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Kid Rock opened up about his collaboration with fellow Detroit musician Eminem on his new Christian album, "Halfway 2 Jesus," telling "My View with Lara Trump" on Saturday that the longtime friends have refused to let their political differences come between them. The rocker said he hoped the collaboration would send a message about maintaining friendships despite political disagreements, highlighting his nearly 40-year friendship with Eminem. "We said years ago, we said, 'Man, let's not let politics divide us.' And we never did. And so when I asked him to be part of this... he totally got it," Kid Rock...

In what it called a “Schools Decree,” the Italian government announced last month that no student may cover their face in class, no classroom may exceed 30% foreign-born pupils and parents who skip mandatory Italian lessons could face fines of up to $1,120. The decree, which takes effect next summer, is framed as a push for “integration,” but it raises the question of whether a Western democracy can force assimilation, or is it already too late? Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom said that it is “The single biggest issue of our time in...

“What if?” That’s a question you may have asked yourself at times throughout your life. What if something happened or didn’t happen is often the query. I won’t go into detail about all the “what ifs” I’ve questioned myself about in my life. I could write lots of columns on that question alone. No one wants to read about that, for sure! When it comes to American history, though, I’ve often thought about that question — wondering how history would have been different had this or that happened or not happened. What if George Washington had not had fog to...

When you study the backgrounds and lives of Muhammad (the founder of Islam) and Karl Marx (the founder of Communism) you’ll find the two men were quite alike. They even looked alike! .. Look closely at how Islam began and how Communism began, and a clear pattern appears. Both took ideas that already existed and worked, then changed them so the founders and their followers could claim ownership and control. The result in both cases has been division. Both men followed the same logic: Take something that already functions. Declare it incomplete or corrupt. Supply a new, corrected version that...

The night before Gino Chouinard was fatally wounded on a stretch of a popular trail in Michigan’s capital last fall, the 54-year-old man missed the intake window at a homeless shelter by a few minutes, according to his uncle. “They wouldn’t let him into the shelter,” Robert Chouinard told CNN about his nephew. “They’re pretty strict with the rules. He called his girlfriend and told her he was going to sleep at the river trail.” Gino Chouinard was found unconscious with head trauma and other injuries the morning of October 14, 2025. He died 13 days later in what would...

In 2000, 17 sailors were killed and 39 injured in an explosion on the USS Cole as it refueled in Yemen.

President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that the Democratic Party was long overdue for a name change that better reflected what the party truly represented within the current political landscape. Trump made it clear that the Democratic Party had already done a thorough job of reinventing itself, embracing the socialists and communists that threaten to devour the organization from within and gleefully taking the 20-side of every 80-20 issue — like men playing in women’s sports and legal requirements for voter identification — and he suggested that it was high time for the party to be rebranded as well. “I...

Charles Laughton shows his humorous side with Tennessee Ernie Ford on The Ford Show, April 6, 1961 in this historic television appearance.Charles Laughton - Dramatic Reading Of The Tax Form (The Ford Show - April 6, 1961)

A North Bay high school football program forfeited its upcoming game just one day after students led a walkout to protest a comment made by the team’s captain. Santa Rosa’s Piner Junior Senior High School forfeited its Saturday afternoon matchup against San Anselmo’s Archie Williams High School, according to a report from Gus Morris of the Press Democrat. The reported reason for the forfeit, which was confirmed Friday evening, is a lack of healthy players. However, the football team has had bigger issues than a lack of available bodies. Earlier this month, a captain on the school’s football team posted,...

The Homelessness Industry: Oregon Version Cynical Policies in a Beautiful Place, Destroying Humans Human despair is being manufactured and monetized by corrupt health care organizations, in ways that defy belief. Health care companies, working with the neo-Marxists in Western blue states, are using local and state-level policies, and numberless NGOs, to produce ever more drug addiction, alcoholism, mental illness diagnoses, and homelessness. This is the homelessness industry in Oregon.

