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The shadow government loves dumb and easily controlled ‘leaders.’ I know the country’s going to hell in a handbasket. Inflation is killing working-class families. Illegal immigrants are raping and murdering little girls. “Woke” corporations are pushing “transgender” madness on young children. Public schools are telling students that they will not survive the “climate apocalypse.” Biden and the build back better buffoons in control of Western governments are doing everything they can to drag us into WWIII. Still, if you are a Trump supporter who believes the status quo must go, Thursday’s presidential debate was awfully fun. Perhaps you couldn’t bring...

Veteran Tennessee senators seeking reelection this fall are running into challengers who question their conservative credentials, calling them soft on red-meat Republican issues such as abortion and transgender care. The Republican-controlled state Senate banned abortion except in cases when a mother is on the brink of death, outlawed gender-affirming care for trans youths and largely backed private-school vouchers this year as part of Gov. Bill Lee's plan to use state funds to allow students to enroll in private schools. Yet incumbents are facing opponents who contend they haven't gone far enough, creating a situation in which Republican primary voters will...

The government-funded research project's mysterious removal of Azov’s profile was followed by a State Department decision to allow the controversial right-wing unit to receive U.S. military aid Stanford University’s Mapping Militants Project (MMP), a U.S. Government-funded initiative that conducts research on “violent militant or extremist organizations,” quietly removed their profile on the Azov Battalion early last month. The Azov Battalion (now known as the 12th Special Purpose Brigade “Azov”) is a Ukrainian National Guard unit infamous for its use of neo-Nazi insignia, recruitment of far-right foreign fighters, and alleged war crimes. The Stanford MMP’s mysterious removal of its Azov profile...

• Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24 • Psa 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13 • 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15 • Mk 5:21-43 In his satirical work, The Devil’s Dictionary, the nineteenth-century journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce—no friend of religion—wrote these dark lines in the entry for the word, “Dead”: Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the man race run Through to the end; the golden goal Attained—and found to be a hole! Macabre, yes. But also fairly honest, coming from a man once described as an “asthmatic, superstitious, bilious atheist”. Bierce is to be commended, to...

“So this Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius [even] in the reign of Cyrus the Persian” (Daniel 6:28). True success is more a matter of character than of circumstances. By anyone’s standards Daniel was a remarkably successful man. After entering Babylon as one of King Nebuchadnezzar’s young Hebrew hostages, he quickly distinguished himself as a person of unusual character, wisdom, and devotion to his God. Within a few years Nebuchadnezzar had made him ruler over the province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men. Many years later Nebuchadnezzar’s son, Belshazzar, promoted him to third ruler...

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Fundamentally transforming a country ain’t easy. Just ask Barry O., who’s been running the show for twelve consecutive years now, yet has still not fully succeeded in turning America into a third world s-hole. Obama’s made some strides in taking down the country he and his wife so fervently despise, but there’s still more work to be done. How does Barry do it, you ask? That’s simple. As one of his lackeys, Jonathan Gruber (no relation to Hans), put it while discussing the passage of Obamacare, Barry relies on “the stupidity of the American voter.” And based on much of...

NO ONE HAD TO SAY A WORD. CNN’s carefully considered FRAMING & LIGHTING design effectively conveyed the intended perceptions of fragility vs. dominance in visual composition. Biden was filmed in profile, looking pale as a ghost. Trump was filmed straight on, not looking his usual shade of tangerine, but more like marmalade. Biden is a man of honor, integrity, resilience, and resolve. A Trump is a Trump is a Trump.

President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race. But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office. In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump. Yes, Biden had a horrible night. He’s 81 and not as sharp as he used to be. But Biden...

In the famous psychological drama, Gaslight, it took a Scotland Yard detective to prove the heroine had been driven half-mad by a gaslighting husband. All it took us to see how we had been deceived was a CNN debate. Who was the villain? How much was the American public the victim of gaslighting designed to dispel the notion that President Biden was mentally and physically unfit to hold the office of president? Let me count the ways. The Villains Jeremy Carl is on target about some of the villains. He says the party apparatchiks, and more specifically the Biden apparatchiks,...

