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In today’s episode, Becket explores the link between the spiritual realm and gay pride.

Heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.

In San Francisco, we went to the Walgreens that is the #1 spot for theft in all the 9000 US stores, per Walgreens. This is where chains once shut the freezer section. And we saw 3 thefts right in front of us. But across SF, coffee, mustard, nail polish-- are all locked up:

American vigilante action thriller film starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler (who also co-produced).The film takes place in Philadelphia,telling the story of a man driven to seek justice while targeting not only his family's killer but also those who have supported a corrupt criminal justice system, intending to assassinate anyone supporting the system.

A transgender man from South Carolina is alleged to have been murdered by a man he left home to meet for a first date at an amusement park. The body of Jacob Williamson, 18, from Laurens, was found on July 4 by the side of the road in Pageland, some seven miles from where police believe he was killed. Williamson had been writing to a man from North Carolina a month-and-a-half when the pair agreed to meet in person on June 30 - but Williamson never came home after leaving for the park along the border to North Carolina and...

This week marked another terminal chapter in the candidacy of Ron DeSantis. New polling illustrates his continued descent in the 2024 GOP primary. The campaign is virtually bankrupt, with nowhere to turn after a devastatingly low show of support amongst small dollar donors. Yet, Ron refuses to accept reality. Tallahassee’s consultants have read the writing on the wall—but their objective remains unchanged: milk as many dollars as possible.

Earlier this year, masked men in the San Luis Obispo County city of Templeton displayed a white supremacist banner on an overpass on two separate occasions, causing local outrage. Now, the displays have moved beyond Templeton.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) indicated on July 23 that Republicans could soon move to impeach U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland following testimony from two IRS whistleblowers.In an appearance on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Mr. Jordan was asked by host Maria Bartiromo about recent public disclosures made by IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler and whether Republicans will move toward impeaching Mr. Garland.“It sure looks like now, based on the evidence that keeps piling up, based on what Sen. [Chuck] Grassley released this week, the 1023 form, what we heard from the whistleblowers this past week, and...

United States Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen has an incredible job. She writes rubber checks to pay America’s bills. Yet, somehow, the rubber checks don’t bounce. Instead, like magic, they clear.How this all works, considering the nation’s technically insolvent, is quite miraculous. But it works, nonetheless. Again and again, the Treasury borrows money. And Washington spends it.Yellen likely knows that full faith and credit is too good to be true. The U.S. government’s gross fiscal mismanagement should call the veracity of its notes into question. But why focus on it when there’s an abundance to be acquired from weekly Treasury...

Senate Democrats are attempting to sneak an authorization of an outdated gun control law into the "must pass" National Defense Authorization Act, also known as the US Military budget. The law in question is the 1988 Undetectable Firearms Act, which was championed by groups like Handgun Control Inc, now known as the Brady Campaign. The Act set the stage for the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. Gun Owners of America is working in Congress today to ensure that history does not repeat itself with either of these attacks on your rights. The Act itself bans any firearm that cannot be detected...

This story was already being cited as cause for concern about corporate DEI training even before last week when it took an even darker turn. Earlier this month the National Post reported that retired Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto was suing the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) over the treatment he received during diversity training sessions.It all began with a DEI course for TDSB administrators that started in April 2021. DEI trainer Kike Ojo-Thompson (the CEO of the KOJO Institute) led a series of sessions for TDSB higher-ups in which she made a number of familiar progressive arguments, according to Bilkszto’s...

There are many possible lessons that can be drawn from this new study on elite college admissions but however you slice the data, it reveals that it’s very good to be rich if you want to get into a top school. Take a look at this graph. The x-axis is parent’s income. The y-axis is half-as-likely to be admitted up to twice-as-likely to be admitted.There are all sorts of caveats here but the basic idea is that people who all scored the same on the SAT have a much higher chance of getting in if they are in the top...

Talk about being sold a bill of duds.Michael Shellenberger (that wonderful, courageous man) had a serious of tweets this afternoon and I could not believe my eyes.People say solar panels don't produce carbon emissions, but they do. And now, a major new investigation by Environmental Progress, drawing on the research of @enricomariutti , finds that solar panels made in China produce at least 3x more carbon emissions than IPCC claims. pic.twitter.com/y4a2dvgyZj— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) July 24, 2023The report from Environmental Progress points out a fatal flaw in the solar panel data all of this frenzied switch to renewables is based...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said it did not support Ukraine launching attacks inside Russia after two drones from Ukraine damaged buildings in Moscow earlier on Monday."As a general matter we do not support attacks inside of Russia," White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in a press briefing.Russia vowed to take harsh retaliatory measures against Ukraine, calling the two drone strikes, including one close to the Defence Ministry's headquarters, a brazen act of terror."This is a war that Russia started. This is their war," Jean-Pierre said. "And they can end it at any time by withdrawing forces from...

The subways of New York City have been in the news even more than usual over the past few years and not for the reasons the Mass Transit Authority might wish. The tunnels have become epicenters for crimes of all types, and we’re not just talking about people hopping over the turnstiles to avoid paying the fare. There have been shootings, stabbings, and people being pushed onto the tracks. Robberies are common. And if the random common criminals and gang bangers aren’t enough, there are still armies of homeless people (though somewhat fewer during the summer months when many go...

At this point the idea of turning hotels into housing for homeless people is not new. San Francisco and other cities adopted this idea during the pandemic to help get people off the streets. But even in San Francisco the hotels the city contracted with tended to be older buildings in decrepit parts of town that were not a major draw for tourists in the first place.But Los Angeles is on the cusp of doing something quite different. A union of hotel workers has helped get a measure on the March ballot called the “Responsible Hotel Ordinance.” If passed, it...

According to CBS News, the DC grand jury investigating Trump may indict the former president as early as Tuesday afternoon. “If there’s going to be an indictment here in DC in the special counsel’s January 6 investigation, it could come as early as tomorrow, 1 pm Eastern time when the grand jury is here in the courthouse. The January 6 grand jury tends to meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays,” CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane reported. “That’s the soonest it could happen but there is certainly no date on the calendar…there’s no indictment that is certain…” he said.

“Suppose we got it all wrong and the real crazies are the TV people in nice suits and $300 haircuts?” That’s an observation by Richard Fernandez on Twitter, and he has a good point. There’s a lot of craziness in the air these days. But for the most part it seems to be flowing from the top down, not bubbling up from the bottom. It wasn’t farmers and factory workers who came up with the idiotic COVID responses — nor was it they who originated the more or less criminal idea of conducting “gain of function” research on making dangerous...

Most Americans haven’t encountered the unsettling experience of having a federal agent knock on their door unannounced — and most likely hope they never do. That the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was among those agencies that engaged in this practice came as a surprise to me – and I suspect I’m far from alone in that – when I first learned that just such a visit occurred at the residence of independent journalist Matt Taibbi, coincidentally while he was testifying before Congress regarding the Twitter Files.Subsequent revelations regarding the nature of the matter opened regarding Taibbi, including its timing as...