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History provides examples of third-party presidential candidates swinging elections. Ross Perot denied George H.W. Bush a second term in 1992, running on the Reform Party ticket and garnering 18.9% of the popular vote. Bill Clinton won with only 43.0%. In 1980, Congressman John Anderson ran an incoherent candidacy yet captured 6.6% of votes. Reagan prevailed over Carter 50.7% to 41.0%. It is unclear if Anderson’s bid was engineered by Reagan’s campaign to split votes from Carter. Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 third-party run split Republican votes, yielding Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive leftist president. Now comes RFK Jr. with a platform exhibiting...

In the wake of the Texas Legislature passing a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and pressure from elected state officials, many universities have had to grapple with shuttering the doors of their social justice-focused departments. One university in Denton has already announced its plans to “dissolve” and reorganize a multitude of departments. The University of North Texas (UNT), located in Denton, serves a population of over 42,000 students. Recently, UNT President Neal Smatresk announced the school’s response to Senate Bill (SB) 17 to the public. The posted statement includes the plans for the Vice President for Inclusion,...

Hospitals and clinics in five states are facing disruptions due to a cyberattack Thursday that forced some emergency rooms to close. The attack began at facilities operated by Prospect Medical Holdings. The company’s facilities in California, Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were affected by the cyberattack. “Upon learning of this, we took our systems offline to protect them and launched an investigation with the help of third-party cybersecurity specialists,” the company said in a statement Friday.

Josef Stalin of the old Soviet Union used to be called County Joe. But Biden has so many possible nicknames: Corrupt Joe, Pay-for-play Joe, Sleazy Joe, Bully Joe, etc. How about Green Joe? Green Joe (or the Nasty Green Giant?) along with his energy goon Jennifer Granholm, have drained the strategic petroleum reserve by 46% while gasoline prices have soared 60% under Bidenomics. Gasoline prices have rise over 6.5% just since 7/23/2023. Trump wants to drain the swamp, Biden/Granholm want to drain the strategic petroleum reserve so we can’t go back to fossil fuels. Biden and Granholm as Fossil Fools...

Ed Rollins, responsible for the early adopter ‘Ready for Ron PAC,’ has abandoned the Governor of Florida’s collapsing presidential campaign, admitting that DeSantis has been a ‘flawed candidate’ unable to focus on anything else other than the culture war in an interview with the left-wing magazine, Rolling Stone.Rollins admitted his frustration with DeSantis’s candidacy, and explained the Florida Governor only has himself to blame: “I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people.”“Every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly...

Homicide detectives have arrested Orange County Superior Court Jeffrey Ferguson, 72-year-old, for the murder of his wife in Anaheim Hills. According to the Anaheim Police Department, officers were called around 8 p.m. for a reported shooting. When police arrived at the 8500 block of Canyon Vista Drive they found Sheryl Ferguson, age 65, with at least one gun shot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities said Ferguson was arrested and booked into the Anaheim Police Department's Detention Facility on a $1 million bail. Detectives have not released any additional details because the investigation is ongoing.

Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin said Thursday on the Mark Levin Show that Donald Trump’s lawyers should file an emergency request for the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the prosecutions of the former president. Levin argued that Special Counsel Jack Smith, who he noted is not a presidential appointee, was using the indictments of Trump “as political weapons” to tarnish him as a candidate. He observed that Smith had asked federal judges, in both the “documents” case filed in Miami, and the “January 6” case filed in Washington, to carry out a speedy trial. That, he said, seemed...

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain said on Tuesday the union was seeking ambitious benefit increases in contract talks with the Detroit Three automakers, including double-digit pay rises and defined-benefit pensions for all workers. The UAW presented its economic demands to Chrysler-parent Stellantis on Tuesday and will make presentations to General Motors (GM) Wednesday and Ford Thursday ahead of the Sept. 14 expiration of the current four-year contracts, Fain said. They include proposing to make all temporary workers at the U.S. automakers permanent, placing new strict limits on the use of temporary workers and increasing paid time off. Fain...

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey — Former President Donald Trump, the leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate, told Breitbart News that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is a “loser.”Trump made the comments about Romney, who carpet-bagged his way into a U.S. Senate seat from Utah after he lost the 2012 presidential election after his governorship in the northeastern Bay State, Massachusetts, during a nearly hour-long exclusive on-camera interview last week at his golf club here.“Mitt’s a loser. He’s been a loser for a long time,” Trump said when asked to respond to Romney’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which the...

