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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought a meeting last week with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to discuss the possibility of serving in her administration, perhaps as a Cabinet secretary, if he throws his support behind her campaign and she wins, according to Kennedy campaign officials. Harris and her advisers have not responded with an offer to meet or shown interest in the proposal, say people familiar with the conversations. The Kennedy outreach, made through intermediaries, follows a meeting in Milwaukee last month between Kennedy and Republican nominee Donald Trump to discuss a similar policy role and endorsement that...

Earlier this week, crooked New York Judge Juan Merchan rejected a recusal request for the third time in Trump’s “hush money” case. The dirty judge’s decision was released to the public on Wednesday. Judge Merchan’s daughter’s platform made tens of millions of dollars from her father’s case against Trump. President Trump is STILL under a partial gag order in the case. Can someone please explain how this is legal? And why are Republicans not outraged by this criminal lawfare against the party’s presidential candidate? In May, Trump was convicted on all 34 felony counts after he was accused of paying...

2024 Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance speaks to voters at a rally in Byron Center, Michigan Harris raised the price of American Energy. Michigan suffered. You suffered. Good American jobs suffered but you know who made a lot of money, K Harris's donors, the people who benefit from some of these green energy scams where they do things like building windmills in saltwater off the coast of Nantucket. Of course they fall apart and get washed up ashore, right crazy stuff. Now when she forced Americans, using your tax dollars by the way, to buy EVS made in in...

Did the people accept or reject the Constitution when offered for ratification?

'The program is in a death spiral,' former domestic policy adviser to former President Trump says In a move critics say is designed to shield the Biden-Harris administration from election fallout, the administration has leveraged taxpayer funds to mask upcoming increases in Medicare premiums. Under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was intended to cap out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries, insurers are poised to significantly hike monthly premiums, with average bids for Part D plans expected to triple by 2025. In response to potential voter backlash, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rolled out a three-year "demonstration...

The UK has the fairest justice system this side of Iran.. The British legal system has clear and unwavering standards. They’re the same ones as those of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. A 61-year-old man made threatening gestures at police and chanted “who the f*** is Allah” during large-scale disorder in Whitehall has been jailed for 18 months. Spring’s role in the disorder was shown on CCTV in court where he was seen making threatening and hostile gestures towards police, calling officers “c****” and joining in chants of “you’re not English anymore” and “who the f*** is Allah”. Defending Spring, Piers...

An unnamed source in Iran's Supreme National Security Council told Kuwaiti newspaper al Jarida that a high-ranking American security delegation, mediated by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran, the Kuwaiti paper wrote on Wednesday. Fox News reported that the delegation allegedly sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel, al Jarida noted in their reporting of the story. Fox News also reported on the recent development, noting that the American delegation was speculated to arrive in Iran through Turkey, landing at the Payam-e-Khorram Airport in Karaj last Thursday and engaging...

Google blamed a ‘glitch’ for how the Harris Camp was able to edit news headlines to make it look like major news outlets favored her. As previously reported, the Harris Campaign edited news headlines with Google search ads to make it appear major news outlets such as Reuters, CBS News, CNN, NPR and AP are on her side. While these major news outlets are shilling for Harris, her campaign edited the news headlines without the outlets’ consent or knowledge. The ads say “sponsored” but the outlets did not publish the text. The favorable headlines were written by the Harris...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reportedly turned down interview requests with The New York Times to address fresh criticisms he's facing over his response to the George Floyd riots in 2020. Walz, who has served as governor since 2019, is accused of failing to act quickly enough as rioters burned and looted businesses for days before he sent in the National Guard. Over 1,500 businesses and buildings were burned, with property damage estimated at $500 million, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The Democrat's actions have once again come into the spotlight after he was chosen as Vice President Harris' running...

[Catholic Caucus] The One-Word Antidote To The Vocation CrisisAll that is wrong, right there… The decline in religious vocation is not complex at all. In fact, the very article that tries to make excuses also goes at the root of the problem, and the problem is very simple: no Catholicism, no vocations. If the Church (in Argentina, and everywhere else) presents Herself as a leftist NGO promoting “social justice”, of course vocations will suffer, because Catholics do not have the vocation to become leftist social workers promoting social justice. You know who might have this kind of “vocation”? Homosexuals looking...

