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The people of Chicago know about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s panic attacks. He just can’t handle the job. And now the people of his city, including the property taxpayers, are about to have a series of panic attacks all their own. He’s unleashed two curses to hound them and haunt them. They’re already suffering from violent crime and he’s also killing the public schools that is turning out yet another generation of young people without future, without hope. The Chicago Public Schools can’t educate 300,000 students, most of whom are black and brown, all of whom are poor. They can’t read...

Live Action’s new “Face to Face” series brings together former abortionists, women who have had abortions, and abortion survivors for emotional, impactful conversations on how abortion affects people. Two of the people who participated are Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist who estimates he committed nearly 1,200 abortions, and Melissa Ohden, who survived an attempted saline abortion at 31 weeks gestation. In the video, Levatino discusses how this exact situation is even more likely to occur with the most common abortion method used today. “I’m listening to your abortion story about your mom, who was projected to be what —...

The Biden Administration is pushing banks to report every $600 transaction, whether a deposit or withdrawal, from every business or personal account. The Democrats want everything, and no matter how much they collect, they will always spend more. TAXES are really no longer even necessary along with borrowing. They never pay off the debt anyhow, and it would be immensely more efficient for the government to just print the money they need and end both borrowing and taxation. Over 70% of the national debt is due to interest and wars. It does not go to expand the economy or help...

"And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like, were I to be elected president, it is about – frankly, I love the American people, and I believe in our country. I love that it is our character and nature to be an ambitious people. You know, we have aspirations, we have dreams. We have incredible work ethic. And I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we've achieved in a way that we continue to grow opportunity and in that way, grow the strength of our nation,"...

The legal troubles for rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs keep mounting, as allegations of abortion coercion, along with sexual abuse and trafficking, continue. Combs — who was just arrested last month and charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution — is now being hit with an additional 120 lawsuits, all accusing Combs of sexual assault. According to the Washington Post, a team of lawyers plans to file the lawsuits in Florida, New York, and California. According to attorney, 25 of the victims were minors when the alleged assaults occurred. The...

his is going to be a quick one today. Every so often, I get a headache from rolling my eyeballs so frequently at the news. OK, I don't have a headache but, seriously, how did we get here? Oh yeah, public education and the commie takeover of Academia (which I wrote about in this gem). Every article about the election begins with the non-newsflash that this is still a very tight race. The American Right and Left have finally found something they agree on, let the Hallelujah chorus begin. I don't know how many of us on this side of...

The Chicago Police Department won’t launch recruit classes for at least two months — fueling complaints that Mayor Brandon Johnson is reneging on his promise to exempt public safety agencies from a citywide hiring freeze. And at an emergency Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Chief Operating Officer John Roberson ordered other department heads to identify personnel cuts — beyond reductions already made — and submit proposals by Friday. The goal: $75 million in additional savings in 2025. Each department head will be given a specific budget number to reach in what city officials referred to as an “exercise.” Departments already had been...

One of the few abortionists in the country willing to commit late-term abortions, Warren Hern has been featured often in the media, especially in recent months. Yet instead of being portrayed as a man who brutally and violently ends the lives of preborn children (and who has a sneering disdain for humanity), he is portrayed as a compassionate hippie liberal — a pioneering doctor and a lover of nature. The latest piece promoting Hern, however, takes an interesting turn; in it, he makes claims about late-term abortions — claims which contradict his own previous statements. In the New Yorker, Hern...

VIDEOHas anybody ever seen a FEMA administrator WHINE more than Deanne Criswell? Much of her FEMA funds have been inappropriately used not for natural disasters but for aiding millions of illegal aliens imported by the Biden-Harris administration. So now that FEMA has come up short in the wake of Hurricane Helene (and soon Hurricane Milton) she whines that those pointing out that FEMA funds have been used for illegals are guilty of "misinformation." Unfortunately for her, as you will see, it was FEMA itself that bragged about using much of its funds for illegals. This is what happens when you...

The event is expected to be announced by Trump’s campaign team on Wednesday. Donald Trump will host a rally in New York City's iconic Madison Square Garden as part of a final push to Elecion Day, a source has told the New York Post. The massive rally will take place on October 27, just nine days before the election. The rally will be a first-come, first-serve event. It will be the third event in the New York City area to feature Trump in recent months, as the former president attracted about 16,000 supporters for.a rally in Uniondale, Long Island last...

Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious sex trafficking ring, has publicly thrown her support behind Donald Trump while reaching out to tech mogul Elon Musk about the infamous Epstein client list. This revelation comes on the heels of an explosive interview between Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson, where Musk not only endorsed Trump but also suggested that the release of the Epstein client list may be imminent if Trump secures another term. Musk’s conversation with Carlson ranged widely but hit hard on critical topics, including his belief that if Trump loses, it could be...

