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Parents have raised concerns over a transgender pool official using the women's changing room at the same time as young girls during a teenage swimming competition. Anne Coombes, who last week blasted a hotel spa for not giving her a key to a female changing room, was volunteering at the British Summer Championships which was held at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield. Parents complained that both they and their daughters felt 'uncomfortable' as Ms Coombes, a 65-year-old trans woman, used the female changing rooms as a walkthrough during the competition which finished yesterday. The outcry from parents...

@DougAMacgregor It's time to tell the illegals in this country you got 90 days to get out.

A 68-year-old woman was fired from her job at Lowe’s because she tried to stop shoplifters from stealing merchandise. She pursued them outside the store, which is against company policy. She was struck in the face three times by one of the thieves, leaving her with her right eye blackened and swollen. Instead of being made Employee of the Month and thanked for her diligence on behalf of the company, she was fired. The shoplifting incident happened in Rincon, Georgia on June 25. Three suspects stole about $2,100 worth of merchandise. She left the store and grabbed the shopping cart...

Bud Light's flatlining reputation has seen the once-favorite beer in America banished entirely from a bar in Buffalo, New York - because 'no one' is buying it. Hilarious footage captured the moment the watering hole gave up with the brand, as a bartender untwisted the formerly iconic blue logo tap and replaced it with Miller Lite. 'My local bar finally gave up and is removing Bud Light completely from the bar permanently,' said YouTube personality and podcaster Daniel Keem, who posted the video to social media. The clip, which has been viewed almost nine million times in two days, sees...

Most of us drive cars or small trucks or motorcycles. To enjoy this privilege, we must do numerous things, some of which cost money. We need to be of a responsible age, get training and earn a license. We also must register our vehicles with their serial numbers and display license plates that identify us. Why? Because motor vehicles are inherently dangerous and a major cause of death and injury. Accordingly, certain restrictions are deemed necessary to minimize harm. The restrictions include prohibiting driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and enforcement of applicable laws have dramatically reduced death...

It’s hard to believe this actually happened. Oakland is a far left city full of far left elected officials. Yesterday the head of the Oakland NAACP, along with the Bishop of the Acts Full Gospel Church, released a letter blasting the city’s progressive politics and singling out the county’s progressive DA. The letter called for a state of emergency to deal with rising crime. This letter is so good I’m tempted to include all of it but here’s a portion of it.Oakland residents are sick and tired of our intolerable public safety crisis that overwhelmingly impacts minority communities. Murders, shootings,...

It appears the battle over Florida’s black history curriculum has entered into a new phase. A fiery debate was ignited over parts of the state’s educational standards on chattel slavery. Now, the discussion has continued to rage on the airwaves and interwebs.The debate centers on a line in Florida’s standards which reads: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some cases, could be applied for their personal benefit.”Democrats in Congress are now taking a questionable step in response to Florida’s curriculum. The Congressional Black Caucus is now calling on the Biden administration to use federal power to possibly compel...

Most Americans didn’t watch the Congressional UFO hearings. Like me, they were busy doing important stuff – like anything else. It’s not that I am completely disinterested I just think a congressional hearing on the subject is like watching a sci-fi movie. You can get into the drama of it all, but at the end of the day, it was just a lot of loud noises and not a lot of substance.One of the guys who testified had Peter Strzok eyes. Wild eyes. It looked like the guy had been dropped off at Capitol Hill after being probed by an...

I don’t think I believed that Joe Biden had any shame, given the history that I’ve seen, particularly over the last few years.But it turns out that he can be shamed, after all. At least when it comes to Navy Roberts, his grandchild by his son Hunter and Lunden Roberts.Biden has received a lot of criticism for failing to acknowledge the four-year-old, particularly when he’s always talking about his other grandchildren, even emphatically noting he has “six” grandchildren (not seven). He was chastised by liberal media over it, including in an article in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd,...

