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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Joe Biden proposed reforms to the Supreme Court are important because “our courts should not be for sale.” Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “Let’s get your reaction to what you heard from President Biden this morning, calling for a pretty sweeping overhaul of the Supreme Court.” Booker said, “I don’t see it as so sweeping. It’s actually very pragmatic, reforms to the court that most Americans and both sides of the aisle actually agree with. Think about this for a second. Number one, the highest court in the land...

Just days after listlessly endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, former first lady Michelle Obama recruited a motley crew of leftist celebrities to push Americans to register to vote. The cringeworthy ad, which was released Sunday, shows Obama pretending to call several friends, including: Retired soccer player Megan Rapinoe. Actress Kerry Washington. NBA stars Steph Curry and Chris Paul. TV producer Shonda Rhimes. Country music singer Reyna Roberts. “Nonbinary” social media personality Bretman Rock.

When last we left Hunter Biden and his legal team, they were busy being scorched by U.S. District Court Judge Mark Scarsi in the California criminal tax case pending against Biden (and currently set to go to trial in September). As I noted in our reporting on the matter: But there's an even bigger problem with the motion than that: Biden's lawyers contended in the motion that Weiss only brought charges against Biden after he was appointed as Special Counsel. Which, as Scarsi very pointedly notes in his order, is false (emphasis mine): "The Court orders Mr. Biden’s counsel to...

If you are a Democrat bureaucrat who spends his time at the FBI, not doing his job of going after criminals, but instead violating the Hatch Act while campaigning for Hillary and seeking to destroy Trump, and you get caught, you won’t be punished. Nope — the taxpayers will be screwed again by paying your high pension and giving you a kickback of $1.2 million. Justice Dept. settles with ex-FBI officials Strzok, Page over leak of anti-Trump texts The Justice Department has agreed to settle claims by former senior FBI special agent Peter P. Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page,...

Every historical drama bears an awesome responsibility to its real-life subjects, but few films bore a weightier burden than Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 masterpiece, Downfall. While it was certainly not the first film to portray Adolf Hitler, it does have the distinction of being the first major German film to tackle the topic, with the legendary Bruno Ganz in the lead role. Hirschbiegel and screenwriter Bernd Eichinger recognized the awesome responsibility that was before them, along with the potential controversy they might face for telling the story of the last days of World War II. The national taboos associated with Hitler...

A crash is coming. We find ourselves deep into the irrational-exuberance phase of Kamala Harris’s surprise ascension to her role as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. All of five full days have elapsed since Joe Biden was dragged unwillingly to the conclusion most Americans came to well over a year ago. Already, Harris’s political star is said by her allies to have eclipsed even Barack Obama’s. “I covered the Clinton campaign, the Women’s March, the anti-Trump resistance, the wave of women in the 2018 midterms,” TIME Magazine correspondent Charlotte Alter asserted, “and the momentum for Harris over the last five days...

* Internet and phone services in six regions of France were disrupted after fiber optic cables were cut overnight. * It is the second attack on French infrastructure while the country hosts the Olympics. * On Friday, several arson attacks damaged railway lines. A man was arrested on Sunday, AFP reported. French phone and internet services were targeted on Sunday night, in the second incident to affect French infrastructure while the nation hosts the Olympics. Multiple telecommunications operators were experiencing disruption after fiber optic cables were "sabotaged" across six regions of France, French police told Agence France-Presse. The regions of...

Exit polls (Edison Research, WSJ): Opposition leader González: 65% Socialist dictator Maduro: 31% Results from the Election Council: Socialist dictator Maduro: 51.2% Opposition leader González: 44.2% No leader or media organization should legitimize this fake election in any way. This was stolen from the people. Never forget.

According to a Reuters report, a structure thought to have been a medieval palace has been uncovered in the square outside the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, which serves as the seat of the pope as the bishop of Rome. The site includes walls thought to have surrounded the Patriarchio, a monumental basilica built after Emperor Constantine's declaration of tolerance for the Christian religion within the Roman Empire in A.D. 313. The structure was expanded between the ninth and thirteenth centuries to house the church's popes, who moved to Avignon, France, in the early fourteenth century. The papal court returned...

