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Joe Biden is a wildly unpopular man. The media continually tells us how “likeable” he is, but the public isn’t buying it. The talking heads on left-wing cable insist he’s really just a genuine guy who cares for people, a “devout Catholic,” but we see differently and choose to believe our lying eyes over lying Democrats. What about the people who know him best though? Surely they love him, right? Not so much. My wife and I recently took our kids to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for a few days. We wanted to enjoy the weather, the ocean and particularly a...

The Biden regime is seemingly not satisfied with throwing innocent Americans in prison or coming after gas stoves in the name of “climate change.” Now they want you to enjoy less beer. The Regime’s health “czar” Dr. George Koob told the Daily Mail Thursday, which describes the guidelines as strict, that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is strongly considering emulating Canada’s alcohol advice in attempt to pressure Americans to limit their consumption. Canada recommends that their citizens consume no more than two drinks per week. Koob, who is admits to consuming wine twice a week, thinks there are...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Wednesday accused the homeless coalition of holding the city "hostage for decades."London made those comments while joining a crowd of more than 200 people who had gathered outside the federal courthouse to urge the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to cancel a federal judge’s order banning the city from clearing tent encampments until there are more shelter beds than homeless individuals."The homeless coalition has held San Francisco hostage for decades. It is time for their reign to end," Breed said, noting that the city has spent billions of dollars to help homeless people.

Americans could be urged by officials to drink no more than two beers a week as part of strict new alcohol guidelines. Biden's health czar told DailyMail.com the USDA could revise its alcohol advice to match Canada's, where people are advised to have just two drinks per week. Dr George Koob — who admits enjoying a couple of glasses of Chardonnay a week — said he was watching Canada's 'big experiment' with interest. 'If there's health benefits, I think people will start to re-evaluate where we're at [in the US],' he told DailyMail.com. Current US recommendations say women can have...

By midday on Thursday, a little more than 12 hours after it was posted, the 46-minute sit-down had more than 200M views. Regardless of the way X counts 'views' - each time a user scrolls past the video, even without watching any of it, the tally rises - cable news executives will be unsettled by the numbers. Critics say X's metrics are not a reliable gauge of success and point to the fact engagement - likes, shares and comments - was still below 1 million on Thursday morning. But as a comparison, none of Fox News' X posts about its...

When CNN announced that former Bay Area reporter Sara Sidner would be coming to delve into San Francisco’s lethal cocktail of fentanyl and homelessness, I knew what to expect. For the May 2023 special, Sidner asked people living on the streets why they came to San Francisco to be homeless and got the same answers I’ve gotten for years: It’s easy. Easy to get drugs, do drugs, put up a tent, steal to support your habit — and San Francisco will pay you more than $600 a month for the pleasure. It may not come as a surprise, but cities...

It is not hyperbole to say that the 15th BRICS Summit, that wrapped-up today in Johannesburg, South Africa, was a historic event and a geopolitical milestone that is bound to have deep repercussions in the years to come. Even before the summit there was drama and suspense, like French President Macron fishing for an invite and being snubbed, or the realization that Putin would not be there personally because of the ICC arrest warrant. Add to that the successful Indian space mission that put a spacecraft in the Lunar surface, and the shock with Wagner PMC’s Prigozhin plane crash death,...

Alexander De-Transition Story Holds Nothing Back. Hormones to Bottom Surgery in Thailand. His Current Journey De-Transitioning Living Without Male Lower Parts. INTERVIEW IS 1:31:39 MINUTES LONG MAY WANT TO BOOKMARK FOR LATER

Police are searching for a suspect wanted in a daytime jewelry theft in Pickering earlier this month. Durham police say the victims were returning to their home in the area of Azalea Avenue and Burkholder Drive when they were approached by a man just after 1 p.m. on August 2 who forcibly removed jewelry from the woman. A physical altercation ensured and police say the suspect was “stripped of his shorts and shoes” before fleeing the scene on foot and getting into a vehicle, which then fled north on Burkholder Drive. The suspect is described as a Black male, between...

Hannah Barnes is an award-winning journalist based in London. She is Investigations Producer at the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight. Having led Newsnight’s investigative coverage of the controversial clinic, Barnes went on to write ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’ - available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1800751117 #gender #interview #podcast VIDEO IS 1:14:59 MINUTES LONG MAY WANT TO BOOKMARK FOR LATER

About two-thirds of the 3,001 children who once attended Lahaina’s four public schools still have not enrolled in other Hawaii public schools or the state’s distance learning program. And state officials cannot tell yet exactly how many have left the system for private schools or the mainland, are pausing schooling, or are among the roughly 1,000 West Maui residents reportedly still missing in the wildfires disaster. As of Monday only 538 of the Lahaina students had reenrolled in other Hawaii public schools, and 438 students had signed up for the State Distance Learning Program, according to a “Maui Wildfire Impacts”...

