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Tim Scott..."If you didn't believe in miracles before Saturday... a lion roared..." He rocks at RNC... "America is not a racist country... We are the party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas..."

<p>That is the question that has dogged the 39-year-old senator from Ohio along his peculiar path to power, which began in 2016 with the publication of his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy and culminated this week when former President Donald Trump selected him as a running mate for the 2024 election.</p>

The Democrat party has three main factions vying for control. One of them is the Biden family. Another consists of down-ballot Democrat office-holders. The third one is composed of the intelligence agency heads, leaders of the dark state. There is also a fourth faction. ... The Biden family is a massive business that produces nothing except corrupt political influence. It is exemplified in Joe Biden’s laughing boast that he successfully coerced the Ukrainian government to fire its prosecutor, who was exposing the crimes of Hunter Biden. Hunter was a highly paid board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter...

Here’s a short interview I did with J.D. about his spiritual life, and the road to Catholicism: Why Catholicism? Why now? I became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true. I was raised Christian, but never had a super-strong attachment to any denomination, and was never baptized. When I became more interested in faith, I started out with a clean slate, and looked at the church that appealed most to me intellectually. But it’s too easy to intellectualize this. When I looked at the people who meant the most to me, they were Catholic. My uncle by marriage is a...

As the 2024 Republican National Convention kicked off in downtown Milwaukee, a group of anti-Trump and anti-GOP organizers began a showing conservatives how unwelcome they really are. The self-proclaimed anti-fascists, pro-Palestinians protestors, LBGTQ advocates, communists and more gathered blocks away from the RNC HQ at Fiserv Forum for the 'March on RNC 2024,' Monday afternoon. **SNIP** ‘I hate the Republican party, I’ll say that,’ Anthony, an attendee from the Milwaukee area, exclusively told DailyMail.com. When pressed on what he hates most, Anthony said how the party champions capitalism, adding, ‘Most of the people in the country aren't on your side,...

The View hosts Joy Behar and Ana Navarro reacted to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump by blaming white men, with Navarro asserting, “It wasn’t a drag queen, it wasn’t an immigrant.”Yes, really.Leftists have been reeling since the shocking incident, trying to find all manner of bizarre coping mechanisms.Some ludicrously suggested the entire event was stage managed by Trump himself, while others seized on the fact that the shooter was a registered Republican, despite him donating to left-wing causes and literally trying to assassinate Trump.Navarro, who has been suffering from a severe bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome for nearly a...

Joe Biden is toast, and with the media now sharply focused on his medical condition, the best scenario for Democrats is that the president resigns and turns the Oval Office keys over to Kamala Harris. The debate over Biden's future has changed its tone and turned more urgent amid new reports that a neurologist specializing in Parkinson's visited the White House eight times over an eight-month period. Reporters also testily sparred with White House officials last Monday over complaints that they're not being candid with the media about the president's health. The discussions have shifted from concerns over Biden's cognitive...

President Biden has dropped months of resistance and agreed to grant Secret Service protection to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the move at the regular White House press briefing Monday after Trump was grazed with a bullet at a Saturday rally. “In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr,” Mayorkas said. Hours earlier, former President Donald Trump demanded that Kennedy receive Secret Service protection, calling it the...

As the seller’s market persists throughout most of the United States, prices continue to rise and affordable housing appears to be slipping through the fingers of the average American.(Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock)The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported the highest ever national median sales price of $419,300 for a single-family home in May.“We’re actually forecasting that home prices will continue to grow based on the lack of inventory and demand for home ownership,” Jessica Lautz, NAR deputy chief economist and vice president of research, told The Epoch Times.A $400,000 price tag translates to a $40,000 down payment—with the...

Tucker Carlson praised former President Donald Trump’s Monday selection of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate, emphasizing that Americans should be heartened by the fact that D.C. swamp creatures are so strongly opposed to the Ohio senator. “I think every person who pays close attention has gotta be thrilled by that. And if you don’t know much about J.D. Vance, I’m not even gonna make a case for J.D. Vance,” the former Fox News anchor said during the Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “I’m gonna tell you what I just...

