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When Oprah Winfrey endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, it was a big deal. Today, the Democratic Party is trying to turn Kamala Harris into Obama 2.0, and naturally, the party thought it was a good idea to un-retire Oprah the billionaire from irrelevancy to give a speech at the Democratic National Convention and gush about the most unpopular vice president in history. Naturally, Trump had an epic response to Oprah's DNC speech endorsing Harris. He shared a handwritten letter to him from Oprah, dated Jan. 11, 2000. Donald, I received the book excerpt. I have to tell you, your comments...

CNN host Chris Wallace reminded viewers Wednesday that just “six months ago” Democrats were considering ways to remove Vice President Kamala Harris from President Joe Biden’s ticket. Before Harris became the Democratic nominee for the upcoming presidential election, approval ratings for the vice president had been dismal, falling as low as 36.3% in November 2023. Wallace noted that while the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was going “fine” as it entered its third night, some delegates and Democratic officials disapproved of Harris staying on the ticket with Biden initially when he was still in the race. “I‘ve been thinking about this...

Soviet Britain and the Future of AmericaIn recent weeks, riots have broken out across the U.K., with rival gangs of native Britons and Muslims clashing. The police response has been telling.The following is just a selection of the hundreds of arrests and sentences already meted out:A middle-aged woman from Cheshire was arrested for posting incorrect information on Facebook.A 61-year-old man was jailed for 18 months after shouting abuse at police officers, making “threatening gestures,” and shouting “who the f*** is Allah.”A 40-year-old man was arrested for posts alleged to contain “anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric.”One man who watched riots from...

Every time I’ve ever applied for a new driver’s license while also being involved in the voting process (Arizona, Tennessee, and now Alabama), I’ve registered to vote while I was in the DMV getting my picture taken. Now apparently that process is true for Texas too—which makes this story all the more odd, unsettling, and condemning. From a report out yesterday by Natalia Mittelstadt at Just the News:Texas AG Ken Paxton launches probe of groups allegedly registering non-citizens to voteThe AG’s Election Integrity Unit found that multiple nonprofit organizations have opened booths outside Texas Department of Public Safety Driver License...

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After Michigan’s Democrat-led legislature passed sweeping changes to Michigan elections, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is attempting to implement corresponding potentially “illegal” new rules before the November general election, even though the law isn’t set to go into effect until next year. Senate Bill 603 (SB 603), which acts in part to “reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws,” as well as “provide for election officials and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees,” was signed into law by Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last month. The bill’s...

NEW YORK -- A U.S. government report expected to stir debate concluded that fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is linked with lower IQ in children. The report, based on an analysis of previously published research, marks the first time a federal agency has determined — “with moderate confidence” — that there is a link between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower IQ in kids. While the report was not designed to evaluate the health effects of fluoride in drinking water alone, it is a striking acknowledgment of a potential neurological risk from high levels of...

A trio of cold-hearted thieves stole a woman’s two puppies on a Bronx street earlier this month and the pets still haven’t been reunited with their owner, police said. The three suspects and the 42-year-old victim had gotten into an argument at around 11 a.m. on Aug. 1 on Southern Boulevard near the intersection with Jennings Street, the NYPD said Wednesday. The woman then went inside a building and when she came out with her two pit bull puppies, the three followed her, according to police and sources. A male suspect punched her in the face while his two accomplices...

(The Center Square) – Former Georgia Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan took the stage on the third night of the Democratic National Convention and told his party to do the “right thing” and support Vice President Kamala Harris for president this November. “I am a Republican, but tonight I stand here as an American,” Duncan said to a cheering crowd in Chicago. “An American that cares more about the future of this country than the future of Donald Trump.” Duncan was not the first, nor the last, Republican to speak to the gathered Democrats over the first few days of...

The FBI has launched an investigation into a potential act of sabotage following claims that maggots were slipped into the hotel breakfast served to delegates of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Additionally, the DNC 2024 Joint Information Center acknowledged the food contamination and confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital.

Oprah Winfrey said “there is no American dream” without access to reproductive rights during her DNC speech on Wednesday.

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From the floor of the DNC, @ChrisCuomo says the Democrats’ pledge to go after “corporate gouging” is almost laughable when the leaders of corporations are literally looking down on the party from seats that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

ARAB SLAVE TRADEWhile the Goliath Arab Islamic slave trade was immense and its lingering effects and discrimination are still in various areas:Arab slave trade covers various periods in which a slave trade has been carried out under the auspices of Arab peoples or Arab countries.Such as:- Al-Andalus slave trade.- Barbary slave trade.- Trans-Saharan slave trade.- Indian Ocean slave trade.- Comoros slave trade.- Zanzibar slave trade.- Ottoman slave trade.- Red Sea slave trade. Hentz, James J. (2013). Routledge Handbook of African Security. p.294Unfortunately these racist attitudes were to persist, given slavery's twin legacy, that of Arabism and Islamism. ____Lawson, Edward H....

Czech President Petr Pavel said that attacking the Nord Stream pipelines would have been a “legitimate” target for Ukraine amid reports pointing the finger at Kyiv for the sabotage. Pavel, who previously served as NATO chairman and before that at the head of the Czech Armed Forces, said that while he has no information to confirm reports that the Zelensky-led government in Ukraine was behind the September 2022 assault on the Russo-German Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, such an attack would have been justifiable in light of the Russian invasion months prior. Speaking to the online news magazine Novinky...

KYIV, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Kyiv said there was a heightened risk of Russian missile and drone attacks throughout Ukraine in the coming days as the country prepares to mark 33 years since its independence from the Soviet Union on Saturday. Ukraine's top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said earlier this week that Russia had launched 9,600 missiles and 14,000 drones during strikes on Ukraine since it launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

VIDEOMany of you have probably already seen the BRILLIANT parody at the DNC convention by Alex Strenger of a Kamala Harris supporter which seemed so over the top yet at the same time so spot on authentic as to fool a BBC reporter. In this video, I intersperse Strenger's parody version of a Kamala supporter with clips of REAL Kamala supporters to prove that despite seeming to be too over the top exaggerated, Strenger was well within the outer bounds of Kamala supporter craziness.If you didn't already know that Strenger was performing a parody, you would have a hard time...

The goal is to deny Donald Trump the White House and it will require mass election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris... veryone invested in a Kamala Harris victory in November isn’t making even the faintest attempt at taking her seriously as a presidential candidate. She’s not one because she has no reason to run for president, no vision, no interest in the job. The whole point of this herculean, gravity-defying exercise we’re in the midst of isn’t to make Kamala president. It’s to deny Donald Trump the White House. The only way that can happen is for election interference...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come.” Matthew 22:2–3The king in this parable is God the Father, and the wedding is the marriage between Christ and the Church. The Father invites each one of us to be a member of the Church and to enter into divine union with His Son Jesus, thus entering into the life of the Holy Trinity. But we see right away in the...

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