A small, quaint California town has been torn apart by an internal war that has culminated in 'terrorism,' with residents allegedly deliberately swerving trucks toward each other, spraying enemies with weed killer - and now a bomb squad has been called in. The battle erupted in the idyllic, historic town called Port Costa, which has a population of 251 seemingly very angry people. The bitter townsfolk drew lines in the sand in classic 'not in my backyard' (NIMBY) fashion after a non-profit organization called the Field Semester expressed their intention to create an environmental school for high schoolers in the...

Vice President Kamala Harris has never been closer to the presidency after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance sent Democratic elites into a tailspin about their chances in the 2024 election. As the vice president of the United States, Harris is the natural successor of the presidency if Biden steps down. But for years, Democrats have criticized Harris’ performance and feel she should not take over for Biden before the election. One well-connected Democrat told DailyMail.com after the debate that the choice was between an ‘obviously broken Biden’ or Harris, describing the vice president as ‘extremely disliked’ and a ‘terrible’ politician....

@Nigel_Farage LIVE STREAM At 12pm (7am ET) we will hear from Reform’s new star @ZiaYus alongside Richard Tice and Ann Widdecombe. I will also be making the biggest speech of my political career. Don’t miss the stream on X and all of our regular channels.

President Joe Biden's campaign on Saturday night, in a fundraising appeal to supporters, said the president dropping out would only "lead to weeks of chaos" and leave the eventual replacement weakened ahead of a November faceoff with former President Donald Trump. "The bedwetting brigade is calling for Joe Biden to 'drop out.' That is the best possible way for Donald Trump to win and us to lose," Biden deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty argued in the email to supporters. "First of all: Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee, period. End of story. Voters voted. He won overwhelmingly,"...

Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess: Today would have been Ch. Insp. Kim Dukarker's 23rd birthday. She won't be celebrating her birthday today, as she was murdered by Hamas on October 7th. Kim refused to leave her injured friends in the bomb shelter, and there they were mercilessly killed. Remember her name.

A new national divide is emerging among states over whether to track sales by gun stores Should gun store sales get special credit card tracking? States split on mandating or prohibiting it. Beginning Monday, a California law will require credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard to provide banks with special retail codes that can be assigned to gun stores in order to track their sales. But new laws will do the exact opposite in Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee and Wyoming by banning the use of specific gun shop codes. The conflicting laws highlight what has quietly emerged as one of...

When management consulting firm McKinsey declared in 2015 that it had found a link between profits and executive racial and gender diversity, it was a breakthrough. The research was used by investors, lobbyists and regulators to push for more women and minority groups on boards, and to justify investing in companies that appointed them. Unfortunately, the research doesn’t show what everyone thought it showed. ... Since 2015, the approach has been tested in the fire of the marketplace and failed. Academics have tried to repeat McKinsey’s findings and failed, concluding that there is in fact no link between profitability and...

uestions have been raised as to whether Gavin Newsom should replace President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic nominee, but polls suggest the California governor would still lose to Donald Trump. Fears over Biden's reelection hopes increased following the president's performance during the CNN debate on Thursday. During the debate, Biden, who has faced concerns about his age as he seeks a second term, gave a number of incoherent and confusing responses to questions while also trailing off and not completing his sentences. Biden's voice also appeared hoarse, which his campaign team said was due to a cold. The performance...

Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas: IDF soldiers found (yet another) copy of Mein Kampf in a Gaza home. The terrorists don't see the irony in idolizing Hitler for the Holocaust while denying the Holocaust ever took place. June 22, 2024

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family at Camp David on Sunday, following a nationally televised debate Thursday that left many fellow Democrats worried about his ability to beat former President Donald Trump in November, according to five people familiar with the matter. [Snip] So far, the party’s top leaders have offered public support for Biden, including in tweets posted by former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Senior congressional Democrats, including Reps. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Nancy Pelosi of California, have privately...