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Today in insanity, James O'Keefe's O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) recently released nearly 20 minutes of police bodycam footage, obtained through FOIA requests, which showed New Jersey school board officials calling the police on citizens who they claimed looked “Trumpish.” “The police colluded with school officials to scan license plates of school board meeting attendees who looked different,” OMG head James O’Keefe said. Because, you know, the Left doesn’t like those who look “different.” Or think different. In fact, progressives want to persecute anyone who looks “Trumpish.” And they are actively doing so to Trump and his supporters. One might state,...

Governor Ron DeSantis is pledging to "clean house" at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and says he will install his current, highly controversial Surgeon General at the nation's top public health agency, should the Florida Republican win the White House. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who DeSantis hired away from the University of California, Los Angeles, ... "The surgeon general, a well-known Covid-19 vaccine skeptic, faced a backlash from the medical community after he [went] against guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and American Academy of Pediatrics. [and] against mandatory Covid-19 vaccination." ... In its deep profile of...

I Know The Day Nikocado Avocado Dies —DISCLAIMER— This video is not a hate/rant video about Nikocado Avocado. The primary purpose of this video is to express precisely how dangerous Nikocado Avocado’s lifestyle really is to educate people on how obesity negatively affects your physical health. —DISCLAIMER— Nikocado Avocado has become infamous for gaining a lot of weight very quickly. Nikocado Avocado made videos featuring him wearing an oxygen mask and he has expressed how he went to the hospital and broke one of his ribs. Fitness channels such as Greg Doucette have stated how Nikocado Avocado is shortening his...

It took over one year of wrangling and a lawsuit, but the Michigan Grassroots Alliance (MGA), an election integrity watchdog group, has gotten what it sought—a segment of video surveillance tape that may serve as evidence in an investigation of the handling of voting results on election night in 2022 by some county election officials. In a properly functioning Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, obtaining the tape should have taken about two weeks. Instead, it took nearly 13 months. Finally, on Sept. 7, the matter was settled in a Wayne County Circuit Court but not before the group’s representative,...

Ron DeSantis is “fundamentally authoritarian”, but Donald Trump’s quest for “vengeance” poses an even greater threat to democracy, California’s Democratic governor Gavin Newsom said on Sunday. Newsom took aim at the leading two candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination during a hard-hitting and wide-ranging interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, the final episode with its long-time host Chuck Todd. ... “I’ve made the point about DeSantis that I think he’s functionally authoritarian. I’m worried more, in many respects, about Trumpism, which transcends well beyond his term and time in tenure.” Newsom added: “The vengeance in Donald Trump’s heart right...

A Ukrainian official accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of “committing evil,” after allegedly ordering engineers working at his Starlink internet company to turn off the communications network near the Crimean coast last year. As a result it prevented a Ukrainian drone from attacking a Russian warship, according to a biography about Musk. In a statement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, claimed Musk’s interference led to multiple deaths of civilians, calling them “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego.”

An analysis into the double-standard held exclusively to President Trump and those refusing to let the left live down its claims that the 2020 presidential election was free and fair. A careful examination of articles posted in the so-called “mainstream” media reveals a telling bias. All claims, including those made by President Donald Trump, that the official 2020 presidential election’s results were invalid (that is, that without fraud, cheating, interference, and rigging, President Trump would have declared the winner) have been summarily dismissed — without meaningful in-depth analysis of all the evidence, witness testimonies, and observed statistical anomalies during the...

It’s become a cliché that when a student breaks a rule, a teacher or administrator may threaten them with punishment that will remain on their “permanent record.” But for one Alabama 6-year-old, that threat seems plausible, and the child’s father is not having any of it. “They labeled my six-year-old as a potentially violent and dangerous student because he was being a little boy and playing cops and robbers with another student (who was also suspended) and using his fingers like a gun,” Jarrod Belcher, the boy’s father, wrote in a statement released Friday, Sept. 8. According to a Jefferson...