Teamsters President Sean O'Brien is set to speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday night, but he is not yet scheduled to speak at the Democrat convention in August.For years, O'Brien has aligned with the Democrat Party, as labor unions tend to support Democrat candidates and policies. But it sounds like the Teamsters president O'Brien is a fan of former President Trump's vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance. O'Brien told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto:J.D. Vance, in the short time that we have worked together, has been great on Teamster issues. He co-sponsored an airline manufacturing bill that...

As more investigative details of the attempted Trump assassination surface, some alarming information is surfacing. [PENNSYLANIA] – BUTLER, Pa. — Channel 11 news uncovered dramatic new details Monday in the moments leading up to the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. According to multiple law enforcement sources, Thomas Crooks was spotted by law enforcement on a roof nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired that injured Trump, killed a former fire chief, and injured two others in the crowd. Channel 11′s Nicole Ford confirmed that Beaver County’s ESU team had eight members at the rally, including snipers and spotters....

The White House, Congress, and FBI immediately announced investigations into how a 20-year-old who couldn’t make his high school gun team nearly killed the former and potentially future leader of the free world Saturday. In a city as corrupt as Washington, D.C., “investigation” is politico-speak for “cover-up.” That goes double for Merrick Garland or Chris Wray, the heads of the DOJ and FBI, respectively. Any investigation into this assassination attempt from which they do not recuse themselves is irrevocably poisoned. In fact, any involvement even from their headquarters and D.C. offices is a sure sign the investigations are cover-ups. It’s...

Biden-Harris 2024 Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon released the statement soon after Trump announced his choice. The statement began, “Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.” ..... Snip..... Additionally, they complained that Vance has said he would not have certified the election

SARVER, Pa. — The heartbroken widow of Corey Comperatore, the hero firefighter shot dead by a sniper at a Trump rally, wanted nothing to do with President Biden when he called after the tragedy, she told The Post. “I didn’t talk to Biden,” Helen Comperatore said from her Pennsylvania home on Monday. “I didn’t want to talk to him. My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.” Corey Comperatore, a beloved volunteer firefighter and married father of two, was at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa. on Saturday with his family when...

A day after a lone shooter attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, Jack Black sang “Happy Birthday” to his bandmate, Kyle Gass, at the duo’s concert in Australia. The two make up the band Tenacious D.Black told Gass to “make a wish,” and Gass said, “Don’t miss Trump next time.”

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President Joe Biden will propose on Tuesday a nationwide cap on rent hikes of 5% per year, according to The Washington Post, which cites “three people familiar with the matter.” The proposal will rescind unspecified tax breaks to landlords who raise rents by more than 5%, although it would only apply to landlords who own more than 50 rental units. This would cover roughly half of all rental units in the country, according to Post sources. It would not apply to units that haven’t been built yet so as to not discourage construction of new housing, which the Biden administration...

Catacora announced Monday the discovery of the largest natural gas deposit in the country since 2005. Arce tweeted in Spanish that the country had spent “nearly” $50 million to find “a mega [natural gas] field in the north of La Paz, the third best producing field in the entire country.” The president added that the well contained 1.7 trillion cubic feet “of potential reserves.” SNIP “[W]ith this discovery La Paz enters a totally different dimension, because we will have royalties as a producing department,” he wrote. The new natural gas field will contribute to the country’s existing gas reserves, which...

The Hungarian publication Demokrata.net reports that they wanted to kill Prime Minister Orban before flying to Moscow on July 5. His car was supposed to be blown up on the way to the airport. Journalists publish a conversation intercepted by Hungarian intelligence services. In it, two people speaking Ukrainian discuss the alleged bombing. The likely perpetrator is a Ukrainian refugee from Ternopil, who has been living in Hungary for the last two years.