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The leftist Washington Post just can’t resist treating Americans as if they’re just dumb for thinking Bidenomics is a disaster despite their ongoing economic hardships. The Post ran a condescending headline on Nov. 13 that was about as stupid as it was patronizing: “The economy is booming, but inflation continues to sour Americans.” The sub-headline was just as ridiculous: "Rising wages and strong economic growth haven’t been enough to convince voters that the president’s policies are working for them." The leftist rag gaslighted voters by making it seem like they shouldn’t believe their lying eyes about the cost-of-living crisis they’re...

An appeals court in Finland has dismissed bogus “hate speech” charges against pro-life Finnish lawmaker Päivi Räsänen in a massive victory for free speech and religious freedom. Christian Democratic MP Päivi Räsänen criticized the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, of which she belongs, for participating in a LGBT pride event in Helsinki. “How can the church’s doctrinal foundation, the Bible, be compatible with the lifting up of shame and sin as a subject of pride?” Räsänen wrote on Facebook underneath a photo of verses from Romans 1:24-27. The Helsinki Police Department received complaints about the post and decided to investigate...

Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) claims former House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) shoved him while his back was turned. NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales first reported the encounter on X (formerly Twitter), saying it happened when she spoke with Burchett after the GOP’s conference meeting on Tuesday. Burchett was one of the House Republicans who supported the push to oust McCarthy as Speaker, and according to him and Grisales, McCarthy struck at him which led to an intense encounter. Burchett's back was to McCarthy and his detail walking by in the hallway, then the lunge. Burchett responded jokingly as McCarthy...

A teenage girl has been charged with stabbing her newborn baby to death before stashing the body in an empty dog food bag in her closet. The 16-year-old, who has not been named, was charged with first-degree murder and use of a deadly weapon according to court records seen by Star Herald. Authorities had responded to a home in Gordon, Nebraska, on Monday evening after a report that a teen had given birth, and the baby wasn't breathing. The affidavit states the father met the arriving officer at the door and told them, it was too late, and then where...

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that's been tormenting corporate America over the last two years, according to nine cybersecurity responders, digital crime experts and victims. For more than six months, the FBI has known the identities of at least a dozen members tied to the hacking group responsible for the devastating September break-ins at casino operators MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment, according to four people familiar with the investigation. Industry executives have told Reuters they were baffled by an apparent lack of arrests despite many...

Many people, including virtually all Republicans, properly view President Ronald Reagan as a great success. The economy grew rapidly at an average rate of well over 4% for the last seven years of his presidency, with many millions of new high-paying jobs being created. Inflation was cut from double digits to low single digits. Much of the economy was deregulated, and entrepreneurial freedom was restored. The military was rebuilt. No new major wars were started. When running for president in 1980, Reagan famously declared his foreign policy to end the Cold War was “we win, they lose.” Sure enough, by...

Former President Donald Trump would beat California Governor Gavin Newsom in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, according to a new projection of the presidential election.Newsom has been floated as a possible alternative to President Joe Biden in the case he decides to drop out of the 2024 election, though the governor has downplayed speculation he could launch a primary challenge against him. Biden is facing concerns about his age, as well as new questions about his ability to connect with crucial voter groups, such as young voters, in crucial swing states that will determine the outcome of the 2024 election.Trump, despite...

NEW YORK -- Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website that found an impassioned and devoted following at the height of the blogosphere era but ended up struggling with its business model, is shutting down after 16 years, its parent company announced Thursday. It is the latest gender-focused media site to fold as the media industry struggles with plummeting digital advertising that has also cut into the profitability of major tech companies from Google to Facebook. Bitch Media, which had a print magazine, website and podcast, closed last year after 25 years, citing sustainability. The Washington Post folded The Lily, its freestanding...

Journalist Bohumil Vostal says armed robbery happened Sunday in San Francisco while crew in town ahead of APEC summitA Czech television news crew was robbed while covering the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, according to reports.Journalist Bohumil Vostal told the San Francisco Chronicle he was getting a shot of City Lights Bookstore "when three masked assailants approached with guns pointed.""They were heading at my camera man, aiming a gun at his stomach, and one at my head," Vostal said. He added the incident happened around 5 p.m. Sunday.

