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With Ukraine In Ruins...Beware The Polish Tail Wagging The American Dog - Colonel Douglas Macgregor

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's daughter, Katherine, a former San Francisco judge, has a power-of-attorney agreement that grants her at least some say over the senator's affairs. Last month, the younger Feinstein, now a San Francisco fire commissioner, filed a suit against the trust of the investor Richard Blum, the senator's late husband. In the legal filing, she identified herself as an "attorney in fact" for the Democratic lawmaker. The agreement allowed the former judge to file the suit on behalf of her mother. It's unclear to what extent the younger Feinstein holds power over the 90-year-old lawmaker. Power of attorney...

The Biden administration has canceled an offer to buy 6 million barrels of oil to replenish America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), multiple outlets have reported. Last year, President Biden drew criticism when he sold off 180 million barrels of oil from the SPR, resulting in a near 4-decade reserve low, which he claimed helped to "stabilize crude oil markets and reduce prices at the pump." This July, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a buyback plan to replenish the reserve. One of those acquisition orders, however, has been canceled amid rising oil costs, according to Reuters. The administration previously set...

Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, the biggest individual donor to a group supporting Ron DeSantis' presidential bid, told Reuters on Friday he will not donate more money unless the Florida governor attracts new major donors and adopts a more moderate approach. When asked which specific policies Bigelow did not support, Bigelow cited only DeSantis signing in April a bill passed by the Florida legislature banning abortions after six weeks, a move that came after Bigelow had donated the $20 million. Bigelow said he would not donate more money for now. "Not until I see that he's able to generate more on...

When Joe Scarborough's reported $9-million-a-year Morning Joe gig comes to an end [not to mention wife Mika 'Know Your Value' Brzezinski's similar pay], perhaps Scarborough should give stand-up comedy a shot. Because on Friday's Morning Joe, Scarborough got off an absolute rip-snorter of a belly-laugh-producing line. In bemoaning what some Republicans and news outlets have said in criticizing the latest Trump indictment, Scarborough boasted: "I must say, sometimes, Mika, you get frustrated because, politically, I'm too pragmatic. I bend over backwards too hard to understand too many people's views." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

. Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager. .. following a play by African American playwright August Wilson, in which the young protagonist defends his incipient embrace of Black racial consciousness against his girlfriend’s white-identified liberal universalism. Yet what Garrow documented, after tracking down and interviewing Sheila Miyoshi Jager, was an explosive fight over a very different subject. In Jager’s telling, the quarrel that ended the couple’s relationship was not about Obama’s self-identification...

Former President Donald Trump scored endorsements from the entire Republican Alabama U.S. House delegation — a massive endorsement that came just one day after he traveled to Washington, DC, for his arraignment.Politico revealed the sweep, explaining that Trump also scored endorsements from “five statewide elected officials” — including U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth and Agriculture Commissioner Rick Pate — in addition to every Republican in Alabama’s U.S. House delegation. That includes Reps. Robert Aderholt, Mike Rogers, Gary Palmer, Barry Moore, and Dale Strong.“Trump personally phoned the Alabama members over the past week and is expected to greet...

ACALA, TX — Residents of a small Texas border town have expressed their sympathy for New York City as it buckles under the weight of a few thousand migrants. "Wow, it must be tough to be one of the wealthiest, most powerful cities in the world while sheltering a few illegal immigrants," said Arnie McClanahan while making his way through a crowd of 150 homeless strangers in his front yard. "As a citizen of a tiny border town currently populated with only 36 Texans and 89,000 illegal immigrants, I know how difficult that must be for them." Leaders from the...

CNN, Most Americans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, as the public splits over whether the US has already done enough to assist Ukraine. Overall, 55% say the US Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine vs. 45% who say Congress should authorize such funding. And 51% say that the US has already done enough to help Ukraine while 48% say it should do more. A poll conducted in the early days of the Russian invasion in late February 2022 found 62%...

