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A Florida sheriff ripped into beachgoers for ignoring warnings of deadly water conditions after the Florida Panhandle experienced nearly a dozen deadly drownings, including former NFL quarterback Ryan Mallett, over the last two weeks. Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford said he was infuriated with the unnecessary deaths after he had to watch his deputies rescue strangers who disregarded the warnings. “I’m beyond frustrated at the situation that we have with tragic and unnecessary deaths in the Gulf,” Ford wrote on Facebook. “I have watched while deputies, firefighters, and lifeguards have risked their lives to save strangers. I have seen strangers...

A social media user waiting to board a Southwest flight recently cried foul over an apparent “pre-boarding scam” involving wheelchairs — while the airliner stresses that its policy complies with the law. Passengers are known to get antsy boarding and exiting planes, but Paul, whose Twitter handle is @trendready, complained about how some fellow flyers are possibly attempting to game the system by requesting wheelchair assistance and be the first ones on a flight before takeoff. “Pre-boarding scam at @SouthwestAir,” he claimed in a Saturday tweet with a photo of a line of people lined up in wheelchairs. “20 passengers...

A damning annual report from the U.K. climate watchdog has slammed the government’s progress on reducing car use. A 438-page report released June 28 from the Climate Change Committee criticizes the government’s road-building plans, praises low-traffic neighborhoods and said cuts to the active travel budget should be reversed. The government has “made no progress on our recommendations on clarifying the role for car demand reduction,” states the report. The committee said “positive” moves by the government included work done by Active Travel England, the introduction of the temporary £2 bus fare cap, and the implementation of low-traffic neighborhoods (LTNs). “Measures...

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On June 13th, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to overturn the proposed rule of the BATF, which is set to make the possession of pistols with a pistol brace installed a federal felony, punishable with up to a $10,000 fine and or ten years in prison. The vote was almost entirely on party lines, passing 218 to 210. Two Democrats voted for the resolution, and two Republicans voted against it. On Thursday, June 22nd, 2023, the Senate voted against H.J. Resolution 44 by a razor-thin margin of 50 to 49. Three Senators, who were considered possible swing votes,...

LANSING, MI – A Michigan House hearing grew heated last week as Republicans questioned established climate science and attacked proposed Democratic clean energy legislation using what some climate experts characterized as fear-based arguments rooted in misinformation. Rep. David Prestin, a Republican from Menominee County in the Upper Peninsula, called climate change a “theory” and warned that Michigan citizens would go without power and “perishables will spoil” under proposed Democratic bills meant to hasten the transition off fossil fuels for energy and reduce power costs for ratepayers, especially lower-income Michiganders. Prestin accused Democrats of “using the drumbeat of climate” to mandate...

Eggs, bacon and toast. All more expensive under Biden’s economy. And mortgage purchase demand is down -45.3% since Biden was elected and mortgage refinancing demand is down -91% under Biden and mortgage rates are up 128% under Biden’s economy. Mortgage applications increased 3.0 percent from one week earlier (using seasonally adjusted data), according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending June 23, 2023. This week’s results include an adjustment for Juneteenth holiday. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 3.0 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one...

A new report from a congressional committee reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) actively outsourced its work on censoring so-called “misinformation” to outside groups, then covered up such efforts. According to Just The News, the report from the House Judiciary Committee highlights the DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its “censorship operation,” which was formally assigned to a nonprofit group funded by DHS. This move came after a lawsuit was filed against DHS by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri alleging violations of the First Amendment by the agency. The agency handed such tasks over...

So, what is meant by the modern term referred to as 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS'? The definition is found in 4 telegrams at the Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. The following are copies of four telegrams between President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur on the day before the actual signing of the WWII Surrender Agreement in September 1945. The contents of those four telegrams below are exactly as received at the end of the war - not a word has been added, edited or deleted! (1) Tokyo, Japan 0800-September 1,1945 To: President Harry S Truman From: General D A...

Each time the word ROCK is used in the Bible in reference to any providing of the people, it is used as God being the one provided. Here is the first verse in the Bible in the KJV showing just that. (Exo 17:6 KJV) Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. Who pointed out where the ROCK was? God did. What came out of...

