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Looking ahead to 2024, Democrats concede some cause for concern -- including President Joe Biden's anemic approval rating and early polls forecasting a repeat race against former President Donald Trump in which Biden either ties or trails, due in part to a notable chunk of undecided voters and apprehension over Biden's age and acuity, which he has repeatedly dismissed. Looking ahead to 2024, Democrats concede some cause for concern -- including President Joe Biden's anemic approval rating and early polls forecasting a repeat race against former President Donald Trump in which Biden either ties or trails, due in part to...

Northwestern University is in the news these days. Normally, that makes them happy. An allegedly prestigious, globally-renowned research university certainly ought to make the news all the time – with revelations of scientific discoveries, medical breakthroughs, or career announcements about proud alumni. Not today, however. Northwestern is in the news because of a rash of reports – some uncorroborated, some perhaps exaggerated or understated, some likely perfectly accurate – of various types of hazing and otherwise toxic cultures in their athletic programs. A baseball coach was fired for allegedly discouraging students from reporting injuries. A volleyball student’s sensible reticence to...

A raft of evidence shows that caste discrimination has been imported from India to the United States. Indians and Indian Americans are often held up as a “model minority” in the United States. Members of this community are more likely to be highly educated and to have health insurance, make more money, work in more senior positions, and have lower rates of poverty than both the average immigrant and the average American. They are well represented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—the so-called STEM subjects—and more and more of them occupy roles of political and social influence, including Vice President...

Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor FACT: People in Washington know the Ukrainians are finished, they know they can't replace the losses.The question now is what comes next and nobody wants to accept publicly the fact that the Russians are in a strategically powerful and dominant position. 10:39 PM · Aug 5, 2023 · 2,086 Views

Update from Ukraine | Ukrainian Army Advancement on the south| Ruzzian defense get weaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoW_L_266EA The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 5th August 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-528-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Bill Maher is juuust wasted in this interview. Lets play 'name that drug-alcohol mix'. He goes off the rails at 4:50. Poor Riley just struggles to maintain composure.

Tensions this week over Niger the former French colony that is a source of uranium for France's extensive network of nuclear power plants and home base for 1,500 French soldiers.... France's top political leaders remain highly unpopular. An Elabe poll this week for Radio Classique showing President Emmanuel Macron with the trust of only 29 percent of those 18 and older polled...

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Most Americans in a new poll said Congress should not authorize more funding for Ukraine, more than 18 months after Russia first invaded its neighboring country.The CNN poll found that 55 percent of Americans said lawmakers should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine, while 45 percent said they should.Republicans were more likely to oppose additional aid for Ukraine, with 71 percent saying Congress should not approve more funding, compared to 55 percent of independents and 38 percent of Democrats who said the same.

A new lawsuit accuses employees at a Popeyes restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, of attacking a woman in the drive-thru after she attempted to have her order corrected. The incident allegedly happened in September 2022 at the Popeyes location on Cleveland Avenue in southwest Atlanta. After Denetra Dawson attempted to fix an incorrect order, employees allegedly attacked her, pulling out a chunk of her hair and leaving her bruised, according to the lawsuit filed Friday. Dawson said in the lawsuit that when she tried to have her order fixed, words were exchanged before the employees attacked. “I didn’t even think I...

The former president’s support base holds firm as each negative in a court of law translates to a positive in the court of public opinion.

Experts cite declining viewership of hosts like Colbert and Kimmel, begging the question if they're still relevant. Political satirist Tim Young says their months-long absence makes it "easy to forget" about them. "Their tired attempts at making funny news-based monologues that were always about Trump had become exhausting and unquotable, so they'd rarely even be covered by entertainment news anymore," Young told Fox News Digital. "Late night shows are so forgettable that I think people have just moved on... they just aren't missed." Viewership across the late-night landscape had been dropping long before the writers strike. In 2018, the midpoint...

...The new study supports the results of an earlier chemical analysis of the soldiers' teeth. Published last year... the paper found that roughly two-thirds of soldiers who died during the 480 battle were not of Greek origin and that one-fourth of troops who died in 409 were not local to the area...That’s likely because paying soldiers to fight did not fit the prevailing narrative of "heroic Greek armies of citizens and the armored spearmen known as hoplites" rising up to defend Himera that Greek writers wanted to portray, study co-author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard University, tells the New...

A gun violence prevention advocate has been arrested in a major drug and guns bust after being snared in a two-year investigation dubbed 'Operation in Plain Sight'. Michael Rodriguez, 49, was arrested in his home in Yonkers, New York on July 26 after cops seized a cache of illegal contraband including over a kilo of cocaine, three pistols and a shotgun. The activist was also found with $165,000 in cash and $50,000 in jewelry, and is accused of orchestrating a major trafficking ring all while acting as executive director of Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence. Rodriguez was among 15 people...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

President Trump has broken no laws.The charges against Trump brought by corrupt Democrat appointees are for propaganda purposes and for sidelining the candidate who the Democrats know will win the next election.If the Democrats did not regard Trump as the winning candidate, they would not have shown their corrupt colors with four false indictments.Many of the charges are based on interpretations or assertions of law never before seen in any court other than Stalin’s purge trials in the 1930s.Start with the realization that the three charges and a pending fourth are charges against Trump while he was in office as...

For many across the U.S., hour-long transit rides and traffic jams to work have been replaced by roll-out-of-bed commutes and stand-up desks at home, leaving vacant offices behind.Long story short, more and more offices in major U.S. cities are empty. As Visual Capitalist's Avery Koop details below, at the end of March 2023, the national average vacancy rate of U.S. offices had climbed as high as 18.6%.So how have different cities in the U.S. been impacted? This ranking uses data out of fDi Intelligence to rank the top 10 cities that have seen the biggest increases in office vacancy rates...

Trump Special Counsel Jack Smith filed for an emergency protective order on Friday night after getting spooked by a social media post. The former president posted an allegedly threatening statement on Truth Social and Smith asked for protection.Trump posted on Truth Social Friday night the following statement: ‘IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU’ That was the entire post. One statement in all caps. Smith entered it into evidence Friday night shortly after Trump posted it. This is an indication that Smith’s team is actively monitoring Trump’s social media posts. They struck gold with what Smith considers a...

There have been a lot of questions raised about how Joe Biden and his administration have dealt with China, particularly in light of the Biden family foreign business dealings scandal.As my colleague Andrew Malcolm has said, “He’s been remarkably passive given the increasing power and aggressiveness of Beijing’s Communist leaders.”We’ve seen how weak Biden has been in response to all kinds of troubling actions from China, including spying on the U.S. — from the spy balloon to the most recent hacking of the U.S. Ambassador’s email account, as well as the accessing of accounts of other U.S. government officials.Now there’s...

Over the past day, a video featuring remarks from the former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin — the guy Joe Biden bragged about getting fired — has been circulating on social media.This is Viktor Shokin. He is the Ukrainian prosecutor that Biden accused of being corrupt and had removed.In this video he responds to accusations that his investigation into Burisma was dormant or that he was corrupt. He tells the truth about why he was removed as prosecutor.… pic.twitter.com/4kmXexBsmL— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 4, 2023Some folks on social media are sharing it as though this is new information. The video is...