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For over a century, everyone believed that The Devil's Checkmate (1831), the famous painting by Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, depicted the ultimate defeat of the human soul at the hands of the devil -- a dark scene with no apparent way out. But in 1888, chess champion Paul Morphy saw the painting... and noticed something no one else had. According to the story, he studied the board, analyzed the position of the pieces, and revealed that the young man wasn't lost after all -- he still had one move left. This discovery not only changed how we look at the...

A true mask off moment for Thomas Massie. Only $22,000 of the nearly 540k of individual donations came from within Kentucky. This guy has become everything that he claims to hate.

I want to ask my Christian friends a question: Just say you are attending a big Republican Christian conference with well-known people speaking in a major US City. The week before the event, you get an email telling you that when you are not actually in the event, you should not wear your credentials in the hotel or outside for security reasons. What would be your response?

Long before mass surveillance, social credit systems, and the algorithmic manipulation of truth became part of our daily lives, Russian writers were warning us. Not with data charts or manifestos—but with novels, plays, and poems that seemed to peer through the veil of their own turbulent times and glimpse something terrifyingly familiar: our present. ...They didn’t predict flying cars or space tourism. Instead, they foresaw how totalitarian regimes would manipulate language, how the human spirit could be engineered, and how the very idea of truth could be dismantled and rebuilt at the whim of the state. ...Yet, their work is...

We have more clarity regarding an interesting factoid from last weekend’s anti-Trump rallies that swept across the country and Democrats will not like hearing it. As the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft previously reported, Democrats and Communists, or Communist Democrats, held “No Kings” rallies in cities around the country last weekend. The protests, organized by the progressive group Indivisible, took place in over 2,000 locations across the U.S. and even internationally, including cities like Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Kansas City, and Bozeman, as well as spots in Canada and Mexico. These rallies came as President Trump...

Two US House Republicans are pushing the federal justice department to investigate the path to citizenship of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate favored to win the 4 November election for New York City mayor. Congressman Randy Fine of Florida and Andy Ogles of Tennessee – both staunch proponents of Donald Trump’s presidential administration – have been leading the push, which has been condemned by Democratic officials and Muslim civil rights groups as “racist and anti-Muslim”. Fine in recent days demanded the federal government “review every naturalization of the past 30 years – starting with Mamdani”. Fine told the New York...

The Cuomo campaign threw up an AI generated political ad attacking his political opponent Zohran Mamdani, And it's both hilarious and frightening. Take a look: VIDEO AT LINK................. https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1981150231174746370 According to the New York Post, the usual motley crew of leftists showed up to scream "racism," despite the fact that the video is mostly a mix of The Sopranos and inebriated Golden Girls. Of course, the campaign quickly kowtowed to the vitriol and pulled the video. Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi denied the video was an ad in a statement swiping back at the attacks. ‘The video was a draft proposal...

As a poll shows that four out of five Britons want Sir Keir Starmer to officially strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom, and the clamour mounts for him to be chucked out of his 30 bedroom mansion Royal Lodge, it will be of some solace to Beatrice and Eugenie that at least their own titles aren’t going anywhere. As the phrase goes: ‘Born a princess, always a princess’. “I know Harry has been texting Uge a lot”, says a friend of Eugenie. “There are lots of jokes about them going to live as exiled royals together in Portugal”. This might...

California Democrat wants future presidential nominees to destroy $250M addition on day one -------------------------------------------- Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said the next Democratic presidential nominee must vow to demolish President Donald Trump's White House ballroom, proposing the pledge a litmus test for the party’s 2028 contenders. "Don’t even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE," Swalwell wrote on X on Saturday.

A Maryland high school student was handcuffed at gunpoint by cops after an artificial intelligence system confused his bag of Doritos for a firearm. Taki Allen, 16, was waiting to be picked up from football practice at Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland, when he said police walked up to him with guns and demanded he get on the floor. 'At first, I didn't know where they [were] going until they started walking towards me with guns talking about "Get on the ground!"' he told WBAL. 'I was like, "What?"' Body camera footage obtained by WJZ showed police detaining Allen...

As great as I found director Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, nothing about its box office failure is surprising. And it is not only a failure; it is a shocking failure for box office analysts who projected an opening as high as $25 million with a $15 million worst case. Well, as of this morning, the groomers at the Disney Grooming Syndicate are wishing that worst-case scenario had come about, because Deliver Me from Nowhere is staring into the abyss of a pathetic $9 million weekend debut and a humiliating fourth-place finish. According to various reports, Nowhere cost...

