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No matter what dictionary you consult, the definition of “emergency” is never “a chronic situation that the leader of a country would like to address using powers not otherwise available to him.” This, though, is how the Trump administration tends to define the term. A national emergency is British troops winning the Battle of Bladensburg and heading toward the White House in 1814. A national emergency is Iranian radicals breaching the US embassy in Tehran and taking 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage in 1979. A national emergency is a pandemic reaching our shores, killing the particularly vulnerable and sickening...

One of the writers of 2022’s Lightyear is doubling down on the decision to put a lesbian kiss in the Disney-Pixar animated film amid conflicting reports about whether or not rap icon Snoop Dogg apologized for his comments critical of LGBT content in children’s media. Lightyear, a failed Toy Story spinoff purporting to present the “real” movie on which Tim Allen’s iconic Buzz Lightyear was based (voiced in the 2022 film by Chris Evans), drew flak from family groups for featuring an on-screen kiss between two female “married” characters. The display of LGBT “representation” was largely relegated to just one...

The redistricting wars are in full swing. Somewhat implausibly, Democrats claim they will match Republicans’ redistricting moves, as in Texas, with moves of their own that will cancel them out. But Democrats just have fewer places than the GOP to pull off these maneuvers and, even where they are in control of state government, are more likely to face institutional obstacles like nonpartisan commissions specifically designed to prevent gerrymandering. Therefore, the net results of these moves and counter-moves is likely to favor the GOP.How badly could all this hurt the Democrats in 2026? In all likelihood, not very. As Nate...

Over the Labor Day weekend, instead of enjoying the last days of summer with family and friends, Democrats and other Trump-deranged folk had nothing better to do than indulge in sick fantasies about the president’s death.Hashtags like #trumpisdead and #whereistrump trended on X, with countless TikToks, Google searches and posts saying “TRUMP DIED” garnering millions of likes and views.This was not a harmless meme or politics as usual. It was seeded by anonymous left-wing social media accounts and amplified by journalists and influencers to create a permission structure to fantasize about Trump’s demise.Despite photos of Trump golfing with his grandchildren...

A far-left federal judge erupted during a hearing on Thursday after the DOJ dismissed a case against a DC man who threatening to kill President Trump. Earlier this week a DC grand jury declined to indict Edward Dana after he was arrested damaging a light fixture at a DC restaurant. Dana also allegedly threatened to kill President Trump and the DC Metro officer who arrested him. .... Snip.... Federal Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui on Thursday screamed from the bench and blasted DOJ lawyers during a hearing to dismiss the case. The judge also apologized to the defendant who threatened kill...

Honoring the Rust Belt’s greatest sellout — and elitist suck-up.It was July 1984, a very late weeknight. My buddy Mike and I closed up Perkins Restaurant in Butler, Pennsylvania, and left about 1 a.m. with a six-pack of Budweiser pounders for the old Kaufman’s department store in downtown Pittsburgh. There we joined a long line of fellow 1980s degenerates sleeping out all night on the sidewalk in quest of coveted Bruce Springsteen concert tickets.Perkins is a nice family restaurant chain. The restaurant where Mike and I worked — he as a junior manager and I as cook, dishwasher, and all-purpose...

Body of Carlo Acutis, to be canonized Sunday, on display in jeans and sneakersROME — Carlo Acutis wore sneakers and jeans, relaxed with his PlayStation, craved Nutella, and loved soccer. On Sunday, the Italian teenager will become the Catholic Church’s first saint from the internet generation.Carlo, a self-taught computer whiz whose devotion to his faith was unusual for his age, died of leukemia in 2006 at just 15.To friends and classmates, he was a well-liked fan of the AC Milan soccer team who would sometimes vanish for hours at a time to write computer code.To fellow parishioners of Milan’s...

See video. Sen. John Kennedy who states: "We need to restore confidence and so far I don't see where Secretary Kennedy has done that. All I see over there is at the moment is a multiple vehicle pileup.” See comments. Sen. Kennedy just took a swim in the swamp sewer. Why would he do this to himself? I had a lot of respect for his common sense and he just destroyed is Rep in my book. It will be a long long time before I stop listening askance to anything this swamp rat says. He clearly lacks common sense. It's...

A young bald eagle visited the nest of internet-famous raptors Jackie and Shadow. The youngster was likely Gizmo, the eagle couple’s daughter. Like Gizmo, this eagle had a dark tail, missing feathers on its left wing and an upturned mouth. When bald eagle power couple Jackie and Shadow’s two baby girls flew their Big Bear nest earlier this summer, it was bittersweet.Thousands of adoring fans had watched them hatch on a 24-hour webcam that monitors the family and now they were growing up — fast. But one of the internet-famous youngsters, Gizmo, may have just dropped by her childhood home,...

