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PHILADELPHIA, PA — The nation is in shock today after a widely-circulated video showing a Philly sports fan acting like a Philly sports fan. The video shows a woman dressed in Phillies gear demanding a kid turn over the home run ball that his dad had just scored him on his birthday, which is the sort of horrific behavior expected of all Philly sports fans. "Stealing a kid's home run ball on his birthday, that's pretty standard," said Philly sports fan Mark Madison. "I don't really understand why everyone is acting so surprised and appalled. This is Philly we're talking...

A term that became popular in the last decade or two is the Overton Window Principle. It was a theory conceived in the 1990s by a brilliant young engineer-turned-lawyer, Joseph Overton, who was a libertarian and executive in a libertarian think tank, the Mackinac Center, in MichiganWhile working in fundraising for the Mackinac Center, Overton developed his Window principle, while explaining to audiences the purpose of think tanks. The essential idea is that there is in every society a “window”, or range, of thoughts and policies that are generally acceptable to the wider population. The purpose of think tanks, he...

The COVID vaccine debate sparks anew in Senate hearing.WASHINGTON — As he sat in the hot seat during a Senate hearing Thursday morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recognized that he was in the center of a religious debate — on vaccines.On one side were finance committee Democrats and a couple of Republicans who are staunchly pro-vaccine. (I support COVID vaccines too. I just think the health care establishment ought to be a little more humble.)On the other side were Republicans who loved Kennedy for resisting the establishment orthodoxy — or what Democrats refer to with...

New documents show that President Biden was checked out of decisions on pardoning felons and commuting the sentences of death-row inmates while his aides worked to make him look involved on paper. The National Archives and Records Administration handed over Biden administration memos detailing steps taken to create a record that would make Mr. Biden look like the decision-maker for the thousands of pardons signed by autopen during his final days in office.“Internal emails reveal Biden didn’t review thousands of pardons granted in his final days and even his own White House lawyers were scrambling for proof he approved them,”...

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced that he will work with Gov. DeSantis (R) and the state legislature to repeal all laws mandating vaccinations. "The state should not be forcing anyone to get vaccinated," he said. "Look, if vaccinations work they will protect the person being vaccinated from both getting the disease and transmitting it to others. Doctors will remain free to recommend vaccination. Individuals will remain free to choose vaccinations for themselves and their children. We just don't need or want government to force anyone to get vaccinated." Dr. Susan Kressly, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics,...

Democrats are on a dead end: Socialism is 200 years old and is leading these leftists to doom. The left sealed its fate in tying itself to collectivist ideologies, but now they're joining with some very ominous allies. Everything old is 'new' again – with a very ominous novel twist. The rising stars of socialism are bursting forth with brand-new' ideas of buying votes with other people's money. But these days the left is in dire straits and taking a page from the Iranian revolution in teaming up with Islamists in a desperate bid to win and then sort out...

LAPD discontinued protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday amid criticism that officers were being diverted from crime suppression duties. The temporary security arrangement began when President Trump revoked Harris’s Secret Service protection, forcing California agencies to scramble for coverage. Police union criticized pulling officers from protecting “everyday Angelenos” to guard a “multi-millionaire” who can afford private security. The Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday discontinued its protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris after heavy criticism within its own ranks that officers were being diverted from crime suppression, sources told The Times. LAPD Metropolitan Division officers had...

After they have displaced us and our culture, our language will also disappear. In Southeast Michigan, this is happening already: Dearborn Heights Police Department is believed to be the first in the country to have a patch with a language other than English. Just as the replacement religion is Islam, the replacement language is Arabic. Unlike neighboring Dearborn, Dearborn Heights is not yet majority Middle Eastern/North African. But it won’t take long. (video on link) I hope the woman wearing the cross necklace has made her escape plans.

Residents want solutions to crime, but many who live here say aggressive federal law enforcement tactics threaten civil rights and instill a sense of fear, not safety.Massive demonstrations with tens of thousands of people marching down Washington streets are as familiar as summer thunderstorms to generations of D.C. residents. But as President Donald Trump’s takeover of law enforcement in the District nears the 30-day mark, there have been noticeably few large-scale protests against it. Resistance to Trump’s edict looks and sounds different this time. The pushback is personal. Opponents of what they see as an authoritarian clampdown on the city...

