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A disinformation expert is lamenting that social media platforms have less control over speech as the 2024 elections approach, while conservatives notch wins against the industry and the Department of Homeland Security's calls for greater censorship. This comes as the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released yet more evidence this week on nexus of the federal government, universities, and Big Tech that worked to censor Americans during the 2020 election. The House Judiciary Committee also held a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to increase censorship through the Election Integrity Partnership. The new...

A massive fire at a homeless encampment beneath an underpass in downtown Los Angeles has shut down the 10 freeway indefinitely.

Nikki Haley 's presidential campaign will reserve $10 million in television, radio and digital advertising across Iowa and New Hampshire beginning in the first week of December, a massive investment designed to give the former United Nations ambassador an advantage over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a critical moment in the GOP nomination fight. Details of the advertising plans, which represent the Haley campaign's first official advertising reservation, were obtained by The Associated Press ahead of a public announcement expected Monday. Haley's planned investment, as of now, is more than five times larger than DeSantis' current advertising reserves for the...

Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in the nation’s capital, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The agents, assigned to protect Naomi Biden, were out with her in the Georgetown neighborhood late Sunday night when they saw the three people breaking a window of the parked and unoccupied SUV, the official said. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on Monday on the condition of anonymity. One of the agents opened fire, but no...

WASHINGTON -- Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in the nation’s capital, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The agents, assigned to protect Naomi Biden, were out with her in the Georgetown neighborhood late Sunday night when they saw the three people breaking a window of the parked and unoccupied SUV, the official said. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on Monday on the condition of anonymity. One of the agents opened fire,...

"By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith" (Heb. 11:7). True faith works. When James said, "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:26), he stated a principle that's consistent throughout Scripture: True faith always produces righteous works. The people described in Hebrews 11 made their genuine faith known in the things they did. The same applies to us today. Paul said, "The grace of God has appeared,...

A senior Ukrainian military officer with deep ties to the country’s intelligence services played a central role in the bombing of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines last year, according to officials in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe, as well as other people knowledgeable about the details of the covert operation. The officer’s role provides the most direct evidence to date tying Ukraine’s military and security leadership to a controversial act of sabotage that has spawned multiple criminal investigations and that U.S. and Western officials have called a dangerous attack on Europe’s energy infrastructure.

Over the past month, college campuses all over the United States have seen a rash of antisemitism that has left most Americans what the heck students are being taught. For example, in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks that left 1,400 Israeli civilians, many of them children, slaughtered, a Cornell professor took the stage at a pro-Palestine rally and said that he was “exhilarated” by Hamas murdering Israelis. At Harvard, dozens of student groups signed a letter blaming Israel for the attack while expressing sympathy with terrorism, calling it “decolonialism.” Last week, a Jewish student was physically attacked by...

It’s not the dark web that is harboring these practices, said Sheriff Tom Dart, but sites that can be visited without a password. That’s why parents need to get more involved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Cook County Sheriff’s Office hopes to crack down on human trafficking, child porn and prostitution after a wave of recent arrests over a two-week period highlighting the enormity of the problem. Sheriff Tom Dart said it’s essential that not only the federal government, but internet sites and parents take action to fight this growing trend. Dart recently held a news conference after six separate arrests, which included...

Following his loss of the House speakership, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) floated the possibility that he may not run for reelection in 2024. McCarthy was demoted to the rank-and-file House GOP last month when he was ousted from the speakership. With his successor now firmly in place, McCarthy is toying with the idea that his time in Congress may be up.

"My prayers are with the patriots we have lost," the defense secretary said. Five American service members were killed in a crash late Friday after their helicopter had a "mishap" during a training exercise and went into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the military said Sunday. Two officials confirmed that the five were Army special operations soldiers, as first reported by The New York Times and Washington Post. Search and rescue efforts went into Saturday before being called off, according to the officials. Department of Defense officials on Monday identified the service members as Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer,...

Great take on the Alphaville classic. From my broadcast playlist.

I would like to know HOW an article of a journalist could write a report of 1,000 words, and never get to the question we all ask. DID THIS WOMAN GET THE VACCINE. It is the FIRST thing that comes to mind when we see these stories, and they keep avoiding the obvious.

One of the many satanic paradoxes of the Third Reich’s architecture of the Final Solution was the requirement—mandated after the 1939 outbreak of the war—that Jews anywhere under German rule or occupation had to wear a yellow badge or armband with the Star or David. Yet was not all this elaborate bureaucratic need for identification embarrassing to the Nazi apparat? After all, if Nazi doctrine about supposedly manifest Aryan “racial” superiority—Nordic looks and build, superior intelligence, stable disposition—were so persuasive, then why the need for Jews to identify themselves? In contrast, the Star-of David IDs were prima facie proof that...

Originally released in the early 1980s, this Canadian classic has been updated to merit club play this century. To be added to my broadcast playlist.

WASHINGTON (TND) — Now is a good time to check that $2 bill stuffed away in a drawer or old wallet. The unique currency has been in circulation since the 1860s but some people are finding them to be upwards of $4,500, according to U.S. Currency Auctions. Several editions of the bill have been in circulation with the most recent being designed in 1963, the U.S. Treasury Department notes. Some feature Thomas Jefferson's face, Alexander Hamilton or America's first secretary of the treasury. A bill's worth depends on several factors including if it was in circulation. Uncirculated bills with red...

BUFFALO, Thursday, Nov. 12. The following was received here to-day: WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Nov. 11 -- Midnight. To the Mayor of Buffalo: The British Minister, Lord LYONS, has to-night officially notified the Government that, from telegraphic information received from the Governor-General of Canada, there is reason to believe that there is a plot on foot by persons who have found an asylum in Canada, to invade the United States and destroy the city of Buffalo -- that they propose to take possession of some of the steamboats on Lake Erie, to surprise Johnson's Island, set free the prisoners of war confined...

From my broadcast playlist.

On October 25, 2023, U.N. secretary general António Guterres said at a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war that he condemns unequivocally the horrifying and unprecedented 7 October acts of terror by Hamas in Israel. He continued:Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians — or the launching of rockets against civilian targets.He then justified the attacks:It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued...

Federal prosecutors are planning to make the “client list” of a high-profile trafficking ring public following a major bust this week. As Slay News reported earlier this week, pharmaceutical executives, professors, doctors, and government officials were busted by authorities during an operation targetting a high-profile sex trafficking ring. Acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua Levy announced the results of the operation and detailed the elite clients involved in this network. “They are doctors, they are lawyers, they’re accountants, they are executives at high-tech companies, pharmaceutical companies, they’re military officers, government contractors, professors, scientists,” Levy revealed during a press conference. “Pick...