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In 1989, the Chinese Communist Party cracked down on pro-democracy protests with bullets and tanks. Who can forget the image of a lone protester being crushed to death in Tiananmen Square? That same year, Tim Walz hopped on a plane and flew to China to teach for a year, where he was lavished with gifts and a salary that dwarfed that of native Chinese teachers. According to his congressional biography, "Walz spent 1989-1990 teaching high school in China as a part of the first government sanctioned groups of American educators to teach in China through a program at Harvard University."Upon...

Here’s the latest information you need to know about each prosecution Democrats are waging against the Republican presidential candidate.While the cases against Donald Trump in Georgia and Florida have either stalled or fallen apart completely, the former president is still actively fighting attempts to imprison him in New York and Washington D.C. after a Supreme Court decision cast further doubt on the legitimacy of the lawfare cases. In New York, Trump is fighting to postpone a sentencing that is currently scheduled to take place 48 days before Election Day. On Monday, District Attorney Alvin Bragg tossed the ball into Judge...

The organizers behind a mobile health clinic offering free abortions and vasectomies near where thousands of people are gathering for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago are pushing back amid outrage from conservatives. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers announced it was bringing its mobile health clinic to Chicago and offering free services to those who signed up on August 19 and 20, which are the first two days of the convention. Before the clinic even arrived, they announced that all of the appointments had been filled and that they would follow up if they had cancelations but the move sparked an...

The RNC and several states have filed lawsuits in recent months against ‘Bidenbucks.’ Is it too late to stop the Democrats’ GOTV machine?From Pennsylvania to Texas, conservatives are fighting back against the Biden administration’s biggest rig of the 2024 election, with a host of lawsuits challenging the executive branch abuse that is “Bidenbucks” — aka “KamalaCash.” As The Federalist reported last week, attorneys general from nine states — Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota — filed a federal lawsuit asking a U.S. district court in Wichita, Kansas, to shut down President Joe Biden’s...

With just a handful of states left to hold their primaries in 2024, Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming are up next on Tuesday to see who will win the Democratic or Republican nominations for House and Senate seats. In Alaska, eyes are on the sole House seat as vulnerable Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) seeks to defend her seat as the first House Democratic representative in five decades. In Wyoming and Florida, top GOP senators are hoping to defend their seats, while eyes will also be on Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) House race as he faces a challenger backed by former Speaker...

The nearly 300-page report on Biden family corruption matters for many reasons, the most important of which is to restore America’s standing in the world.With Joe Biden out as Democrats’ candidate for president, the House of Representatives’ report on the impeachment inquiry released this morning may give off a “What difference, at this point, does it make?” vibe.After all, even if the House votes to impeach the president, the Senate won’t convict him and he’ll be out of office and politics forever in January 2024. The nearly 300-page report nonetheless matters for many reasons, the most important of which is...

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A Long Island man was sentenced to prison and barred from ever owning a pet after he admitted to beating his aunt’s chihuahua to death, prosecutors said Monday. Peter Minichello, 22, confessed to attacking the 5-year-old dog — named Pup-Pup — on July 6, 2022, causing grisly injuries that left the tiny animal dead days later, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. Minichello had been left alone with a perfectly healthy Pup-Pup at his West Islip home while his mother and aunt were at work that day, prosecutors said. But when Minichello’s aunt came home, the small dog...

[Catholic Caucus] Announcing the National Latin Mass Pilgrimage- Arlington, VA to Washington, D.C.- October 5, 2024BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND- As a response to restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass announced in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia, local TLM attendees organized a pilgrimage between the main cathedral of the Diocese of Arlington (St. Thomas More) and the main cathedral of the Archdiocese of Washington (St. Matthew). This pilgrimage was wildly successful and has now become a yearly tradition. Our goal: full freedom, once again, for the Traditional Latin Mass, and an end to any and all restrictions.The pilgrimage itself is beautiful....