It was April 2022, and the diplomatic delegations from Ukraine and Russia were meeting in Istanbul just weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine had begun. Although there were details—especially on the size of the Ukrainian armed forces after the war and on the nature of security guarantees for Ukraine—to be worked out, a draft agreement had been signed by both sides. According to the Ukrainian delegation, Putin “demonstrated a genuine effort to find a realistic compromise and achieve peace.” Oleksandr Chalyi, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team, said, “We managed to find a very real compromise. We were...

It’s no surprise Democratic Party presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned Oct. 4 in Flint, Michigan, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump rallied Oct. 3 in Saginaw, less than 40 miles north.Nor will it be a head-scratcher when they stump across central Michigan again and again before Election Day.Both cities are within a 100-mile corridor along Interstate 75 between Detroit and Saginaw Bay, where election results from six counties will determine who wins the state’s 15 electoral votes and perhaps cast the clinching Nov. 5 tally that seats the next president.Finding those winning voters in Michigan’s battleground...

A newborn baby found dead in a Manhattan restaurant bathroom may have “taken one or two breaths, but not enough to sustain life,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Tuesday. At a press conference, Kenny recounted the disturbing discovery of the infant boy, and the medical examiner’s findings in the heartbreaking case. Kenny said workers at Sophie’s Cuban Cuisine, on Fulton St. near Gold St. in the Financial District, found the baby in a clogged toilet that was being cleaned around 10 a.m. Sept. 30 — just 30 minutes before the restaurant opened for the day. Police have identified...

Hurricane Milton has started to impact Florida, bringing terrifying tornados to the state's south as the historic storm set to hit Tampa Bay later tonight. The once-in-a-century weather event's winds have begun to hit Florida's Gulf Coast, triggering fears of tall building collapses in St Petersburg, which sits next to Tampa, after city officials warned about tall construction cranes. Three of the super-tall cranes are causing safety bosses the most worries, according to Fox 13. Milton is a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160mph, according to a 5am National Hurricane Center update. It sits around 300 miles off the...

Despite heavy criticism of the disaster response after Helene, election integrity leaders in the state appear pleased with the board’s efforts.As part of its response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) made more emergency changes to how elections will be administered in the 13 hardest-hit counties in the western part of the state.The NCSBE passed a resolution in a meeting Monday expanding the capabilities of voters affected by the storm to cast their ballot in this year’s election, as well as the ability for county boards of elections to process ballots.The...

The ancient organisms could help us understand the origins of life on Earth, and may also aid the search for life on other planets. Microbial cells were detected in fractures in the 2-billion-year-old rock sample, stained green, and analyzed. Image credit: Y. Suzuki, S. J. Webb, M. Kouduka et al. 2024/ Microbial Ecology A2-billion-year-old rock has been unearthed in South Africa – and if its advanced age wasn’t enough to knock your socks off, it’s also home to pockets of microbes that are still alive and thriving. Having been around for eons, these are the oldest examples of living microbes...

A frustrated North Carolina sheriff expressed sharp criticism of the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of relief efforts for Hurricane Helene survivors, arguing that the $750 in “immediate” relief offered by the government pales in comparison to the billions sent to Ukraine and requires access to the internet — something many of the hardest-hit areas still lack. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright voiced his concerns in an interview with FOX News contributor Sara Carter during her visit to Chimney Rock, North Carolina, one of the regions severely affected by the hurricane. The interview, which was conducted without internet access, was later uploaded...

As Madeline covered on Tuesday, Do No Harm, a healthcare watchdog, published a first-of-its-kind database exposing the major U.S. hospitals and their physicians that perform bodily mutilation procedures on minors and prescribe them chemically castrating drugs in the name of so-called "gender affirmation."Researchers at Do No Harm aggregated and analyzed thousands of insurance claims from across all 50 states, matching procedures and prescriptions with gender-related diagnostic codes to confirm cases of medical "transitioning." The shocking statistics revealed that nearly 14,000 children in the U.S. underwent some sort of "sex-change" medical intervention between 2019 and 2023, such as surgeries, puberty blockers,...

The US military’s top commander in Europe compiled a list of weapons systems the US possesses that could help Ukraine in its fight against Russia that the Biden administration has not yet provided, including air-to-surface missiles and a secure communications network used by NATO. In an annex attached to a classified report about the Biden administration’s Ukraine strategy that was delivered to Congress early last month, Gen. Chris Cavoli outlined a list of US capabilities that could help the Ukrainian military fight more effectively, according to people familiar with the report. The list included the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, a...