In a communication to a Chinese business associate in 2017, Hunter Biden pitched his family’s influence-peddling operation as “the best” choice for doing “exactly” what the Chinese Communist Party-linked Energy Company wanted. The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee released the newly uncovered WhatsApp exchange onto Twitter Tuesday. In the 8/3/2017 exchange, Hunter Biden told Gongwen (Kevin) Dong, an associate with the now defunct Chinese energy company CEFC, that “the Biden’s[sic] are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants from this [partnership].” The very next day, one of Hunter’s shell companies, OWASCO PC, received $100,000 from CEFC, the...

One year ago on July 3, Arizona resident and concealed-carry holder Raul Mendez and his family were enjoying a Fourth of July party before shots rang out and left their lives changed forever. Mendez was shot in the head as suspect Jason Hunt opened fire on the partygoers, leaving two men dead and four others, including Mendez, seriously injured. The rampage ended when Mendez was able to gather the strength to pick himself off the floor, unholster his concealed-carry weapon and shoot Hunt four times in the chest. "It's still something that's unreal," Mendez told Fox News Digital in a...

... The misunderstanding has historical, cultural and political roots but fundamentally it can be attributed to the universalist, Manichean (good vs evil) worldview of what Brown refers to as the Enlightenment West – and the projection of that attitude onto a civilization that doesn’t share the same history. “The distinctiveness of the intellectual and cultural history of inhabitants of the space now occupied by the People’s Republic of China is undeniable,” Brown writes. “In terms of language, modes of governance, economic behavior, and fundamental view about how the world operates and how society should be shaped, the Chinese tradition is...

The hyperbolic language of the climate change crowd has been wearing thin ever since Al Gore’s dire predictions from 2006 have inconveniently not materialized. Fox Business News recently interviewed a South Dakota farmer named Jared Bossly. A company called Summit Carbon Solutions is laying the groundwork to run pipelines through five Midwestern farming states for the purpose of capturing, compressing, and transmitting CO2 from ethanol processing facilities to a final resting place deep below the ground, somewhere in North Dakota. Fox News reports that more than 80 eminent domain lawsuits have been filed in South Dakota for this purpose. Mr....

Since June 1, even the radio has been turned off in my cell. I can't see other people, and when I do I'm not allowed to talk to them. So when I entered the courtroom and the courtroom and the lawyers asked me, "So how did martial law go for you?", I thought it was some kind of new joke or Internet meme that hadn't reached me yet. And when, a minute later, they were telling me about the seizure of Rostov, the helicopters that had been shot down, and the armed column heading for Moscow to "kill that bastard...

Yevgeny Prigozhin used a false pretext to lead his Wagner Group forces in an armed insurrection against the Russian state, according to a senior U.S. official. Prigozhin had been plotting ways to reverse his fortunes in the face of waning power and came up with a plan to claim his forces had been bombed, which he would then use to justify actions against Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russian defense leaders, the senior official said. The precipitating factor for Prigozhin’s military march was the directive that his forces be increasingly incorporated into the Russian military, the official said. Prigozhin...

@RandPaul No institution is above scrutiny, especially the Department of Defense, which has the largest budget of any federal agency and is charged with carrying out the greatest constitutional responsibility.

Electric Vehicle maker Lordstown Motors Corp. (LMC) announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday despite receiving millions in taxpayer funding through tax breaks and grants. LMC received $4.5 million from JobsOhio, a private nonprofit that collects funds through a government-mandated monopoly on spirituous liquor sales, according to Cleveland.com, and $20 million in tax credits to be paid out over 15 years by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority, according to Business Journal Daily. LMC also received a $40 million loan from the previous owner of the plant, General Motors, who received $60 million in subsidies from the state of...

No shame in shanghi/press-gang victims chickening out....

The Biden White House has repeatedly claimed they are the "most transparent administration in American history," but a Fox News Digital review found that the visitor logs from the beginning of the Biden administration through February 2023 have not included any of Hunter Biden’s White House visits or extended stays. Fox News Digital reviewed several articles to piece together Hunter Biden’s whereabouts during his dad’s administration and found that he has visited the White House over a dozen times through February 2023, the month accounted for in the most recent batch of visitor logs released last month. A majority of...