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The new face of masculinity strikes again, and most media are still ignoring it: Weeks after reports that Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff slapped his then-girlfriend for talking to another man comes news that staffers at his old law firm accuse him of being an “a–hole” and a “misogynist” who demeaned female colleagues. None of that’s fully confirmed, of course, but he did admit to knocking up the nanny while married to his first wife. And of course the new charges would have brought a major-media firestorm if they’d been leveled against, say, Brett Kavanaugh. Indeed, then-Sen. Kamala Harris was all...

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) walked away from the counter at a cafe without paying, with Walz’s daughter revealing that “someone will be up” to pay. Video footage posted to X appeared showed the two men walking away from the counter after Walz’s daughter tells them she will “wait” for the tea and informs a worker behind the counter that a campaign staffer is coming to the counter to pay. “I’ll wait for your tea,” Walz’s daughter says as the two men walk away.

The comments were made by Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student-athlete support who works in the university's Health Sport and Exercise Sciences department. professor at the University of Kansas has been put on administrative leave after telling students during a recent lecture that men who do not vote for a female president should be lined up and shot. The comments were made by Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student-athlete support who works in the university's Health Sport and Exercise Sciences department, according to KU's faculty directory. A video of the incident posted to social media has...

An enormous mass of charged solar particles will slam into our planet Thursday (Oct. 10), likely triggering a "severe" G4-class geomagnetic storm, according to an alert from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center. Storms of this magnitude may disrupt power grids, nudge satellites off course, interfere with GPS navigation and damage "critical infrastructure technology," NOAA warns. The geomagnetic storm will also make auroras visible at much lower latitudes than usual. According to NOAA, the northern lights "may become visible over much of the northern half of the country, and maybe as far south as Alabama...

An essay by a longtime confidant and operative of Bill and Hillary Clinton compared former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric during his 2024 campaign to Nazi-era language echoing Hitler’s belief in racial hierarchy and purity. A Monday piece published by The Guardian, titled “Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake,” draws parallels between Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric and the ideology of Nazi Germany. The article, authored by Sidney Blumenthal, who served as senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and is known for his underhanded political tactics, attacked Trump’s terminology when discussing immigration and national security, comparing it to...

SPRING, Texas (KHOU) - Parents of preschoolers in Texas say they are shocked after finding out their children were given sleep aids by their teachers. They said their children told them they were given “sleepy stickers” that would make them fall asleep. The patches in question are sleep aids containing melatonin, among other ingredients, and intended for adults. One of the children at the school, 4-year-old Layne Luviano, broke the case open in September when she snuck one of the stickers out of the classroom. “She kind of pulled up her little shorts and said, ‘Mom, look this is my...

(Oct. 9, 2024 / JNS) There are times when terrible books can be useful. In the case of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ truly awful The Message, the author has not only demonstrated exactly how and why America’s chattering classes have not just turned on Israel and are supporting an ideological war against its existence. Coates has given us more than that. During his book tour of the mainstream media, he also helped illustrate how a mob mentality and woke bureaucratic structures have gutted a supposedly prestigious legacy outlet like CBS News. At virtually every other stop, Coates was treated as a hero,...

"Snapshots And Soundbites of Two Presidents, Two Hurricanes, And Two Vastly Different Media Responses Once Again Prove Media Cannot Be Trusted to Tell the Truth" "The Cato Institute identified these failures – confusion, failure to learn, communication breakdown, supply failures, indecision, and fraud and abuse. The presiding president, the late George W, Bush, was pilloried over his response."

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Turns out, Kamala's "New Way Forward" is actually just the same old, same old. During her love-in of an appearance on The View yesterday, Kamala Harris was gingerly asked the most obvious possible question: would she have done anything differently from President Biden during the past four years? After a deer-in-the-headlights pause, Harris stammered out: "Uh, uh, there is not a thing that comes to mind."As Mark Halperin has put it [YouTube at 6:45]: "She reacted to that obviously expected question as if she was woken up in the middle of the night, and someone said, what is the air...

