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Halloween is more than just a great opportunity to score Snickers bars from your kids' baskets. It's also the chance to deck out your lawn in a way that strikes terror into the hearts of any liberal who walks by! Here are 10 decorations you can put up to scare the living daylights out of your liberal neighbors: 1. Clarence Thomas inflatable: Simply plug him in and enjoy the shrieks of horror. 2. Biology textbook: Opened to the chapter that covers human genders... terrifying. 3. Graph showing minimal impact of climate change: Noooo! 4. Giant U.S. Constitution: With a spotlight...

On Mondays, it is a habit of mine to retrace examples of both the best and the worst in human behavior. I will happily write about the best later today. First, however, an example of the depths to which the human heart can sink. Now, to be sure, the willingness of pro-abortionists to say almost anything is not news to pro-lifers. But looking back, a 776-word-long New York Times op-ed by Susan Heath was unusually cavalier/ blunt/heartless, even by their lowly standards. Thinking about the “attacks on a woman’s right to choose,” Heath told her readers, “It wasn’t always like...

Given what is going on in France....video at link.

During a portion of an interview with CNN aired on Monday’s “Inside Politics,” Maine Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson could not say what percentage he wanted to tax billionaires at and said that “I’m sure we’ll figure out what that percentage is going to be when I get there.” Host Dana Bash asked, “You mentioned taxing the wealthy, that’s another question I was going to ask, because you say you’re going to tax billionaires when I get to the U.S. Senate. Can you be specific, what kind of tax are you thinking about?” Jackson responded, “Well, the income tax.”...

Many of the documents show Murthy's office preparing to release a formal advisory on misinformation on July 14, 2021. "They're killing people," Biden said two days later, on July 16, 2021, bringing the weight of the White House down on companies to restrict speech. In the view of Murthy's team, censoring social media was not a temporary emergency measure, the documents indicate. It was part and parcel of public health. The government censored memes, jokes and even factual information it did not like. "The Surgeon General wants us to remove true information about side effects," a Meta employee wrote on...

"Amy has a serious problem," Democrat Ohio gubernatorial candidate Dr. Amy Acton's estranged mother says in a just-released campaign video, "She is a liar, she lies about her past." I just about spit out my coffee. "I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent," entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Donna Arthur says in the clip before trailing off into telling the world her daughter is a big fat liar. "She says she grew up living in a tent," Arthur continued, referencing a common refrain from Acton's stump speech, but "none of that is true. She's lied her...

Social Security Corrects Tens of Millions of Files in the Social Security Number Database Improving the Integrity of Vital Records Baltimore, MD—The Social Security Administration (SSA) today announced substantial progress in its ongoing effort to strengthen the accuracy and integrity of the Social Security Number (SSN) database. This work represents the most comprehensive SSN record clean‑up in the agency’s 91-year history. “The Social Security Number database is our country’s books and records. The database’s accuracy is essential to maintaining integrity of government services for citizens. Accurate SSN records prevent fraud across federal programs and support the proper administration of benefits,”...

With civil unrest, rioting and violence increasing across France in recent days, including countless migrants protesting conditions there, another European nation is touting its simple and effective means to enforce the border: Shoot unlawful migrants dead. "Do not come to the Polish border, or you will be dead, shot dead," said Polish Member of European Parliament Dominik Tarczyński in a recent interview. "Do not come to the Polish border. I'm very clear for years." Continued the official: "If you are coming, it's your own risk. Do not cry over that. Do not tell me that you were shot, you were...

On the left is Madeleine McCann, and Eugenea Collins, who claims to be the missing girl, is on the right. Family of Madeleine McCann/ Eugenea Collins / Facebook An American woman from Arkansas is claiming that she is the real Madeleine McCann, a British girl who disappeared in 2007 while on a family vacation in Portugal. Eugenea Collins, 22, began posting her claims on Instagram in September 2024 with the username TheOfficialMadeleineMcCann, and the account features numerous side-by-side photos of Collins and McCann. In her most recent post, Collins shared an ancestry DNA test that shows she is 68 per...

Update! We're about to "Maduro" Castro. I didn't know I was voting for this, but it is in fact what I voted for. Florida's top prosecutor announced an arrest warrant Monday for former Cuban president Raul Castro under state murder charges that echo a federal indictment unveiled earlier this year. Raul Castro, 95, is wanted on murder charges connected to the February 24, 1996, shooting down of two civilian aircraft from 'Brothers to the Rescue,' an organization assisting Cubans fleeing to Florida by sea. 'Raul Castro ordered the murder of four Floridians in cold blood, and Florida will never stop...

