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In the past two years, two competing groups of conservatives—National Conservatives or NatCons and Freedom Conservatives or FreeCons—have issued competing manifestos. These manifestos reflect a divergent understanding of the progressive challenge to the American way of life.This divergence can best be understood in the context of the history of modern American conservatism, which can be broken into three waves: the first wave, symbolized by William F. Buckley, Jr. and Ronald Reagan, lasted from the mid-1950s to the end of the Cold War; the second wave, symbolized by Paul Ryan and the two Bush presidencies, ran from the 1990s to roughly...

They’re bringing sexy back. Because no one really wanted it to go away. In May, Victoria’s Secret announced their once iconic Fashion Show lingerie extravaganza is “BACK and will reflect who we are today, plus everything you know and love—the glamour, runway, wings, musical entertainment, and more!” But who they are today is basically who they were during their hotness heyday, with a small expansion of their vision of beauty.

Researchers recently investigated the effect of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) on brain health and memory to determine if consumption of extra virgin olive oil, the main component of the Mediterranean diet, can delay cognitive decline in people with Down syndrome (DS). DS is the most common genetically induced form of physical and intellectual disability, and while modern medical advances have helped to prolong life expectancy from around 40 years to an average of 60, the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in DS patients has become more common than ever before. Individuals with DS develop age-dependent cognitive decline and synaptic...

Two months ago, Jason Carter, grandson of former president Jimmy Carter, reported to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the aging president had told his family he wanted to live long enough to cast his vote for Kamala Harris. Carter turned 100 on October 1st, making him the oldest former U.S. president in American history. Early voting begins in Carter's home state of Georgia on Tuesday, meaning Carter has achieved his goal and made it long enough to vote for Vice President Harris.

article at link Jonathan Bailey, academic stooge for The New York Times, releases a weak apologetic for his sell-out to the Times and the Harris campaign. Book deal incoming for Little Jonny the Stooge.

It began when some Orthodox Jewish passengers refused to wear masks on a Lufthansa Airlines flight during the COVID Era in 2022... The Russian military in Syria reporting 16 air space violations involving aircraft of the US-led coalition... The powerful America Israel Public Affairs Committee commenting on the letter leaked out into the mainstream media... An Israeli air attack on the city of Qana in southern Lebanon with ten reported killed... US transport aircraft flying from an air defense artillery base in Texas have been in an out of Israel today... The Pentagon announcing a change of status for 800...

A judge in Georgia has paused a new rule from the Georgia State Election Board that would have required officials to hand-count the number of ballots cast at each polling place. “No training has been administered (let alone developed), no protocols for handling write-in ballots … have been issued, and no allowances have been made in any county’s election budget for additional personnel and other expenses required to implement the Hand Count Rule,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote...

The Biden-Harris administration announced it would not be extending parole for the hundreds of thousands of non-citizens enrolled in a hotly debated migrant flight program, but border hawks say the tough declaration likely won’t lead to any of them being removed from the country. The migrants who entered the United States on two-year parole via the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) program will not see their status renewed when it ends, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to the Daily Caller ...

If you can't wait until the morning to see the racial demographic breakdown of the day #1 Georgia vote, here's a sneak peek (it includes absentees through this point). ⚪White - 57.52% (189,015) ⚫Black - 30.01% (98,805) Total ballots cast - 328,611 Whiter than usual for GA on early voting day #1, but there's plenty of time for that to change—seventeen more EV days to go

Julia Roberts gives former Georgia House of Representatives politician Stacey Abrams a hug on stage at the Cherokee County Reproductive Freedom Rally on Wednesday (October 9) in Canton, Ga. While at the rally, the Oscar winner spoke on stage in support of Kamala Harris-Tim Walz‘s campaign. Julia also showed off her very clever shirt, which had a comma next to the word “la,” to read “Kamala.” If you don’t know, Julia was born in Georgia and spoke about reproductive rights, saying, “I believe in Georgia. I wouldn’t have come home if I didn’t believe that we can accomplish really beautiful...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called former President Trump’s rhetoric “blatantly fascist” Monday morning, as the former president continues to target migrant populations across the country. “Let’s be absolutely clear so that no one is confused. Trump’s rhetoric has become blatantly fascist,” Clinton posted on the social platform X. (snip) Clinton, who challenged Trump in the 2016 presidential election, has long warned that the former president has a dangerous agenda. She warned last month that an October surprise may “distort and pervert” the vice president. “All the warning lights for our democracy are flashing red,” Clinton’s Monday post on...

