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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said on Monday he would not serve as former President Trump’s running mate if the former president were to win the party’s nomination in 2024. “No, I would not,” Burgum, who is also running for president, said in an interview on “CNN This Morning,” when asked whether he would serve as Trump’s vice president. “Happy to do lots of other things. I [had a] fabulous 30 years in the private sector, a lot of opportunities there,” the North Dakota governor continued. Burgum also shot down the suggestion of accepting a cabinet position.

A former All-American swimmer brought her crusade to keep transgender women out of women’s sports to Nebraska Sunday, speaking to more than 1,000 people at an event marked by Christian faith and patriotic fervor. Riley Gaines, who swam for the University of Kentucky, tied the issue of transgender women in women's sports to an array of other issues in America. She also said transgender women try to join sororities and seek to be housed in women's prisons, with the goal of having access to women. She decried "the changing of the language that we use, the silencing, the denying of...

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Disney is suffering the consequences of injecting ‘woke’ far-left propaganda into its film productions after reports its stock fell to a 9 year low. The company’s stock fell to a 9-year low as consumers not only complained about the LGBT propaganda laden with its kid’s films but also the poor story quality and hostility towards conservatives. The ‘woke’ messaging in Disney’s films includes: Mary Sue stories designed to bolster false feminist premises while denigrating men Critical Race Theory is an attempt to exploit negative race relations Race swapping of established white characters for the sake of virtue signaling Use of...

We are livin’ la vida Bidenomics! The 30-year conforming mortgage rate is currently 7.23%, up 161% under Biden and Bidenomics (code for massive Federal spending on green initiatives that go to large Democrat donors and Ukrainian oligarchs). Meanwhile, M2 Money supply is up 9.4% under Biden. At the same time. home prices are UP 26% under Biden while Real Median Weekly Earnings are DOWN -5%. On a sad note, it looks like The Federal government is starting to rattle its Covid saber just in time for the 2024 Presidential election. Odds are the US will ramp up online voting, early...

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JUST IN — Tucker Carlson is reportedly in discussions to interview Vladimir Putin, as reported by RT. Notably, the NSA spied on Tucker Carlson to prevent a pre-war interview with Putin, potentially stopping the American public from gaining insight into Putin's perspective before the US-Russia proxy war in Ukraine. Tucker's reputation for asking insightful questions, particularly those critical of the U.S. military-industrial complex, coupled with his potential to provide Putin with an unfiltered platform, adds a notable layer of significance. Ironically, those who champion democratic ideals while advocating for an escalation of the conflict between major nuclear powers seem determined...

Remains of a Roman settlement have been discovered at a housing development site in North East Lincolnshire.Two human burials and animal bones were found at the plot, off Larkspur Avenue in Healing.Archaeologists discovered enclosures which date back to AD200, according to North East Lincolnshire Council...Developer Cyden Homes agreed to a programme of archaeological investigation on the land before it could be built on.Work began nearly 10 years ago, according to the council, and excavations have discovered a Roman 'ladder' settlement.This comprised a linear village of enclosures, where archaeologists found evidence of a small hearth and watering holes.They also uncovered a...

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. — Article IV, Section 4 United States ConstitutionGreetings, everyone, from Kinney County, Texas. It is a beautiful piece of landscape located between Del Rio and Eagle Pass. Kinney County sits in the middle of those two US border ports of entry, along the Rio Grande River, and it is ground zero for witnessing that our southern border...

On Thursday, a federal court ruled that parents in Maryland do not have a right to opt their children out of classes which teach pro-LGBT curriculum. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the group of parents had filed a lawsuit against Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), demanding that the district revive a policy that allowed them to pull their children out of classes that discussed books and other materials featuring LGBT characters. The policy was first enacted in January but then repealed in March. “The Court concludes the plaintiffs’ asserted due process right to direct their children’s upbringing by opting...

Taking after our good friends across the border in Canada, the U.S. alcohol czar has decided that we are now to have just two beers a week.According to the Daily Mail: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...

[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]“This is about black labor versus white wealth. That’s what this battle is about,” Brandon Johnson framed the mayoral election as a race war at a debate with his opponent.Johnson, a top official at Chicago’s radical teachers’ union, had plenty of money. As a Cook County Commissioner, Johnson was already earning $100,000 a year, another $100,000 from the Chicago Teachers Union, plus $25,000 for his work as a lobbyist. He’s also eligible for a $1.1 million pension for...

Yale University researchers have created a new airborne method of delivery for mRNA vaccines which they believe will radicalize the way people are vaccinated in the near future. Their findings are detailed in a report published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. “In the new report, there is no intramuscular injection,” said Professor Mark Saltzman.“We just gave two doses, a prime and a boost, intranasally, and we got a highly protective immune response. But we also showed that, generally, you can deliver different kinds of mRNA. So it’s not just good for a vaccine, but potentially also good for gene...

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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]Back in February 2019, Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) aroused fury and disgust by, as the Washington Post delicately put it, asserting that “the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the influential lobbying group, is paying American politicians to take pro-Israel stances.” Omar herself put it more colorfully, saying that “it’s all about the benjamins, baby.” (Benjamins, kids, are hundred-dollar bills, so named after Benjamin Franklin, whose visage graced them before we all switched over to digital money we...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has fallen behind both Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy in the early GOP battleground state of New Hampshire, dropping to just 9 percent of the vote as former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the field.A poll by Echelon Insights, quizzing 800 likely Republican Primary Voters, puts Chris Christie in second at 14 percent. Previously little-known Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is also in double digits at 11 percent – putting him in third place. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is polling at 7 percent, just two points behind the Florida Governor.Donald Trump stands at 34 percent in...

The UK's air traffic control system has been hit by a 'huge network failure' on one of the busiest days of the year - causing chaos for tens of thousands of holidaymakers that could last days. Britain's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) said it is experiencing 'technical issues' that have forced controllers to reduce the rate that aircraft are able to land and take off. This has led to hundreds of flights being delayed both in and out of the UK. Britons returning from Tenerife told MailOnline they had been told to expect a wait of at least 12 hours....

[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]Last year, Biden met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and boasted that, “I reversed the policies of my predecessor and resumed aid to the Palestinians — more than a half a billion dollars in 2021.”Batsheva Nigri, a preschool teacher, was riding in a car with her six-year-old daughter when Islamic terrorists from the Palestinian Authority’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade cut them off and riddled the car with 22 bullets. Batsheva’s six-year-old daughter watched her mother die.The Palestinian Authority’s...

MOSCOW, August 28. /TASS/. The coming exercise of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Belarus, Combat Brotherhood-2023, will focus on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and counter-drone measures, Anatoly Sidorov, the chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, said at a news briefing on Monday. "Actively using unmanned aerial vehicles and measures to counter the use of those by the enemy" will be a key focus, Sidorov said.

Polar bears are very large, dangerous adversaries. Surviving for six years after a shipwreck in the Arctic, four Russian hunters killed ten of them with two homemade spears. The story is told in the modern book Four Against the Arctic by David Roberts, published in 2003. Roberts spent two weeks at the location most likely to have been where the Russian sailors/hunters had survived, on Halfmoon Island, across a narrow channel from Edgeøya. In those two weeks, his party of four saw nine polar bears, three of which had to be chased away with flare guns, and two of the...