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Election Fraud is Real and Needs to be Fixed Before 2024Democrats claim election fraud is a myth. But videos don't lie. Roll the tapes: On Nov. 1, Connecticut Judge William Clark overturned the results of the Bridgeport mayoral primary, calling video evidence of potential fraud "shocking." Wanda Geter-Pataky, the vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, appears to have been caught on video stuffing handfuls of ballots into a drop box outside City Hall. On Oct. 25, in Paterson, New Jersey, the sitting president of the City Council, Alex Mendez, was charged with personally collecting large numbers of mail-in...

Academy Award nominee Sharon Stone is alleging she was sexually harassed by a former head of Sony Studios back in the 1980s before she became a superstar. Stone shared her accusations during an appearance on November 7 episode of SiriusXM’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera” with host Kelly Ripa, according to The Wrap. The 65-year-old Basic Instinct star did not name any names in the interview, but it is not the first time she has hinted about her #MeToo experience.

If you want an indicator of how lost Western civilization has become, go to your kids’ school and check their rules on fighting. Most likely, you’ll find out if two kids get into a fight, both get suspended, regardless of whether one was a punk bully who started it and the other was simply defending himself or some little kid. This is a moral disaster, of course – violence in the defense of what is right is a moral obligation and a symbol of a greater rot within society. This is the kind of rule created by middle-aged, divorced cat...

I wrote a historical fiction novel titled "A Night that Saved Virginia" My E-Book version is free on Amazon November 9th & 10th. It's an adventure framed around the true story of Jack Jouett, who saved Virginia's Governor, Thomas Jefferson, and the state's legislators from capture by the British in 1781. If you read it, I hope you enjoy it!

Hamas knows that the IDF tries to protect Palestinian civilians as best it can. Exploiting Israel’s “purity of arms,” and its fundamental decency, Hamas sent out one hundred women and children to block IDF soldiers from continuing to attack fighters in a key Hamas compound inside the Jabaliya camp. Hamas knows these civilians’ appearance will at least slow down the Israeli advance, and may even cause the IDF to call off the assault altogether, until the women and children can be rounded up and moved to a safer space. More on this latest example, among so many, of how Hamas...

During its inhuman assault and massacre of Israelis on October 7, leaving more than 1,400 dead, and thousands injured, Hamas also kidnapped an estimated 240 people, taking them back to Gaza imprisoned. Laying bare the lie of their being “freedom fighters,” or being FOR a Palestinian state or anything else, what’s clear – and was well known before – is that they are not for anything other than death and destruction: the death and destruction of Israel and Jews.They kidnapped hostages from babies and young children to the elderly, having been offered a bounty of $10,000 for each of the...

There’s another front on Israel’s war with Hamas that most don’t see but is no less real, dangerous, and must be defeated.There’s no secret that since its own bloody revolution in 1979, the Iranian Islamist regime has called for the destruction of Israel. As a child growing up in Iran, I remember countless times being forced to participate along with hundreds and thousands of other children, all over the county, chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”Fortunately, even at a young age, I knew that the Islamic regime was deliberately trying to brainwash average Iranians, and full of lies...

Below is the Jew-hating caricature that greeted David Horowitz when he showed up to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on April 3, 2008.The students who distributed this hateful image of Horowitz with a hooked nose and a Nazi uniform were members of the Muslim Student Association. They had privileges from the student unions at the school that the kids who invited David did not. The chapter of the Hamas-supporting campus hate group was accused of tearing down 2,000 of the posters promoting his appearance. The cartoon also appeared in the student papers, the UW–M Post and on the front...

NATIONAL SCRAPPLE DAY National Scrapple Day on November 9th recognizes the first pork food invented in America. For those not familiar with scrapple, it is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal, wheat flour, and spices, such as sage, thyme, savory and black pepper. The mush is then formed into a semi-solid loaf, sliced and pan-fried. #NationalScrappleDay Scrapple is also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name pon haus, and the immediate ancestor of scrapple was the Low German dish called panhas. Local settlers adapted the dish to make use of locally available ingredients. Blue Question Mark...

Scammers pulled off one of the biggest suspected frauds in U.S. history while laid-off workers scrambled to survive. A CalMatters investigation finds that the EDD missed red flags and failed to make long-promised changes before the pandemic — and that once the twin crises hit, the state and its top contractors kept making money but were slow to deliver relief.