A woman has revealed her husband walked off, leaving her to deal with the fallout, after she accidentally ordered a cocktail that had a price tag of over two thousand dollars. Lynsey took to social media to reveal she, her husband and her sister had been staying at a five-star hotel in London for New Year’s Eve. She and her husband went down to the hotel bar for a drink, and she ordered a cocktail that featured Cristal champagne, with sprinkled gold leaf and a 30-year-old whisky. The cocktail had a price tag of £1890, which is roughly $2,356 once...

Has anyone in the media bothered to ask how it is that there are no reports from Palestinian sources, defined as “reliable,” about dead and wounded Hamas members?

Illegal aliens being deported from the United States will be a “horrifying reality” if former President Donald Trump is elected president next year, a spokesman for President Joe Biden’s campaign says.As Breitbart News reported, Trump’s immigration agenda was detailed in the New York Times over the weekend. The plan includes:Mass deportations of illegal aliensAn end to birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of illegal aliensA large-scale increase in immigration detention spaceThe end of former President Obama’s DACA program for illegal aliensA travel ban for countries with a history of exporting terrorismSafe Third Country Agreements to end asylum shoppingThe reinstatement of...

Credit: Reduxx Denbighshire, Wales – A female pool player took a bold stand for integrity and fair play after electing to forfeit her final against a biological male opponent. In an arguably more surprising twist, the Welsh crowd expressed their approval in a place not exactly known for conservatism and political incorrectness. As Fox News reported, Lynne Pinches was supposed to face off against Chris “Harriet” Haynes in the final of the Women’s Champion of Champions in Denbighshire, Wales on Sunday. But she decided to walk away before the first ball had been struck instead. Video captured from Reduxx Magazine...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then...

Clarke Matthiesen claimed neighbours' grandson was the cause of 2019 fire, not his unregistered burnA landowner responsible for an open burn that ignited a wildfire in British Columbia's Cariboo region is on the hook for about $450,000 after an appeals commission rejected his claim that the real cause was arson by his neighbours' troubled grandson. Last week, a panel of the Forest Appeals Commission largely dismissed Clarke Matthiesen's appeal of cost recovery orders for the April 2019 blaze, finding his alternative explanation was "both unproven and unlikely." The evidence strongly supported investigators' conclusion that a holdover fire from an improperly...

President Joe Biden will skip the bipartisan “March for Israel” rally set for the Mall in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. Biden’s absence appears to show a political calculation to avoid sparking additional backlash among far-left Democrats, who adamantly oppose the administration’s policy positions on Israel’s defensive measures against Hamas. William Daroff, rally organizer and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told Fox News he invited Biden to attend.

Hundreds of federal government officials have signed a dissent letter in rebellion against Democrat President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Four hundred government officials from 40 departments and agencies within Biden’s administration signed the letter. They are opposing the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war and demand a “ceasefire.” The Tuesday letter was first reported by the New York Times. It includes officials from Biden’s State Department, White House, National Security Council, and the Department of Justice (DOJ). The signatories of the letter remained anonymous to protect against professional retaliation. The letter reads, in part: “We call on...

NORTH ANDOVER, MASS. (WHDH) - Dozens of people crowded into North Andover High School on Monday to voice their opinions during a lively Select Board meeting where a proposal to fly the Palestinian flag above Town Common was ultimately approved. The request to fly the flag on the Town Common flag pole was approved after about an hour of public comment, during which those gathered spoke both in favor of and against flying the flag amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.“It’s a big deal for us to see the Palestinian flag that many of us think represents the...

-snip- The changes Putin greenlighted limit coverage of Central Election Commission sessions to registered media outlets, which could exclude freelancers or independent journalists, according to the reports on Tuesday. The amendments prohibit media from reporting on the commission’s actions at military bases or in areas under martial law without advance clearance from regional and military authorities. They also bar the publication of any campaign content on “blocked sources”, referring to restricted websites and social media services. Under an intensifying crackdown on the opposition and the flow of information, Russia has banned an array of websites and services, including Facebook and...

Paul Pelosi, the husband of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), on Monday spoke publicly for the first time about the night he was attacked in his San Francisco home, during the trial of his attacker. “It was a tremendous sense of shock to recognize that somebody had broken into the house and looking at him and looking at the hammer and the ties, I recognized that I was in serious danger, so I tried to stay as calm as possible,” Pelosi said during his testimony, according to the Associated Press.