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In his much-awaited interview with Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned President Joe Biden, spoke about past Democrat presidents and the CIA, while praising George W. Bush and gushing over the “very smart” Elon Musk. Shortly before six o’clock on Thursday evening, the two-hour interview was made available on the Tucker Carlson Network, Carlson’s official website, as well as on X (Twitter). “Are we having a talk show or a serious interview?” Putin said, in response to a query on the conflict in Ukraine, speaking via a translator. Before justifying his military’s actions, he gave Carlson the “historical background”...

Attorney Ty Clevenger is the bulldog attorney who has been after the DOJ and FBI for years to get to the bottom of the Seth Rich murder. Clevenger also investigated who supplied the DNC and Podesta emails to the DNC during the 2016 election cycle This was always the key to the Trump-Russia collusion nightmare. No proof was ever offered up by the fake news legacy media, Democrats, or the intelligence community on this scandal. If Russia did not supply the DNC emails to WikiLeaks then this was more proof that the DOJ’s Russia collusion story was a complete lie...

Vice President Harris will travel to Munich, Germany, for an annual gathering on international security issues as a White House push for aid to Ukraine and Israel has stalled in Congress. Harris will attend the Munich Security Conference for a third consecutive year, attending the event from Feb. 15-17, her office announced. While there, she will deliver a “major foreign policy speech” and meet with foreign leaders to discuss the situations in Ukraine and the Middle East. “Throughout her engagements, the Vice President will underscore the importance of sustaining U.S. leadership, strengthening our alliances and partnerships, and defending international rules...

Hurry, hurry, hurry! That’s the message of the Democratic Party to their minions in politics, from their overlords in the global governments — hurry up and pass as much legislation, policy and regulations that will kill America’s economy and Constitution before the 2024 elections. Time grows short. Donald Trump is coming back. And he’s bringing a double dose of America First prescription to cure all that’s ailed and continues to ail under Joe Biden. So Democrats are resisting all that’s beneficial to America’s freedoms, in a final-inning push to put into play all the not-so-easily destroyed globalist agendas before Biden...

Conservatives have failed to see that arguments do not matter. My whole career in the classroom has been guided by one principle. Namely, that it is my job is to introduce young people to the goodness, the beauty, and the wisdom of excellent works of literature, art, and human thought, without regard to any political use to which knowledge of these works might be put. I detest when literature is wrenched away from its essence, which is to delight us in its teaching us about ourselves and the world, and is commandeered for one or another kind of gain. It...

In February 2021, politicians and activists celebrated Oregon's implementation of Measure 110, the nation's first law to decriminalize drugs like fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and meth. It's not a surprise what happened next: a dramatic increase in overdoses. Fast forward to last week: Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency in Portland due to sharp rises in overdose deaths, public drug use, and crime. Though the state of emergency is a step in the right direction, more must be done to undo the harm caused by Measure 110 and help more Oregonians live safe...

U.S. — Special Counsel Robert Hur will not recommend charges for Biden's mishandling of classified documents on the grounds that he's too old and senile to stand trial. "I mean, seriously, have you seen that guy?" said Hur to reporters. "I tried to ask him questions and he attempted to put my notepad in his mouth. The dude is totally zonked out for sure. I mean, we all knew this, right?" In spite of the report detailing Biden's late-stage dementia, the Special Counsel confirmed Biden is just fine to continue running the country. "Oh yeah, that's no problem," he said....

Biden is apparently too demented to be prosecuted for illegally sharing top-secret documents, but is able to be President?? And people wonder why Bitcoin is so popular?? Yesterday saw the third largest net inflow into spot Bitcoin ETFs, totaling over $400 million with iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) seeing over $200 million inflows alone, dominating the $101 million outflow from GBTC… Source: Bloomberg The net inflow yesterday meant that 8,698 BTC were taken off the market and put into cold storage. Smaller tokens such as Ether, Solana and Cardano also pushed upward… As CoinTelegraph reports, Coinbase analysts say there have been...

Subject: Unveiling Project Renaissance: Catalyzing Paradigmatic Shifts for Unprecedented Triumph Esteemed Visionaries and Architects of Tomorrow, In the labyrinth of modern commerce, where the tides of change ebb and flow with capricious abandon, we find ourselves at a pivotal juncture, poised on the cusp of greatness. Today, I stand before you, fueled by the fervent belief that our collective resolve and boundless ingenuity shall illuminate the path to transcendent glory. With an illustrious flourish and a flourish of grandeur, I am thrilled to unveil Project Renaissance – a symphony of innovation and audacious ambition that shall reverberate throughout the annals...

The prices consumers pay in the marketplace rose at an even slower pace than originally reported, according to closely watched revisions the government released Friday...[Other business news sources are reporting that the CPI was revised UP +0.1 in October and UP +0.1 in November - so - 4th Quarter 2023 CPI is UP +0.1 MORE than originally reported!]