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Oil prices reached a nine-month high amid concerns about tight oil supplies after Russia and Saudi Arabia extended supply cuts. Brent futures, a global benchmark to measure oil prices, rose to $91.01 a barrel on Friday, according to MarketWatch, and sits at $90.44 a barrel as of Sunday morning. Prices had already surged last week after Riyadh and Moscow agreed to extend supply cuts beyond October. The U.S. banned Russian oil imports last year, but Russia and Saudi Arabia respectively produced 11% and 12% of the world's oil last year, according to the Energy Department, so any changes in production...

One legitimate measurement of the readiness and capability of a candidate to be president is how he or she responds to a crisis. In a moment of crisis, the core of human beings is on display. Some people wither; others shine. Either way, it is always a peek into the foundation of the person — his or her value system. We had two examples of this recently, as both President Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had the opportunity to respond to crises, in the wake of the devastating fire on Maui and Hurricane Idalia, respectively. How did they do?...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 12Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews 37 Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”[h] 39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere: 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal...

Among America's numerous social programs, none lifts more people out of poverty each year than Social Security. As of 2021, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that 21.75 million people, including nearly 15.4 million seniors aged 65 and over, were being lifted above the federal poverty line due to their monthly Social Security benefit. Unfortunately, this vital program that provides benefits to approximately 66.7 million people each month -- 49.6 million of which are retired workers -- finds itself on shaky ground. The 2023 Social Security Board of Trustees Report estimates that America's top retirement program is facing...

This is very moving. It's an excellent reminder. Very appropriate for the times we are entering.

It’s beginning. California is awaiting the signature of Gov. Gavin Newsom on the newly passed bill AB 957. Already approved by the California Senate, it is a bill which requires judges to decide if parents choose not to affirm a change in their child’s sexual identity, they then will be subject to losing the custody of their own children. It is a bit of hell on earth, born in the minds of woke democrats who cannot seem to see the dark road on which they have now chosen to guide the once beautiful state of California.

The Talk Shows September 10th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Vice President Kamala Harris; Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.); Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, former commander of the U.S. Central Command.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.); Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association; Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway, president of KAConsulting and former counselor to the president in the Trump White House; and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, president Lake Research Partners. Panel: OutKick.com columnist Mary Katharine Ham; Josh Kraushaar, editor-in-chief of Jewish Insider;...

The season is two weeks old and two teams in the top five of the preseason AP Top 25 already have a loss. No. 5 LSU lost to No. 8 Florida State in Week 1 and preseason No. 4 Alabama lost 34-24 to preseason No. 11 Texas on Saturday night. Both games could prove pivotal when the College Football Playoff rankings are released at the end of the season. With Week 3's non-conference slate looking pretty bleak before conference play really gets going in Week 4, we figured now was a good time to rank the best non-conference victories through...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might want her followers to believe inflation is “propaganda” - but her constituents aren’t buying it. The firebrand Democratic congresswoman used her Instagram stories to share a video from New Zealand’s left-wing Aotearoa Liberation League in which an activist claimed the “propaganda” surrounding inflation was designed to protect “greedy shareholders,” who are truly to blame for the rising cost of living. But when The Post visited Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents in the 14th district, which comprises areas in both Queens and in the southeastern part of the Bronx, all of them reported economic pain and many said the Biden administration...

It’s not unusual that power-mad politicians justify depriving us of liberty using the appeal to emotion:“If it saves one life.” Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo justified the statewide shutdown with this poppycock: “And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.” Former president Obama said “If we save even one life from gun violence, it’s worth it.” Then vice president Joe Biden endorsed that: “As the President said, if your actions result in only saving one life, they’re worth taking.” This is not justifiable constitutionally any more than it is factually: These actions often cost far...

HANOI (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday opened a visit to a Vietnam that wants to dramatically ramp up trade with the United States, a sign of how competition with China is reshaping relationships across Asia. The president has made it a point of pride that Vietnam is elevating the United States to the status of being a comprehensive strategic partner. Other countries that Vietnam has extended this designation to include China and Russia. Giving the U.S. the same status suggests that Vietnam wants to hedge its friendships as U.S. and European companies look for alternatives to Chinese factories....