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Furious Republicans said the Secret Service is closing the White House cocaine investigation without finding any suspects – and narrowing the culprit list down to 500 people. GOP Rep. Tim Burchett said agents 'just decided it's just some weekend visitor' and chalked up the entire investigation as 'another coverup' by the Biden White House. 'It's bogus' the Tennessee congressman added. 'That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life.' His comments came after the Secret Service briefed members of Congress, 11 days after the discovery forced evacuation and a hazmat situation at the White House. Since July...

A popular Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bar is temporarily closing its doors after violence rocked the busy neighborhood over the weekend, making owner Brian Vetere say enough is enough. Carson City Saloon locked its doors and turned off its lights this week, citing safety concerns for its customers and employees as the crime-riddled area saw multiple shootings. The establishment posted a statement to Facebook Monday explaining its decision to temporarily close its doors for the first time in its 17-year history.

The Secret Service concluded its investigation into the cocaine found at the White House and agents were unable to find a suspect, The Associated Press reported Thursday. The bag of cocaine was discovered in the White House on July 2, and the Secret Service was conducting an investigation with fingerprints and DNA testing. A report released Thursday said the probe ended with no viable suspects, despite the Secret Service looking at visitor logs and “surveillance footage of hundreds of individuals,” the outlet reported. (snip)

The Secret Service concluded its investigation into the cocaine found at the White House and agents were unable to find a suspect, The Associated Press reported Thursday. The bag of cocaine was discovered in the White House on July 2, and the Secret Service was conducting an investigation with fingerprints and DNA testing. A report released Thursday said the probe ended with no viable suspects, despite the Secret Service looking at visitor logs and “surveillance footage of hundreds of individuals,” the outlet reported. The agents were also not able to identify what day the illicit substance was left in a...

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who has bolstered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) national profile through Fox News and other outlets he and his family own, is reportedly losing confidence in DeSantis’s ability to defeat former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primary, Rolling Stone reported.One Fox News insider told Rolling Stone that Rupert and his son Lachlan Murdoch “are transactional and can smell a loser a mile away.”A senior Fox source told the outlet Murdoch’s “understandable worry is that we may end up being stuck with Trump anyway.”“And DeSantis is underperforming. Anybody can see that … [and the Murdochs],...

A health emergency has been declared in Peru amidst a Guillain-Barre syndrome outbreak. Guillain-Barre syndrome is a rare and dangerous neurological disorder, the increased development of which has been linked directly to COVID jabs. In Peru, more than 84% of citizens are reported to be “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19, raising the specter that the country’s embrace of the jab could be behind the Guillain-Barre outbreak.Guillain-Barre syndrome is defined as a neurological and autoimmune disorder in which patients’ immune systems attack their nervous systems, leading to an often catastrophic breakdown in bodily function and a long road to recovery. Guillain-Barre kills...

[Catholic Caucus] Church Up in Smoke. A Theological Critique of the Guidelines of the Synod on Synodality(s.m.) Joachim of Fiore had foretold the advent of an age of the Spirit, with the happy dissolution of the structure and doctrine of the earthly Church. It is easy to imagine, given how the synod on synodality is proceeding, that the great Jesuit theologian Henri De Lubac (1896-1991) would have associated pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio as well with the variegated and lasting “spiritual posterity” of the visionary medieval monk, which he surveyed in a book of nearly a thousand pages that made quite...

Sweden's top court on Thursday blocked the extradition of two Turks that Ankara says are part of a terrorist group, potentially complicating Stockholm's bid to join NATO just days after Turkey dropped objections to Sweden's membership. Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership last year in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, abandoning policies of military non-alignment that had lasted through the Cold War. Turkey has held up ratification of Sweden's bid. Ankara accuses Stockholm of doing too little to deal with people Turkey sees as terrorists, with extradition a key sticking point. However, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday...

PublicSq., a marketplace touted as a pro-life, pro-family, and pro-freedom "patriotic parallel economy," is set to go public. This initiative is the latest effort by conservatives to divest from a liberal marketplace that appears increasingly antipathetic to their traditional values and hell-bent on their subordination. Michael Seifert, the company's founder and CEO, announced in a webinar Monday that PublicSq. was going public through the SPAC Colombier Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: $CLBR) on July 20. Businesswire previously reported that following the business combination, the combined company will be renamed "PSQ Holdings, Inc." and will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under...

