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A recent YouGov poll asked Americans whether they believe in 30 good- and bad-luck superstitions, ranging from four-leaf clovers and wishbones to broken mirrors and Friday the 13th. People were, on average, more likely to believe in superstitions thought to bring good luck than they were to believe in ones thought to bring bad luck.The three good-luck superstitions polled that the largest share of Americans say they believe in are making a wish while blowing out birthday candles (28%), seeing a shooting star (28%), and saying bless you when someone sneezes (27%). The three bad-luck superstitions believed by the greatest...

With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee. DONALD TRUMP Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates. RON DESANTIS The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as...

Biden's nominee wanted a 43% quota for white male Air Force officers. In May, Front Page Magazine broke the story that Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr., who had been put forward by Biden as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had signed off on a 43% quota for white male officers. As the investigative piece warned Brown’s quotas limit the number of white officers to 67% and cut white men down to 43%. “The Air Force officer corps is currently 77% white: getting it down to 67%, a reduction of 10%, would require...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday sharply criticized Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s assertion this week that Congress does not have authority to regulate the Supreme Court and noted that Alito’s seat on the court exists only because Congress determined the number of justices that sit on the high court. “First of all, it’s just stunningly wrong. And he should know that more than anyone else because his seat on the Supreme Court exists only because of an act passed by Congress. It is Congress that establishes the number of justices on the Supreme Court. It is Congress that has...

In retrospect, I think that there may have been some subtext behind the idea of setting the post-apocalyptic “Mad Max” series in Australia. The Aussies have been known to be hearty, jovial, and brave. But starting with the draconian police-state tactics during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Land Down Under seems to be going under at a startling rate. The latest thing to indicate that Australia will be in for a rough time of it for some time to come is a children’s book called “Welcome to Sex” by Dr. Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes. The pair, who hosts the podcast...

A study published by Korean scientists has thrown cold water on the idea that cutting the amount of carbon in the atmosphere will automatically lead to lower temperatures. In the study, the Koreans simulated how removing large amounts of carbon would affect the progress of local climate changes related to global warming. Computer modeling looked at the hypothetical scenario in which “carbon dioxide concentrations continued to rise from present-day levels for 140 years, then were gradually reduced back to the initial levels over another 140-year period,” according to Space.com The study results suggest that the local climate in these areas...

Despite the fact that climate alarmists have been obviously and wildly wrong for more than 50 years now in their predictions, they continue to demand absolute credulity for their moanings and screechings about the supposed imminent catastrophe of global warming. The real meltdown isn’t from glaciers, it’s from the climate alarmist mainstream media. But why? Totally ignoring evidence from multiple sources showing that the globe is cooling overall and that their “record heat” announcements are flat-out wrong, the mainstream media continues to predict eco-apocalypse. Since it’s not a fact-brd narrative, why exactly is the media still pushing it? A few...

The amount of fentanyl crossing the southern U.S. border every month is more than enough to kill every single American. Fortunately, the Biden administration is focused on important things like overseas drag shows and the fake climate crisis.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported the seizure of about 2,100 pounds of illicit fentanyl at the border in June. To put that in context, Epoch Times cited the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to explain that a single kilogram of fentanyl, or 2.2 pounds, can potentially kill a stunning 500,000 people.Dr. Donna Nelson, an organic chemist and University of Oklahoma professor, told...

A Tennessee-based engineer is being investigated by the Pentagon for a “critical compromise” of communications across 17 Air Force facilities. The unnamed engineer, who hasn’t been formally charged, is alleged to have taken home more than $90,000 worth of government radio technologies and gained “unauthorized administrator access” to the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The security breach comes just three months after a junior Air National Guardsman allegedly leaked a massive number of classified documents online. Jack Teixeira, although relatively low-ranking, used his top-secret security clearance to post hundreds of Ukraine war documents on the Russians and...

