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Would you sell your soul to stay young forever? In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man’s wish for eternal youth is granted while his portrait ages in his place. As Dorian indulges in a life of hedonism, his portrait reveals the grotesque toll of his moral corruption. Join Michael Knowles and Will Witt as they discuss this beloved novel and explore its insights into the dangers of vanity, immorality, and the ultimate cost of a life without virtue.

Adolf Hitler did not create the Third Reich – it created him. What started as a nationalist movement dominated by butch male homosexuals grew from an idea to an empire, and as it did these ambitious men literally groomed the young Adolf in both the modern and the old-school meaning of the term.The Third Reich was a German inevitability: No nation ever escapes the dream of recapturing its former greatness, which in Germany's history was no less a world power than Charlemagne's thousand-year Holy Roman Empire. Otto von Bismarck tried to recreate it in 1871 with his Second Reich, which...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) pointed out that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris bragged about a trip to Europe she took to warn Russia not to invade Ukraine days before Russia did exactly that and so she’s bragging about an incident that shows Russia ignored her and didn’t take her seriously. Waltz said, “[I]t was such a misleading statement on her part that she traveled to Europe to warn Zelensky. No, I’m looking at [the] actual CNN site. She traveled to Europe to send a clear message to Russia to [not]...

As parties go, this one was glitzy, slick, star-studded and electric. It was also terrifying. By the time Kamala Harris took the stage at the DNC on Thursday evening, we had been told by the Obamas, Oprah, the Clintons, Hollywood and Harris herself that there is no one better to be the next American president, because… After a week of this, I still can't tell you. After a week of the mainstream media insisting the same, I'm at a loss. I doubt I'm alone. We just witnessed not so much a convention as a coronation. This entire production, created to...

Ukraine has admitted that it is actively using American-made bombs to strike within Russia’s Kursk region as it embarks on a counter-invasion. U.S. GBU-39 glide bombs are being used to hit targets within the Russian mainland, Ukraine Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleschuk revealed this week, state media Ukrinform reports. A video published on Thursday by the general purportedly showed his forces using the high-precision American weapons to strike a drone control hub, an electronic warfare unit, military equipment, weaponry, and around 40 “personnel” within Russia, meaning members of the Russian military may have been killed with U.S. bombs...

In a major victory for election integrity efforts, the Supreme Court of the United States approved key portions of an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship in order to cast a vote in the upcoming election. As reported by Breitbart, the law in question had been passed in 2022, while Republicans still had control of the state legislature and the governorship. Passed in response to widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, the law also requires newly-registered voters to provide proof of their address. The law faced pushback from Democrats and other far-left activists, who repeatedly sued to have...

Five Big Lies at the DNC Convention “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron” (1Tim 4:1-2) If Kamala should pull off a win in November, it will be the first time in history someone was elected on feelings, instead of their record.

The Rebel Gen. A.P. Hill Wounded-Gens. Heath and Fitzhugh Lee Killed. Special Dispatches to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. 23. It is reported by officers who have just arrived from the front, that in the attack made on Sunday upon our left by the rebels, in which they were so handsomely repulsed, the rebel Gen. A.P. HILL was knocked from his horse by a piece of shell, and badly wounded; and that Gens. HEATH and FITZHUGH LEE, son of the rebel chieftain, were killed. DETAILS OF THE BATTLES. FORTRESS MONROE, Monday, Aug. 22. The mail steamer Vanderbilt arrived here...

The body of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter was retrieved from the wreckage of the Bayesian superyacht Friday — as Italian authorities reportedly launched a manslaughter probe into what caused the tragedy. Hannah Lynch was the last remaining person still unaccounted for after the yacht sank off the coast of Sicily after being struck by a storm on Monday – sparking a massive search and rescue operation. “The Lynch family is devastated, in shock and is being comforted and supported by family and friends,” a family spokesperson said in confirming her body had been found Friday. “Their thoughts...

