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Democracy stinks. History is littered with short-live democracies that cratered between the bloodlettings of factions going at each other’s throats. Our Framers were well aware of their shortcomings from the lessons of history and their personal experiences since 1776. Popular election, the democratic element in the Framers’ Constitution, was limited to the House of Representatives. This satisfied the Declaration’s maxim that consent of the governed serves as the just basis of government. In Article II, the sovereign people assigned their Natural Right to elect their chief executive to another body, their state legislatures. As discussed in a recent blog post...

The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday declined to honor a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for communications related to its investigation of the cocaine found at the White House, saying that to release those materials would compromise the investigation.Bloomberg investigative reporter Jason Leopold posted the response from the Secret Service to his request, in which the agency stated that "disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."The rest of the letter outlined Leopold's options to challenge that determination but offered no other explanation for the agency's refusal.

Usher’s ex-wife, Tameka Foster, is taking the first step to prevent further accidents and deaths by starting a petition to drain the Georgia lake where her son died. On Thursday, Foster took to Instagram and announced her effort to drain Lake Lanier in honor of her son, Kile Glover, who tragically lost his life in a jet ski accident on July 21, 2012, HipHopDX reported. “On this significant day, July 6, we remember the tragic accident on Lake Lanier that forever altered my life. My courageous son, Kile Glover, fought for two weeks with unwavering strength until his passing on...

With around 20,000 passengers passing through it each day, the Westlake/MacArthur Park Station is one of L.A. Metro’s busiest. It is also the most dangerous. L.A. Metro is working to make conditions safer … Among the initiatives: better lighting and changes to the ambiance. “Some of the lights down here have been replaced by brighter LEDs,” said Stephen Tu, senior director at the L.A. Metro who is in charge of the changes. In addition to lighting and playing music, air is now blowing on the platforms. Another part of the Metro’s multi-layer approach to safety is its ambassador program. Ambassadors...

COVID appears to have spread widely among the 30 million deer roaming the US — with some passing mutated forms back to people, according to a government-led study calling it a “unique public health risk.” Researchers, including several from federal agencies, say they found “at least 109 independent spillovers” of the virus spreading from people to deer, including in New York. It then mutated while being spread among deer — with the unique strain found in at least three cases passed back to humans, according to findings published Tuesday in the journal Nature. “Deer regularly interact with humans and are...

First Trump, now Ramaswamy, as ostensible "populists". In the European Union, the clamped-down system of censorship, opinion formation and manufacture of consent goes under names of oufits like the European Journalism Centre (European Centre for Press & Media Freedom) and .ANP (All News Pipeline). Here in the last bastion of belief in freedom, deep state information control has suffered only a tiny bump in the road by Judge Terry Doughty's ruling that Biden can't issue censorship directions to Social Media, in a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri. (You're dreaming if you imagine the bad guys...

In the wake of his aborted mutiny last month, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Private Military Company turned over more than 2,000 weapons and pieces of equipment more than 2,500 tons of ammunition and over 20,000 small arms, the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) said on its Telegram channel Wednesday. A video showing turned over Wagner tanks and other armor, artillery pieces, land mines and boxes apparently full of munitions has also been distributed.The cache of arms and ammunition displayed by the Russian MoD - if it indeed did come from Wagner - showcases Prigozhin's force of high-end weaponry.This list of...

When I learned that an alleged shoplifter was stabbed to death Thursday by a drugstore clerk in Times Square, I was surprised only that the killing had happened at the CVS at Broadway and 49th Street, not at the Duane Reade at Broadway and 50th Street. Over more than three years, since New York’s criminal-justice “reforms” collided with pandemic dislocations, this stretch of Broadway and the surrounding blocks and subway stations have become a magnet for disorder and danger. That a nearby resident—me—must weigh up the relative dangers of shopping at or even walking by one store rather than the...

CLAIM: A video shows a “World Economic Forum agent” calling for a cashless society and saying those determined “less desirable” will be locked out. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video shows Eswar Prasad, an economics professor from Cornell University, speaking at a June WEF event, but Prasad does not work for or represent the organization. The video misrepresents remarks Prasad made at the event about the benefits and the dangers of central bank digital currencies. During the WEF session, Prasad was asked about the risks that come with a CBDC, and the pros and cons for governments thinking about a CBDC....

Volodomyr Zelensky got the bad news in Vilnius — notwithstanding lip service from some of the NATO members — the United States and Germany are refusing to let Ukraine join the club out of fear of broadening the war with Russia. Make no mistake — NATO is at war with Russia, but the West is cognizant of its military weakness and is not willing as an organization to risk taking steps that would provoke direct fighting between Russian and NATO forces. A frustrated President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a furious broadside against Ukraine’s NATO allies Tuesday as they began a summit...