If you’ve ever wondered what connects Frank Zappa to Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach to The Beach Boys, the answer is Carol Kaye. The session legend tells the story behind her career and legendary bass recordingsIf plucking a ripe plum from a tree had a sound, it would resemble Carol Kaye’s signature tone – a tone that made her a ‘first-call’ bassist in the highly competitive studio session world. It wasn’t just that, though. Kaye is arguably the first bassist to exploit the instrument in a truly melodic fashion, a nod perhaps to her early days as a jazz guitar prodigy....

Thus always to traitors!

A Georgia mother of three and former pageant queen has been arrested in the Bahamas for allegedly plotting to kill her estranged husband, a former Auburn University football player, according to reports. Lindsay Shiver, 36, was caught when Bahamian police accidentally stumbled on her alleged scheme to murder hubby Robert Shiver, 38, while they were investigating a different case, Bahamas Court News reported. Two men, Terrance Bethel, 28 — identified by the outlet as Lindsay Shiver’s lover — and Faron Newbold, were also arrested in the alleged hit scheme.

**SNIP** Hirsh Naftali has contributed $13,000 to President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and this year has given $36,500 to the Democratic National Committee. White House visitor logs show that she has been at the executive mansion 13 times in the past 18 months. A Biden administration official said the art purchase was not the reason for Hirsh Naftali’s appointment, and it’s not clear when she bought the artwork or how much she paid for it. What is clear is that Hunter knew. Hunter also knew that one of the purchasers was entertainment attorney Kevin Morris, whom he met in December...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Leigh Ann Hester Info from here. (Thank you to mountainlion for bringing this hero to our attention!) Leigh Ann Hester (born January 12, 1982) is a United States Army soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, Hester received the Silver Star for her actions...

The DOJ, Binden Cabal, Obama, and the rest of Deep State don't even care how this looks anymore. This desperate and brazen attempt to silence Archer is now the norm for this administration. They know they have 99.9% of MSM will ignore what they're doing.

All baserunners score. "Intent" is irrelevant--if balls hits head, rule applies.

Last week, Barack Obama’s private chef, Tafari Campbell, fell off his paddle board and sank below the surface of Edgartown Great Pond. His drowned body was recovered on Monday morning in the water off the former president’s Martha’s Vineyard estate. Currently, there’s no foul play suspected, and it’s worth noting that Campbell was not wearing a lifejacket. However, certain peculiarities have presented themselves, causing some people to raise questions. For example, the reason for the 911 call that prompted the search was left blank in official logs. The person Campbell was with at the time of the accident remains unidentified,...

A prominent civil rights figure who helped craft Florida’s African American history standards has blasted Vice President Kamala Harris’ assessment of the curriculum as “categorically false.” Dr. William Allen, former chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights, says Harris was way off when she claimed in a speech last week that the standards suggested slavery was beneficial to black Americans. “The only criticism I’ve encountered so far [on the new curriculum] is a single one that was articulated by the vice president, and which was an error,” Allen, who is black, told ABC News in footage touted by Florida...

Parents, three school districts, teachers, and administrators are suing the Pennsylvania Department of Education over its new "woke" guidelines. The parties filing the lawsuit argue that the new guidelines unconstitutionally force educators to teach socio-political beliefs unrelated to the state-approved academic standards. Teachers will now have to "interrogate their biases and recognize inequality in schools and school systems," including "institutional racism," in the classroom. Deputy secretary for the department's Office, Tanya Garcia, said the new standards would address the changing demographics of students who attend Pennsylvania's public schools. State officials asked the CEO of the Philadelphia-based Center for Black Educator...

Republican presidential candidate former Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that if his rival for the nomination Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), is the head of the GOP ticket folks in black and brown and LGBTQ community will not vote for him. Hurd said, “I was the first to come out saying that slavery was not a jobs program and anyone implying that there was an upside to slavery is insane. What is even more shocking to me is that everybody has come out, Ron DeSantis’ Department of Education doubled down on this. Ron DeSantis has...