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Nothing is so sacred as our Democracy™ — so goes the corporate state media mantra, repeated endlessly in print and on the airwaves of mainstream outlets. It’s the alpha and the omega — never mind what democratically elected politicians do once they’re in office. It’s much more of an end than a means. The obvious exception to the rule, as I and others have documented over the years, is when any candidate with a chance to win might threaten the technocratic ruling class. Related: Trump National Security Adviser: Deep State Will ‘for Sure’ Rig 2024 Election Robert Epstein (no relation...

Roughly $100 million dollars worth of duct tape is bought annually, more than enough to stretch to the moon, or circle the earth at the equator 12 times.

With the unconscionable persecution of the January 6th protesters, the unabashed government censorship of speech, the weaponization of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the egregious abuse of presidential executive orders and emergency declarations, the American police state is no longer a hypothetical possibility but an increasingly indisputable reality. While imperceptibly evolving over many decades, the emergence of the American police state was significantly accelerated with the overreaction to the September 11, 2001 terror attack. Even more important was the Covid 19 pandemic that dramatically increased the momentum toward a police state as once a people are terrorized it...

The United States Mail steamship Columbia, D.B. BARTON, Commander, from New-Orleans, Sept. 13, with mails and passengers to SPOFFORD, TILESTON & CO., and with a cargo of cotton and sugar, arrived last evening. The Columbia experienced heavy weather during the entire passage. On the 12th inst., the expedition against Texas under Gen. FRANKLIN, returned to New-Orleans, having failed to effect a landing at Sabine Pass, Texas. The gunboats Clifton and Sachem were both lost in the attempt to take the rebel batteries. We are again indebted to E. HENDERSON, Esq., purser of the Columbia, for prompt delivery of our dispatches....

I work at a state wide community college, but I am 100% sure that this crap is happening in all areas. Public and private.They want to teach me to be MORE accepting of what I may completely disagree with. Happy that for right now it's NOT MANDATORY.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 1616 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 5...

Most of former President Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination have given full-throated support for him in his current criminal travails, even saying they would pardon him if he is convicted of any – or all – of the 90-something charges. The notion that a president could be pardoned for criminal offenses would have been unthinkable at one time. But the precedent for doing so — which helps fuel the blessing given to a Trump pardon by his GOP opponents — occurred about a half century ago. On a September Sunday in 1974, President Gerald R. Ford issued a...

Few Presidents as unpopular as Joe Biden have ever sought re-election. In the modern history of polling, only Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump rival him with their disapproval ratings at this point in their respective presidencies. What’s more, “Bidenomics” is already making Trump look much better by comparison. This reality has many Democrats nervous, looking for some way to ditch their current standard bearer and replace him with (almost) anyone else. Biden’s loss of mental acuity has reached a point where it can no longer be denied or defended. Concerns about Biden’s age and sharpness are turning up in every...

The European Commission says it has a ten-point plan to fix this, but on some points will likely make it worse. No wonder the Italians are protesting. Supposedly, the European Union has gotten everything all patched up with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who vowed to dispatch the Italian navy to the Tunisian coast if nothing was being done about the huge crush of migrants flooding the Italian island of Lampedusa and now Sicily. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen came to Lampedusa (give her credit for not being Kamala Harris) to present the Italians with the EC's supposedly...

Shocking video shows a coordinated gang of carjackers forcing a driver out of his Audi at gunpoint and leaving him lying in the middle of a Chicago road as other cars drive by. The newly revealed footage shows an Audi A4 pulled over on a four-lane road with its headlights on when two other vehicles approach from the other direction — turning to trap the Audi by blocking it at the front and rear. At first, the Audi rolls forward as the desperate 27-year-old driver tries to escape, but within seconds, at least three men leap from the surrounding vehicles...

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) stated that while the media was slow to pick up the Hunter Biden story, “my God, the best they can do right now is a simple gun charge of a felony on a simple form” and that he has “absolute trust and faith in the system to advance the cause of justice.” Newsom said, “I’m for accountability wherever you find it, absolutely. And by the way, was the media quick on that story? They were not. And you’ve been very pointed about that and you’re...