Guest post by Banafsheh Zand at Iran So Far Away The growing influence of Islamists linked to the Khomeinist Regime in the United States was shown on September 23, 2026, when a University of Michigan student of Iranian heritage named Iman Dashti asked Michigan’s Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he opposed the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Confronting El-Sayed with his words from earlier this year that he would not comment on the death of Regime leader Ali Khamenei because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today,” Dashti asked him “if you renounce the...

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are considering firing US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle after a series of reports alleging she has engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before and during her tenure in Athens. A senior US official said on Sunday that Trump and Rubio are 'extremely pissed off' by Guilfoyle's reported conduct and would likely decide on what action to take this week after Monday's Columbus Day holiday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said Rubio had been particularly angry, not least because he visited Athens just...

Ocean County's [NJ] entire fleet is from DJI, a Chinese manufacturer of drones. LEDA estimates that about 80% to 90% of law enforcement agencies flying drones use DJI devices. China controls a vast majority of the global drone market, and it's the dominant source for the minerals and raw materials needed to build them, researchers say. The Trump administration wants that to end. It's made several moves to bolster U.S. drone makers, including by banning many new foreign-made drones from entering the American market. Most recently, his administration announced tariffs of 15% to 100% on some foreign-made drones, making it...

The Trump administration has warned Ukraine and allies in Europe that the US could suspend intelligence sharing and European purchases of US weapons for Ukraine if Kyiv does not halt its deep strikes on Russian energy facilities, two European officials told CNN.The warnings from the State Department and the Pentagon were sent over the weekend to officials in Ukraine and Europe, including communications from the US military directly to Ukrainian commanders.A US official said that US negotiators told the Ukrainians the United States was a strong partner, providing munitions and intelligence, and so Ukraine shouldn't take actions that hurt American...

Electricians, welders and HVAC technicians are commanding six-figure salaries as companies poach workers from rivals Intense demand for workers in the skilled trades is leading U.S. companies to ramp up training programs to expand their workforces and to poach workers from other companies to fill vitally needed positions. Mike Rowe, CEO of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, which helps the next generation get training in the skilled trades, told FOX Business that it's "been very surreal for me to watch the skilled trades come back into something like favor." "I don't want to overstate it, but I can tell you that not...

The Democratic Socialists of America are demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire police Commissioner Jessica Tisch following a controversial shooting by ICE agents in the Bronx last week. In a scathing online statement, the DSA called on its most high-profile member to get rid of the city’s top cop and disband two elite NYPD units. “We demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and use every power available to him to drive ICE out of New York City,” it said. “ They demanded that the city abolish police strategic response and community response teams. The lefty organization cried...

Socialism is not always my wheelhouse. I think progressivism is the greatest threat that the U.S. has ever faced, not socialism. However that does not mean that I am not aware of the similar ideologies and have opinions of them. So it is with Socialism and its Revolutionary as well as Evolutionary variants. The interesting thing about Evolutionary Socialism is that most people refuse to acknowledge its existence, just like people don't pay much attention to progressivism. Which is weird because arguably the most successful socialists in history are the British Fabians who promise to make haste slowly. An interest...

Oct 12, 2026. WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home on Monday as part of a criminal investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter.

WASHINGTON — New York blew off 16,000 Trump administration ICE orders to detain suspected heinous illegal migrants accused or convicted in more than 50,000 criminal charges, disturbing new data show. The Department of Homeland Security said the municipalities across the Dem-driven state have refused to comply with its detainment requests 16,070 times since President Trump re-entered office fewer than two years ago — refusing to hand over criminal migrants suspected or convicted of everything from murder to kidnapping and sexual assault. “While sanctuary politicians continue to release dangerous criminals onto their streets, our brave law enforcement officers will continue to...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Ferrão defends controversial Amoris Laetitia remarks on changing family structures Ambiguous remarks by the Cardinal of Goa likely to further confuse the faithful, much like original Amoris Laetitia documentCardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão has defended his Amoris Laetitia speech suggesting that the Church must discern how it should change in response to evolving family structures, after questioning over the speech in which he referred to “changing understandings of gender.”The President of the Conference of Bishops of India made the remarks at Pope Leo XIV’s meeting marking ten years since the publication of Amoris Laetitia on 8 October....