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DEVELOPING STORY: A savage mob terrorized conservative students attending a Turning Point USA event featuring Kyle Rittenhouse at the University of Memphis. The mob literally chased conservative students shouting obscenities and violent threats. Several students who had been attending a campus Bible study were also caught up in the melee. Eyewitnesses say the mob made direct threats against TPUSA leadership. Radical black activists cheered the chaos. There are no reports of arrests. The TPUSA group later found refuge in a nearby safe house. The Tennessee state legislature should launch an immediate investigation into why the university did not have ample...

Free speech is the last exit ramp before political violence. During oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri — a dispute that Senator Rand Paul rightly calls “the most consequential free speech case in U.S. history” — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed concern that the First Amendment is “hamstringing the government in significant ways, in the most important time periods.” As with so much of the U.S. Constitution — and specifically the Bill of Rights — that has gotten in the way of the federal government’s march toward absolute power, a foundational American right is now in...

Former President Donald Trump issued a frantic plea for financial support to MAGA voters Wednesday as his deadline to pay his $454 million bond in the New York civil fraud case looms. “KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF OF TRUMP TOWER!,” reads a message to Trump’s supporters from a joint fundraising committee that allocates the money to his campaign and a separate political committee that has been paying his legal bills.

In a recent piece titled "Lindsey Graham Faces Backlash Over Ukraine Mobilization Call" from MSN.com Lindsey Graham visited Kyiv, Senator Lindsey Graham made headlines during his visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, by addressing the issue of military conscription for young men. He specifically advocated for the Ukrainian parliament to expedite the passage of a bill that would include more citizens in the draft to combat Russia, pinpointing the exemption of men under 27 from military service as a concern. Graham highlighted the urgency of the situation, suggesting that all individuals, regardless of being 25 or 27, should actively participate in what...

Local roofer barges into drag queen story time for kids (FULL VIDEO) Local roofer goes to library to expose a drag queen story hour. Staff call the police on him but he is police and says he will just sit in the back and film it. Roofer told them he identified as a "12 year old girl" after library workers told him it was a private event only for children. Video is 28 minutes long.

Center for Countering Digital Hate had regular communications with State, DHS, National Security Council officials, even after Disinformation Governance Board controversy, FOIA shows. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an environmental lawyer, vaccine skeptic, presidential candidate and scion of America's Camelot. But a terrorist? Emails made public Wednesday show counterterrorism officials in the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and State Department planned meetings in 2022 with a U.K.-based group best known for seeking censorship of the top alleged disinformation superspreaders, including Kennedy. America First Legal published the feds' communications with the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which says it...

A new ‘woke’ offering from Hollywood, which depicts “white people” as “dangerous,” failed to connect with audiences after completely bombing at the box office. The movie called “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” which opened opened last week, also took a major bashing from critics. The film is the latest example of how far Hollywood has fallen.

A Boeing-made Delta Airlines flight out of Aruba and bound for Atlanta was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing after an engine blow out on take-off. The Pilot of the Boeing 737 900 circled the Caribbean island four times before coming back into land following the 'mechanical issue'. A spokesperson for the airline told DailyMail.com that there were 168 passengers on board in addition to four flight attendants and two pilots. The passengers were forced to spend an extra night in Aruba before being flown out on Wednesday. Delta flight DL581 from Aruba to Atlanta experienced a...

Public testimony Wednesday by two impeachment witnesses sharply contradicted President Biden’s denials of knowledge of his son’s business dealings. The first public hearing in the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden wrapped on Wednesday after two former business partners of Hunter Biden testified extensively about their experiences, primarily reiterating claims made in their closed door interviews that the Biden family patriarch was involved in various ways in his son’s dealings with foreign clients. This allegations are in stark contrast to repeated assertions by President Biden and his White House team to the contrary. “First of all, I have...

