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President Biden’s approval rating took a dip in June, while his overall approval remains under water, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found. The survey found 45 percent approving of Biden in May. That figure decreased to 44 percent in June. Meanwhile, the total disapproval has remained consistent at 54 percent over the past two months. Notably, that figure reflects a four-point increase from the 50 percent who disapproved of the 80-year-old in April. Further, the 44 percent approval in June reflects a four-point drop from the 48 percent who approved of Biden in April.

California's reparations task force wants state lawmakers to ban the arrest and prosecution of people who violate laws against public urination and other "public disorder offenses," the task force said in its final report released last week. The call to end police enforcement of laws, including those that prohibit public urination, is among the official policy recommendations listed in the final report, which contains 40 chapters and runs well over 1,000 pages. "A signification [sic] proportion of law enforcement contact with the public relates to low-level, non-violent offenses. Thus, for example, law enforcement is frequently tasked with enforcing public disorder...

The fifth victim in the Philadelphia mass shooting that left five dead and two children injured on the eve of the Fourth of July was found hours later at home by his father. Families had been enjoying the festivities in the neighborhood of Kingsessing when the gunman wielding an AR-style rifle and handgun opened fire on his unsuspecting victims. Five men between the ages of 16 and 59 were killed in the shooting. The fifth victim wasn't found until four hours later when an unnamed man returned home and found his 31-year-old son dead in the living room, his body...

Republicans are split on whether their presidential contenders should embrace a federal 15-week ban on abortion as the party tries to find its footing on the issue going into 2024. In a radio ad released Thursday in Iowa, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) vowed to back a national 15-week ban on the procedure. That ad followed a call last week from former Vice President Mike Pence, who urged the other candidates to embrace a federal 15-week ban.

New audio translation backs up claim Kerry gave Zarif secret info on Israel By DAN VERBIN https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/305351?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

A gunman wearing a helmet and carrying an “AR-15 style rifle” was caught on camera at the entrance of an upscale Las Vegas apartment complex before an armed employee of the building opened fire and stopped him in his tracks. Questions on how the incident played out remained unanswered for days as media coverage was minimal despite the worker having foiled what appeared to be a mass shooting attempt, Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Amy Swearer claimed.

A shooting erupted hours after a local festival ended on Fourth of July weekend in Texas, leaving at least three people dead and eight others wounded, officials said. Violence broke out at about 11:40 p.m. Monday in the Como neighborhood in southwest Fort Worth, where 11 people were shot hours after the neighborhood’s annual ComoFest had ended, WFAA reported.

Forbes pointed to misleading data and claimed on Monday there had been over 330 “mass shootings” in the United States so far in 2023. They labeled their report “breaking” news. Writing at Forbes, Ana Faguy relied on the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a pro-gun-control database which abandoned the long-standing definition of a “mass shooting” as four or more deaths in a single incident by a single gunman and replaced it with “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.” GVA’s new definition allows...

On the day celebrating the American colonies’ separation from Great Britain, Hawaii is relatively quiet in contrast to the continental United States, where fireworks light up neighborhoods across the country. In Hawaii, July 4 is not a joyous occasion for some residents. This is because July 4 is also the day a group of businessmen self-declared the Islands to be the Republic of Hawaii in 1894, before imprisoning Queen Liliuokalani. Later, July 4, 1960, was chosen as the day the 50th star was added to the U.S. flag.

A Texas man who found a deceased woman in her backyard claims it took several phone calls for Austin police to respond. Retired Austin policeman Robert A. Gross’s letter to Mayor Kirk Watson regarding the woman who had been dead for two days was shared online by another retired officer identified as Dennis Farris, Fox News reported Monday.

Two drag performers and roommates are removing their damaged items from their North Seattle townhome after it went up in flames Saturday due to somebody else’s illegal fireworks. "This isn’t just our home, it’s also our place of work. We get ready here," said Sreya, who preferred to go by their drag name. "And I design for other performers.” No injuries were reported, but residents of three townhomes were displaced. Investigators ruled the fire was accidental and likely caused by fireworks. They estimated the loss to be $100,000. At 12:38 a.m., more than an hour after the fire was first...

Looking through my small library of American History I came upon this in the America,by Eric Sloane from 1992. These are a few actual toasts used on July 4th,1822. TO THE PATRIOTS OF '76-May we ever cherish their principles and imitate their virtues. TO INDEPENDENCE-May we not lose its substance and court its shadow. TO OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE-A beacon to the friends of liberty and a terror to monarchs. TO THE NEXT CONGRESS-May they encourage domestic manufacturers and be contented with forty two dollars a week.

The Biden Justice Department is reportedly preparing a superseding indictment of 30-45 more charges against former President Donald Trump, fearing a Trump-appointed judge might rule unfavorably against it. The scope of the charges could potentially bring the presidential documents case to another jurisdiction and include charges against Trump-tied associates, sources told The Independent. According to the report, the DOJ fears Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon – randomly selected for the case – might give deference to the former president. Trump is already facing a 37-count federal indictment delivered by special counsel Jack Smith. Among the charges are 31...

Independence Day makes Progressives squirm. They despise the principles of the American Revolution. If they could, their scotus judges would gut the Declaration as thoroughly as they have the Constitution. To them, our Noble Declaration, this expression of God-given reason subverts social justice; they are right. Since the Declaration is indeed hostile to their moral relativism, the Left has long attempted to minimize our founding to a fuzzy faith in the people. The “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and “all men are created equal,” translates in their Marxist minds as widespread democracy accompanied with equal...

It's a shame we don't have more honorable upstanding men in the USA instead of all the wimps today. The following from a Brazilian. Amazing Grace - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g9yMGFGlM The Star Spangled Banner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5i4KrghDw Apology (warning) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdFynZxSUQ

In honor of Willie Nelson who woke up proclaiming he's still not dead today, yet again, despite what tablet doth say. 🤣 Willie Nelson - Still Not Dead His older sister did die in June of 2023 at the age of 91. Willie is only 90. 🤣

The Continental Congress chose Thomas Jefferson instead of John Adams to write the Declaration of Independence, because they wanted to solidify the southern states participation in the revolution.Jefferson suffered through Congress remaking his work. His draft at 1704 words was 366 words longer than the final. The Congress added 253 words, and removed or rephrased 792 words, thereby transforming over 60% of his work. Among passages removed was a 168 word section complaining the mercantile system, imposed on the colonies by commercial charter, mandated the importation of slaves to the New World. Such is my analysis, but you can find...

California's controversial Reparations Task Force has called on the state legislature to end child support debt for black residents claiming that the nation's laws have hindered their growth and have torn African American families apart

Elon Musk spent the weekend further alienating Twitter users with more drastic changes to the social media giant, and he is facing a new challenge as tech nemesis Mark Zuckerberg prepares to launch a rival app this week. Zuckerberg's Meta group, which owns Facebook, has listed a new app in stores as "Threads, an Instagram app", available for pre-order in the United States, with a message saying it is "expected" this Thursday. The two men have clashed for years but a recent comment by a Meta executive suggesting that Twitter was not run "sanely" irked Musk, eventually leading to the...

As more and more evidence emerges revealing the depth and breadth of the Biden family's corruption, a "fed up" President Joe Biden has warned his top aides to refrain from advising him to create some political distance between Hunter and himself. "Why should I," Biden demands to know. "He hasn't done anything wrong. As his father I have the obligation to protect him. As the president I have an unlimited power to pardon him for any alleged crime he is accused of." The contradiction between Attorney General Merrick Garland's assertion under oath that US Attorney David Weiss "had a completely...