The opponents of the regime who support an Israeli attack, and welcome the elimination of Nasrallah: the voices from Iran. There are those in Iran who wish for an Israeli attack, one that might help to harm the Islamic regime. The Nation" • Watch Ohad Hemo | The main edition | Published 21:30 10.09.24 Iran is on standby for absorption. Nuclear facilities, oil facilities, military targets or regime symbols in general. It's been a week that the speculations in the Middle East are celebrating, when it is clear to everyone that the question is not if there will be an...

Five black and Latino suspects are wanted over the street beating of former New York Gov. David Paterson and his stepson in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Two black youths have been arrested. Paterson was New York's first black governor in 2008. Read:

Hebrew media reports that flyers have emerged in the Gaza Strip, warning Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar that his fate will be the same as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and slain top Hamas officials. “No tunnel is too deep, Sinwar, ask Sayyed Hassan…” the flyer says, referring to Nasrallah. It includes an image of Sinwar near the bottom of the top half of an hourglass, indicating his demise is nearing, while the faces of assassinated Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Muhammad Deif and Saleh al-Arouri are in the lower part.

A North Carolina man says he lost 11 members of his family to Hurricane Helene. Jesse Craig's mother, father, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, cousins and second cousins were among the more than 230 people so far who died after Helene brought devastating rain, unprecedented flooding, mudslides and extensive damage to six southern states, including Craig's home state of North Carolina. [MORE}

The Trump campaign, Republican National Committee, and Arizona GOP announced that Harmeet Dhillon is leading an election integrity legal team in Arizona. Dhillon is the managing partner at Dhillon Law Group and the RNC National Committeewoman for California. The campaign and Republican parties announced her new leadership position on Tuesday. "We are proud to announce President Trump’s appointment of Harmeet Dhillon as our new legal counsel in Arizona," Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita and RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump said in a statement Tuesday. "She will spearhead critical legal battles, stop the many attacks...

In March of this year, Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was killed by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during a pre-dawn raid of his home. It was an unwarranted and indefensible killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States. Because we have a media that no longer serves in its traditional role as a government watchdog, this incident was not widely reported. Because too many members of Congress no longer take seriously their...

[Catholic Caucus] Can Papal Primacy and a Synodal Church actually coexist?As the second week of the Synod on Synodality continues, an article published in La Civiltà Cattolica on 8 October has revealed more of Pope Francis’s vision of the role of synodality in the Catholic Church today. It also highlights some of the inherent tensions between the use of synods and the power of the papacy in modern Catholicism.The article recounts the Pope’s meeting on 28 September with 150 of his fellow Jesuits in Brussels, during his recent visit to Belgium, when Francis discussed how Eastern Christians have not lost...

A sprawling investigation into the online fundraising platform ActBlue has expanded into 19 states, as attorneys general across the country press the company on its security practices and whether Democrats might be using the platform to cheat on election donations. An investigation that began with a few states and a House committee has now spread across nearly half the country as chief state investigators are endeavoring to determine whether Democrats have used the ActBlue to launder foreign money or craft donations in people’s names without their permission, a practice known as "straw donations." In a letter sent last week to...

The Synodal Comedy: Act IIIn the Synodal Sessions, the Faith's majesty is trampled upon, then traded for the cheap trinkets of the best psychobabble money can buy.Assaults on the city of Rome, the See of Peter, have not been infrequent over the course of the millennia. Attila attempted. But he failed when he came into the formidable presence of Leo, called “the Great,” resulting in a dramatic volte-face. Napoleon conquered Rome in 1809. The Italian Nationalists of the Risorgimento mounted attacks upon Rome in 1848, forcing Blessed Pius IX to flee in a simple black Roman cassock to Gaeta in...

Shock jock Howard Stern told Kamala Harris that he “hates” seeing her being mocked on “Saturday Night Live” during the vice president’s appearance on his radio show Tuesday. “I hate it. I don’t want you being made fun of,” Stern told the Democratic presidential candidate. “There’s too much at stake. I believe the entire future of this country right now … it’s literally on the line.” But Harris, 59, said she gets a laugh out of actor Maya Rudolph’s impersonation of herself, including on last week’s episode.