No wonder transsexual moonbats weep such bitter tears. This poor guy says he isn’t allowed in the ladies’ room: (Video on link, BARF alert) If the men’s room isn’t “correct” for him, maybe he could set up a litterbox in the corner of his office.

Gregory Washington, George Mason’s first Black president, runs a university that prizes diversity. That has made him a target of the Trump administration.Gregory N. Washington, the first Black president of George Mason University, remembers the tumult on campus as he began his new job in 2020.It was the era of Black Lives Matter, and students were protesting over the man the school is named after, a complicated Virginia historical figure and slaveholder. Demonstrators were demanding that a statue of Mason on campus be torn down, Dr. Washington said.Five years later, George Mason’s statue remains intact, and politics are once again...

As he signed an order recognizing the Defense Department as the “Department of War,” President Trump said that the country “could have won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct.”President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that ceremonially recognized the Defense Department as the “Department of War,” a name that was dropped after World War II and that the president claimed had caused the country to enter wars it “never fought to win.”“We won World War II. We won everything before, and as I said, we won everything in between,” Mr. Trump said at an...

Attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a Friday letter that they intend to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the African nation of Eswatini after he expressed a fear of deportation to Uganda. The letter from ICE to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys was earlier reported by Fox News. It states that his fear of persecution or torture in Uganda is “hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries. ...Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini.” Eswatini’s government...

Spurgeon’s College in London will begin auctioning off memorabilia and artifacts from the storied institution, including several items that belonged to ‘The Prince of Preachers’ himself, such as his bookshelf and the trowel used by Spurgeon to lay the foundation of the original Pastors College. In June, Spurgeon’s College, the London-based Baptist institution founded in 1856 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, announced in a press release that it has closed its doors for good, citing financial hardships and struggles. Founded when he was just 22 years old, the college trained nearly 900 pastors during the esteemed Baptist preacher’s lifetime, and almost...

Detectives working the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island visited Jones Beach after discovering disturbing evidence — including a bloody glove — near where suspect Rex Heuermann once worked, The Post has learned.

Thank Goodness we live in America, because Canada they've absolutely lost it. Check it out.

CBS News will stop editing 'Face the Nation' interviews after Kristi Noem accused it of cutting her remarks, citing a push for more transparency. Days after complaints over the handling of an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on “Face the Nation,” CBS News said Friday it would no longer allow editing of its guests' words on the Sunday morning public affairs show.Noem charged that CBS had “shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth” about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of controversies about President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Her interview...

Florida is host to a variety of invasive species, largely thanks to its history in the exotic pet trade. However, there’s one amphibian you may want to keep an eye out for, as it could prove dangerous. That’s the cane toad — also dubbed the “Bufo” toad — which was originally brought to Florida in the 1930s as part of a pest control program, according to the UF/IFAS. At the time, cane toads were used to eat beetles threatening sugar cane crops in the state, though the initial population didn’t survive this attempt. Instead, around 100 of these toads were...

Explanation: When the sun sets on September 7, the Full Moon will rise. And on that date denizens around much of our fair planet, including parts of Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Africa can witness a total lunar eclipse, with the Moon completely immersed in Earth's shadow. As the bright Full Moon first enters Earth's shadow it will darken, finally taking on a reddish hue during the total eclipse phase. In fact, the color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse is due to reddened light from sunrises and sunsets around planet Earth. The reddened sunlight is scattered by...

Former singer and songwriter Ray Boltz has ‘married’ his longtime partner, Franco Sperduti, after nearly 20 years together. Boltz, 72, a prominent recording artist through the late 1980s and 1990s, is perhaps best known for his song “Thank You,” which won the 1990 GMA Dove Award for Song of the Year, as well as “Watch the Lamb” and “I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb.” He briefly retired from music in 2003, separated from his wife, Carol, with whom he had four children, in 2005, and finalized the divorce in 2008. He reemerged on the music scene in 2010 with his...