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A Democratic strategist outrageously claimed that public safety threats like migrant offenses and carjackings 'don't matter to that many Americans.' Insha Rahman, vice president of advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice, made the jarring declaration while addressing the Democratic National Convention (DNC) crowd during its summer meeting on Monday. The former public defender discussed Donald Trump's crime crackdown in Washington DC, calling his efforts a 'huge opportunity' for Democrats. You want to talk about the crime issues voters care about. Where does Trump go? Migrant crimes, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy...

Augusta National and The R&A have jointly announced that those hoping to qualify for The Masters and Open Championship will have the chance to via select national opens Augusta National, home to The Masters, and The R&A have announced, jointly, plans to align aspects of the qualification criteria for the Masters Tournament and The Open. Specifically, invitations (one year exemptions) will be awarded to winners, or top finishers, of select national opens, with the qualifying criteria beginning immediately. The specific home opens are: Current Scottish Open Champion Current Spanish Open Champion Current Japan Open Champion Current Hong Kong Open Champion...

DC under Trump = Pyongyang on the Potomac! That was the absurd analogy that CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish tried to make on Tuesday's show. Reacting to the news that there have been no murders in the capital for 12 days running under Trump's crime-fighting moves there, Cornish said as she held up the New York Post: "Actually, there's probably no murders in North Korea, too."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

President Donald Trump wants Cracker Barrel to admit its mistake and ditch its disastrous attempt to sterilize its once-beloved brand and logo.The Americana culture and decor that defined Cracker Barrel for decades were put at risk recently when the company’s new woke CEO embraced a revamp that could cost the restaurant its customer base.In his business rescue plan posted to Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump encouraged the country cooking company to “go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response (the ultimate Poll), and manage the company better than ever before.”What started as a slow rollout...

President Donald Trump is embroiled in a multi-front battle with the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank. The latest episode includes Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s refusal to leave her position.On Monday, Trump announced that he “removed” Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud. In his letter announcing the move, Trump cited the Federal Reserve Act’s clause that says the president can fire a board member “for cause,” defined as misconduct or malfeasance.You’re FiredDirector of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte reportedly provided fuel for the allegations that Cook committed mortgage fraud. He referred the case to the Justice Department. According...

The fear-mongers on climate change are alive and well. The compliant media just repeat this made-up garbage every day, without questions. They should be embarrassed by such abject stupidity.Take a look at this article from July:Sounding the alarm over the financial impact for UK households, the Autonomy Institute thinktank said that climate-induced price increases for everyday food items risked pushing almost 1 million people into poverty without urgent government intervention.And of course the solution is not to eat meat; to drive cars powered by the flammable pollutant lithium; and giving up oil, natural gas, and coal. That has been the...

President Donald Trump announced that current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has uncovered bags of hidden documents related to corruption in the 2020 election. Trump, speaking in front of his administration as they continue a historic federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., and push for peace negotiations in the Russia-Ukraine war, directly addressed the bombshell findings. According to a statement by President Trump, these files contain “massive” evidence of wrongdoing and will soon be made public. President Trump: “And you’ve also found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They’re supposed to be burned, and...

They tell us what is (and what isn’t) worth doing.Prices matter. Now, I’m a free market, capitalistic type, so of course I’m going to insist that everyone be tied down to mere gilt and pelf in how they live their lives. Yet it is still true that prices really, really matter.Let’s walk through why that’s true, regardless of your political tribe. Any one thing—any economic resource, fresh water, human labour, cash, capital itself and so on—can be used for a multitude of different things. At any one time, the market price for that thing is the balance between the supply...

BREAKING Police have arrested & charged a 14-year-old girl after she was forced to brandish a knife to defend herself & her friend against a Muslim migrant who attempted to assault her near St Ann’s Lane in Dundee, Scotland. Protect your young daughters from Jihadi Muslims. pic.twitter.com/XdRNqv0M8P— Faraz Pervaiz (@FarazPervaiz3) August 26, 2025

Mark 4:3,4,20 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 The sower soweth the word. 20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. 1.) There are some aspects of the word I think we have over looked and have not gotten the full benefit of. Just from those verses right there we can draw some conclusions. 1.The sower went out to sow, that means he's talking about seed. 2.What is the purpose of sowing...