IDF officers directed harsh criticism at a civics lesson with Reserve Major Professor Yishai Bar, which is required for those hoping to advance in rank. The officers claim Professor Bar spoke against the government's judicial reform plan and religious education. The officers reported to Torat Lehima, a nonprofit advocating for Jewish values in the IDF, that some of the officers demanded that the course commander, Lt. Col. Hanoch Dauba, stop the lecture, which sparked a fierce dispute among the officers present. Soldiers in the course who intend to become company commanders in the IDF said: "We have no problem engaging...

Senior Ron DeSantis campaign aides reportedly oversaw an operation to send meme campaign videos produced by staff members to anonymous Twitter accounts allied with the Florida governor’s presidential campaign, a new report from Semafor has revealed.The videos, which include an anti-Trump one featuring the Sonnenrad, a symbol associated with Nazi Germany, and another attacking Trump for previous comments supportive of LGBTQ rights, emerged from a Signal channel called "War Room Creative Ideas." Screenshots of the channel were shared with the outlet and their authenticity confirmed by a second source familiar with the campaign.One screenshot showed staffers praising the since-deleted video...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it needed actions, not promises, from the United States to meet the conditions it has set for a return to the Black Sea grain deal.Russia last month declined to renew the deal that had allowed Ukraine to ship grain from its Black Sea ports despite the war, saying not enough had been done to remove obstacles to its own exports of food and fertiliser. It said it was ready to return to the agreement as soon as those issues were addressed."If they want to contribute to fulfilling the part of the grain deal...

President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday that his third indictment would help prove election fraud as he faces a 2024 race to the White House.In a statement posted to Truth Social, Trump commented on Mike Pence, saying he felt “badly” for the failing presidential candidate “who is attracting no crowds, enthusiasm or loyalty who, as a member of the Trump Administration, should be loving him.”He continued, “He didn’t fight against Election Fraud, which we will now be easily able to prove based on the most recent Fake Indictment & information which will have to be made available to us, finally...

With the transcript of Devon Archer’s testimony released, New York Rep. Dan Goldman stands exposed as shamelessly deceptive in his claims that Archer’s account mainly cleared President Joe Biden of any wrongdoing in connection to son Hunter’s lucrative influence-peddling. Among the revelations: Between meetings and phone calls, then-Veep Joe chatted repeatedly — 20 times, to Archer’s knowledge — with Hunter and his overseas clients, usually for periods longer than the cup-of-coffee or just-a-handshake that Joe’s defenders have claimed. Notably, Archer debunked the pro-Biden lie that Joe barely stopped by an April 2015 dinner with a pack of Hunter clients. Goldman...

Monark, "Brazil's Joe Rogan," is now being criminally investigated and fined ~$75,000 for online conduct—fully silencing the once mega-popular podcaster without any due process. This is what's coming for everyone. The West is using Brazil as its censorship laboratory, learning how to implement and escalate their totalitarian assault on free expression.

Less than one day after being arraigned on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 presidential race, former President Donald Trump on Friday called for the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the 2024 contest. Trump, the top contender in the Republican presidential primary, claimed that dealing with numerous ongoing legal battles amounts to “election interference” — the very thing he is accused of conspiring to do in his latest indictment. “My political opponent has hit me with a barrage of weak lawsuits, including D.A., A.G., and others, which require massive amounts of my time & money to adjudicate,” Trump...

When Worlds Collide is a 1951 American science fiction disaster film released by Paramount Pictures. It was produced by George Pal, directed by Rudolph Maté, and stars Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen,and John Hoyt. The film is based on the 1933 science fiction novel of the same name, co-written by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An ATF agent was robbed at gunpoint outside the Drake Hotel in the Gold Coast neighborhood early Thursday morning. Please note the video in the player above is from a previous report. The incident occurred at about 2:22 a.m. in the 900-block of North Michigan Avenue, Chicago police said. Police said a 33-year-old man was on the street when a dark SUV approached and two male suspects armed with handguns got out and demanded the victim's property. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives later confirmed that the man who was robbed is...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nashville is headed to a runoff in the mayor’s race as no candidate received the needed 50% of the vote to win. Freddie O’Connell and Alice Rolli finished with the most votes. Coming in third and just missing the runoff was Matt Wiltshire. According to Davidson County Elections Administrator Jeff Roberts, the runoff election would take place Sept. 14, along with the special general election for TN House District 51.

Florida State University criminology professor Eric Stewart was a guru of the claim that “systemic racism” infests America’s police and American society. Now he’s out of a job on account of “extreme negligence” in his research. The academic was fired after almost 20 years of his data — including figures used in an explosive study, which claimed the legacy of lynchings made whites perceive blacks as criminals, and that the problem was worse among conservatives — were found to be in question. College authorities said he was being fired for “incompetence” and “false results.”