Legendary TV talker Phil Donahue has died following a lengthy illness, his family has announced. The host of The Phil Donahue Show passed away at the age of 88 on Sunday, while surrounded by relatives, including his actress wife Marlo Thomas, at his home. A talk-show trailblazer, his program was the first of its kind, including now commonplace concepts like audience participation. It ran for nearly 30 years, solidifying the onetime news reporter's place in the annals of TV history. Donahue had recently been awarded the presidential medal of freedom for his storied career. Donahue is survived by his wife...

Security At The Chicago DNC Is NUTS!

Thousands of anti-Israel signs lie on ground as Chicago rally predicted to draw 40,000 participants draws under 20,000. The anti-Israel protest outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday drew less than half as many participants as organizers predicted, the New York Post reported

[Catholic Caucus] Francis-appointed bishop to offer pro-LGBT Mass for heterodox group advised by Bishop StoweBishop John Iffert of Covington, Kentucky will preside over a Mass in his diocese for the dissident support group Catholics Embracing ALL God’s Children.Bishop John IffertA bishop appointed by Pope Francis in 2021 to lead the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky will offer an LGBT Mass later this month for an organization associated with heterodox Bishop John Stowe.On August 28 at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Bishop John Iffert will say Mass for a dissident Catholic “support group” named Catholics Embracing ALL...

DNC "AAPI Caucus Meeting" speaker: "Tim Walz is going to be the first Chinese Vice President."

We are living through a production managed by parties out of sight. “And though we feel as if we’re in a play / We are anyway,” as Paul McCartney almost puts it in “Penny Lane.” Referring to the displacement of President Biden in favor of the coronation of Kamala Harris, Jordan Peterson told Mark Halperin this past Friday: “It’s so preposterous it’s beyond comprehension.” He added: “I’ve never seen a politician in my life capable of stringing together inanities with the remarkable capacity she has.”This was Madam Vice President expressing herself in the style to which we have become accustomed...

Pro-Palestinian protesters breached part of a security wall set up around the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday. Video footage posted on X shows protesters chanting, “End the occupation now.” Several protesters can be seen standing on the other side of the breached security wall while one protester shakes the wall. Breitbart News’s Matthew Perdie also filmed a video in which protesters can be heard chanting, “Free, free Palestine,” “Victory to Palestine,” and “End the Occupation Now.”

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis urges Ugandan LGBT activist to ‘keep fighting for your rights’The pontiff met privately at the Vatican with representatives from a dissident homosexual group challenging the African country's anti-sodomy law.Pope Francis with Clare Byarugaba at the Vatican, August 2024.Pope Francis encouraged Ugandan LGBT activists to “keep fighting for your rights” during a private meeting after an anti-sodomy bill was signed into law by the country’s president in May 2023.In an unannounced meeting last week, the Argentine Pontiff welcomed pro-LGBT activists from Uganda to the Vatican for a private audience. Prominent LGBT activist Clare Byarugaba stated that Francis...

f you find a message that is consistent over time, through times of ease and times of challenge, and at each challenge in the real world this message is validated, reinforced, and found to be correct — is that a message you need to pay attention to? Since the Houthi joined a second front with the Gazans against Israel by attacking international shipping in the Red Sea and its approaches, the US Navy has led the international response and has been engaged in continuous combat operations facing almost all anti-ship weapons that any navy would expect to face in 2024....

[T]he Left in America has engaged in cultural warfare – a “whole of society” revolution to destroy Western civilization. Critical Theory, wokeism, DEI, and ideas about gender fluidity – these are all distortions of reality deployed to change our system of values, beliefs, attitudes, and preferences. Leftists believe that by doing so, they will cause existing social structures to crumble. They think anarchic socialism will then become viable, emerging from the chaos of a society without order/values. The following ten are among the techniques of influence the Left uses regularly. The list is by no means exhaustive, nor without a...

Maria Ramos, 33 and a mother of eight, was shot and killed in the city after she challenged some teenage drug dealers who reportedly sold weed to her children.. A mother of eight children was brutally executed after she confronted drug dealers in Oakland, California who were reportedly selling weed to her kids. Maria Ramos, 33, was shot and killed in the city after she confronted the teenage drug dealers. Maria Ramos was visiting her mother, Blanca Velasco, with her children on Aug. 7 when the dealers sold pot pipes to two of Ramos’ children, the Daily Mail reports. Ramos...