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his 4th of July marks the 247th anniversary of American Independence. 2023 marks two other important events: the 240th anniversary of George Washington’s resignation as the Continental Army’s commander and the 230th anniversary of his first and only presidential reelection. American Independence was just the beginning of the nation’s liberty. The decisions of one man, Washington himself, could have torpedoed the entire project; his greatest contribution to US governance was setting the precedent, and creating the custom that kept politicians from concentrating institutional powers upon themselves. In light of his other contributions, it is easy to take George Washington’s humility...

The Arkansas Supreme Court is flipping conservative for the first time in history following Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders nominating U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland to the vacant position. “I am pleased to announce that I have selected another former prosecutor and a U.S. Attorney, Cody Hiland, for this role,” Sanders said during a press conference at the Arkansas State Capitol, in which she honored the life of Democrat Supreme Court Justice Robin Wynne, 70, whom she referred to as a “legal titan.” Wynne, who was elected to the Supreme Court in 2014, passed away nearly two weeks ago.

After forming in 1962, The Rolling Stones quickly defined the decade alongside other British bands like The Beatles and The Kinks. The 1960s was a significant time in the development of counterculture, rock music and youth movements, and The Rolling Stones, with their gritty style, were widely influential in this cultural shift. The band might have started out as a blues cover band, but it didn’t take long for the Stones to solidify themselves as talented songwriters in their own right. This was mainly down to the pairing between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, becoming known as one of music’s...

We may not be interested in jihad, but jihad is still interested in France — and the rest of us, too. Jihad seems so passé in the wake of Joe Biden's disastrous Afghanistan pullout, which not only took U.S. forces out of the region, but seems to have emboldened Russia and China. But to paraphrase the famous saying, it also may be that we are not interested in jihad, but jihad is still interested in us. The example of France with its mass rioting, which has since spread to Belgium and Switzerland, gives one pause. What do we know about...

Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton The Supreme Court's recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been to install Justices whose job is to turn back the clock on our freedoms, on decades of constitutional decisions, and on our continuing struggle to “form a more perfect union” that includes all of us. Let's vote out their political enablers and rein in the dark, subversive money that supports them in their quest to reverse a century of progress.

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Disney’s She-Hulk star Mark Ruffalo is pleading with his followers to “organize the vote” after the U.S. Supreme Court overturning affirmative action in college admissions, and in a separate ruling, struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, ending a $430 billion debt write-off that critics said had been a midterm election gimmick Biden knew was unconstitutional. “Okay. So we all understand that the Supreme Court has become a right-wing ideological political institution under Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, & Roberts. They’re for sale & illegitimate. Now, we have to beat them in the executive branch & the legislature,”...

politicians” who “wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them.” After being asked if she would ever consider running for office, the singer said, “No, I’m running from office.” “In the middle of the night, I wake up with this song in my mind, and I just felt the need to address what’s going on in the world today, my feelings and thoughts about it, because I’m not one for speaking out much on those sort of thing,” Parton said in a recent interview with BBC News.

Five Republican presidential candidates say they have met fundraising benchmarks to participate in the party’s first primary debate next month, as other campaigns hustle both to secure the necessary financial support and hit the required polling thresholds. Campaign reps for former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy each told The Post Monday that they had already been backed by 40,000 unique donors — including 200 unique donors in at least 20 states or territories — more than seven weeks before the first...

It’s not the first time that the toxic substance has been used in a combustion engine, but GAC says it has made it work as a fuel for regular ICE cars.While the world is looking to get away from internal combustion engines (ICE) and towards battery electric vehicles (BEV) or fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) for cleaner emissions, China-state owned Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. (GAC) appears to want to do it all. During its annual technology showcase, the Chinese partner to Toyota showed off an engine powered by ammonia. While it's not the first ever to use the rather toxic fertilizer...

Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders... a recent report from the Quincy Institute demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse. The Quincy Institute—whose own start-up funding came mainly from George Soros and Charles Koch—looked at 11 months of Ukraine War coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, from March 1, 2022, through January 31, 2023, and counted each time one of 33 leading think tanks was mentioned. Of the 15 think tanks most often mentioned in...