Fox News Digital did something clever: It interviewed a psychotherapist about the predominance of older, educated white women at the recent No Kings protests. His answers made me laugh out loud, though there’s a very sad subtext to what he said, because the driving force behind these protesting women has negative ramifications for America as a whole. We already know that the No Kings protesters who donned foolish costumes and waved mean-spirited signs and Mexican and Palestinian flags represented a narrow subset of Americans: Old, white, and female, especially female. Axios’s data analysis showed what the typical attendees looked like...

Dad ‘died of grief’ after daughter, 12, was raped and beheaded by migrant in France, her mom reveals The father of a 12-year-old girl “died of grief” after his daughter was kidnapped, raped, tortured and then beheaded in France by a sadistic Algerian migrant, the girl’s mother told a court. Lola Daviet’s body was found horrifically mutilated and partially decapitated in a suitcase after she was murdered in 2022 — in a case that shocked the nation and sparked protests over lax immigration enforcement. Dhabia Benkired, 27, a prostitute who overstayed her visa in France, was convicted of the killing.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, October 20, 2025. Evaristo Sa / AFP. The persecution of ordinary citizens on behalf of the LGBT movement will be funded by the state—that is, by the taxpayers being targeted. President Lula da Silva’s Brazil has taken another step towards totalitarianism with the launch of a massive platform designed to streamline the prosecution of those who criticize LGBT ideology. With Orwellian irony, it has been called the ‘Platform of Respect.’ “The Ministry of Human Rights, in partnership with the NGO Aliança Nacional LGBTI+, launched a platform aimed at holding legally accountable authors of...

It’s time to make men “dangerous” again. Father and son Matt and Maxim Smith join Glenn to break down their epic alternative to a college education. While most young people descend into debt to prepare for jobs already threatened by the rise of AI, 19-year-old Maxim has spent what would have been his college years becoming an EMT, wrangling horses in Wyoming, sailing the Falkland Islands, earning a pilot's license, learning Muay Thai in Thailand, and more as the first beta tester for “The Preparation,” an adventure designed to make young men “confident, competent, and dangerous.” In a culture that...

Jets legend Nick Mangold died on Saturday night from complications of kidney disease just two weeks after he publicly revealed he needed a kidney transplant. Mangold was 41 years old. On Oct. 14, Mangold announced that he had been diagnosed in 2006 with a genetic defect that led to chronic kidney disease. He said he had a “rough summer” and was undergoing dialysis while seeking a kidney transplant. Mangold, who played center, was a first-round pick by the Jets in 2006. He went on to be one of the key pieces in a team that went to the playoffs three...

A woman and her four-day-old newborn have died after her boyfriend allegedly strangled her and set fire to their home in New York while the child was still inside. Kidane Haile, 30, was indicted and arraigned for second-degree murder on October 23 in Erie County after allegedly killing his girlfriend, 29-year-old Kathleen Carrig, and his infant son, Noah, according to the district attorney's office. District Attorney Mike Keane said Haile 'is accused of intentionally killing his girlfriend prior to the fire,' and added that his office anticipates filing additional charges after further

Vice President JD Vance skewered Big Apple mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani after the lefty-pol delivered a teary speech about his Muslim aunt’s fear in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,” Vance wrote Saturday morning on X, sharing a clip of the socialist candidate choking back tears as he recalled the anti-Muslim bias his family experienced in the aftermath of 9/11. Mamdani – who beamed in a photo with an unindicted co-conspirator from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing – vowed...

A high-ranking Kremlin official has hinted at a potential breakthrough in ending the war in Ukraine. Kirill Dmitriev, a senior Kremlin official, expressed optimism that Russia, Ukraine, and the United States are "quite close" to reaching an agreement to end the ongoing conflict, now in its fifth year.

A French court on Friday sentenced an Algerian woman to life imprisonment without parole for raping, torturing and murdering a girl in Paris, making her the first woman to receive this maximum sentence. Dahbia Benkired was handed an “irreducible life sentence” for killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet in the French capital in 2022, in a case that horrified the country and sparked anti-immigration fervour because the woman did not have the right to be in France. The sentence is the harshest under the French penal code. “We believed in justice and we got it,” said Lola’s mother, Delphine Daviet, following the...