A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm — the first reported U.S. case tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the diagnosis on Aug. 4. Federal health officials acknowledged the infection in an emailed statement Monday. The person has recovered, and investigators found no transmission to any other people or animals, Maryland health officials said. The CDC investigated the case in coordination with Maryland's health department. Here's what to know. What is New World screwworm? New World screwworm (NWS) is a...

The debate comes days after Gov. Greg Abbott added “legislation to impose penalties or punishments for legislators who willfully absent themselves during a session” to the special session agenda.

Detectives launched a murder investigation after Sean Small, 84, was found outside the property in Newcastle in County Down, Northern Ireland, late on Sunday night. An elderly man who had recently been released from prison after serving a sentence for sexual offences was found dead outside his home after a "brutal and sustained" attack, police have said. Detectives launched a murder investigation after Sean Small, 84, was found outside the property in Newcastle in County Down, Northern Ireland, late on Sunday night. His house and another property have been sealed off by police carrying out forensic examinations. The victim had...

Swift and Kelce started their relationship in 2023, after the NFL player said he tried and failed to meet the singer at an Eras Tour concert.

– Harjinder Singh, in St. Lucie County Jail and facing three charges each of vehicular homicide and manslaughter, is due back in a Florida courtroom Wednesday. On Aug. 12, he tried with an 18-wheeler to make a U-turn on the Florida Turnpike through a point in the divided highway marked “official use only,” leading to the deaths of three people in a minivan. Singh had correct responses to two of 12 verbal questions on an English language proficiency assessment and correctly identified only one of four highway traffic signs during an interview with the Federal Motor Carrier Administration. At 10...

US President Donald Trump said America is studying Ukraine’s use of drones in warfare, according to remarks he made to reporters. Responding to a question, Trump noted that the war in Ukraine is being fought with drones in a way not seen before - and that the US is examining those lessons closely. Trump stated that there hadn’t been a war of that scale since World War II and that it was the most significant development in the history of military affairs. He added that it was a completely new form of combat, a drone war, something that hadn’t existed...

They're everywhere and they don't careSome would call Norwegian tennis star Casper Ruud—currently competing at the US Open— rude with an e for bringing up something many of us have been thinking for years.The NY Post reports under the headline: “Casper Ruud hates the weed smell at US Open: ‘Worst part about New York’”I don’t know about “worst,” but it’s certainly up there. Every time I go to New York I feel as if I’m getting a contact high just walking around midtown Manhattan, a contact high, to be clear, I don’t want.(This goes for many other cities, notably Seattle,...

European leaders are not driving a bandwagon onto which the world is jumping, but rather a hearse toward self-destruction...Fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas - accounted for 87% of the world's energy in 2024...despite more than $5 trillion being spent on wind and solar in the last 20 years.

Russia’s MiG-35, comically dubbed a fourth-generation “+++” fighter, is an overrated “paper tiger” that has been a non-factor in the Ukraine war. With only a handful of aircraft in service, the program is a failure, plagued by significant drawbacks. It lacks its intended advanced AESA radar, its missiles are outmatched, its engines are aging, and its electronic warfare suite is subpar. Instead of a revolutionary dogfighter, the MiG-35 is a symbol of the Russian aviation industry’s inability to deliver on its ambitious promises, making it another costly and ineffective platform.

For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical instruments, scanning the skies for artificial signals. Now, researchers are taking a different approach, this time looking much closer to home for alien artefacts that might already be in our Solar System. A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society describes an innovative method for detecting potential extraterrestrial probes near Earth. Their approach; to use Earth's shadow as a natural filter to eliminate interference from human-made satellites and space debris. Modern skies are cluttered with thousands of satellites and millions of...