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Stock markets bounced Tuesday morning after falling more than 1,000 points Monday in one of the largest drops since the economic shutdowns of the coronavirus pandemic. The S&P 500 stock index was up more than 60 points, or 1.3 percent, in Tuesday morning trading while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed more than 300 points and the Russell 2000 index of smaller U.S. companies jumped by 1 percent. Technology stocks continued to waver after Monday’s rout, though some were back in positive territory. Apple stock was down more than 3 percent while Nvidia stock jumped more than 4 percent and...

Under the leadership of Common Core czar David Coleman, the College Board has been creating or rewriting Advanced Placement (AP) courses to reflect a leftist worldview. AP courses such as U.S. History and European History now push a decidedly left-of-center narrative that conflicts with traditional scholarship and introduces a de facto national curriculum for the advanced students who populate AP classes. But some states are beginning to challenge the woke-ification of AP. The latest AP controversy centers on the radical new AP African-American Studies (APAAS) course, recently piloted nationally and now rolled out in its final form. But some state...

[Catholic Caucus] Post-Catholic Ireland: One (!) seminarian in Dublin archdioceseOnly one person is studying to become a Catholic priest in Dublin, reports TheTimes.com (August 4).Father Séamus McEntee, vocations director for the Dublin archdiocese, said the low number of applicants to the priesthood was indicative of a wider crisis of faith.The Archdiocese of Dublin has more than one million Catholics (out of a total population of 1.6 million). Ireland was once one of the most Catholic countries in the world.

The month-old leftist Labour government in Britain is reportedly set to “scatter” migrants throughout communities across the UK, despite the ongoing nationwide revolt against the mass migration policies of Westminster elites. Sir Keir Starmer, just a month in office as prime minister, potentially risks further inflaming tensions as riots and protests broke out over the past week in response to the slaying of three young girls by a reported second-generation Rwandan migrant teenager. According to a report from the Times of London, Starmer’s government is looking to “massively increase” the government’s acquisition of “dispersed accommodation” for migrants, such as empty...

Computing giant seeks to get 'leaner' as it recognizes the potential of AI to grow faster than its competitors.One of the world’s biggest tech companies is about to become ‘leaner’, after Dell announced to its employees that it would be laying off further staff.Just a few weeks after its workers expressed their dissatisfaction at Dell’s return to office policy, the company sent a memo to staff on Monday to notify them of the impending redundancies and cited the need for “streamlining layers of management”. It’s the second consecutive year that Dell has made significant cuts to its workforce.The memo also...

America First Legal (AFL) is suing Maricopa County, Arizona, for allegedly disregarding state law requiring officials to purge voter rolls of any noncitizens. The Washington, D.C.,-based organization, led by former Trump administration senior advisor Stephen Miller, filed the lawsuit against Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer on Tuesday, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The lawsuit comes after AFL demanded Richer’s office to remove foreign nationals from the county’s voter rolls — demands that Richer rebuffed. “America First Legal is leading the charge to keep illegal aliens from voting in 2024,” Miller said in a statement...

Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday, and will likely emphasize his military service as part of their campaign. But when Walz was running for governor in 2018, former members of the National Guard spoke out about his service, with a retired command sergeant major saying he “embellished and selectively omitted facts of his military career for years.” In an open letter posted to Facebook that year, retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr wrote that Walz retired just a few months after receiving a warning order that his battalion...

For years, before he won the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Donald Trump was something like the spiritual leader of the Republican Party’s right-wing base. He earned his place in the hearts and minds of conservative voters by doing what most Republican politicians at the time refused to do: He attacked Barack Obama as a foreign interloper and openly questioned his right to serve as president of the United States.Birtherism made Trump a celebrity on the right. It made him a force to reckon with in the Republican Party. It made him so popular with Republican voters that, while fighting...

The U.S. national debt hit a new $35 trillion landmark, just halfway into 2024. Since January, the U.S. debt pile has expanded by $1 trillion alone, moving the debt-to-GDP ratio to 98%. By 2032, the International Monetary Fund projects that this ratio could surpass 140% under current policies. Despite the looming threat to U.S. fiscal sustainability, neither Republican or Democratic parties show political incentive to address the rapid pace of borrowing. *** Today, the U.S. national debt is equal to the GDP of China, Japan, Germany, India, and the United Kingdom combined.Since 2020, the U.S. has added $11.8 trillion to...

