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  • Army Refers Charges Against Doctor Blaine McGraw Who Allegedly Sexually Abused 93 Victims

    08/04/2026 6:04:46 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 5 replies
    Military.com ^ | Aug 4, 2026, 3:25 PM EDT | Nick Mordowanec
    McGraw is charged with a total of nine charges and 272 specifications alleged to have occurred between 2021 and 2026. The U.S. Army Office of Special Trial Counsel has referred charges against a doctor accused of sexually abusing dozens of individuals over an approximate five-year period. His charges are as follows: 91 specifications of abusive sexual contact and sexual assault. One specification of attempted sexual assault. One specification of attempted subordination of perjury. One specification of solicitation to commit perjury. 66 specifications of indecent recording. 91 specifications of assault consummated by a battery. 18 specifications of conduct unbecoming an officer....
  • THE FREEPER CANTEEN - The State Nicknames Quiz - Wednesday, August 5, 2026

    08/04/2026 6:00:04 PM PDT · by luvie · 102 replies
    For the best troops & vets in the world...& their families, too! | luvie and the Canteen RoadTrippers
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  • Gov. Ron DeSantis: A "Fauci State" Was "Basically A Dystopia" In 2020 -- "He's Drinking His Own Kool-Aid"

    08/04/2026 5:54:16 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 12 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 3 Aug, 2026 | Tim Hains
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to insults from Dr. Anthony Fauci written during the pandemic, calling them "badges of honor" in an appearance Monday on FOX News. In his 'diaries' from August 2021, Fauci wrote: "Besides being a total jerk, he is causing people to die in his home state.” Four days later: “Governor DeSantis is a complete disgrace." "I think those are badges of honor, to have him attacking me," DeSantis said. "The diaries, I think, really validate what I saw early on. This is a guy who was drinking his own Kool-Aid. He was venerated by the media."...
  • Katherine Boyle just named Elon Musk's greatest contribution to America, and it isn't sitting on a launchpad

    08/04/2026 5:49:49 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 28 replies
    X ^ | 08/04/2026 | Dustin
    Katherine Boyle just named Elon Musk's greatest contribution to America, and it isn't sitting on a launchpad. Boyle, General Partner at a16z: "I think that Elon's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers … on how to work with their hands again." For a decade, America's sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and shipped messaging apps. Software consumed ambition. The physical world became something you abstracted into an API, not something you touched. Building real things became what you did if you couldn't code. Elon didn't reverse that with inspiration. He reversed it by building...
  • Iran faces 'last chance' to make deal, Trump says

    08/04/2026 5:47:37 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 59 replies
    Fox news ^ | Fox news
    President Donald Trump said the U.S. and Iran were resuming talks, claiming a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and denuclearize Tehran is "imminent.” Iranian officials, however, have denied participating in direct talks with the U.S., saying that they are negotiating with mediators in Oman. Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email
  • Michigan Democrat Senate Primary Results

    08/04/2026 5:36:37 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 66 replies
    Self | August 4, 2026 | PJ-Comix
    3% of the vote is in and the Commie leads the Weirdo by 62.3% to 34.0%. In raw votes, 27,061 to 14,788.
  • Clay Travis OBLITERATES Woke WNBA with $10 MILLION Challenge to Play High School Boys –

    08/04/2026 5:31:15 PM PDT · by maddog55 · 8 replies
    OutKick founder says he will pay $10 million to the winner of a showdown between the Aces and a boys’ high-school championship team of his choosing and floats an all-transgender Nashville franchise to test the league’s inclusion rhetoric. The OutKick founder announced Monday that he is offering $10 million for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boys’ high-school state championship team of his choice. In a second proposal, he said he would seek primary ownership of a Nashville WNBA franchise and build a roster and coaching staff entirely around transgender participation. He...
  • Shock New Details About Cambridge U. Plagiarism Scandal Amid "Racism" Claims, with Matt Taibbi

    08/04/2026 5:13:29 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 8 replies
    YouTube ^ | 08/04/2026 | Megyn Kelly
    This video features *Megyn Kelly* and *Matt Taibbi* dig into an escalating scandal surrounding *Jason Arde*, a professor at *Cambridge University*. The discussion centers on allegations that *Arde*'s professional bio and academic achievements are largely fabricated or exaggerated, while *Arde* maintains that these accusations are motivated by racism and ableism. **Key points of the controversy include:** * **Questionable Bio Details:** The video reports that several claims in *Arde*'s biography are being debunked. This includes claims about volunteer work with the charity *Water Aid*—which the charity states they do not offer (0:30-2:15)—and his status as a "visiting professor" at the *University...
  • Has Leo gone TOO FAR? Pope Leo calls mosque 'holy place of God'