With Biden’s mental acuity becoming an undeniable problem, Democrats will have to figure out what to do with a vice president who’s even more unpopular than him. With yesterday’s special counsel report providing independent confirmation that Joe Biden is probably senile, we need to do something very painful that the Biden campaign and our compliant political press don’t want to do: Have a forthright conversation about Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is not new, and it certainly wasn’t a secret. Jill Biden knew. His aides knew. Heck, James Clyburn, the entire Democratic establishment knew. Yet, terrified that Bernie Sanders would win the nomination and then fail to take down their mortal enemy, Donald Trump, they propped up Biden like he was a Potemkin candidate — or, more accurately, “Weekend at Bernie’s” — to try to capture some Obama nostalgia. With the benefit of pandemic lockdowns, they could imprison Old Joe in the basement, limit his interactions with the press, and keep him tied to a teleprompter between...

NATIONAL PIZZA DAY National Pizza Day on February 9th celebrates one of America's all-time favorite foods. Whether it is thin crust, Chicago-style, deep dish, or anything in between, pizza is an American favorite. Join National Day Calendar to celebrate National Pizza Day with some sweet, sweet prizes. Be there, live in all the usual places, at 2 pm Central Time, Friday February 9. #NationalPizzaDay We love our pizzas, and they come in so many varieties, too. As we nosh on our favorite, explore a few pizza facts: Pepperoni is the most popular pizza at 36% of all pies ordered. Over...

Virginia’s House passed a ban an “assault weapons” ban last week and the Senate followed suit on Wednesday of this week, which means an “assault weapons” ban is now headed to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) desk. Breitbart News reported that the ‘assault weapons’ legislation, House Bill 2 and companion bill Senate Bill 2, targets semiautomatic centerfire rifles and semiautomatic centerfire pistols with threaded barrels and semiautomatic shotguns, if the shotguns have “a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the shotgun … the ability to accept a detachable magazine … [or] a fixed magazine capacity in excess of...

The rent’s too damn high in New York — but the broker fees are really murder. City dwellers wanting to score a place to live at a reasonable price are finding that out the hard way — as they are being socked with outrageous fees of up to $20,000 just to be able to rent an apartment. One home shopper claims he almost lost it when a broker tried to soak him for a $15,000 fee for a $1,100, rent-controlled apartment in a run-down brick building in Flushing recently. “I never replied because not in a million years would I...

Wednesday, February 7, marks National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NBHAAD) 2024. This year’s theme is, “Engage, Educate, Empower: Uniting to End HIV/AIDS in Black Communities.” Search the hashtag online to fine countless awareness campaigns, educational events and other happenings. Several examples are included throughout this article.

Which Biden is it? Dementia Joe or Crafty joe? Well, it's been quite the interesting 24 hours. Special Counsel Robert Hur spelled it out very clearly for the world. Joe Biden might not be mentally fit to be President but nearly everybody is missing the point. Determining the truth would be a very simple matter. Perhaps the most entertaining during all of what's happened is the mad scrambling by the left and its lackeys in the media to dismiss the truth. Many did as did Andrew Weissman - make the blanket assertion that Biden was completely exonerated and had committed...

As competitive colleges and universities continue to admit underqualified applicants in order to adhere to their schools’ “equity” agenda, those students are predictably struggling and receiving poor grades. But now elite universities are offering a solution to that problem too: make course grading more subjective, or even eliminate objective grading completely. After the Supreme Court ruled in the 2023 Fair Admissions case that accepting students based on race was both illegal and unconstitutional, administrators at numerous competitive schools intimated that they would find ways to circumvent the decision. In the name of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” their goal was still...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 8. E.A. PAUL sends to this Bureau the following: ON THE RAPIDIAN, Saturday Evening, Feb. 6. A cavalry force supported by infantry, moved forward this morning to reconnoitre the enemy's position. Gen. KILPATRICK, with two brigades, commanded respectively, First Brigade by Brig.-Gen. DAVIES and Second Brigade, (Brig.-Gen. Custer's.) by Colonel Sawter, First Vermont Cavalry and Lieut. KELLY'S (late RANSOM'S) light battery moved from the vicinity of Stevensburgh to a fording place on the Rapidan, about two miles below Germania Mills, called Culpepper Ford. At about midday the command crossed the river without opposition, the only force on...

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Thursday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that voters will remember President Joe Biden calling Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi “the president of Mexico” in a press conference where he was addressing his age and memory after Special Counsel Robert Hur decided not to charge the president for keeping classified documents. Hur said Biden was an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Toobin said, “Mexico? Mexico? Where did that come from? I mean, that’s the only thing anyone is going to remember from this. You know, he was exonerated here, and I think it’s an easy...