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On Thursday, the Ohio Secretary of State’s office referred 138 illegal aliens for prosecution after they were discovered to have been registered to vote. According to Fox News, the announcement of prosecutions is the culmination of a months-long auditing of the crucial swing state’s voter rolls by Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R-Ohio). Hundreds of other illegal aliens were already purged from the voter rolls earlier this year as the state takes steps towards securing election integrity ahead of the November election. “I’m duty-bound to make sure people who haven’t yet earned citizenship in this country do not vote in...

US citizens in Ukraine are required to leave the country immediately and by all means. The US believes that Russia is going to attack government facilities and civilian targets in Ukraine in the coming days.

Not even the members of the farther right Wyoming Freedom Caucus expected to dominate Tuesday’s Republican primary the way it did. Barring an unlikely Democratic surge and/or storm of Independent candidates in the general election, the Freedom Caucus is likely to have a comfortable majority in the Wyoming House for the upcoming session. With that in mind, House Majority Floor Leader Rep. Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, could have a relatively easy path in getting elected Speaker of the House, a campaign Neiman confirmed to Cowboy State Daily on Friday he intends to pursue. “I’m going to offer my time and services,”...

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, on a visit to Taiwan Saturday said an isolationist policy isn't “healthy” and called on the Republican Party to stand with her country's allies, while still putting in good words for the party's nominee, Donald Trump. Haley, who ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, told reporters in the capital, Taipei, that supporting U.S. allies, including Ukraine and Israel, is vital, and she underscored the importance of Taiwan — which Beijing claims as its territory, to be brought under control by force if necessary. “I don’t think the isolationist approach...

All icing and no cake. That’s the only way to describe the Democratic National Convention that mercifully ended Thursday night with Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech as the party’s improbable nominee. The icing, of course, was all the joy shoved down America’s collective throats from Chicago, a city where more than two dozen have been shot since the convention began, all without a care in the world about the state of the country. On Night Three alone, the word “joy” was said 30 times by various speakers. But that wasn’t close to the word uttered most from podium. Instead, the gold...

Fox News has published a mass endorsement from a group of prominent Republicans backing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. The endorsement, which labels Trump as "unfit" for office, marks a significant shift in the political landscape, particularly given Fox News' long-standing support for the former president. The endorsement was published in a full-page editorial on the network’s website and printed in several major newspapers, making it clear that a growing number of Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump as the 2024 election approaches. The group of GOP members who signed...

In a sane world, the West would regain its confidence and mojo. In the Danish city of Sønderborg, which skirts the border of Denmark and Germany, a seventeen-year-old girl was walking near the local migrant center when she was grabbed and thrown to the ground by a man who then attempted to undress her. Fortunately, the young girl was able to fend him off by pepper-spraying him. Her attacker ran off and remains at large. But the important thing was that she avoided being raped, right? Hallelujah! Well, maybe not in Denmark. Or Germany. Police spokesman Knud Kirsten noted that,...

Hungary is threatening to send migrants directly to the European Union (EU) capital of Brussels, Belgium if disputes with the EU over penalties imposed on Hungary for controlling its borders are not resolved. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has imposed a €200 million (~$222.5 million) penalty and a daily fine of €1 million (~$1.1 million) on Hungary for turning away illegal immigrants at its border instead of allowing them to claim asylum.

**SNIP** Trump proposed spending $267 billion more. Biden, $297 billion. The socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders wanted to spend an astonishing $3.976 trillion. But Harris was even worse! $4.162 trillion in new spending. Biden’s big spending ignited nasty inflation. Imagine how much prices would have increased had Democrats selected Harris back then. Last week, in her first policy speech, she proposed $1.7 trillion in new spending. At least that’s not as bad as what she wanted during COVID: She thought government should give every American $2,000 a month. That would have cost taxpayers $21 trillion! Her love for big government dominates...

Kamala Harris’ father, her only living parent, was not in the audience with the rest of the vice president’s relatives during the most important speech of her political career Thursday night. Donald Harris, a leftist economist who turned 86 Friday, was conspicuously absent from the row of family that included husband Doug Emhoff and his two adult children, Cole and Ella, as well as Harris’ younger sister, Maya Harris, and her family at the United Center in Chicago. While Harris spoke lovingly of her mother’s influence on her life in her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, she only fleetingly...