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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Two people died early Wednesday morning when a gray BMW lost control on University Boulevard South and slammed into a Firehouse Subs building before catching fire, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. Police said around 1:20 a.m. the BMW was headed north near Terry Road and the driver, who was speeding, lost control at the curve, sending the car careening into the Firehouse Subs building.

The Biden administration announced on Monday it is preparing to send $200 million in military aid to Ukraine to help the eastern European nation amid its ongoing conflict with Russia. The new aid package comes amid Americans’ increasing opposition to continually shipping U.S. dollars to Ukraine. According to a press statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the $200 million in U.S. aid will include “air defense munitions, artillery rounds, anti-armor capabilities, and additional mine-clearing equipment.” The announcement came days after the White House asked Congress to authorize an additional $24 billion in aid to Ukraine, which comes on top...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” ... DeSantis stated that the question in the wake of the indictments of ... Trump is how we’ll respond and end weaponized government. ... The swamp got worse in his four years.” ... “... what we need to do is get a president ... that could actually end the weaponization of federal power through the DOJ [and] the FBI. So, for example, with me as president, on day one, Christopher Wray gets sent packing. You’re going to see the DOJ cleared out. We are going to ensure a single standard...

"How you can think the most important molecule for life - carbon dioxide, which is where all life comes from - could possibly be net negative is beyond the pale. It’s throwing science and logic out the window." - Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore

Has the left’s half-century-long struggle to return the Democratic Party to its working class roots become an exercise in futility? This is perhaps the most vexing question facing the party of liberal America. It is not an easy one to answer. In recent years, the Democratic electorate has moved in two directions. First: The percentage of Democrats with a college degree has almost doubled, growing from 22 percent in 1996 to 41 percent in 2019. Second: While the percentage of Democrats who are non-Hispanic and white has fallen from 76 to 59 percent over the same period, according to Pew...

We have entered the twilight zone. Bernie Sanders is pushing for a greater federal role in U.S. healthcare even as we watch the collapse of government-run healthcare in Great Britain and Canada While single payer, socialized medicine, Beveridge model, Medicare-for-All, Medicare Extra For All, universal healthcare, and National Health Service (NHS, Great Britain) have minor technical differences, fundamentally they are all government healthcare, where bureaucrats – not patients – make medical as well as spending decisions. Great Britain Three weeks ago, the Guardian confirmed a growing exodus of senior physicians and surgeons from Great Britain relocating to other countries. The...

Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Tuesday on “CNN Primetime” that former President Donald Trump can not win the presidential election in November 2024, and he will “crush the Republican ticket going down.” When asked to react to the Georgia indictment, Sununu said, “I’m not a lawyer. I will say, this is incredibly similar to the federal indictment that Jack Smith is doing out of DOJ. Other than, as you brought up, now 18 people involved. That’s a much bigger swath of individuals. Something that I think republicans need to take note of, this is a grand jury in a very...

Shocking video captured the moment a quick-thinking Long Island cop used his police vehicle to sideswipe a woman who was waving a gun in the street. Police responded to a report of a woman firing a gun into the air at the intersection of Bellmore and Jerusalem avenues in North Bellmore around 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. Footage of the incident, posted on Reddit, shows the woman holding the handgun and threateningly pointing it at other cars as she walks across the road. At one point she even holds the gun to her own head, the video shows. Suddenly, tires...

It’s Not Hard to Tell Good Guy From Bad Guy, as 12 More Defensive Gun Uses ShowIn a recent opinion piece in The Kansas City Star, sociology professor and military veteran Doug McGaw argues that the Second Amendment is “a relic of the 18th century” that needs to be repealed.Although McGaw certainly is entitled to his opinion, his “argument” boils down to little more than a litany of common gun control talking points, all of which are readily refuted.McGaw argues, for example, that the Second Amendment’s mention of a “well-regulated militia” refers to the National Guard. (It does not. Moreover,...