The CIA has actually taken time to issue a denial that would be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was part of an infamous agency mind control program.In the wake of a lack of information on Crooks’ background, and an empty social media footprint, along with a plethora of unanswered questions regarding his whereabouts and activities on the day of the shooting, speculation is now rife that he was some sort of patsy to the forces that want Trump out of the picture.Many have suggested that Crooks may have been ‘MKUltra‘d’, referring to a mind control experiment conducted by the CIA...

Michigan has outlawed the so-called gay and trans panic defense, which allows criminal defense attorneys to use a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity as a defense argument. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, signed House Bill 4718 into law Tuesday. The legislation states that an individual’s “actual or perceived sex, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation” is not admissible in a criminal trial to “demonstrate reasonable provocation,” “show that an act was committed in a heat of passion” or “support a defense of reduced mental capacity.”

At least eight people have suffered stab injuries at a children's dance and yoga workshop in Southport A 17-year-old male from the nearby village of Banks has been arrested Police say the incident is not being treated as terror-related, and they are not looking for anyone else The injured were taken to three hospitals, including the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool The children's hospital declared a major incident, saying parents should only bring patients if it is urgent

Damaging stories have plagued two candidates at the top of Kamala Harris's running mate search list. On Sunday, we reported that a Democrat running for statewide office in Pennsylvania accused Gov. Josh Shapiro, one of the frontrunners, of covering up sexual harassment in his office. Harris wasn't likely to choose Shapiro anyway. Despite hailing from Pennsylvania, a must-win state for Harris, his Jewish heritage and pro-Israel positions likely would hurt the ticket among the antisemitic and anti-Zionist wing of the party.But now the dirt is coming out about another top contender, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). It turns out that he...

New bystander footage of Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA Sniper’s Nest Video Released By Dave Stewart Of Butler, PA -His Cell Phone Was Confiscated By FBI Initially & Recently Returned Allowing The Release Of This Video

A Texas man has been arrested and charged with attempted capital murder after assaulting a pregnant woman and causing the death of her preborn child. According to a Facebook post from the Karnes County Sheriff’s Department, Carlos M. Carrasco was found to have caused the death of a fetus/person under 10 years of age after he assaulted a woman, who was his significant other, during an altercation on May 20. The Sheriff’s Department reports that after an investigation, it was determined “Carrasco intentionally assaulted the mother with the intent to kill the fetus.” The preborn child died several days after...

[Catholic Caucus] Italy: Pope Francis Is Alarmed by the “Shortage of Vocations”During the General Audience of May 22, 2024, at the greeting the novices of the women’s congregations of Italy in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope expressed his concern about religious vocations. “I see these novices and I ask myself: how many are Italian? Few!” “There is a shortage of vocations in Italy,” Francis worried. And he urged the faithful: “Let us think and pray for vocations to the consecrated life.”In fact, in 2021, the data from a report of the Italian Bishops’ Conference revealed that in only 10 years,...

NewsGuard, the self-appointed arbiter of media reliability, appears poised to peddle some more of its own misinformation—this time about George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley. Turley exposed NewsGuard’s apparent plans in a Saturday column for The Hill. In “The Most Chilling Words Today: I’m from NewsGuard and I Am Here to Rate You,” the chaired professor of law detailed a recent communication he received from the ratings giant. Roughly a week after he had penned an earlier column for The Hill in which he criticized NewsGuard as infected with a “pro-Democrat and left-wing bias,” the for-profit organization “came...

The City Council of Richmond, Virginia, unanimously approved a controversial sale this week to Planned Parenthood: an acre of city-owned land sold to the corporation for about the price of a McDonald’s breakfast: $10. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the abortion giant plans to build a 10,000 square-foot, $10 million dollar facility on the property — its third facility in the city. In April, one of the two existing Richmond Planned Parenthood facilities (on North Hamilton) called 911 for an abortion client suffering a possible uterine perforation, requesting an ambulance with no lights or sirens. According to a report about...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro's use of military force to maintain political power after an election in which the opposition seemed to have won by more than 30 percentage points, Americans across the United States have expressed their extreme relief that socialists rigging elections is a phenomenon confined to Venezuela. According to numerous US citizens, socialists cheating in elections and undercutting the will of the people is an "unimaginable abomination." Over 98% of Americans polled say they are "incredibly grateful" that it could never happen in America. "Oh, yeah, it's absolutely tragic what's going on down there,"...