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Sometime in late 1995, I was in a Manhattan theatre waiting to watch “Batman Forever.” The last promo trailer was for an upcoming film called “Independence Day.” An overly dramatic voice boomed about the gloom of an attack on the world by little green men. A flying saucer hovered over New York City’s Empire State Building and vaporized it with a laser. The audience, likely a bunch of country-hating liberals like myself (at that time), cheered the destruction of our City. On September 11, 2001, that joke wouldn’t be funny anymore. 9/11, 8:52 a.m. ET I got a phone call...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing blowback after he said on Sunday that he might appoint an interim replacement for long-serving Sen. Dianne Feinstein if she is unable to complete her final term. Feinstein’s health has been ailing, and she has announced she will not seek six more years in the Senate. With questions mounting about whether she can make it another 16 months, Newsom told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday he would not appoint a permanent replacement. Probed about the issue, Newsom told Chuck Todd that a senator would be appointed on an interim basis while the...

Photo: AlamyAs Joe Biden’s standing among Americans continues to degrade, President Donald Trump is continuing to gain political strength ahead of next year’s presidential election. According to a new poll from Carolina Forward, Trump is leading Biden by four points in the great state of North Carolina, an important battleground state in the presidential general election battle.In both the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, Trump won North Carolina by a narrow but solid margin.However, North Carolina is not the president’s only big lead. President Trump is polling at historic highs nationwide, emerging as the clear favorite to win the 2024...

Pope Francis stirs fury among critical U.S. Catholics; faithful dispute ‘attitude’ problem Pope Francis said the “reactionary attitude” among some American Catholics is “useless” in the face of doctrinal progress, ... Francis, 86, commented at a meeting with Jesuits in Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 5 as part of his visit for the 2023 World Youth Day gathering. His remarks in La Civilta Cattolica, a magazine often featuring the pope’s candid statements in meetings with his fellow Jesuits. Francis defined his American critics’ “reactionary attitude” as “organized and shapes the way people belong, even emotionally,” according to the Jesuit magazine. He...

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared stunned by a question from CBS host Margaret Brennan, who wondered if she was taking the possibility of another Donald Trump presidency "seriously enough." Harris looked taken aback, pausing before responding, "I don’t understand the question." "You were dismissive of some of the Republican criticism of you and the president. When you look at current polling, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination is the former president, the 45th president," Brennan added on "Face The Nation." Harris insisted that President Biden and her would win re-election, adding that there is "too much at stake." "The American...

Just because the government raises taxes, doesn’t necessarily mean it will raise more revenues. The Biden administration is discovering that the hard way. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act into law, which included a new tax on companies’ financial statement income, new IRS funding to increase audits, an excise tax on stock buybacks, and more taxes on natural gas, oil, and coal. To top it off, certain Trump administration business tax cuts simultaneously have been phasing out. On paper, that adds up to more than $60 billion in tax hikes in 2023. Yet, as...

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“We’re in a different world,” (David) Wells said Saturday, which was Old-Timer’s Day at Yankee Stadium. “It sucks. That’s why everyone should carry a gun.” As Wells spoke, he wore a piece of medical tape over the Nike swoosh on the chest of his Yankees jersey. He said that if he were playing today, he would have cut a hole into his jersey and worn it on the field like that rather than display Nike’s logo on his body. “I hate Nike!” he said. “They’re woke!” Wells ripped companies that he feels dabble too much in social issues and politics....

With the ongoing case in Billings, Montana, where Billings Police collaborated with federal officials to arrest Gabriel (Gabe Metcalf) for exercising his Second Amendment rights, a recap of the history of the federal Gun Free School Zone Acts (GFSZA) is in order. The GFSZA appears to be designed as a direct attack on the exercise of Second Amendment rights and the right to be able to defend against criminal attacks.The first GFSZA was passed into law in 1989-90. The federal Gun-Free School Zone Act was introduced by some of the most rabid Anti-Second Amendment zealots, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and...

Former president Donald Trump filed a motion Monday asking the judge hearing his 2020 election interference case to recuse herself. The filing argues that Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, should recuse herself from the case, alleging she suggested elsewhere that Trump should be “prosecuted and imprisoned.” It cites comments Chutkan made in a case she heard in November 2022 involving a January 6 defendant, as well as a case she heard in December 2021. “Such statements, made before this case began and without due process, are inherently disqualifying,” the filing notes. “Although Judge Chutkan may genuinely intend to give...