Ukrainian artillery crews have been firing rockets made in North Korea against Russian positions, turning Pyongyang’s munitions against the invasion forces of its ally President Vladimir Putin. The North Korean arms, whose use by Ukraine has not been previously reported, were shown to the Financial Times by troops operating Soviet-era Grad multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) near the devastated city of Bakhmut. The origins of Ukraine’s armoury highlight how Europe’s biggest land conflict since the second world war has become a mixed-up cauldron for generations of the world’s military equipment, ranging from ageing Soviet kit to modern precision weapons.

Alex Jones takes calls from nurses and hospital staff who detail their own horror stories after the COVID jab.

Justice Samuel Alito said Congress has “no authority” to regulate the Supreme Court in an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section published Friday, pushing back against Democrats’ attempt to mandate stronger ethics rules. Alito, one of the high court’s leading conservatives, is just one of multiple justices who have come under recent scrutiny for ethics controversies that have fueled the renewed push. “I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it,” Alito told the Journal. “No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period.” Although the Constitution...

Tonight word of a bank failure in the United States... The United States ordering non-emergency employees and all family members at the US Embassy in Haiti to leave... Four crew members missing from an Australian army helicopter that crashed during the night off the coast of Queensland... A US military aid package announced for Taiwan... In Iraq four people killed in a fire... Russia says a US-coalition drone came dangerously close to a Russian warplane in Syria today... Democrat Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no Secret Service protection. The Biden Administration coming down with that... Joe Biden signing...

Senate Republicans recently introduced a measure which would forbid the flying of any flag except the American flag over government buildings. Only ONE Democrat voted for it and it missed passage by just one vote. The Democrats voted against this for obvious reasons. The LGBT lobby wields a massive amount of power in the Democrat party, and Senate Democrats know who their masters are. Congratulations to Senator Joe Manchin for being the sole Dem vote. American Greatness reports: Senate Democrats Shoot Down GOP Amendment to Fly Only the American Flag Over Government Buildings On Thursday, Senate Democrats voted against a...

Former President Donald Trump took the stage at Iowa’s 2023 Lincoln Dinner on Friday evening by embracing his numerous legal battles. Trump was the final speaker of the night, walking out to Brooks and Dunn's “Only in America” with the lyrics “One might end up going to prison/ One might just be president” playing.

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) on Friday confirmed reporting that he is being pushed to challenge President Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2024. Why it matters: The moderate three-term congressman would be by far the most politically established Biden rival were he to mount a bid. Biden's current major challengers are Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and prominent vaccine skeptic, and Marianne Williamson, a spiritual guru who ran for president in 2020. Driving the news: Phillips has been receiving "inquiries about his willingness to challenge Biden" and will meet with Democratic donors about the prospect in New York City...

The ukie concept of victory...Eight or ten more victories like this one, and the hoho military will be women only, all the men will be dead.....

Lebron James’ I Promise School in Akron, Ohio is facing major backlash from Akron Public School Board members after it was reported that the school hasn’t had one student from its 8th grade class pass a state math test in over three years. Akron Public School board member Valerie McKitrick was shocked by the new revelation and stated “Not one? In three years?” after she was presented with data that showed not one single student in the school’s fall 8th-grade class couldnpass a Ohio stated math proficiency test. Keith Liechty-Clifford who serves as Akron’s district director of school improvement went...

Whether masking requirements effectively prevented COVID-19 in schools and should be used as a mitigation strategy for future outbreaks is a highly contested issue, with children as young as two years old expected to mask up during the worst restrictions. A reanalysis of a highly influential Boston mask study claiming continued mask mandates reduced COVID-19 cases in schools found districts that dropped masking requirements actually experienced the largest decreases in COVID-19 cases—and failed to identify any causal relationship between mask mandates and infection rates. In a recently published preprint in arXiv, researchers reanalyzed data published in the New England Journal...

Rep. Jamie Raskin, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, wrote a letter to chairman James Comer demanding the Republican release transcripts from an interview with an FBI agent he says undermines last week's whistleblower testimony. Raskin, D-Md., said that in the July 17 interview the FBI agent, who was assigned to the Hunter Biden investigation, 'discredited House Republicans' claim of political interference in the prosecution of President Biden's son by [U.S. attorney David Weiss].' Raskin said that over the course of the two hour-long interview, which both Democrat and Republican committee staff were present for, the former FBI supervisory agent...