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The prosecution’s case in the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have crumbled, with Andrew Wicker, former personal assistant to Paxton, admitting to defense attorney Tony Buzbee that photos of Paxton’s home indicate no renovations were made to the kitchen counter-tops nor to the kitchen cabinetry – one of the key claims against the Texas AG.The alleged kitchen remodel was, according to Texas House lawmakers who approved 20 articles of impeachment against Paxton on May 27th, part of a quid pro quo scheme with real estate developer Nate Paul in exchange for Paxton helping him with...

In today's America, men and women are not seeing eye to eye politically, and it's apparently now dictating their dating life. A new study from Bay Area polling firm Change Research released a study revealing "red flags" that millennial and Gen Z women see in men and according to the data, a few notable things top the list including identifying as a "MAGA Republican" and saying things like "All Lives Matter." The firm claims that listening to Joe Rogan is also a big turn-off for younger women. According to a Bay Area polling firm, young women consider MAGA Republicans and...

President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has been indicted by special counsel David Weiss on felony gun charges. The charges bring renewed legal pressure on the younger Biden after a plea agreement he struck with prosecutors imploded in recent months. The younger Biden has been charged with one count of False Statement in Purchase of a Firearm, one count of False Statement Related to Information Required to be Kept By Federal Firearms Licensed Dealer, and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Person who is an Unlawful User of or Addicted to a Controlled Substance

Alex Soros penned an op ed in in Politico about the George Soros-founded Open Society Foundations and the Soros mission. Part of that mission is preventing Donald Trump from serving another term in the White House. "I believe a MAGA-style Republican victory in next year’s U.S. presidential election could, in the end, be worse for the EU than for the U.S. Such an outcome will imperil European unity and undermine the progress achieved on many fronts in response to the war in Ukraine," Soros said. Trump has been outspoken in his opposition for the Biden administration's ongoing, expensive support for...

Are non-white voters really moving away from the Democratic Party? To partisan Democrats confronting this question on Twitter (sorry, X), it seems preposterous that the party of Donald Trump, whom they routinely call a racist, could be gaining support from blacks, Hispanics, and Asians. But the evidence for eroding non-white support for Democrats is strong. The New York Times’s analyst Nate Cohn, who back in June 2016 was the first to identify Donald Trump’s appeal to previously Democratic-voting white non-college graduates, noted earlier this month that Joe Biden was carrying just 53% of non-whites in 2022-23 New York Times/Siena College...

Photo: AlamyPresident Trump has been vocal about his concerns regarding the failing school system. He has laid out ten principles from his Agenda 47 plan to correct this American education decline. Amid the introduction of Marxism and agendas like Critical Race Theory into public education, President Trump has sounded the alarm on the radical left’s policies. The 45th president has laid out ten principles from Agenda 47 to repair the failing school system. In his speech outlining the plan, he expressed his disappointment in the system. He said, “The United States spends more on education than any other country in...

Oil prices jumped on Thursday to a new ten-month high, with U.S. crude rising above $90 a barrel for the first time this year. West Texas Intermediate crude rose by more than 1.9 percent on Thursday to reach a high of $90.29 a barrel, the highest level since November of last year. Brent crude, the international benchmark most closely related to gasoline prices in the U.S., rose by nearly two percent to $93.68. The rising price of oil comes at a particularly challenging time for American consumers. U.S. gasoline prices surged 20 percent last month, according to the producer price...

On Monday, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley provided congressional oversight committees nine new documents related to the botched Hunter Biden investigation, according to a letter sent Wednesday morning to the House Judiciary Committee. The letter also contained a redacted 10th new document: the handwritten notes Shapley took during the Oct. 7, 2022, meeting in which Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss allegedly announced to his team that he was “not the deciding official on whether charges are filed” against Hunter Biden. Those handwritten notes further bolster Shapley’s earlier testimony about the meeting and debunk counterclaims by the special agent in charge of...

The mayor of a small Massachusetts town is calling to reform the state’s “right-to-shelter” law that is putting a strain on the area as thousands of migrants arrive. Under the 1983 law, Massachusetts officials are required to offer housing to any homeless family seeking shelter. Although individuals are not covered under the law, it does cover the influx of migrant families entering the state. Woburn Mayor Scott Galvin told the New York Times that the law was “passed at a different time, and was not meant to cover what we’re seeing now.” “We’re going above and beyond, while some communities...

