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Duringthefirst Republican presidential primary last week, Vivek Ramaswamy introduced himself by saying that he was a “skinny guy with a funny last name,” echoing a line from former President Barack Obama. Although he was referencing and, in some weird way, aligning himself with the former president, it just didn’t hit the same way it did when Obama said it for several reasons. First off, boo, you do not reflect the values of other people of color in this campaign like Obama did. Not even South Asian Americans. So your little joke didn’t come across as playful — it came across...

The Belgian government's decision to not provide shelter for single men seeking asylum was met with dismay on Wednesday by political figures and human rights organizations. Places are to be reserved exclusively for families with children, the Belgian state secretary for asylum and migration, Nicole de Moor, announced, arguing insufficient capacity meant families, women and children should be given priority. According to the EU Agency for Asylum, male applicants last year accounted for 71% of asylum claims across the bloc and associated countries Iceland, Israel, Norway, Serbia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Restaurant proprietor tells diner he won't be served until he removes MAGA cap.

Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson predicted former President Trump could be assassinated in a new interview, days after he asked Trump if he worried about such an outcome. “Begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment, and none of them work. I mean what’s next?” Carlson asked during an appearance this week on comedian Adam Carolla’s podcast. “You know, graph it out man! We’re speeding toward assassination, obviously. No one will say that, but I don’t know how you can’t reach that conclusion.” The pundit’s comments came a week after...

Former President Donald Trump says he would have “no choice” but to prosecute his political opponents if he retakes the White House in 2024, “…because they’re doing it to us,” adding that his respect for the office of the president may have caused him to underestimate Biden’s role in the weaponized partisan prosecutions against him.“I never hit Biden as hard as I could have. And then I heard he was trying to indict me and it was him that was doing it,” Trump said in an interview with leading 2016 Never Trump activist Glenn Beck.Retribution against America’s enemies, both foreign...

Former President Donald J. Trump’s recent Fulton County mugshot is an attempt to humiliate the previous Commander-in-Chief, according to Republican strategist Adam Weiss, who suggested it also served to scare the right “to death” and deter any future “questioning” of election results.In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Weiss addressed Trump’s famous mugshot taken last week, calling it an attempt by President Biden’s DOJ to “humiliate” the former president and accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of “always fundraising [and] figuring out any way possible to convict 19 people,” including by “throwing out all sorts of rights that we...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned that Hurricane Idalia was continuing to wreak havoc on the southeast United States but lauded the work of emergency responders and state officials, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Democratic president said he and the Republican governor — himself a 2024 presidential candidate — have put aside politics to focus on protecting Florida’s residents, just as he says they did during recovery efforts last year after Hurricane Ian. “I think he trusts my judgment and my desire to help, and I trust him to be able to suggest this is not about politics, this...

Yet another inflation metric jumped in July, further debunking claims that inflation is in the rear-view mirror and reinforcing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s remarks earlier this month that additional interest rate hikes would be needed. The latest Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index print released Thursday was in-line with expectations which were higher than previous reads. Headline PCE inflation showed an increase of 3.3 percent year-over-year and Core PCE inflation — excluding volatile food and energy prices — increased 4.2 percent in the last year. Compared to the previous release, headline and core PCE inflation increased 3.0 percent and...

WASHINGTON — Joe Biggs, a Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says "served as an instigator and leader" during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on Thursday. It is among the longest sentences in Capitol riot cases. The record is the 18-year sentence given to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, after prosecutors sought 25 years in federal prison in his case. The government sought 33 years for Biggs, an Army veteran who sustained a head injury in Iraq and then served...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has embraced "dirty" energy for California as he looks to stave off blackouts threatening the state's strained energy grid. While Newsom has pushed for a transition to renewable energy in California, the realities there have forced him to increasingly rely on nonrenewable energy sources to meet the state's energy demands. Fighting off heavy criticism from environmental activists, the California governor has countered by pointing out the practical necessity of using some nonrenewables while stressing his efforts to transition to renewable energy. ... "Gov. Newsom is committed to keeping the lights on while maintaining affordability for all...

