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Over the weekend, a man who pretends he’s a woman recorded an exchange between himself and an employee of Delta Airlines, whom he accused of “misgendering” him. The clip went viral, though most of the reaction I’ve seen has been in praise of the Delta employee, who wasn’t taking the man’s crap during the busy holiday travel season at La Guardia Airport. According to Newsweek, the triggered traveler is actor Tommy Dorfman, 31, who appeared on the Netflix show "13 Reasons Why," which ended in 2020. He decided to identify as a woman the following year. The video, which Dorfman...

The lawsuit alleges the dentist provided an unsafe dosage of anesthesia and falsified medical records to cover it up. A patient is suing her Eden Prairie dentist after he performed eight dental crowns, four root canals and 20 fillings in a single visit, according to a newly-filed malpractice lawsuit. Kathleen Wilson of Minneapolis says she received negligent treatment from Dr. Kevin Molldrem, of Molldrem Family Dentistry, in July 2020, that caused significant injuries. Her civil action, filed ahead of the holiday weekend in Hennepin County District Court, accuses Molldrem of grossly exceeding the safe dosage of anesthesia and falsifying medical...

As the United States strives to regain a sense of normalcy after the pandemic, a growing financial concern is looming over the nation. According to Bloomberg, the cost of living has surged in various aspects, with groceries marking a 25% increase, used cars seeing a staggering 35% climb, and rents escalating by approximately 20%. While daily routines may have returned to a semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy, the financial burden on Americans is far from abating. A recent CNBC report reveals that a staggering 74% of Americans are currently experiencing stress due to their financial situations. The reasons behind this financial...

December 21, 2023. A 24-year-old man murdered his father, then shot up a university, killing 14 and wounding 25 before killing himself. Just another horror story from gun violent America? Not quite. It happened in Prague, the Czech Republic. How can this be? Everyone knows America, because of our sinister “gun culture” is far more violent than anywhere else on Earth.Should one have the misfortune to believe our democrat/Socialist/Communist media, they’d think America a cesspool of “gun violence,” unparalleled in all the world. Anyone daring to step outdoors is certain to be filled with lead, always by “Ultra-MAGA white supremacists,”...

Voters perceive former President Donald Trump as the return to normalcy candidate after President Joe Biden failed to “put things back in order,” pollster and New York Times columnist Kristen Soltis Anderson recently wrote. Anderson’s observation highlights Biden’s failure to restore America to a state of predictable stability following three years of his chaotic policies: Draconian pandemic mandates Deadly Afghan withdrawal Soaring cost of living Growing instability in Ukraine and the Middle East Record high invasion on the southern border “The 2024 election will not be fought along the conventional axis of left and right or even change and more...

Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential campaign has stopped spending money on television ads and does not have any TV ad reservations booked, according to his campaign and data from an ad-tracking firm. As recently as the first full week of December, the GOP entrepreneur's campaign spent more than $200,000 on TV ads. Last week, it spent just $6,000 on ads — all of it on TV — figures from the firm AdImpact show. "We are focused on bringing out the voters we've identified — best way to reach them is using addressable advertising, mail, text, live calls and doors to communicate with...

Russia maintains that it is in control of all nuclear weapons stored in Belarus, its closest international ally. The president of Belarus announced this week that the country has received tactical nuclear weapons transported from Russia. President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that the intensely-regulated weapons were brought to Belarus in October.

The scope of top Hunter Biden prosecutor David Weiss’ authority was off limits for his former staffer when she testified before congress. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware Lesley Wolf testified Dec. 14 before the House Judiciary Committee and did not have permission to discuss the details of Weiss’ charging authority on the Hunter Biden case, according to a transcript reviewed by the Daily Caller. “Okay. With respect to the Hunter Biden case, Stuart Goldberg testified that even though David Weiss has said he has ultimate charging authority, that the Tax Division still was required to approve...

After January 6, 2021, United States Capitol Police opened 2 satellite offices outside of Washington D.C.. One of those offices was opened in former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s area and another was opened in Tampa, Florida.

Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Wednesday morning seeking to prevent former President Donald Trump from claiming in his federal case that he was targeted for political prosecution by President Joe Biden as a form of “election interference.” Donald Trump, unironically, stands accused of “election interference” in connection to his legal and constitutionally protected election challenges over the 2020 election. Smith said in his motion that Trump should be barred from “introducing evidence, making arguments, or framing questions to advance a theory of selective or vindictive prosecution.” Judge Chutkan, an anti-Trump jurist who has consistently sided with the state’s...

