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Outgoing Democratic Governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, has granted pardons to 56 inmates, including 40 convicted murderers, since October this year. Despite Edwards’ attempts to address the state’s notorious incarceration rate, critics argue that his latest clemency decisions may have gone a step too far. Critics argue that releasing individuals convicted of serious crimes poses a risk to public safety and undermines the justice system. The anti-prison governor has been at the helm of criminal justice reforms in Louisiana with the aim of shedding the state’s label as “the world’s prison capital.” During Edwards’ tenure, Louisiana has faced scrutiny...

Though the general shape of previously reported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are triangular, circular, or even in the shape of a "Tic Tac," a recent report will have the U.S. government adding yet another shape to the list. A photographer from Chicago captured a shot of a spooky object that was apparently changing colors while it was sitting stationary in the sky, according to the Daily Mail. The report noted that depending on who is looking at the phenomena, it could look like an alien's face, an indigenous totem, or even Rafiki, the monkey from "The Lion King." Experts are still...

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"And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities." "And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow." "For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men,...

The amazing thing about Politico's story on Thursday by global editor-in-chief John F. Harris and senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein about a couple of Trump cases heading to the Supreme court is the lack of detailed discussions of the legal aspects involved in "John Roberts, Donald Trump and the ghosts of Bush v. Gore."Why? Because Harris and Gerstein are promoting the highly disingenuous idea that Chief Justice John Roberts, who they claim has a court credibility problem, should steer his fellow justices to deliver a split decision because of PR optics. I kid you not.

The years immediately after World War Two did not turn on a dime into the long decade of postwar prosperity in America and the West. There were labour problems, political battles, the problem of turning soldiers back into civilians and a war economy back into a peacetime one. And there was the vast social unease and trauma after a war that confirmed that we were capable of anything, including the worst things imaginable. My previous Christmas movie columns have been romances alternating with comedy or drama – pictures like Holiday Affair (1949) and Remember the Night (1940), where the holidays...

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An Israeli fighter jet successfully assassinated Hamas leader Hassan Atrash, the IDF and Shin Bet announced on Saturday. The assassination took place in the Rafah area in southern Gaza. Atrash was responsible for the trade, production, and equipping of the military arm of Hamas. He also took part in the smuggling of weapons from various countries into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The IDF has been focused on taking out key players in Hamas during the war, often launching targeted attacks on them.

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (TND) — A tip "regarding the possible possession of child pornography" at a home in Florida ended with the arrest of a man who used to be a corrections officer and then worked for Walt Disney World. Detectives in Hernando County, north of Tampa, got the tip last Saturday and then identified the suspect as Michael David Foster. On Wednesday, they executed a search warrant and “seized a flash drive and a few SD cards that had been located in a book bag belonging to Foster. Then, they said after his arrest, “Foster admitted to ownership of the...

A new report released by the RealClear Foundation and titled The Folly of Climate Leadership analyzes Britain’s climate and energy policies and concludes that increasingly stringent policies that were adopted based on false claims of falling renewable electricity costs drove up the country’s energy costs. Andy Puzder, senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and the America First Policy Institute, explains in the study’s forward that the analysis serves as a warning to America.The report, which was written by Rupert Darwall, senior fellow with RealClear Foundation, “shows what would happen if Democrats and Progressives get their way...

Lindsay Jones reports that Julian Assange’s team has confirmed the leaked DNC data published by WikiLeaks in 2016 were provided by DNC employee Seth Rich. Jones told Emerald Robinson, “They confided in me that it was Seth Rich that leaked the leaked the DNC information, which completely contradicts the Mueller report which said it was a Russian hacker leak.” A federal judge last month ordered the FBI to release of the contents of Rich’s laptop to Attorney Ty Clevenger. Clevenger told Emerald Robinson, “They’ve admitted that they have the actual work laptop that he used at the DNC, and for...

Short of Donald Trump being locked in a prison cell, few things would make the Establishment happier than to see Nikki Haley as Trump’s running mate in the 2024 election.In recent days, the mainstream media has played up Haley’s supposed rise in the polls. Articles, such as one published by The Hill this week, claim that the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is “gaining ground” on President Trump.“The survey, published Thursday by the Saint Anselm College Survey Center (SACSC), found Haley garnered 30 percent of the likely Republican primary vote, just 14 points behind Trump’s 44 percent...

America’s recent troubles in the Red Sea have ramifications that go beyond backtracked cargo and skirmishes with Islamic militias. At stake is global dominance of maritime trade — and the consequent dominance of global politics. As The New American has documented, U.S. naval forces are embroiled in conflict with Iran-backed Houthi militants in the Red Sea in order to prevent this Yemeni militia from targeting Western commercial vessels. Attacks from the Houthi have set back supply chains and prompted big firms such as CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, and BP to avoid the Suez Canal over safety concerns.But while the United States and...

Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Dixie Chicks, was killed in a head-on crash Saturday in El Paso, Texas, according to TMZ. The band, which changed its name in 2020 to The Chicks, said it was "shocked and saddened" by her death. "We hold a special place in our hearts for the time we spent playing music, laughing and traveling together," the band wrote in a statement.

Americans are strongly dissatisfied with the direction of the country and the economy. According to Gallup, just 19% of the public is satisfied with how things are going, compared with 80% who aren’t. Incredibly, consumer sentiment is lower now than it was during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. It’s easy to see why. Inflation remains elevated above pre-pandemic levels, meaning that real weekly earnings are down by more than 4% since January 2021. Rising interest rates have caused the median mortgage payment to double over the same period. In a good economy, hardworking Americans steadily get ahead as income gains...

A deputy mayor in France who labeled the government’s proposed immigration bill “shameful” and “disgusting” was hospitalized on Wednesday evening after being brutally attacked by a gang of North African men just meters from her own front door. Oriane Filhol, the deputy mayor to Mathieu Hanotin of the Socialist Party (PS) in Saint-Denis, was returning home from a work meeting when she was assaulted by several men on the driveway to her home at around 9.30 p.m. The elected official, who is in charge of solidarity, women’s rights, and fighting against discrimination in her constituency, was “hit violently in the...

Note: If you prefer to watch/listen then check out the YouTube (48 minutes long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAOR77sUS88November 2012 Mr. Speaker: This may be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as they are today: promote peace and prosperity by a strict adherence to the principles of individual liberty. It was my opinion, that the course the U.S. embarked on in the latter part of the 20th Century would bring us a major financial crisis...

The warring sides in the long-running conflict in Yemen have committed to steps towards a ceasefire and engage in a United Nations-led peace process, according to the UN special envoy for Yemen. The announcement by Hans Grundberg on Saturday marks the latest step to end a nine-year war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Following a series of meetings between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and Iran-aligned Houthis in Saudi Arabia and Oman, a statement by Grundberg’s office said he “welcomes the parties’ commitment to a set of measures to...

@P_McCulloughMD On MSM and independent media I cite the medical literature and source the data for verification so we have can a fair discussion of the emerging science. Accurate, consistent, no flip-flops. Never got this from government agencies or captured media commentators

On December 23, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the law creating what would become the world's most powerful financial institution. For me it's probably the most destructive institution that has been created As long as the Fed has been around, it has swung the economy between inflation and recession. Politicians created a fully government-run institution to bail out government and bad banks alike: the Federal Reserve. Since its founding, the Fed has stolen 98% of the value of a dollar. It has used those profits to repetitively launch boom-bust cycles. Click excerpt link for more...