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The left is targeting the electoral system and local election boards. Their strategy appears to be simple: Make the rules. Decide the game.Democrats have been on a swing-state crusade to rid election boards of anyone who is more concerned with the fairness and accuracy of our elections than with making sure the Democrat comes out on top. The left’s strategy is predictable yet effective. Utilizing a sophisticated information campaign that includes law articles, op-eds, boots-on-the-ground activism, and large amounts of funding from a handful of elite megadonors, the crusade targets GOP candidates at the local level, as Politico recently reported.The...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest urges Catholics to reject Pope Francis’ ‘synodal’ program that seeks to ‘destroy’ the ChurchAnyone who wants to hold on to the faith of the Catholic Church must inevitably reject the Pope’s pet project’ of ‘synodality,’ a program intended to ‘destroy’ the Church in the long term, Father Joachim Heimerl writes.The Vatican launched an online survey at the end of July. Almost 9,000 participants were asked about their attitude towards “synodality,” and around 90 percent voted negatively. As a result, the synod secretariat responsible ended the survey prematurely and took the results offline. Apart from the Vatican, comparable...

‘[T]he DNC is leaving no stone left unturned to ensure that Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States.’With a close race looming in November, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is investing big dollars in the global hunt for votes from Americans living abroad. But will these votes be protected from the vulnerabilities of the overseas voting system?In an announcement last month, the DNC revealed a $300,000 commitment to Democrats Abroad, the “official Democratic Party arm” in charge of “mobilizing the overseas vote,” according to its website. DNC Executive Director Roger Lau explained the decision in a...

Direct evidence linking DEI to declining recruitment is hard to come by, though whistleblower complaints and polling make a connection hard to dismiss. DEI was quietly introduced government-wide by executive order in 2011, but only after the military explicitly embraced DEI in the wake of the BLM riots and presidential elections of 2020 did recruitment collapse—at least for the services that most visibly embraced it. The Marine Corps, which did not aggressively push DEI, has not suffered the same steep drop in recruitment as the other services. The results? After persistent recruiting challenges since 2020, the Coast Guard—which is facing...

The truth is, Russia isn’t interfering in the 2024 election nearly as much as Biden’s FBI and DOJ are right now.The Biden administration’s announcement this week that the Justice Department is taking action against alleged Kremlin-run websites and Russian state media employees as part of an effort to crack down on Russian “misinformation” ahead of the election should raise red flags — huge, obvious red flags.The biggest red flag is the timing of the indictment and accompanying announcement, just as mail-in ballots in some states are sent out and two weeks before in-person voting begins in some states. The only...

The first night of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was interrupted Thursday when anti-Israel protesters briefly tried to interrupt screening of the opening offering. Their chants targeted Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) which is the official bank partner of the annual celebration of film. The Hollywood Reporter notes the protest came before a screening of David Gordon Green‘s opening movie Nutcrackers, starring Ben Stiller, held at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre ahead of a nearby opening screening attended by the star.

Are the Democrats telegraphing one of the key ways in which they could steal the upcoming election? In the 2000 presidential election, a mere 629 votes separated the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida. When the absentee overseas votes finally arrived, George W. Bush was able to take the 537-vote lead from Al Gore and win the presidency. Democrats paid attention. Are Democrats really interested in attracting more overseas voters, or is it the flawed voter registration system they use that could be a game-changer in our upcoming election if properly utilized by unscrupulous election officials?...

Vice President Kamala Harris is on record in support of a Death Tax hike, including plans to impose a second Death Tax by taking away stepped-up basis when parents die.Harris’ plans to increase the Death Tax are yet another example of the candidate’s willingness to punish hardworking Americans for their success, this time punitively hitting families experiencing the death of a loved one. Under current law, the cost basis of assets passing directly to heirs receives a “step-up” to its fair market value. Without stepped-up basis, family-owned businesses would be stranded with a massive tax on unrealized gains after the...

A never-seen-before video of the moments after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas, in 1963 has emerged. The newly merged video shows President Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway heading towards the hospital, where Kennedy was later pronounced dead. Stephen Fagin, the curator at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, stated, “These images, these films and photographs, a lot of times, they are still out there. They are still being discovered or rediscovered in attics or garages.” People Magazine reported the footage was filmed by Dale Carpenter Sr., a Dallas truck driver who filmed the tragedy...