In recent years, there’s been a significant increase in celibacy among young people, particularly young men aged 18 to 30. This is a stark contrast to the late 2000s when the numbers were much lower, closer to 10%. Several factors seem to be contributing to this shift: Unappealing Hookup Culture: Hollywood’s hookup culture has lost its appeal to many, leading young men to seek more meaningful connections. Dating App Dynamics: Dating apps often favor female selection, making it challenging for some men to find suitable partners. Rise of Pornography: Easy access to explicit content online has made pornography a readily...

The Biden family corruption scandal gets deeper with every passing day. Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally opened an impeachment investigation in the House last week, and now the first hearing in that investigation has been scheduled for September 28 before the House Oversight Committee. So what is the potential impeachable offense? You will undoubtedly recall, in the context of the two Trump impeachments, the endless semantic contortions that took place trying to shoe-horn Trump’s conduct into the vague constitutional catchall of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that might support an impeachment. Now, with Biden, the conduct at issue goes by various euphemisms...

One city transformed by leftist politics is Richmond, Va. This radicalism manifested as violent militancy where hundreds were arrested at #BLM-#Antifa riots. Come see me speak live in Richmond on Sept. 22. The far-left is trying everything to shut it down:https://eventbrite.com/e/virginia-forum-with-andy-ngo-tickets-694291282917

Where money amasses, Clintons follow. So it didn't take long for the Clintons to suddenly get their interest in "philanthropy" back after a long droughty hiatus. According to the Associated Press: The need to “Keep Going” is the theme of this year's Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI, as Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton say they will convene political, business and philanthropic leaders to build on the momentum of the conference’s return last year after a six-year hiatus. “Giving up and giving in is a surefire guarantee that we will not...

President Trump: ‘How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get?’ Days after Joe Biden bypassed the congress to approve a $6-billion ransom payment to Iran, the Mullah regime has taken another Western national hostage as part of its ongoing ‘hostage diplomacy,’ media reports say. On Saturday, Iran’s Islamic Guard (IRGC) disclosed that it has taken yet another Westerner in its custody, less than a week after Biden White House agreed to pay $6 billion for the release of 5 U.S. hostages. The media reports did not specify if the captive is a U.S. or a European national. ......

20 September 2023 Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs on Wednesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Roman Catholic shrine built to honor first Korean saint, Bocaue, the Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Timothy 3:14-16 ©The mystery of our religion is very deepAt the moment of writing to you, I am hoping that I may be with you soon; but in case I should be delayed, I wanted you to know how people ought to behave...

In a recent survey by the Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey, Americans were asked to name the rights the First Amendment protected. The Annenberg Foundation has drifted reliably left since its creation. From the ABA Journal: The 2023 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey asked Americans to name the specific rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. The results: 77% said freedom of speech 40% said freedom of religion 33% said the right to assembly 28% said freedom of the press 9% said the right to petition governmentTwenty-two percent named the right to bear arms, which is actually protected by the Second...

And where does 'democracy' fit in? SNIP Monarchy, communism, fascism, globalism — what's the difference? At the end of the day, we are talking about a system of government in which centralized power belongs to a small group of elites who use their control over economic, military, and intelligence-collecting institutions to rule over everyone else. Whether it is a government run by Mussolini, a king, the self-described "proletariat," or an international cabal of central banks and corporations — it is a dictatorship all the same. Let's not pretend that raw "democracy" is significantly different. As early-twentieth-century sociologist Robert Michels laid...

First Amendment experts, radical feminists and doctors are pushing back against a court ruling that held two educators responsible for their own firing because their opposition to a proposed gender identity policy sparked student protests and community complaints to Oregon's Grants Pass School District. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke botched Supreme Court precedents on the speech rights of public employees and qualified immunity from personal liability, upheld restrictions that disproportionately target women and adopted pseudoscientific language, according to ideologically diverse friend-of-the-court briefs filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Clarke's dismissal of the educators' lawsuit "effectively endorses a...