DeSantis and Florida's Surgeon General Team Up Against COVID RevivalAs the FDA approves new COVID shots and the C.D.C. plans to meet Tuesday, September 12, to consider guidelines on the vaccine campaign for the fall and winter season, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his surgeon general urge Americans to defy any new federal public health guidance to wear masks, take vaccines, or engage in social distancing in light of an upsurge in COVID cases and emergence of a new viral variant.On Thursday, DeSantis said, “The FDA and CDC, they’ve basically become an arm of big Pharma. Pharma will make more money...

Biden and Trọng agreed to “welcome further cooperation in defense industry and defense trade” between the two countries. Vietnam upped the U.S.’s diplomatic status to a “comprehensive strategic partner,” the country’s highest tier placing the U.S. on par with China. Biden said the move represented how much relations have moved on from the “bitter past” of the Vietnam War. — Nearly fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the United States agreed to help build up Vietnam’s defense capabilities, … … President Joe Biden and General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng of the communist party of Vietnam agreed to “welcome further...

Almost five decades after his death, the legacy of Éamon de Valera is in the news again. […] On a visit to Israel, the Tánaiste (Micheál Martin) faced some criticism in local media for Ireland’s perceived anti-Israeli position and in that context was asked (by an Irish journalist) whether it had been a mistake for de Valera, as Taoiseach, to offer condolences to the German nation on the death of Adolf Hitler. This controversial act, one of the most controversial things de Valera ever did, has been regularly resurrected in the decades since, with some using it to suggest that...

Was 9/11 the beginning of the end for America? In the 22 years since the attacks, I’ve begun to worry that the answer to that question is “yes.” It spawned the worst and most destructive foreign policy in the country’s history. The government response to 9/11 birthed the constitutional abomination that is the modern warrantless surveillance state. The Patriot Act enabled the government to weaponize its vast resources against its own people. Bush’s failed foreign policy led directly to Obama’s presidency, and indirectly to Biden’s, both of which are responsible for diminishing the U.S. at home and abroad, militarily and...

From season 9, episode 15. Features Michael McDonald and Nicole Parker. "Chicago News Murders" (MADtv skit from 2004 - everyone gets murdered in Chicago...)

We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children” might as well become the new slogan of the Golden State. California’s Legislature has passed—or is about to pass—a slew of bills aimed at undermining the rights of parents (and potential foster parents) who disagree with the transgender worldview. What would the state need to launch a transgender inquisition? It would need inquisitors to identify and hunt down parents who dared to dissent from gender ideology. It would need an apparatus to induct kids into its cult while keeping parents in the dark. It would need institutions to screen potential foster...

........."Early on March 24, 1944, a Nazi patrol surrounded the home of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma on the outskirts of Markowa. They discovered the Jewish people hiding on the Ulma farm and executed them. The Nazi police then killed 31-year-old Wiktoria, who was pregnant and in premature labor, and 44-year-old Józef outside their home. An additional order sealed the fate of the remaining family members: “Kill the children, too.” Stanisława, 7; Barbara, 6; Władysław, 5; Franciszek, almost 4; Antoni, 2; and Maria, 1, were executed.".........."The seventh Ulma child to die was the couple’s unnamed son, who was in the process...

On Sept. 11, 2001, the whole world changed.The first certified casualty of that horrific day of terrorist attacks killing almost 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., was Fr. Mychal Judge. This loving and beloved priest and New York City Fire Department chaplain once composed the prayer, “Lord, take me where you want me to go, let me meet who you want me to meet, tell me what you want me to say, and keep me out of your way.” It’s very moving in the context of Judge dying while serving victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.But the...

An end-of-summer, off-year special election primary for a safe Republican seat in ruby red Utah was perhaps not on the top of political observers’ list of races to watch this year. But the runner-up in the GOP primary for UT-02 thinks it should be. Becky Edwards, who claimed the moderate Republican lane in the GOP primary for soon-to-be-vacant UT-02 to succeed Republican Rep. Chris Stewart, finished with around one-third of the vote last week, just about 5,000 votes shy of eventual winner Celeste Maloy, a former aide to Stewart and now member-in-waiting. In an interview with Score, Edwards argued that...

“I refuse to accept the proposition that Donald Trump is the ‘inevitable’ Republican nominee for President,” Eric Levine, a New York lawyer and Republican fund-raiser, wrote in an email to roughly 1,500 donors, politicians, and friends according to The New York Times. “His nomination would be a disaster for our party and our country.” The donor class reflects the pre-Reagan liberalism of the Rockefeller Republicans who were socially liberal yet favored fiscal restraint and have little in common with the current base of the party. Trump’s ascendancy has also deprived them of a base, as millions of liberal-leaning Republicans, particularly...