The defendants allegedly advertised online by offering nude Asian models for photography with rates ranging between $350 an hour and $600 an hour. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Three people were arrested for allegedly operating a "high-end brothel network" in Virginia and Massachusetts that catered to politicians, military officers and high tech and pharmaceutical executives, the Justice Department said. The defendants allegedly persuaded and enticed primarily Asian women to travel to Virginia and Massachusetts for prostitution, the U.S. Attorney's Office of Massachusetts said Wednesday. The defendants also allegedly rented high-end apartments to use as brothels, which cost as much as $3,664 a month, and...

In a heated confrontation, Vivek Ramaswamy took center stage, not only branding the Republican Party as the 'Party of Losers' but also demanding the resignation of GOP ChairLady Ronna McDaniel. However, he didn't stop there. Ramaswamy turned a scalding blowtorch toward NBC, directly challenging the choice of moderators and the media establishment. "This is about you in the media. The corrupt media establishment," Ramaswamy declared, taking aim at NBC. He didn't shy away from questioning the credibility of the media, specifically referencing the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that dominated headlines for years. "What about the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that you pushed...

"By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God" (Heb 11:5). When you walk by faith, you enjoy intimacy with God. Our second hero of faith is Enoch. Genesis 5:21-24 records that "Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Nov. 8. The following has been received: FIRST DISPATCH. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Saturday, Nov. 7 -- 9:30 P.M. Maj.-Gen. SEDGWICK advanced to the Railroad crossing, where he drove the enemy to the river, assaulted and captured two redoubts with artillery, on this side, taking a number of prisoners. Maj.-Gen. FRENCH advanced to Kelly's Ford, driving the enemy in small force across the river, and captured several hundred prisoners at the Ford. GEO. G. MEADE, Major-General Commanding. SECOND DISPATCH. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Saturday, Nov. 7 -- 10 P.M. Gen. SEDGWICK reports capturing this P.M. in...

Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen shot down a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone operating in international airspace off the country’s coast, a Defense Department official confirmed Wednesday. U.S. Central Command is currently piecing together how Yemen’s Houthi rebels were able to destroy one of the remotely-piloted aircraft, which can carry up to eight laser-guided Hellfire missiles and cost more than $30 million each, the Pentagon official said. A spokesman for the Houthi forces said the MQ-9 drone was carrying out “hostile monitoring and spying operations” when it was shot down by the group’s air defense forces. Houthi officials claimed...

Taylor has been charged criminally several times in the past. In 2021, Taylor was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon after he and another man were accused of shooting at a female driver while her two children were in the back seat. At least two rounds struck the vehicle. Earlier this year, a Nashville judge dismissed those charges, and Taylor was released after court-appointed doctors testified that he was incompetent to stand trial. Federal and state law prohibit the prosecution of mentally incompetent defendants. The May 19 court order explained that Taylor had developed pneumonia at...

The Gambino crime family appears to be still alive and running. Federal prosecutors have charged ten alleged members of the Gambino crime family with extortion, racketeering conspiracy, union-related crimes and witness retaliation. The ten alleged members of the Gambino mafia were named in a 16–count Federal indictment and arraigned in a Brooklyn Federal court on Wednesday afternoon. According to the indictment, the ten defendants committed the crimes in order to gain more control in the demolition and carting industries in New York. The arrests come after the United States and the Italian government partnered in an international operation to crack...

Continued existence of small and vulnerable countries hinge on Western alliances and support. The population of Israel is about 10 million. This represents about half of the world’s Jewish people. The founding idea of modern Israel was to offer a sanctuary for Jews in their biblical home in the Middle East, in the aftermath of Nazi Germany’s mass murder of 6 million Jews. Yet currently, 78 years after the Holocaust, anti-Israel protestors throughout the Middle East, the great cities of the Western world, and iconic American universities chant death threats and “Palestine will be free from the river to the...

The well-known philanthropist and YouTube giant, MrBeast, has encountered a wave of criticism after his latest project in Africa. Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, faces a fresh wave of scrutiny following the release of his new video showcasing the funding and construction of 100 wells across various African nations. The digital philanthropist anticipated backlash, stating he expects to “get canceled” for his charitable actions, which have historically drawn fire. MrBeast, who has previously faced labels such as “white savior” and been called “demonic” for his humanitarian content, has now been accused of overshadowing the efforts of local governments and...

Thursday 9 November 2023 Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Feast Gothic baldacchino in Archbasilica of St John Lateran, RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).When a Feast of the Lord is celebrated on a weekday there is only one reading before the Gospel, which may be chosen from either the first or second reading.(This rule is not followed in the United States, so two separate readings are shown here).First readingEzekiel 47:1-2,8-9,12 ©Wherever the water flows, it will bring life and healthThe angel brought me to the entrance of the Temple, where a stream came out from under the Temple threshold...