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Acting Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe claimed agents couldn’t fly a drone due to connectivity issues. However, former President Donald Trump’s shooter had no problem doing it before the rally.

Significantly more women chose to end pregnancies themselves — using unsupervised and potentially dangerous at-home methods — in the year following the Supreme Court’s abolition of federal protections for abortion, a new study has found. An estimated 3.4 percent of all women of reproductive age reported having tried some form of at-home abortion in the year following the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, according to findings published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open. That’s up from 2.4 percent of all women the year before — a trend that researchers projected...

The mainstream media has run amuck with Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race after Joe Biden stepped out. Despite all that the left is doing its best to push Harris on the American people, President Trump’s campaign is outspending hers, and it shows. [cut] He has been reportedly outspending Harris and her team 25-to-1 on television and radio ads. According to Breitbart, President Trump’s campaign and his allies are planning to spend $68 million between now and the end of August on advertising, whereas Harris is only spending $2.6 million. Breitbart reported that a Democrat insider is concerned about...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro likely lost the recent elections in his country because no one believes the official result. He was declared the winner after reports of the usual shenanigans, which included police forces barring people from entering polling locations. The State Department voiced its concern about the legitimacy of the results because they were fugazi. The sun is down and there’s an all-out battle on the streets of Caracas right now#VenezuelaLibre 🇻🇪 pic.twitter.com/I7TnSvlCH3— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024Full-scale battle taking place on the streets of Caracas right now!#VenezuelaLibre 🇻🇪Via @EmmaRincon pic.twitter.com/xNTbKL8PkU— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024What’s left...

Minnesota's Democrat Governor Tim Walz — one of the contenders reported to be on the short list under consideration for the VP slot with presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris — said this week that socialism is merely "neighborliness" by another name. "Don't ever shy away from our progressive values," Walz admonished the "White Dudes for Harris" call on Monday evening. "One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness," the radical Democrat asserted. "Just do the damn work." Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a top VP contender for Kamala Harris, says socialism is actually just "neighborliness." pic.twitter.com/xISVQSxIUv— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) July 30, 2024Walz...

A letter penned in November 2019 by the father of a Kamala Harris intern is making the rounds again. This California Democrat reported how Kamala Harris throws “f-bombs” around all day and berates her staff. Peter Schweitzer retweeted this report. Interns in Kamala Harris’ office instructed to not “look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members,” according to the father of one, who is a political liberal and was a supporter. https://t.co/qQkcxWoid7 — Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) July 29, 2024 The Union.com reported: Gregory had an eye-opening experience in Kamala Harris’ office that none...

A substantial share of Americans say they plan to move out of their state or even the country if the presidential candidate they oppose wins the election, according to a new poll.A survey released last week by StorageUnits.com sampled the opinions of 1,968 Americans who plan to support either former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. The poll was conducted on July 22, the day after President Joe Biden ended his bid for the Democrat nomination for president and endorsed Harris. Overall, 15% of respondents said they planned to leave their state and/or...

The people have spoken, and last week former President Barack Obama called Vice President Kamala Harris to tell her. His endorsement of her run for the presidency was captured in a short video documenting the candidate’s reaction. “Although you called for an open process,” said Obama, “and you know, Democrats have, have put in place an open process, it appears that people feel very strongly that you need to be our nominee.” But without a primary, without a popular referendum, without even the open convention that Obama was rumored to favor, how did the people make their will known, and...

It used to be Russia, Russia, Russia. When George Bush was running, he had to pick Cheney to get gravitas. It has always been that Republicans are racists, sexists, transphobes, and xenophobes. Anyone who disagreed with the radical green agenda is falsely called a climate denier. Republicans who challenge elections where Democrats ignored election laws in several states are called election deniers. People who dared disagree with Dr. Fauci were called anti-vaxxers and anti-science. Now the new talking points have been distributed. They just call us weird. Democrats’ new line of attack on Republicans? ‘You’re being weird’“I think it’s really...

A former Yale Law School classmate shared with The Times about 90 emails and text messages with Mr. Vance. Here are some of the most revealing moments in their correspondence. Nelson, now a public defender in Detroit, said the two were once close friends, but had a falling out in 2021, when Mr. Vance said publicly that he supported an Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Now, Nelson, who opposes the Trump-Vance ticket, hopes the emails will inform the opinion of voters about Mr. Vance.

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...