels are a form of control. Very few of us are eager to be labeled “one of those people”, and so most of us just go along with the program. You see, the truth is that those in power do not want us to be independent...

Senator Rand Paul teed off on globalist Bill Gates Sunday, heavily intimating that the billionaire’s obsession with funding research into deadly viruses led directly to the COVID pandemic.Appearing on Fox News, Paul noted that Gates visited China last week.“Bill Gates is the largest funder of trying to find these viruses in remote caves and bring them to big cities,” Paul asserted, referring to gain of function research.“So what happened in China is they went eight to 10 hours south of Wuhan, two to 300ft deep into a cave, found viruses, and took them back to a city of 15 million,”...

Are you a conspiracy theorist? If you are thoughtful and interested in public affairs, the media will say you are. And they will smear and dismiss you for it.Dr. Anthony Fauci covers his face while President Trump talks during a coronavirus briefing. (White House/Screenshot)For more than half a century, certainly since the Kennedy assassination, anyone who notices patterns and missing pieces in public life, and attempts a possible explanation that suggests cover-ups or other nefarious dealing, is denounced as a “conspiracy theorist” and hence self-evidently wrong and probably crazy.The trouble is that it is very difficult to make sense of...

Romans 8:6 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. A lot of times when people hear spiritual they think not real or less real than the physical, but that is not the case. Before there was anything physical there was spiritual. And when the physical is done with there will always be spiritual. If anything, the spiritual is more real than the physical. The spiritual can exist without the physical, but the physical can not exist without the spiritual. Just look at you when your spirit leaves your body what...

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Has the LGBTQ+ et al movement hit a ceiling — and has it sowed the seeds of its decline? For the first time since Gallup began polling on the question of same-sex relationships, American public approval of their morality suffered a statistically significant decline, falling seven points to its lowest level in four years. And while that decline has a strong partisan flavor, it’s also falling among its traditional allies.First, the overall results show a sharp drop in support in the overall population:Americans’ views about the morality of a number of behaviors and practices are...

I saw a local advocacy group tweet out a factoid that I just knew had to be wrong.It was a right-leaning group called the Minnesota Action Network, and while I am very sympathetic to its causes I thought they had to be gaslighting us.Yes, I do fact-check my allies when I can. Otherwise, I could wind up repeating things that are excessively “spun” or outright false, and I hate to look stupid by doing so. I make enough stupid mistakes on my own, thank you!Nope. They weren’t. The comparisons are actually worse than they imply.Minneapolis’ crime record has surpassed that...

Throughout the month of June, Americans from all walks of life have gone about their business surrounded by rainbow Pride flags. They are everywhere you look, from restaurants to online shopping to even everyone’s favorite escape, sports. As the alphabet mafia set their sights on major league sports, how are these teams responding to the other portions of their customer base? Are they giving in so they don’t become the next Bud Light or Target? Some are, but some are actually listening to their fan base. One of those teams is the Texas Rangers. The Rangers are the only team...

I have to admit it, up front: I’m just as disgusted with writing about the insanity of transgender “care” for children as you are reading about it, but we’ve reached a point under the Biden presidency where even Europe calls the U.S. an “outlier” among Western nations in respect to so-called “gender-affirming care.”Who’d a thunk it? Frggin’ Europe, I mean.If that doesn’t tell you how deep in the sick cesspool Joe Biden has gleefully tried to sink America, what would? Supporting so-called “trans” adults is one thing; supporting the irreversible mutilation of the bodies of confused children is unconscionable.The inexcusable...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are proposing about $237 billion in tax cuts on the heels of the averted debt limit crisis. It's unclear at this time, whether the trio of bills has sufficient support for a floor vote. However, the package addresses key tax changes involving research and development (R&D) credits and 1099-K relief for casual online sellers. In the past, both of those issues have shown potential for some bipartisanship. The bills include other notable proposals, including a temporary (two-year) renamed, higher individual standard deduction, and a repeal of some clean energy tax credits from the...

One of the biggest arguments in favor of mass immigration – whether of the legal or illegal variety – is that we need the workers. You’ve probably heard claims such as, “We need more workers,” or, “Immigrants do jobs Americans won’t do.” A recent article by American Compass CEO Oren Cass in The Atlantic magazine takes these arguments on, making the case that a labor “shortage” is actually a good thing. Cass’s solution: “If employers are struggling to find workers, they should offer better pay and conditions. If that comes at the expense of some profits, or requires some prices...

Cris Lencioni, an MMA fighter who competes in Bellator, is "currently in the ICU in his biggest fight yet" after suffering a cardiac arrest earlier this month, his family said on Monday. Lencioni’s family said in a post on GoFundMe that he suffered a medical incident on June 8 and remains hospitalized. His family is hoping to raise money to support him during this difficult time.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview with NBC News on Monday that the U.S. has moved past its spy balloon dustup with China from earlier in 2023. Blinken told NBC’s Janis Mackey Frayer in Beijing “that chapter should be closed,” referring to the deterioration of relations that occurred after a Chinese spy balloon was caught flying across the United States in February. Blinken’s trip to China to meet with top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials had originally been scheduled around the same time the balloon was discovered, but was rescheduled as a result.

Battered in the opening phases of the Ukraine war, Russia’s attack helicopter fleet now sports new technology and tactics to blunt Ukraine’s ongoing offensive. This month, Eurasian Times claimed that a Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter with the Vitebsk-25 countermeasures suite recently evaded 18 missiles while on a combat mission in Ukraine, jamming the missiles, completing its mission, and returning to base unharmed. Eurasian Times states that Vitebsk-25 consists of an infrared (IR) missile tracker and laser countermeasures, augmented by a flare dispenser to blind IR missiles. It also says the system can detect and jam threats across 120 degrees azimuth...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0oA-Y5eTs4&ab_channel=RepublicWorld Final Battle In Russia-Ukraine War? | Maj Gen GD Bakshi's Grand Strategy on Kiev's Counteroffensive Republic World The Grand Strategy with Maj Gen Bakshi (Retd) 32m:57s

Some observers say that the battle now taking place in the Zaporizhzhya area of Ukraine is like the 1943 Battle for Kursk. Is that the case? Why does it matter? The Nazi attempt to capture and defeat the Soviet forces at Kursk in western Russia was a massive undertaking, one that bears, in terms of armor, artillery, aircraft and manpower, no real resemblance in scale to the battle now raging in the Zaporizhzhya area. But by other measures there is a comparison to be made. In Zaporizhzhya the Ukrainians are trying to establish bridgeheads with the ultimate goal, if they...

On this date in 1699, Madame Angelique-Nicole Tiquet lost her beautiful head … eventually. The talk of every Parisian in the spring of 1699 for attempting the life of her husband, Angelique-Nicole Carlier had been well-known in Paris circles since the 1670s; coincidentally or not, that was a period when a perceived boom in “husband-killing” burgeoned the phenomenon into an outright moral panic. In those bygone days, Mademoiselle Carlier did her manslaying metaphorically, wielding only her limitless charms (not excluding a wealthy inheritance left by her industrious albeit untitled late father). This reputed “masterpiece of nature,” alas, exchanged her magnum...

EXCLUSIVE: Melania Trump supports her husband’s re-election campaign, telling Fox News Digital that she looks forward to working alongside former President Trump in "restoring hope for the future and leading America with love and strength" during a second term in the White House. Mrs. Trump told Fox News Digital that if she has "the privilege" to serve as first lady again in 2024, she would continue to prioritize initiatives focused on the well-being and development of children, to ensure they have the "support and resources they need to reach their full potential." "My husband achieved tremendous success in his first...