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I never fail to be amazed at what we get used to. Trundling along in the New York subway the other day, I saw all the usual sights. Turnstile hoppers, of course, who never fail to aggravate me. “Why am I the only mug who’s paying?” is my general feeling. “Why did I just effectively pay for that guy’s journey as well?,” I think. Members of the National Guard and an officer from the Washington Metropolitan Police Department on foot patrols in the U Street neighborhood of Washington, Sunday, Nov., 30, 2025. Members of the National Guard and an officer...

A disembodied notion of American identity means that America is really nothing at all, and no one is really an American.You might have noticed there is a heated debate underway on the American right over the question of American identity. What makes someone an American? Is it based on lineage or is it propositional? Is America a nation and a people, or is it an idea based on universal principles?After World War Two, these questions were largely swept under the rug. The dominant narrative, pushed by nearly every mainstream institution and both political parties, was that America was a credal,...

SummaryThe discussion between Alex Jones and guest Joseph D. McBride focuses on a shooting incident at Brown University where a gunman targeted and killed students, including a leader of the Young Republicans, during a class. They claim the shooter knew exactly where to go, shot victims point-blank in the head, and escaped. Key points raised:Brown University had turned off or disabled campus security cameras (previously 1,200 in number) following demands from pro-Palestinian student groups, who had organized to oppose surveillance for political reasons.This lack of cameras is described as publicly advertising vulnerability, making serious crimes, including targeted political assassinations, more...

The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic religious order dedicated to serving the elderly poor, are once again facing a court battle over a government contraception mandate. The Little Sisters of the Poor filed an appeal late on Friday, December 12, asking to be exempt from having to violate their religious beliefs. “The 14-year legal crusade against the Little Sisters has been needless, grotesque, and un-American,” said Mark Rienzi, president of Becket and lead attorney for the Little Sisters, in a statement provided to Aleteia. “The States have no business trying to take away the Little Sisters’ federal civil...

SummaryRoger Stone, in an interview with Alex Jones on InfoWars, claims that individuals from the election integrity community presented Susie Wiles with proof of Venezuelan and Chinese manipulation of voting machines in U.S. elections, excluding paper ballot issues.Wiles allegedly brought this to President Trump and recommended forming a working group led by Tulsi Gabbard, involving other agencies, to review the evidence and produce a report.Sources reportedly indicate the group has examined evidence of Venezuelan and Chinese Communist involvement, plus online vote manipulation, with ongoing review of mail-in ballots.Stone emphasizes preventing future fraud over just proving past events (2020 and possibly...

If you are in the Trump administration even going out to dinner can be dangerous. A new video shows a group of activists affiliated with Code Pink, an anti-war feminist organization, verbally harassing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. In the video, the Code Pink activists, were seen shouting at Bessent for his economic policies. Code Pink released an article about their antics: "As the Trump administration has announced a naval blockade around Venezuela and continues to threaten war on the small, sovereign Latin American country, CODEPINK took the opportunity to call our Secretary Scott Bessent for his role in killing innocent...

TCU Horned Frogs quarterback Josh Hoover announced on Thursday he will enter the transfer portal and will skip the team’s Alamo Bowl game against the USC Trojans. Hoover made the announcement in a statement on his Instagram. Hoover has been the team’s starting quarterback since the 2023 season. He’s played in 36 games for the Horned Frogs and racked up 9,629 yards and 71 touchdown passes.

Noise machines installed by LA Home Depot ‘torture’ for day laborers, advocates say Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots Victoria Bekiempis Thu 18 Dec 2025 21.23 EST A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday. The Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (Idepsca), an advocacy organization that helps day laborers, called for the removal of these machines from Home...

LifeSiteNews) — A Texas family is seeking answers after their infant daughter’s body was transferred to a funeral home without her organs following the baby’s sudden death at a Fort Worth hospital. Samaria Bates and her fiancé, Kenneth Sauls, welcomed premature twin girls on October 23, 2025, when they were born at 29 weeks at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital. Thankfully, the infants had no major health problems, but they were kept in the neonatal intensive care unit to grow older and stronger before being discharged home. For six weeks the babies did well. However, when their father arrived on...

