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o understand the full political significance of J.D. Vance’s selection as Donald Trump’s running mate, one has to look back more than 30 years, to a time when Vance himself was just a boy. In the early 1990s—in the afterglow not of nuclear war, but of a miraculously peaceful end to the Cold War—conservative thinkers and statesmen started to think again. “Capitalism” no longer simply meant the opposite of Communism. American foreign policy could no longer be oriented toward containing or rolling back a Soviet Union that no longer existed. And the counterculture of sex, drugs, and alternative lifestyles—which had...

Nearly 400 public water systems in California have failed to meet recommended safety standards for drinking water, according to a report last month from the State Water Resources Control Board, but a new climate bond measure recently joined the state’s November ballot may help.Some 913,000 Californians, approximately 2 percent of the state’s population, are potentially affected by 385 failing public water systems according to the report.Fifty-six of those systems “serve disadvantaged communities and 67 percent serve majority communities of color.”The annual report identifies California drinking water challenges, part of an effort to improve access to safe drinking water started by...

Cardinal once jailed by communists criticizes Vatican’s ‘silence’ about China’s persecution of Catholics‘The Church’s silence in the face of human rights abuses by Communist China harms Catholic life in China,’ said Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison by communists for ‘religious activities’ when he was a young priest.PRAGUE (LifeSiteNews) — A Czech cardinal who was once imprisoned by communists publicly criticized the Vatican under Pope Francis for ignoring Communist China’s human rights abuses and persecution of Catholics.“Just as silence and complicity with the communist regime damaged my country and made it easier for the...

Okay, so we are supposed to believe that a 20-year-old kid “who was turned away from his high school rifle club for being a ‘comically bad’ shot” and that had no military training whatsoever was able to pull this off all by himself? We are being told that it was “a mistake” that the ideal location for a sniper to be located was left unguarded, and somehow Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to identify this oversight and position himself accordingly. Just 150 yards away from where Donald Trump would be speaking, Crooks was able to climb on to a roof...

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Has anyone noticed that the Trump Assassin Thomas Crooks' front teeth were missing?

Search... Mayor of East Palestine Slams Biden at the RNC: Biden Administration Has Been a Train Wreck FuzzyChimp FuzzyChimp 9:15 PM on July 17, 2024 AP Photo/Matt Freed For a week in February 2023 the small town of East Palestine, Ohio drew the focus of the nation when a Norfolk Southern train derailed in the town, leaking hazardous chemicals and burning a toxic cloud for days. Any visible sign of action by Mayor Pete and Joe Biden also seemed to be derailed, resulting in widespread criticism of the administration's handling of the catastrophe. A year and a half later, the...

TARBORO, N.C. (WNCN) — “Damn. Only about an inch away from making America great again…” Those 11 words have put a 24-year veteran member of the Tarboro Police Department on administrative leave pending an internal investigation. A screenshot of the post shared with CBS 17 shows the post made by Detective Sergeant Brandon Richardson. Tarboro Chief of Police Rick Mann confirmed on Monday that Richardson is now under investigation. On Monday, Chief Mann took to Facebook to address the post which has gained a wide range of reactions. “We take this matter very seriously, as it does not reflect the...

The General’s Son, the belle of the ball, Crooks had a day pass to do whatever he wanted.

President Biden on Sunday announced an FBI investigation into the Secret Service’s astounding failure to protect Donald Trump at the rally in Butler, Pa., promising the probe would be “thorough and swift.” But it’s folly to trust a federal law enforcement agency to obliterate interagency niceties by exposing all the foibles and flubs of fellow G-men. Instead, we’ll likely see a vintage DC investigation along these lines: Please tell us if you screwed up. Also, is there someone else we can blame? Congress is jumping on the Secret Service’s Butler debacle, asserting its own right to investigate the assassination bid....

A North Carolina city council was forced to hold an emergency meeting after one of its members made a shocking post about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Following the shooting at a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Henderson Councilwoman Geraldine Champion took to Facebook to express her doubts about the authenticity of the shooting. 'Now the taxpayers have to pay for a fake shooting he staged,' she wrote. In another post she called the shooting 'FAKE NEWS' because nobody ran in the immediate aftermath, according to screengrabs shared by the popular Libs of TikTok X account....

So how goes the Joe Biden Victory Tour these days?I originally had the new Associated Press/NORC poll results in the Headlines, but this deserves more commentary as we head into Night Three of the Republican National Convention. The poll results appear to be driving a new media narrative that has coalesced with a Democrat establishment mutiny, all intended for the same objective -- for Biden to surrender his nomination.First, the poll results show Biden's attempts to instill confidence in his competence failing miserably. In fact, majorities of all respondents want both Biden and Trump to withdraw, not terribly surprising given...

Former President Trump's White House advisor Peter Navarro walked onto the Republican National Convention main stage to a standing ovation, cheers, screams, and chants of "Fight!" In March, Navarro reported to federal prison in Miami to serve out his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, after he refused to testify in front of the January 6 Committee and break executive privilege. On Wednesday, Navarro was released just hours before and flew into Milwaukee a political prisoner who had sacrificed for his president and his country. You folks just wanna know if you can see my MAGA tattoo that I got...

Special counsel Jack Smith has formally appealed a federal judge’s dismissal of criminal charges against former President Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified information after finding the prosecutor was unlawfully appointed. Smith’s office filed a notice saying it would appeal Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling tossing out the 40 charges Trump faced to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Trump-appointed judge on Monday ruled that Attorney General Merrick Garland did not have the authority to appoint a federal officer with the “kind of prosecutorial power wielded by Special Counsel Smith.” “The bottom line is this: The...

He's steadfastly maintained his innocence, but Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was convicted by a federal jury in New York on Tuesday on 16 charges, including bribery, extortion, acting as a foreign agent, obstruction of justice, and several counts of conspiracy. Since his indictment, Menendez has batted away calls for him to resign his Senate seat, including by fellow Democratic Senator John Fetterman (PA). However, on Wednesday, Menendez reportedly told allies that would, indeed, resign.WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., has told allies that he will resign from Congress after being convicted on federal corruption charges, two people directly familiar with...

BUTLER, Pennsylvania — The drive between Butler, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio village of East Palestine is less than 42 miles long. In between are the villages and boroughs of Lyndora, Connoquenessing, and Evans City on the Pennsylvania side before you cross the state line directly into the village of East Palestine. It is a stretch of geography that includes bucolic rolling pastures, the gentle slopes of the Appalachian Mountains, traces of what once was powerful Steel Valley between New Castle, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio, and a mix of decay of what once was and a rebuilding of what may be....

When word circulated a couple months ago that Bookshop Santa Cruz would join a national effort to warn voters of impending dangers with a live reading of the Sinclair Lewis classic It Can’t Happen Here on July 19—one of 62 readings in 22 states that day organized by Writers for Democratic Action, just after the Republican National Convention—not everyone was electrified by the news.

Sean interview rules: Sean gets to say a whole paragraph, his guest gets to say one sentence. It's always about Sean. He always has a personal experience that's bigger and better than his guest. OOh, and did you know he is a martial arts expert??

Secret Service agents are trained, I believe, to be expert marksman and this kid was 20 years old. Could it have been the FBI that was trying to shoot Trump? Would that be why orders were not given to return fire? It just occurred to me, so I'm asking the question. While the kid was involved, could he have been more of a patsy?

Islamist Amna Nawaz covering RNC on her PBS news hour turns away / hides the clip of 'Swastika Palestine' protests on screen at RNC convention.