Proving pay-for-play influence peddling can be a tricky thing, but House Oversight Committee James Comer, R-Ky., sounds confident he can make the walls close in on President Joe Biden. "We have six different policy decisions — four of which were made while Biden was president — that we can't come to any other conclusion as to why these decisions were made other than the fact that this president is compromised," Comer told "The Cats Roundtable." "This family's taken too much money from the Chinese Communist Party not to completely join the majority of Americans in trying to oppose the Chinese...

a Harvard professor thinks that he may have discovered evidence of alien life in the Pacific Ocean. Professor Avi Loeb recently concluded a $1.5 million expedition searching for indications of an enigmatic meteor called IM1. This meteor crashed near the Papua New Guinea coastline in 2014 and is speculated to originate from interstellar space. During that expedition, Harvard’s Professor Loeb, who is no stranger to controversies regarding his views on extraterrestrial life, found evidence of what he thinks may have been a part of an alien spacecraft, or at the very least, something of extraterrestrial origin. Expedition to find the...

“Abraham Lincoln said, "America will never be defeated from outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will come from the inside.” Introduction Never in my wildest dreams did I envision that my once very modern and beautiful country, Iran, would fall into the hands of Muslim extremists who did not possess one iota of humanity. Never in my wildest dream did I envision that I would likely never see the country of my birth again. My teenage years in Iran were full of joy, excitement, and happiness. Iran was a developing country. Despite its rapid growth and obstacles,...

On the verge of tears, Nathan Nkunzimana recalled watching a video of a child being molested and another of a woman being killed. Eight hours a day, his job as a content moderator for a Facebook contractor required him to look at horrors so the world wouldn’t have to. Some overwhelmed colleagues would scream or cry, he said. Now, Nkunzimana is among nearly 200 former employees in Kenya who are suing Facebook and local contractor Sama over working conditions that could have implications for social media moderators around the world. It is the first known court challenge outside the United...

A Florida woman who shot a mom of four dead through her locked front door was once branded a “psycho” by a responding deputy after repeatedly calling cops to complain about the victim’s noisy kids. Newly released body-cam footage shows the numerous instances that Susan Lorincz, 58, had called the police on 25-year-old Ajike Owen over local children playing near her rental apartment in Ocala Lorincz faces a manslaughter rap for fatally blasting Owens June after the spiraling feud over the noise. Critics have argued that the crime is deserving of a murder rap, asserting that Owens was unarmed. “When...

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said Monday on “CNN This Morning” that Americans value their guns more than their fellow citizens’ lives. Scott said, “Well, my community knows this. We know that when you think about this country and the history of mass shootings, most of the time when we talk about this, we’re talking about it being a school in a rural community or a suburban white community. When it happens in Baltimore or Chicago or D.C., it doesn’t get that same attention. These black American lives, children’s lives matter just as much as anyone else. We’re just asking for...

When in the course of human events, a woke partisan mob, in collaboration with Wall Street globalists, social media oligarchs, and a propagandist corporate media seize the reins of power, it becomes necessary for the people most victimized to throw these rascals out. To this end, we hold these truths to be self-evident: American taxpayers are entitled to a fair return on the investments they make through tax payments and sound governance. They must not be treated as instruments of a Marxian redistribution of income to advance Leftist causes. A country in which only a minority of its citizens pays...

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Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia teacher, was found dead in her apartment the morning after a blizzard 12 years ago by her then-fiance. She had 20 stab wounds, including 10 to the back of her head and neck, and was covered in bruises in different states of healing. ".... her mother, Sandee Greenberg, told Fox News Digital. "And the politicians, they are unconscionable." The city medical examiner's office initially ruled her daughter's gruesome death a homicide but then called it a suicide after a meeting with police and prosecutors, according to court filings. [snip] Greenberg was 27 when her fiance, Samuel...