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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) opened the hearing into the Trump assassination attempt Tuesday by targeting “easy access to AR-15 rifles.” Durbin began his comments by talking about movies and books depicting “the international assassin with sophisticated technology, elaborate plans, [and] well honed skills, [who] sets out to kill a leading political figure in the United States. He quickly shifted gears to state that reality is quite different. In other words, the actual would-be alleged assassin was “a 20-year-old, introverted college student” who “outsmarted one of the most sophisticated American law enforcement agencies in history.”

The bodies of Matthew Szejnrok, a North Brunswick native, and his 41-year-old girlfriend, Kelly McCollom, were found in McCollom's blood-covered home in Palm Bay, FL on July 7, just after midnight, according to charging documents obtained by Daily Voice. McCollom's 16-year-old daughter, Julia Egler, initially told police it was an intruder who had killed the pair, however, later confessed to the murders saying she'd reached "a boiling point" with her mother who was not very accepting of her transition, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Based on surveillance footage from the home’s exterior cameras, police determined McCollom and Szejnrok...

The new leftist Labour Party government in Britain announced plans to slash winter energy benefits for around 10 million pensioners while preparing massive tax hikes to fund soaring spending driven largely by mass migration. ... Rachel Reeves — the head of the Treasury Department — claimed that she “did not want to have to do this” but asserted that the previous Conservative government of Rishi Sunak had left a £22 billion “black hole” in Britain’s finances... This deficit was exacerbated by illegal immigration and the asylum system, the overspend on which rose to £6.4 billion this year alone. The chancellor...

Jan Markell talks to Michele Bachmann for the hour. We have a shadow government run by dark forces who have pushed the button for global government. Do we have time to turn things around? The cover has been turned back.

The true scandal, however, is that if Turkey were to act against Israel, it likely would do so with American weaponry. Certainly, Turkey has its own domestic military industry, largely built on cribbed and stolen American technology, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan pushed through Congress a significant upgrade of Turkey’s airpower, essentially rewarding Erdogan’s NATO extortion. Sullivan thought the deal sophisticated and Kissinger-esque, but in actuality, it reflected his ignorance of Erdogan’s true motivations and his failure to understand that Kissinger’s legacy was a net-negative in the Eastern Mediterranean. Certainly, Israel’s F-35s trump...

A man in British Columbia stopped a grizzly attack by punching the bear in the face. Some Wyoming bear experts say that say might work, but isn’t something anybody should try unless it’s a last ditch option. ===================================================================== A man who stopped an attacking grizzly in British Columbia, Canada, by punching the bear the face was just as good as he was lucky, some experienced Wyoming outdoorsmen said. It’s possible to fight off a grizzly with a stout punch to the snout, but only as an absolute last-ditch tactic. “By that point, a lot of things will have gone wrong,”...

Investigators have still not discovered Crooks' motive, but FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate testified that they have newly found a social media account dating to 2019-2020 that appeared to be linked to the shooter. "There were over 700 comments posted from this account," Abbate said. "Some of these comments appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature."

The antisemites find a scapegoat. Who is responsible for the Paris Olympics’ anti-Christian orgy of wokeness? The most prosaic and immediately accurate answer is the French government, which has had years to prepare for these Olympics, and surely must have known in advance about all the drag queens, the mockery of the Last Supper, and the rest. The rot, however, goes much deeper, and the disgraceful display had scarcely ended in Paris when some circles began to point fingers at another culprit: the Jews. In so doing, they demonstrated yet again how respectable antisemitism has become since the Oct. 7,...

Get ready for the biggest snowball in history to hit the United States How would you like to be a Democrat and have to try to convince the American people that uber-DEI VP Kamala Harris is fit to be President of (what once was) the proudest, mightiest nation the world has ever known? That she is qualified to stand up against Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping? There is no doubt that Putin and Xi would think the American people will have gone completely mad if they elect that woman to the Presidency. They would make mincemeat out of her. This...

The U.S. Department of Energy has finalized a contract to purchase 4.65 million barrels of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the latest in a string of contracts aimed at refilling the SPR following a record release of 180 million barrels in 2022. Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) will supply 3.9 million barrels of the contract with Macquarie Commodities Trading US LLC supplying the rest. The DOE has since repurchased a total of 43.25 million barrels at an average price of around $77 a barrel, considerably lower than its sale price of $95 per barrel. Further, the DOE has worked...

Image Credit: Ocean Energy USA LLC ===================================================================================== The world’s first-ever grid-scale wave energy device has been installed at the US Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) on the windward coast of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. Funded by the US Department of Energy and developed by the Irish energy company Ocean Energy USA LLC, the massive energy harvesting device they call OE-35 is designed to capture the energy generated by ocean waves, sometimes referred to as “blue energy,” and convert it into usable electricity. The novel power generator will undergo several tests before being connected to the Hawaiian energy grid....

Harrison Tinsley and 4-year-old son Sawyer. (Courtesy of Harrison Tinsley) ==================================================================== Harrison Tinsley, now has full custody of his 4-year-old son, Sawyer, after a long legal battle prompted by his ex-girlfriend’s efforts to raise the boy nonbinary. “I know he’s a boy,” says Tinsley. “He wants to be a boy. He adamantly expresses that. If you say anything to the contrary, he gets very upset, and it’s just insane that people, any person, would push this ideology onto a child, as opposed to just [allowing them to] be happy with who they are.” After reaching a settlement granting Tinsley full...

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Vice President Kamala Harris received a $4 million fundraising boost Monday during a “White Dudes for Harris” fundraiser aimed at drumming up white male support ahead of the 2024 election. The online event drew more than 190,000 people and raised about $4 million for the Harris Victory Fund, according to organizers, although the YouTube live stream appeared to peak at approximately 64,000 viewers. The total haul included sales of baseball caps with the “White Dudes for Harris” moniker – the group’s distinctive logo. Hollywood actors Jeff Bridges, Sean Astin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bradley Whitford and Mark Hamil were among the “white...

MSNBC spoke to a focus group of black voters on the subject of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump; it didn't end well for them. The network asked voters if they knew a black man who was planning to vote for Trump, and every single hand went up.

Hawaii island police Chief Ben Moszkowicz said police didn’t have probable cause to arrest a new suspect in the 1991 Dana Ireland murder case before he killed himself last week. The suspect, 57-year-old Albert Lauro Jr., of Hawaiian Paradise Park, was recently confirmed to be the source of semen and other DNA retrieved from Ireland’s body and a T-shirt soaked with Ireland’s blood found near the crime scene. Ireland, a 23-year-old visitor from Virginia, was hit on her bicycle, raped, beaten and left on a fishing trail in Puna on Christmas Eve 1991. She died the next day at Hilo...

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that former President Donald Trump is so “terrifying” if he wins a second term the world would be at risk. Host Jen Psaki said, “There are some scary things that Trump is planning to do. T’m not suggesting you are trying to back away from that, but tell me a little bit more about what you mean by that.” Walz said, “Yeah, he is terrifying. He’s going to strip reproductive rights. He is going to weaponize the federal government. He is going to put the world at risk by pulling it...

NEW: Forecaster who has predicted almost every election since 1984, says Kamala Harris will likely win the election in November. Allan Lichtman, who correctly predicted Trump would win in 2016 & Biden in 2020, says his forecasts point to a Harris win. Lichtman uses '13 keys' to make his predictions: The "keys" are: – party mandate – contest – incumbency – third party – short-term economy – long-term economy – policy change, – social unrest – scandal – foreign/military failure – foreign/military success – incumbent charisma – challenger charisma As of now, Harris has 6 keys and Trump only has...

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