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan has been found guilty of one count against her and not guilty of another. She was found guilty of impeding a proceeding, a felony, but not guilty of the less serious misdemeanor charge of concealing an individual to prevent his arrest or discovery. The jury announced the decision after 8:30 p.m. at the federal courthouse in Milwaukee. The charges stem from an April 18 incident, in which Dugan led a man through a side door of her Milwaukee County courtroom. That happened after federal agents showed up at the courthouse to arrest the man for...

INSANE! Dick Durbin THREATENS to prosecute federal law enforcement officers for enforcing the law if Democrats gain power.

A man from the United States made the following post on Reddit under the headline “My girlfriend saw the fetus come out at 17 weeks”: I’m in dire need of some advice. My girlfriend and I of 6 months discovered she was pregnant for 4 months and we found out just a few weeks ago, and honestly we were thrilled until reality set in. We talked for about a week deciding whether to keep the baby or not… Due to our cultural, family, social, and economic conditions we decided to abort. We’re in a very long distance relationship and both...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice (DOJ) would not be releasing the full Epstein files to Congress on Friday as required under new legislation, instead sending over a partial batch. Blanche told Fox News the Justice Department would release “several hundred thousand” documents on Friday, “and then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more.” Blanche attributed the delay to the need to redact any names or identifying information about witnesses, but failing to turn over the full unclassified files could run afoul of the law, which gave the department 30 days to...

The Department of Justice faces its legally mandated deadline to release the Jeffrey Epstein files..."I expect that we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today"...Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said during an interview on Fox News.

President Donald Trump's promised one-time $1,776 payment for U.S. service members dubbed a “Warrior Dividend” is being framed as both a financial boost and a symbolic gesture tied to the nation’s founding. The announcement made Wednesday evening during a nationally televised address immediately sparked questions across the force—not just about the money itself but about who actually qualifies, when it would show up on paychecks, whether it would be taxed, and whether it would affect existing pay and benefits. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a video posted Thursday morning on X, said the payments will be tax-free and issued to...

... As I have had cause to remark a thousand times, nothing works anymore. When I observe that of the UK, English readers get mildly peeved. When I observe it of the Fifth Republic, French readers start gabbling and waving their Gauloise-stained hands around so animatedly their strings of onions fall from their shoulders. And, when I observe it of the United States, American readers get particularly chippy. But I'm an equal-opportunity civilisational doom-monger: we're all going over the falls, and arguing that the canoe of the Euro-pussies or the tight-assed Brits is a foot-and-a-half ahead isn't really much consolation....

On November 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order designating Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Three weeks later, Qatar—considered the world hub for the Muslim Brotherhood—hosted two major international conferences. The 23rd Doha Forum drew 6,000 participants, including Bill Gates, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, Jr., Hillary Clinton, and Tom Barrack. One week later, the United Nations’ Eleventh Conference on Corruption (CoSP11) brought representatives worldwide to discuss transparency and ethical governance in Doha.[…]The paradox reveals the success of Doha’s da’wa—the Muslim Brotherhood’s nearly century-old methodology for power. Originally an Arabic term meaning “invitation” or “call,” referring...

Explanation: The image was timed to capture a total lunar eclipse -- but it came with quite a twist. First, the eclipse: the fully Earth-shadowed Moon is visible as the orange orb near the top. The eclipsed Moon's orange color is caused by a slight amount of red light scattered first by Earth's atmosphere, adding a color like a setting Sun. Now, the twist: one of the apparent double helix bands is the Milky Way, the central disk of our home galaxy. The second band is zodiacal light, sunlight scattered by dust in our Solar System. The reason they cross...

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — A shooting involving three local sailors left two female sailors dead and one male sailor in Clay County Jail. Taylor Marques Lomax, 22, has been charged with two counts of 2nd-degree murder and is being held without bond after Clay County sheriff’s deputies allege he shot and killed 21-year-old Noely Makenda and 20-year-old Jordyn Forrestier in the Savannah Glen neighborhood of Orange Park, Wednesday night. According to the sheriff’s office, Lomax’s wife came to the home shared by Lomax and the two victims that night and began arguing with his two female roommates. A fight between...

The husband says he never agreed to do household labor himself, even when his wife chose not to hire outside help and kept the chore money instead. NEED TO KNOW A man who routinely pays for household help says his wife agreed to take over chores in exchange for the money he used to spend on snow removal Tension erupted after she kept the snow shoveling money and expected him to clear it instead, despite his long-standing refusal to do manual chores He asked Reddit if he was wrong for insisting that taking the money also meant taking full responsibility...