Former President Donald Trump will make an unusual stop in Pennsylvania this weekend: to work behind the counter at a McDonald’s. Trump will visit the state for a third time this week on Sunday to “work the fry cooker” as part of an effort to tamp down on his Democratic opponent Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign message about working at McDonald’s while in college, according to a source familiar with the matter. It is unclear where in Pennsylvania the former president will appear at McDonald’s. Trump is scheduled to attend the Steelers-Jets game in Pittsburgh on Sunday, CBS news station...

A Michigan State Supreme Court justice accepted an $82,500 donation earlier this year from a PAC tied to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, at a time when the seven-member Supreme Court was deciding an appeal filed by Benson.The campaign committee for State Supreme Court Justice Kyra Harris Bolden reported receiving the donation on May 17, 2024. The source of the donation, Legacy PAC, was founded and operated by Benson. Campaign finance reports show that an $82,500 donation was given on April 26, 2024, to the Keep Kyra Harris Bolden for Justice committee.At the time, Bolden sat on the seven-member...

The Deep State is the permanently entrenched bureaucracy that really runs a country.It is THE establishment.While the Deep State concept is commonly associated with the US government, many other countries have their own versions.Looking at what happens in those countries when an outsider comes to power can help us better understand what the Deep State might do in the US.If an outsider somehow comes to power, there are three possible outcomes:The Deep State kills the outsider.The outsider succeeds in crippling the Deep State and can implement an independent agenda.The Deep State co-opts the outsider.Numerous examples of this dynamic have played...

The next president will likely preside over one of the most consequential periods in the nation’s relations with communist China, an adversary that has the intention and capacity to displace the current U.S.-led world order.Eight in 10 Americans view China unfavorably, according to a Pew Research Center report released in July.Washington also has a consensus that the Chinese regime poses a threat as it closes the power gap with the United States in military, diplomatic, and technological domains.The current approach to China began with former President Donald Trump. Identifying China as a “strategic competitor,” the Trump administration took a new...

I am not a ballistics expert and don't play one on TV. I didn't even sleep in a Holiday Inn Express, so what I write here is based entirely on the analysis of others. But I am pretty sure they are right, given the balance of the evidence and the provenance of the opinion piece published by the New York Times. 65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza https://t.co/5P10AijNyh— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) October 11, 2024At issue is a piece published by the Times in which 65 medical personnel who have worked in Gaza during the Israeli...

In living memory, no Republican president has evoked the blind hatred from the left that Donald Trump has. Not even Richard Nixon, for all his flaws, provoked this seething anger, contempt, and willingness to casually toss aside historical and constitutional norms to damage him. Some on the left made noises about impeaching George W. Bush, but few of them were in Congress, and there was no official proceeding, other than an attempt by the far-left pols Dennis Kucinich and Robert Wexler, which went nowhere.But Trump? Twice. The second impeachment farce was after he left office. He was acquitted in the...

Kamala Harris has made a lot of mistakes in her great cluster-foul-up of a presidential campaign, and one of the worst mistakes she has made was selecting Tim Walz, who went "pheasant hunting" in a too-obviously brand-new vest and cap and with a shotgun he didn't know how to load. The guy is a joke for any number of reasons, and on Tuesday we can add one more to the dogpile: The libertarian Cato Institute has released its annual scoring of state governors on spending and tax policy. Guess who came in dead last?Walz, who is Vice President Kamala Harris’s...

The property management firm managing several buildings in Aurora, Colorado, that have been taken over by members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, is speaking out. The company has taken to X to provide a full description of how the buildings were invaded and taken over by the illegal alien gangsters, how the tenants fled, how people were threatened and assaulted, and how the local government reacted. It all starts here.Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado.In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false...

This is my favorite lane of propaganda to debunk. There is no proof that the 2020 election was stolen except: 1. Six states changed their election laws two months before the 2020 election by executive fiat, instead of going through the proper channels in the legislature. That is a violation of their state constitutions and that in and of itself is enough to invalidate the results of the 2020 election. 2. Mark Zuckerberg, hard left, spent $450 million dollars of private money on our elections. After the 2020 election analysis revealed that most of that money went to benefit Democrats....