The Trumps posed for a festive family Christmas photo — but noticeably missing was Melania Trump. Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., shared the portrait on her Instagram Story Tuesday, and while a very-grown-up Barron Trump stole the show, the former first lady was nowhere to be found. Snapped at Mar-a-Lago, the image features Trump Jr., former President Donald Trump, Guilfoyle, Barron, Ivanka Trump, husband Jared Kushner and their kids, Tiffany Trump and husband Michael Boulos. Barron, 17, can be seen towering in front of the Christmas tree and behind his father.

Former first son Barron Trump towered over his family in an eye-catching Christmas photo taken at Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s youngest son stood behind the former president as the family posed for a group picture, exceeding his father’s height by multiple inches. Social media users were astounded by how tall Barron appeared to be in the rare sighting. “Imagine having a family photo like this,” MMA fighter Malcolm Flex wrote on X. Imagine having a family photo like this. pic.twitter.com/4RzOWZcDTt — Malcolm FleX (@Malcolm_fleX48) December 26, 2023 “What are they feeding Barron?!?” political commentator Benny Johnson wrote on X. “Barron Trump is...

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him “don’t understand” their religion. “I’m going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,” Kinzinger said on X, formerly known as Twitter, responding to Trump’s Christmas post. “If you are a Christian who supports him you don’t understand your own religion.” Kinzinger, one of Trump’s fiercest critics in the GOP, said in his post that “Trump is weak, meager, smelly, victim-ey, belly-achey, but he ain’t a Christian and he’s not ‘God’s man.’”

Former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary and is drawing support from key Democratic coalition partners, especially black, Hispanic, and young voters who are abandoning President Joe Biden. In a trend last seen when former President Ronald Reagan pulled disgruntled blue-collar workers from the Democratic base in 1980 and 1984, some voters who backed Biden in 2020 are shifting to Trump due to concerns the economy will worsen if a change in Washington isn’t made soon. “He is destroying the Obama coalition,” said Trump pollster John McLaughlin, who shared crosstabs from his latest 1,700-page survey results with...

When in 2021 President Biden appointed Kamala Harris his "point person" on immigration issues at the southern border, he said, “I can think of nobody who is better qualified to do this.” Thinking has never been Biden's strong suit, but even so, assuming he meant what he said, then surely Harris would be heading the US delegation to Mexico today to discuss the immigration crisis. So, given that there is a "crisis," that the meeting is considered critical given "the urgency of the moment," and that Biden is sending "top Biden officials, some of his highest-ranking officials," surely that delegation...

Successful public health campaigns and medical advances have enabled the United States to conquer a range of disfiguring and damaging diseases. Polio, which paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, was wiped out by widespread vaccinations. In 1999 the nation’s last hospital for lepers closed its doors in Louisiana. A global campaign eradicated smallpox, while lethal tuberculosis, the “consumption” that stalked characters in decades of literature, seemed beaten by antibiotics. Measles outbreaks still occur from time to time, but they are small, local, and easily contained. Recently, however, some of these forgotten but still formidable infectious diseases have begun to reappear in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith asked a judge on Wednesday to bar Donald Trump's lawyers from injecting politics into the former president's trial on charges that he schemed to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith's office told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in a 20-page filing that Trump's lawyers should be prevented from “raising irrelevant political issues or arguments in front of the jury,” including that the prosecution against him is vindictive and selective or was coordinated by President Joe Biden. “In addition to being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury’s determination of the...

In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed legislation making border crossings illegal and punishable with jail time. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has vowed to "fight this law. We whipped the Texicans at the Alamo and we will do it again if we have to." President Biden phoned the Mexican President and agreed that "the flow of asylum seekers must not be interrupted." Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and White House homeland security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall have been dispatched to Mexico to work out the details. About 60% of US households headed by...

Are US financial conditions loose as a goose? Despite resilience in US data, 30Y Yields have plunged back below the 4.00% Maginot Line this morning… Source: Bloomberg The last few weeks have seen US macro data reverse its recent trend of disappointment… Source: Bloomberg The long-end of the curve is outperforming… Source: Bloomberg But, ‘do not fight The Fed’ seems to be the narrative and expectations for a March rate-cut are rising once again… Source: Bloomberg And the market is pricing in over 160bps of cuts for next year… Source: Bloomberg Financial Conditions are now at the same level of...

One of the first things workers at a Florida animal shelter noticed when a woman came in with her cats for spay and neutering — aside from the fact there were 22 of them — was the “overwhelming” smell of urine, one of the employees said. The cats weren’t in the best condition. They had fleas, missing fur, green discharge coming from their eyes and noses and “lots of wounds from fighting,” SPCA Florida’s public media director Randa Richter said in a Dec. 22 news conference held by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. SNIP But the shelter became even more...