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A mysterious black ring appeared in the blue skies over Virginia this week, which hovered for about 10 minutes before vanishing. Williamsburg locals flooded news station around 11am ET on Tuesday when they spotted the ominous circle over a major highway. Ron Stepp said that he was working near Eastern State Hospital when it appeared above like a huge smoke ring in the sky.

Greetings, comrade worker: Candidate for Party General Secretary Kamala Harris has promised to punish the hoarders and wreckers driving up grocery prices. All hail the might of Soviet labor! That’s the latest bonkers proposal from Komrade Kamala Harris, unveiled in her marquee speech on the economy Friday — socialist price controls on groceries. Because the sky-high grocery prices average Americans have seen since she’s been in office couldn’t be the result of her boss’s disastrous economic policies. No, they must be caused by price-gouging corporate overlords who for some reason want customers to buy less of their products. The data...

Former President Donald Trump laid out his economic policies and vision for the country at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, promising to keep intact the Affordable Care Act, Social Security and Medicare .“A lot of people are very devastated by what’s happened with inflation,” Trump said in Asheville. “I gave Harris and Biden an economic miracle and they quickly turned it into an economic nightmare.” *** Trump discussed his plans for “No Tax on Tips” and “No Tax on Social Security,” calling out Harris – who vists the state on Friday – for announcing a similar no tax...

A split in the Black community over Kamala Harris has erupted into a melee on social media. Radio host Rickey Smiley encountered massive pushback online after he scolded Black voters who refused to support the vice president’s White House run. “I’m just sick of the Black people on the internet talking about, ’I’m not with [Ms. Harris].’ OK, so if you’re not with her, that means you’re with Trump,” Mr. Smiley said on his morning radio show. “Y’all need to block every last one of their asses on Facebook and on Instagram and social media — and stop. That’s just...

As I listen to Democrats, I pay attention to their words and it occurs to me that the cost OF living is not the same of FOR living.The cost OF living is what I have to pay to live.The cost FOR living is what I can afford with what I have TO live.

...Those unfamiliar with the National Guard activation and deployment process may not understand that this procedure is announced well in advance. Senior officers and non-commissioned officers in a unit being activated under Title 10 learn well before others of their impending call-up to go to war. Walz was in such a position, and he likely knew this when he submitted his retirement paperwork....

Treated with hostility in the past and considered witches or vampires in the Middle Ages, redheads in the modern world are thriving and celebrating their unique traits; the Redhead Days Festival marks one of the occasions to embrace the distinctive nature of gingers. Redhead Days Festival; celebrating the unique traits Held annually on the last full weekend of August, this year the Redhead Days Festival will take place on August 23-25 in the city centre of Tilburg, the Netherlands. Growing in size every year, the festival anticipates tens of thousands of redheads from more than 80 countries to unite in...

Many circuit courts have said that law enforcement can hold your property for as long as they want. D.C.’s high court decided last week that’s unconstitutional.The Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to the length of a seizure, a federal court ruled last week, significantly restricting how long law enforcement can retain private property after an arrest. "When the government seizes property incident to a lawful arrest, the Fourth Amendment requires that any continued possession of the property must be reasonable," wrote Judge Gregory Katsas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in...

The airport worker who discovered the body of a woman in a luggage carousel chute at Chicago O'Hare Airport told police how he could not immediately make sense of the ghoulish scene that confronted him when he started his August 8 shift. Missionary Virginia Vinton was found dead shortly before 7:30am on Thursday llast week with initial reports suggesting she had become 'entangled' in one of the airport's luggage belts. Now, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal the chilling truth of the 57-year-old mother of two's bizarre death and why it was ruled a suicide by authorities in Cook County, Illinois. According...

It's no wonder Kamala Harris has been hiding from the press. The most liberal Senator/VP in the history of this country has just released her economic agenda and it's everything you'd expect from a far left socialist. Via Kyle Griffin on X* Eliminating medical debt for millions of Americans * A ban on price gouging for groceries and food * A cap on prescription drug costs * A $25,000 subsidy for first-time homebuyers * A Child Tax Credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby's lifeThat first one is staggering. Medical debt...

Ukrainian forces destroyed a bridge over the Seim River in the Glushkovsky district in Russia's Kursk Oblast, Alexey Smirnov, the region's acting governor, claimed on Aug. 16. The unprecedented operation hit its 10-day mark on Aug. 15, with Kyiv claiming to have seized 1,150 square kilometers of Russian territory and 82 settlements, including the town of Sudzha. Photos purporting to show the destroyed bridge were published by the Russian Telegram channel Mash, which claimed the bridge had been struck multiple times. The channel also claimed that about 30 settlements near the village of Glushkovo, approximately 150 kilometers (93 miles) from...