    08/04/2026 5:06:20 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 53 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | August 4, 2026 | John-Henry Westen
    Has Leo gone TOO FAR? Pope Leo calls mosque 'holy place of God'Pope Leo visited a mosque and called it a “holy place of God.” Can you imagine Pope Benedict saying that? Pope Pius XI? The question writes itself: Has the papacy finally gone too far?John-Henry Westen examines a growing pattern that has left traditional Catholics stunned. The same pope who participated in a Pachamama ritual in 1995 now calls a mosque, a place that denies the divinity of Christ, a holy place of God. The same pope who walked a pregnant migrant through an open border symbol at Lampedusa...
  • The DNC Didn't Mortgage Their Headquarters. What They Actually Did Is Worse.

    08/04/2026 5:05:01 PM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    Nanacrss2.substack ^ | 7/27/26 | NanaCrass the Right Way
    Several outlets reported that the DNC used its headquarters as collateral for a $15 million loan due to financial difficulties. Gateway Pundit, Townhall, and Fox all covered this story. I considered reporting it as well. However, I reviewed the original version 54-page document filed with the FEC on November 20, 2025, rather than relying on secondary news coverage. This revealed multiple inaccuracies in the headlines. **SNIP** However, there are key inaccuracies in the widely reported version of events. The interest rate is not 8.75%. That figure does not appear in the credit agreement or the FEC’s loan schedule. The actual...
  • Ahead of Trump’s SoCal visit, heavily armed Downey man arrested at Trump Golf Course

    08/04/2026 4:45:07 PM PDT · by bitt · 28 replies
    https://nypost.com/ ^ | d Aug. 4, 2026 | Nina Joudeh
    An armed man, said to be monitoring “security-planning activities,” was arrested Sunday with a cache of weapons and body armor outside Trump National Golf Course — just two days before the president’s visit. Jeanine John Taele, 38, from Downey, California, was taken into custody outside the Rancho Palos Verdes site by plainclothes FBI agents after they spotted his suspicious activity. They found him with an illegally modified AR platform rifle, two radio signal devices, a 1911 .45 caliber pistol, an AR platform upper receiver, body armor, high-capacity magazines, bulk pistol and rifle ammunition, and multiple notebooks containing concerning statements. Lomita...
  • You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics

    08/04/2026 4:41:46 PM PDT · by bitt · 6 replies
    https://spectator.org ^ | August 3, 2026 | Scott McKay
    From Ceuta to Cuba to Tehran — and increasingly the American left — the same destructive ideas keep proving that reality is no match for ideological zeal. I’m looking around the world right now, and what I see isn’t all bad. In fact, there are lots of indications of positive things happening or about to happen. What strikes me, though, in seeing the hopeful signs, is the contrast between those and the, er… other things going on in the world. For example, the Moorish invasion of the Spanish town of Ceuta. Much of the reporting, particularly on social media, that...
  • White House AI Guidelines Exempt U.S. Open Models From Government Review

    08/04/2026 4:35:08 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 2 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | Updated Aug. 4, 2026 7:07 pm ET | Amrith Ramkumar
    The new framework, completed in recent days, is seen as most likely to affect OpenAI, Anthropic and Google WASHINGTON—The Trump administration’s new guidelines for powerful artificial-intelligence tools exempt open models made by U.S. companies, a gap that marks the White House’s latest bid to ensure AI tools are safe without slowing down innovation. Under a framework that administration officials discussed with executives from leading AI companies Tuesday, only makers of closed, proprietary U.S. models that demonstrate state-of-the-art capabilities in cybersecurity and hacking based on performance benchmarks would have to voluntarily submit those models to the government for testing before they...
  • Dad poses as 11-year-old daughter on TikTok and lures her alleged rapist to home to shoot him