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is reportedly concerned about “&^^%^%^” Pennsylvanians voicing displeasure over the selection of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) instead of Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) as her running mate. Shortly after it was revealed Walz would be the pick over Shapiro and other finalists, Philadelphia Inquirer national political reporter Julia Terruso spoke with a Harris campaign staffer who expressed worry about Pennsylvanians voicing anger over the pick at Tuesday night’s Harris-Walz rally in Philadelphia. The staffer reportedly wondered if “some asshole” would boo at the rally, which Shapiro said he would attend. Harris campaign staffer I just...

On August 2nd many news outlets reported that the autopsy of Thomas Matthew Crooks had been released by the Butler County Coroner’s office. The fact is that mainstream media is late to the party and the Butler County Coroner’s office released the cause and manner of death of Thomas Matthew Crooks to AbleChild nearly two weeks earlier on July 21st. Unfortunately, what the mainstream media doesn’t understand is that the cause and manner of death is not an autopsy and, although an autopsy has already been conducted on the alleged body of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the results of that autopsy...

Two new surveys say most Americans think the recession has already begun. This must come as a shock to our mendacious media sacrificing fresh mountains of newsprint to gaslight Kackles over the 50-yard line come November. Meanwhile, nearly 70% of Americans report that inflation—which that same media told us was long gone —continues making life a struggle, with little prospect of saving for the future or getting out of debt. The numbers come from two surveys by left-wing Guardian-Harris polling, and another from payment network Affirm, who sampled 2,000 Americans. Nearly 60% say we’re already in recession, and on average,...

Fewer voters believe Donald Trump is in good health, and more think the 78-year-old Republican is too old to run for office

Salemi) Officials in the US-led multinational coalition that is reportedly preparing to assist in repelling an expected Iranian attack have preemptively warned Israel not to respond too strongly to such an assault, according to a Tuesday report. “Don’t push it,” the unnamed officials told Jerusalem, according to Kan news. “Think carefully before you attack in return. The goal at the end of the day is not to lead to an all-out war.” In April, a massive drone and missile attack from Iran was foiled by a coalition that reportedly comprised Israel, the United States, Britain, France, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi...

In a normal political environment, there would be little need to pay attention to a new book by the far-right provocateur Jack Posobiec, who is probably best known for promoting the conspiracy theory that Democrats ran a satanic child abuse ring beneath a popular Washington pizzeria. But “Unhumans,” an anti-democratic screed that Posobiec co-wrote with the professional ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, comes with endorsements from some of the most influential people in Republican politics, including, most significantly, vice-presidential candidate JD Vance. The word “fascist” gets thrown around a lot in politics, but it’s hard to find a more apt one for...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) an “exceptionally strong” running mate for Vice President Harris on Tuesday after he lost the battle to become his party’s vice presidential candidate. “Vice President Kamala Harris has my enthusiastic support – and I know that Governor Tim Walz is an exceptionally strong addition to the ticket who will help Kamala move our country forward,” Shapiro said in a statement following Harris’s decision. Walz, Shapiro and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (D) were widely seen as the top three candidates to join Harris on the Democratic presidential ticket. The governor...

New Zealand codifies forced injections in martial law ‘Pandemic Plan’.. Under the skin is the final authoritarian frontier; as many have noted before, if you don’t have control over what is injected into your body, you don’t have freedom in any meaningful sense of the word. If the Kiwis aren’t rioting in the streets of Auckland at this very moment, if this isn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back — either because the information space in New Zealand is so tightly controlled that they don’t know what their government is doing to them or because they are too psychologically/spiritually...

At least 38 Democratic members of Congress signed a letter sent Monday to the president of the Heritage Foundation requesting he meet with lawmakers to discuss Project 2025 and release the undisclosed fourth pillar of the project called the “180-Day Playbook.” "Our offices are increasingly hearing from constituents worried about the impact of Project 2025 on the future of our nation," read the letter obtained exclusively by ABC News. "A growing number of Americans are concerned that Project 2025, which you describe as 'a second American revolution,' poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy,

Barack Obama Endorses Kamala PARODY (2 minute video in the link below)https://x.com/MrReaganUSA/status/1820851063848837358

To put it simply, people are hurt when the marketplace of ideas is undermined and some viewpoints are not funded over others as part of an illegal boycott. This behavior is a stain on a great industry, and cannot be allowed to continue. That is why, today, X has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever. This is not a decision we took lightly, but it is a direct consequence of their actions.