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If you would hear it from the liberal internationalists, the battle for the future of democracy is being fought in Tbilisi. There, protestors are facing off with – in Brussels’ telling – a pro-Kremlin gang eager to drag Georgia into Russia’s orbit. The European Union, it claims, is supportive of Georgia taking a democratic path. But Brussels does not want a democracy – it wants a client state. How did we get here? It started when the Georgian government (now opposition) blundered into a major war with Russia, back in 2008. Georgia lost that war, and the government was resoundingly...

TikTok's bid to overturn a law which would see it banned or sold in the US from early 2025 has been rejected. The social media company had hoped a federal appeals court would uphold its argument that the law was unconstitutional. TikTok's lawyers told the court in September that a ban would have a "staggering" impact on the free speech of its 170 million US users. But the court ruled the law "was the culmination of extensive, bipartisan action by the Congress and by successive presidents." The law was "carefully crafted to deal only with control by a foreign adversary,...

Democratic city councilor in Boston, Tania Fernandes Anderson, was arrested on Friday morning on charges of funneling tax dollars through federal employees to hide her personal debts. Anderson, a former illegal immigrant, was arrested on charges of five counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud and one count of aiding and abetting theft concerning a program receiving federal funds.

With only a little over 40 days left of his disastrous presidency, Joe Biden will stumble out of office ranked by voters as our worst modern president. His obscene pardon of his criminal son Hunter did not help his standing. J.L. Partners polled 1,006 registered voters and asked them to rank Biden and every other president reaching back to Richard M. Nixon. Biden scored lower than Nixon. “Some 44 percent placed [Biden] as one of the worst two, while only 14 percent placed him in the top two, giving him a net score of 30 points underwater,” reports the Daily...

There are at least four steps Trump can take immediately to make good on campaign promises to vanquish DEI from the federal bureaucracy. According to the White House, “hours after taking the oath of office,” President Joe Biden embarked on an ambitious “day one,” “whole of government” agenda to “advance racial equity.” What followed was a shock-and-awe program of racial preferences. During his term, Biden signed three signature pieces of legislation — the American Rescue Plan Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act — which gave certain preferred racial groups access to programs, benefits, and special treatment,...

Liberals often deny the existence of the Deep State. Thus we see columns like this, in the New York Times: "What Happens When You Fight a ‘Deep State’ That Doesn’t Exist." And this one by David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker: "There Is No Deep State." But on today's episode of CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt acknowledged something that is effectively a synonym for the Deep State. Describing the challenges facing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in their Department of Government Efficiency [DOGE] undertaking to render the federal government more efficient and less costly, Hunt said: "There is...

Europe’s ultra-powerful new WEAVE telescope, undergoing its inaugural ‘first-light’ instrument activation, recorded a collision between galaxies in a region of deep space called Stephan’s Quintet, where one of the galaxies was traveling at two million miles per hour. Designed to study the composition of stars and galaxies, the William Herschel Telescope is a 20-million Euro collaboration between France, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands, and Spain, with the latter hosting the actual facility in La Palma. The facility’s Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE) wide-field spectrograph’s Large Integral Field Unit (LIFU) is the first of the telescope’s instruments to be activated and...

Days after announcing on social media that he planned to open a music store in Williamsburg, Virginia, John Hinckley Jr. told News4 that his plan had changed. Hinckley — who shot President Ronald Reagan in a 1981 assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton — spent nearly 30 years in psychiatric care before his release. He has lived in the Williamsburg area since then. Hinckley announced his business plans on social media Monday, writing on X, "I’ll be opening a music store in Williamsburg, Va. The address is 455 Merrimack [sic] Trail. Grand opening is in a week or two!" The...

Former President Barack Obama moderates a conversation with Manu Meel, Co-Founder and CEO of BridgeUSA, Ainka Jackson, Founding executive director of the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation and Nika Kovač, Director of Slovenia-based Institute 8th of March during the Obama Foundation's 2024 Democracy Forum on December 5, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)It’s not election disinformation, apparently, if Barack Obama does it.During the keynote speech at the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum on Thursday, the 44th president made what, out of the mouth of a Republican, would be called “wild asserts,” “irresponsible disinformation” and “false...

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing Syria's third-largest city Homs amid reports that rebels are closing in, just over a week since they launched their lightning offensive. The rebels seized Hama to the north on Thursday, a second major blow to President Bashar al Assad who lost control of Aleppo last week. The leader of the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, told residents of Homs "your time has come". Rebel forces began the biggest offensive against Syria's government in years last week. They have been advancing south, and Homs would be the next stop...