One moment he was refusing the COVID vaccine, the next, Marine Cruz Marquis suddenly found himself placed in a “penal platoon” for his commitment to individual liberty. “This isn’t a story about me,” Marquis told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive interview. “This isn’t a story about any particular individuals who defied a government order. In my mind, this is about a slice of life, a slice of what the state was able to do and what they were able to get away with during the pandemic. This story, though it may be reported, is just the tip...

Bikers for Trump Alaska has endorsed Republican Bernadette Wilson for governor, adding another grassroots group to her roster of supporters as Alaska enters the final stretch before the Nov. 3 election. The endorsement follows President Donald Trump’s backing of Wilson at his Oct. 13 rally in Wasilla. Trump’s endorsement placed the president squarely behind Wilson in Alaska’s contest for governor. He said he had asked Dave Bronson to suspend his campaign and that Bronson agreed to suspend, but then went back on his word. Bikers for Trump is a national political organization composed primarily of motorcycle enthusiasts who support Trump....

The Biden administration wasn't just trying to police COVID posts. It wanted broader control over health information, and newly released internal documents show former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's office was actively strategizing how to make it happen. The documents Protect the Public's Trust obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) date back to 2021, when the Biden administration was already pushing Facebook and other technology companies to remove content it labeled misinformation. One exchange from May 2021 is particularly revealing. Murthy's policy adviser, Daniel Tartakovsky, suggested that the administration's efforts should reach considerably further than COVID. "May be worth...

Residents of Alberta voted on Monday to remain part of Canada, rejecting a campaign to try to separate the oil-rich western province from the rest of the country. Voters in a referendum endorsed remaining in Canada over the option of holding a second vote on whether to secede. With just over a third of votes counted, 76 percent of voters chose to remain part of Canada with 23 percent seeking another vote. Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed the result. “Albertans chose Canada,” he said in a statement. “All Canadians will move forward together with renewed purpose and high ambition.” In...

The midterms are a fundamental choice over America’s economic future, national identity, immigration, energy, and Western civilization. There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now less than three weeks away. One is as a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day. The other involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism versus capitalism, intrusive versus limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and traditions versus their preservation and renewal. Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark. In...

* Idaho prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Andrea Shaw, who faces first-degree murder charges in the May 2025 suffocations of her twin toddlers. * Idaho’s primary execution method is now firing squad under a July 2026 state law. * Shaw has pleaded not guilty, denying the charges and alleging her children became severely ill and died following a “post-immunization reaction” from routine vaccinations received days earlier. *Shaw’s attorney called the capital punishment filing “outrageous,” noting that core prosecution evidence remains unreleased while grand jury indictments and coroner reports are sealed. * Children’s Health Defense (CHD) outside counsel Rick...

Richard Riehle, a prolific character actor best known for memorable turns in Office Space, Bridesmaids, Glory, and Casino, has died, Variety reports. He was 78. A cause of death was not immediately available. Riehle worked extensively across film and television, amassing more than 400 credits during his career, according to IMDB (with the database noting he has 10 additional upcoming projects). Though he scored his first screen roles in the Seventies, Riehle spent the early part of his career doing regional theater around the U.S., especially in the Pacific Northwest. It wasn’t until the late 1980s that his onscreen career...

"To each according to his needs, from each according to his ability." It ends in bankruptcy every time! When immigration enforcement ramped up in Minneapolis earlier this year, owner Dylan Alverson rebranded the restaurant as "Post Modern Times." He took prices off the menu and declared he would feed anyone who walked in the door, whether they could pay or not. Well, almost anyone. Federal agents were explicitly unwelcome. The stunt made national news. Donations poured in from around the world. For six months, the restaurant operated as a pay-what-you-can (or pay-nothing-at-all) sanctuary in Minneapolis. But as it turns out,...

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s (D) mother called her a “liar” in a new ad, as her brother labelled the video “a despicable low” on Tuesday ahead of the state’s battleground elections in November. “I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent. It is not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar,” Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, appeared to say in the ad. “She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true. She’s lied her entire...

Here is what happened to me when I told Britain’s truth for American Thinker. .......SNIP..... I used to regard such climates of fear as distant foreign realities. That distance narrowed hugely when I found myself facing anonymous reporting and ideological scrutiny here at home. I never expected to encounter the pressures of self-censorship, or the prospect of anonymous informants, in my own country — least of all within England’s university-led teacher-training. It is this kind of pressure that makes the language of V for Vendetta resonate beyond fiction. Where British subjects once held the freedom to object, to think and...