Racial equity activists are outraged after several large companies dropped their diversity, equity, and inclusion consultants in response to conservative backlash and criticism. The outrage was documented in a report from the Los Angeles Times that noted the exits of DEI experts at Disney, Netflix, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Warner Bros. Discovery. “I wake up every day trying not to be a cynic, but this is frightening,” said Vic Bulluck of the NAACP Hollywood bureau. “Hollywood seems to be sending a message that these programs that were designed to give more access to African Americans...

This was one of those times when I had to double-check if the announcement wasn’t a parody account. Vice President Kamala Harris’ endless servings of word salad have blurred the lines that separate parody from the real world. When you have become a punchline, it’s a problem. And Harris’ vow to fight inequality in air travel is something you’d see from the hilarious satire account on Twitter, but that’s not who posted it. It was her office. The Biden administration will tackle the next frontier of inequality: bathroom access on domestic flights. No, I’m not kidding. “The majority of domestic...

Ukraine has received cluster munitions, a military spokesperson said on Thursday, less than a week after the United States announced it would transfer such munitions to Ukrainian forces. Valeryi Shershen, a spokesman for the Tavria military command in southern Ukraine, confirmed a CNN report citing the commander of the Tavria forces as saying Ukraine had just received cluster munitions but had not used them yet. Cluster munitions are "in the hands of our defence forces," Shershen told Ukrainian television but giving few details.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) lashed out on Wednesday when she learned that Israel’s president will deliver a speech next week to the U.S. Congress. The Messenger asked Omar about the President Isaac Herzog’s upcoming speech on July 19th – to which she first expressed outrage before admitting that she had no idea he was even coming. Omar said that there was “no way in hell” that she would attend the speech, adding: “I didn’t even know he was coming.” Omar, who has a long history of spewing anti-Semitic hate, generated pushback across the political spectrum over her remarks. “She didn’t...

There goes the economy! As The Federal Reserve is poised to continue it inflation-fighting crusade, the US economy is rapdily approaching DEFLATION. US Producer Price Index FINAL DEMAND fell to 0.1% YoY in June. Bidenomics, the combination of insane monetary stimulus and insane directed Federal spending towards going green at all costs, is running out of steam. M2 Money growth was last measured to be -4% YoY and the US Dollar is down -8.2% since September 2022. The good news? Silver is up over 2% today! And Bitcoin is up almost a percent today. Speaking of the Biden White House...

Mesha Mainor represents District 56 in the Georgia state House of Representatives. On July 11, Ms. Mainor announced that she was leaving the Democrat party to become a Republican member in the Georgia House. Here is part of her statement, quoted at Breitbart: My name is Rep. Meisha Mainor and today I made the decision to leave the Democrat Party. I represent a blue district in the city of Atlanta so this wasn’t a political decision for me. It was a a MORAL one. I will NEVER apologize for being a black woman with a mind of my own. pic.twitter.com/q3snDGejCN...

A 40% increase by Allstate in Georgia, a 32% rise sought by Nationwide Mutual Insurance in California, an 11% bump by State Farm in New York. Insurers are imposing steep increases on auto insurance rates, with state regulators doing little to stop them. Even states with consumer-friendly laws, and the power to veto increases, are allowing rates to rise. California this year agreed to more than a billion dollars of car-insurance premium increases, according to consumer advocates. Insurers are getting big bumps because they have suffered big losses. Car insurance premiums could keep increasing through the end of 2024. “Rates...

FBI Director Christopher Wray sat for nearly four hours of questioning on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee. Here are the top takeaways from the hearing.1. Wray Indicates Foreign Intel Agencies Worked with Big Tech to Silence SpeechThe FBI director faced fierce questioning from Republican committee members on the FBI’s efforts to induce Big Tech to censor American speech. Several representatives specifically challenged Wray to justify the FBI passing along requests from the Ukrainian intelligence agency, SBU, to social media companies. The FBI’s role as a conduit for SBU was just revealed on Monday in a report from the House...

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A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.Review continues...

What could it be? The spiraling costs, year after year, with massive overhead and bureaucratic costs soaring? The collapse in competence and civil knowledge? The lunatic, fringe, cultish partisan and ideological indoctrination? Maybe a bit of all the above, and then some. Like so many other institutions across American society, trust in American higher education is crashing. Though there's one notable demographic exception. Gosh, I wonder why: Confidence in American higher education has hit a new low.Democrats are the only group with majority confidence in it.pic.twitter.com/MEhElYzNto— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) July 11, 2023As recently as 2015, a majority of the public...