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(Mar. 29, 2024) — The characterization of Brandon as “the slug at 1600” does not adequately describe him. A potential better term might be the “quisling slug at 1600.” Accordingly, a new, abbreviated moniker for the current occupant of the Oval Office is suggested: “the q-slug,” pronounced: “cue-slug.” The term “quisling” derives from the surname of one Vidkun Quisling, a traitor who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime in Norway during World War II. Webster’s defines the term thusly: “One who betrays a trust or an allegiance.” ... continue reading at: https://www.thepostemail.com/2024/03/29/the-quisling-at-1600/

Amid warnings about “Christian nationalism,” the number of voters who view the U.S. government as a threat to religious liberty has sharply increased. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 56% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the federal government today is a threat to Americans' religious rights, more than double the 26% who consider the government a protector of religious rights. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. In 2017, 39% viewed the federal government as a protector of religious rights and 38% saw it as a threat.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has had a busy month, signing 38 bills into law in March. Ranging from giant wine bottles to homeless encampment bans to ending squatting in Florida, all the signed laws represent a multitude of issues residents have been bringing to light.

It was a triumphant day for Patti Peeples, but one thing didn’t sit right with her. For more than a year, the 61-year-old Florida landlord fought to tighten the state’s law against squatting, a crime she saw up close when two women faked a rental agreement and occupied one of her Jacksonville properties. She’d done interview after interview, worked closely with her local legislators, and testified in Tallahassee. The result, a tough new law that would let sheriffs evict squatters without entering a lengthy legal process, passed with unanimous bipartisan support. On Wednesday, invited by her Republican state representative, Peeples...

The media coverage of polls that show President Biden lagging behind former President Trump appears to be getting under the president’s skin. While campaigning around the country, Biden has often complained to rooms full of donors about the coverage of polls, including how often the press focuses on only on low survey numbers while ignoring more favorable ones. The White House and the Biden campaign maintain that it’s too far out from Election Day to rely on polls, but the president has clearly shown he’s annoyed with how the press has handled surveys of voters.

On Friday, Catherine, Princess of Wales, published a video explaining that post-operative tests revealed she has cancer and she is undergoing “preventative chemotherapy.” There may be another aspect to Kate’s story which isn’t being publicised and which Dr. Vernon Coleman discusses in the article below.He also discusses some facts about chemotherapy that you won’t read in corporate media.By Dr. Vernon ColemanSadly, Princess Kate has got cancer. We wish her a speedy and complete recovery. Just why they needed to keep the truth secret for so long is a mystery – though there may be an explanation which I’ll discuss in...

Russia has used a new type of “glide bomb” to strike civilian targets in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine believes.The bomb, a heavy “dumb” munition adapted to behave like a cruise missile, killed at least one and injured 19 as it hit apartment blocks in the country’s second largest city. It is the latest evidence of Russia’s changing tactical approach.“This is something between a guided aerial bomb which they [the Russians] have used recently, and a missile. It’s a flying bomb so to say,” Volodymyr Tymoshko, the regional police chief, said after surveying the damage.Russia has been dropping Soviet-era bombs...

“Huge Problem”: The Pentagon’s Rapid Wartime Response Cargo Ships Are Trapped in Baltimore After Bridge CollapseBy Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge • Mar. 29, 2024(ZeroHedge)—Two high-speed military cargo ships are stuck in the Port of Baltimore following Tuesday morning’s collapse of the 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge. The major US East Coast port has been paralyzed for several days as the bridge collapse prevents inbound and outbound vessel traffic along the harbor’s channel. Using the automatic identification system, or AIS, data that tracks commercial vessels, three bulk carriers, two general cargo ships, one vehicle carrier, one tanker, and four Ready Reserve...

Mayor Eric Adams took aim at a woke criminal defense lawyer who downplayed the murder of Police Officer Jonathan Diller as a “rare occurrence” — and instead focused on cops who have “killed” citizens. The mayor fired back while talking to anti-cop, “abolitionist thinker” Olayemi Olurin on iHeartMedia’s “The Breakfast Club” Friday morning — after she tried to rip Adams for not caring enough about alleged police brutality. Adams quickly tried to shut her down. “I’m not going to dismiss the loss of a life of an innocent person that wears a uniform,” he said. The confrontation on the show...

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has issued a stark warning about America’s escalating debt, which currently stands at a staggering $34 trillion and continues to grow. Fink cautioned that the nation’s trajectory could lead to a crisis reminiscent of Japan’s lost decade. He emphasized that Washington should not assume that investors will indefinitely fund the country’s fiscal deficit. In his annual letter to investors, Fink highlighted the recent three-percentage-point increase in U.S. Treasury yields to 4%, which reflects longer-term inflation expectations and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes. He described this development as highly...

Democrats run the state of Washington with almost no Republican opposition, and, apparently, there are so many unreported hate crimes that lawmakers have set up a snitch line. We don’t have anywhere near these problems where I live — you know, in MAGALand — but wherever Democrats run things, you get hate, racism, and bigotry, on top of crime, poverty, drug addiction, and homelessness.

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali did not mince words while answering a BBC reporter who asked him about the country's carbon emissions as it plans to extract oil and gas from its coast. In a viral video of the heated exchange, Ali stops the BBC reporter and questions whether he had the "right to lecture on climate change" and if he was in the "pockets of those who destroy the environment through the industrial revolution and are now lecturing us".

In an appalling violation of the code of ethics, US District Judge Reggie Walton went on CNN to speak publicly about pending legal matters. Judge Walton, a Bush appointee, spoke with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Thursday evening about threats he has received after he called Trump a “charlatan” and rendered excessive punishment to J6 defendants. “I’ve had more threats than what used to be the case,” the judge said referring to a January 6 case he oversaw. Even Kaitlan Collins conceded that it is “rare that we get to hear from a sitting federal judge." “I’m wondering, what made you speak...

'The Judge has to recuse himself immediately, and right the wrong committed by not doing so last year...'

Former President Donald Trump’s visit to the family of slain New York City police officer Jonathan Diller was an important moment for the suffering family the officer left behind, one local official said.

The Italian airforce said on Friday it intercepted unidentified aircraft flying over international waters in the Baltic Sea, and two defence sources in Rome identified them as Russian planes. The two interceptions were carried out on Thursday and Friday morning by Italian Eurofighter jets based in the Polish base of Malbork as part of a NATO air policing mission, a statement said. After completing their activity, the Italian jets returned to the Polish base, the airforce added, without giving further details.

Many Americans realize that our higher-education system is decaying, its standards in decline while costs continue to rise. Is this situation like a tooth with a cavity that can readily be fixed? Or is the decay so deep that we need something far more serious, such as a root canal? David Barnhizer’s new book, Conformity Colleges, strongly suggests that we must have the latter. His subtitle explains that we suffer from “the destruction of intellectual creativity and dissent.” That’s an accurate diagnosis. An emeritus professor of law, Barnhizer has written a no-holds-barred exposé of the tragic fall of our institutions...

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The family of an elderly man beaten to death with a traffic cone have expressed outrage after charges against one of the accused teens were dropped. James Lambert Jr., 73, was killed after being fatally struck with the object as he walked down a Philadelphia road in 2022. Gamara Mosley and Richard Jones, both then aged 14, were among the gang of seven teens involved and were initially charged with his murder. However, charges against Jones have been dropped, after his lawyer successfully argued there is not enough evidence to prove his blow contributed to Lambert's death. 'I think it's...