Police Scotland has charged a man and a woman in connection to the incident which saw a 12-year-old-girl charged for allegedly brandishing an axe and a machete. The school girl was said to have been in possession of the weapons when she was walking around a street in the Lochee area of Dundee last month. It comes after footage of the alleged incident circulated online and was shared by X Supremo Elon Musk and Far Right campaigner Tommy Robinson. Even First Minister John Swinney was forced to step in to call for users to stop spreading misinformation around the case....

The decision, affecting hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid, has alarmed NATO allies and upset U.S. lawmakers who strongly back the alliance.The Trump administration intends to halt longtime security assistance programs for Europe, including an initiative to fortify the continent’s eastern flank against a potential attack by Russia, as it endeavors to recast Washington’s role within NATO, according to six people familiar with the matter.The decision would impact hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military aid relied upon by some of the alliance’s most vulnerable members. It has alarmed U.S. allies struggling to comprehend the administration’s...

The Trump administration aims to carry out more violent strikes against drug cartels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he met with Ecuador’s president.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the Trump administration wants to help partner governments conduct violent strikes against criminal groups, following the playbook the U.S. military used this week to carry out a lethal attack on a boat in the Caribbean.“Those governments will help us find these people and blow them up,” he said at a news conference in Ecuador. “They might do it themselves, and we’ll help them do it.”Mr. Rubio made his...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Kate Smith worked a 9-to-5 office job, she was burned-out, suffering from daily migraines and thinking, “I can’t do this for the rest of my life.” She didn’t have to. For her next role, Smith landed a remote, full-time marketing job that enabled her to travel the world.Her laptop lifestyle took her to Bali, where she lived and worked for a year-and-a-half. “Every day, I was riding my scooter through the rice fields and thinking, ‘I love my life, this is amazing,’” she said. “And that feeling never fades. ... I feel so grateful for...

Four Democrat-run states have issued their own vaccine guidelines after Florida banned all mandates. The governors of California, Oregon and Washington state announced this week they have formed the West Coast Health Alliance in an effort to 'ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.' The alliance plans to review scientific data and make vaccine recommendations for residents in these states that are independent from federal guidelines. These guidelines will sidestep those enacted by the Trump administration and vaccine skeptic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, including recent restrictions on the Covid shot. It's the first blue-state...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced senators Thursday as criticism mounts over the CDC director’s firing and COVID vaccine access cuts.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert K. Kennedy Jr appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday amid calls for his resignation and defended his stance on vaccines and his decisions to fire personnel in his department. Kennedy has faced criticism, both from within HHS as well as the medical community, for the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez and for reducing access to COVID-19 vaccines.He told lawmakers that he is “pro-medicine, not anti-vaccine.”...

Summary Republican Senator Cassidy contrasts Kennedy's anti-vaccine stance with Trump's 2020 COVID vaccine initiative Kennedy defends firing CDC Director Monarez, vaccine policy changes Democrats, medical groups call for health secretary's resignation WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Democrats and Republicans pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Jr. on his recent vaccine policies and their stark contrast to President Donald Trump's successful first-term pandemic initiative to speed vaccine development during a combative three-hour Senate hearing on Thursday. Half a dozen heated exchanges focused on the details of his decision to fire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, who...

You all support off-label, untested, and irreversible hormonal "therapies" for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You're full of **** and everyone knows it.

[Catholic Caucus] News from Charlotte: Bishop Comes for the Catholic Schools' MassesWe have received a report of the new liturgical directives which Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte wishes to impose on the masses of Paul VI celebrated in the three Catholic high schools under his jurisdiction. The goal is apparently the decatholicization of the new liturgy in the schools under his authority.Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, they are exactly what we would expect, given what we have previously seen of his ideas about “liturgical norms.”The use of kneelers and communion rails for the distribution of Holy Communion is forbidden.There must be...

The Deep State with the HHS is going ALL OUT to sabotage HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to drain the swamp, promote medical freedom, and make America healthy again. Even more ominously, they use an old CIA book to carry out their sinister tasks.Conservative activist Benny Johnson obtained information from whistleblowers showing that career CDC and HHS bureaucrats are distributing a CIA manual entitled “Simple Sabotage,” which was orginally written in 1944, to their subordinates. The CDC ranks are currently carrying out this CIA strategy to the T.SNIPSNIPSNIPSNIP

Democratic Socialist of America members — including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — should leave the Democratic Party and create their own, Rep. Tom Suozzi said. “Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists should create their own party because I don’t want that in my party,” Suozzi, a Democrat, said of the far left policies on CBS New York’s “The Point” show with Marcia Kramer that aired Sunday. Suozzi — whose third congressional district includes parts of Queens as well as Long Island — also said he hopes “he [Mamdani] doesn’t win” the mayoralty because...