Miriam Grossman MD is a psychiatrist and specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry. Her practice currently focuses on gender-distressed young people and their parents. Dr Grossman features in the Daily Wire’s ‘What Is A Woman?’ documentary. She is the author of five books including ‘You’re Teaching My Child WHAT?’ - a critique of modern American sex education - and, most recently, ‘Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness’ - available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1510777741/ #gender #medicine #interview VIDEO IS 1:O8:23 MINUTES LONG MAY WANT TO BOOKMARK FOR LATER

A recent study deemed Aug. 24 the “sickest day of the year,” finding that the late summer day is when Americans call in sick the most. Researchers analyzed sick leave taken across US businesses over the last five years, as recorded by the leave management platform Flamingo. “It’s clear from our findings there are seasonal peaks across the country. However, it’s particularly interesting to see that our sickest day of the year lies outside of the normal flu seasons, which are expected in the colder months,” David Hehenberger, founder of Flamingo, told The Post in a statement Wednesday.

Fox News’s first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential election exceeded expectations and brought in 12.8 million total viewers, according to data released by Nielsen ratings....Former President Donald Trump, who skipped Wednesday night’s debate to join Tucker Carlson for some counter-programming, claimed early Thursday morning he eclipsed all of television: “President Donald J. Trump’s blockbuster interview with Tucker Carlson reached over 100 million views on X less than 4 hours after premiering on the platform,” read a release from his campaign PAC, ....Of course, that’s not the whole story as “views” on Twitter are not remotely comparable to cable news...

3:12 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is pleading with President Joe Biden to bail out the sanctuary state with American taxpayers footing the bill to provide border crossers and illegal aliens with jobs, subsidized housing, healthcare, and public transit. As more than 100,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in New York since the spring of last year, Hochul is formally asking Biden to take a number of steps that would see American taxpayers — the majority of whom do not live in New York — pay for subsidized social services for the new arrivals. “For over a...

The National Drug Authority (NDA) has confiscated a consignment of L- coffee, which was being imported in Uganda as a nutritional supplement. While the sachet of L-Coffee shows that it’s a blend of Arabica and Robusta coffee beans and that it’s an energy booster, the Authority says in a statement that their tests show that the product is adulterated with Tadalafil, a prescription drug for treating erectile dysfunction. Abiaz Rwamiri, the NDA Public Relations Officer told this publication on Wednesday 23, August 2023 morning that the shipment was concealed but their investigations show that a box with ten sachets goes...

The Florida governor's gaffe came moments after he told an audience: 'We will get the job done and I will not let you down.' But DeSantis' subsequent bid to galvanize his vow with a confident smile went badly-awry, when he slowly pulled a bizarre grin that was branded rictus and fake. (Democrat strategist) Edwards, who was heard giving a shocked guffaw at the sight of DeSantis, captioned his tweet: 'The delay of him trying to smile is insane???'

Mom of seven Emma Lewis, 39, is urging other parents to take better care of their physical health — asserting that those who say they’re too busy to exercise are “just making excuses.” “I used to think I had too much on my plate for working out but it was actually because I wasn’t prioritizing myself as well as my kids,” Lewis, from Northern Ireland, told South West News Service. “It’s a hard pill to swallow, but it’s total rubbish if you think you don’t have time to do a quick 10-minute workout,” the said. “If you can sit on...

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley, who has long opposed rushed impeachments, wrote Thursday that Attorney Garland’s botched investigation leaves “no alternative” but an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. (snip) For months, I have discussed a potential impeachment of the president with Republican House members and have encouraged them not to repeat the abuses of House Democrats in the use of “snap impeachments” and the discarding of fact hearings in the House Judiciary Committee. Garland, however, has effectively forced their hands. … With the investigative impediments created by the Weiss appointment and by Garland’s refusal to expressly extend the special counsel’s...

The Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and Ipsos conducted a poll before and after last night’s debate with potential Republican primary and caucus voters, including those who watched the debate. And they thought Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came out on top Wednesday night, with 29 percent of Republican voters who watched the debate saying he performed best. He was nearly matched by former pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy, with 26 percent saying he performed best. The findings may be surprising because DeSantis generally stayed above the fray in a raucous debate, though Ramaswamy received and delivered lots of barbs.