Ukrainian forces have penetrated the main Russian defensive line in their country’s southeast, raising hopes of a breakthrough that would reinvigorate the slow-moving counteroffensive. Ukrainian paratroopers are fighting through entrenched Russian positions on the edge of the village of Verbove, a Ukrainian officer in the area said. Ukrainian forces have also reached the main defensive line to the south of nearby Robotyne village, he said. Ukraine’s military confirmed advances toward Verbove and south of Robotyne, without giving details. Describing the advance, the Ukrainian officer held up three fingers representing lines of attack through entrenched Russian positions on the western flank...

On this date in 1876, serial killer Jesse Pomeroy was reprieved by a 5-3 vote of the Governor’s Council of Massachusetts. Rather than hanging him, they elected to bury him alive instead. With a “mere” two deaths to his name, at first glance Jesse Pomeroy may not seem like much of a serial killer. In fact, according to some definitions that require a higher body count, he wasn’t a serial killer at all. But give the kid some credit: he was only fourteen years old when he was caught. What’s more, his two murders were committed in a most brutal,...

After two years of horror stories about the alleged mass graves of indigenous children at residential schools across Canada, a series of recent excavations at suspected sites has turned up no human remains. Some academics and politicians say it’s further evidence that the stories are unproven. Minegoziibe Anishinabe, a group of indigenous people also known as Pine Creek First Nation, excavated 14 sites in the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church near the Pine Creek Residential School in Manitoba during four weeks this summer. The so-called “anomalies” were first detected using ground-penetrating radar but on Aug. 18,...

More of the same this week: Ukraine has intensified its drone campaign to carry out some headline-grabbing strike or terror stunt to manage media perceptions and keep Ukraine looking viable relevant.A new strike on Russia’s Kresti airfield near Pskov last night was the latest in these efforts, not to mention continual attacks on Bryansk, Donetsk, attempted landings on Crimea, and many other such stunts which have no military value whatsoever.But let’s talk about the Pskov strike briefly, as it has generated a lot of the usual gnashing of teeth and ‘patriot’ outrage. The airfield houses Russia’s Il-76 transport planes. The...

[Catholic Caucus] It Took a Jesuit Pope to Demolish Opus Dei. Here’s How the Legend Became RealityThere has been a lot of yarnspinning over the enmity between the Society of Jesus and Opus Dei. But the leaders of the Work thought and feared that the fairy tale would become reality right from the start, when in 2013 the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio ascended to the chair of Peter. Their decision was to close themselves off in complete silence, to go into the shadows like a mole in its burrow, in the hope that this pontificate would pass by without harming...

@IAPolls2022 JUST IN: Former U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer is considering a run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan and has formed an exploratory committee

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) said Thursday that there will be no special session of the Georgia State legislature to impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, claiming attempting to do so could be unconstitutional. Kemp said that despite his own feelings on Willis's investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies over allegedly working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, he does not have the power to call a special session. “We have a law in the state of Georgia that clearly outlines the legal steps that can be taken if constituents believe their local prosecutors...

VIDEOMarine General Smedley Butler stated that "War is a Racket" and nowhere is that more true than with the war in Ukraine which is really a gigantic money laundering racket. Since the much vaunted Ukraine Spring Offensive has ground down to become another failed Fall Blau, the new British Defense Minister is now desperately hyping that money laundering war racket. An easily AVOIDABLE war that would never have happened in the first place if President Trump had not been cheated out of office. Yes, stolen elections have consequences and one of the big consequences is hundreds of thousands of needlessly...

"Obama and Biden both wrote to her fake server which is totally outside the security rules," Gingrich said. By Charlotte Hazard Updated: August 30, 2023 - 6:16pm Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says that Republicans in the House should expand their Biden investigation to look into other Democrat politicians such as former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "There's, I think, a second reason for dramatically broadening the investigation," Gingrich said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "I'm working now on a series of articles for the American Spectator – making the case that this is...

"Oh look, another dude inappropriately challenging Riley’s ability to swim." Keither Olbermann had the audacity on Wednesday to tell former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines that the reason she lost to the hulking male swimmer Lia Thomas was because she "sucked at swimming." Keith Olbermann's post, which received intense backlash Riley Gaines, who tied for fifth place with Thomas in the 200 free at the NCAA championships in Atlanta in 2022, has been outspoken against males competing in women's athletic events. Her claims, backed up by science, are that men, by virtue of the testosterone pumping through their bodies as well...