Michael Saltmarsh, 48, killed 'soulmates' David Gay, 58, and Wendy Gay, 67, as they walked across a pelican crossing in CaerphillyA drink-driver came to realise he had hit and killed a couple crossing a road with his van after his partner found a handbag on his bonnet. Upon making the discovery he said: "Oh my God, oh my God" and vomited. Michael Saltmarsh, 48, was "grossly impaired" when he killed "soulmates" David Gay, 58, and Wendy Gay, 67, as they walked across a pelican crossing in Caerphilly at around 7.30pm on March 17. Mrs Gay died at the scene as...

After a week of storms and Saturday night's torrential rain and hail, residents across Oklahoma City woke up Sunday morning to hundreds of dead birds in the street. WildCare Oklahoma, a nonprofit animal rehabilitation center in Noble, received numerous calls about hundreds or more purple martins downed from the storm and hail, including near the shopping area north of I-40 in Oklahoma City. "Thanks to the public's support, we were able to save a small number of birds from the colony," said WildCare Oklahoma Executive Director Inger Giuffrida.

'It took five men to take it down'Members of the public jumped on a dangerous dog and wrestled it to the ground before firearms officers seized the animal after it attacked another dog in Cardiff on Tuesday evening. Onlookers told of people screaming in the street in Connaught Road in Roath as a large dog, which they said looked like a pitbull, “locked its jaws around a white cockapoo” leaving a pool of blood on the floor at 8.15pm on Tuesday, July 11. South Wales Police said in a statement tonight that a dangerous dog had been seized in North...

High Point police say a black lab charged at the officer, and was shot and killed. The family says that isn't what happened.A family in High Point is trying to wrap their heads around why their family dog was shot and killed by a police officer Sunday morning. High Point police said on Sunday around 9:50 a.m., an officer was dispatched to a home in the 1500 block of Homewood Avenue. Police said a woman called about a German Shepherd in her yard that wouldn’t leave. That neighbor told WFMY News 2 that she has two children and a small...

New York state officials are proud to announce a new record. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced New York State set a record when it comes to New York's "landmark" paid family leave program. The paid family program allows New Yorkers to take paid time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or bond with a new child. "When I signed New York's paid family leave expansion into law, I reaffirmed our state's commitment to ensuring that workers have the protections they need to bond with their parents, children, and other loved ones," Governor Hochul said. "Now, workers are...

The Houston Police Department’s Robbery Division needs the public’s assistance identifying the suspect responsible for a robbery by force. On Friday, June 30, 2023 at around 9:20 am, an unknown male entered a cell phone store, located at the 8600 block of Tidwell, in Houston, Texas. The male first acted like a customer and then walked around the counter, pushed the employee out of the way, and removed the money from the cash drawer. The suspect then fled the location in an unknown direction.

A 79-year-old woman on hospice got her final wish – to see her beloved horse one last time. Karina Courtmanche’s dying wish was to be reunited with her horse Bella, who lives on a small farm in Bethany, Connecticut. Courtmanche has owned 30-year-old Bella since the horse was a baby. Courtmanche is in hospice care with not much time left, her caretakers said. Michelle Walker, RN Case Manager for Connecticut Hospice, said Courtmanche told her of her wish to see her beloved horse again. “We were talking with her, and she kept talking about her horse Bella, that she wanted...

It’s been a busy few weeks for Stephen Bassett, Washington’s veteran UFO lobbyist. Early last month, an ex-U.S. intelligence official who once worked with the Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force went public with claims that the federal government has recovered non-human spacecraft. The former official, David Grusch, does not claim to have seen the crashed spacecraft himself. Rather, in an interview with The Debrief, he said he had heard accounts of their existence over the course of his work. And in an interview with NewsNation, Grusch went even further. “Well, naturally, when you recover something that’s either...

My wife, teenage sons, and I returned home last night from a packed preview showing of the inelegantly named “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” and we were all smiles. The short version is: This is a perfect summer popcorn flick. Continue on for the slightly longer review with only the tiniest of spoilers that you might already have gotten from the trailer. The movie makes us wait before seven-time star Tom Cruise emerges from the shadows as superspy Ethan Hunt. The action, however, kicks off right away on board an undetectable Russian attack submarine somewhere in the Barents...

No search results. Using statistics from the Department of Labor, The Wall Street Journal reports that real hourly wages during the Biden presidency have declined. When Biden took office in January 2021, the average hourly wage adjusted for inflation was $11.39. Now, 29 months later, it stands at $11.03, a 3.16% decline. Stephen Moore of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity reports that the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that in the month of June, the largest growth in employment in the U.S. economy came from government. Government net increase in employment in June was 60,000...