Earlier today, we told you about how Mike Sington, a former executive at NBC/Universal, wrote on Twitter/X that ‘Barron Trump turns 18 today. He’s fair game now.’ He deleted the post, but we at Twitchy are pretty good about capturing screenshots when a post is likely to be deleted, and this time was no exception: Later, he got Newsweek to run a rapid response for him: I address the Barron Trump “fair game” post. https://t.co/kYeOCau5di — Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 20, 2024 The headline is not quite a ‘Republicans pounce' variant, but it’s got the vibe: ‘Barron Trump 'Fair Game'...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (3/21/24)[Prayer]The Names and Titles of God (Prince of Peace)Isaiah 9:66 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.The King James Version__________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

I entered duty with the U.S. Border Patrol in 1995, back when there were only 5,000 people (Agents and support personnel) in all of the USBP. I was the Director of the Aircraft Maintenance Facility in Del Rio, Texas in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector My guys maintained Piper Super Cubs and Aerospatiale A-Star AS-350 helicopters for our cadre of pilots. Back then, the Chief Pilot and I collected daily Air Operations performance data. The pilots annotated (after flight) on their flight logs how many aerial-assisted apprehensions (APPs) they performed as well as the number of GOT AWAYs pilots...

The executive director of an airport in Arkansas is fighting for his life after reportedly exchanging gunfire with federal agents who showed up at his residence to serve a search warrant earlier this week. At around 6 a.m. on Tuesday, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives arrived to serve a search warrant at a residence in Little Rock owned by Bryan Malinowski, the 53-year-old executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport. Suddenly, during an execution of the warrant, shots rang out, leaving two wounded, including Malinowski. Neighbor Shea De Bruyn recalled hearing five...

Russia fired 31 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv before dawn Thursday in the first attack on the Ukrainian capital in 44 days, officials said. Air defenses shot down all the incoming missiles, though 13 people including a child were injured by falling wreckage, they said. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched two ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles against the capital. Kyiv has better air defenses than most regions of the large country. The missile interception rate is frequently high, rendering Russian attacks on the capital significantly less successful than during the early days of the war. Even so,...

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, virtually addressed Republican senators in Washington on Wednesday, days after the chamber’s majority leader, the Democrat Chuck Schumer, called him an impediment to peace in an unsparing floor speech. The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, told reporters, shortly after leaving the Senate Republicans’ policy lunch, that Netanyahu joined the gathering via video link, delivered a presentation, and answered questions.

President Joe Biden is doling out another $6 billion in student debt forgiveness. His administration announced Thursday another 77,700 borrowers will have their remaining student debt balances forgiven under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Borrowers who have been making loan payments and working in public service for at least 10 years will begin receiving emails next week congratulating them on having their debt forgiven and thanking them for their service. They aren’t the only borrowers who will be hearing from the president soon though. Starting next week, 380,000 public service workers who are two years or fewer away from...

When veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it’s OK to win an election by cheating. The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give President Joe Biden an 82% approval rating, compared to his 40% average from the rest of Americans. Rasmussen asked these liberal voters: “Suppose that your favorite candidate loses a close election. However, people on the campaign know that they can win by cheating without being...

Democratic strategist James Carville said Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that President Joe Biden should let surrogates do the “wetwork” against former President Donald Trump. Using the euphemism for spilling blood during murder, Carville said, “Not so much him I mean to be candid Anderson, President Biden is not the best attack politician. I’ve ever seen in my life and hopefully leave it at that. But they are a lot of people to do what I call a quote, the wetwork, unquote.”

For good reason, much attention was devoted to the Supreme Court's oral arguments on Monday, over government pressure on social media companies to suppress speech that officialdom doesn't like. The same day, though, justices heard arguments in another important case involving free speech principles violated when New York officials leaned on financial institutions to deny services to the National Rifle Association. Importantly, both cases involved "jawboning," the use by government of threats to improperly coerce compliance. When Communication Becomes CoercionAs Reason's Jacob Sullum ably summarizes, arguments in Murthy v. Missouri involve "dueling interpretations of the Biden administration's interactions with social...

Saudi Arabia is all set to trade 42 Lockheed C-130 Hercules, manufactured in the US, for 33 Brazilian Embraer C-390 Millennium. The deal not only includes these aircraft but also encompasses training, production facilities within the country, maintenance, repair, and overhaul services.