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Sean O’Brien, president of the Teamsters, recently revealed that during the 2024 presidential election season, Vice President Kamala Harris stormed out of a meeting with the union, telling O’Brien she’d “win with you or without you,” only to be crushed by President-elect Donald Trump in November. O’Brien recounted the incident during an appearance on “The Tucker Carlson Show” on Monday, during which he also talked about the union’s historic decision to pass on giving a presidential endorsement for the first time in three decades. According to a new report from The New York Post, Vice President Kamala Harris agreed to...

Panel of pundits, one token leftard, discussing social housing going primarily to immigrants, paid for by British taxpayers. Leftard calls people racists, etc. Transcript linked below video.

On November 21, 1945, in the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg, Germany, Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States, made his opening statement to the International Military Tribunal Just needed to share this. I thought it was simply a masterpiece.

(Broadcast at source link)TranscriptBill AndersWe are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the...

A Russian cargo ship that Ukraine claims was sent to Syria to collect weapons has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, according to officials in Moscow. Two crew members are missing after an engine room explosion sank the Ursa Major between Spain and Algeria, the foreign ministry said. Fourteen other crew were rescued and taken to Spain. Ukraine's military intelligence claimed yesterday that the ship, previously called Sparta III, had been sent to Syria to remove weapons and military equipment after the fall of Bashar al Assad.

The debate around the value of flexible work for government workers has intensified, not only at the federal level but also in state government, with certain legislators adamant about mandating a return to traditional office settings. In Wisconsin, this has come to a head, with Gov. Tony Evers (D) threatening to veto any state budget that contains return-to-office mandates for state employees. Using Wisconsin as a lens, it is evident that pushing government employees back into the office en masse is not only counterproductive but also short-sighted, ignoring the realities of modern work dynamics and evidence supporting flexible arrangements. Wisconsin’s...

7,970,788 views Dec 8, 2010 Kerrie Roberts Performing her version of "O Holy Night" from the Essential Christmas Collection.

Officials at 3 northern hospitals have so far refused orders by Israel to evacuate, abandon patientsA Palestinian woman is helped out of an ambulance after she was wounded on Tuesday, in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. (Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images)Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away in Gaza City, the territory's health ministry said on Tuesday. The Indonesian Hospital is one of the Gaza Strip's few still partially functioning hospitals, on its northern edge, an area that has been under...

missile crashed into a Tel Aviv playground over the weekend....Israeli reports said that senior defense officials, including the head of the Mossad spy agency, believe the correct move is to attack Iran directly, rather than go for its proxy group in Yemen...Israeli military sources said the strikes were aimed at paralyzing all three ports used by the Iran back group. The targets included fuel and oil depots, two power stations, and eight tugboats used at the Houthi-controlled ports...The Houthis began their attacks on Israel and against global shipping routes in the Red Sea last November, in the the wake of...

America's largest sanctuary city is getting ready to stop Donald Trump, the largest name in American politics... but to do it, they've got to double down on the very policies that got him elected for the 2nd time. Transcript linked below video.

News that President-Elect Donald Trump intends to pardon many who were prosecuted for trespassing in the Capitol on January 6, 2021 has Senator-Elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif) "greatly concerned. He has no mandate for this. Voters didn't elect him to pardon the MAGA fanatics who tried to overthrow the government on that day." While the narrative created by Schiff, other Democrats and the Media has been that the disturbance at the Capitol was an insurrection, many others have come to doubt that version of events. The most obvious incongruity is that none of those accused of committing insurrection brought firearms. The...

He's riled the farmers, the Waspi women pensioners, and the hoi polloi generally. Labour back-benchers want him out. Transcript linked below video.

Recently, I was asked what I thought was the seminal event in the first quarter of the 21st Century. The past twenty-five years, beginning in January of 2000, have been fraught with wars, terrorism, religious persecution, natural disasters, political intrigue, and financial instability. Yet nothing compares to the impact, both short and long-term, of the global elites’ malevolent exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic to permanently embed an authoritarian international world order. The politically motivated and unprecedented overreaction to a virus with a 99.5% survival rate was launched in March 2020, unleashing what can best be described as a once-in-a-century fiasco....

Original song written and composed by Chrissie Hynde; recorded in 1983 by The Pretenders "2000 Miles" is a song by British-American rock band Pretenders. Written by lead vocalist Chrissie Hynde and produced by Chris Thomas, it was released on 18 November 1983 as the second single from their third studio album, Learning to Crawl. It was most popular in the UK, where it peaked at No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1983. Wikipedia The lyrics were written after the band’s original guitarist James Honeyman-Scott passed away in 1982, at the age of 25. Chrissie Hynde’s lyrics --‘He’s...

The far-left New York Daily News reported that a woman died after she mysteriously caught fire on a Brooklyn subway car. The headline is a straight-up lie: “Woman dies after she catches fire in Brooklyn subway car; NYPD suspects homicide.”The Daily News deleted the tweet, but here’s a screen cap: Screen shot of Daily News BS spin. The police made very clear that a suspect currently in custody is believed to have deliberately lit a sleeping woman’s clothes on fire and then sat there to watch her burn … alive.So… She didn’t “catch fire.” The only way to “catch fire”...

Two notorious San Fernando Valley men sentenced to death in federal court in 2007 for a kidnappings-for-ransom scheme and the cold-blooded murder of five people have had their sentences commuted to life in prison by President Biden. Iouri Mikhel and Jurijus Kadamovas, Soviet immigrants, operated an aquarium store on Ventura Boulevard where they hatched their gruesome plot, the Los Angeles Times reported. The duo targeted the immigrant community, luring victims in with the promise of profitable business deals before ruthlessly beating them, kidnapping them, demanding ransoms from their families and, ultimately, strangling them to death. Between 2001 and 2002, Mikhel...

ROME — Pope Francis called for a global ceasefire this weekend while again decrying Israel’s “cruelty” in dealing with Palestinians in Gaza. “Let us pray for a ceasefire on all war fronts, in Ukraine, the Holy Land, in all the Middle East and the entire world, at Christmas,” the pontiff said in his weekly Angelus address Sunday. “And with sorrow I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty; of the children machine-gunned, the bombing of schools and hospitals… So much cruelty!”

There is no road rage quite like backroad rage. The story of the failed prosecution of Alphonsus O’Connell involved allegations of many of the familiar elements of road rage, and not just by him, but also his alleged victim: honking, tailgating, brake checking, forcing someone off the road, brandishing a firearm. It also had vastly conflicting accounts about what actually happened that call to mind the old joke that anyone driving faster than you is a maniac and anyone slower is an idiot. The fact that it happened on a dirt road in the wild Newfoundland woods with no witnesses...

2,832,470 views Dec 17, 2011 Greg Lake (of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer) performs his 1975 classic "I Believe in Father Christmas" filmed live at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, in the City of London with Jethro Tull' s Ian Anderson on flute, David Arch on keyboards, Florian Opahle on acoustic guitar and the church choir.

I first wrote this in 2010 and I'm considering making it my annual Christmas post. I republished it in 2017 as a response to a study I read: Study: American Kids Lack Entrepreneurial Spirit. That's like a dagger to the heart to someone who knows a bit of history and understands that the American free market has driven more prosperity and pulled more people out of poverty than any system ever in human history. The loss of American entrepreneurial spirit for the world would be like the sun running out of hydrogen. It won't implode immediately, but for freedom and...