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said that claims about the 2020 election being stolen were false, directly contradicting a central argument of former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters. The comments went further than Mr. DeSantis typically goes when asked about Mr. Trump’s defeat. The governor has often tried to hedge, refusing to acknowledge that the election was fairly conducted. In his response on Friday, Mr. DeSantis did not mention Mr. Trump by name — saying merely that such theories were “unsubstantiated.” But the implication was clear. “All those theories that were put out did not prove to be...

'I do not hold the police accountable for this at all — I hold our city accountable for defunding the police,' says injured radiologist. A medical doctor in Portland, Oregon, announced she’s switching her political affiliation from Democrat to Republican following a random unprovoked attack by a homeless person which she blames on the city’s progressive liberal policies. Grisly photos show the extent of radiologist Mary Costantino’s injuries last Friday after she was knocked unconscious from a vicious assault by a homeless perpetrator who struck her with a metal water bottle while she and a friend walked down a sidewalk...

Social media influencer Andrew Tate has been released from house arrest in Romania Friday as he awaits trial on rape and human trafficking charges. The Bucharest Court of Appeals in the eastern European country’s capital ruled that it "replaces the house arrest measure with that of judicial control for a period of 60 days from August 4 until October 2," according to Reuters. Under the new measures, Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian women who have been indicted on the charges can leave their homes, but not Bucharest and the surrounding Ilfov County, the news agency reports, adding that...

"Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. "When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are." "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not...

Inquiring minds want to know why Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is divorcing his current wife who is known or alleged to be a real female. Some have speculated that there is another woman in the queue. Inside information contradicts that speculation. Information provided from an anonymous source, who must remain unnamed because they are not authorized to release this information, stated that Trudeau will come out on Monday as a black Hispanic female to be known as Justina Castro-Trudeau with they/them pronouns. Justina is predicted to govern without change with the exception of strict criminal enforcement of the they/them pronoun...

Could Taylor Swift’s mega-tour have fans seeing red on their next COVID test? There has been some cautious optimism among public health officials that this summer might be the first during which California doesn’t experience a major coronavirus wave — and there’s no evidence at this point that one is on the way. But California is not in the clear or out of the woods just yet. Transmission does appear to be on the upswing, and there’s no denying the virus’ enduring power to spread, particularly in crowded settings. And crowded hardly begins to describe Swift’s concerts, let alone the...

Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that he expects to see his prison sentence extended by nearly two decades on Friday (Aug 4) when a court delivers its verdict on a battery of new charges against him. Who is he and how did he get to this point? OPPOSITION LEADER Navalny, 47, is by far the best known figure in Russia's splintered opposition, with supporters casting him as a Nelson Mandela-style figure who will one day be freed from jail to lead the country. The Kremlin has tried to portray him as politically irrelevant, and President Vladimir Putin...

COVID-19 cases are once again on the rise in the U.S., with data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing virus-related hospital admissions, positive test rates, and wastewater indicators trending upward. The virus has ebbed and flowed repeatedly since 2020—but this time is unique, since it’s the first notable uptick in spread since the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) officially ended in May, bringing to a close a variety of pandemic-era policies and programs. While much of the advice around COVID-19 stays the same, the post-PHE landscape does look a bit different. Here’s what to do...

A certain presidential candidate has been very popular lately. He appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast. House Republicans invited him to testify before Congress on censorship. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, also a Republican, has suggested that if he becomes president, he might nominate him to lead the Food and Drug Administration or Centers for Disease Control. GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he’d consider him to be his running mate. The only problem? This candidate is running in the Democratic primary.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Friday and became the second Republican presidential candidate to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the capital, Kyiv. Christie met with Zelenskyy in the country's presidential palace after touring villages that have become battlefields since Russia invaded last year. During the meeting, he reiterated his support for continued U.S. aid to Ukraine and said the purpose of his visit was "so I could see it for myself" and report back to the American people what the allied country's needs are. "I feel the cruelty, and you feel...

It's Time to Get Rid of 'Woke,' Race and Equity Experts Say (Can only be linked to, per FR rules0