Kamala Harris, amid a furious battle for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019, embraced a ban on fracking and offshore drilling. She supported Medicare-for-all. At one point, she advocated abolishing private health insurance. And she signaled an openness to a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.Now, the vice president’s campaign says she would not pursue the fracking and offshore drilling ban — it’s a highly unpopular position in states like Pennsylvania where natural gas drives the economy — if she becomes president. She does not support a single-payer health-care system, instead focusing on what she and...

The delegation sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel. An unnamed source in Iran's Supreme National Security Council told Kuwaiti newspaper al Jarida that a high-ranking American security delegation, mediated by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran, the Kuwaiti paper wrote on Wednesday. Fox News reported that the delegation allegedly sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel, al Jarida noted in their reporting of the story… Allegedly, the American delegation presented a list with the names of...

On Thursday, the National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (NRLC) issued requests for records relating to the Army’s designation of it as a “terrorist group” during a training event at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, on July 10, 2024. Shockingly, the training event included a slide listing National Right to Life under the bold, all-caps heading, “TERRORIST GROUPS,” as well as bullet points listing examples such as “Pro Life” and “Oppose Row [sic] v Wade.” Were these baseless and sweeping vilifications of NRLC and pro-life people in general not appalling enough, the slide also mentioned peaceful pro-life activities, such as sidewalk...

A violent Portland Antifa ringleader has been convicted by a jury in a five-day trial marred by tight security restrictions and intimidation from Antifa members in the gallery. Alissa Eleanor Azar, 32 (b. Feb. 12, 1991), was charged with felony riot, disorderly conduct in the second degree and unlawful use of mace in the second degree. The jury found Azar guilty of felony riot and second-degree disorderly conduct. The unlawful use of mace charge resulted in a hung jury. The case stems from an Antifa riot in 2021 at a park in Clackamas County, Ore., and that's where the trial...

Day #7 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I'm posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the next couple of months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so it will take at least ten weeks to do this. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post...

After the Egyptian pyramids, the royal mausoleums of Numidia are the largest tombs in Africa. Much about them, however, remains mysterious – including who was buried inside.The Mysterious Royal Tombs of Numidia | 5:11Scenic Routes to the Past | 29.3K subscribers | 5,934 views | August 13, 2024

By Dana Blanton Fox News Published August 14, 2024 6:00pm EDT No matter how many major events intervene, and goodness knows there have been several, the state of this year’s presidential race doesn’t seem to change. Vice President Kamala Harris trails former President Donald Trump by one percentage point in the latest Fox News national survey, 49-50%. Last month, she was also behind Trump by one point, 48-49% -- as was President Joe Biden, with the same 48-49% result.

"In this video, I go into my election forecast for the 2024 election cycle and why I believe I will be the most accurate independent forecaster for the 2024 election." The author contends that his election methodology is based on key indicators such as Job Approval and is the most accurate metric predicting the winner of the Presidential election vs polling. Trump job approval is over 49% nationally, while Harris is getting 44.8%. The author states that his method predicted the outcome of the 2020 election with almost 100% accuracy.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported last week an astounding milestone: Every month of every year for the last five years Americans have purchased more than one million firearms. The group estimates that 86 million firearms were purchased during that period ending in July, and that 22 million of them were purchased by new owners. That brings the total to approximately 510 million firearms owned by more than 82 million American citizens. The news gets even better: Gun owners outvote non-gun owners by double digits. Four out of five of them said they voted in the last presidential election....

This is a major scandal. It has been more than EIGHT MONTHS since the DC appellate court heard oral arguments in the appeal of Couy Griffin's conviction for the most common J6 misdemeanor--knowingly entering restricted grounds/building. During the hearing on Dec. 4, the 3 judges (Clinton, Obama, Trump) indicated they would send the case back to Judge Trevor McFadden, who found Griffin guilty of 1752(a)(1) in March 2022. Griffin's attorney asked for either an acquittal on the sole charge or require DOJ to prove to McFadden that Griffin knew the area was restricted (he did not go inside the building)...