Esquire has deleted a column that used a false claim about former President George H.W. Bush as the basis to justify President Biden's decision to pardon his son, Hunter. In a Tuesday column, liberal pundit Charles P. Pierce claimed that Hunter Biden was not the first presidential son caught up in controversy, asking readers, "Anybody Remember Neil Bush?" "Nobody defines Poppy Bush's presidency by his son's struggles or the pardons he issued on his way out of the White House. The moral: Shut the f--- up about Hunter Biden, please," he wrote in the sub-headline. "[The] lucky American businessman['s]… father...

A former Kentucky sheriff was indicted last week in the slaying of a judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers two months ago, shocking a tiny Appalachian community. NewsNation investigative reporter Allison Weiner reveals exclusive recordings involving Judge Kevin Mullins and alleged victims.

SNIP Today sadly all too much now reprises the 1930s, with governments standing by as rioters deface Jewish institutions across the country. Some of this comes from political extremists, but a key driver has been poorly vetted immigrants from countries with very different traditions. In what is the fourth-largest Jewish country (after Israel, the United States and France), 82 per cent of Canadian Jews feel less safe today than before the October 7 pogrom. The Jews of Canada have been abandoned by the very forces — the Liberal party, the big cities and the universities — which once nurtured them....

The Manhattan jury deliberating Daniel Penny’s case in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last year is deadlocked on the manslaughter charge, according to a note the panel sent to the court Friday. The 12-person jury sent the note marking its impasse after 16 hours of deliberating since they got the case Tuesday afternoon. The judge and the parties are conferring over how to respond.

One of the teens found guilty of the murder of 64-year-old Reggie Brown back on Oct. 17, 2023, was sentenced Wednesday. A 13 and 14-year-old girl were in court throughout October, accused of joining several other girls in chasing the 64-year-old man and beating him to death. During a hearing Wednesday, the 13-year-old was sentenced until her 21st birthday, in restrictive commitment at DYRS.

Some union leaders are self-destructive idiots. America's ports have fallen behind. Not a single one ranks in the top 50 worldwide. A big reason is that dock unions stop innovation. Advertisement This fall, the International Longshoremen's Association shut down East and Gulf coast ports, striking for a raise and a ban on automation. They got the raise. Now union president Harold Daggett says longshoremen will strike again in January if they don't get that ban on automation. His statement in my new video makes it clear that he knows how badly his strike would damage other Americans. "Guys who sell...

Daily Readings from the USCCBAnd their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” But they went out and spread word of him through all that land. Matthew 9:30–31Who is Jesus? This question is much more easily answered today than it was at the time Jesus walked the Earth. Today we are blessed with countless saints who have gone before us who have prayerfully and intelligently taught much about the person of Jesus. We know Him to be God, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Savior of the World, the promised Messiah,...

[H/T azkathy]Reports it took over $6 Billion in profit out of healthcare for Wall Street in Q3 2024 release. Trump’s Project 2025 would DOUBLE UnitedHealth’s privatized Medicare revenue and profit.Due to Trump’s Project 2025 implementationThe number of people denied care by UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage plans would jump to 5.2 million people annually.UnitedHealthcare would likely take in $274 billion annually from privatized Medicare alone. UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, would likely gain more revenue and profit due to Project 2025 implementation than any other health corporation.Summary: UnitedHealth would be one of the largest financial beneficiaries of Project 2025, since...

Sources within the police community told the New York Post that the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer traveled to NYC on a Greyhound bus from Atlanta last month. The bus on which the killer is believed to have traveled originated in Atlanta, however, authorities are not certain as whether the killer boarded the bus there or climbed aboard at a stop along the way. Breitbart News reported 50-year-old Thompson was shot and killed outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan just after 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday. A manhunt for the killer was immediately launched and today marks the third day of the...

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced Friday that he is stepping aside in his bid for another term as leader. The move follows months of escalating criticism from MAGA conservatives within his party, who have sought to remove him from power and reshape the House’s leadership. Phelan, who claimed he had the votes to fend off a challenge from former ally Rep. David Cook, withdrew just a day before the GOP caucus was set to choose its speaker nominee regardless. Infamously, Phelan assisted the failed plot to impeach and remove the Lone Star State’s America First Attorney General, Ken Paxton.