Journalist Megyn Kelly interrogated former President Donald Trump this week over his elevation of the controversial Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic — noting that the 45th president formally honored Fauci before departing the White House. “Not only did you not fire Fauci, who is loathed by many — millions of Republicans in particular, but also some Democrats — you made him a star,” Kelly said during an interview that aired on SiriusXM. “This is the criticism of you, that you made him the face of the White House Coronavirus Task Force — he was out at every presser...

Former prosecutor Andy McCarthy wrote a column this week suggesting New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham should face federal charges under the same statute the Justice Department is using to charge former President Donald Trump over her move to suspend constitutional gun rights in her state In a National Review column Monday, McCarthy, a Fox News contributor and former assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, explained that Section 241 of the federal penal code, which is being used by Special Counsel Jack Smith to charge Trump, could be used for Grisham. "If two or more...

There is mounting evidence that Joe Biden was involved in his family’s influence peddling schemes, including while he served as Vice President. However, Democrats and their corporate media allies continue to ignore this overwhelming evidence as they seek to distract the American people from the Biden family’s corruption. Below are over 20 examples of Joe Biden’s involvement. 1) In July 2023, former Biden business associate Devon Archer described how Joe Biden was “The Brand” and was used to send “signals” of power, access, and influence to enrich the Biden family from foreign sources.

Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Those are all examples of books Reina Takata says she can no longer find in her public high school library in Mississauga, Ont., which she visits on her lunch hour most days. In May, Takata says the shelves at Erindale Secondary School were full of books, but she noticed that they had gradually started to disappear. When she returned to school this fall, things were more stark. "This year, I came into my school library and there are rows and rows of empty shelves with absolutely no books,"...

For months on end, the world was primed for the amazing Ukrainian counteroffensive. A momentous affair, fueled by countless billions of western taxpayer dollars, and all kinds of wunderwaffe (wonder weapons): missiles, drones, artillery and air defense systems, tanks and APCs – the works.Sure, the start of the offensive kept being pushed back in time, as President Zelensky flew around the world getting more and more support for the decisive blow Kiev he was about to strike on the Russian Federation forces.Ukraine’s objectives, as the military operations till loomed in the horizon, kept getting more and more xxxxxxOne year ago,...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Müller on Synod: ‘This is the great hour of manipulation’ On Tuesday Cardinal Müller gave a frank interview to Spanish Catholic news website InfoVaticana, in which he has expressed his grave concern about multiple aspects of the upcoming Synod Assembly on synodality and the current state of the Church. The interview was done in writing as the Cardinal is in Poland, and followed the announcement by the Vatican that at the upcoming Synod Assembly, journalists will only have access to the information that they themselves provide.According to a report by Loup Besmond of La Croix, Pope Francis...

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, the transgender ex-journalist from the US who is now a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, has issued yet another bizarre and unhinged statement on behalf of the Ukrainian military. The military spokesperson is vowing that Russia’s “propagandists” will be “hunted down” in a message which was published days ago, but which is now going viral and being mocked. Ashton-Cirillo said in the clip, “Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam an uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes.”...

More than two years into the greatest talking shop in the history of Christianity, some oddly undermining things are now being said — and by the greatest proponents of the synodal process themselves.Consider just three voices — the Holy Father himself, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and Jesuit Father James Martin. The latter two were appointed by Pope Francis as voting members of the synod. Cardinal Cupich was not elected as a member by his brother bishops in the United States.The Holy FatherLast month, Pope Francis acknowledged that the entire synodal process strikes many as exactly the kind of ecclesial...

Speaker McCarthy thinks he can use the Ethics Committee to pressure me. That will NEVER work. This is not about an ethics complaint. This is coming into compliance on term limits, balanced budgets, and single-subject spending bills. And if that does not happen, there will be a motion to vacate.

Ron DeSantis is headed to Texas next week, where he won’t just fundraise but will also campaign in a state where the latest poll shows him more than 50 points behind Donald Trump. The Governor plans to hold a presidential campaign event in Midland, best known as the childhood home of former President George W. Bush, on Sept. 20. The event will kick off at 10:15 a.m. Central Time. The trip was set weeks ago for the Lone Star State, where the Governor will hold a number of fundraisers next week. On Sept. 22, DeSantis will be in Alamo Heights...

Photo: AlamyThis Labor Day weekend, Americans everywhere likely felt the sting of rising prices, whether it was buying simple items at the grocery store or the crushing burden of their monthly mortgage and car payments.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI, there has been a cumulative price increase on goods in the U.S. economy of over 21 percent since 2018, thanks to the runaway inflation crisis that Joe Biden has failed to control.On his first day in office in 2021, Biden immediately killed the Keystone XL Pipeline via an executive order, arguably the beginning of America’s energy problems. Since...