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U.S. — A Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter touched down just outside the residence of Bill and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, carrying the first lady's former CIA handler. According to an anonymous source, he approached Hillary to recruit her for one last Russian collusion hoax. "We've tried everything, Clinton, but Kamala's just too terrible," a man identified as Colonel Wes Danger explained. "You're our last hope." Clinton reportedly shrugged and reminded the colonel that she was retired. "I am at peace here with Bill," she said as she cut wood outside her cabin. "I quit that life." This only...

You might have assumed that a bioengineered virus, funded by the U.S. government, escaping from a CCP lab and triggering a years-long worldwide economic meltdown would be enough to cut off the gravy train to Chinese research institutions for gain-of-function research.But that would be entirely too reasonable of a remedial action.Instead, U.S. government agencies are still, in 2024, funneling cash to government-run Chinese labs for exactly the kind of tinkering that caused COVID-19 — and they’re lying about it, under oath, so far with no consequences.In March, in a congressional hearing, Congressman Ben Cline asked U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom...

Though churches have reported ongoing declines in worship service attendance, their fiscal health has not suffered as significantly because the faithful who continue to attend have been giving more to cover operating expenses, a new study from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research suggests. In "Finances and Faith: A Look at Financial Health Among Congregations in the Post-Pandemic Reality," researchers highlighted data from the Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations research project and the Faith Communities Today research initiative.The data was collected mainly from the 2023 survey of over 5,000 congregations and the 2020 survey of over 15,000 congregations, representing...

Doug Emhoff has done what his wife, Kamala Harris, has so far refused to do — sit down for a solo interview. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Doug Emhoff on Thursday’s show, gushing over the second gentleman while repeatedly bashing former President Donald Trump. Noticeably missing from the frothy conversation was any reference to Kamala Harris’ platform, policies, or her numerous failures as vice president — including her complete inability to secure the southern border or get consumer prices under control. Instead, Kimmel played his usual role of DNC cheerleader for his appreciative studio audience. “Now I’m rooting for you,” the...

If you can’t buy yourself out, you’re going to fight and the military recruiters become billionaires!” — Anna Skorokhod, Ukrainian MP, in the Rada, Ukranian parliament

There’s a new chapter in the saga of the Colorado apartment complexes that have been overrun, and de facto seized, by gang members who are suspected to be illegal aliens; they are in fact illegal aliens, part of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua cartel, and admitted to the United States by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, confirmed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after four of the criminals were recently arrested. For some of the earlier developments, see an essay I wrote on the viral video of heavily armed gang members caught on a doorbell camera, and a follow-up item I...

In an April 5, 2019 appearance before the National Action Network, presidential candidate Kamala Harris declared to Al Sharpton that she will sign a “reparations” commission into law. During last week’s interview on CNN, Harris affirmed that “My values have not changed.” That would include the values that deem America paying descendants of slaves monetary compensation a requirement of social justice. Social justice warriors assume it is a noble cause. But the reality is that reparations are not merely impractical but profoundly immoral. Here’s five basic reasons why the moral case is against reparations.The Legal ProblemFirst, reparations, to be just,...

VIDEOYou can take polls and probability models with a grain of salt but one thing is for sure, the HILARIOUS panic ATTACK by leftists over Nate Silver's latest election probability model showing Donald Trump with a 60% chance of winning. To illustrate just how much entertaining PANIC this has caused, the DUmmie FUnnies has gone old school by returning to DUmmieLand to observe the DUmmie reactions to this. BTW, although I looked at only one thread, there are multiple DUmmie threads obsessively rubbing their worry beads over this as well as similar threads in KOmmieland aka The Daily Kos. Check...

President Vladimir Putin has two young sons with former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, both of which have been living in secret since their births, according to a report by a Russian investigative group started by a former billionaire Putin foe, though Putin and Kabaeva have denied romantic ties for more than a decade. Putin and Kabaeva share two sons, Ivan Putin and Vladimir Putin Jr., who were born in 2015 and 2019, respectively, according to the Dossier Center, a Russian investigative news organization that cited unnamed sources who claimed to regularly see the children. Putin, 71, has publicly acknowledged having...

Everyone knows the left can't meme, but watching them attempt to troll the right is just as entertaining in person. Here's the setup: A couple of weeks ago, vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance walked into a donut shop and ordered donuts. The left-leaning media had a field day because things became awkward when the donut lady expressed hostility about being on camera. The encounter ended with Vance saying, 'Give me some glaze, sprinkle-themed stuff, some of these cinnamon rolls … yeah, whatever makes sense.' View on X"Who orders donuts like that?" the Left screamed. Two weeks later, Vance's opponent Tim...