    08/04/2026 4:26:06 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 68 replies
    nypost.com ^ | August 4, 2026 | Patrick Reilly
    An Ohio dad pretended to be his 11-year-old daughter on TikTok so he could lure her alleged rapist to his home — where he shot him twice. Diego Montoya Gonzalez, 20, was shot by dad Malik Chandler, 31, in July after the 11-year-old’s mother discovered a video on their daughter’s phone that showed him sexually assaulting the girl at their Grove City, Ohio, home, prosecutors said. The next day, Chandler pretended to be his daughter on TikTok to get Montoya Gonzalez back to their home where he shot him twice, WNBS reported. He told investigators he intended to just beat...
  • Susan Collins Votes Aye on Todd Blanche for Deputy Attorney General 3/5/25

    08/04/2026 4:21:18 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 20 replies
    To Susan Collins, Todd Blanche was apparently perfectly ok to be DEPUTY Attorney General. But not ATTORNEY GENERAL. Probably because she knew he would be thwarted by pantywaist Pam Bondi (the latest Jeff Sessions or Bill Barr). So she's now voting Nay. While she voted Aye on Merrick Garland. Susan Collins only wrings her hands over REPUBLICAN nominees.
  • Man carrying ammunition arrested near Trump National Golf Course as president visits Southern California

    08/04/2026 4:01:20 PM PDT · by rdl6989 · 45 replies
    CBS News ^ | August 4, 2026 | Dean Fioresi
    A man who was carrying ammunition was arrested near the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles County over the weekend as the president announced a Southern California visit for a Republican National Committee event on Tuesday. In a news release shared by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, deputies said that plainclothes federal agents reported a suspicious individual on the property at 1 Trump National Drive in Rancho Palos Verdes on Saturday afternoon. "The individual was observed walking throughout the golf course grounds taking photographs and videos and appearing to monitor security-planning activities," the release said. When deputies approached...
  • US military has used up nearly 80% of key missile interceptors as commanders warn stockpiles ‘dangerously low,’ sources say

    08/04/2026 3:37:08 PM PDT · by McGruff · 93 replies
    CNN ^ | Aug 4, 2026 | By Zachary Cohen Zachary Cohen , Jim Sciutto Jim Sciutto , Haley Britzky Haley Britzky
    The US military has exhausted nearly 80% of its interceptors for a key missile defense system as senior US military commanders are warning that the Pentagon’s munitions stockpile is “dangerously low,” according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Stockpiles of key air defense systems have been particularly depleted during the war with Iran. The US military has burned through nearly four-fifths of its THAAD missile inventory compared to pre-war numbers and roughly half of its Patriot interceptors since the start of the war, according to two sources familiar with the latest inventory report. The disclosure of the low THAAD...
  • Suspect in alleged gang rape of LSU student Madison Brooks wants to ban pink attire from courtroom

    08/04/2026 3:01:38 PM PDT · by thegagline · 38 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 08/04/2026 | Patrick Reilly
    A Louisiana man accused of gang raping Louisiana State University student Madison Brooks before she was fatally hit by a car has asked that Brooks’ supporters be banned from wearing pink in the courtroom at his trial. Desmond Carter, 21, who is charged with others of sexually assaulting Brooks, 19, in a car in Baton Rouge in 2023 just before her death, claimed that Brooks’ family and friends have repeatedly worn pink – Brooks’ favorite color — in court in an effort to intimidate the jury into a guilty verdict, according to WBRZ.Carter’s lawyers pointed to several social media posts...
  • After July 1776, the party ended quickly for George Washington

    08/04/2026 2:55:53 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | August 4, 2026 7:00 a.m. EDT | Michael O’Hanlon
    After the high of the Declaration of Independence, wartime reality set in for the founders.Michael O’Hanlon is a defense and strategy analyst at the Brookings Institution and the author of “To Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution.”Despite the heady moment in Philadelphia with the Declaration of Independence’s approval in early July, 1776, that summer was a tough one for the nation’s founders, George Washington in particular. The rest of that year — until Washington crossed the Delaware River and won the Battle of Trenton on Dec. 26 — would go down as the worst period of the...
  • A Radical Proposal: Incrementalism at the Federal Level

    08/04/2026 2:39:19 PM PDT · by fwdude · 4 replies
    Blog and Mayblog (YouTube) ^ | Aug 3, 2026 | Douglas Wilson
    I want to begin with a proposal for a particular pro-life amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Having done so in this introduction, I will then outline in summary form the advantages of this approach. I will then touch on a key distinction to help us understand the fact that there is more than one way to terminate a pregnancy. And in the final section, I will try to answer possible objections to this approach, or at least suggest the direction of the answer.