Something in the Democratic Party’s subconscious knows that in times of change it should go to Chicago.It’s the city where, in 1896, a 36-year-old William Jennings Bryan sent convention delegates into raptures by railing against Gilded Age plutocrats and urging Democrats to reconnect with their populist roots. It’s where Franklin Roosevelt announced the coming of a New Deal in 1932, starting a political revolution that pushed the Republican Party to the verge of extinction. It’s where the Roosevelt coalition ripped itself apart in 1968, with protesters and students brawling in the streets and delegates at one another’s throats. It’s where...

The Illinois State Comptroller has cut fund payments to a small town after the town's embattled mayor refused to hand over finance reports. Susana Mendoza said that she would be immediately suspending 'offset' fund payments to Dolton after the village failed to hand over financial reports. The money is on pace to total $135,000, according to The Chicago Tribune, and is she threatening to fine them a total of $78,600 if they don't hand over the reports. Mayor Tiffany Henyard has been clinging onto power despite criticism over her management of Dolton and her alleged lavish spending. Mendoza said that...

Executive summaryWe found a way to get Google AI to tell the truth on politically charged topics like:Is the US childhood vaccine schedule safe?Is the COVID vaccine safe?Is Steve Kirsch a misinformation spreader?These are the exact, word for word responses received. I added bold case in a few instances but I didn’t change any of the words. I think you’ll be impressed with how spot on Google AI is on issues when it is asked to reply honestly.Is the US childhood vaccine schedule safe?Unraveling the Unknown Safety Profile of the Childhood Vaccine Schedule: An In-Depth AnalysisCumulative Toxicity: The current childhood...

The FBI has fired back at claims by a GOP congressman that the agency released the body of Thomas Matthew Crooks for cremation just 10 days after his assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month. The agency says it refutes allegations by Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., who says that when he requested to view Crooks' body on Aug. 5, nobody on the ground in Butler knew it had been handed back to the suspect's family on July 23. Higgins said the revelation "caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact." Higgins is looking into...

Four questions asked by young women and the terrible answers they got. My parents resent the guy I have been dating for 4 years. My boyfriend is 5 years older than I and I am now 21. My parents are judging him because his parents divorced. That is not his fault. The old fashioned way I was raised makes me feel guilt whenever I have a bit of fun. I am not a slut; how do I stop feeling like one? I love my boyfriend very deeply. I am 17 and a virgin. I am not sure about how far...

SNIP….the Wall Street Journal ran a remarkable, long-form, magazine-style article under the headline: “As Ukraine Invades Russia, Kyiv’s Troops Are in Trouble on the Eastern Front.” Uh ohSNIPUsing around 14,000 of its last, best troops, and a vast array of critical, impossible-to-replace war equipment, Ukraine tried to flip the script by invading Russia in a quiet, remote, sparsely populated area on the northeast corner of the map.In other words, bantam-sized President Zelensky boldy let slip the dogs of war. But in this case, the dogs of war were more like the miniature poodles of war.SNIPIt looks a lot like the...

An unidentified individual carrying a bag exited a police vehicle then walked toward the location where the device was "found" about 15 minutes later. There are no coincidences. One reason the public should remain highly suspicious about the circumstances surrounding the so-called “pipe bombs” discovered on January 6 is the national media’s collective disinterest in the matter. Major news outlets, including those with full time J6 beat reporters, have completely ignored the shocking findings recently confirmed by DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari related to the Secret Service’s role in the events of January 6. Cuffari determined Kamala Harris, the incoming...

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, has been forced to spend half a million dollars defending himself in court for having stood up to former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.The only way to spare himself from the defamation lawsuit he has been fighting, he and his lawyer say, would be to lie.The lawsuit centers on a 2020 video that purported to show election fraud in Georgia. The video, which was presented to state lawmakers, showed security footage of election workers tabulating ballots in Atlanta. Multiple news media outlets and the secretary of state’s office...

CNN destroyed Kamala Harris’s Soviet-style price controls proposal and said it would lead to higher prices and shortages. Kamala Harris traveled to North Carolina on Friday to announce a Communist-style price control scheme to combat the inflation crisis she created. Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act.’ The IRA made inflation unbearable for Americans. Food prices are skyrocketing because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Biden recently turned his ire toward grocers and said he is going to send state attorneys general after them for price gouging. Grocers are not price gouging. The annual profits for...