More than half of Americans surveyed said they would not support former President Trump in the 2024 general election if he is the Republican nominee, according to a new poll. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Wednesday found that 53 percent of Americans said they would definitely not support Trump if he was the nominee. Another 11 percent saying that they would probably not support him. ---- Opposition to President Biden is not as strong as it is for Trump, with just 43 percent of Americans saying that would definitely not vote for him in 2024....

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) noted that the decline in the inflation rate just means prices aren’t going up as fast as they were, “but these high prices, they are permanent. Even if inflation goes to zero tomorrow, we’re still going to be stuck with these higher prices, which are a direct result of President Biden’s economic policy.” Kennedy said, “Because of President Biden’s inflation, and Bidenomics, [families are] paying an extra $700 a month, $9,000 a year, and they don’t have it. Yes, if there’s any good news, the rate...

Jacksonville, Fl — Jacksonville has another new millionaire. One ticket matched all six numbers in last night’s Mega Millions drawing. The $36 million ticket was sold at the Publix on Roosevelt Blvd. in Ortega. We reported last week that the Publix in Neptune Beach sold the winning ticket in the record-setting jackpot of $1.6 billion.

Georgia’s leading elected state officials, who are Republicans, reacted Tuesday to Monday’s late-night indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 other lawyers, aides, and supporters by reiterating that there was no voter fraud in 2020. Gov. Brian Kemp (R) posted a tweet in response to a Truth Social post by the former president. Kemp did not object to the indictment — which critics have said violates constitutional norms and criminalizes free speech — but to Trump’s 2020 claims.

It's all too predictable. A scandal or merely an apparent scandal involving Republicans happens and one of the Watergate people, usually John Dean or Carl Bernstein, is brought aboard by the media to perform their "Worse than Watergate!" or "Bigger than Watergate!" shtick.There's nothing at all unusual about Dean invoking Watergate for the umpteenth time as part of his media circus act. Why bring on this 84-year-old pundit, if that's not the point? Dean wrote a book in 2006 that mild-mannered George W. Bush was Worse Than Watergate. Last summer, Dean was the star of a four-part CNN special titled...

The sheriff in Fulton County, GA said the plan is for Donald Trump and the other RICO defendants to be booked at the Fulton County Jail.

As the 2024 presidential race heats up, former President Donald Trump received an unlikely endorsement from the elder brother of former President Barack Obama. When asked if he’s “all in” for Donald Trump’s 2024 run for president, Malik Obama said, “Yes, I am.” Obama’s brother warned Americans against his own brother as well as President Joe Biden. Malik Obama said he’s “not a Democrat” and does not support “Sloppy Joe.” Malik said he visited the White House multiple times each year when his brother was in office, but they haven’t spoken in some time. “I don’t get along with him,”...

A couple of months ago I noticed a transgender (young man taking on female appearance) overseeing a group of young children at the local YMCA. I wrote a letter to the CEO of that location, yes that's his title. I offer it up here as a example of just one of the many ways we can fight back and defend our children. I also ask for ideas from you for how we can actively resist and change hearts. My letter is below.

In Georgia, even a victory in the 2024 presidential race would not allow former President Donald Trump to escape criminal charges Georgia’s insulation from the presidential and gubernatorial pardon powers could make the newest indictment of Donald Trump the most serious criminal charges the former president has faced yet, legal experts told The Messenger. “There is no pain-free exit from this state litigation for Trump,” said Barbara Ann Perry, professor and director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign could, if successful, hand him a literal get-out-of-jail-free card on any convictions stemming from...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 6Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand 6 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. 3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. 4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near. 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people...

Sean Tuohy, Jr. whose family was the subject of the hit film "The Blind Side," is responding... ...Tuohy said Oher sent messages to family group texts in 2020 and 2021 with statements such as "'If you guys give me this much, then I won’t go public..." ...Sean Tuohy, Sr. also responded Monday...that the family contacted lawyers at the time "who had told us that we couldn’t adopt over the age of 18," and "The only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship." The elder Tuohy also said that everyone "got an equal share, including Michael" in the profits...